From: Digestifier To: Subject: Dead-Flames Digest #469 Dead-Flames Digest #469, Volume #48 Sun, 2 Oct 05 06:00:01 PDT Contents: Republican's top lobbyist hires Mob to kill business foe ("Bill") Today's Strictly Bluegrass Festival ("Bill") Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up ("Theodore HarrinGAY Mavroidis") Re: What is a good unplugged video to get? (Steve Lenier) Re: What is a good unplugged video to get? ("band beyond description") DVD full of shows ("Nick's Picks") Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up ("RomanII") Re: Playboy After Dark DVD B+P ("band beyond description") Re: I tried to grow a beard (Spider Dawg) Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up ("asteriades") Re: question about "Stuck in the middle with you" (Spider Dawg) Re: Playboy After Dark DVD B+P (Spider Dawg) March 2, 1969 - greatest show ever? ("Bill") Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up ("Theodore HarrinGAY Mavroidis") Re: The Ancestral Mansion ("volkfolk") ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bill" Subject: Republican's top lobbyist hires Mob to kill business foe Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:48:59 GMT It appears the Republican Party is not only corrupt and irresponsible by running up massive budget deficits by starting an idiotic war that has killed thousands of Americans while giving huge tax cuts to multi-millionaires. It appears now there biggest corporate lobbyists are involved in mob killings. You read the article below and you wonder how Republicans in congress win elections. Perhaps they aren't winning elections - perhap the Republican-aligned voting machine companies (Diebold, ES&S) are "winning" them for the Republicans. Do America and the world a favor and work hard to defeat any Republican presently in congress you can (and don't let machines from Diebold and ES&S anywhere close to your local elections). Bill ======= http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100105D.shtml The GOP's Spreading Plague By Joe Conason, Salon.com Friday, September 30, 2005 Voters are notoriously slow in voting out politicians accused of corruption, but they may reach the tipping point with the latest revelations. To be an honest Republican these days must be to wonder what awful revelation is coming next - and how the Grand Old Party, which once claimed to represent political reform, became a front for sleaze, corruption and cynical criminality. Across the country, from the Capitol to statehouses, Republican officials are under indictment, under investigation or under suspicion. This week's headlines featured the indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay and the probe of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, but the infection of venality among their fellow partisans is now reaching epidemic proportions. So widespread is the plague that keeping track of all the individual cases, and their increasingly baroque variations, has become a distinct challenge. Consider Jack Abramoff, once the prince of K Street lobbyists and a dedicated right-wing ideologue who boasted of his powerful connections to DeLay, Karl Rove, Grover Norquist and the entire Republican apparatus in Washington. Already under investigation by the Justice Department for his influence peddling among House members, including DeLay, and his swindling of Indian tribes, Abramoff was indicted last month for bank fraud in a separate South Florida case involving a casino boat company that he partly owned. The fraud allegedly committed by Abramoff and his business partner Adam Kidan involved a phony wire transfer they used to purchase a controlling interest in SunCruz from the company's founder, Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, in 2001. Abramoff and Kidan later fell out with Boulis in a bitter business dispute that turned violent. In February 2001, gunmen ambushed Boulis on a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., highway and shot him repeatedly. On Tuesday, Florida authorities arrested three New York men with mob connections for the Boulis killing. Two of the men - Anthony Moscatiello and Tony Ferrari - had received payments totaling more than $240,000 from Kidan and Abramoff. Moscatiello, a longtime associate of the Gambino Mafia family, and Ferrari were supposedly providing food and consulting services to SunCruz - or so Kidan claimed when questioned by prosecutors. There is no evidence, however, that Moscatiello and Ferrari provided any services to the company. Connecting the dots isn't difficult here: Kidan and Abramoff want to get rid of Boulis, who won't go away. Kidan and Abramoff hire Moscatiello and Ferrari with SunCruz money. Moscatiello and Ferrari allegedly whack Boulis, without any motive of their own. If the Broward County state's attorney has sufficient evidence to win convictions for a capital crime, some people will probably be talking soon in hope of avoiding the hot shot. The stunning fall of Abramoff, who has yet to hit bottom, is certainly the most colorful tale of Republican depravity. The corporate money laundering to Texas politicians that led to DeLay's conspiracy indictment, and the suspicious insider stock transaction that spurred investigations of Frist by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, seem mundane by comparison. Outrage will be warranted if their misconduct is proved, but everyone sadly knows that these