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The lunch rush barely over, Vongphet K. Sayphalath sat at a table in the kitchen wrapping spring rolls for dinner patrons at her Asian Cafe.
Sayphalath sank into a chair in the dining room to chat but soon shuffled back to the kitchen to pop three spring rolls into the deep fryer, anxious to have them sampled by her visitor.
Between treks to and from the kitchen, Sayphalath talked about her reasons for partnering with Thorn Thanurith, one of her mother's friends, last March to open the Thai and Chinese restaurant at 400 E. Hastings Ave. in Pleasant Valley.
Taking the step
Although she worked in a number of Amarillo's Asian restaurants while attending Palo Duro High School, the 1996 graduate didn't have a cafe career in mind.
She took criminal justice classes at Amarillo College until severe back pain and other maladies during her pregnancy led to a diagnosis of kidney failure. She awaits a transplant, she said.
"I'm OK," Sayphalath said. "I'm waiting on a donor. I have to go to the doctor a lot."
Sayphalath discovered that her health made her a risk that some employers didn't want to take.
"I got turned down a lot because of my health," she said.
So the idea of building a business from the restaurant experience she already had gained took hold. She talked with her husband, Thavysak, and decided to go for it.
"Sure, I had doubts, but you never know," she said. "I had to take the step, unless I want to be other people's employee all my life."
Sayphalath's unstoppable attitude seems apparent as she tells of the relentless lobbying she did for her first job in a Chinese restaurant. She was 13.
"I told them I needed the money real bad," she said. "I kept telling them. They put me in the kitchen, chopping vegetables."
Sayphalath learned more about the business as she moved to other restaurants, serving as cashier and waitress, she said.
For the Asian Cafe venture, her mother paired her with Thanurith, and her father offered his house as collateral for her three-year, $40,000 loan. She has it half-paid now, she said.
"Sometimes it's busy. Sometimes it's slow. But it's enough to pay the bills. It takes time (to gain a following)," she said.
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Asian Cafe has developed a cadre of regulars.
"The Health Department guy comes over and eats our Pad Thai all the time," Sayphalath said.
River Road High School students often take advantage of the weekly lunch specials. And as students, they get free drinks with their meals, Sayphalath said.
One of the cafe's most popular dishes is Pad Phit Keng, a stir-fry mixture with peppers, ginger, green onions, garlic and chicken, beef, pork or shrimp, she said.
Other customer favorites are chicken cashew and sweet and sour chicken, and children especially like the chicken-fried rice, Sayphalath said.
Diners will find the cooks are open to adapting dishes to meet their tastes, she said.
"They can order things on the menu or off the menu," Sayphalath said.
Sayphalath and Thanurith will cater events. Wedding menus, for example, have included entrees ranging from beef broccoli to Pork Prio-Wan and orders of 500 spring rolls.
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Sayphalath believes in honoring special requests, but she honestly tells customers she can't delete the monosodium glutamate from every dish. The reason: Pre-made canned or bottled ingredients often contain MSG.
"Chicken broth has MSG in it. Oyster sauce. Soy sauce," she said. "I tell people we don't add extra (MSG), but we do have it in our dishes."
She asked suppliers to research other alternatives to the prepared ingredients, but so far hasn't found any, she said.
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While her goal is to sell food, Sayphalath does give some away.
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"My dream?" she asked. "My dream is to pay off the loan, make some money to pay off my house, and make some money for my daughter's education."
Asian Cafe is open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and reopens for dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
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My family is from Selma, Alabama. My grandmother, aunt and mother (both teenagers at the time) were on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, what the history books now record as Bloody Sunday. Due to the terrible violence that occurred, my grandmother, a nurse, was called to the hospital to help treat the numerous people who had been injured, one of them being Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis.
I grew up hearing my family members' Civil Rights Movement stories, continually in awe of their courage and determination. They had to deal with fire hoses, dogs, and police batons in order to receive what my generation now takes for granted, the right to vote.
Yesterday, nearly 50 years after Bloody Sunday and the passage of the Voting Rights Act, I stood outside the Supreme Court with many others who chanted, sang and rallied to protect the VRA's Section 5. Yes, the dogs and the cattle prods are gone, but the spirit to oppress some of America's citizens remains.
It saddens me that we still have to fight for our right to vote, and that there are those who are still trying to deny others their rights at the ballot box. But I was encouraged by the number of people who were outside the Supreme Court yesterday, people of all races and creeds and ages who are dedicated to and invested in protecting the right to vote! Together we sent a message to the Justices and to the nation that Section 5 is still needed, because while our country has come a long way from that grainy black and white footage of people getting beaten while fighting for their rights, discrimination and attempts to disenfranchise still exist, especially in the states covered by Section 5.
