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Boehner calls bailout a "crap sandwich" — Kurtz: Maureen Dowd barred from McCain plane — Jewish New Year at sundown — Birthdays: Gwen Ifill, Steve Schmidt, Brian Rogers
BREAKING — President Bush this morning, on the White House South Drive: "I know many Americans are worried about the cost of the bill, and I understand their concern. This bill commits UP TO 700 billion taxpayer dollars. ... However, both the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the [White House] Office of Management and Budget expect that the ultimate cost to the taxpayer will be far less than that. In fact, we expect that over time, much if not all of the tax dollars we invest will be paid back. ... I fully understand that this will be a difficult vote. ... Every member of Congress and every American should keep in mind: A vote for this bill is a vote to prevent economic damage to you and your community."
CNN's John Roberts notes "quite a different tone there ... than ... when he addressed the nation last week, when he said that if we don't get this done, we could throw the markets into a panic."
AP: "European and Asian stock markets fell today amid a host of rescue deals for European banks and skepticism about the tentative U.S. bailout agreement."
TWIN STORYLINES IN THE CAMPAIGN TODAY, BOTH TROUBLE FOR TEAM McCAIN:
— The DNC is buying ads on religious Web sites to highlight the McCain gambling ties reported on Sunday's New York Times front. BREAKING: "Watch for Obama to use the story about McCain and gambling in the NYT yesterday to drive his change message, especially on the economy and the influence of lobbyists." Team Obama will argue this reflects on temperament and judgment.
— Amid rising sniping by Republicans and real worry within the campaign, Steve Schmidt will tutor Gov. Palin at McCain's cabin ahead of Thursday's debate, The Wall Street Journal reports. The "Today" show's second story after the bailout was "Show time" – focus on Palin ahead of the debate.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America": "She's become a problem for Senator McCain, no question about it. ... The buzz on Sarah Palin has gone all bad. .... When you become a punch line in politics, it is one of the worst things that can happen, and that is what's happening to Sarah Palin now. ... A major mistake on foreign policy would be absolutely fatal to her candidacy. ... Watch for her to be aggressive against Barack Obama — to call him out as liberal, so that Joe Biden in the debate will have to answer for Obama." Points to rising unfavorability, dropping "qualified" levels in polls.
***SCOOP — ABC's Jake Tapper: "Biden has taken advice from Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, presumably offering tips on how to debate women without seeming sexist or bullying."
ZEITGEIST — Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News — "Battleground Ohio Still Election's Big Prize: Ohio is ground zero in the unpredictable 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Buckeye State is the closest thing to a must-win for both John McCain and Barack Obama."
Good Monday morning. Politico's David Rogers: "Today's House vote on the financial bailout is not a sure thing, as resistance has re-emerged from both the right and the left. … Coming just weeks before the November elections, the 110-page bill is a major test of whether the political center can hold behind what's become an unprecedented government intervention to try to break the credit crunch threatening the larger U.S. economy. … House Republicans are at the center of the storm, with conservatives in open rebellion. But Democrats have their own defections, and within hours of the agreement, the leadership was already highlighting the bill's promise to crack down on Wall Street pay, mitigate foreclosures and even allow Congress to cut off funding at $350 billion."
Politico's Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan: "In a closed-door session with House Republicans Sunday evening, Minority Leader John A. Boehner called the $700 billion financial rescue deal a "crap sandwich" — then said he plans to vote for it."
In the House, a "Tough Vote," says the N.Y. Times lead headline, on the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" ("Provides authority to the Treasury Secretary to restore liquidity and stability to the U.S. financial system and to ensure the economic well-being of Americans"). AP: "procedural vote expected before 9 a.m. Final House vote timing uncertain. … Reid … said the measure could pass the Senate as early as Wednesday."
OBAMA and McCAIN MAY SKIP THE VOTE, Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown and Amie Parnes report.
Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset. Shanah Tovah — Happy New Year — to our Jewish brothers and sisters, especially Reid P. Kellam. AP: "Jews in Israel and around the world celebrate the beginning of the year 5769 on the Jewish calendar starting at sundown this evening. Rosh Hashanah, the two-day Jewish New Year celebration, also marks the beginning of Judaism's High Holy Days. The 10-day period of repentance culminates in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement."
Please be sure this is on President Clinton's calendar.
Jake Tapper: "I'm still writing 5768 on my checks."
***Gwen Ifill b'day today. (Hat tip: Harris)
***BirthWEEKpalooza in McCainland: Brian Rogers, Steve Schmidt and Calley Means. (Hat tips: J-Mart and Ana Marie Cox)
The prolific SALENA ZITO, columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, is a birthday girl. (Hat tips: Matt Mackowiak and Kent Gates)
WELCOME BACK … Danielle Jones.
DRIVING THE CAMPAIGN WEEK — V.P. DEBATE THURSDAY in ST. LOUIS: Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," travels on Gov. Palin's campaign plane today, interviewing her in Philadelphia and Columbus. KATIE'S ALSO DOING THE FIRST JOINT McCAIN-PALIN interview. Airs tonight and tomorrow.
PROJECT PALIN – WSJ, "Game Plan for Palin Is Retooled Ahead of Debate," by Monica Langley: "The McCain campaign moved its top officials inside Gov. Sarah Palin's operation Sunday to prepare for what is certain to be the most important event of her vice-presidential campaign: her debate on Thursday with Democrat Joe Biden. Additionally, at the urging of the Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, Gov. Palin will leave late Monday for his Arizona ranch to prepare for the high-stakes debate. The moves follow several shaky performances by Gov. Palin last week and come amid concern and grumbling from Republicans, and even a few queries from her husband, Todd Palin, according to campaign operatives and Republican officials. McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and senior adviser Steve Schmidt are planning to coach the candidate ahead of the debate, according to senior advisers."
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON? (It's not a trick – answer below.) Joe Biden, Charles Rangel, Bret Baier, David Gregory, Geoff Morrell and Tom Brokaw.
CNN's ED HENRY reported just after midnight Sunday that Warren Buffett had told lawmakers that "if they do not act, there would be the biggest financial meltdown in American history."
JEFFREY TOOBIN on CNN's "Late Edition": "The Democrats are so worried about being identified with this really unpopular bailout that they are insisting on the political cover of the House Republicans joining them, which is pretty extraordinary, if you think this is a real national emergency."
LATEST AP LEAD: "a deeply unpopular $700 billion rescue plan."
TOMORROW'S FRONT PAGE TODAY — RON BONJEAN WRITES ON POLITICO: "Welcome to the 700 Club. In recent days the headlines across the country in newspapers, cable channels and the web published headlines, 'Bush asking for 700 billion dollar bailout package.' How did anyone think that using a number close to one trillion dollars and use the words "bailout" would be effective marketing? While I am not an expert on global credit markets, the communications strategy on such a radical transformation of national economic policy must be clearly defined from the start. When you fail to communicate these policies effectively, you allow the other side to demagogue the issue.
