Devil's Rebels

The 70's in Bushwick



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American Violet

Malcolm strikes again!

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17 yr old Biggie

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Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

In unrelated news from the LA Times:

Run-DMC, Metallica and Jeff Beck are among the artists who will be inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009. Run-DMC is only the second rap act so honored, following the induction of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 2007.

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John Forte, Rock the Mic This Way...........

Bush finally does something for black people.

In 2000 John was arrested at Newark Airport with a suit case filled with 31 pounds of LIQUID coke worth $1.4 million. He has been serving his 14 year sentence in a Pennsylvanian jail when on this past Monday, Bush issued a rare slew of pardons naming Forte as one of the lucky few.

Apparently Forte had the famous singer-songwriter Carly Simon lobbying on his behalf as her son attended the elite prep school Philips Exeter in New Hampshire with John.

.....and just to celebrate the 225th anniversary (yesterday) of Evacuation Day, when the British Red Coats left from a longboat from Battery Park after occupying the city for seven years, here's some sexy thanksgiving turkey: click HERE.

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Paint The White House Black

CONGRATS OBAMA!!!!!!!



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MTA, why don't you love me?

The NYC subway launched its 1st train 104 years ago on October 27, 1904 as the Interborough Rapid Transit Company with fares at 5 cents a ride.
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VOTE=VOICE

We just wanted to thank everyone who came out and supported Obama at Gallery Bar last Thursday.

WE RAISED ALMOST $10,000 FOR THE CAMPAIGN!!!!

It surpassed our own goals by a mile!!!!!!! And a special thanks to the DJs and Musicians as well as the other organizations and people like you and me that helped out. And now for even more encouraging news.....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. soldiers have donated more presidential campaign money to Democrat Barack Obama than to Republican John McCain, a reversal of previous campaigns in which military donations tended to favor GOP White House hopefuls, a nonpartisan group reported Thursday.

Troops serving abroad have given nearly six times as much money to Obama's presidential campaign as they have to McCain's, the Center for Responsive Politics said.
The results also are striking because they favored Obama, who never has served in the military. McCain meanwhile, is a decorated war veteran who spent nearly five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The Arizona senator graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and had a 22-year career as a naval aviator.

Obama has opposed the war in Iraq and says he would withdraw combat troops within 16 months. McCain has been a steadfast supporter of the war, saying he would withdraw the troops only when conditions on the ground warrant it.

"Obama will work tirelessly to uphold this nation's sacred trust with its veterans, to ensure they are not forgotten after they return home and he will provide our troops with the leadership they deserve, as well as the support they and their families need," Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

McCain's campaign played down the significance of the donations.

"John McCain has been endorsed by more retired admirals and generals than Barack Obama has military donors," McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said in a statement.
"We feel confident that many U.S. troops stationed overseas will support John McCain in the election this fall, but we suspect most are too busy doing the important work of defending this country than to make political contributions," Goldfarb said.

Among soldiers serving overseas at the time of their donations, 134 gave a total of $60,642 to Obama while 26 gave a total of $10,665 to McCain.

The report tracked donations of $200 or more. It found that 859 members of the military donated a total of $335,536 to Obama. McCain received $280,513 from 558 military donors.

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Where you from?

Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on May 4, 2008. Here's my favorite excerpt of his speech:

...........So let me finish with a Garden State benediction. Rise up my fellow New Jerseyans, for we are all members of a confused but noble race. We, of the state that will never get any respect. We, who bear the coolness of the forever uncool. The chip on our shoulders of those with forever something to prove. And even with this wonderful Hall of Fame, we know that there's another bad Jersey joke coming just around the corner.

But fear not. This is not our curse. It is our blessing. For this is what imbues us with our fighting spirit. That we may salute the world forever with the Jersey state bird [as he raised his middle finger], and that the fumes from our great northern industrial area to the ocean breezes of Cape May fill us with the raw hunger, the naked ambition and the desire not just to do our best, but to stick it in your face. Theory of relativity anybody? How about some electric light with your day? Or maybe a spin to the moon and back? And that is why our fellow Americans in the other 49 states know, when the announcer says "and now in this corner, from New Jersey...." they better keep their hands up and their heads down, because when that bell rings, we're coming out swinging.

God Bless the Garden State.

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Prohibition & Dylan

April 7 marks the day that in 1933 the US government repealed the 18th amendent to allow the sale of alcohol. Also.....


Today Bob Dylan became the 1st ever rock musician to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The 66-year-old Dylan won the special music citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In 1999, the Pulitzer board gave a posthumous citation to jazz great Duke Ellington "in recognition of his musical genius," while another special posthumous citation went to jazzman Thelonious Monk in 2006. Two other jazz artists won regular Pulitzers in music, Wynton Marsalis for a jazz oratorio in 1997 and Ornette Coleman last year.

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On this day 19 years ago, high on PCP and brandishing a shotgun, James Brown interrupts an insurance seminar next door to his business office in Augusta, Georgia and accuses the attendees of using his private restroom. The resulting 90-minute interstate pursuit ends only after police shoot out his truck tires. The Godfather of Soul ends up serving two years in prison.

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