It's often said that we are standing on the shoulders of giants, but in my case, I am truly a descendant of Civil Rights heroes whose names will never be in the history books. They took a risk, put their lives on the line, not just for themselves but for me, someone who would not be born for another 15 years. When I hear my grandmother at 86 years old say that she will put on her marching shoes if she has to, then I know that I have no choice but to put on mine. I was proud to be at the rally to protect Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act yesterday. I was proud to honor the legacy of my family and anyone else who participated in the Movement. I was proud to continue the fight to ensure that no one is denied the right to vote.
Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to a pivotal section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The part of the VRA that's under attack is Section 5, which requires the Justice Department or a federal court to approve changes to voting laws in states and counties that have a history of racially discriminatory voting practices before those laws can go into effect. The lead-up to last year's elections, in which state legislatures passed a slew of discriminatory voter suppression measures, showed just how much Section 5 is still needed.
Today, People For the American Way Foundation released a new report from Senior Fellow Jamie Raskin detailing the history and continued need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and what progressives can do to ensure equal voting rights in the years to come. Raskin writes:
A decision against Section 5 preclearance or the Section 4(b) coverage formula would likely spell the political demise of the Voting Rights Act, even if it is theoretically salvageable by an updated coverage formula or an even more relaxed preclearance procedure. Our paralyzed, deadlocked Congress will never come to terms on how to revive and renovate it if the Court knocks it down or puts it into a tiny little straitjacket.
Win, lose, or draw, progressives should reckon with the prospect that the days of this landmark statute might be numbered. This means that we need to take up an ambitious democracy and voting rights agenda of our own for the new century, this time with explicitly universalist aims and general terms that deal with the complex suppression of democracy today. The voting rights struggles of the new century relate not just to old-fashioned racial trickery in Alabama and Texas but new-age vote suppression in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio; they involve not just traditional vote dilution in the South but the increasingly untenable disenfranchisement of 600,000 Americans in Washington, D.C and 3.6 million Americans in Puerto Rico.
Also today, PFAW Foundation's Director of African American Religious Affairs, Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, wrote in the Huffington Post about the challenges that people of color still face at the ballot box, nearly half a century after the passage of the Voting Rights Act:
In 2011 and 2012 I organized faith leaders from 22 states in combating voter suppression efforts and turning out the vote among specific communities. This election cycle offered many powerful reminders why Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is still needed. Texas, for example, passed a discriminatory voter ID law that would have required voters to present government-issued photo ID at the polls, which would have especially burdened poor people and people of color. But because Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act still stands, this law was defeated and the right to vote was protected. Reverend Simeon L. Queen of Houston, Texas, a comrade in the struggle, reflected: "It is inexcusable that nearly 50 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, politicians are still trying to make it harder for African Americans in Texas to vote. I wish the Voting Rights Act wasn't still necessary, but thank the Lord it's still there."
Since 1980 I have been fortunate to work with men and women, some who started before I was born, to fight for laws protecting the right to vote. Despite the commitment of those who devoted their lives to voter protections, the right to vote remains fragile for many Americans. From voter ID laws to restrictions on early voting, as a country we cannot allow anyone to say "this isn't a problem anymore" to communities who are experiencing, as others witness, those problems at the polls each election.
This week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the protections of the Voting Rights Act. Based on a simple idea, one that is enshrined in our Constitution, the right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race. It is considered by the Department of Justice to be "the most effective civil rights statute enacted by Congress," prohibiting voting discrimination in order to protect the right to vote for all Americans.
When President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he called the vote "the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice" and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called it the "foundation stone for political action." I call it a sacred right!
The centerpiece of that Act and the case is Section 5. It requires that all or portions of sixteen states with a history and a contemporary record of voting discrimination seek and gain approval federally before they put any changes in election practices into effect. Preclearance as it is known is intended to stop voter disenfranchisement before it can start.
In 1970 and again in 1975, Congress voted to extend the Voting Rights Act. At that time US Representative Barbara Jordan, my (s)hero and co-founder of People For the American Way, sponsored legislation that broadened the provisions of the Act to include Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.
As recently as 2006, Congress voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize Section 5 of the law with some critics then and now misguidedly asserting that it overstepped its boundaries, that voting discrimination really isn't a problem anymore, or that voting discrimination in other parts of the country somehow delegitimizes Section 5. I'd like to invite those critics to hear directly from people across the country who devoted countless hours to ensuring that marginalized communities were able to vote this past election.
In 2011 and 2012 I organized faith leaders from 22 states in combating voter suppression efforts and turning out the vote among specific communities. This election cycle offered many powerful reminders why Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is still needed. Texas, for example, passed a discriminatory voter ID law that would have required voters to present government-issued photo ID at the polls, which would have especially burdened poor people and people of color. But because Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act still stands, this law was defeated and the right to vote was protected. Reverend Simeon L. Queen of Houston, Texas, a comrade in the struggle, reflected: "It is inexcusable that nearly 50 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, politicians are still trying to make it harder for African Americans in Texas to vote. I wish the Voting Rights Act wasn't still necessary, but thank the Lord it's still there."
