| Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, BALL OF FIRE, RKO, 1941. |
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| question about bank/vanity guilds |
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I see folks here often posting asking for signatures and I have googled it, but I just can't figure out how it works. One of your toons buys a guild. Then sits somewhere and other players come up and join even though it isn't meant to be a real guild. Then all those signrs gquit? And the guild still exists and the original toon gets the guild bank space? Have I got that right? I sounds like a great thing to have if that is the way it works. :-)
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| Republican activists off-message at McCain rallies |
[13 Oct 2008|02:29pm] |
An AFP shot from this morning in Virginia Beach.
I'm told in Ricmond, where Palin is now, the signs only accuse Obama of being a communist and Marxist.
WTF is with this Republicans?
source: Politico
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| 31 more days~!! |
[13 Oct 2008|02:26pm] |
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I know that you all must be aware but today starts the one month countdown to WotLK~! ^-^ go go go ~!
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| Celebrity Realestate |
[13 Oct 2008|04:45pm] |
Oh mods, how sick of me you must be. Links added.
These are hardly the best homes featured on a real estate post but they'll do.
BUYER: Robbie Williams
Location: Beverly Park, Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $23,995,000 (list)
SIZE: 13,638 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Magnificent estate in guard-gated Beverly Pk w/ TC & views. Gated & private. Spectacular main house, 2-story 3 br GH, separate staff quarters, expansive lawns, gorgeous landscaping, terraces, fountains, pl & spa. Timeless elegance & extraordinary charm. Main house w/ grand entry, marvelous living rm w/ sunken bar, library, FDR w/ butler's pantry, family rm w/ attached bth & sauna, master w/ dual baths & huge custom walk-in closets, & 2 add'l bdrm suites.
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| Who's the one palling around with terrorists now? |
[13 Oct 2008|03:03pm] |
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McCain "palled around" with anti-choice extremists.
via blog @ Feministing
Since Sarah Palin decided to go after Barack Obama for his essentially non-existent ties to William Ayers, maybe now is the time to remind everyone about the McCain campaign’s ties to Rob Schenck, who has a long history of militant anti-abortion activism, fines, arrests, and run-ins with President Bill Clinton.
Schenck, who was meeting privately with McCain as far back as early last year, received a VIP pass to the McCain campaign event where he named Palin as his running mate and even got a chance to speak with both of them personally. And last month, when he hosted a forum, the Obama campaign dropped out at the last minute rather than legitimize Schenck and his views, but senior campaign McCain advisor Robert Heckman still attended the event, where other speakers compared Barack Obama to Hitler.
Schenck first came to prominence back in the 1990s when, along with his twin brother Paul, he began his career as a militant anti-abortion activist, for which he was repeatedly arrested, often targeting Dr. Barnett Slepian who was assassinated by an anti-abortion activist in 1998 by a man who, according to another pro-life activist, was probably known to both Schenck and his brother.
On top of that, as we’ve pointed out before, Schenck also has a history of harassing Democratic politicians, especially former President Bill Clinton:
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More on McCain's defense of the clinic-bomber crowd...
On multiple occasions throughout his career, McCain sought to limit the government's ability to punish violent anti-choice fanatics by:
- Voting against making anti-choice violence a federal crime. As the Jed Report notes, McCain voted in 1993 and 1994 against making "bombings, arson and blockades at abortion clinics, and shootings and threats of violence against doctors and nurses who perform abortions" federal crimes.
- Opposing Colorado's "Bubble Law." McCain said he opposed Colorado's "Bubble Law," which prohibited abortion protesters from getting within 8 feet of women entering clinics [Denver Post, 2/27/00]. The law was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Voting to allow those fined for violence at clinics to avoid penalties by declaring bankruptcy. NARAL Pro-Chioce America notes that McCain "voted to allow perpetrators of violence or harassment at reproductive-health clinics to avoid paying the fines assessed against them for their illegal acts by declaring bankruptcy."
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More on Schenck.
