M Is FOR MASHUP - RERUN - August 3rd, 2016
DJ Nerd42 - Sound of the Inaudible ft Thrice & KJ-52
By DJ Useo
Hey y'all, I'm unavailable with a terrible virus. Will return next week. Here's a fine past article.
DJ Nerd42's "Sound of the Inaudible" is a 2016 mashup album featuring the post-hardcore band Thrice and the Christian rapper KJ-52.
DJ Nerd42 is dedicated to the craft of the mashup concept album, where all the tracks work together to tell a larger story.
Chocomang says "The whole album is excellent. Thanks for this Gem."
Useo says "Thanks again for this and the whole album. I'm going to be playing this a lot, the wife likes it also."
DJ Nerd42 - "Sound of the Inaudible ft Thrice & KJ-52" is here
( djnerd42.bandcamp.com/album/sound-of-the-inaudible )
Want more? Check out the previous albums:
"White Materia: Final Fantasy VII Mashups" (2013)
( megaranmusic.com/album/white-materia-final-fantasy-vii-mashups )
"Deltron 3742" (2012)
( djnerd42.blogspot.com/2011/09/deltron-3742.html )
"It's Pronounced Forty-Two!" (2010)
( djnerd42.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-pronounced-forty-two-bonus-track.html )
More DJ Nerd42 coming soon!
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Andrew Tobias: Mitch McConnell Speaks
"Our nation is indeed at a crossroads. Will we pursue the search for truth or will we dodge, weave and evade the truth? I am of course referring to the investigation into serious allegations of illegal conduct by the president of the United States - that the president has engaged in a persistent pattern and practice of obstruction of justice. The allegations are grave, the investigation is legitimate and ascertaining the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the unqualified, unevasive truth is absolutely critical." - Mitch McConnell
Sarah Longwell: Sen. McConnell, listen to Sen. McConnell (Washington Post)
In 1998, I was a high school senior and the Clinton scandals would define my rising political consciousness. My early affinity for Republicans was due in part to watching them speak compellingly about decency, truth and the rule of law. They said ideas mattered and character counted. Meanwhile, the Democratic president was embroiled in a sex scandal - with a woman not much older than I was - and looked straight into the eyes of the American people and lied about it.
Paul Krugman: Just Saying Yes to Drug Companies (NY Times Column)
Why America is Big Pharma's sucker of last resort.
Jonathan Chait: Trump Has Now Broken Every One of His Economic Populist Promises (NY Mag)
… the administration announced very quietly there would be no infrastructure bill this year. Trump had forcefully positioned himself to Hillary Clinton's left on this issue, promising to spend twice as much as she would, and painting lavish pictures of hard-hat jobs modernizing roads and airports across the country. Instead, he used all his fiscal running room on a large, regressive tax cut, which predictably has forced the deficit to a level where he no longer has political support for a deficit-financed infrastructure bill.
Jonathan Chait: Why Liberal Media Need Conservative Columnists (NY Mag)
I've been making two arguments that seem to be in tension, and may even appear impossible to reconcile: that conservatism is a failed dogma and that liberals need to take it seriously. These two seemingly polar ideas can be reconciled, though, as follows: Liberalism has succeeded in adapting itself to the world because, unlike conservatism, it has opened itself to internal correction.
Eugene Robinson: "'Real' Americans are a myth. Don't you dare buy it." (Washington Post)
Progressives have to speak to those left behind by wrenching economic and social change. But our voices are as authentic, and as worthy, as anyone else's. I am a real American, too. Deal with it.
Thad McKraken: The Problem with Cletus (Disinformation)
In contemplating the entire hullabaloo surrounding the controversy I actually came to the opposite conclusion that most people did though, which is: in a show who's humor often derives from stereotypes, it's sort of amazing that after nearly 30 years only one of those stereotypes has become problematic. So rather than trashing the creators maybe we should actually be marveling at that seemingly miraculous accomplishment. How is that shit even possible? Seriously, half the jokes in the show are based around stereotypes.
Steve Rose: "Solo: A Star Wars Story - why prequels are killing the art of storytelling" (The Guardian)
They have become Hollywood's favourite franchise-saver, but are they any substitute for a story well told?
