Molly Ivins: George Bush investigates! (Creators Syndicate)
Watch carefully, listen carefully -- minority groups have always been blamed after natural disasters, since the days when the Hungarians were supposed to have cut the fingers off bodies to get the gold rings in the wake of the Johnstown Flood.
An Open Letter to John Stossel
A young woman carrying a small baby makes her way to your store. They are wet, tired and thirsty, possibly dehydrated. She picks up 2 bottles of water and sets the on the counter. You explain that the total is $40.00 -- plus bottle deposit, I assume?
Mark Morford: George W. Bush Still Rocks! (sfgate.com)
Here, then, is the new American motto, as reimagined by BushCo: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and we'll let them die in a filthy and decrepit storm-ravaged American football stadium while our president languishes on vacation and ponders his oil futures and fondly remembers his good ol' days of getting drunk at Mardi Gras before going AWOL from the military. God bless America.
CBS starts the night as usual with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then the movie 'Ocena's Eleven'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'West Wing', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by another RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'My Kind Of Town', followed by a RERUN'Desperate Housewives'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Charmed', followed by the movie 'Save The Last Dance'.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Simpsons', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'The War At Home', then the SEASON PREMIERE'Family Guy', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'American Dad'.
UPN fills the night with RERUNs of 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Crossing Jordan', 'The First 48', 'Family Plots', another 'Family Plots', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Untouchables', followed by the movie 'The Untouchables', again, then the movie 'Harlem Nights'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 5;
[2:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 6;
[3pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 7;
[3:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 8;
[4pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 9;
[4:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 10;
[5pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 11;
[5:30pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 12;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Peterborough 38;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Shepton 22;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Lidstone;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[9pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'What Not To Wear' - Tina;
[10:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 8;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[12am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'What Not To Wear' - Tina;
[1:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 8;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[3am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 2;
[4am] 'What Not To Wear' - Tina;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 8;
[5am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 8;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Gwyneth Paltrow), and the movie 'To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Sorority Boys', followed by the movie 'Billy Madison'.
History has 'Osama's Hideouts', 'The Man Who Predicted 9/11', 'Grounded On 9/11', and 'Band Of Brothers'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto' (1955);
[7:45AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[8:15AM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[10AM] 'Chi Girl' (1999);
[11:30AM] 'At the IFC Center' (2005);
[12PM] 'IFC September Short Film Collection I' (2005);
[2PM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[2:15PM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[4PM] 'Stardust Memories' (1980);
[5:30PM] Short: 'Upheaval' (2001);
[5:45PM] 'The Lady And The Duke' (2001);
[8PM] 'The Shipping News' (2001);
[10PM] 'WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception' (2004);
[11:45PM] 'The Shipping News' (2001);
[1:45AM] 'Natural Born Killers' (1994);
[4AM] 'IFC in Theaters' (2005);
[4:15AM] 'Bodies, Rest And Motion' (1993). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi fills the night with 'Stephen King's 'Rose Red'' - parts 1, 2 & 3.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] 'A Letter to True';
[7:50AM] '156 Rivington';
[9AM] 'The Al Franken Show': (09/09/05);
[10AM] 'Alexei and the Spring';
[12PM] 'Crackers';
[1:35PM] 'Men Named Milo, Women Named Greta';
[2PM] 'Gotham Fish Tales';
[3:15PM] 'A Letter to True';
[4:35PM] 'Smoke';
[6:30PM] 'Pieces of April';
[8PM] 'Slings & Arrows: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan';
[9PM] 'The Last Temptation of Christ';
[11:45PM] 'Kenji's Faith';
[12AM] 'Good Night Valentino';
[12:30AM] 'Mimic';
[2:30AM] 'Slings & Arrows: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan';
[3:30AM] 'Shorts Program 117';
[4:25AM] 'Crackers'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Director David Cronenberg listens to a question at a news conference for the movie History of Violence during the International Film Festival in Toronto, Saturday Sept. 10, 2005.
Photo by Adrian Wyld
As you round a corner in the club land district of Marigny, the silence of New Orleans is suddenly interrupted by blasting rock and bossa nova.
From a rickety wooden home, musician Kenny Claiborne and bartender Joshua Nascimento, are trying to breathe a bit of life back into a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina by turning their balcony into what they call "Radio Marigny."
Using power from a generator and the biggest speakers they could find, they have been broadcasting whatever their few remaining neighbors request or they themselves want to hear to drown out the roar of helicopters and military trucks that has replaced New Orleans' more usual sounds of jazz.
In Marigny and the French Quarter, both largely untouched by the storm and the floods that at one point swamped 80 percent of the city, several dozen residents have remained.
In this image made available by the Joint Network Gulf Coast Benefit, Inc., Randy Newman performs on Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast, in Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 9, 2005.
Photo by Monty Brinton
Challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed on Saturday not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims.
The government won't, however, permit photographers to join them in boats or helicopters during the mission to recover bodies from flooded homes.
Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security director, said the recovery effort would be done with dignity, "meaning that there would be no press allowed." Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore later said there would be zero access to the recovery operation.
