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Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Question
U2 Lyrics Predict WTC?
From Shawn
In light of Bono being in the spotlight for saving the world and making hit records, add futurist to his resume. Here are the lyrics to a
U2 song from The Joshua Tree album. Remember, there were originally seven buildings as part of the WTC.
In fact there are several songs and lyrics in that album that resonate. Nostradomus with a backbeat?
Running to Stand Still--U2
And so she woke up
From where she was lying still
Said we got to do something about where we're going
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain
Singing Ha La La La De Day
Singing Ha La La La De Day
Sweet the sin
But bitter the taste in my mouth
I see seven towers
But I only see one way out
You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice,
You know I took the poison from the poison stream,
Then I floated out of here
Singing Ha La La La De Day
Singing Ha La La La De Day
She runs through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain
In through a doorway she brings me
White gold and pearls stolen from the sea
She is raging
She is raging and the storm blows up in her eyes
She will suffer the needle chill
She is running to stand still
~~ Shawn
Thanks, Shawn. And remember, Joshua Tree also brings up the spectre of
Gram Parsons (and the Strange Death of Gram Parsons: 1973,
Gram Parsons and the Joshua Tree Inn, and still more Gram Parsons).
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
We ended up adding another addition to the pet head-count. The cross-eyed orange striped cat (formerly known as 'conehead'),
started foaming at the mouth. Turns out he'd captured a lizard. Poor lizard lost a bit of tail, conehead-cat frothed & yowled for a bit, and we have a
new 'pet'. Same thing happened 3 years ago, and that's how we ended up with the first lizard, 'Joe, the Lucky'. They are Alligator Lizards like in the
song 'Ventura Highway' from the late 70's - early 80's.
So, now it's 1 tarantula, 2 lizards, 3 fish & the cats. And the kid. Feeling outnumbered tonight.
The Kings/Lakers game was on in the background as we set up another terrarium. Wonder when/if lawsuits will be filed over Kobe's food poisoning in Sac?
John Stossel started barking at wealthy repugs tonight...what's up with that? Don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows?
Tonight, Saturday, CBS starts the night with a rerun 'Touched By An Angle', and follows it with a 'special', 'Rockin' For The USA: A National
Salute To The U.S. Military', and then a rerun of 'The District'.
NBC starts the night with a 'special', 'American's Heroes: The Bravest Vs. The Finest', then the movie 'My Fellow Americans'. 'SNL' is a rerun, as it
will remain until late September-early October.
ABC bails the evening and shows the movie 'Enemy Of The State'.
The WB has the movie 'Quiz Show'.
Faux has the traditional Saturday night, except the first episode of 'Cops' is a rerun, and the 2nd episode is, too. They are followed by a fresh 'America's Most Wanted'.
Here, UPN bails and has Rupert's Doggers visiting the Diamondbacks.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill In Shenzhen
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton is greeted by local residents upon arrival in the southern city of Shenzhen May 23, 2002. Clinton was in Shenzhen to attend a forum
organized by Business Week magazine to discuss China's economy and the World Trade Organization.
Mongoose?
James Carville
Democratic mongoose James Carville usually attacks Republicans on sight. But the Ragin' Cajun said at the New York state Democratic convention this week
that he thinks Mayor Bloomberg is "a nice guy. I like him. I think he'll return to his Democratic roots before long."
James Carville
On Big Dog's Reading List
David Brock
David Brock, who made his reputation attacking Hillary Clinton before his conversion to the left, had lunch yesterday with the freshman senator, plus a
couple of dozen other Democrats. Brock, the first to interview the Arkansas state troopers who knew the Clintons up close and personal, had never met Hillary
before. After the lunchroom love fest in the Capitol, lawmakers like Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy emerged singing the praises of Brock's latest book, "Blinded
By the Right," which former President Bill Clinton has been handing out to everyone he meets.
David Brock
Liberal Radio !
Erin Hart
Liberal radio - what a concept!
Join Erin Hart Sunday (only) this week, at near-regulation time (10 pm to 1 am [pdt]) on www.710kiro.com or www.kiro710.com (It's
a browser thing).
And there's a chatroom, too!
