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Baron Dave Romm's Review
Bush Knew II
By Baron Dave Romm
In addition to collecting CDs, I collect urls. In honor of BartFest in Las Vegas, here are a bunch of links to articles and lists that the Bush administration would rather not have people visit. These are a few of the recent ones, gleaned from Bartcop, Buzzflash, Smirking Chimp, etc, from May onward. I've grouped them into subject matter, and pared down the entries. The full list is MUCH longer. Tested as of 10/6/02
Don't let recent events distract you from the real issues. Capturing potential terrorists and getting a Taliban from the US to plead guilty are commendable, if secondary, responses to 9/11 more than a year later. Removing Saddam Hussein from power is an admirable goal. But none of those things has much to do with capturing Osama bin Laden, dismantling al Queda and other groups that are actively trying to kill Americans, or ferreting out those responsible for 9/11. Why is Bush wagging the dog so blatantly? (And why is the conservative news media buying it?) Here are a examples of the cover up, and a few questions to keep asking the oily Bush administration.
The Cover Up:Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
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Great Quote
Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
Reader Contribution
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Turtle rescue, rehab and rehoming
'SOMETHING 'BOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN'
from Alvin
BUSH TO ARGUE HIS CASE AGAINST IRAQ
In the run-up to key congressional votes, pResident Bush will
argue
his case against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a rare evening speech Monday.
MIDILink
SOMETHING 'BOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN
{Sung to "Rhythm of the Rain" by The Cascades}
{As sung by pResident Dubya Bush}
Have you noticed something 'bout Saddam Hussein?
His fancy palaces, he won'tsleep in
The fool moves each night to a new place or tent
And wearing a disguise again
Saddam's not so naive as to ignore my threat:
"Disarm now or you're dead!"
It's difficult to retreat from my war roulette
All signs are we'll attack Iraq
Hussein's plea to the U.N.'s unfair
Now they question me; I thought they wouldn't dare
I don't have another plan; elections aren't faraway
Have you noticed something 'bout Saddam Hussein?
His fancy palaces, he won't sleep in
The fool moves each night to a new place or tent
And wearing a disguise again
{instrumental break}
Hussein's out of time, and he must go
We'll steal his land; Big Oil's profits grow
Hussein has out lived any usefulness he can show
Saddam's not so naive as to ignore my threat:
"Disarm now or you're dead!"
It's difficult to retreat from my war roulette
All signs are we'll attack Iraq
{Dubya will attack Iraq}
{Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, Dubya}
{Dubya will attack, Dubya will attack Iraq}
{Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, Dubya}
{Dubya will attack, Dubya will attack Iraq}...
Alvin
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Was a bit toasty so fired up the grill & incinerated burgers. Cooling off nicely though, now that the sun has gone down.
Anybody seen a 'great' new TV show yet this season? So far, the one I despise most is 'The In-Laws', although 'Good Morning, Miami' and 'Life With Bonnie' aren't far behind.
Sometime before I'm ready to get up the roofers will be here. The new roof is going to be ugly, but, it'll make the insurance company happy.
Tonight, Monday, CBS has a fresh 'King Of Queens', a fresh 'Yes, Dear', a fresh 'Raymond', a fresh 'Still Standing', and a fresh 'CSI: Miami'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Jennifer Love Hewitt, diving dogs, and Tom Petty.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is Branford Marsalis.
NBC offers a fresh 'Fear Factor', a fresh 'Third Watch', and a fresh 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are David Spade, James van der Beek, and Queens of the Stone Age.
On a typical Monday-night rerun, Conan's guest are Sam Donaldson, Busta Rhymes, and Gene Pompa.
On a typical Monday-night rerun (from 7/10/02), Carson Daly's guests are Shannon Elizabeth and Darius Rucker.
ABC has a fresh 'Drew Carey', a fresh 'Whose Line', and 'MNF', where the Packers visit the Bears.
