BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 9 June, 2006

Friday

9 June, 2006

big hammer - bigger hammer

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Ann Coulter's Godless: An Analysis and Book Review


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WELL IT STARTED OUT

AS INNOCENT ROUGH-HOUSING

CAT FUCKING A DOG


zEN mAN
(wondering what will come of this strange union of doggie style Kittie porn)

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Bob Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour"


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Joshua Holland: Myth of the Liberal Nanny State (AlterNet.org)
Economist Dean Baker lays waste to one of the most cherished myths of conservative philosophy.


Ezra Klein: THAT EXPLAINS IT (prospect.org)
If you're ever confused about the GOP's puzzling determination to eliminate the broadly supportable estate tax, this report showing that George Bush, Dick Cheney, and their cabinet will personally gain between $90 and $340 million dollars from the tax's repeal clarifies things considerably. As for amassing the political will for the battle, a recent Center for Public Integrity report found that a handful of superrich families had spent $490 million lobbying against the tax. If they succeed, these same families will gain almost $72 billion. Now that's what I call a good investment. - Ezra Klein


Elizabeth Drew: Power Grab (nybooks.com)
During the presidency of George W. Bush, the White House has made an unprecedented reach for power. It has systematically attempted to defy, control, or threaten the institutions that could challenge it: Congress, the courts, and the press. It has attempted to upset the balance of power among the three branches of government provided for in the Constitution; but its most aggressive and consistent assaults have been against the legislative branch: Bush has time and again said that he feels free to carry out a law as he sees fit, not as Congress wrote it. Through secrecy and contemptuous treatment of Congress, the Bush White House has made the executive branch less accountable than at any time in modern American history. And because of the complaisance of Congress, it has largely succeeded in its efforts.


Ahmed Rashid: Afghanistan: On the Brink (nybooks.com)
It is now five years since George W. Bush declared victory in Afghanistan and said that the terrorists were smashed. Since the Bonn meeting, in late 2001, a smorgasbord of international military and development forces has been increasing in size. How is it, then, that Afghanistan is near collapse once again?


Daniel Engber: How Hard Is Hard Labor? (slate.com)
Do military troublemakers have to break rocks?


Joel Stein: Meet the campaign wannabes (latimes.com)
I knew that my district - which includes Beverly Hills, Hollywood and West Hollywood - was pretty far left. But I didn't know just how liberal my neighborhood was until I found out that the Republican Party is controlled by the Log Cabin Republicans. This place is so liberal that if you needed to find someone to argue the pro-life stance, you'd have to teach a fetus to talk.


Henry Chu: Bullied by the Eunuchs (latimes.com)
I don't know how they found me, but they demanded baksheesh. If I didn't yield, they might do something unseemly, but I refused to give in.


Jonah Lehrer: The Gay Animal Kingdom (seedmagazine.com)
The effeminate sheep & other problems with Darwinian sexual selection.


Cartoon: Mikhaela B. Reid: The Phone Conversations Bush Won't Listen In On (inthesetimes.com)

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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD

THE "GODLESS" BITCH IS GODLESS

THANK YOU CHIMP BOY

IS THE CHIMP FUCKING CONDI?

TASK FORCE 145

PRESIDENT DICKHEAD

THE NUTTY CONGRESSMAN

CHIMP BOY DOWN

DICKHEAD IS HUNTING FOR BIG BIRD

THE "FUCK THE BITCH" WAR ON TERROR

RECRUITING FOR THE FASCIST CAUSE

BUSH THE ENABLER

ALL IN THE FAMILY

WE'RE SORRY WE KILLED YOUR WHOLE FUCKING FAMILY

ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

IT'S TIME FOR TERROR ALERTS

YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

THEY WANT TO KEEP US DUMB

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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

'June Gloom' at it's finest.


No new flags.


Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Ghost Whisperer', followed by a RERUN 'Close To Home', then a RERUN 'NUMB3RS'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Michael Keaton and Wolfmother.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craig are Tom Everett Scott, Ludacris, and Speech.

NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN of Thursday night's 'Windfall', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Nicole Richie, Louis C.K., and Poison.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Denis Leary, Rita Wilson, and Brandi Carlisle.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Sarah Silverman, Cheech Marin, and Mobb Deep.

ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN 'Hope & Faith', then another RERUN 'Hope & Faith', followed by the unwatchable '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are John C. Reilly and Gary Gulman.

The WB offers a RERUN 'What I Like About You', followed by a RERUN 'Twins', then a RERUN 'reba', followed by a RERUN 'Living With Fran'.

Faux fills the night with the movie 'The Animal'.

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', followed by the movie 'The Shining'.

AMC offers the movie 'The Comancheros', followed by the movie 'The Man From Snowy River', then the movie 'Jaws III'.

BBC  -   
 [2:00 pm]    'As Time Goes By' - Episode 2;
 [2:40 pm]    'Are You Being Served' - Fifty Years On;
 [3:20 pm]    'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
 [4:00 pm]    'My Hero' - Episode 5;
 [4:40 pm]    'My Family' - One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest;
 [5:20 pm    'My Family' - Ding Dong Merrily;
 [6:00 pm    'BBC World News';
 [6:30 pm]    'Cash in the Attic' - Banham;
 [7:00 pm]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 36;
 [8:00 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 7;
 [8:30 pm]    'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - Episode 13;
 [9:00 pm]    'The Thick Of It' - Episode 2;
 [9:40 pm]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
 [10:20 pm]    'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
 [11:00 pm]    'Absolutely Fabulous' - Birth;
 [11:40 pm]    'The Office' - Episode 4;
 [12:20 am]    'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 14;
 [1:00 am]    'The Thick Of It' - Episode 2;
 [1:40 am]    'Kumars at No. 42' - Patrick Stewart;
 [2:20 am]    'Little Britain' - Episode 1;
 [3:00 am]    'Fawlty Towers' - A Touch of Class;
 [3:40 am]    'Fawlty Towers' - The Builders;
 [4:20 am]    'Fawlty Towers' - The Wedding;
 [5:00 am]    'Just For Laughs' - Episode 6;
 [5:30 am]    'Just For Laughs' - Episode 5;
 [6:00 am]    'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio', 'Queer Eye', and the movie 'Boiler Room'.

Comedy Central has the movie 'Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', and a FRESH 'Stand Up Nation With Greg Giraldo'.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Building In The Name Of God', and another 'Modern Marvels'.

IFC  -   
 [6:00 AM]    Below;
 [8:00 AM]    Caro Diario;
 [9:45 AM]    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge;
 [12:00 PM]    Before and After;
 [2:00 PM]    At The IFC Center #14;
 [2:30 PM]    Caro Diario;
 [4:15 PM]    IFC Short Film Collection I: June;
 [6:15 PM]    Samurai 7 Episode #9: The Bandits;
 [6:45 PM]    Samurai 7 Episode #10: "The Journey";
 [7:45 PM]    Before and After;
 [9:15 PM]    Super Troopers;
 [11:00 PM]    The Funeral;
 [12:45 AM]    Metroland;
 [2:30 AM]    June Media Lab Results;
 [3:00 AM]    The Funeral;
 [4:40 AM]    In The Company of Women.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has 'John Doe', 'Stargate SG-1', the SEASON FINALE 'Doctor Who', and another 'Stargate SG-1'.

