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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
2:41 am	On this day in History - Jan. 30 58 BC Livia Drusilla (d. AD 29). Political wife of Emperor Augustus 0133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0969). 1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan dies (b. 1161). 1384 - Louis II of Flanders dies (b. 1330). 1505 - Thomas Tallis was born (d. 1585). English composer. 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus was born (d. 1641). Dutch theologian. 1566 - Alessandro Piccinini was born. Composer 1574 - Damião de Góis dies (b. 1502). Portuguese philosopher. 1580 - Maria de Aragão dies (b. 1482). Second wife of King of Portugal D. Manuel I 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 1606 - Everard Digby dies (b. 1578). English conspirator. 1615 - Thomas Rolfe was born. American colonial settler 1648 - The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649 - King Charles I of England dies beheaded (b. 1600) . 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years. 1661 - Charles Rollin was born (d. 1741). French historian. 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect. 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz was born (d. 1773). German flutist and composer. 1720 - Charles De Geer was born (d. 1778). Swedish industrialist and entomologist 1726 - Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala. 1730 - Peter II Alekseyevitch dies at 14. Emperor of Russia (1727-30). 1754 - John Lansing, Jr. was born (d. 1829). American statesman. 1774 - Jean-Pierre Guignon dies at 71. Composer. 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland. 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso was born (d. 1838). German poet. 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was open. 1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier was born. French/Belgian glass painter 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland. 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer was born (d. 1899). Austrian geologist.1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge. 1835 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -first assassination attempt against a President. 1836 - Betsy Ross dies (b. 1752). American seamstress. 1839 - Samuel Armstrong was born (11 May 1893). American founder of Hampton Institute 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 1841 - Félix Faure was born (d. 1899). 6th President of France. 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck dies (b. 1778). Dutch zoologist. 1859 - Edward Martyn was born (d. 5 Dec 1923). Irish dramatist 1859 - Tony Mullane was born (d. 1944). Major League Baseball player. 1860 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto dies at 44. Composer. 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler was born (d. 1935). American composer . 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1867 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies (b. 1831). 1869 - William Carleton dies (b. 1794). Irish novelist. 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born (d. 1940). Estonian author. 1879 - French President MacMahon resigns 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N. Y. (d. 1945). President of the United States. 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858), heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery. 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad was born (d. 1937). Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist. 1894 - Charles B. King of Detroit, earned himself a patent for the pneumatic hammer 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria was born (d. 1943). 1899 - Max Theiler was born (d. 11 Aug 1972). South-African microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever. 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements. 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola was born (d. 1959). German driver of racing cars. 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner was born (d. 1983). German-born art historian. 1910 - C Subramaniam was born (d. 2000). Indian politician. 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. 1911 - Roy Eldridge was born (d. 1989). American jazz musician. 1912 - Francis Schaeffer was born. American Evangelical theologian and pastor 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman was born (b. 1989). American historian. 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill. 1914 - David Wayne was born (d. 1995). Actor. 1914 - John Ireland was born (d. 1992). Canadian actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death) 1915 - Joachim Peiper was born (d. 1976). German military leader. 1915 - John Profumo was born. British cabinet minister. 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded a classic for Columbia Records titled, The Darktown Strutters’ Ball. It was one of the first jazz compositions recorded. 1918 - David Opatoshu was born (d. 1996). American television actor. 1920 - Delbert Mann was born. American director. 1920 - Carwood Lipton was born. American WWII veteran 1921 - António Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet. 1922 - Nuno Teotónio Pereira was born. Portuguese architect. 1922 - Dick Martin was born. Emmy Award-winning comedian. 1924 - Lloyd Alexander was born. American writer . 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1925 - Douglas Engelbart was born. American computer scientist 1925 - Dorothy Malone was born. American actress (Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces). 1926 - Barbara La Marr dies (b. 1896). American actress. 1927 - Olof Palme was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76 and 1982-86). 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Hal Prince was born. American stage producer, director (West Side Story, Evita) 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 - Roger Newland Shepard was born. American psychologist who was awarded the National Medal of Science (1995) for his research work that provided major new insights into the nature of mental processes, previously considered impossible to study. 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti was born (d. 1996). Canadian surgeon and international aid worker. 1930 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR 1930 - Gene Hackman was born. American Academy Award-winning actor (The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide). 1930 - Magnus Malan was born. South African politician. 1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater 1931 - Allan W. Eckert was born. American historian, naturalist and author. 1931 - Shirley Hazzard was born. Australian-American author. 1931 - John Crosbie was born. Canadian politician 1932 - Knock Yokoyama was born. Japanese comedian and politician . 1933 - Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time. 1933 - Louis Rukeyser was born (d. 2006). American journalist. 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday dies (b. 1862). American publisher. 1935 - Richard Brautigan was born (d. 1984). Writer and poet. 1936 - Patrick Caulfield was born (d. 2005). British painter and printmaker. 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave was born. English actress . 1937 - Boris Spassky was born. Russian chess grand master. 1938 - Islam Karimov was born. President of Uzbekistan 1938 - Norma Jean was born. American country singer. 1939 - Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru 1941 - Dick Cheney was born. Politician, 46th Vice President of the United States . 1941 - Gregory Benford was born. American author and scientist. 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg was born. Dutch swimmer. 1941 - World War II: North AfricaThe 6th Australian Division, of Lieutenant-General Dick O'Connor's XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fighting. 1943 - Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers. 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo organises mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. 1943 - Marty Balin was born. American musician . 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000. 1945 - Michael Dorris was born (d. 1997). American writer. 1947 - Les Barker was born. English poet . 