Karen Clark-Sheard (born Karen Valencia Clark on November 15, 1960) is an American gospel singer, musician, and songwriter. The youngest daughter of pioneering gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark, Sheard began her career as a member of the The Clark Sisters[2]. She is the mother of contemporary gospel singer and actress Kierra “Kiki” Sheard.
During the hiatus of the Clark Sisters, Sheard recorded her critically acclaimed and much anticipated solo album Finally Karen, which spawned her hit, “Balm in Gilead” (a re-recording of a song she originally recorded as part of The Clark Sisters back in the 1980s for their Heart & Soul album) the R&B-flavored “Just For Me” and “Nothing Without You” – a contemporary duet with R&B diva Faith Evans. Finally Karen became one of the most successful gospel albums of 1998 earning Sheard a Grammy nomination and earning her a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for “Best Female Vocalist”.[3]
The IAEA said investigators in Japan found radiation levels have returned to normal at the Onagawa nuclear power plant.
The Role of RACE in the Healthcare Debate-h/t JJP
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Remember this lil gem?
Fox News = Lying liars!
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Thank you, Ametia! I had a blast! I’m tired but I had fun!
it’s called moving the goal posts. they bellyached and bitched about Libya how what POTUS wasn’t doing in Libya, then,this week, LO AND BEHOLD, we have the ARAB LEAGUE calling for a ‘NO FLY ZONE’. the people, over there, who are most involved, stepping up to the place.
we will never be told, but I’m sure POTUS was involved in Arab League coming to this decision.
so, of course, the right-wing comes up with new ‘issues’.
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Kristol Wants ‘More Than A No-Fly Zone’ In Libya, Says U.S. Should Attack Qaddafi’s War Ships And Tanks
While the U.S. and NATO allies work with the international community to get consensus on and authorization for a no-fly zone in Libya to prevent Muammar Qaddafi’s forces from killing his own people from the air, the right-wing war hawks have predictably criticized President Obama’s measured approach. Newt Gingrich said last week that if he was president, he would’ve already bombed Libya, with or without UN or NATO support. Tim Pawlenty moved in Gingrich’s direction a couple days later, dismissing the need for an international coalition on Libya. And today on Fox News Sunday, war hawk leader Bill Kristol said he wants more than just a no-fly zone. Kristol thinks the U.S. should battle with Qaddafi’s forces:
KRISTOL: I think at this point you probably have to do more than a no fly zone. You probably have to tell Qaddafi he has to stop his movement east and that we are going to use assets to stop him from slaughtering people as he moves east across the country. We might take out his ships in the Mediterranean. We might take out tanks and artillery.
Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/13/kristol-war-libya/
Fuck Kristol & nem.
Keep leading America, Mr. President.
Who the fk is Bill Kristol? Phuck him and his wants!
Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally
March 13th, 2011 at 12:35 PM
by Alex Seitz-Wald
Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War. The Madison rally is part of a much larger Main Street Movement of average Americans demanding fairness in labor laws, social spending, and taxation that has emerged in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, Michigan, and elsewhere. But yesterday’s rally in Madison is noteworthy because at 85,000-100,000, it was bigger than the biggest tea party protest, the September 12, 2009 rally in Washington, D.C., which turned out only an estimated 60,000-70,000. A photo of the Madison rally yesterday:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/07/public-uncomfortable-social-security/
AND THE MEDIA’S REPORTING OF THESE NUMBERS?
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Go Madison! Go!
Judge Napolitano and Rev. Al Sharpton Go Mano a Mano In Union Debate
by Frances Martel | 6:14 pm, March 12th, 2011
The union battle in Wisconsin keeps heating up as Governor Scott Walker managed to sign the controversial bill prohibiting collective bargaining into law, and the loudest voices in politics seem to continue their renewed interest in the fight. Take, for example, Re. Al Sharpton, who visited Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business Network’s Freedom Watch last night to debate the matter. As usual with Sharpton, there was nary a dull moment.
