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Ahhnuld's got his budget and we borrow more on our children's future so we don't have to raise taxes a little on the wealthiest 2.7%. Now he wants a SPECIAL election to make the Legislature part time because they challenged him.
Oh, he also wants to restrict campaign contributions to them, too. What about HIS $500,000 a plate fundraiser with Robert Wood Johnson IV! That's OK. Also his secret meeting with Ken Lay at the Peninsula Hotel in LA on May 17, 2001 at the height of the CA Energy Crisis. Spokesman Rob Stutzman compared him to "a global superpower much like the US -- compassionate and benevolent at times -- but if you cross it, it's fierce." Hitler couldn't have said it better! This guy's getting really scary...and the way the media (LA Times) is cheerleading for him!!!
Oh...and how about that CNN coverage of the Democratic convention. I really wanted to hear Bob Dole's and Ed Gillespie's takes!!! I wonder if the Republican convention will feature commentary by Howard Dean and Terry McAuliffe...yeah right!!!!!
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Nice breezy day.
A poster promoting the 1914 silent film 'Tillie's Punctured Romance,' is shown in this undated promotional photo. Thanks to the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the film has been restored and was screened in Los Angeles, Thursday, July 29, 2004, as part of UCLA's 12th annual festival of preservation. Live musical accompaniment was provide by 'Tillie's Nightmare,' a new five piece ragtime ensemble.
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Big Dog On Letterman Tuesday
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton will appear Tuesday on the "Late Show With David Letterman," CBS announced Friday.
Clinton last appeared on the late-night show on Sept. 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bill Clinton
Senators Ask Powell To Downgrade Diplomatic Ties
Aung San Suu Kyi
Two US senators have asked Secretary of State Colin Powell to downgrade diplomatic ties with military-ruled Myanmar by expelling its envoy to Washington.
They said Myanmar's envoy Linn Myaing "should be sent home, to return only if, and when, progress is made in the restoration of democracy" in the Southeast Asian state.
Senators Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein requested of Powell, in a letter dated last week, that "the United States downgrade its diplomatic relationship with the illegitimate military junta" in Myanmar by requiring Linn Myaing "to immediately return" to Yangon.
Aung San Suu Kyi is currently more than a year into her third period of house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Woody Allen, better known as a filmmaker, keeps the rhythm with his foot as he plays his clarinet as he performs with his New Orleans Jazz Band in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on Friday, July 30, 2004. The concert is the start of his German tour.
Photo by Thomas Kienzle
Honored by Paul McCartney
Bangles
The members of '80s girl group The Bangles were awarded honorary "rock'n'roll diplomas" Friday by Sir Paul McCartney at his Liverpool arts school.
McCartney made the band honorary companions of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts during a ceremony attended by Bangles Michael Steele and Vicki Peterson.
In a statement, the band members said they were "honored and grateful to accept companionship from this historic institution, and as long time Beatles fans, are absolutely delighted at the involvement of Sir Paul, and to receive our rock and roll `diplomas' from the great man himself."
Bangles
BFD - Producer Has Profane Moment
Don Mischer
CNN gave its viewers an unscripted and unexpected moment in the final minutes of the Democratic convention on Thursday when it aired a producer's profanity-laced rant as he demanded that crews speed up the release of balloons and confetti.
Don Mischer, a veteran of Olympic broadcasts and televised awards shows making his debut as convention executive producer for the Democrats, was heard yelling over his headset as the balloon drop at the end John Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday night got off to a slow start.
"Come on guys, let's move it. Jesus. We need more balloons. I want all balloons to go. Goddammit. Go confetti. Go confetti," Mischer shouted. "There's not enough coming down. All balloons. Why the hell is nothing falling? What the (expletive) are you guys doing up there?"
At that point, CNN's Wolf Blitzer broke in to explain the gaffe, the apparent result a communications mix-up, to the estimated 4 million viewers watching CNN.
Don Mischer
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Maybelline Spokeswoman
Kristin Davis
"Sex and the City" fans who miss seeing Kristin Davis' pretty face each week won't have to wait long to see her again: She's Maybelline New York's new celebrity spokeswoman and will appear in the cosmetics brand's TV and print ads that will debut at the end of the year.
"Maybelline is such an icon in the beauty industry. Their wonderful products continue to be favorites of mine," the 39-year-old Davis said Wednesday.
Kristin Davis
A member of the scientific team excavating in Cerro Baul, a mountaintop city in the Andes, displays pieces of a ceramic drinking vessel found in the remains of a 1,000-year-old brewery discovered in July 2004 in Southern Peru. The ancient brewery, at the home to elite members of the Wari Empire, was used to make an alcoholic beer-like drink called chicha.
Photo by Lauren Schwartz
Wedding News
Kim - Cage
Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has married for the third time. The "Leaving Las Vegas" star wed 20-year-old Alice Kim on Friday at a private ceremony on a ranch in Northern California, publicist Annett Wolf told The Associated Press.
It is the third wedding for Cage, 40, who split with his previous wife Lisa Marie Presley after less than four months in 2002. Before that, he was married for six years to actress Patricia Arquette.
Kim, a former sushi waitress, met Cage when the actor visited the Los Angeles restaurant where she worked. This is her first marriage.
Kim - Cage
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
To Pay $1.1M Settlement
'Girls Gone Wild'
The marketers of the sexually explicit "Girls Gone Wild" videos and DVDs agreed Friday to pay nearly $1.1 million to settle government claims that the company shipped unordered products and then charged customers.
As part of the settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, California-based Mantra Films Inc. will pay more than $548,000 to people who received the videos or DVDs and returned them but did not get a refund for shipping costs.
The FTC said about 84,000 customers would receive refunds of at least $5.
