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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Woodstock, Director's Cut or Bill Clinton at Netroots Nation

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 07:59:00 PM EST
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On Comcast tonight: The premiere of Woodstock: Three Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)in HD. It's four hours long.

Or, you can watch former President Clinton address Netroots Nation on C-Span. He's just about to take the stage.

Heads-up for this weekend: 150,000 attendees are expected at the 18th annual Seattle Hempfest, billed as the 'World's Largest Annual Pot 'Protestival'.

Or you can discuss anything else you're finding interesting today.

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    Thursday Evening Open Thread: Woodstock, Director's Cut or Bill Clinton at Netroots Nation | 33 comments (33 topical)

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    Picketing Mary Beth Buchanan Friday (5.00 / 2) (#23)
    by Ben Masel on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 11:39:05 PM EST
    "America's Worst Prosecutor"

    Bush holdover Mary Beth Buchanan's office is just 4 short blocks from Netroots Nation. US Courthouse and Post Office, at 700 Grant Street. Lunch hour

    Shortly before Obama's Inaugural she announced she wouldn't resign.

    First known nationally for locking up Tommy Chong, Buchanan gained further attention prosecuting a partisan witch hunt of  former Allegheny County medical examiner Cyril Wecht, a case so odious that onetime Reagan Attorney General Dick Thornburg called for her ouster while Bush was still President.

    Holder: Drop her.

    Give her hell Ben... (none / 0) (#30)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 09:35:58 AM EST
    that kinda batsh*t crazy has no business on the public's payroll...take it to the private sector please, surely her ilk at the Partnership for a Drug Free America have a cushy position of some sort they could offer.

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    Arlen Specter tells me she's on way out. (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by Ben Masel on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 01:23:25 PM EST
    I was in the hallway with signs, recruiting pickets as Arlen left from his NN presentation. He and Sen. Casey interviewed potential replacements earlier this week.

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    Cool... (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 02:11:55 PM EST
    well done yet again sir...once you get elected I'll feel infinitely better about this republic.

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    This comment over at Think Progress (5.00 / 0) (#28)
    by MO Blue on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 12:33:32 AM EST
    made me laugh.

    Person putting down England's health care system:

    And, if you get a bad rash and you have the misfortune to be stuck in Piccadilly Square - you'll have to wait in line for two days to get ointment, and by then gangrene will set in.

    Response:

    It's worse than that -- I knew a woman who got pregnant in England and had to wait nine months to have the baby delivered. Nine months! A wait time like that is obscene.

     

    double post, j (none / 0) (#1)
    by Dadler on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:01:10 PM EST
    this open thread double posted somehow, just to let you know.

    thanks, I just deleted the other one (none / 0) (#3)
    by Jeralyn on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:07:34 PM EST
    And BTD put up a Clinton thread at the same time. Feel free to comment on either but this thread is for all topics, not just Clinton and BTD's will be all Clinton.

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    Clinton at netroots nation (none / 0) (#2)
    by The Last Whimzy on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:07:30 PM EST
    Seems to me incontrivertable proof of Clinton's ability to set aside personal feelings and do what's right for the country.  This is a great event for the Democratic Party.

    There are some who would argue he is trying to stay relevant, but it's pretty clear to me at least who has more to gain as far as all thats concerned.

    Michael Vick gets an NFL job (none / 0) (#4)
    by scribe on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:08:28 PM EST
    Signs a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles.

    This is gonna be fun - one wonders what Eagles Fan #1 Ed Rendell will say....

    I look forward (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Steve M on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:29:03 PM EST
    to further insights from Rush Limbaugh concerning the Eagles' quarterback position.

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    Ouch (none / 0) (#12)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:34:54 PM EST


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    Oy (none / 0) (#5)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:12:25 PM EST


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    To use a construction that's by now almost archaic (none / 0) (#6)
    by scribe on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:19:11 PM EST
    "he paid his debt to society."  So, let's let him be a productive member of society, OK?

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    Is "NIMBY" that old? (none / 0) (#7)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:20:01 PM EST
    Honestly, I don't care. But this is going to light a fire.

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    He can be a productive member of society (none / 0) (#8)
    by The Last Whimzy on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:27:42 PM EST
    Struggling to make ends meet like the rest of us.

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    But he's not like us... (none / 0) (#31)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 09:42:04 AM EST
    he has special athletic talents 99% of the population do not posess...and we need every struggling to make ends meet job we have for people like us, not to mention all the other ex-cons.

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    The (none / 0) (#9)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:28:31 PM EST
    Kumbhamela Festival Of India here in Sammamish, WA, (suburb of Seattle) this weekend.

    We drove by the Vedic Center and the giant blow-up cow had already arrived.

    I know nothing about them, but they have an amazing looking building, and apparently will be serving Indian (of course) food.