1947 - Steve Marriott was born (d. 1991). English musician (The Small Faces) 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. 1948 - Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz.1948 - Nick Broomfield was born. British film- and documentary-maker 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, dies (b. 1869). Indian freedom fighter1948 - Orville Wright dies (b. 1871). American aviation pioneer.1949 - Peter Agre was born. American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Phil Collins was born in London. English musician (Genesis) . 1951 - Charles S. Dutton was born. American actor. 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche dies (b. 1875). Austrian automotive engineer. 1952 - Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government. 1952 - Doug Falconer was born. Professional football player 1955 - Judith Tarr was born. American author. 1956 - Jeremy Gittins was born. British actor 1956 - Jane Seymour dies at 56. Actress (Young Mr Bobbin). 1957 - Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer. 1958 - Ernst Heinkel dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft . 1958 - Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist. 1959 - Jody Watley was born. American singer. 1960 - The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss 1960 - Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer. 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan was born. 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American teacher 1962 - Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician. 1963 - Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer. 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon. 1965 - Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana) 1965 - Julie McCullough was born. American Playboy model and actress 1966 - Danielle Goyette was born. Quebec female ice hockey player 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam. 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain was born. 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police. 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher was born. American businesswoman and reality TV show star. 1969 - Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Hans Spark was born. Football (soccer) player (RKC) 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen was born. American football player 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return. 1972 - Tim Jones was born. Gonzo Journalist. 1972 - Lupillo Rivera was born. Mexican singer. 1972 - Chris Simon was born. National Hockey League player 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player 1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl was born. Miss Indiana USA (1996) 1974 - Christian Bale was born. Welsh actor. 1974 - Jemima Khan was born. British socialite. 1974 - Olivia Colman was born. British actress. 1974 - Christian Bale was born. British actor. 1975 - First faroese stamp issued. 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura was born. Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano was born. Brazilian footballer. 1976 - Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian. 1978 - John Patterson was born. Baseball player 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France. 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor. 1980 - Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music. 1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer 1981 - Peter Crouch was born. English footballer 1981 - Josh Kelley was born. American musician 1981 - Garth Barrett's raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is "mistakenly identified" as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock. 1982 - Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician. 1983 - Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942. 1984 - Jeremy Hermida was born. Baseball player 1987 - Rebecca Knox was born. Irish professional wrestler 1988 - Rob Pinkston was born. American actor 1988 - Laura Banks was born. Scottish Author, musician 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. 1989 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident. 1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins 1989 - Khleo Thomas was born. American actor 1990 - Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire) . 1991 - John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 - John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor. 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister was born. Australian actor 1993 - Portuguese TV station TVI starts working. / Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI. 1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2) 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess. 1994 - The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII. 1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later. 1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0, 6-2). 1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4). 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni dies. PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70). 1994 - Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author. 1995 - Gerald Durrell dies (b. 1925). British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia. 1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win 1995 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild. 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit. 1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV. 1997 - Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista. 1999 - Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor. 1999 - Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American writer. 1999 - A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy. 2000 - In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16. 2000 - Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. 2000 - Super Bowl XXXIV (at Atlanta) : St. Louis Rams 23, Tennessee Titans 16 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor. 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery. 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. 2005 - Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953. 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq 2005 - Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer. 2005 - Wes Wehmiller dies (b. 1971). American musician. 2006 - Coretta Scott King dies (b. 1927). American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. 2007 - Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, a major milestone for the company. Bresil: Dia da saudade Brasil: Dia Nacional dos Quadrinhos (Banda Desenhada) (Comment on this)
2:33 am	Jackson to undergo surgery Phil Jackson will be having hip-replacement surgery tomorrow – I’m sure he will be in all of our thoughts as he recovers. He is expected to be released from the hospital on Wednesday, and it is not clear right now when he will be able to return to his head coaching duties. It is Jackson’s seventh season as head coach, and he has had a 68% win record with the Lakers, easily the best percentage of any coach in NBA history. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
1:30 am	Reporters' Notebooks David Wharton, Los Angeles Times: Of the 1,063 calls that were reviewed this season, approximately 25% were reversed. The average wait for a replay decision was 1 minute 49 seconds. Jeff Darlington, Miami Herald: Alabama is expected to make another run at Miami Dolphin coach Nick Saban. Don Shula, father of the fired Mike Shula, called the Alabama program "bad" and that he hopes "someone evaluates the evaluators" in Tuscaloosa. Tom D'Angelo, Palm Beach Post: Florida State's Lorenzo Booker, in San Francisco for the Emerald Bowl, doesn't like the Bay Area, judging from his comments. John Hunt, Oregonian: Testy? Oregon coach Mike Bellotti opened a conference call by calling for a public apology from a columnist. Lee Barfknecht, Omaha World-Herald: Reality is sinking in for Nebraska. The Cornhuskers will play Auburn in a "dump" of a stadium, sometimes called the Cotton Bowl. Irv Moss, Denver Post: Is new Air Force coach Troy Calhoun ready to dump the option offense used by Fisher DeBerry? Pete Thamel, New York Times: An Auburn professor who had been the focus of an investigation in academic irregularities has been suspended with pay because of a different academic matter. Kansas City Star: Former Northwestern and Colorado coach Gary Barnett let it be known he wanted back in the game, but he hasn't received one phone call. Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Super Southern 100. The paper names its top high school prospects in the South. Steroid Nation: Breaking down the reported positive drug test that led to the dismissal of Florida defensive tackle Marcus Thomas. Norman Chad: Totally unrelated to what we have going on at this site, but do we really need an excuse to link to the entertaining Chad? (Comment on this)
