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'Oxycontin Conservative Republican'
"Oxycontin Conservative Republican" The latest release from LA based rock singer and songwriter Donny Daley is bound to be a hit with left wingers, and maybe even some right wingers will appreciate the melody. The high energy rock tune focuses in on Limbaughs' hypocritical anti drug views and spins them back in his face. some of the lyrics which include the phrases," Now he's starting to look like Jerry Garcia, Pimpin' his pills from his maid named Wilma!" and "He never let up on Bubba for not inhaling,"are of course all things that are factual", said Daley, a freelance video tape editor that lives in Los Angeles.
Daley says that in producing the song "Oxycontin Consevative Republican" he was "focusing in on a Huge Guitar sound, Slammin' Drums and a clean tight Vocal track".
In addition to the songs' undeniable message that zeroes in on the prominent finger-pointers' eating of his own words, it is also a well produced rock track with infectious lyrics and an unforgettable hook!
The 2:58 minute song is available for a fast and free download here.
from Mark
The Immutable Resolve of Dubya
Selected Sunday Readings
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cool & overcast, rain started mid-afternoon.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH 'Cold Case', then a
2-hour RERUN 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'.
NBC begins the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'American Dreams', followed by a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC starts the night with 'AMAs Red Carpet Party', followed by the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted 'American Music Awards'.
The WB offers a RERUN 'Smallville', followed by a FRESH 'Charmed', then a FRESH 'Tarzan'.
Faux has a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons',
followed by a RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm', followed by a FRESH 'Arrested Development'.
UPN has the traditional RERUN 'Enterprise', followed by 'Stargate SG-1'.
A&E has 'Biography' (Ray Liotta), another 'Biography' (Keanu Reeves), then 'Meet The Royals'.
AMC offers the movie 'Fatal Attraction', followed by the movie 'Fatal Attraction' (again), then the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
BBC -
[6pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 2;
[7pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Formby;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Milton Keynes;
[8pm] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[9pm] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[9:40pm] 'Coupling' - My Dinner In Hell;
[10:20pm] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[11pm] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life;
[12am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[12:40am] 'Coupling' - My Dinner In Hell;
[1:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'Changing Rooms' - Formby;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Milton Keynes;
[3am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[3:40am] 'Coupling' - My Dinner In Hell;
[4:20am] 'The Office' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'Faking It' - Faking It Changed My Life; and
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Queer Eye', 'Inside The Actor's Studio' (the cast & writing team of 'Will & Grace'), then 'Queer Eye', and another 'Queer Eye'.
History has 'Last Days Of World War II', and 'JFK: A Presidency Revealed'.
SciFi has 'Taken' (part 7 of 10), followed by 'Taken' (part 8 of 10).
TCM -
[6am] 'I Love You Again' (1940);
[8am] 'A Guy Named Joe' (1943);
[10am] 'Yolanda And The Thief' (1945);
[12pm] 'Without Reservations' (1946);
[2pm] 'The Paradine Case' (1947);
[4:15pm] 'Live A Little, Love A Little' (1968);
[6pm] 'Guys And Dolls' (1955);
[9pm] 'The Men' (1950);
[10:30pm] 'Act Of Violence' (1949);
[12am] 'Cleopatra' (1912) SILENT ;
[1:30am] 'Alexander The Great' (1956); and
[4am] 'King Solomon's Mines' (1950). (ALL TIMES EST)
A British police officer stands guard during a demonstration against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in Sheffield, northern England, November 15, 2003. More than one in three Britons think George W. Bush is stupid and a majority branded the U.S. president a threat to world peace, opinion poll results released on Saturday showed. With widespread demonstrations being planned by protesters, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded that some opponents of U.S. policy in Iraq 'are rubbing their hands at the scope for embarrassing him.'
Photo by Darren Staples
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
To Receive First Amendment Award
Phil Donahue
Christopher Reeve will present his namesake First Amendment Award to veteran talk-show host Phil Donahue at The Creative Coalition's 2003 Spotlight Awards gala on Tuesday.
Celebrity hosts will include Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Alan Cumming , Chuck D, Harvey Fierstein, Laurence Fishburne, James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Joe Pantoliano, Stanley Tucci, Montel Williams and Alfre Woodard.
The Creative Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment community, dedicated to educating its members on issues of public importance, including the First Amendment, arts advocacy, campaign finance reform and public education.
