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Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
Bush Impeachment Watch I
By Baron Dave Romm
Election time is near, and politics is the music of a bored electorate. In a democracy, elections are a time to assess a candidate and reassess an incumbant. But there are other means of assessing a person holding office, as the GOP so smarmily demonstrated a few years ago. What's sauce for the goose is good for the gander. Here are a few recent urls, gleaned from Bartcop, Buzzflash, Smirking Chimp, etc, from May onward.
The only thing the oily Bush administration has going for it is American's justifiable pride in its military. But don't let our superb armed forces make you lose sight of the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Bush and the Taliban wing of the GOP. Here are some burgeoning scandals the conservative news media isn't following up on. Links tested 10/20/02,
Bush Impeachment Watch.
Developing scandals worth following and discussing with Republicans.
Don't let them change the subject. Don't let them get away with an
"everybody does it" excuse. If they sling ad hominems at you ("Are
you drunk?" "I bet you never voted for a Republican."), just point
out that they're being soft on crime.
Covering up for Reagan, Poppy Bush and himself
Harken Energy and SEC
Election 2000
Next week: More Bush Impeachment Watch urls, Cheney Impeachment urls.
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.
Reader Contribution
from Marianne
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
The sun finally returned, and it was nice.
Had company for supper, and there are dishes still waiting for their dip in the sink.
Go, Giants!
Tonight, Monday, CBS offers a fresh 'King Of Queens', then a fresh 'Yes, Dear', followed by a fresh 'Raymond', and a fresh 'Still Standing', then a fresh 'CSI: Miami'.
On a rerun Dave the scheduled guests are Tom Cavanagh and Jack Hanna.
On a rerun Craiggers the scheduled guests are Tom Green and Morrissey.
NBC has a fresh 'Fear Factor', then a fresh 'Third Watch', and caps it off with a fresh 'Crossing Jordan'.
On a rerun Jay the scheduled guests are Jennifer Garner, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Erykah Badu.
On a rerun Conan the scheduled guests are David Arquette, Tony Robbins, and Todd Barry.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 6/27/02), the scheduled guests are Donald Faison, Landon Donovan, and n.e.r.d.
ABC has MNF, where the Colts go to Pittsburgh. Fresh 'Drew Carey' and fresh 'Whose Line' fill before or after, depending on your time zone.
The WB has a fresh '7th Heaven' and a fresh 'Everwood'.
Faux has no baseball, but offers the season premiere of 'Boston Public' followed by the series premiere of 'girls club'.
UPN has a fresh 'The Parkers', a fresh 'One On One', a fresh 'Girlfriends' and a fresh 'Half & Half'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Bagram Air Base
Robin Williams
U.S. comedian Robin Williams entertains American soldiers from the Combined Joint Task Force-180 at Bagram Air Base, 70 km (44 miles) north of Kabul, on October 17, 2002. Williams arrived at the U.S. army
base on Thursday to entertain soldiers and personnel serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in war-shattered Afghanistan. Picture taken 17 October 2002.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
Visited In Afghanistan
Robin Williams
Hyperactive Hollywood comedian Robin Williams treated U.S. troops to uncensored helpings of his zany humor during a tour of bases in Afghanistan that ended Sunday.
Within minutes of landing at the dust-plagued Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, Williams served up a raunchy, rapid-fire routine with something to offend just about everyone.
Unfettered by domestic prudery, Williams dished out plenty of expletives and sexual innuendo, but inverting the norms of U.S. television, his Hollywood publicists were insistent
media cameras should show no guns in the same frame as the star. Williams made sure that most of his routine was more suitable for the barracks than family television viewing.
But from the moment he introduced himself with an earsplitting "Gooood moorning Bagraaaaam!," recalling his role as a military radio presenter in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam,"
he was a huge hit with the hundreds of troops in the audience.
"Good luck with those shots, fellas," he quipped to the cameras after using a plastic mineral water bottle to demonstrate the supposed effects of Viagra, adding to a female soldier: "I'm
sorry for spraying you girl -- don't go Oprah on me."
