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Okay. Buzzfeed just came out with a lovely piece about yet another  Another current or former Trump advisor with a relationship with Russia  . And yes, Buzzfeed, purveyors of  dopy quizzes about what  your lunch "really means" and how your love of 80s sitcoms foretells how many kids you will have,  more and more often brings you kill peices on the Trump administration. They are not dealers in fake news.

Carter Page isn't on this graph, but he would belong under the nebulous "Trump Campaign". The graph, which I wish was easier to read, but I found several online and none of them are easy to read, I suspect because there are so many names on them, this graph is from last week and is not entirely up to date.

Earlier Monday came the news  that Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education's,  brother, Eric Prince of Black Water Fame was doing some back channel footsy with the Russians for Trump . In One Day  we learned all these things about the Trump administration friends and family plan and the Russians.

I don't have the knowledge or political science background to explain any of it to you. It confuses me and leaves me feeling dizzy. I do however suggest that you follow @20committee on Twitter immediately because he  does have the knowledge and the polisi background to explain all of this. He does speak in acronyms and spy jargon you will spend a lot of time on Google but it will make you feel much more worldly, for example: IC means "Intelligence Community". Go here , and read John R. Roberts collected work at http://observer.com , forewarned is forearmed, said mag is owned by Jared Kushner. Roberts is a safe bet however and he is strongly in the Never Trump camp of conservative Country Before Party writers that even a good lefty can read and learn from.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!ELIZABETH!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!ELIZABETH!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!ELIZABETH!!!!!!

DOMA is Done-a

DOMA and Prop 8 are over! Long Live Civil Rights!

2011 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture

Black Swan - I've heard this is really good and that Portman is outstanding. Did I mention that college taught me to hate dancers? They are banana clip wearing prima donnas who can't be bothered to build their own sets or sell their own tickets and think costumes grow on trees.  Brats. I hear this is also about mental illness, so I am assuming this is a dance documentary.

The Fighter -  Poor Irish kids in a Boston suburb turn to boxing and meth sales to support their birth control echewing families.

Inception -  Leo Dicaprio and a green screen team up to fight crime.,

The Kids Are All Right  - Gay parents raise children that are just as douchebaggy/conflicted/over praised as het parents!

The King's Speech - The King has a speech impediment and goes to a speech pathologist. Prevails over speech impediment and Nazism. (will win)

127 Hours - Male  hiker cuts off own arm before he asks for directions.

The Social Network - Facebook inventors learn about privacy settings the hard way. (will win for Director)

Toy Story 3 -  You grow up and put the toys away and it makes the toys sad or not.

True Grit - Cowboys shoot each other and beat on a child who kills one of them and grows up to be more of a man than any of them. (Best Adapted Screen play)

Winter's Bone - A girl goes and searches for her scum bag meth addict father so he can help them not lose the meth house they call home.

Best Supporting Actor

Christian Bale, The Fighter - I really liked him as a child actor. He is now a douchebag.
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone - The run away meth addict or one of his kids.
Jeremy Renner, The Town  - Not actually something they put together as a show within the show for Entourage.
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right  - The all right sperm behind the all right kids. (If he wins, Benning won't)
Geoffery Rush, The King's Speech - A lot nicer than Henry Higgens

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, The Fighter -  She just won, she needs to sit out a year.
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech - The dress she wore to the Golden Globes was offensive.
Melissa Leo, The Fighter - Totally cornered the market on White Trash women.
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit - Killed the bad guy, kicked butt, did not die at the end. (will win - its her first time out and she's a child.A BSA shoe-in)
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom - No idea at all. Don't know why she's here, assuming as sop to snobby New York Times  movie reviewers who are the only people who have seen this film.

Best Actor

Javier Bardem, Biutiful - Title miss-spelled, out of running.
Jeff Bridges, True Grit - Just won this last year, good for him though.
Jessie Eisenberg, The Social Network - He's hosting SNL this weekend.
Colin Firth, The King's Speech - Good chance he's going to win, the Academy loves a good handicap and really loves films about defeating Nazis.
James Franco, 127 Hours - I feel like this guy has been doing the  worlds longest Performance Art piece of all time. Stop all ready. He wants a Day Time Emmy and an Oscar?

