zEN mAN (observing yet another mass shooting in Newtown Conn. children by an asshole with legally obtained automatic weapons.....shame shame shame on WAYNE LaPIERRE and the N.R.A. FOR PROMOTING AND PIMPING these MASS MURDER GUNS....more blood is on his hands....may he rot in HELL! I have guns...I like my guns...I don't need these Gun Gangsters pushing every single person to own an AK 40....I am sooooooooo MAD and sooooooo SAD)
Paul Krugman: How Big Is the Budget Hole? (New York Times)
Yes, we do have a trillion-dollar deficit. But a large part of that deficit is attributable to the depressed economy. Reasonable estimates say that we have an output gap of something like $900 billion a year - yes, some would dispute that, but it's the estimate I find most convincing. This automatically raises the budget deficit by depressing revenue and leading to more spending on unemployment insurance and means-tested programs like Medicaid…
Marc Dion: The Travesty of a Smokeless Santa (Creators Syndicate)
Truth is truth, and fact is fact, and you must respect them in their smallest incarnations or they vanish like smoke in the wind. Handle the truth gently. It can break. Touch facts reverently. They can guide you home. Read good words slowly. They can take you to the stars inside yourself.
Lenore Skenazi: Capping Off the Season (Creators Syndicate)
I've got no idea (and, worse, neither does Wikipedia!) why they popped up as mod gear for a while, but for eons of human history, they were not hip accessories, they were nighttime necessities. Consider the fact that in old novels you read about the characters breaking the ice that formed overnight in their washbasins before they could splash their faces clean on winter mornings.
Mr. Haney (given name Eustace Charleston Haney) is a local farmer turned salesman and con man in the rural Hooterville community who was a supporting antagonist character on the 1960s CBS television series Green Acres.
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Charlie wrote:
It's Eustice, Eustace, Charleton, or Charlton. Nobody seems to know for certain.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Eustace Charleston Haney
Adam answered:
Eustace Charleston Haney
Sally said:
On the old TV series, "Green Acres," Mr. Haney's whole name was Eustace Charleston Haney.
Name not as bad as Dweezel...
PS: Last day of Hanukkah, now comes...
John A. responded:
Eustace.
Marian replied:
Eustace Charleston Haney
Dale of Diamond Springs answered:
Pat Buttram played Eustace Charleston Haney on one of the most moronic pieces of excrement ever to be allowed into our living rooms - "Green Acres".
CBS begins the night with the movie 'Elf', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Fire', followed by another RERUN'Chicago Fire', then still another RERUN'Chicago Fire'.
'SNL' is FRESH, with Martin Short hosting, music by Paul McCartney.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Transformers'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', another old '2½ Men', then a old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux has 'Cops', another 'Cops', and a RERUN'Kitchen Nightmares'.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Parking Wars', then another FRESH'Parking Wars', still another FRESH'Parking Wars', and yet another FRESH'Parking Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'White Christmas', followed by the movie 'White Christmas', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Glasshouse
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Episode 1
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 8 - La Frite
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Walnut Tree
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED UK - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Bonapartes
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 11-12-Episode 2
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Ep 4 Botswana Special
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 7
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 22 - Bloodlines
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 23 - Emergence
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 24 - Preemptive Strike NEW
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 25 - All Good Things..., Part 1 NEW
[9:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 7 - Ep 26 - All Good Things..., Part 2 NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 7 - Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Ennis, Ricky Gervais, Bruno Mars NEW
[11:00PM] ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 12 - Ep 7 - Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Ennis, Ricky Gervais, Bruno Mars
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 3 - The Curse of the Black Spot
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 4 - The Doctor's Wife
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 5 - The Rebel Flesh
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 6 - Ep 6 - The Almost People (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has fills the night with the movie 'A Few Good Men'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grandma's Boy', followed by the movie 'Jackass 3.5'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', followed by 'The Ultimate Fighter'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Mankind The Story Of All Of Us', another 'Mankind The Story Of All Of Us', 'Pawn Stars', and 'American Wiseass'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] You Kill Me