felonies are now common practice in our political and corporate culture. Corporate misbehavior has also brought down right-wing publisher Conrad Black, neoconservative strategist and former Bush advisor Richard Perle and the entire corporate board of Hollinger Inc., the Republican-friendly media conglomerate formerly controlled by Lord Black - and that he and others are plausibly accused of illicitly looting for their own benefit. Furious shareholders forced Black to relinquish control of the company and are suing him, as well as Perle and former Black deputy David Radler, for $500 million. The SEC is also suing Black and Radler, and the Justice Department is investigating the former Hollinger directors. Last month, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who also happens to be the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case, accepted Radler's guilty plea to mail fraud and wire fraud. Radler is now believed to be cooperating in the prosecution of what former SEC chairman Richard Breeden, a Republican who investigated Hollinger on behalf of shareholders, termed a "corporate kleptocracy." Kleptocratic morality evidently ruled at least two Republican statehouses in the Midwest as well. Currently under indictment are former Gov. George Ryan of Illinois, whose trial on bribery charges began last week, and Gov. Robert Taft of Ohio, who pleaded no contest last month to charges of accepting illegal gifts from a state contractor. That contractor is Thomas Noe, a coin dealer who received lucrative investment deals with the state's Workers Compensation Fund and is now at the center of a gigantic scandal known as "Coingate." More than $12 million has disappeared from the fund, and former GOP official Noe stands accused of laundering money to various Republican politicians, including the Bush-Cheney campaign. Like Abramoff, Noe is a Bush "Pioneer," responsible for raising at least $100,000 for the president last year. Still another Pioneer is currently under criminal investigation in a celebrated corruption case involving Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a prominent Republican representative from San Diego with a senior position on the House defense appropriations subcommittee. On Aug. 18, FBI and IRS agents raided the offices of defense contractor and Bush fundraiser Brent Wilkes. Wilkes is reportedly a former business associate of Mitchell J. Wade, the head of a defense contracting firm called MZM Inc. who is under investigation in San Diego for alleged bribery of Cunningham. According to newspaper reports, Wade purchased a home owned by Cunningham at a price inflated by at least $700,000, and also permitted the congressman to use his 42-foot yacht free of charge. Federal agents searched Wade's offices in July. Although prosecutors have brought no criminal charges in the case yet, they have filed civil court documents describing the home sale as a violation of federal bribery laws - and Cunningham, who has served in Congress for decades, has already announced that he will not seek another term next year. The Republican National Committee's new treasurer, Robert Kjellander, is under investigation too. (Naturally, he is also a Bush Pioneer.) Not long after he assumed his new post at the party's Washington headquarters, Kjellander received a federal subpoena for records of his dealings with the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System, a state pension fund, and the Carlyle Group. Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into alleged corruption at the fund, and have asked Kjellander to provide information about a $4.5 million fee he received from Carlyle for his role in arranging investments by the fund with the huge private equity fund. Carlyle, of course, is closely connected to the Bush administration, including the president's father, George H.W. Bush, who has worked for the firm as a rainmaker and advisor. In fairness, it should be said that all these pols and parasites may be innocent (except for those already convicted), or at least not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It is also true that voters have historically been slow to evict politicians from office because of corruption charges. But public opinion of congressional Republicans is hitting new lows, and Americans are growing furious about the war in Iraq, the government response to Hurricane Katrina and rising energy prices. The natural impulse to throw the rascals out can only be encouraged by the Gilded Age spectacles now unfolding in Washington and in cities across the country as the indictments continue to come down between now and November 2006. ================================ Joe Conason writes a weekly column for Salon and the New York Observer. ------------------------------ From: "Bill" Subject: Today's Strictly Bluegrass Festival Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:16:49 GMT Doc Watson and the other members of his band were great as usual - quality professional picking with a good sound. Following Doc's band was Earl Scruggs and his band. It was the first time I ever saw Earl Scruggs and his band live. They were great too. Who is that young lady in his band that plays the incredible slide guitar?! She looks 25 (and easy on the eyes) yet plays that thing like she'd been playing it for 50 years. The violinist in his band was excellent too. Finally saw Laurie Lewis and her band for the first time ever