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This weekend we review the terrible response to the disaster of
Katrina--Michael "Brownie" may be banished back to Washington, but who will
investigate this Administration's horrific reply to one of our WORST natural
disasters. Does anyone trust them with their lives anymore?
Marty
(or is it Martha G?) of Bartcop.com
joins us to review the horrible week, which did
have some good news---Tom Delay's PAC has been indicted in Texas . . And
record numbers of funds have been raised. She has also posted links listing
all of those offers of help that were turned down on
Erin Hart's Links
Annalee Newitz: Connect the Dots (Alternet.org)
For years, governments all over the world have secretly been collaborating with the high-end color laser printer industry in order to track the origin of every color copy made.
Censored - or bogus? (sfbg.com)
SOME STORIES GET ignored by the mainstream media because they're too controversial, or too much of a challenge to the rich and powerful, or just too hot to handle. But some stories get dismissed because they're just not credible - and unfortunately, one of the pieces Project Censored cites this year appears to fall into that category.
ABC News tonight stated that all the houses in New Orleans have now been broken into by the 'authorities'. Guess that'll make it easier for the looters.
The telethon/concert was OK - the kid watched most of it. Every time there was more than 1 woman on stage he'd ask if they were the 'Dixie Chicks' - don't know why, but they were the only act he was interested in.
When the kid was little, George Carlin was 'Mr. Conductor' on 'Shining Time Station', his favorite show. Tonight, he was allowed to stay up & see the grown-up version of George Carlin. He wasn't disappointed.
Bill Maher had one of his better shows. George Carlin had a bellyful of fire & was willing to share, Cynthia Tucker was calmly rational & carried a clue-stick, and Kurt Vonnegut - well, all he has to do is sit there & I'm happy, but he too had lots to unload. Catch the show if you can.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with the LIVE'US Open Tennis', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 6'.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'The Most Outrageous Moments On Live TV', followed by a RERUN'Live From New York: The First 5 Years Of Saturday Night Live'.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Jude Law hosting and Ashlee Simpson lip-synching.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 14 February, 1998, with Roma Downey hosting & music by Missy Elliot.
ABC opens the night with LIVE'College Football', followed on the left coast by the movie 'The Terminator'.
The WB offers an infomercial - 'WB Inside & Out: Women', followed by another infomercial - 'WB Inside & Out: Guys', then still another infomercial - 'WB Inside & Out: Women', followed by yet another infomercial - 'WB Inside & Out: Guys'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN fills the night with the movie 'Taffin'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', and 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'Instinct', followed by the movie 'Field Of Dreams', then the movie 'Stand By Me'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 2;
[2:30pm] 'Father Ted' - Ep. 5 And God Created Woman;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 26;
[4pm] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[5pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Formby;
[5:30pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Mick Brown;
[6pm] 'Cold Feet' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 9;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 8;
[9pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 13;
[9:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[10pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 15;
[10:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 16;
[11pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 17;
[11:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 18;
[12am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[12:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 20;
[1am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 21;
[1:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 22;
[2am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 13;
[2:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
[3am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 15;
[3:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 16;
[4am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 17;
[4:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 18;
[5am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 19;
[5:30am] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 20;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', 'Being Bobby Brown', followed by the movie 'Good Will Hunting', then the movie 'Good Will Hunting'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Orange County', 'Reno 911!', another 'Reno 911!', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', another 'Chappelle's Show', and 'Weekends At The D.L.'.
