Blades Of Glory Live Stream: American Comedy Film

Stream: American Comedy Film – June 19, 2010 – Blades of Glory is an American comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, and the all star casts starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder. This comedy movie was released on March 29, 2007 by DreamWorks and MTV Films.

Watch Blades of Glory, it was released on DVD and HD DVD and also on Blu-ray Disc. The movie grossed $33,014,202 on its opening weekend in March 30 – April 1 with 3,372 theaters, getting an average $9,790 per screen, beating Disney’s Meet the Robinsons movie to be the number 1 film.

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If there's one film that defines lowbrow comedy, 1980s-style, it's this 1980 romp directed and co-written by Harold Ramis. Set in a country club, it stars some of the era's best comic actors, including Rodney Dangerfield as the club's newest member, a developer long on cash and short on couth. (6 p.m., AMC)

BLADES OF GLORY — Whatever it takes, right? Will Ferrell and Jon Heder star as Chazz and Jimmy, two former skaters who were banned from singles competition. In order to get back in the game, they partner up to compete in the pairs category. (9 p.m., TBS)

MIAMI MEDICAL — The personal lives of several victims of a boating accident cause chaos for the team, while Dr. Zambrano (Lana Parilla) winds up in a tight spot after Dr. Deleo's (Mike Vogel) brother, Rick (guest star Bailey Chase), arrives at the hospital. (10 p.m., CBS)

PARTY DOWN — While catering a party for a college gridiron golden boy (guest star Aaron Hill), who unexpectedly slips in the draft, Casey and Henry (Lizzy Caplan and Adam Scott) become entangled in the secret lives of celebrity sports figures. Meanwhile, Lydia (Megan Mullally) makes a play for the quarterback's single dad. (10 p.m., Starz)

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY — Matt Damon and Jude Law earned acclaim for their work in this Hitchcockian 1999 drama. Damon plays the title character, a poor boy mistaken by a tycoon (James Rebhorn) for a college friend of his playboy son, Dickie (Law). Dad offers Ripley $1,000 to bring the young wastrel home from Europe. Instead, he disposes of him and assumes his identity.

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Beyond the Cacophony Of Sentiments

•SANI YUSUF MIJINYAWA, a political analyst illuminates the underlying political intrigues, characterized by the vindictive ploy by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to make Atiku Abubakar pay for his principled opposition to the controversial Third Term Agenda. And he believes Abubakar now stands on a high moral ground to return to the PDP fold …

Former Vice President Abubakar’s decision to return to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP is no doubt one of the most difficult decisions he has ever faced. And predictably, his decision to rejoin his original political family of choice (PDP) has evoked outrage and disbelief among many Nigerians, including of course some of our newspaper columnists. Such sentiments are understandable in the context of what the former Vice President went through politically, especially following his open confrontation with his former boss, General Olusegun Obasanjo.

He was loyal to a fault to the former President until the Third Term Agenda controversy tore them apart. The fact that the tenure extension was widely unpopular its collapse was just a matter of time. On May 16^th 2006, the attempt to change the Constitution to extend Obasanjo’s tenure kissed the dust and the former President never forgave Atiku for joining the national opposition to the third term project.

As part of the strategy to achieve a third term ambition, former President Obasanjo moved so fast to destroy all the sources of Atiku’s political strength and influence. Elected officials of the PDP, including the National Chairman were removed arbitrarily by Obasanjo and installed his ‘yes’ men as new leaders. The former president carried out the policy of re-validation of party membership cards and de-registration of Atiku’s followers throughout the country, including his home state of Adamawa.

With Atiku and his followers deliberately frustrated and ostracized, they were constructively expelled from the party against their will. Since Obasanjo could not get a third term, despite installing Col. Ahmadu Ali (retd) as the PDP National Chairman who officially endorsed tenure extension, his next game plan was to ensure Atiku did not get the party’s presidential ticket.

Despite the frustration of de-registration, Atiku still remained in the party. But it was clear the new leadership imposed by Obasanjo did not want Atiku as its presidential candidate because of his hostility to the third term game plan. As expected, the party revealed its cover and finally suspended Atiku for three months, though the party’s constitution allows for one month suspension. Despite a court order that the suspension breached the party’s constitution, Obasanjo’s men still went ahead to follow up the suspension with outright expulsion.

Thoroughly frustrated and with his options unmercifully limited, because the 2007 presidential election was fast approaching, Atiku Abubakar reluctantly left the PDP and embraced the Action Congress (AC). He became its presidential candidate in the face of all hurdles from INEC, EFCC and Obasanjo’s men. Given his belated entry into the race and obstacles raised against him, the fact that he participated in the election at all was a miracle!

Atiku Abubakar was a founding member of the PDP and he remains sentimentally attached to the party. Despite his reluctant exit, the party remains close to his heart and mind because nobody would want to destroy what he contributed to build. He enjoys tremendous goodwill from party leaders, despite the fact many of them kept a discreet distance from him to avoid Obasanjo’s anger or EFCC’s blackmail.

