Quincy Jones' Petition to create a Secretary of the Arts

BenjaminWells · Post by **BenjaminWells** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:02 pm

Please sign Quincy Jones' petition to have Obama create a Secretary of the Arts position in his cabinet.
www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

...but shouldn't we call it Art Tsar? Who wouldn't want to be the Art Tsar?

cgarges · Post by **cgarges** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:12 pm

Terrific interview on Carson Daily last night.

It's interesting to note that the US and Germany are the only countries in the UN that don't have a position like that.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:20 pm

Well, Germany has Hasselhoff, so he pretty much does that job, gratis.

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:14 pm

I know it's OT, but I'd like to see a Secretary of Peace first.

http://www.thepeacealliance.org/

@?,*???&? · Post by **@?,*???&?** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:31 am

Let's sincerely hope that its not to be Lawrence Lessig! lol

curtiswyant · Post by **curtiswyant** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:50 am

Shit, could you imagine who the next Republican president would put in that position? Fuckin' Big & Rich.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:59 pm

curtiswyant wrote:Shit, could you imagine who the next Republican president would put in that position? Fuckin' Big & Rich.

*spits coffee all over iMac* LOL!

CurtZHP · Post by **CurtZHP** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:25 pm

Just what I need. Another rich liberal telling me I don't fork enough money into the arts. And doing it on my dime to boot.

Young Winston · Post by **Young Winston** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:29 pm

Well, my dimes have apparently been paying for people to be imprisoned without trial or due process, and tortured to boot...so turnabout is fair play I guess.

CurtZHP · Post by **CurtZHP** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:40 pm

Keep tellin' yourself that. Here's a napkin to wipe the koolaid off your chin.

Snarl 12/8 · Post by **Snarl 12/8** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:57 pm

Young Winston wrote:Well, my dimes have apparently been paying for people to be imprisoned without trial or due process, and tortured to boot...so turnabout is fair play I guess.

I'm pretty sure I spent a few dimes so that AIG execs could have some lavish parties too. But art and peace, that's just too expensive and wasteful. FUCK!

chris harris · Post by **chris harris** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:58 pm

CurtZHP wrote:Keep tellin' yourself that. Here's a napkin to wipe the koolaid off your chin.

Holy crap! You're not a twenty percenter, are you? Whoa!
I've been waiting to meet one. I've had a question that I've been dying to ask...

Really?

chris harris · Post by **chris harris** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:04 pm

oh... and, this one, too....

Still?

CurtZHP · Post by **CurtZHP** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:11 pm

Depends on what you mean.

chris harris · Post by **chris harris** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:27 pm

I'm talking about the 20% who are so blinded by their ideology that that they still support the party line and deny that as a result of this "war", people have been "imprisoned without trial or due process, and tortured". I'm from a very, very dark red part of the country. And, even here, most Republicans I meet (even the really kooky ones who think that Bill Clinton had people murdered) will acknowledge obvious things like this.

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