Michael Moore: Those Who Say "I Support the Troops" Should Just Stop, Out of Respect for the Troops
I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you. I am tired of the ruse we are playing on these brave citizens in our armed forces. And guess what -- a lot of these soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines see right through the bull**** of those words, "I support the troops!," spoken by Americans with such false sincerity -- false because our actions don't match our words.
Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace (Truthout)
Americans can hardly be aware of how diplomacy has once again failed, for a simple reason: Virtually nothing is reported in the United States about the fate of the most obvious way to address "the gravest threat" - Establish a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
Paul Krugman: Battles of the Budget (New York Times)
But will Mr. Obama stick to his anti-blackmail position as the moment of truth approaches? He blinked during the 2011 debt limit confrontation. And the last few days of the fiscal cliff negotiations were also marked by a clear unwillingness on his part to let the deadline expire. Since the consequences of a missed deadline on the debt limit would potentially be much worse, this bodes ill for administration resolve in the clinch.
Scott Burns: Coping with the Zero-Interest-Rate-Policy (AssetBuilder)
If you owe money you'll find more opportunity in refinancing or paying down debt than in finding yield on your savings. This would be irrelevant for retirees and near-retirees if no one had any debt. But the reality is that debt has been increasing among older people. So this may be a big-time opportunity.
Andrew Tobias: Stocks, Foreplay, and Caulk
Here are my thoughts on money: 1. Live beneath your means. That sets you up for success. It also allows you to pace yourself because - forgive me if you've heard me say this before - a luxury once sampled becomes a necessity. How can you live happily on the second floor after you've had an apartment with a view? Happiness has more to do with direction than amount: you want to live a little better each year.
Nathan Harden: The End of the University as We Know It (The Public Interest)
In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. … Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor's degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.
What Does It Feel Like To Be a Hot Girl Who Gets Old? (Slate)
Now that I've been through a very stressful but successful career, and multiple short marriages, I did get my blessing at 43 with my son. I love being wiser, but I do miss the days of a flawless complexion, endless flirting from strangers, and a thick mane of hair. What I DON'T miss is the automatic assumption that I wasn't smart because I was attractive.
Miss Cellania: 10 Facts You May Not Know About James Bond (Neatorama)
James Bond: the world's most famous and beloved spy. Every guy wanted to be him and every woman wanted to be with him. From Sean Connery, the big screen's original Bond, to Daniel Craig (the first-ever blond Bond), the star of the biggest-grossing-ever Bond feature 'Skyfall,' agent 007 has captured the hearts of fans the world over. Let's take a look at a few things you may not have known about agent 007.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. stars Stefanie Powers as American U.N.C.L.E. agent April Dancer and Noel Harrison (son of Rex Harrison) as her British partner, Mark Slate. Leo G. Carroll plays her superior, Alexander Waverly, in both series. The character name "April Dancer" was suggested by James Bond creator Ian Fleming who was a consultant in the creation of the parent program shortly before his death.
The series was not as successful as its parent program and was cancelled after 29 episodes due to low ratings. Several crossover episodes were produced in conjunction with The Man from U.N.C.L.E., including the episode that introduced April and Mark. In their first appearance they were portrayed by Mary Ann Mobley and Norman Fell, respectively.
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mj was first, and correct, with:
That would be the short lived spin off
The Girl From U. N. C. L. E. (United Network Command for Law Enforcement)
Charlie said:
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Baron Dave iPad'd:
I'm on the road, currently in Salt Lake City, posting via newfangled whippersnapper toy. I hope I'm answering the right day. If so: The Girl From Uncle.
Alan J wrote:
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Adam answered:
The Girl From UNCLE.
'Somewhere in France...' next to a picture of the Eiffel Tower!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
characters from the tv show The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Marian responded:
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Sally said:
The Girl from UNCLE is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season... April Dancer and Noel Harrison as her British partner, Mark Slate. Leo G Carroll plays her superior, Alexander Waverly, in both series. The character name, "April Dancer" was suggested by the James Bond creator.
PS: We have to be in the city at 8 AM, probably have to miss tomorrow's Question de jour... It's my little man's big day!