I am not surprised that McCain defends people like this. If the MSM wants to harp on about Ayers, they should devote equal time to McCain associating with people from organizations that advocate the bombing of abortion clinics. Also, the Bubble Law in Colorado is especially important to me. I've been a clinic escort with Planned Parenthood, and keeping those raving lunatics as far away from patients as possible is essential. Fail, McCain. Fail.
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| Palin Accidentally Reprimands Her Own Supporters |
[13 Oct 2008|04:10pm] |
From CBS News' Scott Conroy:
(RICHMOND, VA.) - Protesters at Sarah Palin’s rallies can always expect to be shot down with some choice words from the candidate. But at a rally here today, the confused Alaska governor mistakenly issued a stern rebuke to her own supporters.
The outdoor crowd was so massive that many were unable to hear Palin speak, so about midway through the Alaska governor’s remarks, some of them tried to take matters into their own hands, shouting in unison, “We can’t hear you!”
When that didn’t get the candidate’s attention, they tried a new tactic.
“Louder!” they shouted.
Palin appeared flustered as she stopped reading from the prepared remarks, which were coming across her teleprompter.
“I would hope at least that those protesters have the courage and the honor of thanking our veterans for giving them the right to protest!” she admonished the confused crowd.
Palin’s husband Todd tried to put an end to the awkward episode by approaching his wife on stage and telling her, “They just can’t hear you back there. That’s it.”
Palin responded, “OK. I’m doing that,” and then continued with her stump speech.
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LMAO, I love how her natural response to people yelling is to talk about soldiers and shit.
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| Kristol in the Obama Tank |
[13 Oct 2008|05:02pm] |
As is the new meme, anytime anyone says anything bad about McCain or Palin, they're in the tank for Obama and the Democrats. Sure, you may be a neo-nazi robot from sector 9, but if you say McCain's haircut isn't working for him, then you are a pro-Obama loser who is in the tank and a sucker.
After Bill Kristol said what a massive fuckup McCain's campaign has been, it was obvious to anyone who knows the path of a meme that won't die that he would be banished to the land of "in the tank" for his transgressions.
Now, I'm not saying some politicians and even journalists and EVEN probably news organizations are biased in favor of Obama, but really now. Do these people really think that Kristol is now suddenly just lured in by how awesome Obama is? Just maybe McCain's campaign people actually ARE fuckups?
In the end, it's easy to call someone an Obamabot, but good lord this is fucking Kristol here.
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| Candidates Differ On Female Draft |
[13 Oct 2008|04:02pm] |
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Candidates differ on female draft
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Even as the U.S. confronts two long wars, neither Sen. John McCain nor Sen. Barack Obama believes the country should take the politically perilous step of reviving the military draft.
But the two presidential candidates disagree on a key foundation of any future draft: Mr. Obama supports a requirement for both men and women to register with the Selective Service, while Mr. McCain doesn't think women should have to register.
Also, Mr. Obama would consider officially opening combat positions to women. Mr. McCain would not.
"Women are already serving in combat [in Iraq and Afghanistan] and the current policy should be updated to reflect realities on the ground," said Wendy Morigi, Mr. Obama's national security spokeswoman. "Barack Obama would consult with military commanders to review the constraints that remain."
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| Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He 'Thinks Obama's Going To Win' |
[13 Oct 2008|02:02pm] |
On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected.
However, “if the president thought John McCain was going to be the next president, he would think it more appropriate to let the next president make that decision than do it on his way out,” Kristol said, reinforcing the fact that McCain is offering a third Bush term on Iran.
“I do wonder with Senator Obama, if President Bush thinks Senator Obama’s going to win, does he somehow think — does he worry that Obama won’t follow through on that policy,” Kristol added. Host Chris Wallace then asked if Kristol was suggesting that Bush might “launch a military strike” before or after the election:
WALLACE: So, you’re suggesting that he might in fact, if Obama’s going to win the election, either before or after the election, launch a military strike?
KRISTOL: I don’t know. I mean, I think he would worry about it. On the other hand, you can’t — it’s hard to make foreign policy based on guesses of election results. I think Israel is worried though. I mean, what is, what signal goes to Ahmadinejad if Obama wins on a platform of unconditional negotiations and with an obvious reluctance to even talk about using military force.
