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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 1/15/23 — 1/21/23
Again, this was another week that was, for the most part, dedicated to watching movies. Here's a few thoughts on the television that I did watch.
Abbott Elementary (Wednesday Night, ABC)
This week was not only an Ava episode but it also featured a cat so you know I enjoyed it!
The Brady Bunch Hour (YouTube)
I watched and reviewed the first episode of The Brady Bunch Hour! I've got 8 more episodes to review and, to be honest, I'm kind of feeling like I'm going to regret this decision. The pilot was amusing because it was so corny and …. well, bad. Unfortunately, corny and bad can only be entertaining for so long. I know I'm probably going to get bored with this show after the 4th episode but, at the same time, I also know that it's something that I need to watch and get out of my system. I guess it's better to suffer than to always wonder.
Football Game: Bengals vs Ravens (Sunday Night, NBC)
Jeff and I watched a football game on Sunday night. Jeff's from Baltimore so we were rooting for the Ravens but they lost to the other team and they also lost their chance to go to the Super Bowl. That seems kind of unfair, to be honest, but I guess you only get one chance to win a game in football. What I find strange about football is that each quarter is only 15 minutes long but each game seems to last a little over four hours. If I was in charge of the NFL, I would get the clocks in the stadiums checked out because I think they're running slow.
One thing I really hate about football is when the losing players start crying at the end of the game. That always breaks my heart. It's just a game, I want to tell them. You all still have so much living to look forward to!
The Cowboys are playing tomorrow and I hope they win because, if they don't, everyone down here is going to be whining about it for the next nine months.
Hell's Kitchen (Thursday Night, FOX)
The black jackets have been handed out. It seems kind of obvious that Alex is going to win this season so there's really not much suspense. That said, it's always nice to see Chef Ramsay actually being nice and encouraging for once.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Hulu)
I watched a few episodes on Tuesday. I actually lost track of how many I watched but the one that I remember was about a clown getting stepped on by an elephant. It made me laugh! I might have to binge this show later. I wonder why I didn't review this show instead of the Brady Bunch Hour. Oh well! Hindsight is 20/20.
Night Court (Tuesday Night, NBC)
I watched the first two episodes of this new reboot series on Tuesday. They didn't really do much for me, though I do like Melissa Rauch so I hope the show can settle on a consistent tone over the next few episodes. I was glad that Dan at least trimmed his beard but he really needs to just shave the whole thing off. I don't know what it is with older actors and their need to grow big, Santa Claus-style beards.
Project Greenlight (YouTube)
I watched the last two episodes of season three on Thursday. John Gulager finished filming Feast and, unlike other Greenlight winners, his film actually looked like a real movie. It's a bit weird to watch a show like Project Greenlight now and listen to everyone talk about how much they respect the opinions of Harvey and Bob Weinstein. I can also see why Chris Moore declined to return for the fourth season reboot because I doubt it was fun to be continually portrayed as being the angriest boss in Hollywood.
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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 1/8/23 — 1/14/23
This week did not leave much time for television watching. I had a doctor's appointment on Wednesday. I drove my father to and from a doctor's appointment on Friday. And I had a lot of movies to watch!
Here's some notes on the five (yes, only five) television programs that I watched this week!
What a wonderful episode, this was. Sometimes, kid just don't get along and there's nothing you can do about it.
It's time for the blind taste test! The blind taste test is an annual Hell's Kitchen tradition but it's hard for me to think of another season where the chefs failed quite as dramatically as they did during this season. It was a bit odd because, for the most part, the chefs have been pretty strong this season. Last night proved that anyone can have an off-day.
Brett was sent out of Hell's Kitchen as the end of this week. To be honest, I don't think anyone was surprised, as it was obvious that Brett will be a great head chef once he gets more experience but he wasn't quite ready just yet. Still, it was kind of sad to see Brett go. He was always entertaining and he definitely always seemed like he was doing his best to improve with each dinner service. Brett also seems like the type who will be back whenever the show does another all-star season.
Law & Order (Thursday Night, NBC)
For the second week in a row, Samantha Maroun actually got to do something more than just gaze lovingly Price. This week, she led the prosecution of a rich teenager who was arrested for beating an ex-con to death. The teenager's defense was that he had been driven temporarily mad by super-strong marijuana. (Yes, I can hear everyone rolling their eyes. Look, I'm just reviewing. I didn't write the episode.) Maroun was determined to get a murder conviction until Price told her that she was taking the case personally and that she needed to set aside her personal feelings and her own guilt about the death of her sister.
To which I have to say, really? Like, who is Price to tell anyone not to take a case personally? Price takes every case personally. Price put a pharmaceutical CEO in prison because Price has never gotten over the death of his junkie brother. Price may have been correct about Maroun but it still feels a bit hypocritical on his part. That said, I think the writers may have figured out that having two prosecutors who take everything personally doesn't always work dramatically. Ever since the show returned from its holiday break, Price has suddenly been a lot more pragmatic.
There's a lot of people online who, after last night's episode, are convinced that Price and Maroun are in love with each other. They're probably right. McCoy's not in any position to forbid it, either. (It's kind of funny how McCoy has gone from being a self-destructive, alcoholic womanizer to being the voice of wisdom.)
Night Flight (Night Flight Plus)
This week, we finished up watching Night Flight's 1982 New Year's Eve special. Most of it was made up of footage of Grace Jones performing and being interviewed. It was weird but entertaining. Apparently, 1983 got off to a very trippy start.
On Wednesday night, I watched three episodes of the third season of Project Greenlight. This is the season that aired on Bravo and which detailed John Gulager's efforts to direct Feast. No one had any faith in Gulager but he did a pretty good job with Feast and he's the only one of the Project Greenlight winners to go on to have a notable career. The episodes that I watched deal with the casting of the film and it was once again infuriating to watch as the film's casting director went out of her way to undercut Gulager and cast her best friend in the film. The third season of Project Greenlight is the one that really makes the viewer hate Hollywood.
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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 1/1/23 — 1/7/23
As the first week of January comes to a close, here's some thoughts on what I watched!
Abbott Elementary returned this week with a sweet episode in which we got to see that Melissa actually is a really good teacher and that Jacob has no idea how to do a podcast. I have to admit that I cheered a little when, at the end of the episode, Melissa revealed that, due to the contest rules being poorly written, her "classroom" had indeed won the reading competition.
The Circle (Netflix)
The Circle was back with four more episodes on Wednesday. Marvin destroyed his game by trying to be a player while Billie-Jean and Shubham ended up getting eliminated. (Shubham did not help himself by losing his temper while answering a "savage question.") I want to like Raven but the whole "everything about Raven is perfect" narrative makes it difficult. At this point, my favorites are Tom and Xanthi & Brett. I also have to say that I found Sam to be a lot more likable this week than I did last week.
Hell's Kitchen returned and we have finally reached my favorite part of the season, when Chef Ramsay starts to show his softer and more encouraging side and the remaining chefs finally get a chance to show how good (or bad) they can be. Abe got sent home but he also get some words of encouragement. That was nice. I actually like all of the remaining chefs but it's hard not to feel like its pretty obvious that Alex is going to win.
Law & Order returned with a new episode and this week and — yeesh! After several episodes that were generally intelligent, well-done, and not too heavy-handed, this week's episode felt like a parody of Law & Order. This week's murder victim was a undocumented immigrant who had been sent to New York City from Texas so, of course, we had to spend a lot of time listening to the cops talk about how heartless the governor of Texas was. It always amuses me how this show always features a bunch of blue collar cops suddenly talking like MSNBC analysts. I wonder if the show will do a future episode about the Democratic governor of Colorado sending people to New York? I kind of doubt it.
Anyway, it turned out the murderer was a real estate mogul who was obviously meant to be a stand-in for one of the Trump kids. In order to convict him, the prosecutors had to get testimony from a woman who worked in his office but — are you ready for this? — the woman was also an undocumented immigrant! As soon as she testified, she was deported back to Lebanon. After 20+ episodes, Sam was finally allowed to get upset about something and show a hint of personality. Whatever else you might say about this episode, it's nice that Sam finally got some hint of a backstory. Up until last night, she was one of the most underwritten characters in the history of this show.
