'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reading Suggestion
'Hang time: Waiting for the election'
this is a small lovely perspective about waiting for next tuesday...written by a grand and lovely pal o'mine.
down to the wire...full of hopes, trying to dodge the fear....
I've voted, by the way. in lovely Oregon, everyone votes by mail, at our leisure. my sister in Oklahoma worries that someone might see my name on the outer envelope, know that I'm a lefty and "mis-lay" it.
but I'm not worried because both sides watch the count carefully and it's worked here for a number of years....and it's on paper.
good luck to us all.
ducks
Recommended Movies
Links from Bruce
Reader Suggestion
'Richie Bush'
Remember Richie Rich, the "poor little rich kid" from comics? Sound like anyone we
know? A neat little Flash cartoon to watch.
Recommended Readings
Links from Bruce
"Faith Abuse: When God Becomes A Campaign Ploy"
by Arianna Huffington
An Excerpt:
In the documentary, President Bush is presented as a man with "the
moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet" - and is shown
sharing a beatific split screen with the Son of God himself.
So, in 2004, Jesus is not only the president's favorite philosopher
- he's his surrogate running mate. I'm surprised we haven't seen any
"Bush-Christ 2004" bumper stickers yet. It would make for a heck of
an October surprise.
"Faith Abuse: When God Becomes A Campaign Ploy" by Arianna Huffington
Twelve ways Bush is now stealing the Ohio vote
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
An Excerpt:
The Republican "November Surprise" to steal the 2004 election is in
full force here in Ohio. With polls showing a dead heat, the GOP is
staging an all-out attack on a fair vote count in the Buckeye State.
Twelve ways Bush is now stealing the Ohio vote by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Thanks, Bruce!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Suggestions
More Bumper Stickers
George W. Bush: The Weakest Link
George W. Bush: Underachiever In The Shadow Of An Accomplished Father
George W. Bush: Kerry Better Get A Landslide; Otherwise, I'm Contesting The Election
George W. Bush: Bringing America Into The 15th Century
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Reader Comment
Re: David Zucker
Damn good thing I hate his movies...another fuck licks the prince's
testicular herpes sores for a carriage.
This is the shit to toss on the bonfire of the vanities, by Zucker (from
imdb). Just look at the crap he has directed:
1. Superhero! (2006) (announced)
2. Scary Movie 4 (2005) (pre-production)
3. Scary Movie 3 (2003)
4. My Boss's Daughter (2003)
5. H.U.D. (2000) (TV)
6. BASEketball (1998)
7. For Goodness Sake (1993)
8. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
9. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
10. Ruthless People (1986)
11. Top Secret! (1984)
12. "Police Squad!" (1982) TV Series (episode "A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)")
13. Airplane! (1980)
Call Dennis Miller, shithead, and then call yourself a shithead. And get
your penis-shaped dildoes from O'Reilly. Hey, you want to do mAnn
Coulter? Don't forget the reacharound, don't mind the maggots, and don't
let her Adam's apple put out your eye.
Oh, Zucker, when you realize you're a traitor, do us all a favor and
drive your Hummer over a cliff with as many of your rightwing pals as
possible.
Scary Movie 4, brought to you by the bastards who fucked your
grandmother out of her retirement, and put your children into debt.
Paul
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Purple Gene Reviews
'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
Purple Gene Reviews
Ann Coulter
Purple Genes' preview of Ann Coulter on Real Time with Bill Maher - episode # 42 airing Friday, October 29th on HBO:
I hope she shows up! I hope she doesn't CHICKEN OUT like Bill O'Reilly did last week. I've been waiting for Bill Maher to have Ann the "Insane" Coulter on his HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher" all year......She's scheduled for tonight (10/29) - OH BOY - For anybody who has ever heard her rant and rave on FOX, she is a one of a kind Conservative CUNT - ASSWIPE Author ("Treason" - "How to talk to a Liberal"), Bumbling Pundit, Histrionic and hysterical cheerleader for all the "Grand Old Party LIMP DICKS and she must use "PERT" in her long blond "I'm gonna throw my sexiness at Bill Maher" Hypocrite Hair!!