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
1:08 pm	"State of War" by James Risen... This is the book that forced the New York Times to publish an article revealing the Bush administration's secret NSA wiretapping scheme -- more than a year after the Times first leaned about the illegal wiretapping. And it paints a hideous portrait of the Bush administration. President Bush himself -- and this came as a bit of a surprise to me, considering Risen's subject matter -- is portrayed a little more positively than most of his subordinates. He seems, in State of War, to be genuinely concerned and horrified over the Abu Ghraib photographs and the escalating carnage in that country, but is simply clueless when it comes to going about righting those wrongs. Faring worse is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described by Risen early on as a "heavyweight infighter," who is mercilessly depicted as the mule-headed and incompetent bully that he is. Condoleezza Rice, now Secretary of State and then the head of the NSC, appears to function as a punching bag for Rumsfeld. But one of the most embarrasing pictures Risen paints is of former CIA Director George Tenet, who comes off as a dude whose highest ambition in life is to wash his superiors' apples: ...As a successful former Senate and White House staffer, Tenet was a master at managing individual relationships with older and more powerful men. Finding ways to please one powerful man was the path to success in the hothouse culture of Capitol Hill. Tenet had also transferred to Washington an ethnic Greek sense of the importance of relationships. For Tenet, public policy could always be broken down into a series of personal transactions. ... Some of Tenet's aides were convinced that if Al Gore won the election, Tenet would not be one of the Clinton people kept on in the new Gore administration. But Al Gore did not win, so to keep his job, all Tenet had to do was to make a good first impression on one man, George W. Bush, and he was a master at that. For Tenet, managing George Bush was not that much different from managing Senator David Boren, Tony Lake, or John Deutch, Tenet's previous bosses. First, you find out what they want, and then you make sure you are the one who gives it to them. Longtime Tenet watchers knew that if he had enough time alone with Bush, he would win him over. At the CIA, the word soon spread that Tenet had "case officered" the new president, a high compliment within the spy world. Bush even tagged tenet with an insider nickname -- "Jorge" -- a sign that the rumpled and affable CIA director had been accepted at the Bush White House... A lot of good Tenet's sorry brown-nosing did him -- four years later, he was no longer the Director of the CIA, and Bush was beginning his second term. But that's just a harmless part of the otherwise nightmarish tale State of War tells. This is a story of an administration that craved domestic surveillance so strongly that, shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it used the Patriot Act to distract (and alarm) Constitutional lawyers and advocates while pursuing an objective far more aggressive and controversial: a domestic eavesdropping program, conducted by the NSA. The Patriot Act gave no new powers to the NSA, but the NSA is supposed to restrict its spying to foreign communications. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was put in place due to its (along with the CIA's and FBI's) excesses during the Nixon years. Telecommunications at the time consisted of phone cables, walkie-talkies, and C.B. radios. Things have changed a whole lot since then, and because the NSA is all about telecommunications, it has become that much harder to tell where a foreign wiretap ends and a domestic one begins... ... To understand how the Bush administration is spying on the American people, it is important to know a few basics about the U.S. telecommunications network. The telephone network today is digital and computerized, but it is still built around a switching system that routes calls from city to city, or country to country, as efficiently as possible. In addition to handling telephone calls from, say, Los Angeles to New York, the switches also act as gateways into and out of the United States for international telecommunications. A large volume of purely international calls -- calls that do not begin or end in America -- also now travel through switches based in the United States... This so-called transit traffic has dramatically increased in recent years as the telephone network has become increasingly globalized. Computerized systems determine the most efficient routes for digital "packets" of electronic communications depending on the speed and congestion of the networks, not necessarily on the shortest line between two points... In the years before 9/11, the NSA apparently recognized that the remarkable growth in transit traffic was becoming a major issue that had never been addressed by FISA or the other 1970s-era rules and regulations governing the U.S. intelligence community. Now that foreign calls were being routed through switches that were physically on American soil, eavesdropping on those calls might be a violation of the regulations and laws restricting the NSA from spying inside the United States... However, where the NSA spotted a problem, the Bush administration saw an opportunity. The same crowd that saw Saddam Hussein involved in 9/11 and working with al-Qaida when neither relationship existed. The same crowd that saw stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that weren't there. The same crowd that still sees the escalating violence, bloodshed and chaos in Iraq, the ultimate results of their misconceptions that began the war, as proff that America is winning the war on terror -- whatever that means anymore. Apparently, unprecendented access to everyone's phone calls and e-mails has not given this crowd a better understanding of, well, this state of war... (Comment on this)
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
7:37 am	Tokyo Rose Dies From today's Washington Post. Article reprinted below for educational purposes. Tueting's commentary in boldface print. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90; 'Tokyo Rose' in WWII By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 28, 2006; B07 Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, 90, an American woman branded "Tokyo Rose" during World War II, imprisoned for making treasonous radio broadcasts and decades later exonerated with a presidential pardon, died Sept. 26 at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. No cause of death was reported. Although nearly a dozen female broadcasters were given the moniker during World War II, Mrs. D'Aquino was the one most tarred by the name Tokyo Rose, which, along with the name of Japanese War Minister Hideki Tojo, came to personify Axis infamy in the Pacific. Taunting millions of servicemen with stories of infidelity on the home front, false reports of battle outcomes meant to demoralize them and frequent spins of pop songs to keep them listening, the broadcasts of Radio Tokyo were notorious instruments in the propaganda war. Many American sailors and soldiers found the broadcasts cartoonishly incredible, which Mrs. D'Aquino said was exactly her intention. Perhaps the word "reliabilty" just popped into your head. Although her claim to have been a bad propagandist on purpose is substantiated later in the article, all of my good little historians would look at a self-serving exculpatory explanation with a jaundiced eye until that explanation is supported by