zEN mAN (observing double amputee...paralympic and olympic runner and now world famous playboy Oscar Pistorius being accused of murdering his gorgeous model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp with a handgun...on Valentines Day....every fucking day somebody gets shot ...somewhere...with a gun...lobbied all over the world by blood drenched Wayne LaPierre...Fuck the NRA....stabbings and stranglings are down)
President Barack Obama: State of the Union, 2013 (White House)
Fifty-one years ago, John F Kennedy declared to this chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress." "It is my task," he said, "to report the State of the Union -- to improve it is the task of us all."
Paul Krugman: Marco Rubio Has Learned Nothing (New York Times)
… he and his party are now committed to the belief that their pre-crisis doctrine was perfect, that there are no lessons from the worst financial crisis in three generations except that we should have even less regulation. And given another shot at power, they'll test that thesis by giving the bankers a chance to do it all over again.
Paul Krugman: The Ignorance Caucus (New York Times)
… consider the agonized discussions of gun policy that followed the Newtown massacre. It would be helpful to these discussions if we had a good grasp of the facts about firearms and violence. But we don't, because back in the 1990s conservative politicians, acting on behalf of the National Rifle Association, bullied federal agencies into ceasing just about all research into the issue. Willful ignorance matters.
Andrew Tobias: Two Speeches and a PS
I thought the State of the Union was spot on. Investing in the future: in research, in infrastructure, in our kids, in alternative energy, in modernizing infrastructure. Voting rights. Granting gun safety measures 92% of us favor an up-or-down vote. Raising the minimum wage to $9 by 2015 from its current $7.25.
Ron Rosenbaum: Is Jane Austen Overhyped? (Slate)
… it's begun to seem like she's now assumed the role of the designated highbrow writer for light readers. It's not that she's overrated. It's that she's in dire jeopardy of being overhyped-and dumbed down in the process.
Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
The greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew ev'ry tree
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
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Baron Dave ("I don't make films for children. I make films children are not embarrassed to take their parents to." -- Walt Disney) was first, and correct, with:
Three. Presumably, going on four, but the song isn't that specific.
Alan J said:
Three
Charlie wrote:
Why, he killed him a bar when he was only three (probably not).
John A. responded:
Killed him a b'ar when he was only three.
Roy in Tyler, TX replied:
I do believe I heard somewhere as a child, that Davy, Davy Crockett kilt him a b'ar, when he was only three!
Adam answered:
'...when he was only three.'
Sally said:
Verse 1: Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
greenest state in the land of the free
raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree
kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!
I can picture Fess Parker as Davy (on TV) even now...
PS: Shout out to B2BB! Feel better, and fast!!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
3
Marian replied:
3
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
Davy Crockett killed him a bear (ba'r) when he was only three!!!I had my coonskin cap and watched it all that I could on Disneyland. My favorite show was "The Keelboat Race" with Mike Fink. A guy I went to school with was named Mike Fink and claimed to be a blood relative. I think that was bullshit!
Johni from Hawai'i says,
"3."
MAM wrote:
Davy killed a bear when he was 3
BttbBob is still under the weather. Feel better soon!
And, Joe S answered:
Let me answer that with a song. By-the-way, back in the Fess Parker days, my big cousin Chuck got a coon-skin cap with plastic eyes and a plastic nose. I was soooooo jealous.
I remember the penny candy days Sally. When we moved to the big city Muskegon, there was a corner grocery two blocks from our house. We could spend an hour in there getting the best deal for 6 or 7 cents. The store owner must have had the patience of Job.
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'The Job', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 3rd One', then a FRESH'Blue Bloods'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Helen Hunt, Jeff Caldwell, and the Macabees.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is Mario Lopez.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Kathy Griffin, David Feherty, and FM Radio.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Joan Rivers, Josh Charles, and Gloriana.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/28/13) are Rich Eisen, "The Rambler", and Divine Fits.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH'Malibu Country', then a FRESH'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel it's "Jimmy Kimmel Live: This Week".
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Paper Heart'.
Faux has a FRESH'Kitchen Nightmares', followed by a FRESH'Touch'.
MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Knight's Tale', and 'The Walking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] WILD THINGS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Giant Centipede
[9:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 11 - Ep 5 - Kristen Stewart, Chris Rock, Engelbert Humperdinck, Stephen Mangan
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Midnight
[11:00AM] PRIMEVAL - Season 4 - Episode 5
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 11 - Cafe 36
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 1 - Getting Started
[1:30PM] RAMSAY'S ULTIMATE COOKERY COURSE-Ep 2 - Keeping It Simple
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Runaway Girl
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Olde Stone Mill
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 5 - The Bonding
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Booby Trap
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
[9:00PM] GATTACA
[11:00PM] GATTACA
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 5 - The Bonding
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Booby Trap
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 8 - The Price
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'Friday'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', followed by the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.
FX has the movie 'The A-Team', followed by the movie 'Live Free Of Die Hard'.