[8:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Adam Scott Wears a Red Oxford Shirt & Jeans
[8:30AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[9:30AM] The Three Stooges-Gents in a Jam
[9:55AM] The Three Stooges-Gypped in the Penthouse
[10:20AM] The Three Stooges-He Cooked His Goose
[10:45AM] The Three Stooges-Hot Ice
[11:10AM] The Three Stooges-Hot Stuff
[11:35AM] The Three Stooges-Hugs and Mugs
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Making a Stand
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-S.O.B.s
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Fakin' It
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Family Ties
[2:00PM] Arrested Development-Exit Strategy
[2:30PM] Arrested Development-Development Arrested
[3:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[3:30PM] Get Shorty
[5:45PM] Cop Land
[8:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Deluxe Edition
[10:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Part Three
[11:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Deluxe Edition
[1:00AM] Trapped in the Closet-Part Three
[2:00AM] Johnny Handsome
[4:00AM] Trapped in the Closet-Deluxe Edition (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - The Diary (Episode 10, Season 1)
[7:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Looks and Books (Episode 11, Season 1)
[8:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - The Garage Door (Episode 12, Season 1)
[9:00A] L'amour Fou
[10:45A] Lions for Lambs
[12:15P] Blown Away
[2:30P] How to Be
[4:00P] Big Fan
[5:30P] Lions for Lambs
[7:00P] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comedian Tig Notaro & Parenthood's Jason Ritter (Episode 4, Season 2)
[7:30P] ICONOCLASTS - Christy Turlington Burns + Tory Burch (Episode 4, Season 6)
[8:00P] Fish Tank
[10:15P] Good Morning, Vietnam
[12:30A] Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya
[2:10A] The Possession of David O'Reilly
[3:40A] Big Fan
[5:10A] Pol Pot's Birthday
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - France (Episode 1, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Dead', followed by the movie 'Dead Season'.
Director David Lynch (C) attends the 'Change Begins Within: An Historic Night of Jazz to benefit The David Lynch Foundation' event with Roberta Lowenstein (L) and Rita Cosby in New York December 13, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
The vast collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts initially sold senior Joe Kirchoff on Marquette University, so when the school offered its first course devoted exclusively to the English author, Kirchoff wanted in. The only problem: It was full and he wasn't on the literature track.
Undaunted, the 22-year-old political science and history major lobbied the English department and others starting last spring and through the summer and "kind of just made myself a problem," he said. His persistence paid off.
He and the 31 other students can now boast of their authority about the author who influenced much of today's high fantasy writing. The course was taught for the first time this fall as part of the university's celebration of the 75th anniversary of "The Hobbit" being published. And class wrapped up just before the film, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," was released Friday.
The class, which filled up fast with mostly seniors who had first dibs, looked at Tolkien as a whole, not just the popular "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit." Students took their final exam this week, and the course was so well received, Marquette is considering more in the future.
Marquette is one of the main repositories of Tolkien's drafts, drawings and other writings - more than 11,000 pages. It has the manuscripts for "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," as well as his lesser-known "Farmer Giles of Ham" and his children's book "Mr. Bliss." Marquette was the first institution to ask Tolkien for the manuscripts in 1956 and paid him about $5,000.
Jack Hanna, right, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, sits with Make-A-Wish child Anna, left, 11, as Anna starts her day as a zookeeper Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.
Photo by Jay LaPrete
An auction of film legend Greta Garbo's belongings got off to a roaring start on Friday, with her clothing, jewelry and other memorabilia fetching more than ten times pre-sale estimates in many cases.
Bidding was brisk and high as more than 800 items belonging to the reclusive Swedish actress, including the bed she slept in, went up for sale over two days at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills.
A 1930s black velvet evening dress with an estimated value of about $1,200 sold on Friday for $13,750. The winning bid for three leather driving caps worn by Garbo in a 1924 car advertisement was $15,000, compared with an estimate of $200.
Her U.S. passport issued in 1964, which carried an estimate of $3,000-$5,000, fetched $15,000.
All the items come from the estate of Greta Garbo, who died in 1990 in New York at the age of 84 after retiring from movies and public life in 1941.
Musicians Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter attend the 'Change Begins Within: An Historic Night of Jazz to benefit The David Lynch Foundation' event in New York December 13, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
A Southern California judge is being publicly admonished for saying a rape victim "didn't put up a fight" during her assault and that if someone doesn't want sexual intercourse, the body "will not permit that to happen."
