Old School Saturday

We here at the Desk are trying to keep true hip hop alive by reminding these young cats who the true hip hop stars are. First up the man who gets paid in sex Special Ed.



Next up is D-NICE who helped give Kid Rock his start.



And will end this edition with a little Oran "Juice" Jones. There is some new version of this song but it cannot hang with the original. There just like a squirrel trying to get a nut.

R.I.P. Moonwalker

Moonwalking with Jesus
Culkin weeps remembering
King of Pop bromance

Here at the Desk we are a little sadder today because our brother M.J. Died today. I thought the guy was going to live forever, he will in our hearts. Here are our favorite M.J. Jams.











and a bonus unreleased jam.


Rest in peace our friend.

Savannah Cats are cool

That last one jumps high as hell, to bad his owner wears socks with sandals. douche.

Barney Frank does something right for once

Frank introduces bill to decriminalize personal marijuana
by AmbroseBurnside
Frank introduces bill to decriminalize personal marijuana
Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 01:23:00 PM PDT

I have been very impressed with Rep. Barney Frank as of late due to his passionate defense of personal freedoms.

Originally this admiration stemmed from his introduction of H.R. 2267: Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, which would tackle an issue very near and dear to my heart, but just today, Rep. Frank has introduced a bill that would federally decriminalize possession and transfer of personal amounts of marijuana.

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This legislation, titled H.R.2943: The Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009, would decriminalize the possession of up to 3.5oz of marijuana and allow the transfer (not-for-profit) of up to 1oz without federal penalty.

I don't personally smoke marijuana, but I have no problem whatsoever with people doing things within the privacy of their own homes that have no negative effect on anyone other than the user (and even the negative effect of marijuana is very debatable).

I've also seen what the failed "War on Drugs" has turned our country into: a society bought and paid for by the prison industry. We have more prisoners behind bars than any other country on Earth, even authoritarian China. Too many of these people are locked up for non-violent drug-related offenses. The money we could save by forgoing the pointless detention of marijuana-users could be a boon to the cause of universal healthcare.

So far Frank's bill has four cosponsors:

Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2]
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22]
Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14]
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46]

There is no doubt that this will be a hard sell to Congress, whose members have taken millions and millions from private prison operators. Corrections Corporation of America is just one example:

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However, what are we if we're not fighters for individual freedom and liberty. We may not have the clout of the prison industry and casino industry with their high powered lobbyists, but there are millions of Americans that safely and responsibly enjoy smoking marijuana and millions of Americans that safely and responsibly enjoy playing poker on the internet. Together, we can be powerful advocates for change. So, please, if you support the rights of Americans to be free from government interference while in their homes, call your member of Congress and ask them to support Frank's H.Rs 2943 and 2267.

Must See Movies

Here are a couple movies we at the Desk believe are overlooked classics. Please judge for yourself.

Toledo Mayor

I'm sorry but Carty is a giant master. Who doesn't love this guy. If you disagree with him he will punch you right in the mouth.
Let's praise Carty. He walked the neighborhood at his own discretion without any entourage in tow - a rarity among among urban mayors. He noticed an escating fight and personally intervened - putting himself in great physical jeopardy in the process. Can you imagine Kwame or Mayor Daley personally breaking up a neighborhood fight? No way. Carty could easily have phoned police from a distance and kept walking. He chose otherwise.


On this next clip, i'm sorry but you just can't park in front of your house. The one person just parks in his front lawn then wonders why he got a ticket. Just pure trash.


of course Fox doesn't look at all the cases. The one guy is parking in his front lawn, am I the only one seeing that.

SIX FLAGS NEW RESTRUCTURING PLANS

BANZAI7 NEWS--Six Flags, the big theme park operator, filed for bankruptcy in early Saturday morning in Delaware after failing to reach an agreement with lenders over a plan to reorganize its debt outside of court.

Six Flags's proposed a reorganization plan that includes exciting new attractions with timely financial services themes including:

HANK AND BEN'S SUBPRIME FRIGHT NIGHT COASTER

HANK AND BEN'S SUBPRIME FRIGHT NIGHT COASTER will transform guests into seedy citizens of Wall Street, where they find themselves caught in the middle of a city under siege and torn apart by Alan Greenspan the fractional reserve Riddler and Milton Friedman, the cruel free market Joker. Venturing through demented hallways of twisted derivative trades, oblique policy turns and hallucinatory correlations, riders speed through six 180-degree DJIA hairpin's, climb unseen hills of toxic assets, plunge into pitch balance sheet darkness and dip into unforeseen "Black Swan" like outlier dangers.

VIKRAM BANDIT'S BIG SPIN

Vikram Bandit's Big Spin — A Gerstlauer PR spinning coaster, "this unique public relations spinning coaster gives riders the opportunity to defy the laws of financial services gravity just like Vikram Bandit, the memo bloviating legend himself. With random and unpredictable verbal twists and techno-babbling spins at each market dip and turn, this CITI bailout sponsored coaster offers a unique ride experience for all stakeholders every time."

