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HERE'S THE REAL MATH, KARL ROVE!
Corruption plus failed policies in Iraq and Afghanistan plus close to 2800 of ours dead and thousands of Iraqis dead equals
CHANGE IN AMERICA.
The bums have been hurled from office and a new day for Democrats and
Democracy dawns in the House where we won more than predicted by many and
possibly in the Senate where two races (as of this writing) hang by a
ballot.
Time for minimum wage, Medicare drug program reform, true health care
reform, reform and renewal of safer policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
WE banded together to say time for a
New Day in America. Turnout was a record in many states. Single, married,
straight, gay, none of the above: we insist on a Balance of Power that
allows ALL of us to have a say.
Are Happy Days Here Again? Much depends on our new Speaker and our first
WOMAN Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. She has promised us integrity and honesty in
Washington, DC.
Thanks to all of
you who voted to restore our country to sanity. LET'S TALK, SHALL WE?
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Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Michael Moore: LANDSLIDE! (michaelmoore.com)
You did it! We did it! The impossible has happened: A majority of Americans have soundly and forcefully removed Bush's party from control of the House of Representatives. And, sometime today perhaps, we may learn that the same miracle has happened in the Senate. Whatever the outcome, the American people have made two things crystal clear: End this war, and stop Mr. Bush from doing any more damage to this country we love. That is what this election was about. Nothing else. Just that. And it's a message that has sent shock waves throughout Washington -- and a note of hope around this troubled world.
Speech from "The American President" (americanrhetoric.com)
"We have serious problems, and we need serious people to solve them."
PAUL KRUGMAN: Limiting the Damage (The New York Times)
Just imagine, then, what [Bush]'ll do if faced with demands for information from, say, Congressional Democrats investigating war profiteering, which seems to have been rampant. Actually, we don't have to imagine: a White House strategist has already told Time magazine that the administration plans a "cataclysmic fight to the death" if Democrats in Congress try to exercise their right to issue subpoenas - which is one heck of a metaphor, given Mr. Bush's history of getting American service members trapped in cataclysmic fights where the deaths are anything but metaphors.
Molly Ivins: Campaign '06: Goodbye and Good Riddance
Congress stands before us so hopelessly corrupt that the stench has washed all over the country.
Mark Morford: God Hates Gay Evangelicals (sfgate.com)
You'll find no evangelical, no Christian leader anywhere coming out and saying: Let's do something different. Let's take this shocking Haggard scandal as a cosmic sign, as a big rainbow-colored warning flag that maybe, just maybe we need to look at this gay issue with a little more love and a little less nauseating pseudo-spiritual homophobic dogma. Maybe now is the time to rethink this hateful ideology that has kept us so deep in fear and mistrust and sexual agony for so long.
RICHARD ROEPER: Keeping suicide out of sight may be part of the problem (suntimes.com)
The body was covered with a white sheet, just like on the TV procedural shows. A garland of yellow police tape kept folks from getting too close to the scene.
'Well, I am a big old ham ...' (guardian.co.uk)
As Hugh Jackman prepares to play a showbiz magician, he talks to Ryan Gilbey about working with Woody Allen, shaking off paparazzi and crying on stage.
Sweep the Republicans Out Photos
Hubert's Poetry Corner
YOUR WOMAN. MY WOMAN! YOUR WIFE?
THIS IS THE SAME ROBERT MICHAEL GATES WHO 'PARTICIPATED' IN THE TRIGON AFFAIR AND ITS AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE STARTING IN THE LATE 1960'S. HIS EARLY CIA CAREER 'SUCCESS'
WAS TIED TO THIS DISASTER! HOW MANY TIMES MUST AMERICA SUFFER THIS FOOL?
Reader Suggestion
Re: Polar Bears
Hi Marty!
I saw the polar bear picture on yesterday's page and thought "I bet I never sent her the link to the polar bear cam". So here it is.
Polar Bear Cam
It should still run for another week or so (or maybe more, we hope). It's different from the grizzly cam in that there is much more polar bear "interaction" with humans.
Thanks for all you do!
~ ducks
Thanks, Ducks!
When the kid was little he'd get in the same position as that polar bear, and eventually there'd be a fart that would seem way too big for such a little guy.
Heh - good memories.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still sunny, but not as hot.
Tuesday night went to bed happy about the national results but bummed about California's.
Wednesday morning's local fishwrap stated republicans now held the Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General positions.
Rather got the day off to a sour start.
Finally got around to poking about on the internets and found, much to my relief, the fishwrap had it wrong - although it took them most of the day to correct their website.
Defeats Republican In New York
John Hall
A musician who wrote the 1970s pop tunes "Still the One" and "Dance with Me" toppled a longtime Republican lawmaker after a campaign that merged his minor-league celebrity with anti- Iraq war momentum and YouTube.