Best Actress

Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right - Look! Look I'm acting! See! Still!
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole - Too much botox, can't even looked grieved.
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone - The Meth addicts daughter.
Natalie Portman, Black Swan - Probably going to win.
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine - Really? She plays a sad, put upon woman who suffers for love? Really? Again.

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan - Will get profuse thanks from very pregnant Natalie Portman
David O. Russell, The Fighter - Academy will send him a fruit basket for not killing Christian Bale.
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech  Film will win for Best Picture .
David Fincher, The Social Network - Will win.
Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, True Grit - Will win best adapted screen play.

-- House passes health care reform, the most sweeping social legislation in more than four decades.

from CNN.com

And the Oscar (tm) Went to...

And again, I stay up so you don't have to. I am all about the self sacrifice.

Damn. This thing isn't even scheduled to leave the ground until 8:30! Shit. I'll be up all night, I may have to reevaulate my dedication to self sacrifice.

8:30 - Finally underway. Lame-ly, but underway.

 But wait! NPH? Wow, this is going to be better than I thought. Can he stay? He's so cute and so good at this. He should be on broadway not wasting his talent on a sitcom. Love him. Love Busby Berkley too. Enough with the love...Can we just hand out the damn awards? Please? I'll go order one of his books new from Amazon and everything. Are we really going to introduce everyone in the damn audience? We all ready trotted out all the  acting nominees, wasn't that enough.

Get on with it. Clooney is going to send a nasty email in the morning.

8:48 - Best Supporting Actor:  Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
8:59 - Best Animated Feature - Up

Miley Sirus? Really? Ew. Can't even read. Gawd. And? Looks like whore on her wedding day.

9:04 - Best Orginal Song - "The Weary Kind",  Crazy Heart
9:15- Best Orginal Screen Play -  The Heart Locker

Okay. I loved John Hughes too.

Two more young people I don't recognize. I am so old. The explanation of the short films lasted longer than most of the shorts. They could have just shown us the winner in its entireety,

9: 32- Best Animated Short - Logorama
9: 34-  Best Documentory Short - Music By Prudence (African girl in wheel chair)
9:37-  Best Live Action Short Film - The New Tenents
9:41-  Best Make Up - Star Trek
9:50- Best Adapted Screen Play - Precious

9:58   Best Suporting Actress - Monique,  Precious
10:07 - Best Art Direction - Avatar
10:10- Best Costumes - The Young Victoria

Oh, look two more young people I don't recognize. The girl is slouching at the Oscars! Even I could stand up straight for the Oscars!

I do not care for horror films.

Gods. Yet more young people I don't know.

10:25-  Best Sound Editing - The Hurt Locker
10:27-  Best Sound Mixing - The Hurt Locker

I follow Elizabeth Banks on Twitter. What is it exactly that she does.

10:36  Best Cinematography - Avatar

Demi Moore and the RIP tribute. Now We Dance! You know what would waste less time? Just announcing the damn winner. I know the people in the audience need time to go pee, but I have to be at work tomorrow.

10:53-  Best Score - Up
10:55-  Best Visual Effects - Avatar
11:04- Best Documentory Feature - The Cove (Dead Dolphins)
11: 07 - Best Film Editing - The Hurt Locker
11: 16- Best Foreign Language Film -  Argentina,  El Secreto De Sus Ojos

I am never going to get to bed. Please bask in my self- sacrifice.

Oh. Goody. Group Presentation. Nummy. JUST HAND OUT THE DAMN AWARDS. We know what great people they all are, we all ready like them. Just do it. I have to go to bed, because I assume this is all about me, I am the only person this is putting out, no one else also needs to go to work tomorrow. This late night nonsense is the dark side of the Equity Monday rule. Long drown out speeches from people who barely know them from projects they can barely remember  doing going on about what great people they barely remember them to be. We. Get. It. Total supermen and superwomen all totally deserving of this award.

11:33-   Best Actor - Jeff Bridges,  Crazy Heart
11: 47 - Best Actress - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side (for real. Meryl Streep and Gabourney Sidibe lost to Sandra Bullock)
11:55 -  Best Director - Kathryn Bigalow,  The Hurt Locker (The forst woman to win this award in  82 years)

11:59 - Best Picture,  The Hurt Locker

And the Oscar(tm) nominees are...

