BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 21 March, 2014

Friday

21 March, 2014

(Updated Daily)

[906 days in a row]



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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Marissa Bagg: Sebastian Chavez: Boy's organs to be donated, helping five to seven others (WPTV)
Friends gather for moment of silence for young boy.


Bristol man gets revenge by texting works of Shakespeare to rogue internet seller (Bristol Post)
Edd Joseph, 24, who lives in the city with his girlfriend, was furious when he bought a PS3 games console for £80 and the seller failed to deliver the goods. So Edd decided to take his revenge by sending him the entire works of the Bard - by text.


Tom Danehy: If Arizona Republicans hate welfare so much, why are they looking to expand it for education? (Tucson Weekly)
By now, Arizonans who care about education (and apparently most of us don't) realize that when a Republican in this state opens his/her mouth to speak about education, about 54 percent of what comes out translates to "I hate teachers unions." Another 24 percent is "I hate teachers, period." Then, 21.2 percent is "How can I dick the middle class and help my rich donors send their kids to private school at the same time?" The remaining 0.8 percent is largely unintelligible, even more so than the other 99.2 percent.


Jessica Chiappone: I haven't voted in years because I went to prison years ago. Give me my rights (Guardian)
I've paid my taxes and obeyed the law, yet there are millions just like me. Here's what I told the UN last week - and what's next.


Jess Denham: Disney's Frozen is 'very evil' gay propaganda, says Christian pastor (Independent)
Disney's hit movie Frozen encourages homosexuality and bestiality. Or at least, that's what one Christian pastor thinks.


Patrick Strudwick: "Boy George: Bad karma" (Independent)
… the Norwegian model told me, O'Dowd [Boy George], under the influence of cocaine and convinced that Carlsen had broken into his computer, "asked me to come into the bedroom. He and another guy are standing there and suddenly they are both jumping and beating on me and kicking on my back, my face, dragging me along the floor... tying me up... handcuffing me...screaming abuse… I've never seen a person so full of hate. I thought he would kill me."


Eddie Deezen: The Popeye the Sailor Story (Neatorama)
Popeye the Sailor made his comic strip debut in January of 1929. Popeye was originally just one of the many characters in a comic series drawn by Elzie Segar called Thimble Theater.


Adam Todd Brown: 4 Famous People Who Get Away With Being Total Hypocrites (Cracked)
#4. Jimmy Kimmel



David Bruce's Amazon Author Page

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David Bruce's Blog

David Bruce's Lulu Storefront

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Trivia Question of the Day


In the United Kingdom, cats of what color are thought to be unlucky?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


In Germany, we drank beer using a special glass called a Stiefel. What object does a Stiefel look like?


      Boot                                                      Source


Stiefel (or boot): The Stiefel is literally a glass in the shape of a boot. It can vary in size but commonly holds 4 to 5 pints of beer. The Stiefel is popular among young fraternal groups because it's meant for communal drinking (and whoever takes the last gulp buys the next round). Drinking from a boot filled with beer presents a problem similar to that of a yard glass. The solution? Drink with the toe pointed horizontally.        Source


Wirtshaus Zum Seppl on Hauptstraße in the old part of Heidelberg was where we Peppy-Techer's encountered our first Stiefel.

Wirtshaus Zum Seppl - Heidelberg, Germany - Restaurant | Facebook







Marian was first, and correct, with:
   glass boot



Lois, With Only The Beer Light To Guide Us, Of Oregon said:
   Oh, HELL YEAH! Now you in MY neighborhood, girlfriend! In the classic movie "Beerfest" it was referred to as "Das Boot" which is kinda stupid, 'cause in german methinks that means "the boat", but when you've had enough beer, it means "the BOOT", and that what we here for. Chugging beer out of a glass boot! Wait, what was I talking about? Oh man, I gotta pee...


  P.S. @ Sally: Green Gunk...oh yeah! That should make him smile!
  P.P.S. @ D.J. Useo: Oh man, that was was gold. You kill me!




Deborah wrote:
   A Stiefel is a boot-shaped glass. Traditionally it holds 2 liters of beer. Cheers!



Jim from CA, retired to ID, took the day off.
  



Adam answered:
   A boot. No, A horn. I'll just say a boot.



