Saturday, September 13, 2003

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND "And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." - - Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly (on Good Morning America, March 18, 2003) THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY: September 13, 1961 -- Bertrand Russell, aged 89, & 32 others arrested for demonstrating against nuclear weapons in Trafalgar Square, London. September 14, 1963 -- Due to pressure from folksingers boycotting television's "Hootenanny" program, ABC invites Pete Seeger to appear on the show, if he'll sign an oath of loyalty to the US. He doesn't & ABC extends its blacklist/ban on the outspoken leftist musician. RHINO HERE: Many people are not aware that on Thursday, the 2nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S Government took a giant step towards protecting its citizens against the ongoing threat of terrorism. With Osama & Saddam still on the loose & domestic chemical companies refusing to pay to move their storage tanks out of urban areas, with benefits, salaries & jobs of civilian emergency workers across the country being cut, and not even a decent clue as to who was killing people with US made anthrax, the shrub gang has seen fit to put Tommy Chong in jail for nine months for selling glass bongs over the internet. Tommy is the first person to be prosecuted under John Ashcroft's "Operation Pipe Dreams" and "Operation Headhunter," which shut down national glass pipe distributors nationwide resulting in the indictment of over 55 people. Now, don't you all feel safer? The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is requesting that everyone who thinks it's preposterous to be spending valuable law enforcement resources locking up a comedian for selling glass pipes, write their federal representatives. So if you don't think your tax dollars should be going to conducting surveillance & raids on mild mannered vegan hippies living lightly in the woods across America, TAKE ACTION AT: http://capwiz.com/norml2/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=3406006 Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is the news story we've all been waiting for. But first, a story on the rise & fall of Tommy Chong Chong takes potshots at grass laws By JIM SLOTEK, SUN MEDIA, 5/2/03 Tommy Chong's first joint, the one that was supposed to turn him into a homicidal maniac, was handed to him in Calgary in 1957 by a Chinese bass player. It was a life-changing experience, not least because he and partner Cheech Marin would one day earn many millions of dollars with pot-comedy albums and movies like Up In Smoke... http://www.friendlystranger.com/info/recreational_03/chong.htm 7:51:26 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders by Greg Palast, CommonDreams.org , 9/11/03 The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world. Mr. Bush announced that after, "two years of bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad," he saw no choice but to accept that, "I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified." The text of the former President's September 11 address to the nation follows: "My fellow Americans:  I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Two years ago today, thousands of innocent Americans were murdered by terrorist maniacs.  In the script I've been handed, I'm now supposed to tell you that America is safer today, and that the world is kinder and nicer and happier, because of I'm such a brilliant general in the War on Terror. But who are we kidding? Yesterday, Osama released his new hit video. The terrorists are having a picnic ever since I turned over our foreign policy to Saudi Arabia and Exxon-Mobil. And here's the point in my speech where my handlers would have me tell you about how I've been praying hard, making it sound like I just got off the phone with the Lord. I don't know about you, but I find it pretty darn offensive, downright blasphemous, to drag the Lord's name into every cheap campaign speech and chest-pounding war threat. Osama says he talks to God too. Let's leave Him out of the politics from now on, OK?... http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0911-13.htm "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. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:54:05 AM    comment

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