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Talk about the Race for the White House; Record Oil Profits; the Search for Viable Green Energy; How to Protect Our Votes; the Rove Effect and who is going to testify?
Rachel Sklar: Jon Stewart Knew Ted Stevens Was Up To No Good (huffingtonpost.com)
Sure, Stevens is in the news now - but there is one news program that has been on him for ages, tipped off by his notorious temper and propensity for saying whatever the hell he wants. That's the Daily Show, where I can recall first hearing about Stevens via a segment on his explosion on the Senate floor over the pork barrel "Bridge to Nowhere" project.
The week of living dangerously (guardian.co.uk)
Rachel Fuller set out to record an album in just seven days flat. Will Hodgkinson hears how she did it - with a little help from coffee, cigarettes and boyfriend Pete Townshend.
A non-United States citizen of exceptional merit may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress, or by a proclamation issued by the President pursuant to authorization granted by Congress. As of 2008, how many people have had this honor bestowed upon them?
6 people have had this honor bestowed upon them (only two of them were so honored during their lifetime) -
General Lafayette, a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Revolution, posthumously, (1824, 2002)
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II , (1963)
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in the Holocaust, posthumously, (1981)
William Penn, 17th and 18th century proprietor and governor of the American colony of Pennsylvania, posthumously, (1984)
Hannah Callowhill Penn, second wife of William Penn and administrator of Pennsylvania, posthumously, (1984)
Mother Teresa, Albanian Catholic nun, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India. (1996)
Source
Alan J was first, and correct, with:
6
Charlie responded:
No comment on how much of an honor it actually is.
A: 6
DanD answered:
Not too many of these dudes (and dudettes) here hangin' around, as Wiki confirms "A" is the answer. Anywhoo, qualifying as a U.S. "Honorary" citizen seems mostly to be an exercise in worthless recognition, as -- for the energy expended -- you won't even get a handjob, much less a passport.
Consequently, it seems to me that Honorary Citizenship is about as useful as -- well -- my tits are.
Anyway Sally, while I'm glad you can find some comic relief in what I write. Now all I have to do is parlay this irregular talent into a paycheck (effusive issues everywhere).
Sally, in NJ, where the humidity festival is going full-bore, said:
As of 2008, 6 (A) people have been declared, "An Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress, or by a proclamation issued by the President pursuant to authorization granted by Congress."
"How did she know this?" "Is she a bloody genius," you wonder aloud to yourselves?
Nah, nothing like that. I am merely a fan of Scottish, really late night talk show host, "Craig Ferguson." For a while he ran a segment about his quest for obtaining honorary citizenship from GWB. He would list the 6 so-honored people (ones who have received the honor) comparing his qualifications to say, "Mother Theresa" which was just riotous! Ferguson did obtain regular US citizenship by the usual means of naturalization in 2008 BTW.
Marty, is this a sample of the questions you will be using for the, "Coming Soon - More 'Prizes' - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD??"
PS: Craig received a "perfect score" when he took the naturalization test, and issued an hilarious quote thereafter: "All of you people born here, if you had to take that test - well, Canada would be building a fence right now." Craig Ferguson, circa 2008.
Marian the Teacher replied:
6
And, Joe S ("If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
~ Mother Teresa) answered:
A: 6
Coming Soon - More 'Prizes' - 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' on DVD!
(Just not as soon as expected.)
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'The Unit', followed by a RERUN'Flashpoint', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'The Office', followed by another RERUN'The Office', then a FRESH'WWE Saturday Night Steroid Main Event', follwoed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, hosted by Seth Rogen, music by Spoon.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wipeout', followed by another RERUN'Wipeout', then a RERUN'Eli Stone'.
The CW offers a couple old 'Friends', followed by a couple old 'Sex & The City's.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'Hair Show'.
A&E has 'American Justice', another 'American Justice', still another 'American Justice', and 'The Sopranos'.
