zEN mAN (observing Liz Cheney who is running for office in Wyoming...just had to come out against gay marriage...because it's the white, right...tea party uptight thing to do in a red state....fuck Dick, fuck Liz...fuck the whole family...they are all vampires)
Paul Krugman: What to Do When You're Wrong (NY Times)
… learning from your mistakes can cause trouble, especially on TV, where people use "In 1996 you said A, and now in 2013 you say B. Gotcha!" as a substitute for substantive discussion. But it's what you're supposed to do.
MO ELLEITHEE: I'M EAGER AND PROUD TO RUN ON OBAMACARE IN 2014
Young Americans are able to stay on the parent's health plan for longer. People across the country are able to shop around and find better coverage for less money.??And 500,000 Americans have, so far, been able to sign up for health coverage through the federal exchange, state exchanges, and Medicaid expansion.??That's half a million Americans who did not have health insurance, that now do. And one million more consumers are ready to get the plan that's right for them. And that's just in one month.?
Bill Maher: Bill Maher BLASTS selfish Christian hypocrites who don't tip waiters
New Rule: It's OK if you don't want to feed the hungry, or heal the sick, or house the homeless. Just don't say you're doing it for their own good. Don't say you'd like to help people, but your hands are tied because if you did, it would cause a culture of dependency, or go against the Bible, or worst of all, rob them of their freedom... to be sick and hungry.
Matt Gephardt: Fined For Posting A Negative Review Online (KUTV)
For Christmas several years ago, Jen Palmer's husband ordered her a number of trinkets from the website kleargear.com. But for 30 days, Kleargear.com never sent the products so the transaction was automatically cancelled by Paypal, Jen said. Wanting an explanation, Jen says she tried to call the company but could never reach anyone. So frustrated, she turned to the internet writing a negative review on ripoffreport.com. …
That was the end of it, Jen thought, until three years later when Jen's husband got an email from Kleargear.com demanding the post be removed or they would be fined.
Scott Burns: The Five Biggest Mistakes Retirees Make (AssetBuilder)
We all make investment mistakes. It's how most of us learn. And that's OK, at least when we're young. That's when we can recover from losses. But it's a whole different deal when we get older, when we are approaching retirement or in it. Make a major mistake then and the odds are you'll never recover- your lifetime income will be lower, perhaps painfully lower. Here's my list of the five most common errors people make.
Charlie Jane Anders: Why The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is a Better Book than Catching Fire (io9)
Pretty much everybody loves The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins' masterful dystopian novel. But the two novels that follow are divisive: Some people love Catching Fire, others love Mockingjay. Very few people seem to love both. And for me, personally, Mockingjay is the superior novel. Here's why.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Movies (Athens News)
Chuck Jones directed many cartoons that featured such stars as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Leonard Levinson produced a travelogue (one of the short subjects that used to precede the feature film in movie houses) about London that amused Mr. Jones. The travelogue begins with fog rolling toward a camera in London. Quickly, nothing can be seen but fog. For eight minutes, the narrator comments on the interesting sights of London as the travelogue viewer sees nothing but fog.
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Gandy dancers were railroad workers.
mj wrote:
They were the corps de ballet for the iron horse
Gandy dancers drove the spikes into the rails during the construction of the railroads. Since it took a couple of men to accomplish this quickly, each man had to strike sequentially, and keeping up a rhythm was important. It's also the name of a very nice restaurant in Station Square (old Pgh and Lake Erie railroad station) in Pittsburgh.
Alan J answered:
The Railroads.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"trains?"
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
The term gandy-dancer is a railroad slang word for a person who works
as a track maintenance person.
Larry in Chicagoland, IL replied
According to Bruce Utah Phillips….Gandy dancers jumped up and down in a dancing manner on Gandy brand shovels as they were shoved under steel rails while other railroad workers shoved gravel under the rails to level them on the railroad bed.
