zEN mAN (observing former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who was almost assassinated by yet another NRA surrogate...came onto the stage at the DNC (with her friend Debbie Wasserman-Schultz) and in her own inspiring manner led the cheering weeping hall in the pledge of allegiance....I also was of course cheering and weeping for this courageous and beautiful patriot.....Vote for Obama!)
Paul Krugman: Cleaning Up the Economy (New York Times)
Perhaps the best of [Bill Clinton's] zingers was his sarcastic summary of the Republican case for denying President Obama re-election: "We left him a total mess. He hasn't cleaned it up fast enough. So fire him and put us back in." Great line. But is the mess really getting cleaned up?
The answer, I would argue, is yes. The next four years are likely to be much better than the last four years - unless misguided policies create another mess.
Froma Harrop: Better Off Than Four Years Ago? I'd Say (Creators Syndicate)
Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign zinger is back in 2012. Let's see. Four years ago ... four years ago. That was September 2008. Oh yes, I remember it well. It was a time of white-knuckled panic that a new Great Depression was upon us.
Sanford Pinsker: The Gentleman's A- (Irascible Professor)
I've been told that many professors reserved the grade C for failing performances and the B- for anything remotely "satisfactory." That's how grade inflation works -- one simply redefines the standards.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Football (Athens News)
Herman Hickman, football coach of several losing teams at Yale, once grew angry at a referee who was stepping off a 10-yard penalty against Yale in a game against Princeton. Mr. Herman was so angry that he complained to the ref, "You don't even know the rules - that penalty should be 15 yards." The referee replied, "I know what the penalty is, but the way this team is being coached I'm giving it a break."
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Who is the only person in the history of the two major U.S. political parties to have been his party's nominee for both President and Vice President, but was never elected to either office?
Quick Draw McGraw, or just Quick Draw, is a fictional anthropomorphic horse and the main protagonist and title character of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. He is depicted as wearing red cowboy hat and blue cowboy scarf. He was voiced by Daws Butler.
In certain cases, Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante El Kabong (a parody of Zorro, known in the Spanish-dubbed version as "El Caba-Zorro" or "El Relámpago"). His introduction went as follows - "Of all the heroes in legend and song, there's none as brave as El Kabong" - As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the war cry "OLAYYYYEEEE!" and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar (after shouting "KABOOOOOONG!") which is always referred to as a "kabonger", producing a distinctive kabong sound and usually destroying the guitar in the process.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Quick Draw McGraw
mj said:
The somewhat (and I use the term loosely) Kabong
Was the alter ego of Quickdraw McGraw, white horse sheriff with a burro sidekick, Babaloo, who called him "Queekstraw." El Kabong's weapon of choice was a guitar with which he kabonged bad guys.
Charlie replied:
Quick Draw McGraw
Baron Dave ("The sooner the quicker." -- Bullwinkle J. Moose) wrote:
Quick Draw McGraw. I watched all these shows faithfully at the time, and I doubt they hold up. The best cartoons were mainly for adults, and Quick Draw & co. had a few memorable images and catch phrases but the plots were dumb. Oh well.
Forward.
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John.S.A. responded:
That would be Quick draw McGraw.
Looking back, it was a somewhat weird show.
Adam answered:
Alter-ego of American cartoon character 'Quick Draw McGraw', a masked avenger styled in the manner of 'Zorro'.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante El
Kabong (a parody of Zorro, known in the Spanish-dubbed version as "El
Caba-Zorro" or "El Relámpago").
Sally said:
"Quick Draw McGraw" has an alter ego, 'El Kabong.'
Must be a male thing...
PS: The most moving moment of the night (last night), hand's down, was that of former Arizona Democratic Representative, Gabrielle Giffords, leading the Pledge of Allegiance - still wearing that fabulous smile despite that fact that she has been severely injured after being shot in the head a few years ago...
'Gabby' on the right.