It is an indisputable fact that Atiku is a mainstream politician who does not want to be a peripheral player. All the existing opposition parties have failed to rise to the challenges of mainstream national politics. Despite all the criticisms against the PDP, no sincere person would deny that it is more firmly and widely established across the country than the opposition parties.

No one should uncharitably blame Atiku for his pragmatic approach to the current realities of Nigerian politics.If Atiku is sentimentally attached to the PDP, that is largely because he was part of the effort to build the party into a formidable political force. He did not seek to destroy the PDP in the first place; he was instead, forced to leave because the then new PDP was structured in Obasanjo’s image. Regardless of his best efforts to remain a loyal party man, the PDP was packed with Obasanjo’s men and their undisguised mission was to force Atiku out of the party. Deliberate obstacles were created to ensure he was ultimately expelled from the party because he refused to support the party’s official policy of endorsing the third term agenda.

Atiku’s reluctant exit from the party in the first place must be understood within the context of this grim scenario. The deliberate policy of exclusion and discrimination against Atiku and his supporters was such that he must quit to pursue his ambition elsewhere, despite the limited time available to him. The PDP was personalized by Obasanjo and his private vengeance against the former Vice President became the party’s official policy.

Humiliated and discriminated against, Atiku was politically at the end of the tether within the PDP. Should we sincerely ignore these cruel realities in understanding the circumstances that forced Atiku to leave? Should a man confronted with this unpleasant choice be honestly accused of lacking consistency and principle? Given the energy and resources he devoted to the birth and growth of the PDP, should Atiku be blamed if he rationally comes to the conclusion that he must return to the fold?

The deliberate destruction of internal democracy by Obasanjo’s PDP forced Atiku out of the party. But now that the PDP has been involved in national reconciliation and the re-union of former members, no fair-minded person should blame Atiku if he chooses to re-join a family of which he was a prominent member. Politics is not rigid science in which you stick to the so-called consistency for its own sake! No matter the distance a bird travels, it may eventually return to its nest, which is its natural habitat.

If we take a ringside view of politics, we may overlook the complex realities that usually force leaders to re-assess their positions on issues. Despite his exit from the PDP, Atiku enjoys tremendous sympathy among many party leaders who regretted the circumstances of his reluctant exit. These party leaders were helpless because of the personalization and regimentation of the party under former President Obasanjo. But these circumstances have changed ever since and if Atiku returns to the PDP, it should not cause much brouhaha because it is close to his heart. He did not leave the PDP because he was opposed to the party per se; he did because the party’s original democratic face was contorted and freedom of choice eviscerated, to achieve personal objective. And since the PDP no longer belongs to a single individual, the man is simply following his conviction.

Reality TV Dad Coming to Boise

The effort to help a family in Kuna is getting some star power.

A reality TV star will be in Boise Thursday, adding to a long string of good charity for people affected by dwarfism.

The Salman family has lived in their American home for more than a year now. They escaped a dangerous life in Iraq while at the time raising four kids, three with a rare form of dwarfism.

"The very first day that I met the family, they were living in a shack," said Russell Hayes, who lives next door and first met the family on a tour of duty with the U.S. Army.

The Salman family gained national attention on the TLC show, "Little People, Big World."

Before that, it was a newspaper article that caught the attention of Hayes.

"The last sentence really jumped out at me. It said he had three children with some kind of dwarfism, and I thought, 'oh my gosh, that's why I'm here,'" he said.

Now a few years later, Hayes and the Salman's are next-door neighbors, but Hayes will tell you they're family. And they're dealing with issues close to his heart.

Hayes' daughter, Corina, has dwarfism. She'll be 12 this summer.

"People will stare when they see a dwarf, and you can't change them. They're not mean, they're just curious, so we've raised her to be proud," he said.

"Do you feel like you can do anything anybody else can?" he asked Corina, who nodded her head yes.

One of the men behind the national attention that eventually brought the Salman family to Kuna -- and to safety -- was Matt Roloff, the dad on "Little People, Big World."

Since the Salman's story aired, their daughter, Seja, passed away following surgery this winter.

While the Hayes family pours out their hearts and their pocketbooks to keep the family afloat, Roloff is coming to the Treasure Valley to continue what his show started.

"Of course you fall in love with this family, they're just adorable. And they needed help," said Roloff, in a phone interview with Fox 12. "That eventually led to the third trip where we actually got them and brought them home back to the states where we could get them the proper medical treatment."

Ali, 11, and Bara, 9, have a number of surgeries ahead, fixing a problem that causes their bones to twist. That's just one of a number of medical issues.

At a fundraiser Thursday, Roloff with be joined by his son, Zach. They'll be at the Basque Center in Boise.