additional evidence. The name Tokyo Rose was an American invention. On air, Mrs. D'Aquino called herself "Orphan Ann," a reference both to her favorite radio program as a child and her lonely status as an American trapped in enemy territory. She refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship during the war, and many described her as a victim of her own courage and naiveté. Having landed in her ancestral homeland at precisely the worst moment to care for a sick aunt, she had been forced through circumstance to broadcast propaganda for the Japanese. She and other captive Allied nationals decided to turn their ordeal on its head, deliberately making a hash of the propaganda. Mrs. D'Aquino, who had a gravelly voice and a slight lisp, was not what the enemy wanted: a sultry-voiced villainess to tease American listeners who were away from home. With anti-Japanese fervor still peaking after the war, great media and political pressure was applied to finding "Tokyo Rose." Treason trials had commenced for Mildred Gillars, the American known as "Axis Sally" for her pro-Nazi broadcasts from Berlin and American-born William Joyce, known as "Lord Haw-Haw" for his radio propaganda messages beamed to England from Germany during the war. Gillars was imprisoned; Joyce hanged. During the Crucible movie night, we talked about the (justifiable?) paranoia that developed in the United States at the onset of the Cold War. Combined with the war crimes trial precdent established at Nuremburg and Tokyo, this boded ill for our Tokyo Rose. Lord Haw-Haw, your teacher humbly submits, did meet a just end. Mrs. D'Aquino's case seemed different. Reports from Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Army's Counterintelligence Corps indicated that she had done nothing treasonable in her broadcasts. But Walter Winchell, the powerful and vitriolic broadcast personality, and the American Legion lobbied relentlessly for a trial. Oooooh. Supporting evidence. If contemporaneous judgments by the military saw no treason, that lends credence to Rose's story. You are, perhaps, recalibrating your judgment of the reliability of Rose's claims. Mrs. D'Aquino, a raven-haired woman with a tender moon face, was the only one of the Tokyo Roses arrested by U.S. authorities after the Japanese surrender. She was found guilty of treason after a judge pressured a deadlocked jury to render a verdict. "I supposed they found someone and got the job done, they were all satisfied," she later told the CBS News program "60 Minutes." "It was eeny, meeny, miney and I was 'moe,' " she said. She served part of her prison term, lived quietly in Chicago and gradually watched as people took up her case for a pardon. After testimony against her was discredited, President Gerald R. Ford pardoned her in January 1977 as one of his last acts in office. Born to Japanese immigrants in Los Angeles on Independence Day in 1916, Iva Ikuko Toguri led a comfortable, middle-class life as a child. Her father was a small-business owner who tried to assimilate, and his daughter grew up speaking no Japanese. Assimilation will be a big theme of our course; the process of inculturation is complex. We will talk specifically about the Japanese experience when we discuss the Nissei and Issei. She attended a Methodist church, played tennis and piano and enjoyed hiking and swing music. During her school years, she "was a popular student and was considered a loyal American," the FBI Web site said. She cared for her mother, who was disabled by diabetes, and hoped to pursue a career in medicine. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1941 with a zoology degree. When an aunt in Japan became gravely ill, she was asked by the family to visit Japan and care for her. Mrs. D'Aquino did not have time to apply for a passport, but the U.S. State Department gave her a certificate of identification that allowed her to travel. Arriving in Japan in July 1941, she was at a loss: She neither spoke the language nor could stomach the food. She was said to have "detested rice" and to have packed a supply of chocolate, coffee and canned meat to avoid eating the local cuisine, according to the World War II Veterans Committee publication "World War II Chronicles." Trapped in Japan After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that December, she could not leave Japan. In the face of pressure by the Japanese government, she refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship. Japanese authorities labeled her, along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in Japan at the time, an enemy alien and denied her a food-ration card. This demonstrates amazing courage. The Japense government was known for its "persuasiveness." The authorities declined to place her with other foreign nationals, as she had requested, and instead, she found herself under constant surveillance and harassment by the Kempeitai, or military police. She also was without help from her aunt and uncle, who threw her out of their home when she began voicing pro-American sentiments. She found clerical jobs at the Danish Embassy and taught piano. She endured hospital stays for malnutrition, beriberi and gastrointestinal disorders. She borrowed money from friends, including a sympathetic Portuguese national named Filipe d'Aquino, whom she married in 1945. She became a typist at Radio Tokyo and soon went to work in an office with, among others, Australian broadcaster Charles H. Cousens, who had been captured in Singapore and forced into duty reading the most revolting propaganda on a program called "Zero Hour." In exchange for following the Japanese-approved script, Cousens arranged to read the names of prisoners of war, which he hoped would be of help to Allied families. Meanwhile, Mrs. D'Aquino brought food and clothing to the starving Allied broadcasters. When radio authorities insisted on a woman's presence on the radio, Cousens recommended Mrs. D'Aquino, whom he came to admire after realizing that she was not a secret agent of the Kempeitai. After she went on air in November 1943, she and Cousens tried to make a farce of the broadcasts. Hiring Mrs. D'Aquino, with her "gin fog voice," was ideal, Cousens later said. "In view of my idea of making the program a complete burlesque, it was just what I wanted," he added. Propaganda officials, who were largely incompetent, had little feel for their nuance and double entendres. The insular, Japanese culture caused problems for the Empire of the Sun throughout the war. In fact, the decision to bomb Pearl Harbor was a direct result of cultural myopia. The high command believed that America's isolationism and pacifism was an inevitable consequence of gammy-handed democracy. Admiral Yamamoto, a graduate of Harvard, warned his leaders that the attack would galvanize public-opinion, allowing America to marshall its vastly superior economic resources, but his greater cultural insights were dismissed. Osama bin Laden made a similar mistake in 9-11. Hoping that a spectacular attack would demoralize the enervated west, he instead inspired Westerners (or at least Americans and the Brits) to fight back. Osama, my friends, is a poor student of history. As Carlos Mencia said, the day after 9-11, the ghost of Tojo called Osama and said "Dude, you (messed) up!" Mrs. D'Aquino's average time on each program was about 20 minutes, during which she introduced popular records of the day, sometimes with an aural wink: "So be on guard, and mind the children don't hear! All set? Okay! Here's the first blow to your morale -- the Boston Pops playing 'Strike Up the Band!' " To Japanese ears, she was highly effective, and station officials rebuffed her several attempts to leave the job. Ecstatic at the war's conclusion in 1945, she again found herself desperate to survive in a miserable postwar economy. She applied for a U.S. passport, because she had not renounced her citizenship, but she made an error of judgment by trying to capitalize on her "Tokyo Rose" fame. A writer with Cosmopolitan magazine offered to pay her $2,000 -- a fortune at the time -- if she would sign a contract as "the one and only 'Tokyo Rose.' " But the magazine's editors duped her into holding a large press conference that effectively scuttled the "exclusive" and freed Cosmopolitan from any financial obligation. Mrs. D'Aquino was