Ted Rall: Kids in America(n Torture Camps)
... New York Times reporter Eric L...n Lichtblau found out that the Bush Administration was listening to Americans' phone calls and reading their e-mail, he decided to hold the story. Instead of fulfilling his duty to the Times' readers and running with it, he asked the White House for permission. By the time the NSA domestic surveillance story finally ran, 14 months had passed - and Bush had won the 2004 election.
Garrison Keillor: The roar of hollow patriotism
Three hundred thousand bikers spent Memorial Day weekend roaring around Washington in tribute to our war dead, and I stood on Constitution Avenue Sunday afternoon watching a river of them go by, waiting for a gap in the procession so I could cross over to the Mall and look at pictures. The street had been closed off for them and they motored on by, some flying the Stars and Stripes and the black MIA-POW flag, honking, revving their engines, an endless celebration of internal combustion.
Jessica Dickler: Drowning in debt: Deceptive credit card practices (CNNMoney.com)
When 53-year-old Don Cressman was struggling financially, he charged a bit more than usual on his card, but carefully watched his balance to make sure he didn't go over his limit. When he opened his credit card statement, he was shocked to find a $29 over-the-limit fee added to his bill.
TOM DANEHY: All hail the triumphant return of Was (Not Was) (tucsonweekly.com)
Each of us has this one favorite CD/album that wasn't that big of a hit, and not many people know about, but we know--we just know!--that if we could get people to listen to it, they would love it almost as much as we do. In our hearts, we know that this CD would have been a monster hit in a more-fair world. Instead, it was a victim of the system.
Preston Jones: T Bone Burnett is enjoying a sonic boom (McClatchy Newspapers)
The man born Joseph Henry Burnett - better known as T Bone - has been busy the last few years. The Fort Worth-raised Burnett earns his keep as an in-demand, award-winning producer; before 2008 is done he will have worked with John Mellencamp, B.B. King, Elvis Costello and the Who.
mj was first, and right, with:
Why do I want to say
C, Hillary. I seem to recall it had nothing to do with "Norm".
Alan J replied:
Hillary
Charlie responded:
There must be a joke here somewhere, as it was
C: Hillary
Jim from CA wrote:
It is a dog eat dog world and my butt is made of milkbone said Hillary
Norm Peterson on Cheers.
Sally said:
On the TV show, "Cheers," Hillary (C) was Norm's real first name. (Norman was his middle name.)
It's funny that you would have this question today, because George Wendt is going to be a judge on the TV show, "The Last Comic Standing" and was interviewed on a radio show the other day. He was actually making jokes about that name, and what he could be doing (stand up comic wise) with it, hahaha.
PS Hey Vic, I KNEW that you had some NY in you! I went to college (first 4 years) in the Washington Square Park area, and my father worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard(s) during, and just after, WWII (the BIG one, as Archie Bunker would say)!
Tony In Philly answered:
Was it C: Hillary?
Loves me the Norm!
GreatKingRat responded:
Hillary is the correct answer.
I'm so old I remember when that aired.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'EliteXC Saturday Fake Fights'.
NBC has LIVE'Stanley Cup Playoffs', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe 'Dateline'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Shia LaBeouf, hosting, music by My Morning Jacket.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Rookie'.
The CW has old 'Friends' and old 'Sex In The City'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY here has LIVE'MLB Baseball', with the Blue Jays visiting the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim California Angels'.
A&E has the movie 'Under Siege', followed by 'Andromeda Strain, Part 1', then 'Andromeda Strain, Part 2'.
AMC offers the movie 'Wild Bill', followed by the movie 'Troy', then the movie 'Silverado' (not the Neil Bush story).
