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Andrew Tobias: Welcome
I just want to stress that those of you who are Republicans or libertarians are welcome in the Democratic Party.
* We don't rack up massive deficits without good purpose (the last one we racked up was to fight and win World War II).
* We find ways to topple and imprison genocidal dictators like Milosovich at relatively low cost - we would have been more effective with Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
* We would be encouraging embryonic stem cell research, not seeking a global United Nations ban (which, thankfully, we "lost" most recently, 79-80).
* We don't believe Tom DeLay should make life's intensely difficult choices for your daughter or your dying parent.
You won't like everything about us. But overall, isn't it time to reevaluate?
RICHARD ROEPER: Say that again? 'Things are going relatively well' (suntimes.com)
From the disputed presidential election of 2000 to the terrorist attacks on America on 9/11/01 to the failure to find Osama bin Laden to the quagmire of a war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina, this has been a terrible decade, century, millennium.
Arianna Huffington: Media Coverage of Iraq Suffers After Katrina
For all these reasons, Iraq must remain a front-page story, even when other big stories arise. The media will just have to join the 21st century and learn how to multi-task -- covering two disasters at the same time.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Singapore and Katrina (nytimes.com)
... Sumiko Tan, a columnist for the Sunday edition of The Straits Times in Singapore, wrote: "We were shocked at what we saw. Death and destruction from natural disaster is par for the course. But the pictures of dead people left uncollected on the streets, armed looters ransacking shops, survivors desperate to be rescued, racial divisions - these were truly out of sync with what we'd imagined the land of the free to be, even if we had encountered homelessness and violence on visits there. ... If America becomes so unglued when bad things happen in its own backyard, how can it fulfill its role as leader of the world?"
Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked (thinkprogress.org)
There are a lot of right-wing myths about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. ThinkProgress has created this guide to help you set the record straight.
Tear Away the Veil
Jeff Crook
It all makes sense now - the unexplainable incompetence in their handling of the relief efforts had a purpose. The feeling that if they had actually tried to fuck things up, they couldn't have fucked it up any worse.
"It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces." - President Bush
As Josh Marshall points out, "Actually, every actual fact that's surfaced in the last two weeks points to just the opposite conclusion. There was no lack of federal authority to handle the situation. There was faulty organization, poor coordination and incompetence. Show me the instance where the federal government was prevented from doing anything that needed to be done because it lacked the requisite authority."
Which begs the question, if Bush hasn't even begun his own investigation of himself and everything that went right and everything that went wrong (his words), how can he know that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority?
And where are the armed forces going to come from who are to take over this greater role? Traditionally, that job falls to the National Guard. I don't want federal troops taking over, and I sure as hell don't want fucking mercenaries patrolling my streets should the worst happen.
Another step down the dark path, as patriotic music swells.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, cool and fall-like (by LA standards).
Weighs In On CBC Dispute
Michael Moore
Famed American documentarian Michael Moore demanded Friday that the CBC drop plans to air his Academy Award-winning film, Bowling for Columbine, this weekend because of the month-long lockout at the public broadcaster.
"I do not want my film being broadcast on the network unless it is willing to let its own workers back in to work and promises to bargain with them in good faith," Moore said in a statement Friday.
"CBC has locked out its union workers, an action that is abhorrent to all who believe in the rights of people to collectively bargain. Why the great and honourable CBC is behaving like an American corporation is beyond me."
Michael Moore
Sweden Gears Up to Celebrate 100th
Greta Garbo
In life, Greta Garbo did her best to avoid the media limelight. But the reclusive actress will be in focus over the next few months as Sweden celebrates its greatest movie star, who would have turned 100 on Sunday.
The Swedish Film Institute kicks off the Garbo centenary celebration Friday with a screening of the 1936 classic "Camille," which had its original premiere at Stockholm's Roda Kvarn movie theater.
Born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson to a working-class family in 1905, Garbo grew up with her parents and two siblings in a small studio apartment in Stockholm. She made her acting debut in an advertising film for the Stockholm department store Pub, where she worked selling hats as a teenager. After being accepted to the Royal Dramatic Theatre's drama school in 1922, director Mauritz Stiller gave her a starring role in the classic silent film "The Story of Gosta Berling."
She received five Oscar nominations for her acting performances, but never won. When she finally was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1954, she did not show up to accept it.
Greta Garbo
Pulp-Fiction Author
Marlon Brando
Actor Marlon Brando has been immortalized in film for playing a Mafia boss, a luckless boxer and a rebellious biker, but 14 months after his death he is now also an author of a swashbuckling pirate novel.
"Fan-Tan," a pulp fiction novel authored by Brando and a longtime associate, movie director Donald Cammell, arrived on bookshelves this week after their unfinished manuscript was polished by film historian David Thomson and published by Random House imprint Alfred A. Knopf.
The book offers Brando fans a rare insight into the reclusive star's love of the South Pacific and of Asian women and is a work the actor did not want published.
Marlon Brando
Danish Police Recover Stolen Painting
Rembrandt
Danish police have recovered a self-portrait of 17th-century Dutch master Rembrandt stolen in a daring raid on Sweden's National Museum nearly five years ago, and arrested four men, officials said on Friday.