The California Commission on Judicial Performance voted 10-0 to impose a public admonishment Thursday, saying Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson's comments were inappropriate and a breach of judicial ethics.
Johnson made the comments in the case of a man who threatened to mutilate the face and genitals of his ex-girlfriend with a heated screwdriver, beat her with a metal baton and made other violent threats before committing rape, forced oral copulation, and other crimes.
Johnson, a former prosecutor in the Orange County district attorney's sex crimes unit, said during the man's 2008 sentencing that he had seen violent cases on that unit in which women's vaginas were "shredded" by rape.
"I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something: If someone doesn't want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage is inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case," Johnson said.
The commission found that Johnson's view that a victim must resist to be a real victim of sexual assault was his opinion, not the law. Since 1980, California law doesn't require rape victims to prove they resisted or were prevented from resisting because of threats.
Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld attend the 'Change Begins Within: An Historic Night of Jazz to benefit The David Lynch Foundation' event in New York December 13, 2012.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
Sally Struthers has entered a not guilty plea on charges she drove drunk in Maine, where she was performing in a musical.
The Portland Press Herald reports the 65-year-old Struthers did not appear in York District Court on Thursday, and entered the plea through her lawyer.
Police arrested Struthers on Sept. 12 on U.S. Route 1 in the resort town Ogunquit (oh-GUHNG'-kwit). She was charged with criminal operating under the influence.
Struthers is best known for her role as Gloria Bunker Stivic in the 1970s TV sitcom "All in the Family." She had been performing at the Ogunquit Playhouse in the musical "9 to 5."
The owner of the heavily used YouPorn and Pornhub websites has been extradited to Germany after being arrested in Belgium on suspicion of tax evasion.
Fabian Thylmann, a German who lives in Belgium, was extradited on Thursday. Alf Willwacher, a spokesman for Cologne prosecutors, said Friday that Thylmann didn't contest extradition. It wasn't clear whether he has responded to the accusations against him.
Thylmann was arrested last week on a German warrant, and several properties including his home were searched. Prosecutors have declined to give details of the case against him.
Thylmann's company, Manwin, owns several sites including YouPorn and Pornhub which, according to Internet information company Alexa, are among the most popular websites on the planet. Manwin has offices in Luxembourg, Britain, Germany, Canada, Cyprus and the United States.
Members of the Italian group Animalisti Italiani has the words "Fur death" painted on their chests as they perform during a protest in Rome December 14, 2012.
Photo by Max Rossi
Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham will soon be back on the air after taking a short break.
Courtside Entertainment Group says it will distribute "The Laura Ingraham Show" starting Jan. 2. Meanwhile, she will boost her audience through a deal with Lauchpad Digital Media, which will stream the three-hour daily program and make it available for download on podcast.
Talkers magazine says the conservative Ingraham is the most-listened-to woman on radio, with an estimated 5.75 million listeners a week. Her show, launched in 2001, is now heard on more than 300 radio stations nationally.
She is also a Fox News contributor and principal guest host of "The O'Reilly Factor."
A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds.
Even most people who say they don't trust scientists on the environment say temperatures are rising.
The poll found 4 out of every 5 Americans said climate change will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it. That's up from 73 percent when the same question was asked in 2009.
And 57 percent of Americans say the U.S. government should do a great deal or quite a bit about the problem. That's up from 52 percent in 2009. Only 22 percent of those surveyed think little or nothing should be done, a figure that dropped from 25 percent.
Overall, 78 percent of those surveyed said they believe temperatures are rising, up from 75 percent three years earlier. In general, U.S. belief in global warming, according to AP-GfK and other polls, has fluctuated over the years but has stayed between about 70 and 85 percent.
Nashville drummer Willie Ackerman, who played with artists such as Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson and Louis Armstrong, has died. He was 73.
According to an obituary from the Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home, Ackerman passed away peacefully on Thursday.
The obituary states that Ackerman was a professional musician from the age of 17. He was a staff drummer for such country music institutions as the Grand Ole Opry, RCA Studios and "Hee Haw."
He played with numerous country stars, including Patsy Cline, George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Chet Atkins. He recorded classic hits such as "El Paso," and "Wings of a Dove."
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