BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz rights activists will offer a prize of up to $1,000 (500 pounds)
in a contest for the "best song" to protest against the presence of U.S. troops
in the Central Asian republic, the event's organiser said.
my submission...
Here's a little message for the US of A
Every little thing you do is far and away
the very worst, and that's the very least I can
say
So get a grip
And here's a tip
Please do it today
Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out of Kyrgyz
Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out
Get the fuck out of Kyrgyz
The USA is so much like the bad guy in
Shane
There isn't any way to make it any more plain
They march right in and set a spell and then never
leave
There's nothing left for anyone to do but
bereave.
Ted Rall: "Ralph Nader: Hope You Can't Vote For"
"What," editorializes U.S. News & World Report, "does Ralph Nader bring to the political dialogue this year? Answer: nothing except for his own inflated ego." Dimestore psychoanalysis was the standard reaction to Nader's third third-party presidential bid. "An ego-driven spoiler," the Des Moines Register called him. "He seems to have a pretty high opinion of his own work," jabbed Barack Obama.
Rick Polito of the Marin Independent Journal is locally famous for his droll, single-sentence summations of television programs and movies.
What movie did he describe as: "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."
A: The Bad Seed
B: La Femme Nikita
C: Howard the Duck
D: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
E: The Wizard of Oz
mj was first, and correct, with:
I remember reading about her in fifth grade
Jane Addams, A.
Richard McD responded with the answer to who was the first African-Ameican woman to receive a Nobel prize:
Toni Morrison
Alan J was succinctly correct:
Jane Addams
will responded:
I have to admit I have no clue to your question, so I will give you another question
In 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Q--What was his uncle famous for?
A--His uncle was Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, whose unit reached the farthest north of any uniformed Confederate army.
PS----There is a monument to his capture right outside of Lisbon Ohio.
Marian the Teacher answered:
A. Jane Addams
Sally said:
My, what an eclectic group of candidates are presented as the, "First American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize." May I start from the bottom first and add a bit of variety today? Okay, here we go:
E: Annie Edson Taylor. Annie, a school teacher by trade, is better known as, "Niagara's real Maid of the Mist." In 1901, Annie, climbed into an old pickle barrel (constructed of oak and iron and padded with a mattress) and became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls!
Oh, BTW, she was 63 frigging years old at the time!
D: Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, was the first African American woman mathematician. And, although unrecognized for many years thereafter, she was also as the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics (later documented by Catholic University, in Washington, DC, in 1943).
C: Mary Katherine Goddard was a printer and a publisher, and probably the first American woman postmaster, circa 1775 . But she achieved her real fame as the printer of the first copies of the, "Declaration of Independence" to include the signers' names. (Note: These can now be found in the TP section of your local super market or big box discount store.)
B: Mary Elizabeth Bowser. Mary Elizabeth was born a slave, but as a freed slave, she was strategically placed as a servant in the Confederate White House in Richmond, VA. Working as a maid for President and Mrs. Jefferson Davis, she was able to obtain Confederate secrets firsthand.She worked with the daughter of her former owner (Elizabeth Van Lew) as a Black undercover agent during the American Civil War. (Bet you never read about that in your high school history books!)
A: Jane Addams and her Longtime friend, Ellen Gates Starr, founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States. Jane pioneered in the areas and laws that governed working conditions for children and women - and was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
In 1912, Jane Addams campaigned for the Progressive Party AND she actively worked with the Peace Party, helped found and served as president (1919-35) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was also a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
In 1931 Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Nicholas Murray Butler. Because of her ill-health, she was unable to attend the European ceremonies (in Oslo) to accept her prize.
In her day, Jane was accused of being a socialist, an anarchist and a communist - in fact, she was only a mover and a shaker and, she is My American Idol, let me tell you!
A little long, but I just love our Females in history...
PS "In honoring Jane Addams, we also pay tribute to the work which women can do for peace and fraternity among nations..."
...as found in the Presentation Speech by Halvdan Koht, member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1931
Got this note from Marianne regarding Wednesday's question about America's first woman architect.
Marty
I looking for the answer to "Who was America's first woman architect?" I came up with a name that was not on the list!
The date for her, 1881, is earlier than Julia Morgan. who gradiated from the University of California in 1894. Not wanting to rock the boat by replying "None of the above", I choose not to answer!
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular', followed by a RERUN'Ghost Whisperer', then a RERUN'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Woody Harrelson and Tommy Tiernan.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Coolio, Dweezil Zappa, and Jason Randal.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Amne$ia', followed by a 2-hour 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Dave Salmoni and animals, Patricia Arquette, and the Punch Brothers.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Christina Ricci, Jason Sudeikis, and Shooter Jennings.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/6/08) are Neil Strauss and Regina Spektor.
