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Bushco:
Compromising national security for personal business purposes under the guise of faux patriotism.
Michael B!
A Local Politician
Dr. Ken Hechler
I'd like to talk about an amazing man we have here in WV just in case you
think we only have Byrd and Rockefeller. The man is Dr. Ken Hechler.
Dr Hechler's first job was working as an assistant in the Roosevelt White
House. He signed up in WW2 and was a part of Patton's 3rd Army. He wrote
the book "The Bridge at Remagen" based on his experiences. Coming back from
the war he did a stint in the Truman White House where he wrote an article
which predicted Truman would win in 1948. One of the very few articles
which did predict that.
Dr Hechler ran for the House in Washington in 1958,
winning that year and was reelected until 1976 when he stepped down to run
for governor. He lost to Jay Rockefeller that time but bounced back to win
the Secretary of State post in 1984.
He kept getting reelected until he ran
and lost for governor again in 2000. He's currently running again for
Secretary of State. He will be 90 this year.
He teaches at Marshall
University, giving lectures on what he has seen and done. He was the only
congressman to march with Dr King in Selma during the 60's. He tools around
in his red jeep which he bought several years ago. He is part of that great
deomcratic tradition and when he finally passes the world will be a sadder
place.
Lately he has been running ads to get out the vote in a local magazine.
The most recent one reads,
"I have tried everything to . . . persuade everybody to register and vote,"
declares the ad for one-time Secretary of State Ken Hechler, now 89 and
running for the office again.
"Would this work?
"Vote Naked!"
www.kenhechler.com
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
from Mark
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Coastal weather - socked in all day.
What's with Tom Clancy using little kids saying the Pledge of Allegiance to sell his newest screed? Boo. Hiss.
Think I got caught up on the archiving - please let me know (gently & kindly) if you find a missing page.
Still cranky & prone to whining - with a box of Kleenex near by, although I'm beginning to think a spitoon would be more functional.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the movie 'The Patriot'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then some
FRESH propaganda, 'Homeland Security'.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then the FRESH
'Nick & Jessica', followed by a FRESH 'Alias'.
The WB here offers basketball (San Antonio visits the Clips), followed by a FRESH 'High School Reunion'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by another RERUN 'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN
'Simpsons', then another RERUN 'Simpsons', and a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Donald Trump), another 'Biography' (the papacy), and 'The Vatican Revealed'.
AMC offers the movie 'Capricorn One', followed by the movie 'Silver Streak'< then the movie 'Earthquake'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Peterborough 1;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Kedleston 18;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Sharples;
[7:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Smith;
[8pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Shoreham;
[8:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Mick Brown;
[9pm] 'Shallow Grave';
[11pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Shoreham;
[11:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Mick Brown;
[12am] 'Shallow Grave';
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Sharples;
[2:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Smith;
[3am] 'Changing Rooms' - Shoreham;
[3:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Mick Brown;
[4am] 'Shallow Grave';
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Cirque du Soleil: Varekai', and 'Cirque du Soleil: Alegria'.
History has 'Bible Code', 'Bible Code II: Apocalypse & Beyond', and part 1 of 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[1:45PM] 'Happy Accidents' (2000);
[3:45PM] 'The Trip To Bountiful' (1985);
[5:45PM] 'La Femme Nikita' (1991);
[8PM] 'Trees Lounge' (1996);
[9:45PM] 'Great Expectations' (1998);
[12AM] 'Trees Lounge' (1996);
[1:45AM] 'Mifune' (1999);
[3:30AM] 'Great Expectations' (1998);
[5:45AM] 'IFC In Theaters'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has 'Frank Herbert's "Children Of Dune"' (part 2 of 3), followed by 'Frank Herbert's "Children Of Dune"' (part 3 of 3).
Sundance -
[3PM] 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' (Feature);
[4:30PM] 'An Injury to One' (Documentary);
[5:30PM] 'Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story' (Documentary);
[6:30PM] 'Bartleby' (Feature);
[8PM] 'Shorts Program 118' (Short);
[9PM] 'Till Human Voices Wake Us' (Feature);
[11PM] 'Bread and Tulips' (Feature);
[1AM] 'Personal Velocity: Three Portraits' (Feature);
[1:30AM] 'Princesa' (Feature);
[4AM] 'Dead or Alive: Final' (Feature);
[5:30AM] 'Rhapsody in August' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM features more films by Cecil B. DeMille most of the night.
