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Another Side of the News
Ahhnuld's attacking nurses now. "They are Special Interests..." Just trust me, Chevron, the drug companies, etc. We're the good guys, and, by the way, I'm not going to release my tax returns. His predessors did, and he did when he was a candidate. What's he hiding? This may be the most corrupt Administration in memory, and they FLAUNT it!!
The first report is out on the new video game "JFK Reloaded." Now you, too, can sit in the 6th floor window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository and miss JFK every time. The angle was much better from the Grassy Knoll and the DalTex building.
Shaikh Abd Allah al-Janabi is calling for Muslims across the world to continue the Jihad until we leave Iraq, which Rumsfeld now says will be four years. Where will the troops come from?
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Re: 'Left Behind'
'Left Behind' and the consequences of bad theology
You may never have heard of dispensationalism, but it captivates millions of Americans today, and there is no denying that it influences the thinking of those in high office. (It's a safe bet that most dispensationalists voted for George W. Bush.)
Dispensationalism is the theology presented in the "Left Behind" series of books that have been recent best-sellers. It is a system of theology that purports to order God's overall timetable for world events. Understanding why this "gospel" is bad news for America is one step toward restoring this country's sanity.
Dispensationalism is a relatively new theology, existing in one form or another since the 19th century. But it never really caught on until it was popularized by today's televangelists and sensationalistic writers.
For the rest: 'Left Behind' and the consequences of bad theology
Roma says:
If George Bush believes in the Rapture, when he's carried away to Heaven, who'll be in charge? Dick Cheney? If so, why doesn't Dick go with George to Heaven? In fact, won't the entire Administration go to Heaven with George? And if not, does George know that there are people in his Administration that are not acceptable to God?
Thanks, Roma!
Reader Comment
Re: Ballad Of Jed Clampett
Hey Marty,
Lose this EMBED beverly_hillbillies.mp3 or at least don't hide it so I can turn the damn thing off. I listen to good music while I'm on the Internet so don't just tell me to turn off my sound. The song really sucks you know.
Peace --Joe
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."
- Will Rogers -
manisteedems
Sorry 'bout that, Joe.
I don't embed music often (that was the 3rd time) - it was in tribute to the obit for Jerry Scoggins.
Purple Gene Reviews
Karl Rove on Barbara Walters' ABC Special
Purple Genes' review of Karl Rove on Barbara Walters ABC Special "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2004 - aired on Dec 8th:
I am not just a disgruntled, dusgusted and dis-heartened democrat! I am also a detached, disciplined and devoted reviewer! That is why, when I accidently danced over to ABCs' Barbara Walters' "10 Most Fascinatinating People of 2004", I thought it might be another "Reality" Show! Like - "The Swan" and "Lost" or "Extreme Fuck Over"!!!!!
So Babs started off innocently enough with # 10 - Mad Mel Gibson and the "Passion" of $500 million at the box office. # 9 was Larry and Sergey - the "Google" Billionaire Berkeley search engine guys! # 8 was "I wanna thank the lord Jesus Christ" Curt Schilling pitcher for the Red Sox. # 7 was the recently "shaved, shorn and suited" on the Jay Leno show "oscar curmudgeon - Michael Moore! # 6 was the "TLCs' Chili Thomas humpin' " Usher (Thank you Jesus Too)! # 5 was the "Perfume and Porn" Heiress "Paris" Hilton - "Thats Hot" ! # 4 was "New Car Dealer and fad Dieter" Oh Oh Oprah ! # 3 was "You're Fuckin' Fired Dude!" the "Donald" (hair-hat) Trump ! # 2 Ken "Jeopardy Jerk" Jennings ! And I waited for fifty fucking minutes for this.....# 1 was the "Turd Blossom" himself Karl "the Cocksucker" Rove.......
I call this ugly, bubble gum faced, tenacious twit "The Wizard of Dubya"!!!!! George Bush calls him a Texas "Turd Blossom" (not Bad) and some call him the "Architect" - (they should beg forgiveness from all the legitimate building designers in the world) !
If you love George W Bush, then you must ADORE Karl Rove. He has been called the "Bobby Fischer of Politics" for his chess board like strategizing. I think he is one of the most Orwellian, Machiavelian and malevolent forces in our world. Barbara Walters thinks he's "Fascinating" ! I think he is "Frightening" there is nothing CUTE about this bespeckled bastard. He is the most powerful man in the world.....Hiding behind the "Wall of Bush" like Frank Morgan as the "Wizard of Oz" !!!!!!!
Anyway...I must remain "objective"....Fuck you Karl....Fuck you Barbara.......
