Full post of The Concert for Bangladesh

The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7:00 p.m. on August 1, 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Organized for the relief of refugees from East Pakistan (now independent Bangladesh) after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities and Bangladesh Liberation War, the event was the first benefit concert of this magnitude in world history. It featured an all-star supergroup of performers that included Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Ringo Starr.

An album was released later in 1971 and a concert film was released in 1972, with later releases for home video. In 2005, the film was re-issued on DVD accompanied by a new documentary.

The concert raised US$243,418.51 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF. Sales of the album and DVD continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF.^[1]

Background:

As East Pakistan struggled to become the separate state of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War, the tremendous political and military turmoil and the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities led to a massive refugee problem in India. This problem was compounded by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, bringing torrential rains causing devastating floods and threatening a humanitarian disaster.

Bengali musician Ravi Shankar consulted his friend George Harrison regarding a means of providing help to the situation. Harrison recorded the single "Bangla Desh" to raise awareness and pushed Apple Records to release Shankar's single "Joi Bangla" in a dual-pronged effort to raise funds.

Shankar also asked Harrison's advice regarding a small fund-raising concert in the United States. Harrison took the idea and started calling his friends, persuading them to join him in a large concert at Madison Square Garden. The event was organised within five weeks.

Harrison first asked his fellow Beatles to appear. John Lennon agreed to take part in the concert, however Harrison stipulated that Lennon's wife Yoko Ono not perform with him. Lennon agreed, but left New York two days before the event following an argument with Ono regarding his and Harrison's agreement that she not participate.^{[citations needed]}

Paul McCartney declined because of the bad feelings caused by The Beatles' legal problems on their break-up. "George came up and asked if I wanted to play Bangla Desh and I thought, blimey, what's the point? We're just broken up and we're joining up again? It just seemed a bit crazy," McCartney told Rolling Stone years later^[2] . Ringo Starr, however, appeared.

That post was taken from Wiki's page [here], this portion is my comment...

George Harrison gathered some of the greatest musicians of the time, with them thay gathered an audience and that started a movement of sorts in the arts industry. Welcome to the canteen was also a benefit concert that summer set up by Steve Winwood. It is in my mind one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, it is regarded as a Traffic album but it is not. Although the canteen show took place before Bangladesh concert I believe it was influenced greatly by the Bangladesh's upcoming show through the publicity it generated prior to the performance. The movement started by George Harrison was musicians bringing world social issues and needs to their audience along with the suggestion that together we all could improve living conditions for those in need all around the world.

Enjoy the full post of The Concert for Bangladesh...

(Part 1)


(Part 2)

Ringo Starr - Bangladesh

Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy live at the Concert For Bangladesh 1971
at Madison Square Garden

with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Leon Russel, Billy Preston and Bob Dylan

Buck Owens and Ringo Starr- "Act Naturally"

Economize

Spongebob Squarepants

SpongeBob is off the wagon again & back to his old ways Rock N' Rollin, drinkin cheap whiskey and hangin out with half nekked groupies.

This is Why I'm HOT!



Losin' It



Wanted Dead or Alive

And now he's gone crazy....

Teletubbies [N.S.F.W] & it stinks...

Obviously this aint safe fer work because #1, teletubby's aint safe anywhere, #2 it's rude an offensive, #3 teletubby's just plain suck.

I only posted this because it is extreme stupidity in its purest form. I reccomend you don't even bother watchin it.

Shake That Ass Bitch

Motörhead (Blues & Head-bangin)

Some of these are a little suggestive but I still think their safe fer work (if you work in a strippers bar that is).

Whorehouse Blues
(PG-13 version)



Fuck Metallica (Enter Sandman)



Probot - Shake Your Blood (Uncensored)

(This is Probot but I think it's same singer from Motorhead)

5000 Fingers cover of "Milkshake"

Strange!

Royksopp vid player

I know I already posted Royksopp twice this morning but I'm posting this vid player too.
Why?
Because I think their awesome and even if you don't care to watch them I want it for myself to listen to while working.

