"I am extremely angry at what they have done with that video footage. I
plan on suing them..."
-Sean Hannity on
THIS DIVIDED STATE
Starting today
(Thursday, Feb 23rd), Minority Films
is offering, for free, the horrendous
speech Sean Hannity gave at Utah Valley State College in the
documentary film THIS DIVIDED STATE
.
It is 10 minutes of pure infuriating numb-skullery and is completely
upsetting to anyone who has a sense of civility.
Everyone should see this footage! It is unbelievable that Sean Hannity
can get on Fox News every night and claim "balance" and "civil
discourse".
Mary Otto: A Bitter Pill for Md. Immigrants (washingtonpost.com)
Seldom does a budget cut help cripple a child. Yet when Maryland cut $7 million last year and eliminated health care coverage for some recent immigrants, surgery was canceled on Eelaaf Zahid's malformed hip. Now, as her family looks to the courts and other state programs for help, an outgrown medical device implanted in her hip three years ago protrudes from her small body. The Glen Burnie kindergartener walks with a limp.
Molly Ivins: Will Reform Follow Scandal?
... the most useful reform bill is being offered by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Rep. Barney Frank, D- Mass. -- public campaign financing. We, the citizens, put up the money to elect the pols. This bill won't cost us money, the savings will be staggering.
Wayne Pacelle: Cheney's Canned Kill, and Other Hunting Excesses of the Bush Administration
Vice President Dick Cheney went pheasant shooting in Pennsylvania in December 2003, but unlike most of his fellow hunters across America, he didn't have to spend hours or even days tramping the fields and hedgerows in hopes of bagging a brace of birds for the dinner table.
Joel Stein: I hired an illegal immigrant (latimes.com)
Sure, it's unfair that they're not paying all their taxes, but plenty of bona fide citizens who get paid in cash don't either. Nor is it fair that the government gives out farm subsidies and we got most of our Olympic medals by persuading the world to compete in fake sports we made up, like snowboarding. My high school history may be rusty, but I vaguely remember that immigrants have generally been a net gain for this country.
Today (2/22/06) was a bad day for women in South Dakota…especially poor women. The State Legislature passed a ruling banning virtually all forms of abortion. So begins a war that will soon be waged in a U.S. Supreme Court that has been stacked with women hating white men who will undoubtedly take it upon themselves to "kill" women's rights.
So I decided to watch a movie on the Sundance Channel about another war……the war against the Native People of this Land that has been happening for hundreds of years and it is also, in many ways, a war against women. This particular story is about Annie Mae Pictou Aquash.
Annie Mae was born on March 27th, 1945 in Nova Scotia, Canada as a Mi'kmaq. She was raised in the country and her family lived as migrant farm workers picking blueberries. She married Jake and they had two daughters. They moved to Boston and rented an apartment and started "living like white people"! Jake left and Annie got a job downtown at the "Cave" as a hostess but whenever any Indians came in she would refuse to serve them alcohol…knowing full well how easily "firewater" was abused by native people. She met Nageesh, an Ojibway artist, and soon they were living together. Annie went down to "Indian Island" to learn more about native culture and suddenly it was 1971 and the beginning of the American Indian Movement….A.I.M.
Quick history lesson:
Way back in 1868, the U.S. government gave the Sioux Indians complete ownership of their native South Dakota homeland…the Black Hills ("The Heart of the World") by signing the Fort Laramie Treaty. 6 years later, the whites discovered gold in them thar hills…..pretty soon the area was over run with greedy gold diggers and the Indians were in the way. This all led to the Indian Wars and Custer being killed and the U.S. Army coming in and killing the whole culture. But the Sioux started their Ghost Dance rituals and of course it made the whites nervous so one freezing December night in 1890, the cavalry came in to Wounded Knee and slaughtered 300 innocent and starving men, women and children.
Cut to 1975:
The A.I.M. movement had been taken to Washington and the FBI decided to start doing intense "domestic surveillance" on all Indians and sympathizers. At the same time, Richard Wilson formed his famous GOON squad (Guardians Of Ogalala Nation) on Pine Ridge Reservation. This area became a hell hole with heavily armed agents literally murdering and harassing their own people. This all led to a group of Sioux Indians and A.I.M. supporters taking over the gravesite at Wounded Knee and starting a siege that lasted 71 days. Annie Mae somehow got behind the battle lines, and with many other native women, made the siege happen. She also met and became lovers with Dennis Banks and was soon on the "inside" of the whole movement. Babies were born (Mary Crow Dog "Lakota Woman" (1994) had a child) and people died. After the cease-fire and all the legal proceeding started (The Wounded Knee Trials) there was infiltration into Pine Ridge by FBI and agents were being planted amongst AIM itself. Then there was the murder of two FBI agent and the arrest of Leonard Peltier. Paranoia set in big time and somebody started a rumor that Annie Mae was an agent. She was arrested twice on weapons charges before she was found frozen dead on a farm road on February 24th, 1976.
