Re: 'Dr. Phil Show' Gets Ripped Off by Con Artist

Oh, but there are so many other choices: Star Trek on channel 42, the afternoon political lineup on channel 43, King of the Hill and That

70's Show on channel 55, or even Golden Girls on channel 29. For talk shows, you've got Ellen Degeneres on channel 13, followed by Oprah on channels 6 and 9.

Failing that, there's always Al Jazeera English via the Internet feed. You can watch the low-bandwidth feed for free at

(or click on "Watch Now" on the main page)

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We get all those shows you mentioned on our own cable at our own time, etc. King of the Hillbillies is on Fox Channel 3 following the Simpsons (America's favorite disfunctional family) at 6:00 PM nightly. Oprah is on here in the morning on two or three cable channels, mercifully not all at the same time. Among the cartoons such as King of the Hillbillies (as I call Hank Hill and his friends) and the Simpsons, my favorite is probably 'South Park' featuring those bratty children.

Oh, and I must also mention 'CSI-Special Victims Unit' with those two lying, no-good police officers, Elliot Stabler and his partner Olivia Benson. They are always getting into some trouble or another it seems, as we might expect with the sterling good-as-gold reputation of the New York PD. In one of tonight's adventures, Olivia and Elliot are telling one of their prisoners, "If you want us to help you, then help us." The prisoner replies, "You mean like you helped Abner Louima by sodomizing him with that plunger handle?" Elliot flinches when he hears that comment. _Of course_ the prisoner refuses to talk further to either of the two clowns without having his attorney present. Those two are such a barrel of laughs, and quite inspirational, several times daily on USA Network. I guess you may have heard that at the end of season eight, all four of them get canned along with their captain, by the NY police internal investigations board, which Elliot and Olivia and Officer Munch and Ice-T refer to as the 'rat squad', "because they are always making trouble for us good police officers"..

Say, Linc, do you know how to tell the difference on USA Network between a regular programming day and a CSI-SVU 'marathon' like they had last weekend? Well, if it is a 'marathon' then it is at least a couple dozen CSI-SVU shows back to back, hours on end; they alternate with a couple of would-be pedophile episodes, then a rape or two, and some other kinky crap such as a gay guy who they accuse of being a cannibal, but all straight SVU. If it is a regular programming day, then they only run three or four CSI-SVU shows in a row, take a break for CSI-Criminal Intent; (another goofball detective and his hilarious sidekick), and then go back to three or four more SVU programs.

And don't forget the good folks at MSNBC: Their thing now at night seems to be alternating between their boy with the hidden cameras and the Perverted Justice group of vigilantes and the documentary they frequently play on life in the Los Angeles County Jail. I would give up my cable entirely if it were not that I want internet connections and NPR out of Tulsa (KOSU) comes in a lot better with the cable connected to the radio also. PAT]