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Saturday, June 7, 2003 |
QUOTE EXCHANGE OF THE WEEKEND
"Shut up! Shut up!"
- - Bill O'Reilly (to Al Franken on C-SPAN's, "Book TV")
"This isn't your show, Bill."
- - Al Franken (Responding to O'Reilly)
The program will air again Sunday. It's also downloadable from the C-Span Web site.
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
JUNE 7th
570 -- Birth of Islamic prophet Muhammed.
1099 -- First Christian Crusade reaches the walls of Jerusalem.
JUNE 8th
65 -- Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. Begins the Jewish rebellion against Rome.
632 -- Islamic prophet Mohammed dies, Medina, Arabia.
WEEKEND TV TIP:
Dennis Kucinich & Howard Dean will be on C-Span Sunday at 2pm ET / 11am PT.
WEB SITE SPOOF OF THE WEEK:
The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference
http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
RHINO HERE:
G. Walker Bush & his handlers are working overtime to build their campaign coffers hoping to finally have their "boss" get elected by the people in 2004. In a surprising move late this week, The White House named the new press secretary replacing Ari Fleisher; none other than Jason Blair, the reporter recently fired from the NT Times for filing false stories and generally being a fantastic fibber. The administration hopes an even more talented liar than Ari. .
Rhino had his movie idea all ready to pitch to the studios, "G.I. Jane meets Wag The Dog", but it seems the Pentagon got their movie made & reviewed before I could get my green light.
Movie Reviews for "Saving Private Lynch"
"Best Movie Since 'Operation Iraqi Oil Well Liberation-Part Two' in which George the Lesser valiantly kills all those un-godly Arabs and not one single innocent dies and he makes everything all smiles and flowers in Iraq and he didn't profit from it politically or economically"
- - Fox News Movie Reviews (Sunday)
"Less factual than Mississippi Burning. This piece of crap wasn't worth the celluloid it was printed on."
- - The Hollywood Reviewer (Monday)
"If you don't buy this piece of military propaganda that we're forcing down your throats as fact, then you must be an Un-American/commie/terrorist/queer/liberal and we'll put Poindexter on your ass."
- - Rummie (Tuesday)
"Wonder-filled! Never left the edge of my seat!"
- - The Hollywood Reviewer (Wednesday)
"With the Success of Saving Private Lynch, I went on to produce 'Georgie Plays Dressup and Never Went AWOL on the USS Abraham Lincoln' and hopefully I'll get a chance to make Operation Iraqi Oil Well Liberation - Part 3:Iran - So That's Where The WMDs Went"
- -Hollywood Producer (Thursday)
"She's pretty, blonde, young & white grade A damsel in distress material & she'll need the money from the film after Dubya cuts 25 Billion from veteran's benefits."
- - Hollywood Director (Friday)
"Too bad that other blonde Corrie girl couldn't get this much media attention, investigation or public concern. We only care about women who go to the Middle East to kill. Not those who go to spread peace."
- - Hollywood Blogger (Saturday)
A couple parody pieces I got from democrats.com
Ann Coulter Endorses the 'Free Eric Rudolph' Campaign (Parody)
"Hi. I'm Ann Coulter asking you to write to President [sic] Bush and ask him to pardon our good Christian friend Eric Robert Rudolph. Eric was only doing what the religious far right has been suggesting all along. Kill God's enemies. He was just destroying the evil ones, the liberals, the abortionist, the gays and lesbians. He should get the Purple Heart, not gas chamber."
http://www.internetweekly.org/iwr/parody_free_eric_rudolph.html
Supreme Court Rules that the Bill of Rights is 'Unconstitutional' (Satire)
Diane Stingley writes: "In a 9-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled today in the case of United States of America vs. the Dixie Chicks that the Bill of Rights is unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist made it clear that the court wasn't completely opposed to freedom of speech, religion, assembly, etc., but that the Bill of Rights as written was simply too vague and could, therefore, be used in the wrong way by people opposed to our democratic way of life.' 'We have to always keep in mind,' the decision goes on to say, 'there was no al-Qaida in 1776. King George was no Saddam Hussein.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/5965286.htm
Here's one by Mark Morford, ratchet jaw writer of the S.F. Gate's "Morning Fix"
Orange Means Oh My God We Are So Goddamn Screwed
(Orange To Yellow)
The Bush administration on Friday dropped the federal terrorism alert level one step -- to yellow -- saying intelligence pointing to an imminent attack has decreased and that the largely bogus alert had essentially served its purpose of maintaining a numbing low-level buzz of fear among a populace who is pretty much regularly smacked and pummeled and drugged like stringy heroin addicts by the GOP-led screeches of manufactured terror and rage and isolationism and dread and soul-crushing warmongering hate and homophobia and snickering. The higher orange alert lasted 10 days. No domestic terrorist strikes were attempted during that period. Or, for that matter, during the last orange alert. Or the one before it, or before that, or before that, or before that, or before that, or etc, etc, etc. "The intelligence community has concluded the number of indicators and warnings that led to raising the threat level have decreased," said Brian Roehrkasse, soul-dead spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, the poor bastard. "Translation: Shut the hell up and don't ask questions or we start greedily cavity searching your teenage daughter at the airport, suckers."
http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
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RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE
Waiting for the Barbarians
By Constantine Cavafy (1864-1933), translated by Edmund Keeley
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn't anything happening in the senate?
Why do the senators sit there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What laws can the senators make now?
Once the barbarians are here, they'll do the legislating.
Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting at the city's main gate
on his throne, in state, wearing the crown?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader.
He has even prepared a scroll to give him,
replete with titles, with imposing names.
Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
and rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.
Why don't our distinguished orators come forward as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and they're bored by rhetoric and public speaking.
Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?
(How serious people's faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home so lost in thought?
Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come.
And some who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.
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