If you like it then enjoy. It's not set to autostart so you need to click the play button to hear it or see the vids.

Absolutely Live

The Doors - Absolutely Live

01 - House announcer [download]


02 - Who do you love [download]


03 - Alabama song [download]


04 - Back door man [download]


05 - Love hides [download] <--- Updated, 320 bit version


06 - Five to one [download]


07 - Build me a woman [download]


08 - When the musics over [download]


09 - Close to you [download]


10 - Universal mind [download]


11- Petition the Lord with prayer [download]


12 - Dead cats, dead rats [download]


13 - Break on through [download]


14 - Lions in the street [download]


15 - Wake up! [download]


16 - A little game [download]


17 - The hill dwellers [download]


18 - Not to touch the earth [download]


19 - Names of the kingdom [download]


20 - The palace of exile [download]


21 - Soul Kitchen [download]


Here are a few links to more similar posts on the blog.

[Donovan - Open Road]

[Best of John Lennon - 1997]

[Two Rooms, Elton covers]

[Tears for fears - Songs from the big chair- "seperate vids post"]

[Pink Floyd - Dark side of Oz "full movie"]

[Amy Winehouse "Frank"]

1st Amendment explained too...

Penn Teller 1st Amendment

2nd Amendment Rights Explained!!!

Penn & Teller on the 2nd Amendment.

Tesla became music

Amazing!

WOW! Royksopp again

This song is Emple and it is fantastic in concept and design.

Emple by Royksopp...

*EDIT* Added more because these guys are great...

So easy



In Space

Sparks
(Best for last again)

What else is there? "Royksopp "

[WARNING] No sex,no violence,nothing shocking. Just a fantastic song done well on a nice vid. It does however have a couple images of apples in it tho and apples mean condemnation of mankind, so that's a concept you can use to work with.

Royksopp - what else is there?

How to make bacon flavored mushrooms.

Chef Elliot Prag of the Natural Gourmet Institute shows Sunita Reed how to make shiitake mushrooms taste like bacon and bring out their Umami flavor. From http://www.sciencentral.com...

The Standells "A tribute to Wonnerful Boston"

This is my hometown theme song... Yer in Boss-Town and this song comes on the box you better be singin along or humming to it or we think you's some kinda weirdo from Rhode Island an kick yer ass till yer sneakers turn red...

Play it LOUD or get the hell offa my blog!

Dirty Water

Harry Nilsson

Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 January 15, 1994) was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s. For most of his recordings, he did not use his first name, and was credited only as Nilsson.

Despite some significant critical and commercial successes, including two Grammy Awards and two Top 10 singles, Nilsson's tendency to make broad stylistic jumps from one record to the next - coupled with his generally iconoclastic decision-making - kept him from capitalizing on his career. Among Nilsson's best-known recordings are "Without You", "Jump Into the Fire", "Everybody's Talkin'" (theme from the movie Midnight Cowboy) and "Coconut".

Without you
(I think it's a movie version, but it's not the vid)

Coconut song (1971)

Everybody's talkin at me (Cover vers. by Karen Eng)
"I posted her because she's very good. Her playlist is [here] and next song she sings on it is Tammy Wynette"

Everybody's Talkin' (Original version - 1969)



Spaceman



Jump into the fire...
(I always save my favorite one for last, this is the motorcycle song)

Jim Croce, a story-teller with a guitar

Operator

Time in a bottle

You aint messin round with Jim
(not a music vid, sorry.)

Joan Baez sings of peace & beauty

This woman is incredible, she sings like sweet summer wine...

Me and Bobby McGee

Blowing in the wind (1963)

Sweet Sir Galahad

Free, Alright now (Classic Rock)

This is a Killer Classic!

Here's Paul Rogers when he was first starting out on his own.

The producers (production idiots) didn't like the name Free so they persuaded him to change it to Bad Company.

Give it any name you like but it's still Paul Rogers & he's pretty damn good!

