The Seattle Diaries
Chapter Two: The History of Incompetence
I got up, made coffee, read the Times, took note of the current political situation, looked for something to write about worth submitting somewhere, combed the classifieds for any furnished two-bedroom apartments for under $400 a month, all I could afford, which was as fruitless as combing the comics for anything funny. Cleaned the house in preparation for my weekly visit from Solid Ground to make sure everything's on the up and up, ship shape, on schedule. They had given me a list of all the cheap landlords and organizations (such as their own) that helped such as I, single parents without an income, rise from the street to the conventional, a place to call our own while my son finishes high school. The land line I've been supplied only covers local calls and there's no time on my pay-as-you-go cell phone, so I'm stuck with calling numbers with the local prefix only, which is still quite a few. More than 25 phone calls revealed answer machines where I left messages, secretaries who pointed me to online submission systems, and one solitary landlord who didn't have any vacancies and didn't really keep a "list" as such but she'd be glad to take my number anyway and I should keep calling back and perhaps, if I amused her enough, she'd really take note and offer me a hallowed interrogation.
Here, in all its glory, is how I have deciphered my scrawls from the Solid Ground crib sheet -
King County Housing Authority - Submitted application
Housing Resources Group - Called, no evictions
CADA - called and visited website, no evictions
LATCH - called, put on list, submitted application
CHHIP - called, left message
LIHI - called and visited website, not accepting applications
Delridge Neighborhood Development Association - number no good
SEED - called, left message
Mt. Baker Housing Association - called, left message, put on list for Starliter
YWCA - called, closed for applications
Archdiocesan Housing Authority - called, visited website, left message
Capital Hill Housing - called, left message
Housing Resources Group - called, visited website, no evictions
Mercyhousing.
Pike Place Market PDA - left message for La Salle, others 62+
Pioneer Human Services - called, clean and sober program only
Plymouth Housing Group - called, visited website, left message
All this duly noted on the information sheet from Solid Ground, full of checks and underlines and numbers and arrows and code, M means I left a message, A means asked for application, etc., but it wasn't good enough for Solid Ground, who wanted a separate list they could take back to the office and verify everything on the list, that I actually DID contact all those places, that I wasn't just LYING about it, which in this case would have meant they would have left ten messages on the ten message machines I left my messages on asking to verify that I left a previous message.
Wow. Never would have occurred to me. What if they respond to me but not to her, or worse, vice versa and I'm left homeless because an overworked secretary at an overworked agency trying to provide shelter to the poor makes a mistake taking notes from an answer machine that gets 100 messages a day?
Two steps forward, one step back, one step forward, two steps back. The dance of the new millennium.
The Weekly Poll
Results
The 'Stimulate me... Please!' Edition
Are there any aspects of the pending 'Stimulus Bill' that you find to be inadequate or inappropriate?
Well, Poll-fans, here it is. I didn't respond to each reply simply because the entire saga has left me dazed and confused. I've got a bad feeling about the whole damn'd thing. Is it good? I really don't know. Will it work? Again, I really don't know. Are we in a 'Sucks Deluxe' situation? You betcha! As we use to say in the Coast Guard, "Stand by for heavy rolls!"... We're in fer a helleva ride, I'm thinking... Hope fer the best, expect the worst, I always say... So, on to the replies...
Charlie wrote...
The bill doesn't address, I don't believe, the positive gains that could be made by redirecting a lot of our incredibly bloated military budget to civilian purposes, and Obama should, but probably won't, start to talk about nationalizing some of our failing institutions, especially banks. For more, see this, but especially this, which says:
A return to the kind of social programs associated with the real or second New Deal can be expected to come, if at all, only later, after the initial salvage effort. Moreover, this is unlikely to materialize to any considerable extent apart from a revolt from below on the scale at least of the mid-1930s. Labor must rise again from its ashes. Only a very radical shift in U.S. politics resulting from a major groundswell from below will be able significantly to budge the ceiling on civilian government spending.
Adam the cine-sound Pro said...