AMC offers the movie 'Delta Force Commando', followed by the movie 'Tomorrow Never Dies', then the movie 'Iron Eagle'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 3
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 4
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 2 D-Place
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 La Parra de Burriana
[3:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 4
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 10 Walkabout
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 11 Treasure of the Nation
[8:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 A Good Day to Die
[9:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 13 We Are Robin Hood
[10:00 PM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 Tony Curtis and Kevin Bacon
[11:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 A Good Day to Die
[12:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 13 We Are Robin Hood
[1:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 Tony Curtis and Kevin Bacon
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 12 A Good Day to Die
[3:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 13 We Are Robin Hood
[4:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 Tony Curtis and Kevin Bacon
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 7
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Episode 8
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has Project Runway', another 'Project Runway', and the movie 'Miss Congeniality'.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Without A Paddle', followed by the movie 'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle'.
FX has the movie 'The Core', followed by the movie 'Fantastic Four'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Prehistoric Monster Revealed', and 'Journey To 10,000 BC'.
IFC -
[6:05 AM] Ulee's Gold
[8:00 AM] The Hidden Fortress
[10:25 AM] November
[11:45 AM] Chan Is Missing
[1:05 PM] Sling Blade
[3:25 PM] Shelter
[3:45 PM] Diabolique
[5:45 PM] Chan Is Missing
[7:05 PM] Once in the Life
[9:00 PM] The Prophecy
[10:45 PM] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
[12:00 AM] Cube
[1:35 AM] IFC News Election Special
[2:00 AM] Speed Grapher
[2:30 AM] Gunslinger Girl
[3:00 AM] Cube
[4:35 AM] Gummo (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'A Sound Of Thunder', followed by the movie 'Dragon Wars: D-War'.
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Ushpizin
[07:30 AM] The Nuclear Comeback
[08:25 AM] A Path of Purpose
[09:00 AM] Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen
[10:00 AM] We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
[11:35 AM] Soar
[12:00 PM] Being Julia
[01:45 PM] The Milagro Beanfield War
[04:00 PM] Three Seasons
[06:00 PM] Matchbox Twenty, The Script & Def Leppard
[07:00 PM] A Good Woman
[08:45 PM] Belly Button
[09:00 PM] Chapter 1. Crime or accident
[10:00 PM] Friends With Money
[11:30 PM] Swimmers
[01:00 AM] In This World
[02:35 AM] Soar
[03:00 AM] Dumplings
[04:30 AM] Only Human (ALL TIMES EST)
A hot air balloon shaped as the Darth Vader character of the Star Wars movie inflates during the annual Quik Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning at Solberg Airport in Readington, N.J., Friday, July 25, 2008. The hot air ballooning festival continues through Sunday.
Photo by Mel Evans
From World War II hero to dancer and award-winning actor, Charles Durning has lived a storied life. The 85-year-old added to that resume Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to one for his idol, James Cagney.
A who's who of actors joined him at the ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard, including Ed Begley Jr., Jon Voight, Angie Dickinson, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise, Elliott Gould, Lee Purcell and Doris Roberts.
"I never thought this would happen," Durning told the AP. "I spent five years in a hospital after the war. This is one of the secret awards I wanted. I was hoping this would happen in my lifetime and it did."
During the war, Durning was seriously wounded as a member of the first wave of soldiers to land on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. He was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge and was one of a few survivors of the attack on American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium. Durning was honored with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.
Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
DHS officials said that the newly disclosed policies -- which apply to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens -- are reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism. Officials said such procedures have long been in place but were disclosed last month because of public interest in the matter.