The two Iraqis, a Gambian and a Swede were caught in a police sting while showing the $40 million painting to a potential buyer at a Copenhagen hotel late on Thursday, Danish police said.
The painting was stolen alongside two masterworks by French impressionist Pierre-August Renoir when an armed gang entered the museum on Stockholm's waterfront just before closing time in December 2000.
Renoir's "Conversation" was recovered by Swedish police in 2001. His "A Young Parisienne" is still missing.
Rembrandt
Breaks 'Couch Potato' Record
Suresh Joachim
Couch potato, thy name is Suresh. Suresh Joachim broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished Friday with 69 hours and 48 minutes.
Joachim did his TV viewing in the lobby of WABC-TV as part of the "Guinness World Record Breaker Week" on the syndicated "Live With Regis and Kelly."
Sitting on a brown leather couch, he watched nothing but ABC shows.
Suresh Joachim
Sentenced To 180-Day Rehab
Courtney Love
A subdued Courtney Love, clutching a copy of Bob Dylan's autobiography, was sentenced on Friday to 180 days in jail for violating her probation, but will serve her time in a live-in drug treatment center.
The troubled rocker has been living at a lock-down substance abuse facility since admitting in August she had used drugs, a violation of her probation. A Los Angeles judge said she would be spared jail time because of the headway she made in rehabilitation.
Love's 13-year-old daughter with late rock star Curt Cobain, Frances Bean, was not in court. Love's attorney, Howard Weitzman, said the girl was "being taken care of." Weitzman declined to say who was caring for the girl and the matter was not discussed in court.
Courtney Love
Republican Family Tradition
Jeb The Younger
The younger son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush was arrested early this morning and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest.
Authorities say the younger Bush was arrested by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at 2:30 a-m on a corner of Austin's Sixth Street bar district.
Bush was released on 25-hundred dollar bond for resisting arrest and personal recognizance bond for the public intoxication charge.
Jeb The Younger
British Re-Enact Elaborate Funeral
Admiral Horatio Nelson
A flotilla of 70 boats moved sedately up the River Thames on Friday, re-enacting the elaborate waterborne state funeral of Britain's greatest naval hero, Admiral Horatio Nelson, who led his fleet to victory over the French and Spanish 200 years ago at the Battle of Trafalgar.
About 1,000 people gathered at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich to watch the procession set off upstream to Westminster in central London, recreating the extraordinary send-off Nelson received Jan. 8, 1806, more than two months after he was fatally wounded in the crucial battle.
A wooden replica of the royal barge Jubilant, draped with black fabric and plumes, headed the flotilla, rowed by oarsmen dressed in historical costumes. It carried a miniature coffin, containing a version of the letter sent back to Britain with news of Nelson's historic victory on Oct. 21, 1805, off Cape Trafalgar, a low headland in southwest Spain, when Nelson defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's forces.
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Static Electricity
Frank Clewer
An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.
When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.
"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.
Frank Clewer
In Memory
Guy Green
Guy Green, who won an Academy Award for cinematography for the 1946 film "Great Expectations," died Thursday of heart and kidney failure at his Beverly Hills home. He was 91.
Green, who began his film career in his native England, was a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. In 2004, he was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire for his lifetime of work in the British cinema.
He was the cinematographer on nearly two dozen films before switching to directing in the mid-1950s. He moved to Hollywood in the 1960s.
Green was nominated for Golden Globes for writing and directing the 1965 film "A Patch of Blue," which starred Sidney Poitier as a black professional who befriends a blind, white woman. Shelley Winters won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the girl's mother.
He also directed the 1962 film "Light in the Piazza," starring Olivia de Havilland. A Broadway musical based on the same novella that served as the basis for the film won five Tony awards earlier this year.
His other directing credits included "Pretty Polly" (1967), "Diamond Head" (1963), "The Mark" (1961) and "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough" (1975).
His cinematography credits included "Oliver Twist" (1948), "Carnival" (1946), "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" (1952), "The Dark Avenger" (1955), "Captain Horatio Hornblower RN," (1951) and "I Am a Camera" (1955).
Guy Green
In Memory
Sid Luft
Producer Sid Luft, who is credited with reviving the career of his then-wife, Judy Garland, in the 1950s, has died. He was 89.
Luft, whose credits include "Kilroy was Here" (1947), "French Leave" (1948) and "A Star is Born" (1954), died Thursday in Santa Monica of an apparent heart attack, John Kimble, a longtime friend and business partner of Luft, said Friday.
They had two children together, Lorna in 1952 and Joey in 1955. Luft also was stepfather to singer-actress Liza Minnelli, daughter of Garland's second husband, Vincente Minnelli.
"A Star Is Born," produced by Luft and directed by George Cukor, brought Garland an Academy Award nomination for best actress. The oft-filmed story of a troubled movie star whose career is overshadowed by that of his protegee also got five other nominations, including best actor (James Mason), best score and best song.
After he and Garland divorced, Luft married Patti Hemingway in 1970. That union also ended in divorce. He married actress Camille Keaton in 1993.
Sid Luft
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