Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Years!

I'd just like to say happy new years to all of the 1.5 readers that we have and thank you all for being part of this record year for Balee Dat. That's right, we've had a total of TEN posts this year and... let's just say FIFTEEN visitors. And you better BALEE DAT!

Edit: Because I have nothing to do with my spare time I found an Asher Roth song from 2005.

And in other news LSSU made the AP and Slashdot with this story!

Monday, December 22, 2008

A Very Skronat Christmas


Skronat will be headlining a show the day after new years. Come and celebrate the holidays with the boys. We may have some special guests in the form of a Lavoy Brothers Reunion, or possibly Jacob^2 with Alex Hakola opening for us, but nothing is set in stone yet. Bring your dancing shoes and be prepared for a good time. - Skronat

I know I'll be there. So I hope to see everyone else there that reads this blog... all 4 of you! And you better baleedat!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Bailout Round 2?


This should be a reality show.... called how much of your money can I waste. I mean honestly? First the banking industry, then CTI Group, now the auto companies? This is ridiculous. While I've never claimed to be politically savvy, I do know that a large majority of the $750,000,000,000 has been distributed so far. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't we worse off then we were before we gave them hundreds of billions of dollars? I really don't get whats happening here.

Now that the auto companies are asking for their piece of the pie, should we concerned? Naturally. But should we at least hear them out? I say absolutely. All of a sudden Congress seems to have woken up and pulled their heads out of their ass and are now being real frugal with our money. That's good but where the hell was this two months ago?

So lets all send letters to our congressmen to thank them to thank them for blocking the Nov. 2008 vote to bailout the auto companies. Right............? Not so fast.

Maybe its the conspirator in me, but I think this is strictly class based issue. The rich take care of the rich. Many of the jobs that were "saved" by the first bailout were the white collar banker jobs (arguably, it'd do something for our financial system but that obviously was a bust). However, the jobs that would be lost in the auto company's collapse are blue-collar, factory jobs. Granted my statistics are a bit unreliable, but its something like 2.5 million jobs! That's a lot of people.

What's ridiculous to me is that these are the people who actually MAKE SHIT. The bankers, the stock brokers, sure they handle our money, but they don't MAKE anything. Also, as if the national debt weren't high enough, imagine if the United States became dependent on foreign countries for the main mode of transportation too. Would there be any money for these bankers to handle? It just doesn't make sense. To get out of this depression, or "recession", we are going to have to start selling shit to both Americans and the rest of the world.

So why not let the companies go bankrupt and re-organize? Its my understanding that declaring bankrupt would allow them to shed all debt including retirement and health benefit packages they currently pay to their past workers. Again, these are middle to lower class people who work thirty years on an assembly line and are relying on their retirement to survive. Allowing this would be bordering on Enron shit. It would also break the Unions and who know what the companies would pay their workers. Granted, I think that the labor unions have gone overboard and that paying someone $125,000 a year for unskilled labor is a bit ridiculous but these people deserve to be paid a decent salary and have decent benefits like health insurance and dental care.

There many more points I could touch on, like how Japan built two of the most reliable car industries on the road by subsidizing them, but I really don't know a lot about most of these things.

So....What should we do? Will giving the auto companies money fix this? I have absolutely no idea.

All I know is that the loss of an industries is would not be a good thing and allowing them declare bankrupt would more than likely lower the standard of living for a majority of the 2.5 million people, not counting all the retired people who would loose their health care and retirement packages. I'm not saying that we should just throw money at them like we did with the banks, because I've already stated that I think that was a gigantic waste of money, but I am saying that we should think about treating the blue-collar workers with the same respect that we treat out upper class. Balee Dat.

-FRo

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Kanye West is Funny(Awesome)


THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR MAKING 808'S & HEARTBREAK THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE WORLD!!!!! LOVE LOCK DOWN HAS SOLD 1.3 MILLION SO FAR ON ITUNES AND HEARTLESS AND SEE YOU IN MY NIGHTMARES SOLD OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND EACH LAST WEEK. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. THIS IS A NEW FRONTIER FOR ME AND MUSIC. ALL THE MIXED OPINIONS WILL BE OVER BY NEXT SUMMER WHEN I'M CLOSING FESTIVALS AND EVERYONE IS SINGING OKAAAAY ... OKAY. OKAAAAAYEE .. YOU'LL NEVER STOP IT NOW!!!! YOU'LL NEVER STOP IT NOW!!!! OR YOU WORRIED BOUT THE WRONG THINGS , THE WROOONG THIIINGS!!!! - Kanye

He's gonna be Elvis! Also, 2dope has a new track from Elvis himself and Jamie Foxx, it's fire and you better balee dat!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

F**K BASKETBALL!


so yeah for the past couple days Ive been counting down to the big college basketball showdown between #12 Michigan St. and #1 North Carolina but when i heard that the Victoria Secret fashion show was going down on the same night it was an easy decision for this guy.

BOOBIES!!!!!!

I honestly couldn't take my eyes off the screen for the whole hour it was on, I loved every moment of it and i am very sad it is over. It was magical! I wish they would have these on television more because I'm definitely going to sleep better tonight. boobies are good. Balee Dat!

oh yeah.....does anyone know the score of the game?

Jerm- UNC might have won the battle, but Victoria won the war!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Plaxico Burress=Cheddar Bob


The big story in the world of sports for the past couple of days has been that of New York Giants star wide receiver Plaxico Burress and how the dumb ass shot himself in the leg at a club this past friday night. As i was sitting there watching in amazement of how stupid the whole situation was i came to thinking.."i know ive seen this before" then it hit me, he did the same shit as that mentally handicapped guy did on the movie 8 mile.

Now if that wasn't embarrising enough they come to find out that Plex (as people call him) didnt have a permit to carry a weapon so he gets charged with two counts of second degree criminal possesions of a weapon which carries a sentence of a miminum of 3 1/2 years in prison. NOW YOU FUCKED UP!

With that one shot has the possiblitly of losing upwards to $24 million dollars and could spend the prime of his NFL career sitting in a jail cell. The New York Giants don't seem to be missing him to much as they improved thier record to 11-1 over the Washington Redskins this past weekend, tops in the NFC East.

God he sucks. Balee Dat!

Monday, December 1, 2008

John Berry - Glowing Skies



This song is from NMU's own John Berry and features Bud Clowers(of Skronat), Julie Albrecht, and Tom LaVoy(Skronat).

This is the first song that I've sang on/written a melody for, so I'm pretty stoked. If anyone wants a CD, holler!
- John Berry

I'm diggin' it.

Here's the download.

And here's the link to John's Myspace which features the song and a few others! Don't forget to Leave some feedback for John and the crew! John likes cake, balee dat!

Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero (Mixtape)



No idea who the dude is, but I like it. OnSmash premiered the mixtape so here's the link.

Best songs are Will I Stay (and the remix w/Wale!) and I Want Those Flashing Lights. However, only the Will I Stay (Remix) is on the mixtape.

Balee dat!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Go Lions!


The lions might not be able to beat The Mighty Titans, but I'd put my money on that Lion wrecking that Turkey, and you better balee dat!

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Something Big


This is the start of something big, we just aren't sure what that something is yet. JD- So be ready, cuz we got a lot to say and we aint holding back... and you better balee dat!