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Nov 10, 2009 1

George Clinton Wins Battle for “Bow Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yay”

A cosmic victory for all funkheads upset about the deteriorating state of modern music.

From reports:

The phrase “bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea” belongs exclusively to funk legend George Clinton, a panel of federal judges ruled this week.

Bridgeport Music, the company that administers Clinton’s work, sued Universal Music Group for copyright infringement over those words in 2001. At issue: the 1998 release of “D.O.G. in Me,” a song by hip-hop and R&B group Public Announcement, one of Universal’s artists. In the song, Bridgeport claimed, Public Announcement wrongfully used the words “bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea,” as well as a repetitive use of the word “dog” in ways that infringe on Clinton’s copyright.

Clinton and two other songwriters first penned the phrase in 1982 while writing “Atomic Dog,” one of Clinton’s best-known works.

A federal jury agreed with Bridgeport and awarded the company about $89,000 in damages. The amount was based on the sales of Public Announcement’s album All Work,No Play, which included the song. Universal Music appealed the ruling, but this week the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the original decision.

Editor’s Note: There is no standard agreement on the spelling of “Yippee” or “Yay”

Apr 28, 2009 0

CDC Says Swine Flu Unconnected to Actual Swine; Pork Safe to Eat

… And in the course of one small statement the Nation of Islam’s new marketing campaign goes bust.

Nov 14, 2008 1

A Scam to Watch out For

Looks like the Nigerian e-mail scammers have some real red-blooded American competition now. This is the latest electronic scam getting to people these days. The ploy targets Bank of America customers (and others) by sending alarming messaged such “Your account has been temporarily suspended” or “Suspected Fraud Reported on Your Account.”

The goal is to get you to click through and, frightened by what might happen to your money, log in with your passwords and account numbers without really looking through the e-mail.

But notice one glaring problem: The URL it goes to is not a Bank of America URL.

Looks like a dumb enough mistake by the scammers, but if you were on a vacation and needed immediate access to your money, would you pay that much attention?

Here’s how the latest one reads:

Your Online Banking Account needs to be verified to allow you have access
to online banking:So we have issued this final warning message to you
This email is sent from our secure server to verify your Online Banking
Account as there have been a multipe error logons and Account failure.
Your access to online banking has been suspended temporaly
for security reasons by Bank Of America, N.A

Re-Verify your account now and enjoy the benefits of
Bank Of America Online Banking on our secured server:

http://www.anchorchemicalsinc.com/gallery/data/media/index.jsp/

All informations entered must be accurate and correct
for your online access to be re-activated.

Sep 15, 2008 1

Extending the Sleaze

If you’ve been getting the same e-mail that I have you’ve already seen how attacks from the right are beginning to spill outside of their own networks out into the broader ether. This is latest in a volley of alarmist conservative attacks going viral through the e-mail system - typos and all:

Subject: Michelle, Our Next 1st Lady?: Not So Funny

Soooo, why in the world would anyone ask Princeton to restrict access of Michelle Obama’s college senior thesis until after the Election? Hmmmm. And why would liberal Princeton University agree to honor that request?

The answers are below, in telling excerpts from Michelle’s thesis which clearly show that she herself is a blatant racist who was as pissed off at white America in 1985 as her recent public remarks show she is today. Don’t fall for the Obama campaign excuse that “all college kids write and say dumb things”. She is still saying them. Which is why she has been unceremoniously yanked from the campaign podium.

How would you like to have her in the White House, representing ALL? of America to the rest of the world and whispering her sweet racist advice into the ear of her “uniting” husband?

As for Barack, why would a man who claims to be as lilly white a “uniter” as he does marry an angry, pissed off race baiter like Michelle Robinson as his life partner and mother of his children? Answer: for the same reason he remained in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and hung around with Bill Ayers during the same period. And what is that reason? He is not the affable, sweet, caring “uniter” he pretends to be nowadays but the bitter, angry, white-hating polemicist he described in his pre-election run books. He is a disingenuous, dangerous PHONY who, by his written admission, doesn’t trust white folks and doesn’t want to trust them. Moreover, he is as corrupt as the Democratic Chicago Machine that spawned him. (Eg, read Rezko and Obie’s $1million earmark for Michelle’s employer, immediately following her $200k pay raise.)

Happily, Obama’s election campaign is becoming more unglued by the day as the nation discovers his true nature and agenda, and his polished patina dims under the daily scrutiny of the awakening electorate. Believing the GOP to be in hopeless disarray in 2008, the Democratic Party’s controlling liberal wing saw a golden opportunity to elect a black President but they over-played their hand and selected the wrong man. The liberal wing’s Presidential death wish is alive and well…….Humphrey, Dukakis, Carter, Mondale, Gore, Kerry and Obama. Does anyone else see a pattern here? Thank God for their obsessive stupidity.

And, oh by the way, where is Michelle Obama these days? Answer: she was so toxic on the campaign trail that  she has been sent back to Chicago to mind the children. She just doesn’t look very good in comparison with Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin, who are unabashedly American and patriotic. And the post-graduation service-to-others resumes of these graduates of small potatoes University of Southern California and Idaho State stack up screamingly well against that of money-grubbing Michelle Obama of the famed Princeton University. Michelle will look even worse when the word of her Princeton thesis gets around from me and, hopefully, from you. Touche’, Michelle and Princeton.

Keep the faith.