Purple Gene Shits upon Karl Roves' head (how's that for a review!!!)
Purple Gene
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny & warmer.
Campaigns for People's Choice Award
Michael Moore
Filmmaker Michael Moore is back on the campaign trail trolling for votes - this time, for the People's Choice Awards.
His documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" - an unlikely summer blockbuster - was one of the films selected in the "favorite movie" category of the annual populist prize ceremony. On Thursday he posted a letter on his Web site to mobilize fans to cast their ballots for the film.
"Now, normally I wouldn't make a very big deal out of something like this," Moore wrote. He said he was inspired to make his appeal after a group of leading Republicans took out ads in USA Today and Daily Variety that he said included "a not-so-subtle threat to the Academy Awards voters that, in essence, said don't even THINK about nominating 'Fahrenheit 9/11' for Best Picture."
Michael Moore
Vote
Estate Seeking Holiday
Bob Marley
Bob Marley has received countless musical accolades, inspired millions with his message of "one love" and is even hailed as a prophet by some.
Now, members of his estate are lobbying the government to proclaim the late reggae singer a national hero, Jamaica's highest honor.
"Anywhere you go in the world the first thing people think of when they hear Jamaica is Bob Marley," said Jacqueline Knight-Campbell, who is organizing the campaign for the Bob Marley Foundation. "He has inspired so many people with his songs so it's time for us to step up and take Bob's recognition to a higher level."
The foundation is also seeking to have his birthday - Feb. 6 - declared a national holiday. The group is planning special celebrations, including a concert and a block party in the capital of Kingston, to mark his 60th birthday next year.
Bob Marley
2004 Deadliest Year In Decade
Reporters
This year has been the deadliest for journalists in a decade, due largely to the violence in Iraq and to slayings in the Philippines, a leading media group said in a report released on Friday.
Research showed that 54 journalists were killed in the line of work in 2004 so far, said the Committee to Protect Journalists.
That figure was the highest since 1995, when 51 journalists were killed, in part due to a civil war in Algeria, the group said.
This year, Iraq has been most dangerous for journalists, with 23 killed, the group said. Eight journalists were killed in the Philippines, all of them targeted for their work.
Reporters
Co-Hosting With Regis
Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys will join Regis Philbin as guest host Dec. 22 on Live With Regis and Kelly while the daytime talk show's co-host, Kelly Ripa, is on vacation.
On Tuesday, Keys was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, including album of the year for The Diary of Alicia Keys. Her 2001 debut album, Songs in A Minor, won the R&B singer five Grammys.
Alicia Keys
Radio Show In New Year
Jerry Springer
Trash TV king Jerry Springer will begin hosting a three-hour weekday radio talk show in January.
Springer, a former Cincinnati mayor and Democrat who may be interested in running for statewide office in Ohio, will start the show on Cincinnati's WSAI when the Clear Channel station switches from oldies music to liberal talk.
Darryl Parks, operations director for Clear Channel's four AM radio stations in Cincinnati, said the station had been negotiating with Springer for months. The one-year radio commitment will not affect Springer's daytime TV show taped in Chicago, he said.
Jerry Springer
Co-Host Nobel Concert
Tom Cruise & Oprah Winfrey
Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will continue the tradition of bringing a superstar shine to dark December nights in Norway when the pair hosts the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
The Saturday concert, held to honor Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, will also feature musical artists such as Joss Stone, Andrea Bocelli, Diana Krall, Cyndi Lauper and Patti LaBelle.
The Nobel concert, which will be carried live in more than 100 countries, will be broadcast in the United States Dec. 23 on E! Entertainment Television.
Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey
Protester Hunkered Down In London
Brian Haw
Brian Haw lives in one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in London, albeit in a makeshift tent, with a statue of Winston Churchill as his neighbour and one cause in mind.
For three and a half years, Haw has been camped out in Parliament Square, across from the Palace of Westminster, with Big Ben as his alarm clock, protesting what he calls the "genocide" in Iraq.
On Friday the 55-year-old began his 1,289th day of protest surrounded by a never-ending flow of traffic, literally in shouting distance of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on the other side of the street.
He passionately feels that protesting the Iraq war -- launched by the "idiot" US resident George W. Bush and backed by the "sinister" Prime Minister Tony Blair -- is a cause worth hunkering down for.
For more, Brian Haw
House For Sale
Giuseppe Verdi
Calling all opera lovers with a few spare millions: the house where Giuseppe Verdi wrote Rigoletto is up for sale.
The asking price for the house in Busseto, near Parma, is about five million euros ($8 million Cdn), Sabadini Orlandi said. Whoever buys it will probably have to spend another 2.5 million euros ($4 million) to renovate it.