The WB has a fresh '7th Heaven' and a fresh 'Everwood'.
Faux may have baseball, may not. Oh well.
UPN has a fresh 'The Parkers', then a fresh 'One On One', then a fresh 'Girlfriends', followed by a fresh 'Half & Half'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Munich
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton flashes a thumb up after receiving the European SME award, during a gala dinner of the European Union of small and medium-sized enterprises in Munich,
southern Germany, Friday, Oct. 4, 2002.
Photo by Uwe Lein
Gave Speech At Denison University
Jennifer Garner
Being nominated for an Emmy hasn't changed "Alias" star Jennifer Garner. She's still a procrastinator.
"If I've agreed to give a speech to a million people, I put it off until the plane ride," she said Saturday night in a speech at alma mater Denison University.
Jon Farris, head of the Denison theater department, said Garner was the best student he has ever had.
"Not the most talented, but nobody knew how to work the way she knew how to work," Farris said. "We noticed that from the first week she was on campus. ... She had a real aptitude
for learning the craft of acting."
Jennifer Garner
Cast Gets CBS Rewards
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'
The cast of CBS' hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" has discovered that crime does pay, after all.
Recognizing the show's value, especially in its ultracompetitive 9 p.m. Thursday slot, CBS during the summer quietly doubled the salaries of the show's two stars, William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger,
and hiked pay for other key cast members as well, sources said.
Petersen, who plays quirky investigator Gil Grissom, last season made about $100,000 per episode; he now earns $225,000-$250,000 per episode, including a producer's fee and advances against his
profit participation, the sources said.
Helgenberger, who plays Catherine Willows, does not have a back-end deal or earn a producer's fee, according to sources, but her salary doubled this season to $150,000 per episode.
Other cast members, including Gary Dourdan and George Eads, are believed to have gotten substantial raises as well, though they do not command nearly the salaries that Petersen and Helgenberger do.
That wasn't all. As a token of appreciation, CBS in the spring sent each of the principal cast members a big-screen, high-definition plasma television. Each TV set is worth at least $20,000.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Happy Monday, Alex
Cindy Crawford
U.S topmodel Cindy Crawford gestures during German television show 'Bet It...?!' ('Wetten Dass... ?!') of German TV channel ZDF in Kiel, northern Germany, on Saturday, Oct.5, 2002.
Photo by Fabian Bimmer
New Interview
Tony Curtis
"Sweet Smell of Success" star Tony Curtis was somewhat indiscriminate in his sexual tastes early in his Hollywood career. "I was 22 when I arrived in Hollywood in 1948," Curtis tells
the British gay magazine Attitude. "I had more action than Mount Vesuvius; men, women, animals! I loved it, too. I participated where I wanted to and didn't where I didn't." Curtis, 76,
is now married to buxom equestrian Jill Vandenberg.
Tony Curtis
Dispute Threatens Net Radio Royalty Deal
Small 'Webcasters'
Small Internet broadcasters and the music industry have agreed on a last-minute royalty-payment plan but a dispute between musicians and record labels threatens to scuttle the deal, sources said Sunday.
Two weeks before "Webcasters" are due to begin royalty payments to the musicians and record labels whose songs they use, the online broadcasters have agreed to pay a rate of between 8 percent and 12 percent of revenues
rather than a previously set per-song rate that many fear could drive them out of business, sources said.
Larger Webcasters, such as America Online and Clear Channel Communications were not included in the agreement and will pay a per-song rate set by the Library of Congress in June. But the arrangement
is unlikely to become law unless musicians and record labels agree on how to distribute the millions of dollars of anticipated royalties.
But while the new agreement states that legal fees will be taken out of royalties, it makes no guarantee that musicians will then be paid directly, said Ann Chaitovitz, national director of sound recordings for the
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
What constitutes a "small Webcaster" remained unclear, but earlier negotiations have set the limit at revenues of less than $500,000 per year, Potter said.
