Mark Morford: 92,000 pages of awesome misery (sfgate.com)
Great news! I have now read and analyzed every single one* of the 92,000 highly classified, top-secret documents recently uncovered in the WikiLeaks.org mega-saga military scandal, the very ones being fretted over by President Obama, the Defense Department and top members of the nervous Pakistani government, along with all those swarthy terrorist cells who are right now poring over them for helpful details like Lady Gaga tour dates, Mel Gibson's fave catchphrases and Lindsay Lohan's home address. *(Not exactly true)
Ted Rall: THE IDIOCRACY FACTOR
Americans' lack of knowledge about Afghanistan is virtually limitless. Which matters, because the U.S. is at war there. And which explains why the American military is losing its longest war.
Froma Harrop: Dr. Donald Berwick, Taxpayer Hero (creators.com)
Welcome, Dr. Donald Berwick. Once you pull the arrows out of your back, you can get down to the important work for which you are supremely qualified: fixing the government health-insurance programs.
Jim Hightower: GOLDMAN'S GOLDEN DEAL (jimhightower.com)
But, wait - on the day that SEC officials imposed this supposed "humbling" penalty, Goldman's stock price went up by five percent. Far from being deterred by the penalty, high-rolling speculators saw it as a vindication of Wall Street's casino ethic. "It looks like a big win for Goldman," gloated one financial analyst, adding that SEC's $550 million assessment "seems like a paltry sum."
Sam Adams: The dark soul of Solondz (latimes.com)
The polarizing director of 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' and 'Happiness' recasts characters from the latter film to similarly unsettling effect in 'Life During Wartime.'
Roger Ebert: Review of "SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES" (PG-13; An Overlooked DVD; 3 1/2 stars)
The opening scenes of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" might remind you a little of Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons." Both films begin with a nostalgic memory of what it was like to grow up in a small Midwestern town, back before everything became modern and a sense of wonder was lost.
Mel Gibson has been called a religiously insane, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, racist by a great many people. His actions and words certainly point to that as being the case. However, he has made movies that have been very popular and, in some instances, awarded and/or critically acclaimed...
So...
What is your view of Gibson as an actor and are there any of his movies that you have enjoyed?
Canola is one of two cultivars of rapeseed or Brassica campestris (Brassica napus L. and B. campestris L.). Their seeds are used to produce edible oil that is fit for human consumption because it has lower levels of erucic acid than traditional rapeseed oils and to produce livestock feed because it has reduced levels of the toxic glucosinolates.
Canola was originally naturally bred from rapeseed in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur R. Stefansson in the early 1970s,but it has a very different nutritional profile in addition to much less erucic acid. The name "canola" was derived from "Canadian oil, low acid" in 1978.
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Marian the Recently Retired Teacher was first, and correct, with:
Canadian oil, low acid and you can see it growing all over Europe when you fly.
~ Tony in Philly responded:
The name "canola" was derived from "Canadian oil, low acid" in 1978
Alan J answered:
Canadian Oil Low Acid
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
"Canadian oil, low acid"
Sally said:
"Hat's off" to JoeS for his grim, but 'Oh so true' answer to yesterday's trivia question about the streets in Baghdad - strewn with bodies, many of them children. It's truly the slaughter of the innocents...
What the Hell happened to people who were so advanced in the Eighth Century AD? Iraq has become a fine example of what results from hate and greed - in the name of God...
That being said, the name "Canola" was derived from "Canadian oil, low acid" in 1978.
"Where have all the flowers gone???"
Beautiful Canola blossoms...
PS: Shout out for B2BB, hope you are feeling better and will return to us very soon!!
Charlie responded:
Canadian oil, low acid
Of course, this is what Canadian oil extraction looks like these days:
MAM wrote:
From the words . . . "Canadian oil, low acid". . . "canola"
Canola field and seeds
Tom answered:
Who wants to use Rape Oil? A Portage la Prairie Manitoba researcher came up with Canadian oil "Canola"
We have fields of Canola growing in Manitoba & my daughter hates when I call it rape.
All the yellow flowers do look great,
And, Joe S said:
CANadian Oil Low Acid. It's really rape seed oil and smells like paint thinner, which is why I use corn oil.
There's nothing really sexy about cooking oil, but a naked lady with a gun? Now that's sexy.
Well ok, if you lay out a few mattresses and cover them with sheets and then soak the sheets with cooking oil, then you get a bunch of people together and .....um.....never mind.
Bohol in the Philippines is home to a dramatically unusual geographic
feature - the Chocolate Hills. A shame, but a certain Mr Wonka has not
been visiting (and neither is this the entrance to the fabled land of
the Oompa Loompas). In the summer the lush green grass that covers the
hills turns brown and it is this, rather than any fictional
intercession which gives the place its name.
It was almost bound to be small and seemingly insignificant but the
oldest species of earth is a shrimp, ironic given the connotations of
its name in the English language. Rather than being the runt, the
squirt and the general nobody its name implies, this little guy (the
Horseshoe shrimp to friends but Triops cancriformis rather more
formally) has staying power. It is almost the same now as it was two
hundred million years ago.