History has 'Brotherhood Of Terror', 'The 9/11 Hijackers', and the movie 'The Siege'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Deconstructing Harry' (1997);
[7:45AM] Short: 'Sparks' (1998);
[8AM] 'Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto' (1955);
[9:45AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[10:15AM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[11:45AM] Short: 'Sparks' (1998);
[12PM] 'Chi Girl' (1999);
[1:30PM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[2PM] 'Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto' (1955);
[3:45PM] Short: Upheaval' (2001);
[4PM] 'Zelig' (1983);
[5:30PM] 'Chi Girl' (1999);
[7PM] 'The Festival #3' (2005);
[7:30PM] 'The Festival #4' (2005);
[8PM] 'Rambling Rose' (1991);
[10PM] 'The Spaghetti West' (2005);
[11PM] 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' (1966);
[2AM] 'The Spaghetti West' (2005);
[3AM] 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Alien Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Man With The Screaming Brain'.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'The Tune';
[8:10AM] 'Keepintime: A Live Recording';
[9AM] 'Slings & Arrows': Episode 5 - A Mirror Up to Nature;
[10AM] 'With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America';
[11:45AM] 'When the Day Breaks';
[12PM] 'Once Around';
[2PM] 'The Game of Their Lives';
[3:30PM] 'Keeping Time: New Music from America's Roots Episode 3';
[4PM] 'Tom Brokaw Reports: Deep Throat, The Inside Story';
[5:15PM] 'When the Day Breaks';
[5:30PM] 'World Traveler';
[7:15PM] 'Press Any Button';
[7:30PM] 'Lift';
[9PM] 'City of Ghosts';
[11PM] 'Clockers';
[1:15AM] 'The Hairdresser's Husband';
[2:45AM] 'Clockers';
[5AM] 'Lift'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan (R) speaks to the media outside the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco, California, September 9, 2005. Sheehan, who says her focus now will be Congress, met with staff of Senator Feinstein to discuss the war in Iraq.
Photo by Kimberly White
Illusionist Roy Horn made a slow, unassisted stroll into a Las Vegas theater, taking another step in his recovery from a near-fatal tiger mauling 23 months ago.
Horn "methodically" walked about 100 yards into the Thursday evening performance of "Avenue Q" at the Wynn Las Vegas resort, said Bernie Yuman, longtime manager of the "Siegfried & Roy" show.
Horn, 60, has been walking without the aid of a rolling walker after months of six- to eight-hour days in physical rehabilitation, Yuman said.
He was accompanied Thursday by his partner, Siegfried Fischbacher, and casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Singer Liza Minnelli arrives at a screening of 'Liza with a Z' at the Elgin Theatre during the 30th Toronto International Film Festival, September 9, 2005.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Dick Van Dyke regularly dishes up meals and laughs during Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter at The Midnight Mission shelter on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. The organization gave back to the actor-comedian Thursday night, honoring him with its Golden Heart Award during a dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Van Dyke, 79, volunteers for the major holiday meals, often bringing celebrity helpers like Carrie Fisher and Ed Begley Jr. He recently served as chairman of a fund-raising campaign for a new Midnight Mission building.
Among those cheering for Van Dyke on Thursday were Fisher, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, actor Mike Conners, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Sinatra and Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme.
Steve Martin gestures as he responds to a question at a news conference for the movie 'Shopgirl' during the International Film Festival in Toronto, Friday Sept. 9, 2005. He wrote the novel and screenplay on which the film is based and starred in it also.
Photo by Adrian Wyld
Andy Griffith will donate manuscripts, television and film footage and other memorabilia documenting his 55-year career to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A native of Mount Airy, Griffith earned a bachelor's degree in music from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1949.
Griffith's personal collection will become part of UNC's Southern Historical Collection, which contains more than 15 million items in 4,900 collections, the school said.
The bassoon player is holed up in Texas. The violins are scattered across Ohio, Georgia, Massachusetts, Illinois and Tennessee. The French hornist, who also plays the garden hose, is stuck in Nashville.
Katrina has blown the 68-member Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - the only full-time symphony in America owned and operated by its musicians_ into exile. And no one knows if their beloved ensemble will survive.
The orchestra's audience, the city of New Orleans, is gone. Its venue, the ornate Orpheum Theater in the business district, has taken on water. And many of its musicians have lost their homes.
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is the proud of offspring of the New Orleans Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1991, leaving its musicians unemployed and stunned. "They didn't tell us," said bassoonist John Fairlie, who's staying in Temple, Texas. "We found out because we got letters from our health insurance company saying our policies had been canceled."
Casino Mogul Steve Wynn, left, stands on stage with, from left, Avenue Q book writer Jeff Whitty and musical and lyrical creators Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx on the opening night of the new Las Vegas show Avenue Q, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort and Casino.
Photo by Eric Jamison
Eight Olympic gold medals won by swimmer Johnny Weissmuller have been returned to the International Swimming Hall of Fame Museum, along with other memorabilia allegedly taken by a maintenance worker.
