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TONIGHT!
Erin Hart Show
710 KIRO - 9pm to 1am (pdt) Weekend Nights
The 27th, the show is preempted by the Seahawks game so standby to fit all
of our talk into Sunday's show from 9 p. to 1 a. PDT
We start the show with Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Rev. Don Mackenzie and Imam
Jamal Rahman to talk about the "Unity Project Seattle," an interfaith group
formed after 9.11.
And Cindy Sheehan is back in Crawford stirring up a hornet's nest of mess in
Texas. Support for Bush continues to plummet as more and more people realize
we were led into Iraq without a plan, without equipment and without
knowledge about the region enough for a peace.
Sigh. And we will review the other week's news with Martha G. (or is it Marty?),
entertainment editor of Bartcop.com.
Friday and Monday Erin will be filling in on AM 760 in Boulder from 5am - 9am PDT (6am - 10am MDT). Scheduled guests include Rabbi Daniel Weiner and Dean
Robert Taylor from the Middle East.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Elana Berkowitz: Playing it Any Way But Straight (Campus Progress. Posted on alternet.org)
... if gay marriage was legal everyone would hear so much less about it. Once it's legal, the only gay marriages you'll hear about are the ones you're invited to. Lou Sheldon and James Dobson won't be invited to any and won't have to worry their thick heads about it again.
John Nichols: President of Leisure (commondreams.org)
Often, when an executive faces lingering questions about his skills, he works extra hard to make sure that every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed. Not so George W. Bush.
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The American Economy is Destroying Itself (counterpunch.org)
Manufacturing & Technology News reports that "a group of 15 US business organizations has launched a national campaign aimed at doubling within 10 years the number of bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." What is the point of this when there is a huge supply of unemployed engineers and technical people who have been displaced by offshore outsourcing and by H-1b and L-1 work visas for foreigners?
The Editors of The Stranger: It's the Cities, Stupid (urbanarchipelago.co)
It's time for the Democrats to face reality: They are the party of urban America. If the cities elected our president, if urban voters determined the outcome, John F. Kerry would have won by a landslide. Urban voters are the Democratic base.
Spreadingsantorum.com
Reader Suggestion
Margaret Thatcher Game
Here's a satirical game from over the pond. 'Whack-a-miner'.
You play a Brave British Bobby (!) during the 80s Miners' strike, and you must whack those miners for Thatcher. It takes its inspiration from 'Whack-a-mole', and of course, Miners and moles have a lot in common.
Play it at www.milksnatcher.com or www.maggiethatcher.com
Simondoggy
Thanks, Simon!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Too hot for comfort.
Some neighbors had a party this evening - even had a live Mariachi band with a hot brass section.
Saw a promo for NBC News during their evening newscast tonight. It stated 'We look at issues from all angles so we can explain it to you.' Yes, they said 'explain it to you.'
I don't need NBC explaining shit to me - however, if they'd like to report the news, that's another issue altogether.
Posthumous Walk of Fame Star
Chris Farley
Comedian Chris Farley was a motivational speaker, a rabid fan and a topless dancer on "Saturday Night Live." On Friday, the late comic was the toast of his castmates as they honored him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
"I think it's sweet that everyone still has a real nice place in their hearts for him, they still remember him," said actor-comedian David Spade, who appeared with Farley during his 1990-95 reign on the show.
Fans, friends and family surrounded Farley's star, the walk's 2,289th, in front of the Improv Olympic West theater where the actor used to perform. Among other celebrities in attendance were "SNL" alums Chris Rock and Adam Sandler.
Chris Farley
Inducts 11
Civil Rights Walk of Fame
Ted Turner, Henry Aaron and the late former Mayor Maynard Jackson Jr. were among 11 people inducted to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.
Xernona Clayton, who created the Walk of Fame, announced Friday that the gallery will have a more international flavor in the future with the addition of Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu and former South African President Nelson Mandela.
This year's other inductees were comedian Dick Gregory, late newspaper editor and columnist Ralph McGill, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., singer Nancy Wilson, singer Harry Belafonte, activist Addie L. Wyatt of Chicago, late chief judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Elbert Tuttle Sr., and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth of Cincinnati.
Civil Rights Walk of Fame
New Work 60 Years in the Making
Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck can finally cross something off that's been on his "to-do" list for nearly 60 years: The legendary jazz pianist will unveil a new six-minute choral work called "The Commandments" Sept. 14 at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, as part of the second annual Jewish Music Heritage Festival in New York.
"It has taken me almost 60 years finally to compose something I wanted to write when I was a young soldier in Europe," the 84-year-old Brubeck said in a statement.
"The Commandments," to be sung by the 90-member Providence Singers, follows the ten Biblical rules. The pianist says the inspiration came during World War II when he saw most of the commandments broken.