pleased by all of the attention, at first. She thought the gregarious reporters were admirers who understood her intentions to deliberately undermine the propaganda she was told to broadcast. She did not know that the Cosmopolitan reporter had taken his story to the Army and claimed that it was Mrs. D'Aquino's "confession." This just goes to show you should never trust reporters, particularly ones named Camila or Harper. :) Not the use of the text smiley face. Mr. Tueting is hip to your yute culture. Fallout of Fame In October 1945, Army officials arrested her and held her for a year in a 6-by-9-foot cell at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo. She was permitted a 20-minute visit with her husband every month and to wash every three days. During her imprisonment, she received word that her mother had died. She was abused by guards who kept lights on in her cell until she would sign an autograph. However, no charges were brought against her, and she was released. She became pregnant in the late 1940s and sought to return to the United States to see her first child born there. In a weakened condition from her prison stay, she lost the baby soon after its birth. Some of her Allied peers at the radio station were exonerated in their homelands, including Cousens, but the political atmosphere in the United States had turned ugly. Winchell's constant broadcasts magnifying her role during the war led to her re-arrest in 1948. Brought back to the United States on a troop ship, she faced trial in San Francisco the next year. She had been away for eight years. Walter Winchell: Proto-McCarthyite. The type of fellow that our firend Arthur Miller destested. Cousens and other Allied acquaintances testified on her behalf. The prosecution's case relied heavily on the eyewitness testimony of two of her co-workers at "Zero Hour." The charge that hurt Mrs. D'Aquino was having allegedly said in a 1944 broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you are really orphans now. How will you get home now that your ships are sunk?" The broadcast, which aired shortly after the Allied victory against Japan in the Leyte Gulf near the Philippines, was viewed with skepticism at the time but was used against Mrs. D'Aquino in her 1949 trial. After the all-white jury deadlocked, the judge instructed them to continue deliberating because the trial had been "long and expensive." The 13-week trial cost $750,000. Charged with eight counts of treason, she was convicted on one, for having spoken "into a microphone concerning the loss of ships." She was the seventh person in U.S. history to be convicted of treason, according to the FBI. In the very near future we will discuss why so few people have been convicted of treason: John Marshall, the avatar of the early Supreme Court set the evidentiary standard ridiculously high during the Aaron Burr teason trial in order to thwart his political enemy, President Thomas Jefferson. Please note that the last link is a good example of the danger of relying on Wikipedia as a source. The article, otherwise sound, indicates that Marshall was a strict contructivist when in fact he was the complete opposite. She was stripped of her U.S. citizenship and received a sentence of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. She was sent to a federal women's prison in Alderson, W.Va., where she was said to have spent many hours playing bridge with "Axis Sally" Gillars. Released after six years for good behavior, Mrs. D'Aquino worked quietly to exonerate herself. By then, her personal life had crumbled. Her husband came to her defense during the trial only to be bullied into signing an agreement never again to enter the United States. Their separation -- she declined to leave the United States -- led to their reluctant divorce. After leaving prison, she settled in Chicago and worked with her father at a small import shop to pay off the fine after repeated threats by the Justice Department. Petitions began circulating for her exoneration, but little was done at the executive level until news reports began to question the testimony that led to her conviction. Kenkichi Oki, a "Zero Hour" colleague who had testified against Mrs. D'Aquino, told the Chicago Tribune that he "had no choice" but to testify against Mrs. D'Aquino because of threats from the FBI that "Uncle Sam might arrange a trial for us, too." The jury foreman told reporters that he felt pressure from the judge and wished he "had a little more guts to stick with my vote for acquittal." After she was pardoned by Ford in 1977, her citizenship was restored. She said she regretted that the pardon came about four years after her father's death. She described her father's reaction to her experiences: "You were like a tiger, you never changed your stripes, you stayed American through and through." Until her death, she lived in welcome anonymity in Chicago, allowing herself pleasures such as quilting and concerts at the Chicago Lyric Opera. (Comment on this)
7:32 am	Answer This Just wondering how many of you Laker fans out there are really Laker fans? How many of you fans jumped off the band wagon because of a season that was poorly played by the Lakers? For those of you who followed Los Angles all season, when did you become a Laker Fan? How did you become Laker fans, and why did you become a Laker fan? (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
6:29 pm	This and That This and That Today’s blog posting is one of those where I do brain dump and spill out of my mind all of those minor thoughts that have been cluttering things up lately. Normally, I prefer not to do this but some days it is necessary to do it. Woman of the Moment I only have two photos of Aiko Tanaka for today. I want to spread the last four out so I can start the Weekend Proview with the new Woman of the Moment. Bad Tattoos Most of you know that I do not have a high regard for young women or women in general, since tats are on the permanent side, that have tats or as some like to call it, body art. I have agreed that a small butterfly or small heart is not going to upset me in the grand scheme of things. All of this brings me to last night’s local television news cast. This particular station broadcasts Oakland Raider foot ball games in Los Angeles. I guess they do this on the assumption that there are some people who are Raider fans. The station ran a Raider broadcast commercial in the sports segment of the news broadcast. I thought the placement was rather logical. I, for one, do not care all that much for the Raiders. I also absolutely and positively do not want a professional football team back in Los Angeles ever in my lifetime. I enjoy being to choose from four good to great games every Sunday. Back to the issue of bad tattoos, the commercial for this Thursday’s Raider football broadcast featured two Hollywood type models / actresses playing on the beach with a football, clever tie-in. They were wearing black bikinis, Raider colors, and they had, what I believe were, fake Raider logo tattoos in the small of their backs. For a moment, I was on the verge of accepting the tattoos. Then, I came to my senses and realized what a bad idea this was. I was not motivated to consider watching the football game on Thursday and it was likely to encourage impressionable young women to go have the same tattoo inked on their backs. Monday Follow Up I got the brokerage check on Monday; about when I thought I would receive it. I took it to the drive up ATM and deposited it today. On the way home, I heard on my car radio that Johnny Depp was shooting pick up scenes for the third PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN film on a pirate ship that was sailing off of Redondo Beach. I decided to see if I could see the filming. No luck; it was foggy and overcast. I could not see out in the water beyond 100 yards / 100 meters. I thought about this later and concluded that it was a hoax. My Friend Xue My friend Xue is in America now. Xue is a Chinese student in graduate school, studying sociology. Xue says that I should call her Snow since that is easier to pronounce than her name. I did try to pronounce her name but gave up when she kept laughing at my attempts. Xue can pronounce my name very well but then she has taken English classes for years. I have never taken any Chinese