even though she's been playing out of Berkeley since the '70s. She was on guitar for most of the set. The violinist in her band (besides herself) played some killer solos (big fat sound with great tone). For the last two songs of her set, she put down the acoustic guitar she had been strumming and put on her violin. That's when it got really excellent, especially the last song when the two violinists (her and the guy mentioned above) and the guitarist were doing something similar to Roy Acuff's Wabash Cannonball - and man was that good - probably the highlight of the day for me. It helped too that it was on one of the smaller stages were one could get reasonably close to the stage (without having to be there since 5 am). Missed the Knitters which I regret though it was a tough call since both Earl Scruggs and the Knitters were playing at the same time. I don't regret seeing Earl (he and everyone in his band were great) - I just wish they had the Knitters at a different time because I wasn't going to miss Earl Scruggs. They did a great job putting it on I thought. Of course the weather was foggy (they should probably add "foggy" to the title of the festival). Thanks to Warren Hellman for funding it all. At 72, he's using his vast sum of $ to put on such a great music festival that gets bigger and better every year where great roots music is exposed to young people - and he's now taking banjo lessons - gotta like that. Bill ------------------------------ From: "Theodore HarrinGAY Mavroidis" Crossposted-To: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s,rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.greek Subject: Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up Date: 2 Oct 2005 00:55:44 -0700 Come here and say that What ? You daren't ? CHICKENSHIT cowardly grik loser FILTH ! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:32:04 -0700 Subject: Re: What is a good unplugged video to get? From: Steve Lenier in article KGF%e.805$Vk.561@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net, Ken Fortenberry at kenfortenberry@ameritech.net wrote on 10/1/05 5:17 PM: > The Illini lost to Iowa. Woohoo...go Hawks! Booie, go to Amazon.com and search the DVD section for "unplugged"....turns up a couple interesting ones...Clapton...Dylan..Kiss...an R&B thing... Steve ------------------------------ From: "band beyond description" <123@456.com> Subject: Re: What is a good unplugged video to get? Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:38:13 +0900 "Steve Lenier" wrote in message news:BF64F724.320DB%slenier@comcast.net... > in article KGF%e.805$Vk.561@newssvr24.news.prodigy.net, Ken Fortenberry at > kenfortenberry@ameritech.net wrote on 10/1/05 5:17 PM: > > > The Illini lost to Iowa. > > > Woohoo...go Hawks! > > > Booie, go to Amazon.com and search the DVD section for "unplugged"....turns > up a couple interesting ones...Clapton...Dylan..Kiss...an R&B thing... > > Steve > Nirvana was always known for its Unplugged session, and you can't forget Neil Young's Unplugged. I also saw a Lawryn Hill (spelling?) Unplugged once on MTV that was pretty funky. -- Peace, ~ Steve ------------------------------ From: "Nick's Picks" Subject: DVD full of shows Date: 2 Oct 2005 05:05:48 -0700 informal vine. first responce gets it, but must copy and re-offer. this is full of AUD sources that I snagged off of archive. my bandwidth has been upgraded, and I have been pulling 9mb sustained rates off of archive at night. amazing. 3 shows an hour. I filled 50gbs in two days! any way.. on this disc is: 6-22-04 AUD (Jerry Moore source) 10-31-91 AUD, set 2 schoeps fob 7-17-88 AUD, schoeps split omnis 5-12-74, AUD unknown..but nice sounding 7-7-87 AUD, fob schoeps the info files are on archive or etree. they are probably not w/the files as they dont come down w/the .zip that you download. why...I dont know. but these are the "ones in circ", so it should not be a big deal to find the info. ------------------------------ From: "RomanII" Crossposted-To: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s,rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.greek Subject: Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up Date: 2 Oct 2005 05:06:07 -0700 Actually, it's *your lying* retarded, fascist self that gives us the opportunity to expose some of the turkish character. You'll be dealt with on usenet in due manner as long as you got the cheek to spread your personal dementia on usenet! ------------------------------ From: "band beyond description" <123@456.com> Subject: Re: Playboy After Dark DVD B+P Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:58:05 +0900 Mike, before I would bother you about a B&P, is this still an active torrent? I couldn't find it after searching DAD...am I looking in the right place? -- Thanks, and peace, Steve ------------------------------ From: Spider Dawg Subject: Re: I tried to grow a beard Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:08:56 -0500 On 2005-10-02, Tom Beck wrote: > cj wrote: >> i gottoa goatee and i hate the hot weather. goatees enough. comfort rules >> 75 degrees and zip humidity >> cj > > > Try Mexico or CA. About 40% of the > Gringos down there wear beards and it's > a lot hotter than you just mentioned. > Tom I know cj and I think he's lived just about everywhere. We're both in southern mich now and I agree the weather lately has been perfect. I think I hate the heat even more than he does, but I wear