If you are interested in being part of a local rally for a free, independent press and a market-based health care system (preserving what's good about our system here in America), please join us!
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Time: June 24, 2009 all day Location: Local ABC Affiliate Near You! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ABC_television_affiliates Organized By: American Patriot Event Description: On June 24th, join us as we protest ABC joining NBC as official state media by broadcasting an extreme leftist , to help Obama take over our health care system. We must take a stand to help stop the slide toward communism/fascism. This is a line that must be drawn in the sand, and this line must be drawn here and now! We must take a stand! We've already lost so much, and the powers that be seem to have forgotten the message of the TEA Parties, let's remind them that We The People aren't going to just sit and watch while the government takes total control of our lives and robs us of our freedom and our incomes! If our health care system falls to the communist/fascist threat as well, then many believe it's game over. Let us not go quietly in the night; we won't give up our free market without a fight! Why do so many Canadians come across the border every year to get everything from cancer treatment to major surgery? Because socialized medicine is a failed system; the quality of care suffers greatly, and the sanctity of life is assaulted, when the Government runs things! So we have two very compelling issues: a Free Press (yeah, they're ridiculously biased already, but this is simply fascist), and a free-market health care system that is the envy of the world! We've already lost control of our banks, our automobile industry, and our government. Let's not also lose, in the selfsame year, our free market healthcare system! The time for calling representatives only is past. It's time to surround some TV stations starting at least an hour before the broadcast! ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm! Highlights on the agenda: ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House. The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate. "...As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming. "In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime." FIND YOUR LOCAL ABC AFFILIATE HERE. |
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Wendell Jamieson twists a look at my favorite movie of all time, asserting that, had George Bailey never been born, citizens of Bedford Falls would, indeed, have been better off--that the smarmy alternative town would have been more fun and more profitable.
Interesting. Most likely, sadly, true. Nevertheless, I choose Bedford Falls, where neighbors take care of each other without government interference, where everyone knows everyone else in town, where corruption is the exception and morality is the rule.
As you know, today, November 11th, marks the nation's annual observance of Veterans Day. As the country takes this day to honor the sacrifices of our nation's military personnel, the Wounded Warrior Project will be featured on various television news shows throughout the day.
First, this morning WWP
Executive Director John Melia and wounded warrior Andy Butterworth will
be featured on FoxNews Channel's Fox & Friends program between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. John and Andy will be on-air live to discuss Veterans Day and the Wounded Warrior Project. FoxNews will also be airing a separate piece on WWP's TRACK program throughout the course of the day.
Second, Wounded Warrior Project's Transition Training Academy (TTA) will be featured in a story on the ABC News World News tonight. TTA helps participants explore Information Technology (IT) as a potential career field and to develop new career skills with real-world applications. Watch ABC "World News with Charles Gibson" this evening (6:30EST, 4:30CST, 3:30PST) for a special Bob Woodruff Veterans Day report on select WWP programs!
Third, at 8:00 pm EST, Wounded Warrior Project and wounded warriors Ryan Kules and Jonathan Bartlett will be profiled on HDNet's Dan Rather Reports. Ryan (WWP's Director of Alumni & Warriors To Work programs) and Jonathan (a WWP Public Relations intern) will tell their stories and discuss how they, with WWP's help, have been able to transition out of the military and back into their new civilian lives.
Please check your local cable provider to determine on what channel or
if possible to view a playback of any of the above Wounded Warrior
Project Veterans Day special interviews.
Tonight howls in the first 2008 halloween parties! Why tonight? I dunno, but I'm not fussin'! I've got big plans for the 31st--we're gonna check out the Zac Brown band at Duke's and then Saturday we're at the coliseum to see Dave Ramsey live.
But tonight I get to try out my hero costume and make sure it's the best I can make it--just for the record, I had this idea waaayy before SNL did!
Update: pictures!
SARAH PALIN AND HER TARGET MOOSE
So what if the Boston Globe isn't a great fan of "Persuasion," the first broadcast tonight--fans of Austen's novels will relish seeing her characters brought alive, will compare them to the novels, and either approve or not. At least we've got the enviable opportunity:
As if to squash viewer fears about the alterations in the series, PBS is introducing the "Masterpiece" rebranding with "The Complete Jane Austen," a months-long string of new and old adaptations of Austen novels. Austen is like a beloved rock star on PBS. And the Austen series will include an all-time favorite, the 1995 "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, as well as an Austen biopic called "Miss Austen Regrets." The series begins tomorrow night at 9 on Channel 2 with a new take on "Persuasion," Austen's last completed novel.
