'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Week 5
'Survivor: Vanuatu'
Shaken not stirred.
Well My Castaway watching friends sorry I missed you last week, to recap, the Old Men held tough after they lost another Immunity challenge and voted out another youngin Brady (FBI Guy). The ladies won the Reward challenge as well and got themselves a native named Dah he showed them there was food abound around their camp and made their bed comfortable for them, will they remember what they learned? Doubtful.
Last night there were two Shake-ups. First the islands had a bit of an earthquake and it "awakened" one of the Fire Island volcanoes. Nothing too serious. The tribes got some Vanuatu tribesman visitors demanding to know who was the "one chief" The guys picked Sarge and the women picket Scout. When they arrived at the reward challenge they were told to "drop your buffs". Then it turned out that Scout got to separate them into two teams and Sarge got to pick which one he wanted. Kind of interesting. It ended up still being one team mostly men one mostly women. The new Lopevi (mostly men) won the reward of " All the Pringles you can eat and all the beer you can drink". Unfortunately it did not lead to any nudity or drunken issues that someone regretted the next day.
Yasur (mostly women now) when ahead and lost the immunity challenge as well, and at the beginning of the challenge when they meet on the matt Travis (Bubba) was trying to get or send a signal to the guys on the other team (pulling a Zell Miller) and the girls caught him. So when they couldn't win the outrigger race, Bubba was headed off the island.
Well next week looks promising. The Two girls on Lopevi go topless in an effort to not get voted off, and the talk of the merge is in the air.
Denver Dude
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Humor Gazette
Bush flip-flops on bin Laden
One of President Bush's tough-guy soundbites is biting him in the bum today.
After 9/11, the president promised to nail the terror kingpin "dead or alive."
But not long after he botched a chance to do just that -- "outsourcing" the job
to Afghan warlords, as his opponent keeps pointing out -- Bush changed his tune.
With the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks still at large, Bush was asked at a
March 13, 2002, White House press conference why he never mentions bin Laden
anymore. The president, by then laser-focused on a guy -- Saddam Hussein -- who
did not attack us, had lost interest in the man who did.
"You know, I just don't spend that much time on him," he responded. "I don't
know where he is. ... I truly am not that concerned about him."
Fast forward to last night's debate.
from Mark
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George W. Bush: The "Quick-Start-Shouting-Liberal" President
George W. Bush: The If-You're-Unemployed-You're-Stupid President
George W. Bush: The What-Medication-Is-He-On-For-This-Debate President
George W. Bush: The I-Promise-No-Draft-Have-I-Ever-Lied-To-You President
George W. Bush: The Sell-All-Your-Possessions-On-Ebay-Because-You-Have-To President
George W. Bush: The Pleasure-Of-Spending-Other-People's-Money President
George W. Bush: The Fiscally Irresponsible President
George W. Bush: The My-Pet-Goat President
George W. Bush: The Most-Misguided-War-Since-Vietnam President
George W. Bush: The Malaprop President
George W. Bush: The Pursed-Lips President
George W. Bush: The Republican-Who-Frightens-Moderate-Conservatives President
George W. Bush: The Never-Met-A-Corporate-Tax-Break-I-Didn't-Like President
George W. Bush: The Ain't-Nobody's-Fault-But-Someone-Else's President
George W. Bush: The Every-Time-An-Al-Qaeda-Member-Is-Captured-Another-One-Takes-His-Place President
I'm George W. Bush, And I Approve This Lying TV Ad
George W. Bush: The Pants-On-Fire President
If You Make Less Than $200,000 Yearly, Vote For Kerry
If You Make More Than $200,000 Yearly, Consider Bush, Then Vote For Kerry
Democrats: Better For The Job Market
Democrats: Better For The Stock Market
John Kerry: The I-Have-A-Brain Candidate
John Kerry: The 3-Peat Debate Champion
Thanks, Bruce!
Reader Comment
O'Reilly's little predicament
Is anyone really surprised?
I mean, c'mon......we're all well aware of the right wing's complete absence of respect for women.
Assclowns like Bill O'Reilly really do believe that a woman's "place" is either behind a man or under him.
Once again, the "Family Values" folks have demonstrated their hypocrisy!
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
Selected Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & a bit too warm.
The visit with the Australians went quite well and was a lot less eventful than the last time.
We invited them over for dinner, but since they had no car, I drove down behind the Orange Curtain & brought them back to the house. We ate, talked for hours, had a great time in general & it was time to take them back to their motel.
The TV had been on in the background (Lakers were in the playoffs) when the game was interrupted by 'news' - a slow speed chase by a white Bronco, with Al Cowlings at the wheel & OJ in the backseat - and they were coming our way.
As the TV-copters neared, we figured it was just as well to open another bottle of something & shoot the shit another hour or 2 til the freeway was not a media circus.
Hosting Academy Awards
Chris Rock
The Oscars have a piece of the Rock. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced Chris Rock will host the next Academy Awards telecast.
