Saturday, October 25, 2003

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG - October 25th & 26th QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND "I will write peace on your wings & you will fly all over the world." - - Sadako Sasaki THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY October 25th, 1955 --  Sadako Sasaki dies. Classmates folded 356 paper cranes so that 1,000 were buried with her. In 1958 a statue of Sadako was unveiled at Hiroshima Peace Park. A Folded Crane Club was organized in her honor, & members still place thousands of paper cranes at her statue each August 6; Peace Day. (See Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr , 1977) http://www.sadako.org October 26th,1985 -- Australian Government gives Ayers Rock back to the Aborigines. 1986 -- US:  Actor President Ron Reagan vetoes a bill that would impose trade sanctions on apartheid regime of South Africa. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: Bush Is Not A Nazi - So Stop Saying That http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html RHINO HERE: Irony is defined as "an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs."  One could argue, and Molly Ivins does in  this weekend's BOTTOM LINE, that much of what has come to be expected of people of the Republican persuasion,  has been cast aside for reasons totally unreasonable.  It's a strange world we live in today. But first, "Gizmodo," a website with unique (wierd) ideas for holiday gifts for friends & family, beginning with an idea for those spy relations. http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/008892.php "Gizmodo" & The Sunglasses that record everything Researchers at one of HP's labs in England have come up with a prototype of a pair of sunglasses with an embedded digital camera built-into them. The glasses dump all the thousands of digital images it captures to a PC or handheld at the end of the day, and fortunately there's some special software available which can filter the pictures and pick out the good ones or the ones that are most likely to be of some importance... Just one of many gizmos featured at gizmodo.com: http://www.gizmodo.com/ 9:59:16 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - A Fine Fall Irony Fest It's a Fine Fall Irony Fest Molly Ivins - Creators Syndicate,  10.09.03 - AUSTIN, Texas -- Not that any of us is in a position to criticize the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky, but don't you think She's been going a little heavy on the irony lately? All those folks who had conniption fits over Bill Clinton's affair are now pooh-poohing Arnold Schwarzenegger's sexual misconduct -- and vice versa. The right-wingers who are always griping about Hollywood stars who express political opinions -- "Shut Up and Sing" -- suddenly find an actor perfectly fit for high political office based on his experience as The Terminator. Professional patriots who would have been screaming with horror had the Clinton White House ever leaked the name of an undercover CIA agent now struggle to justify or minimize such a thing. President Bush has spent $300 million trying to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and come up with zip, so now he wants to spend $600 million more. And let's mention the president's interesting theory that NOT finding any weapons of mass destruction means the Iraq war was fully justified. (Hello?) Connoisseurs of political folly who have been enjoying the antics in California should not overlook the doings in the Great State, where Texas Republicans have achieved such a pluperfect snafu that the state's primary will be delayed next year. The Iraqi Governing Council is complaining because the United States is wasting so much money in Iraq. Rush Limbaugh is apparently facing drug charges. Attorney General John Ashcroft demanded that federal prosecutors seek the maximum penalty in every case just before some perp(s) in the White House apparently broke the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. All in all, a fine fall Irony Fest... READ IT ALL: http://www.workingforchange.com/column_lst.cfm?AuthrId=8 "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 9:22:39 AM    comment

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