A fan of "Masterpiece" and its efforts to endure in the changing TV landscape, I wish I had been more enchanted with this "Persuasion." Not only does it pale in comparison with the extraordinary 1995 version, but it fails to deliver in its own right. The pace is too fast and, by the end, choppy; the writing, by Simon Burke, is reductive; and the casting is misguided. Certainly the sets and costumes are gorgeous, and the more satirical comedy involving Sir Walter Elliot's desperate snobbery has its moments, but on the whole the movie is hurried and forgettable.
Ah, well. One must needs remember that everyone believes oneself to be a critic.
From the New Yorker:
PBS’s Austen promotion is part of a rebranding campaign to raise the
worn-down profile of “Masterpiece Theatre,” which is thirty-seven years
old and no longer attracts corporate support. Lashing itself even more
tightly to the word “masterpiece,” the network is now using the word
alone as a rubric under which it will present “Masterpiece Classic”
(what used to be called “Masterpiece Theatre” and, as of this season,
is hosted by Gillian Anderson, late of “The X Files”), “Masterpiece
Mystery!” (formerly known as “Mystery!”), and, to show that there is
room at the PBS inn for programs that are set in the years since the
telephone was invented, a new category called “Masterpiece
Contemporary.” There’s something a little sad about the Austen hoopla,
though; two of the six offerings—the Beckinsale “Emma” and the
Ehle-Firth “Pride and Prejudice”—were on A&E more than a decade
ago, and both have been available for sale or rent for many years.
(They, and two of the four new adaptations, were by Andrew Davies.)
Still, the Austen logjam has many pleasing aspects—as well as aspects
that will vex Austen maniacs, but, as far as I can tell from the
various Web sites devoted to the author, being vexed is part of the joy
of being an Austen maniac.
Exactly my sentiment!
From The San Jose Mercury News:
Over the next three months,
"Masterpiece Theatre" will offer what it's calling "The Complete Jane
Austen" - made-for-television versions of all six of the author's works
airing at 9 p.m. Sundays (Ch. 9). There will also be a new
dramatization of her life and loves.
A quick rundown:
• "Persuasion" (tonight):
Sally Hawkins ("Little Britain") plays Anne Elliot to the Capt.
Wentworth of Rupert Penry-Jones ("MI-5"). While Hawkins is terrific,
Anthony Head ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") just about steals the film as
Elliot's father.
• "Northanger Abbey" (next Sunday):
Among Austen's novels, "Northanger Abbey" is a relative novelty: a
witty parody of Gothic fiction. Felicity Jones ("Meadowlands") plays
Catherine Morland, who is addicted to the genre.
• "Mansfield Park" (Jan.
27): The complex novel gets a fresh makeover with pop
singer-turned-actress Billie Piper ("Doctor Who") as Fanny Price, a
young woman trying to navigate the social mores of the time.
• "Miss Austen Regrets" (Feb.
3): "Masterpiece" is billing this as the "real" story of Jane Austen -
as opposed to last summer's theatrical film "Becoming Jane" with Anne
Hathaway. This time around, Olivia Williams ("Rushmore") portrays the
author.
• "Pride and Prejudice" (Feb. 10, 17 and 24):
This 1995 TV miniseries is considered the defining film version of the
novel by many Austen-ophiles. That may be, in part, because of the heat generated by Colin Firth ("Bridget Jones' Diary") as Darcy.
• "Emma" (March 23): A highly regarded 1997 take on the novel with Kate Beckinsale ("The Aviator") as matchmaker Emma Woodhouse.
• "Sense and Sensibility" (March
30 and April 6): Hattie Morahan ("The Golden Compass") and Charity
Wakefield ("Jane Eyre") play sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - one
level-headed, one impulsive. The marvelous David Morrissey ("Viva
Blackpool") turns up as the dashing Col. Brandon.
- Charlie McCollum,
Mercury News
I think it only appropriate, nay necessary, that we do Ms. Austen and PBS the honor of watching the rest of her repertoire. PBS's press release promises that four of the seven programs are new productions -- including some new never-imagined thing called "Miss Austen Regrets," which is not one of her novels but something about her real life.
We owe her so large. She gave us Darcy. But she also gave us Captain Wentworth from "Persuasion" (the first movie that PBS will air), he of all that flash and dash. She gave us a peek into 19th-Century British life as lived by the wealthy and charming, the sort-of-wealthy and their kin, and the land-poor and levelheaded. She gave us proof, before anyone really could believe such a thing, that a woman could write and do it well. She gave us our first blush of literary desire. She gave us women with spunk and brains and hormones. She gave us time away from our teenage reality, and it was time well spent.
Amen! And, may I add, she also gives us time away from our grown up reality. 
.Here's to finding our Mr. Darcy, girls!
Andrew Davies on his screenplay adaptations
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