Quick, which current presidential candidate has promised
to roll back all the executive privileges Bush gave himself? Who's going to give
us back habeas corpus and return to the public all the constitutional freedoms
that were stolen by the Patriot Act? That's right, none of them. Whoever the
next president is, I'm going to hate their guts. Whoever they are, they're going
to build more prisons, start more wars, sell a shitload of weapons and oil,
and fuck up a lot of poor people for their corporate globalist masters. We get
to vote on the puppet, not the puppeteers, so here's how I look at the upcoming
election and where to squander my vote: do I want to spend the next four years
hating a black man, a white woman, or a white man? It's the ludicrous theory of
hate practiced by all of us who rebel against leadership of any kind.
It just doesn't feel right to have to hate a black man.
It seems politically incorrect on the face of it, like hating a native American
or a Jew, I mean they've been through so much, poor chaps, they deserve a break.
Of course I won't be hating him because he's black, I'll be hating him because
he's the president, a corporate lackey, the new face of selling out, but
the criticism will have the potential for misinterpretation, and the
pressure will be there to validate my claims that he's an asshole by
obsequiously professing my lack of racism every chance I get. It's tricky
because real racists are going to be making the very same complaints, that he's
a schmuck in black clothing, the Michael Jackson of politics, talented
but power hungry, blissfully unaware of his own dementia. There, you see, I'm
primed and loaded and he isn't even president yet.
Hating a woman doesn't feel much better. Just try to get
laid if your primary obsession in life is hating a woman. Of course I won't be
hating her because she's a woman, I'll be hating her because of her policies.
It's not her fault she's a woman. I'm quite sure her lack of exterior genitalia
won't prevent her from acting like the biggest dick on the planet. And won't it
be fun when Bill finds out one of her interns was giving her head under the
presidential desk when she gave her first state of the union address? Matt
Drudge must be salivating.
Hating a white man feels so natural, like slipping
on a banana peel, falling off a log, a piece of cake, angelfood of course, or
jello, there's always room for a white man. Gimme a white man to hate and I'm
happy. Fuck white men. White men are responsible for an extraordinarily
disproportional slice of all the misery in the world, and if lust for power
could be sucked from the souls of every white man in the world, like those
lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, it's a start, and the world would be
exceedingly grateful. Of course I'm a white man myself and look forward to four
more years of self loathing.
So vote for John McCain if you want to spend the
next four-to-eight years just like the last, hating a white man. Vote for Barack
Obama if hating a black man for four-to-eight years is your cup of misery. And
vote for Hillary if spending four-to-eight years hating a woman sounds
like a profitable venture.
Jim Hightower: SANCTIONING CORPORATE AUTOCRACY (jimhightower.com)
Corporate executives have long used intimidation and thuggery to try to beat back organizing campaigns by unions, environmentalists, farmers, consumers, and others. But now, at least one corporation is moving from goon tactics to tactical goofiness.
Garrison Keillor: A pitch in time clears the mind (chicagotribune.com)
I think of when I was in college and owned about three cardboard boxes of stuff and a corduroy sport coat and six pairs of jeans and a Webster's Third Unabridged and an Underwood typewriter. I can't be that guy again, but sometimes when life is too much, you want to walk out the front door and leave it all behind and start over. That's how I feel about this election. The White House is a vacuum. The Current Occupant is a mistake on two legs, a national wrong turn. Stop the car and turn around.
Apocalypse later (arts.guardian.co.uk)
Cornelia Parker's work has always drawn on a sense of disaster. In her new film, she talks to Noam Chomsky about how art might save the planet.
Roger Ebert: Oscar Predictions
In theory, if I correctly predicted every single Oscar race, nobody could outguess me, and by default, I would win the prize. Alas, that has never, ever happened, and it's unlikely again this year, because as usual I will allow my heart to outsmart my brain in one or two races, which is my annual downfall. In any event, for what they're worth, here are my Academy Award predictions in a year rich with wonderful films.
I took a little pre-City Council stroll through Berkeley today as the two sides were preparing for the big night....Smackdown in Berkeley! "Code Pink" vs "Move America Forward".
I love the Code Pink Women...they have the best line "No Peace....No Pussy"!