Alright now

Ford Model T

The Tin Lizzie Life

by Debra Ann Pawlak

One hundred years ago, Ford had a better idea…Henry Ford, that is. And when his idea became a reality, the Ford Motor Company was born and along with it that famous horseless carriage, The Model T. Henry Ford and his new concept car revolutionized not only the way we worked, but also the way we got there. And life on the farm was never the same. Getting an automobile manufacturing company off the ground was no easy feat back in 1899, but Henry Ford did just that in his spare time. While working as a full time engineer for the Detroit Edison Company, Ford managed to convince several prominent Detroiters to help him organize and establish the Detroit Automobile Company. The backers' patience grew thin, however, when Ford failed to produce a sellable car and the fledgling company lost $86,000. The grand enterprise was dissolved within nine months. Undeterred, Henry Ford took a gamble, and in October, 1901, he won a car race – the only one he ever entered. In front of thousands of onlookers, Ford beat Alexander Winton at the Detroit Driving Club in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. While Winton's car overheated, Ford crossed the finish line averaging an alarming forty-four miles per hour. He won not only the $1,000 purse, but also the interest of various investors who thought they should cash in on this mechanical marvel. So, with $28,000 in ready money, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903. Ten workers earning $1.50 per day built the first two-cylinder Model A in what was once a Detroit wagon factory. When Ford sold the vehicle to a local physician for $850, it became a hit. Henry Ford, however, had an even better idea. The four-cylinder Model B did not live up to the company's expectations, but the Model C certainly did. By 1907, the Ford Motor Company reaped a whopping $1,100 profit. Ford continued identifying his automobiles alphabetically. Some of the models were never mass produced, but considered only concept cars. The Model N represented a total redesign. Instead of a two-cylinder engine under the seat, the Model N held a four-cylinder engine underneath the hood. By the time Ford was ready to build his most famous vehicle, he had exhausted the alphabet from A through S. His next car represented the most modern automobile to date and he simply called it the Model T. Ford formally introduced his Model T to the general public on October 1, 1908. Known for its dependability, the car was soon nicknamed the ‘Tin Lizzie’ (‘Lizzie’ was a contemporary slang word used to describe a reliable servant). The stripped down version minus a top, windshield and gas lamps held steady at $850. After the first 500 cars were made, Ford enhanced the vehicle by adding a new starting crank. In 1909, more options were featured: robe rails, footrests, auto chimes, and the tops (if you preferred one) could be ordered in either gray or black. Brass trim was another common feature. Brackets for the windshield (which folded lengthwise across the center) and side lamps were fashioned from brass, while pedals and brakes were made of solid brass plates. Options such as spare tires, toolboxes, speedometers and windshield wipers were eventually added. A roadster rumble seat with a cushion could be had for three dollars, while shock absorbers went for $4.45. The 1,200 pound automobile had a four-cycle, twenty horsepower engine. The car measured just over eleven feet long, not including the bumpers, and about five and one-half feet wide with a ten-gallon gas tank located directly underneath the seats. It cleared the ground by ten and one-half inches and could travel up to forty-five miles per hour. The two front tires measured thirty by three inches, while the rear tires measured thirty by three and one-half inches—all minus tread with a recommended pressure of seventy pounds. The tires were painted to match the bodies, which were available in assorted colors until Brewster Green came along. This blackish shade then became the norm. By 1910, there were 16,000 automobiles in the State of Michigan alone. An eight-mile per hour speed limit was enforced after a state government study was conducted. Since no one dared drive during the treacherous winter seasons, auto insurance was sold for only six months of the year at a cost of $1.50. By now, Ford was producing 100 cars per day with each vehicle taking about fourteen hours to build. The cars themselves were assembled one at a time. The chassis remained stationary, while workers scurried all over the factory retrieving parts. This inefficient process would never satisfy the increased public demand. Once again, Ford had a better idea. In 1910 he opened a new factory in Highland Park, Michigan where Model T production rose from 19,000 to over 78,000 by 1912. Still, Ford knew he could do better and he began experimenting with a crude assembly line. On October 7, 1913, a chassis was pulled 150 feet across the factory floor by a rope and windlass. One hundred and forty workers stood in designated spots along the path and attached parts to the car. From start to finish, it took them five hours and fifty minutes. Eventually, Model T production was reduced to a mere one hour and thirty-three minutes. This in turn dropped the car’s price down to $360 making it available to more than just the upper class. The price hit an all-time low of $290 in 1924 allowing millions of Americans to own a set of wheels. To keep up with popular demand, Ford knew that he had to run his factory around the clock ,so in 1914 he more than doubled his workers’ pay. Already earning $2.34 for nine hours work, he raised the pay scale to an unheard of $5 for each eight-hour shift. With three shifts running in a 24-hour period, Ford achieved exactly what he needed—non-stop production. Even better, the autoworkers could now afford to buy cars of their own. Until 1927, Ford mass produced a variety of Model Ts including, Coupes, Touring Cars, Fordors, Tudors, Chassis, Runabouts and Model TTs. Over fifteen million Tin Lizzies were sold in the United States alone. With almost one million more going to Canada and another 250,000 shipped to England, the Model T represented one half of all cars built during that period. Thanks to the Tin Lizzie, motoring evolved from an idle pastime into a way of life. Will Rogers once commented: “It will take a hundred years to tell whether, he [Ford] helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn’t leave us where he found us.” Well, one hundred years have come and gone and it is clear that Henry Ford and his Model T not only shaped the twentieth century, but the horseless carriage will continue to cast its long shadow well into the twenty-first.