Verdi, who bought the house in 1848 and sold it in 1888, composed renowned masterpieces there, including Luisa Miller and Rigoletto. For years, the two-storey building hosted a museum with Verdi memorabilia. There are frescoes in the dining room, and the house is crowned by a cupola.
Giuseppe Verdi
Ordered to Pay Over Hearing Loss
German Promoter
A German concert promoter has been ordered to pay $5,300 for "pain and suffering" to a woman who alleges that her hearing was damaged during a Bon Jovi concert four years ago.
The firm, Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur (MLK), must also cover the costs of the 38-year-old woman's medical treatment and loss of income, a regional court in Nuremberg ordered Tuesday.
The court upheld the plaintiff's claims that MLK did not take sufficient precautions to limit the volume of the open-air concert, which took place in Nuremberg in September 2000. The plaintiff stood about 3-5 meters from a speaker, and now claims to suffer from tinnitus, a form of permanent hearing damage.
German Promoter
Eligible For Golden Globe
Mel's 'Passion'
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," filmed in Latin and Aramaic, is among the 49 films deemed eligible for a foreign-language Golden Globe.
The Globes, which unlike the Academy Awards allow multiple films to represent individual countries, also qualified a number of other films that did not make the Academy's qualifying foreign-language list. The Globe qualifiers include Spain's "Bad Education," Brazil's "The Motorcycle Diaries," France's "A Very Long Engagement" and the United States' "Maria Full of Grace."
Nominees will be announced Monday at 5:30 a.m. PST by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which organizes the annual bash. Winners will be announced on Jan. 16.
Mel's 'Passion'
Watched Worldwide
Sex Change Operation
Thai surgeons have performed the world's first sex change operation to be filmed with more than 30 specialist doctors from around the world watching closely on video monitors.
Surgeons from the Preecha Aesthetic Institute and BNH Hospital in Bangkok operated on a male patient nicknamed "Pae" on Friday while some of the world's leading "sex reassignment" doctors watched on wide-screen televisions.
Preecha, considered the godfather of Thailand's cosmetic surgery business after more than 25 years in the industry, said he performs sex change operations on between three and five patients a week.
About 80 per cent of his clients were foreign and largely from the United States, where sky-rocketing insurance and the threat of lawsuits have contributed to spiralling medical costs, he said.
Sex Change Operation
Opens Elevated Skating Rink
Eiffel Tower
Holiday on ice takes on new meaning when you're high above the rooftops of Paris doing figure eights inside the Eiffel Tower. During the 115 years of the Eiffel Tower's existence, it has added refreshment stands, trinket shops and fancy restaurants - but nothing quite matches the skating rink in the sky that opened to the public Friday.
On an observation deck 188 feet above ground, the ice rink adds a new dimension to the breathtaking views from the French capital's best-known landmark.
Lodged between two of the tower's immense latticed steel legs, the rectangular rink is a little larger than a tennis court. It holds 80 skaters at once - half the capacity of New York City's Rockefeller Center rink.
Eiffel Tower
Ice-Age Find in German Cave
Ivory Flute
A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tübingen said on Friday.
The flute, one of the oldest musical instruments discovered, was pieced together from 31 fragments found in a cave in the Swabian mountains in southwestern Germany, the university said.
The university said it planned to put the instrument on display in a museum in Stuttgart.
Ivory Flute
Faux Or MSGOP?
Colin Powell
Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted that he may become a commentator on political and foreign affairs after he leaves his post next month.
Powell, who has been close-mouthed about his future plans after announcing his resignation as the top US diplomat last month, said he expected to be "speaking out on the issues of the day" when he returns to private life.
Colin Powell
Marines Hunt Down Fallujah's 'Strays'
Dogs & Cats
US troops fire off another volley of shots amid the trashed houses of Fallujah, hunting down new adversaries carrying a potentially deadly weapon that threatens to plague reconstruction efforts.
But this time the marines are not chasing down the insurgents who they defeated in a devastating assault on the city last month. Their quarry is stray animals grown fat on the flesh from corpses and who could harbor rabies.
Rock-n-roll played loudly from one of the vehicle's radios as marines just outside the base walls fired off several more shots at flashes of fur among the piles of rubble.
But there was none of the bloodlust that many marines say they felt last month as they stormed the Sunni-Muslim enclave and wrested it away from insurgents during several days of vicious fighting.
"This is hard on these guys, especially killing the dogs. But these animals have been eating dead bodies. They can spread disease," said Lieutenant Aaron Brown, grimly reciting the toll for the day -- several cats and at least one dog.
Dogs & Cats
