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A Song For The Resident
Sung to the tune of "The Girl From Ipanema"
Short and stupid and vile and imbecilic
The chimp from the neocon Whitehouse
goes walking
And when he passes
Each one he passes goes "yeeeecchhh"
When he exercises he's like a cretin
He falls off bikes
And stumbles off segways
And when he passes
Each one he passes goes "Holy sh*%"
Oh how I loathe him so greatly
How can I give him a pretzel
Yes I would tell him to f*** off
But each day as he screws up the world
He listens to Rove while I hurl
Moronic and ignorant and inept and pathetic
The monkey from Crawford, Texas
goes walking
And when he passes I cringe
But he's on a binge,
(so he just can't see, he can't see me)
~ Paul G
from Mark
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Selected Saturday Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Bit warmer, still very nice.
Mucked about in the garden for a while. Small tomatoes are starting to form on one of the plants.
Got to thinking that the 1000th e-page should be coming up, but after a count, seems 1000 was hit about a month ago on April 29th. That makes this the
#1032.
Former President's Clinton and Bush, wearing sun glasses in the bright afternoon sun, smile to the crowd before the start of the dedication of the World War II Memorial in Washington Saturday, May 29, 2004.
Photo by Ron Edmonds
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Urges Cornell Grads to Cooperate
Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clinton challenged graduating Cornell University students Saturday to pursue "the eternal mission of American democracy" and find solutions to problems through cooperation not conflict.
"If you live in a world where you cannot kill, occupy or imprison all your actual or potential adversaries ... you have to try to build a world with more friends and fewer terrorists," Clinton told more than 21,000 people.
"That is the purpose of politics, to bring people together when they cannot control each other and they must work together," Clinton said in a 30-minute speech interrupted by frequent applause.
"The great power of the United States through history has not been in our weapons but in the power of our example, and the hope we have held out to others," he said.
Bill Clinton
Hopes to Start American Indian TV
Harlan McKosato
After nine years as host of the syndicated radio show "Native America Calling," Harlan McKosato is ready to take on an American Indian-oriented cable television station.
McKosato hears a market out there. He compares his project to the mystical baseball movie, "Field of Dreams."
"I keep saying, `If you build it, they will come,'" said McKosato, quoting from the 1989 film.
McKosato believes American Indian programming can sustain a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week cable and satellite channel called First Americans Cable Entertainment System, or FACES.
Harlan McKosato
Greg 'The Fossilman' Raymer of Stonington, Conn., reacts as he wins the final hand Friday, May 28, 2004 at the World Series of Poker at Binions Horseshoe in Las Vegas. Raymer takes home the $ 5 million first prize.
Photo by Eric Jamison
Indy 500 Salute
Jim Nabors
Jim Nabors clutched the commemorative Indianapolis 500 ring, and in his best Gomer Pyle voice responded with a familiar "Gollleee!"
Nabors, who sings "Back Home Again in Indiana" before the start of the race each year, received the "Unsung Hero" award from former car owner and STP boss Andy Granatelli on Saturday.
The 73-year-old TV actor-singer was caught by surprise by the award, one of many presented during a 40-minute drivers meeting along the main straightaway.
Jim Nabors
Gallery Owner Attacked
Lori Haigh
A San Francisco gallery owner bears a painful reminder of the nation's unresolved anguish over the incidents at the Abu Ghraib prison - a black eye delivered by an unknown assailant who apparently objected to a painting that depicts U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners.
The assault outside the Capobianco gallery in the city's North Beach district Thursday night was the worst in a string of verbal and physical attacks directed at Lori Haigh since the artwork was installed at her gallery on May 16.
San Francisco police are investigating and have stepped up patrols around the gallery. But Haigh decided to close the gallery indefinitely, citing concern for the safety of her two children, ages 14 and 4, who often accompanied her to work.
Guy Colwell's painting, titled "Abuse," depicts three U.S. soldiers leering at a group of naked men in hoods with wires connected to their bodies. The one in the foreground has a blood-spattered American flag patch on his uniform. In the background, a soldier in sunglasses guards a blindfolded woman.