"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at first sent to Congress a two-and-half page memo that came across like an ultimatum. Either they pass the $700 billion package within a week or the markets would tank. The White House focused on only one audience, Wall Street, and used the $700 billion as the message itself in order to impress industry executives and large investors to keep the stock market steady. …
"In the process of broadcasting this number to New York, the administration ignored the other audiences that were crucial to ensure passage of the plan. They forgot that the American people and Congress were watching, too. … House Republicans quickly revolted and bashed the Paulson plan in order to rebuild their fiscal responsibility brand."
A LITTLE LATE: OMB Director Jim Nussle – following up a point made by Joel Kaplan in a Fox Business interview and President Bush in the radio address – writes to Leader Boehner on Day 8 since the $700 billion figure was released to say that "the impact on the taxpayer will be considerably less than $700 billion" since the bailout "is not simply authorizing new spending," but "authorizes the purchase of assets that, over time, will produce income and can eventually be sold." No link that we can find. The letter was sent to reporters at 7:16 p.m.
WSJ lead story: "Wachovia Corp., which catapulted to the top of the U.S. banking industry with relentless acquisitions of weaker rivals, was in advanced discussions Sunday night to sell itself to Wells Fargo & Co., according to people familiar with the situation."
N.Y. Daily News cover: "Congress to the Lords of Wall Street: PARTY'S OVER": "The mammoth Wall Street bailout goes to a vote Monday after party leaders worked out a deal they say will protect the taxpayer's wallet by forcing banks to pay back any shortfall after five years. The bipartisan compromise also includes curbs on any new 'golden parachutes' - the first time Congress has meddled with executive pay. 'We sent a message to Wall Street: The party is over,' said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 'No longer will the U.S. taxpayer bailout the recklessness of Wall Street.'"
LEXICON – N.Y. Times, Business Day, "President Bush Calls It a 'Rescue,' but Others Are Sticking With 'Bailout,'" By Brian Stelter: "In a stark example of the way language is used as a public relations tactic, Mr. Bush and other government officials have characterized the measure in positive terms — 'rescue plan' and 'asset relief program' — thereby carefully avoiding more loaded words like 'bailout.' … The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, suggested that the bailout label was a 'major reason why constituents flooded Capitol Hill offices with phone calls and e-mails, overwhelmingly urging lawmakers to reject it.' … During the presidential candidates' debate on Friday, … [t]he two candidates both avoided the 'b' word in their answers. But Steve Liesman, the senior economics reporter for CNBC, said that bailout is the more logical word. 'You rescue the unwitting victims of a boat accident,' he said in an e-mail message. 'You bail out an experienced captain who sailed knowingly into a storm. There are no innocent victims here except the American taxpayer. Wall Street, which should have known better, is getting bailed out.'"
FOX BUSINESS STEPS UP – Hollywood Reporter's Paul J. Gough: "The Wall Street week ended Friday afternoon but Fox Business Network kept going all weekend covering the national financial crisis and the efforts down in Washington to pass a bailout bill. Fox Business Channel carried live at 12:20 a.m. ET Sunday an update by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Congressional leaders on the status of the bailout bill, which could be tentatively approved as early as Sunday night or Monday. FBN's coverage of that was simulcast on Fox News Channel, the first time in the channels' history that they have carried the same feed. That was atop seven hours of live business coverage, aimed at the average investor, from the channel's top talent on Saturday. And Fox Business Network has aired live cut-ins updating Sunday and planned a two-hour special Sunday night. … That meant scrapping FBN's plans for Saturday and Sunday, which during the day included a lot of infomercials."
FLASHBACK – N.Y. TIMES, SEPTEMBER 30, 1999 – "Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending," By Steven A. Holmes: "In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. …
"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans. 'Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.'"
APPENDIX: AP's six-point highlights glance is pasted at the end of Playbook.
EAST WING: "National Hurricane Center says Subtropical Storm Laura forms in north central Atlantic." -- AP
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, DIVIDED AT FIRST, NOW HAS OBAMA AS THE CLEAR DEBATE WINNER – Politico's Alexander Burns: "Two days after a presidential debate many commentators scored as a tie, it's beginning to look like the public saw things differently, as several polls show a small but significant post-debate boost for Barack Obama."
DEBATE WATCHERS FOUND OBAMA MORE PRESIDENTIAL – Bloomberg News, "Obama Keeps Advantage Over McCain in Post-Debate Poll," by Heidi Przybyla: "Voters who watched the Sept. 26 debate preferred Obama, 49 percent to 44 percent, according to a Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times poll of 448 respondents over the weekend. … One potentially important finding among these debate watchers is that while McCain retained his advantage on experience, voters said Obama seemed more presidential by a 46 percent to 33 percent margin."
TOP TALKER – FOURNIER IS PAID FOR A TRIP TO HIS OLD NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A PIECE ON THIS ELECTION'S THIRD RAIL – "Blacks, whites show prejudices along racial divide," By Ron Fournier and Errin Haines, in Detroit: "[H]ow can it be that in 2008 — 143 years after slavery was abolished, decades after the civil rights movement — an AP-Yahoo News poll could find that racial misgivings could cost Sen. Barack Obama the election? In search of explanations, two Associated Press reporters — one black, one white — listened to people of both races along Detroit's divides: Alter Road, which separates the city from the tony Grosse Pointes near Lake St. Clair, and 8 Mile Road, the vast northern border between a mostly black Detroit and its mostly white suburbs. They found people of both races living just blocks apart who nonetheless spoke of each other like strangers. There was suspicion, contempt — and yet, for many, a desperate hope that Obama's candidacy might be the final step in America's long path to racial equality. For whites, their support of Democratic economic policies forces them to confront their racial prejudices."
HOWARD KURTZ SAYS MAUREEN DOWD HAS BEEN BARRED FROM McCAIN'S PLANE -- WashPost Style front, "'Substantive' Press Is Taken for a Spin" – from Oxford, Miss.: "Obama may have won the insta-polls after Friday's debate here at the University of Mississippi, but the McCain team won the spin war, a postgame ritual that quickly seeps into the punditry enveloping such events. What was equally striking, inside the massive media tent, was that some of the journalists who profess to want an elevated debate on the issues -- which is precisely what they got, courtesy of moderator Jim Lehrer -- seemed unusually interested in style points. … Outside, on a summerlike evening, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs held forth for the likes of NBC's Chuck Todd and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who was wearing an Elvis T-shirt. (The company may have been more pleasant than that of McCain aides, who have barred Dowd from the candidate's plane)."