What an exciting 3 days this has been for me, I have soaked it all in, and am ready for the run up to Election Day.
Marian replied:
Quick Draw McGraw
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
El Kabong was Quickdraw Mcgraw's alter-ego! I loved Hanna-Barbera cartoons when I was a pain in the ass nine year old!!!
Of all the heroes in legend and song
There's none so brave as El Kabong.
He appears when most needed,
He rights the wrongs,
Then he's gone like a flash.
That's El Kabong!
Now in old California, the story is told
How the folks of El Pueblo lost all of their gold.
'Twas the cruel Don Chilada who took their last cent.
Why, even the termites had to pay rent!
No one knew what to do, how to stop Don Chilada
When out of the blue came a soft serenad-a.
ekimtod answered:
El Kabong = Quick Draw McGraw
MAM wrote:
'Quick Draw McGraw'alter ego is a masked avenger styled in the manner of 'Zorro', wielding a guitar with which he would subdue evildoers with the exclamation "Ka-Bong!". Created in 1959 by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Quick Draw McGraw and his alter ego!
And, Joe S said:
I've tried all day to come up with a smart-assed answer to the question and I have utterly failed. FAILED! I will try harder in the future but as for now, I am left with no choice but to supply the correct answer. Quick Draw McGraw, (or as he was known by his faithful side-kick Baba Looey, Queeks Drrah) was the secret identity of El Kabong.
It is not often that super amazing things happen here on the farm, but my usual afternoon trip outback to feed the horses took me past our 10x40 foot chicken coop where the 25 or so ducks/chickens don't regularly gather unless it's chow time. The peacocks had been honking "danger" for awhile further down by the road, but it was the commotion in the open coop that drew my attention; a beautiful young hawk had found it's way into the coop, and couldn't find it's way out.
The ducks had their head feathers up and were clustered close to the coop gate, taking their cues from my presence. As they kept following me, they thwarted my attempts to free the hawk, who kept banging himself against the back sides of the coop, seeming not to find the open exit; I needed help to distract the ducks and calm down the hawk so he'd pass the threat of massed waterfowl and fly to freedom.
I yelled out to my daughter across the farm for help to distract the ducks and waded into the coop with a straw broom to gently escort the young fella to his freedom, but the cool part came next...
I really expected him to freak, but he'd gotten himself backed into a corner, refusing to move, even after gentle broom prodding. It was a slow-down moment where we eyed each other from three feet away, wondering how much of a threat I posed to him/him to me. I had to marvel at how magnificent he was; a gorgeous young hawk with at least a three-foot wing-span. But how to steer him toward the undiscovered door? Gently and slowly we danced; he became aware that I meant no harm and flew to the outer front part of the coop, thence out the door and to the roof of my house, where he perched long enough to gather his wits and celebrate his good fortune. Off to great adventures that might take him (hopefully) far from our barnyard.
Peace was restored amongst the rest of the flock and I was duly awed.
How often in life do these moments occur? Priceless!!
CBS fills the night with LIVE'US Tennis Open', then pads the Left Coast with the movie 'Summer Rental', and maybe '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Grimm', followed by a FRESH'Saving Hope', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Jimmy Fallon hosting, music by Michael Bublé.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'NASCAR Sprint Cup', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Primetime: What Would You Do?'.
The CW offers the FRESH'Heal The Bay', 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 'Coma' (part 2), followed by the movie 'Independence Day'.
AMC offers 'Into the West' (Wheel to the Stars), followed by the movie 'Apollo 13', then the movie 'Mission to Mars'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Sebastian's
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2NEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 2 - Realm of Fear NEW
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 3 - Man of the People NEW
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 4 - Relics NEW
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship NEW
[10:00PM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 3 - In the Hands of an Angry God
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
[1:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 3 - In the Hands of an Angry God
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 1 - Aslyum of the Daleks
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 7 - Ep 2 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
[4:00AM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 3 - In the Hands of an Angry God
[5:00AM] THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Switchback', followed by the movie 'Outbreak', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', followed by the movie 'Get Me To The Greek'.