Paul Nichols Christow is charged with two counts of dealing in stolen property and two counts of grand theft over $100,000. Prosecutors said the 49-year-old used his unfettered access over several days to swipe the medals, valued at nearly $500,000, from the museum's collection.
Because the medals were purchased by people in good faith, Florida law required the museum to buy them back. When the museum couldn't come up with the cash, museum board member Dennis Carey of Scottsdale, Ariz., paid $15,000 for their return. Carey, a former English Channel swimmer, said the museum has now installed an updated alarm system.
A city council committee has approved the demolition of a childhood home of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, despite protests from opponents of a redevelopment plan.
"Ringo Starr lived in the Madryn Street house for about three months before he moved to Admiral Grove, where he lived for about 20 years," said Flo Clucas, the council's executive member for housing.
"John Lennon and Paul McCartney's childhood homes were preserved because they spent a significant part of their lives in them," Clucas said, referring to other Beatles members.
New York-born artist Coco Fusco (back, standing), dressed as a U.S. Army officer, orders her 50 Brazilian volunteers to clean the ground with toothbrushes, in a skit performed in front of the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo, September 9, 2005. Fusco's newest work, titled 'Bare Life Study #1' was inspired by U.S. military prisons on foreign soil and mimicked the drama of prisoners mistreated while being held by American soldiers.
Photo by Rickey Rogers
In a hilarious use of Asian characters - pointed out by
Tian, one of the contestants, J.D., on CBS' Rockstar INXS wore a shirt that, when viewed normally, appeared to say something in an Asian language but, when viewed
sideways, clearly reads "Go Fuck Your Self." Censors did not catch the trick and images of the contestant are all over the
Rockstar INXS website (as we figured, CBS has removed the images) and, presumably, were broadcast as well. Screenshots of the website are captured
here
and here for posterity's sake.
Singer Billy Idol, left, and Lisa Marie Presley perform Idol's song 'White Wedding' during the 'Fashion Rocks' concert Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 in New York's Radio City Music Hall. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to Hurricane Katrina relief.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti has taken a leaf out of filmmaker Michael Moore's book, hitting out at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a no-holds-barred documentary that met thundering applause in Venice on Friday.
In "Viva Zapatero!," shown at a one-off screening on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, Guzzanti takes on those who pulled her provocative show "Raiot" off the air in 2003 after a defamation suit from Berlusconi's broadcaster Mediaset.
Using a clever mix of unflattering off-the-cuff comments from politicians, street interviews and sketches -- the same combination that brought critical acclaim to Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" and "Farenheit 9/11" -- Guzzanti settles her scores and rekindles the debate on media censorship.
The satirist includes several moving interviews with journalists sidelined since the Berlusconi administration came to power, including a clip of veteran Enzo Biagi, who was shown the door after a televised interview with actor Roberto Benigni.
Biagi, the newscaster who announced the end of fascism to Italians, movingly tells the camera he was sacked with a registered-delivery letter.
Singer and actor Micky Dolenz, a member of the 1970's music group 'The Monkees' pose as he arrives as a guest for the premiere of the new film 'Just Like Heaven' in Hollywood September 8, 2005. The film is about a lonely architect played by Mark Ruffalo who falls for the spirit of beautiful woman played by Reese Witherspoon who used to live in his new apartment. The film opens September 16 in the United States. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
The government's $5 billion effort to help small businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks was so loosely managed that it gave low-interest loans to companies that didn't need terrorism relief - or even know they were getting it, The Associated Press has found.
And while some at New York's Ground Zero couldn't get assistance they desperately sought, companies far removed from the devastation - a South Dakota country radio station, a Virgin Islands perfume shop, a Utah dog boutique and more than 100 Dunkin' Donuts and Subway sandwich shops - had no problem winning the government-guaranteed loans.
Dentists and chiropractors in numerous cities, as well as an Oregon winery that sold trendy pinot noir to New York City restaurants also got assistance.
Read more about the accountability of the grown-ups in charge - 9/11
A monarch butterfly lands lands on a Zinia in a Sunbury, Pennsylvania garden September 4, 2005. Picture taken September 4, 2005.
Photo by Stelios Varias
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