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 7
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 8
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep. 4 Moore Place
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Clubway 41
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 4 The Girl In The Fireplace
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 5 Rise Of The Cybermen
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Angel of Death
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Ducking and Diving
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Cynthia Nixon, One Republic
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Angel of Death
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Ducking and Diving
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Cynthia Nixon, One Republic
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 The Angel of Death
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 Ducking and Diving
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 5 Cynthia Nixon, One Republic
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Hawkridge
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Eaton
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', followed by the movie 'Major League', then the movie 'Major League', again.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', still another 'Futurama', yet another 'Futurama', yes, another 'Futurama', one more 'Futuama', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Maid In Manhattan', followed by the movie '13 Going On 30', then '30 Days'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', another 'Gangland', and 'Tougher In Alaska'.
IFC -
[06:25 AM] Stolen Summer
[08:00 AM] Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island
[09:50 AM] In America
[11:45 AM] George Washington
[01:25 PM] Psychoanalysis Changed My Life
[02:00 PM] Stolen Summer
[03:40 PM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut
[03:45 PM] In America
[05:35 PM] George Washington
[07:15 PM] Maria Full of Grace
[09:00 PM] Damage
[11:00 PM] Trapped in the Closet
[12:30 AM] Buddy Boy
[02:20 AM] IFC News Special
[02:30 AM] Damage
[04:30 AM] Trapped in the Closet (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy', followed by the movie 'Heatstroke'.
Sundance -
[06:00 AM] The Legacy
[07:30 AM] Bittersweet Place
[09:00 AM] Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple
[10:00 AM] Requiem for Billy the Kid
[11:30 AM] Harvie Krumpet
[12:00 PM] Twentyfourseven
[02:00 PM] Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen
[03:00 PM] Part 4
[04:00 PM] Part 5
[05:00 PM] Part 6
[06:00 PM] Episode 3
[06:30 PM] Episode 2
[07:00 PM] Rat
[08:30 PM] Harvie Krumpet
[09:00 PM] Episode 4
[09:30 PM] Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Talk Radio
[12:00 AM] Sheitan
[01:30 AM] Red Road
[03:30 AM] Henry & June (ALL TIMES EST)
Actress Holly Hunter (C) is joined by (L-R) tennis great Billie Jean King, actor Ed Harris, actress Kate Capshaw and her husband, director Steven Spielberg, after Hunter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles May 30, 2008.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn't be there ran to YouTube for a peek. Everyone was quickly denied - even Radiohead.
All videos of Prince's unique rendition of Radiohead's early hit were quickly taken down, leaving only a message that his label, NPG Records, had removed the clips, claiming a copyright violation. But the posted videos were shot by fans and, obviously, the song isn't Prince's.
"Really? He's blocked it?" asked Thom Yorke, who figured it was their song to block or not. "Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment."
Yorke added: "Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our ... song."
YouTube prohibits the posting of copyrighted material. If the site receives a complaint from a copyright owner, it will in most cases remove the video(s). Whether the same could be done for a company not holding a copyright is less clear, but Yorke's argument would seem to bear some credence according to YouTube's policies. YouTube, which is owned by Google, declined to comment.
The wives of Beatles band members, Yoko Ono Lennon, left, wife of front man John Lennon and Olivia Harrison, wife of guitarist George Harrison, pose for a photograph in front of a poster promoting Liverpool's Culture Company's stage tribute to George Harrison called 'Tribute For George' at the FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology before Britain's premiere viewing of the Beatles documentary film 'All Together Now', in Liverpool, England, Friday May 30, 2008.
Photo by Paul Thomas
Composer Lalo Schifrin arrives at a screening celebrating the DVD box set release of the "Dirty Harry" film franchise in Los Angeles May 29, 2008. Actor Clint Eastwood starred as Inspector Harry Callahan in five films featuring his character, starting with the 1971 film "Dirty Harry." Schifrin composed the film score for "Dirty Harry."
Photo by Fred Prouser
A Las Vegas hotel has announced that the rest of Toni Braxton's scheduled shows have been canceled so the singer can focus on her health.
The show, "Toni Braxton: Revealed," at the Flamingo Las Vegas had been dark since the 40-year-old entertainer was hospitalized April 7 with what hotel officials said at the time was a complaint of chest pain. The show had been scheduled to resume June 6.
Harrah's Entertainment spokeswoman Deanna Petit says she could not comment on the singer's current medical condition. Braxton has been treated in the past for pericarditis, a viral inflammation of the heart.