Melanie Morgan will be there tonight to spew her particularly vicious M.A.F. venom.
I saw a Berkeley High School kid (who the Marine recruiters are trying to enlist to go to Iraq) and he said ....."Fuck these motherfuckin' Moreenes and Fuck they dumb ass War...I got my own shit to think about right up in here!"
Fill in the blank:
Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo Choo Charlie was his name, we hear.
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used GOOD & PLENTY candy to make his train run.
Charlie says "Love my GOOD & PLENTY!"
Charlie says "Really rings my bell!"
Charlie says "Love my GOOD & PLENTY!"
Don't know any other candy that I love so well!Source
mj was first, and right, with:
One candy I loathed - Good 'n' Plenty - those vile little licorice flavored rabbit turds
covered in a slightly off-flavored sugar glaze.
My brother and I dreaded seeing those among the Halloween loot. My mom, on
the other hand actually liked them and enjoyed not having to fight us tooth
and claw for a share of the booty.
Baron Dave ("Of course. Everything looks bad when you remember it."
-- Homer Simpson) replied:
Good & Plenty had a great ad song and the candy was good. We kids
made half-hearted attempts to make the "choo choo" train sound, like
Choo Choo Charlie, but that didn't work nearly as well.
Now, we have to worry about dentist bills, so don't partake of sticky
sugar much. And there are fewer trains. But they still make the
candy!
Good And Plenty
Charlie said:
Choo Choo Charlie loved his Good 'N Plenty
I remember that one pretty well. I didn't mind that one so much, but if
I ever find the guy responsible for the Starkist Tuna thing...
Colby in Frostproof responded:
GOOD AND PLENTY
Bill K answered:
Good 'n' Plenty! Yum!
Steve B said:
Good n' Plenty
Vic in Alaska replied:
Good 'n' Plenty
STUFF SUUUUUCKS!!!...my least favorite candy EVAH!!! (after momma fatass's "choklate coated broken glass")
Good 'n Plenty commercial (mp3)
Hey kids...here's a little cartoon music vidja that I made for the first episode of the first Horror/Variety show in the history of Alaska the "NewGhoulReview".
It features my good friends LuLu Small and the Aqua-Nets
and here's a link to what the intro to the new show looks like...if I ever figure how to get the show streaming I will have the whole ungodly thing available
You see, unlike that other horror-host...whats his name "Karlos Bore-metodeath" the one on Leno? I'm about my friends..my super-ego needs no stroking.
I KID!!! The Monster Madhouse is a great show...THEY stream live every Friday night...fun stuff actually....actually pisses me off...lol
ducks said:
good and plenty. I find myself being taken back in time with this one, although I really didn't like the white ones, only the pink ones.
Joe S ("Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."
--Ogden Nash) responded:
And the answer is: Good and Plenty. Horrible stuff, licorice was not made to be candy coated. I like my licorice straight up, thank you.
Sally, in frozen New Jersey, answered:
This was a "giveaway" question dejour (not that I'm complaining you understand).
GOOD & PLENTY!
Mary replied:
Good and Plentys!
- Tab responded:
GOOD & PLENTY
S. Bennett said:
GOOD & PLENTY
Marian the Teacher said simply:
Good and Plenty
Rob responded:
good and plenty candy
do you remember the ipana toothpaste beaver?
JohnW1141 replied:
Good and Plenty candy
MAM answered:
The words that go in the blank spaces are:
Good and Plenty.
Good & Plenty candy was first produced by the Quaker City Confectionery Company in Philadelphia in 1893 and is the oldest branded candy in the United States. Choo Choo Charlie, the engineer who fueled his train with Good & Plenty, first appeared in advertisements in 1950.
And, Terry in N.J. said:
It's Good n' Plenty candy. Nutritious, candy coated licorice. I've got a mouthful of collapsing fillings because of it.
A congressional commission has concluded that the National Guard remains
unprepared to deal with a wide range of domestic disasters.
Reserve units have been subject to repeated deployments to Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The report states that "The high operational use of Reserve equipment in the
current conflicts has degraded their readiness for both combat operations and
domestic emergency response," expressing particular alarm over inadequate
funding by the Pentagon which has in the Guard's insufficient training for a
chemical, biological or nuclear strike.