ABC pisses away the night with a RERUN'Grey's Anatomy', followed by 2-hours of the unwatchable '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
Faux has a RERUN'Bones', followed by a RERUN'House'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'Bill Moyers Journal', and a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio'.
AMC offers the movie 'Species', followed by the movie 'The Matrix', then the movie 'Gothika'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 Momma Cherri's;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 19 Ardingly 23;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 23 Newark 36;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 17;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 18;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 2;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 8 The Age of Romance;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 4 Inferno;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 The Granary;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[8:40 PM] Coupling - Ep. 5 The Girl with Two Breasts;
[9:20 PM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 4;
[10:00 PM] Newsnight;
[11:00 PM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[11:40 PM] Coupling - Ep. 5 The Girl with Two Breasts;
[12:20 AM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 4;
[1:00 AM] Coupling - Ep. 4 Inferno;
[1:40 AM] Coupling - Ep. 5 The Girl with Two Breasts;
[2:20 AM] That Mitchell and Webb Look - Episode 4;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.12 West Drayton;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep.13 Chesham;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 24 Ardingly 24;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 25 Detling 32;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 19 Lovell;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 20 Burrows;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Make Me A Supermodel', 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', another 'The Millionaire Matchmaker', and the movie 'Shall We Dance?'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Comedy Central Presents', and another 'Comedy Central Presents'.
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher
scheduled guests include: Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), Harry Shearer, Shashi Tharoor, Christopher Hitchens, and Dan Savage.
FX has the movie 'Joy Ride', followed by the movie 'Urban Legend', then the movie 'Urban Legend', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Shockwave', and 'Battle 360'.
IFC -
[07:15 AM] Basilisk #8;
[07:45 AM] In America;
[09:35 AM] A Love Song For Bobby Long;
[11:40 AM] I Am David;
[01:20 PM] IFC News Special;
[01:30 PM] In America;
[03:20 PM] A Love Song For Bobby Long;
[05:30 PM] 2008 Spirit Awards;
[07:45 PM] IFC News Special;
[08:00 PM] Nowhere;
[09:30 PM] Trapped in the Closet;
[11:00 PM] Framed on IFC #4;
[11:30 PM] Witchblade Episode #9;
[12:00 AM] Reefer Madness;
[01:15 AM] IFC News Special;
[01:30 AM] 4-Cylinder 400;
[02:00 AM] Framed on IFC #4;
[02:30 AM] Witchblade Episode #9;
[03:00 AM] Reefer Madness;
[04:15 AM] Trapped in the Closet;
[05:45 AM] IFC News Special. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Stargate SG-1', 'Chuck', 'Stargate Atlantis', and a FRESH'Stargate Atlantis'.
Sundance -
[05:10 AM] Lemon Sky;
[07:00 AM] Ginger and Cinnamon;
[09:00 AM] Episode 5;
[09:30 AM] Episode 5: Nothing Is Fun In A Hurricane;
[10:00 AM] Episode 4;
[10:35 AM] Before the Flood;
[11:45 AM] Wear;
[12:30 PM] Imagine...The Beatles in Love;
[01:30 PM] Episode 5;
[02:00 PM] Ginger and Cinnamon;
[04:00 PM] Eve & the Fire Horse;
[05:40 PM] The Saviour;
[06:00 PM] Tom Ford on Jeff Koons;
[07:00 PM] Charging the Rhino;
[08:00 PM] The Death of Mr. Lazarescu;
[10:30 PM] Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic;
[12:00 AM] Sonny;
[02:00 AM] John Mayer, Norah Jones & Richard Ashcroft;
[03:00 AM] Episode 4;
[03:30 AM] Episode 5;
[04:00 AM] Episode 4;
[04:30 AM] Episode 2;
[05:00 AM] Seamless. (ALL TIMES EST)
Jazz musician Herbie Hancock, founder of Playboy magazine and the Playboy Jazz Festival Hugh Hefner, 81, jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and comedian Bill Cosby who is the festival's master of ceremonies (L-R) attend a news conference which was held to announce the artists performing at the 30th Jazz Festival in Los Angeles, California February 27, 2008. The festival takes place on June 14 and 15, 2008 at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The very design of Abu Ghraib in Iraq turned good soldiers into evil tormentors that humiliated and brutalized prisoners, a famed social psychologist said Thursday.
Stanford University professor Philip Zimbardo described a "Lucifer effect" as he flashed shocking images of Abu Ghraib horrors for those at an elite Technology, Entertainment and Design conference in California.
"If you give people power without oversight it is a formula for abuse," Zimbardo said to a stunned audience the included famous actors, entrepreneurs and politicians.
Zimbardo, 75, is renowned for the 1971 Stanford prison experiment in which students on summer break play roles as guards or prisoners in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the university's campus in Northern California.