For more details, visit Erin's fan page (courtesy of 14Dem), http://www.erinistas.com/, or to join her mailing list, drop a
note to erinistas@aol.com
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The Chickenhawk Database
The Chickenhawk Database
Rant On Rudy
Chris Rock
Eight months after Sept. 11, Chris Rock is yanking the halo off Rudy Giuliani.
"Rudy did his job — that's all he did," the comic declares in June's issue of GQ. "Hey, the guy went out of his way, I will say. But that's the gig. ... He
did what he was supposed to do."
Rock jokes that "if Rudy Giuliani hadn't left office, he was gonna do something crazy eventually. That's just him — he's crazy. He would've had a dust tax on all
the dusty buildings or something."
Chris Rock
Africans Bewildered
The 2 Paul Tour
The women at the AIDS clinic in Soweto may have had no idea who their two visitors were, but the patients' stories had a deep impact on Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and rock star Bono.
"This is an amazing place, amazing people," Bono, his voice cracking, told a group of HIV-infected women Friday at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital. "Our lives have been
blessed by meeting you people today and I will never, ever forget it,"
Both O'Neill, the Republican politician, and Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, raged at the inequities that meant many of the women would die of a disease that could be treated
with medicine available in wealthier countries.
"That is the stupidest reason to die: money," Bono said.
O'Neill recommended a re-evaluation of how foreign aid was being spent as well as an increase in aid.
Many of those Bono and O'Neill saw on Friday were impressed that such powerful men would visit them, but had no idea who they were.
"I have not heard of these two men, but I was told they were important," said one HIV-positive mother at the clinic, who declined to give her name because of the stigma attached to the disease.
Bono & O'Neill
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Who Served?
Who served?
Self-Proclaimed 'Nightmares', Con't.
Heidi & Tom
Heidi Fleiss, the former Hollywood madam had moved out of the Beverly Hills home she shared with Tom Sizemore after a raucous argument. Now The National Enquirer
suggests what may have been the cause of the fight: Sizemore's alleged patronization of Canadian call girls.
The tabloid contends that a stream of working girls has been in and out of Sizemore's Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, where he's been shooting "Dreamcatcher." A source tells
The Enquirer that Sizemore has spent as much as $5,000 in a weekend. Meanwhile, Fleiss has been hard-pressed to visit him, because her parole agreement stipulates that she can't leave the U.S.
Sizemore's rep would not comment on the story. Fleiss didn't return phone calls.
Heidi & Tom
Donated $1M To Sarah Lawrence
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters donated $1 million toward a gallery in a new arts center at Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater.
The gift was announced Thursday at the groundbreaking for the Heimbold Visual Arts Center on the college's Yonkers campus.
"The arts matter and should be supported," said Walters, co-anchor of ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine program.
Barbara Walters
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
TNT's 'Witchblade' on Hold
Yancy Butler
Production on signature TNT drama series "Witchblade" has been halted while series star Yancy Butler enters a rehabilitation center for alcohol treatment.
A statement from the show's producers Thursday said that the 31-year-old actress voluntarily checked herself into rehab and that production was temporarily halted.
Six of the 13 episodes that were ordered for the season are in the can, and the premiere of the second season remains scheduled for June 16. The first two episodes
are to air back to back from 8-10 p.m. that night, and the remaining four episodes are set to air at 9 p.m. the following Mondays.
Insiders close to the show said the producers hope to go back into production in the next few weeks. While those same insiders said the producers and network plan to
stick with Butler, they have put feelers out for a replacement.
The series is a crucial element of TNT's primetime lineup and widely considered the most successful original series in the cable network's history.
Yancy Butler
Uh-Oh
Berlin
Demonstranten nehmen am Mittwoch ein Bad in einem Brunnen im Zentrum von Berlin. Währenddessen zogen rund 20.000 Menschen durch die Straßen der deutschen Hauptstadt,
um gegen die Politik von US-Präsident George W. Bush zu protestieren.
Foto: Arnd Wiegmann
Roughly translated, on Wednesday, in the center of Berlin, around 20,000 people marched through the streets of the German capital, to protest against the politics of Dubya. (Ich glaube)
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Members Of Congressional
Congressional Members with Military Service
France Wants To Change The Nation Of Origin
Charlie Chaplin's Films
In a move to circumvent restrictive European TV programming regulations, the French company that controls the Charlie Chaplin film catalog has asked authorities to change
the origin of the films to European from American.
