Sunday, February 29, 2004

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG - February 28th & 29th QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND "Are you as weary of gutter politics as we are here at the Town Hall? Then whatever you do, don't click here. Instead, help us flush out an authoritative witness to President Bush's tour of duty defending the skies over Alabama -- and put this tired, recycled AWOL story to rest once and for all...  ... we're offering $10,000 cash! Yours to either spend or invest in job creation. All you have to do is definitively prove that George W. Bush fulfilled his duty to country." - - Gary Trudeau (in this month's Doonesbury) http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/bush_guard.html THIS WEEKEND IN HISTORY Feb 27th  1919 -- India: Gandhi launches satyagraha campaign. Feb 27th  1958 -- England: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) founded in London. Feb 28th  1940 -- Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar. She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind". Feb 28th  1972 -- Columnist Jack Anderson reveals a memo from lobbyist Dita Beard stating that an ITT pledge of $400,000 to support the Republican National Convention was made in exchange for a recent favorable antitrust settlement TV TIP OF THE WEEKEND: Democratic Presidential Debate Sunday, CBS, Feb 29th, 11am EST WEB SITE OF THE WEEK:    Books On The 60's http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/sixties/list.html RHINO HERE: Not much to say but, Enjoy Your Weekend", and these few weekend web bites. Shrub's Anti-Gay Marriage Dream Team From The Daily Brew ...Here's the 'Dream Team' Bush Should Appoint to Promote his Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Daily Brew writes, "Bush should appoint his brother Neil to act as his point man in promoting the Constitutional amendment... Who better to promote the sanctity of marriage than a man who admitted during his divorce trial he contracted herpes while cheating on his wife with prostitutes in Thailand? To stoke the base, Neil could ask Rush Limbaugh to give the issue daily attention on his radio program. Having been married three times, Rush has significantly more experience with the sanctity of marriage than your average American... For some star power with younger voters, Rush could invite Britney Spears on the program. Unlike most of the Hollywood elite, Britney has been outspoken in her support for the President... for the cable television assault, the obvious go-to-guy is Newt Gingrich... Gingrich ended his 19-year marriage shortly after his victory, visiting Jackie in the hospital where she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer to discuss details of the divorce."... http://thedailybrew.com/ Now in Previews, Political Theater in the Street By Michael Slackman and Colin Moynihan, NY Times, 2/19/04 ...while Mr. Rove was inside, more than 100 protesters were outside, standing behind blue police barricades chanting slogans, waving placards and offering a bit of street theater that confused the police. At one point, as hundreds of guests with invitations waited to pass through velvet barriers to enter the club, a small group of men in bowler hats and women in gowns marched up, chanting, "Four more wars" and "Re-elect Rove." As the group approached, a man who appeared to be a security agent of some type, was overheard whispering into a microphone: "We've got two groups. One for and one against." Actually, it was two against. The person was confused by a group that calls itself Billionaires for Bush, a collection of activists who use satire to make a political point. Indeed, members of the Sierra Club, who were protesting on the other side of the street were also confused and began shouting at what they thought was a pro-Bush contingent. " We want the truth and we want it now!" the Sierra protesters shouted. The billionaires shouted back, "Buy your own president!" MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/politics/campaign/19ROVE.html Credo of a Conservative By a resident of Forest Grove, Oregon, The Oregonian, 02/26/04 - I am a conservative. I believe in staying solvent and out of debt. - I am a conservative. I believe in keeping my nose out of other people's business, their nations and their bedrooms. - I am a conservative. I believe in conserving our assets and our resources -- our air, our land, our water. Accordingly, I don't support or engage in wastefulness, inefficiency or lavish excesses. - I am a conservative. I think an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Therefore I support appropriate government spending on such things as infrastructure, schools, social welfare and crime prevention, because in the long run it's cheaper and more effective. - I am a conservative. I don't sign on to risky schemes. I think if you give Bob a dollar, it helps Bob, but it may not necessarily help Oscar, Fred or Maria. - I am a conservative. If I am attacked, I respond appropriately and conservatively. I do not swat mosquitoes with dynamite. - I am a conservative. I don't deal falsely or prematurely with facts. - I am a conservative. I understand the purposes of various institutions. It is the job of government to govern, the job of religion to address spiritual needs, and the job of business to secure profits by producing needed goods and services. I do not confuse these institutions. - I am a conservative. I understand my position in the world and that my opinions are not the only valid ones. - I do not have an exclusive claim on what is right, good or patriotic, and those who disagree with me are not automatically evil traitors. What's really weird, though, is that I've always thought these things, but now everyone calls me a "liberal"! 8:23:43 AM    comment

RHINO'S WEEKEND BOTTOM LINE - A Fistful of Kryptonite Against SuperGeorge... A Fistful of Kryptonite Against SuperGeorge... by Thom Hartmann,  CommonDreams.org , January 6, 2004 In this season of blockbuster movies, it's useful to remember that one of the first lessons aspiring novelists and screenwriters learn is that the goodness of a hero is defined by a single quality - the badness of his opponent. From Superman's Lex Luthor to Batman's Joker to Indiana Jones' Nazis to Luke Skywalker's Darth Vader, for a hero to be perceived as larger than life, he must have a larger than life enemy. If Frodo, for example, hadn't been forced to do battle with the supernatural powers of the Ring and its minions, his story would have merely been a boring travelogue. But with an army of supernaturally brilliant, evil, and powerful opponents, Frodo had the opportunity to display his extraordinary inner courage and resourcefulness, qualities he didn't even realize he had until they were called forth by the peril of an awesome evil. This is a lesson that was not lost on Karl Rove and George W. Bush. If they could recast George as the opponent of a power as great as the Ring, then the rather ordinary Dubya could become the extraordinary SuperGeorge, rising from his facileness to prevail over supernatural powers of evil... POSTED AT: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0106-13.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 6:50:42 AM    comment

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