Since 1980 I have been fortunate to work with men and women, some who started before I was born, to fight for laws protecting the right to vote. Despite the commitment of those who devoted their lives to voter protections, the right to vote remains fragile for many Americans. From voter ID laws to restrictions on early voting, as a country we cannot allow anyone to say "this isn't a problem anymore" to communities who are experiencing, as others witness, those problems at the polls each election.
President Johnson called the vote "a powerful instrument," Dr. King the "foundation stone," and for me it's a sacred right for breaking down injustice, removing obstacles to democracy and empowering the dis-empowered. When discriminatory laws threaten Americans' fundamental right to vote, we are called to utilize every tool available. Across the country we have seen the importance of courts in successfully fighting back against voter suppression efforts. Section 5 remains a key to protecting communities, my community from future attempts at disenfranchisement. Hopefully, prayerfully, the Supreme Court will realize this.
This post originally appeared at the Huffington Post.
At yesterday's Martin Luther King Day GOP debate in South Carolina, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that South Carolina is "at war with the federal government" and that Texas is "under assault" because of disputes over the states' voter ID laws.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 gave the Justice Department the power to review voting law changes in states that have a history of disenfranchising minority voters. In December, the Department rejected South Carolina's law, finding that it unfairly targeted minority voters, who are 20 percent more likely than whites to lack the required ID. Texas' voter ID law is still under review.
The unmistakable historical echoes of Perry's comments were disturbing, even more so because they were made on a day dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement. Yesterday, People For the American Way's director of African American religious affairs, Minister Leslie Watson Malachi, wrote in the Huffington Post that many of the voting rights struggles of the Civil Rights era are still alive today:
But since 2008, our right to vote has been under an unprecedented attack. Shortly after the election, over half of Republican voters said that the presidential election had been stolen for Barack Obama by ACORN, an organization that worked to register new voters -- including many African Americans. In response to this myth, promoted by the right-wing media and politicians, state legislatures across the country have been trying to make it harder to register to vote. The most common form this takes is Voter ID laws, which, under the guise of preventing the over-hyped problem of "voter fraud," in fact keep millions of voters from the polls. These laws, which are on the books or being considered in 41 states, target voters who don't have certain types of government ID -- overwhelmingly the young, the elderly and persons of color.
What is even more discouraging than the faulty basis of these restrictive laws is where they come from. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group funded by large corporations that writes legislation for state legislators, is pushing these voter ID laws to states around the country. Why do big business interests care about restricting voting rights? Because voting is the only way those of us without millions of dollars to spend on elections can make our voices, and the issues we care about, heard.
PFAW Foundation released an extensive report last year on right-wing efforts to chip away at the voting rights of minorities, young people and the poor.
Tonight, eight GOP presidential candidates will alight on sacred ground to some: the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. As the candidates pay the required perpetual homage to the 40th president, the rest of us might take some time to reflect on just how far off the Reagan Ranch the Republican Party has gone.
Since the advent of the Tea Party, the Republican establishment has adopted a philosophy that you could call "Xtreme Reagan" -- tax cuts for the wealthy without compromise, deregulation without common sense, social conservatism without an ounce of respect -- that makes even a liberal like me almost miss the political pragmatism of the Gipper. It's terrifying that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a hard-line economic and social conservative, whose regressive economic policies as governor were to the right of Reagan, is now widely considered to be too far to the left to even be a contender.
Don't get me wrong -- I never was a fan of Ronald Reagan and his policies. But I miss the days when believing in science and being able to do basic budget math didn't make you a radical Socialist.
Reagan, a savvy politician, rode to power on the money of corporate America and the passion of an increasingly politicized Religious Right -- and, for the most part, gave both groups enough of what they wanted once he was in office to keep them both happy. But he also bucked those interests at some important points. Contrary to current Reagan hagiography, he raised taxes 11 times during his eight years in office -- including the largest corporate tax hike in American history -- when it became clear that pure trickle-down economics would be disastrous for the economy. And in 1981, over the objections of anti-choice groups, he nominated the highly qualified and politically moderate Sandra Day O'Connor to serve on the Supreme Court.
Today's Tea Party candidates, as they love to remind us, are beholden to the same interests. But they have taken the Reagan strategy a step further, turning the values of the Reagan coalition into a new, unyieldingly rigid conservative orthodoxy.
In the Tea Party orthodoxy, environmentalism isn't just bad for business, it's unbiblical. Tax cuts aren't just what the rich want, they're what Jesus wants . The Democratic president isn't just a liberal, he's a foreigner trying to destroy America from within. Conspiracy theories become hard-and-fast facts before you can change the channel away from Fox News. There's no compromise when you live in an air-tight world of unquestioned beliefs that become created facts.
Let's take a look at how the eight GOP candidates debating tonight have taken Xtreme Reaganism and made it their own:
This is the field that the Party of Reagan has produced to appeal to a right-moving and increasingly isolated base -- where the architect of health care reform has to run against himself, where the most libertarian still isn't willing to cross the Religious Right, and where the highest-polling has floated the idea of his state seceding from the union.
Listen tonight as you hear the homage to Ronald Reagan and consider how radical this party has actually become.
