DON'T USE YOUR CELLPHONE & DRIVE IN TUJUNGA!

LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest

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Caught On Camera: 2 LAPD Officers Investigated For Use Of Force During ArrestCBS 2 / KCAL 9 Los Angeles Videos 2:17
Two LAPD officers are under investigation for allegedly
slamming a handcuffed woman to the ground

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department commanding officer has been removed amid an internal investigation into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground, police Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday.

 

Beck said previously that he had "serious concerns" about the use of force against Michelle Jordan, 34, who was arrested in the Tujunga area on Aug. 21 after being stopped for talking on a cellphone while driving, police said.

Jordan got out of the car and cursed the two officers who stopped her, witnesses and Jordan's husband told KNBC-TV.

 

Fast-food restaurant surveillance video obtained by the TV station (bit.ly/NVptHP ) showed officers taking her to the ground. After she is handcuffed and walked to a police car, the 5-foot-4 woman is tackled a second time by an officer who lands on top of her.

 

"She made some unwise moves," her attorney, Sy Nazif, told the station. "But certainly nothing that warranted a physical assault from the LAPD."

Photos show scrapes on Jordan's face, shoulders and chest.

 

The officers involved in the incident have been removed from patrol duty until an LAPD investigation is complete. One is a 22-year veteran and the other is a probationary officer with 10 months on the force.

 

Beck said at a news conference Wednesday that Capt. Joseph Hitner of the department's Foothill Division was "severely deficient in his response," Beck said.

 

"Proper steps were not taken, including appropriate notifications and the removal of the involved officers from the field," Beck said. "Because of these issues, I have removed him from his command and initiated downgrade procedures. Every Los Angeles police officer, regardless of rank, will be held accountable for their actions."

 

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Kid Rock's T-shirts Made OUTSIDE the USA

Susan Tompor: Kid Rock's clothing line says 'Made in Detroit' --
but isn't!!!!!

Sure, many clothes are no longer made in the U.S.A. But sadly, you'd have to wish that a Made in Detroit T-shirt wasn't one of them.

When it comes to doing Detroit proud, Kid Rock hits all cylinders with his song "Times Like These."
Some days, driving north or south on Woodward, I get a bit choked up when I hear him sing: "I heard them say they're shuttin' Detroit down. But I won't leave cuz' this is my hometown."
Those are fightin' words, the kind of don't-you-go-there spirit that keeps this town kicking. And yes, the kind of words that make Kid Rock a popular personality here.
Made in Detroit.
So why in the world are Kid Rock's high-end "Made in Detroit" T-shirts made in the Dominican Republic? Or some other country?
Oh, really? Sort of takes a knife right to the heart of the whole thing.
On top of that, many of the adult-sized Made in Detroit shirts no longer have any labels to tell you exactly where the T-shirts themselves are made.
The design originated in Detroit, but the blank T-shirts aren't from here. The Clarkston company buys the cotton canvases from suppliers and then adds the design.
But where are those unlabeled Made in Detroit shirts made? And where are some other notable shirts made, including others bearing prideful slogans such as "Say Yes to Michigan" or "Imported from Detroit"?

Susan Tompor finds Detroit-pride gear is made worldwide -- and even worse, in Ohio

The Made in Detroit brand has a heart-tugging story to make you want to believe that this brand now owned by Kid Rock is doing what it can. The brand, launched in 1991, hit the skids in 2005. The Motor City rock star later bought the brand out of bankruptcy.
"Today, Made in Detroit is more than a Kid Rock brand, it's the official mark of a movement that belongs to all of us," says the website at www.madeindetroit.com. "Born to represent, this is Made in Detroit."But many of the T-shirts are missing a mark -- a label telling exactly where garments are made.
I first heard this T-shirt manufacturing issue raised by a Free Press editor who read critical remarks online. I'll admit my first reaction was: Who has any clothes that aren't made somewhere else, outside the U.S.?

