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Adventist acappella group competes on NBC's The Sing-Off

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An Adventist a cappella group will be competing on NBC's "The Sing-Off," starting Dec. 6. Committed is one of 10 a cappella groups competing for a Sony Music recording contract and $100,000.



About Committed

Committed was formed in 2003 at Forest Lake Academy in Orlando, Fla. Since then, the group's membership has changed lots of times. The current group is made up of five graduates and one undergraduate student from Oakwood University in Huntsville, Ala.



Sabbath issues

According to Andrews University, Committed is the only Christian group in the competition. At first, this caused problems for the group.





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Before taping the show, Committed knew they would face some scheduling conflicts because they believe in keeping Saturday as the Sabbath. The group told the producers they would not be able to practice or perform on Saturdays.



According to Andrews University, Committed waited a week to find out if they would still be able to compete. The group's taping dates were moved to Mondays and Wednesdays.



"Our goal has always been to minister to people, to touch people's hearts, to spread the love of Jesus with our music," said Geston Pierre, bass singer for Committed. "We're glad to be on the show, but wether we win or lose, we're going to continue doing what we've been doing."



Other Adventist a cappella groups

Committed is the second Seventh-day Adventist a cappella group to compete on "The Sing-Off." In December 2009, Nota won the first season of "The Sing-Off." Their debut album was released in November.



Take 6 also traces its history back to Oakwood. Thirty years ago, the group began at what was then Oakwood College. Since then the group has won 10 Grammy awards and 10 Dove awards. They've released their most recent album in October.



When to watch

"The Sing-Off" is a five-night musical event in its second season. It was taped in August and September and will air Mondays and Wednesdays 8-10 p.m. ET. The finale, however, will air live on Dec. 20.
UPDATE (12/06/10 10:30 p.m.): Committed advances to the second round. They sang "This Love," by Maroon 5. At the end of the program, they gave a short preview of their next performance (Dec. 8), singing "Apologize."

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Comment of the Day: How to Fix a Swastika Tattoo for Cheap

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Comment of the Day: How to Fix a Swastika Tattoo for CheapToday we looked at the story of a guy who finagled the government into paying for the removal of his racist tattoos. In these times? With our money? An outrage. Especially considering they could have employed this commenter's easy solution.

From Yankton:


Just give me two minutes with a $1.50 pack of highlighters and I'll just turn him into a Microsoft fan.


Comment of the Day: How to Fix a Swastika Tattoo for Cheap


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Gay Pride Sneaks Into Spike TV Logo

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Gay Pride Sneaks Into Spike TV LogoGay Pride Sneaks Into Spike TV LogoSpike TV's annual Video Game Awards uses a strangely familiar inverted rainbow triangle for the "V" in VGA, notes TMZ. Coincidentally, noted inverted triangle Neil Patrick Harris is this year's host.

The manliest TV station's graphic designers were probably going for some sort of Atari-meets-Sega vintage look, and ended up with vaguely gay-connoting triangles. Because gay pride can't own all rainbows, can it? Unless God is out and proud, I guess. [Spike TV, TMZ]


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Baltimore's Strip Clubs Are on Fire

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Baltimore's Strip Clubs Are on Fire "The Block," the Baltimore neighborhood known for its "strip clubs with gaudy lights," was hit by a five-alarm fire around 4 p.m. It's under control now (just two alarms), and luckily no injuries were reported. But it looked gnarly!


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What Hell Sounds Like: All of Billy Joel's Hits Played at the Same Time

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What Hell Sounds Like: All of Billy Joel's Hits Played at the Same Time What was it like, before the internet? Well, when you wanted to listen to Billy Joel, you could only choose one song. Now, thanks to the internet, and "All of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Played at Once," you don't. Technology!


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MasterCard Cuts Off Wikileaks, Assange's Bank Account Frozen

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MasterCard Cuts Off Wikileaks, Assange's Bank Account FrozenMore bad news for Wikileaks: Not only was founder Julian Assange's Swiss bank account frozen over residency issues, but MasterCard will no longer process payments to Wikileaks. Time to get started on your cutting satirical "Priceless" commercial parody YouTube video!


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THE AMERICAN IDIOT

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THE AMERICAN IDIOT

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Just a great video capturing the essence of how the dumb down clueless idiot known as the American sheeple-has no idea what is truly going on or careless as they sit on there asses and sip suds as they watch dancing with the washed up celebrities

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POLICE STATE cluless idiots useful idiot ron paul Max Keiser Gerald Celente Jim Rogers peter schiff wall st street Federal Reserve alex jones dollar wall st goldman sachs obama Tim Geithner glenn beck freedom to fascism 9/11 inside job msnbc goldman sachs jp morgan chase

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FCC COMMISSIONER: GOV RUN ‘VALUES TEST’, CONTROL OVER MINORITY CHARACTERS, PROGRAMMING & SCHEDULING OF TV

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POWER GRAB: FCC COMMISSIONER CALLS FOR GOV RUN ‘VALUES TEST’, CONTROL OVER MINORITY CHARACTERS, PROGRAMMING & SCHEDULING OF TV

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Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Trains Airport Screeners

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Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Trains Airport Screeners

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has completed training for 2,200 Transportation Safety Officers (TSOs) at the Los Angeles International Airport according to a press release found on the MPAC website.


The MPAC release notes that the two-month training course informed officers of “the diversity of Muslims around the world from cultural dress to language to tenets. The four trainers taught the TSOs how to properly handle a Quran and discussed the different ways Muslim women and men choose to cover or dress. For example, the TSOs learned if a woman wears hijab and needs a secondary screening she should be screened in a private area by a female TSO officer.”



In 1986, MPAC was formed as a political action arm of one of the largest Wahhabi mosques in America, the Islamic Center for Southern California.


As the Center for Security Policy’s Team B II report entitled “Sharia: The Threat to America” notes, “The founders of the Islamic Center for Southern California are Hassan Hathout and his brother Maher Hathout. The late Hassan Hathout was a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. The two brothers Maher spent time in an Egyptian prison during the early days of the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities there, led by the Brotherhood’s founder Hassan Al Banna. MPAC’s own publication, The Minaret, has proudly called Hassan a ‘companion of’ and Maher ‘a close disciple of’ Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna.”


Maher Hathout also founded and is currently a senior advisor for MPAC. He and others at MPAC also currently work for and maintain a close relationship with the Islamic Center of Southern California.


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