The award winning documentary "DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR" will be exclusively screened for two weeks starting Friday (7/30) on the SnagFilms.com. The film will only be available to stream online until Aug 13th, so we would love for you to check it out as soon as possible.
Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. Despite a ban on western media, from the 1950s
onward many Estonias were able to easily pick up Finnish radio and television broadcasts from across the border with homemade antennas. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet
children's worldviews in those days-in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to the world of capitalism's pleasures that the authorities could not block.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Persons Unknown', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Ashton Kutcher, music by Them Crooked Vultures.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Flightplan', followed by a RERUN'Rookie Blue'.
The CW fills the night with the movie "Daddy's Dying ... Who's Got The Will?'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Criss Angel: Mindfreak', another 'Criss Angel: Mindfreak', still another 'Criss Angel: Mindfreak', followed by a FRESH'Criss Angel'.
AMC offers the movie 'Heartbreak Ridge', followed by the movie 'Pearl Harbor'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] The Choir Revisited - The Choir Revisited
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - Ep 1 Glasshouse
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited - US - Episode 2
[3:00 PM] James May's Toy Stories - Ep 5 Train
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[6:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 22 Half a Life
[7:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 23 The Host
[8:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 2
[10:15 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Michael Sheen, Rhod Gilbert, Dame Shirley Bassey
[11:00 PM] Being Human - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 2
[1:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Michael Sheen, Rhod Gilbert, Dame Shirley Bassey
[2:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 1
[3:00 AM] Being Human - Episode 2
[4:15 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Michael Sheen, Rhod Gilbert, Dame Shirley Bassey
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 2 Farmer
[6:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep 8 Excell (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Waiting...', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Rush Hour', followed by the movie 'Enemy Of The State'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Top Shot', another 'Top Shot', and still another 'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[6:15 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:45 AM] The Florentine
[8:35 AM] Dummy
[10:15 AM] Office Space
[11:45 AM] Dinner With the Band
[12:15 PM] The Florentine
[2:05 PM] Dummy
[3:45 PM] Office Space
[5:15 PM] The Florentine
[7:00 PM] Dinner With the Band
[7:30 PM] The IT Crowd
[8:00 PM] Lord of War
[10:05 PM] Bad Lieutenant
[11:50 PM] At the End of the Sentence
[12:00 AM] Naked in New York
[1:35 AM] Lord of War
[3:45 AM] Bad Lieutenant
[5:30 AM] Dummy (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:15 AM] The Tiger and the Snow
[8:15 AM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[10:00 AM] In Short 111
[11:00 AM] LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD - Mika, Bloc Party, La Roux (Episode 11, Season 3)
[12:00 PM] Full Grown Men
[1:25 PM] The Tiger and the Snow
[3:25 PM] The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
[5:05 PM] Full Grown Men
[6:25 PM] Visioneers
[8:00 PM] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Cyprus (Episode 4, Season 2)
[8:30 PM] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Sweden (Episode 5, Season 2)
[9:00 PM] ICONOCLASTS - Archbishop Desmond Tutu + Sir Richard Branson (Episode 1, Season 4)
[10:00 PM] Fur: An Imaginary Portrait...
[12:05 AM] The Chaser
[2:15 AM] Little Children
[4:35 AM] ICONOCLASTS - Archbishop Desmond Tutu + Sir Richard Branson (Episode 1, Season 4)
[5:35 AM] Visioneers (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Stonehenge: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Jack Hunter & The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit', then the movie Riddles Of The Sphinx'.
US actor Chris Rock poses during his arrival for a beach BBQ to promote the movie Grown Ups (Kindskoepfe) in Berlin, Germany, Friday, July 30, 2010.
Photo by Michael Sohn
Polls show that seniors are more skeptical of the health care law than are younger people because Medicare cuts provide much of the financing to expand coverage for the uninsured. That could be a problem for Democrats in the fall congressional elections, because seniors vote in large numbers.
Medicare says the national ad is not political, but part of its outreach to educate seniors about new benefits available next year. The ad is slated to run on channels seniors watch, such as the Weather Channel, CNN, Hallmark and Lifetime, at an initial cost of $700,000. Griffith is 84.
Former President Bill Clinton greets well wishers as he leaves Gigi's restaurant, Friday, July 30, 2010 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Clinton made a long-anticipatedappearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.
Photo by Mary Altaffer
Police in the US state of Oregon have said former vice president Al Gore will not face charges over an alleged 2006 groping of a masseuse "due to a lack of credible evidence."
"After evaluating the materials submitted by PPB (Portland Police Bureau) I have concluded that I agree with the assessment that a sustainable criminal case does not exist," said deputy attorney Don Rees for Multnomah County in the northwest state, in a memo obtained by AFP.
Rees detailed a number of instances when Hagerty's accusation failed to live up to the story, saying she had "not provided as repeatedly requested medical records" that she "failed a polygraph examination" and that forensic testing failed to show up any seminal fluid.
The deputy attorney also noted that it appeared Hagerty had been paid for her story by the National Enquirer tabloid, where the explosive allegations were first made.