Shopping for clues

Are the "Made in Detroit" shirts made in China?
I did some shopping and later reached out to Made in Detroit, a trademark owned by an entity called Bobby Moscow.
Oddly, it's not tough to find plenty of Detroit shirts.
I examined my "Imported from Detroit" T-shirt at home. What's on that label?
"Made in USA, The Track Shirt American Apparel."
The original Imported from Detroit T-shirts, which rose out of the popular Eminem Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler last year, are indeed made in the USA.
"The Chrysler brand team felt that it was important that the products were produced here," said Dianna Gutierrez, a spokeswoman for Chrysler. What about other shirts?
I visited the Pure Detroit store in downtown Detroit, where Pure Detroit shirts had labels showing they were made in the Dominican Republic, Peru and the U.S.A.
I took a spin to trendy Caruso Caruso in Birmingham, one of many official retailers for the Made in Detroit brand listed at www.madeindetroit.com .
On the shelves, I found vintage-inspired t-shirts, including a Boblo Island T-shirt, $28, made in the U.S.A.
There was a "Say Yes to Michigan" shirt, $28, made in Ohio by Homage, a small- to medium-sized company based out of Columbus. That's kinda ironic.
And I found a Made in Detroit shirt, selling for $40, with a label that said it was made in the Dominican Republic.
When I took a ride to Incognito in downtown Royal Oak, I found a Made in Detroit baby onesie priced at $22 and made in India. And I saw a toddler Made in Detroit pink shirt priced at $18 made in Honduras.
But I did not find any label for where an adult-sized Made in Detroit shirt at Incognito was made. Sort of keeping that manufacturing process incognito, I guess?
I later took a drive and met with Tommy Dubak, who runs operations for the Made in Detroit brand out of a rural area of Clarkston. Kid Rock's brother, Billy Ritchie, who is a teacher, joined us.
"We're trying to do as much as we can to help Detroit," said Ritchie, who said he is not on the payroll for Made in Detroit.
In 2008, Kid Rock and Wayne State University established a partnership that involved a limited-edition Made in Detroit T-shirt. The proceeds funded a $25,000 student scholarship.
The Made in Detroit brand also is proud of building sales for smaller, mom-and-pop retailers in suburban towns, including Berkley, Plymouth, Royal Oak and Roseville.
What about that labeling?
Dubak knows some critics ask: "Why do you guys cut the 'Made in China' tags out?"
Dubak said the T-shirts aren't made in China, noting that higher-end clothing lines are made in China, not T-shirts for a smaller company.
Some shirts sold with the Made in Detroit designs are made in the U.S., he said, but others can be made elsewhere.
Dubak said it sometimes can be hard to know where a T-shirt will be made. One manufacturer can have the same shirts made in one or two different countries. He said right now the Made in Detroit operation, which has seven full-time employees, uses eight or 10 different manufacturers.
I asked Dubak about the lack of some labels in some shirts.
Dubak said he has cut out labels from some T-shirts that are bought from suppliers as part of the design choice.
He wanted to use an imprint near the neck that lies flat on the material and uses a screen-print process. Why cut out the tag?
"I hated tags in my shirts," he said.
Are companies, such as Made in Detroit, allowed to cut out labels and eliminate the country of origin? Dubak said he believes he can, and that the country of origin would be needed if he was shipping the items internationally.
Labeling rules are complicated. But T-shirts are not exempt from labeling, and failure to disclose where a T-shirt is manufactured can lead the Federal Trade Commission to take action, according to Matthew Wilshire, staff attorney at the FTC.
Goods covered by FTC textile regulations, including t-shirts offered for sale to the general public, must have a label disclosing country of origin. Companies can substitute new labels for old labels, but those labels still must disclose country of origin, Wilshire said.
Regulators did not address the specifics of the Made in Detroit shirts.
Like Kid Rock, the T-shirts are popular.
The Road Show in Roseville says it appreciates the traffic that the Made in Detroit website brings the store, which sells snakes, spiders, rock 'n' roll items and T-shirts.
"It's a pride thing. People are proud to be 'Made in Detroit,' " said Josh Hoffman, 29, manager for the Road Show. His father Bruce Hoffman, 61, the store's owner, said he thinks people who buy the Made in Detroit brand don't focus on where the T-shirt itself is made.
Not everyone is happy about the Made in Detroit style. Robert Stanzler, who worked to build the Made in Detroit brand in 1991 and later worked as a consultant when the brand was bought out of bankruptcy, now has a new brand, Detroit Manufacturing. He charges that the Kid Rock operation is "just an ATM to them."
Dubak said the Made in Detroit brand is proud of what it's done so far and wants to do more.
"We're a small company, and we're trying to do good for Michigan," Dubak said, noting that Kid Rock does not take a salary or expense anything.
"He's never charged a tank of gas to these companies," Dubak said.

