Live Free or Die
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Luxury Lounge
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- Members Only. (6th season premiere, aired 3/12/06) A member of Tony's crew tries to retire but finds himself caught on many sides. Carmela's business venture gets off to a bad start. Uncle Junior is getting worse, and Tony suffers the consequences.
- Join the Club
- Mayham
- The Fleshy Part of the Thigh
- Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request
- Live Free or Die. Vito Spatafore goes on the run after being outed. Tony considers what action to take and learns what Finn DeTriolio saw when he was working on a construction site. Meadow hears about an Afghan family's difficulties.
- Luxury Lounge. Christopher goes to Hollywood to meet with Sir Ben Kingsley and gets so jealous of the free goods given to celebrities that he mugs Lauren Bacall. Artie gets into a fight and has to make changes in his restaurant. New!
- Johnny Cakes. Tony decides to sell some property to Jamba Juice. Vito continues his life on the run and finds a lover. AJ tries to find a direction and makes a weak attempt at paying Uncle Junior back for shooting Tony.
Footnotes for "Luxury Lounge" (last updated April 23, 2006)
Christopher goes to Hollywood to meet with Sir Ben Kingsley and gets so jealous of the free goods given to celebrities that he mugs Lauren Bacall. Artie gets into a fight and has to make changes in his restaurant.
- Goodie Bags. Extravagant goodie bags at award shows have become prevalent in recent years, according to reports in the entertainment media. The Internal Revenue Service even released a statement in March 2006 reminding celebrities that such goodie bags qualify as taxable income and must be reported on tax returns.
"This has become big business for companies promoting their products. These things aren't given without pride and prejudice. There is a tax implication for them. We just want to make sure no one crashes into the tax code," IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said in a March 3, 2006 statement (on-line here).
Footnotes for "Live Free or Die" (last updated April 17, 2006) (back to top)
Vito Spatafore goes on the run after being outed. Tony considers what action to take and learns what Finn DeTriolio saw when he was working on a construction site. Meadow hears about an Afghan family's difficulties.
- Habeas Corpus. It is hard to know what to make of the Afghan family that approaches Meadow at the legal clinic. In any event, a writ of habeas corpus can be issued by a federal court when someone has been "restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the constitution, or of any treaty or law of the United States" and must be let go.
- Danish Cartoons. Christopher refers to a Muslim business associate's views on the recent Danish cartoon controversy. Muslims around the world have protested against cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist and that were originally published in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in September 2005. The Danish newspaper apologized on January 30 (statement on-line here). European newspapers reprinted the cartoons on February 1, sparking more outrage. Muslims have protested against the cartoons around the world, with some protests leading to violence and deaths.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on February 8 (transcript on-line here) that she believed that "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes," while recognizing other governments that have spoken out against violence.
- Sen. Rick Santorum. Tony refers to Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) in explaining his beliefs on homosexuality to Dr. Melfi, referring to comments by Santorum reported in April 2003. However, Santorum has said that his comments were about constitutional legal principles, not about homosexuality itself.
Santorum was quoted in an April 2003 news article as expressing worries that a then-pending Supreme Court decision on whether an anti-sodomy law was unconstitutional could set a precedent that would undermine other sex-related laws regarding bigamy or incest. In an April 22, 2003 statement, Santorum called this story misleading and said that his concern was simply that "if such a law restricting personal conduct is held unconstitutional, so could other existing laws. Again, my discussion with the Associated Press was about the Supreme Court privacy case, the constitutional right to privacy in general, and in context of the impact on the family. I am a firm believer that all are equal under the Constitution. My comments should not be misconstrued in any way as a statement on individual lifestyles."
As of April 2003, 13 states treated anal-intercourse as a crime when done by consenting adults of the same sex, though four states (Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas) did not criminalize anal-intercourse when done by a consenting adult man and a consenting adult woman. Some of these states define sodomy as being either oral- or anal-intercourse, and some simply criminalize anal-intercourse. For more information, go here.
The Supreme Court subsequently did hold in June 2003 that laws criminalizing sodomy were unconstitutional. Writing for five justices, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that such laws sought to "control a personal relationship that, whether or not entitled to formal recognition in the law, is within the liberty of persons to choose without being punished as criminals." Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired from the Court in 2005, concurred in the judgment that the law was unconstitutional, but did so on the basis that Texas's law only banned homosexual sodomy and did not ban heterosexual sodomy. Decision on-line here.
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