The Chameleon

I know my spelling sucks, and the fact that this board has no grammer/spellchecker doesn't help. This is exasperated by the reality that I post usually at work and don't have time to re-read and fix my spelling mistakes. Thanks for bearing with me, o those without type-os. And yes the JYD is a goodwill ambassador for the Raps. But I'd rather see him spreading goodwill with his defense in the paint. He'd do more good there than by showing up to grade schools at gym class.

I think Harper and Stockwell are doing each other and are in the closet. It's always the ones who make the loudest anti-gay noise that actaully are.

Hey now! Don't speak so quick. i am thrilled this squad is making it happen. I want nothing more than to see them win. However I still think loosing the JYD was a colossal mistake, in terms of fan appreciation and goodwill. Even so, let's hope they keep it up.

[color:blue]Happy Birthday Mr. J.J. Cale.... Yes the man who gave us "Afetr Midnight", "Cocaine", "Call me The Breeze" and countless other hits turns 68 today... I can only hope I'm as cool as this guy when I'm 68

One of Ken Nordine's JazzRaps is features on MMW's Combustication album on the song "Whatever happened to gus?" Great narration voice.

U.N. chief brands 'civil war' in Iraq worse than Lebanon's 10 U.S. troops killed by bombs, in combat, jet crash Edward Wong, New York Times Monday, December 4, 2006 (12-04) 04:00 PST Baghdad -- Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary-general, said Sunday that Iraq had descended into a civil war that was even deadlier and more anarchic than the 15-year sectarian bloodshed that tore apart Lebanon. "When we had the strife in Lebanon and other places, we called that a civil war; this is much worse," Annan said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced on Sunday 10 deaths of service members, an unusually high toll. In making his remarks, Annan joined a growing number of foreign and Iraqi leaders, policymakers and news organizations who say Iraq is in the grip of civil war. Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday at a conference in the United Arab Emirates that Iraq is in a civil war. A former Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the same in March. The Bush administration has not characterized the conflict as a civil war. The debate over the term raged last week in the United States, after NBC and other major news organizations said they were ready to apply it to Iraq. The discussion is highly political, because backers of the war fear that calling Iraq a civil war would erode support among ordinary Americans. Scholars say that the widening sectarian conflict meets the common definition of a civil war and that when measured by deaths per year, Iraq is among the top civil wars of the past half century. The civilian death toll is believed to be at least 50,000. Last week, Annan suggested conducting an international conference on Iraq that would include all of the country's major political groups and representatives from around the region. In Baghdad on Sunday, President Jalal Talabani rejected Annan's call, saying the Iraqis were working to stanch the bloodshed through their own political process. "We have an ongoing political process and a Council of Representatives that is the best in the region," Talabani said in a written statement, using the formal name of the Iraqi parliament. "We became an independent sovereign state, and we decide the issues of the country." In addition to Annan, some U.S. advisers have suggested that the United States and Iraq should hold a conference that would bring together all the countries in the region to try to re-establish stability in Iraq. Such a meeting might include Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, all accused by various U.S. and Iraqi leaders of fomenting violence in Iraq. The military said Sunday that U.S. forces destroyed two buildings west of Baghdad, killing six suspected insurgents, two women and a child. It was the latest in a series of raids in which civilians have been killed, as U.S. and Iraqi forces battle insurgents in residential areas. The U.S. command has accused insurgents of using women and children as human shields. Neighbors disputed the military account, claiming that the victims were members of a local family and that there were more extensive civilian casualties than the United States acknowledged. It was not possible to verify the conflicting accounts. Two soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Anbar on Saturday, and three Marines died the same day in Anbar from combat wounds. Another soldier was killed Saturday by a roadside bomb near Taji. A soldier died in combat in Baghdad on Sunday, and two others were killed by a roadside bomb in northern Iraq. The Air Force said Maj. Troy L. Gilbert, a pilot listed as missing after his F-16 crashed last Monday in Anbar, had been killed in the incident. In Baghdad, the police found at least 50 bodies across the city. The body of Hideab Majhool Hasnawi, the head of a famous soccer club, was identified in the morgue. A car bomb killed three civilians and injured 10 in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. Also Sunday, attorneys for former President Saddam Hussein formally appealed his death sentence for the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys from the town of Dujail in the 1980s, a spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal said. The case will now go to a higher court, which can rule on it at any time. If the court upholds his conviction, his execution, by hanging, must occur within 30 days, according to Iraqi law. Tribunal spokesman Raid Juhi said that two of Hussein's attorneys had submitted the appeal papers. Hussein was convicted Nov. 5 of crimes against humanity for the Dujail killings, which took place after an attempt on his life in 1982. He and two of his seven co-defendants, including his half brother, were sentenced to death. Four defendants received prison terms ranging from 15 years to life, and an eighth was acquitted. Chronicle news services contributed to this report. --------------------------------------------- [color:gray]So If Iraq is now worse/more dangerous than during it's civil war than why is any one still there? The reason provided by the Americans for staying is; "We don't want the country to decend into civil war". But if it's already worse than that isn't it time to go!.......who's got my cut & run!

Good news! I like him and the fact that he is nto afraid to call Geroge Bush and the US govt. the devils that they are.

This guy obviously has talenbt, but 11 albums! there is no need. Quality not quantity Ryan... I'm sure 2 out of then will be killer.

Aids was created as a biological genocide weapon to wipe out gays and blacks and has now run out of control.... that's my consipracy view........... Kinda adds up as heterosexual white men (who are not IV drug users) have the lowest chace of getting it.