Sundance  -   
 [07:45 AM]    Autumn Tale;
 [09:40 AM]    Claude Chabrol L'Artisan;
 [10:35 AM]    Celestial Clockwork;
 [12:00 PM]    McVicar;
 [02:00 PM]    The Heart of Me;
 [03:45 PM]    The White Balloon;
 [05:15 PM]    Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary;
 [06:30 PM]    Kath & Kim: Gay;
 [07:00 PM]    TransGeneration: Episode 2;
 [07:30 PM]    TransGeneration: Episode 3;
 [08:00 PM]    Alter Egos;
 [09:00 PM]    Slings and Arrows: Episode 4: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair;
 [10:00 PM]    Imagining Argentina;
 [12:00 AM]    Jesus Christ Superstar;
 [02:00 AM]    A Tale of Two Sisters;
 [03:50 AM]    Primo Amore;
 [05:25 AM]    McVicar.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM celebrates the fabulous Judy Garland who was born on this day in 1922.
 [5:30 AM]    Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)     [View Trailer];
 [7:30 AM]    The Clock (1945);
 [9:00 AM]    The Harvey Girls (1946)     [View Trailer];
 [11:00 AM]    Summer Stock (1950)     [View Trailer];
 [1:00 PM]    In The Good Old Summertime (1949)     [View Trailer];
 [3:00 PM]    The Pirate (1948)     [View Trailer];

 [5:00 PM]    Hook (1991)     [View Trailer];
 [7:30 PM]    The Princess And The Pirate (1944);
 [9:30 PM]    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952);
 [11:00 PM]    Divorce, Italian Style (1962)  [AKA: 'Divorzio all'italiana'];
 [1:00 AM]    Stardust Memories (1980)     [View Trailer];
 [2:30 AM]    MGM Parade Show #20 (1955);
 [3:00 AM]    Tension (1950);
 [5:00 AM]    Cause For Alarm (1951).    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Saturday  -  06/10

TCM:
 [6:30 AM]    The Long Voyage Home (1940);
 [8:30 AM]    Cartoon Alley #22 (2005);
 [9:00 AM]    Cowboy (1958);
 [11:00 AM]    The Hallelujah Trail (1965);
 [2:00 PM]    The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)     [View Trailer];
 [5:00 PM]    Sunset Boulevard (1950)     [View Trailer];
 [7:00 PM]    The Entertainer (1960);
 [9:00 PM]    My Favorite Year (1982)     [View Trailer];
 [11:00 PM]    The Sunshine Boys (1975)     [View Trailer];
 [1:00 AM]    A Star Is Born (1937);
 [3:00 AM]    Dream Wife (1953);
 [5:00 AM]    Kiss Me Kate (1953)     [View Trailer].    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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Michael Berg, the father of U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg who was taken hostage and beheaded in Iraq, speaks to the media Thursday, June 8, 2006, in Wilmington, Del. Al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al -Zarqawi , who Mr. Berg believes killed his son, was killed near Baghdad on Wednesday.
Photo by Gail Burton
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Headed To Big Screen

'24'

The real-time TV thriller "24" is headed to the big screen under a deal between movie studio 20th Century Fox and the show's producers, trade paper Daily Variety said on Thursday.

The Hollywood publication said no deals are in place with the cast, although star Kiefer Sutherland -- an executive producer of the series -- has said he would like to reprise his role as sleep-deprived action hero Agent Jack Bauer in a feature version.

However, the paper said the "24" movie would likely abandon the TV show's distinctive real-time conceit, meaning that all the murder and mayhem will no longer be squeezed into one day. A rough plot outline has been drafted, but no details have been disclosed, it said.

'24'

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Sets 20-Concert Tour

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand announced Thursday that she will embark on a national concert tour this fall, her first in over a decade.

Streisand will play 20 concerts in U.S. cities during October and November, her manager, Martin Erlichman, said in a statement. Her last U.S. tour was in 1994.

The 64-year-old singer-actress plans to give "designated proceeds" from the tour to support several causes, including the environment, education and women's health. The money will be distributed through the Streisand Foundation.

Barbra Streisand

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Jay Rasulo (L) chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, and renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz pose in this publicity photograph at an announcement in New York June 7, 2006. Walt Disney Co. hopes to keep the party going at its theme parks when it launches a new global advertising campaign this fall with the catch phrase 'Where Dreams Come True'.
Photo by Paul Hiffmeyer
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Admits To Nerves

Robert Altman

He is 81 years old, has an honorary Oscar and 50 years of television and classic movies like "MASH" behind him, but director Robert Altman admits he still gets a case of nerves ahead of a film debut.