Would it take a heroic effort to get a T-shirt made in the U.S.?

Dubak -- who used to run the parts and service department for the Lincoln Mercury dealership once owned by Kid Rock's father -- said it would cost more for Made in U.S.A. shirts but said the company is working toward using more U.S.A.-made shirts.

I hope that works out.

Sure, many clothes are no longer made in the U.S.A. But sadly, you'd have to wish that a Made in Detroit T-shirt wasn't one of them.
 
Contact Susan Tompor: 313-222-8876 or stompor@freepress.com

Malcolm W. Browne

Malcolm W. Browne, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter, Dies at 81

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Published: August 28, 2012

Malcolm W. Browne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter whose four-decade career included covering the Vietnam War — and taking one of the most memorable photos of the conflict — and a lively second act as a science writer who explained chemical weapons and described the rise of synthetic body parts, died on Monday in Hanover, N.H. He was 81.


The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife, Le Lieu Browne.

Mr. Browne, who lived in Thetford Center, Vt., and Manhattan, spent most of his career writing for The New York Times, which sent him to Argentina, Vietnam, Bosnia, Pakistan and wherever else his curiosity called him after he became a science writer in the late 1970s.

“My life is terrific,” Mr. Browne said in a 1993 interview. “It affords the greatest possible variety of experience. That, after all, is why I became a journalist.”

But his career path was something of an accident.

Mr. Browne had been working as a chemist in New York in the 1950s (among his tasks: finding a substitute for chicle, then the main ingredient in chewing gum) when he was drafted to go to Korea in 1956. He drove a tank for a time, but the Army later assigned him to write for Stars and Stripes, a decision he said was their idea, not his. After he was discharged, Mr. Browne found a job in Baltimore with The Associated Press. Less than a year later, in 1961, The A.P. made him their Saigon bureau chief.

Mr. Browne was among several reporters who became skeptical of the American effort to prop up the Saigon government.

Neil Sheehan, who joined The Times after serving as Saigon bureau chief for United Press International, said Tuesday that Mr. Browne was a “fierce competitor” but also a friend. Mr. Browne often wore a gold belt buckle and carried a money belt so he would have cash “to get out of a tight situation.”

“But,” Mr. Sheehan added, “I don’t think he ever had to use it.”

While reporters in Vietnam often clashed with American officials, Mr. Browne later singled out Henry Cabot Lodge, who arrived in 1963 as the United States ambassador to South Vietnam, as “more honest than most of the U.S. officials that I had known.”

It was Mr. Lodge who told Mr. Browne that he had played an important role in elevating awareness of the problems in Vietnam to the highest levels at the White House through a photograph he took in 1963.

When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in public that year in protest of the government of South Vietnam, Mr. Browne was the only reporter there, and he captured the stunning moment in a photograph. Several papers, including The Times, chose not to run the disturbing image, but Mr. Lodge told him he had seen a copy of it on President John F. Kennedy’s desk.

 

       

I SAW THIS ON TV WHEN I WAS A KID.
WE NEED TO SEE THESE PICTURES
SO YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY
GOES ON AROUND THE WORLD!

 

In 1964, while working for The A.P., Mr. Browne shared the Pulitzer for international reporting with David Halberstam, who was covering the war for The Times.

Mr. Browne returned to the United States and later joined The Times, which eventually sent him back to Vietnam. He continued to find that the sources he had developed on the front lines refuted the Saigon government’s optimistic accounts.

“A South Vietnamese military spokesman said at a briefing in Saigon yesterday afternoon that sizable elements of airborne soldiers, supported by tanks, had entered Quangtri city early yesterday morning,” he wrote in a 1972 report. “But authoritative sources at the front said that was not true.”

Mr. Browne also worked for The Times in South America, Europe, South Asia and elsewhere before he began writing about science. He had studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College.

His assignments ranged widely: the dangers posed by toxic debris from the crash of the space shuttle Challenger; an effort to build a robotic flying pterosaur; an effort to rid Antarctica of garbage accumulating there.

He left The Times in the 1980s to work at Discover magazine but returned a few years later and continued writing about science.

