Actually, Peter Cetera Has ‘Emphatically Declined’ to Reunite With Chicago
By Nick DeRiso December 22, 2015 5:31 PM

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-cetera-chicago-reunion-declined/?trackback=tsmclip



Baby, what a big surprise. Co-founder Robert Lamm is now backing away from a statement that Peter Cetera would reunite with Chicago for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Seems Lamm misinterpreted the band’s long-estranged former frontman. “I’ve mistakenly said Cetera would be playing,” Lamm now tells Billboard. “He has emphatically declined. My email exchanges with Cetera were misinterpreted by me, and I’ve apologized to him, and likewise apologize to the music press community and fans.”

Cetera left Chicago in 1985 for a solo career, and has never shared the stage with them again – though he still plays a selection of their music during his solo concert appearances. Billboard says his representatives have not responded to queries about his plans for the induction ceremony, to be held next April in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Lamm and his fellow bandmates have been emphatic, however, about welcoming Cetera back. “I haven’t spoken with Peter in awhile,” original trumpeter Lee Loughnane said recently, “but if he wants to come sing with us, come on, baby! I’m ready.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/lists/2015-the-year-obama-stopped-giving-any-f-cks-20151222

There are some on the fringes of American society who have long believed President Obama isn't the person he purports to be. And, in at least one way, they're correct: Until now, Obama has presented himself as someone who can at least sorta-kinda deal with bullshit, as it is his job to do.

But 2015 was the year Obama dropped the pretense. It was the year he openly bashed birthers, and skewered whiney Republicans in a harsher way than ever before. He also showed he's gotten even more comfortable making bold moves, to hell with what his critics say (and his critics, as always, had plenty to say).

Here are some highlights from the year of DGAF Obama.

My Dad Would Be 'So Appalled' By GOP Presidential Candidates

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Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, blasted the current GOP's field of 2016 presidential candidates, and claimed her father would be similarly "appalled."

In an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress, Davis said her father, who was shot in an attempted assassination by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981, would not be able to imagine today’s gun violence. Davis also noted that in stark contrast to current GOP presidential candidates and most Republican leaders, her mother, Nancy Reagan, was “very happy” about the Supreme Court’s historic decision on marriage equality.

A long-time liberal who disagreed with her father’s views during his presidency, Davis became estranged from the former president, but the two reconciled in later years, an experience she recounted in her 2004 memoir, The Long Goodbye.

Responding to a question about Sen. Ted Cruz often positively invoking her father’s name on the campaign trail and during debates, Davis said, “It may be this week he’s doing it more than the others. But they all kind of do it. But yet, they are so not like him. My father would be so appalled at what’s going on. He would be so appalled at these candidates. I don’t think he would be a Republican. And if another Ronald Reagan came along right now, I don’t think the Republican Party would accept him.”