He had the troops in stitches with a pun on the supposed intestinal effects of "Meals Ready to Eat," as well as references to the ban on alcohol at U.S. bases in Afghanistan and sexual
frustrations in what is a strict Muslim state.
"I see many of you have been here a long time," he said. "You have more seamen than the fifth fleet! I see a lot of people saying: 'Take me home, I must get laid."'
Williams laughed off the dangers of Afghanistan, joking that it was impossible to complete a round of golf because the 10th hole was mined.
"A lovely flight in, thank you," he said. "I love spiraling in. Nothing like that to make your colon say "fire in the hole!"
For more, Robin Williams
Man With An Opinion
Harry Belafonte
In his famous, fervent speeches of the 1960s, Malcolm X described the difference between house slaves, who lived in comfortable conditions in the master's house and loved the master,
and slaves laboring in the field, who hated the master.
Now it's a term being used by activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte to describe Secretary of State Colin Powell. And Belafonte, who opposes a war on Iraq, isn't apologizing.
Belafonte told The Associated Press he stands by his remarks likening Powell to a slave "permitted to come into the house of the master," but that he meant them not as a personal attacks but as a condemnation of Bush administration policies.
He said national security adviser Condoleezza Rice had also failed to meet his high expectations for fellow minorities.
"As a citizen, I feel it is my sacred duty to speak out when I see injustice, when I see our country going to places of folly," Belafonte told the AP in a phone interview last week.
"I'd like to see both (Powell) and Condoleezza Rice show some moral backbone, show some courage, show some commitment to principles that are far higher than those being espoused by their boss," he said.
"When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture," Belafonte said.
Harry Belafonte
Tokyo
Velotaxi
A Velotaxi driver runs a human-powered tricycle taxi, carrying passengers through Tokyo's fashion district Omotesando Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002. The taxi company organized by non-profit
organization Ecological-Cities Promoting Association started the service on Oct. 15 with ten units in the district, aiming to establish the service as new means of urban transportation.
Passengers can ride the taxi 500 meters for 300yen ($2.4).
Photo by Koji Sasahara
Old Pals
Heath & 'Puffy'
Sean "Puffy" Combs confirmed the account of how Heath Ledger scuffled with his bodyguards at the VH1/Vogue Awards after-party Combs threw at Lotus. "Heath
is from Australia, and he parties hard now," Combs told "Access Hollywood." The two became pals on the set of "Monster's Ball." "He's coming at me, he's
like, 'Puff, people don't know that we're the best of friends,' so it's like my security held him up for a second . . . and I was like, 'No, that's my brother.' "
Heath & 'Puffy'
Hired Attorneys In King Brothers Case
Rosie O'Donnell
Former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has hired two high-profile Florida lawyers to represent one of two Florida brothers found guilty last month of killing their father, one of the attorneys confirmed Saturday.
A judge Thursday threw out the convictions of Alex King, 13, and his brother, Derek, 14, and ordered the prosecution and defense to try to reach an agreement on how to resolve the case without another trial.
Miami attorney Jayne Weintraub said O'Donnell called her two weeks ago because "she felt so sorry for those boys" and wanted to help in any way she could.
"In no way, shape, or form did Rosie O'Donnell seek to exploit this," Weintraub told CNN. "The boys don't even know that Rosie hired me."
Weintraub, who is representing Alex King, said she was "pretty upset" that news of O'Donnell's involvement was made public.
For the rest, Rosie O'Donnell
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Children Meet
Kennedy & Khrushchev
Caroline Kennedy and Sergei Khrushchev met at the John F. Kennedy Library on Sunday, 40 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, in a what organizers called "the first meeting between the children
of the men who in 1962 saved the world from a nuclear world war."
Their fathers, President Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, were at the center of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a moment historians believe was the closest the world has come to nuclear war.
