Posted on 05/22/2003 7:35:32 AM PDT by jonalvy44
YES! This only illustrates the point that Americans are no longer tolerant of those that bash America!! This is awesome news! They can't just sneak back into our hearts, as much as they would like to.
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=123260
©JOE CAVARETTA/AP
Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards May 22, 7:05 AM EST
Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name.
Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive — you."
Maines has been in the country music doghouse since she told a London audience on March 10, before the start of the war in Iraq, that "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
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The Dixie Chicks were a late addition, performing by satellite from their hometown of Austin, Texas.
Maines sat silently as Emily Robison briefly introduced the song.
The boos erupted when Gill named the Dixie Chicks among nominees for entertainer of the year. Gill said afterward that the reaction was more subdued than at last month's Flameworthy Awards. "It was a pretty volatile crowd that time. This one wasn't so bad," he said.
It didn't seem that way to host Reba McEntire.
"It was a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over," she said after the program.
Dan
The memories are flooding now.....the other thing they would say was, "Hey, you guys, (even when they were talking to my females), what are you doing? Wanna play with some toy caars?" Everybody knows the proper term, when referring to groups of people, is "ya'll".
I live in a city of less than 200,000. I know of 2 prominent CEO's (one now retired), who had these quirks. One of them issued a memo saying that if employees should encounter him walking down the hall, they shouldn't speak to him unless he speaks first, so that if he's thinking an important thought, they won't break his concentration. Another CEO had a carport and private outside door built adjacent to his office, so that he and only he could come and go in private. This same CEO refused to walk down the hall alone (had around 500 employees) during business hours. If he needed to attend a meeting outside his own office, or just go down the hall to stretch his legs, etc., he would have 2 or 3 of his closest aides accompany him just for the walk. Neither of these CEO's were heading their "own" companies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3045263.stm
Saddam's singer shot dead
An Iraqi singer whose fervently pro-Saddam Hussein songs made him a well-known face on Iraqi television has been killed, his family says. Daoud al-Qaissi, a Baath party member, was shot by gunmen outside his home in central Baghdad, his brother told Reuters news agency.
Videos of his songs were played constantly on Iraqi state television even as the coalition-led bombing campaign intensified over the Iraqi capital.
His son told Britain's Guardian newspaper that he was certain his father had been killed because of his connections to the ousted Iraqi leader's regime.
"My father was one of the president's supporters. He believed in him," his son said.
"This [the killing] is a natural consequence of the lack of security in Baghdad. Now all his friends are scared, some of them are too frightened even to come to the funeral."
'Growing lawlessness'
The singer's death also follows reports of similar attacks on other former members of the Baath regime in the city.
Qaissi had reportedly feared for his safety.
"We advised him to move to a relative's house and stay there until the restoration of law and order," his brother told Reuters.
However he had stayed less than one month before returning, depressed and uncomfortable, he added.
Qaissi held a relatively senior rank in the Baath, having been a member since 1963.
By profession, he was a singer and head of the Iraqi artists' union, and was responsible for propaganda during the first Gulf War and the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
His family said his murder was indicative of the growing lawlessness in the city following the ousting of Saddam Hussein, and the Guardian reported that the incident had taken place only two miles away from an American patrol.
She never leaves the plane until it's tidied up and in a condition that is as good as she found it.
That says a lot about a person.
Mr. Dole was lucky to know which car was for him when there was only one car.
The Doles had this little blonde Skippy looking dude who was a real piece of work. He ran around talking to his wrist and had an antenae fitted to the tassles in his loafers. Kind of like James Bond meets LL Bean. Freaky little Nazi Youth kid who was around 30. The kind who would consider working for Hillary the jewel in his resume.
I was in south Florida last week attending to some family business when I heard an interview on the radio with Joe Walsh. It was hysterical! After the first few sentances, it was apparent that his thought processes were a bit drug-addled from his youth in the fast lane, but he was still very funny. I told my husband that a conversation between Joe and Ozzy would REALLY be something -- I can't imagine what that would be like. Then, at the end of the interview, he mentioned that he had just talked to Ozzy a few days ago. He said that their bands played together on tour for a couple of years during the 70's, but neither of them could remember any of it. However, "they knew it had happened, because they had the posters."
How did you like the part where Walsh replaced the lyrics in the teleprompter program from "one of those nights" to "One of those mice" just to screw with Fry and Henley????!!!!When grilled by them about it he said....."That just gives people a reason to go buy the live album which was a good thing because everyone already has a closet full of those old crappy albums!
Or the part about he would not have not written such good music if he knew he still had to twist his wrist off in order to still be playing it at the age of a senior citizen.
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