The Democratic race reaches Pennsylvania today. Polls across the state of Pennsylvania are open until 8:00 PM EST tonight, and anyone in line by 8:00 PM will be allowed to vote. You can find your polling location using the online look-up tool created by the Barack Obama campaign below.
All PA Democrats who registered by March 24th, 2008 and who will be 18 years of age by the date of the primary are eligible to vote. FIRST TIME VOTERS MUST show proof of identification in the form of a valid photo ID, voter identification card, a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, or government check. For more information, go here.
Today is Super Tuesday, marking the closest thing this nation has ever had to a national primary, “the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries.” Twenty-four U.S. States are voting today, but delegate rich Pennsylvania won’t be participating despite efforts by Rendell to push the primary date ahead to today. I’m kinda bummed that we won’t be voting until April 22nd, but province American Samoa will be??? WTF!? It is possible, however, that after today, PA may become a pivotal state in the Dems race. We’ll see.
We’re fully behind the Barack Obama campaign here at the FRICTION NYC camp as you can see by the banner over to the right hand side of the page. Seems like a lot of other artists and musicians are in the same boat. Take Daedelus, for example, who put together the rather short hip-hop infused disco-house track below to show his support for Obama, under side-project moniker FMB (Fire Magic Blood). The track features Shafiq and Taz of Sa-Ra fame.
Today also marks Mardi Gras (as most everyone knows), which is why I chose the above picture for this post, which captures masked Mardi Gras revelers on a bus in 1977 New Orleans. The photograph was taken from Slate Magazine‘s “Carnivale” collection, “images of vibrant carnival festivities throughout the world, which come to an end on the day before Ash Wednesday each year, for many Catholics and non-Catholics alike.”
So, Philly’s new mayor Michael Nutter took office this week – and what did he do at his inaugural ball at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Monday night? Performed Sugarhill Gang’s classic “Rappers Delight” with Questlove backing him on the decks. Fucking badass. Gotta love Philly for shit like this.
I’m not the protesting type, but I do voice my opinion in my own way about the war. Expression through art is one way to make your statement heard. I love this stop sign modification found in Bloomington, Indiana by counterclockwise.
You can also wear your message through these nifty T-shirts. I have the peace gear one from those creative folks down in Philly.
Tuesday’s campaign stunt by Oxfam, the day before the G8 leaders arrived in Rostock for 2007′s G8 Summit, featured the infamous ‘Big Heads’ dressed as Pinnochio – the puppet figure whose nose grew every time he told a lie.
The day before their arrival for this year’s summit, the G8 are backpeddling on promises made only in 2005. Having told the world they would deliver an extra $50bn in aid, they look set to fall short by a massive $30 billion. If not brought on track at the German G8, this deceipt will cost the lives of 5 million people by 2010.
The stunt took place at the Port of Rostock, where the G8 Alternative Summit started on Wednesday. The speech bubbles are the symbol of the World Can’t Wait coalition’s “Voices Against Poverty.”
It was released last week that Neil Young is coming out with a new album, Living with War, completed in 3 days and highlights his opposition to the Bush adminsitration, the war, and anything else bad happening in the world. Though there are only a few ears who have heard the tracks, it is apparently an incredible album musically and lyrically.
Mind you, I am adamant hater of our favorite little Texan, but this still makes me ask a couple questions:
- we have been at war with Iraq for 3 years, Fahrenheit 9/11 came out in June of 2004, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith was stringing up people in the trees back in 2003 – don’t you think he is a little late for any kind of revolutionary anthem that will change the way people feel about our President or the war? Everyone already hates him!
- how would Canada like it if an American released an album about how bad THEIR government was? Oh right I forgot, Neil’s a self-declared citizen of the planet.
- seriously, the guy can’t really sing and is only decent at best on the guitar. Maybe the Dixie Chicks should pick up the vocals for him.
You know I am one of those weird people who does not really listen to the lyrics of songs and find my passion for music in the feel of a song musically more than lyrically. So, I rely on the experts to tell me if the lyrics are good or not and apparently this album is quite a gooder. I seem a little hesitant to listen to the experts when I see lines like:
impeach bush
Kerry was a push
impeach bush
he got no blow job
he’s giving snow jobs
impeach bush
he’s a mistake
nawlins a lake
rum’s a snake
osama’s a fake
bombs against a rake
And this one doesn’t really make me shudder with awe:
Let’s impeach the president for lying
Misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
Regardless of all this, I think the more we talk, the better. At this point there are few people who would ever defend what is left of our Preseident – so if Young is willing to continue his protest of the administration, I will support it 100% just for the sake of the protest not for continuing to put him on a pedestal that most would be too quick to do. Especially before the calls of ‘Neil Young For President’ start up.
Details are sketchy at best, but the featured song, “Impeach the President” contains Bush’s voice accompanied by a choir chanting “flip/flop.”
Classic. ?
For me, I will go back to my little bubble-world of music making me happy and turn up some more Lee Greenwood.
impeach bush