Dave Brubeck
Says She Evened Score
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne says she cut Iron Maiden's power during a concert on this summer's Ozzfest tour. The wife of rock icon Ozzy Osbourne has accused the heavy metal group's singer Bruce Dickinson of badmouthing her husband on stage.
"Dickinson got what he deserved," Osbourne wrote in a letter to the group's manager. "Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking ... about my family night after night?"
During the same show in Devore earlier this month, Iron Maiden's members were pelted with eggs and debris from the crowd.
Sharon Osbourne
25th Anniversary Concert
Solidarity
More than 100,000 people turned out for a concert by French electronic music composer Jean-Michel Jarre to mark the 25th anniversary of Poland's Solidarity trade union which helped bring down communism.
The televised concert, with laser images and fireworks, was held at the naval shipyards in the northern town of Gdansk where Lech Walesa's Solidarnosc, the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc, was born in August 1980.
Jarre played a special work written for the occasion, "Solidarity Tonight", and invited Walesa onto the stage for a huge ovation.
Solidarity
Missing Music Producer Found
Christian Julian Irwin
The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans.
The Topanga Canyon resident found a distraught Christian Julian Irwin saying he feared he was being pursued by Nigerians who had contacted him in an Internet scam, sheriff's Capt. Ray Peavy said.
Peavy said there was no evidence anyone was actually pursuing the 48-year-old producer, who has worked with Carly Simon and David Bowie, among others.
Irwin was taken into custody because he was deemed mentally incompetent and possibly dangerous to himself, Peavy said. He was found at about 4:30 p.m. and agreed to go with police about two hours later after negotiations in which authorities, at Irwin's request, located his sister to help calm him.
Christian Julian Irwin
Jack the Ripper's Identity?
Patricia Cornwell
American crime writer Patricia Cornwell published a full-page letter in two British newspapers Saturday to defend her theory on the identity of Jack the Ripper, one of Britain's most infamous serial killers.
Beginning, "Dear Readers," Cornwell hit back at experts who have knocked her claim that impressionist painter Walter Sickert was the notorious east London murderer.
Cornwell announced she will present fresh evidence in an updated version of her 2002 book, "Portrait of a Killer -- Jack the Ripper: Case Closed", due out next year.
Her advertisement came in response to an article in The Independent newspaper on Tuesday, contesting her theory.
Patricia Cornwell
Sued By The Religiously Deluded
University of California
A group representing California religious schools has filed a lawsuit accusing the University of California system of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints.
The Association of Christian Schools International, which represents more than 800 schools, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming UC admissions officials have refused to certify high school science courses that use textbooks challenging Darwin's theory of evolution. Other rejected courses include "Christianity's Influence in American History."
According to the lawsuit, the Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta was told its courses were rejected because they use textbooks printed by two Christian publishers, Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Books.
UC spokeswoman Ravi Poorsina said she could not comment, because the university had not been served with the lawsuit. Still, she said the university has a right to set course requirements.
University of California
Wax Head Stolen From Museum
Mozart
Thieves snatched the head of a life-size Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wax figure from a Salzburg museum, police said Saturday.
The figure of the composer was on display at "Next to Mozart," a multimedia museum that opened last year. The wax head has an estimated value of $18,427, but museum employees told Austria Press Agency the work was truly unique - and appealed for its return.
"It must have happened between 8 p.m. Friday, when we closed, and today before 9 a.m.," museum employee Elisabeth Stoeckl told APA. "When we opened up again, Mozart's head was gone."
Mozart
Rural Passengers Get The Shaft
Greyhound
For the first time in as long as most people can remember, the old "silver dog" failed to stop last week in Hollywood, Fla.; Hurricane Mills, Tenn.; and Ludlow, Vt. - just a few of close to 1,000 out-of-the-way hamlets where residents can no longer leave the driving to Greyhound.
So far, 750 rural towns - and hundreds of more in-between "flag stops" in even smaller places - have lost their Greyhound connection this year. Service stopped at 81 locales last week alone, and hundreds more are expected to be dropped as the Dallas-based carrier and its subsidiaries roll out new routes across the country into 2006.
It's part of a broad restructuring of the 91-year-old long-distance carrier, which is trying to regain traction after losing $22 million in the first quarter of this year. Left in a puff of exhaust are the small towns that helped define the image of the Greyhound as a low-rent hitch that appealed to Americans' sense of adventure and earned it broad cultural recognition in everything from country songs to movies like "Midnight Cowboy."
But since 1970, the Greyhound has gradually lost its importance and appeal. Ridership is down to 40 million from a 1970 high of 130 million. Where once the Greyhound stopped in 17,000 communities, it today pulls into only 6,000.
Greyhound
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