Is the show biz headline of the year news that a "Wonder Woman" TV series is returning to network TV with David E. Kelly in charge? For NOW it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnpZLnIdXU

As evidenced by the above, you can definitely put this blogger in the Emily Deschanel as Wonder Woman camp.
Not that anyone from Warner Bros. asked for my opinion yet.


So I got an odd phone call from The Left Coast from a friend in show biz very early Saturday morning their time, which for the person calling me, was around 2 p.m. Eastern, this being someone who is a confirmed night owl.

I received the call while I was watching the godawful and ponderous U-M at Clemson football game on ESPN2, which was late coming on owing to a 20-minute delay in the Manchester United vs. Sunderland soccer game, which ended with a less-than-thrilling nil-nil tie. http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html

The rather short message told to me thru yawns was, roughly paraphrasing:
Wonder Woman, network TV, David E. Kelly, and Andreeva.

That was enough for me to understand the gist and see the cosmic possibilities, but for those of you who either don't keep up on such things or for whom anything less than breaking news about a $250-million feature film based on Joss Whedon's Firefly is not worth paying attention to, here's what's what. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29

DeadlineHollywood.com
Wonder Woman Returning To TV As Series Written And Produced By David E. Kelley
By Nellie Andreeva, Deadline TV Editor
Friday October 1, 2010 @ 3:00pm PDT

This has to be the highest-profile effort to bring Wonder Woman to television: One of TV's best-known creators, The Practice's David E. Kelley, has come on board to write and produce a new series project about the female superhero. The project, from Warner Bros Television where Kelley is based, and Warner Bros' DC Entertainment, will be taken out to the networks shortly. Kelley, who has created several female centered shows like Ally McBeal, has wanted to tackle a contemporary take on the World War II-era Amazon. He recently met with the DC team who also have been looking for ways to launch a new Wonder Woman TV franchise.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/wonder-woman-returning-to-tv-as-series-written-and-produced-by-david-e-kelley/

See also: 'Ally McBeal' producer to give Wonder Woman a modern makeover
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ally-mcbeal-producer-to-give-wonder-woman-a-modern-makeover-2097657.html

Of course, if you want to go for a more petite, brainy look for her, how can you do better than Rachel Bilson from the first year of The O.C.?
Ooh-la-la La Bilson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnZ70Q4SN2g


Love La Bilson!
http://www.popsugar.com/tag/%22Rachel+Bilson%22

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Or, as Saturday Night Live once sagely noted, "What if Superman landed in Nazi Germany?"

If Scotland wants a super-hero with a kilt and an anti-English bent, knock yourself out.

If India wants a super-hero that's a cow who is a re-incarnated Prime Minister, go to it.

And if Belarus wants a super-hero that's ignored largely because nobody in the U.S. much thinks about Belarus except at the Winter Olympics, fine, he can be some pipeline worker who is a hen-pecked husband with a super-power, I'm fine with that, too.

But this effort below, if a trial balloon, is one that will utterly fail.
Some traditions must be upheld.

If I had my heart set on seeing Eliza Dushku, Summer Glau or Emily Deschanel as Wonder Woman Classic, and I've been heard to say that a few times over the past ten years, I don't want to see them in a film dressed like some sort of cheap second-rate Arabian Knights concubine, comprende?

Everyone says they learned the real lesson of New Coke.
Clearly, some did not.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/07/01/new-wonder-woman-loses-patriotic-costume/

New Wonder Woman Loses Patriotic Costume in Favor of 'Globalized' Duds

By Jo Piazza

Published July 01, 2010

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Previously at Hallandale Beach Blog on the subject of Wonder Woman:

Lynda Carter: Brains, Wit and Beauty!

Hallandale Beach DESPERATELY needs a Lynda Carter-like Wonder Woman to fight crime, cronyism and corruption at HB City Hall and all throughout South Florida.
(Or FBI Special Agent Dana Scully!)
You Can't Beat the Original!

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Fort Lauderdale Native and FSU Grad Tiffany Fallon as Wonder Woman

Tiffany is married to Joe Don Rooney of the Grammy Award-winning country group Rascal Flatts. Playboy February 2008.
Click on photo to go to Tiffany's MySpace page or go to her official website at: http://www.tiffanyfallon.com/

Trailer for ABC-TV's The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTs3qKzVJI


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074074/

"The 2,100 gun salute" is about to begin. The shells start firing on Hallandale Beach City Hall on Wednesday.

