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Saturday, December 20, 2003 |
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY
QUOTES OF THE WEEKEND
"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to breakdown segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches."
- - Strom Thurmond ( 1948, when his half black daughter, Essie Mae Washington Williams, was 23 years old. It seems in his segregationist efforts, he made an exception for his penis. )
THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY
December 20th, 1991 -- The CIA classifies a task force report on greater openness as "secret".
December 21st , 1970 -- Elvis Presley goes to the White House to volunteer his services to President Nixon on fighting the nation's drug problems. The King gives The Pres a chrome-plated Colt .45 while Tricky Dick gives him, fittingly, a Narcotics Bureau badge.
WEB SITE OF THE WEEK: Fair & Balanced PAC
"The Lord of the Right Wing"
http://flash.bushrecall.org
For more on Fair & Balanced PAC check out: http://www.bushrecall.org/about_us.asp
WEEKEND ACTIVIST TIP: Reduce waste in gift-wrapping
It's estimated that between Thanksgiving & New Years, an extra million tons of waste are generated
nationwide each week. Tips: reduce holiday waste through creative gift-wrapping. Wrap in brown paper bags or newspaper. Decorate with stamps, crayons, anything you think of! If you do buy wrapping paper, buy paper with the highest amount of post-consumer recycled content you can find.
RHINO HERE:
It's the tongue -in-cheek time of the week for The Rhino. With help from Nick Turse, a doctoral student in the Program for the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and The Nation's weblog known asTomdispatch.com, edited by Nation Institute fellow, Tom Engelhardt, Rhino directs your attention to "Have Yourself a Pentagon Christmas."
Mr. Engelhardt creates Tomdispatch.com "for anyone in despair over post-September 11th US mainstream media coverage of our world and ourselves." Check it out regularly at:
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch
A Military-Industrial-Christmas
by Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com, December 18, 2003
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
The Special Forces team was inserted
As quiet as a mouse…
The neo-cons were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of Empire danced in their heads;
And Condi in her kerchief, and Cheney in his cap,
Had just put the Prez down for his regular nap…
He was dressed in desert camo, from his head to his foot,
And he carried more weapons than you'd know where to put;
A bundle of gear he had strapped to his back,
machine guns and rifles and an 80 lbs. Pack...
He sprang to his Abrams, to his tank-crew gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like a Tomahawk missile.
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight,
"A Military-Industrial-Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
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Have Yourself a Pentagon Christmas
by Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com , December 18, 2003 (excerpted)
... America's Last Action Heroes - What would the holidays be without little muscularized, molded plastic dolls holding big guns in a kung-fu battle grip?
Now, thanks to Blue Box International your child can pilot Air Force One into Baghdad with Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush , the greatest American hero, dolled-up in Naval Aviator regalia -- a fully posable 12" action figure in "g-pants." "Actual figure," warns the maker, "may vary slightly from item shown" (which is so totally Mission Accomplished!) Then, for only an extra $29.95 (plus shipping and handling) your child can feed the troops a turkey dinner using the George W. Bush Talking Action Figure , the aviator's civilian counterpart, clad in the more traditional Republican dark suit and red power tie. He spouts 17 phrases including the apropos Bush-ism "...working hard to put food on your family..."
And that's only the beginning! Just imagine your son holding his own news conference with the Talking Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld Action Figure ($29.99 plus shipping and handling) to announce that weapons of mass destruction have just been discovered in Bethesda, Maryland. Press his button and catch 28 different phrases from "Rumstud" (as the Elite Aviator likes to call him) including the classic: "I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said. But I know what I think. I assume that's what I said."
And you California parents, don't miss the Talking Governator , hero of Total Recall, the movie and the election, in plastic form… or call him Robot Arnie and fight the world with the T-850 Terminator in his black-leather get-up.
But don't stop here… oh no, you mustn't stop here. What fun's the Elite Aviator if there's no villain to attack him? Evil-Doer Action Figures...
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