Charlie replied:
   A boot




Dale of Diamond Springsy, Norcalio, responded:
   The Stiefel is literally a glass in the shape of a boot. It can vary in size but commonly holds 4 to 5 pints of beer. The Stiefel is popular among young fraternal groups because it's meant for communal drinking (and whoever takes the last gulp buys the next round). Drinking from a boot filled with beer presents a problem similar to that of a yard glass. The solution? Drink with the toe pointed horizontally. Some Beer Babes…..





Sally said:
   In Germany, they drink beer using a special glass called a Stiefel. A Stiefel looks like a boot.

  For several months, I lived in Frankfurt, Germany, and did my share of partying - but never saw any of these in action. The beer would be flat before you were half-way to the bottom! I suppose people did share, but that doesn't appeal to me at all...
  PS: First day of Spring, and it's 50o outside - now I feel like having a beer...




DJ Useo, responded:
   A Stiefel is generally shaped like a woman's boot. Sometimes a woman's leg.
  I don't know which woman, but it reminds me of that old phrase
  "She drinks so much, she must have a hollow leg."




BttbBob   took the day off.
  
  March 21 Birthdays - Celebrities Born March 21 | Famous Birthdays




Alan J replied:
   A Boot



MAM   wrote:
   A boot ~ It is commonly believed that a general somewhere promised his troops to drink beer from his boot if they were successful in battle. When the troops prevailed, the general had a glassmaker fashion a boot from glass to fulfill his promise without tasting his own feet and to avoid spoiling the beer in his leather boot.

Want one?




Barbara, one of my Pepperdine roommates, as well as a witness, said:
   Good memories! A stiefel is boot-shaped. Here are some examples from oktoberfesthaus.com
  Prost!




And, Joe S     answered:
   A boot, it looks like a boot.

  I didn't really take the day off yesterday, Charter Internet took the day off. Again. I hate when that happens. I knew the answer to the quiz too, and my son and daughter-in-law have a Norwegian Forrest Cat living with them. His name is Lula, the cat is named Lula, because they thought he was a she when he was a baby cat. After they found out different it was too late to rename him. Evidently you just can't go around renaming Norwegian Forest cats willy-nilly.
  I can't find Lula's picture.



  


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Middle Class Political Economist

Real Wages Rise Slightly but Remain below Peak for 41st Straight Year




Now a Blogger-Columnist at US News and World Reports "Economic Intelligence"


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


Scott Brown Awkwardly Finds Out That Obamacare Is Also Helping Republicans



An Ominous Trend in Union Movies



Indians 101: Hopi Katsinas



BBC News - Roy Orbison: Unreleased songs to see light of day



BBC - Culture - The hidden messages in children's books



Plugging China's talent pool - CNN.com



Tony Bennett Slams Modern Music As 'Terrible'
     No shit, Sherlock!




Thanks, Michelle!


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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from Marc Perkel

BartCop

Hello Bartcop fans,

As you all know the untimely passing of Terry was unexpected, even by him. We all knew he had cancer but we all thought he had some years left. So some of us who have worked closely with him over the years are scrambling around trying to figure out what to do. My job, among other things, is to establish communications with the Bartcop community and provide email lists and groups for those who might put something together. Those who want to play an active roll in something coming from this, or if you are one of Bart's pillars, should send an email to active@bartcop.com.

So - to let you know what's going on, the guestbook on bartcop.com is still open for those who want to write something in memory of Bart.

I did an interview on Netroots Radio about Bart's passing
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or here.
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Bart's final wish was to pay off the house mortgage for Mrs. Bart who is overwhelmed and so very grateful for the support she has received. Anyone wanting to make a donation can click on this the yellow donate button on bartcop.com

But - I need you all to help keep this going. This note isn't going to directly reach all of Bart's fans. So if you can repost it on blogs and discussion boards so people can sign up then when we figure out what's next we can let more people know. This list is just over 600 but like to get it up to at least 10,000 pretty quick. So here's the signup link for this email list.
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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


WHO IS "POOTIE POOT", AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

OUR PRECIOUS LITTLE CUPCAKES.

THE GUN NUTS GO CRAZY!

"WE ARE NOW IN A POLICE STATE"






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Sunny spring day.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS fills the night with LIVE 'NCAA March Madness', then pads the left coast with local crap.
On a RERUN Dave (from 2/19/14) are Kaitlyn Farrington, Lupita Nyong'o, and Little Dragon.
On a RERUN Craig (from 2/24/14) are Zooey Deschanel, Vera Farmiga, Julia Mancuso, and Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire.



NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a FRESH 'Grimm', then a FRESH 'Hannibal'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Kevin Bacon, Jeff Musial, Ty Dolla $ign, and Ann Wilson.
Scheduled on a FRESH Seth Meyers are Chris Meloni, Zosia Mamet, and Kostya Kennedy.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 1/14/14) are Kellan Lutz, Starfucker, and Run River North.



ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'Last Man Standing', followed by a FRESH 'The Neighbors', then a FRESH 'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 3/5/14) are Ricky Gervais, NeNe Leakes, and Kongos.



The CW offers a FRESH 'Whose Line Is It Anyway', followed by another FRESH 'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH 'Hart Of Dixie'.
On a RERUN Arsenio Hall (from 1/22/14) is Ice Cube.



Faux has a FRESH 'Rake', followed by a RERUN 'Enlisted', followed by a FRESH 'Raising Hope'.



MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.



A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH 'The First 48', then a FRESH 'Beyond Scared Straight'.



AMC offers the movie 'Face/Off', followed by the movie 'Braveheart'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]    BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO: THE WATERS OF MARS
 [9:00AM]    DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 1 - The Eleventh Hour
 [10:00AM]    ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 10
 [11:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 9 - The Vengeance Factor
 [12:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
 [1:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 3 - Momma Cherri's
 [2:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Revisited: Spanish Pavilion, Kingston Cafe, Capri, La Frite
 [3:00PM]    RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 3 - Rococo
 [4:00PM]    TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07-Episode 5
 [5:00PM]    TOP GEAR: BEST OF 06-07-Episode 6
 [6:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
 [7:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
 [8:00PM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
 [9:00PM]    RED DRAGON
 [11:30PM]    RED DRAGON
 [2:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
 [3:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
 [4:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
 [5:00AM]    STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q     (ALL TIMES EST)



Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', 'Real Housewives Of NYC', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by the movie 'How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days'.



Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'Key & Peele', another 'Key & Peele', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.



FX has 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by the movie 'Wanted'.



HBO offers a FRESH Bill Maher.



History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', yet another 'Counting Cars', still another 'Counting Cars', and yet another 'Counting Cars'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Portlandia-Squiggleman
 [6:30AM]    This Is Spinal Tap
 [8:15AM]    The Perfect Storm
 [11:00AM]    Enter the Dragon
 [1:15PM]    The Invasion
 [3:15PM]    The Perfect Storm
 [6:00PM]    The Fog
 [8:00PM]    Halloween
 [10:15PM]    The Hills Have Eyes 2
 [12:15AM]    The Shining
 [3:15AM]    Halloween
 [5:30AM]    Portlandia-Pull-Out King    (ALL TIMES EST)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00AM]    Law & Order-Tabloid
 [7:00AM]    I Hate Valentine's Day
 [9:00AM]    The Red Violin
 [11:45AM]    Inventing the Abbotts
 [2:00PM]    Confidence
 [4:00PM]    Catch a Fire
 [6:15PM]    In the Line of Fire
 [9:00PM]    Aliens
 [12:00AM]    Aliens
 [3:00AM]    Lady Vengeance
 [5:30AM]    The Writers' Room-Breaking Bad    (ALL TIMES EST)



SyFy has 'Helix', followed by a FRESH 'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then a FRESH 'Helix'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Female (1933)
 [7:15 AM]      Goodbye Again (1933)
 [8:30 AM]      Biography Of A Bachelor Girl (1935)
 [10:00 AM]      Bachelor Mother (1939)
 [11:30 AM]      Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
 [1:15 PM]      Play Girl (1940)
 [2:45 PM]      Cinderella Jones (1946)
 [4:15 PM]      Two Sisters From Boston (1946)
 [6:15 PM]      The Glass Slipper (1955)
 [8:00 PM]      Oliver! (1968)
 [10:45 PM]      The Gold Rush (1925)     SILENT 
 [12:15 AM]      The Loved One (1965)
 [2:30 AM]      Cool Hand Luke (1967)
 [4:45 AM]      The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)     (ALL TIMES EST)



Saturday   -  03/22/14

TCM:
 [6:30 AM]      Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
 [8:30 AM]      Swing Time (1936)
 [10:15 AM]      Carson on TCM: Fred Astaire (12/21/79) (2013)
 [10:30 AM]      Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
 [12:00 PM]      Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
 [1:45 PM]      Sergeant York (1941)
 [4:15 PM]      Imitation General (1958)
 [6:00 PM]      Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
 [8:00 PM]      The Pink Panther (1964)
 [10:00 PM]      The Mouse That Roared (1959)
 [11:30 PM]      I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
 [2:00 AM]      Zardoz (1974)
 [3:45 AM]      The Green Slime (1969)
 [5:15 AM]      Perversion For Profit (1965)     (ALL TIMES EST)