If the films are granted European status, they are more likely to nab coveted primetime programming slots as the majority of those slots are reserved for European works.
In Europe, a film's nationality is determined by a point system with each creative element -- director, screenwriter, star -- assigned a value. The country with the most
points may claim national ownership of the film. Chaplin, who made most of his films in Hollywood, was born in London and lived in Switzerland for a large part of his life.
Charlie Chaplin's Films
Gets Walk of Fame Star
Robert Evans
Robert Evans, the former head of Paramount Pictures who approved some of today's cinematic masterpieces, now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Films such as "The Godfather," "The Godfather: Part II" and "Love Story" were made at Paramount during Evans' tenure as production chief, lifting the previously struggling studio into success.
Evans, 71, started his career as a radio actor at 11, and switched to television in its infancy. In the 1950s, Evans landed roles in several movies, including "The
Best of Everything," "Man of a Thousand Faces" and "The Sun Also Rises," where he played a bullfighter opposite Ava Gardner.
He wasn't even 30 years old when he became production chief at Paramount Pictures. He would stay there longer than any studio head since World War II.
This year, Evans' autobiography, "The Kid Stays in the Picture," was printed in 12 languages, and its film version premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Robert Evans
Catches Scent of Marijuana
The 2 Paul Tour
As Irish rocker Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill toured a huge Ford Motor Co. plant near Pretoria on Friday, the pungent odor of marijuana smoke attracted
the attention of some of their entourage.
A Ford representative confirmed some of the 3,500 employees at the cavernous plant did smoke the herb.
The plant was described by Ford as the largest assembly plant in the Southern Hemisphere. It was one O'Neill wanted to highlight for having a model plan to test
and offer treatment for HIV/AIDS-afflicted workers.
When a reporter asked a Ford official whether marijuana smoking affected efficiency, both Bono and O'Neill expressed interest that some workers smoked the herb.
"They do?" a surprised O'Neill interjected. "What do I know? That's something I don't know anything about."
The Ford official said the practice was not unusual at a huge industrial plant and indicated there was some tolerance as long as safety was not jeopardized.
Bono took it coolly.
"I was getting off on the diesel fumes myself," he joked.
The 2 Paul Tour
Potential Losses in Suit
Disney & Pooh
The Walt Disney Co. faces the possible loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and future royalties due to a long-running legal battle over Winnie the Pooh,
Disney disclosed in a federal filing.
Disney's admission, made in its most recent quarterly earnings report filed on May 15 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, marks the first time it has
formally said how much the dispute could cost it.
The case, originally filed by family-owned Stephen Slesinger Inc. against Disney in 1991, is now set to go to trial in February 2003, after years of motions and hearings.
The suit boils down to whether the Slesinger heirs are owed royalties on home videos, DVDs, computer software, and other future audio and visual equipment
that has yet to be invented.
Disney argues that its 1983 agreement with Slesinger limits royalty payments only to merchandise like toys, pajamas, pillowcases, or other such products.
Disney & Pooh
BartCop TV!
Lifetime Award
ABBA Songwriters
Swedish pop stars Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who set the world rocking with supergroup ABBA, were honored with an international award for their lifetime contribution to music.
The songwriting duo were presented Thursday with the Ivor Novello Special International Award by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
The pair spoke the words to their hit track "Fernando" as they collected the award at the Le Meridien Grosvenor House hotel in London.
Best song musically and lyrically went to U2's hit "Walk On."
ABBA Songwriters
VH1 Diva
Cher
Cher performs a tribute to Elvis Thursday, May 23, 2002, during the VH1 Divas telecast from the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta
Deregulation Screws Us Again
'Payola'?
The recording industry from artists to major labels joined on Thursday in a rare show of unity to demand tougher laws barring what they called "payola"-like promotion of music played on the radio.
They also called for a sweeping government review of radio industry consolidation.
Deregulation of the radio business and rampant practices that skirt 40-year-old anti-payola laws stifle competition, drive up music promotional costs and make it harder for new artists to gain attention,
the artists and record labels said in a joint statement addressed to the federal regulators and Congress.