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Marc's Guide to Curing Cancer
So far so good on beating cancer for now. I'm doing fine. At the end of the month I'll be 16 months into an 8 month mean lifespan. And yesterday I went on a 7 mile hike and managed to keep up with the hiking group I was with. So, doing something right.
Still waiting for future test results and should see things headed in the right direction. I can say that it's not likely that anything dire happens in the short term so that means that I should have time to make several more attempts at this. So even if it doesn't work the first time there are a lot of variations to try. So if there's bad news it will help me pick the next radiation target.
I have written a "how to" guide for oncologists to perform the treatment that I got. I'm convinced that I'm definitely onto something and whether it works for me or not isn't the definitive test. I know if other people tried this that it would work for some of them, and if they improve it that it will work for a lot of them.
The guide is quite detailed and any doctor reading this can understand the procedure at every level. I also go into detail as to how it works, how I figured it out, and variations and improvements that could be tried to enhance it. I also introduce new ways to look at the problem. There is a lot of room for improvement and I think that doctors reading it will see what I'm talking about and want to build on it. And it's written so that if you're not a doctor you can still follow it. It also has a personal story revealing that I'm the class clown of cancer support group. I give great interviews and I look pretty hot in a lab coat.
So, feel free to read this and see what I'm talking about. But if any of you want to help then pass this around to both doctors and cancer patients. I need some media coverage. I'm looking for as many eyeballs as possible to read these ideas. Even if this isn't the solution, it's definitely on the right track. After all, I did hike 7 miles yesterday. And this hiking group wasn't moving slow. So if this isn't working then, why am I still here?
I also see curing cancer as more of an engineering problem that a medical problem. So if you are good at solving problems and most of what you know about medicine was watching the Dr. House MD TV show, then you're at the level I was at when I started. So anyone can jump in and be part of the solution.
Here is a link to my guide: Oncologists Guide to Curing Cancer using Abscopal Effect
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A REPUBLICAN PROPOSED...
"TRUMP OUT TRUMPED."
WE CAN STILL USE COAL IN THE KIDS CHRISTMAS STOCKING.
R.I.P. TOM. YOU HAD "THE RIGHT STUFF".
"UNDERSTANDING IGNORANCE".
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lovely May Gray morning.
Nearly 30 Years Ago
Keith Richards
Guitarist Keith Richards was once so angry at Donald Trump that he pulled out a knife - when the future president wasn't in the room - and stabbed a table.
The rock icon told the BBC that back in 1989, Trump was the promoter of the Rolling Stones' "Steel Wheels" tour dates in Atlantic City. When the band arrived, however, they found Trump's name in huge letters and the band's name in much smaller type.
"I got out my trusty blade, stuck it in the table and said: 'You have to get rid of this man!'" Richards told the BBC. "Now America has to get rid of him. Don't say I didn't warn you!"
Concert promoter Michael Cohl told a version of Richards' story in 2015, saying Trump had agreed to host a pay-per-view event featuring the Stones in Atlantic City. But the band wanted nothing to do with him - and when Trump turned up, Richards ordered Cohl to get rid of him.
"Keith pulls out his knife and slams it on the table and says, 'What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself?" Cohl recalled, per the Los Angeles Times. "One of us is leaving the building - either him or us.'"
Keith Richards
Hidden Pages In Diary
Anne Frank
Anne Frank once taped over two pages in her diary with brown sticky paper, leaving a small puzzle as to what material the Jewish teenager, who had no idea of how famous her diary would later become, wanted to exclude.
Now Dutch researchers have revealed the answer: corny jokes and a summary of her ideas about sexual education when she was aged just 13.
"Anybody who reads the passages that have now been discovered will be unable to suppress a smile," said Frank van Vree, director of the Netherlands' Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
He said the jokes "make it clear that Anne, with all her gifts, was above all also an ordinary girl."
The pages, dated to Sept. 28, 1942, were contained in the red-and-white checkered diary Anne had received for her birthday in June of that year, shortly before they went into hiding.
