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Muckety this! Ricky Gervais to Billy Bob Thornton
Although they’ve never been co-stars, Ricky Gervais can be connected to Billy Bob Thornton through a series of personal and business relationships.
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Fallon recently sold the rights to her novel to the film production company Echo Films, which was founded by Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston was married to Brad Pitt, who is currently dating Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton’s ex-wife.
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Did ‘Yoo Doctrine’ spawn torture?
The disclosure this week of a March, 2003 memo from Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo, asserting that laws banning torture were trumped by the president’s authority as commander-in-chief in a time of war, appears to offer a direct line to subsequent abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Part One of the memo is here, and Part Two is here.
The memo was intended to deal with “unlawful combatants,” a label that would not apply to the largely Iraqi population captured during the Iraq war. But as our friends over at TPM Muckraker point out:
The natural suspicion remains that Yoo’s expansive parsing might have migrated over to Iraq. After all, Major General Geoffrey Miller, then the commanding officer at Guantanamo Bay, did travel to Iraq in August of 2003 to advise officials there on interrogating Iraqi detainees. Miller had been briefed on the Pentagon’s guidelines for interrogation, which owed much to Yoo’s green light.
Yoo denies that, noting that several military investigations have found that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not authorized by military policy.
The ACLU also points out that the March, 2003 document refers to other still-secret Justice documents, including one from 2001 that found that the “Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.”
The October 2001 memo was almost certainly meant to provide a legal basis for the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, which President Bush launched the same month the memo was issued.
The existence of the March, 2003 document, which was addressed to William Haynes II, then the top lawyer at the Pentagon, has long been known, but its contents had not been disclosed before. Although the Justice Department told the Defense Department to stop relying on it nine months after it was written, the Post’s Dan Eggen and Josh White assert that Yoo’s reasoning provided the legal foundation for the military’s use of harsh interrogation tactics at a crucial time, as captives were pouring into military jails in Afghanistan and as the U.S. was preparing to invade Iraq.
Yoo’s opinions in the months after the 911 attacks have come to be known collectively as the “Yoo Doctrine.” Critics accused him of enabling torture and claiming unlimited powers for the president, charges which Yoo has denied.
In his 2007 book, “The Terror Presidency,” Jack Goldsmith, who took over the Office of Legal Counsel after Yoo departed, writes that the two memos “stood out” for “the unusual lack of care and sobriety in their legal analysis.”
Yoo was born in South Korea, grew up in Philadelphia, and earned degrees from Harvard and Yale Law School. After graduation, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and became a favored legal philosopher in conservative circles. He is now on the faculty of the school of law at the University of California, Berkeley.
UPDATE:
In his first interview since the release of the 2003 memo, Yoo denied to Esquire today that his memo applied to soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan, or that it authorized the kinds of abuses revealed at Abu Ghraib.“The memo released yesterday does not apply to Iraq. It applied to interrogations of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay. I don’t [necessarily] agree that the methods did migrate to Iraq, because I don’t know for a fact that they did. The analysis of the memo released yesterday was not to apply to Iraq, and we made clear in other settings that the Geneva Conventions fully applied to the war in Iraq. There was no intention or desire that the memo released yesterday apply to Iraq.”
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- McCain backed by conservative law profs – February 4, 2008
- Military contractor accused of bribes – August 31, 2007
- Rumsfeld proposes U.S. propaganda agency – January 25, 2008
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Another mogul mulls Newsday bid
A fourth suitor may join the bidding war over Newsday, the suburban tabloid put on the auction block by the financially-beleaguered Tribune Company.
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Among New York media moguls, the 27-year-old may be considered an upstart, but he has deep pockets. In July, 2006, he spent $10 million to buy the money-losing Observer while still getting his MBA at New York University, telling the New York Times that the opportunity to buy a newspaper doesn’t come along very often.
Kushner joins a field of giants who are eyeing the still-profitable tabloid, including billionaire magnate Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the New York Post, real-estate developer Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News and James Dolan, whose family owns Cablevision.
The magic number sought for Newsday is upwards of $500 million, as Tribune Chairman Sam Zell struggles to stay afloat after his highly leveraged purchase of the company last year. Besides Newsday, Tribune owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers, as well as local television stations and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Kushner, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, is the scion of a real-estate, banking and insurance empire valued at more than $1 billion built by his father Charles. But the elder Kushner suffered a spectacular fall from grace several years ago. He spent nearly a year in jail after pleading guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, admitting, among other things, to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister to retaliate for her cooperation with federal investigators.
Jared Kushner is the only one of his parents’ four children to work at the family company, where he is a principal.
