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Posted on August 26, 2009 – 12:31 pm | Author: chrisolds
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Topps announced its ninth Finest Rookie Redemption of the year on Wednesday, and it's Detroit Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello.
Porcello is 10-8 with a 4.39 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 123 innings for the AL Central-leading Tigers.
Each master box of Finest includes one redemption card, which can be found as Refractors (numbered to 199) and Gold Refractors (numbered to 50).
The 10th and final Finest Rookie has yet to be announced.
The previously announced cards are:
No. 1 — Indians OF Matt LaPorta
No. 2 — Braves P Tommy Hanson
No. 3 — A's P Andrew Bailey
No. 4 — Rangers OF Julio Borbon
No. 5 — Cardinals OF Colby Rasmus
No. 6 — Padres OF Kyle Blanks
No. 7 — Rangers P Neftali Feliz
No. 8 — Orioles OF Nolan Reimold
Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at email@example.com.
Posted on August 26, 2009 – 12:17 pm | Author: chrisolds
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TRISTAR's Jeff Rosenberg will be stopping by Beckett Media headquarters on Thursday morning for a special edition of Box Busters on to discuss his company's latest minor league baseball card set, Obak.
Read more about the set here, here, here and here.
It's a set that's rich in baseball history — a lesson in the game as well as a nod to the early 1900s tobacco cards of the same name — and is a set that's chock-full of variations. Several cards in the base set have card back variations — three based on the 1910 design, one based on the 1911 — while others have photo variations.
According to the in-box checklist, for example, Atlanta Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson has five versions of card No. 16 as does No. 12 — Gordon Beckham – as well as Tom Seaver (No. 39), Ted Williams (No. 41) and U.S. President Barack Obama (No. 100) among others. Other cards in the set merely have photo variations.
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Posted on August 26, 2009 – 11:28 am | Author: chrisolds
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The final NBA-licensed Topps basketball card set arrives very soon, 2009-10 Topps Basketball — and we've already busted our boxes — see more here — but we wanted to make sure that NBA fans can see more of what the set has in store.
Leading the way among the cooler images is this Nate Robinson-Dwight Howard card. Remember that dunk? We thought you would
Click on the images for a closer look for just a tiny sampling of some cool photos found in the set …
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 7:13 pm | Author: chrisolds
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Join Beckett Media's Dan Hitt and Tracy Hackler as they bust into a box of Donruss Threads football, which arrives on Wednesday with four autographs or memorabilia cards per box.
What will they find in this episode of Box Busters? Watch and see…
Click here to view the video.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 6:44 pm | Author: chrisolds
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This year's Donruss Threads football set arrives Wednesday packing four autographs or memorabilia cards in every hobby box — and retail boxes, once they arrive, will deliver the first Brett Favre cards picturing him in preseason action with the Minnesota Vikings.
Here's a look at some of the autographed cards to be found courtesy of Panini America.
Check 'em out after the jump …
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 2:51 pm | Author: chrisolds
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We've gotten our hands on some 2009 Topps American Heritage Heroes Edition cards a bit early so we could soak up the Americana and historic cards that are found only in this type of trading card set.
Mr. Rogers now has a Topps trading card. Erin Brockovich now has a card. Robert Jarvik now has a card. Barack Obama now has a bunch more trading cards.
And several of New York City's Finest — police officers and more who responded to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 — now have cards.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 2:12 pm | Author: chrisolds
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Join Beckett Media's Bryan Hornbeck, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds as they open a brand-spanking-new box of 2009 Topps American Heritage Heroes Edition in this episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside this historically rich product loaded with unusual Relic cards?
Click here to watch the video.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 1:36 pm | Author: chrisolds
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The Force is strong with this one, too.
Topps released basic preliminary product breakdowns and preview images for its latest Star Wars card set for release in late October.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Widevision will document the first season of the cartoon series in the over-sized card format previously used for past Star Wars releases.
The set will include scenes from all of the Season 1 episodes with each 24-pack hobby box containing one Sketch Card as well as a chance at Sketch Cards by the show's animators (odds still to be determined) as well as autographed from cast members (also TBD).
Among the insert sets are: gold-foil parallels (limited to one copy per card), silver parallels, Season 2 sneak previews (1:12 packs), Flix Pix Motion Cards (1:8), Animation Clear Cels (printed on plastic, 1:4), and foil cards (1:3).
For a closer look, click on the images below.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 1:13 pm | Author: chrisolds
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In recent issues of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly, we asked readers to tell us who is the greatest New York Yankee of the Upper Deck era. The winner gets the 1993 Upper Deck Autographed Buyback Rookie Card seen above.
The deadline has passed and we've examined all of the entries from around the country, who made solid cases for Jeter, Mariano Rivera and even others like George Steinbrenner as the most important Yankee since 1989.
The answer is debatable, but the best effort and case for the player got the card.
And the winner is …
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 12:48 pm | Author: chrisolds
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Join Beckett Media's Keith Hower, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds as they bust open a brand-spanking new HTA jumbo box of 2009-10 Topps Basketball cards in this episode of Box Busters.
What will they find inside a box of this product that's absolutely loaded with patches, Logoman, Laundry Tag, Chrome and other cool cards?
Watch and see…
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 12:16 pm | Author: chrisolds
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Press Pass announced on Tuesday that race-used lugnut cards will return to its NASCAR products with a future product.
The unusual memorabilia cards will be found in Press Pass Main Event as part of the Stop & Go Swatches set.
Each 20-pack hobby box of the poker-themed NASCAR set will include one autograph and two memorabilia cards as well as autographs from professional poker stars.
The product is set for a Sept. 30 release.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 11:21 am | Author: chrisolds
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Panini America announceed on Tuesday that its first Brett Favre football card of the future Hall of Famer in Minnesota Vikings uniform also will also be inserted into 2009 Donruss Threads Target blaster boxes and retail packs.
"My hat is off to our production staff. Based on their hard work and quick turn around, we were able to include the limited edition Favre card into Target blasters too," said Panini America's Scott Prusha. "Even with the additional product configurations, our initial announced print run of 4,444 cards will remain the same."
The retail version of Donruss Threads begins shipping on Aug. 26.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 11:10 am | Author: chrisolds
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The forthcoming TRISTAR Obak baseball set includes some serious surprises and some fascinating baseball-related inclusions.
But this one might be one of the cooler ones of the bunch.
You see, Steve Dalkowski was at one time regarded as the hardest-throwing pitcher ever, some saying he threw 110 miles an hour — at least that's what the back of his newest baseball card says.
Whether that's true or just baseball legend intensified by years of dust, he played in an era before radar guns so it doesn't matter. What's cool about this card?
Dalkowski is considered to be the player who was a key inspiration for Ebby Calvin "Nuke" Laloosh from Bull Durham.
You know, the guy with a quadraphonic Blaupunkt.