Cross posted on Huffington Post
In the buildup to the 2012 election, Republican legislatures across the nation are implementing a tactic many hoped would die with the signing of the Voting Right Act of 1965 -- silencing the voices of those who disagree with them by simply not allowing them to vote. GOP legislators in at least 20 states are working hard to push through restrictive voter-ID laws that all but disenfranchise large, traditionally Democratic segments of the electorate. These laws would require voters to show a government issued photo ID at the polling place, something 11% of US citizens currently lack.
The facts are firmly against such laws. Voters are more likely to be struck by lightening than to commit fraud, and the Bush Justice Department's five-year "War on Voter Fraud" resulted in only 86 convictions out of nearly 200 million votes cast (a rate of .0000004%). Furthermore, these laws are expensive to implement, wasting millions of dollars in a time when most states are under severe budgetary restraints. So why would Republicans advocate for such an obviously unnecessary law?
Politics, of course.
While 11% of the general population lack government issued photo ID, the number jumps dramatically when looking at traditionally Democratic segments of the population. A study by the Brennan Center for Justice notes that 15% of low-income citizens, 18% of young eligible voters, and 25% of black voters lack identification that would allow them to vote under these new laws. In addition, such ID is more difficult to obtain for these parties, many of whom can't drive to the DMV to get an ID or lack the supporting documents, such as a birth certificate, necessary to receive an ID.
In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker just signed a bill that will require voters to show photo identification at the polls. This bill has provoked outrage amongst Wisconsin Democrats, with Stephanie Findley, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Black Caucus, declaring:
Our proud tradition of open elections and high voter turnout will suffer. And with a stroke of the pen, thousands of African-American citizens will no longer be able to vote, solely because of their lack of identification. We now return to the days before the Voting Rights Act, where literacy tests and poll taxes were the rule.
This is backed up by the numbers. Fewer than half of African Americans in Milwaukee County hold ID that would be accepted at the polls, as compared to 83% of whites.
Florida already had a photo identification law in place, but Gov. Rick Scott recently signed a bill that goes even further, making it more difficult for third-party voter registration organizations to operate. Some such organizations, such as the non-partisan League of Women Voters, are pulling out of Florida all together, claiming the law will make it impossible to operate within the state.
In addition to making life difficult for voter-registration organizations, the new law also stops voters from making out-of-county address changes at the polls, making it more difficult for college students to vote, and shortens the early voting window from 14 days to eight. Five counties in Florida governed by the 1965 Voting Rights Act are declining to implement the new law, waiting for Justice Department approval before making any changes.
Early voting in also being targeted by Republican officials in North Carolina, who are studying how it helped Barack Obama win that state in 2008.
The Senate is currently debating the nomination of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Liu is a phenomenally well qualified legal scholar who has support across the political spectrum, as well as among a majority of U.S. Senators. However, because Senate Republican leaders are putting politics over all else, they are set on stymieing the majority and filibustering the nomination. A cloture vote to end this stalling tactic may occur as soon as tomorrow morning.
People For the American Way supports the nomination. We sent a letter this morning that says much of what we have been saying in person on the Hill for over a year. Among other things, the letter states:
Perhaps the most powerful testament to Professor Liu's superb qualifications is the extensive support his nomination has garnered from across the ideological spectrum. It is not only progressive and moderate legal thinkers who admire his work: He has received endorsements from conservatives such as Ken Starr, Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan; Richard Painter, the chief ethics counsel for President George W. Bush; and Clint Bolick, Director of the conservative Goldwater Institute.
When a judicial nominee attracts such strong support independent of political ideology, you can be confident that he is exactly the kind of mainstream, talented, and fair jurist we need on the federal bench.
Although Liu has the support of a majority of senators, his opponents are working to block his nomination from receiving an up or down vote. Their claim is that Liu's nomination constitutes one of those rare "extraordinary circumstances" warranting a filibuster, under the benchmark developed by the Gang of 14 during the George W. Bush Administration.
By no measure can this nomination be considered to even approach "extraordinary circumstances." Even a cursory look at President Bush's nominees who were approved using that test – those whose nominations were not considered to constitute "extraordinary circumstances" – makes clear that Liu's nomination must be permitted to go forward.
- Pricilla Owen's dissenting positions on the Texas Supreme Court were so extreme that even her fellow conservatives on the Supreme Court in different cases described them with phrases like "an unconscionable act of judicial activism," "disregard of the procedural elements the Legislature established," "def[ying] the Legislature's clear and express limits on our jurisdiction," and "inflammatory rhetoric." Her nomination was not considered extraordinary, and the Senate afforded her an up-or-down vote for a seat on the Fifth Circuit, where she is now serving.