The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' "
In this photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young fruit bat is hand fed by a WCS staffer at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Health Center in New York, Thursday, July 31, 2008. The little female drinks a special milk replacement formula designed to duplicate the mother bat's milk. She takes her 'bottle' in an upside down position as she would if she were with her mom. The nipple was made by staff to mimic the size and shape of a mother bat.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
Despite the lack of a glitzy televised ceremony earlier this year because of the writers strike, the organization that sponsors the Golden Globes dipped into its savings to present $759,865 in grants to film schools and nonprofit organizations at a luncheon honoring the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's new officers.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented grants to the Independent Feature Project, Inner-City Arts, California State Summer School Arts Foundation, National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Film Independent Inc., Sundance Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Celebrities attending the event Wednesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel included Aaron Eckhart ("The Dark Knight"), Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), Chris "Ludacris" Bridges ("Crash"), Rosario Dawson ("Rent"), Dana Delany ("Desperate Housewives"), Rosie Perez ("White Men Can't Jump"), Elizabeth Pena ("La Bamba") and Dakota Fanning ("Charlotte's Web").
Comcast Corp has been ordered to change how it manages its broadband network after U.S. communications regulators concluded some of its tactics unreasonably restrict Internet users who share movies and other material.
In a precedent-setting decision, the five-member Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to uphold a complaint accusing Comcast of violating the FCC's open-Internet principles by improperly hindering peer-to-peer traffic.
"Subscribers should be able to go where they want, when they want, and generally use the Internet in any legal means," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement.
The ruling by the FCC does not include any fines against Comcast. But it requires the company to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
It took a half century and YouTube to bring Indonesia's rock 'n roll legends back home.
Andy Tielman and his three brothers left for Europe in 1957, where they packed clubs and stadiums with their high-energy shows, tossing guitars across the stage, plucking strings with their teeth and playing while perched on top of the standing bass.
But while some music critics say the Tielman Brothers' rapid-fire Les Paul riffs and rough interpretations of country-western helped shape the sound of a generation, most fans in their native Indonesia only learned about them this year.
A story in the local version of Rolling Stone magazine sent curious readers to YouTube, where they could hardly believe their eyes: "Insane !!!!!" a new fan wrote on one site. And "why did I never hear of these guys!?"
When Andy, now 72, returned to Indonesia for the first time to perform this month, hundreds turned out to twist the night away, calling out for old headliners written before most of them were born and snapping pictures with their mobile phones.
Circus Oz performers jump together as Michael Ling (R) cracks his whip during a photocall on Calton Hill in Edinburgh for their Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows August 1, 2008.
Photo by David Moir
Shia LaBeouf's hand was "crushed" in the wreck that flipped his truck last weekend, and he still runs the risk of infection and other complications after a four-hour surgery, his lawyer said Friday.
The 22-year-old actor was injured in a late-night crash last Sunday in West Hollywood that authorities have since said was the fault of the other driver. The statement from lawyer Michael Norris said the driver may have been speeding and not paying attention.
The actor has been recovering at a Los Angeles hospital since the surgery and "will need regular medical supervision until his doctors clear him to return to work," Norris' statement said. "We are hopeful that this return will be sooner rather than later."
LaBeouf and his attorneys have cooperated with police, the statement said, adding that "the Sheriff's Department has now released information that the other vehicle ran the red light while striking Shia's truck."
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that claims CNN's Nancy Grace pushed the mother of a missing toddler to suicide through aggressive questioning.
CNN and Grace argued the wrongful death lawsuit brought by Melinda Duckett's family would "severely chill" journalists' coverage of missing-persons cases. But U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges on Thursday denied their motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Duckett fatally shot herself before the network aired the pre-taped interview.
The family claims Grace's intense questioning caused severe emotional distress that led to the suicide. The lawsuit also claims that the decision to air the interview after her suicide caused the family to suffer severe emotional distress and media and public harassment. They are seeking a jury trial, unspecified damages more than $15,000 and punitive damages.
The judge overseeing the criminal cases for the remaining Jena Six defendants was removed against his will Friday for making questionable remarks about the teenagers.
Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. had acknowledged calling the teens "trouble makers" and "a violent bunch" but insisted he could be impartial. Defense attorneys disagreed and asked that he be removed.
Judge Thomas M. Yeager, who was appointed by the state Supreme Court to decide whether Mauffray should be taken off the case, found there was an appearance of impropriety.
