'TBH Politoons'
Recommended Reading
"No Surrender" by Paul Krugman
An Excerpt:
"Democrats shouldn't cave in to Mr. Bush when he tries to appoint highly partisan judges - even when the effort to block a bad appointment fails, it will show supporters that the party stands for something. They should gear up for a bid to retake the Senate or at least make a major dent in the Republican lead. They should keep the pressure on Mr. Bush when he makes terrible policy decisions, which he will."
Reader Suggestion
Mike Webb
Hello Marty,
Mike Webb, a liberal annoucer on KIRO radio in Seattle, is interviewing Greg Palast tonight, Friday, 10 PM - 1 AM PST about the possiblity of Kerry winning Ohio.
Check out Mike's site, then click on the microphone. Mike plays his show live on the web and loops it over and over again the next day. It should be interesting.
Thanks,
John K
Issaquah, WA
Thanks, John!
Wish KIRO still broadcast on the net like they did a few years back.
Have fond memories of listening to to both Mike Webb and my old pal, Erin Hart.
Long time ago Erin set me up on a blind date with a republican Raygun speech writer from Arizona whose apartment was a shrine to the Gipper.
But that's OK - I set her up with New Yawk Richie from Alaska.
Will be checking out Mike Webb's site today!
Recommended Reading
17 Reasons
An Excerpt:
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
Recommended Reading
HeadBlast
Just One More Thing
As the smoke clears and we pick ourselves up from another sucker punch, it
occurs to me that I'm a little pissed at John Kerry. I don't want to kick
a man while he's down, but I'll say this now and get it over with. The guy
made a promise, as Bruce Springsteen sang it, no defeat, no surrender. He
pledged that "this time we will make sure every vote is counted." And then
he walked away from it so easily. He just believed them and walked away.
This is a guy who has been around. He's not dumb. He investigated the Iran
Contra crimes and BCCI, the bank of crooks, criminals, terrorist, money
launderers and other Bush cohorts. He knows the Bushes going back to Yale,
back to the days of Skull & Bones and the Tomb. He knows who he is dealing
with. He knows they cheat and lie and scheme their way through everything.
He wasn't born yesterday.
The information about the flaws in the voting machines has been out there
a long time. There have been lawsuits, quite a lot of controversy based on
these machines that clearly can't be trusted. Why didn't he press it and
force the Diebold company -- whose CEO publicly pledged to help deliver
Ohio to the Republicans -- to prove the reliability of those vote counts?
Now he's left us again with uncertainty, an unresolved outcome.
Just like Al Gore, when it came down to the nitty gritty, he rolled over
and gave it to them. There was still plenty of room for questioning. He
was our standard bearer. I may not have agreed with everything about him,
but he was all we had to protect us from another slash-and-burn party by
the right wing. He was the only one we had to help us wipe that smirk off
that arrogant face. And he let us down.
For the rest:
Reader Suggestion
One MoreBumper Sticker
American Voters: Finding New Ways To Celebrate Mediocrity
Thanks, Bruce!
Paul Berenson
Another Side of the News
Exit polls strongly showed Kerry winning the election Tuesday. It was so bad that Sen. Susan B. Collins (R-ME) was so despondent that she e-mailed her mother, "All is lost." Even CNN's conservative commentator Robert Novak concluded that things were looking very bleak for Bush.
So what happened??
From Greg Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine, [who] investigated the manipulation of the vote for BBC Television's Newsnight:
"Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for Kerry_Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted. [See TomPaine.com, "An Election Spoiled Rotten," November 1.]"
We're hoping to get Palast to join us on a live call-in.
About 100 million votes were counted by 4 private corporations, including Diebold in Ohio.
"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year." So wrote Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell - who sold touchscreen voting machines to Ohio - in a Republican fundraising letter on 8-14-2003.
Oh, there were also those widely reported 2000 votes discovered preprogrammed into the voting machines in Pennsylvania. CNN explained them away as being left over from a previous election.
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." Josef Stalin
If this is really what happened, then any pretense of Democracy in America is stone cold dead!!
Tune in to "Another Side of the News" with Paul Berenson, Saturdays 9am-10am (PDT) on KCSB-FM 91.9 or listen on our webcast
Your local phone calls are welcome at:
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If you're tired of the Limbaugh's, Fox News, Corporate Media, etc. and want to hear a Democrat with attitude, this is for you!
Join listeners and callers on the South Coast and across the nation listening on our webcast.
Give Paul a listen - he's smart & funny - and pissed off!
