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And Change is Coming-what do you love or hate about 2008? Can Obama really bring the change we need?
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Paul Krugman: Barack Be Good (nytimes.com)
President-elect Barack Obama has said that he wants to "make government cool again." Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it good.
POLLY ANDERSON: Eartha Kitt, Singer And Dancer, Dies At 81
Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.
PAISLEY DODDS: "Harold Pinter: Nobel-Winning Playwright Dies At 78"
British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter _ who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq _ has died, his widow said Thursday. He was 78.
Garrison Keillor: The blessings of childlike wonder
It is the blessed Christmas season. But of course you know that. Unless you live 10 miles up a box canyon deep in the Wasatch Range with only your dog Boomer and are demented from drinking bad water, you are inhaling Christmas night and day and "Adeste Fideles" is stuck in your head like a 5-inch nail.
Giles Slade: Christmas Betrayals (huffingtonpost.com)
Reading Harold Pinter over the years made me believe that the moral need to rationalize our actions is even more deeply entrenched in fallible humans beings than sexual attraction.
Laurence Leamer: Christmas Gifts (huffingtonpost.com)
Today we just got through opening our gifts and from her three sons, Mother received three gifts. I gave my mother one of the first copies of my forthcoming book, Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach. When my parents visited the island, I could tell my mother couldn't stand it. She found it false and glittery, obsessed with money and status, and she was always glad to leave.
Christmas was established as a 'Federal Holiday' by Congress and President Grant in 1870. It has been said that their motivation for doing so was to help bring the country together during the difficult post-Civil War reconstruction period. Considering the 'establishment clause' of the constitution, the question is...
Should the status of Christmas as a 'Federal Holiday' be rescinded due to the religious nature of the celebration?
The bridge has only been closed three times due to weather since it was built; all three times due to high winds gusting close to or over 70 miles per hour. The bridge has also been closed for visits from dignitaries President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Charles de Gaulle of France and also on its 50th Anniversary in 1987.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
C
Yes, the Golden Gate Bridge has been closed due to weather conditions only three times: As gusting winds reached 69 miles per hour on December 1, 1951, the Bridge was closed for three hours. On December 23, 1982, high winds of up to 70 miles per hour closed the Bridge for almost two hours. The Bridge easily withstood the gusts. On December 3, 1983, once again high winds closed the Bridge for the longest period in its history, 3 hours and 27 minutes. Wind gusts reached 75 miles per hour, but again the Bridge suffered no structural damage.
I'll go with the 3 because so many sites agree with it, but the SF Gate claims:
San Francisco is the only city in the country where the World Series has been postponed by both a giant October rainstorm (1962) and an earthquake (1989). It is a city where its most enduring symbol - the Golden Gate Bridge - has been closed by high wind four times, most recently in 1995.
So there may be some argument about the true number. I also looked to see if it had been closed very recently, but couldn't find anything.
Alan J answered:
C 3
Sally answered:
During extreme weather conditions, the Golden Gate Bridge can be dangerous. It has been closed three times (C) since 1937 due to hazardous conditions.
A view of the Golden Gate Bridge as the first big storm of the season hits San Francisco.
Marian the Teacher responded:
3
Adam in NoHo replied:
The GGB has been closed C- '3 times' due to wind.
Joe S respnded:
C 3
The Golden Gate Bridge has been closed due to weather conditions only three times: As gusting winds reached 69 miles per hour on December 1, 1951, the Bridge was closed for three hours. On December 23, 1982, high winds of up to 70 miles per hour closed the Bridge for almost two hours. The Bridge easily withstood the gusts. On December 3, 1983, once again high winds closed the Bridge for the longest period in its history, 3 hours and 27 minutes. Wind gusts reached 75 miles per hour, but again the Bridge suffered no structural damage.
The Mackinac Bridge, however, is sometimes closed three times a month because of bad weather.
The 5 mile long Big Mac
Kappy in Philly wrote:
Three times....seems that FAQ page came in handy!
MAM replied:
Answer . . . C 3
And, that MadCat, JD said:
I'M GONNA SAY 2. LAST TIME I REMEMBER WAS IN THE EIGHTIES WHEN EIGHTY MILE
AN HOUR WINDS WERE PUSHING THE TOWERS 18 FEET FROM SIDE TO SIDE. I WAS ON THE
BRIDGE ABOUT TEN MINUTES BEFORE THEY CLOSED IT. THE ROAD BED WAS GOING UP AND
DOWN AT A TEN FOOT RATE. WHAT A THRILL RIDE. I THINK IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD WHEN THE SUN SETS IN THE SUMMER. IT'S WHAT THE WHOLE
WORLD NEEDS: A BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE!
Milk - In Limited Theaters Now - WIDE Release on December 12th
After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.
Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.
Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.
Prizes:
4 prizes in all - 3 first-prizes:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Hat
o T-shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
And, 1 grand prize:
Levi's Canvas Tote Bag filled with:
o Sweatshirt (made from recycled materials)
o Script Book
o Hat
o T-Shirt
o Soundtrack
o Milk: A Pictorial History of Harvey Milk
The kid & I ran some chores Friday afternoon and were gone about 2 hours.