Since nobody came forward, she was placed in the hands of the FBI as Jane Doe. They cut off both of her hands and sent them to a lab to a Dr. Brown and they buried the rest of her. Annie's family filed for an unearthing and had their own autopsy done. They found a bullet hole in her back. Because the brave men were still afraid to be associated with Annie Mae, five Indian women dug her final grave by hand and let her rest.
This movie is partly narrated by her 2 daughters who are grown now…and her first husband Jake who raised them….He remembered having to turn around in the back of their station wagon and tell his girls of their mothers death…."She was a Warrior…..and she died in an Indian War"!!!!
It is not entirely unlikely that she died the same way as the great Chief Crazy Horse…..by the hands of her own People"!!!
Purple Gene give "The Spirit of Annie Mae" 8 big "Hey Ya Ho's out of 10 for being so fucking sad and reminding me that the fight for women's rights is again heating up!
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a RERUN'Close To Home', then a RERUN'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Hugh Laurie and Ne-Yo.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Dolly Parton, Kevin Smith, and the Cult.
NBC fills the night with more FRESH (but pre-taped & edited) 'The XX Winter Olympics: Only America Matters Version'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Al Michaels and Tyler Perry.
Conan is pre-empted due to Olympics coverage.
Carson Daly is pre-empted due to Olympics coverage.
ABC opens the night with a 2-hour FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Paul Walker, snowboarder Hannah Teter, and Bow Wow with Travis Barker.
The WB here has 'NBA Basketball', with the Lakers visiting the Clips at Staples.
Faux has an unusual RERUN of '24' (Day 5: 2pm - 3pm), followed by another unusual RERUN'24', (day 5: 3pm - 4pm).
UPN fills the night with a FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown!'.
PLEASE check local PBS listings for a FRESH'NOW With Bill Moyers David Brancaccio', the MOST IMPORTANT program on over-the-air-TV.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Gene Simmons), another 'Biography' (Ozzy Osbourne), and 'Playboy's Celebrity Centerfolds'.
AMC offers the movie 'Tremors II: Aftershocks', followed by 'Hustle', then the movie 'The Silence Of The Lambs', followed by the movie 'Tales From The Crypt'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - The Ant, An Introduction;
[2:40pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 3;
[3:20pm] 'I'm Alan Partridge' - Episode 4;
[4pm] 'At Home With the Braithwaites' - Episode 2;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 1;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 25;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 17;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Foats;
[9pm] 'My Family' - Episode 10;
[9:40pm] 'My Hero' - Episode 8;
[10:20pm] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Graham Norton;
[11pm] 'Black Books' - Episode 3;
[11:30pm] 'Peep Show' - Episode 4;
[12am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 5;
[12:30am] 'Peep Show' - Episode 6;
[1am] 'My Family' - Episode 10;
[1:40am] 'My Hero' - Episode 8;
[2:20am] 'Kumars at No. 42' - Graham Norton;
[3am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 1;
[3:40am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 2;
[4:20am] '3 Non-Blondes' - Episode 3;
[5am] 'Green Wing' - Episode 3;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', followed by the movie 'Traffic', then the movie 'Traffic', again.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Comedy Central Pesents', another 'Comedy Central Presents', then tastelessly, 'Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet'.
HBO offers a FRESHReal Time with Bill Maher - scheduled guests include Danny Glover, former Sen. Gary Hart and author Irshad Manji for the roundtable discussion. Plus, via satellite, Rep. Heather Wilson, and columnist Nicholas Kristof.
History has 'Nature Tech', 'Little Ice Age: Big Chill', and 'Heroes Under Fire'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Shipping News (2001);
[8AM] Happy Accidents (2000);
[10AM] Dancing to New Orleans (2003);
[11:35AM] Seven's Eleven (2004);
[12PM] Invincible (2001);
[2:30PM] Happy Accidents (2000);
[4:30PM] Dancing to New Orleans (2003);
[6:15PM] Joe Gould's Secret (2000);
[8:15PM] Dirty Pretty Things (2002);
[10PM] Film School #1 (2004);
[10:30PM] Dinner For Five #49 (2005);
[11PM] Amongst Friends (1993);
[12:30AM] At The IFC Center (2006);
[1AM] Film School #1 (2004);
[1:30AM] Dinner For Five #49 (2005);
[2AM] Amongst Friends (1993);
[3:30AM] Independent Spirit Award Nomination Show (2005);
[4AM] Film School #1 (2004);
[4:30AM] Dinner For Five #49 (2005);
[5AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: February (2006). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'John Doe', followed by a FRESH'Stargate SG-1', then a FRESH'Stargate Atlantis', followed by a FRESH'Battlestar Galactica'.