LLOYD BLANKFEIN'S WIGGLE OUT WORLD

"BLANKFEIN'S Wiggle Out World is designed to leverage and wiggle Goldman Sach's out of a hair raising squeeze using its world-wide recognition and status among financial regulators and policy makers ages 2-6, featuring rides, shows and attractions the entire United States Financial Services regulatory family can enjoy. The new area will include specially themed Goldman Wiggle out rides, including Hank Paulsens's Big Bailout Car and Steve Friedman's Big Red Escape Plane rides, as well as a new Timmy G Toxic Turd retail location and a Larry Sommers Yummy Dummy Investor Cafe. In addition, The Goldman Wiggles are scheduled to appear at the park on a to-be-announced date in 2009. The Great Wall Street Escape also will debut a thrilling new waterslide, Wild AIG Wedgie, in its Subprime Derivative Splashwater Kingdom water park."

ALAN THE MAESTRO'S INVERTED YIELD COASTER

Maestro's Ultimate Inverted Yield Curve Coaster — "Adding a powerful new dimension of twisted monetary thrill's to an already irrationally exuberant coaster line-up, Maestro IYC will feature a unique radiating blue steel track and high-speed yellow and blue trains that suspend riders from short and long term coaster tracks. Once aboard the suspended 28-passenger interest rate trains, the bottom drops out from beneath the riders and they soar out of the real estate asset bubble station four abreast to experience spine-tingling gravitational market forces and the sensation of racing totally unregulated at 80 mph with nothing beneath their 401k feet but cloudy sky."

GLOW IN THE DARK TOXIC ASSET PARADE

Glow in the Dark Toxic Asset Parade at Six Flags Great Subprime Adventure "Six Flags is taking the asset backed security parade concept to new subprime levels as bull market drummers, shyster bankers, political puppeteers, psychotic quants, crooked mortgage brokers, unscrupulous real estate brokers, and kinetic regulatory stilt walkers bring the park streets to life with an unparalleled nighttime financial fantasyland of interest only mortgages, riskless securities, pay option loans, no document loans, VAR fantasy lights and bear trade commotion. Glow in the Park Toxic Asset Parade features the latest quantitative finance technology, state-of-the-art collateralized debt floats and special credit enhancement effects with thousands of sparkling rating agency lights adorning every element of this uniquely themed toxic asset parade."

BERNIE THE PONZI ENGINEER

Bernie the Ponzi Engineer — This attraction entertains sophisticatedly naive investors of all ages, offering wealthy retiree's, brainless asset managers and SEC enforcement attorneys a ponziesque train ride through Bernie's mythical trading room on the French Riviera Island of Absolute Returns, Bernie-themed play areas, and appearances by Clown Commissioner Christopher Cox, Controller of the SEC's ponzi sanctioned Railway, who will pose for photos and greet visiting investors. A Bernie & Friends store located within the areas will feature an assortment of pre-owned Palm Beach merchandise.

DICK FULD'S ROOM FULL OF SMOKE & MIRRORS

Dick Fuld's Room Full of Smoke & Mirrors takes the financial smoke and mirror funhouse concept to the absolute last minute. Packed full of opaque accounting tricks, toxic asset hazards, valuation illusions, securitisation fakirs, shifty Korean and Arab investors, short selling bogeymen chasing bikini clad CFO's and a Mega subprime CDS ticking time bomb, Dick Fuld's Room Full of Mirror's will leave spectators young and old totally unbailed.

HANK GREENBERG'S HOUSE OF AIG HORRORS

Perhaps the scariest attraction ever created, Hank Greenberg's House of AIG horrors will not be beat. Packed full of all manner of subprime ghouls, vampire toxic asset salesmen, financial skeletons, CEO ghosts, litigous zombies, blood thirsty regulators and Goldman Sachs derivative traders, Hank will make sure your NAV will never see the light of bailout day. Sandy Weil says: "I thought I had the systemic house of horrors racket cornered, but Hank Greenberg beat me to the bailout punch."

New Michael Moore Movie

Now personally we at the Desk are not very fond of this Michael Moore fella, but we tended to strangly agree with him pretty heavily on his thoughts on the bailout. This makes us interested in this new movie.



On a unrelated subject you can get your Dublin Dr. Pepper hereThey sell real Dr. Pepper from the original formula.

OLD SCHOOL SATURDAY: Nice and Smooth addition

Today we got some nice and smooth for that azz

Hammer time!

First off what an awful looking store, nothing but super tight pants.

Joe Biden: A short history of political blunders

Is it just me or is Joe Biden making Dan Quayle seem like a genius. Just check out this list of blunders, and he has only been V.P. for a few months. When is the Biden Blunder book coming out?

-- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.

-- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."

-- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.

"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.

-- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.

-- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

-- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.

-- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."

"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"

-- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

-- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.

"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.

-- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.

"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.

-- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.

-- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.

"Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"

-- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"

-- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Heidi and Spencer

First off does anybody actually watch this I'm a Celebrity crap? Really? It's a terrible Survivor rip off that casts a bunch of literal nobodies. Who wants to watch this. Plus is it just me or does the show look like its filmed on a soundstage in Burbank? I don't know maybe Costa Rica really does look like the Big Brother house.
FROM EW ONLINE:
NBC and Heidi and Spencer Pratt seem determined to turn I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! into the summer's greatest torture -- for them and for us.

It's been reported that Heidi has been hospitalized in Costa Rica due to an "undisclosed illness" after spending time in the show's "Lost Chamber," a dark punishment room filled with various vermin, to atone for their sin of trying to get out of, and then begging to get back in to, Get Me Out of Here!

On last Thursday's episode, we were told the Pratts would "spend the night" in the chamber, but Pratt sister Stephanie is tweeting that they were "locked in a dark room for three days." Call me a sunny optimist, but this seems unlikely. Stephanie also tweets, "I know they pulled some s----y antics but really nbc? Too far."

Oh, I don't know about that, Steph...

Now it seems that Spencer is now threatning to sue NBC for Torture? Please we the audience should be sueing you for torturing us with your crybaby antics for the past few years, now hurry up, your 15 minutes are at 14:53 and counting.

What do you think? Will you be watching I'm a Celebrity's expanded, two-hour edition tomorrow night?

FYI you can see Britneys boobies here

Old School Videos of the week: Kid Rock Edition

Back from the dead, this is from his "Underrated and unsung" Home video




Champtown was Kid Rock's Hypeman for a bit in the 90's. I still remember him giving me this single backstage at a Kid Rock show around '94.

Best of Craigslist

To the Debt Collector Harrassing me at Work - w4m
Date: 2009-05-07, 3:48PM EDT


Your voice is quite charming in a sleazy, condescending, I-Get-Paid-To-Harrass-People kind of way. You must be so good with the ladies - I can picture you on a date, with that deep "I am full of self-importance" voice, asking her "So am I to file you under deadbeat mistress because you won't sleep with me after knowing me for an hour?"

I am assuming you are either 1. Just out of college and eager to prove yourself by threatening a faceless person on the telephone, 2. A wannabe lawyer who is not smart enough to ever pass the BAR exam and therefore miserable in life, or 3. Someone who was picked on a lot in high school and believes this job is his calling to get revenge on all those bullies who made life a living hell.

Ours is definitely a missed connection, because after the first threatening phone call, I instructed our receptionist to screen all calls from you. Sad, but where I work, as I informed you several times, I cannot continue to speak to you without raising my voice, and unfortunately I cannot tell you everything I really want to say, as I am in public and do not want my coworkers to hear the trash language I would use.

You see, debt collector, my bills have always been paid on time. I am not a deadbeat, nor do I avoid paying my credit cards. But when you have a bank like Bank of America, who gets $20 billion dollars of US tax payers money, then turns around and changes credit card interest rates from 10% to 29.99% with no explanation, increases the monthly minimum amount due from $150 to $675 and turns your account over to a bottom feeder collection agency after two months because their customer could only pay $300 each of those months, there is a problem.

And the problem does not lie with me. Like millions of other Americans who work hard every single day and are struggling, I am not rolling around on a pile of bailout money. I am not buying up other banks and then changing the credit card rules because I can. I am not an executive of Bank of America who lives in a $4 million mansion and flies to exotic places on a private jet while millions of people lose their homes and their lives.

I am, in fact, a college-educated professional who is completely dumbfounded by the state of this country. In fact, I bet the money you say I owe that I am more educated, smarter and make more money than you. I simply don't make enough to pay you the thousands of dollars you claim I owe you today "or else". By the way - those fees and surcharges totalling more than $2000 that you tacked on to my Bank of America account balance is not going to fly.

So here's what I shall do to ensure that we are not just another missed connection.

The next time you call me at work, I will take you call. I will also record the call, since it is illegal for you to continue calling at my place of employment once I have requested that you stop.

I will submit the tape to my attorney, along with my intent to sue you for harrassment, threats and stalking, along with emotional distress (I had to have two glasses of wine to calm my nerves after your call!)

And then I will sit back with my family, relax and know that eventually, this matter will be settled and behind me, and I will continue my life of love and laughter.

You, on the other hand, will still be at your dirty little desk, dressed in your dingy suit and tie, calling other "deadbeats" and lashing out at them because it makes your own pitiful little life seem less empty.

* Location: Basking in the Economy

R.I.P. Kwai Chang Caine

We will always miss you...









EDIT: It appears David Carridine has upped his Master Factor in the Desks eyes by joining former INXS frontman Michael Hutchence in dying from Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation. Master.
He also Joins Jeffey Marc Shapiro