Lori Haigh
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Spoke With Berg Months Before
Michael Moore
In an unused interview shot for Michael Moore's latest film, the American who was beheaded in Iraq said he was concerned about security there as he prepared to seek work as an independent businessman, his family said Saturday.
Moore's crew shot the 16-minute interview with Nicholas Berg during an Iraqi business conference in Arlington, Va., on Dec. 4, said his brother, David Berg.
Moore sent copies of the footage to David Berg in New Jersey and sister Sara Berg in Virginia. Their parents will see the video after returning to their suburban home from vacation, David Berg said.
The interview, which was not conducted by Moore, centered on the technical work Berg hoped to find repairing radio transmission towers for his company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service. Berg, 26 when he died, also talks about humanitarian work he did in Uganda and Kenya.
David Berg said Moore handled the situation with "dignity, respect and discipline."
"Michael Moore has really been a total class act with this whole thing," David Berg said. "He could have sold this to the media or stuck it in his movie."
Michael Moore
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean waves to the crowd after giving the keynote address at the Hawaii Democratic Party state convention, Saturday, May 28, 2004, in Honolulu.
Photo by Lucy Pemoni
Scoring 'Alfie'
Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart
Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart (of Eurthymics fame) have teamed to write theme music and three original songs for Paramount Pictures' remake of "Alfie."
The songs are "Old Habits Die Hard," "Blind Leading the Blind" and "Let's Make It Up."
Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart
Touring This Summer
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Stills & Nash will launch their three-month summer tour in Prior Lake, Minn., on July 1.
Graham Nash will promote his first photography book, "Eye to Eye," throughout the tour, which will include stops in Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, with the final show set for Sept. 22 in Woodinvale, Wash.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Hawking Hearing-Aid Batteries
Pat Benetar
Energizer Holdings Inc. is appealing to the rock 'n' roll sensibilities of baby boomers by enlisting 1980s rocker Pat Benatar to boost sales of hearing-aid batteries.
Benatar, 51, does not need a hearing aid, but Energizer is betting that she will break the stereotype associated with wearing one.
Pat Benetar
University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno poses with reconstructions of the head and skull of Rugops, a 'peculiar' wrinkle-faced dinosaur. Sereno, who led an expedition that found Rugops fossil skull in Niger in 2000, says the finding supports the notion that Africa and the other continents that formed the southern super-continent Gondwana separated and drifted apart about 100 million years ago, rather than earlier.
Photo by Mike Hettwer
Miss Bolivia
Gabriela Oviedo
Bolivia's entrant in next week's Miss Universe contest faced calls to quit on Friday after she described herself as being a tall, white woman and not a short Indian peasant.
The remarks by Gabriela Oviedo, 21, caused furor in Bolivia, one of the Western hemisphere's poorest countries.
"Unfortunately, people that don't know Bolivia very much think that we are all just Indian people ... poor people and very short people and Indian people," local media quoted her as saying in English in Ecuador, where the Miss Universe pageant will be held on Tuesday.
"I'm from the other side of the country ... and we are tall and we are white people and we know English," she added.
Gabriela Oviedo
The world's tallest viaduct, designed by British architect Norman Foster, towers 270 meters (886 feet) over the Tarn River gorge near Millau, southern France, after the completion of its roadway Friday, May 28, 2004. The bridge, expected to be completed by Jan. 2005, will run for 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) and will ease vehicle traffic in the region that typically faces 40 kilometers (26 miles) of bottlenecks in the tourist-heavy summer season.
Photo by Claude Paris
* ADULT *
Affected By Alaska Earthquake
Geysers
A major earthquake that hit Alaska in 2002 set off a flurry of smaller quakes in far-off Yellowstone National Park and changed eruption intervals in several geysers, according to a new study.
Scientists say the Denali fault earthquake, which registered a magnitude 7.9 and hit in November 2002, is believed to be the first in modern times in North America to trigger large-scale changes so far away.