Posted on August 25, 2009 – 9:53 am | Author: chrisolds
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Topps announced the seventh and eighth Finest Rookie Redeption cards on Tuesday morning and they are Texas Rangers pitcher Neftali Feliz (No. 7) and Baltimore Orioles outfielder Nolan Reimold (No. 8).
There are two rookies remaining to be announced later this season.
Posted on August 24, 2009 – 9:07 pm | Author: chrisolds
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While many baseball card companies have added pop culture personalities and icons as well as historical figures to sets in recent years in an effort to draw more mainstream fans (or non-collectors) into trading cards, they haven't achieved anything close to what TRISTAR's upcoming Obak set delivers.
And it's so simple. They've been there all along.
You see, Obak, which is a modern-day nod to the tobacco cards of the same name from a century ago, arrives next Monday and it includes a 25-card set of "Game Changers." They're people who influenced the game we see today in stadiums around the country — and really the globe, though they are showcased on the smaller stage of a Minor League Baseball set.
It's a set that includes promising prospects of today, some of the game's greatest Hall of Famers in their farm-team threads, past MiLB Player of the Year winners, a crop of Minor League Baseball's legends that you've likely never heard of but have rich and storied careers.
But the Game Changers especially caught my eye.
Who are they?
Some are pioneers you've never heard of. Others are ones who have influenced the very habits you have if you're reading about baseball cards today.
Check out just a few of them in our exclusive early sneak peek at the checklist:
Posted on August 24, 2009 – 2:53 pm | Author: hackler
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Panini America officials had the rare opportunity to stop the presses over the weekend, doing so on the retail version of 2009 Donruss Threads in an effort to include what promises to be Brett Favre's first Minnesota Vikings card.
The card, also the first to incorporate game photography from Favre's Vikings debut last Friday in a preseason game against Kansas City, will be inserted exclusively into Walmart blister packs of Donruss Threads, due out this week.
"Panini America dispatched a photographer to the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome with the sole intention of creating this historical card," said Panini America Marketing Manager Scott Prusha. "We wanted Favre's first official Vikings trading card to be an in-game action shot of him wearing the purple No. 4.
"We were able to send a photographer to the game Friday night, print cards Saturday and have them ready for product insertion first thing Monday morning."
– Tracy Hackler
Posted on August 24, 2009 – 1:09 pm | Author: chrisolds
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It was 20 years ago today that Pete Rose accepted his ban from baseball, handed down by Commissioner Bart Giamatti.
"The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end of a sorry episode," Giamatti said that day. "One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement."
Giamatti died just eight days later, which led to a memorial card produced in a handful of 1990 sets — Donruss (No. 716) as seen here and in Topps (No. 396), its O-Pee-Chee counterpart, the 1990 Score Rookie Dream Team set and in the 1990 T/ M Umpires release.
None of the cards are particularly valuable as anything more than a history lesson into one of baseball's more unfortunate tales. (The Tiffany version of his Topps card, which is limited to roughly 15,000 copies — pretty rare for its time — is worth $4.)
Should Pete Rose be reinstated? Not in this writer's mind.
He spent years lying to everyone, denying that he bet on the game as manager of the Cincinnati Reds — only to finally admit it when attempting to make a buck by selling a book.
Not sure what's worse here — the lying or the gambling. And gambling — in any of sport — is one of the largest sins possible for an athlete or manager.
Posted on August 24, 2009 – 9:42 am | Author: chrisolds
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This in Monday morning from Topps …
Topps announces that because of a mistake during the manufacturing process, Will Venable's UNISGNED Blue Refractor Autograph cards (#'d to 199) were inadvertently inserted into packs of 2009 Topps Chrome Baseball. Topps is urging collectors to send their UNSIGNED Venable cards to the following address no later than Monday, Nov. 30. Topps will return the cards once they are signed by Venable and re-certified for authenticity.
Topps Company
ATTN: Consumer Relations
1 Whitehall St.
New York, NY 10004
Topps confirms that Tommy Hanson, Mark Melancon and Will Venable's 2009 Topps Chrome Autographed Rookie Cards do not feature card numbers.
Posted on August 22, 2009 – 11:04 am | Author: chrisolds
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Join Beckett Media's Keith Hower, Tracy Hackler and Chris Olds as they each open a $600 box of 2008-09 Exquisite Collection Basketball cards from Upper Deck.
What will they find? Watch the video here.
And be sure to watching to see how you can win a box …
Posted on August 21, 2009 – 5:09 pm | Author: chrisolds
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An impressive collection of rare and high-grade key vintage baseball cards is set to hit the auction block through Heritage Auctions in September, led by a PSA 8 Ty Cobb 1911 D304 Brunners card estimated at $200,000.
The Freedom Collection as a whole is estimated to fetch more than $1.2 million for just 40 cards of Hall of Fame players and will be sold during the Dallas-based company's Signature Sports Auction that launches on Sept. 10 and ends on Oct. 1. The seller has wished to remain anonymous.
"It absolutely ranks among the finest private collections of high-end cards in the world," said Heritage's Chris Ivy in a release. "Only the most iconic names in baseball history are represented, and each of the 40 cards rate among the highest graded available … It's rare to have a single six-figure card in an entire auction, and there are several examples in this small but special collection."
It includes "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays among the highlights. See a sampling of the cards after the jump.


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No, Casey Kasem is not dead. But he is doing his final American radio countdown show this weekend.
"Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it," Kasem, 77, said in a statement. "However, this decision will free up time I need to focus on myriad other projects."
Though he passed the reins of the offical AT40 to former Dunwoody man Ryan Seacrest in 2004 (heard locally on Star 94), Kasem has been doing special spinoff shows for soft rock stations. In Atlanta, he was last heard on Peach 94.9, which became the country station the Bull in late 2006.
But there is a symbolism for him ending his show on July 4. He was the voice that personified American music pop culture through much of the 70s and 80s. His weekly departing line, "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars" resonates to this day for anybody in my generation. That avuncular voice, which lives on as Shaggy in Scooby Doo cartoons, is often imitated and still heard on Sirius XM satellite radio's 70s and 80s stations, where they replay his countdown shows.
He was part of the reason I became addicted to Billboard magazine charts in the early 1980s. Like a lot of radio geeks, I kept three-ring binders of chart information. (And yes, I still have them.)
In New York, as a kid, I'd listen to him on 660/WNBC-AM (and later, Z100) on Sunday mornings, from 1982 until 1987, I'd studiously jot down the top 40 as he counted the songs from 40 to 1. Toto. Journey. Huey Lewis, Prince. I heard songs by dozens of acts for the first time on his show. I got to catch songs that weren't played much on the stations I listened to at the time. I'd sometimes take a cassette tape and tape songs I liked as well. If I really liked the song, I'd buy the 45 and record the higher-quality sound over the radio version, keeping Casey's intro intact.
