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Is that the show where we played on the huge deck in Rochester? That was a good time. We ended up getting loaded and stumbling around town. I ended up getting some sandwich called a "porta-bomb" which was frikkin awesome. Plus thosee tee shirts you guys had were sweet. Can you and your crew make it to the show next weekend? We'd love to see you all there!

That's right... Big Balls, WNY's one and only AC/DC tribute band is back. The 3 time Buffalo Music award nominees will be playing their long anticipated reunion show on Feb 24th, and Club Infinity! If you love (or even like) AC/DC you must check out the show. It's a great show, and an even better party. There will be a ton of dirty young girls there who always come out for the show. Hope to see you all there!!!

The thought does bring up an interesting point though. NYS has not gone Republican in the presidential election since 1984. If there is anyone that can do it in '08, it would be Rudy.

Nice body, yes. Pretty face? God no!

The most deadly joke in the world!

But.. but... Nazis!

Bah! I was gonna make a gravity crack! Damn you!

It wasn't so much hotpocket mentality as it was wishful thinking. I have serious doubts that Iran can be persuaded to drop their plans. I hope the UN can get something done, but I've seen the results of their efforts in the past, and have been less than impressed. It seems that if a nation really wants to get the bomb, all of the non-proliferation treaties in the world won't stop them.

Now if we can only get Iran to do the same...

If she thinks the American public was responsible for her Grammy awards, she is dumber than she looks.

That makes my joke even more funny, for a completely different reason! I was referring to when he stole that cops horse here in Buffalo and took it for a joyride. To call her a horse is even better. Then again, since his rumored gay lover is Manning, and Peyton has a horse face too....

I actually pushed for him to be hanged. Since he wants to pretend he is a cowboy, I always felt he deserved frontier justice for being a horse thief.

Yeah, and the problem is that our credibility is shot to sh*t.

For the same reason they don't ban Pearl Jam who are fairly anti-Bush. It serves no purpose for them as a company. I know you were being sarcastic, but it brings up an important distinction. The radio stations that banned the Dixie Chicks did so in large part for publicity and ratings, and not really so much because of some misguided and over-zealous patriotism. They knew that the majority of their country station listening audience would applaud such a move, and it would probably reflect well on the station and their advertisers. Or, in other words: $.

But wasn't the criminal issue related to their monopoly, and not what they chose to play? Granted the two are related in that CC had to much power in that they controlled too much, but there is no crime in what they choose to play or not play.

Huh? What exactly about that is a criminal act?

I'll help ya... (Man, I'm REALLY bored today... ) http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/06/10/di...tour.html?print The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines in New York in 2003. Maines's anti-Bush remark has had an effect on the band's concert sales in some cities. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) "This time around, we are willingly feeling our way through unchartered territory," said the statement. "Things don't come as easy as they might have come in the past, and it makes each accomplishment more exciting and appreciated. We will go where the fans are with great anticipation and no regrets." The group's spokesman is also quoted in a Saturday Los Angeles Times article as saying there has been "some reshuffling of dates" and additions to the itinerary. The Dixie Chicks' latest album, Taking the Long Way, opened in the No. 1 spot on the U.S. charts, selling 526,000 copies in seven days. Continue Article Industry reports say ticket sales are sluggish in Republican states because of the prolonged backlash to a 2003 comment by singer Natalie Maines at a British concert. She had said the group is ashamed to come from the same state, Texas, as President George W. Bush. "Basically, they're having to rethink the entire tour at this point," Gary Bongiovanni of the concert industry magazine Pollstar told Reuters. Concert schedule changes Bongiovanni says dates in Memphis, Tennessee, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Houston and Fresno, Calif., might have to be dropped from the tour. An extra date has already been added in Toronto."

I think that was only in Canada though. I think their stateside sales of merch, cd's, and tix went down siginificantly. What was funny was their audience got a slight augmentation from people who hated the President, but normally wouldn't touch country. I also recall them having some feud with the "Ford Truck Man".

As I refered to it earlier... it's better described as "Nashville Pop". Country music changed for the worse when they dropped the "& Western".

I don't know that I would call it censorship. A media outlet can pick and choose what they want to play. CC probably felt that enough of their Nashville Pop audience would bristle at any Dixie Chick song, and felt it would better serve their customers/listeners by not playing the material. Their record sales and concert attendance figures probably suffered more from their ticked off core fanbase than it did CC deciding to not play their material. I don't really care, but it irks me to see the press calling artists "brave" for speaking their minds, as if there is a real danger of jack-booted goverment agents coming into their homes and pistol whipping them with broom handled mausers.

So I'm doing my usual 7:00 AM news site surfing today, and I'm seeing a ton of "Defiant Dixie Chicks" type of headlines. On top of that these stories seem to have the common theme that the Dixie Chicks were somehow censored and their constitutional right to freedom of speech was violated. Could someone please let the press know that an artist who says something that pi$$es off 50% of their core fan base, and then those fans choosing to ignore that artist's product, is neither censorship nor is it a violation of 1st amendment rights? My fiancee, who likes the Dixie Chicks, didn't seem to think they deserved 5 grammys, although she said it was their best album yet. I'm not much of a fan (I think the lead singer has a pig face and she rubs me the wrong way. I would like the other two to just rub me... ) and I have to wonder how much the controversy they have created impacted their nominations/awards. Not that I think the grammys are a measurement of anything that resembles artistic merit. (*Cough* *Sham!* *Cough*..)

Seriously. Are these ladies from a local retirement home or something? Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes winners perhaps?

I don't think I have ever seen a thread discussing statistics cause such a long lasting ruckus that spilled over into almost every other thread. I feel like I'm posting in a Reese's commercial.... "You got your regression in my global warming!"

I second that! She was my "it" girl for a long time.

Well he does have the general concept of a negative externality correct, but I'm not sure I would entirely agree with his point about the free market. I would argue that free market systems have done a better job at controlling pollution as more consumers become aware of the effects of pollution. No, I wouldn't expect every consumer to become experts in deciphering which companies and/or products are more "green" but as companies realize this is important to consumers they will advertise it themselves (kinda like trans fats).