> 'Bonuses' Rant Deleted < (by Adam, not me)
I'll recap by saying the stockades on Wall Street should be rebuilt, and used.
Anything suggested by the Republicans should be considered inadequate or inappropriate. Looking back, these guys have been wrong about pretty much everything since 1980 and beyond.
Missing from the Bill:
For anyone living in a house they have a mortgage on, their mortgage should be immediately adjusted to a fixed 5%. Same for existing CC (credit card?) debt. This relieves personal debt, and flushes money back into the banks while changing some of those sub-prime loans into viable prime loans.
joe with the little j next up...
What I find inadequate and inappropriate is the Repubs and some Dems playing games! My job is going down the tubes and they are playing games. Barack can forget about the Repub's help. They agree with the druggie (I hope he fails). It is inappropriate and inadequate to play games and may we gain even more seats in 2010.
MD, short and sweet...
Jon Stewart had the best answer. Instead of giving money directly to lenders like banks, give the money directly to people who owe money to banks. When they pay off their debts, the banks STILL end up with all the money, only with all that debt erased, which would actually stimulate the economy.
DanD (revised) sent...
Okay and alright ... for the last 20 years or so (at least!) America's (global portion of the) banking system has been in Madoff overload (that Europe was actually hurt worse than America by Madoff is really kinda' funny ... sort of). Fundamentally, it's called deficit financing. Yup, they've been using Fannie and Freddy Mac for selling a massive overload of real estate to people who really can't afford it. Worse than that however, they've simply been creating money out of thin air by vastly over-valuing property for which they were then collecting vast overcharges in interest and everything else. It's also provided excellent cover for such financial filth exploiters as Madoff, who I suspect will ultimately be assessed as only the stupidly more flagrant pyramid schemer among a much greater crop that has yet to be harvested by a criminally complacent and profitably lazy SEC.
So what's happening now? Well, Obama, America's "Magic Negro" version of a "Can't Touch This" political savior, is really doing nothing too different than what Bush the "Evil Asshole" was actively attempting before our presidential changing of the guard. Effectively, Obama is going to lend a couple of trillion dollars (just to begin with) of taxpayer-conscripted dollars (which is being assessed against the current and prospective wage accounts of every current and prospective taxpayer for the next five generations at least) to all these criminal banking institutions so that they can -- say what? -- loan it all back to us ... at interest (WOW, what a deal!).
Unfortunately, it seems that the banks have already decided (seemingly years ago) to loan their first installment of the money, not to Americans, but to other banks in other parts of the world so that they can better diversify their own fraud-scams. Oops, the Magic Negro forgot to mandate that the borrowing banks be required to loan all that taxpayer-guaranteed cash (that will be added to the financially-enslaved population's tax bill WHEN those borrowing banks again decide to default on their own bail-out principle) BACK to the people who are being required to guarantee its value (B. Hussein O. thinks, "Oops, my bad! Maybe I'll get it right with the next trillion-dollar installment ~").
The primary problem is that Barack Hussein Obama is still working for the globally-incorporated banking system, which is really writing his script in order to accomplish that banking system's prime directive of enslaving the Earth's entire human population to a debt that can never be paid off. Incontrovertably, Sire Hussein O. has summarily adopted the BFEE plan of global domination. The only main difference is, at least we got to listen to Stevie Wonder and The Boss during the last presidential party of "Hope" masturbation.
Ultimately, this "Bail-out" scheme will fail, mostly because global debt financing is the ultimate Ponzi trap. It's just the way that our power-play traders of the ultimate Illuminati (TM) insider information exchangers are setting up the rest of our erstwhile life form for the -- now -- absolute necessity of greater-human-species dieback. Really, they're even telegraphing their moves rather blatantly. Missing plague mice, Marberg hemmoragic viruses that infect contrary to the "natural order" of such diseases, bird-flue viruses that are used as an excuse to destroy vast quantities of food resources, criminally insecure food resources, and while this list goes on let's also mention American endorsed, santioned, and otherwise sponsored GENOCIDE within and throughout the "brown-man's" land of the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia, Central and South America (after all, BHO is a "brotherrrrr" in that his culturally dominant gene is quite apparently Caucasian), yup, for about 95% of humanity, we are one fucked species.
