NEW YORK Sen. John McCain snagged headlines on Thursday after he quoted a Wall Street Journaleditorial Wednesday on the Senate floor that ripped into Tea Party politicians about the debt ceiling.
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The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame," McCain recited with a mocking tone. "Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.
The article called out GOP members, specifically Tea Party politicians, who wrongly believe, it said, that refusal to sign a budget agreement would cause a default crisis and turn the public against President Barack Obama.
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The comments stoked outrage among some Tea Party circles, including one that Sharon Angle runs in. Angle was explicitly mentioned as a "Hobbit" -- referring to the popular creature from author J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings epic -- in the section McCain spoke at the Senate.
McCain: Tea Partiers Have Bad 'Hobbit' Of Not Raising Debt Ceiling
It is regrettable that a man seeking dialogue, action and cooperation for votes on the floor of the United States Senate has only one strategy to achieve that effort: name-calling," Angle said in a statement.
McCain addressed his comments late Wednesday on Fox News' "The Sean Hannity Show."
Host Sean Hannity accused McCain for attacking the Tea Party, and he added that it seemed like an example of Republicans competing against themselves.
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN
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It was basically attacking the idea that somehow if we shut down the government that then Obama would get the blame and Republicans would triumph. I disagree, "If we don't act in the Republican House ... then the ball will be in President Obama's court and HarryReid.
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN REGARDING THE SENATE VOTE ON CUT, CAP AND BALANCE:
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Washington, DC – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement regarding the Senate vote on the Cut, Cap and Balance legislation:
“I regret that due to my attendance at a dear friend’s funeral this morning, I was not in the Senate to cast my vote for the Cut, Cap and Balance legislation. I fully support Cut, Cap and Balance and I am proud that Republicans put forward a concrete proposal to cut spending, balance the budget, reign in the spiraling debt that imperils our children’s future and ensures that our nation continues to meet its obligations.
“The Democratic leadership has failed to put forward any meaningful proposal to break this impasse, but instead continues to set up procedural road blocks to keep Republican plans from passing and force votes on non-binding legislation that will do nothing to solve our problems. The Democrats, led by President Obama, continue to insist that our fiscal difficulties can be fixed by raising taxes on individuals and small businesses – the exact policies that will deepen our economic woes, not fix them.
“Both parties must now find a reasonable, responsible path forward to address head-on our debt crisis, end the mortgaging of our children’s future and make certain that our nation meets its debt obligations, as we Americans always have. If Speaker Tip O’Neill and President Ronald Regan could find agreement on such matters, we can too. We must put politics aside and do what is right for our nation.
Phone-hacking scandal – Friday 29 July 2011 on the day....
The phone-hacking scandal that stunned the country and rocked Rupert Murdoch's media empire deepened Friday with claims that the mother of another murdered girl was targeted as an inquiry into the affair opened.
Lord Justice Brian Leveson, the judge appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to lead the probe, said Thursday the inquiry would start by looking at media ethics and press regulation and vowed that he will order witnesses to testify.
Here are today's key developments in the phone-hacking saga so far today.
The first public hearings would be held in September, he announced.
But just hours after Leveson spoke, the mother of a murdered girl on whose behalf the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid had campaigned relentlessly said she may have been targeted by a private investigator working for the now-defunct paper.
Phone hacking scandal is 'all about Rupert Murdoch
in the year to the end of June, as the company announced a £750m share buy-back to appease investors unhappy after the failure of News Corporation's bid to takeover the satellite broadcaster.
News of the World had provided her with a mobile phone for the past 11 years, former editor Rebekah Brooks said.
Brooks worked with Sara Payne to campaign for tougher child protection laws during her 2000-2003 editorship of News of the World.
Brooks earlier this month quit as head of News International, Murdoch's British newspaper publishing arm, and was arrested by Scotland Yard on suspicion of phone-hacking.
Brooks said in a statement that the latest allegations were "abhorrent" and "particularly upsetting" because Payne was a "dear friend".
A News International spokesman said: "News International takes this matter very seriously and is deeply concerned, like everyone.