In a hearing Saturday before U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison, Army Lt. Col. Christian DeGraff promised that recovery teams would not bar the media from watching. Satisfied, CNN agreed to put its case on hold.
Actor Robin Williams sits in the stands prior to the womens final match between Mary Pierce of France and Kim Clijsters of Belgium at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, Saturday Sept. 10, 2005.
Photo by Amy Sancetta
Former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty is returning to the record label that has been the bane of his existence for decades.
Fogerty said on Friday he has signed with Fantasy Records, which was bought last December by Concord Music Group, the jazz-oriented label behind Ray Charles' hits duet album. His first release will be "The Long Road Home -- The Ultimate John Fogerty - Creedence Collection," a hits package due on November 1.
Creedence, one of the great American bands to emerge in the late 1960s, recorded for Berkeley, Calif.-based Fantasy until it broke up in 1972. Fogerty had signed away his copyrights to such tunes as "Fortunate Son" and "Bad Moon Rising," and spent the ensuing decades in legal battles with Fantasy chairman, Oscar-winning movie producer Saul Zaentz.
He once immortalized Zaentz in a song called "Zanz Kant Danz," while Zaentz countered with a plagiarism lawsuit, claiming that Fogerty's solo song "The Old Man Down the Road" ripped off the Creedence hit "Run Through the Jungle." The litigation went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
American actors Ben Gazzara and Willem Dafoe will receive lifetime achievement awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain's top cinema showcase.
Gazzara, 75, and Dafoe, 50, "have both chosen parts in high-risk films not toeing the line" with typical Hollywood expectations, organizers said Saturday.
Director Ang Lee (R) receives the Golden Lion from director Hayao Miyazaki at the Cinema Palace in Venice September 10, 2005. Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain', a tale of homosexual love in the wilds of Wyoming, won Venice's Golden Lion on Saturday, beating film festival favourite George Clooney in the race to take the top prize.
Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico
Kansas had dozens of old West cow towns. Yet only one - Dodge City - is recognized around the world, thanks to a 20-year television run of "Gunsmoke."
This weekend, fans came to pay homage on the 50th anniversary of the start of the show, which drew upon the town's real Old West history, including the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday.
None of the leading Gunsmoke actors could attend. At 82, James Arness, who played Marshall Matt Dillon, doesn't travel. Others like Amanda Blake, who played the feisty saloon owner Miss Kitty, and Milburn Stone, who played Doc Adams, have died.
Monaco's Prince Albert II said he was "set up" for fatherhood by a former flight attendant who says she had his child, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
"It was a very difficult moment for me," the Times quoted Albert as saying, adding that he is still "coming to terms" with the unintended fatherhood.
He told the Times he had seen Alexandre only once, briefly, since the story became public, "because of his mother's attitude toward me."
"It's not a very pleasant situation," he told the Times. "My only concern now is the well-being of the kid."
Richard Paul Fink, in the role of 'Alberich,' front, and Jane Bunnell, in the role of 'Flosshilde,' perform in an underwater scene during a dress rehearsal of Richard Wagner's 'Das Rheingold' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York Wednesday, March 17, 2004. Acclaimed baritone Fink is taking over the part of Edward Teller in the San Francisco Opera's production of John Adams' 'Doctor Atomic.'
Photo by Tina Fineberg
A large, slow-growing volcanic bulge in Eastern Oregon is attracting the attention of seismologists who say that the rising ground could be the beginnings of a volcano or simply magma shifting underground.
Scientists said that the 100 square-mile (260 sq-km) bulge, first discovered by satellite, poses no immediate threat to nearby residents.
The bulge is rising at a rate of about 1.4 inches per year, according to a report issued by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The bulge is located in a sparsely populated area 3 miles southwest of South Sister, a mountain 25 miles west of Bend, Oregon.
Naomi Campbell wears a macrame one-piece swimsuit in the Rosa Cha show during Fashion week, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005 in New York.
Photo by Stephen Chernin
The gargantuan chunks of ice breaking off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier and thundering into an Arctic fjord make a spectacular sight. But to Greenlanders it is also deeply worrisome.
"In the past we could walk on the ice in the fjord between the icebergs for a six-month period during the winter, drill holes and fish," said Joern Kristensen, a fisherman and one of the indigenous Inuit who are most of Greenland's population of 56,000.
"We can only do that for a month or two now. It has become more difficult to drive dog sleds because the ice between the icebergs isn't solid anymore."
A power pole and lines are reflected in the water, sewage and oil that cover a residential street in St. Bernard Parish north of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, September 10, 2005.
Photo by Allen Fredrickson
A German brewer has concocted what he says is the world's strongest beer, a potent drink with an alcohol content of 25.4 percent that is served in a shot glass.
"Everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic. It tastes like a quirky mixture of beer and sherry," said Bavarian brewer Harald Schneider.
Schneider, who lives in southern Germany where beer is a tradition, said his beer fermented for 12 weeks for an alcohol content twice that of Germany's other strongest beers.
The California Sea Otter named Buck stretches out in a tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif. late in the evening of Friday September 9, 2005. Two otters were relocated with a group of penguins from Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by David Royal
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