But look at the bright side, -- once the lion's share of us are fratricidally knocked off -- the rest of "our kind" will be able to harvest its comparatively opulent NWO survival for at least a few to as much as ten or more thousands of years because of all that "abandoned" infrastructure (nearly seven-billion people's worth of it), property, and (in the shorter term) food! And for that the rigidly regulated, surviving population (not over 500,000,000, but more like 50,000,000) it would culturally -- and to a sigificant extent even genetically -- be redesigned for an environmentally (especially in relation to the "natural" sphere) impacting 'low-maintenance.'
As far as the severely regulated technologies of "man" would be concerned, the religiously lobotomized NWO workforce wouldn't have to do hardly any metal-mining and just a small volume of extraction for the various modes of energy production. Education for "them" would be of the worker-bee variety.
Anyway, just make sure that you're not an "Illegal" survivor, because immediately after the primary die-off scenarios (I figure that the last one will happen before the 22nd Century comes around), all unsponsored and subsequently unendorsed environmental consumers will be hunted down and summarily eliminated. The NWO's justifications for this situation will, of course, be written down in "G_d's" latest pseudo-Semitic testament of why all "special-chosen" populations of old-time mountain and sky dieties have such a special dispensation to commit such slaughter ... such a waste.
Oh yeah, James Taylor was there too!
Anyway, in the end, it's the science of the matter that ultimately makes all this unfolding tragedy necessary.
SallyP(al) also revised...
As I write this to you, the "Stimulus Bill" is down to a thrifty 780 billion dollars which is probably being printed out in the mint right now...
As I understand it, we still don't know what is contained in the plan - but, what the heck - it annoys the devil out of the Right, so they must being doing something right, huh?
Well, not so fast. Timothy Geithner, Obama's Treasury Secretary (Ex New York Federal Reserve Bank chief) is still an ass. Was he not a part of the original problem as Hank Paulson's puppet? They screwed us with TARP, and now we are trusting stimulus "details" to them? The more I read about the details of TARP, the more ill I become. For instance, an independent investigation just determined that for every "share" of bank stock the government bought in the deal, at 100K per share, it is actually valued at 65K per share - a staggering loss for taxpayers; a bonus for the brass.
And, speaking of investigation, where the hell are those "details" of this new bill we keep being promised? I mean, if Wall Street is the financial indicator, it's in total disconnect here, and the Dow Jones seems to be going up and down like a YoYo. And, worse yet - Obama (whom I want to adore) looked like a deer caught in the headlights when he spoke to the nation on Monday night. He doesn't have a clue...
This is what I really think: In the weeks leading up to his Inauguration, the powers behind the spotlight (the infamous "Shadow Government") let Obama have it, hurling the truth about the depth of greed and corruption which has been going on over these last Bush years - and perhaps even before. I doubt if there is any aspect of industry, finances, or banking that has not been touched by the core causes. He KNOWS, that before we can move forward, he needs to be investigating, prosecuting, jailing, and seizing assets of EVERYONE from Bush down! But he won't and we all know why - he is powerless under their thumbs.
Furthermore, as I stated above, I don't think Obama has a clue about what to do to pull the country back on its feet RIGHT NOW! All we can see is that he is willing to try this and that (throwing the pasta against the wall in the hopes it will stick) while waiting for the market will straighten itself out - just as the Republicans want him to do. Oh, he will throw us a little good stuff - fluff - to keep the press and talk-show hosts in business - but very little of substance for the taxpayers. Anarchy is the only thing that can save the Union now - tear it all down and rebuild - but that's not going to happen either.
Pelosi, et al.? They are just trying to grab that which they can before the ship sinks, and If I can see it, I am guessing most others can too.
We are screwed here my man, and the Bilderberg group could not be happier.
Paul from Seattle with this final thought...