classes. I like to think I helped Xue get her two year student Visa. I helped her with an essay that she had to submit as part of her Visa application. Xue had translated a paper that she had written in Chinese and then asked me to read it and make any corrections for things like American grammar and idiom. I spent about four days working on her paper to make it flow better and to clear up vague points. She got her Visa without too much trouble so all was well. On Monday evening, we talked over the telephone for the first time. It was like one of those hideous first serious conversations that you had with a female or male when you were young. It was painfully awkward and difficult for me; I hope I was not that dull and boring for Xue. We talked for about twenty minutes and that seemed like an eternity for me. I don’t remember all that much of what we said last night. I hope to do better on this weekend when we talk again. I do remember that Xue told me she and the rest of the new students were having a party on Friday at a beach at Lake Michigan just before school starts next week. That should be fun for her. I think Xue will do well in her studies. She is the first student from her university in China to receive a full scholarship to study in America. That is impressive to me. Carbon Dating Myself I can remember when gasoline was USD$0.37 a gallon and you had someone else check the car’s oil level, tire pressure, and wash the windows while you sat and watched. Be well and stay happy. (Comment on this)
6:24 pm	Who are those other guys? I have been a Los Angeles Lakers fan for years. What I see happening to this team pains me greatly. Yes, we are winning. Some would say Kobe Bryant carries this team, but despite our record we are not playing like a winning team. If you look at the numbers, Kobe has been the top scorer in almost every game. Who is our second best player? Do we have one? (Comment on this)
Friday, August 18th, 2006
11:36 am	There was Barfly... There was Barfly, the film that defined for many what Los Angeles writer Charles Bukowski's work would look like. Now there's Factotum, a new film reviewed by Manohla Dargis: Published when Bukowski was in his mid-50's and starting to reach a wider readership, "Factotum" presents the age-old struggle of man against mediocrity. Henry Chinaski (Mr. Dillon), Bukowski's familiar alter ego, is the heroic survivor of countless benders, brawls, rejection slips, crazy women and soul-killing, mind-deadening jobs. Or, as he puts it so nicely in the novel: "How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed"--there is, naturally, a scatological dimension to this list--"brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?" And, while we're on the subject of film, this post (via Pullquote) is pretty funny. (Comment on this)
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10:52 am	It's Official! New York Times Declares Los Angeles National Center ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15kozi.html File this one in the... too good to be true file.... January 15, 2006 Continental Shift New York Times By ALLAN KOZINN LOS ANGELES — Predicting which American city might overtake New York as the center for the arts - any of the arts - has long been a parlor game in certain circles. If, 15 years ago, you had asked an informed fan where the excitement was in the symphonic world, you would have heard about the St. Louis Symphony, thriving under Leonard Slatkin's baton, or about the Cleveland Orchestra, which, under Christoph von Dohnanyi, was regaining the sheen it had lost since the 1960's height of George Szell's fabled tenure. Surely no one would have mentioned this city, where the Philharmonic was respectable but on the downside of its up-and-down history. Yet in 2006, the Los Angeles Philharmonic tops the list of America's premier orchestras and serves as a lesson in how to update an august cultural institution without cheapening its work. It has everything. Its new home, the $275 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, became a national cultural landmark the instant it opened in 2003 and is as satisfying acoustically as it is visually. The orchestra's programming - modernist-leaning and often inventively theatrical - has won the envy of music lovers across the country and is playing to near-capacity houses. The ensemble has burnished its reputation for energetic, streamlined playing, and this weekend it is making a recording for Deutsche Grammophon, ending a four-year recording drought. It has also leapt into 21st-century musical commerce, striking a deal to make some of its concerts available on iTunes. At the center of this grand renovation is Esa-Pekka Salonen, the 47-year-old Finnish conductor who has been the Philharmonic's music director since 1992... My God - I can't imagine what photos of Kozinn the LA Phil could have of him (a threesome with an underaged gerbil and an immature baby seal?) that could force him to write all that wonderfully purple prose in the New York Times - so he must actually believe what he wrote! Now for Esa's big, big plans for our future.... .... he has explored the music of the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, and he started a "Filmharmonic" project to foster new collaborations between composers and filmmakers. Mr. Salonen envisioned a series of new 60-minute works with film components, which the orchestra could perform and release on DVD. But he was unable to raise the funds. "I haven't given up hope that someday some executive at Disney comes and says, 'Well, look, do you want to do it?' " Mr. Salonen said. As for the criticism he has received for not championing enough Los Angeles composers, "It has been on my mind a lot," he said. "The problem is that L.A. is quite a transitory place. There are young composers who come to study here, and then they're gone." But he has hopes on that front, too. Yay! Now for more good stuff.... The orchestra is offering a Beethoven cycle this season, but also installments of a Shostakovich cycle, a festival built around the English composer Thomas Adès, and "Minimalist Jukebox," an expansive exploration of Minimalism overseen by Mr. Adams. "Almost daily," he said, "I run into people who would come to a Kurtag concert" - Gyorgy Kurtag, a contemporary Hungarian composer - "and who would also go to hear U2 or a world-music presentation. And they will enjoy a symphony here and there. It's an iPod landscape." All told, the orchestra's current season offers works by 42 composers from the 20th or 21st centuries, 9 from the 19th and 8 from the Baroque and Classical eras - a configuration unimaginable among the East Coast establishment. Critics' pleas for more adventurous programming at the New York Philharmonic are usually dismissed with the assertion that new music doesn't sell tickets. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic expects to sell 93 percent of its tickets this year. The New York Philharmonic projects sales of 81 percent. And now for the big close... Rock stars, star architects, Finnish diffidence and intellectual experimentation: Can other cities learn from this strange amalgam? Mr. Salonen regards it as site-specific, and he isn't much interested in testing the theory. He is happily ensconced in Los Angeles with his wife and three children, and if he gives up his Los Angeles directorship, it will most likely be to spend more time composing. So New Yorkers with fantasies of Mr. Salonen moving east and breathing life into the New York Philharmonic when Lorin Maazel steps down in 2009 might as well give them up. But Mr. Salonen's success here provides a foolproof recipe for any orchestra. All it needs is a charismatic conductor with fresh ideas and an openness to new musical currents; a concert hall that people want to go to and that musicians like to play in; programs that treat music not as a museum culture but as a lively continuum; and a management and board willing to support experimental urges. It's pretty simple, really. Ahhhh.... pig... wallow.... mud..... (Comment on this)