Nick Davies on phone hacking, Murdoch and News of the World
The scandal erupted earlier this month after it emerged that News of the World, which has since been shut down, had hacked into the voicemails of Milly Dowler, a missing 13-year-old girl who was later found murdered.
It has since caused the resignations of two top British police officers, involved Cameron after he hired another former editor of the paper as his press chief, and threatened the stability of Murdoch's global media empire.
The satellite group's board meeting ended with support for Rupert Murdoch's youngest son to continue as chairman, after the collapse of the family firm's bid for the 61% of the satellite business it did not already own.
Murdoch to answer phone-hacking questions
"The role of the chairman was discussed at some length today and ultimately James Murdochreceived the unanimous support of the board," the source said after a board meeting.
British MP Tom Watson, who quizzed the Murdochs at a recent media committee hearing, said he will ask the group to "immediately invite" James back to answer allegations made by former News of the World editor Colin Myler that he gave false evidence.
Rupert Murdoch's US-based News Corporation was forced to drop its bid for the 61 percent of shares it does not own in BSkyB earlier this month because of the hacking scandal.
At the first hearing of the hacking inquiry on Thursday, Leveson said the first stage would focus on the "relationship between the press and the public, and the related issue of press regulation."
Sitting at a cramped table alongside the six other panel members at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, the bespectacled judge said he was entitled to compel witnesses to give evidence on phone-hacking.
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The scandal has refused to go away since the jailing in 2007 of the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator in whose notes Sara Payne's details were found.
Police eventually reopened the inquiry in January 2011 and discovered that up to 4,000 people may have had their phones hacked. Ten people have been arrested so far.
Part One of a Sweet Scene in the Great Fairy-tale-like Movie Big Fish
Big Fish” scours lakes and rivers in search of that one big fish. Both entertaining and educating the audience on the type of gear, equipment, boat, and techniques that are needed to put the “big ones” in the boat. We not only feature some of the top guides and tournament pros, but also those crafty “old-timers” with decades of experience chasing the big guys. We will leave no stone un-turned, and no spot un-fished as we bring the excitement of these big fish to the living room. The
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THOMAS TON — The Friends of the Thomaston Public Library presents a weekly series of films in Room 208 of the Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. Summer screenings take place Fridays at 7 p.m.
The movies for July have Just for Laughs as their theme and will conclude July 29 with "Big Fish." In this Tim Burton fantasy based on the novel by Daniel Wallace, William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward, by piecing together disparate facts from a lifetime of fantastical tales and legends of epic proportions. Ewan McGregor co-stars as the young Edward, a traveling salesman, with Albert Finney playing him as an older man. Helena Bonham Carter and Steve Buscemi also star.
The PG-rated movie was released in 2003 and runs 125 minutes. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. The academy building is handicap accessible by the elevator off the parking lot in back. The Hallway Books bookshop on the first floor is open before each movie. For more information, call the library at 354-2453.
The Big Fish Small Pond problem
Speaking at the Institute for New Economic Thinking annual conference in New Hampshire today, Andrew Haldane – Executive Director for Financial Stability – discusses a number of public policy questions which arise as a result of observed and potential future international capital flows.
Andrew Haldane begins by stating that there is a tension between the speed with which emerging market economies’ capital markets are widening and deepening and the extent to which international investors are seeking to diversify their portfolios to spread risk and boost returns. He calls this the Big Fish Small Pond (BFSP) problem. He says any imbalance between the rates at which international capital is distributed and absorbed could “...cause ripples right across the international monetary system”. As an example, he notes that last year’s flow of capital into emerging markets was large relative to some emerging asset markets. This caused “bubbly behaviour in emerging asset markets” and public policy responses ranging from capital flow restrictions to macro-prudential measures.
That leads Andrew Haldane to consider whether these ripples might be expected to rise or fall in the future. He constructs simple illustrations to consider whether portfolio diversification will outpace deepening in emerging markets over future decades. He explores two key factors that influence the result. First, the extent to which the current degree of ‘home bias’ among advanced economy investors is eroded over time. Second, the changing size of emerging market economies’ capital markets compared with developed economies. He says that: “Taken together, these projections do not suggest a dissipation of the BFSP problem. More likely, they suggest it could intensify.” Relative to market size, peak inflows could easily be twice as large as those seen in the past. That is a recipe for financial instabilities.
