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Saturday, October 2, 2004 |
THE QUOTE:
"Crazy wisdom is, of course, the opposite of conventional wisdom. It is wisdom that deliberately swims against the current in order to avoid being swept along in the numbing wake of bourgeois compromise; wisdom that flouts taboos in order to undermine their power; wisdom that evolves when one, while refusing to avert one's gaze from the sorrows and injustices of the world, insists on joy in spite of everything; wisdom that embraces risk and eschews security; wisdom that turns the tables on neurosis by lampooning it; the wisdom of those who neither seek authority nor willingly submit to it."
- - Tom Robbins
(From Harper's, 9/04, (IN DEFIANCE OF GRAVITY; Writing, Wisdom & The Fabulous Gemini Club)
THE HISTORY:
October 2, 1986 -- The U.S. Congress overrides B-Actor & President Ronald Reagan's veto & passes South African sanctions. This is a culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland & others, begun 2 years earlier with Robinson's arrest in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.
October 3, 1968 -- Yippie Jerry Rubin arrives at the House on UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) inquiry into the August uprisings with a toy M-16 & a red, blue & yellow cape resembling a Viet Cong flag. The Yippies threatened to put LSD into the city's water supply, organize a march of 20,000 naked hippies, levitate the Pentagon, & raid the Chicago office of the National Biscuit Company to provide bread & cookies for the poor. The fact that putting LSD into a reservoir wouldn't work, that 20,000 naked hippies never materialized, that their levitation powers were severely limited, & that there was no Chicago office of the biscuit company mattered little. They were media terrorists...
MOVIE TIP #1) Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
Now In Theatres
A beautiful & inspiring portrait of John Kerry & Vietnam, but bigger than that: it's a gripping, powerful film about how our country wrestles with war. It's vivid without being confrontational -- a political movie you can bring your Republican uncle to -- and it's received great reviews from some of the nation's top film critics.
Check out the trailer online at:
http://www.goingupriver.com/trailer_main.html
If you live near a theater where the film opens this weekend, bring your friends & family Friday night.
Find out where the film is playing in your state at:
http://www.goingupriver.com/john_kerry_theater_list.html
MOVIE TIP #2) Silver City
Now In Theatres
Silver City, produced, directed and written by John Sayles, tells the fictional story of a grammatically challenged, ex-alcoholic son of a senator who runs for governor of Colorado. Sound vaguely familiar?
Learn more about the film, watch trailers & check out screening times & venues at: http://www.silvercitythemovie.com
Also, check out Sayles's recent Nation magazine editorial, written from inside the Republican National Convention. As Sayles says of the spectacle: "The Democratic and Republican conventions can be fairly judged only as extended advertisements for the parties that staged them."
READ IT AT: Infotainment at the RNC
RHINO HERE:
George W. Bush ain't no cowboy! Just check out the BOTTOM LINE today for proof positive he's nothin' but a wanna be cowpoke. These days, the shrub's responsible for givin' the good name of The American Cowboy a bad name round the world. And the folks who live & work near his fake cowboy ranch in Texas know that not only is he a fake cowboy, they say he's a lousy president. Yep, with John Kerry's stunning performance Thursday night, and all the re-running of dubya's smirks and lip pursing, Rhino'd say, "The chickens may finally be comin' home to roost."
Here's a veritable smorgasbord of weekend type lite side readin's. Enjoy !
Tiny Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry
AP, 9/28/04
CRAWFORD, Texas - A weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush's hometown paper endorsed John Kerry for president, saying the Massachusetts senator will restore American dignity. The Lone Star Iconoclast, which has a circulation of 425, said in an editorial dated Sept. 29 that Texans should rate the candidates not by hometown or political party, but by where they intend to take the country. "Four items trouble us the most about the Bush administration: his initiatives to disable the Social Security system, the deteriorating state of the American economy, a dangerous shift away from the basic freedoms established by our founding fathers, and his continuous mistakes regarding Iraq,'' the editorial said.
MORE: http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
Stewart's 'Stoned Slackers'? Not Quite
Comedy Central Defends Audience Against O'Reilly Tease
AP, September 28, 2004
The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers." So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated? Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research...