"This is an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater
risk," the panel states. Indeed, several governors have complained that,
due to heavy participation of the National Guard overseas, their units have been
unable to deal with natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the more recent
tornadoes.
However, the Bush administration has deliberately not instituted a draft,
knowing that the streets would be filled with protesters, as happened during the
Vietnam War, when young people wore buttons proclaiming, "Not With My Body, You
Don't." Instead, a slick propaganda campaign to seduce more young people into
the Guard is now in process.
Take, for example a video of the band 3 Doors Down performing "Citizen
Soldier." At this writing, it's approaching 795,000 views on YouTube.
The scene begins on a sunny day at an idyllic campus where the guys are
playing touch football on the grass. Suddenly it segues to a battle-worn
military man picking a deflated football out of the mud, followed by images of
marching and running, tanks and helicopters, flags waving in the wind and a
wounded buddy being helped, automatic rifles and guided missiles.
Here's a sample of the lyrics: "When they're people crying in the streets/
When they're starving for a meal to eat/ When they simply need a place to make
their beds/ Right here underneath my wing you can rest your head."
Meanwhile, there are - superimposed on the imagery - generic citizen-soldier
quotes such as "I fired the shot that started a nation," "I am an expert, I
stormed the beach at Normandy" and "I stepped forward when the towers fell."
But wait, there's more. One minute into the three-and-a-half minute song, an
occasional hazy flash of something subliminal begins to appear, and finally
reveals itself as the National Guard logo. In fact, the rights to "Citizen
Soldier" belong to 3 Doors Down, Universal/Republic Records and - yeah,
you guessed it - the National Guard. Following are some of the almost 6,500
comments, with the original spelling, grammar and punctuation intact.
"nobodys to young for there opion on the war except if your like 10 and
below it most likly dosent matter. this is just a side note. when
making my youtube profile it messed up my age and where i live.
i'm acully 15 and live in america, and i have been told befor im to young for
my opion on this kind of stuff to matter."
"So many hate the war, and yes it is horrible how we losse so many innicot
lifes. People say that the president is a horrible man for sending are
troops over sees for th is. but what wold have happened if he did
not? wold the ones that attaked us really settled for the damage that
they did? the troops are fufiing there duty, and god bless them.
they arnt bad people. there defending us. they are kepping us
safe, no matter what you think, they are keeping you safe."
"Oh com'on! there's no anti-terrorism war! Do you think that
'I'm sending my troops where it's supposed to be a lot of terrorists in order
to reduce terrorism' makes sense? I'd pray for my soldiers as long as th
ey stay into my own boundaries ;-)"
"If this video gave you a hard-on for killing, you are both an idiot and
have probably never been face to face with combat. War is an ugly thing,
and NOBODY should ever want to kill. The greatest feeling I have when
wearing my uniform is when a young child says thank you and I am there to help
out my fellow American who needs a hand up in a time of need. NY
National Guard, attached to the 27th Infantry Brigade, combat veteran of
Mogadishu Somalia."
"I saw this video when i went to see Saw IV and I was clapping
after the video was over...really awesome...HOOOOOAAAAAH!"
Well, so much for gung-ho patriotism. All I know is that when I was
speaking at a college a few years ago, I overheard a student lamenting to his
friends, "I didn't know that the National Guard was the fucking Army!"
Paul Krassner's underground magazine The Realist attracted a
large counterculture following in the '60s and '70s. He is a founding member of
the Yippies. He is the author of One Hand Jerking: Reports From an
Investigative Satirist, and publisher of the Disneyland Memorial Orgy
poster, both available at paulkrassner.com.
This is his second blog post for Arthur
Magazine.
You wrote: "My computer has had another case of the vapors....
Neither St. Jude nor St. Isidore of Seville have been of any use. Big surprise."
When the saints have cease to work, guess it's time for the readers to step up to bat. I have sent you a donation via PayPal (surprisingly easy) to show my support.
Anyone care to join me: Come on, we have to get Marty up and running because, IT'S ELECTION TIME and we want BC Entertainment raring to go!
Hang in there kiddo,
Sally P
Thanks, Sally!
I hate to beg, but I hate having a computer with a suicide wish even more.