Phil Donahue
www.thecreativecoalition.org
Wows Canada's Liberal Party
Bono
Irish singer Bono delivered a moving speech Friday night to Canada's governing Liberal Party urging the leaders to take decisive action against poverty and AIDS.
Bono alternated between sly one-liners and poignant pleas for Canada to be a global leader as he addressed the party convention, where Paul Martin became the new party leader and prime minister-in-waiting Friday.
The singer praised Canada as a country where idealism still lives.
"You're not so self-obsessed and this is coming from a rock star, so believe me, I know self-obsessed," he said. "I believe the world needs more Canada."
Bono
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) shakes hands with supporters at the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, November 15, 2003. Clinton was on hand to emcee the event which featured six of the nine democrats running for president.
Photo by John Gress
Broadway Musical in Jeopardy
Barry Manilow
"Harmony" is out of tune and out of money. The Barry Manilow musical about the Comedian Harmonists, a group of singers popular during the last days of Germany's Weimar Republic, won't open in Philadelphia next month — and its planned Broadway engagement next spring is in doubt.
The show, which has music by Manilow and book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman, fell short of its $7 million capitalization, according to producer Mark Schwartz, forcing him to call off its December run at Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre.
"Other than the death of my mother, this is probably the most devastating day of my life," Manilow told the New York Post. "Maybe even more so, because it affects so many other people."
Barry Manilow
Comedian Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists
The Web's Resources for The Comedian Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists
The Web's Resources for The Comedian Harmonists: Links
Receives Career Achievement Award
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman, Oscar-winner and star of the new dramas "The Human Stain," "Cold Mountain" and "Dogville" collected the 18th annual American Cinematheque award Friday night for career achievement.
Acting "was what I wanted to do since I was a very strange little girl in Sydney, Australia," Kidman told a star-studded gathering at the Beverly Hilton Hotel that included actors James Caan, Adrien Brody, Lauren Bacall and Kidman's childhood friend Naomi Watts.
Friday night's program, taped for broadcast Dec. 1 on the AMC cable channel, featured clips of Kidman's various films, including two sexually charged clips with ex-husband Tom Cruise in the films "Far and Away" and "Eyes Wide Shut."
Nicole Kidman
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Getting Statue in Hometown
James Brown
The city of Augusta feels so good about James Brown that it plans to construct a statue of the Godfather of Soul downtown and rename a music festival in his honor.
Brown, 70, grew up in Augusta and has had offices and a radio station in the city.
"I'll do anything I can to help Augusta," Brown said. "That's where it all started, you see."
James Brown
Bolivian indigenous play folkloric music while they participate in the closing ceremony of the alternative social meeting of Bolivian Social Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2003. Indigenous workers and other leaders were holding their own meetings simultaneously with the XIII Iberoamerican Summit of leaders.
Photo by Amanecer Tedesqui
Pleads Innocent Again
Courtney Love
An attorney for Courtney Love entered an innocent plea Friday on behalf of the singer-actress, who was charged last month with being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Love, 39, was not required to attend the Superior Court hearing. Her attorney, William Genego, entered the plea for the misdemeanor count. In a related case, Love pleaded innocent Wednesday to two felony counts of possession of painkillers. The misdemeanor charge was filed after police officers responded to a burglary call Oct. 2.
Genego has said Love did not intentionally overdose and had confused her medications.
Courtney Love
Impending Visit
British Polls
More than one in three Britons think George W. Bush is stupid and a majority branded the U.S. resident a threat to world peace, opinion poll results published have shown.
Bush is due to arrive in London on Tuesday, and start his three-day state visit the next day. It will be the first state visit by an American president since Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Blair's ratings have plunged over the war in Iraq, which most Britons opposed. Bush fared no better in a poll conducted by the Britain's Sunday Times which cast a harsh spotlight on the special relationship between London and Washington.
Bush is to stay at Buckingham Palace during his three-day state visit and one of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers, quoted by the Sunday Telegraph, said she rejected a request from Bush's security advisers to bolster palace defences.
"The President's security men seem obsessed with the idea of an airborne attack on the Palace," the unnamed courtier said.
British Polls
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Oh, That Ahnold
Larry Flynt
Larry Flynt isn't publishing his photos of Jessica Lynch, but the March 2004 Hustler will have two embarrassing photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The new governor of California was snapped at the wrap party for "The Villain" in 1979. "In one, a woman is sitting on Arnie's lap with her legs spread and he is grabbing her crotch. In the other, the woman is giving mock oral sex to another cast member and Arnold is biting her rear end." His rep didn't return calls.
