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Archive for February 4th, 2010

#nowplaying: Chicago Blues – Muddy Waters

by: Madcap February 4, 2010

Muddy Waters — Champagne & Reefer
Yeah bring me champagne when I’m thirsty.
Bring me reefer when I want to get high.

Justice Clarence Thomas and Campaign Finance Laws

by: Madcap February 4, 2010

Clarence Thomas gives a little history lesson on the Tillman Act and campaign finance laws. Tillman, a member of the Democrat Party, was also openly racist…
Audio: Clarence Thomas Defends Supreme Courts Campaign Finance Decision

Justice Defends Ruling on Finance
He added that the history of Congressional regulation of corporate involvement in politics had a dark side, pointing [...]

#nowplaying: “The Day The Music Died”

by: Madcap February 4, 2010

On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were all killed when their plane crashed in Clear Lake Iowa. It is now know as “the day the music died.”
That’ll be the day — buddy holly

Richie Valens: ooh my head

Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace

American Pie “The Day The Music [...]

Scott Lee Cohen: 2005 domestic battery arrest

by: Madcap February 4, 2010

This is crazy stuff.
New questions in 2005 arrest of Democratic lieutenant governor nominee
The newly minted Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor said Wednesday he doesn’t think a 2005 domestic battery arrest should hurt him in the fall general election, although records in the case raise questions about his version of events.
Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker who [...]

Nazi death camp survivor recognises John Demjanjuk – Telegraph

by: Madcap February 4, 2010

John Demjanjuk is accused of being a guard at the Polish camp of Sobibor and aiding the murder of 27,900 Dutch Jews who were gassed during his alleged time there.
“I remember him, I remember them all,” Alexei Vaitsen, 87, told Czech Radio
“He was a guard. I saw him leading a group of prisoners to work [...]

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