Things that should take an hour or 2 are now taking 4 or 5 or 8. It's eating into my sleep time and that makes me very cranky.
OTOH, might be nice to upgrade to something with USB ports...
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Micronesia', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The Original One', then a RERUN'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Regis Philbin and Joseph Arthur.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Evangeline Lilly, Adam Goldberg, and Bebel Gilberto.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Apprentice', then a FRESH'Lipstick Jungle'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Russell Crowe, Larry the Cable Guy, and Willie Nelson.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Martin Short, Boston Celtic Ray Allen, and the Kooks.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Lennox Lewis and Seether
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Lost', followed by a FRESH'Lost', then a FRESH'Eli Stone'.
Jimmy Kimmel is FRESH, but his website isn't listing guests in advance.
The CW offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Faux has the FRESH'The 39th NAACP Image Awards'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Soul Food'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', and still another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hope Floats', followed by the movie 'Father Of The Bride', then the movie 'Father Of The Bride Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's;
[1:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4;
[2:00 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 11 Detling;
[2:30 PM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Newark;
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11;
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1;
[4:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17;
[4:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1;
[5:00 PM] My Family - Ep. 5 Farewell To Alarms;
[5:30 PM] Coupling - Ep 6 The Girl With One Heart;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars;
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[8:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor;
[9:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory;
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America;
[11:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor;
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory;
[1:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor;
[2:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 11;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Episode 12;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 11 Detling;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 12 Newark;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 4;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Lee Siegel.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Leonard Nimoy.
FX has the movie 'The One', followed by the movie 'Batman Begins', then the movie 'Batman Begins', again.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', and 'The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'.
IFC -
[06:35 AM] Seven And a Match;
[08:20 AM] IFC News: 2008, Uncut;
[08:30 AM] The Prime Gig;
[10:15 AM] Swingers;
[12:00 PM] Seven And a Match;
[01:45 PM] The Prime Gig;
[03:30 PM] Swingers;
[05:15 PM] Seven And a Match;
[07:00 PM] Eulogy;
[08:30 PM] Basilisk #6;
[09:00 PM] The Human Stain;
[11:00 PM] The Cooler;
[12:45 AM] Damage;
[02:45 AM] The Honeymoon Killers;
[04:40 AM] Havoc. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Abominable', then the movie 'The Bone Eater'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] The Man Who Became King;
[06:30 AM] Patch;
[07:00 AM] Smiles of a Summer Night;
[09:00 AM] Episode 2: Geoffrey's Return;
[10:00 AM] Imagine...The Beatles in Love;
[11:00 AM] Breathless (1960);
[12:30 PM] Dopamine;
[02:00 PM] A Good Woman;
[03:45 PM] Philip and His Seven Wives;
[05:00 PM] Forty Shades of Blue;
[07:00 PM] Love;
[08:35 PM] SOU;
[09:00 PM] Howard Schultz + Norman Lear;
[10:00 PM] Wynton Marsalis + John Besh;
[11:00 PM] Imagine...The Beatles in Love;
[12:00 AM] Episode 2;
[12:35 AM] Our Daily Bread;
[02:15 AM] Build;
[03:00 AM] Wynton Marsalis + John Besh;
[04:00 AM] Episode 4;
[05:00 AM] The Keys to the House. (ALL TIMES EST)
In this handout photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, actress Karen Kramer, left, and music producer Quincy Jones, pose on the press line at a screening of the classic Stanley Kramer feature film 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Kramer is the wife of the late director Stanley Kramer and was on hand to give an introduction to the film. A DVD box set titled 'The Stanley Kramer Film Collection' will be released Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Darfur's splintered rebel groups on Wednesday united in praising U.S. film director Steven Spielberg for quitting as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics, and called for athletes to follow his lead.
Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday, saying the competition's hosts China should do more to persuade Sudan to end attacks and other humanitarian atrocities in Darfur.
Lobby groups and celebrities led by Hollywood's Mia Farrow have used this summer's Olympics as a platform for their campaign to persuade Beijing to step up political pressure on Sudan.
