Thursday, November 09, 2006

ö OMG - Ed Bradley goes at 65?! I'm a little surprised by my reaction, but I'm just about choked up.  NEW YORK - Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on "60 Minutes," died Thursday. He was 65. Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai hospital, CBS News announced. [...] "Ed could get people to say the damndest thing because he put them at ease," said former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw said Thursday. "It was like talking not to a reporter, but talking to an interested counselor of some kind. ... He had this wonderful way of stroking his beard and saying, 'Well, what do you mean by that?'" more  permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö What American accent do you have? I bot into this quiz and got cot as having a Boston accent, even though I think I (mostly) don't. Doesn't everyone tok this way? There was nothing wicked obvious like chowda, bahn, smaht, cah, or CELLA. In fact I'm a bit puzzled about how accurate this was, having grown up a meah 11 miles noth of Fenway:  3. We're going to start with two ordinary words, "cot" and "caught." Do you think those words sound the same or different? 8. Moving on, what do you think about "Mary," "merry," and "marry"? RESULT: You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.  permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever For Ted Rall, the glass is still worse than half empty. I hope he's wrong:  Like Cornered Rats, GOP Losers More Dangerous Than Ever Concentration Camps In January 2006 HomeSec awarded a $385 million contract to Kellogg, Brown and Root, the subsidiary of Halliburton Co., to build "temporary detention and processing capabilities"--internment camps--"in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." The question, asks Progressive magazine editor Ruth Conniff, "is what is the government planning to do with mass roundups of people?" After all, Bush and other Republican leaders have spent five years calling Democrats and others who disagree with them traitors and terrorists. Following so much hateful rhetoric, you can't blame liberals for wondering whether they too are about to be declared "enemy combatants." They're not paranoid; they're just paying attention. [...] As ugly secrets surface, Bushists will turn desperate. more   Image of the WWII-era Topaz Internment Camp. Nimmo also has more on the JWDAA. So does Toward Freedom. Wikipedia has more on Kellogg, Brown and Root, a Private Miltary Company. Root? Usurpers! permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?