Above, September 15, 2010 photo of Hallandale Beach City Hall by South Beach Hoosier.

See 2,100 gun salute at
http://www.myactsofsedition.com/my_acts_of_sedition/2010/10/2100-game-salute.html

Hallandale Beach mayor Joy Cooper's own version of the Battle of Waterloo -the last of the battles of the Waterloo Campaign of 1815- is about to begin this week, with her self-cast as the Little Napoleon of our area, thanks to her towering ego, overweening ambition and juvenile intransigence in the face of ALL of the known facts and FL STATE LAW.

Not to mention, Weiss Serota's curious legal advice, which you and I and all Hallandale Beach taxpayers are already paying for in order for Cooper to continue to defy the STATE LAW -and common sense.
Her ego, our tax dollars!

Me, well, this week, I'm channeling one of the Duke of Wellington's top generals -and I have a very strong intuition about how it all will end.

See more prior recent posts about Hallandale Beach City Hall senselessly fighting against both the spirit and letter of the Florida Constitution at Chaz Stevens' blog: http://www.myactsofsedition.com/

There is plenty there about Hallandale Beach to make your jaw drop, and wonder exactly what Mayor Cooper thinks she is accomplishing, other than to continue to embarrass the citizens of this community and make the outside counsel happy to have the City of Hallandale Beach as a very dopey client.

Plain and simple, Joy Cooper is NOT above the law.
Period.

See also: http://fsne.org/news/sunshine-sunday/sunshine-sunday-2010/

Losing our cultural & literary heritage, bit-by-bit: Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

I have a ton of material to drop here over the next ten days or so that I couldn't post when it originally happened or occurred to me, due to some recent computer problems, so if some of this seems a bit old, it can't be helped.

Still, I suspect that if you're one of my usual discerning readers, you'll still appreciate that the facts are what is most important, not when you found out about it.

Today, much later than I originally planned, I'm initiating a new recurring feature on this blog that I believe will largely speak for itself, though I will likely have some comments anyway: "Losing our cultural & literary heritage, bit-by-bit."

Everything else being equal, the feature will be about the very idea that some important aspects of our collective history and culture are continually being miscast, misinterpreted or "misremembered," to use the word that Roger Clemens used so famously.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3243636

Sometimes that happens by accident or mistake, of course, but at other times, when I think it's being done intentionally and disingenuously to advance a particular point of view, especially a political one, I'll write here about why I think someone's mendaciously trying to blur the facts that we should all be familiar with.
At least, those of us paying attention to what's going on around us -and history.

And do I ever have a lot of ammunition for this new feature, too, a lot of it political. I welcome suggestions from readers who want more people to know what they've discovered to their dismay.

In this particular case today, how does the New York Times forget something so important to our understanding about Huck Finn, since Widow Douglas was one of the few people in the story whose opinion of him actually mattered to Huck?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/pageoneplus/corrections.html

New York Times
Corrections
September 23, 2010

THE ARTS

A critic’s notebook on Saturday about an exhibition on Mark Twain at the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, misidentified the home in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” where Huck felt discomfort. It was Widow Douglas’s — not Aunt Polly’s, where Tom Sawyer lived.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/books/18twain.html

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"My Huckleberry friend..."

Only one of the greatest songs ever: Moon River, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Henry Mancini.
Appearing in one of my favorite films: Breakfast at Tiffany's, which I've seen dozens of times.
Sung by one of my favorite actresses: Audrey Hepburn, whose every film I've seen at least once, and many of them, dozens of times, like my personal favorite, Funny Face, with Fred Astaire.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050419/


Breakfast at Tiffany's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOByH_iOn88



When Moon River came on during a crucial character development scene in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, when Tom Cruise's Ron Kovic was running in the rain to be at the high school prom with Kyra Segdwick's Donna, I actually started crying in the movie theater. (For the record, at an absolutely jammed Saturday afternoon performance at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., about the tenth row, right in the middle.)
It was movie magic -perfect!
Actual genius!

That great scene I've described is in the first video clip below.

Born on The Fourth of July
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCe4Uym0pfU


That's the thing about film director and political provocateur Oliver Stone.
He really, really, really knows how to manipulate you -even when you know he is.
But his politics aside, there's no denying his genius talent.