Purple Gene Reviews
'King Kong'
Purple Genes' review of the 1933 movie "King Kong", directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Now that George Bush - the SMIRKING CHIMP - has besmirched and bludgeoned his way back into the White House for four more years......I felt I needed to come to the defense of all noble primates that aren't evangelical or fully ERECT yet...... I graduated with an Anthropology Degree and studied at length the mountain Gorillas that Dian Fossey lived with. All this brought me back to my younger and more innocent shildhood memories of seeing the "Fay Wray" censored version of "King Kong" originally made in 1933.....and then the restored version released in 1971.......with KONG tearing off Ann Darrows' (Fay Wray) blouse and exposing her titties.........Well here's the story:
Intrepid Showman Carl Denhem (Jack Armstrong) looking for a way out of his fading glory mounts an expedition to a remote uncharted jungle Island (Skull Island) with famed adventurer and 1st mate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and beautiful blond bait Ann Darrow (Fay Wray)........They hope to find a spectacular monster sized Gorilla that they want to capture and bring back to New York.....for display... KONG the 8th wonder of the world...well I'm getting ahead of myself.......
Expedition lands on Skull Island and finds huge log wall and gate apparantly built by the natives to keep the monster out......Well, the natives capture Ann Darrow and decide to sacrifice her to their Giant Beast KING KONG........well ...KONG comes lumbering into the village and grabs Ann and takes her back into the jungle...prehistoric jungle....and the group of insane adventurers follow Kong and Ann back in Time.....we got 50 foot snakes, brontosaurs, spiny allosaurs and the feared thunder lizard Tyrranosaurus Rex...well Kong saves Ann continually from monster after monster as the crew closes in.......my favorite part of the movie is when Kong tears Anns' top off and then sniffs her and snorts...love!
Some how they save Ann and capture Kong and get him to the ship and bring him - in chains - to New York for a big Jungle Party and Gorilla Show (Republican National Convention).......trouble is King Kong doesn't want to go on display......so when the curtain rises and all the guests gasp in horror.....Kong breaks loose and goes on a rampage.......through NYC...uprooting subways....stopping trains and cabs.....people flying around (this is what us liberals should have done at the RNC).....finally he climbs up to the top of the Empire State building and hanging on with one paw - swats at the planes that are trying to shoot him down....and they finally do....the huge carcass is laying on the sidewalk and Ann caressing the big lug.....Jack says..."It wasn't the airplanes...it was Beauty killed the Beast!"...........Wow! Long Live Kong!!!
Purple Gene gives the restored version of "King Kong" 10 monkey paw thumbs up out of 10......go see this movie to get your mind off the horrible battle about to take place in the USA......Against a pretender to the throne - the Smirking Chimp!!!!!!!
Purple Gene
Thanks, Purple Gene!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny, still cool, still quite pleasant.
Took off time to watch Bill Maher tonight.
Could have done without Alan Simpson & Bareback Andy.
Would have liked more Hughley, Schroeder & Chomsky.
Named Arts Jazz Masters
Artie Shaw
Former big band leader Artie Shaw is among seven artists who have been named National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.
Since 1982, the National Endowment has awarded the title to a handful of living jazz musicians and promoters to recognize their contributions to the music form.
Those honored also include guitarist Kenny Burrell, clarinetist-saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, composer Slide Hampton, singer Shirley Horn, keyboardist Jimmy Smith and jazz impresario George Wein. The announcement was made Thursday at a gala hosted by Seattle's Earshot Jazz Society.
The seven will officially receive their awards at a Jan. 7 concert and ceremony in Long Beach, Calif.
Artie Shaw
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BAFTA LA
Hollywood marked the unofficial start of awards season with a parade of power couples: Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, Helen Mirren and husband Taylor Hackford, and Jim Sheridan.
Hanks, Mirren and Sheridan were accepting honors at the 13th annual Britannia Awards Thursday night, hosted by BAFTA/LA, the Hollywood branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Stage and screen veteran Mirren received the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment. She recalled getting the call about the award: "It was sort of, `Are you sure that they mean me? Are they mixing me up with someone else,' you know. 'Cause one always thinks that one's not old enough for this sort of award. And the frightening thing isn't `Is this a high point?' but `Is it the last point?'"
Among those coming to support Mirren were Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Michael Caine.
BAFTA LA
Author With An Opinion
Philip Pullman
For children's fantasy writer Philip Pullman, George W. Bush would make a perfect villain in his epic sagas of good and evil.
"He would fit right in," said the British author of the trilogy "His Dark Materials" which now looks set to follow in the cinematic footsteps of Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings as the next blockbuster franchise.
"Bush has this baying certainty and has imposed this fervent zealotry," said Pullman whose books have been condemned by church groups for attacking organized religion.
"The Christian right in America is the mirror image of the Islamic fundamentalists," he added.
Philip Pullman
Calls Bush An A--hole!
