Davey D
A Tale of Two Threats: Bay Bridge Bomber Lives, Unarmed Blackman Dies
Yesterday something strange and quite frightening took place in the San Francisco Bay Area. A distraught 51-year-old man named Craig Carlos-Valentino hoped in his SUV during the height of rush hour and drove from Antioch to the middle of the Bay Bridge which is one of most traveled spans in the country. Accompanying him was
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Lesson from Mid-term Elections Stop Taking Your Base for Granted
A week after last week’s mid-term elections and many people all over the country are still trying to take stock as to what went right, what went wrong and what it means for the future. If you’re on the left side of the political spectrum one of the over-riding concern was why the large base
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Should Kanye West have Apologized to George Bush?
There’s an old saying that goes; ‘everything is political and to not be political is political’. I couldn’t help thinking this when I saw Kanye West on the Today Showthe other morning apologizing and offering an olive branch of sorts to former President George W Bush for the stinging remarks he made in August 2005
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Eyewitness Accounts Differ from Police Accounts of Friday Nights Oscar Grant Protests
This is an important article on a number of fronts. First it details accurately much of what took place on Friday night after the sentencing was announced. Writer Joseph Anderson alone w/ photographer Jay Finneburgh not only monitored and documented the march, but kept a phone line open to our studios so folks not inside
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Mass Arrests in Oakland: Loud Protests over Oscar Grant /Mehserle Sentencing
Police might as well prepared Marshall Law in Oakland, because they arrested everyone in sight near 6th and east 17th. They declared the entire block a ‘crime scene’ and said everyone within it were arrested as agitators. Police claimed that a rock was thrown at them. Over 150 people were arrested including folks who weren’t
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Kanye West Has Angered 2 Presidents Including George Bush
Kanye West has pissed off two presidents-Who’s next? Ya gotta love Kanye West. The man is constantly finding ways to make noise and stay in the spotlight. If he’s not bum rushing the stage to spark drama with pop singer Taylor Swift, he’s releasing 30 minute cryptic movies (Runaway) that have no real meaning, but
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MC Hammer vs Jay-Z?? An Open Letter to Hammer as He Sets Oct 31st Deadline
A lot of buzz around this ‘beef’ between Jay-Z andMC Hammer. For those who don’t know Jay-Z took shots at Hammer last month about his past financial woes. He did a song where he spit a verse about Hammer losing 30 million. This is while Jay-Z is reported to have brought an island or something
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President Obama w/ Jon Stewart: He needs to do that More often..
Last night President Obama appeared for a full half hour on the Daily Showwhere he verbally jousted with host Jon Stewart and pretty much defended the record of his administration. For many who watched the show, Obama directly engaging a significant part of his base had been a long time coming. There were remnants of
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Tea Party Racism & Violence Continue to Surge in the 2010 Elections
Tea Party candidate Al Reynolds says minorities prefer drug dealing over college With 6 days away from the election more and more racism, violence and outrageous behavior is being blatantly displayed by the Tea Party. Let’s start with this doozie. Here we have Tea Party candidate Al Reynolds who is running in the 52nd district
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The Tea Party Movement: Is Nation’s Troubled History Repeating Itself?
It’s important that we remember a couple of old sayings 1-’Nothing is new under the sun‘ and If you don’t learn the lessons of history you are destined to repeat it‘. Many people have forgotten about or never knew about DW Griffiths landmark film ‘Birth of a Nation‘. It was taken from the book ‘The Clansmen‘
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Bad Credit? Job Seekers Need Not Apply
Can you get employment with bad credit? Can you get housing with bad credit? This is an incredibly important story that I hope everyone pays attention to and pushes to make sure lawmakers use their resources, power and influence to lessen the harm this dilemma is causing. Why has credit suddenly become a driving determination
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Parody Song Pokes Fun at President Causes Controversy as Video Goes Viral
There’s been a number of comedians who have taken their shots at either imitating or making fun of President Obama. Most of the gestures have been hit or miss. This past week things changed when video directors Martin Usher and James Davis created a character named Baracka Flacka which is a play on popular rap
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