[6am] 'Courtship Of Andy Hardy' (1942);
[8am] 'Courage Of Lassie' (1946);
[10am] 'I Married An Angel' (1942);
[11:30am] 'King Of Kings' (1961);
[2:30pm] 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965);
[6pm] 'High Noon' (1952);
[8pm] 'Easter Parade' (1948);
[10pm] 'Holiday Inn' (1942);
[12am] 'The King of Kings' (1927) SILENT ;
[2am] 'Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic' (Part 1) (2004);
[3am] 'Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic' (Part 2) (2004);
[4am] 'The Squaw Man' (1931). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Hooded penitents of the 'Cristo de la Buena Muerte' brotherhood march during the 'Santo Entierro' Easter procession in Ferrol in Northern Spain, April 10, 2004. Hundreds of Easter processions take place throughout Spain during the Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors.
Photo by Miguel Vidal
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
NYC Premiere Set for Documentary
Joe Strummer
The Joe Strummer documentary "Let's Rock Again!" will receive its world premiere next month at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.
"Let's Rock Again!" opens with a montage of Clash-era footage of Strummer before ultimately settling into his stint fronting the Mescaleros. The film includes everything from performance footage to interviews with the subject, and spotlights public reaction to Strummer ranging from fanatical in Japan to indifferent in the United States.
The documentary, which does not yet have a distributor, will screen twice at the Tribeca Film Festival: May 7 at 9:45 p.m. and the next day at 11:30 p.m.
In related news, Strummer's family and friends are launching the Strummerville charitable foundation for the promotion of new music. "The aim of Strummerville is to provide aid to groups and organizations to fund the purchase of musical instruments, studio and rehearsal time; to enable the production of music by creative young people who would otherwise be prevented from doing so simply because they lack the necessary funds," according to Strummer's official Web site (http://www.strummersite.com).
Joe Strummer
Honorary Degree From Berklee
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby will receive an honorary doctor of music degree from the Berklee College of Music for his contribution to the world of music.
Cosby is a jazz enthusiast and has composed scores for several of his television programs, including The Cosby Show, A Different World and Little Bill.
The honour will be bestowed during the school's commencement ceremony on May 8, the college announced this week.
Bill Cosby
Project manager Ralph DiCaprio (L) dwarfed under the U-505 submarine watches as workers transport the submarine down Science Drive outside Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry Friday, April 9, 2004. The 700-ton German submarine, which was captured during World War II, is to be housed indoors to preserve its exterior.
Photo by Frank Polich
Seismic Experts Rip
NBC Quake Miniseries
An upcoming TV miniseries about an impossibly large earthquake that strikes the West Coast has left seismic experts shaking their heads at what they called gross inaccuracies.
In NBC's disaster epic "10.5," massive quakes topple the Golden Gate Bridge, send the Pacific Ocean sloshing over Los Angeles, swallow trucks and chase trains. An attempt to stop the temblors by fusing the San Andreas fault with a series of atomic explosions fails.
Seismologists who have previewed "10.5" expressed both alarm and mirth. A magnitude-10.5 earthquake would be 8,000 times more powerful than the 6.7 Northridge quake that killed 72 people in Southern California in 1994.
"The production is blatantly inconsistent with everything we know about earthquakes," said Lucy Jones, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Pasadena. "It's complete science fantasy, but as long as people know that nothing about it could be true, they can sit back and enjoy it."
Howard Braunstein, executive producer of the miniseries, acknowledged that the film is meant as "fun entertainment" and plays loose with the facts.
NBC Quake Miniseries
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival Marshals
Sean Astin & Loni Anderson
Actors Sean Astin and Loni Anderson have been chosen as the grand marshals for this month's Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
Astin and Anderson are scheduled to appear in various events during the weekend, including the Grand Feature Parade, organizers said Friday. The 77th annual festival runs from April 27 to May 2.