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/28/tv.stewart.oreilly.ap
Something Bad Has Begun
The Former Cat Stevens Says He Hasn't Changed But the U.S. has.
By Yusuf Islam, LA Times, 9/28/04
I was flying to Nashville last week with my 21-year-old daughter to explore some new musical ideas with a record label there. Ironically, I was trying to remain low-profile because of the speculation that it might have raised in the music world about a return of "the Cat." Media attention was the last thing I wanted. But it seems God wanted otherwise. Toward the end of our journey from London to Washington, the plane was diverted. The captain announced something about "heavy traffic." After landing in Bangor, Maine, six tall, blue-uniformed officers boarded and surrounded me and my daughter. "Is your name Yusuf Islam?" they asked. "Yes," I confirmed. "Do you mind coming with us and answering a few questions?"...
MORE: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-islam28sep28,1,2528734,print.story
Michael Moore Launches 60-City Swing State Tour
MichaelMoore.com, 9/23/04
College and NBA Arenas in 20 Battleground States to Feature Live, On Stage, Oscar- winning Filmmaker; He Plans to Rally Non-voters and Slackers, 'America's Majority'
Calling it his "Slacker Uprising Tour" in an effort to get millions of traditional non- voters to the polls on Nov. 2, the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and number 1 bestselling author Michael Moore announced today that he will embark on a 60-city tour to the 20 battleground states beginning Sept. 26 in Elk Rapids, Michigan, and ending on Election Day in Tallahassee, Florida...
MORE: http://www.MichaelMoore.com
A Field Guide to Bush Supporters: A List of the Top 22 'Species'
By Cheryl Seal
Having followed the policies, decisions, and manipulations of George W. Bush closely and in depth for over three years, I found myself wondering, with daily growing amazement: Who on God's green Earth still actually supports this man? After pondering four years worth of my own interactions, pro-Bush postings at various websites, and the comments of callers to right-wing talk shows and C-SPAN, I have identified and compiled the following list of Bush supporter types.
1. Scared, under-informed, and disempowered women who have been brainwashed into believing that there are Al Qaeda bogeymen behind every door and only G. W. Bush can save them.
2. Scared, under-informed, and disempowered men who have been brainwashed into believing that there are Al Qaeda bogeymen behind every door and only G. W. Bush can save them.
3. People making over $100,000 per year whose primary focus in life is "getting theirs" (as in "who cares if anyone else does?").
MORE AT: http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/5/135746.html
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GEORGE W. BUSH AIN'T NO COWBOY:
by Erik Baard, The Village Voice, 9/28/04
George W. Bush is a fake cowboy. From media accounts, you'd reckon that the president was a buckaroo to the bones. He plays up the image, big-time, with $300 designer cowboy boots, a $1,000 cowboy hat, and his 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. He guns his rhetoric with frontier lingo, saying that he'll "ride herd" over ornery Middle Eastern governments and "smoke out" enemies in wild mountain passes. He branded Saddam Hussein's Iraq "an outlaw regime" and took the vanquished dictator's pistol as a trophy. As for Osama bin Laden, Bush declared, "I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, I recall, that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.' " Britain's liberal newspaper The Guardian noted that "such language feeds the image overseas of Mr. Bush as a hopelessly inarticulate, trigger-happy cowboy."
But liberals from both coasts and Europeans who derisively call Bush a "cowboy" foolishly insult not Bush, but one of America's prime ennobling myths. Instead of ridiculing the myth exploited by George W. Bush, they may want to measure him against it.
This is about more than having a big ranch. Like the knight, the cowboy is an ideal to which people aspire, Wheeler says, regardless of its mundane historical origins. And Autry's code still carries resonance in red states. Voters there, including the Wild West swing states of Colorado and Nevada, might want to think twice about returning a soft-handed wannabe to the White House. Here's how Bush stacks up against the Cowboy Code:
1 The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
2 He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
3 He must always tell the truth.
4 He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
5 He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6 He must help people in distress.
7 He must be a good worker.
8 He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
9 He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.
10 The Cowboy is a patriot.
MORE AT: http://www.villagevoice.com/print/issues/0439/baard.php
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