The pretend guards grew so sadistic and the prisoners so cowed that the experiment was halted prematurely out of concern for the students.
Zimbardo detailed stark parallels to abuses of suspected terrorists by US soldiers at Abu Graib prison in Iraq, and how environment can turn people into heroes or demons.
Cast members from the 'Knots Landing' television series, from left, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, Joan Van Ark and Donna Mills, pose for a photo after they were reunited for an interview on the NBC 'Today' television show, in New York, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008.
Photo by Richard Drew
Actress and humanitarian activist Angelina Jolie said Thursday that the reinforcement of U.S. troops in Iraq has created an opportunity for humanitarian programs to boost assistance for Iraqi refugees.
In an op-ed piece published by the Washington Post, titled "A Reason to Stay in Iraq," Jolie details the plight of refugees and says their conditions have not imAngelina Jolieproved since she visited the country last August to urge governments to provide more support.
Jolie, who has been a U.N. goodwill ambassador since 2001, was in Baghdad earlier this month to again highlight the refugee problem. She talked with Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the U.S. Embassy said.
"It will be quite a while before Iraq is ready to absorb more than 4 million refugees and displaced people," Jolie wrote. "But it is not too early to start working on solutions."
Longtime NBC comedy "Scrubs" is heading to rival network ABC.
Sources say ABC is in negotiations to pick up 18 episodes of the show from Disney corporate sibling ABC Studios, which has produced the series for NBC since 2001.
A broadcast show switching networks, though often discussed during contract renewals, is a rare event. Previous network jumpers include "JAG" (NBC to CBS) and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The WB to UPN).
The writers strike cut short NBC's 18-episode final-season order for the Zach Braff medical comedy to 12 episodes. Sources say the network has been reluctant to order additional episodes for next fall, citing the fact that it already has some fresh episodes in the can. NBC reportedly floated various end game scenarios to producers, including ordering one final episode, or producing the remaining episodes direct to DVD.
A resin statue used in the film "The Maltese Falcon" from the "Pugliese Pop Culture Collection" is seen at Guernsey's in New York February 28, 2008. The "Pugliese Pop Culture Collection" has hundreds of items related to modern popular culture that will be auctioned in Las Vegas in March.
Photo by Lucas Jackson
"Quarterlife," the first Web-based drama to air on network television, has been canceled by NBC after a dismally rated first episode but will move to sister cable channel Bravo, people close to the show said on Thursday.
The highly touted online series about a group of young artists bombed in its NBC debut on Tuesday night, drawing the network's lowest ratings and smallest audience for that time slot in at least 20 years, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The show ranked a distant third place for the 10 p.m. hour, averaging just 3.1 million viewers and a meager 1.3 rating among advertisers' favorite demographic, adults aged 18 to 49, the precise audience for whom the series was designed.
The program had been scheduled to move to Sundays on NBC starting March 2.
An effort at damage control has snowballed into a public relations disaster for a Swiss bank seeking to crack down on a renegade Web site for posting classified information about some of its wealthy clients.
Documents from Bank Julius Baer containing information about several bank clients, including San Diego venture capitalist Jonathan Lampitt, were posted last month on Wikileaks.org. The site purports to discourage unethical behavior by corporations and governments by putting leaked documents online.
In federal court in San Francisco, the bank asked a judge to take down the site. Much to the outrage of free speech advocates and others, the judge did.
But instead of the information disappearing, it rocketed through cyberspace, landing on other Web sites and Wikileaks' own "mirror" sites outside the U.S. The digerati call the online phenomenon of a censorship attempt backfiring into more unwanted publicity the "Streisand effect."
Techdirt Inc. chief executive Mike Masnick coined the term on his popular technology blog after the actress Barbra Streisand's 2003 lawsuit seeking to remove satellite photos of her Malibu house. Those photos are now easily accessible, just like the bank documents.
For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars.
Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 Americans were in jail or prison at the start of 2008 - one out of every 99.1 adults. Whether per capita or in raw numbers, it's more than any other nation.
The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
The report said the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation, far ahead of more populous China with 1.5 million people behind bars. It said the U.S. also is the leader in inmates per capita (750 per 100,000 people), ahead of Russia (628 per 100,000) and other former Soviet bloc nations which round out the Top 10.
Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger says he asked an Ohio museum to return his Austrian army tank because he was concerned about the upkeep and wants to offer rides to schoolchildren.
$chwarzenegger, a native of Austria, said he plans to offer the rides to inner-city children in the Los Angeles area as a reward for staying in school, avoiding drugs and working hard.
