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Speaking of breakfast, I found out that the new Blues Traveler album is coming out on May 8th.. I also found out that there are no open dates for Jimmy Buffett this summer...

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"It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest,
It's no secret that ambition bites the nails of success,
Every artist is a coward, Every poet is a thief
They all kill their inspiration and sing about their grief."
-U2


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some tribes in Africa to this day perfrom a rite-of-passage ceremony that involves leaving the adolescent in the jungle alone for a month with nothing but a knife.

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May Day!!! May Day!!! She's going down hard and quick, this topic isn't going to make it!!!! May Day!!!!

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MAY DAY ....AHHH...Punch out Maverick -that old gag

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Happy may day all, and happy half birthday to me

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PARIS, May 1 (AFP) -

Police and demonstrators fought street battles in cities around the world Tuesday as many May Day marches turned into violent protests against globalisation, capitalism and political corruption.

In Australia and Germany, dozens of police officers were injured and many more left-wing demonstrators arrested in clashes with riot squads.

In London, where the police had warned of a repeat of last year's violent disorder, demonstrators found themselves in a stand-off with large numbers of police who appeared to have the situation under control, despite some stone-throwing and scuffles.

Each country's protests were spiced with local economic and political grievances, but the common recipe was the demonstrators' anger at unemployment and the destabilising side-effects of global capitalism.

In Australia's main cities, an alliance of anarchists, Trotskyists, green groups, students and schoolchildren brought traffic to a standstill in a series of blockades aimed at big business.

In Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, some protests turned violent and at least 60 police were injured and dozens of protesters arrested.

The demonstrations were organised by the same groups responsible for a series of anti-globalisation protests that started at a World Trade Organisation conference in Seattle in 1999.

In Berlin, some 500 protesters constructed a street barrier overnight and set it ablaze. When police, armed with water cannons, attempted to clear it, they were pelted with stones and bottles.

Some 9,000 officers from around the country had been ordered to the capital to prevent the street violence that has marred Germany's Labour Day for more than a decade.

In Frankfurt 100 protesters were arrested after 800 clashed with police.

In South Korea, 20,000 brushed aside a police barricade to defy a ban on taking their protests against the economic policies of President Kim Dae-Jung toward Seoul's main government district.

Demonstrators and pedestrians applauded as the police ranks gave way. There was no immediate violence, but 600 riot police formed a second barricade 50 metres (yards) further down the road.

In London, 6,000 police were deployed, promising "zero tolerance" of the kind of protest which last year saw damage costing than half a million pounds (715,000 dollars, 800,000 euros) inflicted on banks and symbolic targets such as McDonald's restaurants.

The demonstrations began peacefully as thousands of protesters flooded into the city centre, blocking roads, chanting slogans and occasionally throwing bottles, but apart from scuffles with police there were no serious incidents.

"Overthrow capitalism and replace it with something nice," read a banner.

In Paris, at least 12,000 people took part in three separate and peaceful demonstrations organised by trade unions.

Marchers included many employees of Marks and Spencer, Danone, Moulinex, Bull, Aventis and the French airlines Air Liberte and Air Littoral -- all companies that have suffered or are facing layoffs.

In some provincial towns large groups of protesters assembled outside branches of Marks and Spencer to protest the retailer's March 29 decision to close all shops in continental Europe with a loss of 4,400 jobs, 1,700 of them in France.

A series of high-profile job losses at profitable international firms has sparked fury among workers. The government of Socialist Prime Minister Jospin has reacted to the job losses by tightening up employment law to make sackings more expensive.

In Japan, about 1.36 million workers attended rallies across the country as trade unionists warned that new Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's plans to kickstart the stagnant economy could lead to unemployment and bankruptcies.

"It will force the Japanese people to make a sacrifice in the name of reform, bringing only unhappiness to the masses while benefiting a handful of the privileged," said Yoji Kobayashi, president of the National Confederation of Trade Unions.

In Taiwan, several thousand workers marched down the streets of Taipei demanding job protection. Officials have hinted the jobless rate could rise to 4.1 percent, the highest since 1985.

"We want to tell the government that we really can't take it any more," said Lin Hui-kuan, president of the Chinese (Taiwanese) Federation of Labour.

In Zimbabwe, the traditional Worker's Day rally turned into a confrontation between opposition groups and war veterans loyal to President Robert Mugabe, and riot police were sent to clear 5,000 people from Harare's Rufaro stadium.

And in Moscow, where there were no reports of violence, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joined a march by 17,000 trade unionists while Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov addressed some 15,000 supporters nearby.

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