The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the government's most comprehensive measure of inflation, rose 1.2 percent in September, the most in 25 years. But the core rate of inflation, which excludes energy and food, barely moved in September. So inflation is under control. Right?
Beating Inflation The Core Rate Way If you want to beat inflation Here's a sure and easy way, Live your life to match the core rate Then few extra costs you'll pay.
Food and energy? Bad habits! They're what's running up your bills; Stop your eating, don't go driving, This will cure inflation's ills.
Feel a morning pang of hunger? Feed it with computer chips; Since chip prices keep on falling Breakfast chips check price hike blips.
Don't commute in cars on workdays Such behavior is dead wrong; Tell your boss it's just too pricey, He will surely go along.
If you want to beat inflation, All its worries to defray, Live a core life at the core rate, Watch the monster fade away.
Doug Monroe: Pest house memories: Think Katrina was bad? Try an avian flu pandemic
The New York Times got its hands on the Bush administration's draft plan for dealing with a flu pandemic. The plan had secretively and slowly been making its way through the federal bureaucracy. On Oct. 9, the Times reported that the plan "shows that the country is woefully unprepared, and it warns that a severe pandemic will kill millions, overwhelm hospitals and disrupt much of the nation."
I'm going to have to admit something that is hard to do. I found out today that Sara Evans album did indeed "debut" at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Country chart !!! Please let your readers know. It now seems that Hannity was using "insider" information to plant this story !! Ha Ha Ha
Imagine that today's World is the Waterfront from the movie "On the Waterfront"! Imagine the big "Boss" pushing everybody around is "George Bush"….with his corrupt cronies by his side sneering at working men and robbing them blind…everyday when the whistle blows….Where's Terry Malloy ???? The brooding, brow beaten ex-boxer who gets a conscience and kicks the Bosses ass….Oh if it were only that simple !!!! Just like in the modern world, the only thing that really brought the "Boss" down was "Indictments"…that's right…just like Tom Delay, and Karl Rove and Bill Frist…the truth will come out and maybe, just maybe.. George Bush will someday be truly exposed like Johnny Friendly in "On the Waterfront" !!!!!!
Some people believe that Elia Kazan made "On the Waterfront" to exonerate himself for being a "Rat" testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Many outed Hollywood types never forgave him for naming names. Regardless of all that, he put together a memorable ensemble with incredibly powerful performances…11 Oscar nominations and 8 Oscars won!! And choosing Marlon Brando over Frank Sinatra and Eva Marie Saint over Grace Kelly was brilliant. I got a chance to see this Classic Movie again last night on TCM.
Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando - "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) - "The Wild One" (1953) - "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) - "Last Tango in Paris" (1972) is a washed up fighter with scars on his face and a pathetic pigeon coop. He's gotten involved running errands for a guy named Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb - "The Phantom Creeps" (1939) - "The Devil's Children" (1962) - "The Exorcist" (1973) who is the diabolical Boss down at the docks. It turns out that Terry's brother Charley (Rod Steiger - "Dr. Zhivago" (1965) - "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) - "The Illustrated Man" (1969) is a backstabbing lieutenant for Friendly. One night Terry observes a man falling off the top of his tenement. As he rushes to the body, the man's sister Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint - "North by Northwest" (1959) - "Exodus" (1960) - "Superman Returns" (2006) shows up and suspects that Johnny Friendly and his boys are responsible because Edie's brother was giving information to the crime investigators. When Terry meets Edie and her passionate sense of morality, he's rocked like one of the punches he used to "Take". The stage is finally set when Father Barry (Karl Malden - "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) - "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) - "The Streets of San Francisco" (1972) rushes in to perform "last rights" on Edie's brother, Father Barry knows that the docks are going to be his "Church".
In this gritty black and white saga Terry and Edie team up when they start realizing just how corrupt Johnny Friendly's operation is…..skimming money, stealing union dues, making side deals, favoring workers who buy into the corruption and disposing of those who don't. One night Terry finds out that not only did his own brother Charley set him up for taking a dive back in his boxing days (Brando's famous "I coulda been a contender" speech ) but he may be involved in helping Johnny get rid of his own brother because he might talk to the investigators. Terry and Edie find Charley in an alley one night hanging dead on a meathook and the mood changes. Terry wants to get a gun and kill Johnny…but Father Barry and Edie convince him to cool it. Then the big indictment and Johnny Friendly ends up in front of a grand jury and Terry fingers him.
In the last scenes of this movie, with Leonard Bernstein's string section blaring, Terry faces Johnny's whole gang while all the dock workers watch. Yeah Terry stands up to Johnny but Johnny's gang jumps Terry and takes him out back and almost kills him. As Edie tries to get past the thugs she gets knocked down….then they belt Father Barry…this is the last straw……."workers of the world unite!"…all the guys rush in and throw Johnny in the "drink"….But Johnny gets up and tries to keep bullying the boys…can Terry get on his feet and lead the men to the entry of the warehouse and once and for all show all the bosses of the world that "They're not gonna take it anymore"???? It's that long agonizing struggle to stay on his feet…bloodied face and broken ribs…that will lead the men to the righteous doors of freedom !!!!!!!
