Saturday, March 8, 2003

Pray For Peace QUOTE OF THE WEEK "There's advantages & disadvantages to everything." - - Gary Sherwood Rhine QUIZ OF THE WEEK - Show Me the Money! Quiz, BY Jonathan Hutson Question #1 Which of the following paid the SMALLEST PERCENTAGE OF INCOME in federal income taxes from 1996 through 1999? (a) A U.S. Army Corporal deployed overseas (b) Enron (c) A public high school teacher Question #2. Which of the following paid THE FEWEST DOLLARS in federal income taxes from 1996 through 1999? (a) A Legal Aid lawyer (b) Enron (c) A homeless woman receiving minimum wage in a welfare-to-work program. POEM OF THE WEEK - "SPEAK OUT"  by Lawrence Ferlinghetti And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land And America turns the attack on its Twin Towers Into the beginning of the Third World War The war with the Third World And the terrorists in Washington Are drafting all the young men,  And no one speaks And they are rousting out, All the ones with turbans And they are flushing out, All the strange immigrants And they are shipping all the young men To the killing fields again, And no one speaks And when they come to round up, All the great writers and poets and painters The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency, Will not speak While all the young men, Will be killing all the young men, In the killing fields again So now is the time for you to speak All you lovers of liberty All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness All you lovers and sleepers, Deep in your private dreams Now is the time for you to speak, O silent majority Before they come for you http://www.citylights.com/beat/LF/CLLFspeak.html PHOTO OF THE WEEK (From Australia) CARTOON OF THE WEEK - "Dissent Exposed" by Mark Fiore http://www.motherjones.com/humor/fiore/2003/10/we_318_01.html ART SHOW OF THE WEEK - "Images Against War" Images Against War brings together 216 photographers both online at www.imagesagainstwar.com and in their gallery in Cologne, Germany. http://www.imagesagainstwar.com/index.php?display=216 TV TIP OF THE WEEKEND - Howard Dean on "Meet the Press" On Sunday 3/9,after SOS Colin Powell discusses the "looming deadline", Former Governor Howard Dean (D-VT), an anti-war Presidential Contender, makes his case against shrubs war in Iraq & discuss his run for La Casa Blanca. THEATRE PIECE OF THE WEEK - "The Madness of George Dubya" Reuters reports, "British theatre-goers are flocking to a new farce which mocks George W. Bush as a pyjama-wearing buffoon cuddling a teddy-bear while his crazed military chiefs order nuclear strikes on Iraq. 'The Madness of George Dubya' -- which mercilessly satirizes British Prime Minister Tony Blair as well as Bush -- has proved such a success at a fringe theatre in London that it is moving to a larger venue..." http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/02/05/iraq.britain.play.reut/index.html FEASIBLE THEORY OF THE WEEK - "Dry Drunk" Syndrome and George W. Bush by KATHERINE van WORMER, CounterPunch, recycled from 10/11/02 http://www.counterpunch.org/wormer1011.html 9:15:38 AM    comment

The Lie Of The U.S. Military; Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around? THE BOTTOM LINE  -  "The Lie Of The U.S. Military; Tough gritty American soldiers protect freedom of liberal S.F. columnist? Or the other way around? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist     Friday, March 7, 2003 (Excerpts) I get this a lot: Hey Mark, you know what you should do, you pathetic piece of liberal S.F. scum? You should kneel down right now and thank our angry God there's a hard-ass non-pussified non-wimpy U.S. military out there protecting your pathetic little butt, baby. Isn't that thoughtful? You should be damn grateful, they scowl, that these fine men and women are risking their lives to ensure your right of free speech, your contemptible ability to scribble these pansy liberal words, to call Shrub a smirking daddy's boy, to suggest that God doesn't exist or that Lynne Cheney frightens small children and makes paint peel, all while remaining safe and cozy in your little hippie-happy tofu-licking gay-friendly S.F. cocoon, all protected and insulated and smug... ...Let us now speak blasphemy. Let us point up something no one seems to be mentioning, as Shrub sends in 300,000 of our youth to blast a cheap thug who is, by every account, no serious threat to the U.S., and never has been, and who had nothing to do with 9/11, and whose ties to terrorism are tenuous at best, all while rabid North Korea happily buys more nuke technology from desperate Pakistan and sells the finished product to the highest bidder. Here it is: The military does not protect my freedom. Our soldiers are not out there right now safeguarding me, or you, or us, from some sort of total, '50s-era, Red Scare-esque dictatorial overthrow of our nation; nor is the military guaranteeing I have the right to write this column any more than it is protecting your right to read it, or to protest the war and speak freely and smoke imported French cigarettes and watch porn and drive really fast. Not anymore, they're not. Not this time... THE ARTICLE'S IN ITS ENTIRETY AT: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/03/07/notes030703.DTL&nl=fix "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. 8:55:23 AM    comment

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