Ben Franklin's Advice About Sex

Ben Franklin's Advice About Sex

by Benjamin Franklin, June 25, 1745

Franklin wrote this letter to a friend who was unwilling to marry but was having lustful thoughts about women. He begins by strongly recommending marriage, but then goes on to suggest that if his friend must take a mistress he should choose an older woman. The letter illustrates some of the prevalent attitudes about marriage, sex, and the roles of men and women in mid-18th century America. It also amply conveys Franklin's mischievous sense of humor!

My dear Friend, I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Oeconomy, will be a Fortune sufficient. But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these: 1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable. 2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, the study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Dimunition of Beauty by the Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman. 3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience. 4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting and Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes. 5. Because in every animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: the Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an Old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement. 6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching of a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy. 7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy. 8. They are so grateful!! Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend, Benjamin Franklin.

This was snagged from this page [here]

ShamWow Wow!

Elton John post

I could post this guy so huge the page would never load. Funny thing is growing up & throughout my teens I really didn't like him. I even turned down a concert of his once. I think it was because I was in between the teen aged dancing age and the adult mode. I couldn't appreciate him for what he was until I matured a little.

What is he?

He's an artist. The man has no choice but to perform. He sings with both modesty and grace. He plays the piano flawlessly and yes he is beautiful. His music reflects caring and concern for many things ranging from love for a lost one to fears of a changing life and leaving youth.

A man with that much talent and beauty inside needs to be heard and I love hearing him, now that I understand him better.

This is Elton John Folks...

Tiny Dancer

Rocket Man

Sacrifice

Benny and the Jets



Daniel

Link to Two Rooms (his tribute album) is [here]

Wizard of Oz (Alternate Ending)

Kinda PG-12 content...

B52's Post

This is Funky-Punk or Punky-Funk, either way is awesome!

Rock Lobsta

Private Idaho

Cross dressin lizards wearin cheap lipstick & pantyhose

Ladyboy lizards use transvestite trickery:

Tue Mar 3, 12:17 AM ET

Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, according to South African and Australian researchers. They found that young male Augrabies flat lizards (pictured) delayed displaying the extravagant coloration of sexually-mature males until they were able to defend themselves adequately.

(AFP/HO/File/Martin Whiting)

MELBOURNE (AFP) – Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.

