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bathroommonkey76's JournalNC GOP takes legal action against liberal groups
Source: WTVD - ABC
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- North Carolina Republicans have announced new legal action against several Raleigh-based liberal groups.
The state GOP claims the groups are violating tax laws in the name of tearing down Republican candidates.
The fight has been brewing since January when Republicans maneuvered in the middle of the night to override a veto by Gov. Bev Perdue.
Liberals were seething. Five activist groups launched the website Out of Control to rail against what it called "an extreme right wing agenda ruining North Carolina."
Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/politics&id=8741074
82nd's Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair removed from job in Afghanistan
Source: Fayetteville Observer
The Army is investigating Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who has been reassigned from Afghanistan back to Fort Bragg, officials said Friday.
Earlier this month, Sinclair was removed from his job as the 82nd Airborne Division's deputy commanding general for support in Afghanistan. He had been deputy commander since July 2010.
"This is a criminal investigation," said Ben Abel, a Fort Bragg spokesman.
Sinclair has returned to Fort Bragg for his assignment as special assistant to the commanding general of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Abel said.
The incident is the first in recent memory in which a Fort Bragg general was removed from a position and investigated.
Read more: http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/05/11/1176788?sac=fo.local
Angry opponents of N.C. amendment call for moving Democratic convention from Charlotte
Source: Charlotte Observer
North Carolina voters have spoken. Now it’s other people’s turn. And, around the country, many of them are so mad at Tuesday’s results on Amendment One that they’re calling for the Democratic National Convention to be yanked out of Charlotte.
By 1:15 p.m., nearly 20,000 people had signed a “move the convention” petition that was launched on change.org by the New York-based Gay Marriage USA.
And Twitter is filled with similar sentiment from angry supporters of same-sex marriage.
“As an LGBT Democrat married in Iowa, I wouldn’t set foot in North Carolina,” tweeted David S. Shafer.
Marc St. Jacques tweeted: “Move the Convention out of North Carolina, don’t spend any monies in this retrograde state.”
No one expects the Democrats to move the September convention out of Charlotte – where the Amendment lost.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/09/3229320/angry-opponents-of-nc-amendment.html
Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
It's sad that Adam Yauch passed away. His charity work for the Tibetans and music will live on through other people. RIP MCA.
Democrats want NC ethics probes after resignations
RALEIGH -- North Carolina House Democrats have asked two ethics panels to examine whether laws were broken regarding relationships between legislative employees and lobbyists that have led two aides of Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis to resign.
House Minority Leader Joe Hackney and other Democratic caucus leaders wrote Thursday to the Legislative Ethics Committee and the State Ethics Commission asking for investigations. They say disclosures of inappropriate relationships between Tillis' staff and the lobbyists raise questions about conflicts of interest and undue influence on the legislative process.
Chief of staff Charles Thomas and policy adviser Amy Hobbs were forced out of their jobs in the past week by disclosures of the relationships with separate lobbyists.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/politics&id=8647322
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Bob Dylan and Bernie Taupin respond to Levon Helm's death
Bob Dylan, who recruited Levon Helm and The Hawks to be his backup players, turning them into The Band, responded Friday morning with a statement following Helm's passing:
"He was my bosom buddy friend to the end, one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation. This is just so sad to talk about. I still can remember the first day I met him and the last day I saw him. We go back pretty far and had been through some trials together. I'm going to miss him, as I'm sure a whole lot of others will too."
The message was posted on Dylan's official web site.
Dylan brought Helm and his band to Woodstock around 1966 after the singer suffered a motorcycle accident in Ulster County. While recovering, Dylan and the newly christened The Band rehearsed songs that became "The Basement Tapes," while The Band developed material that became its debut album, "Music From Big Pink."
Dylan and The Band would hook up around 1974 for a run of albums and a tour, "Bob Dylan and The Band."
http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/response-levon%E2%80%99s-passing
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Bernie Taupin, Elton John's songwriter and the band who penned the tune "Levon" (named after Helm), wrote this remembrance on his website:
"The first time I heard Levon Helm's voice was in a small record shop on Berwick Street in Soho London sometime around 1969. What was it like? Paul on the road to Damascus!