John Hall, who founded the band Orleans and produced albums for Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt and Linda Ronstadt, ousted Rep. Sue Kelly, who swept into office as part of the 1994 GOP revolution.
On his nightly Comedy Central show, TV faux-news anchor Stephen Colbert profiled the race as part of his series on the 2006 election. Colbert and Hall harmonized a duet of "Dance With Me," and the comedian mocked Kelly for declining to appear.
John Hall
Peace Mom Arrested
Cindy Sheehan
Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans.
The California woman, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with interfering with a government function, he said.
Before she was arrested, she joined the protesters in hailing the outcome of Tuesday's elections and chanting "Stop the War" outside the gate.
Cindy Sheehan
Still Defends Report
Dan Rather
Former CBS anchor Dan Rather once again defended his discredited "60 Minutes Wednesday" report about resident Bush's military service, insisting the story was accurate.
"The story was true," Rather, 75, told radio station WPTF-AM on Tuesday. "We were vulnerable on taking responsibility for it."
"I believed it to be true or I wouldn't have put it on the air," Rather said. "There's nothing wrong with asking the tough questions of the people in power, which is what we attempted to do."
Dan Rather
Anti-Gay E-Mail Sparks Online Fury
Reaping Hate
A U.S. landscaping firm has been inundated with hate mail after an e-mail it sent rejecting a client because he was gay was made public.
Houston-based firm Garden Guy sent an e-mail on October 18 turning down a prospective customer by saying: "I need to tell you that we cannot meet with you because we choose not to work for homosexuals."
The recipient, Michael Lord, forwarded the e-mail to dozens of friends and it spread across the Internet.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said those who send business e-mails should not normally be entitled to expect them to remain private.
Reaping Hate
Writers File Unfair Labor Charge
'America's Next Top Model'
In the latest legal parry in a multiparty labor fight over "America's Next Top Model," the Writers Guild of America has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
The union claims that producers of the CW's reality TV show broke the law by eliminating 12 positions previously held by some striking writer-producers. In a charge filed Monday, the WGA seeks reinstatement and back pay for the strikers, who walked out in July in a bid to join the guild.
Executive producer Ken Mok has insisted the striking employees go through a protracted NLRB organizing process, citing a jurisdictional dispute between the WGA and Intl. Assn. of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) that is growing increasingly public. The latter argued at a recent NLRB hearing that its jurisdiction extends to the kind of work done by the striking employees.
Meanwhile, the WGA unfair labor practice charge hinges on why the strikers -- who stopped picketing when the show went on hiatus -- weren't allowed to rejoin the show when it recently resumed production of new episodes, set to begin airing in January.
'America's Next Top Model'
Glimmerglass Opera To Honor
Wendy Wasserstein
Allison Janney and Stockard Channing, who co-starred on NBC's "The West Wing," will help an opera company honor the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
The Glimmerglass Opera of Cooperstown will be joined by the two Emmy-winning actresses to present "An Uncommon Woman: A Celebration of Wendy Wasserstein," to be held Nov. 28 at the Colony Club in Manhattan.
The tribute will include readings by Channing and Janney and a performance of songs from "Pamela's First Musical," a musical that Wasserstein adapted from her children's book of the same name.
Wendy Wasserstein
Dylan Broadway Show Closing
'The Times They Are A-Changin'
A musical set to the songs of Bob Dylan will close less than a month after it opened on Broadway, the show's public relations firm said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The Times They Are A-Changin" -- which was critically panned -- will have its final performance on November 19, closing after 28 performances, a spokesman for Shaffer-Coyle Public Relations said.
New York columnist Michael Musto called the closing a "mercy killing."
'The Times They Are A-Changin'
Joins Paramount
Martin Scorsese
In a bid to foster a talent-friendly studio reminiscent of its '70s glory days, Paramount Pictures said Tuesday it signed a production deal with Martin Scorsese, currently riding high at the box office with the biggest film of his career, "The Departed."
The studio will supply the New York-based director with $2.5 million a year in overhead for four years, equivalent to its deal with Brad Pitt's Plan B Prods. The only other director with a Paramount first-look deal is Cameron Crowe.
Scorsese, who turns 64 next week, has contracted to give Paramount and its specialty division Paramount Vantage first crack at all projects he directs and produces in all media, including features, made-for-DVD films, documentaries, digital content and television.
Martin Scorsese
Settles Lawsuit
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby settled a lawsuit Wednesday with a woman who said the entertainer drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home outside Philadelphia.
Terms of the settlement will remain confidential, according to a one-paragraph statement released jointly by both sides.
Cosby, in his legal filings, denied the assault and said he made the woman breakfast the next morning. He described them as social friends who sometimes had dinner together, alone or with others.
Bill Cosby
LA Businessmen Bid
Tribune Co
Billionaire businessman Eli Broad and supermarket magnate Ron Burkle have teamed up to submit a bid for Tribune Co., The Associated Press has learned.