I must say that the melodrama and the music is slightly dated but Brando's face is forever fixated in my mind!
Purple Gene gives "On the Waterfront" 10 pigeons in the coop out of 10 for still holding up after 50 years….and I hope that all these "indictments" against the crooked Bush regime provide the "knockout" punch to that corrupt administration!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 2nd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night on the East Coast with LIVE'NASCAR Racing', which is followed on the left coast by some local filler crap and the movie 'The Presidio'.
'SNL' is a RERUN - the Best of David Spade.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 20 October, 1984, with Jesse Jackson hosting, music by Andrae Crouch.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Lost', followed by a RERUN'Invasion', then a RERUN'Commander In Chief'.
The WB panders with 'Blind Date', 'Girls Behaving Badly', and 'Cheaters'.
Faux has LIVE'MLB Baseball Playoffs', which is followed on the left coast by RERUNs of 'Cops' and 'Simpsons'.
UPN has a RERUN'Alias', followed by a RERUN'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', another 'City Confidential', 'Cold Case Files', and another 'Cold Case Files'.
AMC offers the movie 'A Civil Action', followed by the movie 'Field Of Dreams', then the movie 'The Natural'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Just For Laughs' - Episode 3;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 36;
[4pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Tom Jones;
[5:20pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Clarke;
[8pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 18;
[8:30pm] 'House Invaders - Episode 17;
[9pm] 'The Avengers'' - Never, Never, Say Die;
[10pm] 'The Avengers' - Epic;
[11pm] 'The Avengers' - The Superlative Seven;
[12am] 'The Avengers' - A Funny Thing Happened...;
[1am] 'The Avengers' - Something Nasty in the Nursery;
[2am] 'The Avengers' - The Joker;
[3am] 'The League of Gentlemen' - Ep. 1 The Lesbian and the Monkey;
[3:40am] 'The League of Gentlemen' - Ep. 2 The One-Armed Man is King;
[4:20am] 'The League of Gentlemen' - Ep. 3 Turn Again Geoff Tipps;
[5am] 'Without Prejudice' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has the movie 'Braveheart', followed by the movie 'Braveheart', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Sorority Boys', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
History has 'Hitler's Managers' (part 1 of 5), 'Hitler's Managers' (part 2 of 5), 'Hitler's Managers' (part 3 of 5), 'Hitler's Managers' (part 4 of 5), and 'Hitler's Managers' (part 5 of 5).
IFC -
[6AM] Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001);
[7:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[8AM] The 47 Ronin: Part I (1941);
[10AM] Hopeless Pictures #1 (2005);
[10:30AM] Hopeless Pictures #2 (2005);
[11AM] Hopeless Pictures #3 (2005);
[11:30AM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[12PM] Hopeless Pictures #5 (2005);
[12:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #6 (2005);
[1PM] Hopeless Pictures #7 (2005);
[1:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #8 (2005);
[2:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #1 (2005);
[3PM] Hopeless Pictures #2 (2005);
[3:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #3 (2005);
[4PM] Hopeless Pictures #4 (2005);
[4:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #5 (2005);
[5PM] Hopeless Pictures #6 (2005);
[5:30PM] Hopeless Pictures #7 (2005);
[6PM] Hopeless Pictures #8 (2005);
[7PM] The Festival #2 (2005);
[7:30PM] The Festival #3 (2005);
[8PM] Requiem For A Dream (2000);
[9:50PM] Bend It Like Beckham (2002);
[11:50PM] Talk To Her (2002);
[1:50AM] Requiem For A Dream (2000);
[3:45AM] Bend It Like Beckham (2002);
[5:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'Return Of The Living Dead: Necropolis', followed by the movie 'Return Of The Living Dead: Rave To The Grave'.
Sundance -
[7:35AM] The Damned and the Sacred;
[9AM] Slings & Arrows: Episode 4 - Outrageous Fortune;
[10AM] Disbelief;
[11:45AM] Function at the Junction;
[12PM] Party Girl;
[1:35PM] Nowhere in Africa;
[4PM] Time Out;
[6:15PM] Osama;
[7:40PM] Second Skin;
[8PM] TransGeneration: Episode 4;
[8:30PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Planet of the Men & Women;
[9PM] Career Girls;
[10:30PM] Life Is Sweet;
[12:15AM] Function at the Junction;
[12:30AM] When Night is Falling;
[2:05AM] Dolls;
[4AM] When Night is Falling;
[5:35AM] Nowhere in Africa. (ALL TIMES EDT)
In this publicity photo released by Warner Brothers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (L) applauds as talk show host Ellen DeGeneres watches during the taping of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' in Burbank, California October 13, 2005. DeGeneres announced on Thursday that the show is going to be taped in New York City in November for Thanksgiving week. This episode airs on October 14, 2005.