Judge Napolitano of course, challenged Sharpton’s core argument that unions had the right to demand certain types of employment and certain types of bargaining. “They don’t have a right to say to the government ‘you can’t hire and fire me on my individual worth;” Judge Napolitano argued, “you can only negotiate with me through a union leader.’” Sharpton, of course, ardently disagreed. “They have the absolute right as human beings to demand certain things or they have the right to protest,” he countered.
But the only thing they seemed to be able to agree on is the right to protest– the right to collective bargaining left the duo in political limbo. The segment via Fox Business below:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/judge-napolitano-and-rev-al-sharpton-go-mano-a-mano-in-union-debate/
The cable talking heads, David Brooks et.al ,think Mitch Daniels can beat PBO in 2012.
Take a look at this guy:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51185.html
MTP Chuck Todd spolights Mitch Daniels. He’s becoming the 2012 media darling, I see.
Ole Ed still tryna get that attention. We’ve got your number though.
Obama gets laughs at first Gridiron Club dinner as president
By The Reliable Source
It took three attempts, but the Gridiron Club — a hokey, hallowed vestige of swampland-era Washington — finally got President Obama to show up for their annual dinner Saturday night. And yet what did they get? No respect, we tell you — no respect!
How fascinating, the president told the 650 guests at the downtown Renaissance Hotel, to be meeting at a time when, across the world, “a powerful spirit of change is tearing down old regimes, decaying institutions, remnants of the past.”
Pause. “So, look out, Gridiron Club… I mean, look at this getup. Forget about winning the future. How about entering the present?”
By that point, though, Obama had already been serenaded by a gang of Gridiron members, impersonating the GOP House leadership while dressed as Hell’s Angels, about how they’re “gonna block Barack around the clock,” to the tune of the old Bill Haley song.
We’re gonna move Obama to the right
We’re gonna mock mock mock his election fight
We’re gonna talk, gonna talk, and then we might indict!
Yes, America, it’s one of those Washington dinners: Where top politicians and media elite dress up in their finest — white tie, in this case — to eat, drink and lob passive-aggressive jokes at each other, celebrity roast-style, in a way that seems pointed and mean but only serves to feed the beyond-the-Beltway suspicion that They Are All In Bed Together.
Case in point: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels joking that he got his duds from “the bearded guy at Men’s Wearhouse. Anyone else notice, you never see him and Wolf Blitzer in the same place at the same time?” Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Mitt Romney: “We have more in common than our hairstyles: We both used to think health care reform would advance our careers.” Al Hunt of Bloomberg feigning surprise that the absent Sen. Chuck Schumer would miss a chance to schmooze reporters: “It’s like Charlie Sheen missing a hooker’s convention.”
Only among friends, right? They kid because they love. Right?
In the D.C.-as-high-school metaphor, where the 3,000-person White House Correspondents’ Association spring dinner is fondly known as “prom,” Gridiron is something like the Student Council Follies. The 126-year-old group is a relatively exclusive cadre of the Washington press corps — only 65 active members, most of them well over 50 – whose preferred method of entertainment in 2011 remains Broadway-style current-events song parodies.
But we confess: Some if it is kinda good. Worthy of a 12:52 a.m. slot on “Saturday Night Live,” even, with same cheerful, did-we-dream-that surreal humor. In the Act 2 finale, “Karl Rove” dressed as a mad scientist sang to the Johnny Cash tune, “I’ve Been Everywhere”: I’ve seen every one, man …/ They all wanna run, man / Egos by the ton, man … (Rove was played by the Marine Band’s Kevin Bennear — like many of Gridiron’s best voices, not a full member but a ringer enlisted for the occasion.)
And with that, a parade of 20 Gridiron members traipsed across the stage, goofily costumed as the 2012 GOP hopefuls — Romney in a hospital gown, Rick Santorum as an altar boy, Haley Barbour as a Confederate soldier, Michele Bachmann in thigh-high red boots, Rudy Giuliani in a pink ballgown, and so on.