Related posts on the Muckety Maps in the news blog- Will the Tribune Company sell Newsday? – March 20, 2008
- Zell takes over Tribune – December 21, 2007
- Newspaper lobbyists may lose a moneymaker – October 20, 2007
- Bill Gates enjoyed biggest payday of 2007 – March 7, 2008
- Bruce Sherman and Hearst-Argyle – August 27, 2007
- Sulzberger dodges bullet – for now – March 18, 2008
- Murdoch’s media machine – June 25, 2007
- Burkle still chasing a newspaper dream – July 9, 2007
- Yucaipa may pay Bill Clinton $20M – January 24, 2008
- Mays family awaits Clear Channel buyout – February 12, 2008
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If Kushner was so smart, why did he buy a newspaper when he could have started one from scratch? Why stick yourself with a teetering brand, when now is the time to invent one’s brand anew in this brave new world of new media, particularly if you have a billion bucks to cover early mistakes?
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Murdoch’s Daughter Throws Obama Bash
Rupert Murdoch’s distaste for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has often spilled out onto the pages of the New York Post, and into broadcasts on Fox News, both of which he owns.
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Sure, she may want to run her father’s billion-dollar empire some day. But it is likely that Obama’s story has particular resonance for Elisabeth Murdoch, whose first husband, Elkin Kwesi Pianim, is Ghanian, and with whom she has two children.
Since leaving her father’s employ to form her own television production company, Elisabeth Murdoch has established a reputation as a shrewd and strong-willed businesswoman in her own right, winning the sobriquet, Britain’s “Most Powerful Blond” from Tatler Magazine. Her company, Shine Ltd., has made a name for itself by adapting American hits like Project Runway for British audiences. Last month, the company clinched a deal to buy Los Angeles-based Reveille, another independent television production company behind the hit shows The Office and Ugly Betty.
A citizen of both the U.S. and Britain, Murdoch grew up primarily in New York City, where she attended the exclusive Brearley School and then Vassar College, and she continues to maintain close ties to the U.S.
She and her current husband, public relations guru Matthew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud, are part of the international glitterati scene in London, which includes a number of wealthy American expatriates, some of whom signed on as co-sponsors of the Notting Hill fundraiser.
That list includes actress Gwyneth Paltrow, David Blood, who runs an investment fund with former Vice President Al Gore, Warner Brothers UK chief Josh Berger and Swedish heiress Cristina M. Stenbeck, a vice president of Investment AB Kinnevike.
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- America’s ruling families – October 29, 2007
- At the Robin Hood Foundation the rich take from the rich – July 17, 2007
- The people behind the X Prize – September 15, 2007
- The inherent Muckety of Times wedding announcements – October 25, 2007
- Hat, rather than debauchery, blocks Horsley entry to US – March 31, 2008
- Why Ray Hunt is so powerful – September 24, 2007
- Legality of Hunt Oil deal “uncertain” – September 28, 2007
- Nugen quietly courts Obama superdelegates – March 18, 2008
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Sam Nunn should share Chevron’s hot seat
Congress grilled oil company executives Tuesday about runaway energy costs and record profits. For Chevron, there was some irony. Former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat, is a member of Chevron’s board of directors.
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Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is a former Chevron board member.
Testifying in Washington were executives Stephen Simon of Exxon Mobil, John Hofmeister of Shell Oil, Peter Robertson of Chevron, John Lowe of ConocoPhillips, and Robert Malone of BP America.
Nunn, a U.S. senator from 1972 to 1996, joined Chevron’s board in 1997. While in the Senate, he chaired the Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
In 2007, Chevron awarded Nunn nearly $345,000 in total compensation, according to an SEC filing Tuesday.
Robertson, vice chairman, had total compensation of about $14.2 million last year, according to Chevron’s annual proxy statement.
None of the other companies appearing in Washington Tuesday has such a direct connection to U.S. lawmakers, but ConocoPhillips does have diplomatic ties. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and former ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State J. Stapleton Roy are Conoco directors.
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Actors’ unions split on contract talks
After the disruption of the 100-day writers strike, Hollywood is growing uneasy because of the actors’ pending contract negotiations.
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AFTRA represents over 70,000 artists, while SAG boasts almost 120,000 members.
AFTRA made the move to end joint negotiations with SAG. AFTRA president Roberta Reardon explained the organization’s decision to separate from SAG in a letter to AFTRA members posted on their website on March 29.
The split was caused in part by one particular incident, involving the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Reardon wrote that some of the leaders of SAG have encouraged cast members of The Bold and the Beautiful to decertify AFTRA as their union.