Sure, he was cheeseball in so many ways. His long distance dedications. The way he would say a famous person's quote, then actually end it by saying, "end of quote." Those trivia contests where you had to send in your answers — by postcard.
But to me, he was the man, the conduit for my love of music and music charts.
I even got to meet Kasem briefly at a media convention in Los Angeles in 1993. I got a picture taken with him. That's one of my most treasured memories, scarily enough. I then purchased at a silent auction autographed vinyl record versions of old AT40 countdown shows.
Here is a couple of Youtube videos of his short-lived TV syndicated AT10 I used to watch, too. The first video aired in May, 2003 and Casey actually notes that "Thriller" was No. 1. And he featured one of my favorite songs of all time, Duran Duran's "Rio."
This 1983 edition of AT10 below notes that George Clinton was No. 1 on the soul chart and you can see Michael Jackson had "Billie Jean" and "Beat It' in the top 10 as well.
July 2nd, 2009
3:05 pm
I thought I was the only one to write down the AT40 when I was in junior high school. All the other kids thought it was weird.
July 2nd, 2009
4:25 pm
XM's 70s AT40 replays have been fun to listen to. The older theme music is amusingly dated. It's especially interesting to hear the evolution from a dry, statistically-based countdown show in 1970-71(in which Casey sounds stiltingly formal) to a trivia/personality-based show in the mid-70s, which was really his contribution to the genre.
There's also a hilarious bootleg tape that's been floating around since the early 80s, in which he loses his temper and rips into his studio engineer using language definitely not suitable for a family audience.
July 2nd, 2009
4:37 pm
Nothing beats his profanity-laced tirade about the dead dog dedication!
July 2nd, 2009
5:38 pm
We here in Macon have the added bonus of the American Top 40 1970's edition reruns syndicated on Peach 96.5/102.5 which can be heard from just south of Atlanta to south of Macon on the two frequencies. Also online at peach965 dot com. The shows air on Sunday mornings at 7 and are hosted by Kasey Kasem's son Mike Kasem.
I enjoy them as well as the broadcasts on XM's 70's and 80's channels.
I love the history they represent, even when Kasem announces the number ones on other charts and the radio stations that aired the show at that time. You would be surprised how many small town stations and old AM stations from back in the day that aired the program.
I am such a geek when it comes to the top 40 radio show, not so much for writing down the lists. I actually spent money on the Billboard magazine and they were NOT cheap. I wish I saved them.
July 2nd, 2009
5:40 pm
It is worth noting that the very first American top 40 program with Kasey Kasem was broadcast on July 4 1970.
I would really love it if XM ran the original first program from 1970 this weekend. Last weekend they ran one from 1974 and "billy Dont Be a Hero" was the number one song.
And I love the original cheezy but high tech(at the time) theme song.
July 2nd, 2009
6:08 pm
Wow, that brings back some memories. I thought I was the only one who wrote down the songs every Sunday morning. We lived in NJ then and there was a new station like Star 94 that played pop hits who played the countdown on Sunday mornings. I loved Scooby Doo and every Sat morning sat down in front of the tv and watched my cartoons.
July 2nd, 2009
7:24 pm
When I was a kid in the 70's my parents divorced and AT40 was what got me through the drive between my parents on the weekends. I too was a total junkie. Even though he has been off the air in Atlanta for years I am sad to hear of his retirement.
July 2nd, 2009
10:29 pm
Rodney, what is the real story on his infamous Snuggles blow-up? A bitter ex-engineer? Extortion? I've always wondered why there is no public reaction from him on what really happened on the infamous long distance dedication….
July 3rd, 2009
2:44 am
Radio 2UW in Sydney (as it was then called) used to run Casey's "American Top 40″ show in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I was a huge fan, and it was the only way we heard many of the American hits here in Australia because our radio programmers were so obsessed with maintaining a balance of English and American hits and keeping up the local Australian pop music content.
Every great career has to eventually come to an end, and it's fitting that Casey Kasem should choose to bow out on the 4th. of July.
I'm sure I'm not the only Australian fan who would want to wish Casey well in his retirement.
July 3rd, 2009
10:45 am
77 years old and still voicing a teenager.
July 3rd, 2009
12:04 pm
i remember listening to AT40 every weekend in west tennessee where i grew up, when the 4 hour countdown seemed to last forever and life was so easy and uncomplicated. it seems i can barely keep up with myself these days much less hear more than a handful of songs on a countdown, although i do manage to catch 'american country countdown' from time to time with kix brooks. i believe that show was created by casey as well.
July 4th, 2009
3:38 pm
For all XM-Sirius folks, they did play the first AT 40 show from July 4, 1970 today (July 4, 2009). I think it replays one more time Sunday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern on Channel 7.
July 5th, 2009
1:24 am
Yes XM-Sirius did play the first AT40 from 1970
They do replay the show on Sundays at 9am and later Sunday nights around midnight.
I don't know what episode they will play on the radio in Macon on Sunday morning at 7am, sometimes it is the same broadcast as what XM and Sirius offers, but that is not always the case. But if you can access WWW PEACH965 DOT COM around 7am on Sunday morning, you can hear the AT40 from the 1970's between 7 and 10am with commercials and a few "extras" not heard on the Satalite radio broadcasts. The commercial radio verision is hosted by Casey Kasem's son.
July 5th, 2009
7:27 am
In regards to my earlier posts, Actually the program being aired on "American Top 40 The 70s" is a special countdown broadcast of the top 40 women in songs (The 40 most popular girls in song during the rock and roll era), as in song titles featuring female names. I don't know what year this was broadcast, but it had to be mid 1970's as so far "Lady Marmalade" and "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" by Elton John have been heard.
I remember they always did a special countdown show on their anniversary weekend during the 4th of July in the 70s.
I am listening to the Sunday morning syndicated rebroadcast of Casey Kasem's AT40 from the 1970's on WPCH 96.5-102.5 in the Macon area.
July 5th, 2009
11:56 am
I listened to American Top 40 on CKBI in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, every Sunday from about 1977 to around 1983; wrote down every chart, analyzed weeks in top ten, highest debut, biggest mover, all that stuff for years. Even sent in a few long distance dedications (though my friends and I thought they were clever and of course were never read). Casey Kasem was a real part of my childhood and the reason I went into broadcasting out of high school. Happy retirement and keep reaching for the stars.
July 5th, 2009
6:06 pm
>>>>But to me, he was the man, the conduit for my love of music and music charts.
Man. That's dead on.
Great story.
July 5th, 2009
6:16 pm
>>>>But to me, he was the man, the conduit for my love of music and music charts.