Warren Motts, founder and director of Motts Military Museum, said $chwarzenegger acquired the M47 American-made tank from the Austrian government and had it shipped to Florida. He transported it to a Columbus, Ohio, shopping mall in 1999 when he opened a Planet Hollywood there.
$chwarzenegger lent the tank to the museum, located in Groveport, in 2000.
A handout graphic image February 28, 2008, shows a reconstruction of the face of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. This is the first representation of Bachs face made using his excavated skull. Researchers said on Thursday that it should be a better likeness of the composer than in existing sculptures and paintings.
Rare works by Charles Dickens, including a page from the original manuscript of "Pickwick Papers" and an illustration of the "Oliver Twist" character Bill Sikes, are going on the auction block.
The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens is expected to fetch more than $2 million when it is sold at Christie's on April 2.
Among the highlights is "The Uncommercial Traveller" (1861), inscribed by Dickens to novelist George Eliot. Its pre-sale estimate is $100,000 to $150,000.
A page from the original manuscript of Dickens' first novel, "Pickwick Papers," containing a comedic scene between Pickwick's valet, Sam Weller, and a gentleman, John Smauker, could sell for $150,000 to $250,000.
The first oddity (but certainly not the last) about the eight-week Oprah Winfrey infomercial "Oprah's Big Give" is that there is nary a single genuine giving moment to be found during the opening hour.
It is instead a profoundly hyperkinetic and unwieldy adventure in product placement, in Oprah-as-Messiah hype and, ultimately, in what's so utterly fake and insidious about "reality" television itself.
Because the ABC series operates under the high-minded guise of bringing life, rescue and joy to people in need, it's actually even more disturbing than those shows claiming no similarly socially redeeming purpose.
While the recipients of this largesse no doubt truly benefit in a format that's one part "Queen for a Day" and one part "The Amazing Race," the question must be asked early on: Is it worth being exploited as a quasi-pathetic charity case on national television, replete with on-cue manipulative sappy music and photo ops choreographed by editors seemingly in the throes of epileptic seizure, to gain that helping hand?
A policewoman escorts Lana Wendt (C) and Kristi-Anna Brydon (R) after police stopped a topless demonstration by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) at Circular Quay in Sydney February 27, 2008. The animal liberation group was drawing attention to the Running of the Bulls event in Pamplona, Spain, which PETA says is cruel to the animals.
Photo by Will Burgess
A Claude Monet painting of a bridge with two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats bob below is expected to break an auction record for the artist when it goes on sale this spring.
"The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil" will be offered at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale on May 6, its first time at auction in a generation. The current record for a Monet painting is $36.5 million for his 1904 "Nympheas," which was sold last year.
Argenteuil was a center for pleasure boating by affluent Parisians and a popular subject for many impressionist artists. Monet, who rented a house near the cast-iron railway bridge, painted the work in 1873.
An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.
After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.
The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.
Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith died of pneumonia Thursday, less than two weeks before the band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 64.
He was admitted to the intensive care unit Wednesday morning with a chest infection, a complication from a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed below the ribcage with limited use of his upper body. His agent Margo Lewis said he was injured when he fell from a fence at his home in Spain in September 2003.
Smith had been in the hospital since the accident, and was just released last December when he moved into a specially prepared home near the hospital with his wife.
Smith wrote songs as well as singing and playing keyboards for the Dave Clark Five, one of many British rock acts whose music swept across the United States in the 1960s during the so-called British Invasion.
The Dave Clark Five claimed a string of U.S. hits, including "Because," "Glad All Over," and "I Like it Like That." By 1966, the band had made 12 appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," then a record for any British group.
The group's antics were captured in John Boorman's 1965 documentary "Catch Us If You Can," which followed Smith and his band mates through the English city of Bristol.
Smith is survived by his wife, Arlene (nicknamed Charlie).
Drummer Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix in his short-lived group, Band of Gypsys, died at his home in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, his publicist said.
Miles, who was 60, suffered from congestive heart failure, Duane Lee said on Wednesday. He did not know the official cause of death.
With his bombastic style, the former teen prodigy helped develop such musical forms as funk metal and acid jazz thanks to his work with such guitarists as John McLaughlin, Mike Bloomfield and Carlos Santana.
In 1967, he and Bloomfield co-founded Electric Flag, whose rock-brass sound influenced Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
But Miles is probably best known for his stint with Band of Gypsys, an all-black group put together by Hendrix in 1969 after the dissolution of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Band of Gypsys are immortalized on an acclaimed album of the same name, which drew from four shows performed on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York City. Miles contributed two of his own compositions, "We Gotta Live Together" and "Changes."
In this undated file picture, released by the Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, the young polar bear cub Wilbaer, is seen in his enclosure with his mother Corinna. Wilbaer was born in the zoo on Dec. 10, 2007.
Photo by Wilhelma Stuttgart
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