JAB – The RNC's Alex Conant, in a mood because of the Badgers and Vikings, on Fox yesterday: "Obama came in to do 'Face the Nation' this morning, But he wouldn't come here last week to help save the nation."
"KATRINA-LIKE": ABCNews.com: "Obama had three rallies this weekend centered on the economy, at which he repeatedly declared, 'I think John McCain doesn't get it.' At one event, he even accused McCain of a 'Katrina-like response' to the financial crisis. … 'His first response to the greatest financial meltdown in generations was a Katrina-like response,' Obama said [Sunday] in Detroit. '[McCain] sort of stood there, said the "fundamentals of the economy are strong."'"
WHERE IN THE WORLD -- Obama hold a "Change We Need" Rally in Westminster, Col., his ninth trip to Colorado in 2008. McCain and Palin do a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DAAAA: This evening, "Entertainment Tonight" airs the first part of Mary Hart's interview with Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden.
THE DNC TRIES TO KEEP UP BUZZ ABOUT THE NYT'S SUNDAY FRONT-PAGER ON McCAIN's GAMBLING TIES by releasing a "Betting on McCain" video later today.
THIS ELECTION IS EVEN GOOD FOR "SNL" – Hollywood Reporter: "'Saturday Night Live' continues to go on a ratings tear, thanks in part to another appearance by Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Chris Parnell as presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer. 'SNL' was the highest-rated program of the night on broadcast TV."
FROM TINA FEY'S PORTRAYAL OF GOV. PALIN BEING INTERVIEWED BY "KATIE COURIC": "Katie, I'd like to use one of my lifelines. … I want to phone a friend."
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON? Regularly rock a pocket square.
OBAMA WISTFUL, LIKELY HELPED BY MELTDOWN – WashPost's "The Trail" blog – "Obama Marvels at the 'Crazy' 2008 Campaign," By Perry Bacon Jr. in Detroit: "Barack Obama sounded a bit wistful about his long campaign for the presidency at a fundraiser today, telling a crowd of supporters, 'You couldn't have written a novel with all the crazy stuff that has happened in this election. … One of the wonderful things about having such an extraordinary election process is that I've seen all the cycles of ups and downs, twists and turns,' he told the roughly 100 donors gathered inside the Detroit Public Library before a rally here. 'It seemed like an eternity, three or four weeks ago, when people were calling me and fussing, "We're talking about lipstick and pigs, what's happening?" I said my suspicion is that it's going to turn once again. … No matter how many times you reshuffle the deck, what you keep on coming up with is the fact that this is a serious time. It requires serious leadership.' The comment seemed an acknowledgment of what the Obama campaign itself does not say: the financial meltdown on Wall Street has likely helped the Democratic nominee." (Hat tip: The Page)
TALK RADIO ALERT – "PULPIT FREEDOM SUNDAY" – WashPost's Peter Slevin: "Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, … [33] pastors around the country set out Sunday to break the rules, hoping to generate a legal battle that will prompt federal courts to throw out a 54-year-old ban on political endorsements by tax-exempt houses of worship. … The campaign, organized by the Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal consortium based in Arizona, has gotten the attention of the Internal Revenue Service. The agency, alerted by opponents, pledged to 'monitor the situation and take action as appropriate.'"
WORTH FOLLOWING UP -- WashTimes A1, "U.S. urged to go on offense in cyberwar: Networks seen at risk of attack," UPI's Shaun Waterman: "The United States needs to do more to develop an offensive cyberwar capability rather than just focus on defending its networks from attack, says the chairman of the House cybersecurity subcommittee." Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) cited "the assault on Georgian government Web sites that accompanied Russia's invasion last month." He's chairman of the House Homeland Security subcommittee on emerging threats, cybersecurity and science and technology and a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
BUSINESS BURST – GAS PRICES SKYROCKETING IN SOUTHEAST – AP: "A hurricane-related disruption in gasoline supplies prompted jittery drivers from Atlanta to Nashville to top off their fuel tanks more than usual, causing sporadic shortages and temporary shutdowns of stations. These closures only magnified the problem, of course, leading to more shortages, which sent local prices skyrocketing."
SPORTS BLINK – ROLL TIDE! AP: "Oklahoma has climbed to the top of The Associated Press college football poll following a week of upsets that dropped Southern California, Georgia and Florida out of the top five. … Alabama moved from eighth to second in the poll … LSU is third, ahead of Missouri and Texas. Sixth-ranked Penn State is followed by Texas Tech, BYU, Southern Cal and South Florida."
BRETT'S PERSONAL BEST – N.Y. Post: "The Jets, wearing New York Titans throwback uniforms, forced a staggering seven Arizona Cardinals turnovers on defense and rode a career-high six touchdown passes by Brett Favre en route to a 56-35 victory they had to have. The Jets are now 2-2 heading into their bye week. … Favre's six TD passes were one shy of the NFL game record held by Sid Luckman, Adrian Burk, George Blanda, Y.A. Title and Joe Kapp. "
Redskins.com: "The Redskins staked a claim as legitimate NFC East contenders on Sunday, defeating the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium. Jason Campbell led the way, completing 21-of-30 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns. Santana Moss was his top target with eight catches for 231 yards." AP: "Washington (3-1) won for only the second time in its last 13 visits to Texas Stadium."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel toasts the Brewers' wild-card spot in baseball playoffs with a special section bannered, "Keg Party!"
TOUGH DAY FOR METS MAN BLAKE ZEFF, AND EVEN ROUGHER DAY FOR JONATHAN KARL, WHO'S BOTH A COWBOYS AND METS FAN. Newsday cover – "Nothing left to Shea: Mets lose final game at stadium, miss playoffs again." OUCH! Newsday's Sports back is "Amazin' Disgrace."
DESSERT – Hollywood Reporter, "Futuristic series will depict mass exodus from US": "What if the current financial crisis in the U.S. becomes so severe that Americans start to flee the country? Welcome to 'Americatown,' a Chinatown-like enclave of U.S. immigrants in cities around the world. HBO is developing the futuristic drama series, which hails from writer Bradford Winters and producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy. Set 25 to 40 years in the future, when the precipitous decline of the U.S. leads to a mass exodus of its citizens, 'Americatown' centers on a cluster of newly arrived American immigrants in a big foreign city. … In his research for "Americatown," Winters had explored possible nightmare scenarios that could bring the U.S. to a collapse decades down the road. Among these hypotheticals: the price of oil skyrocketing and natural disasters reaching catastrophic proportions."
SECONDS – BOX OFFICE -- Reuters: "Thriller 'Eagle Eye' soared to the top of North American box offices, taking in $29 million in its first weekend in theaters on the wings of rising star Shia LaBeouf, according to studio estimates Sunday. … Romance 'Nights in Rodanthe,' starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, opened in the No. 2 spot … while suspenseful 'Lakeview Terrace' landed at No. 3 … A third new release, 'Fireproof,' starring Kirk Cameron as a man trying to save his marriage, opened well for independent distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films by reaching No. 4 … Rounding out the top five was Coen Bros. comedy 'Burn After Reading' with Brad Pitt and George Clooney."