Mauffray was out of town, court officials said, and would not comment on the ruling.
A lawyer says a bus carrying hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg did not have expired tags in a stop that led to two people on board charged with marijuana possession.
Attorney Chris Lewis, who represents the two men charged with misdemeanor possession, told The Associated Press on Friday that he saw the bus and was in contact with the driver.
Lewis says he believes Snoop Dogg was asleep when Texas troopers Thursday pulled over the bus on Interstate 45 in Corsicana. DPS said the bus was examined for an expired registration sticker.
Ethan Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, both of the Los Angeles area, were arrested, then later freed on $1,500 bond each.
The battle over a sex tape featuring Verne Troyer has reignited after the actor sued his ex-girlfriend for $20 million, claiming she allowed snippets of the tape to be released.
Troyer's lawsuit also claims that ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider was abusive and inflicted emotional distress on the "Austin Powers" actor.
The new lawsuit comes roughly two weeks after Troyer settled with a porn distributor and broker and successfully blocked the release of the 50-minute tape of him and Shrider having sex. The new suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, is an outgrowth of that original claim.
Troyer originally claimed in court papers that the tape had been stolen. His lawsuit states that detail was included because Shrider tearfully told Troyer that she did not know how the tape became public and that it must have been taken from their home.
Pollen covers the abdomen of a bumblebee as it flies from flower to flower on a Rose of Sharon Friday morning, August 1, 2008, in Hunlock Creek, Pa.
Photo by Jimmy May
Soaring into the great blue yonder cures John Travolta's blues.
"Aviation has always bailed me out of anything in my mind that is blue," the 54-year-old actor told reporters at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture, an annual aviation convention. "I can look through an airline schedule and brochure and cheer up."
Travolta, who was 15 when he took his first flying lessons, said he has owned 17 different aircraft over the last 34 years. He now owns a Boeing 707, Eclipse 500 and Gulf Stream II.
Travolta was promoting Eclipse Aviation, which was showing off fuel-efficient planes at the convention. Travolta is friends with founder Vern Raburn.
A collection of art that Adolf Hitler dreamed of housing in its own Austrian museum is now on display on the Internet.
The German Historical Museum in Berlin decided to launch an online catalogue of the famous Linz Collection to help viewers understand the complicated and sometimes tragic history behind many of the pieces, museum spokesman Rudolf Trabold said Friday.
"The complete picture database for 'Special Project Linz' is now on the Internet," Trabold said. Hitler bought and stole the artworks in a period from the late 1930s through the end of the Second World War. He wanted to put the collection in a museum in Linz, Austria, after the war.
The collection appears online with information about its original owner and current location, when available.
The dog left on the doorstep of the southern California pet clinic was sick. The letter left with him was heartbreaking.
"Dear Drs., please forgive me for this horrible transgression. I have no where else to turn so I ask you to mercifully, gently and lovingly please help him sleep. His name is Kaiser and he's 16-and-a half years old. He's been my friend, my teacher, my pupil, my lifelong loving and loyal companion," the letter said.
"We've been together 24-7 365 days a year since he was 8 months old. He's gentle, smart, and I'll miss him more than I could admit. Saturday evening, without warning or any outside influence, he began rolling on his back on the floor, all four legs extended, rigid and thrusting wildly in all directions. I saw fear and panic in his otherwise unrecognizable eyes. His head was pulled down to his right, and he seemed unable to do otherwise. If I had to render a guess I would say it appeared as though he had a stroke. He can stand, but 85 percent unsteady. He's fearfully reacting to attempts to get him to drink water. He refuses food as though he's totally lost knowledge of what to do with food."
"I'm a homeless disabled vet, and I know when it's time to say goodbye to a friend, and it's time now. He's such a part of my being, I'll once again be alone in my life. I love you Kaiser, thank you for caring, sincerely, Kaiser's Soul Mate."
A little lynx, left, peers from between twigs with his mother at the zoo in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. The lynx cub was born on May 12, 2008.
Photo by Diether Endlicher
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