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Tom Price got fired for cheating taxpayers but screwing over the poor was okay

Tom Price got fired for cheating taxpayers but screwing over the poor was okay
What didn’t sink his chances in the administration was his heartless attempts to undermine Obamacare, raise the cost of medication and treatment for people with HIV, and exclude anyone with a pre-existing condition from being able to afford medical insurance.

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NEW MUSIC: Glen Hansard, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Hurts, Camille

NEW MUSIC: Glen Hansard, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Hurts, Camille

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This week in New Music: Grammy-nominated Glen Hansard is back with his third solo album, Yusuf/Cat Stevens is still quite franky amazing after 50 years, Hurts are still causing pain and just listen to Camille (above).

Glen Hansard – “Time Will Be the Healer”

Glen HansardIrish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has announced the follow-up to 2015’s Grammy nominated album Didn’t He Ramble.

Album number three Two Shores will be released in January 2018.

Hansard is pretty much a legend on the Irish live circuit, first coming to attention in “The Commitments,” followed by a two-decade career with The Frames, one of the best live bands you’ll ever see.

His international profile was raised with the Oscar winning soundtrack for “Once” and that formula hasn’t changed much. If anything, Hansard has pared down the sound further. Didn’t He Ramble was pretty much on man and a guitar. On Two Shores, Hansard is completely in charge, producing for the first time.

Have a listen to “Time Will Be a Healer” below.

Yusuf/Cat Stevens – The Laughing Apple

Fishman-Cat-StevensFifty years after the release of his debut album, Yusuf/Cat Stevens has surprised probably everyone but himself with one of the best albums of the year so far.

With reinterpretations of some of his earliest work alongside some new material and older songs never before released somehow there is a cohesiveness.

Granted that whole sounds like it could have been released any time in the last half century. That’s because Stevens is a legend and like Joni Mitchell his music remains pertinent and contemporary but forever timeless.

Pretty good then.

Hurts – Desire

It seems like decades since English synty pop duo Hurts emerged as the next-big-thing with their debut album Happiness in 2010.

All bright and shiny and young, they were expected to be huge. They were Pet Shop Boys meets Erasure meets Depeche Mode meets Take That but for some reason they were just not….magnificent.

It’s hard to say what was missing. What ever happened to Sophie and Peter Johnson? Somehow it just didn’t gel.

On their latest album Desire it appears that Adam Anderson and singer Theo Hutchcraft have decided to throw everything at it in an attempt to finally break through.

Sadly they probably won’t. There are songs on Desire that could be Take That-level classics. There’s “Ready to Go” and “People Like Us” which aim for Coldplay stadium heights but are…just lacking.

That’s been the problem all along – a lot of style, not that much substance.

Camille – “Seeds”

If like me you’re waiting impatiently for the next Christine and the Queens album, you might like to take a look at fellow French singer Camille.

She appeared last week on the 25th anniversary show of the BBC’s Later With Jools Holland.

I’m just going to leave this here and throw in Christine on Jools as a bonus.

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NEW MUSIC: Glen Hansard, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Hurts, Camille

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GLAAD statement on the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price

GLAAD statement on the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price

NEW YORK – Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD – the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, released the following statement this evening after President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price following numerous reports of Price using close to $1 million dollars of taxpayer money to pay for the more than two dozen private and chartered jet trips across the world.

“After decades of targeting marginalized communities for his own profit, karma finally caught up with Tom Price. It’s a relief that an anti-LGBTQ activist like Price was removed from the Trump Administration’s highest ranks, but LGBTQ Americans must remain vigilant and prepare for the next nomination – as they could bring the same discriminatory agenda as the rest of the president’s picks.”

Read more about Tom Price’s anti-LGBTQ record below and find other profiles on anti-LGBTQ activists inside the Trump Administration through GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project.
 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Secretary of Health and Human Service Tom Price’s Anti-LGBTQ Record

During Service

  • 3.28.17: Under his proposed budget for the U.S. Congress, the Trump Administration offered to cut HIV and AIDS research funding under the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
     
  • 3.24.17: President Trump and his administration appointed anti-LGBTQ activist and former Heritage Foundation employee Roger Severino to lead the Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office, putting the LGBTQ community at risk of losing access to critical and affordable health care. 
     
  • 3.20.17: Erased the LGBTQ community from The National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants and the Annual Program Performance Report for Centers for Independent Living, key surveys that are used to help provide care to American seniors – including disability, transportation, and caregiver support needs.

Prior to Service

  • Cultivated an extensive anti-LGBTQ congressional voting record: voted in favor of a Federal Marriage Amendment that would have denied same-sex couples the right to marry, voted against LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes legislation, voted against the repeal of the military’s discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy, and voted against the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which aimed to provide nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ employees.
  • Called federal guidelines on transgender equality “absurd” and a “clear invasion of privacy.
     
  • Said Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling was “not only a sad day for marriage, but a further judicial destruction of our entire system of checks and balances.”
     
  • Excused comments comparing being gay to pedophilia and bestiality as simple “Christian beliefs regarding proper sexual ethics.”
     
  • Insisted legislation designed to protect LGBTQ people from hate crimes was really “thought crimes” legislation, and bemoaned its manner of passage as an “absolute disgrace.”
     
  • Condemned the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ for turning the military into “a testing ground for social policy, and called its manner of passage “shameful.”
     
  • Spoke at a “Take Back America” conference where attendees were lectured on subjects such as “How to Counter the Homosexual Extremist Movement.”
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