Peter Hawkins, a British actor who voiced characters that ranged from "The Flowerpot Men" to the sinister Daleks on "Dr. Who," has died at the age of 82.
Hawkins began his acting career on stage after World War II service in the Navy, The Independent reported. His first television role was also a conventional one.
But he quickly moved to providing voices for children's puppet shows on television, helping to make "The Flowerpot Men" a success in the 1950s. That show featured two creatures with legs made from flower pots.
Hawkins' achievements included doing all the voices for "Captain Pugwash," a pirate cartoon that ran from 1957 to 1966 and for the later "Sir Prancelot."
He helped create the distinctive sound of the Daleks, the sinister robotic enemies of Dr. Who, and of another Dr. Who adversary, the Cybermen.
Mark your calendar for September. New Mexico will stage her first World Peace Conference. Ever. And who better to host the event than Santa Fe, the epicenter of intellectual snobbery?
Exciting. I can see it now. The Dixie Chicks will set the stage with the conference theme song, "Not Ready to Make Nice." Therein, they will warble their George Bush taunt, "How in the world can the words that I said send somebody so over the edge I made my bed and I sleep like a baby."
OK, it doesn't rank up there with the classic anti-war ballads like "Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?" but these girls are no Peter, Paul and Mary, either.
Cindy Sheehan will host, giving her further opportunity to embarrass herself. Howard Dean can be counted on to say something stupid. Michael Moore will stand there looking goofy to the wild applause of prancing, marching peace activists, painted blue, but not red, white and blue. They will be bare-chested, many of them female, the slogan "No More War" scrawled on their upper torsos.
But, wait. That's not the case at all. This is an entirely different kind of peace movement. We're not talking here about activists crowding the plaza. No, think instead of guys in suits and ties, maybe some scarves and pipes. We're talking about people who think grass is something you mow.
Were it necessary for New Mexico to stage a peace conference a debatable proposition you would think the government would step aside and let the Santa Fe private sector take care of that business. I mean, those folks know how to do peace.
Instead, New Mexico leaders allocated $420,000 of your taxpayer money to pamper speakers at some posh hotel. All they needed to do was spend $834 on "Bush Sucks" T-shirts and spend the rest of the money on something we need. Fixing a road would be nice. . . .
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Governor Richardson's laying down some foundation for 2008.
MONTGOMERY - Alabama has agreed to send National Guard troops to the U.S. - Mexican border if requested. Gov. Bob Riley authorized the use of the troops last weekend shortly before he left on a trade trip.
Alabama joins 28 other states that have agreed to send troops in support roles to reinforce the U.S. Border Patrol. Though no deployments have been requested so far, the state could send from 100 to 500 troops to the border, said Riley spokesman Jeff Emerson. The federal government will pay for the troops and the troops will be able to return to the state in case of a natural disaster.
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thank you, Alabama
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"Dozens" wouldn't seem to be the same International ANSWER demonstration that was held on July 13th in support of Hamas.
SAN FRANCISCO Dozens of protesters carrying banners and Lebanese flags rallied at City Hall on Saturday, condemning Israel's attacks on targets in Lebanon as barbaric and illegal. "We're trying to raise some awareness with the American public about what's going on," said Mohamad Charafeddine, a Stanford University doctoral student who organized the protest. "It's unacceptable."
About 50 people, mostly members of the Bay Area's Lebanese community, took part in the demonstration. Charafeddine, who is from Lebanon, said more actions would be organized if the attacks continue. "We hope the aggression will stop, but if it continues it's the least we can do," he said. "What's going on is against international law."
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Hizballah: a globalisation success story.
Sydney has a nice fat slab of Hizballah living in the suburbs of the southwest notably lakemba, punchbowl and congregating at Lakemba Mosque.
Remember the Cronulla beach riot? Followed by 5 nights of reprisal rioting streets of cars smashed and shots fired at christmas carollers at a school? Random people beaten in the streets and a convoy of 50 cars heading out from Lakemba mosque to beach suburbs headed by one flying the lebanese flag? The text messages stirring up violence from the 'lions of lebanon'?
Bob Carr presided over the wholesale import of Hizballah into Sydney.
Were I in areas with large jewish populations like Bondi, Rose Bay and Bellevue Hill, (in Sydney's east) I'd be carefully avoiding synagogues, transport hubs and large shopping centres in case the Lions of Lebanon don't just get on a plane and go home to fight but take it to the Sydney streets.
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I agree, pull their visa's. Send them packing to Lebanon to live with their brothers. Hope the missles dont get ya. The problem has been us all along. We have effectively taken a knife to a gun fight with our measured approach. We need to identify that they are at total war and we shpould respond appropriatly, with total war. Why should I care one bit about the so called oppressed Muzzies when they continually blow up busses full of women and kids. We have allowed this rat to infest our world for too long and now we must destroy them, all of them, hezbullah, hammas, Iran, and all the others that support them.
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Lance Armstrong getting in some digs about the doping charges, among other things, while the top tier Euro cyclers really did test positive.
Lance Armstrong renewed his verbal attack on the French, bashing their World Cup team during an American awards show and using a derogatory word to describe the players. "All their players (France) tested positive ... for being a** holes," the seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Daily News on Friday.
Dubya should nominate Lance to replace Bolton at the U.N. ...
Don't mess with Texas.
The American cycling hero Armstrong made his comments in his opening monologue as the host of ESPY Awards, an annual televised event produced by ESPN. The show was taped on Wednesday at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre and is scheduled to be aired on Sunday night. Armstrong said afterwards that he didn't regard his comments about the French as being offensive. "Well, if they'd live with me and heard me at home, they'd know that was a step down," Armstrong told the newspaper. Armstrong, a cancer survivor, retired from competitive cycling in 2005 after capturing his seventh Tour title. Because of the Tour de France's timing, this is the first year he has been able to attend the show in person to pick up his awards, including four straight athlete-of-the-year trophies.
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First announcements were, he wouldn't be attending the Tour de France this year.
But, being the class act is he... he's going! Will represents his guys on his country's team... and will smile for the French. G_D that's got to feel great!
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And I hear another American is in the hunt to win this years tour.
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Lance has certainly earned the right to call it like he sees it. Whacking the feckless jealous bores who've tried to destroy his magnificent achievements seems only fair, LOL.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
