I’m not sure who the DJ’s were, but they totally rocked. The music fades in over the sound of the speaker on stage and then takes over…
Audio – DJ Mix On Polk/Grove (MP3 – 5 MB)
DJ Mix On Polk/Grove (Hi-res 66 MB)
DJ Mix On Polk/Grove – All (Lo-res 27 MB)
DJ Mix On Polk/Grove – Part 1 of 2 (Lo-res 12 MB)
DJ Mix On Polk/Grove – Part 2 of 2 (Lo-res 15 MB)
3 minority caucuses want Coble renounced
House leaders asked to repudiate remarks by N.C. congressman
Three minority congressional caucuses asked House leaders Wednesday to denounce remarks by Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., defending the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called on leaders to repudiate the remarks.
“As our country is engaged in a war against terrorism, and is on the brink of a war against Iraq, respect for civil liberties is crucial to ensure that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past,” the groups said in a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
“To demonstrate that you have learned from the Trent Lott experience and the importance of getting history right, we ask you to repudiate Congressman Coble’s statements as an inaccurate, misleading and potentially damaging view of history,” the letter said.
The caucuses also asked House leaders to pass a resolution that calls for a “Day of Remembrance” for the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Neither Hastert’s nor Sensenbrenner’s offices returned telephone messages Wednesday seeking comment.
Coble chief of staff Missy Branson referred only to Coble’s written statement of Feb. 10 in which he said, “I regret that many Japanese and Arab Americans found my choice of words offensive because that was certainly not my intent.”
In a radio show appearance Feb. 4, Coble disagreed with a caller who said Arab-Americans should be confined, but appeared to defend the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
“We were at war. They were an endangered species,” Coble said. “For many of these Japanese-Americans, it wasn’t safe for them to be on the street.”
Coble said most Japanese-Americans during World War II, like most Arab-Americans today, were not America’s enemies, but President Roosevelt had to consider the nation’s security.
“Some probably were intent on doing harm to us,” he said, “just as some of these Arab-Americans are probably intent on doing harm to us.”
The remarks sparked protests from several minority groups and from three Asian-American congressmen: Reps. Mike Honda, D-Calif., Robert Matsui, D-Calif., and David Wu, D-Ore.
The Democratic National Committee has asked Coble to resign as chairman of the House Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security subcommittee.
So I was planning on being on a plane all day today, but I decided to wait a day and rest up a bit before this week’s SXSW Conference in Austin, TX.
I didn’t get into the Music Showcase as I had hoped, but I’ll still be there all week and I’m going to bring my guitar just in case any of you with gigs feel like letting a girl with a guitar sing a quick 3 minute song or two before your set. (Or perhaps in the middle of your party — I only have two songs so I can’t take it over — and I need zero preparation or set-up — just let me sit down somewhere with the guitar.)
Shoot me an email if you’re interested: lisarein@finetuning.com.
Attention: Speakers and bands. I’ve got my camera and a relatively flexible roaming schedule. There’s no reason why I couldn’t roam over you’re way if you’d appreciate some footage of your work. Just drop me a line.
Okay so what’s in the kitty for today: Raving at the Feb 16 march, The Daily Show takes a look at the Shrub’s “Faith-based Aid”, Pelosi finally speaks up (a little), and Colin Powell continues to say close to nothing at all…
Plus some clips of the Senate arguing about the war and addressing the issue of the potential future (or lack thereof) of a Kurdish nation under American rule.
Dick and his wife don’t like a cartoon of the misses.
Trouble is, parody is supposed to be legal in our “free” country that supposedly comes complete with “free speech” (courtesty of the First Amendment).
White House insists satirist remove image lampooning Lynne Cheney from Web site
By Larry Neumeister for the AP.
An Internet lampoon of Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife is no laughing matter at the White House, which has asked a satirist to remove pictures of her — complete with red clown noses — from his Web site.
But the New York Civil Liberties Union struck back Wednesday on behalf of John A. Wooden, 31, threatening a lawsuit to protect his First Amendment rights to parody the White House and Bush officials on his site, whitehouse.org.
The official White House site is whitehouse.gov.
Cheney counsel David S. Addington warned Wooden’s Chickenhead Productions Inc. that Lynne V. Cheney’s name and pictures — altered to show her with a red clown’s nose and a missing tooth — could not be used to make money without her consent, and asked Wooden to delete the photos and “fictitious biographical statement about her.”
Instead, Wooden cautioned Web site visitors that the vice president “wishes you to be aware … that some/all of the biographic information contained on this PARODY page about Mrs. Cheney may not actually be true.”
And, it added, the editors of the Web site were “confident that any rumors about Mrs. Cheney formerly being a crystal meth pusher are 100 percent likely to be absolutely untrue. Similarly, any stories about her penchant for licking brandy Alexanders off the hirsute belly of her spouse are all lies, lies, lies!”
For those of you in the SF Bay Area, you might want to check out Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom author Cory Doctorow tonight at The Booksmith on Haight and Cole in San Francisco at 7pm.
I’ll be recording it, but I’m sure I won’t get it up anytime soon…I’m just swamped!
Here’s how to get there .
See you there!
Tomorrow’s the day you’ll need to contact your representatives to tell them to vote against Estrada.
Make sure the staffers know you’re a constituent. Then urge your
Senators to:
“Please SUPPORT the filibuster to stop Miguel Estrada.
Please vote AGAINST cloture.”
Please let us know you’re making these important calls, at:
http://www.moveon.org/callmade2.html
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A recent New York Times story on the filibuster is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/politics/12ESTR.html
For more information on Estrada, there’s a good fact sheet at:
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=7795
* For more information on filibusters, see our bulletin at:
http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin11.html
Advisors warn Bush he faces “humiliating” defeat on UN resolution
By the staff at Capital Hill Blue.
“You will lose, Mr. President,” Powell told Bush. “You will lose badly and the United States will be humiliated on the world stage.”
Chicago, February 27, 2002: Today, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the minute hand of the
Bill Moyers on Patriotism and the American Flag
I wore my flag tonight. First time. Until now I haven’t thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see. It was enough to vote, pay my taxes, perform my civic duties, speak my mind, and do my best to raise our kids to be good Americans…
It no more occurred to me to flaunt the flag on my chest than it did to pin my mother’s picture on my lapel to prove her son’s love. Mother knew where I stood; so does my country. I even tuck a valentine in my tax returns on April 15.
So what’s this doing here? Well, I put it on to take it back. The flag’s been hijacked and turned into a logo
Senators fight over other nominees as Estrada debate drags on
By Jesse Holland for the SF Chronicle.
Senate Republicans forced committee approval of three of President Bush’s judicial nominees Thursday, despite Democrats’ efforts to delay action as they have delayed the high-profile nomination of Miguel Estrada to the federal appellate bench.
Democrats said Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, overrode committee rules to send U.S. Appeals Court nominees Deborah Cook and John Roberts to the Republican-controlled Senate, despite objections that they had the right to continue holding the nominees in committee.
Hatch said he was within his rights under committee rules to force a final vote.
“We’re not going to have filibusters in committee,” said an angry Hatch at the end of a three-hour hearing in which sharp words were exchanged between himself and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
The hearing was heated at times, with Democrats at one point walking out to prevent Hatch from having enough committee members present to vote. “You may bully some but you’re not going to bully me,” Kennedy told Hatch.