The show certainly tried to tug at the heart strings with this episode but it was so just so heavy-handed and clumsily written that it had the opposite effect.
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (Netflix)
This is Joe Berlinger's latest Netflix true crime docuseries. Over the course of four episodes, Berlinger explores the story of Bernie Madoff. When I started watching, I was skeptical because I really didn't feel that there was much left to be said about Bernie Madoff but both Berlinger and the show did a good job of explaining not only what Madoff did but also how he was able to get away with it for so long. Along with taking a look at Madoff's life, the film also examined the people that he hurt (including his two sons, both of whom emerge as tragic figures).
One thing that I did learn is that, while Madoff did handle accounts for a lot of famous and rich people, the majority of his clients were just normal people who were looking for someone to handle their retirement funds. These people were victimized twice, both by Madoff and then by the government regulators. Despite the fact that none of these people knew about Madoff's crimes, many of them lost their homes and were driven into bankruptcy when they were ordered to help pay back the money that Madoff had stolen.
The film features a lot of footage of the now-deceased Madoff being interviewed in prison. Even imprisoned and shunned by his family, Madoff still didn't seem to feel that he had done anything wrong. This is probably the first Madoff documentary that has really convinced me that Bernie Madoff really was as evil as everyone says.
Night Flight (Night Flight+)
On Friday night and Saturday morning, I watched the Parts 3 and 4 of Night Flight's 1983 New Year celebration. The music was good. The stand-up comedians were bad. A surprisingly coherent Ozzy Osbourne was interviewed about whether or not he had actually bitten the head off of a bat. He said it was an accident and assured the interviewer that the rabies shots were not fun.
Tough as Nails (Wednesday Night, CBS)
The blue collar reality show is back. To be honest, this show would be more interesting if it was office workers and executives being forced to do things like build buildings and unclog drains. But whatever. I like Phil Keoghan as the host. Just as with The Amazing Race, he seems to genuinely care about the people competing.
The Twilight Zone (Sunday and Monday, SyFy)
On New Year's Day, SyFy had their annual Twilight Zone marathon! I watched a few episodes, in between watching movies and doing other things. I caught the Monsters Are Due On Maple Street and the one where Burgess Meredith breaks his reading glasses and realizes that he'll never be able to read another book. Unfortunately, I did not catch the one with William Shatner and the Gremlin on the wing.
I watched a few more episodes on Monday. Again, I missed the Gremlin on the wing but I did see the one with the guy who was dreaming about being on death row. That's personal favorite of mine.
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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 12/25/22 — 12/31/22
Welcome to my final week in television for 2022! I spent most of the past week with my sister Megan and her family. We probably watched the news more than anything else, what with that guys getting arrested for committing those murders in Idaho. Here's some thoughts on the non-news programming that we watched.
1923 (Paramount+)
On Tuesday, my sister Megan and I watched the first two episodes of the latest Yellowstone prequel. It wasn't bad, though I do have to admit that I was only half-paying attention to it. Harrison Ford is ideally cast as an aging western icon.
California Dreams (YouTube)
Megan and I love this show and we watched several episodes this week. The reviews will be available every Saturday!
I swore to myself that I was not going to allow myself to get sucked into another stupid reality show but then, on Wednesday, I decided to just take a quick peek to discover what The Circle was like. I wasn't planning on watching much of the latest season. I just wanted to get maybe a 5-minute sample.
Of course, as soon as the show started, I discovered the Brett was on the show. Brett was a part of Big Brother 20. He was a total jerk but he was honest about it and he was frequently one of the funniest people in the house. He was the type of bad boy that I've always had a weakness for. As well, his betrayal of Rockstar (yes, that was the name she used in the House) led to the classic moment of Rockstar yelling about how she had been betrayed on "my daughter's birthday!"
Anyway, Brett was one of the first people voted out of the Circle but, fortunately, he and Xanthi are still secretly playing the game. Brett and Xanthi are a cute couple and if we don't see some sort of evidence of them hooking up by the end of next week, I can only assume that the show is hiding it from us.
Also, one of the contestants is a British comedian named Tom. He mentioned that he lived in the Tower of the London. "I've never heard of the Tower of London," the other contestants said while I screamed internally. Anyway, Tom's adorable.
Despite my best efforts, I've been sucked into The Circle.
Dragnet (YouTube)
I watched two episodes of this 1960s cop show on Thursday. One featured Joe Friday on a talk show, where he debated a snide hippy and a pompous professor. The other featured Friday taking a class at night school and justifying his decision to arrest one of his classmates for possessing marijuana. Welcome to the 60s!
The Love Boat (Paramount+)
I wrote about the Love Boat here! Megan and I watched several episodes this week. We both agreed that the ship looked nice.
Late Saturday night, I experienced New Year's 1983! It was a bit trippy.
Upstart Crow (Sunday Night, PBS)
On Sunday night, my sister Megan and I watched all of the Upstart Crow Christmas specials. I had already seen them but I enjoyed introducing them to my sister.
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I did a lot of binge watching this week so the list below probably less impressive than it actually is. Anyway, here's some thoughts on what I watched this week:
Yay! I've finally reaches season 3, which is what most people consider to be the start of "classic" California Dreams. I like season 3 because it's the season that introduces the character to whom I most relate, Lorena.
Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies (Peacock)
I finally watched the Casey Anthony documentary on Peacock. This was basically a three-episode interview with Casey and the creepy weirdos who have been supporting her since she got away with murdering her daughter. Whoops, did I just show my bias? Oh well. Casey claims that she has spent the last ten years in hiding but now, she's finally ready to tell her story and try to get people to blame her father for Caylee's death. Of course, as many people have pointed out, Casey has frequently been seen at bars, concerts, and protest marches over the past ten years so I'm not really sure I'm buying into her social anxiety argument. Nor am I buying that Casey suddenly decided that it was time to present her side of the story. We all know that she got paid to appear in this documentary. Time are tough, especially when your claim to fame is that you probably got away with murdering your daughter.
Here's a few thoughts I jotted down:
Casey cries a lot but she never actually gets any tears in her eyes.
Casey does a lot of performative cursing whenever she's trying to convince the viewer that she was treated unfairly but it all sounds forced.
If nothing else, Casey obviously understands the power of presenting yourself as being a victim in today's society.
After her acquittal, Casey was more or less adopted by two older men and two older women who worked on her defense team. The scenes in which they all meet and tell Casey how proud they are of her are creepy. One gets the feeling that Casey played on their paternal and maternal instincts in much the same way that she tries to manipulate the people watching the show.
The documentary makes one valid point, which is that the case against Casey was made up largely of innuendo and appeals to emotion. But then, the entire third episode uses the exact same technique to smear George Anthony as being a pedophile and a murderer. The documentary mentions that neither George nor Casey's brother chose to respond to Casey's accusations against them but, to be honest, why should they?
A few cops are allowed to explain why they think Casey is guilty. As opposed to when Casey speaks, they don't get the benefit of heroic music playing in the background during their interviews. As well, there are no animated recreations of the police's theory of what happened. Casey, however, not only tells her side but is helped by animated recreations of her story.
Not mentioned during the program was the claim that lead defense attorney Jose Baez told one of his investigators that 1) he was sleeping with Casey and 2) Casey had confessed to murdering Caylee. Indeed, for all the time that the program spent detailing how the members of Casey's defense team have "adopted" Casey, it appears that she's no longer in contact with Jose Baez.
Also not mentioned was that a real-life woman named Zenaida Gonzalez received death threats due to Casey lying about where she had left Caylee.
I never thought I'd see a true crime documentary as one-sided and smarmy as A&E's The Murder of Laci Peterson but Casey Anthony: Where The Truth Lies proved me wrong. Shame on everyone involved and shame on me for watching it.