When I went to unlock the back door I caught a whiff of something that reminded me of my grandmother ironing sheets in the summer.
Her mother insisted that her sheets be ironed, perma-prest be damned, so regardless of the weather, Gram ironed sheets.
As bad as that was, poor Gramp. He & Gram were married for 51 years when his mother-in-law moved in.
Anyway, got inside the door and it really smelled like a very hot iron pressing cotton - turned out it was bath towels roasting on the floor heater.
It appears that one (or more) of the (damn) cat(s) knocked over the wooden towel rack, and everything on it slid on to the heater's grating. And somewhere in that heap was a plastic hanger in the process of melting and fusing the towels together. .
Granted, the towel rack is collapsible, but it didn't fold up - it was pushed over the 'long' way.
On top of the heap was one of the cats, all snuggly in her nest of clean and fluffy, but near-smoldering towels, posing like she's the Queen of Sheba.
Had to open the doors & windows to air the place out, and also need to buy some new towels, but I'm grateful things worked out.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Password', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a RERUN'The Unit'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with an old 'Monk', and/or an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Sound Of Music'.
The CW recycles an old 'Jericho', followed by the movie 'Revenge Of The Pink Panther'.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by another RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'Bernie Mac', followed by an old 'Raymond', then a recycled 'House', followed by another recycled 'House'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Untouchables', followed by the movie 'Fargo', then the movie 'Hannibal'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 10
[2:00 PM] Primeval - Episode 1
[3:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 3 Planet of the Ood
[4:00 PM] Doctor Who - Episodes 4 & 5
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 6 The Doctor's Daughter
[7:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 The Unicorn and The Wasp
[8:00 PM] Dr. No
[10:30 PM] Dr. No
[1:00 AM] Dr. No
[3:30 AM] Beatles Biggest Secrets
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 1 Ogden White
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 2
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Scary Movie 4', followed by 'Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector', then the movie 'Jackass 2.5'.
FX has the movie 'Click', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', then the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', again.
History has 'The Universe', 'Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler', and 'Rumrunners, Moonshiners and Bootleggers'.
IFC -
[6:20 AM] Rabbit-Proof Fence
[8:00 AM] Rashomon
[9:30 AM] The Bad Sleep Well
[12:05 PM] Mad Dog Morgan
[1:50 PM] IFC in Theaters
[2:00 PM] Quiet Cool
[3:25 PM] Rabbit-Proof Fence
[5:00 PM] The Princess and the Warrior
[7:15 PM] No Man's Land
[9:00 PM] The Thin Red Line
[12:00 AM] Dallas 362
[1:45 AM] Stay
[3:30 AM] The Thin Red Line (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'National Treasure'.
Sundance -
[04:30 AM] Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
[06:15 AM] Ginger and Cinnamon
[08:00 AM] Walk With Us
[09:00 AM] Live From Abbey Road - Season 2: Stereophonics, Colbie Caillat & Joan Armatrading
[10:00 AM] The Staircase: Chapter 4. A prosecution trickery
[11:00 AM] The Drug Years: Just Say No
[12:00 PM] Up At the Villa
[02:00 PM] Spectacle: James Taylor
[03:00 PM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 2: Power
[03:35 PM] Kokua Festival 2008
[04:40 PM] The Sierra Club Chronicles: Episode 7
[05:10 PM] Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
[06:30 PM] Architecture School: Episode 1
[07:00 PM] Eco Documentaries - Season 2: Manufactured Landscapes
[08:30 PM] Eramos Pocos
[09:00 PM] John Safran vs. God: Episode 5
[09:30 PM] Pulling: Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
[12:00 AM] 6ixtynin9
[02:00 AM] Kokua Festival 2008
[03:00 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 5
[03:30 AM] Bad Education
[05:30 AM] Up At the Villa (ALL TIMES EST)
In this photo provided by Disneyland, filmmaker Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter pose following a tour of 'Haunted Mansion Holiday,' at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday Dec. 27, 2008. This was Burton's first visit to see the seasonal Disneyland makeover of the classic Haunted Mansion attraction based on his 1993 film 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' The attraction is open through Jan 4, 2009.
Two frostbitten, emaciated horses were recovering inside a warm barn on Saturday thanks to volunteers who spent the week before Christmas digging the animals out of snow in the mountains of northeastern British Columbia.
Birgit Stutz said Saturday the rescuers cheered when they finally finished digging a half-mile escape route through the snow for the animals. The horses had been abandoned by a hunter and faced almost certain death.
Stutz said the horses eagerly accepted being bridled and seemed to know they were safe as volunteers led them on a seven-hour hike down the mountain in freezing temperatures on Tuesday.
Stutz said about 40 or 50 people took part in the rescue over the course of a week.
The horses were discovered on Dec. 15 by two local residents. They were above the tree line and had no shelter at first.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, people walk past a large lantern at a Fuzimiao (Confucius Temple) scenic spot in a lighting test prior to the annual lantern fair in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
Photo by Wang Xin
Militant environmentalists said they had pelted stink bombs at a Japanese whaling ship in Australian waters in their latest bid to disrupt hunting of the protected creatures.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it "pursued and delivered 10 bottles of rotten butter and 15 bottles of a methyl cellulose and indelible dye mixture" to the Kaiko Maru vessel Friday evening.
