Nighclub 9:30
is holding a free screening of “930 F Street,� a documentary about the
club’s early history, this Friday at 9 p.m.: “Back by popular demand!
An encore presentation of 930 F STREET, The 9:30 Club Documentary Come
relive the last 25 years! Special retrospective DJ set. First 500
people get a FREE limited edition 25th Anniversary T-Shirt�
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DCist’s first concert, Unbuckled, is tonight at the Black Cat.
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I was excited to find this Maine Politics blog that got started recently. The author recently attended a visit to the state by Bush advisor Andrew Card:
The
exciting part in Bangor didn’t come during the speech, but after it.
Card had said his piece, the small audience had applauded politely and
he was headed for the exit, when an old Mainer stood up in the middle
of the room and said his piece. “Where are you going? I thought this
was supposed to be a dialogue.� Card turned and paused, the cameras
flashed, and he began to move back towards the podium.The man,
a retired history professor (whom the BDN identifies as “Clyde
MacDonald, 75, of Hampden”) asked an excellent question about the
wisdom of drawing down the trust fund in order to fund a new program
when the real issue in Social Security is solvency. Card mocked him a
bit and turned for another question. I think he picked me because I was
clean-cut and wearing a young-republicanesque polo shirt.I
began my question by stating that President Bush often denigrates the
Social Security trust fund, claiming it doesn’t exist and that it is
full of worthless IOUs. I didn’t get any farther. Card looked right at
me and said that the President does no such thing. …
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Google
has launched a software program that “combines satellite imagery, maps
and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic
information at your fingertips.� It’s called Google Earth. I’ve uploaded a variety of images
to Flickr that give you an idea of what it can do – however non of the
screen grabs utilizes the search features built into the system. Check
out Glover Park and Detroit,
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Seems
to be on the rise. Here, a group is organizing protests around the
country on July 4th of the Supreme Court’s decision on Eminent Domain: JulyFourthProtest.com, including protests in New London Connecticut, Portland Oregon, Los Angeles California, and Washington D.C.
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Today, the Center for American Progress’ Campus Progress project launched a blog for interns in DC for the summer:
Today Campus Progress launches Social Capital,
a new blog/calendar (blogendar?) designed not only to make sure your
social calendar remains packed while you’re in DC, but also to give you
a place to share stories about crazy intern mixups, tidbits overheard
in hallways or on the Metro, right-wing buffet spreads, and more.
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When
I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota a few years back I
wondered why there seemed to be so many white-owned ranches on
ostensibly native land. Turns out the feds lease the land to the
whites, and pass along the check along to the true owners. (Well, some
of it at least – remember the billions of dollars of native money they
“lost”?) This from an op-ed in the Times:
As
the land under their control dwindled, they presumed that Indians were
not “competent� to own land outright. It had to be placed under the
agency’s own enlightened trusteeship. They kept allotting parcels of
this “trust land� to individual Indians, but an Indian couldn’t sell or
lease his parcel without permission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.The
rules discouraged sales and encouraged parcels of land to be passed on
to multiple heirs. Today it’s common to find a tract with dozens or
hundreds of owners. Instead of inheriting the family ranch, which they
could work themselves or use as collateral to start another business,
these Indians inherit the right to collect checks from the federal
bureaucrats who lease their land to others, usually non-Indians. …Some
Indians are trying to go back to the old system, but it’s not easy, as
Gus Gardner has discovered. For five years he has been hoping to
exchange his trust lands – tiny portions of more 100 different tracts
on the Crow reservation – for one big piece of land for his own cattle
ranch. But he figures the paperwork involved will take at least another
three years. …
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