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So True!

Found this online today and I have never heard anything more true.
We all know who we want in office. Really any office but at the end of the day this is what you end up with.
I have my view and will keep it to myself but size up both sides and make your choice from there.

M

The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.

No reasonably intelligent person can deny this. All you have to do is look at the way the Other Side has been running its campaign. Instead of focusing on the big issues that are important to the American People, it has fired a relentlessly negative barrage of distortions, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies.

Just look at the Other Side’s latest commercial, which take a perfectly reasonable statement by the candidate for My Side completely out of context to make it seem as if he is saying something nefarious. This just shows you how desperate the Other Side is and how willing it is to mislead the American People.

The Other Side also has been hammering away at My Side to release certain documents that have nothing to do with anything, and making all sorts of outrageous accusations about what might be in them. Meanwhile, the Other Side has stonewalled perfectly reasonable requests to release its own documents that would expose some very embarrassing details if anybody ever found out what was in them. This just shows you what a bunch of hypocrites they are.

Naturally, the media won’t report any of this. Major newspapers and cable networks jump all over anything they think will make My Side look bad. Yet they completely ignore critically important and incredibly relevant information that would be devastating to the Other Side if it could ever be verified.

I will admit the candidates for My Side do make occasional blunders. These usually happen at the end of exhausting 19-hour days and are perfectly understandable. Our leaders are only human, after all. Nevertheless, the Other Side inevitably makes a big fat deal out of these trivial gaffes, while completely ignoring its own candidates’ incredibly thoughtless and stupid remarks – remarks that reveal the Other Side’s true nature, which is genuinely frightening.

My Side has produced a visionary program that will get the economy moving, put the American People back to work, strengthen national security, return fiscal integrity to Washington, and restore our standing in the international community. What does the Other Side have to offer? Nothing but the same old disproven, discredited policies that got us into our current mess in the first place.

Don’t take my word for it, though. I recently read about an analysis by an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports My Side. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything I have been saying about the Other Side was true all along. Of course, the Other Side refuses to acknowledge any of this. It is too busy cranking out so-called studies by so-called experts who are actually  nothing but partisan hacks. This just shows you that the Other Side lives in its own little echo chamber and refuses to listen to anyone who has not already drunk its Kool-Aid.

Let’s face it: The Other Side is held hostage by a radical, failed ideology. I have been doing some research on the Internet, and I have learned this ideology was developed by a very obscure but nonetheless profoundly influential writer with a strange-sounding name who enjoyed brief celebrity several decades ago. If you look carefully, you can trace nearly all the Other Side’s policies for the past half-century back to the writings of this one person.

To be sure, the Other Side also has been influenced by its powerful supporters. These include a reclusive billionaire who has funded a number of organizations far outside the political mainstream; several politicians who have said outrageous things over the years; and an alarmingly large number of completely clueless ordinary Americans who are being used as tools and don’t even know it.

These people are really pathetic, too. The other day I saw a YouTube video in which My Side sent an investigator and a cameraman to a rally being held by the Other Side, where the investigator proceeded to ask some real zingers. It was hilarious! First off, the people at the rally wore T-shirts with all kinds of lame messages that they actually thought were really clever. Plus, many of the people who were interviewed were overweight, sweaty, flushed, and generally not very attractive. But what was really funny was how stupid they were. There is no way anyone could watch that video and not come away convinced the people on My Side are smarter, and that My Side is therefore right about everything.

Besides, it’s clear that the people on the Other Side are driven by mindless anger – unlike My Side, which is filled with passionate idealism and righteous indignation. That indignation, I hasten to add, is entirely justified. I have read several articles in publications that support My Side that expose what a truly dangerous group the Other Side is, and how thoroughly committed it is to imposing its radical, failed agenda on the rest of us.

That is why I believe 2012 is, without a doubt, the defining election of our lifetime. The difference between My Side and the Other Side could not be greater. That is why it absolutely must win on November 6.

 

 

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Daily Digest of Rock News

I suppose congrats are in order to Chad Kroger of Nickelback who's engaged to Avril Lavigne pop-punk tart-queen. This will be his first marriage, her second. 

The Curiosity Rover, which landed on Mars on August 6th, finally pumped some metal through it's system to wake up the rover and it was Anthrax's "Got the Time". High Five Anthrax, high five!

And just as Tom Morello stated that Republican nominee Paul Ryan shouldn't be a fan of his band, Rage Against the Machine, Twisted Sister's Dee Snider has publically stated he denounces Ryan for using his song "We're Not Gonna Take it". Now that's funny. Couple decades ago it was Snider having to go up against the PMRC, now someone who more than likely wouldn't been one of their soliders is using his tune! 
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Daily Digest of Rock News

Tons of wonderful rock news over the last couple of days!

*Dethklok will be dropping a new CD on October 16th, "Dethalbum III"

*Queens of the Stone Age will re-start their sixth album sessions!

*Marilyn Manson unveiled a new video for "Slo-Mo-Tion"




*Lamb of God's front-man Randy Blythe is free and he tore it up with Prong at Knotfest doing a cover of the Misfits!



Soundgarden announced the title to their forthcoming album due out on November 13th, "King Animal" Here's a little teaser video for it.

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Randy Blythe performs with Prong

At Knotfest over the weekend and they do a Misfits cover! 
Boo ya!!


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DAMN!