Netscape/CNN Site
The very citizen journalists who very nearly pushed John Kerry into the White House have continued with their stellar work, uncovering a shocking photo naming policy on a shared Netscape/CNN site.
Citizen journalists traveling to this page discovered a dubious name for the file of the photo showing a lovable Laura Bush holding her ape-faced hubby. Until late last night, the photo was unpleasantly called asshole.jpg. It has now been changed to the more innocuous georgelaura135.jpg. The old photo page now chucks up an error message.
The photo name raises some obvious questions. Does CNN or Netscape hate the President? Have these organizations allowed unbiased web monkeys into their midsts? Is W. an asshole?
Netscape/CNN Site
Heh - I know the answer to that one...
Hosting IFC Film Series
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins will host a new TV show about movies, "Henry's Film Corner," on IFC.
The monthly series debuts Dec. 4 and features Rollins providing commentary on films. A different "off-the-street" person will be a guest critic in each episode.
In addition, the series will feature guests discussing how their professions are portrayed in films. For example, in the pilot episode, real adult-film stars will comment on the film "Boogie Nights," which was set in the porn industry.
Henry Rollins
'Thanks & Giving: All Year Long'
Marlo Thomas
Revisiting a concept she began in the early 1970s, actress Marlo Thomas has assembled an all-star cast for a new children's project.
Due Nov. 16 via Kid Rhino/Atlantic, "Thanks & Giving: All Year Long" features music from Sheryl Crow, Hilary Duff and Faith Hill, along with contributions from film and TV stars Billy Crystal, Sara Jessica Parker and Jennifer Aniston.
Credited to Marlo Thomas & Friends, the new project is not unlike 1974's "Free To Be ... You and Me" or 1988's "Free To Be ... A Family," which essentially were soundtracks to children's television specials, but stood on their own as music and story recordings.
Other musicians contributing to the project are Jimmy Buffett, the Bacon Brothers, Amy Grant and John Hiatt. Actors David Hyde Pierce, Rosie Perez and Antonio Banderas and comedians Wayne Brady and Robin Williams also have leant a hand.
Marlo Thomas
Full Season Ordered
'CSI: NY'
CBS has made the full-season pickup for "CSI: NY" official, ordering 10 additional episodes of the freshman crime drama.
"CSI: NY," starring Gary Sinise and Melina Kanakaredes, is the first freshman series to receive a full-season pickup from CBS. "Dr. Vegas" has been pulled off the schedule, while the network's third new drama, the critically praised but low-rated "Clubhouse," has received an order for two additional scripts and is moving to Saturday this week.
'CSI: NY'
Up and Walking
Patty Duke
Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke Pearce was up and walking Friday, two days after cardiac surgery, officials said.
The actress has been upgraded to good condition, Kootenai Medical Center spokeswoman Teri Farr said.
Pearce, 57, underwent single bypass surgery Wednesday at the North Idaho Heart Center. She was "up and walking a bit" on Friday and is expected to make a full recovery, Farr said.
The actress lives in the area with her husband, Mike Pearce.
Patty Duke
Seeking New Host
'The Late Late Show'
"The Late Late Show" is asking four guest hosts to stay a little longer. Actors Craig Ferguson and Michael Ian Black, comedian D.L. Hughley and MTV "Total Request Live" host Damien Fahey have been invited back for one-week tryouts as host of the CBS late-night talk show, which is searching for a replacement for Craig Kilborn.
Ferguson is up first, starting next week, followed by Hughley, Fahey and Black.
Fahey will have to make the quickest impression. He drew Thanksgiving week, when there will be only three shows.
'The Late Late Show'
Denied Promised Bush Interview?
Cal Thomas
Did the George W. Bush re-election campaign blow off conservative columnist Cal Thomas? According to the syndicated writer, whose views are avidly read by millions of Bush's base of evangelical Christians, the president's people promised an interview at least two months ago and never came through.
"They promised me on several occasions, but they never let me in," an upset Thomas told E&P Thursday. "He did a lot of interviews for the 'rah-rah' types. I think a solid newspaper interview would have gone a long way to help him."
Thomas recalled spending time with Bush on several occasions during the 2000 campaign, citing a trip in a van with him to a campaign stop and time on the campaign plane. But he said he never got near him this round for any length of time, despite the supposed promise.
Cal Thomas
Murdered Dutch Filmmaker
Theo van Gogh
The government vowed tough measures Friday against what a leading politician called "the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands" after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found pinned with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Islamic attacker.
A five-page letter released Thursday night by the justice minister forced political leaders - including Amsterdam's Jewish mayor and members of parliament - to take on bodyguards.