- Thomas Griffith pushed to severely curtail laws ending discrimination against women and girls' participation in school athletic programs, declaring "illegal" a test upheld by all eight of the nation's Circuit Courts of Appeals that had considered the issue. He was also suspended from the DC Bar for failure to pay mandatory Bar dues yet continued to practice law in the District during that time. Published reports and an examination of Utah law indicated that he had been engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Utah for the four years prior to his nomination. Nevertheless, the Senate did not consider Griffith's nomination extraordinary, and he received an up-or-down vote confirming him to a seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Janice Rogers Brown criticized opposition to the Lochner decision, which began the period when the Supreme Court issued its most pro-corporate rulings—rulings that struck down laws requiring minimum wages, regulating working hours and conditions, and banning improper business practices. In addition, despite several Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, she explicitly suggested that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional. Despite this record, her nomination was not considered an "extraordinary circumstance," and the Senate was allowed to cast an up-or-down vote, confirming her to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
- William Pryor called Roe v. Wade "the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history" and urged Congress to consider repealing or amending Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Despite the significant opposition that these and other extreme positions garnered, his nomination was not filibustered, and he was confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Each of these nominees attracted substantial controversy and was opposed by numerous civil rights and civil liberties groups, but not one was found to constitute "extraordinary circumstances."
The claim that Goodwin Liu is out of the mainstream as compared to any of these nominees simply does not bear scrutiny. In fact, a fair reading of his work makes clear that Liu is well within the judicial mainstream.
By any standard articulated by either party, Goodwin Liu's nomination deserves a vote on the Senate floor, and he should be confirmed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Tomorrow, we will learn which Republican senators are willing to toss logic, consistency, principles, and the good of the nation's court system out the window in order to score political points against a Democratic president.


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Would Google (Nasdaq: GOOG ) go after Apple in this way? And if so, would a GPad be any better than what we've seen so far?
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That's not an easy question to answer, if only because the iPhone-Nexus One battle doesn't equate. Telecom is a mature market that's more attuned to whole products, vertically integrated. Tablet buyers are more likely to be early adopters, and thus more tolerant of unfinished technology. That's a problem for Apple, which specializes in the Big Reveals of finished products.
Google, by contrast, specializes in open, iterative design. Openness is the better approach for the tablet market, because there's so much uncertainty about what tablets should and shouldn't do.
Witness Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) . The e-tailer claims ownership of the most successful tablet to date -- the Kindle e-reader -- yet continues to wrestle with publishers over pricing, as seen in its brief spat with Macmillan.
Google, a born disruptor, does its best work when uncertainty reigns. Apple does its best work reimagining entire industries, and then building technology to fit its vision.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, delaying stipulations that any immediate extension of the government's borrowing authority be accompanied by spending cuts.
The offer came with a caveat aimed at prodding Senate Democrats to pass a budget after almost four years of failing to do so: a threat to cut off the pay of lawmakers in either House or Senate if their chamber fails to pass a budget this year. House Republicans have passed budgets for two consecutive years.
The idea got a frosty reception from House Democrats but a more measured response from the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Republicans hadn't settled on full details, but the measure would give the government about three more months of borrowing authority beyond a deadline expected to hit as early as mid-February, No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia said Friday.
The legislation wouldn't require immediate spending cuts as earlier promised by GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Instead, it's aimed at forcing the Democrat-controlled Senate to join the House in debating the federal budget.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Boehner told GOP lawmakers at a retreat in Williamsburg, Va. "The principle is simple: 'no budget, no pay.'"
But the move ran into opposition from House Democrats, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who called it a gimmick because it would set up another potential confrontation in just a few months. Votes from Democrats may be needed to help pass the measure if GOP conservatives opposed to any increase in the debt limit withhold their support.
"This proposal does not relieve the uncertainty faced by small businesses, the markets and the middle class," said Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill. "This is a gimmick unworthy of the challenges we face and the national debate we should be having. The message from the American people is clear: no games, no default."
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"It is reassuring to see Republicans beginning to back off their threat to hold our economy hostage," said Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson. "If the House can pass a clean debt-ceiling increase to avoid default and allow the United States to meet its existing obligations, we will be happy to consider it."


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Russia announced on Monday that it will send a humanitarian aid convoy into eastern Ukraine in co-operation with the International Red Cross, amid fears in Kiev and the West that the move is a pretext for sending Russian troops across the border.
The Kremlin said in a statement which did not disclose when the convoy was leaving: "It was noted that the Russian side, in collaboration with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, is sending an aid convoy to Ukraine." The Red Cross made no immediate comment.
In the last week, Ukrainian government forces have been closing in on the few remaining pro-Russian rebel strongholds in eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk - the largest rebel-held city. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been fleeing the fighting.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he would only support an aid mission with Russia if other international bodies, including the Red Cross and the European Union, were involved.
Poroshenko added that he had spoke to US President Barack Obama, who backed the international plan.
The cautious support comes after the West strongly warned Russia that any attempt to send its military personnel into Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian assistance would be regarded as an invasion.
With Ukraine reporting Russia has massed 45,000 troops on its border, NATO said there was a "high probability" that Moscow could intervene militarily in the country's east.