She says, “The people leading this drive apparently believe that decertifying AFTRA would further the goal of having one union for all actors. In fact, it would do the opposite … This situation is sadly not surprising given SAG Hollywood leadership’s ongoing campaign of misinformation to disparage AFTRA.”
Reardon adds, “How could we sit beside SAG at the bargaining table at the same time that its leaders in Hollywood are conspiring to undermine the gains we’ve achieved for all performers?”
Alan Rosenberg, the president of SAG, has called AFTRA’s decision “calculated, cynical, and may serve the interests of their institution, but not its members.”
The unions will negotiate separately with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. Contracts for both expire on June 30.
Both unions are scrambling to be the first to negotiate with the AMPTP.
AFTRA has said it is ready to begin talks as soon as possible, on its own. Rosenburg told the New York Times, “We have to move much more quickly than we wanted to.”
Rosenberg told the Hollywood Reporter, “It’s only right that we’re the ones to go to the table first … They have no movies and three TV shows. It’s not right that they set the standard.”
The Hollywood Reporter also reports that Reardon spoke yesterday with AMPTP president Nick Counter, telling him “AFTRA is taking a sane approach to these negotiations…It’s not about hysteria and emotion, it’s about getting what’s right for the members.”
The unions haven’t separated entirely. CeCe Dubois, Frances Fisher, Maureen Donnelly, Sumi Haru and Suzanne Burkhead currently serve as directors for both AFTRA and SAG.
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Congressional showdown with televangelists
The aptly-named Creflo Dollar Jr. flies a Lear jet between his million-dollar mansion Atlanta and church services in New York City, where he also keeps a $2.5 million apartment.
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David and Joyce Meyer spent $23,000 on a marble topped toilet, $30,000 for a conference table and $11,219 for a French clock for the Fenton, Mo. headquarters of their not-for-profit an tax-exempt mission headquarters.
Such are the earthly rewards of preaching the so-called prosperity gospel, a controversial iteration of Christianity which holds that God rewards the faithful with material, as well as spiritual wealth.
But now the shepherds themselves are facing a reckoning. Dollar, White and the Meyers are among a half dozen TV evangelists being probed by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, for possible misuse of donor funds and their tax-exempt status as religious organizations. The other targets are faith healer Benny Hinn of Grapevine, Texas; prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland of Newark, Texas and Bishop Eddie Long of Lithonia, Ga.
Yesterday was a showdown of sorts – the deadline in the four-month inquiry to voluntarily submit information to Congress. Four of the six ministries indicated they would cooperate, even if they did not hand over the requested material; Dollar and Copeland, however, were defiant in their refusals.
Through an attorney, Dollar, a former board member of Oral Roberts University, called the inquiry an “unprecedented inquiry into the religious activities of a church.”
Copeland, also a former Oral Roberts board member, said through a representative that only the IRS had jurisdiction to question his ministry about finances.
A leader of the prosperity gospel movement, Copeland is close to former GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee who appeared on his national television show last fall “for six days of frank discussion on the Biblical perspective of character.”
When Huckabee’s campaign struggled for cash, Copeland invited him to attend a national ministers meeting at his west Texas headquarters in January. The candidate, a Southern Baptist minister, raised $111,000 in contributions and another million dollars in pledges there, according to the Tulsa World. Copeland denied the appearance was a political endorsement, saying that Huckabee’s campaign simply rented a room, and Kenneth Copeland Ministries did not make a contribution.
Grassley sent a particularly extensive questionnaire to Copeland, requesting credit card records and information on offshore banking accounts; receipts for planes, and information about whether the ministry used its mineral rights to capitalize a for-profit company. ( The Ft. Worth Star Telegram reports that FAA records show Copeland owns three planes and his ministry has several more).
But it looks as if the Iowa Republican may have to issue subpoenas if he is going to succeed at forcing the church to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
A spokeswoman for Grassley said yesterday that the inquiry is a “step-by-step process,” and no decisions have been made about congressional hearings or subpoenas. Grassley has defended the probe, saying he is investigating whether tax-exempt organizations are accountable to their donors, not their religious practice.
“The allegations involve governing boards that aren’t independent and allow generous salaries and housing allowances and amenities such as private jets and Rolls Royces,” he said when he announced the probe last November. “. . . I have an obligation to donors and the taxpayers to find out more.”
Kenneth Behr, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, an accreditation agency for Christian ministries, called the inquiry “a very big deal,” in an interview with the Tampa Tribune. He said he is not aware of a high-ranking lawmaker ever undertaking such an extensive investigation. “I think he’s picking a fight,” Behr said. “He is not just asking them to come in and talk, he is asking them for everything.”