Comcast has come clean to the FCC about its secretive traffic-management practices... not that Comcast thinks it has been keeping secrets. According to its 57-page filing, "experience suggests that Comcast needs to ensure that its disclosures on matters such as network management are timely and in sufficient detail to ensure transparency while not providing a roadmap to those who would seek to defeat its efforts at reasonable network management." While that doesn't explain the months of stonewalling from the company, at least now we have some official answers to how Comcast's Sandvine network management system works.
The FCC launched an investigation into Comcast's network management practices earlier this year after Vuze, a company that uses P2P to legally distribute video content, objected to Comcast's practice of degrading P2P connections on its network. Comcast has finally changed its Terms of Service to make more clear that the company reserves this right, but the FCC wants to know whether Comcast's system goes beyond "reasonable network management."
The question that many users are probably asking themselves right now is, "But didn't I pay for a certain level of bandwidth? Can't I use it however and whenever I want?" To which Comcast says, simply, "No, you cannot."
Italian actress Isabella Rossellini attends a news conference in the German capital of Berlin February 13, 2006. Rossellini treated audiences at the Berlin Film Festival to wild and crazy sex scenes in a series of short films she directs and stars in.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
A mountaintop property located near the Hollywood sign and once owned by Howard Hughes is up for sale.
A group of Chicago investors is putting the 138 acres of land just west of the "H" in the sign on the market Wednesday.
The asking price: $22 million.
The property offers a stunning 360-degree panorama of the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley, says Fox River Financial Resources, which acquired the land in 2002 for $1,675,000.
Mike Judge, creator of Fox's "King of the Hill," will be inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame next month.
Judge, who lives in Austin, and Morgan Fairchild, known for her various film and TV roles, will join previously announced inductees Thomas Haden Church, Jayne Mansfield and the 1980 movie "Urban Cowboy," the Austin Film Society said Wednesday.
The Texas Film Hall of Fame, located at the Austin Film Society's Austin Studios, recognizes actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, filmmakers and movies that are from, influenced or inspired by the Lone Star State.
ABC's "Ugly Betty" will be heading back to production with a smaller producing team once the Hollywood writers strike ends. Executive producers Marco Pennette and James Hayman were let go from the Emmy-winning comedy-drama Monday, the same day the series was renewed for a third season.
The critically acclaimed adaptation of a popular Latin American soap about a hapless office girl went through significant behind-the-scenes changes between its first and second seasons, when five writers were let go.
For the time being, "Betty," which is expected to produce at least four more original episodes this season, is executive produced by creator Silvio Horta, Salma Hayek and Jose Tamez.
A rare white stag that has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands is believed to be among just a tiny handful living in Britain, according to a conservation group.
Photo by John Muir Trust
CBS and NBC have announced the return of many of their scripted series as TV production resumed Wednesday following a three-month writers strike.
CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" will return with new episodes March 17. Producers will make nine new episodes of each before the season ends.
"CSI: Miami" and "Cold Case" will return in late March. Others are set for early April returns, including "CSI" on April 3.
NBC announced that original episodes of several of its series will return in April, beginning with "My Name is Earl" on April 3, and, a week later, "30 Rock," "The Office," "Scrubs" and "ER."
New Zealand's oldest immigrant, 102-year-old Briton Eric King-Turner, sailed into Wellington on Wednesday amid a media frenzy sparked by his decision to retire to the other side of the world.
Television crews swamped the Saga Rose cruise ship before the retired dentist hit dry land -- some five-weeks after he had left his village in Hampshire in southern England.
King-Turner and his New Zealand-born wife Doris, 89, battled to relatives waiting on Aotea Quay to greet them and later refused media requests for interviews.
Paris Hilton's younger brother, Barron, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drunken driving, authorities said.
Barron Hilton, 18, was stopped after a witness reported seeing a black Mercedes-Benz weaving on the Pacific Coast Highway, at times drifting into the oncoming lane, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies arrested Hilton after he pulled over and got out of the car. He was booked in Malibu, where he registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.14 percent, authorities said. The legal limit in California is 0.08 percent.
Visitors stand beside at an artwork called "Concept Car" by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn at Madrid's International Contemporary Art fair ARCO February 13, 2008. This year's fair features the participation of 295 galleries from 34 countries with Brazil being the invited country in Madrid.