The big big Fish Picture this All........
Andrew Haldane turns finally to consider what the public policy response might be to the emerging BFSP problem. He suggests some of these responses would have been frowned upon by many international policymakers in the past. But times have changed and the BFSP scenario raises new policy questions for developed countries, including what role capital controls, financial deepening and macro-prudential measures might play. He concludes: “Capital restrictions and macro-prudential policies have entered the policy bloodstream, if not yet the mainstream. The debate today is how best to integrate such tools into established macroeconomic policy frameworks.” This might require new international “rules of the financial road” for global finance.
A rendition of Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace, done for a high school project.
Big fish numbers dwindling:
The population breakdown in the world's oceans is changing dramatically, with big fish numbers dropping while smaller fish become more plentiful, according to a new study.
Villy Christensen, a researcher at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre, says that means predators like tuna, cod and swordfish have seen their numbers drop by two-thirds over the past century, while small prey fish such as herring, caplin and anchovies have doubled.
He compares it to human beings visiting Africa's Serengeti region, seeing gazelles and antelopes everywhere, and wondering where the lions are.
"With the big predators gone, the population of prey species would soar. The underwater is an ecosystem just like the Serengeti, where you have predators and prey and a big complex food web.
Fish tastes must change
The solution could include encouraging humans to try more eco-friendly fish such as sablefish, albacore tuna, mackerel or sardines, says marine biologist Mike McDermid.
He's the program manager for the Ocean Wise conservation project at the Vancouver Aquarium, and works with restaurants and the seafood industry to get consumers to stop chowing down on overfished species such as orange roughy and bluefin tuna.
"We need to get away from our traditional tastes a bit — always eating the same thing, always focusing on those big, predatory species — to open up to some new cuisine," McDermid said.
In food lingo, that means eating lower down on the food chain in an attempt to right the underwater imbalance of predator and prey.
Part Two of a Sweet Scene in the Great Fairy-tale-like Movie Big Fish see that all of you......
Fiddy's song, "I'm On It," was allegedly leaked by Interscope earlier this week. The rapper was not happy and let his fans know in a series of tweets..
"50 cent" redirects here. For the currency amount, see 50 cents. Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003) and The Massacre (2005). Get Rich or Die Tryin' has been certified eight times platinum by the RIAA[1] and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. His album The Massacre has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and has sold 11 million copies worldwide.
Born in South Jamaica, Queens, Jackson began drug dealing at the age of twelve during the 1980s crack epidemic. After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000. After releasing his album Guess Who's Back? in 2002, Jackson was discovered by rapper Eminem and signed to Interscope Records. With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre, who produced his first major commercial successes, Jackson became one of the world's highest selling rappers. In 2003, he founded the record label G-Unit Records, which signed several successful rappers such as Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo.
Man I'm not releasing a album i can't believe interscope is this f---ed up right now," he wrote. "I apologize to all my fans."