Rock, 39, has previously hosted the MTV's Movie Awards.
"I am a huge fan of Chris Rock," said Gil Cates, the producer of the Oscars telecast. "He always makes me laugh and he always has something interesting to say. Chris represents the best of the new generation of comics. Having him host the Oscars is terrific."
The 77th Academy Awards telecast is set for Feb. 27.
Chris Rock
Backs Kerry
Jon Stewart
Comedian Jon Stewart, whose nightly cable television show is popular with the young voters considered key in the upcoming presidential election, said on Thursday he prefers Democrat John Kerry over Republican resident Bush.
"It looks like Kerry," said Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," a satirical late-night review of politics on Viacom Inc.-owned cable channel Comedy Central. "I would be stunned if something happened to change my mind."
He called the U.S.-led war in Iraq a "mistake" and said he failed to understand the "Bush doctrine" of preemptive strikes against perceived security threats.
"If one guy drove me into a ditch and said, 'Don't worry, I know how to get us out of this,' I'd give the keys to a 7-year-old," Stewart said during a media event sponsored by Syracuse University's Newhouse School.
Stewart also took aim at the mainstream U.S. media -- which he mocks regularly -- and said it fails to take politicians or big business to task.
"The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust," he said. "What I'm advocating is the media come back and work for us again. ... The bias of the media is not liberal. It's lazy and sensationalist."
Jon Stewart
Ads Encourage Voting
NYC Fashion
They look like ads for trendy shoes, handbags and clothes, but the colorful designs that will adorn the Fashion Center Information Kiosk on New York's Seventh Avenue are selling a civic duty rather than the latest style.
The ads come from 10 designers putting their own creative spin on a "Voting is always in style" campaign sponsored by The Fashion Center, a local nonpartisan business improvement organization.
Designs for the kiosk windows, to be unveiled Friday, come from Carmen Marc Valvo, Eileen Fisher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Kenneth Cole, Betsey Johnson, Nicole Miller, Steven Burrows, Sylvia Heisel, Rocawear and Phat Farm. The kiosk is located at the corner of 39th Street, beneath a giant needle and button.
NYC Fashion
New Box Office Math
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
By the standard box office reckoning, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2" won the summer box office derby with domestic ticket sales of $440 million. And Lions Gate's "Fahrenheit 9/11," though a resounding success, was the summer's ninth most successful movie with a domestic gross to date of $119 million.
But viewed through a prism that suggests the beginning of a cost-vs.-earnings analysis, the summer tells a different story, with "Fahrenheit" vaulting to the second spot.
Eschewing the traditional approach of the end-of-summer scorecards, Entertainment Business Group -- a California business services, production funding and global sales company -- has compiled an alternative box office chart that measures each picture's opening-weekend performance against its production cost and marketing/distribution expenses. The study is based on Exhibitor Relations data, EBG's own industry analysis and information from the National Association of Theater Owners.
By EBG's calculation, "Fahrenheit's" opening weekend of $23.9 million represents 70% of its combined production and distribution costs of $34 million, the second-highest percentage among films coming out of the summer heat. It trailed only "Shrek 2," whose opening weekend of $108 million, measured against its estimated production and distribution costs of $127.5 million, earned it a factor of 85%.
'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Urges Letters to Ohio Voters
The Guardian of London
A British newspaper urged readers to write to Ohio voters to share their thoughts on the presidential race.
The Guardian of London published a special section Wednesday, inviting readers to contact voters in Clark County, about 30 miles west of Columbus, about the importance of the Nov. 2 election.
Under the headline, "football and mowers," the paper described the county as a good example of American life outside of big cities and noted that Ohio is a key swing state.
By logging onto the paper's Web site, anyone can put in an e-mail address and receive the name and address of a registered voter who is not affiliated with a political party. The paper received more than 3,000 requests the first day.
The newspaper's Web site said letter-writers were free to support either resident Bush or Sen. John Kerry but noted that a Guardian poll showed 47 percent of Britons back Kerry and 16 percent support Bush.
The Guardian of London
Show to Feature Beatles
Cirque Du Soleil
The Beatles are teaming up with Cirque du Soleil to create a theatrical production that will replace the legendary Siegfried & Roy act at The Mirage hotel-casino.
It is the first major theatrical partnership for The Beatles, whose musical archive has been carefully guarded for decades, said Neil Aspinall, managing director of the band's Apple Corps label.
The remaining members of the group, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, will help shape the production but will not appear in it. Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, respective widows of late members John Lennon and George Harrison, also will collaborate.
The deal for the joint venture was reached this week between Cirque du Soleil, Apple and The Mirage, said Bill McBeath, the hotel-casino's president and chief operating officer. The yet untitled show is expected to cost more than $100 million and should be ready in about 20 months, he said.