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Drivers of the first trucks of the Russian aid convoy parked in the city of Luhansk on 22 August
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Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for residents in rebel eastern Ukrainian regions moving along a road in the city of Voronezh, about 530 km from Moscow, Russia
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The Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid in the Voronezh region of Russia en route to Ukraine
Prior to the announcement on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso spoke on the phone.
Barroso's office said in a statement that he had warned Russia "against any unilateral military actions in Ukraine, under any pretext, including humanitarian."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed Russia had agreed on the details of a humanitarian mission with the Ukrainian leadership, and added he hoped "our Western partners will not put a spanner in the works."
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Regarding Kiev's gains in the east of the country, Mr Lavrov said he viewed the military action as an attempt to force Russian to leave and "and settle it with others who would have a different attitude to our nations' history, culture, friendship and links that have existed for centuries".
Earlier on Monday, rockets slammed into a high-security prison in the main rebel-held city of Donetsk, igniting a riot that allowed more than 100 prisoners to flee, authorities said.
Donetsk city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky said a direct rocket hit killed at least one inmate and left three others severely wounded. In the chaos, he said 106 prisoners escaped, included some jailed for murder, robbery and rape.
Many of those in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine distrust the new central government in Kiev, which came to power after the February ousting of former President Viktor Yanukovych, whose power base was in eastern Ukraine.
Fighting began a month after Russia annexed Ukraine's peninsula of Crimea in March. Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of supplying heavy weapons and other equipment to the rebels in eastern Ukraine, a charge that Russia denies.
UN agencies say more than 1,100 people have been killed including government forces, rebels and civilians in the four months since rebels seized territory in the east and Kiev launched its crackdown.
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Hot Rocks: 1964-1971
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4.0 out of 5 stars
As good as any Stones compiliation is likely to get.
March 25 2003
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Hot Rocks: 1964-1971 (Audio CD)
If I was looking to point a casual fan toward a Rolling Stones retrospective, I'd completely pass on Forty Licks and tell them to go for Hot Rocks, without question.
Everybody knows that 1964-1971 were the golden years for the Stones, and this compilation, which deftly selected the hits from that era, is damn good stuff. All the landmark material is accounted for--Get Off Of My Cloud, Paint It Black, Let's Spend The Night Together, Gimme Shelter, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy For The Devil, a live cut of Midnight Rambler, and of course, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Although this will not satisfy diehard fans and I wish a few other songs were included (Stray Cat Blues, the Ya-Ya version of Carol, Sister Morphine, She's A Rainbow, 2000 Man) everything here is grade-A gritty blues rock. The second disc could very well stand alone, it's that good.
As far as the SACD remasters are concerned, they are a massive improvement over the original remasters in every conceivable way. And don't believe the naysayers who claim the new versions are not compatible with PCs--they are.
If you have this and Exile On Main Street, you're set as a casual fan. Completists will want the individual albums, but Hot Rocks does a damn good job of capturing the Stones at their finest before old age and drug abuse set in. Recommended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull, repetitive, and boring.
March 20 2003
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For a while, I used to enjoy this album. Don't get me wrong, I still do enjoy some of it. Everloving is wonderful, South Side is poppy but a fun ride, Machete is a slice of energetic techno that feels woefully out of place here, and My Weakness still captivates me with that "underwater choir" sound.
But those are really the only "songs" on here.
The rest is excruciatingly boring nonsense that consists of one or two samples of gospel music, looped endlessly, with maybe a simple drum beat or some guitar thrown in. Calling it "minimalist" is a cop-out; this is just plain lazy. Hell, I could write "songs" like this without much trouble. If Moby is considered to be talented for putting out this dross, it speaks volumes for what pop music is today.
If you're looking for good techno/electronica, try Boards Of Canada, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, and maybe some Brian Eno. Looking for challenging music? My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, the Cocteau Twins, and Godspeed You Black Emperor are good choices. Play is glorified elevator music, and little else.
Damned Damned Damned
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The first punk release in the UK.
March 19 2003
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Yep, this was the first punk album released in the UK, beating both Nevermind The Bullocks... and The Clash's debut to the punch by a few months. Damned Damned Damned was probably most directly influenced by the first two Ramones albums and the New York Dolls--it's goofy, poppy, and irreverent compared to the rage and radical politics of the Sex Pistols and The Clash.
Which is not to say that it doesn't rock HARD. Dave Vanian leads the assault with smooth yet aggressive vocals, Rat Scabies wails on his kit as if he were possessed by Keith Moon, and Captain Sensible plays some great basslines (the intro to Neat Neat Neat, for example). Everybody contributes vocals, and the result is an unhinged, joyous mess of energy. This album is filled with great tracks--Neat Neat Neat, Fan Club, Stab Your Back, New Rose, and many others. Only one track feels wanting, and that is I Feel Alright (the cover of the Stooges' 1970). I don't know why, but it's just missing something compared to the primal and raw original.
Although future Damned albums would evolve into a different sound and adopt a cheesy horror schtick, this is my favorite in all its unpolished garage rock glory. Don't pass this one up.