I’ve seen Huckabee at his weekly weigh-in
Sarah Palin out surveyin’
Eye of Newt and chin of Romney
Guy in drag, that’s Giuliani
Mitt he’s drivin’ fast and far
With man’s best friend strapped to his car
Okay, maybe you had to be there – though, actually, we weren’t either. An oddity of Gridiron is that this journalist-hosted dinner, while not technically off-the-record, is off-limits to any journalists writing about it — forcing us to beg for details of the speeches from their wine-bleary colleagues inside the room. (Covering press is admitted to a Friday afternoon dress rehearsal, from which we gleaned much of the musical entertainment.) Once again this year, C-SPAN begged Gridiron leadership (currently, President Susan Page of USA Today), in the name of “openness and transparency,” to admit its cameras into the dinner, and once again it was rebuffed. But you can see why: With cameras there, would the president have brought the same edge to some of his jokes?
Like, the one about how before Rahm Emanuel joined him as chief of staff, his approval ratings were above 60 percent and unemployment was below 8 percent — so “good luck, Chicago!” And how he’s grateful for Haley Barbour’s support of the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign, but “Haley, when Michelle said you need to run, she didn’t mean for president!” (Because he’s fat — get it?) As for Jon Huntsman, his former ambassador to China who’s now pondering his own 2012 Republican bid: “The next GOP nominee for president. Love that guy!” If Huntsman runs, Obama said he’d be the guy in New Hampshire holding the “honk for Huntsman” signs on the side of the road; if he has an Iowa fish fry, Obama said he’d be there to cook. “He is truly the yin to my yang, and I’m going to make sure every primary voter knows it.” But seriously now: There’s a new spirit of bipartisanship, the president said, and “people with strong disagreements get along as never before. You have the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, current Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — working together every day, sharing a host body.”
Romney jokes were big, but not as plentiful as John Boehner jokes. The president said he used to think the House speaker was tan, but after seeing him tear up so much, he realized: “That’s not a tan — that’s rust!” A Gridiron skit had Fake Boehner singing “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to,” Lesley Gore-style. (I’m try’n to show them some leadership here / some gravitas and some guts / how did I end up in bed / with all these Tea Party nuts?)
By all accounts, Daniels — the official Republican speaker of the night — slayed the room with a routine that was both self-deprecatory and snarky. On his own presidential prospects, “all this favorable press I’ve been getting… it’s hard not to let it go to your head: ‘Small,’ ‘stiff,’ ‘short,’ ‘pale,’ ‘unimposing,’ ‘unassuming,’ ‘uninspiring,’… ‘wonky,’ ‘puny,’ and ‘pint-sized’…It all points to one inescapable conclusion: It’s destiny!” About that sling on his right arm: “Rotator cuff surgery was really a cover story. The truth is I broke a rib traveling to last month’s Governors’ conference. I drew a middle seat between Haley Barbour and Chris Christie… I couldn’t get up to go to the bathroom. Their tummies were stuck in the full upright and locked position.”
Health Secretary Sebelius, the night’s Democratic speaker, recommended that the president “might consider folding the TSA into our department. We could make life a lot easier for the businessman on the go — by allowing him to get a boarding pass and a colonoscopy at the same time.”
(Yes, of course, there was a TSA song parody, too: To the tune of Parliament’s “Give Up the Funk” — “Don’t touch my junk!”)
Ah, good times. Sorry none of us were personally there for Gridiron’s age-old closing ritual, in which all guests linked arms to sing “Auld Lang Syne.” The more memorable musical moment may have come when the Marine Band struck up “Hail to the Chief” to welcome the president.
Obama waved them off: “Play that song we talked about,” he ordered.
And they did: “Born in the U.S.A.”
“Some things just bear repeating,” the president explained.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2011/03/obama_gets_laughs_at_first_gri.html?wprss=reliable-source
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