The lizards not only avoid fights but gain access to females under the nose of their more macho rivals, the South African and Australian researchers discovered.

They found that young male Augrabies flat lizards delayed displaying the extravagant coloration of sexually-mature males until they were able to defend themselves adequately.

"Experienced males will chase and bite their young rivals," said associate professor Martin Whiting of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand.

"By delaying the onset of colour to a more convenient period, these males, termed she-males, are making the best of a bad situation."

Australian National University associate professor Scott Keogh said opting to become transvestites for a period offered young males a dual advantage.

"They can avoid potentially dangerous bouts with dominant males and still have access to normally inaccessible females," he said.

But, as with large hands and an Adam's apple in the human world, there is a flaw in the lizards' transvestite transformation.

Dominant males can detect transvestite's male hormones with their sensitive tongues, even if they are taken in by their female appearance.

University of Sydney researcher Jonathan Webb said this meant the she-males needed to be nimble to avoid advances from dominant males smitten by their fake female allure.

"Males are fooled by looks, but not by scent," he said.

"She-males are able to maintain this deception by staying one step ahead of a prying male, and thereby avoiding a nosey tongue that might give the game away."

The research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.

"It's gettin so bad you cain't even date a damn lizard right now without checking original birth certificate, school records, passport and looking at childhood pictures so's you can be shure she's a she."

This story was snagged from [here] but last comment was from me

My grandsons player

It's a post but it's a test... Whatever!

Mister Hank Williams

Hank Williams mighta been "old school" but I loved him. My memories of his music date back to ages 3 & 4. Anytime my mother got pissed at my father he'd sing Hanks tunes to her, from Poor Kaw-liga to Yer cheetin heart, or Hey good lookin' an it never failed to make her smile (Plus all he had was a hot-shot Ford & a two dollar bill).

He & Patsy Cline were my favorites out of "really old people like over 25 an shit" musicians.

I'm pretty lucky to have lived in a day & age where I can still hear their beautiful singing. My Grandmother was born in 1902 and she said that in her day you couldn't keep a song longer than a memory and that to me is pretty sad.

His early career:

In July 1937, the Williams and McNeil families opened a boarding house on South Perry Street in downtown Montgomery. It was at this time that Hiram decided to informally change his name to Hank, a name which he said was better suited to his desired career in country music.

After school and on weekends, Williams sang and played his Silvertone guitar on the sidewalk in front of the WSFA radio studios. He quickly caught the attention of WSFA producers, who occasionally invited him to come inside and perform on air. So many listeners contacted the radio station asking for more of the "Singing Kid" that the producers hired him to host his own fifteen-minute show, twice a week for a weekly salary of fifteen dollars.

In August 1938, Lon Williams was temporarily released from the hospital, and he showed up unannounced at the family's home in Montgomery. Lillie was unwilling to let him reclaim his position at the head of the household, so he stayed only long enough to celebrate Hank's birthday in September before he returned to the medical center in Louisiana. It was the first time Hank had seen his father in over eight years, and even after the reunion, he felt as though he had grown up without a father. (Lon and Lillie were subsequently divorced in July 1942.)

Williams' successful radio show fueled his entrance to a music career. His generous salary was enough for him to start his own band, which he dubbed the Drifting Cowboys. The original members of the band were guitarist Braxton Schuffert, fiddler Freddie Beach, and comic Smith "Hezzy" Adair. Arthor Whiting was also a guitarist for The Drifting Cowboys. The Drifting Cowboys traveled throughout central and southern Alabama, performing in clubs and at private parties. Hank dropped out of school in October, 1939, so that the Drifting Cowboys could work full time.

Lillie Williams stepped up to be the Drifting Cowboys' manager. She began booking show dates, negotiating prices, and driving them to some of their shows. Now free to travel without Hank's school schedule taking precedence, the band was able to tour as far away as western Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle. Meanwhile, Hank returned to Montgomery every weekday to host his radio show.