That's Stone at 4:58 in the video above as the reporter interviewing the general about how he thinks the Americans will do in Vietnam.
Stone won the Academy Award for Best Directing for the film, which also earned Tom Cruise an Oscar Best Acting nomination, and deservedly so for both of them.
It's a classic piece of film-making that remains gripping.

Here's the classic version of Moon River that you hear in both films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNgBLCfmpg


And here's the thing: I thought about ALL of this in the first few seconds after I saw that New York Times correction in the newspaper, while sipping my coffee over at Panera Bread.
That's how my mind works.

Forum in Hollywood on Amendment 4 slated for Wednesday October 13th at the Hillcrest Playdium, hosted by HLSCA & HHCA

Received this bit of public policy news this afternoon that I wanted to share with you ASAP, so you can check your calendar and make plans to attend.

To be honest, until today, I'd never heard of the Hillcrest Playdium, but just hearing the name, well, it sort of makes me wish that Hallandale Beach had a Hippodrome of its own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome_of_Constantinople

As most everyone knows by now, I support Amendment 4, since the Diplomat LAC proposal in Hallandale Beach earlier this year made HB the poster-child for why this legislation is NEEDED.
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Amendment 4 Informational Forum in Hollywood - Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

The Hollywood Lakes Civic Association (HLSCA) in partnership with the Hollywood Hills Civic Association (HHCA) will host a Forum on the upcoming statewide ballot question, Amendment 4. Amendment 4 would require city or county land use or comprehensive plan changes to go before the voters at an upcoming election.

Participating in the Hollywood Amendment 4 Forum will be following individuals:

For Amendment 4:
Bett Willett – Ms. Willett is the South Florida Coordinator for Florida Hometown Democracy, the grass-roots organization that was successful in getting Amendment 4 on the ballot. Bett is also a member of the Broward County Planning Council.

Tom Connick – Mr. Connick is a practicing attorney from Deerfield Beach and works closely with the Deerfield Beach Save Our Beach organization.

Against Amendment 4:
Mayor Frank Ortis – Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis is an outspoken critic of Amendment 4 and has a long history of civic service. Mayor Ortis was appointed to Vice Chair of the Broward League of Cities 2010-2011 Legislative & Advocacy Committee and has served as a Commissioner and Mayor for Pembroke Pines since 1996.

Cliff Schulman – Mr. Schulman is active with the “Vote No on 4” campaign organization.

Location for the Hollywood Amendment 4 Forum will be the Hillcrest Playdium, 1100 Hillcrest Drive, Hollywood, FL 33021.

Time: 7 to 9 pm.

Free parking.

For information, call 954-923-1940 or info@hollywoodlakes.com

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For the record, Cliff Schulman, mentioned above as one of the speakers who'll appear as an opponent of Florida Hometown Democracy, is considerably more than just someone who is "active" in anti-Amendment 4 activities.

Schulman is a frequent visitor before municipal and county government bodies throughout South Florida on behalf of his clients in his role as an attorney and lobbyist.
He was formerly the co-chair of the Environmental and Land Development Practice in the downtown Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, down on Brickell Avenue.

Earlier this year, Mr. Schulman left for Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske PL. http://www.wsh-law.com/content/attorneys/s/clifford-a-schulman/

Tell me, would it ever occur to you to ask for increased density for a client, in this case, Publix, as a result of development credits for underwater land?

Underwater, as in the Intracoastal.
No, really.
Well, Mr. Schulman has.

To wit, whether "submerged lands within an adjacent platted lot owned by Publix can be included for purposes of determining density and intensity of land use under section 265-5 of the City of Sunny Isles Beach Code of Ordinances..."

I have to admit, THAT is one lawyer who thinks 'outside-of-the-box'!

To see more on the particulars, see
http://www.3dca.flcourts.org/opinions/3D07-1895.pdf and http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2007/04/greedy-developersjoe-martinezclifford.html and
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/2009/07/r-allen-stanford-and-miami-based.html

Schulman is also the Chairman of the Board of the Aventura Marketing Council (AMC). http://www.aventuramarketingcouncil.com/

For more information on the individuals and groups mentioned above, see:

http://hollywoodlakes.com/news.htm

http://www.hollywoodcivic.org/modules/wfchannel/

http://www.hccacentral.org/

http://floridahometowndemocracyamendment.blogspot.com/

http://blogbybett.blogspot.com/

http://www.originalsaveourbeach.org/

While Russia tries to stop govt. corruption, Broward Comm. Ilene Lieberman wants to water down the new Ethics rules. Shocker!