Sean Astin & Loni Anderson
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival
Tarantino Planning a Third
'Kill Bill'
"Kill Bill - Vol. 2" isn't even in theaters yet, but Quentin Tarantino says he's already planning volume three.
"Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my 'Dollars' trilogy. I was going to do a new one every 10 years. But I need at least 15 years before I do this again," the director tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its April 16 issue.
Tarantino says Uma Thurman, who plays a bride out for revenge in the series that began last year, won't be the star.
"The star will be Vernita Green's (Vivica A. Fox's) daughter, Nikki (Ambrosia Kelley). I've already got the whole mythology: Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on The Bride," he says. "Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age."
'Kill Bill'
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Fired 4 Times
Omarosa
Her stint on "The Apprentice" wasn't the first time Omarosa Manigault Stallworth heard the words "You're fired." People magazine says she was bounced from four jobs in two years with the Clinton administration.
A worker at her last job with the Commerce Department says Omarosa was asked to leave as quickly as possible because she was so disruptive. She says, "One woman wanted to slug her."
Omarosa
Chandra Susilo, 17, of Hawaii performs a 'Taruna Jaya' dance from North Bali during the first annual Indonesian Cultural Day at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii-Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 10, 2004. This dance depicts the mood of a man although it is performed by a women. Typical of Balinese dance tradition, the dancer uses hand and facial expressions for aesthetic value and dramatic flair. Susilo is a Punahoe High School student and has been dancing since she was 12. Her father is from Java. The festival is presented by the Indonesian Students Association, Hawaii Chapter and highlights the regions culture, dance food and history.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
Mississippi Seeks to Honor
B.B. King
Officials in the Mississippi Delta town of Indianola, birthplace of B.B. King, want to erect a statue in the bluesman's honor.
The town of 12,000 where the singer of such hits as "The Thrill is Gone" spent his formative years is selling engraved $25 bricks and $300 business slates to finance the statue.
The statue will be located at the entrance to B.B. King park, said Carolyn O'Neal, an official with the city's public works department.
B.B. King
Dropping TV Fashion Show
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is dropping its nationally televised fashion show this year, at least partly because of criticism following Janet Jackson's breast-baring faux pas at the Super Bowl.
Ed Razek, chief creative officer for the Columbus-based chain, said Saturday the main reason for the decision was so the company can look at new ways to promote the brand.
Still, he said, "We had to make the decision probably six to eight weeks ago when the heat was on the television networks."
Victoria's Secret
Fired By Clear Channel
'The Regular Guys'
Clear Channel Communications fired two radio station hosts Friday for broadcasting sexual dialogue during a commercial.
Larry Wachs and Eric Von Haessler, also known as "The Regular Guys" in their show on Atlanta radio station WKLS-FM, aired a skit on March 19 called "backward smut," which involved recording a pornography star talking explicitly, then playing her voice backward over the air.
The hosts left a microphone on after the prank, however, causing listeners to hear sexual talk during a commercial. Wachs blamed "technical difficulties," and Clear Channel Communications, which owns the station, said at the time the prank appeared to be an accident.
Clear Channel Vice President Pat McDonnell announced the end of the show Friday because of violations of a "zero-tolerance" indecency policy. Clear Channel is the nation's largest radio chain.
'The Regular Guys'
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Pleads No Contest
Vince Neil
A day after a misdemeanor battery case against him was dismissed in California, former Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil pleaded no contest to battery on a Moonlite BunnyRanch prostitute.
Prostitute Andrea "TrixXxie Blue" Terry said Neil choked her and threw her against a wall when the two met at the Mound House brothel where Neil stopped July 10, 2003, after a concert in Reno.
BunnyRanch owner Dennis Hof said he was sorry to hear that Neil felt pressured to enter a plea.
"It's sad to see Vince do that because in my mind this girl's an opportunist and I know that Vince did nothing wrong," Hof told the Nevada Appeal newspaper. "I assume he did this to avoid having a lengthy trial. I will support him to the end, because I know he didn't do anything wrong."