Antenna TV

Bounce TV

Cozi TV

MOVIES! TV Network

Me-TV

RTV - The Retro Television Network

This TV


Al Jazeera






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Actress Juliana Margulies, left, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listen before Clinton receives the American Jewish Congress' lifetime achievement award on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in New York.
Photo by Jin Lee

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Pee-Themed Letter To Auction

John Lennon

A letter that John Lennon wrote to producer Phil Spector blaming Who drummer Keith Moon and singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson for urinating on a recording console in the Seventies is going up for auction, via auctioneer Cooper Owen. Dubbed by Lennon "A Matter of Pee," the missive minces no words and shows the former Beatle's discontent with the recording studio that wanted to evict him over the matter. It dates back to Lennon's "Lost Weekend" period, a debaucherous 18-month stretch in which he dated his assistant May Pang outside of his marriage with Yoko Ono, worked on 1975's "oldies" record Rock 'n' Roll and produced Nilsson's Pussy Cats record. Moon contributed drums and percussion to the latter record, which came out in 1974.

"Should you not yet know, it was Harry and Keith who pissed on the console!" Lennon wrote in the exclamation point-laden letter. Later in the note, he added, "I can't be expected to mind adult rock stars nor can May, besides she works for me, not A+M! I'm about to piss off to [recording studio] Record Plant because of this crap!"

Lennon later gifted the letter to guitarist Jessie Ed Davis, who played on Pussy Cats, Rock 'n' Roll and Lennon's 1974 album Walls and Bridges. It is expected to fetch between $6,600 and $9,900 in the auction. Davis' estate is also auctioning four drawings Lennon gave him, including a self-portrait with Davis and Nilsson, a sumi ink depiction of a man meditating, a landscape full of mountains and puns and an acetate sleeve with a UFO, a yin-yang and the words "Walls and Bridges." Bidding begins on all auctions on Friday.

Both Moon and Nilsson had reputations for riotous behavior. Moon was known for blowing up toilets and imbibing copious substances (after accidentally ingesting an elephant tranquilizer once, the drummer spent days paralyzed), and Nilsson was once ejected from the L.A. club the Troubadour with Lennon after the pair heckled the Smothers Brothers. In 1978, Moon died in Nilsson's house after overdosing on a sedative his doctor had prescribed him to prevent seizures induced by withdrawing from alcohol.

John Lennon

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Ann Marie Plastino, widow of Al Plastino, the artist who drew the 1964 DC comic book "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy" stands in an exhibit, which opened today, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Thursday, March 20, 2014. Al Plastino died when he was 91 on Nov. 25, 2013. After the comic book's publication the original art went missing until 1993. It was finally donated to the library's permanent collection in December 2013 by comic book publisher DC Entertainment and will be on display through May 31, 2014.
Photo by Stephan Savoia

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25 Years Later

Exxon Valdez

Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

The 987-foot tanker, carrying 53 million gallons of crude, struck Bligh Reef at 12:04 a.m. on March 24, 1989. Within hours, it unleashed an estimated 10.8 million gallons of thick, toxic crude oil into the water. Storms and currents then smeared it over 1,300 miles of shoreline.

For a generation of people around the world, the spill was seared into their memories by images of fouled coastline in Prince William Sound, of sea otters, herring and birds soaked in oil, of workers painstakingly washing crude off the rugged beaches.

After the spill, the population of herring crashed. It is now listed as "not recovering." The silvery fish is a key species because it is eaten by salmon, seabirds and marine mammals from otters to whales. Four years after the spill, the estimated herring population based on modeling shrunk from 120 metric tons to less than 30 metric tons.

Exxon Valdez

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Newhead News


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Show History By Pen

US Archives

Joseph Stalin's signature was bold and forceful, Harry Truman's was unaffected and readily legible, while Winston Churchill's was formal and unflappable.

The autographs of World War II's Big Three leaders -- etched on a program to a string orchestra concert during a break from their conference in Potsdam -- are on display at the US National Archives in a new exhibition that aims to look at history through penmanship.

