Saturday, September 21, 2002

NOT IN OUR NAME QUOTE OF THE DAY "It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." - - George W. Bush RHINO HERE: Equinox = 12 hour days & 12 hour nights & for those who notice, Mercury's in retrograde. I'll get to some weekend humor but first please know about the huge political advertisement that ran in the New York Times on Thursday organized by the group "NOT IN OUR NAME". The ad featured a powerful in depth anti-war statement featuring a diverse list of influential names. See the ad, sign the statement and help amplify it at: (http://www.nion.us) Now to the man who currently, in my opinion, has become the most dangerous entity on the planet while remaining a big joke; George Walker Bush. Recently, in another inspiring speech to students in Little Rock, he said: "If you don't have any ambitions, the minimum-wage job isn't going to get you to where you want to get, for example. In other words, what is your ambitions? And oh, by the way, if that is your ambition, here's what it's going to take to achieve it." Now the only year I ever went to college, Lyndon Johnson had the U.S. Air Force bombing Cambodia so I rarely attended classes cause the learning was in the streets. But my professors were at the protests too and gave me A's. Was it something like that which got shrub through undergraduate at Yale, and a masters program at Harvard? How did he get passing grades with his dufus language skills? What were his professors thinking? If he's an example of "higher education", I'm quite satisfied to have served my country on the corner of Haight & Ashbury and received my "higher" education and degrees of knowledge at the largest hippy community in the world. (http://www.thefarm.org) Oh, well... in the spirit of making lemonade from a lemon, here are excerpts from, "BUSHISMS; The Accidental Wit and Wisdom Of Our 43rd President". 7:58:08 AM    comment

Excerpts from The Complete Bushisms Compiled by Jacob Weisberg "First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." —Washington Post, 4/24/01 For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." —Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 2002 "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." —Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001 "But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe." —Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001 "I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region." —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002 "My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the—in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." —Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001 "After all, a week ago, there were—Yasser Arafat was boarded up in his building in Ramallah, a building full of, evidently, German peace protestors and all kinds of people. They're now out. He's now free to show leadership, to lead the world." —Washington, D.C., May 2, 2002 "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." —New York Daily News, April 23, 2002 ''I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe—I believe what I believe is right." —Rome, July 22, 2001 "I want to thank the dozens of welfare to work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves." —Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002 "The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society." —Santa Clara, Calif., May 1, 2002 TO SEE AN EXTENDED COLLECTION OF BUSHISMS, GO TO: http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=76886 Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright law ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ). All copyrights belong to original publisher. "RHINO'S NEWS BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. Feedback is encouraged and can be emailed to him at: rhino@kifaru.com RHINO'S WEB SITES: http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207 (RHINO'S NEWS WEBLOG - PRESENT & PAST) http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) 7:53:44 AM    comment

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