Small 'Webcasters'
Snarking Guy
Madonna
Madonna suspects her film director husband Guy Ritchie has gay tendencies. The singer told her hubby she was worried about the "strange homosexual
undertone" between him and other men on the set of the couple's new movie." There was lots of exhibitionist behaviour - pulling pants down, fondling,
hugging, slapping and kissing," she revealed.
Madonna was speaking on a US television show where the couple were promoting Swept Away, which Guy directs.
The Material Girl put her husband on the spot by saying: "Are your crew so intimate on all your films? I saw their bums on several occasions."
Madonna
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Roger Ailes Obsession?
Paula Zahn
Shortly before CNN unveiled the new studio it had built in Manhattan for Paula Zahn's "American Morning" last month, a telephone rang at the desk of a reporter.
A publicist for Fox News Channel was calling. For anyone writing about Zahn's show, she wanted to point out how much better Fox's morning show, "Fox & Friends," was doing in the ratings.
Ever since Zahn jumped from Fox News Channel to CNN last fall, her former employers have badmouthed her relentlessly. The jibes are sometimes brutal, sometimes humorous,
and once even profane. The underlying message seems clear: It's not wise to cross Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes.
During the past year, Zahn's "Fox & Friends" rivals have been her most frequent needlers.
In January, the disc jockey Mancow, a "Fox and Friends" contributor, called Zahn a "knucklehead." Because she's the enemy, he said, "I just want to punch her in the face."
Zahn would not comment for this story, but her network came to her defense. CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson said Ailes seemed obsessed with his lost anchor.
"At first it was somewhat amusing, but one year later it's getting old and, frankly, a little bizarre," Robinson said.
Paula Zahn
Sunday
Los Angeles
Anti-war activists march to protest the Bush administrations stance on Iraq Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002 in Los Angeles, Calif. The protesters started the day by rallying outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles.
Photo by Ric Francis
Another Anorexic Blonde?
Debbie Schlussel
Don't mess with Debbie Schlussel. The conservative firecracker was on CBS' "Early Show" defending Augusta National Golf Club's policy against female members last week when weatherman
Mark McEwan started hurling insults her way. "He left me a voice mail after the show saying, 'It's my job to mix things up,' " the attorney/columnist says. "I thought it was his job
to predict the weather. He was very smug and smarmy. It's like he was trying to become Bryant Gumbel, who is sitting in obscurity. Maybe that's where Mark wants to be."
Debbie Schlussel
New HBO Documentary
Spike Lee
Filmmaker Spike Lee says he hopes black athletes will see his new documentary " Jim Brown: All American" and be inspired to speak out against social injustice.
Athletes should follow the former NFL star's example and become activists in their communities, Lee said Saturday after the film's premiere at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The documentary includes interviews with dozens of people and explores the domestic abuse charges for which Brown served jail time.
Brown, a former Cleveland Browns running back, said today's players are too blinded by lucrative contracts to care about what's going on in their communities.
The film is scheduled for broadcast on HBO in December.
Spike Lee
Family Settles Feud
Packo's
An Ohio family settled its feud over control of the company made famous by the hot dog-loving, cross-dressing Cpl. Max Klinger in TV's "M-A-S-H."
Descendants of Hungarian hot dog king Tony Packo announced an agreement Friday that will reorganize the company and put an end to efforts by Anthony Packo Jr. to dissolve it.
Tony Packo's won worldwide fame when Toledo native Jamie Farr, playing a homesick soldier on "M-A-S-H," longed for Packo's hot dogs.
Packo's
BartCop TV!
To Teach At University of Tennessee
David Keith
David Keith has returned to his hometown to teach filmmaking at the university where he got his start in acting.
Keith, a University of Tennessee alumni, will help students at the Clarence Brown Theatre shoot and produce their own short drama.
Keith, best known for his role in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman," got his first taste of acting at his alma mater, playing Uncle Henry in a student production of "The Wizard of Oz."