So that whole story of Suni's burned alive was.......... Bullshit! Fabricated and False. There source for the story on the Iraqi police force does not even exists! Hmmmmmmmm....... (I smell the Bush propaganda machine at work) -------------------------------------- Iraqis to monitor press for truth Associated Press BAGHDAD - Iraq's Interior Ministry said yesterday it had formed a special unit to monitor news coverage and vowed to take legal action against journalists who failed to correct stories the ministry deemed to be incorrect. Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, spokesman for the ministry, said the purpose of the special monitoring unit was to find "fabricated and false news that hurts and gives the Iraqis a wrong picture that the security situation is very bad, when the facts are totally different." He said offenders would be notified and asked to "correct these false reports on their main news programs. But if they do not change those lying, false stories, then we will seek legal action against them." Khalaf explained the news monitoring unit at a weekly Ministry of Interior briefing. As an example, he cited coverage by the Associated Press of an attack Nov. 24 on a mosque in the Hurriyah district in northwest Baghdad. The AP reported that six Sunni Muslims there were burned alive during the attack. The story quoted witnesses and police Capt. Jamil Hussein. Khalaf said the ministry had no one on its staff by the name of Jamil Hussein. "Maybe he wore an MOI (Ministry of Interior) uniform and gave a different name to the reporter for money," Khalaf said. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll rejected the accusation. "The implication that we may have given money to the captain is false. The AP does not pay for information," she said. Khalaf said the ministry had dispatched a team to the Hurriyah neighborhood and to the morgue but found no witnesses or evidence of burned bodies. The spokesman said the ministry had a large public relations staff and said they should be contacted by the media to "get real, true news." Story link

I totally disagree with Iron Butterfly being included on this list. I know Inn-a-gadda-da-vida is overdone, but they are one of the classic psychedlic bands.. And Jamoriquai and Primus too. What the fuck. The is obviously listed by some EMO/metro sexual metric listening hair beret looser at blender. Glad to see the Doors on this list. While they have some good albums, they are overratted for sure.

This whole thing is like when you work somewhere and they give you a promotion in the form of a new title, but you don't get a bigger salary.

I'm guessing Fergie from the Black Eyed peas, Nelly Furtat-HO or JLO are next on the snatch shot list. If anything women are competative. No? P.S. the fact the K-Fed(ex)'s greasy little schlong was in that makes the snatch shot even grosser....

Keep Howard Dean away from the Redbull at all costs!

Royce Clayton! Whaaaaa, did we sign this guy tooo??? I remeber when I had my baseball card store when I was 13 I had his rookie card. People, I am 29yrs old now. How old is this guy. He better still have wheels.

Sadly just like Vietnam, it will probably take white middle class boys and girls getting killed to make the Amercian public, end this bloodbath.... As long as non-whites, the poor and jobless white-trash die...it's all good. Ahhhh the American way!

Why does Paul Martin look like a creepy old child molester in any photo he gets excited in? Really freaks me out. That man is not photogenic.

I wonder how Zuan feel sabou tbeing a door prize.. Way to foster team moral!

well' date=' that raises a fundamental question then. why should artists, etc. be paid every time their music is played? what part of the game changed such that artists, etc. got paid over and above actual sales of the music? yes, radio pays royalties per spin, but Roller World? the circus? a dentist's office? socan is part of a larger international system that has managed to secure revenue for past product, unlike almost every other industry. and the methods they use would appear to be heavy-handed and inequitable. what justification can be offered for charging every single dentist in the country $94.51/year to play CDs THAT THEY ALREADY BOUGHT? sounds like having the cake and eating it too, if ya ask me. besides, socan will not open its books, so who knows what's going on. [/quote'] Indeed. Roller world, the dentists offcie and anyother public or rental space that uses music must pay for the broadcast mechanical/copywrites they use. Why? Because the music in those situation is used as a tool to make the enviroment more appealing, and attractive to the user or consumer. Therfore becuase you are music to enhance your dentists office and make it more comfortable/attractive for the user and you are charging the user/client to be there, you are using music (as well as other things), to keep clients happy, do more business and make more money. Using music in a business,is no different than using electricity. It's a service and you must pay for use, if you intend to use it to attract and make happy, business or clients....and hence make money. NO FREE RIDES! P.S. ALso in terms of small businesses or offices, the yearly SOCAN charge is very reasonable, like a couple hundred or so. Also most of the time for small operations SOCAN really never enforces thier fees.

True, but the proof will be in the pitching.

What you should know is that every country has mirror angencies like SOCAN and they all operate in the same way. This collections practice is universal and not of SOCANs lone design. Hell even Russia has the same set up. Without Socan artists copywirtes will ne3ve rbe honoured or paid. They are a nessesary service....

When this happens to me Stn. Mtn. I remeber that work & life are tests of endureace and stamina. I always tell my self if I can simply persever and live to go on another day ot tackle another issue, then I succeed where many other fall off, give up and fail. It will get better...

The Socan model is to charge for any public palce, place of business or rental where music is/will be used. As Socan cannot be evrywhere nor is permitted into private rental spaces a blanket fee is applied. This is the case with the Ski Lodge situation. The hypothetical "Kiev Dance Company" situiaton you propose would not be subject as they are not renting the space for the purpose of business or entertainment. Rather they are using it for rehersal.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........Yummmmmmmm.....

Yeah it was the Tralf, I was at that one. Greeat show. Too bad about the border issues...