Malcolm Wilde Browne was born in Manhattan on April 17, 1931. His mother was a pacifist Quaker, and Mr. Browne attended Quaker schools through college. His grandfather’s first cousin was the writer Oscar Wilde and Mr. Browne, like Wilde, was something of a wit. His autobiography, “Muddy Boots and Red Socks,” takes its title from the socks he started wearing while serving in Korea as a break from the Army’s olive drab.

Besides his wife, whom he met in 1961 when she was working in the information ministry for the Saigon government and married in 1966, his survivors include a daughter, Wendy Sanderson; a son, Timothy; a brother, Timothy; a sister, Miriam Poole; and two grandchildren. Two previous marriages ended in divorce.

In 2000, after retiring to Vermont, Mr. Browne wrote an essay for The Times on the dual nature of his journalistic career.

“After a time, a news writer may begin to sense a kind of sameness in most of the events that pass as news,” he wrote. “When that happens a lucky few of us discover that in science, almost alone among human endeavors, there is always something new under the sun.”

Daniel E. Slotnik contributed reporting.

Happy Voting Date Ladies!

August 26, 1920

The Day the Suffrage Battle Was Won

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide

Finally, the long battle for the vote for women was won when a young legislator voted as his mother urged him to vote.

  Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.





One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to be able to vote, though she was apparently too ill to actually cast a ballot.
Some battles for woman suffrage were won state-by-state by the early 20th century. Alice Paul



 and the National Women's Party began using more radical tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution: picketing the White House, staging large suffrage marches and demonstrations, going to jail. Thousands of ordinary women took part in these -- a family legend is that my grandmother was one of a number of women who chained themselves to a courthouse door in Minneapolis during this period.
In 1913, Paul led a march of eight thousand participants on President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration day. (Half a million spectators watched; two hundred were injured in the violence that broke out.) During Wilson's second inaugural in 1917, Paul led a march around the White House. Opposed by a well-organized and well-funded anti-suffrage movement which argued that most women really didn't want the vote, and they were probably not qualified to exercise it anyway, women also used humor as a tactic. In 1915, writer Alice Duer Miller wrote,

Why We Don't Want Men to Vote

• Because man's place is in the army.
• Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
• Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.
• Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms, and drums.
• Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government.

During World War I, women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars. After the war, even the more restrained National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took many opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. In a speech on September 18, 1918, he said,

We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?

Less than a year later, the House of Representatives passed, in a 304 to 90 vote, a proposed Amendment to the Constitution:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on Account of sex.
The Congress shall have the power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.

On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate also endorsed the Amendment, voting 56 to 25, and sending the amendment to the states. Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan were the first states to pass the law; Georgia and Alabama rushed to pass rejections. The anti-suffrage forces, which included both men and women, were well-organized, and passage of the amendment was not easy. When thirty-five of the necessary thirty-six states had ratified the amendment, the battle came to Nashville, Tennessee. Anti-suffrage and pro-suffrage forces from around the nation descended on the town. And on August 18, 1920, the final vote was scheduled. One young legislator, 24 year old Harry Burn, had voted with the anti-suffrage forces to that time. But his mother had urged that he vote for the amendment and for suffrage. When he saw that the vote was very close, and with his anti-suffrage vote would be tied 48 to 48, he decided to vote as his mother had urged him: for the right of women to vote. And so on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify. Except that the anti-suffrage forces used parliamentary maneuvers to delay, trying to convert some of the pro-suffrage votes to their side. But eventually their tactics failed, and the governor sent the required notification of the ratification to Washington, D.C.
And so on August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election.

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Happy 100 B-day Julia Child!

Celebrate w/ Julia's decadent Blueberry Clafoutis

This simple French dessert recipe is from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. We like it because it really highlights the delicious fruits, which are cooked in a light batter that shows them off rather than taking the credit for itself.


3 cups fresh blueberries
1 ¼ cups milk
1/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
½ cup flour
Powdered sugar for top before serving

• Preheat the oven to 350F.
• Use a blender to combine everything except for the blueberries.
• Pour ¼ inch of the mixture into a 9-inch pie plate.
• Place in the oven for 5 or so minutes, or until the bottom has set slightly.
• Remove from the oven, spread the blueberries across the dish, and pour over the rest of the batter. Smooth over the top.
• Place in the middle of the preheated oven and bake for about 1 hour, or until set. It will puff and brown, and a knife inserted into the middle will come out clean.
• Sprinkle the top with powdered sugar before serving.