Don't Pick Up The Phone (Netflix)
This disturbing, 3-part documentary from Netflix took a look at the so-called Strip Search Phone Call Hoaxes of the 90s and the early aughts. For several years, someone repeatedly called fast food restaurants and, after claiming to be a cop, said that one of the female employees had been accused of theft and that it would be necessary for the managed to strip search them. A lot of managers saw through the hoax and hung up but, disturbingly, a large number of them followed the orders of the caller. (The film Compliance was based on one such call.) This was a disturbing and sad documentary but an important one. It took a look at what happens when authority is blindly trusted. There's very little people won't do under the pretense of "just following orders."
Fantasy Island (Tubi)
I wrote about Fantasy Island here! And then I watched several more episodes, reviews of which will appear over the next few weeks.
Law & Order: SVU (Hulu)
After watching Don't Pick Up The Phone, I watched a 2009 episode of Law & Order: SVU that was inspired by the Strip Search Caller. Robin Williams played the caller. It was a pretty uneven episode, as SVU tends to be sometimes. Williams had some good moments but overall, it was a bit too heavy-handed. At one point, Williams's caller became a political activist and appeared on Morning Joe. "Did you guys catch Morning Joe?" Captain Cragen asked his detectives and I had to laugh. I'm sure blue collar New York cops schedule their entire day around catching the MSNBC lineup.
The Love Boat (Paramount)
I watched a few episodes this week. Check out my latest review here!
Survivor (Wednesday Night, CBS)
I was surprised when Gabler won but the more I think about it, the happier I am with the result. I wrote about the finale of Survivor at Reality TV Chat Blog!
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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 12/4/22 — 12/10/22
I watched a little television this week but not a lot of it. It's the holidays and I've been busy decorating and gift buying. Plus, I had to go the freaking DMV on Thursday to get my license renewed and that took almost all day. Anyway, here's a few thoughts on what I did watch:
Abbott Elementary was cute this week. It was kind of nice to see everyone's life outside of the school. I guess Ava's boyfriend was a famous basketball player or somebody? I will admit that I did laugh when he got out of that limo, looked down at Janine, and said, "She's even shorter than you said." That said, I'm a little worried that Janine is going to settle for Maurice and fall into the same trap that she found herself in with Tariq.
The Amazing Race (Wednesday Night, CBS)
Yay! I was so excited when Derek and Claire crossed that finish line. I always felt that neither one of them was really treated fairly on Big Brother so it was nice to see them get rewarded. Plus, they're just an adorable couple. I wrote about the finale of The Amazing Race over at Reality TV Chat Blog.
Surf dudes with attitude …. next week, I'm starting Season 3 and I'm looking forward to it. Season 3 through 5 are the classic California Dreams era. Basically, California Dreams can be split into two separate parts: the pre-Lorena era and the Lorena era. Lorena is the character to whom I've always related.
City Guys (Tubi)
The neat guys …. smart and streetwise …. I watched so many episodes of City Guys this week that it made my head hurt. Read my thoughts on two of those episodes here!
I wrote about this week's episode here!
Usually, Chef Ramsey seems to secretly like all of the chefs, even the ones that he sends home. But last night, I got the feeling that his dislike for Vlad was very, very real. I feel a bit bad for Vlad but, at the same time, using a cake thermometer to cook meat is not something that a head chef should ever do. That's like something I would do and there's no way I'd last more than one dinner service on Hell's Kitchen.
Once again, Nolan complained that he wasn't sure if he could "morally" prosecute a case. Fortunately, this week, McCoy kind of told him to stop bitching and just do his job. Good for McCoy! I mean, I have yet to see any evidence of Price's high morals causing him to refuse his paycheck.
This week's episode featured a chimpanzee and a nose job! I wrote about it here.
Survivor (Thursday Night, CBS)
Wow! I was stunned when Cody was voted out. Jesse will betray anyone but I also think he's probably now in a very strong position to win the game next week. I wrote about Survivor at Reality TV Chat Blog.
Like I said, I didn't watch much this week. I've been busy getting ready for the holidays and for a special person's birthday. I hope everyone's having a wonderful month! Can you believe 2022 is almost over?
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Lisa Marie's Week In Television: 11/27/22 — 12/3/22
Here's a thought or two on what I watched this week:
With Janine struggling with food poisoning, Ava was forced to leave her office and teach Janine's class. I loved this episode. Ava is a wonderful comedic character but Janelle James never allows her to turn into a caricature.
We have our final three and I couldn't be happier with the three teams that made it! I'll be rooting for Derek and Claire but, honestly, I could be happy with any of the teams winning. I wrote about this week's episode at Reality TV Chat Blog!
Bachelor In Paradise (Hulu)
I got caught up with the latest season's finale on Sunday. This season didn't do much for me.
I watched two episodes of California Dreams and then I reviewed them! They're here on the site, somewhere….
I watched and reviewed two episodes of City Guys. I did it all for you!
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (Netflix)
I watched this 3-part Netflix docuseries on Monday. It deals with a stretch of land near Houston where it appears several different serial killers have been dumping the bodies of their victims. As a Texan, this was a story that I've read quite a bit about and it always disturbs me, both because of the unbelievable tragedy involved and also the suggestion that there are multiple serial killers out there, all using the same stretch of highway. The docuseries took a look at some of the victims but there's been so many of them that it would probably take several seasons of Texas Killing Fields to tell all of their stories. I was particularly touched by the story of Kelli Cox, who — as I would later be — was a student at UNT when she initially disappeared.
The docuseries also featured the efforts of Tim Miller, the father of one of the victims, to get justice for his daughter. Miller is convinced that she was murdered by his former next-door neighbor and while you always do want to exercise caution when it comes to making accusations, he does make a pretty good case.
Eh. There wasn't a dinner service during this week's episode. That disappointed me. The chance to witness people trying to send out raw food at the dinner services is pretty much the main reason why I watch this show.
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Hulu)
On Tuesday, I watched the episode with the Paddy Bucks. It occurred to me, as I watched it, that It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia managed to predict crypto fraud.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Tuesday Night, CBS)
Yay! Rudolph put those snotty reindeer in their place. This is such an old special but it's a classic and I love it. Some television exec is probably going to try to do a new, updated version at some point in the future. That's just the way of the world now. But the original is the one that has all the heart.
Sami played a pretty good game but it came to an end this week. It still freaks me out that his job is cremating dead pets. I wrote about this week's episode at the Reality TV Chat Blog.
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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Here's some thoughts on what I watched this week!
I wrote about the latest episode of The Amazing Race here!
The Brady Bunch (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
One of the Brady kids needed to make a movie for his Thanksgiving project. The entire family helped! Needless to say, Mike took it all way too seriously. The movie itself looked awful but I'm sure the Brady kid — I think it was Peter — got an A. No one ever had the courage to stand up to those Bradys.
Surf dudes with attitude….
Catholic Mass (Sunday Morning, The CW)
I always feel a bit weird watching Mass on television. This Sunday, I felt even stranger about watching it while wearing a bikini and getting ready to lay out on the deck of my cousin's place at Lake Texoma. But, I did promise my sisters that I would try to go to Mass on Sunday so I did what I had to do!
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Apple TV+)
Erin and I watched this classic on Wednesday. She wrote about why she loves this special a few years ago.
Cheers (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
I haven't seen many episodes of this show but I've read all the online praise and I am an unabashed fan of Frasier Crane. The episode that I watched on Sunday was a Thanksgiving episode. A bunch of barflies decided to spend Thanksgiving together. Needless to say, it turned out to be a bit messy but also funny and even kind of heart-warming.
They're the neat guys. I wrote about them here.
Football (FOX, NBC, CBS, Thursday)
The family was watching football so I joined them, kind of. I cringed with every tackle and I felt terrible for the teams who lost. I mean, what a sucky way to spend Thanksgiving. Personally, I think they should allow for tie games so that everyone can be a winner! But apparently, that's not the way that football works.
Frosty Returns (Friday Night, CBS)
Frosty's back! But an evil businessman is going to destroy him with something called Summer Wheeze! The 90s version of Frosty The Snowman tries a bit too hard. I prefer the original.