The statement was endorsed by a broad coalition of trade groups, led by the powerful Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which represents major music companies, along with
several talent unions and the Grammy-sponsoring National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
The groups also criticized broadcasting giants, such as industry leader Clear Channel, which owns 1,225 stations nationwide, for flexing their "sheer market power" in ways that can "make or break a hit song."
Since the radio industry was deregulated by Congress in 1996, Clear Channel and three other large station groups now account for 63 percent of the 41 million listeners who tune into "contemporary hit
radio," or Top 40, program formats, the letter said. As a result, decisions about what songs get airplay have become increasingly centralized, it said.
'Payola'?
Before deregulation, Clear Channel would only have been allowed to own 15 AM & 15 FM stations - nationwide. Period.
Ach, Du Lieber!
Die Tageszeitung
A left-leaning German newspaper published a blank front page on Friday under the headline "Bush's historic speech" to mock the U.S. president's address in the Reichstag on Thursday.
The Tageszeitung, a leading voice for left-wing critics of George W. Bush's policies throughout Germany, said in a page three editorial the advance billing that
the speech to parliament in Berlin would be "historic" was far off the mark.
"Bush didn't have to come to Berlin for this speech," the Berlin-based Tageszeitung wrote. "What he said yesterday he's already said often enough in Washington.
Most Europeans hope that a war can be avoided. Bush's visit to Berlin didn't contribute a single bit to his understanding."
Die Tageszeitung
Pootie-Poot, Tony & Bad Translations
Allah, Goats, Sodom & Gomorrah
Byk: (slang) a bodyguard, usually very muscular and not very intelligent, working for a criminal or semi-criminal organization. Can be translated as thug, enforcer, protector, soldier.
In standard Russian, byk is a bull or an ox. How this came to be applied to bodyguards is no mystery: one glance at those neckless goons, muscles straining the seams of their
shiny suit jackets and pants, is all you need. Think "beefcake" -- but beefcake armed with a handgun, an automatic, a knife, a hand grenade and two sets of brass knuckles.
Koza -- a nanny goat -- is a silly or twitchy woman. Kozyol is a fairly harsh derogatory word to describe an aggressively stupid man, an "idiot" or a "jerk." It's
a favorite thing to shout at the driver who decides to make a left turn from the far right lane.
In the prison yard, however, kozyol is nasty slang for a man who has been sodomized.
At a press conference held by Putin and Tony Blair, Putin was searching for a way to impress the British prime minister and other esteemed guests with how
truly dastardly the Chechen bandits were. On the wall of a Chechen bandit hideout, he said, they found the following appalling inscription: "Allakh nad nami,
a kozly pod nami." The translator dutifully repeated after him: "Allah is above us and the goats are beneath us."
The prime minister and other esteemed guests stared at Putin with expressions of patient expectancy; maybe the punchline was still to come -- you never
know with these Russian folk expressions. "Oni imeli v vidu russkikh" (They meant the Russians), Putin explained unhelpfully. More blank stares (What Russians? What goats?).
By now the translator realized the problem but didn't know how to publicly resolve it, as one can't shout across the room: "Oh, he means they buggered
the Russians!" So instead he walked up and whispered an explanation to Blair, who gave a ministerial moue of distaste.
For the rest, Allah, Goats, Sodom & Gomorrah
Quoting Frank Barone - 'Holy Crap!'
Thomas Crapper
A ceremony in Beckenham on Saturday, May 4, marked the restoration of the grave of Victorian sanitary engineer Thomas Crapper.
Thomas Crapper is known as the British innovator who brought flushing toilets to the Victorians.
The sanitary engineer, born in Yorkshire in 1836, is buried in Elmers End Cemetery in Beckenham. Relatives of Thomas Crapper, who died in 1910 at the
age of 74, gathered at the grave in Elmers End Cemetery on May 4 for a re-dedication ceremony.
At the age of 14, Crapper was apprenticed to a master plumber in London before setting up his own firm in Chelsea in 1861.
Toilets were rarely discussed in the 19th Century due to the prudery of the time.
"Crap" was an ancient word for rubbish which had fallen out of use in Britain by the end of the 16th Century but there was nothing amusing about the
surname "Crapper" in Victorian times.
However, early English settlers to America took the word with them and it has been used continuously in the USA ever since.
For many more details, Thomas Crapper
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
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