Serves 6.

 

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Take my Love Not my Life!

Hey, get off the Abortion Wagon & get on the RESPONSIBLE SEX Wagon & teach your children well!!!! New flash people, pregnancy is preventable!

Fetus Says " Take my Love

Not my Life"

YAHOO! Naked Photos of Prince Harry!

Prince Harry
Naked Photos
During Vegas Rager & i'm glad he did.....

8/21/2012 4:45 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

(Well, where else are you suppose to get naked?)







 

Prince Harry put the crown jewels on display in Vegas this weekend ... getting BARE ASS NAKED during a game of strip billiards with a room full of friends in his VIP suite.
It all went down Friday night during a raging party in a high rollers hotel suite.

We're told Harry, along with a large entourage, went down to the hotel bar and met a bunch of hot chicks ... and invited them up to his VIP suite.

Once in the room, things got WILD ... with the group playing a game of strip pool that quickly escalated into full-on royal nudity.

Some of the partiers snapped photos of the madness. In one photo, a fully nude Harry cups his genitals while a seemingly topless woman stands behind him.
In another photo, a naked Harry is bear-hugging a woman who appears to be completely naked as well.

No word on who the women are ... or if they got Harry's phone number.

A rep for the Royal Family tells us, "We have no comment to make on the photos at this time."



I love this story. This bloody bloke has some good looking legs.....
I ask you: Have you been to Las Vegas? Have you been naked in Vegas? Well of course you  have..... or you Should have been!

Early Christmas Cards, Joke of the Day!

Christmas Cards for the Psychiatrically Challenged:




SCHIZOPHRENIA: Do You Hear What I Hear?

MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER: We Three Kings Disoriented Are

DEMENTIA: I Think I'll Be Home For Christmas

NARCISSISTIC: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing About Me

MANIC: Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and . . .

PARANOID: Santa Claus Is Coming To Get Me

PERSONALITY DISORDER: You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll Tell You Why

DEPRESSION: Silent Anhedonia, Holy Anhedonia, All Is Flat, All Is Lonely

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, ........ (better start again)

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY: On The First Day of Christmas My True Love Gave To Me (and then took it all away)

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER: Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire.

Moment of Silence Please for Ms Diller.....

Pioneering comedian Phyllis Diller dies at age 95

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Phyllis Diller, the former housewife whose raucous cackle and jokes about her own looks made her one of America's first female stand-up comedy stars, died in her sleep on Monday at age 95, her longtime manager said.

Diller was found in her bed at her home in the affluent Brentwood section of Los Angeles by her son, Perry, who had come to visit her, manager Milt Suchin said.

"She had a smile on her face, as you'd expect," Suchin told Reuters.
Her publicist, Fred Wostbrock, called her "a true pioneer" and "the first lady of stand-up comedy."

A friend and fellow comic, Joan Rivers, said on Monday that Diller cleared a path for a younger generation of female stand-up artists to trade on their jokes alone.

"Phyllis Diller was the last from an era that insisted a woman had to look funny in order to be funny," Rivers said in a message posted through Twitter.

Diller created an indelible persona with her distinctive braying laugh, a cigarette holder, teased hair, outlandish costumes and a fictional lout of a husband she called Fang.
Her act consisted of rapid-fire jokes and one-liners that often spoofed social pretenses by poking fun at herself ("I went bathing nude on the beach the other day; it took me 20 minutes to get arrested") as well as a world of invented characters.
In addition to husband Fang - "What would you call a man with one tooth that was 2 inches long?" - there was her mother-in-law Moby Dick, her skinny sister-in-law Captain Bligh and her neighbor Mrs. Clean.
Diller prided herself on keeping her jokes tightly written and boasted that she held a world record for getting 12 laughs a minute.

A late-bloomer by show business standards, Diller got her start at age 37, making her debut at San Francisco's Purple Onion in 1955 as she broke into the male-dominated comedy circuit. Her first national exposure came as a contestant on Groucho Marx's TV quiz show "You Bet Your Life."