Holy hell we have got a week coming up!
To start off Thursday night someone is going to get a brand new Harley and a classic ’72 Nova as we have a little party out at the new Worth Harley Davidson entertainment center!
Come on by even if you don’t have a key it will still be a good time and you might even make yourself a few new friends!
Then we jam out to Berkley Riverfront park for a celebration to rival the debauchery known as Sturgis and Johnny’s birthday!
Friday night Hinder and Saturday night Jackyl.
Tons of bike vendors, pole dancers, the wall of death and live music going all weekend!
If you have seen the show or been to the Throttle you know how big they do it out there and now they are bringing the fun to us in Kansas City.
Check out all the details at throttlefestkc.com
So there you have it.  The rest of the week will be full tilt and I will see you at all of it!
Till next time!
M


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Daily Digest of Rock News

A couple of lawsuits today in the world of Rock news and one of them involves vomit!

*First though, Soundgarden stating today that their as-yet-to-be-named album will drop on November 13th! 

*Motley Crue drummer, Tommy Lee, has been threatened with a lawsuit by a LA engineer who claims Lee stoll his idea for a drum kit roller coaster. Scott King sent Motley's lawyers a letter claiming that he approaced Lee in 1991 to pitch him the idea for a roller coaster setup that Lee has been using during their shows. Lee says they never talked about it and the idea was born in Tommy's childhood when he'd go to shows. More details as this unfolds. 

*And the best story I've heard thus far: Lindy Butcher is suing the Newport, Wales, United Kingdom council because she was injured after slipping and falling in a puddle of vomit while attending a Whitesnake show in December of 2011. She claims she suffered bruising and soreness to both her knees as well as muscle spasm between her ribs!
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Daily Digest of Rock News

Some how I totally brainfarted yesterday's Rock News, so you're gonna get a double-dose today!

*Guns N' Roses have announced they'll be taking up residencey, a la Motley Crue, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. Their Sin City run, christened Appetite for Democracy, will be twelve shows from October 31st to November 24. Click Here for Tickets/Rooms/ETC

*During an acoustic performance in NYC Monday night, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy announced he's launching an "extreme metal" project and promising that if you like Trivium, you'll like this. 

*Anthrax bassist Frank Bellow will debut his feature film,  the biopic "Greetings From Tim Buckley" at the Toronto Internation Film Festival in September.

*Hatebreed stays winning. First it was CNN issuing an apology for lumping them in "white power" bands whose names "defiantly express feelings of hate or violence". Now it's the Anti-Defamation League, the wrote a letter of apology to the Connecticut hardcore/metal masters for writing the opinion piece CNN picked up on. 

*Megadeth's Dave Mustaine claims President Obama staged the recent shooting massacres in Colorado & Milwaukee in order to pursue more gun control. Thoughts on this one? 

*Pearl Jam (as well as Mad Season & Temple of the Dog) guitarist Mike McCready says next PJ album is in a "holding pattern" right now as frontman Eddie Vedder gears up for a solo tour and drummer Matt Cameron returns to Soundgarden. He's also been working with former GnR bassist and high school classmate Duff McKagan and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin in a new band (possible Mad Season reboot?). 

*Green Day's rolled out another single from their forthcoming album "Uno" due out in September. This one "Kill the DJ". Video is below, enjoy! *NSFW


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Uproar Info!

Getting a lot of calls and texts as to who will be where Friday for the Uproar tour.
So here is the info you asked for.
Keep in mind that with a big show like this there can be some on the fly adjustments so if you go out and your favorite band is not on at the exact time I have here to not yell at me!
But this should be close!
Enjoy the show and I will see you out there!
Uproar Tour 2012

Rockstar Energy Main Stage
Adelitas Way 5:25
Papa Roach 6:15
Staind 7:20
Godsmack 8:30
Shinedown 9:55

Ernie Ball Stage
BOTB Winner1:25
Mindset Evolution 1:25
Redlight King 2:55
Deuce 3:50
POD 4:55

Jagermeister Stage
Jager Band 1:05
Greek Fire 1:45
Candlelight Red 2:30
In This Moment3:20
Fozzy 4:20
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Daily Digest of Rock News

Hello Monday you wicked bitch, you! What'cho got in store for us on the news front? 

* Guns N' Roses to take up Las Vegas residency from October 31st to November 24th at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. A total of twelve shows will be perfomed during the "Appetite for Democrazy" residency. 

* Insane Clow Posse's Shaggy 2 Dope & Violent J have "retained legal counsel to investigate and pursue legal action" in response to the FBI putting out a report saying that juggalos (ICP fans) are a gang, and a threat and being watched closely. Seems ICP have set up a website seeking feedback from fans who've been harrassed by the Feds. 

* It's been only a few short months since the passing of Beastie Boy's MCA but Mike D and Ad-Rock are suing Monster Energy Drink on his behalf, in order to uphold his wishes in his will that his image and "artistic property" were not to be used for any advertising purposes ever. Seems the beverage maker used a Beastie tune without knowledge or permission. 

* Thrash gods Testament dropped a new album recently "Dark Roots of Earth" and it hit number 12 on the charts in the states with a top of number 4 in Germany and Finland. High Five Testament! 

* And a couple of new tracks were rolled out today by Stone Sour as well as a track from All That Remains. Respective vides, below: 

-Stone Sour - "Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero"




All That Remains - "Down Through the Ages"
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Daily Digest of Rock News

A little light on the rock news today. BUT, I think what I've found you just might like! 

*Johnny Depp seems to be spreading his wings from acting into jamming. First with Marilyn Manson, and below with Aerosmith! 



*Great little interview in Seattle Weekly's blog of Duff McKagen as he interviews Jack White. Pretty stoked to look this over when I get the chance. http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2012/08/duff_mckagan_jack_white.php



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