I second that!! Thanks to Kasey, I have been keeping my own personal weekly Top 40 for 30
years now. And like most others here, I too listened to Kasey every Sunday morning. I can't
even tell you how many times I skipped Church for AT40. : )
July 6th, 2009
11:31 am
Wow! Not since Dick Clark had his stroke and Paul Harvey did have I been so sad! Although I must admit with the easy listening on the internet I have not listened to Casey for years I now realize what a great mistake this has been. I guess I took for granted he'd always be there!
Wow.. so sad.. I feel like an end of an era is happening!
Thanks for all the great years Casey.. wish you all the best in life!!
July 6th, 2009
11:31 am
Wow! Not since Dick Clark had his stroke and Paul Harvey died have I been so sad! Although I must admit with the easy listening on the internet I have not listened to Casey for years I now realize what a great mistake this has been. I guess I took for granted he'd always be there!
Wow.. so sad.. I feel like an end of an era is happening!
Thanks for all the great years Casey.. wish you all the best in life!!
July 6th, 2009
12:07 pm
[...] is 77-years-old. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a story on Kasem's retirement in their media column. Next to his picture, the paper wrote, [...]
July 6th, 2009
4:29 pm
[...] weekly countdown program this weekend. Now where will we turn for our long-distance dedications? [Access Atlanta via Movie City [...]
July 7th, 2009
5:43 am
As a former AFRTS announcer, I remember how we eagerly awaited the arrival of the tapes of the latest AT40. It was the one program that everyone looked forward to. It's not the same without Casey. He is the "gold standard."
July 7th, 2009
8:43 am
[...] Casey Kasem ending his run on radio this weekend – "Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it," Kasem, 77, said in a statement. "However, this decision will free up time I need to focus on myriad other projects." [...]
July 7th, 2009
11:19 pm
I have to make a correction. While WNBC did carry AT40 from July of 1980 until November of 1983, after they dropped it, WPLJ picked it up, not Z100. I remember that happened Thanksgiving weekend and I remember WPLJ keeping the show into the 1990s. WNBC's signal was a Godsend in many respects as there were areas where their signal reached and there were no other AT40 affiliates in 1980 and '81. Philly didn't get an affiliate until late '81, south Jersey would lose their affiliate in Vineland (I believe) by then and the Reading and Lehigh Valley (PA) areas didn't have one at the time, just to name a few. When our family went to visit North Carolina's outer banks in the summer of '83, I found out I could also pick WNBC up there, too…during the daytime!
July 11th, 2009
1:30 pm
Your style will be missed..I know my time of 70's & 80's have gone by way too fast. The style of music never really matter to this man. All it had to be was a great beat & words.The way he presented the stars & others were of positive ways it brought it to radio be it AM music at first to FM….Voice & knowing of the music he played brought a way to know the artist. No matter his age wish he kept a voice out in the airwaves for music..Thanks Kasey…
July 11th, 2009
11:06 pm
[...] to realize that, lo, Casey Kasem is still alive. He's 77 years old, and he officially left the Top 40 countdown last weekend, saying, "this decision will free up time I need to focus on myriad other projects." I [...]
October 8th, 2009
9:06 am
Back in the 70's when the radio stations received the show for the week it would come in on albums with que tones for the breaks. I was the most popular kid in the neighborhood because my dad worked at a station that aired the show. I didn't get all the shows but I got many of them and I still have them today.
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2:25 am
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Bike Tour Offers Off-the-Beaten-Path Insights on Key West and Island Life
by Carol Shaughnessy
Lloyd Mager holds up a fluted, pink-lined conch shell. "It's my shell phone," he announces. "I can call long distances with it."
Raising it to his lips, he blows the introductory notes of a complex classical melody before replacing the shell in his bike basket, where it rests next to a coconut and a well-worn machete. Hopping on his fat-tired cycle, he gestures for his audience to mount their rental bikes and Lloyd's Tropical Bike Tour of Key West begins.
For 17 years, Mager has offered two-wheel tours of the island city, introducing participants to the winding lanes, historic Conch architecture, tropical fruits and flowers, hidden gardens and pocket parks most visitors never see.
"There's a huge history behind my tours, and a love of Key West that runs deep," said Mager.
Tours last approximately two hours and encompass four to five miles of easy pedaling along flat island byways. The pace is meandering, comfortable enough for kids or sedentary adults.
During the ride, participants inhale the fragrance of blossoms Mager picks for them, taste exotic fruits like Barbados cherry from a tiny park next to the picturesque Key West Cemetery, visit Nancy's Secret Garden a miniature rainforest inhabited by tropical birds and discover the meditative private Medicine Garden.
Along the way, Mager produces the coconut and cleaves it in half with his machete, encouraging cyclists to try the sweet coconut water and meat. Their unique flavor is a perfect match for the flavor of the tour itself.
Cost is $35 per person including bike rental. For more information, visit www.LloydsTropicalBikeTour.com. For tour times and reservations, call (305) 294-1882.
Islamorada Festival to Include Keys Cuisine and Olympic-Style Games
Two days of fun and games, great food, arts and crafts, and entertainment are to fill Founders Park, mile marker 87 bayside, during the 16th annual Florida Keys Island Festival, Taste of Islamorada and newly created Islamorada Games. The festivities are slated for Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20.
Recording star Janie Fricke, who has been named the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year and Academy of Country Music female vocalist of the year, is to headline two days of live music.
Victor Leong is to build an enormous sand castle on the beach, while his assistant gives lessons to aspiring sand sculptors. The festival also features an expanded and juried arts and crafts area.
A doggie fun zone, featuring an amusement park fit for canines, is to operate in the dog park.
Local chefs are to prepare their signature dishes as they compete for awards for best entrée, dessert, appetizer and other delights during Sunday's Taste of Islamorada.
The games are to be held in parallel (Olympic style) over the two days of Island Fest. Competitors can sign up for softball, soccer, tennis, skateboarding, distance and sprint runs, relays, kayaking, beach volleyball, tug of war and ultimate Frisbee.
The climactic "closing ceremony" of the games is to be the Rubber Ducky Race, set for Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on the beach at Founders Park.
For more information on the Florida Keys Island Festival and Taste of Islamorada, contact the Islamorada Chamber of Commerce at (305) 664-4503 or (800) 322-5397. For details on the Islamorada Games, call (305) 852-3588.
Travelers can now fly between Naples, Fla., and Key West; and Fort Lauderdale and Key West, aboard Yellow Air Taxi nine-passenger Cessna 402c aircraft. Like popular taxicabs, the planes' exterior is yellow with black and white checkered trim.
Yellow Air Taxi offers three round-trip flights per day Thursdays through Mondays between Naples Municipal Airport and Key West International Airport. Between Fort Lauderdale International Airport and Key West, two round-trip flights per day are scheduled Thursdays through Mondays.
Flight time on both routes is approximately 45 minutes each way.
One-way fares to each destination start at $99, plus taxes and fees.
