Josh Marshall: Ok, I Admit It: I'm a Lauer Truther (TPM)
I've never met Matt Lauer and I never watch early morning TV. I'm either working or asleep. I have zero investment in Lauer doing well or terribly. But he didn't do as badly as people are claiming. He came at Trump more than people are saying and he pressed Trump to expand on and double down on being Trump. And that did not go well for Trump. Not at all.
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002.
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Deborah said:
Howard Allen Frances O'Brian is better known as Anne Rice. She's written books about vampires, some of which I've read.
Good thing I forgot yesterday's TQ - I had no idea there was a cartoon about a Space Ghost.
The fire in Paradise is contained, so the smoky haze has abated, thus making outdoor activities enticing again. Off to walk the dogs while it's still cool. TGIF!
Patriot Act NSA Spying Unconstitutional Section 215 National Security Letters Must End
My name is Marc Perkel and I have decided to announce that I will not comply with the so called "Patriot Act" laws requiring me to disclose information about my customers. If I receive a national security letter I will immediately photograph it, post it online everywhere I can, and then make a video of me burning it. I will then await my arrest. If you want to put me in jail then come get me mother fucker.
Woo hoo! Don't have to set the old alarm clock for a change!
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Criminal Minds', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Aquarius', then another FRESH'Aquarius'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Rizzoli & Isles', followed by another old 'Rizzoli & Isles'.
A&E has 'The First 48', 'The First 48: Love Kills', followed by a FRESH'The First 48: Drugs Kill', then the FRESH'The First 48: Deadly Misfortune'.
AMC offers the movie 'True Grit', followed by the movie 'Pearl Harbor'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 27-The Alternative Factor
[7:10AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 28-The City on the Edge of Forever
[8:20AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 29-Operation: Annihilate!
[9:30AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1-Amok Time
[10:40AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2-Who Mourns for Adonais?
[11:50AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3-The Changeling
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4-Mirror, Mirror
[2:10PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5-The Apple
[3:20PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6-The Doomsday Machine
[4:30PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7-Catspaw
[5:40PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-I, Mudd
[6:50PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-Metamorphosis
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-Journey to Babel
[9:10PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Friday's Child
[10:20PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Deadly Years
[11:30PM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Obsession
[12:40AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-Wolf in the Fold
[1:50AM] STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-The Trouble with Tribbles
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 7-Unification (Part 1)
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 8-Unification (Part 2)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11-Parallels (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', another 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by the movie 'That Awkward Moment'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Cop Out', 'Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live At Brazos County Jail'.
FX has the movie 'The Internship', followed by the movie 'Neighbors', then the movie 'The Hangover Part III'.
History has '15 Septembers Later', and '9/11: The Days After'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-What's the Matador?
[6:25AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Who Done It?
[6:50AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Whoops, I'm an Indian
[7:15AM] THE THREE STOOGES-You Natzy Spy!
[7:40AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Baby Sitters' Jitters
[8:05AM] THE THREE STOOGES-Bedlam in Paradise
[8:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-A New Hope
[9:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Water Tower
[9:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Punk Chick
[10:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Grandma's Dead
[10:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Hyde Moves InTIMES
[11:00AM] DOCUMENTARY NOW-Sandy Passage
[11:30AM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-DRONEZ: The Hunt for El Chingon
[12:00PM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-Kunuk Uncovered
[12:30PM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-The Eye Doesn't Lie
[1:00PM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-A Town, a Gangster, a Festival
[1:30PM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee, Part 1
[2:00PM] DOCUMENTARY NOW!-Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee, Part 2
[2:30PM] KILLER ELITE
[5:00PM] BODY OF LIES
[8:00PM] MEN IN BLACK
[10:15PM] MEN IN BLACK
[12:30AM] ZOMBIELAND
[2:30AM] ZOMBIELAND
[4:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-A New Hope
[5:00AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Water Tower
[5:30AM] THAT '70S SHOW-Punk Chick (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[7:00AM] Fast Times at Ridgemont High
[9:00AM] Twins
[11:30AM] Meatballs
[1:30PM] Turner & Hooch
[4:00PM] U.S. Marshals
[7:00PM] Days of Thunder
[9:30PM] Speed
[12:00AM] Drive
[2:30AM] Twins
[5:00AM] Meatballs (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom'.