The exhibition, which opens Friday and runs until January 2015, taps into the National Archives' collections to show more than 100 signatures of figures as diverse as pop legend Michael Jackson and the first US president George Washington.

In perhaps the most chilling section, the National Archives has put out the marriage license of Adolf Hitler signed on April 29, 1945 as the German dictator and Eva Braun eloped one day before they committed suicide.

US Archives

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Masked protesters display a banner which reads: ''More Poverty. More Repression'', in Pamplona northern Spain, Thursday, March 20, 2014, during a protest against the poverty which thousands of people in Spain have been plunged into due to economic austerity measures.
Photo by Alvaro Barrientos

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Corpse Schtupping In Seattle

Kurt Cobain

With the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death approaching, a Seattle police detective re-examined the case files in connection with the Nirvana front man's suicide.

Police spokeswoman Renee Witt said Thursday the review found nothing new. But while looking over the files, the detective found several rolls of undeveloped film, Witt said. Seattle police planned to release one image from that discovery later Thursday.

Police took another look at the Cobain suicide to be ready to answer questions in connection with next month's anniversary, she said.

"There's still a lot of interest in this case," Witt said. "The detective went into the case files to refresh himself. The outcome of the case has not changed."

Kurt Cobain

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Wake-up Call


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Jury Selection Continues

George Wallace

A jury was being picked Thursday for comedian George Wallace's trial seeking $9 million from a posh Strip resort for a leg injury he received when he fell over stage wiring during a private performance for a corporate group in 2007.

Clark County District Court Judge Ronald Israel said he hoped a jury could be seated to begin hearing testimony Friday.

Wallace, 61, who removes his trademark beret as he enters the courtroom, blames the Bellagio Las Vegas for an Achilles tendon rupture his lawsuit said he suffered while performing for an HSBC Card Services Inc. corporate audience.

Wallace had named HSBC as a defendant in the civil negligence lawsuit filed in 2009. Those two parties reached a confidential pretrial settlement this week, according to Gentile and Loren Young, attorney for HSBC. Neither would disclose the terms.

Gentile cast Wallace as an entertainer so unwilling to disappoint an audience that he finished the show for the HSBC group and went on a few hours later to perform his nightly show from an office chair at the Flamingo hotel-casino.

George Wallace

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An animal rights activist poses on a table next to fruits and vegetables as she performs to promote vegetarianism on "Meat Out Day" in Mexico City March 20, 2014. The placards read "For every day without meat, 10 to 15 lives will be saved every year" (top R) and "1400 litres of water can be saved" (bottom L). In the background is the monument "Diana La Cazadora".
Photo by Henry Romero

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Japan PM To Visit

Anne Frank House

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R-Right-Wing Revisionist) will visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam this weekend to express regret over the vandalism at Tokyo libraries of hundreds of books related to the young Holocaust victim, a Japanese official said Thursday.

Abe will visit the museum Sunday, a day before he attends the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the appearance publicly.

More than 300 Frank-related books, including copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl," were vandalized recently at Tokyo libraries. Police last week arrested a man in the case.

While Abe is stressing the importance of learning history, his revisionist view about his own country's wartime brutalities in Asia has strained ties with South Korea. Japan is pushing for a three-way meeting with South Korea and the U.S. during the March 24-25 summit in the Netherland, where leaders of all three countries plan to attend.

Anne Frank House

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An artist walks across the roof of his house while carrying paintings to be dried at Jelekong village near Bandung, in Indonesia's West Java province, March 20, 2014. The people of Jelekong village earn their living by selling their paintings. Around 300 painters live in the village, producing about 1,000 paintings a month, each priced between 50,000 rupiah to 11,000,000 rupiah ($4.50 to $1000), according to villager Asep Sancang, who works as a high school art teacher and painter.
Photo by Beawiharta

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Too Big To Fail, Predator Edition

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair

The outcome of a trial that was widely regarded as a litmus test for how the US military handles sexual assault in its ranks has caused an outcry among lawmakers and advocates of victims of sexual assault - as well as many long-serving military officers.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, accused of sexual assault, on Thursday received what was widely regarded as a light sentence, consisting of a $20,000 fine and an official reprimand.

The general had pleaded guilty to having a long-standing affair with a captain under his command and having inappropriate relationships with three other junior soldiers. Earlier in the week the Army dropped sexual assault charges, citing what the judge (an Army colonel) reportedly believed were questions about unreliability in the victim's testimony and "undue command influence" in moving the charges forward.

