zEN mAN (observing republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan...lying like a rug....lying like Pinnochio....his pants are on fire....after his acceptance speech at the RNC last Wednesday....who would ever believe this bald-faced blue-eyed prevaricator?)
Paul Krugman: The Medicaid Killers (New York Times)
Paul Ryan's speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan's brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Gail Collins: Renovating Mitt Romney (New York Times)
Mike Huckabee, in an interview before his speech, compared Mitt to a nasty doctor. "If you've just been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you honestly don't care if your neurosurgeon is a jerk," he told Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast.
BRIAN BEUTLER: Top 5 Fibs In Paul Ryan's Convention Speech (Talking Points Memo)
Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan's headlining speech at the GOP convention in Tampa Wednesday night touched on many of the election's defining issues. But it was also filled with prevarications - not just recitations of the conventions "you didn't build that" theme, but on the very policy matters that have endeared him to the political establishment in Washington.
Andrew Tobias: Lying
The very same woman who told the Convention how bad Obama is for small business turns out in real life to give small businesspeople a Powerpoint exploding this myth. See it here. "Bidding on government contracts has never been easier," her first slide leads off.
Karen Zarkar: "20 Questions: Harry Shearer" (PopMatters)
12. The best thing you ever bought, stole, or borrowed?
My satellite dish. First I built one with the help of friends Chris Guest and Archie Hahn. Then I bought one. The Big dish, not the Dish dish. It gives me more viewing pleasure, bidden and forbidden, than one could ever imagine.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (Athens News)
Where some college athletes get their grades can be a mystery. Truett "Rip" Sewell, who later became a professional baseball pitcher, played sports at Vanderbilt, but the academics were too tough for him, and he dropped out. Two weeks later, he ran into English professor Dr. Eddie Mims, who asked how he was doing. Mr. Sewell explained that he had dropped out and hadn't been to class in two weeks. Dr. Mims said, "That's impossible! We had an exam yesterday, and I passed you!"
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In Alaska, United States, Outside or the Outside refers to any non-Alaska location. Though commonly used by Alaskans to refer to other U.S. states, it may also refer to international locations distant from Alaska, including Canada, Great Britain and Russia. The term has been in use since at least the beginning of the 20th century and is believed to be an adaptation of a similar Canadian term used in the northern portion of that country and referring to southern Canada. The expression is typically used in an adverbial phrase following some form of the word "go", but it is also used as a simple noun.
The inverse of the term, Inside, is infrequently used.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
outside
Alan J said:
Outside
BttbBob wrote:
Hmmm... Apparently, the term is "Outside". That's understandable... In 'The State of Maine' (No, oh no, it's not merely 'Maine', it's always, and I mean always, 'The State of Maine' to the denizens therein, i.e. 'Mainiacs') if you were not born there you are termed to be "From Away". You can move there and reside there for 50 years and still be "From Away". Both of my daughters were born there and have '004-' Social Security numbers to prove it beyond their birth certificates (Mainiacs' SSN's start with '004-007') and they can always move back and still be 'Mainiacs'. They were born there.
Sandra in Bangor replied:
outside
Charlie responded:
Outside. So I'm outside writing this?
Adam answered:
Outside.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
In Alaska, United States, Outside or the Outside refers to any non-Alaska location
Sally said:
Since my router is now disconnecting me about every 10 minutes, and it may or may not save my correspondence when reconnecting, I just plain cheated and went to Wikipedia. There, I found out, "Outside or the Outside refers to any non-Alaska location." It's probably something more creative, but this is the best I can do (pause for sympathy here...).
Least we forget...
Yeah, Happy Birthday B2BB. As a gift to you, I didn't laugh at JoeS' "anthropomorphic screw." and I was tempted too... ;)
Dale of Diamond Springs (Even had a cool breeze last night!!) answered:
In Alaska, "Outside" is used to refer to any non-Alaska location. I missed Sarah so much at the Imperialistic Gratuitous Tampa Bay Clusterfuck Convention that I just had to post pictures of Alaska's greatest export!!!!!
MAM wrote:
Outside
And, Joe S responded:
Outside. That's what Wiki said. It makes no sense to me, but I heard on TV that they can't put anything on the Internet that's not true. So there you go
Now let me introduce you to Toni Trucks. Tony will be on the new CBS show Made in Jersey. Toni is from Manistee and on her way to becoming the next BIG STAR!
This is Toni.
"Made In Jersey' - Cast
CBS begins the night with a RERUNCSI: The 3rd One', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Saving Hope', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Eli Manning, music by Rihanna.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW pisses away an hour with infomercials, followed by an old '2½ Men', then another old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Hatfields & McCoys' (part 1), followed by 'Hatfields & McCoys' (part 2), and 'Hatfields & McCoys' (part 3).