Frosty the Snowman (Friday Night, CBS)
Yay! Santa was able to bring Frosty back to life! Seriously, I first saw this special when I was little and I was traumatized by melting Frosty! Trauma aside, I love these old Christmas specials.
Full House (Sunday Evening, MeTV)
I watched two episodes on Sunday. The first episode was from season one and it featured the Tanners having their first Thanksgiving since the death of Danny's wife. This was actually one of the better episodes of Full House. This was followed by a much later episode of Full House, in which DJ finally got a boyfriend and started to show some independence from her overbearing family. Good for her!
Gilligan's Island (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
A bank robber (played by Larry Storch) somehow ended up on the island. He menaced everyone with a gun, tried to hide his money, and then left without offering to help anyone else return to civilization. I haven't seen many episodes of Gilligan's Island but apparently, this was a fairly common occurrence on the show. For the record, I only watched this episode because I thought it was going to be Thanksgiving-themed but it wasn't.
Happy Days (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
Upset that her family was more interested in football than fellowship, Marion Cunningham told the story of the First Thanksgiving. To be honest, Happy Days is one of those popular old shows that I just don't get. The extremely enthusiastic "live audience" drives me crazy. That said, this was an okay episode. The cast got to dress up like pilgrims.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (NBC, Friday Night)
I love Boris Karloff!
The Love Boat (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
MeTV aired a Thanksgiving episode of The Love Boat on Sunday. It was from season 6 so it'll be a while before I get to review it as a part of my retro television reviews.
Saved By The Bell (Sunday Morning, MeTV)
I woke up early on Sunday morning and I watched six episodes of this show — that's three hours! — as I had breakfast, cleaned up around the lakehouse, and packed for the trip home. The episodes were a bit random. It started with the Senior Prom episode, in which Zach realized that he still had feelings for Kelly. This was followed by the infamous Graduation episode, in which the entire school rallied to help Zach avoid summer school despite the fact that they didn't owe Zach a damn thing. Then it was time for the "Time Capsule" clip show, in which a bunch of loser students gathered in Belding's office to watch a VHS tape that had been left behind by Zach and the gang.
Time then moved backwards. Suddenly, Zach was meeting Slater for the first time, Zach and Slater were competing to take Kelly to the school dance, and Zach was pretending to be Candy in order to get Screech to do his homework.
All of these episodes were, of course, pretty dumb and cringey. But they made for nice background noise. At this point, I think I have ever episode of this silly show memorized.
I wrote about the latest episode of Survivor here!
WKRP IN Cincinnati (Sunday Afternoon, MeTV)
"Oh my God! They're turkeys!" Jeff introduced me to the Thanksgiving episode of this classic sitcom a few years ago and, since then, watching it has become a Thanksgiving tradition. Poor Mr. Carlson!
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I've been on vacation this week. Here's what I watched.
(Yes, that's not my best intro but seriously, I'm tired. I always take some time by myself after my birthday so that I can reflect on the year and plan the next one. It's a tradition that is the result of having watched too many movies and read too many books about women who retreat to a lake house for a holiday and achieve enlightenment or, at the very least, write a really great book. Unfortunately, that always seems to work better in movies than in real life. In real life, I've spent a good deal of time inside because the average temperature this week has been close to freezing. As a result being stuck inside for hours at a time, my original plans of watching next to no television and only going online to host my weekly live tweets were quickly abandoned. When I did go outside, I got caught out in the rain more than once and I also banged up my knee and probably nearly broke my neck when I tripped over a tree root while exploring the surroundings. The sun has occasionally peeked through the clouds, mostly just to remind me of the fact that I cannot tan to save my life. I'm now catching a cold, and I'm no closer to being enlightened than I was before. This has not been my best-planned getaway, though it will make a great book someday. Anyway….)
"RALPH!"
This episode will always be remembered for the broken eggs and Barbara's reaction to the way one of the mothers dressed. However, I think this episode deserves to be remembered for the brief moment when Ava has a serious conversation with Barbara about that mother. I always like the episodes where we discover that Ava actually does kind of care about her job and other people.
Being stuck inside, I watched a few episodes of California Dreams so that I could write and schedule a few reviews in advance.
Being stuck inside, I watched a few episodes of City Guys so that I could write and schedule a few reviews in advance. Hmmm …. that sounds familiar.
Graffiti Rock (YouTube)
I watched the only episode of this 80s dance show on YouTube on Friday night. A young Debi Mazer and an adorable Vincent Gallo were amongst the dancers! It was fun to watch.
The Greatest American Hero (Weekday evenings, ACE TV)
This is an early 80s show about a klutzy teacher (William Katt) who is gifted a red suit by a group of aliens. The suit turns the teacher into a superhero but, because the aliens didn't give him any instructions, he's not really sure how all of his powers work. He fights crime with his girlfriend (Connie Selleca) and a drunk FBI agent (Robert Culp). One of his student was played by a very young and handsome Michael Pare.
I watched an episode on Thursday while I was having dinner. The teacher battled criminals while preparing for an IRS audit. It was actually a pretty cute show. William Katt was as likable here as he was as poor, doomed Tommy Ross in the original Carrie.
It was a good dinner service but Chef Ramsey still had to send someone home. At least he was polite about it this week. I'm really liking this season of Hell's Kitchen. I could honestly see any of the chefs winning.
This week's episode of Law & Order dealt with a murder that was linked back to Iraq War burn pits. Considering that Price and Mouron are the two most self-righteous prosecutors in the history of this franchise (and that's saying something!), I was cringing a bit at the thought of them relitigating the Iraq War. But this episode was actually fairly well-handled. I never would have expected that Cosgrove and Shaw would become my two favorite characters on this show but they've managed to do it. I think that's because Cosgrove and Shaw does their job without complaining, whereas Price always has some moral dilemma going on. Seriously, McCoy needs to bring in somebody new.
Law & Order: Organized Crime (Thursday Night, NBC)
Stabler's going to give himself a heart attack if he's not careful. CALM DOWN, STABLER!
Law & Order: SVU (Thursday Night, NBC)
The squad was hunting a serial rapist and murderer who targeting transgender women. Greg Grunberg played one of the victims's father, an NYPD detective who was not comfortable with his child's identity and who was trying to hide evidence that would have confirmed that she was transgender. Eventually, however, he did the right thing and handed over the evidence that allowed the D.A. to get a conviction. Grunberg, as always, gave a good performance.
Magnum, P.I. (Weekday Mornings, Charge TV)
On a chilly and rainy Monday morning, I watched a two-part episode of the original, 1980s Magnum P.I. Magnum and his friends were being stalked by a KGB agent named Ivan. The episode ended with Magnum executing Ivan in cold blood. Ivan totally deserved it.
Friday night, I watched two episodes of this 80s entertainment digest. One episode was about the early days of rap and while the other episode that profiled Sade.
Too Close For Comfort (Weekday Afternoons, Antenna TV)
This is an old 80s sitcom, about a grouchy old man who lived on the second floor of a San Francisco townhouse. His daughters lived on the first floor. A bizarre manchild lived on the third floor. This show has been on Tubi for a while and also on Antenna TV. On Tuesday, after spending the first part of the day hiking and trying to meditate, I decided to unwind by shuffle dancing to The Chemical Brothers. Then, after that, I collapsed in front of the television and watched two episodes of this show on Antenna TV.
In the first episode, the grouchy old man and his wife were shocked to discover that a runaway girl named Sam was living with the manchild. Sam explained that she had run away from home because her father was overprotective and didn't understand her and wouldn't let her go out with her friends. The problem was that the actress playing Sam appeared to be nearly 40 years old so it was difficult to sympathize with her. I mean, just get a job and move out if you can't take it. You're an adult. Anyway, the grouchy old man explains to Sam that her father loved her and Sam went home. Yay!
This was followed by an episode in which the manchild and one of the daughters graduated from college. The manchild got a job as a mall security guard. Good for him.