"I will work with other artist on there projects but I will not put out another album. They dropped the ball with me one time to many... Music video by 50 Cent performing In Da Club. (C) 2003
Jackson has engaged in feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, Nas, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Cam'ron, Puff Daddy, Rick Ross, and former G-Unit members The Game and Young Buck. He has also pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin'in 2005, the Iraq War film Home of the Brave in 2006, and Righteous Kill in 2008. 50 Cent was ranked as the sixth best artist of the 2000–2009 decade by Billboard magazine. The magazine also ranked him as the fourth top male artist and as the third top rapper behind Eminemand Nelly. Billboard magazine also ranked him as the sixth best and most successful Hot 100 Artist of the 2000–2009 decade and as the number one rap artist of the 2000–2009 decade. Billboard ranked his album Get Rich or Die Tryin' as the twelfth best album of the 2000–2009 decade and his album The Massacre as the 37th best album of the 2000–2009 decade. He is currently working on his yet-to-be-titled fifth studio album, which is set to be released in November 2011. 1996–2000: Early career
1996–2000: Early career
Jackson started rapping in a friend's basement where he used turntables to record over instrumentals. In 1996, a friend introduced him to Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC who was organizing his label Jam Master Jay Records. Jay taught him how to count bars, write choruses, structure songs, and how to make a record. Jackson's first official appearance was on a song titled "React" with the group Onyx on their 1998 album Shut 'Em Down. He credited Jam Master Jay as an influence who helped him improve his ability to write hooks. Jay produced Jackson's first album; however, it was never released. In 1999, after leaving Jam Master Jay, the platinum-selling producers Trackmasters took notice of Jackson and signed him to Columbia Records. They sent him to a studio in Upstate New York where he produced thirty-six songs in two weeks. Eighteen were included on his unofficially released album,Power of the Dollar in 2000. He also started the now-defunct Hollow Point Entertainment with former G-Unit affiliate Bang 'Em Smurf.
"How to Rob"
50 Cent's first underground single in which he comically describes robbing celebrity musicians.
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Jackson's popularity started to increase after the successful but controversial underground single, "How to Rob", which he wrote in half an hour while in a car on the way to a studio. The track comically explains how he would rob famous artists. He explained the reasoning behind song's content as, "There's a hundred artists on that label, you gotta separate yourself from that group and make yourself relevant". Rappers Jay-Z, Kurupt, Sticky Fingaz, Big Pun, DMX, Wyclef Jean and the Wu-Tang Clan replied to the song and Nas, who received the track positively, invited Jackson to travel on a promotional tour for his Nastradamus album. The song was intended to be released with "Thug Love" featuring Destiny's Child, but two days before he was scheduled to film the "Thug Love" music video, Jackson was shot and confined to a hospital due to his injuries.
Hard Knock Tv's Devi Dev and Nick Huff Barili talk to Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek talk about the early years of Kanye West's career. From Kanye opening up for Kweli to labels not wanting to sign him as a rapper. Kweli says that people didn't see Kanye's vision as an artist and just wanted his beats. Kweli says that he knew "College Drop Out" was a classic when he first heard it. Hi-Tek adds that Kanye is a genius in the same way that Dr Dre is.
2000–01: Shooting
On May 24, 2000, Jackson was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl "Hommo" Baum, outside his grandmother's former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He went into a friend's car, but was asked to return to the house to get jewelry. His son was in the house, while his grandmother was in the front yard. Upon returning to the back seat of the car, another car pulled up nearby. An assailant then walked up to Jackson's left side with a 9mm handgun and fired nine shots at close range. He was shot nine times: in the hand (a round hit his right thumb and came out of his little finger), arm, hip, both legs, chest, and left cheek. The face wound resulted in a swollen tongue, the loss of a wisdom tooth, and a small slur in his voice. His friend also sustained a gunshot wound to the hand. They were driven to the hospital where Jackson spent thirteen days. Baum, the alleged shooter, was killed three weeks later. Baum was also Mike Tyson's close friend and bodyguard.
Music video by Nicole Scherzinger performing Right There. Get it on iTunes: New Music Video
Are you kidding me? The kid met 50 Cent cause 50 wanted to meet him. Keenan was going to LA which he wanted to do. 50 was a bonus. And just in case you do not know, not all people jump and down screaming like crazed lunatics cause they get to meet someone. He could be shaking inside and just not show it because he's used to people writing him off or treating him bad. Helllooo. The kid got called out by Katy Perry and over 35 mill views. 50 is a nice bonus to being alive and everything else.