Born to Run
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat overrated yet classic Bruce.
March 17 2003
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Born to Run (Audio CD)
Like Bruce or not, there's a reason why Born To Run is frequently hailed as one of the best rock albums of all time. Although not my favorite Springsteen album Born To Run is great from top to bottom. A quasi-concept album about a young bunch of tramps disenchanted with small-town life, Born To Run reads like an initiation tale of small-town America. Unlike the more realistic Darkness, Born To Run rarely feels downbeat or cynical. It's a hopeful look at the freedom of the open road.
Truth be told, Born To Run doesn't resonate with me as much as his more spare and somber works (Nebraska, Darkness..) and Bruce himself gets a bit self-consciously operatic sometimes. His guitar has less of a role than I would like, but the rich, jazzy feel makes up for it.
There's no filler out of the 8 tracks here, although some are definitely better than others. She's The One and Night may be good, but they can't hold a candle to the title track, the jazzy Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, or the epic Jungleland.
This is just one of Bruce's three essential albums--the other two are Darkness.. and The E-Street Shuffle. After Darkness.., Bruce's catalog unfortunately starts declining into irrelevance, with Nebraska being his last great album. Born To Run marks the best place to get into Springsteen if you haven't already.
Death to the Pixies
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2.0 out of 5 stars
NO. Just....no.
March 17 2003
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I don't care what anybody says--this is NOT a good introduction to the Pixies. Buy the studio albums, starting with Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. Trust me, you'll be a lot more satisfied.
As for the first disc--no River Euphrates? No Hey? No Alec Eiffel? No No. 13 Baby? Come on! While I can't complain with what they did pick (simply because 99% of the Pixies' material is flawless anyway) they seem to have skewed their choices toward the loud, aggressive songs and almost completely ignore the quieter, yet equally masterful compositions. I could name 17 other tracks that are just as worthy of inclusion as the tracks selected here, which is a testament to just how good the Pixies were.
Now, onto the live disc, which was recorded pre-Trompe Le Monde. Definitely some gems, including a great performance of B-side Into The White and an amazing rendition of Where Is My Mind? (complete with audience singing!). However, the steep price tag of this set will deter all but completists who probably already have Pixies Live At The BBC anyway (which is far from comprehensive but has some very interesting selections). So...why don't they release a separate live CD? Damn cheapskates.
Only recommended for serious completists (for the live CD). For the uninitiated, start with Doolittle and Surfer Rosa and move through the catalog.
Electric Ladyland
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Total guitar mastery.
March 4 2003
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Jimi Hendrix was perhaps the greatest guitarist ever, and you won't find a better example of that fact than in the ambitious double LP Electric Ladyland. In my opinion, this is the best Hendrix studio album--it wasn't bound by commercial expectations like Are You Experienced?, and is more experimental and diverse than Axis: Bold As Love.
Jimi was finally given the opportunity to stretch out and experiment with his music, and the results are phenomenal. ..And The Gods Made Love is a weird and ominous bit of studio magic, just a prelude for things to come. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) is an electric-soul number, then comes the radio-friendly Crosstown Traffic which features a kazoo (!). Little Miss Strange is a throwaway Beatles-esque song with Redding on vocals. Gypsy Eyes and Burning Of The Midnight Lamp are two of Jimi's best songs. The next few songs are very psychedelic in nature, culminating with the long jam 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be). House Burning Down is a civil rights protest song. The energetic All Along The Watchtower is the best Bob Dylan cover ever. In fact, it was so good that Bob later revised his arrangement of it to match Jimi's.
So now you're asking: Where's Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)? Well, I was saving the best for last. The former is the mother of all blues jams, coming in at a good 15 minutes and never boring, and the latter is perhaps my favorite Jimi song of all time (save for, perhaps, the Band Of Gypsys version of Machine Gun)--a soaring, metallic, and thundering rock jam that established the standards for heavy metal.
In summary, there is enough brilliance here to make any student of guitar salivate. I can't recommend this one highly enough. Run out and buy Electric Ladyland NOW.
The Doors
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The darker side of psychedelia.
March 3 2003
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Few bands could claim to be as moody, dark, or sardonic as the Doors were in their heyday. Although the Doors are often mentioned in the same breath as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and other 60's American psychedelic acts, it's pretty clear that Jim Morrison (vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ, bass), Robby Krieger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums) were tapping into a totally different source of inspiration.
No sitars, no peace and love, no A Day In The Life studio effects. The atmosphere of the debut is one of an almost darkly comic air. Although much of the lyrics consisted of the typical rock 'n' roll topics (women, blues, and beer) there was also philosophy and allusions to literature. For example, the 11-minute finale The End is almost a modern-day version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus, and was easily one of the most subversive songs of 1966 with its themes of murder and incest ("Mother, I want to...").
Manzarek was an organ legend (his 2-minute solo on Light My Fire is one of the coolest pieces of music ever) and Kreiger an underrated guitarist, but "The Lizard King" really established what the band was about. Morrison's ghostly voice, charisma, and sinister prescence established the blueprint for many future frontmen--Iggy Pop (Stooges) and Ian Curtis (Joy Division) were two of his most notable followers.