Sundance -
[6:05AM] Year of the Bull;
[7:35AM] The Naked Man;
[9:15AM] In Short: In Short: Documentaries directed by Hajo Schomerus and Richard Carroll and Dominic Bridges;
[9:45AM] A Letter to True;
[11:15AM] Dolls;
[1:15PM] The Match;
[3PM] The Naked Man;
[4:45PM] Le Confessional;
[6:30PM] Kath & Kim: Sitting on a Pile;
[7PM] House Of Cards;
[9PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 1: Season's End;
[10PM] Stryker;
[11:35PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Home;
[12AM] The Thing;
[2AM] Darkman;
[3:45AM] Darkman II: The Return of Durant;
[5:30AM] House Of Cards. (ALL TIMES EST)
United States rock music legend Lou Reed performs at the end of the daily medal ceremonies at the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Thursday Feb. 23, 2006.
Photo by Greg Baker
Nelson Mandela received an honorary degree from the University of Massachusetts at the former South African president's foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
UMass President Jack Wilson presented an honorary doctor degree of humane letters to Mandela and his wife, Graca Machel, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Wednesday.
"Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice," Wilson said. "President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come."
He's a legendary master of old-time radio drama, but 95 year-old Norman Corwin has a thing or two to say about the movies, starting with what he called a new sense of moviemaking that challenges convention.
"There is a fresh spirit, and fresh winds are blowing through the Academy," Corwin told Reuters, referring to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars and of which he is a long and distinguished member.
Corwin sees that spirit evoked in several of this year's best film Oscar nominees, including "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Crash," "Brokeback Mountain" and "Munich." The awards will be announced on March 5.
He singled out George Clooney for taking his status as a major Hollywood star and using it to make a film like "Good Night, and Good Luck" that entertains audiences and makes them think.
A cable television network co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore is facing at least two lawsuits challenging its use of the name Current TV.
A Maryland company is suing in federal court in Cincinnati claiming trademark infringement. Minnesota Public Radio has made a similar complaint in a Minneapolis court.
"This is a straight-forward case of trademark infringement," according to briefs filed last month in U.S. District Court by Current Communications Group of Germantown, Md., a provider of broadband Internet services that relies on a Cincinnati company to help distribute its service.
British model Kate Moss arrives with photographer Mario Testino for the Burberry Prorsum fashion collection for Autumn/Winter 2006/2007, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23 2006.
Photo by Antonio Calanni
Singer Morrissey was quizzed by the FBI and British intelligence after speaking out against the American and British governments.
The Brit is a famous critic of the US-led war in Iraq and has dubbed resident George W Bush a "terrorist" - but he was baffled to be hauled in by authorities.
"They were trying to determine if I was a threat to the government, and similarly in England. But it didn't take them very long to realise that I'm not.
Mike Wallace has given papers from his 40-year career at CBS News to the University of Michigan, his alma mater.
The papers include notes, transcripts, photographs, correspondence, interviews and research, and fill about 50 file cabinet drawers, The Detroit News reported Thursday. Wallace, 87, helped launch the TV news magazine "60 Minutes."
Wallace graduated from Michigan in 1939 and worked for the school's low-power radio station. He earlier gave the Bentley Library his papers from the 1950s, when he wrote a newspaper column and hosted an interview program on ABC.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke. Blagojevich says he didn't realize "The Daily Show" was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes-puzzled Democratic governor.
"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives ... that's all I knew about it," Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a story for Thursday's editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'"
Interviewer Jason Jones pretended to stumble over Blagojevich's name before calling him "Governor Smith." He urged Blagojevich to explain the contraception issue by playing the role of "a hot 17-year-old" and later asked if he was "the gay governor."
At one point in the interview, a startled Blagojevich looked to someone off camera and said, "Is he teasing me, or is that legit?"
Sandra Bernhard is ready to talk and sing - off-Broadway.
The performer will open April 5 in "Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful," an evening of entertainment that will feature comedy, social commentary and some rock 'n' roll. Preview performances begin March 29 at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
The limited engagement of "Everything Bad and Beautiful" ends May 28.
A resident Bush protestor waves to passing traffic outside the Charleston Civic Center prior to the Kanawha County Lincoln Day Dinner featuring keynote speaker Karl 'Turdblossom' Rove (R-Propagandist), resident Bush's senior advisor Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, W.Va.