The American entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning of hard times for Hank Williams. All his band members were drafted to serve in the military, and many of their replacements refused to continue playing in the band because of Hank's worsening alcoholism. His idol, Grand Ole Opry star Roy Acuff, warned him of the dangers of alcohol, saying "You've got a million-dollar voice, son, but a ten-cent brain."^[2] Despite Acuff's advice, Williams continued to show up for his radio show intoxicated, so in August 1942, WSFA fired him due to "habitual drunkenness."

His later career:

Williams had 11 number one hits in his career—"Lovesick Blues", "Long Gone Lonesome Blues", "Why Don't You Love Me?", "Moanin' the Blues", "Cold, Cold Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'", "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)", "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive", "Kaw-Liga", "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Take These Chains From My Heart"—as well as many other top-ten hits.

More [here] on Wiki

Cold Cold Heart

Kaw-Liga
(could only find a cover version, but it's good)

Real version...

"MGM 78 Of Hank Williams Kawliga played on my wind-up victrola. This is my second attempt at making a video for youtube. Like I said on my first clip, I've got a lot of 78s, and I hope to post them all soon to share with everyone. They are an amalgamation of all types of timeless music." <--posted from althazarr on YouTube, "Thanx Bro!"

Hey Good Lookin'

Jambalaya
(My favorite!)

The fourth world war

This is a film that needs to be taken seriously. It is about the reality of our times...

Dope {Updated}

NOTE: This vid is Not Safe For Work "NSFW", this means it contains offensive language and partial nudity.

Bitch, by the band Dope
Vid removed, go [here] to see it instead.

Sorry but my other personality made me remove the vid. I think it was something about it being just a little too rude for this place but this personality says it's still a good vid an if yer an adult you should check it out

Super Obama Girl is a spoiled brat!

President Hilarity Clinton Speaks again pfffft~~

You wanna help someone Cupcake then help America,because we don't have good jobs, we lose our decent homes at rate of about a half a million a month and we do not get good medical. I know because my son broke his wrist a month ago and has yet to find help except from the emergency department at the bullshit Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleborough, Massachusetts and all these assholes did was give him a number to a doctor that charged him about $200 just to tell him he was NOT going to treat him.

You wanna help someone you white-mustard filled twinkie, start here!

President Hilarity Speaks again even in after-life

People think our economy is faltering. It is NOT!

The whole world is not struggling because people borrowed too much from banks.
Gas prices are rising as crude oil prices bottom out.
WE did not do this, we did none of this.

The banking system created this and they are still in control of all of this. Nobody owns anything anymore. Nothing! Natta! Not a damn thing is owned anymore. You own your stinkin house but the banks own your town & they own the county & they own the state & they own the nation.

Put yer silly little house on a boat and float it out and when you get there (LOL Where?) tell me what you own.

This is bad because this is the wake of the last revolution on earth. This is the balance sheet and equation. Now the financiers have decided that they own the proper balance of every nation and people on this earth.

You let it happen and they payed you well (for a short time,,, Yuk-Yuk-Yuk), you let them restrict medical practices to only a select few and also dominate the health market with their own pharmaceutical markets. You are so frigging stupid you supported bullshit laws that entrapped at least 40% of our fighting aged men and boys in a legal system and locked those up who could have defended you. LOL... Now you split the number even further by sending what's left off to fight imaginary bullshit in rabbet holes out East for an Idiot's word? That's just way off the chart. That president looks through binoculars with lense caps on and reads upside down books to toddlers, He's a friggin moron. They hired him because he's so stupid that if shit fell down he'd be an easy shot.

Anyway... The only way we survive is you wake the fuck up, get our boys out of Iraq and our pot puffers out of jails & prisons so that we aren't stuck trying to defend ourselves as a nation with pussies like you who never even saw reality and will never fight for it!

Ha-ha-ha, it's official now. Yer money aint even worth yer money even if it is yer damn money!

AP IMPACT: Some nonprofits can't touch their money

By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Writer Martha Waggoner, Associated Press Writer – Mon Mar 2, 12:36 am ET

RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina Symphony has all the money it needs. But in this economy, the orchestra isn't allowed to touch it.