APPENDIX – AP, "Rescue Details—Glance: Highlights of $700 billion financial system rescue":
Following are the major details of the $700 billion rescue package that congressional negotiators approved on Sunday:
— Provides up to $700 billion, starting with an initial $250 billion, to allow the Treasury Department to purchase troubled assets, mainly in the area of mortgages, that are weighing down the U.S. financial system.
— Gives the Treasury Department, working with experts chosen by the government, the authority to fashion the asset purchase program. Treasury officials have suggested that a key approach will be the use of "reverse auctions" in which financial firms who succeed in selling their assets to the government will be the ones willing to take a lower price than other bidders.
— Restrictions will be imposed on the pay and benefits received by executives whose companies are selling some of their bad assets through the government's purchase program.
— The Treasury would be required to provide details of its purchases within two days of the transactions and various oversight boards would be created to monitor the operation of the program.
— Taxpayers would be given ownership stakes in companies whose bad assets are purchased. After five years, if the government is facing a loss in the program, the president will be required to submit a plan recommending how the money can be recouped from financial companies.
— Establishes a program whereby banks could buy government insurance that would cover the principal and interest on certain troubled assets, rather than selling them outright. Premiums will vary depending on the assets' risk profile.
Watch for her to be aggressive against Barack Obama -- to call him out as liberal, so that Joe Biden in the debate will have to answer for Obama.
Joe Biden's G A F F E s are very dangerous .
Do we want this M O R O N to be one heart beat away from being POTUS ?
> > > PUSH > www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1pjb5ZGxU
Just say no to Joe .
***SCOOP -- ABC's Jake Tapper: "Biden has taken advice from Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, presumably offering tips on how to debate women without seeming sexist or bullying."
Here is a video of C U J O Biden unable to keep his foot out of his mouth .
Can America afford having this clown just one heart beat away from being president ?
> > > PUSH > www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaNwjZu9a_Q
So let me get this straight: if Biden treats Palin the exact same way that McCain treated Obama, he's considered sexist, but McCain is not considered racist for treating Obama the exact same way that would be considered sexist if directed at Palin? What a load of crap. And someone needs to let Albert Hunt know that Ohio is only a "must win" for one of the tickets in this race, and it isn't Obama's. Obama can lose Ohio and still win, McCain can't. But forget Ohio, McCain has to worry about defending Virginia and North Carolina, recent polls there have Obama ahead and widening his lead (especially in Virginia).
And "calling Obama out as liberal" is only going to resonate with that sycophant 30% of the Republican base that will always vote for the Republican no matter what. You know, the people who hate "libruhls" and go around accusing people of being marxists and socialists without even understanding what the hell they're even talking about. That doesn't sound like a winning strategy. She has to show how his "libruhlness" is going to hurt all those voters who really don't give a crap about how "libruhl" he is, they want to know how their leaders are going to improve their lives and their country.
D.affiliated is right. If McCain loses Ohio, it's the last rites for him. It isn't so for Obama, who's winning CO, VA, NM and possibly NC. FL and OH are too close to call but as someone who is a Buckeye, I can assure you that Obama's ground foces here have been five times more active than McCain's. If the trend continues, McCain will lose OH and FL and the result will be almost a wipe-out for McWince.
Time to say good bye to the "let them eat short term dividends" Repubs! Time for McPain to go hunting with Chaney!
This stephunopules quote made me think the unthinkeble. That rush limbagh is right. Never thought I will find myself in dido camp. I am generally conservative but I was somehow skeptical at his rantings about how the media spins and creates naratives, then out of the blue streaming headliners as if its shocking, when the story line was intended to do just that. But obama versus palin it was strikingly clear. They created this high bar for a vice presidentiel candidate "a heartbeat away" when its historically inaccurate (feraro, mandale, even johnson and his Veep ) when a community organizer (????) With no acocmplishmants In ilinois state senate a nice speech in 04 I can't help myself not to think of bidens comments, ppl like to see nice clean black,( BTW a republican wouldn't have survived it AND what ??? Even a pair?) He's sexy. the half b/w is a plus. But that's it. Never was questioned. Instead he was asked everytime by journalists with multiple orgasms huuuuu when is the lord gonna derclare running for (heartbeat away...) President. A vice president was an on the job training, gaining traction with the number 1 on the ticket. Géting to know world leaders while in office w the boss. UNTIL clueless MATT DAMON (foriegn policy professor at "banging" universe-ity) SAID OTHERWISE. Besides the fact that palin had actually a real job before taking #2 VS. Obama's not having a real job before shooting for #1. Also jeremighe wright. Can u believe it? How did he survived that. Why didn't the media dissmiss him. Outright. funny, palin's large crowds (60,000 at 1 point) didn't even get that much attention or admiration, just disection on what the meaning of it, if its only the right wing base. How about dismising bama's big rallys as "just the base"? Not some crappy bipartisan support. Finally, a short clip from ABC news as a summery of the debate really did it for me. Picking and choosing sound bites fairly is a hard task, granted. But having obama's talking points (several of them) while ONLY playing a montoge of mccain saying "u don't understand" "get it" all the while when mccain was the only 1 having the (audience) laughing line about sitting down with achmedinijad and NOT even replaying it when presentin g a picture of the debate (to INFORM people) that's intentional rooting and builduing the O team. Not to mention mark halperins allways having flattering pics of" the land of lincolaner" (I would rather name him "the I have a dreamer" just ask hillary how the sky opens.....) Anyway, think I had some good points but my thumbs are getting sore typing on my BB curve. Thanx mike Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
McCain is done, once Palin opens her mouth this week its officially over.
That was cute how McCain tried to reschedule the presidential debate to "reschedule" the VP debate to a later time (never). Lolol what a pick. I guess karma shall even the field, the yin and yang shall be restored. It really irritated me to see such a blatant pandering to the female vote go rewarded after the convention..... if he had picked someone qualified it would have been fine but to pick someone from podunk alaska and former mayor of 7,500..... cmon!
What was scary is that we have seen the American people go for the okey-doke before, thought it might happen again..... she gave a good speach during the convention but after the schtick about a bridge and a plane she had nothing!
Couric is a softball interview and she got body slammed........ let me get back to you on that!
We finally learned that there is a logical reason for the sh*t that spews from politicians' mouths. They create, ingest, and regurgitate crap sandwiches.