Anne Frank
Pays $10 Million to Settle 18 Cases
Fox "News"
Fox News has agreed to pay $10 million to settle discrimination cases with 18 former employees, putting to rest most of the litigation that followed the high-profile departures of Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly over the last two years.
One of the cases was a class action with 11 plaintiffs who alleged that the network engaged in racial discrimination. Another involved a radio correspondent who alleged she was fired for complaining about gender discrimination, while in another case a Fox 5 correspondent accused the network of pregnancy discrimination.
Douglas Wigdor, the attorney who represented the plaintiffs, issued a joint statement Tuesday with Fox News: "The parties have reached mutual agreements that resolve various cases involving former Fox News employees."
The settlements bring an end to Wigdor's campaign of litigation against Fox News, which he at one point described as a "war." Wigdor went so far as to travel to the United Kingdom last year to speak out against the Fox-Sky merger.
"My view of 21st Century Fox and Fox News is that from top to bottom there is a systemic culture of not only discriminating against people based on their gender and color, but also of retaliating against them when they stand up to voice complaints," Wigdor told the New York Times last fall.
Fox "News"
Files Billion-Dollar Suit
Stan Lee
Stan Lee has filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against Pow! Entertainment, alleging that unscrupulous business partners took advantage of his declining eyesight in order to swindle him.
Lee founded Pow! in 2001, and sold it last year to Camsing International Holding, a Hong Kong company. According to the suit, Lee has macular degeneration - which causes deteriorating eyesight. The suit alleges that Pow! took advantage of his condition to get him to sign away an exclusive right to use his name to the Chinese company.
The filing follows a similar suit brought last month against Jerardo Olivarez, a former publicist and business manager to Lee. The suit accused Olivarez of draining Lee's accounts of $1.4 million and using his blood to create a commemorative stamp without Lee's consent.
The new suit also mentions Olivarez, though he is not named as a defendant. The suit claims that Olivarez and two other men, Shane Duffy and Gill Champion, asked Lee to sign over a non-exclusive right to his name to Pow! Entertainment. However, the document that ultimately was signed granted an exclusive right, against Lee's wishes, according to the suit. The suit claims that Pow! was also given the right to use Lee's Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts.
The suit, brought by attorney Adam D.H. Grant of Alpert, Barr & Grant, seeks to rescind the license agreement as well as "damages in excess of one billion dollars."
Stan Lee
Lawsuit Challenges Location Of Presidential Center
Obama
A federal lawsuit is seeking to block the construction of the Obama presidential center on Chicago parkland, posing a challenge for the future library and museum dedicated to the nation's first African-American president.
The lawsuit by a local park preservation group objects to the transfer of a historic public park for use by Barack Obama's foundation to build a complex in the Midwestern city -- one of a network of presidential libraries throughout the country.
Chicago has a system of public parks that are protected by law from private use and development. A similar legal challenge doomed a planned museum on another parcel of publicly-owned land in Chicago by Star Wars creator George Lucas.
The local group Protect Our Parks filed the federal lawsuit Monday, seeking to prevent the transfer of Jackson Park -- created for the 1893 World's Fair -- to the foundation preparing to build The Obama Presidential Center.
Because The Center is not planning to house original documents from the Obama presidency, instead opting for digital access to those documents which will be housed elsewhere, the lawsuit alleges the planned structure serves no significant public purpose.
Obama
Anderson Cooper Claims
No Apologies
Anderson Cooper railed against the White House administration for its seemingly glib responses to an aide who insulted Senator John McCain's ailing health, slamming administration officials for refusing to issue a public apology during his Monday show.
"Let's call this what it is," Cooper told viewers during Anderson Cooper 360. "The White House has obviously been instructed not to apologize for something it clearly should just apologize for and move on. Now, the president's staff and supporters are running around, throwing smoke screens."
He continued, "They're trying to make it about leaks, about an internal matter, and all common sense and common decency are simply ignored."
Cooper then went on to tell viewers that his team could only find one public apology issued by President-for-now Donald Trump (R-Crooked), given after the infamous Access Hollywood tape. The CNN host then contrasted it with a very long list of times Trump has demanded apologies from people-particularly the media and political opponents-and noted the discrepancy.