'Girls Gone Wild'
A marble gravestone created by a Brooklyn-based lesbian sculptor, which shows her sleeping with her female lover, is seen at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx Tuesday, July 20, 2004, in New York. Woodlawn is one only a few cemeteries that would accept the marble gravestone because marble requires so much upkeep that few cemeteries accept the treasured stone anymore. Author Fred Goodman was inspired by the gilded cemetery to write a new book, 'The Secret City: Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York.'
Photo by Kathy Willens
Publishing Autobiography
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher, the former gun-toting teen who spent seven years in prison for shooting her lover's wife in the face, has an autobiography called "If I Knew Then..." due out in the fall.
Fisher, who turns 30 in two weeks, is now married and raising a young son in an undisclosed Long Island community, her co-author, Robbie Woliver, said Thursday.
Amy Fisher
A poster forming part of a new awareness campaign, requesting that passengers don't eat smelly food, is pictured at the Embankment Underground Station in London, July 29, 2004. The poster showing an overweight and Mediterranean-looking man lounging in an underground train carriage surrounded by hams, salamis and strings of garlic triggered a torrent of letters from angry Italians and even the Italian ambassador.
Photo by Toby Melville
Defect to Kerry's Camp
Some Republicans
Ohio resident Bob Stewart says of resident Bush: "He's been a world-class polarizer. I don't know if I can stomach four more years with him as president. He misled us into the war in Iraq and has mismanaged everything since."
A raging Democrat? No, Stewart is a Republican, one of an unknown number of such voters who plan to back John Kerry, out of despair over the war in Iraq and disappointment over budget deficits and social policies.
Stewart, 44, an insurance agent from Anderson Township near Cincinnati, voted for Bush in 2000 and is a registered Republican.
"I just have a gut feeling that Kerry can be trusted to make the right courageous decisions and will make a good president. He showed that with his heroism in Vietnam," he says.
Bush is "supposed to be a conservative and yet he's run up the biggest federal deficit in history. One thing that really turned me (away from Bush) as a lifelong Catholic ... was to see Bush go to the Vatican and try to get the pope to come down hard on Kerry for his stand on abortion. That is absolutely appalling."
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In Memory
Joan Abbey
A South Florida woman who died this week had an unusual last request. Instead of flower or contributions in her name to a charity, she asked those who loved her to try to make sure President George W. Bush is not re-elected.
Loved ones said that Joan Abbey was committed to her political passions, even in death.
Abbey was born in Montreal, but lived for many years in Miami Beach and Aventura. Family and friends came from as far away as Canada and California to remember Abbey at the Mount Nebo Jewish Cemetery in Miami.
Abbey, who was a lifelong Democrat, died Monday -- coincidentally on the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
Abbey was buried the day after the Democratic convention ended. Her unusual death notice in the Miami Herald said: "You can honor Joan's values by voting against George Bush and contributing to a liberal or Democratic cause."
Abbey's nephew, Martin Shapiro, said, "What she cared most about was improving circumstances in this country... getting rid of George Bush and making this a better country for all people."
Abbey did not want her age known. Many friends said she remained forever young in spirit and staunchly committed to her beliefs.
Joan Abbey
In Memory
Eugene Roche
Eugene Roche, a paunchy character actor who played the kitchen-cleaning "Ajax man" in commercials and had memorable roles in such television shows as "All in the Family" and "Magnum P.I" has died at age 75.
Roche died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack in an Encino hospital, family friend Timothy Wayne said Friday. He had been hospitalized Monday for tests after suffering a mild heart attack at his home in Sherman Oaks, Wayne said.
Roche's name may not be familiar to most audiences, but his face surely was.
Plump and jovial with glinting eyes, Roche costarred on TV's "Webster" as a lovable landlord, and was Archie Bunker's neighborhood nemesis Pinky Peterson on "All in the Family."
Roche, born in Boston, also played the curmudgeonly "old school" private investigator Luther Gillis on "Magnum P.I.," the sly attorney E. Ronald Mallu on the sitcom "Soap" and the newspaper editor Harry Burns on "Perfect Strangers."
One of his most memorable movie roles was in 1971's "Slaughterhouse-Five," based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Roche played a likable POW named Edgar Derby, who amid the scorched remains of a firebombed Dresden picks up an intact porcelain figurine as a souvenir - and is promptly executed for looting by his German captors.
Survivors include his wife, Anntoni, and their nine children.
Eugene Roche
In Memory
Jackson Beck
Jackson Beck, a master of voice-overs who bellowed: "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" to introduce the Superman radio show and used his versatile voice to promote everything from toothpaste to roach killer, died Wednesday.
He was 92. Beck had a series of small strokes four or five years ago, said Jeff David, a friend.
In addition to narrating Superman's adventures, Beck doubled as villains, supporting characters and the Daily Planet copyboy, Beany, on the popular radio broadcasts of the 1940s.
He also portrayed the bully Bluto in more than 300 Popeye cartoons, was the voice of the Cisco Kid and was known for his impersonations of world leaders in The March of Time, an enactment of the week's news from Time magazine. Beck was heard on television commercials for Sugar Frosted Flakes, Pepsi, Brawny paper towels, GI Joe figures and other products, as well as football and boxing promotions for NBC.
He also did voice-over for two Woody Allen movies, Radio Days and Take the Money and Run, and could be heard on National Lampoon radio broadcasts and Saturday Night Live. He worked well into his 80s.
Beck helped found the American Federation of Radio Artists, now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Jackson Beck
"Faster than a speeding bullet...more powerful than a locomotive... able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.... Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's SUPERMAN!"
A pet groomer trims the dyed fur of a poodle at a pet grooming parlor in Chongqing, southwestern China, July 30, 2004. Pet grooming, including haircut and coloring, starts at 300 yuan (about $36) for small dogs.
Photo by Issei Kato
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