Rock The Vote 2011 News: Voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to render their judgments on mayoral candidates in some of the nation’s largest cities and on contentious ballot measures that affect workers’ rights, reproductive rights and voting rights. While the issues are disparate, they could give an indication of the mood of the electorate ahead of the 2012 presidential race. But if turnout is low, as expected, it would give these votes limited value in forecasting the results a year from now. Read more here.
And Then There Were Five… Tiger Woods-Like Media Saturation Up Next News: A former employee of the United States Agency for International Development says Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain asked her to help arrange a dinner date for him with a female audience member following a speech he delivered nine years ago. Donna Donella, 40, of Arlington, said the USAID paid Cain to deliver a speech to businessmen and women in Egypt in 2002, during which an Egyptian businesswoman in her 30s asked Cain a question. Read more here.
I Guess This Is Why Protestors Here In GA Are Occupying Somebody’s Front Yard News: While lawmakers in Washington debated the debt ceiling and consumer confidence dropped, more homeowners were having a harder time making their mortgage payments. The rate at which mortgage holders were late with their payments by 60 days or more rose in the June-to-September period for the first time since the last three months of 2009, according to TransUnion. Read more here.
Friends….How Many Of Us Have Them? Friends….One’s We Can Depend On News: French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a liar” in a private conversation with President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during last week’s G20 summit in Cannes. “I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been switched on, enabling reporters in a separate location to listen in to a simultaneous translation. “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you,” Obama replied, according to the French interpreter. Read more here.
Na-na-na-na, Na-na-na-na. Hey, Hey, Hey. Goodbye!! News: Conrad Murray, who was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, could face a substantial prison sentence, legal experts said. Murray faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison and a minimum sentence of probation. Immediately after the verdict, Murray handcuffed at the direction of the judge and is to remain in custody pending his Nov. 29 sentencing. The stern approach the judge took in sending Murray to jail rather than releasing him on bail suggested the minimum sentence of probation is unlikely. Read more here.Happy Tuesday Obot family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. Now for today’s Tuesday Trivia….
What 1979 hit disco instrumental is the Notorious B.I.G. sampling in his posthumous hit single, “Hypnotize”?
To get a pass from the “bad chair/Lay-Z-Boy/sofa/sectional/lounge” you must provide the song title and artist first (without using “teh Google” or “teh Wiki”). If no one is able to guess the correct answer by 6:00pm EST, I am keeping the pass for myself.
Can’t recall the answer? Take a listen and see if you can figure it out…