The Twilight Zone (Weeknights, MeTV)
On Tuesday night, I watched The Obsolete Man. In this episode, an authoritarian government official ordered a man to commit suicide. Before dying, the man revealed the official to be a coward. The official was then ripped apart by his former supporters. This is usually described as being one of the more heavy-handed episodes of original Twilight Zone but, in this time of general government overreach, there was something satisfying about watching the smug government representative get outsmarted.
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It's my birthday and I'm up at Lake Texoma so, needless to say, I haven't been watching much television. That said, we just got hit by the first cold front of the season and both freezing temperatures and rain are on the way so, for the upcoming week, I may not be doing much other than staying inside and watching old TV shows.
Anyway, here's a few thoughts on what I watched this week:
With Quinton and Mattie getting eliminated, we are now down to five teams! To be honest, I get the feeling that Aubrey and David are going to come out of nowhere and somehow manage to win the final leg. That said, as a Big Brother watcher, I am rooting for Claire and Derek and, as a dancer, I'm rooting for Luis and Michelle. I wrote about this week's episode at the Reality TV Chat Blog!
Atlanta (Thursday Night, FX)
Atlanta came to a conclusion this week with an episode that somehow managed to wrap up the show's themes while also feeling just like another episode of Atlanta. The show ended with a celebration of the relationships between the main characters and a hint that we might all just be in a sensory deprivation tank. It was a great ending for a good show.
I wrote about California Dreams here!
I wrote about City Guys here!
I wrote about Fantasy Island here!
Ghosts (Thursday Night, CBS)
Poor Pete! A trashy reality show called "Dumb Deaths" wanted to shoot an episode about his dumb death. Fortunately, a series of weird events led to them actually doing a show about the hippie's death. Compared to the first season, the second season has been a bit uneven but last night's episode did make me laugh.
It seems like Trenton should have known better than to have his wedding reception at Hell's Kitchen. Needless to say, things did not go well. Chef Ramsey kicked both teams out of the kitchen and then sent home two chefs. And really, the two teams were so incompetent that night that they left Chef Ramsey with no other option. I will never eat another scallop.
Law & Order (Thursday, Night, NBC)
Price and Mouron humiliated a prominent activist attorney in order to get a murder conviction. We knew the attorney was powerful because, in her office, there was a really photoshop of her standing next to Nancy Pelosi. I've finally gotten to the point where I kind of like Detective Cosgrove and Jeffrey Donavon's performance has definitely improved over last season's one-note characterization. That said, there's still a self-righteousness to Price that just makes me want to throw something at the screen whenever he launched into one of his sermons.
The Love Boat (Paramount Plus)
I wrote about The Love Boat here.
Mid-Term Coverage (All Week, All Over The Place)
Come on, Arizona …. HURRY UP! I swear, we knew who won in Texas on election night and this state is a hundred times bigger and more populated than Arizona and Nevada combined. If you really want to fight against the conspiracy theories, a good first step would be to not be totally incompetent at your job.
This week, Jeanine become the first member of the jury. That was not a shock at all. I wrote about this week's episode at the Reality TV Chat Blog!
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The 90,940-ton, 2,170-passenger Celebrity Infinity is one of Celebrity Cruises' four vessels known as Millennium-class. That means they have some of the line's signature features -- lots of specialty restaurants, a Canyon Ranch spa, a gorgeous indoor Solarium and a variety of cabin classes. But it also means the ship is older and there are places where it seems tired. That should change in late 2020, when Celebrity Infinity receives a "Revolution" makeover, a complete renovation that will modernize restaurants and update all cabins and public areas to look more like a boutique hotel.
For now, fans of Celebrity and those new to the line will appreciate the focus on dining. Although the ship is older, it has continually added restaurants so there is a wide variety -- but many come with an extra fee. You can watch an animated chef make dinner during the Le Petit Chef experience at Qsine, enjoy sushi and go to an Italian steakhouse, but you'll pay for those. The good news is that the included dining in the Oceanview Cafe buffet, the pool grill and the Trellis main dining room is decent, with lots of choices (although it's not gourmet). Passengers in AquaClass have their own restaurant, Blu, and suite passengers can dine in Luminae, which is a notch up from the main dining room in both food and service.
Sun worshippers also will be very happy on Celebrity Infinity. Two pools are outdoors: One is tiered -- so you can get your feet wet and cool off without getting all the way in -- while the other is deeper. Then there's the enclosed Solarium, which has a jetted thalassotherapy pool and a roof so you can enjoy it even when it rains. Finally, the Outdoor Retreat has covered cabanas and a big screen for movie nights. And an upper outdoor sun deck toward the front of the ship has plenty of loungers.
While Celebrity rarely has the party vibe of sister company Royal Caribbean, there are plenty of options for cocktail connoisseurs. With a prime location overlooking the Grand Foyer, the shaved-ice-covered Martini Bar is almost always crowded. Additionally, wine-lovers will gravitate to Cellar Masters.
That being said, Celebrity Infinity is not a ship for high-octane partying and crazy outdoor activities (water slides, surfing, ropes courses). Unless you're on a charter -- this is the ship that the line often uses for theme cruises -- Celebrity Infinity is a ship for people who like to linger over dinner, sip a drink in a comfy lounge while listening to music (or doing a bit of ballroom dancing), take in a show or lounge by a pool.
Celebrity Infinity passengers tend to be adults, ages 45 and older, who have outgrown the party-hearty scene (on charters, the demographic can change dramatically). On shorter cruises, expect more families, particularly during the summer and winter holidays. The line is popular with both North Americans and Brits but also can draw a regional international crowd, depending on the sailing.
Cruise Critic's professional photographers and our extraordinary community members have taken 1,828 pictures of Celebrity Infinity. When you visit our photo galleries, you can be assured that what you see is what you get.
During the day, dress is resort casual, but Celebrity passengers tend to dress up for dinner -- typically button-down or dressy Tommy Bahama-type sport shirts and slacks for men and dresses or smart-casual pants for women. Formal night on Celebrity has been replaced by "evening chic" in the main dining room. This means that men can ditch the full suit and tie in favor of a sport coat and collared shirt, with designer jeans. Women can wear cocktail dresses, sundresses or designer jeans or nice pants. In the buffet, almost any form of dress is allowed, except swimwear, flip-flops, spa robes and bare feet.
Tips aren't included in the cruise fare, but suggested gratuities are automatically added to your onboard account at a rate of $14.50 per person/per day if you're in a standard cabin, $15 per person/per day if you're in a Concierge Class or AquaClass and $18 per person/per day for passengers in suites. If you would like to adjust the gratuities, you can do so through the Guest Relations desk. An 18 percent charge is added automatically to all beverage and mini-bar purchases as well as spa and salon purchases. You can't remove these gratuities but can add to them.


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Rep. Chris Stewart to Newsmax: Biden WH Heading to 'Critical Mass of Failure'
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By Nick Koutsobinas | Monday, 11 October 2021 08:13 PM EDT
Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, decried the Biden administration on Newsmax, saying the White House is headed toward a "critical mass of failure."
"I think this presidency is looking at a critical mass of failure," Stewart said Monday on "Spicer & Co." while mentioning that previous "failures" tend to build on themselves. "I mean, look, when [President Joe Biden] came to office, I was worried this might happen, but I never dreamed that he would achieve this in eight months."
"It's remarkable,'' Stewart said. "I mean, start with Afghanistan, then talk about inflation and stagnation and the job numbers — and still languishing with [COVID-19] — and terrifying debt, and the list goes on and on, all of them negative. And honestly, the administration's not going to be able to fix it."
According to the median of aggregate polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and updated on Oct. 11, Biden had an approval rating of 44.6% and a disapproval rating of 49.2%.
Stewart added that he doesn't think Democrats will make a return in the 2022 elections due to the aforementioned bad "eight months" under Biden.
If the Democrats "don't change any of" the situations such as Afghanistan, the economy or the problems relating to COVID-19, "then how could they possibly expect to have a victory in 2022? I think it's going to be a landslide for Republicans," he said.