    Vedic Cultural Center

    PS (none / 0) (#11)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:34:14 PM EST
    I do know the Hare Krishnas are considered a cult, but I have a distinct the festival won't be about that... but who knows.

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    Meant to say (none / 0) (#13)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:34:58 PM EST
    I have a distinct FEELING the festival won't be about cultishness.

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    Krishna's birthday celebration. (none / 0) (#19)
    by oculus on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 10:11:06 PM EST


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    By whom? (none / 0) (#20)
    by Inspector Gadget on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 10:33:25 PM EST
    I've never thought they were considered a cult. Thought a cult had a leader and brainwashing was required, but that's just me.

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    On Comcast?? (none / 0) (#14)
    by Inspector Gadget on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:54:00 PM EST
    I don't find anything on my TV listings (I have Comcast as my cable provider) that shows Woodstock is airing.

    Did you mean HBO or some other premium channel?

    It's on one of their HD channels (none / 0) (#16)
    by Jeralyn on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:33:16 PM EST
    PLDHD, channel 671 here.

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    That's probably Palladia, MTV's HD only (none / 0) (#17)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:40:06 PM EST
    service. Not on many cable systems last I checked.

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    Ahhhh.... (none / 0) (#18)
    by Inspector Gadget on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 09:54:28 PM EST
    Not available on my tv :) Thanks

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    I have a DVD called (none / 0) (#15)
    by Cards In 4 on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 08:58:27 PM EST
    Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music The Director's Cut! It is not in HD though.

    I think they are succeeding in making up for all the lost ticket revenue from 1969.

    I still favor The Who at the Isle of Wright dvd over Woodstock.  All Moon all the time.

    Saw the movie "Julie & Julia" . (none / 0) (#21)
    by caseyOR on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 10:57:44 PM EST
    No spoilers, but I give this movie a big recommendation. It's funny and touching and serious and just all around great entertainment.

    Meryl Streep is, of course, magnificent as Julia Child. The talented Stanley Tucci plays her husband Paul. They have amazing chemistry and portray the kind of marriage we all hope to have. And really, is there a more urbane and cosmopolitan actor than Tucci working today? Amy Adams, who has been a bit discounted in the reviews I've read, is good here. I don't understand what the reviewers did not like about her.

    Do not go to this movie hungry. Do, however, plan to eat after. The food has a critical supporting role and should get its own Oscar nomination.

    Full disclosure, I have been a big old Meryl Streep fan for more than 30 years. I would watch a movie of her mowing the lawn.

    That said, go see "Julie & Julia".

    IMO, there was no need for the Julie part (none / 0) (#22)
    by andgarden on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 11:03:08 PM EST
    A movie about Julia Child would have been just as interesting and entertaining. If you've read her ghosted memoirs, you know that the movie missed most of the second act of her life.

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    Sure, there is a movie (none / 0) (#25)
    by caseyOR on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 12:12:25 AM EST
    to be made about Julia Child's life. And I would love to see that movie made. But this is not that movie. It doesn't pretend to be that movie. Ephron got the idea for this one from Julie Powell's story, not Julia Child's.

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    For my own part, I thought the Julia story (none / 0) (#26)
    by andgarden on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 12:20:34 AM EST
    was much more interesting and textured.

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    I did, too, (none / 0) (#27)
    by caseyOR on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 12:25:30 AM EST
    but that could be because I am more interested in Child than in Powell. Plus, Paris in the early '50s is much more interesting than Queens in 2002. At least to me.

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    Recommend the movie (none / 0) (#29)
    by scribe on Fri Aug 14, 2009 at 07:53:02 AM EST
    A friend of mine worked on it.  A little dish, for those interested:

    Staney Tucci is very nice and easy to work with.

    As of the filming (May 08) Amy Adams is still too new in the business to have been turned into a psycho-nightmare demon from hell, and is very nice and professional.

    I was in town for some of the filming - Julia in  the train station scenes.  All those extras roaming around town in period costmes looking for something cold to drink and shade.  Because, while they were wearing 40s-50s velvets, hats, tweeds and all that, it was a brilliantly sunny, blistering 90 deg F May day in the NYC area.

    Rule of Thumb:  If Streep's in it, it's worth your time.


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    Endless War (none / 0) (#24)
    by MO Blue on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 11:55:04 PM EST
    WASHINGTON - The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win.

    Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take "a few years," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale in the desperately poor country a much longer proposition. He acknowledged that the Taliban has a firm hold on parts of the country President Barack Obama has called vital to U.S. security.
    ...
    "In the intelligence business, we always used to categorize information in two ways, secrets and mysteries," Gates, a former CIA director, told a Pentagon news conference.  

    He added: "Mysteries were those where there were too many variables to predict. And I think that how long U.S. forces will be in Afghanistan is in that area."  link
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