Below, some facinating comments by Russia Today correspondent Jacob Greaves informing the Prime Time Russia studio crew in Moscow about the Duma capping ALL govt. officials and civil servants personal spending at 120% of total income to prevent corruption.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's government wants to go after the "big fish" to make examples out of them, before going after the minnows, and towards that end, using power he was given earlier this year, sacked a high-ranking general at the Ministry of Defense for failing to comply with the income declaration requirements.

You might recall that old chestnut about actions having consequences. Well, in most of the world, even in Russia, that still remains true, for both good and ill.

Meanwhile, here in Broward County, some "people" already in a position of power want to start nibbling away at the new County Ethics rules so that they can play belle-of-the-ball.

And by some "people" I specifically mean Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, whom we have discussed previously in this space 'till we're blue in the face for her brazen oleaginous ways.

Lieberman has proven herself to be no friend of genuine reform in this county, nor of meaningful ethics legislation with predictable dire consequences for contemptuous offenders -like that general in Russia- or even financial accountability or prescience, and the sooner she is gone from the passing scene in Broward, the better your future suddenly becomes.

If Lieberman really were the redoubtable legal eagle she imagines herself to be, echoed by so many pliant sycophants in the South Florida press, she'd have long since run for judge.
She hasn't.

Instead, she has remained and participated up to her elbows in the county's tarnished way of transacting business with a wink, a nod and a campaign check from lobbyists.
She has proven to be a mere puppet-master, not a voice that made a positive tangible difference for Broward's citizen taxpayers.
It's too late for her.

Even here, as bad as things are and have been, they DON'T actually build statues to people like her, since it would necessarily have to include the caption, "friend to the lobbyists, thru thick and thin."
No doubt the pigeons would have great fun with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RX2sgsiizo



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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Broward Politics blog
Broward's new Code of Ethics might get its first amendment soon

By Brittany Wallman
September 29, 2010 08:00 AM

Commissioner Ilene Lieberman wants her colleagues to soften the gift ban in the new ethics code.

Broward commissioners argued Tuesday and then postponed making a decision on whether to do it. It would be the first change of any kind to the brand new Code of Ethics.

The new ethics code says commissioners cannot accept a gift from a lobbyist or a vendor who does business with the county. It also says that commissioners can take a gift from someone else, but only if it's not worth more than $50. Lieberman is president of the Florida Association of Counties, and argues that she should be able to accept food, travel and lodging from that organization when she goes to its events and conferences.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2010/09/browards_new_code_of_ethics_to_1.html

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http://rt.com/

Prime Time Russia — the first TV show for an English-speaking audience in Russia. Weekdays from 8-9 p.m. msk on RT (Russia Today) channel and online
at http://rt.com/prime-time.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/primetimeru

Alyona Minkovski interviews Wired Sr. Editor Kevin Poulsen about Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and the group's immediate future

RT America's Alyona Minkovski interviews Wired Sr. Editor Kevin Poulsen about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the group's future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsPfOG5OaI



http://rt.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlyonaShow

http://www.youtube.com/user/RTAmerica

http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday

http://www.youtube.com/user/primetimeru

Gloria Estefan climbs windows during Dolphins-Jets game, but Hugh Grant was The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. Winner: Grant!

Gloria Estefan climbs windows during Dolphins-Jets game, but Hugh Grant was The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.
Winner: Hugh Grant!

Did you notice my increased sensitivity by not declaring Hugh Grant the landslide winner?
Nobody who lives in a valley wants to ever hear the word "landslide."

I loved this 1995 film set in Wales co-starring the always wonderful Colm Meaney and the delightful Tara FitzGerald, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/
which I saw at a studio sneak preview with some friends, and then saw again two weeks later on a date with an LA for a well-known Senator, pretending I hadn't seen it before.
You know how that is!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/

There was a period of time in the mid-Nineties when I was living in Arlington County when I was seeing 5-6 new films a month, plus taking in a Saturday or Sunday retrospective film at the National Gallery of Art if I didn't have tickets to the Orioles game, and reading nearly a dozen film magazines a month, when I really thought Tara FitzGerald was, in fact, the bee's knees.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001216/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000538/

And this charming film was one of the principal pieces of evidence, along with Brassed Off.
Ironically, I was working at the time with someone who was from Cymru -Wales- who even had a flag decal on his car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2L6GH8Yy9s

Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/28/1846061/gloria-estefan-climbs-windows.html
Gloria Estefan climbs windows during Dolphins game
The Associated Press
September 28, 2010

Singer Gloria Estefan made a daring climb out a window after getting locked into a stadium suite during a Miami Dolphins game.

