All the news unfit to print for Saturday, July 28, 2007
Nude Bart expected to soar high
Theater count for the weekend:
The Simpsons Movie (Fox) / 3,922 theaters strong..
No Reservations (Warner Bros.) / 2,425 theaters
I Know Who Killed Me (Sony / Columbia) / 1,320 theaters
Who's Your Caddy (MGM (Weinstein)) / 1,019 theaters
The internet is awashed in "how to" sites.. and as TIME magazine reports this week, the top ten searches online by Americans include questions on how to have sex, kiss, lose weight, and get pregnant.. but the number one, before sex and kisses, is how to tie a tie..
I guess the nice dinner comes before the sex.
The number 10 most searched term according to Hitwise, "How to make a video." I guess, that, too, comes after the nice dinner.. and the sex...
"Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime"
"The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.
The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
Ultimately, the Pentagon did conduct a criminal investigation, and asked Tillman's comrades whether he was disliked by his men and whether they had any reason to believe he was deliberately killed. The Pentagon eventually ruled that Tillman's death at the hands of his comrades was a friendly-fire accident."
All the news unfit to print for Monday, July 23, 2007
The You Tube generation ... alive and well..
The state of a nation. I am bit ashamed.. A giant talking snowman asking presidential candidates about global warming? Hip young kids singing songs about taxes.. lesbians asking why they can't get married.. Oh what a night..
CNN joined with You Tube tonight, and for better or worse, videos of us fine Americans were broadcast to the world and around the world..
The new state of debates in America.. a new day.
On the positive side.. Blunt questions were asked of the sometimes squeamish candidates.. According to the AP, "Wassup?" came the first question, from a voter named Zach, after another, named Chris, opened the CNN-YouTube debate with a barb aimed at the entire eight-candidate field: "Can you as politicians ... actually answer questions rather than beat around the bush?"
It's democracy! New age style..
Is it good.. bad... just entertaining? Will we truly learn anything about the character of the men or woman that could be our next fearless leader?
Probably not. But just seeing the candidates get smacked in the face with the faces of You Tube made for priceless TV.. their uncomfortable pauses after seeing the talking snowman. Their made for TV scripted responses not quite selling in an audience full of techno-agers.
The beat goes on. As does American politics. But the beat a bit more lively with unpredictable videos from net-users across the world.
In hindsight, you must ask: Did the You Tubers do it because they wanted to question the candidates, or because they wanted their fifteen minutes of FTP-ed fame? You Tube be the judge.
All the news unfit to print for Sunday, July 22, 2007
I want my You Tube back!
Anyone that has seen CNN for the past week has been overwhelmed with You Tube logos, videos from "users" asking debate questions of the Democrats running for president, and endless helpful instructions from CNN reporters about how to add your video to the list of possible people that will have their questions used of the contenders..
And the feeling is beginning to be mutual: ENOUGH!
The earliest campaign in history well underway... the candidates will be chosen by winter 08.. Then even a LONGER campaign for the whole year next year. We're already tired of it, though..
The Washington POST doing a page 1 story Monday about the first "official" Democratic debate.. .. the story focuses on the candidates' tiredness .. the travel .. the constant debating.. the constant campaigning.
But it's been tougher for us!
Just wait until the campaign ads begin..
Maybe Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich are the kindest of all: They're waiting until the dust clears..
The candidates with real messages being drowned out thus far in the debates.. Mike Gravel and Ron Paul are probably the only two candidates that are filled with principles that won't waiver, but the major media has done what it could to make sure they don't see the light of day, or in political speak, poll numbers that exceed 1%..
So here we are.. The CNN YOU TUBE debate.. Are you ready?
I can hear your groan from here...
The music.. the bad acting .. the endless replays on HBO during the 1980s. One of the greatest (ok, greatest for a 5 year-old-kid) movies ever made.. SUPERFUZZ.. Terrence Hill and Ernest Borgnine starred in the film.. if you can call it a film..
For your viewing pleasure: An embedded You Tube URL of the opening scene to the movie...
The major media focusing on the issue.. Mitt, who had some trouble get any press now will receive a bundle.. Romney's campaign headquarters getting more calls about this issue than any other..
..Vice President Cheney.. the man who read all... ALL .. intelligence reports. The man who, in a new book, admits a mistake: The U.S. should have let Iraqis govern themselves from the outset.. The new book, "CHENEY," is going to be released this week..
You won't find a psychological explanation in Hayes's new book. A writer for the conservative Weekly Standard, Hayes is largely uncritical and essentially buys into the picture of Cheney-as-Stoic, a throwback to an ancient Greek warrior who can see the Fates gathering but grimly and bravely soldiers on. Hayes recounts a scene told to him by David Bohrer, the vice president's official photographer, about Cheney at a Secret Service test-driving track in Beltsville, Md. The Secret Service was teaching Cheney how to drive to evade terrorists by executing a "J-turn." Cheney, who had not driven a car in about two years, jammed the Chevy Camaro into reverse, hit the accelerator until he was going about 40 miles an hour, then slammed on the brakes in order to spin the car a full 180 degrees. Bohrer had mounted a camera on the windshield to record Cheney's face. The veep was expressionless throughout. "It was as if he was taking a Sunday drive," Bohrer told Hayes.
You read the headline right.. In the weird world of presidential politics meeting the online world, there has been a spike on Google concerning searches of the term "Hillary Clinton cleavage"..
What a strange new world we do live in.
The term being searched online because of a Washington POST article about her sporting an outfit that showed more than Senators past. Thankfully.
Maureen Dowd writes "a woman who's man enough"..
America.. 2007. Fascinated by a candidate's cleavage...
Only one day after her interview on Larry King Live, Tammy Faye Messner lost her final battle in life.. Cancer swallowed her entire body up.. leaving this Earth only 65 pounds . . .
She said on Larry King's show Thursday night: "I believe when I leave this Earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to heaven"...
Tammy Faye.. dead Friday morning.. Saturday in heaven...
A larger than life figure.. often lampooned.. often pitied.. often parodied.. often loved.. Now missed. Gone tonight..
A service was held today in a private ceremony.. her ashes were interred. News kept private of her death until today ...
CNN replaying the taped broadcast tonight of Larry King Live with Tammy Faye...
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