AMC offers the movie 'Top Gun', followed by the movie 'Four Brothers', then the movie 'Four Brothers', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
[7:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 1 - The Impossible Astronaut
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Day of the Moon
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[12:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 6 - The Almost People
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 7 - A Good Man Goes to War
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 8 - Let's Kill Hitler
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 9 - Night Terrors
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 10 - The Girl Who Waited
[5:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 11 - The God Complex
[6:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 12 - Closing Time
[7:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 13 - The Wedding of River Song
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
[10:00PM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Surviving Death
[11:00PM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 2 - Husbands and Fathers
[1:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Surviving Death
[2:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 2 - Husbands and Fathers
[4:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 1 - Surviving Death
[5:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 2 - Husbands and Fathers (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by the movie 'Meet The Parents'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay', followed by the movie 'Half-Baked', then the movie 'Dumb & Dumber'.
FX has LIVE'College Football', '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Zombieland', '2½ Men', and another '2½ Men'.
History has 'Swamp People', '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] Bunk
[6:30AM] Bunk
[7:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[7:15AM] River Red
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Heavenly Daze
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Hoi Polloi
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Hold That Lion
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Horses' Collars
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Idiots Deluxe
[12:00PM] The Beast Must Die
[2:00PM] Dark Star
[3:45PM] Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
[5:30PM] Antwone Fisher
[8:00PM] Full Metal Jacket
[10:30PM] Full Metal Jacket
[1:00AM] Black Book
[4:00AM] What Alice Found (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Summer Hours
[7:45A] The Gift
[8:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Angelo Lambrou
[9:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Qristyl Frazier: Plus-Sexy (Episode 2, Season 2)
[10:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Kathy & Erik Wilson (Episode 3, Season 2)
[11:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - UK (Episode 6, Season 1)
[11:30A] Return To Rajapur
[1:05P] How to Be
[2:30P] Summer Hours
[4:15P] Brokedown Palace
[6:00P] GET TO WORK - Stand and Deliver (Episode 2, Season 1)
[7:00P] GET TO WORK - Don't Get Comfortable (Episode 3, Season 1)
[8:00P] Wendy and Lucy
[9:30P] On The Line
[10:00P] The Sea Inside
[12:10A] The Center of the World
[1:40A] I'm Gonna Explode
[3:25A] Brokedown Palace
[5:15A] The Spine
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Argentina (Episode 8, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Outlander', followed by the movie 'Predator 2'.
The third film in the upcoming "Hobbit" movie trilogy will be released worldwide in July 2014, the movie studios behind the venture said on Friday, and the second film now has a new name.
The third film -- "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" -- will open in movie theaters on July 18, 2014 - just seven months after the newly titled second film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" arrives on December 13, 2013. The second film originally carried the "There and Back Again" title.
The first film, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" starring British actor Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, has already been set for a December 14, 2012 opening.
Director Peter Jackson, Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, and MGM announced in July that the 3D-film adaptation of the classic novel by J.R.R. Tolkien would be split into three films rather than the two originally envisaged.
U.S. director Spike Lee poses during the photocall of the movie "Bad 25" at the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice August 31, 2012.
Photo by Max Rossi
A message in a bottle has been pulled from the ocean 98 years after it was written, and officials say it is the world's oldest of its kind.
Scottish fisherman Andrew Leaper found the letter in his nets while sailing off of Scotland's northern coast. And on Thursday, Guinness World Records confirmed that is the old message in a bottle ever found, beating the previous record holder by five years.
Amazingly, the previous record holder was found by the same boat, the Shetland-based "Copious."
In 1914, Scottish Captain C.H. Brown of the Glasgow School of Navigation released 1,890 bottles as part of a government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland. Each bottle contained a postcard asking the finder to record details of where the bottle was located. The letter also promises a reward of sixpence, which the AP notes no longer exists.
And it's entirely possible that the record could be broken on another voyage, as only 350 of the original bottles have been discovered.
French singer Johnny Hallyday is out of a Caribbean hospital and on his way to Los Angeles.
The 69-year-old performer whose glittery rock shows have led some to call him the "French Elvis," spent five days in a hospital on the island of Martinique. He was in the cardiac section of the hospital but sent a message to fans via Instagram that it was nothing but a case of "severe bronchitis."
Hallyday boarded a flight early Friday from the French island to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was then expected to travel to Los Angeles, where he has a home. He walked slowly to the airplane, unaided except by an umbrella for the rain.
The singer was first hospitalized Sunday in Guadeloupe, then moved the next day to Martinique.
Hong Kong actress Angelababy (R) and director Stephen Fung pose during the photocall for the movie "Tai Chi O" at the 69th Venice Film Festival August 31, 2012.
Photo by Tony Gentile
The actress gave birth Thursday to a boy named Finn Davey. His stats? Six pounds, 6 ounces and 20-inches from head to toe. Spelling made the announcement on her website and on Twitter.
The baby is the 39-year-old's fourth child with 44-year-old actor-husband Dean McDermott.
Spelling gave birth to daughter Hattie 10 months ago. She also has a son Liam, 5; and a daughter, Stella, 4. McDermott has a son, Jack, from a previous marriage.
Washington state regulators have warned a Roman Catholic bishop that his diocese risks running afoul of state campaign finance laws if he follows through with a planned fund-raising effort opposing same-sex marriage on the November ballot.
State law prohibits organizations, including churches, from raising money from individuals to give to political campaigns, said Lori Anderson, a spokeswoman for the state's Public Disclosure Commission.