Related posts on the Muckety Maps in the news blog- Oral Roberts University tries to regroup – November 28, 2007
- Ted Turner softens stance on religion – April 2, 2008
- Tom Cruise bio puts spotlight on Scientology – January 15, 2008
- Blackwater’s protective web – September 22, 2007
- Did Spitzer get a little help in hanging himself? – March 12, 2008
- VECO corruption trial begins – October 23, 2007
- Saying goodbye to a grande dame – August 16, 2007
- A star-studded presidential campaign – January 10, 2008
- Kay Bailey Hutchison protects oil interests – October 29, 2007
- Obama pastor part of rabble-rousing tradition – March 19, 2008
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Jesus,hear my plea ,take these hypocrites vulgar gains and place them in chains. I don’t know if you have that power or your father “God” but surely “Senator Grassley” and the “Senate Finance Committee” do.
The only people who received prosperity are those “Bible Pimps” by using Jesus and the big Kahuna “God” as their cohorts to steal from these poor blind sheep. They got these bible thumping fools in a suffocating religious illusion so much so, that if these heathens are sent up the river the government better have the army protect them from themselves because they are so mind controlleded the KOOL AID might come flying off the shelf. -
This article tells us much more about Mike Huckabee, our best hope for the future of the country than it does these tv evangelists. If Mike Huckabee wanted riches and fame, he could certainly have it. He is the most articulate, best motivator, most charismatic figure out there now for conservatives. He could certainly land a big time tv spot and live comfortably much like Gore, basking in the limelight. But Huckabee is running on principles and the sincere desire to make a better country for the future generations. He wants to make a difference and his religious foundation is important only in that it grounds him, making him consistent, strong, calm and collected. Conventional wisdom would have said that Huckabee should have dropped out, like Romney when he realized the odds were not in his favor. But Huckabee was running for the people who supported him and the principles he believed in more than the favor of the GOP elite. THAT is the kind of president we need and deserve!!! As Huckabee often says, “he would rather lose an election than lose the principles that got him into politics in the first place”. May we only hope and PRAY we have another chance to put this man in the White House!!
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Kansas Jayhawks have big
Advice to anyone who wants to become a successful (and rich) men’s college basketball coach: Connect to Kansas.
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And their Kansas influences can be stretched back rather easily to the invention of basketball itself.
But for starters, here are the current Kansas connections:
The first is obvious, as Kansas is one the four teams left.
It’s coached by Bill Self who took over the team in 2003, replacing Roy Williams, who had coached at Kansas for 15 seasons.
Williams left Kansas for the University of North Carolina, which is also one of the Final Four teams.
So while Self and Williams have the strongest links to Kansas, John Calipari, the coach of the University of Memphis, another one of the four teams, also has a tie to the school in Lawrence, Kansas. He was an assistant coach there from 1982 to 1985.
Coincidentally, when Calipari left in 1985 to go to the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant coach, his assistant’s position at Kansas was taken over by Self.
The fourth Final Four coach, Ben Howland of UCLA, doesn’t have a Kansas line on his resume.
However, he was at Pittsburgh after Calipari left, serving as the head coach from 1999 to 2003 before he departed for UCLA.
The Kansas connection can be traced in another way, by looking at the career and influence of Dean Smith, the North Carolina coach from 1961 to 1997.
Born in Kansas, Smith played for the University of Kansas in the early 1950s.
His coach was Phog Allen, who in turn, had been coached at Kansas by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball in 1891.
Consequently, anyone who played for Smith or coached with him can claim to be only two steps removed from basketball’s origins.
Williams can cite a double influence in this regard as he played junior varsity basketball at North Carolina during the time Smith was coaching there.
He also was an assistant coach for Smith from 1978 to 1988 before he went to Kansas.
There’s another connector, as well – Larry Brown, the much-traveled college and professional basketball coach.
Brown played for Smith at North Carolina and was briefly an assistant coach for him, as well.
Brown was later the head coach at Kansas from 1983 to 1988. Both Self and Calipari served as his assistants.
Calipari was also an assistant under Brown during the 1999-2000 season when Brown coached the professional Philadelphia 76ers.
And though they didn’t overlap, Brown and Howland have this in common: They’ve both coached UCLA.
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- Cablevision’s James Dolan has string of losses – October 26, 2007
- Agassi & Graf: A new business empire – November 24, 2007
- Out of the park and into politics – October 13, 2007
- Lies led Marion Jones to prison – January 14, 2008
- Roger Clemens sues former trainer – January 7, 2008
- Candidates and baseball owners cover political bases – October 10, 2007
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