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Saturday, June 28, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND
"I guess if Ari had to rebel, being a Republican is better than being on drugs, but not by much."
- - Alan Fleischer (father of White House press secretary Ari Fleischer)
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
JUNE 28th, 1994 -- US Department of Energy discloses hundreds of citizens were unwittingly used for radiation experiments during the Cold War.
JUNE 29th, 1972 -- US Supreme Court rules (5-4) that the Death Penalty is cruel & unusual. Declares all current state death penalty laws unconstitutional. A later ruling (1976) allows states to rewrite laws to reinstitute capital punishment, and many did.
WEB SITE OF THE WEEK:
Internet Sacred Text Archives
http://www.sacred-texts.com
BEST BUY OF THE WEEK
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RHINO HERE:
A moment of silence for two men who passed away this week, both leaving legacies of bigotry;
Lester Maddox & Strom Thurmond. May their memories stand in American history as good examples of bad attitudes.
There's a new, carefully orchestrated campaign to expose new evidence about WMDs in Iraq. CNN this week featured a glassy eyed Doctor Mahdi Obeidi, who, allegedly, pulled out ten pieces of un-corroded metal he said he was told to bury under a rose bush in 1991. The pom-pom news agencies claim they were parts of an Iraqi gas centrifuge system for developing nuclear weapons material. No picture of the excavation, just endless photos of a few metal widgets, probably off an auto parts store shelf.
Then the big break. Discovery of 300 sacks of castor bean seeds at a brake fluid plant. For those of you city folks that don't know castor beans, they're a common weed that produces a prolific amount of beans. They could be part of a toxic weapon program, CNN reports. They are also used in making brake fluid. These guys are pathetic. Here's some political satire for weekend smiles.
Culture-Trafficking for the 21st Century
By Gabrielle Banks, ColorLines, June 26, 2003
The consummate politicized performance artist and radical linguist, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, has fearlessly explored and exposed the underbelly of American culture. In the 25 years since he emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, he has crucified himself under the initials INS in his "gala mariachi rockero" suit, crashed Ellis Island as a "cybervato," and skewered everything from free trade to revolutionary tourism, Ricky Martin, and the ubiquitous Taco Bell Chihuahua.
His organization, La Pocha Nostra, is currently involved in collaborative projects that connect the Chicano experience to the post-9/11 experience of British Pakistanis, Hindus and Arabs, and to border conflict resolution between Jews and Palestinians. Gómez-Peña has authored six books; numerous video, audio, and in-person installations; poetry and journalistic projects - including projects for PBS, NPR and HBO.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16264
President Releases Documents
Offering Incontrovertible Proof of Iraqi Acquisition of WMDs (Humor?)
"THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, I'm taking just a few minutes off from scarfing down pork rinds at my daddy's 79th birthday party to bring glorious news to the American people. After months and months of fruitlessly scouring the charred carcass of Iraq for some shred of evidence to justify my killing more innocent civilians than died on 9/11, I'm pleased to say that documents newly recovered from Saddam bin Hussein's safe prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this nefarious evildoer was actively scheming with rogue regimes to acquire vast quantities of WMDs. And while I have not had an opportunity to examine the papers myself, I have the utmost faith in the competence of those persons in the Central Intelligence Agency to whom I delegated the task of covering my ass."
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/061303.asp
Would You Like to Bomb Iran? (Humor?)
[Saddam] I'm Saddam. Saddam I am. I do not like you, Uncle Sam.
[Sam] Would you like to bomb Iran? We'll sell you weapons,despite the ban.
[Saddam] I would not like to bomb Iran! Praise be to Allah, and Koran!
Read the rest - apologies to Dr. Seuss...
http://maddox.xmission.com/bomb_iran.html
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Citing the Need for Accuracy, Bush to Rename Government Agencies
by: Erik P Sorense, Republicons.org, 4/28/2003
Concerned that many governmental agency names have grown tired, dated and inconstant with the current missions assigned to them, the Bush Administration today revealed its proposals for new acronyms for many major branches of the federal government. An unnamed political insider stated, "This is just the type of leadership we've come to expect from a former CEO President. Catchy acronyms are the rage on Wall Street and Madison Ave., why shouldn't the boys in Washington have their fun."
The first of the departments to be relabeled will be the Justice Department. An unnamed source stated, "The word 'Justice' has such liberal connotations that are entirely antithetical to the approach of leadership assumed by General Ashcroft." Henceforward the department will be referred to as the National Agency for Zealous Investigation (NAZI) which according to the insider, "Just about sums up the department's methodology perfectly."
The State department will soon also be renamed and subdivided into two distinct branches. The first, the Organization for International Leadership, will be responsible for international information distribution to advance the American ideal. The second, the Geopolitical Agency for Security, will function as the diplomatic arm. Our anonymous State Department insider offered the following rationale. "The term 'State Department' said nothing about this government's foreign policy. However, by the renaming of the department to OIL and GAS, everyone in the world will understand the basis of our international relations."
The facelift will continue to the Department of the Interior. Our undisclosed source stated, "What are we, interior decorators? What a wimpy name!" To more accurately describe its functions nationally the department will be recast as the Department for Resource Investment and Land Leadership (DRILL)...
YOU'RE HALF WAY THROUGH THE ARTICLE - THE REST IS AT:
http://www.republicons.org/view_article.asp?RP_ARTICLE_ID=354
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