Looks like nobody picked this one up. From Broadcasting and Cable: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors said Thursday that embattled former board chairman Ken Tomlinson has resigned. The board has...
Read MoreCheck your listings. This may be for Eastern time zones. If it is 9 p.m. there, it’s 8 p.m. Central. And on and on: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/index.html Be there or be square. Expect...
Read MoreI was hoping that this would happen.
From Salon.com (you may have to watch an ad to get it free for one day):
Black civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks would become the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda under resolutions considered Thursday by lawmakers.
Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 led to a 381-day boycott of the city’s bus system and helped spark the modern civil rights movement. She died Monday in Detroit at age 92.
The Senate approved a resolution Thursday allowing her remains to lie in honor in the Rotunda on Sunday and Monday “so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.” The House was expected to consider the resolution Friday.
Of course, only former presidents, sitting presidents who die in office, members of Congress and military commanders are given this honor.
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Looks as if the Black Voice’s efforts were in vain. Mark House and his volunteers were prevented from assisting in the recovery of bodies in New Orleans:
Read MoreLocal community organizers raised funds to send Mark House, owner of Winthrop Industries and a team of experienced volunteers to help in the recovery of bodies. Those efforts have now been blocked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in favor of a Texas based firm being paid more than $118,000 a day to recover and process remains.
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House said he responded initially to a request that went out from New Orleans for morticians and law enforcement officers and since, he and his team both felt they could help. After failed attempts to contact FEMA, the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT), and Homeland Security, he was able to contact a source in the office of Dr. Louis Cataldie, the medical incident commander for the recovery of deceased victims of Katrina for the state, who said, “We no longer have a need for you.”
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[T]he money initially raised will be returned and used for other victims of Katrina.
Original posted at DailyKos.
Straight from the Beeb and the Guardian:
Controversial British playwright and campaigner Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature.
Pinter, 75, whose plays include The Birthday Party and Betrayal, was announced as the winner of the $1.3m (£723,000) cash prize on Thursday.
The Nobel academy said Pinter’s work “uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”.
The playwright is known for speaking out on issues like the war on Iraq.
Well, whaddaya know about dat…?
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