Whatever the stimulus bill ends up to be, the lack of just 1/4 of billion set aside to finance the criminal investigation of the bush cabal is a sorely lacking aspect. If we could frog march the bushies and cheneys and their minions to The Hague the rest of the world would chip in sizable quantities of cash to facilitate the proceedings.
What a stimulus that would be to the American and World psyche, the benefits would be incalculable.
New Question
The 81st Annual Academy Awards Prediction Edition
Hey Poll-fans! It's Heart vs Mind i.e.
Who d'ya want to win as opposed to who d'ya think is gonna win
.
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Director
Feel free to include any other category that interests you (nod to Adam here for sound). Results will be posted prior to the ceremony... I wish I could make this a contest with prizes and all. But, hey, there's a recession going on, or haven't ya heard? So, just have some fun, eh?
Send your response, and a (short) reason why, to
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Chris Jones: Why funding for the arts should be in stimulus plans (Chicago Tribune)
In the recent debate over the Barack Obama administration's economic recovery bill, proposals to spend government money on the arts have become poster children for pork.
Louise France: Rachel Maddow's Amazing Rise from Geek to Big-Time Cable News Host (The Observer UK; Posted on AlterNet.org)
Maddow is a clever, idealistic and skeptical geek, and her growing audience can't get enough.
Michael J. Mooney: South Florida's underground vampires lust for more than your heart (browardpalmbeach.com)
Under any other circumstances, the girl sitting in the oversized red chair might be screaming for help or begging for mercy. A tall, pale young man - his eyes lined in black - inches toward her with a sharp blade in his hand. It's just after 1 a.m. on a recent Friday night, and an operatic trance song thumps through a North Miami Beach living room lit only by a series of white candles.
Kristin Tillotson: Author-father recalls teen daughter's psychosis in 'Hurry Down Sunshine' (Star Tribune)
James Joyce once took his beloved, mentally ill daughter Lucia to see Carl Jung. The famed psychoanalyst compared father and child to two people going to the bottom of a river - one falling, the other diving.
"Moby-Dick" (Bantam Classic) by Herman Melville: A review by Doug Brown
I'm embarking on a "classics year," where I'm going to try to read a lot of those books that I know I should have read a long time ago. You know the ones -- those books that we can all quote from and make references to, even though we've never actually cracked open a copy.
John Harlow: Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying (timesonline.co.uk)
"It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel," said Grahame-Smith, a television comedy writer. "Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet's doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously."
Libby Segal: Reading Film (irascibleprofessor.com)
Last Wednesday was my first day of class. It was a day for teachers to warn us of the penalties for being tardy or for missing class. It was a day for teachers to demand that we refrain from plagiarizing. And last, it was a day for inspiring words. My teacher noted how lucky we are to have the opportunity to view cinema and study it. She described it as a "great" subject and so very "interesting."
My grandad, the clown (guardian.co.uk)
The Tate focuses on Rodchenko the artist. But what about the practical joker and family man? Luke Harding talks to his grandson in Moscow.
20 QUESTIONS: Martin Bisi (popmatters.com)
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Rachel Leibrock: Welsh emo outfit Funeral for a Friend has its hopes up for American crowds (McClatchy Newspapers)
You'd think a sizable crowd would gather for Funeral for a Friend, but in a down economy, it's tough to sell a Welsh hard-core emo band - even one acclaimed by the critics and people of their homeland.
Will Harris: A Chat with Ian McKellen, Co-star of "King Lear", the "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, and "X-Men" (bullz-eye.com)
I can remember (director) Trevor Nunn getting into a taxi and saying two things about 'King Lear.' One, real rain, and two, naked. And I said, 'Okay,' and that's what we got. We got real rain and we got real naked-but not on the telly.
Scott Renshaw: 'Friday the 13th' Revisits Vintage '80s Horror (Salt Lake City Weekly)
Marcus Nispel proves that he knows why the franchise endures: At its core, it's less about terror than it is about comedy.
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, but brisk, with more rain on the way.
White House Correspondents Dinner
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes will soon get the chance to make fun of President Barack Obama to his face.
The comic actress said Thursday that she has been selected as the entertainer at the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington, slated for May 9.