Well, Bills' show will include New York TimeS Columnist Thomas Friedman, Gen Wesley Clark (Democratic Candidate for president), Richard "BELZ" Belzer ("Pig" in "Night Shift", Hollyweird in "Flicks" and Munch on "Homicide"), Kevin Costner (FratBoy in "Night Shift", Mariner in "Waterworld" "Tin Cup" - "Open Range" -"Dances with Wolves") and last but not least Ann "ANTHRAX" Coulter.......(check out he(r) website and photo gallery).
I have been asking Bill Maher all season if he has ever Fucked Ann Coulter.....well, he's never answered me on that one .....but watch him fight with her like she is one of his EX BITCHES tonight.....to be continued ........
Purple Gene
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, breezy & cool.
We're being inundated with commercials for state-wide propositions, and a shitload of them star Ahnold (the all-powerful and all-knowing).
One of the few that doesn't has a guy who sounds familiar, and looks like a chunky Anton LaVey. Turns out it's Jesse Ventura (with a lovely snark in his voice), describing how Ahnold's plan will tax Indian casinos at 3 times the rate other businesses are charged.
Oh, that's right, Ahnold's American history class was taught in German.
In The News
Marc Perkel
Marc Perkel is spending $2,000 (£1,100) in the hope of ensuring the result of the United States presidential election. Not by buying television ads ($2,000 wouldn't go very far) but by offering Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 as a free download from his site in the hope that watching it will encourage people to vote against George Bush.
And at least half of his hope has been fulfilled: thousands of people have downloaded the film from his site in a format that can be watched on a computer.
Since he put the films online, more than 300,000 people have downloaded them in full or in part.
For the rest, Marc Perkel
More Censorship From Wal-Mart
George Carlin
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, is not selling comedian George Carlin's best-selling new book, "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops," in its stores because its cover makes fun of the "Last Supper," a spokesman for Carlin said on Thursday.
Carlin spokesman Jeff Abraham said Wal-Mart did not like the book's cover that shows the comedian in the setting of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" sitting next to an empty chair where Jesus sits in the painting.
"They did not like the cover because it was a parody," Abraham said, adding: "George attacks everything in this book but it does not have any nude photos. He said he thought the title would offend everyone."
George Carlin
Unhappy With Campaign Schedules
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs is ready to play travel agent for the presidential candidates. During his swing state Vote or Die! tour, the 34-year-old hip-hop mogul said he was disappointed resident Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry aren't stopping in urban areas during their campaigns.
"If you look at the campaign schedules, they're not making time for these people," Combs told The Associated Press Tuesday during a stop in Detroit.
He was in the midst of a six-city tour aimed at empowering minorities and young people to vote on Nov. 2, and had been joined by R&B crooner Mary J. Blige and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs
Ready to Apologize to Madonna
Elton John
Elton John is ready to apologize to Madonna after recently accusing the pop star of lip-synching. "I don't want to escalate it because I like Madonna," the 57-year-old singer-songwriter tells Entertainment Weekly. "She's been to my house for dinner. It was something that was said in the heat of the moment, and probably should not have been said."
"Would I apologize to her if I saw her?" said John. "Yeah, because I don't want to hurt any artist's feelings. It was my fault. I instigated the whole thing. But it applies to all those bloody teenage singers."
Elton John
Cleared for Remake
'The Fog'
Director John Carpenter's 1980 horror-thriller "The Fog" is rolling in for a remake.
The project is set up at Sony-based Revolution Studios, and Carpenter will serve as one of the producers.
Also producing is Debra Hill, who co-wrote the original with Carpenter, and David Foster.
'The Fog'
Settles Out Of Court
Dild O'Reilly
Fox News Channel television host Bill O'Reilly and a former producer of his talk show have agreed to settle their legal dispute over her allegations of sexual harassment, O'Reilly's lawyer announced Thursday.
Andrea Mackris had claimed O'Reilly made a series of explicit phone calls to her, advised her to use a vibrator and telling her about sexual fantasies involving her.
O'Reilly, who's married, is host of the top-rated prime-time cable news program - and he's seen his ratings go up by 30 percent since the case was filed.
Dild O'Reilly
Acquitted of DUI Charges
Rip Torn
Rip Torn was acquitted of drunken driving charges Thursday by a jury that deliberated less than two hours - and then was treated to a personal thank you from the Emmy-winning actor in a courthouse hallway.
"This is one of the great events in my life," a choked-up Torn said after hearing the not guilty verdict in Manhattan Criminal Court. "To be in the hands of this wonderful jury. I love New York."