All the relatives are in town...
Doug answered:
I am dating myself, but that would be The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Dale of Diamond Springs replied:
"The Girl from Uncle" was an exceedingly awful spinoff of "The Man from Uncle". Richard 'Sexy Rexy' Harrison's kid and an underused Stephanie Powers
Stefanie Powers .............. April Dancer
Noel Harrison ................ Mark Slate
Randy Kirby .................. Randy Kovacs
Leo G. Carroll ............... Alexander Waverly
Noel & Steph Topper Steph Again
BttbBob said:
The first two names were lost on me at first (Alexander Waverly did ring a bell), but as soon as I saw 'April Dancer' (a way-cool name as ever was) -Bingo!
... and Stephanie Powers as the girl... Ms. Powers has been a favorite of mine for these many years now starting with a teenage crush, sorta, during this program's brief run. However, whilst adequate as a 'secret agent', I will allow that April Dancer was no...
... a woman who truly meant business, that Emma was, and she could handle the bad guys at the drop of Mr. Steed's bowler hat!
Randall replied:
Waverly, April Dancer
...would that be The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ?
MAM wrote:
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Noel Harrison... Leo G. Carroll... Stefanie Powers...
Mark Slate Alexander Waverly April Dancer
And, Joe S answered:
Okay, before we get into today's Trivia answer, I would like to comment on yesterday's question and the answers. I stated that the answer to the question of the weight of a 12 ounce aluminum is 14 grams. That, of course, is the correct answer. Those of you who answered 15 grams are wrong. Those of you that answered ½: ounce are close enough as that converts to 14.174761563 grams, not 15. (Sorry Marty, you were lead astray as well.)
As to the answer to today's question the answer is The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and I must say, I've never heard of it. I didn't watch much TV back in those days. Too busy keeping America safe from M.A.D., Mutually Assured Destruction.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Mentalist', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'NFL Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Louis C.K., music by fun.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Once Upon A Time', followed by another RERUN'Once Upon A Time', then still another RERUN'Once Upon A Time'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'Emily Owens, MD'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', then a FRESH'The Mob Doctor'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of 'Duck Dynasty', 'Shipping Wars', and another 'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Patriot', followed by the movie 'Signs', then the movie 'Hannibal'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Casa Roma
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Finn McCool's
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 4 - Episode 5
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 14 - A Matter of Perspective
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 21 - NYE - Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Billy Crystal, John Bishop, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Pink NEW
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 15 - Yesterday's Enterprise
[12:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 16 - The Offspring
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 21 - NYE - Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Billy Crystal, John Bishop, Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Pink
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Closing Time
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 13 - The Wedding of River Song
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO IN THE U.S. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'How To Loose A Guy In 10 Days', then the movie 'How To Loose A Guy In 10 Days', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Tommy Boy', followed by the movie 'Dinner For Schmucks', then the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.
FX has the movie 'Death Race', followed by the movie 'Taken'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', and, yes, yet another 'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Deaths of Ian Stone
[7:45AM] About a Boy
[10:00AM] The Three Stooges-Slap-Happy Sleuths
[10:25AM] The Three Stooges-A Snitch in Time
[10:50AM] The Three Stooges-Stone Age Romeos
[11:15AM] The Three Stooges-Studio Stoops
[11:40AM] The Three Stooges-Three Arabian Nuts
[12:05PM] The Three Stooges-Three Dark Horses
[12:30PM] Letters From Iwo Jima
[3:30PM] Valhalla Rising
[5:30PM] Pan's Labyrinth
[8:00PM] Escape From L.A.
[10:15PM] Rambo
[12:00AM] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
[2:30AM] Escape From L.A.
[4:45AM] Portlandia-Take Back MTV
[5:15AM] Portlandia-Missionaries
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Strangers in the House (Episode 8, Season 1)
[7:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Halloween (Episode 9, Season 1)
[8:00A] MY SO-CALLED LIFE - Other People's Mothers (Episode 10, Season 1)
[9:00A] ICONOCLASTS - Christy Turlington Burns + Tory Burch (Episode 4, Season 6)
[9:30A] How to Be
[11:00A] Wassup Rockers
[12:45P] Ghost World
[2:45P] How to Be
[4:15P] Wassup Rockers
[6:00P] Ghost World
[8:00P] Rescue Dawn
[10:15P] Inventing the Abbotts
[12:15A] Eloise's Lover
[2:00A] Nights and Weekends
[3:30A] Inventing the Abbotts
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil', followd by the movie 'Resident Evil: Afterlife'.