As soon as the nominations are announced, I will post them here.

Best Picture


"Avatar"


"The Hurt Locker"


"Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"


"Up in the Air"


"Inglourious Basterds"


"Up"


"The Blind Side"


"District 9"


"An Education"


"A Serious Man"






Best Actor






George Clooney, "Up in the Air"


Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"


Colin Firth, "A Single Man"


Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"


Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"






Best Actress


Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia"

Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side"

Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

Helen Mirren, "The Last Station"

Carey Mulligan, "An Education"






Supporting actor


Matt Damon, "Invictus"

Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"

Christopher Plummer, "The Last Station"

Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"

Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"






Supporting actress


Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"

Mo'Nique, "Precious"

Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"

Penelope Cruz, "Nine"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Crazy Heart"


Director

Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"

Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"

James Cameron, "Avatar"

Lee Daniels, "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire"

Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air"

Animated feature

"Up"


"Coraline"


"Fantastic Mr. Fox"


"The Princess and the Frog"


"The Secret of Kells"

Original screenplay

"The Hurt Locker"


"Inglourious Basterds"


"The Messenger"


"A Serious Man"

"Up"

Adapted screenplay

"District 9"


"An Education"


"In the Loop"


"Precious"

"Up in the Air"

Best foreign-language film

"Ajami"


"El Secreto de Sus Ojos"


"The Milk of Sorrow"


"Un Prophete"


"The White Ribbon"

Best documentary feature

"Burma VJ"


"The Cove"


"Food, Inc."


"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

"Which Way Home"

Art direction

"Avatar"


"The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus"


"Nine"


"Sherlock Holmes"


"The Young Victoria

Cinematography

"Avatar"


"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"


"The Hurt Locker"


"Inglourious Basterds"


"The White Ribbon"

-- Evangelist Oral Roberts has died of pneumonia complications, his spokesman said. He was 91.


CNN.com

Census Worker Lynched

Sparkman was found this month hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

census worker lynched?

Whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment? They are comfortable with "whether"?. He was hung from a tree and they wrote "fed" on his chest. I don't think "whether" is appropriate. He was lynched because he was from the government. And "they" called us unpatriotic. HA.

An ACORN office, one! Gets railroaded and liberals everywhere are whore mongers. The rightwing KILLS PEOPLE and nothing. Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin and FAUX News made this happen.

Emmy Nomintations

Emmy Nominees 2009

RIP

Karl Malden has died, he was 97.

At Last His People Will Stop Calling Me! It's been months of these calls!

Minnesota's Supreme Court has declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of the state's disputed U.S. Senate race.

Well.

Well. I don't  know what I was going to post before, but Wow. Big day huh? I mean, its terrible for their families and they both left kids, but dayum, the Entertainment News people must have all simultaneously came in their pants.

I hope Jackson's children end up with uncreepy people.  My long term hopes for them would be that they get the gift of real lives and a lot of very high quality psychiatric help.

I get my birthday back. It's always been a burr in my saddle that I shared a birthday with Micheal Jackson.

Poor Farah Fawcett. The upside of the spotlight being pulled away would be that hopefully her family and friends  will be able to mourn her in privacy. You know Mother Theresa went up to her and said "Dude. I totally feel you. I died right round when  Princess Di did. Sucks for us." Of course, I'm paraphrasing.

The news of Jacksons death has pushed Iran off the trending topics on Twiiter. "Good luck with your revolution Iran, but we have to deal with a dead pedo pop star right now. We'll get back to you." We suck.

RIP

Farrah Fawcett

Shots fired at  Washington Holocaust Museum

Sources: Shooter is a white supremest

HA

Miss California Dethroned.  - for being a beyotch.

Breaking News

President Obama to nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, sources tell CNN.

Really?

There was just nothing right about the Bush Admins handling of the Iraq War, not one damned thing.  Shockingly, Donald Rumsfeld illustrated with photos of soldiers at prayer and bible verses on the covers of the daily war briefings he presented Shrub with:  see slide show , as a believer this sickens me and lets me know what low esteem they held  my faith. It's disgusting.

Ow. Pt. 2

GM says it is notifying 1,100 dealers that it will end their contracts with the automaker.

CNN.com

Ow.

Chrysler says it will close 789 dealerships as part of its bankruptcy restructuring plan.