George M wrote:
From what I recall, Marty, gandy dancers could be found working the railroads.
Adam answered:
The railroads, as they were being built.
DanD replied:
I remember hearing that term in a western movie (or perhaps some kind
of documentary) referring to the people laying railroad tracks.
Dicey times ~
SallyP, where were you at when JFK caught some bullets? As an AF
dependent child living an idyllic life in a small, seaside bungalow
next to the sound at Ft. Walton Beach in Florida, one early morning I
can still remember my father stalking out the door in full Combat
Control regalia while unceremoniously muttering that we were going to
blow them motherfuckers off the face of the earth ... and he didn't
even like Kennedy.
For me, that was the day the music died.
Sally said:
Finally, watching the old western TV shows pays off! Tis the Railroad that used the Gandy Dancers to bend rails and tracks.
Reenactment - guy in the middle of the track had to 'dance' to get out of the way of the other two when the rail moves forward.
PS: @B2BB, in reference to your, "Single shot 410 bore shotgun," and your effort to turn it into a, "12 gauge 5 shot pump-action deerslayer," we will need a video demonstration here, to help us understand exactly that which you did for said enlargement. I'm sure something can be worked out between Marty and your (cough, cough) 'agent.' Thanking your in advance...
lfonso responded:
Railroads
Marian answered:
gandy dancers laid and maintained railroad tracks.
Dale of "it looks like it's gonna rain" Diamond Springs, Norcali, answered:
A "gandy dancer" is a railway worker who tamps down the earth between the ties, or otherwise "dances" on the track. Real poor immigrants and slaves worked for the early railroad oligarchs. They were treated as or just above slave status, but built the railroads.
MAM wrote:
The railroads, specifically a hand-car is referred to as a "gandy".
BttbBob said:
Trains... There's a restaurant/lounge in Ann Arbor with the name "The Gandy Dancer". The building is the old train station...
It's a pretty high-end place (valet parking, dontcha know) and it's a favorite hang-out place, I found, for the upper echelon faculty and administration of the very nearby University of Michigan. Next door is the new Amtrak station, which I rode through many times on day trips from Battle Creek to the Ann Arbor VAMC. One late afternoon with time on my hands before my return trip, I went in there for a frosty brew. I was respectably dressed, and all, but I was certainly out of place by the cold, but correct, reception I received by the white shirt-black bow tie clad bartender. Soon thereafter, the place filled up with said U of M nabobs. I could have been invisible (and probably was, to them) as I overheard them prattle on about their life and times at "The U"... I left after an earful of that 'La-de-da' and went across the street to "Casey's" which I discovered to be a great bar-and-grill (superb food) and I fit right in with that crowd which was a much less pretentious, fun-lovin' and boisterous horde of U of M people, young and not-so-much. My kinda place and I highly recommend it if'n you find yerself in Ann Arbor... Oh, the bartender there was a student, and also a Michigan Army National Guard infantry sergeant. Yeah, we hit it off...
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I find it highly amusing how snobbish many university 'academic-types' can be... but, I bet they're mostly, by far, good Democrats! Wanna bet?
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(50) "Hello, Clarice..."
(51) This is a different look for you, Meg... kinda... nice, I find... Seriously
(79) Okay, this guy drives me crazy. That's why I rarely watched him. But, a lot of people did watch him (why, I can't fathom). So, I'll give him his due...
I may be "Bad" (well. no "maybe" about it), but I pride myself on giving credit where it's appropriate (But, I'd still like to walk up from behind Ol' Larry and grab his suspenders and stretch 'em out and give 'lm a snap! See? Bad...)
(53) "C.J." is in my 'Top 5'... Never mind what list that applies to.
(56) I used this photo cuz I think she got the shaft by "The Today Show" and you-know-who... A talented lady that deserved better.
The guy interviewing John Lennon is (76). Glad to see that "Forrest" stopped by...
(93) Sure and he had a talking horse... but, did you know he also voiced "Scrooge McDuck"?