FX has LIVE'College Football', followed by the movie 'Superbad'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans6:30AMSling Blade
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Idle Roomers
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-If a Body Meets a Body
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-Loco Boy Makes Good
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Men in Black
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Micro-Phonies
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Movie Maniacs
[12:00PM] The Flesh Eaters
[1:45PM] Teen-Age Caveman
[3:15PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[3:30PM] Religulous
[5:45PM] The Changeling
[8:00PM] Scream 3
[10:30PM] Ginger Snaps
[12:45AM] Scream 3
[3:15AM] Ginger Snaps
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Amy Poehler Wears a Black Jacket & Grey Pants (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - France (Episode 1, Season 1)
[6:30A] Made in China
[8:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Aysha Saeed: Stop Being Controlling (Episode 4, Season 2)
[9:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Cesar Galindo: Nude is the New Black (Episode 5, Season 2)
[10:00A] ALL ON THE LINE WITH JOE ZEE - Nicole Miller
[11:00A] This Is Not A Robbery
[12:15P] Hotel Gramercy Park
[1:30P] Made in China
[3:00P] This Is Not A Robbery
[4:15P] Thumbsucker
[6:00P] GET TO WORK - Don't Get Comfortable (Episode 3, Season 1)
[7:00P] GET TO WORK - Pressure Does Two Things (Episode 4, Season 1)
[8:00P] Mammoth
[10:15P] The Anniversary Party
[12:10A] Diary of a Nymphomaniac
[2:00A] Thumbsucker
[3:45A] The Anniversary Party
[5:40A] Teleglobal Dreamin' (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Sand Sharks', followed by the movie '2-Headed Shark Attack'.
Actor Snoop Lion attends a news conference to promote the film ' Reincarnated ' during the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 7, 2012.
Photo by Fred Thornhill
R.E.M. is the latest music act to request that its songs not be played in a political context.
The band -- which broke up last September after 31 years together -- released a statement on their website denouncing Fox News for playing its seminal hit "Losing My Religion" during coverage of the Democratic National Convention.
"We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage," R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe said in the statement. "Our music does not belong there." R.E.M. said that Fox News is not authorized or licensed to use the song -- a cheeky way for the cable news network to comment on the perceived lack of faith at the DNC -- in the future.
R.E.M. is far from the first band to push-back against Republicans during election season. The Silversun Pickups sent Mitt Romney's campaign a cease-and-desist letter after the Republican candidate for president used their song "Panic Switch" during a campaign event.
Actress Scarlett Johansson waves after speaking to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
Photo by Lynne Sladky
In a new video, members of punk band Pussy Riot thank pop star Madonna for her support and burn President Vladimir Putin's portrait for what they call his suppression of feminists, sexual minorities and opposition.
Three band members are serving two-year jail sentences received in August for their "punk prayer" at Russia's grandest cathedral, in which they asked the Virgin Mary to deliver Russia from Putin. Their trial caused an international furor, and a string of Western celebrities, including Madonna and Paul McCartney, called on the Kremlin to free the women.
In a video posted Thursday on MTV's website, two unidentified band members wearing their trademark balaclavas and brightly colored miniskirts climb down an abandoned building. Speaking in English, they lambast Putin and pledge to continue their "musical fight." The band announced the video on its Twitter account.
Prize-winning author Philip Roth says he's furious with online encyclopedia Wikipedia over its entry about his novel "The Human Stain."
In a letter posted Friday by The New Yorker, Roth says Wikipedia editors had said the book was inspired by the life of author Anatole Broyard.
Not true, Roth responded. The character was based on the late Melvin Turin, of Princeton University.
Roth says he privately reported the error to Wikipedia and was told, to his amazement, that he needed a secondary source. So Roth made his case to the public.