In this Sept. 7, 2016 photo, Max Weinberg plays the drums, left, while Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform during The River Tour at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Wednesday night's concert lasted nearly four hours, four minutes, breaking the previous record for the group's longest U.S. show set last week.
Photo by Elizabeth Robertson
A new documentary about the Beatles shows the toll Beatlemania took on them as they became "more popular than Jesus" at the height of their fame.
"Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years" -- the first authorised portrait of the Fab Four in almost half a century -- follows the band on the road for four years from their native Liverpool in 1962 through a series of gruelling US tours until the release of the album "Revolver".
Hollywood director Ron Howard has unearthed a treasury of previously unseen footage of the band as well as material from John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono.
In one interview, Lennon confessed that the song "Help!" was quite literally a cry for help.
Drummer Ringo Starr recalled how he "couldn't hear anything. I was watching John's arse and Paul's head shaking to see where we were in the song."
Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. September 9, 2016.
Photo by Andrew Cullen
Facebook backtracked Friday on a decision to censor an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl escaping a napalm bombing, after its block on the historic image sparked outrage.
The online giant stopped short of apologizing, saying the image had been flagged for violating standards regarding inappropriate posts at the world's leading social network.
Taken by photographer Nick Ut Cong Huynh for the Associated Press, the 1972 picture of a naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack is considered one of the war's defining images. It was honored with the Pulitzer Prize.
An active social media user, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg defied Facebook early Friday by posting the photograph, helping to bring the weekslong controversy to a head.
After Facebook reversed position on the image, Solberg told the BBC she was a "happy prime minister."
A billionaire Facebook co-founder says he is giving $20 million to help defeat Donald Trump (R-Pendejo), calling the Republican presidential candidate divisive and dangerous and his appeals to Americans who feel left behind "quite possibly a deliberate con."
By contrast, Dustin Moskovitz says Democrats and their nominee, Hillary Clinton, are "running on a vision of optimism, pragmatism, inclusiveness and mutual benefit."
Moskovitz wrote about the contributions in a Thursday night posting on the website Medium.
Moskovitz said he and his wife, Cari Tuna, are giving half of their $20 million to the League of Conservation Voters and to the For Our Future political action committee. The latter group is a get-out-the-vote effort in battleground states that is paid for primarily by labor unions and hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer.
Moskovitz's political giving makes him the second-largest Democratic contributor of the election, after Steyer.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 photo, a soccer fan dressed in Uruguayan flags waves one from the stands before a World Cup qualifying soccer match between Uruguay and Paraguay in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Photo by Matilde Campodonico
A missing piece of a painting by Belgian artist Rene Magritte has been discovered in a small museum in eastern England, concealed under one of his other works, it was announced Thursday.
Experts at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery found the lower right quarter of "La Pose Enchantee" (The Enchanted Pose), which had until three years ago been thought lost, underneath "La Condition Humaine" (The Human Condition).
The first two quarters of the 89-year-old painting, which was only known by a black and white photograph, were discovered in 2013 under works by Magritte held in New York and Stockholm.
"All we need to discover now is where the fourth and final, upper-right-hand quarter is. Then this exciting art world jigsaw puzzle will be complete," said Giorgia Bottinelli, curator at Norwich Castle.
"La Pose Enchantee" is a large painting showing two near identical female nudes, which was first exhibited in 1927.
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a woman's appeal in a lawsuit that alleged a Roman Catholic hospital in Michigan denied her adequate treatment during a painful miscarriage because of a policy banning even the discussion of abortion as an option.
Tamesha Means said she went to a Mercy Health Partners facility in Muskegon, Michigan, the only hospital within 30 minutes of her home, when her water broke after only 18 weeks of pregnancy, according to the lawsuit filed against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2013.
Despite her being in excruciating pain and with virtually no chance her pregnancy could survive, Mercy Health Partners told Means there was nothing they could do and did not tell her that terminating her pregnancy was an option and the safest course for her condition, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit accused the conference of creating healthcare directives "that cause pregnant women who are suffering from a miscarriage to be denied appropriate medical care, including information about their condition and treatment options."