"It was quite emotional to realize that when our fathers transformed the hours of danger into the beginnings of a process for peace, they did it for us and for all children threatened by a world at war," Caroline Kennedy said.
The two viewed documents and letters exchanged between their fathers during the crisis and examined a copy of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed by their fathers that had been
kept by Caroline's mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
About 850 people attended a forum discussion that included Khrushchev, former Kennedy advisers Arthur Schlessinger Jr. and Theodore Sorensen, and Josefina Vidal, the First Secretary
of the Cuban Interest Section in Washington, the official voice of the Cuban government in the United States.
For even more, Kennedy & Khrushchev
Another View
Bob Crane
Bob Crane was a sex addict, but his second wife, Pat Crane, didn't care. "He treated women like the rest of the world treats toilet paper. Who's going to be jealous
of toilet paper?" she told "20/20" contributing correspondent Chris Connelly. Despite Crane's penchant for seducing other women and documenting his trysts on film
and videotape, Pat insists: "We had a wonderful sex life. We had a wonderful marriage."
Bob Crane
Helps Abuse Center In Tulsa
Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen took a break from playing president on the TV series "The West Wing" to help a substance abuse treatment center celebrate the end of its $5 million fund-raising campaign.
Money for the 12&12 facility will go toward expanding the residential treatment program to about 350 beds. More than 50 percent of the building does not pass code requirements.
Sheen said substance abuse takes its toll on individuals and the community at large.
12&12, a nonprofit United Way agency, has provided treatment for thousands of Oklahomans since it was founded in 1985. It offers a residential program and has
transitional and outpatient living assistance.
Martin Sheen
CA's Governor In 2006?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is out to terminate youth crime.
But the movie muscleman won't say if his new mission is the first step toward running as a Republican for the California governor's chair in four years.
The bodybuilder-turned-Hollywood icon is on a statewide sweep drumming up support for Proposition 49, which goes before Golden State voters on Nov. 5 and
calls for massive spending on after-school programs.
The state now spends about $117 million a year on after-school programs, but Prop. 49 calls for $550 million in annual spending on such efforts by 2004.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
BartCop TV!
Terrified for Son
Angelina Jolie
Actress Angelina Jolie says she's terrified her adopted Cambodian son will step on a landmine in the Southeast Asian nation, where she is building a home.
Jolie plans to live part-time in Cambodia with 1-year-old Maddox and said she had the land around their home cleared of mines.
"I'm terrified that he could go for a walk and step on something, so I'm very aware of what the parents there must feel," she said during a visit to a training center for mine removers. "It's so unnecessary and so cruel."
"Cambodia, Afghanistan and Angola are among the most heavily mined countries in the world," she said. "When we were filming we were told 'You can't go here, you can't go there, you have to stick to the footpaths,' and
I didn't understand why. They explained about the land mines and I just wanted to help."
Jolie, a supporter of the Adopt-A-Minefiled charity, wore a flak jacket and helmet as she learned how de-miners remove explosives from the soil.
Angelina Jolie
Adopt-A-Minefield
Fashion Show
'The Moving Forbidden City'
Chinese models perform during a fashion show dubbed 'The Moving Forbidden City' in front of the main entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing October 19, 2002. Some 300 models took part in
the event which is scheduled to tour around the world.
'Disco Bloodbath'
James St. James
"Disco Bloodbath" author James St. James is following up his notorious tell-all about killer club kid Michael Alig with another true-crime tome. He's shopping around "Killer Grandpa," his
investigation into a lynching that his grandfather led in 1935. James, a 1980s club kid who fell in with Alig's inner circle, is played by Seth Green in "Party Monster," the movie adaptation
of "Disco Bloodbath." But James said he was "shocked" when he watched a few scenes of Green mincing it up with Macaulay Culkin, who plays Alig. "I didn't know I was so gay! I thought I was more
like Steve McQueen, but Seth is flouncing around the whole time. Seth is much cuter than me, actually, and looks better in drag."