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Déja vu: columnist plagiarizes, Daily apologizes
by jon July 10, 2008 August 29, 2022
Ryan Chartrand
After watching last year's team of editors deal with the incident of a freelance cartoonist plagiarizing one of his cartoons for the Mustang Daily, we hoped to begin this year with a fresh slate. Sadly, plagiarism has come to haunt the Daily again. And again, we're apologizing to you, our readers, for unknowingly publishing plagiarized material.
Sarah Bailey was a freelance nutrition columnist who wrote 19 columns for us from fall 2007 to winter 2008. Her weekly column, "Check your Pulse" dealt with nutrition issues that students would be interested in. Being a nutrition major and a member of student peer-health group PULSE, we had faith that she knew what she was writing about. The consistent writing style further hid the fact that a very large portion of Bailey's writing was not her own.
Suspicion was raised when Cal Poly's Policy Abuse Office notified the Mustang Daily that one of Bailey's earlier columns, "Just a spoon full of sugar?" infringed on the copyright of a dietician and online writer.
Bailey's column was confirmed as plagiarizing at least two full paragraphs from the writer's Web site. Knowing that plagiarism – like the proverbial little white lie that continues to grow – doesn't usually begin and end with one instance, we investigated further. We simply took sentences from Bailey's columns and put them through a Google search. Time and time again, the exact same words came back to us, copied straight from someone else's article or essay.
We found various portions of plagiarized material in each of her columns, which led us to immediately pull all of her columns from our Web site.
Even some leads, transitions and colloquial sign-off lines – parts of a column that give it personality and originality – were taken from other sources.
It's hard to even put into words the frustration, disappointment and embarrassment the editors at the Mustang Daily feel when something like this happens. We take immense pride in publishing one of the best collegiate newspapers in the country. We abide by the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics, and moreover by the universal understanding that plagiarism is never ethical.
In retrospect, readers often ask their newspapers how incidents like this happen in the first place. How did Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke fool readers and editors and manage to win a Pulitzer prize for her entirely imagined story "Jimmy's World"? How did New Republic reporter Stephen Glass manage to make up entire events, sources and quotes for his articles? How did New York Times reporter Jayson Blair manage to fabricate and plagiarize his way through the ranks?
Simple: because editors prefer not to have to go in with an attitude that assumes some of their writers may not be honest. We respect our reporters and freelancers and don't initially assume guilt. Rather, we go in assuming integrity and honesty, especially from writers who've gone through four or more years of college.
But with two plagiarism cases in such a short amount of time, the Mustang Daily has no choice but to take pro-active steps to avoid it in the future. All freelancers will have to sign a contract stating that they understand what plagiarism is. Moreover, all of our writers will be put on notice that we will be performing random plagiarism checks throughout the year. Luckily for us, the same Internet that makes copying so easy for some writers, makes searching for those copied words just as easy for us.
We want to emphasize that freelance columnists are volunteers who don't receive compensation or academic credit for their writing. Their only commitment is to meet the deadline for the weekly column that they initially volunteered for. The Mustang Daily encourages non-journalism majors to write for us, because we value the knowledge and perspectives that come from different backgrounds. Although these two recent cases of plagiarism were committed by non-journalism freelancers, we expect all of our writers to abide by the basic principle of honesty we should all understand by the time we begin our adult lives.
The previous team of editors signed Bailey on as a columnist because they wanted a Cal Poly student who was knowledgeable enough about her major just to write – without having to gather other people's words from around the Web. They could just as easily have put a syndicated national column in that place, but preferred to give a Cal Poly student a chance to voice her expertise. Sadly, that's not what we got.
In a letter to Mustang Daily editors and readers, Bailey apologized; "I realize that there are really no excuses for letting this happen and if I could take it away, I would in a heart beat. All I can do now is offer my sincerest apologies to everyone and hope it prevents people from repeating my mistakes… I consider myself a hard-working and honest person and I would never in a million years try to steal someone's work and pass it off as my own on purpose."
She explained that she would aggregate information from numerous online articles and combine them into a large document. From there, she would edit the article down, but apparently failed to put the information in her own words.
"I was genuinely shocked to find out many of my articles contained material that was considered plagiarism. I am so sorry that I could have been so careless to let this happen because it was never truly my intention," Bailey continued in her letter.
She has already graduated from Cal Poly so the consequences, if any, from the university are unknown.
We sincerely apologize to you that this incident has occurred. The Mustang Daily holds itself to the highest ethical standards, and we're making the greatest effort to ensure that plagiarism never comes to tarnish our pages again.


This band hails from Canada, and in case you're wondering, they're from the French speaking area. This explains the songs with French lyrics. I'll leave it at that before my hereditary dislike of French people kicks in (England!). Regardless, this is some pretty potent Black/Death Metal with some Thrashier moments that I'm inclined to say has a lot more in common with older German Thrash than either Norse Black Metal or Death Metal in either the Swedish style or the American Florida/Buffalo style. The vocals are mostly in the traditional "raspy shriek" with the occasional Death growl thrown in. I personally thought that the inclusion of the Death growl was a good idea that just wasn't implemented enough. I think they only do it for one or two songs and the rest are just raspy Black Metal styled shrieks. The guitar is pretty loud but I noticed that though it was louder than the bass, the drums were still the dominant instrument here. And the snare is kind of annoying too. I think the biggest problem Anhkrehg faces is musical diversity. Many of the songs were similarly structured and though the riffs were different, the drumming was pretty much the same - and when the drums are the loudest instrument, that's not good. Lands of War is intense and brutal, which is always a plus when playing Black/Death, and since this is their debut album, I'm hoping that these guys experiment with their sound and mix things up a bit more on their next release.


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import { GroupEntry, GroupsApi } from '@alfresco/js-api';
import { AlfrescoApiService } from '@alfresco/adf-core';

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Q: jQuery AJAX get value from .each function and send it to AJAX How to set jQuery AJAX outside .each on my script below?
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If I put the AJAX function inside .each function it will submit more than 1.
But I need to put it outside, and found problem moduleID and chk not found.

A: Scope problem. Define uid and moduleID outside the click.
var uid="";
var moduleID="";
$('#btnUpdate').click(function()
{
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A: Define the variables in the global scope:
make a function called sendAjax and call it on button click.
In the mean time all your data will be stored in the data global variable (object).
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West Papua, an ongoing forgotten conflict
Since the invasion of West Papua over five decades ago, Indonesia has committed an endless list of severe human rights violations against the island's civilians. More than 500,000 West Papuans have been killed in what is arguably a genocide against the indigenous population. Thousands have been reported to be tortured, raped, unlawfully imprisoned or "disappeared" after being detained by Indonesian forces. Basic human rights are denied and Papuans live in a state of fear and intimidation [1]. As West Papuans fight for independence, Indonesia refuses to relinquish its power on the island – and continues to deny using any violence, while locking out media from the area. Despite this ongoing situation, many world democracies (especially the ones nearby, like Australia or New Zealand) remain silent on human rights abuses on West Papua – but with new technologies, the abuses are being increasingly heard [2].
In 1962, Indonesia took over West Papua, formerly known as West Iryan, from its Dutch colonisers. Seven years later, a UN referendum for independence was held for the indigenous West Papuans, with 1.000 leaders selected to vote for the entire population. However, the Indonesian military threatened to kill anyone who voted for independence. The vote was a formality, once again securing Indonesian power on the island. Many Papuans view the Indonesian takeover as an illegal annexation and the OPM (Free Papua Movement) has driven a low-level insurgency for years. This insurrection has long been the excuse for considerable Indonesian military involvement in West Papua [3].
The OPM was founded in 1963 to advocate for the autonomy of West Papua, and it became increasingly militant. By the 1980s violence in West Papua had intensified into a low-intensity armed conflict, which continues to this day. As many as 100.000 people have been assassinated in subsequent years, mostly civilians killed by the Indonesian military. Although the OPM is well-established throughout West Papua, it is lightly armed – with most combatants not even having guns [4].