10:48 am	No man is an island but he could be a beach ball. Some people may be tempted to support Kobe Bryant with a wholly youthful team. Although as a Los Angeles Lakers fan my favorite kind of Basketball to watch is one of speed, driving to the hoop and fast passing, judging from the results of the NBA finals this year it may be worth thinking about a tall, solid and experienced player that can hold Bryant’s talent and the rookie crop together in such tense situations. (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
5:57 pm	So an Englishman and an Australian go to Los Angeles . . . In LA for work this week, the biggest story on television and radio seems to be Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic DUI arrest. While trivial, perhaps it makes sense being in sight of the Hollywood sign, where entertainment news--while not entertainment or news--is oftentimes the only news that really matters. But people were also talking about Tony Blair’s visit to California. Regardless of his deathwatch back home and his continued support of the US President, Blair remains very popular among Americans. And looking at the news footage, he seemed in good spirits out in sunny California. But his visit gave the US a stark reminder of how out-of-touch the current administration has become with the rest of the world. For instance, it was mildly depressing (but perfectly sensible) to see Blair pitch the UK as a great place for embryonic stem-cell research to Cali bio-tech firms, as George W. Bush recently vetoed a bill that would have let federal money go to the research in the US. Even more embarrassing, Blair met with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss global warming at a summit on Monday. They walked away with little more than plans to study solutions and share research, with the nation-state of California looking into some new programs developed across the pond in the UK and Europe. It was a feel-good moment, ruined only when one realized that a very important foreign head of state like Blair has to go meet with a state governor to discuss global warming, because the President of the United States has decided it doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, the Middle West and Eastern seaboard brace for temps to hit the 100˚F-plus (38˚C-plus) mark, as we wonder if 2006 will join 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 and 2003 as one of the hottest years on record. (Oh, and if you have time before your power dims and (finally) goes out, check out this hilarious anti-global warming facts page, set up to trick dim-witted kids googling their science homework. As Bush once asked, "Is our children learning?" I'd say the answer is a resounding “yes!”) (Comment on this)
5:52 pm	No man is an island but he could be a beach ball. Some people may be tempted to support Kobe Bryant with a wholly youthful team. Although as a Los Angeles Lakers fan my favorite kind of Basketball to watch is one of speed, driving to the hoop and fast passing, judging from the results of the NBA finals this year it may be worth thinking about a tall, solid and experienced player that can hold Bryant’s talent and the rookie crop together in such tense situations. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 31st, 2006
9:53 pm	Radiohead @ The Greek Theater, Los Angeles If one were to look at my record collection or browse my iTunes, one might think I was a big Radiohead fan. I have all their records and a handful of bootlegs and live stuff. I think they are incredible, but actually had only seen them once that was many many years ago after Pablo Honey came out. I had another opportunity to see them a couple years back at the Field Day Fest, but the show got cancelled and rescheduled to Giants Stadium. I chose not to go as I didn't really want to make the trek to New Jersey. So, basically, last night was my first time seeing the band. I hadn't been following the setlists, so I didn't really know what to expect. We arrived at the Greek Theater a bit late and missed openers Deerhoof. The people around me were not impressed. Right before the show began, I was approached by a man named Michael who quickly told me that he snuck in to the show and was roaming around looking for an open seat. He ended up sitting next to me for a while and right before the lights went down said, "I saw these guys at the Hollywood Bowl in 2001 and it changed my entire concert going experience. I vowed never to see Phish again." If that's not a glowing endorsement, I don't know what is. The show began and the entire audience was taken aback. First of all, the sound at the Greek is incredible. Even with my seats way in the back, I could hear Thom's voice beautifully and heard every bleep and bop like it was meant to be. With each new song (there were 7!) the crowd was enthusiastic and excited to hear the new material. Many of the new songs have been on YouTube or floating around the internet for sometime, but Thom Yorke said it best when he said: "This is another song you don't know. And if you do, you are cooler than everyone else." The highlight of the show for me was the fact that they played more than half of Kid A and a great live song "Follow Me Around". "Follow Me Around" has been in their setlists for years, but have never recorded it. It sounded absolutely beautiful last night. While many people may disagree with me, I still believe that these guys are the best band in the world and last night played like it. If you have the funds to beg and plead and buy tickets tonight, do it. It will be worth every penny. Setlist: 1 You And Whose Army? 2 The National Anthem 3 2+2=5 4 15 Step* 5 Morning Bell 6 Arpeggi* 7 Videotape* 8 Kid A 9 Dollars And Cents 10 Street Spirit 11 All I Need* 12 Nude 13 Paranoid Android 14 Bangers 'n Mash* 15 The Gloaming 16 Idioteque 17 Follow Me Around 18 Everything In Its Right Place Encore 1 19 There There 20 Down Is The New Up* 21 The Bends 22 How To Disappear Completely Encore 2 23 House of Cards* 24 Lucky (Songs with * are new songs) (Comment on this)
9:49 pm	Follow the Purple & Gold Road Trades, Free Agents, and Summer League.... OH MY! After experiencing the excitement of the past month, which included the crowning of a new NBA Champion (the San Antonio Spurs), the return of the Zen Master (Phil Jackson), and the anticipation of the NBA Draft and free agency. Some might argue that the Lakers draft was a major let down, but lets be honest, yes, the Lakers could have gotten a player that was more NBA ready, but as far as the “P” word (potential) or the “U” word (upside) go who could ask for more. We have a 17 year old kid that is 7’0 tall and growing, and all of the experts agree that as much of a project as Bynum is, his “P”otential & “U”pside are as good as anyone in this years draft class. As of today the Lakers are 3-1 in the Long Beach Summer Pro League, and Bynum has scored 16, 10, 12, and 10 points respectively with highs of 9 rebounds in a game (twice). Ronny Turiaf, in a game versus the Dallas Mavericks scored 26 pts and pulled down 11 boards. Smush Parker a journeyman PG has been the most impressive player on the Lakers roster. Many feel he will be invited to camp in October for the Lakers. Between midnight July 1st and eleven-fifty-nine July 21st free agents can talk too, visit, and verbally commit with the team of their choice. At midnight on July 22nd the moratorium on free agent signings ends, what this means, is that a players can officially sign a contract with the team of his choice. As of this post, no free agent has verbally committed to the Lakers; however, the Lakers have identified a few players that they would like too add to the roster (more on this later). For the record the Lakers have the mid-level exception (around 5 million per) to offer a potential free agent(s). The Lakers, however, have been very busy contacting teams and players throughout the League trying to see what options are available to them. Over the past couple of days the Lakers and Washington Wizards have been in serious discussions over a deal that would send Caron Butler (6’7, 217, SF) and either Chucky Atkins (5’11, 160, PG) or Deaven George (6’8, 240, SF) to the Wizards for Kwame Brown (6’11, 248, PF/C). According to the L.A. Times the deal is done and will be consummated on July 22nd. Brown who was the first overall choice in the 2001 NBA Draft as well as the first high school players picked number one overall in NBA history. While many experts would say that Kwame’s been a bust or underachiever to this pointing his career, with career averages of 7.7 ppg, 5.5 