HBO offers a FRESHBill Maher
The Interview: Robert Zimmerman | Mid-Show Interview: Joel McHale | The Panel: Donna Brazile, Jon Meacham, and Jamie Weinstein.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Bachelor Party
[8:30AM] Batman & Robin
[11:15AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[1:15PM] Meatballs
[3:15PM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[5:00PM] Bachelor Party
[7:15PM] Batman Returns
[10:00PM] Portlandia-Alexandra
[10:30PM] Portlandia-Blunderbuss
[11:00PM] Event Horizon
[1:00AM] Portlandia-Alexandra
[1:30AM] Portlandia-Blunderbuss
[2:00AM] Batman Returns
[4:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[5:00AM] Mr. Show With Bob and David-If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There
[5:35AM] The Three Stooges-No Dough Boys (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Father Figures (Episode 4, Season 1)
[7:00A] The Art of the Steal
[8:45A] Girl By The Lake
[10:30A] A Film With Me in It
[12:00P] Of Time And The City
[1:15P] The Art of the Steal
[3:00P] Girl By The Lake
[4:45P] An American Haunting
[6:15P] State and Main
[8:00P] Mommie Dearest
[10:15P] Little Children
[12:30A] Appropriate Adult
[3:00A] Little Children
[5:15A] ICONOCLASTS - Lena Dunham + Judd Apatow (Episode 2, Season 6) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown', then a FRESH'Merlin'.
Actress Mila Kunis arrives at the premiere of the Disney movie "Oz the Great and Powerful" at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California February 13, 2013.
Photo by Patrick Fallon
Thousands danced in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds chanted in South Africa, carrying signs and candles. The Philippines held a 24-hour dance party. Scores of students in India gathered for a candlelight vigil.
Organizers say these are among thousands of events taking place in 205 countries Thursday as part of One Billion Rising, an international call led by Eve Ensler's V-Day organization to end violence against women and girls.
Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," announced the campaign last year, urging women and men around the world to walk out of work or school on Feb. 14, 2013, and dance to raise awareness of the troubling U.N. statistic that one in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
International officials have also endorsed the event, including prime ministers of England and Australia, the president of Croatia, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who tweeted, "I rise with people of good conscience to stand up against intolerable acts of violence against women around the world. (hash)1billionrising."
Rock and roll legend Chubby Checker is twisting mad over a software application that allowed women to estimate the size of a man's penis based on his shoe size.
The singer, whose real name is Ernest Evans, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Hewlett Packard and Palm Inc. in federal court in Fort Pierce, Fla., on Tuesday, saying that the app "adversely affects Chubby Checker's brand and value."
The app, which was called "The Chubby Checker," was an unauthorized use of Checker's name and trademark, the lawsuit alleges.
Checker, who is 71 and lives in Pennsylvania, is seeking a half-billion dollars in damages and restitution.
Mississippi holds onto its title as most religious U.S. state, with 58 percent of its residents saying they are very religious, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday (Feb. 13).
The least religious state? Vermont.
About 40 percent of Americans said they were "very religious," meaning religion is an important part of their daily life and that they attend religious services every week or nearly every week. Some 31 percent indicated they were nonreligious, or that religion wasn't an important part of their daily life and they seldom or never attend such services.
The 10 most and least religious states remained relatively constant from the 2011 numbers, with the only change being the inclusion of Hawaii in the least religious list in place of New York.
As expected, the South dominated the "most religious" list, while the 12 least religious states were located in New England. For instance, while just 14 percent of Alabama residents indicated they were nonreligious, 50 percent of those in New Hampshire said the same. (In addition to very religious and nonreligious, Gallup also had a "moderately religious" category.) Utah, which has a large Mormon population, and Oklahoma, which straddles the border between the South and the Midwest, were the only exceptions to the dominantly Southern states in the top 10 list.
Japanese artist Yoko Ono stands next to art pieces that depict a river bed and morning beams during the opening of the exhibition "Half-a-wind show. A retrospective" at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt February 14, 2013. Ono will celebrate her 80th birthday on February 18, 2013. The exhibition runs from February 15 until May 12, 2013.
Photo by Lisi Niesner
Nearing 1 billion views on YouTube, "Sesame Street" is headed for Justin Bieber territory.
The children's program is closing in on the kind of rarified digital milestone usually reserved for the likes of pop stars and cat videos. "Sesame Street" will soon pass 1 billion views on YouTube and it's celebrating the mark with a campaign to put itself over the hump.
"Sesame Street" on Thursday will post a video featuring the character Telly Monster, urging viewers to click the show past the final 20 million views and unlock a "top secret video." Naturally, for the nonprofit children's series, it's a teaching moment, too. Don't be surprised if Count von Count shows up to ponder such a big number.
For "Sesame Street," the milestone - a first on YouTube for a nonprofit or U.S. children's media outlet - reflects the increasingly multimedia nature of kid entertainment. Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch are now about as likely to be watched on an iPad, phone or laptop as they are on PBS.
A cousin of the late Emmett Till wonders if Lil Wayne understands just how damaging it was when he rapped a vulgar reference to the black U.S. teen whose death in 1955 became a significant moment in the civil rights movement.