And, Joe S replied:
Trains. Gandy Dancers laid down and maintained track.
My good friend Ben is fond of saying, "There are thousands of abandoned train stations across the country going to ruin. We should make train stations out of them."
CBS-LA seems to have fucked up - no audio on the high-def over-the-air Letterman or Craig (channel 2.1). The regular over-the-air non-def, non-stereo channel (channel 2.2) had audio, but it was tinny and thin.
Not that they bothered to acknowledge the problem. I'm so old I can remember when CBS was the Tiffany network. Now it's more like the Tifani-from-the-trailer-park network.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and the Neighbourhood.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Margaret Cho and Elettra Weidemann.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH'The Voice', then a FRESH'Chicago Fire'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are George W. Bush (R-Boo, Hiss, Get Off The Stage), Ty Barnett, and Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Forest Whitaker, Andy Cohen, Cut Copy, and Brad Whitford.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are "Humans of New York", Capital Cities, and Nightmare and the Cat.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD', followed by a FRESH'The Goldbergs', then the FRESH'David Blaine: Real Or Magic'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Elizabeth Banks, Larry King, and Daughtry.
The CW offers a FRESH, but pre-taped & edited, 'The iHeartRadio Album Release Party With Lady Gaga', followed by a FRESH'Supernatural'.
Scheduled on a FRESHArsenio Hall are Eddie Murphy and Flo Rida.
Faux has a FRESH'Dads', followed by a FRESH'Brooklyn Nine-Nine', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY recycles an old 'Bones', followed by another old 'Bones'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then another FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', followed by a FRESH'American Hoggers', then another FRESH'American Hoggers'.
AMC offers the movie 'Angels & Demons', followed by the movie 'Ghost'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: TALES FROM THE TARDIS
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Rose
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 2 - The End of the World
[11:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 3 - The Unquiet Dead
[12:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Aliens of London
[1:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 5 - World War Three
[2:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Dalek
[3:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 7 - The Long Game
[4:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Father's Day
[5:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 9 - The Empty Child
[6:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 10 - The Doctor Dances
[7:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 11 - Boom Town
[8:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 12 - Bad Wolf
[9:00PM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 13 - The Parting Of the Ways
[10:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: THE CHRISTMAS INVASION
[11:00PM] DOCTOR WHO: THE RUNAWAY BRIDE
[12:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 10 - Blink
[1:00AM] DOCTOR WHO: VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
[2:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Partners in Crime
[3:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 2 - The Fires of Pompeii
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Planet of the Ood
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 4 - Ep 4 - The Sontaran Strategem (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', 'Shahs Of Sunset', followed by a FRESH'Shahs Of Sunset'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Brickleberry'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Bill Cosby.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Rick Santorum.
FX has '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Hall Pass', then a FRESH'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', and 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Jim Gaffigan Wears a Blue Jacket & Plum T-Shirt
[6:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Cool Machine
[7:00AM] Dark Floors
[8:45AM] DeepStar Six
[11:00AM] Crazy Eights
[12:45PM] Dark Floors
[2:30PM] DeepStar Six
[4:45PM] Jackie Brown
[8:00PM] The Wrestler
[10:15PM] Gamer
[12:15AM] The Wrestler
[2:30AM] Gamer
[4:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Cool Machine
[5:00AM] The Birthday Boys-Goofy Roofers
[5:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rainn Wilson Wears a Short Sleeved Plaid Shirt & Colorful Sneakers (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
[6:15AM] The Writers' Room-Game of Thrones
[6:45AM] Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
[9:00AM] Jesus Christ Superstar
[11:15AM] Awakenings
[1:45PM] Amadeus
[5:45PM] Robin Hood
[8:00PM] Shallow Grave
[10:00PM] Year of the Dragon
[1:00AM] Cliffhanger
[3:30AM] Shallow Grave
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Parks and Recreation (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', and 'Naked Vegas'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Simon Cowell, Paulina Rubio, and Jimmy Pardo.