Larry Flynt
The sleek needle-nose of the supersonic Concorde was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for about $550,000 on November 15, 2003, over 30 times the price it was expected to fetch, auctioneers Christie's said. Over two hundred Air France Concorde souvenirs, from the plane's instruction manual to its engine, were up for grabs in the auction, which brought in a total of about $3.9 million. British Airways is scheduled to auction pieces from its retired Concorde fleet on December 1. Emmanuelle Vidal, an auctioneer at Christies' auction house in Paris poses with the nose cone of a Concorde in this November 7 file photo. Photo by Jack Dabaghian/Reuters Over two hundred Air France Concorde souvenirs, from the plane's instruction manual to its engine, were up for grabs in the auction, which brought in a total of about $3.9 million. British Airways is scheduled to auction pieces from its retired Concorde fleet on December 1. Emmanuelle Vidal, an auctioneer at Christies' auction house in Paris poses with the nose cone of a Concorde in this November 7 file photo.
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Outraged by Loss of Jobs
Forest Service
Dozens of Forest Service employees in Utah and Montana were told last March they would be among the first victims of the Bush administration decision to bid out work by government employees to private contractors, who could do it cheaper.
A required analysis three months later showed it's going to cost the government $425,000 a year more for the same work that was being done by the 41 members of the Forest Service's Content Analysis Team in Salt Lake City and in Missoula, Mont.
In all, 41 members of the team are losing their jobs to private contractors in the competitive sourcing program.
"I don't think I've ever been treated so disrespectfully in my life," said Holly Schneider, a dismissed analysis team member now working in her previous job as a temporary employee with a lower salary and no benefits.
For more, Forest Service
Artist Anna Schuleit adjusts one of the 28,000 pots of flowers that she has installed as part of her 'Bloom Project' in the recently closed Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, November 14, 2003. Schuleit and a team of 60 volunteers have created the four day long art installation as part of closing festivities for the 91-year-old mental hospital.
Photo by Jim Bourg
Sued for Video Mimicking 'Flashdance'
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez is being sued for copyright infringement for her video "I'm Glad," an homage to the 1983 film "Flashdance," by the real-life welder and dancer who was the inspiration for the film.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges Lopez illegally depicted the life of Maureen Marder. She had refused to grant sequel rights or to permit any further use of her story or identity after the film became a success, according to her attorney Robert Hefling.
The lawsuit claims that Lopez and her label Sony didn't have permission to make the 2003 video, which re-created distinctive scenes from the movie.
Jennifer Lopez
In Memory
Dorothy Loudon
Broadway star Dorothy Loudon, winner of the 1977 Tony Award for her portrayal of the mean-spirited orphanage manager in "Annie," died Saturday at a New York hospital. She was 70.
The three-time Tony nominee landed her most famous role as the result of a chance encounter with an old friend, director Mike Nichols, who had taken over as producer of the show. He quickly offered her the role of Miss Hannigan — the nemesis of the show's orphaned star.
Loudon was an instant success, winning the Tony, a Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics' Circle Award.
Prior to her success in "Annie," Loudon was repeatedly cited as a shining star in a series of Broadway flops, including "The Fig Leaves Are Falling," a musical comedy that closed after just four performances in 1969.
In spite of that show's demise, Loudon received a Drama Desk Award for her performance and was nominated for a Tony as best actress in a musical. She was also nominated in 1979 for her work in "Ballroom"; in both cases, she lost out to Angela Lansbury.
Loudon was born Sept. 17, 1933, in Boston, where her mother taught her to sing. She moved to New York as a teenager and received her big show business break when a nightclub owner made her a featured performer. She developed a lounge act, mixing comedy and singing, and often appeared on "The Perry Como Show" and "The Ed Sullivan Show."
In 1962, Loudon made her stage debut in a Jules Feiffer play that was directed by Nichols. Her Broadway debut came a short time later in the musical comedy "Nowhere to Go But Up," which lasted just two weeks but earned her a nod as most promising newcomer in an annual survey.
Loudon is survived by two stepchildren from her marriage to the late Emmy Award-winning composer Norman Paris. The couple was married for six years before his death in 1977.
Dorothy Loudon
Camels lie down after returning from grazing, ready to be milked which will then be made into camel cheese, near the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003. Camel cheese exports would put sorely needed cash in the robes of this Arab-dominated West African nation's nomads, but first they must overcome international regulations.
Photo by Ben Curtis
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