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The blogosphere is buzzing with reactions to the criticisms Rev. Joseph Lowery and ex-president Jimmy Carter launched at President Bush during the Coretta Scott King funeral. My take? First off, it's hardly surprising that the funeral of a political figure turns political. Second, it's hardly surprising that a Republican President is criticized by far-left speakers at the funeral of a figure closely associated with the Democratic Party. Third, Bush should have known it was coming, since avoiding situations like this presumably is why he's ducked appearing at NAACP conventions. Fourth, many of those bloggers criticizing Lowery and Carter for speaking truth to power were the same ones praising Powerline's Paul Mirengoff for posing tough questions to Senators Kennedy and Durbin.
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sooooooo... i learned something today.. you can't bleach black hair. its like the hardest color to strip:/BUT my momma bleached it for mee... Heehbut in other news! i hung out with the gaby today. we went to burbank. and it was fooooooon. like always. i bought a lot of gifts for ppll... and a few for myself: P. uhuh... then i went to the salon.. they would nt DO MY FUCKING HAIR!!! Grrrrrrr.. so i fucking bought the shit and did it at home.. RAWR. well .... tomorrow miriam's supposed to come over.. yup yup. the end.
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Oscar Nominations: Best Actor, Heath Ledger... Best Supporting Actor, Jake Gyllenhaal. I'm sorry. What? I mean, on the one hand, it's good that they 're not up against each other cause then one would inevitably go home empty handed, but... Why does Jake rank below Heath? They 're pretty even in the movie in my eyes. I never understand shit like this. That aggravates me. Heath is getting all the love, all the "wow, wasn't he wonderful?!" and Jake is getting "oh yeah, he was in that too." Which is bullshit. Heath was wonderful, yes, but so was Jake. Damnit.
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hello.. week has been going ok so far. yoga booty ballet is FUNNNN and i feel really healthy and happy. i have a terrible paper due tomorrow but its only a rough draft so i won't cry. a test friday which i'm kinda scared about. and two tests next week. blah! oh well. better get crackin. tonight: dinner, homework, yoga booty ballet and seeing RENT whoooot! :)
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and SCARLETT JOHANSSON grace the cover of the Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair, with guest artistic director Tom Ford sitting in for Rachel Mcadams, who backed out at the last minute, as noted here in December. Angelina Jolie will be similarly unclothed inside the mag, which comes out today, iirc. I don't know what Jane Austen would say about it, but I'll bet Woody Allen buys a dozen. Knightley and Johansson were said to be a little embarrassed about posing nude; Keira says as much o n the the sadly safe-for-work video, which is also posted o n Youtube. Scarlett was rocking a vintage Police tour jersey after the shoot.
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Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand are joining forces for an American co-headlining tour starting in March. Right now Death Cab is wrapping up some European dates with John Vanderslice while Franz Ferdinand finishes up some gigs in Asia.
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Or, Is Hillary Too Angry? By MAUREEN DOWD The Republicans succeed because they keep it simple, ruthless and mythic. In 2000 and 2004, G.O.P. gunslingers played into the Western myth and mined images of manliness, feminizing Al Gore as a Beta Tree-hugger, John Kerry as a Waffling War Wimp With a Hectoring Wife and John Edwards as his true bride, the Breck Girl. Now, in the distaff version of
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Senate Examines Domestic Spy Program. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending President Bush's constitutional right to authorize warrentless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. By Newshour with Jim Lehrer. [Newshour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS]
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The current protests throughout the world by Muslims who were offended by caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (here ’ s a story today about riots in Afghanistan) that originally ran in a Danish newspaper, sparked an interesting discussion among some friends of mine, about the nature of offensive imagery and the role of the media and even of cartoonists. The most inflammatory cartoon was one of Muhammad with a bomb as part of his turban, suggesting that all Muslims are terrorists.
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An Italian priest who runs a music label specializing in religious songs said Monday that Michael Jackson could sing on a CD of Pope John Paul II ’ s prayers, but cautioned that the project is "only a small idea" that has yet to be run by the Vatican for approval.
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Ok Courtney, here goes (Ground Rules: The first player of this meme starts with the topic "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.): 5 guilty pleasures: 1. sleeping late, like really late, like barely making it in time to my 1: 30 class.2. LOST fan sites/message boards (just a lurker but rather addicted) 3. Finding people on LJ and Myspace - like a challenge to see how many KV'ers I can find and identify.4. Cat and Dog books and magazines - ask me anything.5. LIVE Journaltag - you 're it-bre18jillikgboykootiesfrichenwisch
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TLC is very happy to report to you that Warner Brothers has put an end to the speculation from earlier today, and confirmed to us that in fact, Gary Oldman will return in the role of Sirius Black for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There is further good news today, for WB also confirmed that actor David Thewlis will be reprising his role as Remus Lupin for Phoenix as well. They will be filming their parts later this summer. OTPEE. These are love. Love Eddie Izzard. And this is a great Dom article. Talks about Lost, his parents, all that.
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I am always much saddened when I ask people if they've ever seen any Monty Python, and they remark that they did or didn't like Holy Grail, as if it were the only thing Python has done. Holy Grail is a great and classic movie, but it's hardly all they've done. How can a person go through life and not know what the phrase, "and now for something completely different," means? It's a travesty I tell you! If nothing else, everyone should see the Life of Brian. That people don't know what a successful encyclopedia salesman looks like is simply inexcusable! I think a lot of people would find me much less weird if they could see where I got some of my humor from...
