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GW is on the ropes. Did you hear, read his speech???? What a distortion,
how pathetic, how sad--he is still stuck in 9.11.01.
The rest of us have moved on--to where? What toll has the war had on us as
a people, as humans, as families? Where does our foreign policy go from
here--because without one we may go nowhere.
We will talk to America in Solidarity to help us think. And Martha G. (or is it
Marty
?) of Bartcop.com
to help us laugh. (Oh, you didn't think Harriet the Spy Miers
would get a pass, did you?) PSST, she has a blog and it's pink!
Audio streams live - 710KIRO.com.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Ret. Army General William Odom: U.S. Should "Cut and Run" From Iraq (democracynow.org)
What's wrong with cutting and running? That's the question asked by retired Army general William Odom about the continued US military presence in Iraq. Odom says, "I'm trying to think like a strategist, and in war, as well as in politics and diplomacy, one has to know when to withdraw and when to attack. This was a misguided act and it requires a strategic division and moral confidence to turn it around."
Molly Ivins: Flim-Flam and Hoo-Hah
Everybody and his dog in the political commentating trade now agrees the Bush administration is experiencing hard times -- the going is getting tough, and Bush is getting testy.
BuzzFlash interview: Ed Asner: Speaking out on the far right's misuse of power
Ed Asner: I first want to say that I'm appalled with the limited press scrutiny that has occurred during the Bush administration's tenure, including the rigged election in 2000.
Ruth Gledhil: Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible (timesonline.co.uk)
THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.
ROGER EBERT: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (3 1/2 stars)
Wallace and Gromit are arguably the two most delightful characters in the history of animation. Between the previous sentence and this one I paused thoughtfully and stared into space and thought of all of the other animated characters I have ever met ...
Hubert's Poetry Corner
YOUNG TEXAS BUCK AND LADY LUCK
TRUE LOVE - TEXAS STYLE!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cool and mostly overcast.
One of the kid's pals spent the afternoon - his folks got stuck in traffic & ended up staying a lot longer than anticipated.
Did anyone else watch Lisa Myers blame Gov. Blanco for the Katrina debacle?
But then Lisa cried along with Kenny Lay's wife because her life was going to be so hard. Must be NBCs idea of playing to their base.
Joining Al-Jazeera's English Channel
David Frost
Veteran British broadcaster David Frost will go on-air next spring with Al-Jazeera International, the English-language channel of the popular Arab satellite broadcaster, the network announced.
Frost, who broadcast his final "Breakfast with Frost" program for British Broadcasting Corp. in May, would be among the "key on-air talent" on the 24-hour news and current affairs channel, Al-Jazeera said in a statement Friday.
His new network has had repeated run-ins with the U.S. administration, which says Al-Jazeera's exclusive broadcasts of speeches by Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders show an anti-American, pro-terrorist bias.
David Frost
Calls for More Arts Funding
Annette Bening
Annette Bening appeared on the Capitol steps to make an appeal for increased funding for the arts in California's public schools.
"Education and art in our culture should not be treated as a luxury for some, but as an absolute necessity for every one of us and every one of our kids," the actress said Friday.
"I'm lucky. I come from the movie business, as the governor does. And my kids, because I can afford it, go to private school," she said. "The governor's children have those same advantages. Many children do in this state, in private and in public schools. However, many, many, many do not."
$chwarzenegger, a Republican, has placed several ballot initiatives on the Nov. 8 ballot, including one that would change gut the way schools are funded.
Annette Bening
Nova Scotia Pumpkin Paddlers' Parade
Martha Stewart
As many as 20,000 people were expected to converge on a small Nova Scotia town Sunday, all to catch a glimpse of Martha Stewart as the American celebrity homemaker and convicted felon races across a lake in a giant pumpkin.
Stewart was to be among 30 or so other competitors across Lake Pesaquid in an enormous, hollowed-out pumpkin.
Entrants slide into a hole cut in the top of the pumpkin, then sit, crouch or kneel while paddling across the lake.
Before the race, the domestic diva was expected to ride alongside her pumpkin at the head of the Pumpkin Paddlers' Parade, a fundraiser for the Children's Wish Foundation.
Martha Stewart
Win Conflict Reporting Awards
ITN and BBC
Two British broadcasters won the prizes for best television and best radio reporting from conflict zones at international journalism awards in France on Saturday.
A jury of journalists at the Prix Bayeux-Calvados awards gave the television prize to a report on the Beslan school massacre in Russia by the Independent Television News team of Julian Manyon, Sasha Lonakin, Artem Drabkin and Patrick O'Ryan-Roeder.
It awarded the British Broadcasting Corporation's Ishbel Matheson and Dan McMillan the radio prize for coverage of the rape of women in Darfur by Arab militias.
The top award for news photographs went to the Associated Press's Jim MacMillan for a series of pictures of U.S. soldiers fighting insurgents in the Iraqi city of Najaf.
ITN and BBC
Supporters Still Have Hope
CBGB
As that great protest singer Yogi Berra once sang, "CBGB ain't over till it's over."
Yes, an eviction notice for failure to pay back rent has been served. Yes, every city in the world wants the club to relocate to a place where it might feel more welcome. And yes, Hurricane Katrina was a bigger, more serious tragedy and all the attention and money went there, as it should have.
But CBGB is still open. There are bands playing every night. The lawyers will be in court for at least a few months.