Kristol also suggested that Obama’s election would tempt Saudi Arabia and Egypt to think, “maybe we can use nuclear weapons.” Watch it:
Kristol’s belief that Bush might attack Iran before leaving office is not new. In April, he told Bill Bennett that it wasn’t “out of the question” that Bush would consider such a strike because “people are overdoing how much of a lame duck the president is.”
The claim that Obama’s potential election could force Bush’s hand also isn’t new. Earlier this month, far-right pseudo scholar Daniel Pipes told National Review Online that “President Bush will do something” if the Democratic nominee won. “Should it be Mr. McCain that wins, he’ll punt,” said Pipes.
Both Kristol and Pipes apparently agree with President Bush’s claim in March that McCain’s “not going to change” his foreign policy.
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video at the source, it won't let me embed
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Is anyone else annoyed that +spell damage and +healing is all being combined into one stat? I certainly am not looking forward to my holy priest having to fight warlocks and mages and shadow priests for gear.
Not pissed or butt hurt really, just annoyed. Needed to vent. I think it's going to cause unnecessary strife where gear distribution is concerned in raids.
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| DAPHNE REID talks about racism at Northwestern, now plans return to school |
[13 Oct 2008|04:22pm] |
You may know actress/producer Daphne Maxwell Reid from the hit television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Or perhaps you know her from the movie "Once Upon a Time . . . When We Were Colored," directed by her husband, actor/producer Tim Reid.
But before all of that, in the fall of 1967, Daphne Reid was center stage as Northwestern University's first black homecoming queen.
That experience—and others, including one during freshman year when a white student called her the N-word and refused to room with her—so soured Reid on the university that she vowed never to contribute money as an alumna. Years ago, when her son was eyeing the campus for college, she told him, "Absolutely no way."
After years of harboring less-than-fond memories about Northwestern, Reid will return to the campus next month at the request of the current president, who only recently heard about her story.
"It may seem trivial now, and it certainly never stopped me," Reid told me. "But at the time I thought, 'Am I in the Midwest or have I landed on Mars?' "
Reid grew up in New York City in a racially mixed community where the biggest distinction among neighbors was one of class rather than skin color.
After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science as a National Merit Scholar, she entered Northwestern, unprepared for her very first day.
"I was in my dorm room and my roommate came in and took one look at me and said, 'Oh no, I'm not going to room with a [N-word].' I had never in my life been called that. I turned to look around because certainly she wasn't talking to me."
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Days later, at the homecoming rally, Reid said she was stunned when she learned she'd been voted homecoming queen. But she was taken aback when the university's president wouldn't look at her when he crowned her, saying, "I have to hold this over your head while they take pictures," she said. Then he turned and walked away.
Reid said she received no applause when she was introduced with her court and, in a break from tradition, her name was not engraved on the homecoming cup she was given. Her name also was left out of the 1967-68 yearbook, she said.
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| "Gossip Girl" extends its TV season |
[13 Oct 2008|01:02pm] |
Exclusive: The CW Wants More 'Gossip Girl'
Gossip Girl's ratings aren't the only thing growing this season.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that the network has ordered two additional episodes of the show, bringing its season 2 total to 24.
The move comes as the gap between Gossip Girl's massive hype and relatively paltry ratings has finally started to narrow. The soap is up double digits over last season, and its sophomore surge has even helped lift its lead-out, One Tree Hill, which thrills me to no end.
BTW, Gossip Girl is all new tonight. It's the episode where Serena and Blair beat the crap out of each other and I, in turn, thank God for inventing TV. SOURCE
I'm excited for the Blair/Serena smackdown tonight. Anyone taking any bets on who will win? I got $5 on Blair.
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| Hef tried the man butt according to his new bio |
[13 Oct 2008|10:22pm] |
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Delivering a shocking, stripped-bare book about Hugh Hefner is a bit like promising an exposé on Madonna. In the case of both pop culture icons, every salacious turn has been well-documented, if not by the media then by the subjects themselves.