James St. James
Clarifies Remarks
Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney had more to say about women sideline reporters at NFL games.
He said he probably shouldn't have said anything about them to begin with, but he stopped short of an apology Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes."
It all started with this:
Rooney was interviewed on MSG Network's "Boomer Esiason Show" earlier this month and said, "I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game."
The curmudgeonly commentator now says the comment was "a derogatory remark I would have been better off not having made." But he didn't change his mind that women have no place on the sideline of football games.
"I wish I hadn't included all women covering football, some are quite good," he said. "But most of the women are there because they're good looking not because they know the game."
Andy Rooney
Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
'Rockets Redglare'
"Rockets Redglare!" - a posthumous tribute to the late East Village actor and downtown icon - won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Directed by Luis Fernandez De La Reguera, it features interviews with Rockets' pals Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and Julian Schnabel. Rockets, the beloved 350-pound former bodyguard
of punk legend Sid Vicious who appeared in several of Buscemi's and Jarmusch's movies, died last year after years of drug abuse.
'Rockets Redglare'
When Stocks Fall
An Art Boom Results
An auctioneer at Sotheby's brings down the hammer on "The Massacre of the Innocents," a long-lost painting by Flemish Old Master Peter Paul Rubens.
The sale price is $76.7 million -- eight times more than expected -- making the "Massacre" the third-most expensive painting in the world.
Across the city, dazed stock market traders emerge from their offices at the end of another punishing day.
They have just watched London's blue-chip FTSE 100 index shed another 120 points to slide toward its lowest level in five years.
The date was July 10 this year, and the contrasting fortunes of the stock and art markets can seldom have been more marked.
The FTSE has fallen even further since then while the art market remains robust, lending support to the theory that when wealthy investors take fright from equities, they often plough their cash into pricey paintings.
"The most spectacular example of this was the period immediately after "Black Monday" in 1987, a period which saw the greatest art boom of the 20th century," said Godfrey Barker, a London-based art writer.
For all the details, An Art Boom
Uganda Wildlife Education Center
White Rhinos
An animal keeper at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center walks two 3-year-old baby white rhinos for grazing in Entebbe October 16, 2002. These white rhinos are the first to be reintroduced into Uganda after poachers
wiped out almost all of the population.
Photo by Patrick Olum
Reader Alert
'COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY'
from tim h
In the face of the controversial decision by the PBS network to refuse to
transmit the investigative report, the nation's top PBS stations will independently
broadcast COUNTING ON DEMOCRACY.
Directed by Emmy-award winner Danny Schechter, the 57-minute
documentary follows BBC television reporter Greg Palast as he discovers how Katherine
Harris removed up to 57,000 legal voters from registries - mostly black - five months before
the 2000 election. While the public broadcast network chiefs refused to schedule
this important report, dozens of local stations are insisting on showing the expose
before the mid-term elections.
10/24 (9 pm) KNME --- Albuquerque - Santa Fe, NM
10/24 (10 pm) WPTD --- Dayton, OH
10/24 (10 pm) WPTO --- Cincinnati, OH
10/27 (12 pm) WGCU --- Fort Myers - Naples, FL
10/30 (9 pm) KBDI --- Denver, CO
10/31 (10 pm) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/1 (12 am) KLCS --- Los Angeles, CA
11/3 (1 pm) WLRN --- Miami, FL
11/3 (2 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/3 (5 pm) WNED --- Buffalo, NY
11/3 (10 pm) WUFM --- Missoula, MT
11/3 (10 pm) WUSM --- Butte - Bozeman, MT
11/4 (Midnight) WNET --- New York, NY
11/5 (10 pm) KCET --- Los Angeles, CA
11/6 (8 pm) WHUT --- Washington, DC
11/24 (1 am) KPBS --- San Diego, CA
For more information - www.globalvision.org/program/fla/fla.html
~~ tim h
Thanks, again, tim! This IS a big deal - I know what I'll be watching at 10 pm on Halloween!
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