The New York Times is at the top of its game in its careful, impressively sourced chronicle of McCain's gambling habit, ties to casinos -- 40 former workers or lobbyists on his current team alone -- and his vengeful, crony-guided legislative record regarding casinos. Within this exceptional investigative piece is a public-informing political ad crying to be made. Team Obama should tie McCain's craps habit in with his old, reckless pilot behavior ("We wouldn't go through the safety checklist; we'd just kick the tires and take off.") that was followed by several expensive jets crashed, and then tie this character trait to the question: Do you want a president who loves to bet on the riskiest odds gambling with your economic future?
Steve Schmidt is tutoring Palin for the debate? That's a bad choice. I find Schmidt the weakest rep McCain has speaking for him. Carly is the second weakest. I think Mitt Romney should coach her if they want their sharpest, best-informed rep to coach her. Or maybe Lieberman. Schmidt will probably spend all his coaching time feeding her attack-lines (lies) to use against Obama and SOS-lines and deflection-lines to use in case she doesn't have a clue how she should answer. She'll need a lot of those.
Both Palin and McCain are going into deep, intensive preparation for the Couric interview. They believe it may be the 'make or break' event of the campaign for them, now that their campaign is so far down the toilet. Insiders report they are being exposed to a myriad of possible Couric questions, and have come up with a number of inventive resposes to such questions as, 'If you were a douche, what flavor would you be?' There's neither stime nor space to cover all they've covered, but if you want to laugh your a**es off, watch the 'interview', Katie's questions, and the reponses. Palin was especially inventive for the question, 'If a Moose tried to mount you, what would you do?'
Now that Ohio has officially been designated 'THE Battleground State' there's a lot of pressure on Boehner, AKA 'The Buckeye Boob', by the Palin/McCain/Rove/Bush campaign, to make sure the election comes out 'right'. Boehner's disappointed that his Plan 'A' won't work, since even in Ohio, it's illegal to assassinate minority folks waiting in long polling-place lines. But he has high hopes for Plan 'B', and is even now hiring hundreds of illegal aliens to hang out and 'work' the polling places on election day. Their job is to wait until a minority, or some other intelligent-looking, voter enters the voting booth, then run in and pull the plug on the voting machine, in the hope that this will negate that vote. Lately, Boehner's been having nightmares. Someone told him about 'Hanging Pixels', and he's been going nuts trying to figure out how to 'fix' a room-full of regular folks, sitting around staring at pixels floating through space, trying to decide if they are 'hanging' by one, two, or three electrons.
Couric couldn't get 100 viewers to watch her show if she set her hair on fire during prime time. Palin is a "punchline" because the left idiots in the entertainment industry are bewildered by the strong and talented Palin. You hate what you fear. Be afraid, Dems....be very afraid.
A strong and talented Palin????? Who, Todd? Bristol? Track and Field? Certainly not Sarah...Katie Couric is undoubtedly the lightweight among the major news anchors in this country and Palin couldn't handle a pre arranged interview without sounding like an idiot. Sarah Palin made herself a punchline with her performance. The McCain camp is scared to let her out in public. She went to get a sandwich in Phildadelphia and managed in the only sentence she said to counter McCains position on going into Pakistan after Osama bin Laden. I'm sure she will go on the attack on Thursday with well rehearsed zingers since that is all she has. She couldn't possibly hold an intelligent discussion on the issues, becasue she seems not to really understand them. And to Prototype, I am afraid, very afraid as an American that we could still somehow end up with Sarah Palin a step away from the presidency. That would certainly be a national nightmare.
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A crusty police detective who is close to retirement age relocates to a small North England town from London, where he still continues to work as a police inspector and gets a new partner instead of retiring. One of the reasons he cannot retire is that he is continually haunted by the brutal murder of his wife…back when he was living in London. Set in the 1960s, the George Gently character seems, at first, like all of the other grumpy, old British police detectives and this will be like all of the other British police series…ala Frost, Morse, etc. But, Gently has an edge that carries through all of the episodes and makes this one stand out among the crowd.
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For a British police show with a female main character, comparisons will always be made to Prime Suspect, the Helen Mirren series that has won over audiences all over the world, in addition to accolade after accolade for Ms. Mirren. In Blue Murder, DCI (Detective Chief Inspector) Janine Lewis is tough (like Mirren), has problems with her supervisors because she's a woman (like Mirren), and also has issues controlling and getting respect from her staff because she's a woman (like Mirren). What makes Lewis stand out above the other detective shows, including Mirren, is that this female detective is a single mother, which gives her even more complications and more of an edge than Mirren's character. A great series that is for anyone who likes cop shows…with either male or female leads.
Surprisingly, I liked this one. I didn't see it right away after it came out on DVD since I wasn't sure it was a film for me. But, the relationship of the brothers and also of the father and sons was captivating and kept me watching. Even though I felt parts (especially the ending) went a little too into the "melodramatic" realm, I felt that most of the movie was strong and convincing. Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix give believable performances as brothers initially pitted against each other. When Wahlberg's character falls victim to a crime Phoenix might be in on. I bought Phoenix's reaction and turmoil. It's not the best crime drama ever made but over-all, it's a good one.
Gritty and intense, this film is one of the more noir-esque films of the end of the 20th Century. It's dark and brooding, as film noir films of yesterday, but it is quite brutal, which of course is the sign it's a movie of the modern era. Brad Pitt plays a newly transferred cop who gets partnered with a soon-to-be-retiring cop, played by Morgan Freeman. The two begins to investigate a series of very brutal crimes based on the seven deadly sins. Freeman's character is methodical and deliberate. Pitt's cop is brash and overeager. Together, though, they solve the crimes and find the criminal…but is it too late? The use of a film technique called "bleach bypass" helped the movie get its dark, shadow-filled look. And, boy does it work…because even when nothing sinister is going on, the film retains its stark feel…giving the audience a constant feeling of dread.
I saw this film months ago in the theater and just recently watched it again on DVD. I must say, I liked it much better the second time around. It has so much intensity that I found I missed a lot on the first showing. Now that I was able to put some of the pieces together of what I had missed, I see what an excellent film it really is. George Clooney stars as the title character, a "fixer" in a large NYC law firm, and he is in sent in to "fix" one the firm's partners, Arthur, after he's had a breakdown and is saying vile things about one of the firm's largest clients, U-North. Clayton soon realizes that all of the "gibberish" Arthur was spewing might be true and after Clayton starts investigating, he finds himself in mortal danger. A strong thriller that is hard to turn away from! But, make sure you pay attention so won't have to see it twice like me! But, then again, George Clooney is always worth a second viewing. And a third, and a fourth, and a fifth…..
