Rock Legends Band Together For Native American Emergency Aid Cruise Event

In a great act of cooperation and compassion, 58 top legendary rock acts have agreed to perform shows on a Rock Legends Cruise meant to benefit the Sioux Nation living on reservations in South Dakota. Huge legendary rock acts such as ZZ Top, George Thorogood And The Destroyers, John Kay And Steppenwolf, Edgar Winter, Foghat, Pat Travers, Molly Hatchet, Johnny Winter, The Outlaws, The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickie Betts And Great Southern, Blackfoot and more. Tickets for the cruise start at around $2,000, which doesn't seem like a bad deal at all for this floating rock concert on the seas.

Artists will also contribute items for auctions that will raise additional funds for emergency aid for the Native American benefit as well.

The cruise is a terrific value because concert admissions are included in the price along with meals and some drinks, as well as some room service, as well many other features on this special Royal Caribbean cruise event.

Who doesn't think that many rock musicians have a big heart and care about others? And with many legendary rock performers now in their sixties, many could retire in the next few years, meaning that you need to see them. An opportunity like this may never come around again to see this many classic rocks acts all performing together.

Don't let the ship set sail on December 1, 2011 without you. Book today!

Herman Cain Changes His Sexual Harassment Lawsuits Story During Monday Night Interview On FOX News

Herman Cain's problems arising from his handling of two old sexual harassment lawsuits is likely to haunt his presidential campaign. Just yesterday, Cain claimed, "I have never sexually harassed anyone and those accusations are totally false...". But, today, Cain changed his story during a Monday night interview on FOX, now claiming that undisclosed financial settlements were paid to two women who filed suit against Cain back when was the head of the National Restaurant Association more than 10 years ago. Cain probably could have weathered out these old allegations, since they are old news, with no recent allegations. However, it is lying about these allegations yesterday that is now very likely to hurt his outsider campaign to become president.

But, Cain probably faces an uphill fight to win the GOP nomination scandal or not. While still leading national GOP preference polls, Cain actually trails Mitt Romney in all four of the earliest Republican primary or caucus events which start in early 2012. If Cain loses in South Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida to Romney, then the former Massachusetts governor could quickly wrap up the GOP nomination and work on building a unified Republican Party and concentrate on what is likely to be close 2012 general election. Cain's latest scandal makes him look untrustworthy and dishonest, which is very unfortunate. It was untimely a number of problems that detracted both Barbara Bachmann and then Rick Perry from early front-runner status as conservative alternatives to the more mainstream Romney. Now, it looks like Cain could be suffer some of the same credibility problems the others have, where he appears to only another flawed alternative to Romney.

Herman Cain appeared as an attractive conservative candidate because of his extensive success in business such as being the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza in addition his banking regulation leadership, and knowledge of economics. He is also the only major GOP candidate for president with no political experience, making him a true outsider among the crowded GOP field. Probably his latest scandal will strike at his credibility, and lower his standing in the race, only opening up the path of Mitt Romney to quickly capture the GOP nomination.

If any rule holds true in politics, its that the most likely outcome is usually the actual outcome. Mitt Romney has appeared to be the most likely candidate to win the nomination for some time now, and will also present the biggest challenge to the sitting president, who sits with lagging poll numbers and a bad economy. Protests from both the left and right, such as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations on one hand, and the Tea Party movement on the other hand, only illustrate many American's dissatisfaction with the economy or taxes. It's going to be challenging for a sitting president to be re-elected in such a political climate, where Mitt Romney has a very good chance to win the general election. Herman Cain's latest problems only serve to help Romney at this point, who can certainly benefit by a quick win of the GOP nomination as the latest heir apparent to carry the GOP banner for the general election.

Absolute Worst Cheap Last Minute Halloween Costumes

Please, please, please, for the love of God, avoid these cheap last minute Halloween costumes. These are the absolute worst of the worst:

The Lovely Floral Pattern Sheet Ghost: A white sheet as a cheap makeshift ghost costume works just fine. However, if the only sheets that your mom has have lovely floral patterns on them, then in the name of everything holy, please avoid this costume. A lovely floral pattern ghost costume looks so bad it almost makes Casper look positively scary by comparison. Not good.

Mom's Lipstick Frankenstein: Using makeup from mom's purse for a quick impromptu Frankenstein's Monster, not only doesn't look good, but is hard as heck to clean up the next day as it may stain the skin. Crappy as hell!

The Kitchen Tin Foil Robot: In your mind you may a great image of Robbie The Robot or even THE LOST IN SPACE Robot. But, the reality is you look like refrigerator leftovers in this terrible costume. Meatloaf, anyone?