For schedules and reservation information, call 1-888-YELLOW-4 (1-888-935-5694) or visit www.flyyellowairtaxi.com.
Key West Symposium to Explore Truman's Environmental Legacy
During Harry S. Truman's 1945-1953 presidency, he spent 175 days at the Key West residence that became known worldwide as his "Little White House." Friday and Saturday, June 8-9, the Little White House is to be the headquarters of the fifth annual Truman Legacy Symposium recognizing the enduring contributions of America's 33rd president.
The 2007 symposium is to focus on Truman's environmental legacy including his 1947 dedication of Everglades National Park, recognized as a national treasure.
Keynote speakers are to be former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman; and columnist Michael Grunwald of "The Washington Post," author of "The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise."
Truman grandson Clifton Truman Daniel, other Truman family members, former presidential staff members and Truman scholars are to appear as well.
For more information, visit www.trumansymposium.com or call (305) 294-9911.
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The following are the top five and bottom five states receiving funds.
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California: $45.0
Texas: $29.5
New York: $26.5
Florida: $23.7
Illinois: $18.9
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District of Columbia: $4.9
Alaska: $5.0
North Dakota: $5.0
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A majority of residents agree with him.
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"I do think it should be a city-wide vote. One ward should not impose on the other seven in the city whether or not we have a casino, it should be the city as a whole," said Chris Caputo of the East Forest Park Civic Association.
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Innovation Happens is a group of entrepreneurs and corporate executives who connect in the Pittsburgh area once a quarter to network and see demonstrations from innovative startups.
Sean Ammirati is a Partner at Birchmere Labs and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Sean is an entrepreneur with experience building and selling businesses in the media and software industries. Most recently Sean was COO of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. In December 2011, the company was acquired by SAY Media to strengthen its technology channel. Sean was previously co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. Sean is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School. He also was a founding advisor to Innovation Works' AlphaLab accelerator. He holds a B.S. in computer information systems from Grove City College and was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Sloan Software Industry Center.
Ari is a Professor, Digital Media and Marketing at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. Ari has a strong interest in innovation and ideation having worked with several early stage companies as both an investor, advisor and part of the management team. Ari also spent time as a management consultant working with several well known companies on strategic marketing assessment and new product/service development.
Lou Musante is the Founder of Echo Strategies a boutique-consulting firm focused on innovation, research design, strategy, culture and leadership development. He's the co-author of 8 ½ Best & Next Innovation Practices and formerly was a computer chemist for General Tire & Ruber, A.D. Little, NASA and A.C. Nielsen. Lou has a bachelors in Chemistry from Clarion University and MS in Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh. Lou also has deep ties to both Carnegie Mellon University and The University of Toronto.
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The redesigned airbox on the KTM 250 EXC-F model year 2013 allows maximum air to pass through, but minimal dust and spray. Replacement of the twin-air filter takes approx. 15 seconds, without any tools. Absolutely "Ready to Race".
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|Engine lubrication|Forced oil lubrication with 2 Eaton pumps|
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|Ignition system|Contactless, controlled, fully electronic ignition system with digital ignition timing adjustment, type Kokusan|
|Frame|Central tube frame made of chrome molybdenum steel tubing|
|Suspension travel Front|300 mm|
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|Brake system|Disc brakes, brake calipers on floating bearings|
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I have got a very annoying problem with my Subaru Imprezza WRX 52' it would appear that my ABS is kicking in too soo. When I lightly press my break you can hear it bang on literally. If I am on an inclined going downhill and I put your break on when I realise it to creep forwards I can feel it vibrating underneth the peddle. Althought it does not happen everytime I apply the break. I have had it to 4 different people 2 of which were Subaru specialists who do not have a clue what the problem is.
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Rarely does a regular-season game carry with it all the baggage that Tuesday night's Jazz-Suns game carried.
Baggage full up with ramifications.
Ramifications diverse enough to have advantages and disadvantages in either direction.
Advantages and disadvantages not quite strong enough to persuade or console proponents of one direction to switch over to or be balmed by the other.
Directions exclusive enough, on the one hand, to push the Jazz into the playoffs with a win, and, on the other, to put them in the lottery with a loss.
It came down to this, then: playoffs now or pieces for the future later.
The Jazz got the playoffs, beating the Suns, 100-88, at EnergySolutions Arena. And they were jacked about it afterward.
"A lot of people were counting us out," Al Jefferson said.
Well. Not anymore.
The same Jazz said from season's onset that the playoffs were their goal, all while many on the outside wondered if they could win 25 games. As it is, they'll likely end up with 36.
"If we do the right things, we'll be a team that makes a run at the playoffs," Tyrone Corbin said in December.
"With the talent we have on this team, if things click and the chemistry is there, we have a chance to have a great season," Jeff Hornacek said.
"We'll make the playoffs … I think," C.J. Miles said. "For sure … I think."
There is no I think about it anymore. The Jazz are in.
"Everybody's excited," Derrick Favors said after the win. "I was excited. We're happy. We worked all year for this … We had to prove everybody wrong."
The players got what they wanted.
Gordon Hayward was so caught up in the moment, he actually said, without laughing: "The goal isn't just to get to the playoffs, it's to win the whole thing."
Some of the fans got what they wanted, too. But only some of them.
Others wanted another high pick in the draft, something the Jazz forfeit by way of the Jefferson deal with Minnesota in qualifying for the postseason. It comes down to this: Would you rather make the playoffs and face San Antonio in the first round and not have the pick or not make the playoffs and gain a lottery selection … say, another Hayward … to add to your arsenal for a more proper run next season?
Life's full of tough choices.
But not for Corbin and his players, all of whom, as stated, wanted their place in the sun, on this occasion by beating the Suns, even if it means probable first-round elimination.
Tuesday night's game started tight, just the way everybody expected it would, but, as the quarters wore on, the Jazz took care of their business. They hauled a 49-42 first-half lead through the second half, losing it, and then extending it back out in the fourth period.
That span was when the fun really started.
There was a one-point Suns lead, a two-point Jazz lead, a four-point Jazz lead taken to seven by a Paul Millsap three-point play at the six-minute mark.
From there, it was Utah's game for the taking, largely because of the front line of Millsap, Favors and Jefferson, who combined for 57 points and 42 rebounds. Phoenix had no answer for that. And that fact eliminated the Suns from a postseason the Jazz are now assured of.
The Jazz players celebrated in their locker room, then, rather seriously turned their thoughts to an extended season.
Good news for the Jazz, and their fans, at least some of them, depending on which direction they ultimately wanted their team to go.
GORDON MONSON hosts the "Gordon Monson Show" weekdays from 2-6 p.m. on 97.5 FM/1280 AM The Zone. He's at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Profile of RMI and IMG Guide Services
The News Tribune has a profile of Route 706 neighbors International Mountain Guides led by Eric Simonson and Rainier Mountaineering Inc. led by Paul Maier and their $70,000 a person guiding trips up Everest. Prices on Everest are t $40,000 with a Sherpa or $70,000 with a Western guide.