John McClane, I have to confess, is one of my favorite movie characters in contemporary cinema. From the first time we met him in 1988's Die Hard, he has always been there to save the day, no matter who the bad guy is, what the obstacle is, or how old he is. It is now almost 20 years later and McClane is still going strong…maybe even stronger than ever. And, even after all the bruises and bullets and stabbings, he's still got the goods to add two hours of pure entertainment to our hectic schedules. The plot of this one is pretty convoluted, but the guts of it are that a former computer security employee for the government got mad and wants to show America how angry he is by stealing billions from the country. McClane, once again, finds himself embroiled in this mess, not seeking out any trouble, but rather having trouble find him. Bruce Willis, born in 1955, does not show any wear and tear here…though I'm assuming the stunt team does more for him that they did in the previous outings. He gives McClane that perfect cocky attitude and the right mix of butt-kicking thrown in. The action sequences here are phenomenal…almost as good as the first. If I didn't know better, I would think McClane was really caught in some of those precarious situations, rather than having them be computer generated. This just proves that even though times have changed, McClane and his Die Hards do not.
I think right off the bat this film gets a bad rap since it's unfortunately grouped with the recent films about the Iraq War. That's unfair, in my opinion, since this is a strong, edgy thriller that deserves to be seen as a THRILLER and not necessarily as an anti-war statement. Tommy Lee Jones plays a father who, at the start of the film, finds out his son, recently back from the war in the Middle East, is missing. Yes, much of the film does deal with the war, since Jones has to find out what happened to his son while he was over there and if it is at all connected to his disappearance. But, most of the story just has Jones searching for the truth and finding bits and pieces of facts and fictions and putting them together to get some answers. Yes, the story has holes, but based how badly this film was received, it was MUCH better than I thought it would be. So, ignore the propaganda – and just enjoy the movie.
I had heard of this movie but I wasn't sure why so many people had been asking for it. So, what I'm saying is that I went in with no expectations. And I came out laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. This has to be one of the funniest movies I've seen in years…close-to-perfect comic writing, timing, acting….everything. Basically, it's about a hot-shot London cop (Nick) who gets reassigned to a small English village where he thinks he will be completely bored for the rest of his career…but, boy, does he turn out to be wrong. The village police force consists of a bunch of crackpots…one of whom (Danny) becomes Nick's partner. Some of the repartee between Nick and Danny is just priceless…Danny is quite simple-minded and his slow-wit counteracts perfectly with Nick's confident policing. When Danny is forced to become a real police officer and fight real crime, the laughs do not stop! I immediately wanted to see Shaun of the Dead, which is the first film written by Simon Pegg (who plays Nick) and Edgar Wright. Sadly, I didn't like that one as much, but for me, it would be VERY hard to top my Hot Fuzz experience.
Give this one some time to grow on you…I came close to giving up about 30 minutes into this film. Then, just as I practically had my finger on the STOP button of my remote, the plot settled down and began to come together. I understand what the director (Mike Hodges of Croupier fame) was trying to do in the beginning. He was trying to set the stage of a dark, murky movie by showing us the characters in little segments to make us deliberately confused. Just because I understand what Hodges was doing doesn't mean I like it. Once the crime has been committed, all of the pieces begin to fall into place and turn a complicated premise into a smart, original thriller. We get to know the characters we had only seen in bits and pieces before. We get to know what led up to the crime that is committed. We get to know some back-story on the main character, played brilliantly by Clive Owen. Owen's character has turned his back on his former criminal/gangster ways, disconnecting himself from his family and friends, and become homeless (he lives out of his van in the woods and moves from one cash-paying construction job to another). The story hinges on the believability of Owen. We HAVE to believe his character in order for the story to work. Of course, going from gangster to homeless man is quite a personality change. But, is the change sincere or just a weak way to escape his past? Owen, once back around his former friends and "associates," tries his best to stay clean but crime's a-calling. Owen fights and fights off his temptation and the question of whether he will win the fight is almost as thrilling as the mystery around crime. The ending, at first, bothered me. I wanted a more solid ending…I wanted to know about the characters and what happened to them. But, as I thought more about it, based on what we know about the Owen character, the ending is just as it should be.
Not for the faint of heart, this film is one of the funniest comedies I had seen in years. Frances McDormand won an Oscar for playing very pregnant Marge Gunderson…a fabulous character who is most definitely the sharpest person in the film (though that is not really much of a compliment). Marge is a police officer in Brainerd, Minnesota and she gets involved in an investigation involving kidnapping, brutal murder and theft. The script is sharp and hilarious…and the performances are all right on target. But, be warned…it is a DARK comedy. People die. People kill people. This is the Coen Brothers, after all.


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Five-star KCC do the double after beating Batheaston in Tom Morgan Cup final
Posted: May 09, 2014|
KCC completed a Roper Rhodes Bathrooms Bath & District Sunday League cup double after recording a resounding 5-0 win over Division 1 rivals Batheaston in the Tom Morgan Cup Final at Mayday Trust Park.
The Keynsham side got off to the perfect start when Dave Pollinger nodded in Neil Pincott's cross from close range after six minutes.
Batheaston searched in vain for an equaliser, with James Moon seeing a free-kick well parried by Nick Frost in the KCC goal, but they were hit by a sucker punch right on half-time.
Pincott latched onto a long ball, beat onrushing keeper Gareth Hicks and touched it to Jason Hawkins, who drove the ball into the empty net from 18 yards to make it 2-0.
The game was effectively made safe on 53 minutes when Chris Gwyther tapped in following a probing run from Marcus Smith.
Mike Branton's men made the scoreline more comprehensive as late goals from Andy Applin and Pincott rubber-stamped their win.
KCC had beaten Kingsmead 3-2 in the Stan Milsom Cup final the previous week.
Mayday Trust Park stages the last of this season's Bath & District League finals on Tuesday when Saturday sides Trowbridge House and Stockwood Wanderers clash for the Bath City Cup (7.30pm).


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It was tragic enough when Nate Dogg passed away last month due to complications from multiple strokes. The hip-hop community and fans were completely shocked hearing about the 41 year old singer's death. But now news has surfaced that Nate's Pomona, California home was foreclosed on just two days after he died. His family does not need that!
Apparently Nate did not keep up with his mortgage payments and hadn't paid up since December of last year. TMZ is reporting that he owed a total of $5,924 at the time of his death. So does that mean that his family has to pay the debt? It's such a nasty detail to deal with when you're in the process of grieving. You don't have to watch your loved one's home getting seized.
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The Volcano House was originally built back in 1968, and designed by architect Harold J. Bissner Jr. Measuring 1,800 square feet, the main house has two bedrooms and two baths and open entertaining areas. The guest house [6]has one bedroom and its own private lake. A central fireplace provides a focal point for the abode, and a sunken conversation pit gives away its mod-arch, 1960s roots. A fully-equipped kitchen sits to one side of the space and is constructed to feature classic wood cabinetry.
The house is sited near Interstate 15 (near Barstow) and the surrounding area offers quirky attractions, including the Buffalo Ranch, Big Al's Pistachio Ranch, the Ostrich Farm and the Bagdad Café.