Cirque Du Soleil
Mustang Ads Feature
Steve McQueen
The late Steve McQueen is making a return appearance starting next month in commercials for the 2005 Mustang. The ads draw on the actor's appearance behind the wheel of a Mustang in the 1968 action movie "Bullitt."
The ad is an homage to the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams," in which Kevin Costner portrays a dreamer who conjures the spirits of Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players when he builds a playing field on his farm.
In Ford's commercial, a farmer builds a winding racetrack, which he circles in the 2005 Mustang, due in showrooms next month. Out of the cornfield comes McQueen.
The farmer then tosses his keys to McQueen, whose likeness is created by a body double and some digital editing wizardry. The spot ends with McQueen driving off in the new Mustang.
Steve McQueen
Won't Stop Airing of Anti-Kerry Film
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission won't intervene to stop a broadcast company's plans to air a critical documentary about John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities on dozens of TV stations, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
"Don't look to us to block the airing of a program," Michael Powell told reporters. "I don't know of any precedent in which the commission could do that."
Powell said there are no federal rules that would allow the agency to prevent the program. "I think that would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so," he said.
Sinclair, based outside Baltimore, has asked its 62 television stations - many of them in competitive states in the presidential election - to pre-empt regular programming to run the documentary.
FCC
Sued Over Van Gogh Painting
Elizabeth Taylor
The heirs of a woman who fled the Nazis have sued actress Elizabeth Taylor over the ownership of a Van Gogh painting they say is rightfully theirs.
Taylor bought the 1889 painting "View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy" at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 when she was at the height of her fame. She now keeps it in her Los Angeles area home where it is valued at millions of dollars.
Taylor's representatives could not be reached for comment. But in court documents filed in May in what has been a lengthy ownership dispute between both sides, Taylor said the claimants "have not provided a shred of evidence" that the painting ever fell into Nazi hands or how and when Mauthner lost possession of it.
Taylor also contended that the claim to the painting should be barred by the statute of limitations, which expired three years after the actress bought the Van Gogh.
Elizabeth Taylor
Loses Driver's License
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton won't be driving in France for a while. Police said Thursday they clocked the rock star speeding down a highway at 134 mph and suspended his license.
Radar caught Clapton whizzing down a highway Tuesday in his Porsche 911 Turbo at 53 mph above the speed limit, police said.
He was stopped near the town of Merceuil, south of Beaune, near Dijon and some 190 miles east of Paris.
Police confiscated Clapton's British driver's license, suspending his right to drive in France.
Eric Clapton
Holds Vigil for Reeve
Metropolis
Residents in the southern Illinois town that shares its name with Superman's adopted city honored the life of actor Christopher Reeve with a candlelight vigil on Superman Square.
Dozens of people braved the chilly weather to hold a candlelight vigil Wednesday night in the late actor's honor. They held candles in front of the Superman statue, which had black gauze draped around its railing.
City leaders also declared Wednesday "Christopher Reeve Day." Mayor Beth Clanahan read a proclamation making Wednesday and Thursday days of mourning.
Vigil participants donated to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. They also signed a huge condolence card that will go to the Reeve family.
Metropolis
Indicted for Tax Evasion
Ronald Isley
R&B singer Ronald Isley is in tax trouble again. Isley has been indicted for evading taxes from 1997 to 2002 by allegedly depositing his dead brother's royalty checks, buying personal cars using a business account and using cash to keep payments to band members off the books, authorities said Thursday.
A federal grand jury returned the indictment Wednesday afternoon, the Internal Revenue Service said in a statement.
Isley, 63, is charged with five counts of tax evasion and one count of failing to file an income tax return.
Ronald Isley
Asks for Oprah's Help on Billboard
David Joseph
If you really want something, ask the woman who gave her whole talk-show audience cars. "SEND ME BACK TO PRISON! My final plea is to you Miss Winfrey," reads a billboard in suburban Chicago aimed at Oprah Winfrey.
Christian musician and songwriter David Joseph paid for the ad. He says he spent years performing for federal inmates until funding dried up in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Joseph, who said he made $20,000 a year performing in 80 to 90 prisons, said he's not necessarily asking the talk show host to write him a check so he can continue to perform for inmates.
"My main desire is to tell my story on a taping of the Oprah Winfrey show," said Joseph, of Mayfield, Pa.
David Joseph
Tiny Koala
Koori
A tiny koala that could fit into the palm of an adult's hand has become the star attraction at a Sydney zoo after staff nursed him back from the brink of death.
Zookeeper Darrelyn Rainey kept the prematurely born marsupial named "Koori" beside her bed, feeding him every two hours for two weeks after he was rescued from his mother's pouch last month.
Seven-month-old Koori weighed just 330 grams (11 ounces) and was in danger of being rejected by his real mother when he was given to his surrogate human mother.
He was extremely dehydrated, underweight and suffering from an infection common to koalas but has since put on an extra 40 grams and has become a boisterous joey.
Koori