As for the Doors' first release, it's a classic. Only their sophomore release Strange Days would approach the consistency of this one. Highlights? The entire album. Favorites of mine include Soul Kitchen (a song about a restaurant in Venice), the eerily psychedelic Crystal Ship, and the two blues covers Alabama Song and Back Door Man. Buy this one, and also buy Strange Days. The rest of the catalog is far less consistent and recommended only for fans.
The Ramones
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The original punk rockers.
March 2 2003
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I laugh at people who inform me that the Sex Pistols were "the first true punk band." They need to brush up on their history--without the Ramones in 1976 there would be no Sex Pistols, no Clash, and hell, no punk rock genre. Without the Ramones we would all still be listening to Yes and ELP. The Ramones began the revolution, and still outstrip most of their peers (including the aforementioned Sex Pistols).
These guys, though hardly possessing any knowledge of how to use their instruments, were the epitome of cool. With loud fast power chords from Johnny, lots of attitude, and seemingly goofball (actually ingenious) lyrics penned by Joey, the 1976 debut's songs rip off the starting line with Dee Dee's "1-2-3-4!" and end with a bang. 14 songs rip by in 26 minutes, and the rush never gets old. Who can't get Blitzkrieg Bop, Judy Is A Punk, and Beat On The Brat out of their heads?
The Ramones were both revitalists and innovators, taking the riffs and back-to-basics rock of Chuck Berry and Eddie Cochran, adding the humor and subversiveness of early Who recordings, and then playing the mix at hyperdrive. Nobody ever played rock like this before. Music execs at the time were baffled and radio stations wouldn't give them a lick of airplay. But a fanatical cadre of fans, along with critics who "got" it, turned these boys from NYC into stars.
You can't call yourself a "punk" until you possess a Ramones recording. In fact, if you don't love the Ramones you should write off rock music altogether and take up knitting. To call their debut "influential" would be like calling WWII a "police action." Buy your copy, and don't forget to check out the Damned's debut and The Clash's first album.
Veni Vidi Vicious
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Swedes channeling the Stooges and the Ramones.
March 1 2003
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You know something weird is going on when an act from Sweden (!?) sounds like good ol' fashioned American punk. Although the Hives are not alone in this (the Hellacopters have a similar sound and also hail from Sweden), these guys have pulled off a decent effort with Veni Vidi Vicious.
Granted, it's not very original--think 3/4th Ramones, 1/8th Stooges, and 1/8th early Rolling Stones. However, it's fun, ballsy, and unpretentious and the lyrics are an unabashed slam on the 9-to-5 corporate life that most of us lead. What's not to like? Vocalist Howlin' Pelle Almqvist is loud, brash, and a little out of tune but that only adds to the charm. The rest of the band plays with intensity behind him, firing off 2-minute punk salvos that are instantly likeable, if a little repetitive.
Highlights include Die All Right!, A Get Together To Take It Apart, Main Offender, Knock Knock, and Supply And Demand. The weird departure Find Another Girl is the lowest point of this album, but it quickly picks up again.
Veni Vidi Vicious is not spectacular stuff, but it's refreshing elixir in a music industry consisting of boy bands, nu-metal, and substandard grunge copycats. If you like this, other good albums are the Strokes' Is This It and the White Stripes' De Stijl.
De Stijl
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23 used & new
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty damn good neo-garage rock.
March 1 2003
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De Stijl (Audio CD)
Although White Blood Cells is Jack and Meg's commercial success, it is my opinion that De Stijl really captures what the White Stripes are about. It's much rawer than White Blood Cells, but more tuneful than the debut, and is a very solid attempt at bluesy garage rock.
Well, for one thing De Stijl sounds very, very garagey. The production is gritty and honest, with almost no studio gloss present. The minimalist approach works wonders here.
Jack White is an excellent guitarist, and very proficient at the open-A, slide guitar blues of this album. His overpowering, rich guitar totally eclipses the need for a base player. On De Stijl, his vocals sound like that of a young Robert Plant. Although Meg is not the most competent drummer out there, she merely functions to keep time while Jack rips away on his guitar. Lyrics are simple yet often profound, with no pretension or angst rife among nu-metal bands these days.
Highlights include You're Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl), Hello Operator (got to love that "solo" that Meg does), Apple Blossom, I'm Bound To Pack It Up, Death Letter (my favorite), Truth Doesn't Make A Noise, and the hard rockers Let's Build A Home and Jumble Jumble. If there's a throwaway track, it's probably the weak cover of Your Southern Can Is Mine--way too much country for my liking.
The White Stripes may eventually better this one (their new album Elephant looks promising) but this is their best so far. The Strokes have a stronger debut and the Hives' Veni Vidi Vicious is nothing to sneeze at, but De Stijl will definitely satisfy your neo-garage rock fix. Recommended.
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