The document, stuck to the body of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was titled "An open Letter to (Aayan) Hirsi Ali," referring to a Somali-born member of parliament. She had scripted Van Gogh's latest film, "Submission," which criticized the treatment of women under Islam.
Theo van Gogh
Repudiating Media Lie
Big Voter Turnout
Under-30 voters came through in big numbers this year, with more than 20 million casting a ballot for president, researchers found. The turnout bested their 2000 showing by more than nine percentage points and heartened activists who worked to get young voters to the polls.
Researchers at the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at the University of Maryland found that 18- to 29-year-old turnout was up by 4.6 million voters from exit poll data from the 2000 election.
They based their calculations on exit polls done for The Associated Press and others by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.
The figures also beat exit poll numbers from 1992, the last time the youth vote spiked amid an otherwise general decline in turnout since 18-year-olds first got the chance to vote in 1972.
Big Voter Turnout
Memorabilia Displayed for Birthday
John Philip Sousa
For years, the world's largest archive of original compositions and arrangements by John Philip Sousa - more than four tons of it - was stuffed into file drawers and cabinets, accessible to only to a privileged few.
Now, with the 150th anniversary of Sousa's birth on Saturday, University of Illinois curator Scott Schwartz is bringing the personal papers, music and other memorabilia from American's best-known bandmaster out of the dark for a monthlong Sousa Sesquicentennial Celebration.
While Sousa is well known for his marches, including "Stars and Stripes Forever," "The Washington Post March," "Semper Fidelis" and "The Thunderer," he also composed in other styles. Besides 137 marches, Sousa wrote five overtures, 15 operettas, 11 suites, 24 dances, 28 fantasies and composed 322 arrangements of 19th-century symphonic works for band.
John Philip Sousa
On The Election
Hunter S. Thompson
It was Bailey's Irish Cream and Royal Salute Scotch Whiskey at the Thompson household on Election Night. A bottle of Cristal intended for a John Kerry victory remained uncorked, chilling on ice in a backroom.
A hungry smell of anticipation hung in the kitchen at Owl Farm, which morphed into a makeshift Democratic headquarters as Hunter S. Thompson hunkered down with a small group of friends and manned what seemed like a global switchboard as calls came pouring in from some of the biggest names in modern American lore.
Even a few pollsters dialed up The Good Doctor in search of the most up-to-minute score. Whether they were calling to ascertain Thompson's classified political knowledge or gauge his gambler's instinct was unclear. But without question, his phone was chiming more often than the Liberty Bell.
for a great read, Hunter S. Thompson
OKs Same-Sex Marriage
Saskatchewan
A Saskatchewan court ruling Friday made the Canadian prairie province the country's seventh jurisdiction to allow homosexuals to wed.
The Saskatchewan ruling came after five gay couples went to court seeking the right to wed. At least one couple have said they plan to say their vows as early as this weekend.
Courts in Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, the Yukon, Manitoba and Nova Scotia have already ruled in the same way.
Saskatchewan
New Records Set
Sotheby's Impressionist Auction
New records were set on Thursday for works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest total since 1990.
The sale of 48 paintings and sculptures, among 61 lots on offer, took in $194,289,600 including Sotheby's commission, the highest take for an Impressionist and modern auction since 1990.
The highlight, as expected, was Gauguin's vibrant 1899 oil-on-canvas "Maternite (II)," which fetched $39,208,000, setting a new record for a Gauguin but short of the low estimate of $40 million. Still, it smashed the old mark of $24.2 million.
Modigliani's monumental portrait of his great love and muse, "Jeanne Hebuterne (devant une porte)," also set an artist record, soaring to $31,368,000 and easily eclipsing the old mark of $26,887,500 set just last year. The portrait had been estimated to sell for $20 million to $30 million.
Sotheby's Impressionist Auction
Newspaper Endorsements
Final Daily Tally
Sen. John Kerry did win something this week, without even resorting to a recount: The Democrat edged resident Bush in E&P's final tally of daily newspaper endorsements in the race for the White House.
As readers (such as Michael Lewis) tipped us off to a few stragglers, Bush gained eight additional smaller papers while Kerry nabbed two, bringing the count -- as best we know it -- to 213 for the challenger and 205 for the incumbent. Looking back at various E&P surveys in past decades, we can see this was a rare occasion when the Democratic candidate for president getting more editorial nods than the Republican.
We have also been tabulating the circulation of papers supporting each candidate -- and double- and triple-checking our math. In our final total, Kerry won that race handily, 20,882,889 to 15,743,799.
JOHN KERRY
213 newspapers total
20,882,889 daily circulation
GEORGE W. BUSH
205 newspapers total
15,743,799 daily circulation
For the whole list of newspapers, by state - Final Daily Tally