The value of its endowment stands at nearly $6.9 million, a fund the symphony planned to tap this year to help pay its musicians and put on concerts. But because of the slump on Wall Street, the endowment is worth less than the original donations that created it. That means, under North Carolina law, that the money is off limits.

It's a frustrating quandary for universities, orchestras and other nonprofit organizations in two dozen states. They have the money they need to save jobs, offer scholarships and put on a solid schedule of programs, but face state laws that keep them from using any of it.

"I don't imagine the donors anticipated a situation where the market would fall so dramatically that the money would be held hostage and unable to support the symphony at all," said David Chambless Worters, the symphony's chief executive.

Rules governing how nonprofits in North Carolina and 23 other states use their endowments date to the 1970s, when most states adopted a uniform law that prohibits withdrawing money from endowments that fall below their "historic dollar value" — the money given to create the endowment, plus any later gifts.

The law is designed to protect endowments by preventing institutions from dipping into the principal. An endowment is supposed to be a perpetual source of revenue, with institutions drawing off only the earnings.

The rule affects newer funds most severely, since they have had less time to invest a gift and build the endowment's value.

Neither the National Council of Nonprofits nor the Council on Foundations, both based in Washington, keeps track of how many of its members are struggling with endowments that are now underwater.

But "anecdotally, it is a serious problem. And if the current financial downturn continues, the problem will only get worse," said Harvey Dale, director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University.

The North Carolina Symphony started 2008 with an endowment of $9.3 million, well above its historic dollar value of $7.25 million and enough to allow for a planned withdrawal of $600,000. But with the endowment now underwater, the orchestra is looking for new ways to make money to cover than gap, including scheduling four June performances with the visiting Bolshoi Ballet that should bring in $100,000.

Among the hardest hit are colleges and universities. In the University of North Carolina system, where as many as 70 percent of the endowments at one campus are underwater, some of the system's 16 schools are going back to donors and asking them for one-time donations to pay for what would normally be covered by the endowment.

The University of Wisconsin system suspended payments this month from 38 underwater endowments, taking away $700,000 that would have gone for scholarships and other programs at campuses across the state. At New York University, about $10 million of $16 million in scholarship endowments is untouchable.

"Our primary mission is to hold our students harmless," said Martin Dorph, NYU's senior vice president for finance and budget. "As a result, we may have to make choices about other things we may have to eliminate or reduce. By implication, the problem then shifts somewhere else."

That's what happened at Brandeis University, which originally planned to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its more than 7,000 works, including pieces by Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns. After much criticism, the school backed off.

There are ways to get around the law. In creating an endowment, nonprofits can enter into an agreement with the donor that allows for the use of principal in emergencies. They can also ask the donor to change the endowment's terms retroactively, which requires a trip to court if the donor has died.

Dale said that while some donors may have intended for the principal to remain intact, others may be asking "Was it my intent that the students I want to help won't get any help?" Dale said that most donors, if asked, would probably agree to loosen the strings attached to their gifts.

Since early 2007, 26 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that give nonprofit organizations more flexibility in using money from endowments that are underwater. Because of the economic meltdown, 12 other states are considering such laws, according to the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws.

Still, some nonprofits aren't willing to dip into their endowments even when the law allows.

The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco has watched its endowment, with a historic dollar value of about $22 million, drop to $18 million. It decided to focus on raising money to rebuild the endowment, rather than draw it down to pay salaries.

Two theater employees were laid off in January and four other positions remain unfilled, said theater executive director Heather Kitchen.

"Making the endowment even smaller wasn't the key," Kitchen said. "It might be worth $13 million when the recession is over, and it would take even longer to get it back where we want it to be."

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On the Net:

Uniform Law Commission: http://www.upmifa.org/

North Carolina Symphony: http://www.ncsymphony.org/

This bunch of bullshit came from here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_bi_ge/untouchable_endowments

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