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ScottishBitch releases a date for "Recipes For Narcolepsy"
"I probably won't talk about sports if that means anything to anyone." Say's the 22 year old blogger. She's been around for years, and is known for her vindictiveness as for her immediate challenges towards other bloggers. Dare we call her…. a bitch?
Now the blogger sits on over thousands of followers waiting for her next move.
"Podcast. I figured I'd come back, and I'd come back with a podcast. Mainly me rambling- Which I'm sure will be fun. I love listening to myself. I love myself a lot. So, I'm sure it'll be roaring."
The podcast season titled; Recipes For Narcolepsy has been rumored to include various special guest throughout the season. Most of the podcast has been set to review different comics, series, movies, and geekery. Considering her base fandom was off of Doctor Who, she'll be staying 'close to home' and venturing out into the dark depths they call, the internet. Her partners or 'minions' (as she called them) have not been announced. And yes, this post has been tagged with the rumored related content! How exciting.
The release date of the show has been set to early November.
Ask me thangs and stuff
do it.
I dunno…. Did it?
Nah. Actually. I'm glad you asked.
On my personal tumblr people like to know me as an 'Amy Pond' figure. Well recently they think I dyed my hair
Great story behind this one (On the internet as well as real life).
So….. Tell me why I loose 300 followers in ten days because they think I cut and dyed my hair? I'm thinking, nothing is different on my blog…. Still a bitch…. So?
Well I get these messages talking shit about how I am ugly and a slag- My favorite was the ton of 'Butch' and 'Gay' messages I had. I lol'd. It was the same in real life. I had more of a punk style going with this one. Guys were awesome- But some weren't so awesome. I'm writing it up- I just my new laptop today. It's actually pretty fucking funny. I make a hot lesbo.
lucyndareads answered your question: SCOTTISHBITCH: What do men really like?
Please, PLEASE do this. Put it on youtube. You could get so much publicity for this! It's such a good idea!!!! XD
I'll get on that youtube account right now.
I'm really interested in doing the Overly Cool Hipster Girl.
Infact, I'm buying a Henna Tattoo kit for it.
SCOTTISHBITCH: What do men really like?
It's the title of my summer four week project. It's going to be fucking fantastic! Twice out of the week I'll go to the same night club with my mates, change my appearance based on horrible women stereotypes, and see how many more men are interested in me. I'll have footage and I'm thinking about…


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Just so everyone knows, George Zimmerman is not only a murder who walked free, he's also a rapist who only moved to Florida to flee consequences here in Virginia.
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Just so everyone knows, George Zimmerman is not only a murder who walked free, he's also a rapist who only moved to Florida to flee consequences here in Virginia.
Fuck everyone and everything.
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stand your ground law doesn't apply when it really matters
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Lawyers withdraw after George Zimmerman allegedly goes rogue
The lawyers representing George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin but has not been arrested, on Tuesday said they have withdrawn from the case after losing contact with Zimmerman.
Attorneys Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig said they were concerned that Zimmerman had telephoned the special prosecutor probing the case directly, set up a legal defense fund website and may have spoken with Fox Television commentator Sean Hannity, all without their knowledge.
"We have lost contact with him," attorney Craig Sonner said at a press conference outside the Seminole County Courthouse.
Zimmerman better pray he isn't indicted. This looks worse and worse for him as each day passes.
Anonymous asked you:
Meg, I really need your help. Do you have links to the Trayvon Martin murder concerning the smear back-lash by certain right-wing outlets? A point-by-point dismantling of this blatantly false and blatantly racist "evidence" would be much appreciated for certain people in my social circle. I like how when the media actually reports on cases like this, the right-wingers call it "manufactured sensationalism".
Meg at Cognitive Dissonance:
Yes, I have lots of links, info, and outrage.
First, I'm getting sick of the new meme regarding the media "ignoring" the "black on black" violence. Bernie Goldberg insists if both men were black, we wouldn't know the name Trayvon Martin. He's probably right. Why?
BECAUSE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WOULD HAVE BEEN JAILED. No self-defense claim would have flown.
"What about all the dead black kids killed by other blacks?!" wails Heather Mac Donald of The National Review. I'm paraphrasing. Sort of:
Blacks commit 80 percent of all shootings in the city — as reported by the victims of and witnesses to those shootings — though they are but 23 percent of the population; whites commit 1.4 percent of all shootings, though they are 35 percent of the population. Add Hispanic shootings to the black tally, and you account for 98 percent of all of the city's gun violence. In New York, as in big cities across the country, the face of violence is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic…
[T]he racial storyline that has been imposed on the shooting does not fairly represent contemporary America. That storyline is not just wrong, it is dangerous, because it only feeds black alienation and anger. Family breakdown, not white racism, is the biggest impediment facing blacks today, producing such casualties as the 18-year-old gangbanger who fatally shot a 34-year-old mother picking up her child from school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, last October. Sharpton and the national media didn't show up for that killing, just as they don't for the thousands of other black-on-black killings each year.
Screw examining the systemic explanations — let's just chide people for the "racial storyline" while claiming "the face of violence is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic" because THAT'S NOT WRONG AT ALL. Perhaps examining the unequal criminal justice system, the incarceration rate of minorities, the efforts expounded by police in investigations dependent upon the race of the victim and perpetrator, and interactions with police in minority neighborhoods can shed some light on these statistics.
Nah, let's just throw some numbers out there about scary brown people.
On to the release of Trayvon Martin's suspension from school for traces of marijuana in an empty plastic baggie in his backpack. First, if the police department did indeed leak this information (and they need to get their pipes checked - lots of leaks lately) they may have violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA]. The information in a student's educational record, including disciplinary record, is not to be revealed without written permission.
Before any conservative naysayers exclaim: "But Meg! It says on the government's socialist website with 'free' information that they can release the record to law enforcement! What about the weed?!" — the AP is on it, confirming Trayvon Martin has no juvenile record. Oh, and these things called facts show white youths are more likely to abuse drugs than black youths but black students, particularly black male students, are much more likely to be suspended and referred to the juvenile system.
Of course, discussion of Trayvon's maybe drug use fits nicely in with George Zimmerman's claim he was suspicious and "on drugs or something." The drug-crazed brown man is an old canard:
Straight from The New York Times in 1914 — the only way to deal with drugs in the black community is to lock up "irreclaimable" users. As for marijuana:
Brown people are getting your kids hooked. Lock 'em up. Does any of this ring a bell?