Toni Braxton and Kenny Babyface Edmonds perform at The Grove's 11th Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Spectacular Presented By Citi at The Grove on November 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo by Alexandra Wyman
Named To Presidential Committee On Arts, Humanities
Kal Penn
The White House says President Barack Obama is appointing actor Kal Penn to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
The actor's legal name is Kalpen Modi. He's best known to film and television audiences for his roles in "Harold and Kumar" and "House."
He's also no stranger to the White House. Penn worked previously for Obama in the White House's Office of Public Engagement. He was a major draw last year at the Democratic convention with a good-humoured speech asking voters to stay engaged.
The actor returned to the White House in July along with singer Jennifer Hudson and actress Amy Poehler to promote Obama's health care law.
Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson seen at Lionsgate's 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Los Angeles Premiere, on Monday, Nov, 18, 2013 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Eric Charbonneau
MSNBC commentator Martin Bashir issued an apology on Monday for suggesting that someone should defecate on former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R-Quitter).
The remark, which Bashir made on his MSNBC program, sparked a firestorm of criticism. Bashir was responding to a comment Palin made in which the former half-term Alaska governor compared the U.S. debt to slavery.
Bashir, who also called Palin a "world-class idiot," pounced on the slavery comparison. During his Friday show on MSNBC, Bashir recounted a story about an 18th-century slave owner named Thomas Thistlewood. Bashir explained that Thistlewood recorded his brutality in a diary which included stories of forcing slaves to defecate and urinate on each other as a form of punishment.
Bashir then said, "When Mrs. Palin invokes slavery, she doesn't just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, she would be the outstanding candidate."
"Selfie" - a self portrait usually on a smartphone or webcam - was selected word of the year on Tuesday by the Oxford Dictionaries, based on a 17,000 percent rise in its usage from a year ago.
"Selfie" was chosen after it "gained momentum throughout the English-speaking world in 2013 as it evolved from a social media buzzword to mainstream shorthand for a self-portrait photograph", Oxford Dictionaries said in a statement.
"Selfie" beat a number of other buzzwords of 2013, including "twerk" referring to dancing in a sexually provocative manner and which was popularized by singer Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards last August.
"Selfie" has spawned a raft of spinoffs, including "helfie" for a picture taken of someone's own hair, "belfie" for taking a picture of your own posterior and "drelfie" for a self portrait while in a drunken state.
The radiator cover of a 1931 Minerva Al Convertible Sedan (estimated $900,000-$1.4million) is on display during a media preview of the 'Art of Automobile' auction at Sotheby's auction house in New York, November 18, 2013. The auction, featuring 35 of the most rare vehicles in the world, will take place November 21 in New York.
Photo by Mike Segar
It's kind of a big deal that Emerson College is changing the name of its school of communication.
The college in Boston will rename the school - for one day only - the Ron Burgundy School of Communication on Dec. 4 to honour the fictitious television anchorman.
Actor Will Ferrell, in character, is scheduled to share his path to journalism greatness with students. His visit will include a news conference, the renaming ceremony and a screening of "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Ferrell, as himself, will introduce the movie.
Burgundy, known for telling people he's "kind of a big deal," says he hopes to let students know how hard it is to make it to the top, in his words, "especially if you don't have good hair."
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business, was a "demanding boss" who would not simply accept legal advice on stories without explanation, her trial for alleged phone-hacking offences heard on Monday.
Justin Walford, a senior lawyer at the British paper arm of Murdoch's News Corp., also told the Old Bailey he had been assured phone-hacking was limited to the News of the World newspaper which Murdoch closed down in 2011 following revelations about the illegal practice.
Brooks, who was the former editor of Murdoch's Sun and News of the World titles, denies conspiracy to hack phones and authorize illegal payments as well as charges of hindering the police investigation.