It is essential to emphasize that since the Dutch colonialism and until today, West Papua has been marginalized. The Papuans are depicted as living in the stone age, and this apartness is often demonised [5]. They are Melanesians, a cultural and ethnic grouping which includes most of the people living in the Southwest Pacific – different from Indonesians. At the same time, West Papua is a kind of resource-rich backcountry; an empty "treasury stock" for Indonesia, especially rich in gold and copper. Under Indonesian rule, West Papua has seen its significant oil, mineral, and timber wealth exploited by Indonesian and multi-national enterprises, with limited benefits and employment opportunities for the local population [6].
Indonesian governance in West Papua has been characterised by its indiference to the views and interests of the local population. Indigenous Papuans have been subject to a range of systematic and widespread human rights abuses such as torture, extrajudicial killings, forced labour, forced displacement, rape, and forced disappearance [7]. Any mention of self-governance is brutally repressed by the Indonesian government.
There are plenty of manifestations of Indonesian oppression in West Papua. These constraints include arbitrary detention for months or even years, restricted movement in many areas for "security reasons", censorship on the freedom of speech and assembly, and the requirement of obtaining a Surat Jalan (travel permit) before travelling to their West Papuan home villages. [8] In addition, the Indonesian government has undertaken transmigration and resettlement programmes, which also serve the purpose of undermining the self-determination of the local population by portraying them as a minority.
Indonesian authorities have also persistently blocked foreign media and rights monitors from going to Papua. Those restrictions defy an announcement made in 2015 by Indonesia's President assuring that foreign media would have unobstructed access to the region. These decades-lasting access restrictions are embedded in the government's suspicion of the purposes of foreigners for reporting on the territory – that besides the aforementioned small-scale independence insurgency, is the scenario for rampant corruption, environmental degradation, and public discontent with Indonesia.[9]
A Slow Genocide?
West Papuan people have been treated as the enemy by the Indonesian armed forces since the beginning of the occupation. Explicit and implicit government policy has been consistently directed towards countering and eliminating Papuan attempts to create an independent state for their nation or enjoy political freedom on a par with other Indonesians.
Since then, as mentioned earlier in this article, the West Papuan people have suffered persistent abuses. The Indonesian military and security forces have engaged in large-scale violence and extrajudicial killings in West Papua. They have inflicted Papuan civilians to torture, disappearance, rape, violence, hence provoking serious bodily and mental harm. Systematic resource exploitation, the destruction of Papuan resources, forced (often uncompensated) labour, transmigration programmes, and forced relocation have caused environmental damage to the area, impaired traditional subsistence practices, and provoked epidemic disease, malnutrition, inter alia. Holistically, such acts seem to constitute the imposition of living conditions calculated to cause the destruction of indigenous West Papuans. Even if the described crimes (torture, kidnapping, etc.) were not executed with the aim of eradicating West Papuans as a group, various of these acts constitute crimes against humanity under international law [10].
A Yale Law School paper, written for the Indonesian Human Rights Campaign, found "in the available evidence a strong indication that the Indonesian government has committed genocide against the West Papuans". Further studies carried out by the University of Sydney allege that the continuity of ongoing praxis in West Papua "may pose serious threats to the survival of the indigenous people" [11]. Another study carried out by the University of Sydney states that the continuation of current practices in West Papua "may pose serious threats to the survival of the indigenous people of the Indonesian province of Papua" [12]. Many towns and villages have witnessed wholesale massacres of their people. One such example was the 'Biak Massacre' in 1998, where over 200 people, including women and children, were caught by the Indonesian military, crammed onto vessels, taken and thrown into the sea [13].
While the conflict increases and repression of West Papuan "separatism" grows, the capacity to broadcast news of atrocities, public protests and leaders' statements increases exponentially. This means that more attention is going to be paid on what is happening in West Papua, and how the conflict can be solved or alleviated. The "genocide" question is central in all of this. If Indonesia has only been able to hold West Papua within the Republic by engaging in genocidal acts, what does that foretell about the future?[14]
Melanesian in culture and language, West Papua's strong Pacific link is why many island countries support their independence. Representatives from Nauru, Vanuatu, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Palau, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands have joined calls for the United Nations to investigate allegations of mass human rights abuses in West Papua. The seven Pacific nations are alleging there have been extrajudicial killings, and beatings of activists campaigning for the region's sovereignty as part of the "Free West Papua" movement.
However, Indonesia has proved to effectively assemble international backing effectively as well. It is swiftly moving to the Pacific to gather support, plying promises of strong links and aid – which is working in some cases. For example, Fiji; after Indonesia's strong pressuring approach and diplomatic and political leveraging, went from pro-independence to pro-Indonesian. Furthermore, Indonesia is strategically pivotal to New Zealand and Australia – being a crucial trading partner for both countries. By ignoring Indonesian army killings in West Papua, the Western states and press are tacitly colluding in mass murder [15].
On the national level, nearly no criminal investigations have been carried out by an institution independent of the one whose constituents were alleged of killing. Sometimes there is no investigation at all, or the results are not made public. Most families don't receive regular updates about the outcome of any official investigation about a family member's death. As for prosecutions, members of security forces who perpetrate illegal killings in West Papua have never been brought to an independent civilian court of law [16].
Indonesia's oppression of West Papuans may be based on supremacist perceptions towards peoples named "primitive" rather than hatred, but this oppression still constitutes a calculated attack on the sustainability of the group. West Papuans do not consider themselves Indonesians and are not considered as such by other Indonesians.
The next question is how will the international community – given its responsibility to prevent genocide, and the crimes that might indicate one in West Papua – further react to the Indonesian oppression in the island, in compensation for good relations with Indonesia. Governments might be capable to "excuse" genocide or crimes against humanity in such a way, but the example of East Timor demonstrated that the public eventually will not. And how will Indonesia react if the West Papuan case gathers more support and relevance, taking into account its previous occupation of East Timor?
In this age of the internet, the claims of genocide being made by West Papuan leaders are being heard and believed, and it is gaining more and more relevance. This presents a considerable challenge for Indonesia in particular, and the Pacific region generally. Indonesia will face the difficult dilemma to either engage in serious negotiations with the West Papuans to try and devise a form of association that will address West Papuan grievances and aspirations and make them want to stay in the Indonesian Republic or to lose international support for their claims of sovereignty over West Papua [17].
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[1] Anderson, K. (2015) "Colonialism and Cold Genocide: The Case of West Papua," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 2: 9-25.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.9.2.1270
[2] Day, R. (2015). West Papua and the Australia-Indonesia relationship: a case study in diplomatic difficulty. Australian Journal Of International Affairs, 69(6), 670-691. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2015.1052730
[3] Lamb, K., & Doherty, B. (2018). Banned West Papua independence petition handed to UN. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/27/banned-west-papua-independence-petition-un
[4] Elmslie, J., & Webb-Gannon, C. (2013). A slow-motion Genocide: Indonesian rule in West Papua. Griffith Journal Of Law And Human Dignity, 1(2), 142-165. Retrieved from https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/578/539
[5] Ibid [3]
[7] Brundige, E. et al. (2004). Indonesian human rights abuses in West Papua. New Haven, Connecticut: Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Retrieved from: https://law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/West_Papua_final_report.pdf
[8] Wing, J., & King, P. (2005). Genocide in West Papua? (p. 11). Sydney: West Papua Project.
[10] Kine, P. (2018). Indonesia Shuts Out UN Rights Chief From Papua. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/19/indonesia-shuts-out-un-rights-chief-papua
[11] Ibid [3]
[12] Webb-Gannon, C. (2014). Merdeka in West Papua: Peace, Justice and Political Independence. Anthropologica, 56(2), 353-367. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/24467310?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
[13] Cordell, M. (2013). West Papuans tortured, killed and dumped at sea, citizens' tribunal hears. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/west-papuans-tortured-killed-and-dumped-at-sea-tribunal-hears
[14] Elmslie, J., & Webb-Gannon, C. (2013). A slow-motion Genocide: Indonesian rule in West Papua. Griffith Journal Of Law And Human Dignity, 1(2), 142-165. Retrieved from https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/578/539
[16] "Don't bother, just let him die" Killing with impunity in West Papua. Amnesty International (2018).Retrieved from https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa21/8198/2018/en/
[17] Ibid [11]
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In 1962, the Supreme Court struck down a state-sponsored prayer in New York public schools in Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 82 S. Ct. 1261, 8 L. Ed. 2d 601, the first in a line of decisions banning school prayer. In finding a 22-word voluntary prayer unconstitutional, the Court opened a Pandora's box. For the next four decades, public anger brought many calls for a constitutional amendment to restore what Engel took away. On the other hand, the ruling was a landmark victory for church-state separationists who marked it as the beginning of a new era in FIRST AMENDMENT doctrine.