Obama is expected to attend the black-tie affair at the Washington Hilton. The guest list of some 2,000 people will likely include the usual mix of Washington elite, White House press corps and Hollywood celebrities.
"The first thing I did when they asked me to do this gig - I made sure my taxes were paid," quipped Sykes, taking a dig at the withdrawal of former U.S. senator Tom Daschle from Obama's cabinet due to unpaid taxes.
Wanda Sykes
A Week On Letterman
U2
Make room, Paul Shaffer. U2 will be on David Letterman's "Late Show" for a full week to promote their upcoming album.
The band will be Letterman's musical guest each night from March 2 to 6. It's the first time a musical guest has been given a solid week on the CBS show.
U2's new album, "No Line on the Horizon," is to be released that week. The band played its first single, "Get on Your Boots," to kick off the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
The band last appeared on the "Late Show" in October 2001.
U2
New Diplomatic Career
Charles Aznavour
French singer Charles Aznavour said Thursday he had agreed to become ambassador to Switzerland for his ancestral homeland Armenia.
Aznavour, aged 84, was born in France of Armenian parents and established an international singing career that still takes him around the globe.
"At first I hesitated, because I thought that this is no easy matter. But then I thought that in the end, what is important for Armenia must be important for all of us," Aznavour said in comments broadcast on Armenian television.
"I accepted this proposal with pleasure, joy and a deep feeling of honour," said Aznavour, who was granted Armenian citizenship in December, 2008.
Charles Aznavour
Manuscript Sets Record
Abraham Lincoln
Christie's says a handwritten manuscript of an 1864 Abraham Lincoln speech has sold for $3.44 million in New York City, setting a new auction record for any American historical document.
The sale on Thursday was just slightly higher than the previous record of $3.40 million set last year, also for a 1864 Lincoln document.
Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new wing for the Southworth Library Association in Dryden, N.Y., in the Finger Lakes region. The document was given to the library in 1926.
Abraham Lincoln
Possessions To Auction
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi's trademark leather sandals and steel-rimmed glasses, as well as his watch, will be auctioned in New York next month.
The items, along with a bowl and plate, were among the ascetic Indian independence leader's most important possessions.
The round glasses, one of the most familiar details in Gandhi's image, were given to an army colonel.
The officer had asked Gandhi for inspiration and "Gandhi handed over his glasses saying they were the 'eyes' that had given him vision to free India," the catalogue from Antiquorum says.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life Getting Opera Treatment
Anna Nicole Smith
Britain's august Royal Opera said Thursday it is planning a show based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith, the model and stripper who married an octogenarian oil tycoon, starred in her own TV show and died of a drug overdose in 2007.
The company says the show will have music by respected British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. The libretto is by Richard Thomas, co-creator of "Jerry Springer: The Opera," an earlier merger of highbrow and lowbrow culture. It is due to run in the Royal Opera's 2011 season.
The company's director of opera, Elaine Padmore, told The Guardian newspaper the show "is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad."
Anna Nicole Smith
Two-Thirds Favor Probe
Americans
Two-thirds of Americans favor investigating whether the George W. Bush administration overstepped legal boundaries in its "war on terror," according to a poll released Thursday by USA Today and Gallup.
A majority of respondents said a probe should be launched into allegations that the Bush team used torture to interrogate terror suspects.
Investigators also should look into the former president's program of wiretapping US citizens without first securing court-issued warrants, respondents said.
The telephone survey of 1,027 adults, taken between January 30 and February 1, had a plus or minus three percent sampling error.
Americans
Connected Semifinalist Disqualified
American Idol
An "American Idol" contestant who made the show's top 36 was disqualified.
In its press released issued Wednesday night announcing the 36 contenders, Fox TV said that Joanna Pacitti was "ineligible to continue." No reason was given.
Pacitti, who auditioned in Louisville, Ky., entered "Idol" with a showbiz resume. She had a record deal with Geffen and released an album in 2006. Billboard reports it sold more than 16,000 copies. "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi recognized Pacitti when she auditioned in Louisville, Ky.