A spokeswoman for Sandra Bullock says the actress wants her parts of a video promoting Gulf Coast restoration removed until she learns whether oil companies influenced it.
The statement Thursday came after the website DeSmogBlog called the campaign an industry push to get support for drilling and taxpayer money to repair wetland damage caused by the BP oil spill.
Women of the Storm, a New Orleans group that produced the video, lists America's Wetland Foundation as a partner. The foundation lists BP and other oil companies as sponsors on its website.
Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm, says the foundation provided experts and information. But she says the video was not funded by oil companies.
The network said Friday a live episode of the comedy will air Oct. 14 and will be performed twice so that both East and West Coast viewers get to see it that way.
NBC executives told the Television Critics Association that "30 Rock" executive producers Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels were approached about a live episode and were up for the challenge. Fey, the show's star and creator, is familiar with live TV from her "Saturday Night Live" days. Michaels created and produces the show.
Actor Morgan Freeman waves before entering the National Theatre in Sarajevo July 30, 2010. Freeman is on a three-day visit as a guest of honour for the16th Sarajevo Film Festival and will attend the screening of his film "Invictus", directed by Clint Eastwood.
Photo by Dado Ruvic
A Thai court on Friday extended bail granted to Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev, who has been charged with raping a 14-year-old boy, his lawyer said.
Pletnev, artistic director of the Russian National Orchestra, denies the accusation, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in jail.
He was released in early July after posting 300,000 baht (9,300 dollars) bail.
The award-winning maestro was granted permission to travel overseas, but is required to report back every 12 days to the court in the resort city of Pattaya, where he has a house. His next hearing is on August 11.
Singer Tom Jones waves as he arrives to attend the Red Cross Ball in Monte Carlo July 30, 2010. The Red Cross ball is a traditional and annual charityevent in the Principality of Monaco.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
The Walt Disney Co. is selling Miramax Films to a group of investors for $660 million, marking a new phase for a studio that helped launch the career of Quentin Tarantino and push independent movies into the mainstream.
The deal announced Friday ends speculation that founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein - who lent the names of their parents, Miriam and Max, to the company - could regain control of the studio they launched more than three decades ago.
With ownership of the studio passes the rights to a long catalog of Oscar winners, including "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), "Chicago" (2002) and "No Country for Old Men" (2007).
The entertainment company signed an agreement late Thursday with Filmyard Holding, an investor group led by construction magnate and Hollywood outsider Ronald Tutor. Also pitching in on the deal is Colony Capital LLC, a real estate investment group, and its CEO Tom Barrack. Tutor and his partners put down a nonrefundable deposit of $40 million with Disney on Thursday. Disney said the deal could close as soon as Sept. 10.
Muhammad Asyraf Mohd Ridzuan, the winner of the reality TV show 'Imam Muda' or 'Young Leader', acknowledges to audience after the final live show in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, Friday, July 30, 2010. Asyraf receives an all-expenses-paid pilgrimage to Mecca, a car, a job as prayer leader in a major mosque, a scholarship to study in Saudi Arabia, a laptop, and a cash prize.
Photo by Lai Seng Sin
President Barack Obama has not heard of Snooki, but New Jersey police certainly have after arresting the "Jersey Shore" reality television star on Friday.
Snooki, whose real name is Nicole Polizzi, 22, was arrested for disorderly conduct while filming the hit TV series on Friday afternoon, Seaside Heights Borough Administrator John Camera told The Star-Ledger newspaper.
"She was being very disorderly on the beach, bothering other patrons there," Camera said.
A visitor carries a bear plush toy at the 8th annual China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (ChinaJoy) in Shanghai July 30, 2010.
Photo by Aly Song
"Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf said on Friday that his TV crime drama had "moved into the history books" after failing to find a new network following its cancellation by NBC after 20 years on the air.
"I can confirm that it has moved into the history books," Wolf told TV writers at a conference in Los Angeles. Wolf had said earlier this year he hoped another network would continue to produce the series.
The crime drama series, whose audiences have halved since 2002, aired its last episode in May. But its multiple spin-offs are continuing with the latest, "Law & Order: Los Angeles", coming to U.S. television in September.
Wolf said he was "extremely disappointed" at the cancellation of "Law & Order", but that he was now focusing on the new show.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a giant hailstone that fell in central South Dakota has broken U.S. records, even though the man who found it says it melted somewhat while waiting to be evaluated.
The NOAA's National Climate Extremes Committee says the hailstone found in the town of Vivian on July 23 measures 8 inches in diameter and weighs 1 pound, 15 ounces. The committee says the South Dakota ice chunk breaks records set by hailstones discovered in Nebraska and Kansas.
Ranch hand Leslie Scott says the hailstone was about 3 inches larger when he found it. Scott says he put it in the freezer but that he couldn't prevent some melting because of an hours-long power outage that followed the storm.
A Poitou donkey foal named Richelieu born on Friday July 23, stands in the outdoor enclosure at Schoenbrunn zoo, in Vienna Austria, on Thursday, July 29,2010. Poitou donkeys are strongly endangered domestic animal races.
Photo by Ronald Zak
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