The controversy started last week when White House special assistant Kelly Sadler was reported as having said McCain's vote against Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel was irrelevant because "he's dying anyway" in a closed-door meeting in the White House. The conversation subsequently leaked, and its contents angered Republicans and Democrats alike.
No Apologies
Police Searches
Rental Cars
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of police to search rental cars driven by someone other than the person who signed the rental agreement, shoring up privacy rights behind the wheel.
The nine justices unanimously threw out a lower court ruling that had approved of a search by Pennsylvania police of a Ford Fusion driven by Terrence Byrd, whose girlfriend had rented the car. State troopers told Byrd they could search the car because he was not listed as an authorized driver, and they found heroin and a bulletproof vest in the trunk.
Writing for the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the "mere fact that a driver in lawful possession or control of a rental car is not listed on the rental agreement will not defeat his or her otherwise reasonable expectation of privacy."
At issue was whether police violated the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
The justices sent the case back to the lower courts to determine whether police had the proper justification to search the car without a warrant because they believed there was evidence of a crime. Byrd pleaded guilty in 2014 to unlawful possession of both items on condition that he could challenge the search.
Rental Cars
To The Moon
Wikipedia
The Arch Mission Foundation is partnering with Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to have a miniaturized library sent to the moon's surface aboard a lunar lander in 2020.
The Lunar Library will include a wide range of works - including the contents of Wikipedia and the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project, a library of the world's languages. The text will be printed on 20-micron-thick, stamp-sized sheets of nickel, using a laser etching technique that can produce letters as small as bacteria. (You'd need a 1000x optical microscope to read the pages, but you wouldn't need a computer.)
Astrobotic is aiming to send its Peregrine lander to the moon on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in 2020, potentially as part of NASA's reworked lunar exploration initiative. Because of its miniaturized design, the Lunar Library could fit 30 million pages in a thin cylindrical container about the size of a DVD.
This wouldn't be the first library launched into space. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket sent the Arch Mission's micro-printed copy of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy into deep space, packed along with the Starman mannequin aboard Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.
Arch Mission also has plans to send libraries to Mars and other cosmic locales.
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Prime-Time Nielsens
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 7-13. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
1. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 15.51 million.
2. "NCIS," CBS, 15.09 million.
3. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 12.45 million.
4. "Bull," CBS, 11.78 million.
5. "Roseanne," ABC , 10.3 million.
6. "Mom," CBS, 9.08 million.
7. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 8.88 million.
8. "60 Minutes," CBS, 8.65 million.
9. "American Idol" (Sunday), ABC, 8.53 million.
10. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 8.38 million.
11. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 8.14 million.
12. "Mom" (Thursday, 9:30 p.m.), CBS, 7.99 million.
13. "Survivor," CBS, 7.75 million.
14. " Dancing With the Stars: Athletes," ABC, 7.73 million.
15. "60 Minutes" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 7.43 million.
16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 7.35 million.
17. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.32 million.
18. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.26 million.
19. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 7.09 million.
20. "Chicago P.D.," NBC, 6.35 million.
Ratings
In Memory
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe, the author and journalist known for pioneering New Journalism, has died. He was 88.
His notable works include "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," "The Right Stuff," "The Last American Hero," and "The Bonfire of the Vanities," the last three of which were adapted into movies. The film version of "The Right Stuff," about the Mercury Seven astronauts, was directed by Philip Kaufman in 1983. Wolfe penned the script, while Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, and Ed Harris starred in the film.
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" hit the big screen in 1990, directed by Brian De Palma and toplined by Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith.
The writer, known for his dapper style and signature white suits, became a star in his own right in the '70s and '80s, which was rare for a journalist. Wolfe worked at The Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune, where he developed "New Journalism," a style marked by interior monologues and eccentric language. He went on to have best-selling success with his works of fiction and non-fiction, which also included "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby."
Born in Richmond, Va., Wolfe attended Washington and Lee University and went on to get his PhD at Yale before becoming a reporter. He is survived by his wife Sheila and son Tommy.
Tom Wolfe
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