At that time Diller was a housewife who had raised five children, as well as a newspaper columnist, publicist and radio writer.

She discovered a flair for stand-up jokes at school parent-teacher meetings and similar gatherings and decided to make comedy a career at the urging of her then-husband, Sherwood Diller. The couple divorced in 1965 and a second marriage to singer Warde Donovan ended 10 years later.

Diller gradually adopted the props, zany wardrobe and stage persona that would become her trademark.
FROM HOUSEWIFE TO COMIC
"If I showed you my opening night photo, I looked like the woman next door," Diller once said. "And it took me a while to realize that people don't pay to see the woman next door. They can look at her for nothing."

A series of TV appearances followed and Diller soon became an instantly recognized star. She made her movie debut in 1961 with a small part in Elia Kazan's "Splendor in the Grass" and played the title role in a 1970 Broadway production of "Hello Dolly!"

Diller also developed a close friendship with the late comedy great Bob Hope and co-starred with him in three movies. She was a frequent guest on his television shows and accompanied him on a Christmas visit to U.S. troops in Vietnam.

Another contemporary of Diller, stand-up veteran Don Rickles, saluted her as a "great comedienne" whose "memorable teaming with Bob Hope brought female comics to the forefront."

Ellen DeGeneres tweeted that Diller was "the queen of the one-liners" and Whoopi Goldberg called her a "true original."

Diller, who was an accomplished pianist, built a career around lampooning her looks but she also spent a fortune perfecting them. By her count, she had more than 20 plastic surgeries.

Diller, who titled her 2005 autobiography "Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse," counted her ability to laugh at herself as one of her greatest comic assets. In a 2004 interview with Reuters she said she regarded her audiences as her greatest teacher.

"I let them laugh with me, at me, which makes the audience very comfortable," she said. "I've learned everything from them. ... You're a comic and you're not a success until you hear laughter."

In later years, she suffered from heart problems and fractured her pelvis in a fall but continued to work in clubs and on television well into her 80s. She provided the voice of an insect in the 1998 animated movie "A Bug's Life, appeared in the 2005 comedy documentary "The Aristocrats" and supplied the voice of Peter's mother in 2006-2007 episodes of the cartoon TV series "Family Guy."

Suchin said she made a guest appearance last year on the daytime drama "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Diller and her first husband had five children. (Additional reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Will Dunham and Bill Trott)

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Roseanne & Phylis Diller

Roseanne & Phylis Diller,
Interesting.....

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7 AMERICANS KILLED, PLEASE READ THIS!

11 killed as Black Hawk downed in Afghanistan: NATO

By Mamoon Durrani | AFP – 21 hrs ago

A US Army Sikorsky UH 60 Black …

A NATO Black Hawk helicopter came down in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing seven American soldiers and four Afghans, the military said, as Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility.

The four Afghans included three members of the security forces and a civilian interpreter, NATO's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

"The cause of the crash is under investigation," it said, adding that the helicopter was a UH-60 Black Hawk. The statement gave no further details.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi told AFP: "Our mujahideen (holy warriors) shot down an ISAF helicopter in Chenarto area of Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province at around 11:00 am (0630 GMT)."

He said a rocket-propelled grenade had been used against the helicopter.
"The helicopter was destroyed and all the crew and soldiers inside were killed," Ahmadi said.

"The NATO helicopter was hit by a Taliban rocket in Khashir area of Chenarto village in Shah Wali Kot district this morning," a local official who requested anonymity told AFP.

The area had been cleared of Taliban in a push by NATO and Afghan forces in 2010, but the insurgents had become active in the district again, district governor Obaidullah said.

"Taliban have been active in Chenarto village since the beginning of this year. Afghan and foreign forces have had frequent clashes with the Taliban in this district since the beginning of this year," said Obaidullah, who uses just one name.

The ISAF statement did not use its normal phrasing for a simple helicopter crash, which includes the line that no enemy activity was reported in the area.
Helicopter crashes are fairly frequent in Afghanistan, where the 130,000-strong NATO mission relies heavily on air transport.
Last August, an American Chinook was shot down by the Taliban near Kabul, killing eight Afghans and 30 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs from the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in neighbouring Pakistan earlier that year.
It was the deadliest single incident for American troops in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
On March 16, a Turkish helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of Kabul, killing 12 Turkish soldiers and two Afghan civilians.
The deaths of the seven Americans come just a week after six others were killed by their local Afghan colleagues in so-called green-on-blue attacks, eroding trust between foreign troops and the Afghans they work with.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force said last month that attacks in the second quarter of this year were 11 percent higher than in the same period last year.
The month of June alone saw the highest number of attacks in nearly two years, with more than 100 assaults a day across the country, including firefights and roadside bombings, the US-led coalition said.