Vince Neil
A fishing boat sails on the Aegean sea between the Greek island of Chios, and Tsesme at the Turkish west coastline during a sunrise on Saturday, April 10, 2004.
Photo by Petros Giannakouris
Paris Hilton's Video Co-Star Drops Suit
Rick Salomon
Paris Hilton's former boyfriend, who appeared with her in a sex video that went public, has dropped his $10 million slander lawsuit against the heiress and her parents.
In court papers filed Tuesday, attorneys for Richard Salomon asked to dismiss claims against the Hiltons. No reason was given for the request. Salomon's attorney, Martin Singer, did not immediately return a call for comment made Friday after business hours.
Salomon filed suit last November, alleging Hilton was an "active participant" in making the video, but she and her family have waged a "cold, calculated and malicious campaign to portray Salomon as a rapist" to protect her image.
The suit will continue against Hilton publicist Siri Garber, whom Salomon claimed in court papers "orchestrated" a campaign against him.
Rick Salomon
Mine the News for Song Subjects
Los Tigres
It's not clear when Los Tigres del Norte went from being a norteno band to a social and political force.
What is clear is that in the past two decades, when Los Tigres, one of the biggest-selling Latin acts in Mexico and the United States, talks, its audience does not just buy albums. It listens. And it acts.
Action is what many hope Los Tigres' newest set, "Pacto de Sangre," will provoke. Released March 30 on longtime label Fonovisa Records, it debuted, as expected, at No. 1 this week on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart.
The album includes two tracks that address contemporary and explosive circumstances and are sure to elicit a strong response.
One is the first single, "Jose Perez Leon," a hauntingly arranged corrido (a storytelling song) about a young man who suffocates inside a truck as he attempts to cross from Mexico into the United States. The song directly references the May 2003 incident in which 18 immigrants suffocated inside a truck in Texas. It is No. 28 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart this week.
For the rest, Los Tigres
In Memory
Nick and Mary Yankovic
The elderly parents of Grammy-winning recording artist "Weird Al" Yankovic were found dead in their home, apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.
Nick and Mary Yankovic were found dead Friday in their suburban San Diego home by relatives who were worried because they had not seen the couple in a while, said sheriff's Sgt. Conrad Grayson.
Paramedics found Nick Yankovic, 86, in a chair in the front living room. His 81-year-old wife was on the bathroom floor.
A wood fire had been set recently in the fireplace, Grayson said.
"The house was full of smoke when they opened the door," Grayson said, adding that the family members found the flue closed.
A neighbor described Yankovic's parents as nice people who were proud of their son.
"Everybody who came to the neighborhood knew Nick," said John Buehman, who lives across the street. "They're going to be missed, big time."
Nick and Mary Yankovic
In Memory
Kathy
A beluga whale who at 34 was one of the oldest such whales in an aquarium has died at her home in the New York Aquarium, a spokeswoman said.
Kathy the beluga whale had suffered from a bacterial infection and died Friday morning, aquarium spokeswoman Fran Hackett said.
Kathy had been ill for many months and was scheduled to be euthanized. However, she died after being given a shot to calm her down before the injection.
Beluga whales are an arctic species known for the prominent rounded structure on the top of their heads, which is called the melon. In the wild, they typically live to be less than 30 years old.
"At the age of 34, Kathy was truly an amazing animal and an ambassador for her species," aquarium director Paul Boyle said in a statement.
Kathy was born in Canada in 1969 and came to the aquarium in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the early 1970s.
While at the aquarium she gave birth to two baby whales: Nyci, the first baby beluga to survive more than a few days in captivity, and Casey. Nyci died when she was 8 weeks old, Casey died when he was 8.
The aquarium has one other beluga, 20-year-old Marina.
Kathy
A seven-week-old Asian wild dog dhole peered into the distance as its sibling bounded away at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, April 8, 2004. The shy dholes are part of a breeding program that keeps them off exhibit at the Wild Animal Park. Dholes are found in a variety of Asian habitats, from dense forests, mountainous alpine regions and scrublands to open steppes. The dhole's range includes the former USSR, China, India, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Tibet and Nepal.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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