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protestor sit next to one another in MN. Are they able to co-exist in peace
during war?
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Nat Hentoff: You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell (villagevoice.com)
You can also say this, if you agree, in your letters to Castro while you remind him that you and many others around the world-socialists, libertarian conservatives, and plain believers in human decency-ask the presidente to act in the very name and spirit of human decency to release Biscet and the other nonviolent prisoners of conscience. Thereby we can all join Viktor Yushchenko in his message to Fidel Castro.
Holly Sklar (The Providence Journal. Posted on smirkingchimp.com)
"The vast majority of American workers (70 percent) think 'the American Dream' has been or will be harder for them to financially achieve than it was for their parents' generation," according to the Principal Financial Well-Being Index.
Molly Ivins: Stupidity, survived (Creators Syndicate)
The Democrats have a new strategy that may finally get the Republicans off the pot. They're working to get a minimum wage increase on state ballots, including Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Arkansas and Montana. The theory is that putting a minimum-wage increase on the ballot does for Democrats what putting on an anti-gay marriage proposition does for Republicans -- it gets out the base.
Brandon Stosuy: Donovan Leitch's The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man (villagevoice.com)
It's fun to watch Leitch polish his legacy: He takes credit for world music, folk-metal fusion, "All You Need Is Love" 's refrain, Warhol's VU banana, pre-Dylan electro-folk, and New Age. Things get super-speculative when he ponders if Page, Jones, and Bonham's contributions to "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" led to Zeppelin.
BRIGHT EYES: THE WAKE-UP CALL (rollingstone.com)
Have you ever had to resort to the phrase "I'm Canadian"?
Not if I'm dealing with civilized people. But if we're deep in Wales -- and there's gonna be a bar fight if you're an American -- we've been using that trick for a while.
Think I'm a guest on Erin's Show tonight on 710 KIRO - most likely somewhere between 9 & 11pm.
No new flags, but thought they'd look festive.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'Cold Case', then a RERUN made-for-TV movie, 'Surrender Dorothy'.
NBC opens the nigh with 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then another RERUN'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a RERUN'Crossing Jordan'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then the FRESH'Desperate Housewives: All The Juicy Details', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'In Justice'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Reba', followed by a another RERUN'Reba', then a RERUN'Charmed', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Malcolm', followed by the movie 'Vertical Limit'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'Intervention', 'CSI: Miami', '24', and 'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'For A Few Dollars More', followed by the movie 'Uncommon Valor', then the movie 'The Green Berets'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Sue Young;
[2:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Xemia;
[3pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Meeta;
[3:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Liz Traves;
[4pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Mikael;
[4:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Maria;
[5pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[5:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Matthew;
[6pm] 'North and South' - Episode 1;
[7pm] 'North and South' - Episode 2;
[8pm] 'North and South' - Episode 3;
[9pm] 'North and South' - Episode 4;
[10pm] 'Mile High' - Episode 11;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'Changing Rooms' - Episode 1;
[12:30am] 'What Not To Wear' - Tribes of Man;
[1am] 'Mile High' - Episode 11;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[5am] 'Without Prejudice' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'History Rocks', 'Modern Marvels', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] The Devil's Backbone (2001);
[8AM] Last Orders (2001);
[10AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[10:15AM] Lulu on the Bridge (1998);
[12PM] At the IFC Center #9;
[12:30PM] Last Orders (2001);
[2:30PM] The Last Days Of Chez Nous (1993);
[4PM] Lulu on the Bridge (1998);
[5:45PM] Short: Pink;
[6PM] The Lady And The Duke (2001);
[8:15PM] Sweet and Lowdown (1999);
[10PM] The Chateau (2001);
[11:45PM] Chuck & Buck (2000);
[1:30AM] Sweet and Lowdown (1999);
[3:15AM] The Chateau (2001);
[5AM] Short: Gowanas, Brooklyn;
[5:30AM] At the IFC Center #9. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi continues the all-day/all-night 'Twilight Zone' marathon.
Sundance -
[6:30AM] The Secret Lives of Dentists;
[8:15AM] Pi;
[9:45AM] American Fame Part One: Drowning River Phoenix;
[10AM] How to Draw a Bunny;
[11:30AM] Mott Music;
[12PM] Comfort and Joy;
[2PM] Iconoclasts: Jackson on Russell;
[2:45PM] Iconoclasts: Ford on Koons;
[3:30PM] Iconoclasts: Grazer on Redstone;
[4:15PM] Iconoclasts: Zellweger on Amanpour;
[5PM] Iconoclasts: Batali on Stipe;
[5:45PM] Iconoclasts: Redford on Newman;
[6:30PM] Pi;
[8PM] The Magic of Fellini;
[9PM] Sunday;
[10:30PM] Die Mommie Die!;
[12AM] Party Monster;
[1:45AM] Dirty Work;
[2:45AM] A Certain Kind of Death;
[4AM] Sunday;
[5:35AM] Comfort and Joy. (ALL TIMES EST)
Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops in Iraq would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation's tense debate about the war in Iraq.
His sign tallying the war's dead and wounded rests feet from the local Army recruiting office, and Cameron's refusal to take it down despite Army requests has drawn national attention. The fuss is giving the Vietnam veteran a chance to air a view he wishes he'd expressed long ago.