Airickca Gordon-Taylor says Till's family would like an apology from Lil Wayne for the brief but disturbing lyric on Future's "Karate Chop" remix. But more than that, she'd like the platinum-selling New Orleans rapper to understand how his comparison of a sex act to the 14-year-old Chicago native's torture death in Mississippi is hurtful to the black community.
The Future remix with Weezy guesting was leaked on the internet over the weekend. Epic Records said Wednesday it regretted the unauthorized remix version and that it was employing "great efforts" to pull it down. The brief reference - just seven words - will be stricken from the song when it's officially released later.
The rapper made a crude reference to rough sex and used an obscenity. He indicated he wanted to do as much damage as had been done to Till.
Actor Jonathan Pryce waves as he arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the movie "Dark Blood" at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 14, 2013.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
A former "Melrose Place" actress who was driving drunk when her SUV plowed into a car and killed a New Jersey woman has been sentenced to three years in prison.
The victim's husband yelled, "What a travesty!" at the judge after Thursday's sentencing, and he and his son stormed out of the courtroom.
Amy Locane-Bovenizer faced up to 10 years in prison after a jury in November convicted her of vehicular homicide in the 2010 death of 60-year-old Helene Seeman in Montgomery Township.
The judge lowered the maximum sentence citing the hardship on Locane-Bovenizer's two children. One has a medical and mental disability.
Locane-Bovenizer's blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit when the crash occurred as Seeman's husband turned into their driveway.
Ryan O'Neal may have enough evidence to show that he was defamed by a man who claimed the actor stole a valuable portrait of the late Farrah Fawcett, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
A divided panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that O'Neal's case against Craig Nevius, a former Fawcett associate, should be allowed to proceed and that the actor may be able to win some damages. One justice disagreed and wrote that the case should be dismissed.
O'Neal sued in July 2011, claiming he was defamed by Nevius' comments that the actor had stolen a Fawcett portrait created by Andy Warhol. The painting is the subject of a separate lawsuit between O'Neal and the University of Texas, which claims Fawcett left the artwork to the school after her 2009 death.
O'Neal's suit seeks more than $1 million in damages. He claimed in the case that Warhol gave him the portrait and he intends to bequeath it to his only son from his longtime relationship with Fawcett, Redmond O'Neal.
Nevius' comments that O'Neal stole the artwork were made in interviews with Star magazine and "Good Morning America," and he cooperated with UT investigators searching for the portrait.
A leather jacket worn by The Door's lead singer, Jim Morrison, is on display at Hard Rock International's traveling music memorabilia tour, "Gone Too Soon," at Hard Rock Cafe New York, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. "Gone Too Soon" pays tribute to music icons whose lives and career where tragically cut short and will be on tour at Hard Rock locations in the U.S. throughout 2013.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
France is returning seven paintings taken from their Jewish owners during World War II, part of an ongoing effort to give back hundreds of looted artworks that still hang in the Louvre and other museums.
The works were stolen or sold under duress up to seven decades ago as their Jewish owners fled Nazi-occupied Europe. All seven were destined for display in the art gallery Adolf Hitler wanted to build in his birthplace of Linz, Austria, according to a catalog for the planned museum.
At the end of the war, with Hitler dead and European cities rebuilding, artworks were left "unclaimed" and many thousands that were thought to have been French-owned found their ways into the country's top museums.
The move to return the seven paintings ends years of struggle for the two families, whose claims were validated by the French government last year after years of researching the fates of the works.
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (2) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; $1,349,861; $91.48.
2. (3) Justin Bieber; $1,232,436; $73.72.
3. (4) Neil Young & Crazy Horse; $971,057; $96.38.
4. (5) Dave Matthews Band; $967,758; $73.76.
5. (6) The Who; $863,784; $85.57.
6. (7) Leonard Cohen; $835,785; $100.33.
7. (9) Rush; $723,749; $80.99.
8. (NEW) Zac Brown Band; $654,765; $60.28.
9. (10) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $568,771; $51.47.
10. (11) Carrie Underwood; $550,438; $58.38.
11. (13) Jeff Dunham; $337,635; $52.93.
12. (12) Eric Church; $302,523; $40.34.
13. (14) Bassnectar; $217,660; $40.26.
14. (15) The Moody Blues; $160,360; $68.27.
15. (16) Wiz Khalifa; $157,791; $39.65.
16. (17) The Monkees; $134,414; $62.93.
17. (18) "So You Think You Can Dance"; $133,785; $58.23.
18. (New) "The Story Tour" / Mark Hall / Jeremy Camp; $133,526; $31.11.
19. (19) Mannheim Steamroller; $131,621; $57.78.
20. (New) 3 Doors Down / Daughtry; $127,008; $46.19.
Five-year-old jaguar "Nindiri" licks a heart-shaped Valentine's Day treat of frozen beef blood, beef hearts and pieces of meat at the San Diego Zoo in this handout photo courtesy of the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California February 13, 2013. The jaguar family received the "bloodcicles" as an enrichment treat from zoo keepers, important for the cats, as it keeps the animal stimulated and active, allowing them to show their natural behaviours according to the zoo.
Photo by Tammy Spratt
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