She also starred in "Annie" on Broadway as a young girl, and sang on the soundtracks for the movies "Legally Blonde" and "Bratz." Britney Spears' tune "Out From Under," from her latest album, was first performed by Pacitti on the "Bratz" soundtrack.
American Idol
The Show Doesn't Go On
Connecticut Opera
The Connecticut Opera has gone out of business after 67 seasons, the latest arts group to fall victim to the economic downturn and sagging charitable donations.
The opera closed its Hartford office, laid off its half-dozen staff members and informed its 2,000 subscribers that they won't be getting their money back on two recently canceled springtime productions - "Daughter of the Regiment" in March and "La Boheme" in May.
Orchestras, ballets and opera companies across the country are facing huge deficits. The Los Angeles Opera is laying off 17 people, cutting salaries and will stage fewer performances this year. The Miami City Ballet is cutting eight dancers. The Baltimore Opera has declared bankruptcy.
The nation's premier opera company, the Metropolitan Opera, this week dropped four productions from the 2009-10 season and slashed salaries because of the economy. The Opera Orchestra of New York also canceled its two remaining performances this season because of the recession.
Connecticut Opera
City Fears Loss Of Archive
Leeuwarden
The municipal pornography archive in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden is missing and officials fear it may be gone for good.
Spokesman Erik Krikke of the city's historical center said the archive - which contained photos, drawings and erotic texts with a connection to the city - may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor.
"We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked."
Krikke said the collection was small enough to have fit in a moving box.
Leeuwarden
Broken Fingernails
Lee Redmond
A Salt Lake City woman who was in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has had them broken off in a car accident. Lee Redmond sustained serious but non-life threatening injuries in the Tuesday accident.
Redmond was the current Guinness record holder, with nails that hadn't been cut since 1979. Her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches, according to the Guinness Web site.
Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson says she was ejected from an SUV in the crash and taken to the hospital in serious condition, the Deseret News reported Thursday on its Web site.
Lee Redmond
Scientists Flabbergasted
Speedy Birds
Little songbirds cover more than 300 miles a day on their annual migrations, flabbergasting researchers who expected a much slower flight.
For the first time, scientists were able to outfit tiny birds with geolocators and track their travel between North America and the tropics, something only done previously with large birds such as geese.
New tracking equipment, weighing only a little more than a paper clip, is now allowing the tracking of purple martins and wood thrushes, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
In the study, wood thrushes and purple martins were captured in western Pennsylvania and fitted with the locating devices. The 1.5 gram clear plastic trackers sense and record sunrise and sunset, and when the birds return and are recaptured the data can be downloaded to a computer. Purple martins and wood thrushes weigh about 50 grams each - just under 2 ounces.
Speedy Birds
Cable Nielsens
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Feb. 2-8. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 4.08 million homes, 5.36 million viewers.
2. "Burn Notice" (Thursday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.81 million homes, 5.27 million viewers.
3. "Monk" (Friday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.75 million homes, 5.67 million viewers.
4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.56 million homes, 5.47 million viewers.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.49 million homes, 5.15 million viewers.
6. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 3.48 million homes, 5.23 million viewers.
7. "NCIS" (Monday, 7 p.m.), USA, 3.35 million homes, 4.46 million viewers.
8. "NCIS" (Tuesday, 7 p.m.), USA, 3.13 million homes, 4.17 million viewers.
9. "NCIS" (Thursday, 7 p.m.), USA, 3.12 million homes, 4.31 million viewers.
10. "The O'Reilly Factor" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 3.1 million homes, 4.07 million viewers.
11. Movie: "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 3.09 million homes, 4.23 million viewers.
12. NBA Basketball: L.A. Lakers vs. Boston (Thursday, 8:16 p.m.), TNT, 3.06 million homes, 4.31 million viewers.
13. "Psych" (Friday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3 million homes, 4.46 million viewers.
14. "ICarly" (Tuesday, 6 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.98 million homes, 4.14 million viewers.
15. "Sonny With a Chance" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.92 million homes, 4.09 million viewers.
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