Photo by Michael Becker
Comedian Richard Pryor has sued Universal Music Group for allegedly marketing and selling 11 of his recordings without a license.
According to the complaint, it took years for Pryor to realize that Universal Music was claiming to have licensed such titles as "Are You Serious?," "Wizard of Comedy," "Black Ben and the Blacksmith," "Richard Pryor," "I Ain't Lied Yet" and "Everything's Big."
Pryor accuses the company of "reaping substantial profits from (the recordings) without ever having acquired any rights in such recordings."
The Beatles were singled out on Friday as the most influential entertainers of the past 100 years, beating out the likes of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse, according to a survey conducted by show business newspaper Variety.
Behind the Fab Four's first-place finish, were in alphabetical order: jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong, television comedienne Lucille Ball, movie legends Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, cartoon hero Mickey Mouse and singers Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
The newspaper published a list of 100 entertainers from all branches of show business, including actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, television presenters, animals, comedians and cartoon characters. Among other names on the list were Johnny Carson, Johnny Cash and Lassie.
Melissa Etheridge says she smoked medicinal marijuana to help with the side effects of chemotherapy during her treatment for breast cancer.
"Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana," Etheridge says in an interview to air Sunday on "Dateline NBC" (7 p.m. EDT).
When asked how her doctors reacted, Etheridge says, "Every single one was, `Oh, yeah. That's the best help for the effects of chemotherapy.'"
In this photo provided by Robinsons May, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana and his wife, Deborah, sign autographs Friday, Oct. 14, 2005, during a special appearance at the Robinsons May department store in Downey, Calif. Santana was signing bottles of his new fragrances, Carlos Santana for Men and Carlos Santana for Women, while Deborah was signing her new book 'Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart.'
Photo by John Hayes
"Asterix and the Falling Sky" -- the 33rd album based on the adventures of the diminutive Gallic warrior -- went on sale around the world, surprising some readers with a none-too-subtle lampoon of the United States.
In a controversial departure, author and illustrator Albert Uderzo introduces creatures from outer space who visit the famous village on the Brittany coast in search of its strength-inducing magic potion.
The creatures are led by a cuddly toy who has at his beck and call an army of dim superman clones in tights and capes. They announce they are from a planet called TADSYLWINE -- an anagram of Walt Disney -- and that their "sage" goes by the name of HUBS -- an anagram of Bush.
The famed La Scala opera house closed its doors along with most other Italian theaters and cinemas Friday as performers and staff went on strike against planned budget cuts they say would cripple funding for the arts.
Art houses and festivals announced cancellations as part of the daylong protest. La Scala canceled its Friday performance of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville."
In Rome, several thousand people gathered in a central piazza to protest under the slogan: "Close for the day so as not to close forever."
Most of the capital's cinemas and theaters were shut all day for the strike, and some concert halls also scrapped performances.
If getting sued is the hallmark of making it in Hollywood, then Arrested Development star David Cross has definitely arrived.
The comic actor is the target of a federal lawsuit launched by a former Nashville club manager, who alleges his image and voice were used without his consent on Cross' 2002 comedy album, Shut Up, You F--king Baby!, and his 2003 DVD release, Let America Laugh.
Thomas Weber filed suit Oct. 7 in U.S. District Court in Seattle, accusing Cross, label Sub-Pop Records and distributor Warner Music Group of invasion of privacy, unjust enrichment, misappropriation and piracy of his voice and likeness. He is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction preventing the further distribution, marketing and sale of the Grammy-nominated comedy disc and DVD.
The staff at Nashville-based Orbison Records is petitioning the United States Postal Service and asking Congress for its support for the creation of a postage stamp honoring Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roy Orbison.
If approved, the stamp will mark what would have been the Grammy Award-winning Orbison's 70th birthday next year.
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a professional boxer who was unjustly convicted of a triple murder in New Jersey and served two decades in prison, receives an honorary degree from Harriet Lewis at York University, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005, in Toronto. Carter was portrayed by actor Denzel Washington in the 1999 movie, 'The Hurricane'.
Photo by Nathan Denette
Mayim Bialik, star of the 1990s' sitcom "Blossom," and her husband are parents of a baby boy, her manager said Thursday.
Bialik's manager, Judy Coppage, confirmed Tuesday's birth. It's the first child for the 29-year-old actress and her husband, Michael Stone, People magazine reported.
Actress Ming-Na has given birth to her second child, an 8-pound, 9-ounce boy named Cooper Dominic Zee.
