'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Zaentz
"Bush can't dance, but he'll steal your money.
Watch him! Or he'll steal you blind.
Bush can't dance, but he'll steal your money.
Watch him! Or he'll steal you blind."
$8.8 B missing.
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
Guess Zaentz still can't dance.
Reader Comment
Re: Grizzly Adams
What would Rick Santorum say about a "bachelor" who lives with a bear? ewww.
erik
Thanks, Erik!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Comment
I BLAME BUSH
Marty,
On that mass hysteria event in N. Carolina...I BLAME BUSH.
August 2002 is one month before the anniversary of 911. If a group of children are so disordered by Bushtraitorco's terrorizing of the US population to drive them into unneeded war, that they have group panic attacks, I BLAME BUSH. Mission accomplished.
'Excellent. The cheerleaders are having seizures. It's working.' (Karl Rove to himself)
It's probably just the tip of the statistical iceberg. Our communities have been deeply traumatized, by Bush, for his own personal gain, and that of his backers.
Cheerleaders are socially linked to the psyche of the community, they are teenage celebrities, and their public role is encouragement and group celebration of victory. Cheerleaders are canaries in the mine----the first to suffer when the air is filled with poison.
Since, in August 2002, when these seizures occured, the government was hyping fear, horror, war, and damned lies--
I BLAME BUSH
Their parents should sue.
Paul
Thanks, Paul!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still cooler & quite pleasant.
I need a volunteer to follow 'Survivor' this season. I mean really follow it - who's nasty, who's nice - who was offed, who shoulda been offed. Please drop me a line if you're interested.
Best part of the Olympics coverage is the absence of John Tesh.
Lightning appears to strike near the Wynn Las Vegas hotel tower under construction on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada during a monsoon storm August 20, 2004. The Stardust Resort and Casino is at right.
Photo by Ethan Miller
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Hurricane Charley Benefit
Guitar Auction
Radio giant Clear Channel Communications will raise money for Hurricane Charley victims by auctioning guitars autographed by musical stars, among them Britney Spears, Tom Petty and Kenny Rogers.
The online auction of 43 guitars signed by celebrities started Thursday afternoon and will end Sept. 20, the San Antonio-based company said.
The Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, Nickelback, ZZ Top, Tim McGraw and Shakira are among the other musical acts participating.
There's also a non-musical category that includes instruments signed by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and comic actor Mike Myers.
Guitar Auction
U.S. veteran of the Vietnam war Phil Karber wears a 'Vote for Kerry' T-shirt in support of the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, in Hanoi August 21, 2004. With the U.S. presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over Kerry's Vietnam war record, U.S. veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House.
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Aiding Soldiers' Group
Jesse Ventura
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura will participate in a conference call next week to help launch a new group called
Operation Truth, an organization being created "to give voice to troops who served in Iraq."
The New York-based group is holding its official launch party and fund-raiser Wednesday, according to its Web site.
The site lists its mission as: "Operation Truth will educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them firsthand. We will provide returning veterans with national, regional and local podiums from which they will expose the preventable hardships that they endured as a result of failures at the top levels of leadership."
It also says the group plans to publicize how "poorly planned policies and approaches have manifested themselves as problems on the front lines and back at home."
Jesse Ventura
Joining N.C. Station
Maureen O'Boyle
Former tabloid TV host Maureen O'Boyle is joining a Charlotte TV station as television anchor in September.
O'Boyle, who grew up in Charlotte and has family there, will join WBTV; she'll join current anchors for the noon and 5 p.m. telecasts. O'Boyle was former host of tabloid TV shows "Extra" and "A Current Affair."
Maureen O'Boyle
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Weathered Hurricane Charley
Robert Rauschenberg
Postwar modernism master Robert Rauschenberg, three assistants - and the artist's work - weathered Hurricane Charley in Rauschenberg's storm-hardened home on this Coast barrier island, but "it was a nightmare experience," he said through a spokesman.
His concrete home-studio built on 35-foot pilings sprung leaks, and his overgrown 35-acre estate was trimmed back by the 145-mph wind when Charley hit Aug. 13.
Aside from some roof damage, the 17,000-square-foot structure is fundamentally sound. Artwork lining the 120-foot-long concrete-floored studio was unmoved and undamaged by the storm.
A helicopter flew in the next morning to evacuate Rauschenberg, and the artist initially resisted leaving. He was flown to Fort Myers for a temporary stay during storm cleanup.
