Saturday, August 21, 2004

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG - August 21st & 22nd QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "The President and Mrs. Bush were on 'Larry King' last night and the president said, 'America is absolutely better off today than it was 4 years ago.' Then he said, 'Did I say America? I meant Chevron.'" - - Bill Maher KNOW YOUR HISTORY: August 21, 2017 -- Next total solar eclipse visible from North America. August 22, 1972 -- Police arrest 891 people over 2 days as thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters disrupt the Miami Beach convention of the Repuglican Party. CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL OF THE WEEK: "Pee Wee Bush's Big Re-Election Adventure" http://www.internetweekly.org/2004/08/cartoon_bush_pee_wee_poster.html WEBSITE OF THE WEEK: "The Sloganator" http://homepages.nyu.edu/~meo232/sloganator CARTOON OF THE WEEK: "It's A Lie" http://www.chohomio.com Porn star tells U.S. military "Bullets, Not Boobs" By Jeff Franks, Reuters, 8/20/04 A group supporting natural breasts has staged a street protest in Hollywood against a U.S. military policy offering free breast implants to female soldiers. The group, led by porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey, said the military should spend its money on "bullets, not boobs."  "I think girls should have natural boobs and natural beauty," Carey said after unveiling her own breasts in the protest at an Army recruiting office on Sunset Boulevard. ... Carey, who wore green camouflage shorts and bikini top, assured all that her own breasts were real... POSTED AT: "bullets, not boobs" Is Your Relationship (With Your President) In Trouble? Seven Danger Signs. By John Byrne Barry, Sierra Club Planet Newsletter It's a new year, time to take stock of your relationship with your president. What's ahead? A ring or couples counseling? How did it feel seeing him over the holidays? What do your friends think? Check out our seven warning signs and see how your relationship stacks up. 1. He says one thing, does another. He tells you he is going to reduce air pollution, but his administration allows old, dirty power plants and refineries to expand without installing modern pollution-control technology. He tells you he is going to protect communities from forest fires, but it's actually a ruse to open up national forests to logging. He warns you about high mercury levels in fish, but won't recommend tighter controls on mercury emissions. 2. He won't introduce you to his friends. Actually, he won't even tell you who his friends are. His energy task force,chaired by Vice President Cheney, drafted a national energy plan in secret in 2001. Lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry participated in these meetings, but consumer and environmental groups were shut out. And two years later, despite lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club and others, we still don't know who the task force members were. 3. He lets his friends make a mess and not clean up after themselves. He allows polluters to break the law and go unpunished. For example, in November, in what was essentially a presidential pardon for polluters, the administration announced it would drop cases involving 50 plants and refineries that had violated the Clean Air Act. The administration also refused to reauthorize the "polluter-pays" provision of the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup, forcing taxpayers to pay cleanup costs. He is the first president in history not to put a Superfund trust request in the budget... 7 IN ALL POSTED AT: http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200401/trouble.asp 7:30:51 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Political Art, Potshots to Sure Shots Political Art, Potshots to Sure Shots By CARYN JAMES, NY Times, August 20, 2004 As a candidate named Dickie Pilager, Chris Cooper is both George W. Bush and not George W. Bush in John Sayles's exciting political muckraking film "Silver City." Dickie is an affable doofus whose speeches include the word "wrongdoers" and whose own father - a senator backed by corporate moguls - sneers, "Like to see him plowing his way through the appropriations bill; never was much of a reader." Yet Mr. Cooper's sly performance is not mimicry, despite all the Bush signifiers. He creates a shallow, ambitious man who stands in for plenty of politicians better at raising money than at reading or thinking. His performance and Mr. Sayles's exhilarating script and direction make "Silver City" (opening next month) something rare among the dozens of politically themed works on screen and on stage: a Bush-bashing work that is more than Bush-bashing. Advertisement As the film goes beyond election-year satire to reach broader themes of corporate power, campaign double talk and journalistic responsibility, it sheds light on why so few political works succeed as art or simple entertainment... MORE AT: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/movies/20JAME.html?th "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 7:02:32 AM    comment

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