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While in the hospital, Jackson signed a publishing deal with Columbia Records. However, he was dropped from the label and "blacklisted" in the recording industry because of his song "Ghetto Qu'ran". Unable to find a studio to work with in the U.S, he traveled to Canada. Along with his business partner Sha Money XL, he recorded over thirty songs for mixtapes, with the purpose of building a reputation. According to Shady Records A&R Marc Labelle in an interview with HitQuarters, Jackson shrewdly used the mixtape circuit to his own advantage saying, "He took all the hottest beats from every artist and flipped them with better hooks. They then got into all the markets on the mixtapes and all the mixtape DJs were messing with them. Jackson's popularity rose and in 2002, he released material independently on the mixtape, Guess Who's Back?. Beginning to attract interest, and now backed byG-Unit, Jackson continued to release music including 50 Cent Is the Future. The mixtape revisited material by Jay-Z and Raphael Saadiq. Non-musical projects
Jackson has established himself in a variety of fields. In November 2003, he signed a five year deal with Reebok to distribute a "G-Unit Sneakers" line as part of his G-Unit Clothing Company. He provided the voice-over as the protagonist in the video game, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, which was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and the PlayStation Portable. Its sequel, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, was released in early 2009. He worked with Glacéau to create a Vitamin Water drink called Formula 50. In 2007, Coca-Cola purchased Glacéau for US$4.1 billion. Forbes estimated Jackson, who owns a stake in the company, earned $100 million from the deal after taxes. He has teamed up with Right Guard to launched a body spray called Pure 50 RGX Body Spray and a condom line called Magic Stick Condoms, in which he planned to donate part of the proceeds to HIV awareness.Jackson has signed a multi-year deal with Steiner Sports to sell his memorabilia. In 2005, Jackson made a cameo appearance on The Simpsons episode "Pranksta Rap", in which he makes light of his legal troubles. The same year, he starred alongside Terrence Howard in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin'. He starred in the 2006 film, Home of the Brave, as a soldier returning home from the Iraq War, traumatized after killing an Iraqi woman. Jackson is working on a role as a fighter in an Angola State Prison in Spectacular Regret alongside Nicolas Cage, and starred opposite Al Pacino and Robert De Niroin 2008's Righteous Kill, a movie regarding a police death. He also started the film production companies G-Unit Films in 2007 and Cheetah Vision in 2008. In August 2007, Jackson announced plans to launch a dietary supplement company in conju nction with his movie Spectacular Regret.
50 Cent with Val Kilmer at the AMAs2009 In August 2005, shortly before appearing in Get Rich or Die Tryin', Jackson published an autobiography entitled From Pieces to Weight: Once upon a Time in Southside Queens. In it Jackson explores the cultural and economic forces that led him to sell cocaine and crack, details his entrepreneurship as a drug-dealer and then as a rapper, and reflects on his own ethos and on society. On January 4, 2007, Jackson launched his G-Unit Books imprint at the Time Warner Building. He also co-wrote The Ski Mask Way, a novel about a small-time drug dealer who attempts to rob his employers, which is to be turned into a film. Jackson said he read Robert Greene's The 33 Strategies of War and worked with the author on a book titled The 50th Law, an urban take on The 48 Laws of Power. In May 2008, Jackson met billionaire Patrice Motsepe to forge a joint venture selling 50 Cent-branded platinum. In 2008, Jackson started a reality television show on MTV titled 50 Cent: The Money and the Power; the winning contestant, Ryan Mayberry, won a $100,000 investment from Jackson. On September 8, 2009, he published his book The 50th Law. In 2010, Jackson's film company Cheetah Vision landed $200 million in funding. Family:
On October 13, 1997, Jackson's then-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins gave birth to a son, Marquise Jackson.
The birth of his son changed Jackson's outlook on life: "When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father."[94] He credited his son for inspiring his career and being "motivation to go in a different direction". Politics
In 2005, Jackson expressed support for President George Walker Bush after rapper Kanye West criticized him for the slow response in assisting the Hurricane Katrina victims. If his felony convictions did not prevent him from voting, he claimed he would have voted for Bush. He later stated that Bush "has less compassion than the average human. By all means, I don't aspire to be like George Bush. Financial crisis of 2007–2010
In December 2008 50 told the Canadian press that he had been affected by the recession, losing several million dollars on the stock market. He also went on to say that he had been unable to sell his Connecticut mansion and pushed Before I Self-Destruct back because of the recent economic downturn.