After auditioning more than 50 students in April, Keith selected 12.
David Keith
New York City
Central Park
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators gather in New York's Central Park protesting the United States possible war on Iraq October 6, 2002. The demonstrations were scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
Hoping For A War Dividend?
MSNBC
The third-place news cable channel will replace its 7 p.m. gabber "Nachman" with "Countdown: Iraq." Anchored by Lester Holt, the Middle East-centered news show launches Oct. 7.
Several network executives denied published reports that Ashleigh Banfield's 10 p.m. program "On Location" is doomed.
Holt, who currently anchors an eponymous program from 4-6 p.m., will relinquish the latter hour of his slot for the eclectic "Nachman," hosted by the cable channel's editor in chief, Jerry Nachman.
Last overhauled on July 15 with the addition of Phil Donahue and Nachman and the subtraction of Alan Keyes, the network's evening schedule may not be catching on with viewers as quickly as anticipated.
Aside from Lester Holt, who specializes in military affairs, another big beneficiary of a war could be Banfield, whose ratings are suffering.
Since her 10 p.m. series bowed July 15, it has averaged 263,000 viewers vs. the 282,000 who watched Keyes during the previous quarter. MSNBC's itinerant correspondent gained notoriety after the Sept. 11
attacks, and the network says it plans to send her to Iraq soon.
MSNBC
Picked Up For Full Season
'Everwood'
The WB has given the citizens of "Everwood" something to cheer about.
The rookie drama scored a full-season pickup of 22 episodes on Friday.
That makes "Everwood" the first fall drama on any network to receive a "back nine" episode order (ABC picked up two of its new sitcoms, "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" and "Life With Bonnie," last week).
Like most new shows, WB initially greenlit 12 episodes of "Everwood" in addition to the show's pilot.
'Everwood'
Appearance of Impropriety (At Least)
Who Makes The Voting Machines?
The story is not about allegations of fraud — it's about an appearance of impropriety that is stunning in its magnitude.
Unfettered by any disclosure regulations about ownership or political affiliations, just a few companies create and control almost all the voting machines in the U.S.
Election Systems & Software, the firm whose machines were involved in the 2002 flubbed Florida primary election — and the company that now makes the voting machines for most of
America — is a private company that does not like to tell the public who owns it. But at least one major shareholder is Michael R. McCarthy, who runs the McCarthy Group. The
McCarthy Group has been a primary owner of Election Systems & Software, including its predecessor, American Information Systems for more than a decade. Michael R. McCarthy is
the current campaign Treasurer for Republican senator Chuck Hagel. Prior to his election, Republican Senator Hagel was president of McCarthy & Company. In fact, he was first
elected while his own company was making the vote-counting machines!
For a most enlightening read, Who Make's The Voting Machines?
The Newest Saint
Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer
Pope John Paul made a saint Sunday of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the controversial founder of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei, before one of the biggest crowds ever to flood the Vatican.
Escriva is the 468th saint proclaimed by Pope John Paul, who has declared more saints than all of his predecessors in the last four centuries combined.
Escriva founded Opus Dei, which means "God's Work," in Spain in 1928. There are now 1,800 Opus Dei priests. The rest of the 84,000 members worldwide are ordinary Catholics, many of them professionals.
But in the years leading up to Escriva's 1992 beatification -- the last step before sainthood -- Opus Dei was frequently accused of having a dangerous, secret, fundamentalist agenda.
The Pontiff has shown Opus Dei great favor. His spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls is one of the group's best-known members.
For a lot more, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer
'Castellers de Vilafranca'
Human Tower
The 'Castellers de Vilafranca' club, forming a human tower, begins to fall after forming nine layers, in Tarragona October 6, 2002. Vilafranca won the Human Tower annual competion during a traditional festival in this northeastern Spanish city.
Photo by Gustau Nacarino
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