Actress Noomi Rapace and director Brian De Palma at the photo call of the film 'Passion' at the 69th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Medichini
Friday's Google doodle features an animated homage to Star Trek, just in time for the original television series' 46th anniversary. (Spock is the "G.")
The geek-friendly interactive tribute comes complete with sound and a lettered lineup of characters with beady, blinking eyes. What's more, the homepage logo is also an interactive story.
Trekkies can click through a series of nods to the show: teleportation to distant lands, alarms blaring on the spaceship, whirring super-computers, alien bad guys vanquished with a pixelated bazooka all make for optimal use of pre-weekend work hours.
Clint Eastwood got the idea for his "very unorthodox" speech at the Republican convention hours ahead of time, and made a last-minute decision to cast an empty chair as an invisible President Barack Obama, the actor said in an interview with a California newspaper.
The "Dirty Harry" star told the Carmel Pine Cone in the interview published on Friday that he had little public speaking experience but felt his improvised chat with Obama had accomplished his goals. It was his first public comments about the unscripted speech he gave on Thursday last week.
"I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle," the Oscar-winning actor and director said in the interview. The newspaper serves the California town where Eastwood was mayor in the 1980s.
"They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit," he said. "I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks."
Known for having some strong conservative opinions, Eastwood was quoted as saying that people who were shocked by his remarks "are obviously on the left."
This photo released Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 by Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, and the Emily Dickinson Museum, in Amherst, Mass., shows a copy of a circa 1860 daguerreotype purported to show a 30-year-old Emily Dickinson, left, with her friend Kate Scott Turner. The image was displayed during the August, 2012 Emily Dickinson International Society conference held at at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Porn producer Joe Francis should be forced to pay Steve Wynn more than $12 million for claiming that the casino mogul threatened to kill him and bury him in the desert, Wynn's attorney told a jury Friday.
Barry Langberg suggested the multimillion verdict during closing arguments in Wynn's slander case against Francis, who claims the casino creator threatened to hit him over the head with a shovel and have him buried in the desert over a $2 million gambling debt.
Francis claims record producer Quincy Jones showed him a stack of emails purportedly containing the threats, none of which he read or were ever found as evidence.
Wynn has denied Francis' allegations and told jurors they have hurt his reputation and could lead to an expensive investigation by Nevada gambling authorities. Jurors, who will resume deliberations Monday morning, will ultimately decide whether to award Wynn any money and the amount.
Francis' attorney, Aaron Aftergood, contended that both men may be telling the truth and the porn producer may have been misled by Jones. Francis claims he heard about the threats from the Grammy-winner, who is his neighbor, but Jones denies hearing Wynn utter any threats.
Avraham Ribak poses with a ram's skull at his family's factory which manufactures traditional shofars, made from ram or antelope horns, in Tel Aviv September 7, 2012 before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement. The shofar is used by religious Jews during synagogue services on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, when observant Jews atone for the sins of the past year.
Photo by Nir Elias
Actor, artist, poet, fiction writer, director, celebrity, model, stoner - and now defendant - James Franco was slapped with a lawsuit by his former New York University professor Wednesday.
José Angel Santana is suing Franco for defamation after the actor said that he was an "awful" teacher and seeks unspecified monetary damages, the New York Post reports .
Franco told Showbiz411 in 2010 that he received a "D" in Santana's "Directing the Actor" class, and that he only attended 12 out of 14 classes because it was a waste of time.
"I didn't feel like I needed to waste my time with a bad teacher," Franco said at the time.
Santana says he was fired from the prestigious university because of Franco's remarks, and has already sued the school for wrongful termination because he says NYU was unhappy that he gave the actor a bad grade.
A rare blue and white moonflask (bianhu) from the Ming Dynasty, Yongle period, is pictured in this handout released to Reuters September 7, 2012. The Chinese ceramic is estimated to fetch $600,00 to $900,000. Ming flasks, precious jade, rare porcelain and contemporary works of art are among thousands of objects going up for auction in the semi-annual Asian art sales starting Monday in New York.