Jurors said the prosecution failed to prove that Torn was drinking before his car was involved in a Greenwich Village fender-bender with a taxi.
Rip Torn
Ordered to Alcohol Rehab
David Hasselhoff
Former "Baywatch" TV star David Hasselhoff pleaded no contest on Thursday to a charge of drunk driving and was ordered to attend an alcohol treatment program for six months.
Hasselhoff, who played a lifeguard in the international hit show "Baywatch," was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and given three years probation.
David Hasselhoff
Moved Out of Intensive Care
Marc Almond
British singer Marc Almond, who was badly injured in a motorcycle crash last month, is recovering in hospital and has been moved out of intensive care.
Almond, who had a worldwide hit in 1981 with "Tainted Love" as part of duo Soft Cell, was the passenger on a bike that collided with a car near St. Paul's Cathedral in central London. He suffered severe injuries after he was thrown into the road. The driver of the motorcycle was also hospitalized.
Marc Almond
Shutting Down After 9 Years
CNNfn
CNN will shut down its struggling CNNfn financial news network in mid-December, giving up its attempt to compete with CNBC after nine years.
A handful of programs will be shifted to the main network.
CNN also told The Associated Press on Thursday that it's planning changes for its Headline News offshoot, offering prime-time programming instead of a constantly repeating 30-minute newscast.
CNNfn
Bilking Old Republicans
College Republicans
The College Republican National Committee has raised $6.3 million this year through an aggressive and misleading fund-raising campaign that collected money from senior citizens who thought they were giving to the election efforts of resident Bush and other top Republicans.
Many of the top donors were in their 80s and 90s. The donors wrote checks - sometimes hundreds and, in at least one case, totaling more than $100,000 - to groups with official sounding-names such as "Republican Headquarters 2004," "Republican Elections Committee" and the "National Republican Campaign Fund."
But all of those groups, according to the small print on the letters, were simply projects of the College Republicans, who collected all of the checks.
For the rest, College Republicans
NBC & ABC Developing
9/11 Miniseries
NBC and ABC are developing miniseries revolving around the Sept. 11 attacks, using the "9/11 Commission Report" as the blueprint for dramatic retellings of the events that led to the devastating strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
NBC said Wednesday it has cut a deal with "Speed" screenwriter Graham Yost to develop a limited series exploring the circumstances surrounding the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and spurred the United States to mount a global war on terrorism. NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly said the network intended to produce a "seminal" event for network television on par with the 1970s miniseries "Roots" and 1980s nuclear-attack TV movie "The Day After." The project will take at least a year to develop and might not be ready to air until the 2006-07 season, NBC brass said.
ABC, meanwhile, is understood to have been developing a similar concept for the past several months. ABC declined comment on their project Wednesday, but network sources suggested that the timing of NBC's announcement was motivated at least in part by NBC's desire to be the first to unveil plans for a Sept. 11-focused miniseries.
9/11 Miniseries
Voted Greatest Living Movie Star
Robert De Niro
Two giants of 1970s cinema, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, have topped a British magazine's poll of the greatest living movie stars over the age of 50.
The two stars of the "Godfather" saga took the top two places in a poll, released Thursday, of 10,000 readers of British film magazine Empire.
The Top 15:
1. Robert De Niro
2. Al Pacino
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Paul Newman
5. Marlon Brando
6. Anthony Hopkins
7. Morgan Freeman
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Sigourney Weaver
11. Gene Hackman
12. Harrison Ford
13. Sean Connery
14. Meryl Streep
15. Ian McKellen
Robert De Niro
Keep Watch in Hollywood
Cameras
In a new step for crime fighting in Los Angeles, the Police Department plans to start installing surveillance cameras on city streets, beginning with Hollywood Boulevard. s on city streets, beginning with Hollywood Boulevard.
Five video cameras will train their electronic eyes on one of the world's most famous - and infamous - streets as early as January. And if all goes according to plan, there eventually will be 64 cameras on Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards and Western Avenue.
The city is embarking on the effort with little public debate over which streets and neighborhoods warrant cameras, how the LAPD will find the personnel to watch the cameras, and how the city will ensure that the sophisticated devices are not used to peer into the homes of residents.
