Brian, Yes, I agree with you that Natalie Wood was beautiful but there was a rumor back then that it was not a Triangle but a twosome with her husband and her male co-star. Which puts doubt in my mind that it was

an accident. Hopefully after the investigation the case will be closed. Have a nice weekend.

Good Evening Mr.Williams, a fine Friday broadcast this evening.

The report by Mr.Lewis concerning the re-opening of the investigation into Natalie Wood's death might provide some new information about what actually happened aboard the boat. So very tragic the loss of such a fine person and actress. It is interesting to hear what the Captain of the boat states about the tragic incident. It certainly raises new questions and hopefully will provide some closure to her family. So very sad.

The report by Anne Thompson about extreme weather and that a report by the UN shows climate change is causing the exteme weather and future extreme weather patterns. So many major weather events this year as mentioned in the report such as hundreds of tornadoes, Hurricane Irene amongst the 10 weather events which caused billions of dollars in damages. Things can be done to make buildings safer from severe storms along with planting more trees and other improvements. Improvements to save lives and keep damage to a minimum is most vital.

The piece by Andrea Mitchell about the expansion in the Smithsonian regarding the First Ladies Exhibit showed so many beautiful gowns. People do feel a connection to the First Family and one can learn much about the First Ladies in this exhibit. First Ladies retaining much popularity with people. It looks like a great exhibit.

Thank You for the broadcast Mr.Williams. Have a wonderful weekend! Peace to You and to All!

Be Well Everyone!

Stay Extra,Extra Safe and Well Richard!

Take Extra,Extra Good Care Richard and Crew!

Lisa

It’s amazing that Oscar Ortega sent a tape of himself to Oprah, saying that he is a modern day Jesus Christ and he can save the world, and hope that he would’ve been booked to appear on the show. Needless to say I’m sure that’s not the first crazy tape that’s been sent to her staff but it just makes you think if you really know who your neighbors are. They might look and speak “normal”, but you never know what’s going on in their minds.

I guess this story sticks out in my mind because somebody actually fills my Inbox with utter nonsense thinking she’s communicating with someone in the public eye.

started out the other day with apollinium of rhodes since he was the one who wrote the argonautica about jason and the golden fleece, he had to go to what is now georgia where joseph stalin was from to get the fleece, interestingly, the flying ram carried two children out of harm's way, directed by their mother, whose greek name meant 'cloud', one of the children looked down at the earth against the advice given to her and Helle fell off of the ram and the greeks named the Hellespont after her. i ended up with the mountains of the place where jason was the rightful heir of the throne. those mountains are heavy in lead, which is the end product of the half-life of uranium and THORIUM. i had to look up THORIUM. india, russian and china are pursuing thorium nuclear power plants, especially india, since it has 25% of the world's thorium reserves. the u.s. has 15%. a thorium molten-salt reactor doesn't need an emergency cooling system "which is both expensive and adds thermal inefficiency". australia has 19%, brazil has 12% and venezuela has 12% of the world's reserves. i see electric cars in the world's future, egads! "thorium 232 is several 100X more abundant than uranium 235." an interesting point to ponder, the half life is comparable to the age of the universe. was the noah's ark that came through the big bang powered by thorium? just asking! best, anna martina

sure enough, from there i go to the yalta conference of february 4-11, 1945 between FDR, winston churchill and joseph stalin. what a debaucle, poor poland!!! yalta is in ukraine, i found the GUAM association brought together for the economic development of georgia, ukraine, i can't remember A and moldova. uzbekistan dropped out. the need a big transportation corridor, the u.s. preferrence crosses the baltic and caspian sea versus going through russia and iran. they could probably use a thorium nuclear power plant since power is a top priority. an electric train? that yalta conference was codenamed 'argonaut conference', go figure. the argo probably travelled between parallel universes. all of the fleets of the nations could use a ship like that! who built the argo? maybe those bridges across the black sea, not baltic, and the caspian sea probably exist in a parallel universe that is more developed than poor us. maybe we can just bring them over, maybe they are ready for new bridges and we can have the old ones:-) heck, we have london bridge in lake havasu, here. crimea sure has been a mighty busy place throughout history, the crimean war was the time of 'charge of the light brigade'. weird that my first born's birthday falls on that day! but again, poor poland and those kresy polish troops that were critical to the allied war effort in north africa and italy as II Corps under the british high command. so sad that they were not allowed to return to kresy, russia kept it, 30 officers and men committed suicide. the kresy troops were released from the russian gulags in siberia to fight. they marched to Persia to create the II Corps. rudyard kipling would probably be a good man to talk to about all of these european wars, if he was still around, egads! after all, he sacrificed his son, jack, to a war effort. best, anna martina