"The way veterans have been treated in this country is shameful," Cameron said this week.
His tribute has irritated the military recruiters next door, who dislike the daily reminder of friends lost. Staff Sgt. Gary Capan, the post's commander, requested that the sign come down for his colleagues' benefit.
It all started a month ago, when Cameron, a volunteer for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Kelley, posted a sign in the window of the campaign's local office. It reads, "Remember the Fallen Heroes," and contains three tallies: the number of American troops killed in Iraq, the number wounded and the days passed since the war began.
Singer Arlo Guthrie waits backstage on Jackson Square in front of St. Louis Cathedral as he waits to do a sound check in New Orleans La., Saturday Dec. 31, 2005. Guthrie, who has been active in musician relief, will perform for Saturday's New Year's Celebration in the city.
Photo by Steve Helber
Rock star Bono said Saturday that his commitment to campaigning against poverty caused tensions within U2.
The musician said that at one point he feared his commitment to the anti-poverty cause might force him out of the band.
"They are hugely supportive spiritually and financially of the work I do, but they are in a rock 'n 'roll band, and the first job of a rock 'n 'roll band is not to be dull," Bono told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
"When I do my rant on making poverty history, I have got Larry Mullen, our drummer, behind me looking at his watch, timing me," he said.
Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are making their first foray into the movie business, helping to finance a friend's independent film.
The Internet moguls are the executive producers of "Broken Arrows," the story of a man who loses his pregnant wife in a terrorist attack and then takes a job as a hit man.
The film is written and directed by Reid Gershbein, a computer graphics designer at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., who became friends with the Google founders in the late 1990s when they were doctoral students in computer science at Stanford University.
If Johnny Cash were still alive, he might write a song about the plight of the old train depot he bought more than 25 years ago.
The Amqui Station along the Louisville & Nashville Railroad tracks in Madison was vacant and close to demolition when Cash bought it in 1979 and moved it a few miles northeast to his property in Hendersonville.
After the singer's death in 2003, Halo Properties purchased the depot and is now donating it back to Madison, where community leaders want to use it as a museum and possibly as part of a planned commuter rail system for Nashville and its suburbs.
Fashion model Beverly Peele has been charged with identity theft for allegedly buying about $10,000 worth of housewares, appliances and furniture with someone else's credit card numbers.
Peele, who has been featured in magazine ads and appeared in the movie "Sweet Friggin' Daisies" and a George Michael music video, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of grand theft by access card, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
The complaint alleges Peele charged furniture, a refrigerator, a washer and dryer, bedding and other items for her home on credit cards that were in a wallet she found in a supermarket. Investigators said she returned the wallet to the owner, but first apparently copied the numbers on the charge cards.
In a photo provided by the Los Angeles Zoo, a Kikuyu colobus monkey that was born on Dec. 12, 2005 is seen here with it's mother in this undated photo in Los Angeles. Leaf-eating Kikuyu colobus monkeys are native to the forests of central Africa. The infant colobus is all white and will begin to develop a black trim at about three and a-half months.
Two men have been arrested for trying to sell Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez's stolen wedding video back to the couple for $1 million, authorities said.
The men tried to ransom the video after first shopping it around unsuccessfully to media outlets including People, Us Weekly and "Access Hollywood," according to a criminal complaint filed against them.
Tito Moses, 31, and Steven Wortman, 49, were arraigned late Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of conspiracy, attempted grand larceny and possession of stolen property.
A wintry scene by the river Rhone as temperatures dropped to -17 celsius in the region of Aigle, in western Switzerland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2005.
Photo by Olivier Maire
It's Sir Tom Jones now. The big-voiced singer from Wales was among the new knights of the realm in the New Year list of honors announced Saturday. Jones, 65, joins a group of previous pop-rock knights including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Elton John and Sir George Martin, The Beatles producer.
Harry Potter's imposing pal Hagrid - Scottish comedian and actor Robbie Coltrane - was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.
Also honored were Jonathan Ive, designer of the iPod and iMac, jazz musician John Dankworth and playwright Arnold Wesker.
A crowd looks at an ice sculpture titled 'Imagination,' created by Steve Rose and David Peterson of Ice Effects, during First Night, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005, in Boston.
Photo by Lisa Poole
Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat.
Despite being carnivorous, civets eat ripe coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries, remain intact after passing through the animal.
Civet droppings are found on the forest floor near coffee plantations. Once carefully cleaned and roasted, the beans are sold to specialty buyers.
In the hit comedy, he was about to wrestle two topless girls but dies of an apparent heart attack from overexcitment. After singing "Dust in the Wind" at Blue's funeral, Ferrell's character calls out in agony: "You're my boy, Blue!"
Cranshaw was born in Bartlesville, Okla., in 1919 and became interested in acting while entertaining American troops before World War II.
He is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold.
This photo undated provided by Los Angeles Zoo shows a golden cheeked gibbon, who was born on Dec. 5, 2005, with it's mother at the Los Angeles Zoo. Golden cheeked gibbons come from the rain forests of Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and notably have arms much longer than their legs. The baby is pink, with fine golden hair.
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