If you're the parent of a preschool-age child, you may have noticed the colorful ads in recent weeks for "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure" and thought to yourself: "God, I hope my kid doesn't insist on seeing that movie."
If you're not a parent, but have even a passing interest in pop culture, you may have heard of "The Oogieloves" anyway: It's making news, and for all the wrong reasons. The G-rated, live-action family film had a historically abysmal opening: $443,901 in its first weekend in theaters (the movie had opened on 2,160 screens the previous Wednesday). That averages out to $206 per screen. Both figures are record-worsts for a wide release.
Suddenly, the word "Oogieloves" was right up there with "Ishtar" as a shorthand for film failure. But a morbid fascination with the movie seems to have developed over the past week. Jen Chaney wrote in her Washington Post blog: "The massive floppage of 'The Oogieloves' has only made me feel more compelled to see it." Arts writer Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times joked during the Democratic National Convention on Twitter, where he's (at)ditzkoff: "Clinton's speech so good he convinced me to see that Oogieloves movie. (hash)DNC" And Nick Robinson, a fixture in film circles who describes himself as an "award-winning festival bumper creator" went so far as to attend a Labor Day matinee and live-tweet the whole thing. Among the many funny (at)NickRob tweets: "To be fair this movie does a good job of portraying proper bicycle safety. (hash)OOGIELOVES"
(Producer Kenn Viselman, the marketing mastermind behind "Thomas the Tank Engine" and the "Teletubbies," has said he's happy the film has achieved such notoriety, because it's drawn more attention than it would have with just an average opening. He's also said he'll go ahead with a couple of planned sequels, even as this first film drops 1,879 screens in its second weekend to just 281.)
An art piece from Beijing-based artist Chi Peng which is deemed unfit for display by government officials from the cultural bureau is pictured prior the inauguration of the SH Contemporary Art Fair at the Shanghai Exhibition Center September 6, 2012.
An Andy Warhol silkscreen of actor Marlon Brando, clad in leather astride a motorcycle from the movie "The Wild One," is expected to sell for $20 million when it hits the auction block in November, Christie's said on Wednesday.
"Marlon," a 1966 silkscreen which is one of the late pop artist's most famous Hollywood portraits, will be a star lot at the auction house's sale of post-war and contemporary art in November. It is being sold from the collection of businessman and Museum of Modern Art trustee Donald L. Bryant Jr.
The work is unusual in that Warhol executed it on raw, unpainted linen, Christie's said, accentuating the image's "rough and ready" quality, while its pristine clarity conveys Brando's intensity and strength.
A four-panel self-portrait, Warhol's first, soared to $38.4 million in May 2011, while his "Double Marlon," another Brando-inspired work from 1966, fetched $32.5 million in 2008. Four months ago one of Warhol's Elvis works sold for $37 million at Sotheby's.
Jake Eberts, who produced and financed films that won 37 Oscars, died Thursday morning in Montreal, following a brief illness. He was 71, according to the Montreal Gazette, which reported his death.
Eberts founded Goldcrest Films and, later, Allied Filmmakers, and served as chairman of National Geographic Films.
He became involved with movies at the age of 35, relatively late for a filmmaker. After earning an MBA from Harvard, he worked as an engineer and a diesel-engine salesman.
Eberts' most recent project was the IMAX 3D documentary "Jerusalem," slated for release in 2013. He was also developing a $60-million film project in China.
Eberts is survived by his wife, Fiona, his sons, Alex and Dave, and daughter, Lindsay.
An echidna eats its food during a National Threatened Species Day event, held in central Sydney September 7, 2012. The National Threatened Species Day is an event organised by the Zoo and Aquarium Association to educate local communities about the importance of threatened species and what people can do to help them, according to the organisers.
Photo by Daniel Munoz
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