The origins of the case lay in a controversial education project in the early 1950s, started by the New York BOARD OF REGENTS, a bipartisan citizen commission appointed by the New York State Legislature to oversee state schools. The regents set out to recommend a plan for "moral education," the most controversial part of which included prayer. Religious leaders naturally differed over the wording of a proposed prayer intended to be recited by students each morning, but in 1951, a compromise resulted in what they hoped would be an inoffensive solution. Included as part of the regents' Statement on Moral and Spiritual Training in the Schools, the prayer went: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we Beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country."
Going out of their way to avoid trouble, the regents made the prayer entirely optional. Both local school boards and parents could decide if it would be used. Nevertheless, its authors had not written it only to try their hand at prayer making. "We believe," they wrote, "that this Statement will be subscribed to by all men and women of good will, and we call upon all of them to aid in giving life to our program." But fearing religious and legal controversy, New York school districts shunned the prayer. They had good reason: not only was the state quite ethnically and religiously diverse, but also religious instruction in public schools had been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948 (McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 68 S. Ct. 461, 92 L. Ed. 549). Most school districts followed the lead of New York City, deciding against adopting the prayer. Only about 10 percent of them were using it by the late 1950s.
In 1958, the prayer provoked a lawsuit (Engel). Five parents of students in the small suburb of New Hyde Park, Long Island, brought suit to stop its use in their schools. Two parents were Jewish, the third was Unitarian, the fourth was a member of the Ethical Culture Society, and the fifth was a self-professed atheist. They believed that the school system was coercing their children into saying the regents' prayer, even though individually, their children could be excused from participating. The difficulty of granting children the permission to step out of the room during recitation of the prayer had, they argued, made the prayer effectively compulsory. Furthermore, voluntary or not, they said, the prayer violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"). The parents received substantial help in their suit from the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU), which had been advocating strict separation of church and state for many years.
At first, the lawsuit failed. The plaintiffs asked the New York State Supreme Court—acting as a trial court—to stop use of the prayer. It refused. Justice Bernard S. Meyer found the prayer clearly religious, but not a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, he ordered school districts to set up safeguards against "embarrassments and pressures" upon children who did not wish to participate. The New York Appellate Division upheld the decision. So did the state's Court of Appeals, by a vote of 5–2. It said the nation's founders had designed the Establishment Clause to prohibit adopting an official religion or favoring a particular religion. "They could not have meant to prohibit mere professions of belief in God," the court held, "for if that were so, they themselves in many ways were violating the rule when and after they adopted it."
After agreeing to review the case, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on April 3, 1962. Attorney William J. Butler made the following case for the plaintiffs: all state support to religion violates the First Amendment, and the prayer constituted the "teaching of religion in a public institution" and should therefore be banned. Several powerful groups joined the plaintiffs by filing FRIEND-OF-THE-COURT briefs. These included the ACLU; the American Jewish Committee, joined by the ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE of B'nai B'rith; the Synagogue Council of America, joined by the National Community Relations Advisory Council; and the American Ethical Union. These organizations took different positions. The American Ethical Union saw the prayer as "governmental preference for theism in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments." The Synagogue Council argued that any school prayer was unconstitutional—even if voluntary—because it constituted "state aid to religion."
The school board defended the prayer on several grounds. It cited the second part of the First Amendment's religious guarantees, the Free Exercise Clause ("or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"). The prayer was an example of free exercise, Attorney Bertram B. Daiker argued, that fell far short of establishing a religion because it was optional, not compulsory. Daiker also found authority in the nation's traditions, calling the prayer "fully in accord with the tradition and heritage that has been handed down to us." Like the plaintiffs, the school board had powerful friends in court. Briefs supporting the prayer came from 19 state attorneys general who also saw religious and national tradition under attack. The attorneys general said the nation's founders "would be profoundly shocked" by the lawsuit.
On June 25, 1962, the groundbreaking decision was delivered. By a 7–1 majority, the Supreme Court found the prayer unconstitutional (the ninth justice, BYRON R. WHITE, did not participate because he did not assume his seat on the court until two weeks after the case had been argued). Justice HUGO L. BLACK's majority opinion called the prayer "wholly inconsistent" with the Establishment Clause. A considerable series of precedents existed from 1940 on for the ruling, but Black did not cite them. Instead, he recalled the bitter history of church-state conflict in England and colonial America, noting that by the time the Constitution was written, "there was a widespread awareness among many Americans of the dangers of a union of church and state." The First Amendment was added to prevent that union, which "tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." Black scorned the school board's claim that the regents' prayer was harmless. Neither its brevity nor its voluntary nature nor its nondenominational status could protect it from the Constitution. "One of the greatest dangers to the freedom of the individual to worship in his own way lies in the government's placing its official stamp of approval upon one particular kind of prayer or one particular form of religious services," wrote Black.
It has been argued that to apply the Constitution in such a way as to prohibit state laws respecting an establishment of religious services in public schools is to indicate a hostility toward religion or toward prayer. Nothing, of course, could be more wrong…. It is neither sacrilegious nor antireligious to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of the business of writing or sanctioning official prayers and leave that purely religious function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance. The Court's message to government was simple: stay out of the prayer business, and leave it to religious leaders.
The 1962 Engel v. Vitale ruling spurred much dissent, as seen in this image of Texas high school students beginning the day in prayer two days after the Court's decision.
banning a so-called moment of silence in the classroom.
Engel was only the first ban against prayer in public schools; a year later, the Court returned to the issue in ABINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT V. SCHEMPP, 374 U.S. 203, 83 S. Ct. 1560, 10 L. Ed. 2d 844, with even more far-reaching results—the banning of the Lord's Prayer and Bible reading in public schools.
Despite these rulings many school boards continued to offer prayers at school events, such as graduation ceremonies and athletic events. As a result, the Supreme Court revisited the issue of school prayer a number of times since Engel. In 1992, the Supreme Court in LEE V. WEISMAN, 505 U.S. 577, 112 S.Ct. 2649, 120 L.Ed.2d 467, held that a high school principal, acting in accord with school board policy, violated the Establishment Clause by inviting a local clergyman to deliver a nonsectarian prayer at graduation. In response to this ruling, school boards around the United States reconsidered their policies but others remained adamant about permitting prayers at school events.
In a Texas case, the school board allowed the student council chaplain to lead prayers over the public-address system before each high school football game. After former students filed a lawsuit challenging this practice, the school modified its policy. The school board allowed elected student representatives, no longer called chaplains, to give a "message or invocation" before the games. The students were free to say whatever they chose, as long as it promoted good sportsmanship. The policy did not require that the invocations be nonsectarian.
The Supreme Court rejected this approach in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290, 120 S.Ct. 2266, 147 L.Ed.2d 295 (2000). The Court ruled that the school had sponsored a religious message that was impermissible under the First Amendment. The facts of the case indicated that the prayer had been sanctioned by school policy, delivered over a school microphone by a student, and supervised by a school faculty member. These facts led to the conclusion that the prayer was public speech and subject to the Establishment Clause.
The Santa Fe decision made it clear that the Engel reasoning applied to school events. The school district had argued that students were not compelled to attend the football games and therefore there was no coercion. The Court found otherwise, pointing out that some students, such as cheerleaders, football players, and members of the band had to attend. The Court concluded that the "Constitution demands that schools not force on students the difficult choice between whether to attend these games or to risk facing a personally offensive religious ritual."


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