So this gives the record industry one more chance to try to save the last important rock club in New York. One more chance to keep the landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee executive director Muzzy Rosenblatt, from being the most despised man in New York forever. One more chance to keep Mayor Michael Bloomberg from being embarrassed by losing the last historically significant rock landmark -- and, by the way, one that brings in millions of dollars in tourist activity, and always will.
Forty-three city council members, the Coalition for the Homeless, the Creative Coalition, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Local Community Board, historic preservation societies, filmmakers Jonathan Demme and Jim Jarmusch and artists from Blondie to Public Enemy all support CBGB staying where it is.
For the rest, CBGB
Photog Charged
Todd K. Wallace
A photographer was charged with child endangerment and battery for allegedly striking a 5-year-old child with his camera and shoving another out of the way to take pictures of Reese Witherspoon and her children.
Todd K. Wallace, 44, was charged Friday and was due back in court Wednesday, Assistant City Attorney Patrick Ahle said.
The photographer also is charged with battering the 5-year-old's mother, who is a friend of Witherspoon, and two employees at a Disney theme park, said Anaheim Police Sgt. Rick Martinez.
Wallace became angry when the "Legally Blonde" star and her friends declined to be photographed Sept. 2 at Disney's California Adventure and cursed them, Martinez said. Wallace was initially cited for misdemeanor assault and battery of the two employees.
Todd K. Wallace
Pulls Crowd In London
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson fell to the ground as he tried to make his way through a throng of hundreds of fans outside the Victoria Palace theater, where he watched the stage version of the movie "Billy Elliot."
Security staff forced a path for Jackson, 47, through the admirers and photographers standing outside the theater so he could reach the front door. But the singer fell in the commotion.
Jackson was in London to work on recording a song to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims. He was staying at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, where fans gathered outside in hopes of seeing him.
Michael Jackson
Ahnold's $pecial Interests $pecial Election Import
McCain
To help promote his "year of reform" ballot initiatives, Gov. Arnold $chwarzenegger has turned to one of the best known political reformers on the national stage - Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The Republicans will campaign together Monday for the measures $chwarzenegger is promoting on the Nov. 8 ballot his $pecial Interests $pecial Election, $chwarzenegger campaign spokesman Todd Harris said.
McCain's attacks on campaign spending prompted Democrats to question his appearance with $chwarzenegger. The governor criticized the fundraising tactics of his predecessor, former Gov. Gray Davis, but has since become a prolific fundraiser himself.
"It's ironic that McCain would offer to 'pump up' Arnold's campaign, considering he is a well-known activist against the kind of 'obscene' and 'vulgar' fundraising practiced by Team $chwarzenegger," strategists Andrew Acosta and Roger Salazar said in a statement on behalf of the California Democratic Party.
McCain
Holds 500 Varieties
Fruit and Spice Park
To the untrained eye, the thousands of trees and plants at the Fruit and Spice Park look simply like lush greenery. But don't be fooled.
The dark bushes sprouting little red beans are African "miracle fruit," which block the tongue's ability to taste sour and make fresh limes taste sweet as sugar.
The tall Sapodilla tree bleeds white goo that was the source of the first chewing gum.
The 35-acre garden, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, is billed as the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States with more than 500 varieties of fruit, vegetables, spices, herbs and other plants.
Fruit and Spice Park
fruitandspicepark.org
Recommended Reading
Bill Moyers - Caring For Creation
This piece is adapted from the keynote address Moyers presented to the annual convention of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Austin, Texas, on October 1, 2005.
But this crowd never gives up. President Bush has turned the agencies charged with environmental protection over to people who don't believe in it. To run the Interior Department he chose a long-time defender of polluters who has opposed laws to safeguard wildlife, habitat, and public lands. To run the Forest Service he chose a timber industry lobbyist. To oversee our public lands he named a mining industry lobbyist who believes public lands are unconstitutional. To run the Superfund he chose a woman who made a living advising corporate polluters how to evade the Superfund. And in the White House office of environmental policy, the president placed a lobbyist from the American Petroleum Institute whose mission was to make sure the government's scientific reports on global warming didn't contradict the party line and the interest of oil companies. Everywhere you look, the foxes own the chicken coop.
My colleagues and I reported these stories again and again on my weekly PBS series, to the consternation of the president's minions at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB Chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, turned the administration's discomfort at embarrassing disclosures into a crusade to discredit our journalism. Tomlinson left the chairmanship this week, but the right-wing coup at public broadcasting is complete. He remains on the board under a new chair who is a former real estate director and Republican fundraiser. She recently told a Senate hearing that the CPB should have the authority to penalize public broadcasting journalists if they step out of line. Sitting beside her and Tomlinson on the board is another Bush appointee-also a partisan Republican activist- who was a charter member and chair of Newt Gingrich's notorious political action committee, GOPAC. Reporting to them is the White House's handpicked candidate to be president and chief executive officer of the CPB-a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee whose husband became PR director of the Chemical Manufacturers Association after he had helped the pesticide industry smear Rachel Carson for her classic work on the environment, Silent Spring. Mark my words: If this gang has anything to say about it, there will be no challenging journalism to come from public television while they are around; no investigative reporting on the environment; no reporting at all on conflicts of interest between government and big business; no naming of names.
The Gilded Age has returned with a vengeance. Washington again is a spectacle of corruption. The promise of America has been subverted to crony capitalism, sleazy lobbyists, and an arrogance of power matched only by an arrogance of the present that acts as if there is no tomorrow.
Please read the whole thing - Bill Moyers - Caring For Creation
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