So it comes as little surprise that Steven Watts' 500-page doorstop of a biography — "Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream" (Wiley, $29.95), out Monday — offers no tabloid bombshells about the sultan of sex. Instead, the book dissects Hefner's life as an American firebrand who shook up sexual mores after World War II.
And he is still: Hefner, 82, confirmed Wednesday his split with twentysomething girlfriend Holly Madison after dashing her hopes for marriage (he has already done that twice) and kids (he has four).
Little surprise that his authorized biographer at first saw Hefner "as a party animal," says Watts, whose previous biographies tackled Walt Disney and Henry Ford. "But as I got to know him, it was clear that he was, in the Jay Gatsby tradition, very much in control."
Watts' book points out how Playboy wasn't just responsible for the centerfold, but also memorable interviews (the shocking chat with Jimmy Carter, in which he said he lusted after women) and journalism (first looks at "Roots" and "All the President's Men").
But the most interesting parts of "Mr. Playboy" offer a glimpse into the early days of Hef's harebrained idea:
•Although Hefner's self-propagated mythology included his repressive upbringing, his mother, Grace, was one of the magazine's first investors.
•The magazine's rabbit mascot is rooted in Hefner's boyhood love of animals, specifically a bunny-themed blanket he gave to a lost puppy that later died.
•One seminal and hurtful experience was discovering that his first wife, Millie, had been unfaithful. Although he himself had long since strayed, this double standard would be something he would press his Playmates to accept.
•Before the magazine, Hefner was already on the forefront of sexual adventuring, which included making his own stag film and even an apparently one-time, late-night gay interlude.
•Hefner's trademark pajamas-around-the-clock look was born in the frenetic early days of the magazine, when his perfectionism kept him in the office day and night.
•In 1961, Hefner struck a deal with Columbia to cooperate on a film about his life, starring Tony Curtis. The project blew up largely because of Hefner's attempts to change the tone from a light romp (Curtis juggling a gaggle of girlfriends) to a serious examination of his triumph.
•As the civil rights battles heated up, Hefner pushed integration in his Playboy Clubs, which often involved buying out franchisees in cities such as New Orleans and Miami.
•Throughout Playboy's rapid ascent, Hefner was keeping pace with Dexedrine, an appetite suppressant that affected both his looks and mood; friends and staffers forced him to quit.
•Just how randy was Hefner? One memo notes that he was involved with 11 of the 12 Playmates in the December 1961 "Playmate Holiday House Party" feature.
•Hefner's other excesses involved spending. The Big Bunny, a Douglas DC-9 jet he bought in 1967, cost $4.5 million — plus another $1 million to outfit with a disco, bar, conference room, lounge and, of course, bedrooms. "Hefner wasn't just a pioneering figure in the sexual revolution," Watts says. "The lesser-known fact is that he and his magazine were responsible for the consumer revolution that's been here ever since."
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[13 Oct 2008|12:40pm] |
SIMON $ALARY ENVYWHAT has been long suspected about bad blood among the judges on "American Idol" over money was confirmed over the weekend. Nigel Lythgoe, the former executive producer of "Idol," says that Simon Cowell is earning $36 million a year from Fox for the show - far more than his counterparts, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. Jackson's and Abdul's "salary has never been advertised and Simon has been in Forbes which is why I am talking about it," Lythgoe told an Australian newspaper. "But there is always jealousy in every job. "Why is he getting more than the other two judges? Because it is believed that he brings more to the table." Lythgoe, who quit the show at the end of last season to concentrate full-time on his own series, "So You Think You Can Dance," believes Cowell is worth every penny that he's paid. "He has actually handled his negotiations quite brilliantly," Lythgoe says. Cowell's negotiating strategy has been never to sign a contract for longer than 12 months. "He's only ever negotiated by the year," Lythgoe said. "And now he is getting something like $22,000 per minute."
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| Evan Rachel Wood: Actress & Singer? |
[13 Oct 2008|12:52pm] |
Evan Rachel Wood attended a screening of her upcoming film, The Wrestler at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center last night in NYC. Evan’s not only an actress though, she is currently working on her long-anticipated debut album with her beau, Marilyn Manson.
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