None of the alleged drug use matters, though. Zimmerman is not a cop, even if he aspired to be one. He didn't observe Martin selling or using drugs. He just thought he was suspicious and up to no good. Neighborhood Watch captains are told to not carry weapons, and call 911 to report crime — not to confront alleged perpetrators because they aren't police. However, Zimmerman thought differently. From the Miami Herald:
The recent shooting raised troubling questions about whether the homeowners association knew its volunteer was armed with a Kel Tek 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Many residents — black and white — question Zimmerman's judgment and wonder why he would have engaged the teenager at all.
The answer may lie in police records, which show that 50 suspicious-person reports were called in to police in the past year at Twin Lakes. There were eight burglaries, nine thefts and one other shooting in the year prior to Trayvon's death…
Since the beginning of the year, Zimmerman made 46 calls to police. His most frequent calls were to report "suspicious persons" — all of whom were black — including a skinny black male, about 7-9 years old. The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Many of the calls start the same way — Zimmerman mentions the recent rash of burglaries in the area and identifies himself as a member of the neighborhood watch.
"We've had a lot of break-ins in our neighborhood recently and I'm on the neighborhood watch," Zimmerman said during one call. "There's two suspicious characters at the gate of my neighborhood, I've never seen them before. I don't know what they are doing. They are hanging out…loitering."
That day, the "characters" are two black men in a white sedan, Zimmerman tells the dispatchers. An officer is sent to check out the call, but it's unclear if anything suspicious was uncovered. Another time he calls to report two black teens who match the description of suspects in recent break-in, who his wife saw and identified for police.
One of Zimmerman's African American neighbors, Ibrahim Rashada, discussed his discomfort with Zimmerman's zealotry in the Miami Herald:
[Rashada] does not walk around the neighborhood at all. "I fit the stereotype he emailed around," he said… "So I thought, 'Let me sit in the house. I don't want anyone chasing me.'" For walks, he goes downtown. [Rashada's wife] listened to her husband's rationale, dropped her head, and cried.
Zimmerman's neighbors expressed frustration with police response and anger at his tactics. However, Zimmerman is not without his defenders:
Problems in the 6-year-old community started during the recession, when foreclosures forced owners to rent out to "low-lifes and gangsters," said Frank Taaffe, a former neighborhood block captain.
"Just two weeks before this shooting, George called me at my girlfriend's house to say he saw some black guy doing surveillance at my house, because I had a left a window open," Taaffe said. "He thwarted a potential burglary of my house."
Oh, really? You know this black man was going to burglarize your house? In the neighborhood invaded by "low-lifes and gangsters" no less… Taaffe's emerged as one of Zimmerman's primary defenders. There's a lot of guilt by association and dredging up the supposed past in order to tarnish Treyvon Martin and black men in general.
You wanna play that game?
Let's play.
Frank Taaffe said George Zimmerman is just like him and a likable guy. Well, Zimmerman and Taaffe appear to have more in common than a pathological distaste for young black males strolling their neighborhood. Taaffe was arrested for Battery, Felony Trespass, and Domestic Violence. He's also the respondent in multiple civil cases filed for non-support of children, "repeat violence," and Domestic Violence from as far back as 1983, and as recently as 2008.
Zimmerman was arrested for domestic violence, resisting an officer with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, and resisting an officer without violence. His father, a retired judge, insists his son is a good boy. These two men are smearing all people of color as "thugs," "low-lifes," and "gangsters." Again, Trayvon Martin has no arrest record. None. But he's a "thug."
Certain elements stand alone. After being told not to pursue Martin by 911 operators, warned not to be armed as a neighborhood watch captain, muttering "these assholes always get away" and a racial slur, instigating a confrontation with an unarmed man, and shooting that unarmed man dead, George Zimmerman is still free and still armed. Witnesses state Zimmerman loudly reassured people it was "self-defense" and set his gun on the ground after shooting Martin. In fact, the lead investigator did not buy Zimmerman's story, and wanted him charged with manslaughter.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who signed the controversial "Stand Your Ground" law in 2005 said this is not the proper application of the law. Bush said, "Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back." Like Zimmerman did.
Bush is not the only conservative to speak out. Columnist and commentator George Will said the law, "Tries to codify a right of self-defense that really confers upon citizens the illusion of these, that they have powers exercised by highly-trained police officers. Mr. Zimmerman says he was acting under this self-defense law, but he is said to have been recorded saying he pursued the person. You cannot be in pursuit and acting in self-defense." Like Zimmerman.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. even chimed in and said, "We all know there's a racial component to this, and when the president highlights it, I don't think it adds a whole lot. But nobody suggests that the president's insensitive to the 17-year-old if he'd been white. I think the criticism by our guys was a little off-base."
But it's not about race, right? The fake photos originating from neo-Nazi sites, smearing Trayvon Martin's name, calling him a thug via his alleged Twitter — that's not about race, it's perspective. Attempting to link Trayvon Martin and President Obama to the New Black Panthers isn't about race, either. It's not about race or politics when conservative site The Washington Free Beacon loudly proclaims "REGISTERED DEM KILLED TRAYVON" and "guns don't kill people, Dems do." And we should feel sorry for Zimmerman because in many ways, "George has lost his life, too."
No. That would be Trayvon Martin. He's the one who lost his life. You know, the one armed with Skittles, not a Kel-Tec 9 mm handgun.
Conservative blogger Dan Riehl writes the outrage is the fault of black leaders — not the guy who fired the gun. Seriously: "Said leaders, I use the term loosely, seem only interested in fueling outrage and a mob mentality for political gain. It's sad to see so many black Americans still falling for it after so many decades. Their minds haven't been freed, all that's changed is the owners of the plantation. Too many would be black leaders are too happy to lead them down a path through a cotton field of ignorance and hate ending at the ballot box, before just going on and on with no real end in sight." Disgusting.
Riehl also claims Obama is leading a "lynch mob" against Zimmerman since the Obama campaign sells hoodies. No word if Mitt Romney is also leading the mob with his fashionable "Believe in America" and logo zip-up and pullover hoodies:
Angry Black Lady rips Riehl (and others) apart on her site, Angry Black Lady Chronicles. And rightly so. Black men are persistently stereotyped as dangerous, hoodie-wearing thugs, even though crime rates among black youth have fallen to record lows. Trayvon Martin's crime appears to be "Walking while black" — a crime Bernie Goldberg or Dan Riehl will never be accused of, thanks to white privilege. Tommy Christopher writes:
This is the essence of the oft-misunderstood term "white privilege," which is that even the least fortunate among us take for granted things that black people cannot. These don't feel like privileges, because they're really not, they are things that ought not be denied to anyone. It doesn't feel like a privilege to catch a taxicab, or to walk around a store without being constantly watched and shadowed, or not to fear that any encounter with police could escalate to lethality… or to send your child to the store for a snack, confident he'll return home without being mistaken for an imaginary criminal.