A Japanese government-backed whaling body claimed that the activists' ship rammed into the left side of the Japanese vessel, damaging a bulwark.
Sea Sepherd said in an online statement however it was the Japanese ship that "steered hard" and struck the group's ship "Steve Irwin", although neither vessel suffered serious damage.
A group of bottlenose dolphins have been confounding humans since they took up residence in two rivers near the Jersey shore six months ago. Now that it's winter, some people are worried they'll never make it out.
Three dolphins have died out of the original group of about 15 that spent the summer and fall in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers, waterways just north of Asbury Park.
Federal wildlife experts say the remaining dolphins are healthy, and should be able to make it through the winter if they choose to stay. They cite the cases of dolphins that successfully spent winters in Massachusetts, Virginia and even northern Scotland.
But some animal advocates worry the dolphins will meet the same fate as four that drowned in the Shrewsbury River in 1993 when ice closed in on them, or the 26 dolphins killed by a sudden freeze in 1990 in Texas' Matagorda Bay.
Artists spray water on sand sculptures made to mark the fourth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, at Marina beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai December 26, 2008. More than 3,500 people were killed on the islands and nearly 9,000 people were killed on the mainland, mostly in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The picture was taken with 16mm fish-eye lens.
Photo by Babu
The box of crackers Debra Rogoff bought from the grocery store had some crackerjack in it - an envelope stuffed with $10,000.
Yet the Irvine woman was more curious than ecstatic about her daughter's find. After all, who would leave money in such a place?
Rather than go on a shopping spree, the family called police and was initially told the money could be part of a drug drop.
Police later heard from store managers at Whole Foods in Tustin that an elderly woman had come in a few days earlier, hysterical because she had mistakenly returned a box of crackers with her life savings inside. In a mix-up the store restocked the box rather than composting it.
Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American country of Belize.
Valuables like these are in for a closer look as 44 states cope with deficits.
Like families pawning the silver to get through a tight spot, states such as Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois are thinking of selling or leasing toll roads, parks, lotteries and other assets to raise desperately needed cash.
GOP lawmakers are pushing to privatize the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the state lottery. Both steps require a higher authority - federal legislation in the case of the airport, a voter-approved constitutional amendment for the lottery. But one lawmaker estimated an airport deal could bring in at least $2.5 billion, and the lottery $500 million.
Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan issued a statement Saturday distancing the party's leadership from one of the GOP's best-known operatives, Chip Saltsman, who distributed a CD containing "Barack the Magic Negro" as part of his campaign to be elected chairman of the Republican National Committee next month.
Duncan, who has served the campaigns of five presidents dating back to Richard Nixon, is seeking reelection as the party's 60th chairman in a hotly contested race that includes Saltsman and several other viable candidates.
Saltsman, 40, was former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's campaign manager during the Republican presidential primaries.
Saltsman sent Republican National Committee members, who will choose the next chairman, a CD by conservative political satirist Paul Shanklin, "We HATE the USA." It contains the controversial track, which was popular on conservative radio. Shanklin's Web site promises "absolutely the best parodies in talk radio."
A man looks at a sculpture by Van De Weghe of U.S. during the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, Florida December 4, 2008. Art Basel Miami Beach is the sister event of Switzerland's prestigious Art Basel show.
Photo by Carlos Barria
John Larkum leans over a slab of slate, striking a metal chisel with a brass-capped mallet. Tinny pings ring out as he sinks his tool into the soft, inky stone.
Larkum is painstakingly creating lasting tributes to lives well-lived - hand-crafted tombstones, grave markers and memorials that can cost thousands of dollars.
Even in a recession, some customers are shirking mass-produced markers for themselves or family members in favor of intricate, hand-carved headstones they believe offer a more elegant and personalized final resting place.
"It is a little shop dedicated to the perfection of a very specific craft," said Nick Benson, a third-generation carver and owner of The John Stevens shop, which employs Larkum and has weathered each of the nation's financial downturns since opening in 1705. "I'm not really relying on mass sales in order to keep the place going."
A giant Christmas straw goat that has been targeted in a violent Christmas tradition for four decades in Sweden was burned down yet again on Saturday, an official said.
Vandals have burned the 43-foot (13-meter)-high goat 23 times since it was first set up in the central Swedish city of Gavle on Dec. 3, 1966 to mark the holiday season.
Authorities in Gavle have tried to protect the goat using fireproofing chemicals and security guards. But only 10 of the goats have survived beyond Christmas since 1966.
The goat is a centuries-old Scandinavian yule symbol that preceded Santa Claus as the bringer of gifts to Swedish homes. Many Swedes place a small straw goat underneath their Christmas trees, or hang miniature versions on the branches.
The Los Angeles Zoo's western lowland gorilla, Kelly, 21, holds a gift of frozen vegetables placed in his enclosure Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, at the Los Angeles Zoo. The feeding is part of the zoo's Behavioral Enrichment program, which helps the animals to use their natural behaviors.
Photo by Nick Ut
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