Kitchen Utensils Wolverine: So you haven't shaved all that much recently, so now folks are calling you, Wolverine. But, that doesn't give you a license to come up with crappy costumes using the silverware. Hey, some folks wanna eat. Where's a fork around here?

Radio On The Ankle As A House Arrest Child Molester: Oh, God no! Please, please, don't tie a radio around your ankle for this very cheap costume. It's truly frightening, though. It could lead to some real problems.

In other words, if you're going for a last minute Halloween costume, then at least give it some thought, otherwise better to just forget about the costume this year.

IN LIVING COLOR Coming Back To FOX

For the 25th anniversary of the FOX network, Keenan Ivory Wayans has been recruited to bring back two half hour specials of the classic urban sketch comedy show that was sort of like FOX's answer to SNL. Besides the Wayans family, the classic comedy show made huge stars out of Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson and David Allan Grier, who all went on to big careers. Originally designed as a medium for the very talented Wayans family and a few supporting actors to showcase their talents, many of the Wayans family members slowly exited the show by the fifth and final season, where no family members remained by that last season.

FOX intends to give the show two shots as specials, but might bring back the show as a regular series if ratings are strong enough. Although a great medium to launch the careers of some very talented performers, the series never topped #56 in the ratings during it's five year run over at FOX. However, FOX is a much stronger network these days, and with a good cast the show might do better than before. FOX also had another SNL competitor, MADtv, based off the popular humor and satire magazine which ran 14 seasons, but was canceled a couple of years ago when it drew less than 3 million viewers per episode.

As much as the public seems to like comedy and satire, since 1958 the number of satire magazines like MAD have all disappeared, leaving only MAD as a quarterly publication as Warner Bros. cut staff by a third at the magazine giving it a shoestring budget. SNL has remained the only satire TV show to remain on the air. Other competitors such as FRIDAYS over at ABC and MADtv all eventually folded. Cable TV even gave Frank Caliendo from MADtv his own sketch comedy show for a while over at TBS, FRANK TV. But, the show only lasted just two seasons. More likely than not, any return of IN LIVING COLOR to TV is going to be short-lived. That's unfortunate. There should be more room for good satire.

MIKE & MOLLY's Halloween Episode

MIKE & MOLLY, the highly rated comedy on CBS, will have a lot of Halloween fun this Monday when the cast members do their best Frankenstein's Monster and Bride Of Frankenstein costumes. Look for a truly memorable episode!

BTW, the hit comedy is also the top TV show in it's 9:30 time slot as well as a top 20 hit.

Excellent scripts, a great cast, great acting, make this easily one of the best shows on TV.

Outrageous Halloween Costumes: Assassinated President John F.Kennedy

Here's a strong contender for one of the most outrageous Halloween costumes of all time. A young woman I know attended a Halloween party Friday evening with this assassinated President John F. Kennedy costume. Besides being super offensive and outlandish, the costume isn't exactly historically accurate either. On November 22, 1963 the president suffered two wounds, the first was a neck wound which would have been survivable, but the second and devastating wound was to the back of the head which blew out pieces of the presidents skull and brain matter onto the first lady and the Lincoln limousine. But, then again Halloween costumes aren't exactly a History Channel lesson. Some costumes are only meant to shock. This one sure did the job.

Redbox Announces New Rental Fee Increases Due To New Debit Card Fee Increase Schemes

Redbox has sent out a new round of informational Emails to their customers, announcing new fee increases in the next few days. While the company cited some cost increases, the Email also cited new debit card fee increases are one reason for the price increases. While all businesses were supposed to experience a lowering of debit card fees to 21-27 cents maximum, many credit card companies came up with new schemes to actually raise debit card fees and increase business costs, now these new debit card fee schemes are resulting in higher consumer prices.

Debit card processors were supposed to lower their prices as a result of a Federal Reserve Board ruling after weighing evidence that merchants were often paying between 44-56 cents a transaction. However, debit card providers quickly looked for new schemes to charge new fees to offset the Federal Reserve Board ruling such as new claimed "security compliance fees" or equipment rental fees, etc.

Redbox box becomes one of the first major retailers to claim that new debit card fee increases are forcing price hikes. Purchases under $15 before October 1, were charged just 6 or 7 cents by banks, however banks and debit card processors are now charging at least 21-24 cents across the board, besides being hit with new fee schemes as well. This is forcing many small "Mom & Pop" type of business to reconsider accepting debit cards at all.

Banks and debit card providers appear to be trigeering the latest round of inflation. Now, even your local DVD is being impacted by these new fee increases.