Cameras
Exceeds 100,000 Civilians
Death Toll in Iraq
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by coalition forces has lead to the death of at least 100,000 civilians, reveals the first scientific study to examine the issue.
The majority of these deaths, which are in addition those normally expected from natural causes, illness and accidents, have been among women and children, finds the study, released early by The Lancet on Thursday.
The most common cause of death is as a direct result of violence, mostly caused by coalition air strikes, reveals the study of almost 1000 households scattered across Iraq. And the risk of violent death just after the invasion was 58 times greater than before the war. The overall risk of death was 1.5 times more after the invasion than before.
The figure of 100,000 is based on "conservative assumptions", notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, who led the study.
Death Toll in Iraq
Gets Star on Las Vegas Walk
Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton now has two stars. The 62-year-old singer was the first person inducted into the Las Vegas Walk of Stars during a ceremony Tuesday.
The dedication took place at the New Frontier Hotel, where "Mr. Las Vegas" performed for about 15 years. He can now be seen singing "Danke Schoen" at the Stardust hotel-casino.
Wayne Newton
Weighs in on Stem-Cell Issue
Mel Gibson
Message to Mel: Arnold called back. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed disbelief Thursday that Mel Gibson thought the governor all but hung up on him when the "The Passion of the Christ" director called to talk about embryonic stem-cell research.
The Republican governor is supporting a California ballot initiative to sell $3 billion in bonds to finance stem-cell research, putting him at odds with the Bush administration, which limits federal funding for similar studies.
Gibson told ABC's "Good Morning America" that he has an "ethical problem" with the research and had called the governor Wednesday night to talk about it.
Gibson, a Roman Catholic, as is the governor, said that when he first heard about the proposition he was overjoyed but changed his mind.
Mel Gibson
Gay?
Abe Lincoln
If the loving heart of the Great Emancipator found its natural amorous passions overwhelmingly directed toward those of his own sex, it would certainly be a stunning rebuke to the Republican Party's scapegoating of same-sex love for electoral purposes. And a forthcoming book by the late Dr. C.A. Tripp - The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, to be published in the new year by Free Press - makes a powerful case that Lincoln was a lover of men.
Tripp, who worked closely in the 1940s and 1950s with the groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey, was a clinical psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence.
In his book on Lincoln, Tripp draws on his years with Kinsey, who, he wrote, "confronted the problem of classifying mixed sex patterns by devising his 0-to-6 scale, which allows the ranking of any homosexual component in a person's life from none to entirely homosexual. By this measure Lincoln qualifies as a classical 5 - predominantly homosexual, but incidentally heterosexual."
Others, preceding Tripp, have proclaimed in print that Lincoln was gay.
For the rest, Abe Lincoln
Basic Cable Networks
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 18-24. Each ratings point represents 1,096,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9, 3.20 million homes.
2. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.9, 3.15 million homes.
3. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 3.10 million homes.
4. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8, 3.05 million homes.
5. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.96 million homes.
6. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.90 million homes.
7. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.84 million homes.
8. Movie: "Coyote Ugly" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.5, 2.74 million homes.
9. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.74 million homes.
10. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.4, 2.64 million homes.
11. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 2.4, 2.61 million homes.
12. "The O'Reilly Factor" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 2.3, 2.51 million homes.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.3, 2.48 million homes.
14. "Jimmy Neutron" (Saturday, 8:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.1, 2.35 million homes.
15. "Danny Phantom" (Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.1, 2.34 million homes.
Ratings
Newspaper Endorsements
Daily Tally
Sen. John Kerry widened his lead in our daily endorsement tally today, picking up 13 new papers, including three key ones in the surprising battleground of Wisconsin: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Green Bay News-Chronicle, and The Capital Times in Madison. Resident Bush added three today, and he now trails his challenger, 162 endorsements to 129.
Kerry also picked up one more switch from Bush in 2000: the Courier-Post of Camden, N.J. He has now nabbed 38 papers in that category; Bush has picked up only six flip-flops, papers that went for Al Gore four years ago.
In the circulation fight, Kerry leads by 18.4 million to 11.8 million in numbers for supporting papers.
JOHN KERRY
162 newspapers total
18,395,692 daily circulation
GEORGE W. BUSH
129 newspapers total
11,781,383 daily circulation
For a complete list of newspapers, by state, Daily Tally