Walford, whose main responsibility after joining Murdoch's News International was the Sun, said he asked in 2006 whether there had been any phone-hacking at the paper following the arrest of the News of the World's royal reporter Clive Goodman.
"I was given assurance it had not happened at the Sun. Obviously I accepted those assurances," he said.
A woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province November 18, 2013. Mount Sinabung continued to spew volcanic ash throwing a plume 8,000 meters into the atmosphere on Monday as thousands of residents remained in temporary shelters fearful of more eruptions, according to local media.
Photo by Roni Bintang
A Russian court has granted bail to a third crew member arrested for a protest against Arctic oil drilling, Greenpeace said Tuesday.
Greenpeace press secretary Andrei Allakhverdov was released on bail of two million rubles ($61,400) late Monday, the group's spokesman Dmitry Artamonov told AFP.
The ruling came after the Saint Petersburg court on Monday freed the ship's doctor, Yekaterina Zaspa, and a freelance photographer working for Greenpeace, Denis Sinyakov, on bail.
But another Saint Petersburg court extended the pre-trial detention of an Australian activist, Colin Russell to February 24, a day after the end of the Sochi Winter Games.
A U.S. white supremacist was charged on Monday with terrorizing residents of the small North Dakota town where he had sought to create a white enclave, authorities said.
Craig Cobb was arrested on Saturday along with Kynan Dutton over accusations they were brandishing firearms and sticks and threatening residents in the town of Leith, said Todd Schwarz, assistant state's attorney for Grant County.
"The people of Leith have put up with more than enough and Mr. Cobb has crossed the line," Schwarz said. "In a very short period of time it escalated beyond things that would be protected by free speech."
Cobb and Dutton were charged with seven counts each of terrorizing, Schwarz said. Five counts involve firearms, which carry a minimum two years in prison without parole if convicted, and two others involved canes or sticks, he said.
Schwarz said Cobb and Dutton were carrying long weapons, a shotgun and another long gun in the incidents on Saturday. They have been held since their arrest by the Grant County sheriff's office, and authorities want them held without bond, he said.
A security guard stands in front of an oil painting of North Korean female soldiers marching during their national parade, at an exhibition during the 13th Asian Arts Festival exhibition in Kunming, Yunnan province November 18, 2013. Over 100 paintings by North Korean artists are on exhibition at the festival, local media reported.
Photo by Wong Campion
Business television presenter Maria Bartiromo is leaving broadcaster CNBC after 20 years to take a job at rival Fox Business Network, according to a source familiar with the matter.
CNBC President and Chief Executive Mark Hoffman announced Bartiromo's departure in a memo to employees on Monday and said she will leave the company when her contract expires on November 24.
Hoffman did not say where Bartiromo was going, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed media reports that she was headed to Fox Business Network, the cable broadcaster founded six years ago by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc to take on CNBC, owned by Comcast Corp.
The Fox Business Network, launched in October 2007, become (sic) profitable in June but trails CNBC in the ratings.
The revolver carried by Old West lawman James "Wild Bill" Hickok on the day he was shot down at a Deadwood saloon failed to sell at an auction in San Francisco on Monday, with bidders failing to meet the steep reserve set by the gun's owners.
Bonhams Auctioneers started the bidding for the Smith & Wesson No. 2 revolver at $150,000, but potential buyers were only willing to pay $220,000, less than what the consigners would sell it for, Bonhams arms and armor specialist James Ferrell said.
The reserve price is private, but it is typically set between 20 and 30 percent less than the minimum of the item's estimated value, Ferrell said. Hickok's revolver was valued between $300,000 and $500,000.
According to Bonhams' rules, the gun's owners could take the pistol back, list it in an upcoming sale or accept bids submitted in the days following the auction.
Two Sumatran tiger cubs play after being released into the Great Cat exhibit for the first time at the National Zoo in Washington, November 18, 2013. The two tigers were born in August 2013.
Photo by Larry Downing
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