The musician was watching the game against the New York Jets on Sunday from her suite at Sun Life Stadium and was set to introduce Latin singer Enrique Iglesias during the halftime show.

But Estefan was locked inside. A locksmith, security officers and firefighters tried unsuccessfully to unlock her door. So Estefan took matters into her own hands.

WPLG-TV reports that Estefan kicked off her Dolphin green Yves Saint-Laurent pumps and climbed out the window into the suite next door. She ran out the door and across the field and made it onstage just in time.

Reader comments at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Ll1xaxGd4

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A clip from the beginning of the film immediately sets the mood...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwBB61laOw



In case you were wondering, the fabulous music in the film is by the ridiculously talented Stephen Endelman.
Listen to some of his past efforts at http://www.stephenendelman.org/
and you'll notice that you really have heard his music before, you just didn't know it.

Endelman's music in the film is everything a period film is supposed to sound like, instead of cheating by having the characters play music on a Victrola!

(1985's Sydney Pollack classic, Out of Africa, being the exception that proves the rule, in that it had Meryl Streep and Robert Redford playing coy by turns with a Victrola, plus some of the most genius music ever heard in a film, composed by John Barry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKlA15b0Unc



I have had the John Barry Soundtracks CD for quite a long time and it never ever disappoints, especially on long multi-day drives across the country by yourself when you are NOT in the greatest of moods. It's like your own traveling theme music as you drive thru one Midwestern town after another, unable to leave your troubles behind in the rear-view mirror.

See more of Barry's genius here:
http://www.amazon.com/John-Barry/e/B000AQ0AW2/works/ref=ntt_mus_teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXlTXUdX40



I'm a big Hugh Grant fan and have been ever since he started in the business, having seen nearly every film he's ever done, with one of my favorite being 1995's Love Actually, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424/ with him cast as the new British Prime Minister, who gets the measure of dastardly American president Billy Bob Thornton in one of the greatest comeback put-downs ever seen in a film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLKPyM_M2o

Second Broward County 2011 budget meetingTuesday afternoon at 5 p.m.; Broward budget watch: Brittany Wallman in Broward Politics blog: Find the fat!

Above, January 26, 2010 photo of Broward County Government Center, 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL by South Beach Hoosier

2011 Fiscal Year budget meeting

Tuesday September 28 at 5:01 p.m.

Public testimony in Room 422 in the Broward Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale.

The hearing will be Webcast live on www.broward.org/video but you have to use Internet Explorer. Budget documents, including the County Administrator’s recommended budget
reductions, are posted online at http://broward.org/budget.

Before you walk into the Broward Government Center, be sure to walk to the SW corner of Broward Blvd. & Andrews Avenue and look at the County's so-called Personnel Building.

Back on March 12th, I first wrote about this disgraceful example of local government apathy and incompetency squared, here at http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/errant-drivers-crash-highlights.html but I had first noticed it last year, dumb-founded that less than one block from the County HQ, literally, in the building next door, a govt. bldg. was allowed to become a public nuisance.

After years of being one of the most unsightly govt. eyesores in all of South Florida, have the folks running things finally figured out that having a county building caked in dirt is NOT the sort of thing give taxpayers any confidence in the management iof this county?

As I remarked at the time, "It's almost like Broward County is channeling the management geniuses at Hallandale Beach City Hall! And by geniuses, of course, I mean the motley crew of incompetents who make our city a laughing-stock."

January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier


Same building a month later. February 25, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier


January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier


February 25, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier

Our collective guiding principle for cutting government services and employees should be the same as the one that was mentioned by Victoria Derbyshire on her always excellent program on BBC Radio's 5 live this morning on the funding levels of British quangos, many of which are being killed outright: Is it nice to do or essential?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tw8ms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/#two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/connect/index.shtml#comments

What has a quango ever done for you?

This morning, we're going to take a look at quangos, or quasi autonomous non-government organisations, to give them their full title.