Nearly 15 percent of the 900,000 beds in the United States are in a Roman Catholic hospital, according to the Catholic Health Association of the United States. In those hospitals, medical professionals must comply with the bishops' directives, which prohibit suggesting or performing abortions.
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia on September 7, 2016. Muslim pilgrims have begun arriving at the holiest sites in Islam ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, with some weeping with their hands outstretched for a fleeting touch of the Kaaba. The cube-shaped shrine, at the center of Mecca's Grand Mosque, is the site the world's 1.6 billion Muslims pray toward five times a day.
Photo by Nariman El-Mofty
An Argentine mother who first sued military officers nearly 38 years ago for the disappearance of her pregnant daughter under the former dictatorship finally saw them convicted on Thursday.
"I see that justice comes late, but it comes," said Rosa Roisinblit, 97, a prominent campaigner for victims of the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
The court handed 25-year jail sentences to former air force commanders Omar Graffigna, 90, and Luis Trillo, 75, and a 12-year term to ex-intelligence officer Francisco Gomez, 70.
Rosa Roisinblit is one of the leaders of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a prominent campaign group.
Campaigners say 30,000 people were victims of forced "disappearances."
Visitors and car enthusiasts attend the annual Goodwood Revival historic motor racing festival, celebrating a mid-twentieth century heyday of the racing circuit, near Chichester, Britain Sept. 9, 2016.
Photo by Toby Melville
The State Board of Education in Texas is expected to hear testimony next week from critics of a new textbook for Mexican-American studies who say the tome is riddled with mistakes and perpetrates demeaning stereotypes.
The book's publisher, run by an evangelical Christian and self-described Republican patriot, argues it is academically sound and is being targeted by those advancing a liberal political agenda.
The textbook being considered at a hearing on Tuesday in Austin, titled "Mexican American Heritage," was the only one submitted after Texas put out a request for a book to be used in a proposed high school elective course on Mexican-American studies.
One passage regarded as biased concerned views employers have had of Mexican workers.
It reads: "Stereotypically, Mexicans were viewed as lazy compared to European or American workers ... It was also traditional to skip work on Mondays, and drinking on the job could be a problem."
Souvenirs featuring portraits of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong and China's President Xi Jinping are seen at a shop near the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Sept. 9, 2016.
Photo by Thomas Peter
A decade ago, California vowed to dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
With the nation's most populous state on pace to meet that target, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday charted a new goal to further cut carbon pollution by extending and expanding the landmark climate change law.
It will "keep California on the move to clean up the environment," Brown said in a Los Angeles park before signing a pair of bills that survived heavy opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans.
Experts said going forward will be more challenging because the new goal - to reduce emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 - is considerably more ambitious and many of the easy solutions have been employed.
California is on track to meet the 2020 climate goal that called for reducing emissions to 1990 levels by restricting the carbon content of gasoline and diesel fuel, encouraging sales of zero-emission vehicles and imposing a tax on pollution.
While excavating the plot for a new east-to-west tube station underneath Liverpool Street in London's Shoreditch neighborhood, archaeologists uncovered the remains of more than 3,000 people in what they determined was a mass grave that potentially included victims of the Great Plague of 1665.
The positioning of the bodies and the estimated timing of their burials suggested to experts that they were victims of a sudden, untimely death.
Researchers have been running detailed tests on the remains for years, and finally got the results of a DNA test of some of the victims' teeth. The culprit? Yersinia pestis, a bacteria known to cause the plague.
Archaeologists say the mass grave, called the "Bedlam graveyard" after the nearby Bethlem ("Bedlam") Royal Hospital, was used for nearly 200 years beginning as early as 1569. In addition to serving as a public graveyard for Londoners who could not afford a costly church burial, the grave site was likely also used as an overflow cemetery when existing sites had filled to capacity. This can happen during times of war or mass illness, such as a plague.
A man uses a scissors to make intricate decorative patterns on a camel's back before displaying it for sale at a makeshift cattle market ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Karachi, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2016.
Photo by Akhtar Soomro
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