Saturday, May 3, 2003

Shrub's Resume QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can at it. - - Danny Kaye THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY May 3, 1984 -- Iran, Iraq attack ships in Persian Gulf. Both are well-armed with weapons supplied by the US & other global powers. May 4th 1970 -- US: Four Kent State University students murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting the U.S. incursion into Cambodia CARTOON OF THE WEEK: Tom Tomorrow's "What Goes Around Comes Around": What Goes Around HEADS UP: 1ST Presidential Debate Saturday Night, 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. EDT University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Moderated by: George Stephanopoulos Where to tune in: * 11:35 p.m. Saturday on ABC News Radio. * 11:35 p.m. Saturday on ABC News Live, an Internet broadband news service available to subscribers of RealOne, AOL Broadband and Yahoo Platinum. * After late local news broadcasts on more than 35 ABC affiliates. * Excerpts Sunday on ABC's This Week (check local times) * 1 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Sunday on C-SPAN * 12:30 a.m. Monday on C-SPAN RHINO HERE: Anyone watching FOX News et al knows about The Iraqi Most Wanted Cards. Uncle Rummy figured they'd put out their most wanted list of leading members of the Iraqi Regime on a pack of 52. That way, the soldiers can study the wanted posters while they hang out playing cards in the sand.Some clever dissidents have responded by creating their own cards. One is a web page with the 52 Most Wanted shrub gang members on playing cards: Wanted! for *Looting Social Security trust funds *Taking the country to war under false pretenses *Ripping up the safety net *Eviscerating democracy *Strangling civil rights *Assaulting the New Deal *Being a partisan hack *Peddling economic snake oil *Perverting the Fourth Estate http://www.rasken.kajen.com/USD/The_US_Deck.html And then there's a set you can order for six bucks: Liberators Of The World Cards - aka "America's Most Ruthless" http://www.warfolly.com/liberators.htm These cards are the same high quality as the Official Iraqi Most Wanted cards. This deck of 54 (standard 52 + 2 jokers) cards features great American and World liberators who were prominent in the Iraq War and its aftermath. Every card is backed by the Bill Of Rights. Printed on professional casino quality stock in full color and plastic coated. They are controversial and sure to be a collector's item. NEWS FROM FRANCE The Americans are coming! PARIS - As France wonders how Washington might punish it for opposing the war in Iraq, a spoof Paris newspaper has let its imagination run wild and reported a US-led invasion to topple President Jacques Chirac. The Monde, a satirical take-off on the daily Le Monde and a French-basher's fantasy come true, hit news-stands around France over the weekend with wacky tales of chaos amid a fictitious invasion that echoes the real war just waged in Iraq. 'American, British and Monaco forces land in France,' the front-page headline screamed. 'Chirac calls for resistance and disappears...Pro-American uprising on Left Bank in Paris.' http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,186120,00.html? Powdered garlic raises a stink at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris PARIS - A bag of powdered garlic set alarm bells ringing when it was left on a plane at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and officials were unable to identify the substance. The bag found on a US Airways plane, which arrived from Orlando on Sunday, sparked a security alert when police feared the whitish-grey powder inside might be a deadly toxin. http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,186128,00.html? Rhino's TV Ratings Report It's official! Last weeks re-run of "America's Funniest Home Videos" featuring a dog that could jump a fence to fetch a ball and a dancing pooch in a tutu beat Shrub's much publicized exclusive one-on-one interview with Tom Brokaw. Meanwhile Infamous shrub basher, Natalie Maines & fellow Dixie Chicks drew more than 13 million viewers to "PrimeTime Thursday" last week -- 4.5 million more than the president logged in the interview the next night." Chicks Rule and Bush . . . Well, You Know by Lisa De Moraes, washingtonpost.com, 4/30/03 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57265-2003Apr29.html RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE This is a little longer BOTTOM LINE than I usually post but I thought it an excellent resource for talking points. With all this fodder, it would seem a half way intelligent Democrat would have a hard time losing. But there's so much that can upset what might seem probable. 8:13:08 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - George W. Bush's Resume George W. Bush's Resume Past work experience: - Ran for congress and lost. - Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. - Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. - Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. - Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. - With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments: - Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. - Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. - Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history. - Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court. Accomplishments as president: - Attacked and took over two countries. - Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. - Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. - Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. - Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. - First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. - First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. - ·First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. - After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history. - Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history. - In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. - Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. - Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period. - Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. - Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. - Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history. - Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. - Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. - Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/) - Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. - ·My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. - Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her). - First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. - Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. - First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation. - Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. - Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history. - First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. - First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. - Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history. - Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. - Withdrew from the World Court of Law. - Refused to allow inspectors' access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. - First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections). - All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. - My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). - Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. · First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. - First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) - First US president to establish a secret shadow government. - Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). - With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli- Palestine relations in at least 30 years. - Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. - First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. - Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. - ·Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. - ·Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.' - Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. - In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. - Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. - In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war. - Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. Records and References: - At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available). - AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war. - Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. - All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. - All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. - All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. - Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. - For personal references please speak to my daddy or Uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.) This document analysis was complied and published by Kelly Kramer and is presented here under the Fair Use Act for educational purposes. Kelly Kramer will receive your email at: kelley_kramer@yahoo.com "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. 7:11:19 AM    comment

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