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Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:00 AM

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What you need to see, read, do this week: Prom night tales, James Brown's '60s soul, Charlie's kindest Angel.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008 01:15 AM

The BEST comedy show

No one selected the clown show put up by GW Bush, POTUS?

That is, by far, absolutely the very BEST comedy running anywhere in the world!

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Saturday, August 2, 2008 01:35 PM

Kindest angel? Maybe. Talented? Not so much.

My gf induced me to watch the hair-cut show twice, and I swear that's IT. Aside from everything else that's bad about it, Jaclyn Smith sounds like a wind-up toy reading a teleprompter badly, and while she may actually tear up when bidding adieu to some talentless hack (pun intended), I all can hear is her expressionless drone that sounds like nothing so much as a bored grade-school teacher taking role..

Saturday, August 2, 2008 04:30 PM

Strolling down Aisle J at the local Bazaar's DVD Arcade the Balls of me Upper Frontal portion cranial cavity Fell upon Fried Green Tomatoees whereupon I began tearing the Hairs outta me Skull-Turf till Said-Balls suddenly focused upon

A CRUDE AWAKENING: The Oil Crash ****

MAHOMET the PROPHET (2 discs) ********

OBSESSION: Radical Islam's War Against the West ****

BLOOD and OIL: The Middle East in World War I ****

ISLAM: What the West Needs to Know *********

The LOST YEAR in IRAQ (Frontline / pbs) ******************

( * using a one-to-four star rating system *)

There are dozen's of Namby-Pamby Doc's dealing with the Issues-at-Hand, (i.e. History Channel's "INSIDE ISLAM") .... but the Above give a good spread of some insightful, thought-provoking exceptions .... from the pro-Isaeli "What the West Needs to Know" to the pro-Islamic 'Every-Earthling-Oughta-See', "Mahomet".

Afterall --- since it is a FACT, as ordained by God (*), that Alex and Joan and Garrison and Klytus and Glenn and Paris Hilton and Senor Soup and the Daily Llama and The Next James Bond, were all born into This World as Muslims, Don'cha thinks we all oughta learns sumptin 'bouts our "Roots" ??

We donts wanna dies as slimy, good-fer-nuttin Infidels --- now Dooz Weeez ??

(* anybody ever notice that the black, shiny, polished Ka'aba Stone that fell outta Outer Space in the rocky, meccan Aay-Rab Party, looks exactly like the twin-doppelganger Brother of that black, shiny, polished Stone that fell outta Outer Space in the midst of the rocky Ape Party in the opening endless scene of Stanley's "2001: A Space Odyssey" ?? - - - OR - - Fer dat matter - - like Plato-The-Great's black, shiny Intra-Celestial "Form" that infects us all ??

. . . just wonderin

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