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    • Lee Leslie

      You won’t want to miss: “At the Crossroads: A History of the Blues in America” which will be broadcast on PBS stations on Feb. 27 at 9 p.m. President Obama performs with Mick Jagger, B.B. Kings, Buddy Guy, Jeff Guy, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Taraji P. Henson.

    • Lee Leslie

      From CNN News Blogs:
      “As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats  introduced their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.”
      Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday to introduce HB 1116, which would prevent men from vasectomies unless needed to avert serious injury or death…”

    • Melissa Hansen

      Atlanta band Kick the Robot has been invited to join the Hard Rock Cafe 2012 global battle of the bands. You’ve seen them perform most recently to rave reviews at the legendary Athens venue The Melting Point. Jaime Gottleib of the Red and Black wrote “In its Athens debut, Kick the Robot seized the attention of its crowd with powerful beats, fast tempo and resonating melodic vocals. The sound of the electric guitars buzzed and blazed throughout the larger-than-expected crowd, while the drums manifested in such a rhythmic beat that you couldn’t help but tap your feet along. The concoction: rock ‘n’roll meets pop-funk. As I made my exit from the venue, the electrified phrase “They’re gonna get really big” roamed through out the crowd. I have a kicking feeling that the crowd will be right.”
      Kick the Robot is proud to announce that they have been invited to perform at the Atlanta Hard Rock Café—Hard Rock Rising Battle of the Bands on March 15th at 8pm. Fans will be treated to a line up of 4 local bands judged by industry professionals, fans and band supporters. Each semi-finalist winner will compete on March 29th at the Hard Rock Café for the Atlanta title. The winner will then compete with other cities with the ultimate goal of performing at the Hard Rock London, UK.
      Come out and see what all the buzz is about. You won’t be disappointed! Photos, music, videos and other links are available at the band‟s website, http://www.kicktherobot.com

    • Monica Smith

      Romney to Michigan:
      “I was born and raised here. I love this state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. There’s something very special here. The Great Lakes, but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I grew up totally in love with cars. It used to be, in the fifties and sixties, if you showed me one square foot of almost any part of a car, I could tell you what brand it was, the model, and so forth. Now, with all the Japanese cars, I’m not quite so good at it. But I still know the American cars pretty well and drive a Mustang. I love cars. I love American cars. And long may they rule the world, let me tell ya.”

    • David Evans

      I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering--Richard Wilbur

    • Frank Povah

      I actually heard it this morning on radio WUKY, Lexington KY. An announcer told his listeners that “we had a lot of stormage yesterday”.

    • Lee Leslie

      Have any of you been following Georgia Senate Bill 469? Written by the chamber of commerce and now out of committee, it is an all out attack on unions, but it also appears to makes mass picketing illegal if organized and creates injunctive relief in all -- in effect, outlawing occupy or union picketing, etc. in Georgia. This gives me the creeps. Please read this and tell your representatives to kill it.

    • David Evans

      “It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”--Vita Sackville-West

    • Lee Leslie

      Per Reuters -- “Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday a comment by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, branding Russia the “number one geopolitical foe”, smacked of Hollywood.”
      He went on to say, “I would recommend all U.S. presidential candidates … to do two things. First, when phrasing their position one needs to use one’s head, one’s good reason, which would not do harm to a presidential candidate.
      “Also, (one needs to) look at his watch: we are in 2012 and not the mid-1970s.”

    • Lee Leslie

      Check out the new website dedicated to SC judge who helped end legal Southern segregation: http://WatiesWaring.org/

    • Lee Leslie

      The House passed Paul Ryan’s budget today (228-191). From Daily Kos:
      Just a few reminders about the Ryan budget, and what the House Republicans put down as their political marker for 2012, their vision for a Republican-ruled America: It would give the wealthy a humongous tax break, the lowest tax rate since the Hoover administration; it would gut nutritional assistance, cutting it by 17 percent over the next decade; it would cut Medicare benefits and begin the process of killing the program; it would kill millions of jobs; it turns Medicaid into a block grant and deeply cuts federal spending for it, and for SCHIP, the children’s health program; and it breaks the already agreed upon Budget Control Act of 2011, threatening, once again, a government shutdown. This is also the budget endorsed by Mitt Romney.

    • David Evans

      “If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” --Kingsley Amis, born in London, 16 April, 1922.

    • Monica Smith

      Not to be missed--”Mitt Romney, American Parasite”
      His years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism
      James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony.
      It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart company. That allegiance was rewarded with fat profit-sharing checks. In the basement-wage economy of Georgetown, South Carolina, Sanderson and his co-workers were blue-collar aristocracy.
      “We were doing very good,” says Sanderson, president of Steelworkers Local 7898. “The plant was making money, and we had good profit-sharing checks, and everything was going well.”
      What he didn’t know was that it was about to end. Hundreds of miles to the north, in Boston, a future presidential candidate was sizing up Georgetown’s books.
      http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-04-18/news/Mitt-Romney-american-parasite/

    • Lee Leslie

      CCGA Event Series: The Georgia Transparency Project
      How Transparent is our state legislature? Join us at the People TV studios for an in-depth discussion of the Georgia Transparency Project – which increases transparency above and beyond what legislators self-report.

      Photo of Jim Walls

      Featured Speaker: Jim Walls, Editor of AtlantaUnfiltered.com and Director of the Georgia Transparency Project
      Date/Time: Monday, May 14th -- 6:15 PM – reception (beer, wine & light hors d’oeuvres provided)
      
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Taping of Program before a live studio audience
      RSVP: Click link below for registration -or- call 404-524-4598
      http://commoncausega.org/events/ccga-event-series-the-georgia-transparency-project/

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