According to the study, which appears in the June issue of the journal Geology, changes in eruption intervals in several Yellowstone geysers began in the hours after the Denali earthquake.
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In Memory
Josie Carey
Josie Carey, a children's television pioneer who was an early collaborator with Fred Rogers, died Friday of complications from a fall, her daughter said. She was 73.
Carey was the host of "The Children's Corner," which aired in Pittsburgh from 1954 to 1961 and appeared on NBC for 39 weeks. In 1955, the show received a Sylvania Television Award honoring it as the nation's best local children's program.
Carey later hosted children's shows in Pittsburgh and South Carolina.
On "The Children's Corner," Carey was an early creative partner with Rogers, who went on to become a television icon in his zip-up cardigan on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Carey wrote lyrics for 68 songs during the seven-year run of "Children's Corner," while Rogers wrote the music and stayed behind the scenes doing puppetry.
Puppets that later appeared in "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" were created during Carey's show, including Daniel Striped Tiger and King Friday.
Josie Carey
In Memory
Sam Dash
Attorney Sam Dash, whose probing questions during televised Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal made him a household name in the 1970s, died Saturday after a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 79.
The former chief counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Watergate became known across the nation for his televised, penetrating interrogations into President Nixon's secret taping system.
A lifelong Democrat, Dash over the years cultivated a reputation for independence and as an ardent advocate for ethics in the legal profession.
For nearly four decades, he specialized in constitutional law and legal ethics at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught and directed its Institute for Criminal Law and Procedures. He taught his last class in January shortly before being hospitalized.
Sam Dash
In Memory
Archibald Cox
Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by President Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation, died Saturday at his home, his daughter said. He was 92.
Cox's daughter, Phyllis Cox, said her father died peacefully at the home in Brooksville, Maine, and said the cause was old age.
Cox, a longtime Harvard law professor, had also been an adviser to President John F. Kennedy and served him as U.S. solicitor general.
In May 1973, he was asked to head the special prosecution force investigating charges Republican party operatives had broken into the Democratic campaign headquarters at the Watergate Hotel prior to the 1972 presidential election.
Nixon ordered Cox fired in October 1973 for his continued efforts to obtain tape recordings made at the White House, important evidence in the investigation of the Watergate break-in and coverup.
The day before, Nixon had refused to comply with a federal appeals court order to surrender the tapes, declined to appeal to the Supreme Court and ordered Cox to drop the case. But Cox vowed to continue, saying pulling back would violate his promise to the Senate and would be bowing to "exaggerated claims of executive privilege."
The firing shook the nation and became known as "The Saturday Night Massacre."
Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, both refused to carry out Nixon's orders to fire Cox, resigning instead. Then-Solicitor General Robert Bork, who would 14 years later lose a Supreme Court bid after a strenuous debate over his legal theories, handled the job of firing Cox.
At his firing, Cox issued a one-sentence statement: "Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people."
Reflecting on the scandal years later, he said it was a time when "the country showed its appreciation of the ancient rule that even the highest executive must be subject to the law. And I would hope that remains as an example to be followed if a similar challenge to the law ever occurs in the future."
Cox was born and raised in Plainfield, N.J. He graduated from Harvard in 1934 and from its law school in 1937.
An expert on labor law, Cox in 1941 accepted a position on the staff of the National Defense Mediation Board, and after two years was appointed an associate solicitor in the Department of Labor.
Cox began his many years of teaching at Harvard in 1945 and remained with the law school until he worked full time on Kennedy's presidential campaign staff. He then was named solicitor general in the new administration.
He returned to Harvard in 1965.
He is survived by his wife Phyllis Ames, and their three children, Phyllis, Sarah and Archibald Jr.
Archibald Cox
A prothonotary warbler comes in for a landing with food for its offspring that wait in its nest inside the gourd, Friday, May 28, 2004, in Sopchoppy, Fla.
Photo by Phil Coale
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