Claiming the prison is outdated, American Police Force turns tail and drops their bid for the Hardin Jail.
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Here’s a new joke we tell out here in the windswept plains of eastern Montana: what do you get when you cross a wanna-be Serbian Militant with a Southern California car salesman? That’s right, the keys to the Hardin Jail.
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Whenever I teach a digital storytelling/media workshop, or talk with a client about using music, I always warn about the dangers of using well-known music. First, it’s likely illegal. Beyond that, using even a legal piece of well-known music is risky. That song you think matches up so well with your tender love story might just be someone else’s song from hell: maybe it was the song playing when they found their love in the arms of another; perhaps it was the song you were air-guitaring-while-driving when that lamppost jumped out from the curb and totaled your old man’s car.
Music brings it with powerful images and emotions; usually a truckload of baggage. Make sure you’re not under it when it collapses. Read More…
Give us your tortured, your cold,
Your huddled terrorists yearning for revenge,
The wretched refuse we ripped from your teeming shore.
Send these, the swarthy and foreign, the shadowy and tempest-tossed, to us:
We lift our lamp beside the golden door.
Your huddled terrorists yearning for revenge,
The wretched refuse we ripped from your teeming shore.
Send these, the swarthy and foreign, the shadowy and tempest-tossed, to us:
We lift our lamp beside the golden door.
-inscription on the base of the Two Rivers Detention Facility, Hardin MT (ok, not really, but it could be)
Hardin, MT
Not since Ismay changed it’s name to Joe has an eastern Montana town generated so much media attention as Hardin, Montana with its campaign to become the new Guatanamo Bay. And oh has the national media eaten it up. In the past month, we’ve seen Time Magazine, CNN, Fox, NPR, and “Good Morning America.” And yesterday Al-Jazeera came to town.
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