Last week, we learned that 180 taxpayer-funded groups will be scrapped, and a further 180 will either be reformed or have their budgets cut. It's all part of the Chancellor's, plan to cut six hundred million pounds in a "bonfire of quangoes".

It's estimated they cost somewhere between 34 and 60 billion pounds a year. They employ more than 100 thousand people, and 68 quango chiefs earn more than the Prime Minister, with some salaries as high as £624,000.

We want you to tell us what they've ever done for you.

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Be sure to take a look at the Florida Taxwatch website, even though they are incorrect in opposing Amendment 4: http://www.floridataxwatch.org/

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Broward Politics
Broward budget watch: Find the fat!
By Brittany Wallman
September 27, 2010 08:00 AM

This is another tough year for Broward County government. Commissioners are standing over the budget with carving knives. Do any of you know where there's fat to be found in the county's $4 billion budget?

Read the rest of the post at:
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2010/09/browards_budget_find_the_fat.html

Yoo Hoo! Nanny State Run Amok? Orlando Sentinel reports, "Red Eye" investigates: Florida may ban chocolate milk in schools

Nanny State Run Amok?
The Orlando Sentinel reports while "Red Eye" investigates in their usual way, you decide: Florida may ban chocolate milk in schools, not as punishment, but as policy.

Orlando Sentinel
State may ban sugary drinks from public schools The Board of Education seeks expert advice, will take up issue in December
September 21, 2010
By Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

Board member John Padget, a former schools superintendent from South Florida, has been pressing his colleagues for a year to cut out most beverages besides water, pure juice and white, low-fat milk to help fight childhood obesity.

Read the rest of the story at:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-09-21/news/os-soda-in-florida-schools-092210-20100921_1_board-member-public-schools-board-meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bYogXBmoQM



http://www.foxnews.com/redeye/

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyeRecap

RedEyeRecap: part of your daily recommended dose of low-fat culture and entertainment information.

Blogger.com's new Editor is dreadfully S-L-O-W -when it works, i.e why no posts here for 6 days; Google's Eric Schmidt on The Charlie Rose Show

I love Google but... Google's Blogger.com new Editor is dreadfully S-L-O-W -when it works. That's why there have been no posts in this space for the past six days.

I have gotten progressively more frustrated and in order to get information out, was forced to send some of the info out as emails with suggestions to forward it. I hate doing that, plus it's much more time-consuming.

Every time I got into it and was staring at a blank box, my computer, using Mozilla Firefox, immediately begins to "hang" for minutes at a time, and that's after it takes forever to load.
I was constantly having to re-start my computer!!!
Much longer than the old Editor, which was/is positively breezy by comparison.

Friday night I watched the fascinating 32-minute interview with Google Inc. (GOOG) CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt on The Charlie Rose Show.
http://www.charlierose.com/

Interview at http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11217
Past Schmidt interviews at http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/1007

While I usually enjoy seeing Schmidt and other high-tech types on Charlie's show, along with certain authors and columnists, given what I have been dealing with for the past week, I couldn't help but watch a little more incredulously than usual...
(Cue dream sequence music...)

Given the overwhelming unpopular opinion and problems that bloggers all over the world have had with this new "improvement," I'd have happily agree to buy Charlie a coffee and a sandwich at his favorite Starbuck's in NYC if he simply had interrupted some of the more self-congratulatory chit-chat and asked Schmidt the following:

"It's said by many that the Blogger.com platform more than anything else helped usher in the blogging revolution, but it's hard not to notice the crescendo of criticism surrounding the introduction of your new "Editor" that is supposed to allow the customer to proof the post more accurately than ever, but yet is beset with all manner of functional problems that remain unsolved as of this taping, and reportedly, you even neglected to incorporate something as basic as a spell-checking widget function in the new version.
Tell me, why would Google introduce a new version of something important to writing a blog but neglect to include a spell-checker?
Is this an example of Google NOT listening to your customers?"

Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose

Google's CEO on the power of Facebook, the rivalry with Apple (where until recently he sat on the board), and trying to do the right thing in China

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197039435964.htm

Can you PLEASE not get rid of the Old Editor?

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=734e63d2afe481b4&hl=en

New Editor gives "server error" when trying to upload images

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=452f0957bd0f7028&hl=en

See also the interviews on the topic of The Growth of Google with Michael Copeland , Chris Anderson and Jessica Vascellaro at
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11174