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(CNN) -- An Iranian newspaper says it is going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West will apply the same principles of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide against Jews as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, The Associated Press reports.
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A team led by ex-winamp-er Rob Lord today released a preview edition of Songbird, a desktop media player that offers an open source alternative to services like Apple's itunes and the Windows Media Player. Instead of connecting to one locked store full of Drmmed goods, it can connect to any and all available music (and video) on the internet.
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"Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Green Day; "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani; "Gold Digger," Kanye West. Album of the Year: "The Emancipation of Mimi," Mariah Carey; "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," Paul Mccartney; "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani; "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2; "Late Registration," Kanye West.
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http: // mediamatters.org/items/200602070006at least three reporters involved in an October 2003 Time magazine article that suggested Karl Rove was no longer under suspicion of outing Valerie Plame, and that contained Scott Mcclellan's denial that Rove was involved, knew at the time of the article that Rove had, in fact, outed Plame.
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Joe Theismann, Mike Tirico, and Tony Kornheiser will be the Monday Night Football announcers when it moves to ESPN next season. Tirico will be fine. He's been doing a solid job as the straight man covering a number of sports. Theismann is too much like the Bill Walton of football in that he tries to dominate the talk with his football knowledge. When he's wrong it's incredibly irritating. But on Sunday Night Football there was Paul Maguire to put him in his place. Next season, Kornheiser steps in. He looks to be the Dennis Miller of the group. He'll make quips but without viewers having to search through encyclopedias or Google to figure out what he meant. I could do without him.
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Janet “ Stupid ” Jones the wife of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky. Why is she stupid, you ask? Because she placed her husbands integrity and career on the line for some stupid bets she placed with the Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet.
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Financier Carl Icahn stepped up his campaign against Time Warner Inc. on Tuesday, releasing the results of a study proposing that the media conglomerate be broken into four companies.
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"It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you 're going to find on Earth," said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the U.S., Indonesian, and Australian expedition to part of the cloud-shrouded Foja mountains in the west of New Guinea.
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News Troubled rock star Pete Doherty was given a 12-month community order after admitting a series of drug offences. The 26-year-old Babyshambles front man and former boyfriend of Kate Moss was... warned that if he breached this order, he could face a custodial sentence. At an earlier hearing, Thames Magistrates.... More on Face Lift Fort Myers. Read the full story here
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I just watched the end of Two Towers with Mom. So here it is. My darling, my masterpiece. Starring! My and Emily's Plastic Figurines as Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, and Andy Serkisone dry erase and one permanent black marker as A coupla treesmy out-of-focus webcam as Technologymy piddling, obsessive compulsive mind as the innovation of Peter Jackson
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Former New York Press editor-in-chief Harry Siegel explains: "Having been ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons from an issue dedicated to them, the editorial group -- consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editor Jonathan Leaf and one-man city hall bureau Azi Paybarah, chose instead to resign our positions."
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Lindsey (Drew Barrymore) thinks Ben (Jimmy Fallon) is the perfect catch until baseball season kicks in and his love for the Boston Red Sox rears its ugly head. As the sporting season continues, Ben and Lindsey must decide if they will strike out as a couple or fight to keep their love alive through extra innings. Based on Nick Hornby ’ s best-selling novel Fever Pitch, this wickedly funny DVD is a must for every girl who ever lost out to a team of men! One lucky winner will receive a Kodak digital camera, The Perfect Catch on DVD and a pair of speed dating tickets from xdate.com. Two runners-up will win the DVD and xdate.co.uk tickets each. For your chance to win simply answer the following question: Which sport does Lindsey's boyfriend love?
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and to complete this same Quiz, Its HERE. In other news, we went to see Mrs. Henderson Presents tonight and really enjoyed it. Judi Dench is marvelous, of course, and it was cool to see Natalia Tena (who will be playing Tonks - I think she'll be very good). I also want to point out that today is the 66th anniversary of Pinocchio, which is (as you may guess) in my Top Ten Movies of All Time. If you haven't seen it lately, I highly recommend giving it another try. Watch it for the beautiful animation, the clever dialogue, the wonderful soundtrack and the little details that make it distinctly Disney. You'll see a real work of art that is just unmatched in most of today's animated movies. I just can't WAIT until they release the Special Edition of this on DVD!
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Paul Craig Roberts, who has held editorial positions at both the Wall Street Journal and National Review, writes: Having eliminated internal opposition, the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on Americancitizens to silence the media and the opposition party. from http: // powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2006/02/spying-blackmail-and-path-of-violence. htmlagreed, but it's certaintly not limited to the opposition party; Rove is threatening members on the Senate Judiciary Committee. (I posted this earlier) Also, Rep Heather Wilson, Republican and chairwoman of the Intel subcommittee which ostensibly oversees the NSA, is calling for a full Congressional investigation into domestic wiretapping.
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Face it, your not going to die young. You face a long and successful career and an on stage heart attack in your mid 80's. (John Lee Hooker died on stage at the age of 82)
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