If you want to learn more about this home's bizarre past, head over to Vegas Seven [7] for more details — including which famous celebrity guests have visited the summit.
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Cycling: Flying Dutchman too quick for golden boy Cavendish
Posted: September 14, 2012|
MARK Cavendish watched his gold jersey hopes fade on Gun Hill as the steep Staffordshire climbs played havoc with the Tour of Britain overall standings.
Cavendish, the race leader heading into the Potteries, and his Team Sky team-mate Bradley Wiggins finished 11mins 45secs behind virtually unknown winner Marc De Maar.
De Maar, whose best finish of the opening four stages was 54th, revealed he had thought about catching a flight home after crashes on the first two days.
So the 28-year-old thought it was a familiar story when he collided with Jeremie Galland and Paul Voss on a right-hand bend as the 23-man breakaway group entered the city.
But he got back on his bike and attacked alone for home four miles from the Hanley finish, eventually breezing across the line with arms aloft and no challenger in sight.
Leigh Howard, who finished in fifth yesterday, replaced Cavendish at the top of the general classification.
"I was surprised there were such long climbs over here," said Dutch-born De Maar, who grew up on the Caribbean island of Curacao.
"It's been a rough week for me. I started with a couple of crashes and lost my motivation, but my team director Hendrik Redant coached me through the next couple of days when I was thinking of just getting a flight home.
"I thought 'oh no' when we crashed again here, but then decided 'no way am I going to lose this'.
"It was a big solo effort to stay away, but as the finish was getting closer I started believing and that gave me an extra percentage to put on my pedals."
Tour de France champion Wiggins stunned crowds in the Staffordshire Moorlands when he turned his bike around and headed back against the tide to find Cavendish.
The 32-year-old tried to act as domestique to guide the "Manx Missile" back to the front, but the gap only grew wider and Cavendish will now need a miracle to regain the jersey over the three remaining stages.
Wiggins, however, was just glad to be back riding in the Potteries after missing out on the 2011 Tour of Britain due to a broken collarbone.
He said: "It's great to race in Stoke-on-Trent and I'm happy to have made it this year.
"It's even better that it's stopped raining like it did in the previous stage at Blackpool. Stoke-on-Trent is a great stage of the Tour of Britain."
Team Sky sports director Servais Knaven admitted his stars' poor performances over the hills could prove pivotal to the result of the whole Tour.
He said: "At that moment it was the point of no return.
"Brad was in between the two groups waiting for Cav and the gap looked shorter than it was. Brad wanted to help us defend the jersey today and did everything he could."
De Maar crossed the line 15 seconds ahead of his United Healthcare team-mate Boy Van Poppel and Sep Vanmarcke (Garmin-Sharp), who now sit second and third in the general classification respectively.
Australian Howard (Orica GreenEDGE) came marginally later to move seven seconds clear of Van Poppel in the hunt for the trophy.
Three stages remain, starting with a Welshpool to Caerphilly leg today before taking in Barnstaple to Dartmouth tomorrow and finishing with Reigate to Guildford on Sunday.
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Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Discussants: Shannon Speed, Department of Anthropology; Jossianna Arroyo, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ta iñ fijke xipa rakizuameluwün. Historia, colonialismo y resistencia desde el país Mapuche (Santiago: Ediciones de Historia Mapuche, 2012) brings together fourteen Mapuche authors who examine many dimensions of Mapuche history, relying on the concept of colonialism as the axis of debate and reflection on historical, political, cultural, and territorial issues.
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante is a scholar of Mapuche origin who grew up in Tralcao, a rural village in the River Region of Valdivia in southern Chile. He studied Philosphy and Social Sciences at the Universidad Austral de Chile (1980-85), obtained his MA at the University of Oregon (1997), and earned his PhD in Hispanic Studies at Cornell (2001). Between 2001 and 2009, he taught at Harvard University. He currently teaches Latin American and indigenous literatures and cultures at UT Austin.
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What was your previous position and where?I was an assistant professor of economics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
What brought you to LSU?I came to LSU for research and family. LSU had some excellent researchers in my field at that time which made the department particularly attractive. Further, both my wife and I are academics, and we were fortunate to secure tenure-track positions at LSU — before that we were commuting between Utah and North Carolina!
What is your research interest?Most of my work centers around long-run economic growth. My recent research has focused on both high and low income countries. I have just completed a research project with a former graduate student on comparing productivity growth across U.S. states over the past 30 years. I am currently doing research on the effects of rural banking on agricultural productivity and growth in India. I have also done research on the role of foreign direct investment and capital flows on long run economic growth, as well as on the quality of governance across countries.
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LOU BELLAMY (DIRECTOR & PRODUCER) is the founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre. Under his leadership, Penumbra has produced 23 world premieres, including August Wilson's first professional production, and is proud to have produced more of Mr. Wilson's plays than any theater in the world. Mr. Bellamy is an OBIE Award-winning director, an accomplished actor, and sought-after scholar. He has been a member of the University of Minnesota's faculty for 32 years and is currently appointed to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. Recent directing credits include Black Pearl Sings!, Radio Golf, Fences and The Piano Lesson at Penumbra, A Raisin in the Sun and Gem of the Ocean, Penumbra productions staged at the Guthrie, Two Trains Running at the Signature Theatre in New York, Jitney at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company, and the staged reading of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Kennedy Center.
DOMINIC TAYLOR (ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) is a director, playwright and the head of Penumbra's OKRA New Play Development Program. Most recently, Mr. Taylor directed Black Nativity: A Season for Change at Penumbra. Other select directing credits include the new opera Fresh Faust at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Negroes Burial Ground at the Kitchen, N.Y.C., Uppa Creek at Dixon Place, and Ride The Rhythm in the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. He is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota where he has directed The Wiz, Night Train To Bolina and this spring will direct Execution of Justice. Mr. Taylor has worked with Crossroads Theater, Rites and Reasons Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. He is an alumni member of New Dramatists and holds a Bachelor's and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Brown University.
SARAH BELLAMY (EDUCATION DIRECTOR) is the principal scholar and editor for Penumbra Theatre. Her work includes the research and composition of the contextual essays to accompany Penumbra's main-stage productions. Ms. Bellamy also oversees the creation of standardized, original curricula for educators to engage culturally specific arts in their classrooms. She has designed several programs that engage patrons of the theatre in critical thinking, dialogue and action around issues of race and social justice. Among the most renowned are the "RACE Workshop: Meet Your Metaphor," curated to accompany the Science Museum of Minnesota's exhibit RACE: Are We So Different?, and Penumbra Theatres Summer Institute, an intensive theatre-training program for youth to practice socially responsible art and civic engagement. Ms. Bellamy is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, and holds an M.A. from The University of Chicago. She is currently working toward her doctorate in Comparative Studies and Discourse in Society at the University of Minnesota.