Ming-Na, 41, played Dr. Deb Chen on "ER." This season, she appeared on the NBC drama "Inconceivable," which has since been pulled from the network's schedule.
Somebody forgot to remind Italy's film industry that its submission for the foreign-language Oscar must be in Italian.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has alerted Italy's Oscar selection committee that its Oscar hopeful "Private" is ineligible because it fails to meet the rule that the film must be "predominantly in an official language of the country submitting the film."
The dialogue in "Private," which follows the travails of a Palestinian family whose refusal to vacate its house results in their cohabitation with Israeli soldiers, alternates between English or Arabic. No Italian is spoken.
The film, at least, was written, directed and produced by Italians and even partially shot on Italian soil.
Some in California wine country are reeling after a huge warehouse fire wiped out millions worth of rare vintages.
The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the warehouse just south of the Napa Valley and about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. The fire is being regarded as suspicious partly because the building appeared to be fire-resistant, a dense, concrete structure once used to repair submarines.
Wines stored in the building ranged from huge chunks of smaller wineries' inventories to "library" collections of rare vintages. Even if bottles are intact, it's feared high temperatures will have spoiled the wine.
A protestor wears a condom with the image of U.S. resident George W. Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, during his fourth appearance before a grand jury in Washington, DC, October 14, 2005. The condom reference is made towards the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.
Photo by Jim Young
Evidently "Star Trek" actor James "Scotty" Doohan took the catchphrase "beam me up" very seriously -- his cremated remains will be launched into space in accord with his last wishes.
Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on December 6, a company spokeswoman said on Friday.
She said the remains of more than 120 others will be aboard the flight, including those of an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on the moon.
A cat in Dobson, N.C., is believed to be the only cat in the world with two tongues, according to a Local 6 News report.
The cat, named Five Toes, was born with two tongues and five toes on each paw.
Owner Bill Whittington told a North Carolina TV station that he noticed the cat's second tongue in December. He said he yelled when he saw the tongues flicker.
Competitors wearing little but their underwear smile and cheer as they finish the ninth annual Underpants Run, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. About 100 men, women and children ran in the mile-long event, which crossed paths with the start and finish areas of the considerably more serious Ironman competition, which will be held Saturday. The Underpants Run, originally begun to poke fun at Speedo-wearing Ironman competitors, is now a fundraiser for a local charity.
Photo by Elaine Thompson
A blue silk shirt worn by Elvis Presley has been swiped from a State Fair of Texas exhibit.
Collector Bud Glass of Tallahassee, Fla., made a public appeal Thursday asking whoever stole the ruffled shirt on Wednesday to return it.
He said the theft was caught on videotape and Dallas police have dusted for fingerprints. He declined to release further details. Glass said that he won't prosecute, he just wants the shirt back.
James Bond is going back to his roots. And they're blond. Sandy-haired English actor Daniel Craig was unveiled Friday as the star of the next Bond film, "Casino Royale," due in theaters in November 2006.
Craig's name, the subject of speculation for weeks, was revealed as he was whisked down the River Thames aboard a military speedboat to a waterside news conference. He replaces Pierce Brosnan, who has starred in the last four Bond films.
A boy stands in front of wreaths of paprika in Donja Lakosnica, some 300km (186 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro October 14, 2005. Donja Lakosnica, which has a population of about 1500 people, is one of Serbia's biggest paprika producers, growing about 50 tonnes of the plant per season.
Photo by Marko Djurica
A previously unknown work by Leonardo da Vinci goes on public display for the first time Saturday in the museum of the Adriatic port of Ancona.
Discovered and authenticated only a few years ago, the painting is a new version of the so-called Virgin on the Rocks, which art historians say Leonardo painted with his student Giampetrino between 1495-97.
Two other versions of the same painting are kept at the Louvre in Paris and London's National Gallery.
American Girl, manufacturer of a highly popular line of dolls and children's books, has become the target of conservative activists threatening a boycott unless the toy maker cuts off contributions to a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians.
The protest is directed at an ongoing American Girl campaign in which proceeds from sales of a special "I Can" wristband help support educational and empowerment programs of Girls Inc., a national nonprofit organization which describes its mission as "inspiring girls to be strong, smart and bold."
American Girl, whose often patriotic products have long had a loyal following among conservatives, issued a statement Friday defending its support of Girls Inc. and assailing the protest campaign.
The Mississippi-based American Family Association, in a campaign launched Wednesday, is urging its members to demand that American Girl halt support for Girls Inc., which it called "a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group."
Protestors dress as condoms in front of the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington October 14, 2005, as U.S. President George W. Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove appears before a grand jury for a fourth time on Friday as prosecutors neared a decision on whether to bring charges over leaking a covert CIA operative's name. The protestors, dressed as condoms in reference to the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity, called for Rove to be fired.
Photo by Jason Reed
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