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Hey old people! This is why American youth Feel the Bern
By Sam Lagana
Bernie Sanders’ appeal to so many young people is uncanny to older Americans. As if the Democratic candidate with the socialist message has a secret energy that’s driving them to flock under his banner. No other presidential candidate has such influence over our young adults and even those who are not of voting age. After pressure from Sanders’ team and a lawsuit, an Ohio judge ruled last week that teenagers who turn 18 before Election Day can vote in Ohio’s primary.
What’s mind-boggling is that while the support for Bernie from young people is unwavering, older generations are left scratching their heads and scoffing. How can our youth be so loyal to a 70-something white man who works in Vermont? How can a card carrying Democratic socialist be so well liked by a generation that’s so in love with their connected devices and video games? Don’t these young voters know about the Red Scare? Older Americans often ask my friends and me: Don’t you know about the failed socialist and communist experiments that nearly drove the world to the brink of extinction?!
The Ohio Statehouse committee on Medical Marijuana is taking public input at their next hearing March 10th!
Medical Cannabis patients advocates, under employed holstic healers, and hemp for nutrition advocats are doing grassroots organizing in the state to get a clear pro-safe access to medical marijuana message to our Ohio's elected officials. RALLY and March are in order!
The science on Pain management and PTSD recovery is all signalling we can't go without this healing, we dont wait for the arbitrary restriction on treatment options to be lifted! The Statehouse wants to take all month of March, when the language is ready to pass now.
On Sunday, March 6, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and hundreds of allies completed the Workers' Voice Columbus March on Wendy's!
We took over High Street, picketed outside of the Wendy's on Woodruff& High and spread the word that Ohio will #BoycottWendys until they respect farmworkers through the #FairFoodProgram!!
Local Voters Will Deliver 1.5 Million
Petition Signatures to Offices of Sen. Rob Portman Telling Him: Do Your Job.
PCCC Launches Online Ads Statewide
Petitions gathered by Organizing For Action (OFA), Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), MoveOn.org Civic Action, UltraViolet Action, Color of Change, Daily Kos, Demand Progress, People For the American Way, Common Cause, NextGen Climate, Sierra Club, CREDO Action, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Donna Edwards, and Every Voice Action
Tomorrow -- March 3, 2016 -- local PCCC members will join supporters of ally organizations to deliver 1.5 million petition signatures to the Cleveland office of Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati.
The petitions demand Portman and Senate Republicans follow the Constitution and do their job by allowing a fair process on the president’s upcoming Supreme Court nomination. The PCCC will also launch online ads in Ohio to hold Senate Republicans accountable for obstruction.
For some reason I can't for the life of me recall, I was thinking about the time I saw Leslie West of Mountain play at the Agora way back in the '70s. Why was I thinking about it? Oh, I know why: I was transporting to my crammed house the two wooden stools from my ghost of a record store along with a bunch of other junk I didn't want to leave to the advancing Mexican asbestos-removal army. And the memory just sort of seeped into my consciousness.
Because: Leslie West--whose band name was sort of his nickname and not for a powerful build which he did not have--walked out on stage with his awesome little vintage Gibson Melody Maker guitar and had to sit on a stool.
Because: he was so damned fat his legs couldn't support his humongous-ness. I remember estimating his weight pretty near 400 pounds.
And the stool? Well, the significance of that was how the stool, you know, sort ofdisappeared into him as he sat down on it. I mean, it looked like his body just sucked that piece of convenience furniture like Scotty beaming up Spock.Gone!
Vince Staples is one of hip hop's brightest stars. Alright?
I mean that in both the sonic vision he took with NO ID on his latest album, “Summertime 2006.”
NO ID is the Chi-Town producer who played a huge roll developing of the careers of Common, Kanye West, and has risen to become the VP of Def Jam Records.
Even if the NO ID produced Jay-Z song “Death Of Auto-Tune” didn't exactly end Autotune.
(See TLOP or Future.) The anthem is a banger.
Vince Staples' Summertime 2006 was released on NO ID's Artium Def Jam imprint and Blacksmith (owned by Talib Kweli & Corey Smith.)
It's not only that Staples is making phenomenal records with NO ID.
I'm also saying his interviews are usually insightful like his music.
However this is going to be the worst Vince Staples interview you will ever read because we had to reschedule due to my error.
Well a family member of mine was sick....but excuses are useless.
Vince Staples can't ask you to read his lyrics off your phone while the beat plays at his concert and then say, “my nephew has the mumps.”
It’s election season, and already we’ve had two instances of those amusing quadrennial scuffles between Republican politicians and leftist musicians. Donald Trump repeatedly played Neil Young’s “Rocking’ in the Free World” at a campaign event, prompting a statement from Young’s camp that he was “not authorized” to use the song. Previously, the band Survivor sued Mike Huckabee over the use of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally celebrating Rowan County, PA county clerk Kim Davis’ release from jail following a stint for contempt of court for refusing to marry same-sex couples.
It’s a strange phenomenon, made more so by its reliability. Bumbling Republican candidate blasts song from campaign bus or whatever. Artist sends irate cease and desist letter and copies the media. Politician quietly drops the song with vague apologies. Liberals pass it around as the latest evidence of the candidate’s brain damage, and get a good chuckle out of the whole thing. It’s extra fun if patriotic themes in the stolen songs turn out to be rather sarcastic, such as Young’s “Free World,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” or John Mellencamp’s “Pink Houses.”
Jiu Thai is an Asian Northern Chinese style (not Thai) restuarant that does a dish called Tiger Tofu that is absolutely delicious. They are very accommodating and flexible with their menu, which has several veganizable and gluten-free possibilities, just be clear what you need, (Nicole and Welling on their team are savvy on what vegans need). Many dishes come with animal products that can be otherwise substituted for tofu or a different sauce without sea-based or land-based animals in it. Caution- Two menu items do not indicate there are animals in them: 1) Biang Biang Noodle does not state it comes with strips of cow flesh in it, and 2) Peking Zhab Jaing Noodle has ground pigs in the sauce.
Two wildly imaginative worlds open up on area movie screens this week. Both mix gorgeous animated photography with important life lessons for kids old enough to appreciate them.
The more mainstream offering is Disney’sZootopia, the story of a plucky rabbit who’s determined to become the first member of her species to pin on a badge.
Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) grows up in an anthropomorphic world where all animals—predators and prey alike—have learned to live in peace with each other. Even so, not all of the old differences have been forgotten. When Judy prepares to leave her hometown to join the Zootopia Police Academy, her parents warn her to watch out for big-city foxes.
Wouldn’t you know it, her first day on the job brings her into contact with Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a sly fox who makes his living with schemes that fall just short of illegality.
Frustrated that her chief (Idris Elba) has assigned her to the parking patrol, Judy is determined to prove she’s capable of real police work. But her efforts backfire when she gets involved in a chase that nearly demolishes a neighborhood inhabited by tiny rodents.