(L-R) Actor Chris O'Dowd, writer, director and executive producer Christopher Guest and writer, creator and executive producer Jim Piddock take part in a panel discussion of HBO's "Family Tree" during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California, January 4, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Erik Jendresen, writer and executive producer of the upcoming Nat Geo film "Killing Lincoln," says presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth could have been a modern-day "poster child for the Tea Party."
Jendresen spoke about the film, which stars Billy Campbell as Lincoln, at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The film is based on the book co-written by "O'Reilly Factor" host Bill O'Reilly, a noted supporter of many Tea Party ideals.
Jendresen stressed that Booth wasn't a madman, but held views that were fairly common at the time of the assassination.
"This is not the act of somebody who can be easily dismissed as a psychopath so that it's easy to understand: 'Oh, well, he was crazy.' No. It's more disturbing to find out who Booth was," Jendresen said. "This is a man who believed what still probably 20 percent of this country still believes. He could be a poster child for the Tea Party."
Contacted through Fox "News", O'Reilly did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Writer, director and executive producer David Mamet (L) and British actress Helen Mirren take part in a panel discussion of HBO's "Phil Spector" during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California January 4, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Salma Hayek and Jeremy Renner will serve as honorary Co-Chairs for the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Film Independent announced on Friday.
The pair, who were chosen due to their outstanding artistic achievement and continued support of independent filmmaking, will announce the nonprofit's grant winners for 2013 during the Spirit Awards Nominee Brunch on January 12.
"It is an honor to have both Salma and Jeremy join us as Co-Chairs of the 2013 Film Independent Sprits Awards," said Film Independent Co-President Sean Mc Manus. "Both continue to demonstrate their commitment to independent filmmaking and believe in the importance of supporting independent film as an artistic form of expression and encouraging the next generation of filmmakers."
The 28th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will take place in Santa Monica, California on February 23 before being aired on IFC later that evening.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will honor nine scientific and technical achievements at this year's Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation, the Academy said Thursday.
This year's presentation is scheduled February 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Among the honorees will be J.P. Lewis, Matt Cordner and Nickson Fong, who invented the Pose Space Deformation technique, which developed into an essential technique in creating computer-generated characters.
Lawrence Kesteloot, Drew Olbrich and Daniel Wexler will also be lauded for their creation of the Light system for computer graphics lighting at PDI/DreamWorks.
Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be included in the Oscar telecast.
Alfonso Ribeiro and Tommy Davidson attends the premiere of "A Haunted House" at the Arclight Hollywood on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Todd Williamson
Actor Patrick Dempsey, better known as television's "Dr. McDreamy," promised to rescue Seattle's Tully's coffee chain with a $9.15 million bid to buy it out of bankruptcy.
The "Grey's Anatomy" star who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd, a surgeon at fictional Seattle Grace Hospital, said his offer bested those from six rival bidders - including global coffee giant Starbucks Corp.
"We met the green monster, looked her in the eye, and ... she blinked! We got it!" Dempsey said in a tweet late on Thursday, referring to his company's face-off with Starbucks.
Tully's owner TC Global Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reorganize in October. The coffee chain, which has more than 500 employees, confirmed in a statement on Friday that Global Baristas was selected as the winning bidder.
Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of two sick circus elephants.
The 1960s screen diva says authorities have ignored her "numerous proposals" to save Baby and Nepal, a pair of 42-year-old elephants dying of tuberculosis at a Lyon zoo.
In a statement on her foundation's website Bardot says that if the elephants are killed she will request Russian citizenship "to flee this country that is now just a graveyard for animals."
This week France was shocked to learn Depardieu, an Academy Award-winner and pillar of French cinema, had received Russian citizenship after he was called "pathetic" by France's prime minister in a bust-up over the country's proposed 75 percent income tax for the superrich.