Photo by Sergio Perez
One of New York's top tourist attractions, a guitar-playing cowboy dressed only in a pair of underpants, boots and Stetson hat, is reportedly suing the Mars candy corporation for trademark infringement.
Times Square's "Naked Cowboy," is seeking 60 million dollars from Mars, whose animated blue M&M candy wearing a remarkably similar outfit is competing for attention in the square, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
"My initial response was like, 'Wow that's cool,'" the nearly nude performer, whose real name is Robert Burck, told the newspaper.
"All I've got is my underwear. It's the most brilliant thing that's ever been created from a marketing perspective. You can't stop it," said Burck, 37, who reportedly filed suit on the advice of lawyers and trademark experts.
The ABC network and its affiliates filed appeals Monday to the FCC's proposed fine of $1.4 million for a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue."
The FCC is looking to fine the 52 ABC-owned and affiliate stations in the Central Mountain zones, which broadcast the episode, featuring a woman's buttocks and the side of one breast, before 10 p.m.
ABC said in a statement Monday that it strongly opposed the proposed fine, in part because "when the brief scene in question was telecast almost five years ago, this critically acclaimed drama had been on the air for a decade and the realistic nature of its story lines were well known to the viewing public."
Mel Gibson has met terms of his no-contest plea to misdemeanor drunken driving after his notorious 2006 arrest in which he made derogatory comments about Jews, a judge found Wednesday.
Gibson will remain on probation for about 18 more months, but won't have report at Superior Court again after Judge Lawrence Mira approved his progress.
"Assuming there is no violation on the terms of the probation, it will be finished at the end of 36 months," Deputy District Attorney Gina Satriano said outside court.
A police handout shows the painting 'Poppies near Vetheuil' by French artist Claude Monet (1840 - 1926). Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $164 million were stolen in broad daylight on Sunday from the private Buehrle Collection in Zurich, police said in a statement.
Australia's apology to Aborigines for decades of racist policies drew an outpouring of emotion Wednesday. But attention quickly turned to what many consider the inevitable next step: paying compensation to victims of past injustices.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has ruled out compensation, and lawyers say the apology passed by Parliament on Wednesday does not add anything to Aborigines' chances of successful legal claims.
But Aboriginal leaders say the injury can never be fully repaired until the victims receive reparations for being taken as children from Aboriginal mothers. From 1910 until the 1970s, an estimated 100,000 children were taken from their parents under state and federal laws based on a premise that Aborigines were dying out.
Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 feet in front of his patrol car. "Falling rock!" he thought, ready to steer clear if it bounced onto the highway.
The thing didn't roll or shatter. It turned out to be a moose that fell from cliffs next to the highway.
Drivers often see Dall sheep on the cliffs but rarely moose. Peterson estimates the animal fell 150 feet or more.
"They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us," said wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott. "They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way."
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Feb. 4-10. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (1) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 27.91 million viewers.
2. (2) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 26.28 million viewers.
3. (8) "House," Fox, 23.16 million viewers.
4. (X) "Grammy Awards," CBS, 17.17 million viewers.
5. (5) "The Moment of Truth," Fox, 16.62 million viewers.
6. (20) "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 15.77 million viewers.
7. (9) "Lost," ABC, 15.29 million viewers.
8. (15) "Survivor: Micronesia," CBS, 14.02 million viewers.
9. (20) "Deal or No Deal" (Monday), NBC, 13.16 million viewers.
10. (15) "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.06 million viewers.
11. (X) "20/20," ABC, 12.66 million viewers.
12. (18) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 12.31 million viewers.
13. (7) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.84 million viewers.
14. (18) "Without a Trace," CBS, 10.2 million viewers.
15. (23) "CSI: NY," CBS, 10.16 million viewers.
16. (26) "Law & Order," NBC, 10.06 million viewers.
17. (39) "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrieann," ABC, 9.79 million viewers.
18. (53) "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?," Fox, 9.51 million viewers.
19. (15) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 9.48 million viewers.
20. (9) "NCIS," CBS, 9.47 million viewers.
Oui the frog sits on a miniature motorcycle in the eastern beach town of Pattaya February 10, 2008. Oui's owner Tongsai Bamrungthai says Oui enjoys playing with human toys and posing for photographs.
Photo by Chaiwat Subprasom
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