The commission was calling into question a recent letter from Bishop Joseph Tyson to Yakima-area pastors urging them to distribute donation envelopes to parishioners during the weekend of September 8-9.
The money would go to Preserve Marriage Washington, the campaign to defeat legalization of same-sex marriage on the state's November ballot.
Tyson's letter instructs parish priests not to open the envelopes once they are turned back in, but to place them into a pre-addressed security envelope to be mailed directly to Preserve Marriage, according to local media reports.
Italian director Francesco Rosi (R) receives the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award from Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore at the 69th Venice Film Festival August 31, 2012.
Photo by Tony Gentile
The actor who played David Starsky in the 1970s police drama "Starsky & Hutch" is fighting a drug charge in Kentucky for what he says is medical marijuana from California.
The Daily News in Bowling Green reports an attorney entered a not guilty plea on Thursday on behalf of 69-year-old Paul Michael Glaser of Venice, Calif.
Bowling Green police charged Glaser with possession of marijuana and a pipe on May 10, hours after he read an excerpt of his young adult novel, "Chrystallia and the Source of Light," to students at a middle school.
According to a police citation, Glaser said he had medical marijuana prescribed to him in California.
He was arrested after an anonymous call to police that a man was smoking marijuana in a hotel.
Eric Yttri (R) plays a flaming tuba during the Burning Man 2012 "Fertility 2.0" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, August 30, 2012. More than 60,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 26th year, to spend a week in the remote desert cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
Talk show host Phil McGraw's pristine 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible has been stolen from a Southern California hot rod shop.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says in a news release that McGraw was driving the collector car when it broke down on Sunday and was taken to the RODZ shop in Burbank.
The car is worth at least $80,000 and was stolen that night.
The RODZ auto shop is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thief and the safe return of the vehicle.
A model presents a creation from designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's Spring/Summer 2013 collection during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid August 31, 2012.
Photo by Paul Hanna
Apparently, imitation isn't always the sincerest form of flattery. At least in the case of "Sister Act."
The Walt Disney Company and Touchstone Pictures are being sued for $1 billion - yes, with a "b" - by a nun who claims that her life story was stolen and used in the 1992 film "Sister Act."
In a suit filed in New York Supreme Court last week, Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary Convent in Harlem claims that "Sister Act" - and its 1993 sequel, as well as a stage musical adaptation - used "plaintiff's actual life experiences without her permission or authorization, thereby irreparably damaging her by depriving her of the windfall of financial gain reaped by defendants."
Blakely sued Disney, as well as producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures, late last year over the matter, but had that suit voluntarily dismissed in January.
An art installation titled La Llorona is seen during the Burning Man 2012 "Fertility 2.0" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, August 31, 2012. More than 60,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival, which is celebrating its 26th year, to spend a week in the remote desert cut off from much of the outside world to experience art, music and the unique community that develops.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
Seven suits worn by Britain's first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher before she took up office will go on sale for up to 1,500 pounds each on Monday.
A bright turquoise ensemble she wore on the day she was elected leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975 and a striking yellow dress and jacket are included in the sale by Christie's in London.
Other outfits include a gold and silver cocktail ensemble and a dark greatcoat with distinctive red lapel stitching.
Only a limited number of her personal items have ever been sold and her suits could fetch more than their 1,500 pound price tag after an exhibition showing the auction items have already attracted much interest, the spokeswoman added.
Writer Shulamith Firestone, who published her influential "The Dialectic of Sex" at age 25 and then retreated into isolation and mental illness, has died at age 67.
Firestone was found dead Tuesday in her Manhattan apartment, said her sister Laya Firestone Seghi. The death was from natural causes.
"The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution" was published in 1970 during the height of the women's liberation movement.
Firestone applied Marxist analysis to the status of women and argued that true liberation would come only when women were freed from childbearing. In Firestone's utopian future, babies would be gestated outside the womb and raised by both sexes.
The book joined works like Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics" and Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" as a 1970s feminist standard and is still assigned in college courses.
But Firestone retreated from public life after the book was published and was hospitalized with schizophrenia in the 1980s.
More recently she became so reclusive that according to her landlord, Bob Perl, she had been dead for about a week when her body was discovered.
Firestone was beloved despite her struggles, Perl said. People often called his office to volunteer to pay the rent on her East Village apartment.
"Family, friends and strangers supported her because she so moved them with her work," Perl said.
Firestone was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Ottawa, Ontario, and raised in St. Louis. She earned a degree in painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She moved to New York in the 1960s and co-founded three feminist groups intended as radical alternatives to mainstream groups like the National Organization for Women.
Firestone's only book other than "The Dialectic of Sex" was "Airless Spaces," a fictionalized account of life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, published in 1998.
In addition to Seghi, survivors include her mother, two brothers and another sister.
Jenson, a Devon Rex, has a look around before the beginning of the Walker Art Center's first "Internet Cat Video Film Festival," showcasing the best of cat films on the Internet in Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis held its first-ever online cat video festival, a compilation of silly cat clips that have become an Internet phenomenon, attracting millions of viewers for some of the videos.
Photo by Craig Lassig
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