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QUOTE OF THE DAY "People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is truly nourishing. Such sick people should not frighten or discourage us. They should be prayed for along with the sick people who are in the hospital." - - Cesar Chavez KNOW YOUR HISTORY - AUGUST 11th 1970 -- United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez begins a hunger strike to protest union harassment by Teamsters officials. See the United Farm Workers web site at: http://www.ufw.org 1978 -- American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) is passed which makes recommendations to all government agencies on how to help protect Indian ceremonies. Read the Act & its amendment at: http://www2.cr.nps.gov/laws/religious.htm http://www.erowid.org/freedom/religious/airfaa.shtml RHINO HERE: In considering how much I should deal with the upcoming California Recall, I must consider that only a fraction of Rhino's Blog readers are in California. On the other hand, it's gonna be interesting. It could also be an omen of things to come, as have so many other things that happened in California over the course of history. Soooooo... Clergyman For Governor As of Sunday, there were 155 people who handed in their applications to run of Governor and paid their registration fees. Election officials are waiting to announce the official number of candidates until Monday when they can see if all the checks clear. And guess who's come out of retirement to run, activist/entertainer Don Novello, alias, Father Guido Sarduci; the mild mannered priest & cultural envoy to the Pope made famous on the early Saturday Night Live. Also alias Lazlo Toth; author of "The Lazlo Letters : The Amazing, Real-Life, Actual Correspondence of Lazlo Toth, American!" (1977) which were tongue-in-cheek correspondence sent to political and corporate officials, most of which received serious replies. Don Novelo's bio at: http://www.lorain.lib.oh.us/localauthors/novello_don.html In response to the Wall Street Journal's reference last week to MoveOn.org & its members as "far-left" & "pro-Saddam", the Rhino's Blog Reade known as "the weasel hunter" wrote the following letter to the editor. "Outfox him, ferret him out, and hound him 'til he drops." In the interests of public safety, the weasel hunter will follow the weasel, George W. Bush, Jr., his regime, and the path of its coup d'etat with Weasel Tracks, periodic dispatches from the field. 08/10/03 Dear Wall Street Journal Editors: Since its inception, The Wall Street Journal has been stereotyped as an icon of market-driven, bottom-line conservatism, a biased capitalist rag, the paper of the Big Boss and the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Paradoxically, millions read the Wall Street Journal because they believe the WSJ's coverage is usually in-depth, balanced, and accurate. In the 08/05/03 edition of the Opinion Journal, WSJ's online affiliate, editor James Taranto referred to MoveOn.org and its constituents as "far-left" and "pro-Saddam." Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003842 I would suggest you consider the pigeon-holing that the WSJ has been subjected to BEFORE you sling careless, uninformed, inaccurate insults at MoveOn.org, part of the most broad-based, dynamic new e-movement for communication and political action to come along since the invention of moveable type. Certainly Mister Taranto, an editor of your online publication, should make it his responsibility to learn more about MoveOn.org, the broad political affiliations of its constituents, and the validity of an opinion held by millions of Americans who have the hearts and intelligence to be ANTI-Saddam while they are opposed to the war in Iraq. the weasel hunter Speaking of MoveOn.org, last week Al Gore spoke to a large gathering of the e-organization's members at New York University. His address was as clear & comprehensive a lambasting of the shrub gang as I've heard. You can download a real player video file of the speech at: http://www.moveon.org Or you can read the text of the speech which is today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE.
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Former Vice President Al Gore - Remarks to MoveOn.org New York University, August 7, 2003 ...It seems obvious that big and important issues like the Bush economic policy and the first Pre-emptive War in U.S. history should have been debated more thoroughly in the Congress, covered more extensively in the news media, and better presented to the American people before our nation made such fateful choices. But that didn't happen, and in both cases, reality is turning out to be very different from the impression that was given when the votes -- and the die -- were cast. Since this curious mismatch between myth and reality has suddenly become commonplace and is causing such extreme difficulty for the nation's ability to make good choices about our future, maybe it is time to focus on how in the world we could have gotten so many false impressions in such a short period of time. At first, I thought maybe the President's advisers were a big part of the problem. Last fall, in a speech on economic policy at the Brookings Institution, I called on the President to get rid of his whole economic team and pick a new group. And a few weeks later, damned if he didn't do just that - and at least one of the new advisers had written eloquently about the very problems in the Bush economic policy that I was calling upon the President to fix. But now, a year later, we still have the same bad economic policies and the problems have, if anything, gotten worse. So obviously I was wrong: changing all the president's advisers didn't work as a way of changing the policy. I remembered all that last month when everybody was looking for who ought to be held responsible for the false statements in the President's State of the Union Address. And I've just about concluded that the real problem may be the President himself and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.moveon.org/gore-speech.html "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.
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