Sinclair's sentence was "beyond disappointing," said retired Rear Adm. Jamie Barnett, now a partner with the law firm of Venable LLP, who represented the accused on a pro bono basis. "Clearly, the Army judge does not understand the nature of cruelty, maltreatment of subordinates, and sexual abuse by a superior in command," he added in a statement. "This sentence can only be interpreted as the Army viewing what General Sinclair did as just not that bad."

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair


FWIW, dear old Dad's CO (a colonel) in WWII was court martialed for fraternizing with the enlisted men, playing poker and gambling.
He ended up doing hard time.


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Satirical sculptures burn during the traditional Fallas festival in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Every year the city of Valencia celebrates the ancient "Las Fallas" fiesta, a noisy week that is full of fireworks and processions in honor of Saint Joseph that ends in the midnight of March 19, burning large satiric figures displayed around the streets of the city.
Photo by Alberto Saiz

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Firing of LAPD Officer Upheld

Rihanna

A judge has upheld the firing of a former Los Angeles police officer who improperly took a photo of Rihanna's battered face that eventually ended up on celebrity website TMZ.

Superior Court Judge Luis Lavin issued a ruling Thursday saying that the firing of former officer Rebecca Reyes was proper and her conduct should preclude her from being a peace officer.

Reyes acknowledged she used her personal cellphone to take a picture of an evidence photo that depicted Rihanna's injuries after she was beaten by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009. She also acknowledged sharing it with other officers, but denied leaking it to TMZ.

Reyes' attorney accepted the ruling without argument Thursday afternoon.

Rihanna

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Visitors look at the painting 'Young Hare' (1502) by German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer during the exhibition "The Origins of the Albertina - From Dürer to Napoleon" at the Albertina museum in Vienna March 20, 2014. After nearly a decade-long absence from view, the 'Young Hare' is now once again accessible to the general public. The exhibition runs until June 29, 2014.
Photo by Leonhard Foeger

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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

    1. (2) Justin Timberlake; $1,804,342; $115.43.
    2. (1) Beyoncé; $1,798,401; $126.05.
    3. (3) George Strait; $1,582,818; $90.71.
    4. (4) Pink; $1,529,428; $87.17.
    5. (5) Jay Z; $1,089,218; $96.47.
    6. (6) Kanye West; $949,374; $89.06.
    7. (8) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $742,976; $54.21.
    8. (9) Jason Aldean; $601,248; $50.52.
    9. (10) Keith Urban; $555,116; $63.06.
   10. (12) Zac Brown Band; $505,903; $63.91.
   11. (13) John Mayer; $454,733; $61.84.
   12. (14) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis; $362,011; $41.34.
   13. (15) Jeff Dunham; $243,874; $46.81.
   14. (16) Florida Georgia Line; $228,732; $32.93.
   15. (20) Tobymac; $182,494; $33.60.
   16. (18) The Fresh Beat Band; $180,188; $40.17.
   17. (19) The Band Perry; $174,006; $41.71.
   18. (New) Justin Moore; $159,177; $33.95.
   19. (New) "Winter Jam"/Newsboys; $153,235; $12.87.
   20. (New) Willie Nelson; $131,615; $75.86.

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In Memory

Fred Phelps

Fred Phelps, the pastor who led a small Kansas church's vitriolic "God Hates Fags" anti-gay campaign across the United States, has died, the church said on Thursday.

"People die - that is the way of all flesh," a blog post on the church's website said.

"Look, you can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God," Phelps said in a 2010 Huffington Post interview.

Phelps' rhetoric was hotter than fire and brimstone. He called President George W. Bush a "Bible pervert," Barack Obama a "bloody beast" and conservative TV commentator Bill O'Reilly a "demon-possessed messenger of Satan".

Phelps's church gained notoriety in 1998 by picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was beaten outside a bar in Wyoming and left to die. His story was turned into a movie and play.

Phelps and his congregants had their biggest impact at military funerals, where they faced an angry backlash from veterans' families and their supporters. Their right to picket led to action by the U.S. Congress and a freedom-of-speech legal battle that the church won at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Phelps's church even sent a contingent to Pittsburgh in 2003 for the funeral of Fred Rogers, the mild-mannered host of the children's TV show "Mister Rogers Neighborhood," on the grounds that he was "a wuss" and had not denounced homosexuality.

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