Civilians continue to bear the brunt of the war, with more than 40 killed on Tuesday in a series of suicide attacks and homemade bomb blasts across the country in the bloodiest day for ordinary Afghans this year.

NATO troops fighting the insurgency by Taliban Islamists are scheduled to leave Afghanistan gradually and hand over responsibility for national security to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.

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STORY BY: By KAY JOHNSON | Associated Press – 57 mins ago AUGUST 9, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man in an Afghan uniform shot and killed three American troops Friday morning in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military command said, in the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week. The Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack.

So far this year, at least 21 similar attacks — in which Afghan forces or insurgents disguised in Afghan uniforms have turned their guns on international troops — have killed 30 coalition service members, according to an Associated Press tally.

The assaults on coalition forces by the soldiers and police they are training raise doubts about relations with Afghans more than 10 years after the U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban's hardline Islamist regime for sheltering the al-Qaida leadership. The attacks also call into question the quality of the Afghan forces taking over in many areas across the country, in preparation for the departure of most international troops in 2014.
Friday's shooting took place in Sangin district of Helmand province, said U.S. military spokeswoman Maj. Lori Hodge. She gave no further details and said the military were investigating.
Exactly what happened in the attack was unclear, and there were conflicting accounts. Sangin Gov. Mohammad Sharif said the shooting happened at a police checkpoint after a joint meal and a security meeting, but an Afghan army commander, Farooq Parwani, said that the attack happened on a U.S. base.

The U.S. military said it was also not clear whether the attacker wore an Afghan army or police uniform.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said by telephone that the attacker, whom he identified as a member of Helmand police named Asadullah, had joined the insurgency after his attack. Ahmadi said the man had been helping U.S. forces train the Afghan Local Police troops.

"Now, he is with us," Ahmadi said.
The U.S. is hoping the Afghan Local Police will be a key force to fight the insurgency after most international troops withdraw.

The attack is the latest in a rising number of so-called "green-on-blue" attacks in which Afghan security forces, or insurgents disguised in their uniforms, kill the U.S. or NATO partners who are training Afghans to take over once most international forces leave in 2014. Compared to the 21 attacks this year that killed 30 foreign troops, there were 11 such attacks and 20 deaths in 2011. And in 2007 and 2008, there was a combined total of four attacks and four deaths

The NATO coalition says it takes such attacks seriously, but it insist they are not a sign of trouble for the plan to hand over security to Afghan forces.
"We are confident that those isolated incidents will have no effect on transition or on the quality of our forces," said Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz, a spokesman for NATO troops.
On Tuesday, two gunmen wearing Afghan army uniforms killed a U.S. soldier and wounded two others in Paktia province in the east. And on Thursday, two Afghan soldiers tried to gun down a group of NATO troops outside a military base in eastern Afghanistan. No international forces were killed, but one of the attackers was killed as NATO forces shot back.
Also Friday, NATO said another coalition service member died after an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan. It gave no further details. The death brings to 19 the number of coalition troops killed in Afghanistan this month.
And elsewhere in Helmand province Friday, six Afghan civilians were killed when their car hit a roadside bomb, one of thousands planted by insurgents across the volatile region. Helmand police official Mohammad Ismail Khan said the bomb killed three children, two women and a man.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government identified four Americans killed Wednesday in a twin suicide attack in Afghanistan's east. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton condemned the bombing by two men wearing suicide vests in the eastern Kunar province. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that attack.

Clinton's statement said USAID foreign service officer Ragaei Abdelfattah, three coalition service members and an Afghan civilian were killed. A State Department diplomat was injured.

The Defense Department identified the three troops killed in Kunar as Air Force Maj. Walter D. Gray, of Conyers, Ga.; Army Maj. Thomas E. Kennedy, of West Point, N.Y.; and Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Griffin, of Laramie, Wyo.

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