rpg. Please keep in perspective that Kwame is only 23 years old and did not have an opportunity for much playing time in his first couple of seasons with the Wizards. This past season Kwame averaged 7 points 5 rebounds in about 22 minutes per game coming off of the bench. Also, Kwame showed signs of just how talented he is by achieving career highs in both points scored (30) and rebounds (19) in a game against Sacramento in March of 2004. One of the rules of thumb for kids coming out of high school is that they do not reach their potential until their second contract or their second team, a la, Tracy McGrady, and Jermaine O’Neal. As with Kupchacks’ bold pick in this year draft (Bynum) this is another move that is high risk, high reward. As far as free agents go, the Lakers are pursuing Antonio Daniels (6’4, 205, PG); apparently the Lakers are offering him their full mid-level exception (5 Million per year), and the starting point guard position. Daniels who has won a championship with the 1999 San Antonio Spurs, has played the past couple of seasons with the Seattle Supersonics, where he averaged 11 points, 4 assists per game this past season. Daniels is known as a high-energy player, which excels on the defensive end, and a defensive PG, is something the Lakers have been missing for the past couple of seasons. Daniels visited the Lakers yesterday at their El Segundo headquarters but left without a reaching a deal. However, Daniels agent Tony Dutt said the Lakers were "definitely high on the list. It's always been a situation Antonio likes." In other Lakers news they have reach contract agreements with restricted free agent Luke Walton and this years second round pick Ronny Turiaf (pronounced Roni, as in macaRoni). Both players have signed 2-year agreements to go along with the 2 years with an option that the Lakers have reportedly signed Kwame brown too. Other free agents that the Lakers have reportedly targeted are former Lakers Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen, Jannero Pargo, and Tyronne Lue, along with Toni Kukoc, and Chris Andersen. Keep in mind that Phil likes players that he is familiar with as well as veterans that know the triangle offense that the Lakers will employ. With the addition of Brown, the Lakers would have under contract Kobe Bryant, Odom, Chris Mihm, Jumaine Jones, Brian Cook, Slava Medvedenko, Sasha Vujacic, Luke Walton, Andrew Bynum and Ronny Turiaf. Atkins or George would also be under contract, depending on which one is sent to Washington for the Brown deal. Also the Lakers are going to wait until just before training camp to make a decision on whether or not to pick up the option for Vlade. I think Vlade coming back will come down too the development of Bynum and how fast he picks up the offense and defensive assignments that the Lakers use. Looking at this roster one thing immediately jumps out to me; and that is youth. The Lakers in the past year and a half have gone from one of the older teams in the league to a young and athletic team. I personally feel as though the Lakers are pointed in the right direction, think about it, the Lakers would start Daniels (6’4) at the point with Kobe (6’7) at the two guard, along with Mihm (7’0) at the center with Kwame (6’11) at the power forward and L.O. (6’10) at his natural position small forward. That is a pretty athletic group not to mention the size the Lakers would now have in the big and powerful Western Conference. The Lakers would also have more depth and change of pace players so that they can play in many different styles of play. I hope that the Lakers can pull off the signing of Antonio Daniels, and possibly another move to balance out the roster some more but overall I’m happier today than I was last year at this time (in case you didn’t know, today is the one year anniversary of the Shaq trade). Remember back in the 1996 when the Lakers had that summer where it seamed that the whole team was changed over night. Kobe, Shaq, D-Fish, Horry, Jerome Kersey, Travis Knight to name a few of the new faces, replace Vlade, Magic (Remember his comeback), George Lynch, Anthony Peeler (AP) & Sedale Threatt. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe that, that much turnover happened in one off-season, but it did (look it up, I did, www.lakerstats.com). It took a few years for the 1996 team to grow into eventual 3 time NBA world champs but through the highs and lows of what I will call the Shaq era, the Lakers showed that they are and always will be the premier franchise in the NBA. So, I say to you please be patient with this bunch, and realize how young this team is and that with a few more tweaks over the next couple of off-seasons the Lakers will be back where we all EXPECT them to be. As always I hope you enjoyed this article and all feedback is welcome, do not forget to pass this on to anyone who enjoys the NBA and the Lakers. Go Lakers! (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 29th, 2006
4:48 pm	Jaime Green starting to get nervous I received two comments -from the same source- with Jaime Greens signature saying how great he is and how what he and others do is his business. I think someone else may be a little confused. Because I didn't include their two comments when referring to these posts. There were 4 . Two I know cam from Jaime Green his fingerprints were all over the posts. The words he uses. Again this is the signature of all sexual predators they feel they do nothing wrong , that it is natural to prey on others. He has tried it all . Claiming that I live in skid row - to imply that maybe there is something wrong with me morally-, claiming I am mentally ill , claiming I was in love iwht him . All of these to try and discredit me. But now he has done something else. He is again trying the hompophobic tact , the homphobic approach. That somehow he is doing a service to the community. Again the MO of all sexual predators. Remember sexual predators always place themselves in situations in which they have accesss to their victims and prefferably in places where they can be seen as someone in a position of authority. Here we see a senate commendation from Fabian Nunez for the work of working on the latin Gay Pride festival, he posted this on his flickr site right after I posted the latest post on his cookie box. He is beginning to grasp at straws.Remember what I said , and if you look closesly all of the things that are hanging on his desktop want to make you beleive he is a director of festivals etc. These predators whether they be pedophiles or otherwise will find ways of using and making use of authority or semblance of authority to show their victims they are important. This sort of behavior is all about control. I am glad I am speaking out . It is empowering , plus I can sleep at night. These types of predators always try and make the victim's somehow beleive it is their fault , that we have done something wrong , that we are attacking an upstanding member of the community , like in this instance . BUt in reality he is building a resume so he can try and claim he is innocent. LIke I said I am free and I speak up . It is empowering and it feels good to do so. MAny victims of sexual violence and predation will always tell you that once you speak up and once you are no longer afraid of the perpetrator life can move forward. Thank god for this blog and I hope we can find a way to stop predators such as Jaime Green from continuing to prey on the homeless and vulnerable HOmeless Latino Community and those who might believe that Mr. Green somehow has influence to make thier lives better , but only find out he is just using these venues as a way to gain access to prey upon them. (Comment on this)
4:44 pm	If we can change, where do we start? The Los Angeles Lakers season ended in Phoenix. I couldn’t even bring myself to write during the playoffs because I was so nervous I would jinx my team or something. I wrote once and it seemed to have a negative effect so I stopped. It’s not like I think I am responsible for my team losing, but sometimes things just seem connected. Kobe Bryant led the league in scoring and has now been named to the All-NBA First Team. Hopefully we can acquire some hot young talent in the draft to compliment our Kobe driven offense. What changes do you see in our future? (Comment on this)