The murder of Trayvon Martin must spark a national conversation and one that must include people of color, for precisely the reasons outlined by Christopher. His fellow Mediaite columnist, Frances Martel, said, "[O]ur broken criminal justice system isn't a black problem. It's an American problem." Until we acknowledge the existence of institutionalized racism, in a system serving liberty and justice for some, and then commit to real reform, Trayvon Martin will not be the last "suspicious person" gunned down for wearing nothing more than dark skin.
I hope this answers your question.
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Florida politicians and civil rights leaders joined calls for the firing of a police chief in the case of a neighborhood watch captain who killed an unarmed black teenager, as new details emerged on Wednesday about police handling of the investigation.
"The reality is that people in this community have lost faith in the police chief's ability to keep their children safe," Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), told Reuters.
Florida congresswoman Frederica Wilson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, echoed the call in an appearance on CNN. "Not only would I like to see it happen, but I'm joining with them to make sure it happens," Wilson said.
Speaking in the U.S. House of Representatives, Florida congresswoman Corrine Brown criticized the police investigation of the shooter, George Zimmerman, who remains free almost a month after gunning down 17-year-old Trayvon Martin outside a gated community in Sanford, near Orlando.
"No drug tests. No alcohol tests. No lie detector tests. It's just his word that he felt threatened, so therefore he shot to kill. That is unacceptable," said Brown, who is also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Read more: Florida police chief under fire in case of slain teen
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"I am TIRED OF burying little black boys"
Congresswoman Wilson's House floor speech on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin
God bless Florida Representative Frederica Wilson.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the time.
Mr. Speaker? I am tired of burying young black boys.
I am tired of watching them suffer at the hands of those who fear them and despise them. I'm tired of comforting mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, and brothers after such unnecessary, heinous crimes of violence.
In Florida, almost 3 years ago, as I served in the Florida senate, a young black boy, Martin Lee Anderson, was beaten to death at a Florida bootcamp. It was all captured on a State of Florida Corrections video and shown all over the world. Martin Lee Anderson was beaten and tortured until his lifeless body couldn't take anymore, and then Martin Lee Anderson was dead, at the hands of several bootcamp guards. A young boy, who wanted to be somebody! A young boy who was trying to turn his life around.
After they beat him to death on international TV as the world watched, over and over again—not one guard was sent to prison. Not one was even reprimanded. In fact, after we closed down every bootcamp in Florida, many of the accused received promotions.
Well, guess what? In Florida, we have another Martin—Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was shot to death by a renegade wannabe policeman neighborhood watchman.
Trayvon Martin lived in Miami, Florida, in District 17—my congressional district. Trayvon, a 140-pound young black boy, 17 years old, was just trying to live and reach 18. In spite of that, the accused killer, George Zimmerman, has not been charged, and is using the term of "self-defense."
The 911 audio tapes tell it all. They tell the story of the last moments of Trayvon Martin's life, just as the videotapes told so visibly the story of Martin Lee Anderson's last moments.
Trayvon was running for his life. He was screaming for help, fighting for his life, and then he was murdered—shot dead.
Today, I applaud the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI, and the Federal Department of Justice for their intervention. I encourage the citizens of Florida and the citizens from around the world to continue to fight for justice for Trayvon Martin. Justice must be served. No more racial profiling.
I'm tired of fighting when the evidence is so clear, so transparent.
Twenty years ago, while serving as a school board member, I founded the Five Thousand Role Models of Excellence project: A million-dollar nationally recognized and honored foundation that specifically addresses the trials and tribulations of young black boys, and sends them to college. It impacts almost 20,000 young men throughout Florida.
In spite of that, we still have to march, and demonstrate, and write letters, and protest, and fight, and have prayer vigils, and sue, and sit in, just to be heard.
No more! No more, Florida. No more, America! No more hiding your criminal racial profiling by using self-defense to get away with murder. Stand up for Trayvon Martin! Stand up for justice! Stand up for our children!
I'm tired, tired, tired of burying young black boys.
Thank you, and I turn back the balance of my time.
Thank you Congresswoman, for standing up for a young boy.


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NBA player and former Laker Kwame Brown has listed his super-sized house in Playa del Rey at $2,975,000.
The contemporary, with views of the ocean, city and marina area, has four bedrooms and five bathrooms in a roomy 6,329 square feet. The kitchen's large breakfast bar can seat a starting lineup or eight to 10 regular-sized people. The open floor-plan house was built in 1989.
Brown, 27, bought the property for $3,375,000 in 2005. He joined the Lakers that year and was starting center in 2006.
Although Brown lives and owns in Detroit, according to his listing agent, the 6-foot-11 Pistons center has fond memories of the beach city house, whose step-down master bedroom has a fireplace, built-ins and a balcony.
"I will miss the amazing views from all the floors -- especially my bedroom -- and seeing the sunrise in the morning," Brown said. He signed with the Pistons last July after a brief stint with the Memphis Grizzlies.
Brown, the first pick in the 2001 NBA draft, put the house on the market at $2,999,000, or for lease at $12,000 a month, in November before withdrawing it in late May.
Sherille Varela of Prudential California Realty, Glendale, now has the listing.
Actors get their asking price
Acting couple Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have sold their home in the Los Feliz Oaks neighborhood for $2,495,000.
The redone traditional house has four bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms and two offices in 3,832 square feet, according to the Multiple Listing Service. There are formal living and dining rooms, 9-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, French doors, two second-floor terraces, laundry areas on the first and second floors, a flat grass yard and a pool with spa. White subway tile and cabinetry, stainless-steel appliances and dark wood floors give a sleek look to the kitchen, which has a large center island with two sinks, a wine cooler and seating for three.
The two-story house, built in 1940, was sold for its asking price. The couple had purchased the property in 2006 for $2.1 million.
McCarthy had regular roles in the ABC sitcom "Samantha Who?" (2007-09) and the comedy/drama "Gilmore Girls" (2000-07). Falcone played neighbor Howard on the NBC "Friends" spinoff series "Joey" (2004-06), starring Matt LeBlanc.
Severing his ties to Brentwood
Two-time Emmy-winning producer and writer Gary David Goldberg has sold his Brentwood estate for $15.15 million.
The Paul Williams-designed home, which was built in 1942, has eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms in 6,908 square feet.
The two-story house, on about 3 acres with a swimming pool and pool house, is reached by a long driveway leading to a motor court and a three-car garage with chauffeur's quarters. There are greenbelt views, seven fireplaces, a media room, sun room, library, wine cellar and a two-bedroom staff wing.
The property had been listed in January at $19,995,000 but originally came on the market at $23.9 million in July 2007.
Goldberg, 65, and his company Ubu Productions -- whose screen credits concluded with the command "sit, Ubu, sit" to his black Lab -- created nine TV series including the NBC sitcom "Family Ties" (1982-89) and, in association with DreamWorks, "Spin City," which ran on ABC from 1996 to 2002.
Ex-Laker Kwame Brown lists Playa del Rey home
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