His latest movie, "A Prairie Home Companion," hits theaters on Friday. Reviews are mostly good and the cast, which includes Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and teen idol Lindsay Lohan, is stellar.

"I'm scared shitless. I get very sensitive about reviews and what people have said," Altman said. "As long as I've been doing this, I still take it personally. I don't know why. I guess that's just my nature."

Robert Altman

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Voted Britain's Greatest Living Writer

J.K. Rowling

It's another magical result for J.K. Rowling. The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter was voted Britain's greatest living writer in a survey released Thursday.

Readers of The Book Magazine ranked Rowling ahead of literary heavyweights including Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Harold Pinter and A.S. Byatt.

The magazine's online poll allowed readers to choose from a list of 50 authors, or to add their own suggestion. The top 10 consists of Rowling, Pratchett, McEwan, Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip Pullman, Pinter, Nick Hornby, Byatt and, in a 10th-place tie, Jonathan Coe and John Le Carre.

J.K. Rowling

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Struggling In Los Angeles

Urban Gardeners

It began as a utopian dream: an oasis-like garden where people could grow their own food in the center of a gritty urban neighborhood.

But like so many such visions, the 14-acre farm that sprang up in the middle of an area scarred by the city's 1992 riots is on the verge of falling beneath the bulldozer.

With the price of the property more than tripling since the city acquired it by eminent domain in the 1980s, the developer who later bought it now wants to replace the 350 small garden plots with a large warehouse.

Having lost in court, unable to raise the $16.3 million asking price and facing eviction, members of the 350 mostly Hispanic families who till the soil have turned to the court of public opinion, inviting a stream of celebrity supporters to plead their case.

Urban Gardeners

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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

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Rocker Fails To Sell At Auction

JFK

A rocking chair that once belonged to President Kennedy failed to sell at auction, a spokesman for the auctioneer said.

Bids for the chair, which researchers believe was a gift to Kennedy from the leader of Pakistan, did not reach the owners' minimum asking price of $75,000 at Wednesday's auction, said John Petty, a spokesman for Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas.

The chair will continue to be available for one week in an after-auction sale on the auctioneer's Web site, Petty said.

JFK

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A painting entitled 'Picnic' by artist Muayad Muhsin, who was both inspired and enraged by a photo of Donald H. Rumsfeld slumped on an airplane seat with his army boots up in front of him, is displayed in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, June 5, 2006. The painting, which is expected to be unveiled at an exhibition in Baghdad next week, illustrates the simmering anger of Iraqis with the United States three years after it rid them of Saddam Hussein, whose ouster has been followed by an enduring wave of violence, sectarian tensions and crime.
Photo by Samir Mizban
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CBS Contract

Writers Guild

Two days of further negotiation failed to produce a new contract between the Writers Guild of America and CBS this week as the union continues to resist efforts to strip news producers of their coverage, guild officials said Wednesday.

The two sides met Monday and Tuesday in New York in a bid to end the stalemate over the WGA-CBS national agreement, which expired in April 2005. The agreement covers newswriters, editors, graphic artists and others in Los Angeles, New York, Washington and Chicago. The previous meeting was in November.

One of the key sticking points, according to the union is that CBS wants to deprive newswriters and producers of the union protection they have had for more than 40 years.

Writers Guild

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Hospital News

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn underwent shoulder joint-replacement surgery Thursday and is expected to make a full recovery, a spokesman said.

The country queen, 71, injured her left shoulder on Sunday in a fall at her home in Hurricane Mills, about 60 miles west of Nashville.

Loretta Lynn

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I'm Pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')

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Charging For Photos

Park Service

Wedding parties and other groups hoping to commemorate their special event with a photograph at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument or other popular landmarks on National Park Service land now have to pay for a permit.