"Oh, I guess I just want to say all these things about the earth and granite of his being, the raw Appalachian timber of his voice and the powerful sway of his backbeat. The throb of his tom-toms the first time I heard 'Tears Of Rage' and that wicked, knowing smile recounting tales of Carney barkers and backwater medicine shows. I'm thinking about him behind that economical kit, the way he hunched his shoulders and turned into the mike like a coiled spring when he sang.
"He was one of three great singers in The Band, three of the greatest singers in any band, and the last of those three to leave us. What other band under God's great Heaven gave us a trio of such eloquent and awesome sonic tools? Richard Manuel had an otherworldly voice, ethereal and legitimately spooky in the best way possible. Rick Danko, with whom I spent some questionably manic moments and cerebral hours and whom I loved dearly, sang like an unfettered young buck, all tremulous beauty and with poignant longing. Anyone doubting this just listen to his vocal on 'It Makes No Difference' from the 'The Last Waltz' soundtrack, one of the best live vocal performances I've ever heard."
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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120420/ENTERTAIN31/120429981/-1/SITEMAP
Judge: Race 'significantly' influenced inmate's murder trial
Fayetteville, N.C. — A Cumberland County Superior Court judge made history Friday morning when he commuted a death row inmate’s sentence in the first test of North Carolina’s fledgling Racial Justice Act.
Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks ruled that race significantly influenced jury selection in Marcus Robinson’s 1994 trial in the 1991 shooting death of a white 17-year-old, Erik Tornblom.
The ruling means Robinson, a 38-year-old black man, will be taken off death row and will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Weeks said Robinson's attorneys "presented a wealth of evidence showing the persistent, persuasive and distorting role of race in jury selection in North Carolina."
More here:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11005360/
Why didn't he get a new trial? What the hell?
Levon Helm dead at age 71
Source: recordonline.com
Levon Helm, Woodstock resident and drummer, the former leader of The Band, has died at age 71.
Helm died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
"We lost Levon at 1:30 today surrounded by friends and family and his musicians have visited him," said Larry Campbell, Helm's longtime guitarist and band leader. "As sad as this was, it was very peaceful."
Campbell, who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to BB King, said his greatest honor was not only helping lead Helm's band, but knowing him.
Read more: http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120419/ENTERTAIN/120419640
In Facebook post, Robbie Robertson writes of visiting Levon Helm
After decades of not speaking with each other, former Band guitarist Robbie Robertson and former Band drummer Levon Helm, who is dying of cancer, shared the same room over the weekend.
Robertson, a former Woodstock resident, posted his message on his Facebook page this afternoon:
"Last week I was shocked and so saddened to hear that my old band mate, Levon, was in the final stages of his battle with cancer. It hit me really hard because I thought he had beaten throat cancer and had no idea that he was this ill. I spoke with his family and made arrangements to go and see him.
On Sunday I went to New York and visited him in the hospital. I sat with Levon for a good while..., and thought of the incredible and beautiful times we had together. It was heartwarming to be greeted by his lovely daughter Amy, whom I have known since she was born. Amy’s mother, Libby Titus, and her husband, Donald Fagen, were so kind to help walk me through this terrible time of sadness. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Sandy.
Read more here:
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120418/ENT04/120418012/In-Facebook-post-Robbie-Robertson-writes-visiting-Levon-Helm?odyssey=nav|head&nclick_check=1
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Levon's family has been reading the online dedications to him; if you want to offer up a message then you can post it on his Facebook page. May love and light bless him as he crosses over.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Levon-Helm/99136623527
Warren Buffett Cancer: Berkshire Hathaway CEO Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer
Source: Huffington Post
Famed billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with stage-1 prostate cancer, according to Bloomberg TV. Berkshire Hathaway, the firm where the 81-year-old Buffett is CEO, said the diagnosis "isn't remotely life threatening."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/warren-buffett-cancer-prostate_n_1432689.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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