Executive producer Jack Osbourne (L) and Ken Licklider, owner and founder of Vohne Liche Kennels, take part in a panel discussion of Nat Geo Wild's "Alpha Dogs" during the 2013 Winter Press Tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California January 4, 2013.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
A pair of "ghost gum" trees in Australia's outback made famous in watercolors by Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have been destroyed in a suspected arson attack, shortly before they were due to be placed on a national heritage register.
Namatjira is credited with bringing ghost gums, native trees featured in Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and named for their white bark that glows in moonlight, to wider public consciousness as a symbol of Australian identity.
Northern Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson said the pair of ghost gums that frame the West MacDonnell Ranges and feature in many of the late Namatjira's works were found burnt to the ground a few days ago.
Authorities believe the fire was likely deliberately lit.
Susan McCulloch, author of McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper the destruction of the ghost gums was "appalling and a tragic act of cultural vandalism".
A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man who authorities say pretended to be a sleeping woman's boyfriend before initiating intercourse, ruling that an arcane law from 1872 doesn't protect unmarried women in such cases.
A panel of judges reversed the trial court's conviction of Julio Morales and remanded it for retrial, in a decision posted Wednesday from the Los Angeles-based court.
Morales had been sentenced to three years in state prison. He was accused of entering a woman's bedroom late one night after her boyfriend had gone home and initiating sexual intercourse while she was asleep, after a night of drinking.
Morales pretended to be her boyfriend in the darkened room, and it wasn't until a ray of light from outside the room flashed across his face that she realized he wasn't her boyfriend, according to prosecutors.
"Has the man committed rape? Because of historical anomalies in the law and the statutory definition of rape, the answer is no, even though, if the woman had been married and the man had impersonated her husband, the answer would be yes," Judge Thomas L. Willhite Jr. wrote in the court's decision.
Wishbone, after Nikolaos Gyzis. The original was in storage at the National Gallery in Athens. This is the man who really does suffer for his art - staying COMPLETELY STILL for up to 15 hours at a time to be painted. But this is no ordinary still life, bizarrely Chadwick Grays body is actually used as a canvas for his friend and fellow artist, Laura Spector.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong may not have been speaking entirely off the cuff when he delivered the most iconic quote in the history of manned space flight.
Armstrong wrote out the sentence, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," before blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in July 1969, his brother now says, according to the transcripts of a documentary recently aired on BBC Two.
Armstrong, who died in August at the age of 82, had always maintained he composed the words after touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, while he waited to leave the Eagle lunar lander.
But Armstrong's younger brother Dean, speaking in an interview for the documentary, "Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon" aired on Sunday, said that was not entirely accurate.
At least that's how Dave Schneider, guitarist and singer for Hanukkah-themed rock band The LeeVees, described it when his guitar-a 1965 Gibson ES-335-got jammed in an elevator by baggage handlers at a Detroit airport.
Schneider was traveling with fellow LeeVees guitarist Adam Gardner from Portland, Maine, to St. Petersburg, Fla., for a gig last month at a conservative temple when their flight was diverted to Rochester, N.Y., due to bad weather, causing them to miss their connection in Philadelphia, Pa. They then drove to Buffalo, N.Y., to hop on a plane destined for Detroit, Mich., where they planned to make a connecting flight to Tampa, Fla.
While boarding in Buffalo, Schneider says he asked Delta staffers not to check in the vintage guitar-which he estimates is worth about $10,000-and allow him to carry it on the plane and place it in an available space, as he did on the flight from Portland.
Schneider says he even showed them a link to a story about Congress passing the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 that made it easier for musicians to fly with their instruments-allowing them to purchase an extra seat on the plane for their fragile instruments.
Elephants eat christmas trees at the Berlin Zoo at the launch of the annual feeding of Christmas trees in Berlin, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Keeper Dr. Ragnar Kuehne told reporters that today was the first day they when the elephants and some other zoo animals are fed Christmas trees after the holiday period. The trees have not been used and were not sold, they donated by the vendors in the area.
Photo by Markus Schreiber
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