Photo by Jeff Gentner
On the morning after this year's Oscars, losing nominees in the six major categories will receive gift baskets stuffed with nearly $50,000 worth of goodies, including a stay at the lavish MGM Mirage in Las Vegas and a gift certificate for LASIK eye surgery. The baskets are being created by Lash Fary.
Temporary villages now sprout up at events like the Sundance Film Festival, offering everything from the newest BlackBerries to free on-site teeth whitening. At Sundance this year, celebrities from lists A to D were seen carting away armloads of high-ticket electronics and designer ski gear. The glut of celebrity swag sometimes drew more attention than the festival's films.
There seems to be no limit to what's being given: Presenters at this year's SAG Awards visited a backstage "talent retreat" where the offerings included a trip to the new St. Regis resort in Bora Bora, a diamond necklace and even a gift certificate from beverlyhillsphysicians.com for Botox or other "cosmetic procedures."
"North Country" was the most-important film for women to see in 2005, according to a survey released by New York Women in Film & Television.
The film, in which Charlize Theron plays a miner who wins a landmark sexual harassment case, grabbed the top spot with 19 percent of the vote, followed in order by the race-focused drama "Crash," the dance documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom," the gay-cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" and the cross-dressing dramedy "Transamerica."
Only three women have ever been nominated for an Oscar for best director: Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation") in 2003, Jane Campion ("The Piano") in 1993 and Lina Wertmuller ("Seven Beauties") in 1976.
New Zealand-born filmmaker Lee Tamahori, arrested last month on a sex charge while wearing a woman's dress and wig, was placed on probation after pleading no contest on Thursday to a lesser offense of criminal trespass.
Tamahori, 55, best known for directing the James Bond hit "Die Another Day," was also ordered to attend an AIDS education course, according to Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
The film director was arrested on January 8 in a police sting operation and charged with prostitution and loitering in a public place. He was accused of offering to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer in exchange for money.
With the giant ship's crane off in the distance, a 'Kilroy Was Here' logo is displayed aboard the USS Salem, a heavy cruiser, which sits dockside at the former Quincy Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., Tuesday Jan. 31, 2006. USS Salem now is a floating museum. The slogan originally was by James Kilroy, who was an inspector riveting at the shipyard. World War II soldiers wrote the saying across Europe after reading on Navy ships built in Quincy.
Photo by Charles Krupa
Oscar-winning actor Joe Pesci will not be charged for allegedly punching a fan who photographed him in a shopping center parking lot, officials said Wednesday.
The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office will not file charges against the "Goodfellas" star because there was no likelihood of conviction, said to Assistant State Attorney Jill Estey Richstone.
"The investigating officer was unable to determine who the primary aggressor was and there are no independent witnesses to the incident," Richstone wrote in response to a Boca Raton police warrant request.
Former US child star Brad Renfro was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to attempted possession of heroin.
The actor, now 23, who starred at the age of 12 alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon in "The Client," had earlier denied the charge stemming from his arrest in December in Los Angeles' seedy Skid Row area, home to drug dealers and homeless people.
Renfro entered his plea before Los Angeles Superior Court David Horwitz, who also ordered Renfro into a drug rehabilitation programme.
A Los Angeles County sheriff inspects the remains of a rare $1.2 million Enzo Ferrari that crashed on Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Malibu, Calif. The car, one of only 400 made, was going at least 100 mph when the driver lost control and struck a power pole, investigators said. Sheriff's investigators identified the owner as Stefan Ericksson, 44, who escaped the wreck with only a cut lip.
Photo by Hanz Laetz
Coca leaf has more nutritional value than milk and should replace it in school lunches, Bolivia's colorful new Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca told reporters.
"Our children need calcium and the coca leaf has more calcium than milk," said the official, who in past interviews confessed to have stopped reading books since he discovered his Aymara heritage and claims to get his knowledge from reading the wrinkles of his ancestors.
"Perhaps instead of milk in school lunches, we should be giving coca leaf to our children," Choquehuanca mused.
The Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean liner, top right, moves near its historic namesake the Queen Mary, docked below, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at the Long Beach Harbor, in Long Beach, Calif. The QM2 and the Queen Mary blew their signal horns in a ceremony where the Queen Mary, a 1934 vessel, has been docked as a tourist attraction and hotel for nearly forty years.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
A paparazzo facing charges involving an incident with actress Reese Witherspoon was found dead this month in a Brentwood apartment, the coroner's office confirmed Thursday.
The body of Todd Kevin Wallace, 44, was positively identified but the cause of death was not determined pending results of toxicology tests, said Brenda Shafer, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County coroner.
Wallace allegedly became angry when Witherspoon and her friends declined to be photographed Sept. 2 at Disney's California Adventure. Anaheim city prosecutors said Wallace became aggressive, striking a 5-year-old girl with his camera and shoving two park employees out of the way.
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