Under a new policy that began May 15, the Park Service is requiring a payment of $50 to $250 from groups that hire commercial photographers to snap pictures at some of the 390 monuments, parks and historic sites it oversees. The cost depends on the size of the group.

The fees are being charged at some of the busiest Park Service sites in the Washington, D.C., area and at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Other heavily used sites include the Statue of Liberty, Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, Big Bend National Park in Texas, and Yellowstone National Park.

Park Service

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In this photo provided by Cartier on Thursday, June 8, 2006 are four of eight of its Love Charity bracelets. The Paris-based luxury goods company is offering some of the proceeds from the sale of the bracelets to benefit eight charities. Filmmaker Spike Lee has asked that sales of the purple bracelet go to the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker selected UNICEF to benefit from sales of the blue bracelet.
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Lawsuit Filled

Mindy McCready

Mindy McCready has sued her former boyfriend for $3 million, claiming he beat her last year and that the incident hurt her music career.

McCready, who had a No. 1 hit in 1996, "Guys Do It All the Time," sued last month in Davidson County Circuit Court, The Tennessean newspaper reported Thursday. The lawsuit claims the alleged assault hindered the 30-year-old country singer's ability to book performances and other work.

William McKnight is facing charges of attempted murder and breaking into McCready's home and beating her severely in May 2005.

Mindy McCready

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China Pulls From Theaters

'The Da Vinci Code'

The Chinese government, in an unprecedented move, has ordered movie theaters to stop showing "The Da Vinci Code," movie industry officials said Thursday.

Chinese authorities said the withdrawal of the movie from theaters Friday was to make way for locally produced films, one industry executive said, declining to be named because she wasn't authorized to speak to the media on the matter.

But another Hollywood blockbuster, "Ice Age: The Meltdown" was to be released in China on Friday, said the executive, who added that "The Da Vinci Code" was the first foreign film to be pulled from theaters in China after being approved for release.

'The Da Vinci Code'

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Serial Killers

Calendar

April belongs to serial sex killer John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 young men and boys, while May is for Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate 17 men. June features Satanic worshiper and murderer Richard Ramirez.

The grisly 2007 Serial Killer Calendar produced by a Maine businessman depicts some of the world's most notorious murderers painted by "the vampire of Paris," Frenchman Nico Claux who himself served 7 years for murder.

Purple Inc., the Bangor, Maine-based company that produced and distributes the calendar in specialty retailers and the Internet, said initial response has been so strong that the company is planning a sequel and a line of posters.

Calendar

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This jade statuette, 28 centimeters high and 22 centimeters wide, found earlier this year in a cave of the community of Hato viejo, Catacamas, Honduras, is seen Thursday, June 8, 2006. Carved as part of the Olmeca culture, which is considered the 'mother of the Meso-American' cultures. The discovery indicates an exchange with the Olmeca culture and scientists are investigating the presence of the civilization in Honduras.
Photo by Edgard Garrido
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Convicted In Tax Case

Phil Driscoll

Grammy-winning trumpeter Phil Driscoll, who shifted from pop music to gospel, was convicted Thursday on federal charges that he used his Tennessee-based Christian music ministry in an income-tax cheating scheme.

A jury found Driscoll, 58, guilty of charges of conspiracy and evading some federal income taxes owed for 1996 through 1999.

The jury of seven women and five men acquitted Driscoll's wife, Lynne, on the conspiracy count but deadlocked on a tax evasion charge, prompting U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier to order another trial that he said would be scheduled later.

Phil Driscoll

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Expands Right Wing Spew Fest

CNN Headline News

CNN Headline News said Wednesday it is expanding its primetime programming block to seven days a week, beginning June 17.

Formerly strictly a weekday play, Headline Prime will now repeat weekday editions of "Prime News with Erica Hill" "Nancy Grace" and "Showbiz Tonight," some enhanced with new segments. Also part of the new weekend expansion is "Glenn Beck," which had already been scheduled seven days a week.