Robert Rauschenberg
Ballet dancers from Russia's Kremlin Ballet perform 'The Swan Lake' in Macedonia's capital Skopje, late Friday, August 20, 2004. The Kremlin Ballet gave a guest performance on Friday in Skopje during a celebration of Russian culture in Macedonia.
Photo by Boris Grdanoski
Filed for Divorce
John Stamos
"Full House" actor John Stamos has filed for divorce from "X-Men" actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
The couple announced in April they were separating after five years of marriage. At the time, publicist Lewis Kay said the split was amicable. Court papers were filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Stamos, 41, and Romijn, 31, met in 1994 at a Victoria's Secret fashion show where she was a model; they began dating two months later and married in September 1998. They have no children.
John Stamos
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
" A bizarre story in the Los Angeles Times earlier this week detailed an incident between former WWE champion "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and his girlfriend, Tess Broussard, in which Austin's business manager was stabbed.
According to the article, Austin and his business manager, George Vrabeck, had met with Broussard on Aug. 4 at a Beverly Hills restaurant to offer her $1.5 million if she would agree to get out of Austin's life. The couple had been together for an together for at least two years but have had domestic problems in recent months.
Reportedly, Broussard became angry and told Austin she did not want to break up with him. Brussard allegedly picked up a steak knife and tried to stab Austin. When Vrabeck tried to intervene, he was stabbed in the left arm, according to the report.
Vrabeck's bodyguard handcuffed Broussard to a chair and waited for police to arrive. Broussard was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon and released after posting bond.
'Stone Cold' Steve Austin
Kazuhiko Horiguchi, a long distance runner from Japan, crosses the finish line for the Run Across America 2004 in New York's Central Park August 21, 2004. The Run Across America started in Los Angeles and ended in New York City, covering 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) and was finished in 71 days.
Photo by Shannon Stapleton
Apologizes to Ahnold
Ohio Car Dealer
An Ohio car dealership has apologized to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for using a photo from his "Terminator" days in ads without permission.
Fred Martin Motor Co. issued a written apology and agreed to pay a "substantial" but unspecified amount of money to Arnold's All-Stars, an after-school program founded by Schwarzenegger, according to a joint statement released Friday.
Schwarzenegger sued the auto dealer in 2002, before he became governor, for allegedly violating his right of publicity. A federal appeals court dismissed the case in June, saying California courts had no jurisdiction to hear it because the ads never were shown in California.
Ohio Car Dealer
Notorious Author
Norma Khouri
Officials want to question author Norma Khouri over allegations she bilked a woman out of her home and $400,000 in savings bonds when she lived in Chicago in the 1990s.
Khouri, 34, recently gained notoriety when an Australian newspaper accused her of fabricating material in her 2002 book Forbidden Love, which she promoted as autobiographical. Publishers have since pulled the book from shelves in the United States and Australia, saying it was a hoax. Khouri, who was living in Australia but may have recently returned to Chicago, has promised to substantiate her work.
Lawyers with the Cook County Public Guardian's office contend in 1994, Khouri forged the signature of Mary Baravikas on documents that allowed her to take control of Baravikas's home and $400,000 in savings bonds.
Norma Khouri
A flotilla of Japanese protesters surrounds the U.S. aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis as it sails into Sasebo port, southern Japan Saturday, August 21, 2004. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is making a five-day port call.
Photo by Daisuke Suzuki
Closures Strain L.A.
Emergency Rooms
Financial problems caused mainly by the treatment of uninsured patients have forced two emergency rooms to close in Los Angles County, raising concerns that other facilities may be overwhelmed.
The latest closings are the fifth and sixth emergency rooms to close in two years, causing some officials to worry about a shortage of emergency care in the state's most populous region.
One of the two shuttered emergency rooms is at Northridge Hospital Medical Center's Sherman Way campus, which officials announced Thursday would be closed by Dec. 31.
On Aug. 13, a federal bankruptcy judge ordered 80-year-old Elastar Community Hospital and its emergency room in East Los Angeles to shut down after it amassed more than $10 million in debt.
Emergency Rooms
Expedition Aims to Find Lost Slave Ship
The Trouvadore
Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves.
The story of the Trouvadore is unusual because all 193 slaves made it to shore, and all but one survived to see their freedom granted by a British government that had just outlawed slavery. Most settled in the arid, low-lying islands and began new lives working its salt ponds and raising families.
Their story was nearly forgotten, reflected only in vague tales passed down over generations, until archaeologists in the past decade pieced together details from records in Britain, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas and the United States.
For a lot more, The Trouvadore
www.slaveshiptrouvadore.com
A falcon flies over Incahuasi island, with the Uyuni salt fl