Details of the offer by the companies controlled by the two businessmen were not disclosed. A person familiar with the offer who was not authorized to publicly discuss it confirmed Wednesday the bid was submitted.
Tribune Co. is the owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Cubs.
Tribune Co
Smoker's International Airways
Smintair
"We would like to remind passengers that smoking is permitted on this flight."
It has been a long time since most European air travellers heard anything like this, but a German entrepreneur has set up an airline that will give its customers the freedom to chain-smoke from take-off to landing.
Alexander Schoppmann, the 55-year-old founder of Smoker's International Airways -- Smintair -- said he got the idea for a smokers' haven in the heavens after he'd had enough of expensive non-smoking long-haul flights with poor service.
Once Smintair flights begin in October 2007, smoking will be allowed in all 138 seats aboard a spacious Smintair Boeing 747. Normal airlines fit up to 559 passengers in a 747.
Smintair
Condi's Girl
Michelle Kwan
Michelle Kwan, the American figure skater who holds nine national championships and five world titles, is about to become a nonsalaried U.S. diplomat.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to name the 26-year-old Californian and daughter of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong as a public diplomacy ambassador, said a senior U.S. official.
Kwan, the biggest star in her sport for a decade, will represent American values especially to young people and sports enthusiasts and is expected to travel widely, the official said.
Michelle Kwan
Memorabilia Auction
Steve McQueen
The baseball glove and motorbike from "The Great Escape" aren't on sale but more than 200 items belonging to late "King of Cool" Steve McQueen will go under the hammer here Saturday.
Dozens of vintage motorbikes, sunglasses and other memorabilia belonging to the late Hollywood legend are being put up for auction by his widow Barbara Minty-McQueen in a sale that has excited buyers around the world.
Among the lots up for for auction are a pair of foldable 1960s sunglasses worn by McQueen in "The Thomas Crown Affair" and a vintage Harley-Davidson sweater, mounted in a frame, expected to fetch 3,000-5,000 dollars.
Other curios on sale include McQueen's old credit cards, an inscribed Von Dutch pen-knife and two Wurlitzer vintage jukeboxes.
Steve McQueen
Crashed Enzo Ferrari
Bo Stefan Eriksson
A Swedish former video game executive who made headlines by destroying a $1 million Ferrari in a spectacular crash was sentenced on Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement and drunken driving charges, prosecutors said.
Under terms of a surprise plea agreement entered days after a jury deadlocked on the charges against him, Bo Stefan Eriksson, 44, also had his multimillion-dollar California mansion seized and was ordered deported from the United States after serving his sentence.
Eriksson, a former executive with the bankrupt video game company Gizmondo Europe, was speeding on Malibu's winding coastal road at 160 mph (250 kph) in February when he smashed his rare Enzo Ferrari into a power pole, slicing it in half.
The crash unraveled a high-flying life of big spending, luxury cars, burned-out businesses and a criminal record for fraud that included five years jail time in Sweden. A month before the crash, Eriksson had declared bankruptcy with debts of $200 million.
Bo Stefan Eriksson
Lifting Veil Of Secrecy
Diamond Industry
The diamond industry's watchdog has agreed to publish statistics for the first time, helping open up a secretive sector ahead of a Hollywood film some fear could trigger negative publicity, officials said on Wednesday.
The so-called Kimberley Process agreed to a delayed release of annual production and trade data from each member country during closed-door annual meetings in Botswana involving government, industry and civic group participants.
The Kimberley Process was set up six years ago to certify diamonds in order to halt an illicit trade which has financed civil wars and instability.
The diamond industry, backed by the U.S. government, had previously opposed the release of the data, but dropped their objections this year, delegates said.
Diamond Industry
In Memory
Sid Davis
Sid Davis, who produced more than 180 educational films warning youngsters of the dangers of drugs, drinking and running with scissors, has died. He was 90.
From the 1950s into the early 1970s, Davis created cautionary short films that were screened in classrooms. With titles such as "The Bottle and the Throttle" and "Seduction of the Innocent," they warned kids away from underage drinking, drug abuse, vandalism and dropping out of school.
One 1972 short tells the tale of two teenagers who break up with their girlfriends, pick up prostitutes and get syphilis. In 1952's "Skipper Learns a Lesson," a dog learns about tolerance when his white owner moves into a racially mixed neighborhood.
Davis, who was born in Chicago but moved to Los Angeles as a child, was inspired to produce movies when his 5-year-old daughter failed to understand his lecture on avoiding strangers, she said. His first effort was 1950's "The Dangerous Stranger."
Many of Davis's movies were made for $1,000, using friends and family as actors, said Ken Smith, author of "Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970."
In "Live and Learn," a young girl is cutting out paper dolls before jumping up, tripping and impaling herself on scissors. Other movies warned children away from underage drinking, drug abuse, vandalism, venereal disease and dropping out of school.
Sid Davis
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