MARY K. WINCHELL (STAGE MANAGER) is a longtime Penumbra Theatre company member. Most recently, she stage managed Penumbra's Black Pearl Sings!, Black Nativity: A Season for Change, Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean. Other Penumbra credits include The Piano Lesson, Get Ready, Black Nativity: Twenty Years of Holiday Cheer!, Seven Guitars, Jitney, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II and Dinah Was. She has stage managed at the Orpheum Theatre, State Theatre, Pantages Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, Jungle Theater and the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. She has lent her talents to Macy's Glamorama and served as production stage manager for Dorothy Hamill�s Nutcracker on Ice, Aveda's 20th Anniversary Celebration at Radio City Music Hall, and Super Bowl xxvi Winter Magic.
TERRY BELLAMY (STERLING JOHNSON) is a founding member of Penumbra Theatre Company. He began acting at the age of six and has been on stage professionally for over 30 years. He has worked at numerous theatres including Chimera, Mixed Blood Theatre, American History Theatre, The Hennepin Center for the Arts, Park Square Theatre, Minneapolis Car Garage, Illusion Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, The Goodman Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville and many others. He has been a dramaturge at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, taught advanced acting at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis and he taught Black Drama at Penumbra Theatre Company in 1990, 1991 and 1994.
JAMES CRAVEN (ABE) is a long-time Penumbra Theatre company member. Select credits at Penumbra include Fences, The Piano Lesson, Penumbra's production of Gem of the Ocean presented at the Guthrie Theater, Get Ready, Zooman and the Sign, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and REDSHIRTS, co-produced with Round House Theatre. He also performed at Kansas City Repertory Theater and Arizona Theater Company in their joint production of Jitney. James is a 2005 recipient of the Spenser Cherashore Fund and was awarded a 2007 McKnight Fellowship.
AUSTENE VAN (MAME WILKS) recently performed in Penumbra's production of Gem of the Ocean, staged at the Guthrie Theater. Other select Penumbra credits include performances in Zooman and the Sign, Dinah Was, The Trial of One Short Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise & Safreeta Mae and Blues for an Alabama Sky, and she directed Black Nativity-Hear Again the Christmas Story! and Black Nativity: Twenty Years of Holiday Cheer! She has performed at Children's Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Ordway Center, Pantages and the Saint Louis Repertory Theatre. Television credits include Vernie and The Shakedown. Musical endeavors include writing and co-producing her own album.
KEVIN D. WEST (ROOSEVELT HICKS) is a Penumbra company member. Penumbra credits include Fences, Zooman and the Sign, Two Trains Running, Some Place Soft to Fall, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Seven Guitars, A Raisin in the Sun and Freefall. Kevin has also performed with Children's Theatre Company, Jungle Theater, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Alchemy Theater, History Theatre, Theater Latt� Da, Minnesota Jewish Theater, the Guthrie Theater and the Phoenix Theater. Film and television credits include The Death of Tommy Grime, Sweet Caroline, Kingdom Hospital, Bill's Gun Shop and Justice. Kevin serves as Artistic Associate with the Capri Theater where he teaches acting to high school students.
ABDUL SALAAM EL RAZZAC (HENRY) is a founding member of Penumbra Theatre. He has also performed at the Willamstown Theatre Festival, Los Angeles Theater Center, A.C.T., Long Wharf, Mark Taper, the Guthrie Theater, South Coast Rep, Trinity Rep, Tiffany Theater, The Nate Holden Theater, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City Rep and Arizona Theater Company. He has directed at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Zephyr, L.A.T.C. and Glaxa Theaters, as well as staged readings for the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre and the Mark Taper's Mentor Reading Series. Awards include the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Award for performance, and the Los Angeles Dramalog Award for best director and the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award best director nomination. Select film and television credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pretty Woman, Glory, Malcolm X, Terminator II, Frasier and Conversations with God.
VICKI M. SMITH (SCENIC DESIGNER) has designed several productions at Penumbra including A Raisin in the Sun and Zooman and the Sign. She has also designed for The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Children's Theatre Company, Minnesota Opera, Anchorage Opera, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, ACT Seattle, Alley Theatre and Berkeley Rep. Pierre, one of her recent designs for The Denver Center Theatre Company, was selected for the Prague Quadrennial Design Exposition 2007.
MATHEW J. LeFEBVRE (COSTUME DESIGNER) has designed costumes for several Penumbra Theatre productions including Fences, REDSHIRTS, Get Ready, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers, On the Open Road, Black Eagles, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Jitney, and both Scenery and Costumes for Gem of the Ocean. Off Broadway credits include costumes for Two Trains Running at Signature Theatre�Lortel winner, best revival of a play, AUDELCO nominee, best costumes�and Bach at Leipzig for New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. LeFebvre has designed costumes for the Guthrie Theater, The Acting Company, The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Kansas City Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Geffen Playhouse, Mixed Blood Theatre and American Players Theatre.
MICHELLE HABECK (LIGHTING DESIGNER) has designed for Penumbra Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Baltimore's CenterStage, and Alliance Theatre, among others. She has worked as associate to Tony Award-winning designer Donald Holder on Julie Taymor's Opera Grendel; Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman Theatre and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; and on Broadway stage plays and musicals including Movin' Out, King Hedley II and The Boy From Oz. Ms. Habeck was honored with the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Grant for 2003-04. She is on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
MARTIN GWINUP (SOUND & VIDEO DESIGNER) is an associate professor in the Theatre Arts and Dance Department at the University of Minnesota. He teaches audio and video technology, design and production. He has also worked in the Twin Cities area as a freelance sound and video designer and technician for 18 years. Martin has worked for the Frank Theatre, History Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, Cricket Theatre and Eye of the Storm. Select design credits at Penumbra include REDSHIRTS, Get Ready, Blue, Black Nativity - A Celebration of Family, A Celebration for the Soul... Testify! and Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers.
KALERE A. PAYTON (COSTUME DESIGNER) designed costumes for Penumbra Theatre's The Whipping Man. Other costume design credits include The Wiz and A Bright Room Called Day for The University of Minnesota as well as The Producing House's Power Balladz and Park Square Theatre's Othello. Ms. Payton was the Assistant Costume Designer for several Penumbra productions including Get Ready, REDSHIRTS, Fences, Radio Golf and Black Nativity: A Season For Change. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts with an emphasis on Costume Design and Technology from the University of Minnesota.
SARA STRAHM (PROP MASTER) is pleased to do her first show with Penumbra Theatre. Recently she has worked on many productions at the Guthrie Theater including Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. In addition Sara has been a prop artist in Washington, D.C. at Ford's Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Discovery Channel and for Mame at the Kennedy Center.
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