The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice was in the Swedish capital Thursday for an international conference on Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out concert to play Friday.
"I was thrilled," Rice said of her late-night encounter with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons and bandmates Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer in the executive lounge of the Sheraton Hotel where they signed autographs and handed out backstage passes and T-shirts to her staff.
"It was really fun to meet Kiss and Gene Simmons," she told reporters, noting that they seemed well-informed about current events. The band had asked if she could stop by after she finished dinner with the Swedish foreign minister and Rice readily agreed, she said.
Actress Tyne Daly arrives at a screening for the DVD box set release of the 'Dirty Harry' film franchise on Thursday, May 29, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Chris Weeks
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the UCLA Medical Center provided liver transplants to four Japanese gang figures, including one of Japan's most powerful gang bosses, over a period when several hundred Los Angeles-area patients died while awaiting transplants.
The newspaper says the surgeries were performed by world-renowned liver surgeon Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil, executive chairman of UCLA's surgery department. The Times cited a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
There is no indication UCLA or Busuttil knew any of the patients had ties to Japanese gangs, known as yakuza. The school and Busuttil said in statements they don't make moral judgments about patients, but treat them according to their medical need.
Tadamasa Goto, who had been barred from entering the United States because of his criminal history, was the most prominent transplant recipient. According to the Times, he leads a gang called the Gotogumi.
DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.
In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals said DISH, a satellite television provider, had infringed a TiVo patent in building digital video recorders, and upheld a lower court's damage award against DISH of $74 million plus interest.
DISH was formerly known as EchoStar Communications Corp. It recently spun off its technology assets, including its set-top box division, to create EchoStar Corp.
The two sides of a coin that a U.S. Marine distributed at a checkpoint controlling access to the city,of Fallujah 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq,in this combo picture taken on Friday, May 30,2008. The left photo reads in Arabic 'Where will you spend eternity?' and the right 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16.'. Sunni officials and residents said a US Marine distributed about 10 of the coins to civilians. The U.S. military responded quickly to the incident, first reported by McClatchy Newspapers, removing a Marine from duty pending an investigation. Distribution of the coins was the second perceived insult to Islam by American service members this month. A U.S. Army sniper was sent out of the country after using a Quran, Islam's holy book, for target practice
The National Park Service says a hiker burned her leg and ankle when she fell through a dirt trail into a pool of 170-degree water at Yellowstone National Park.
Park officials say Jeanette Hogan of Utah stepped on a rain puddle on the trail when the crust gave way and she fell into the previously undiscovered pool of hot water.
Park geologists are evaluating the Artists' Paintpots area, south of Norris Junction. The parking lot and trail there will remain closed until it can be reopened safely.
U.S. customs officials have seized a statue of Jesus Christ made from plaster mixed with cocaine -- the latest sophisticated attempt to smuggle drugs from Mexico.
Sniffer dogs at the border crossing in Laredo, Texas, alerted officials to the smell of narcotics in the 6.6 pound (3 kilo) statue, which was in the trunk of a car being driven by a Mexican woman into the United States last week.
Tighter U.S. security and Mexico's deployment of thousands of soldiers along the border are pushing smugglers to try increasingly sophisticated techniques like hiding drugs in sealed beer cans, U.S. officials say.
The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" has died at his home in Virginia.
The father of Lorenzo Odone says his son died Friday at age 30. Doctors had predicted he would die when he was 8.
Augusto Odone says his son had come down recently with pneumonia.
Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte starred as Michaela and Augusto Odone in the 1992 movie. They formulated an oil that they said helped their son fight the neurological disease.
A study published in 2005 verified that the oil could prevent the onset of symptoms.
Jeff Koons' 1988 sculpture, 'Michael Jackson and Bubbles,' a portrait of the pop star and his pet monkey, is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on Thursday, May 29, 2008. The porcelain work is among about 60 other sculptures and paintings by Koons. The exhibit opens Saturday, May 31 and runs through late September.
Photo by Russel A. Daniels
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