a full beard all year, only shaving my neck and trimming the beard in summer. cj, admit it, the only reason you wear a goatee is because you just c'aint grow a real beard! Awww, I'm only serious, Jim ------------------------------ From: "asteriades" Crossposted-To: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s,rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.greek Subject: Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up Date: 2 Oct 2005 05:14:49 -0700 Instead of adopting Chantal buy yourself a dog. Its cheaper and you can verify its pedigree. ------------------------------ From: Spider Dawg Subject: Re: question about "Stuck in the middle with you" Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:16:46 -0400 On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:35:08 -0700, joker4153 wrote: >From experience, it's best to buy a (cheap) new hat when you gotta eat > your sky-piece. A plain, simple cap with no buttons or buckles is best. > Like to bust a tooth one time.... http://snipurl.com/edible_hats Jim ------------------------------ From: Spider Dawg Subject: Re: Playboy After Dark DVD B+P Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:20:06 -0500 On 2005-10-02, band beyond description <123@456.com> wrote: > Mike, before I would bother you about a B&P, is this still an active > torrent? I couldn't find it after searching DAD...am I looking in the right > place? Yes, I'd love a link also, love to see the Deep Purple and Steppenwolf and..... all of it. Jim ------------------------------ From: "Bill" Subject: March 2, 1969 - greatest show ever? Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:21:26 GMT It just may be and I'm only half kidding. Woe Nellie - is that thing ever a monster??!! That thing should be sent to the Smithsonian or something. Those getting this from the GD's organization in November are in for some music that will have smoke coming out of your ears - it's that intensely great (and that's a giant understatement). I refer specifically to disc 3 which contains the following (from www.deadlists.com):: Alligator [4:03] > Drums [6:37] > drummers' chant [0:12] > Drums [0:14] > Jam [4:48] > And We Bid You Good Night Jam [3:22] > Jam [14:12] > Caution Jam [2:50] > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [8:42] > Feedback [7:47] > And We Bid You Good Night The boys go to Heaven and back about multiple times in that stretch of music. What they do on it I didn't think anyone could do. Amazing stuff. I don't mean to imply discs 1 and 2 are not incredible too. I've heard disc 1 (Dark Star > etc) and it is amazing and I imagine disc 2 is also. They put a show on for the ages on that Sunday night on March 2nd, 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Bill ------------------------------ From: "Theodore HarrinGAY Mavroidis" Crossposted-To: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s,rec.arts.movies.current-films,soc.culture.greek Subject: Re: chantal up for adoption,limo busines is fycked up Date: 2 Oct 2005 05:25:31 -0700 oHHHHHHHHHH Mr. Theodore *Sacked Bwoy* Mavroidis of HarrinGAY ! What a BITCHY thing to say about someones tiny baby girl ! What kind of HarrinGAY BITCH are you Theodore ? *LMFAOAY* ------------------------------ From: "volkfolk" Subject: Re: The Ancestral Mansion Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 08:35:59 -0400 "Richard Morris" wrote in message news:D-CdnW_Jie8PcaTeRVn-tw@comcast.com... > > "wyeknot" wrote in message > news:3pt7p9Fc6pr2U1@individual.net... >> Matt wrote: >>> The Lord of Eltingville wrote: >>> : wyeknot wrote: >>> : > : > Richard Morris wrote: >>> : > > Brisket and a beer, eh? For breakfast. Jeez man, you should be >>> ashamed. >>> : > > Who in their right mind would have brisket for breakfast? >>> : > : > Have you never experienced the culinary delights of corned beef >>> hash?!?! >>> >>> : Go to Johnny's Luncheonette in Newton Center for a Sunday breakfast >>> : sometime. If you're in the mood for hash, order "The Diner." It's a >>> : huge portion of delicious hash with a pair of fried eggs on top and a >>> : mountain of home fries. been there done that- yet another >>> establishment that doesn't know the meaning of 'make sure my hash is >>> singed and crisped, and not just a warm blob of goo'. >>> >>> only way to go is to make it yourself from the start- begin by pressure >>> cooking with a dark, malty beer (no water) and you'll still be tasting >>> that beer with your eggs.... >> >> We've finally come full-circle, back to 'beer and brisket for breakfast'! > > Yep ... which I suspect is about one step before "beer *for* breakfast". > > NTTAWWT. My college roomate had a T-shirt that said "Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore" It still makes me laugh when I think about it. Scot ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service addresses, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, are as follows: Internet: dead-flames-request@gdead.berkeley.edu Bitnet: dead-flames-request%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa Uucp: ...!{ucbvax,uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-flames-request You can send mail to the entire list (and rec.music.gdead) via one of these addresses: Internet: dead-flames@gdead.berkeley.edu Bitnet: dead-flames%gdead.berkeley.edu@ucbcmsa Uucp: ...!{ucbvax,uunet}!gdead.berkeley.edu!dead-flames End of Dead-Flames Digest ****************************** .