On Thursday's Nightly News, right in the middle of a story about Congress's decision to categorize pizza as a vegetable, Anne Thompson took a ten-second break to read a McDonald's commercial. With a huge McDonald's logo next to her, Thompson told us that, "McDonald's got the message--reducing french fries and adding fruit to its happy meals." This had absolutely nothing to do with the story about pizza being a vegetable--it was just another opportunity for a Nightly News correspondent to shill for the Golden Arches. It's also interesting to note that right before Thompson read her McDonald's commercial, she said, "First Lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to change that--urging America's kids to exercise and encouraging healthy eating." Thompson's statement was accompanied by video of Mrs. Obama. This is no accident. Showing Mrs. Obama right before a McDonald's product placement is actually a very calculated and crafty move by the Nightly News producers to imply that Mrs. Obama endorses McDonald's. This has happened before. On the July 26 Nightly News, Brian Williams read this 30-second promo for McDonald's: "McDonald's said today that it's taking steps to make Happy Meals healthier. The company is cutting the size of the french fry portion in half for starters and adding apple slices to every meal. The new meals will have about 20% fewer calories--coming in at under 600 calories total. First Lady Michelle Obama, who campaigns, of course, for better nutrition, put out a statement today calling this a good step." Again--it was clearly the intent of Brian and his producers to imply that Mrs. Obama was endorsing McDonald's. (As Brian read this, the McDonald's logo was onscreen for the entire thirty seconds, along with the words "Healthy Choices" and a picture of a Happy Meal.)

Brian Williams and his producers and correspondents have a history of promoting and endorsing McDonald's on Nightly News. This isn't surprising. With the recent acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast, the new Comcast/NBC Universal mega-conglomerate controls more than twenty national (or regional) networks and cable channels. In addition to NBC, MSNBC and CNBC, they own Bravo, Chiller, Oxygen, Sleuth, Syfy, Telemundo, Mun2, The Weather Channel, USA, E!, SportsNet New York, Exercise TV, G4, The Golf Channel, PBS Kids Sprout, The Style Network, Versus and New England Cable News. And those are only the ones I know about. I can only imagine how much money McDonald's spends each year advertising on all these Comcast/NBC stations. Is it $50 million? $75 million? $100 million? Who knows. Let's just say it's a lot. So with McDonald's spending all this money with Comcast/NBC, it makes perfect sense that Brian Williams would act as a shill for McDonald's. It's obvious that Brian and the Nightly News producers work closely with the NBC News ad sales department and the McDonald's ad agency to find the most advantageous ways to promote the burger franchise on their broadcast. I would not be at all surprised to learn that the McDonald's press releases Brian reads on the air are actually part of paid commercial packages purchased by McDonald's. For a certain amount of money, McDonald's gets ten commercials and one news story that portrays their products in a positive light. Here are some other examples of how McDonald's has been promoted (or protected from negative publicity) on Nightly News:

5/18/11--Brian personally defended McDonald's against criticism from parenting organizations and nutritional advocacy groups that accused McDonald's of unfairly using Ronald McDonald to attract children to their high sodium, high cholesterol, high fat food. In the story, Brian said that this criticism "seems a little harsh". So much for anchor neutrality.
5/9/11--Brian took thirty seconds to tell us that McDonald's is spending more than $1 billion to upgrade their restaurants. "Look for wooden tables, muted colors and faux leather seats coming soon to a Mac's near you. And you can get fries with that." Is it just me, or is that a commercial?
3/8/11--During a story promoting Subway Sandwich Shops (you didn't think McDonald's was the only fast food restaurant Brian promoted, did you?) as now having more U.S. outlets than McDonald's, Brian was quick to tell us that McDonald's still makes more money annually--$24 billion to $15 billion.
12/7/10--A story about how San Francisco is banning toys that come with children's fast food meals began with a cute segment about a woman who collects Happy Meal toys. The rest of this 2:30 "news story" (which was really just a commercial for McDonald's) contained clips of actual McDonald's commercials and non-stop footage of the McDonald's logo, restaurants and food.
11/8/10--The lead story on The CBS Evening News was a study released by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity detailing the inappropriate ways that fast food chains market their unhealthy food to children. Nightly News did not report this story as a courtesy to their pals at McDonald's.
9/3/10--The CBS Evening News reported that Consumer Reports rated 53 different fast food and chain restaurant hamburgers on taste and attractiveness, and McDonald's came in dead last. Needless to say, Nightly News did not report this story, either.
7/2/10--A Nightly News profile of LeBron James included clips from his McDonald's commercials.
6/14/10--Lester Holt gave us the important news that McDonald's will now be offering free Wi-Fi at their restaurants.
2/4/10--While reading a 25 second promotional piece about Heinz Ketchup's exciting new packaging, Brian also threw in a gratuitous plug for McDonald's.
10/22/09--During a piece about women in the workplace, Nightly News spent 75 seconds profiling Jan Fields, the Chief Operating Officer of McDonald's USA. The story gave her ample time to talk about things like McDonald's "world famous fries". Ms. Fields is now the president of McDonald's USA--no doubt thanks in part to her ability to manipulate NBC News into allowing her to plug her greasy burgers and fries.
5/5/09--In what may be the most shameless and blatant plug ever, Nightly News did a two-minute story whose sole purpose was to announce the launch of McDonald's new gourmet coffees to compete with Starbucks. Ann Curry called McDonald's coffee a "delicious brew".

So if anyone thinks that Anne Thompson's plug for McDonald's was anything other than a paid advertisement, then there's a bridge across the East River I'd like to sell you.

Brian, as you are obviously star struck with the beloved actress Natalie Wood as men were, I have a

book "My Last Movie Star" by Martha Sherrill with a look-alike Natalie on the cover. The protagnist

CLementine receives a ghostly visit from Natalie Wood who says, "You know what I want? I want

yesterday." Which gives me chills and they are multiplying and my imagination is on fire. Phylls