CNN Headline News

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A portrait of Jack London and his typewriter sit on a desk inside his wife's bedroom at their cottage at Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen, Calif., April 25, 2006. London, it turns out, was about more than dogs, danger and derring-do, a story state parks officials hope to tell as they meticulously restore the Sonoma County cottage where he spent the last years of an action-packed life.
Photo by Eric Risberg
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U.S. Payoffs Have 'Skyrocketed'

Solatia

The local custom is known as "solatia" --it means families in Iraq receive financial compensation for physical damage or a loss of life. The practice has earned more attention in recent weeks, with news that the U.S. military paid about $2500 per victim to families in Haditha following the alleged massacre there last November.

But how common is the practice? And how many deaths do the numbers seem to suggest?

A chilling report from the Boston Globe on Thursday reveals that the amount of cash the U.S. military has paid to families of Iraqi civilians killed or badly injured operations involving American troops "skyrocketed from just under $5 million in 2004 to almost $20 million last year, according to Pentagon financial data." The payments can range from several hundred dollars for a severed limb to a standard of $2500 for loss of life.

Solatia

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Gives Up Everest Climb For Rescue

Daniel Mazur

Just days after a British climber was left to die near Mount Everest's summit, an American guide abandoned his second bid to stand on top of the world so he could rescue a mountaineer mistakenly given up for dead.

Not only did Daniel Mazur not scale the world's highest peak from the northern side, he also failed to get his two paying clients to the top.

Mazur, his two clients and a Sherpa guide were just two hours from the 29,035-foot peak on the morning of May 26 when they came across 50-year-old Lincoln Hall, who was left a day earlier when his own guides believed he was dead.

Daniel Mazur

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In Memory

Lula Hardaway

Lula Mae Hardaway, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, has died. She was 76.

Hardaway is credited as a co-writer on several of Wonder's songs, including the hits I Was Made to Love Her and Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours.

Hardaway was born Jan. 11, 1930, to a sharecropper in Eufaula, Ala. Her life was marked by poverty and abuse, according to interviews she gave for a 2002 biography, Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother.

At 15, she and her father moved to Indiana, where she went to work in a sewing factory. She married a much older man, Calvin Judkins, father of her children, who drank, beat her and eventually forced her into prostitution to support the family, according to the book.

She eventually fled to Detroit, divorced and got work. It was in Detroit that her blind 10-year-old son, Stevie, began singing on street corners. His talent caught the eye of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr., who signed him to a record contract and nicknamed him Little Stevie Wonder.

The family moved to Los Angeles in 1975, where Hardaway was known for her barbecue sauce and peach cobbler. She was a religious woman who kept Bibles on the bed, dresser and couch, according to the obituary from her family.

Lula Hardaway

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In Memory

Johnny Grande

Johnny Grande, an original member of Bill Haley and His Comets who played piano on their hit "Rock Around The Clock," died. He was 76.

Born in Philadelphia, Grande had recorded more than 40 records, including four that went gold. He played piano on hits like "See You Later, Alligator" and "Rockin' Through the Rye." He helped arrange albums like "Rockin' Around the World."

"Rock Around the Clock" was recorded in 1954 and was a No. 1 hit for eight weeks before going on to sell 22 million copies worldwide, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It gained new popularity when it was chosen for the soundtracks of the movies "The Blackboard Jungle" in 1955, a film named for the song in 1956 and "American Graffiti" in 1974.

Grande was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1997. Haley is the only member of the group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Johnny Grande

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In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, two budgerigars, commonly known as grass parakeets, appear to be kissing as their aviary mates watch Thursday, June 8, 2006, at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco. More than 600 Australian birds made their debut today in Binnowee Landing, a new walk-in aviary, where children will be able to feed and interact with the birds. The aviary will hold the budgerigar and eastern rosella, both parrots and the cockatiel, from the cockatoo family.
Photo by George Nikitin
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