'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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october modern mirth / the non-issue
Link from Bruce
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An Excerpt:
In his 2002 State of the Union address, Bush pledged to expand the AmeriCorps program by 50%, from 50,000 to 75,000 members by 2003. Yet the White House raised no objections when Congress slashed AmeriCorp's budget by one-third in 2003, and enrollment dipped below50,000. Although Congress later added more money, the promised expansion has yet to materialize and grave damage was done to some volunteer programs.
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John Kerry
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
More Bumper Stickers
George W. Bush: Whiny And Petulant
George W. Bush: The Banty Rooster President
George W. Bush: The Paris Hilton President
George W. Bush: Uncompassionate And Unconservative
George W. Bush: The President Who Killed The Bluebird Of Happiness
George W. Bush: Out Of Touch
George W. Bush: Won't Face What's Happening
George W. Bush: Won't Level With The American People
George W. Bush: I Didn't Do It
George W. Bush: It's Not My Fault
George W. Bush: Straight-Out Liar
John Ashcroft: Convictor Of Exactly Zero Terrorists
The Job Has A Full-Time Salery. Shouldn't We Have A Full-Time Present?
The Two Opinions Of George W. Bush: 1) You Can Run But You Can't Hide. 2) Osama Is Hiding And We Are Trying To Find Him.
Dick Cheney: The Opposite Of Mother Teresa
Bush/Cheney: A Team That Real Republicans Are Ashamed Of
Bush/Cheney: A Team That Real Fiscal Conservatives Are Ashamed Of
Oxymoron: Compassionate Conservative
Thanks, Bruce!
Reader Comment
DUMbya and Newspaper Endorsements
"Resident George W. Bush has overtaken Senator John Kerry in the race for the most newspaper endorsements in the red-hot presidential contest but continues to trail by a wide margin in the circulation-impact category."
Bush supporters can READ?
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
One would think circulation numbers mean more than the number of endorsements...
Reader Comments
Saturday Page
Hey, Marty!
Today's page really rocks. Lots of items that I shared with other friends and gave you credit for! As for me, you can't beat a chance to fantasize about Chris Walken and dancing with him.
Linda >^..^<
Aw shucks, Linda - Thanks!
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'A Perfect Circle
Greetings Marty:
I work at Fanscape and currently we are offering a very "hot" and important piece of political media from the multi-platinum rock band, A Perfect Circle.
We have just received the video for "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums." This brand-new exclusive Internet-only video features hypnotic and ominous beats coupled with strong Anti-Bush sentiment visuals. A Perfect Circle wants this video to be seen by as many people as possible, therefore we are pushing it out to every conceivable outlet we can. They are hoping the video's message spurs thought, investigation and a trip to the polls on Election Day.
Britton
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Fog burned off earlier, leaving a sunny, mild day.
Been working on getting the archives page updated - probably'll take a couple more days, though.
Tyra Banks models Victorias Secret's 2004 Heavenly 70 Fantasy Bra by Mouawad, featuring a 70-carat flawless pear-shape diamond in the center, in this undated publicity photo. Inspired by Victorias Secrets Angels Collection, the Fantasy Bra has been created with a delicate angel-wing motif. Adorned with 2,900 pave-set diamonds and weighting a total of 112 carats, this years bra is set in 18-karat white gold. The one-of-a-kind bra is worth $10 million. Over 275 hours of labor went into the construction of this original lingerie design, making it one of the most labor-intensive creations Victorias Secret has ever introduced. The bra will be featured in the company's annual 'Christmas Dreams and Fantasies' catalog, arriving in mailboxes starting mid-October.
Campaigns for Kerry While Recovering
Bill Clinton
Former president Bill Clinton is recovering well from heart surgery and advising the Democratic presidential campaign even as he recuperates, his wife said.
Hillary Clinton said her husband was already offering advice to the campaign of Democratic presidential contender John Kerry and talking to voters, but would take doctors' advice on whether to get more active in the campaign.
"He's obviously on the phone, he's offering advice, he's talking to the campaign and to supporters across the country," she said.
Bill Clinton
Honored With Print Ceremony
Christopher Walken
Actor Christopher Walken made an impression on Hollywood as he left his hand and footprints Friday at the fabled Grauman's Chinese Theater.
The 61-year-old Oscar winner said he stamped prints of dancing shoes into the theater's cement, recalling his childhood training as a dancer.
"These are my favorite shoes," Walken said. Though the dancing shoes were crusted with cement, Walken joked that he might hang them off his car's rearview mirror.
Christopher Walken
Actor Christopher Walken shows off his hands after putting them in cement during a ceremony in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, Friday, Oct. 8, 2004. Behind Walken are director Quentin Tarantino, left, and actor Kevin Pollak, who have both worked with Walken during his career.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
Offer Reward
Animal Lovers
Comedian Richard Pryor and former "Friends" star Matthew Perry are adding to the reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who drowned a golden retriever in the surf on the Massachusetts coast.
The dog, which police said had been tied up, muzzled and stuffed inside a burlap bag, was found on Sept. 21 by a person walking on the beach in Nahant, Mass.
Pryor heard about the incident through a network of fellow animal lovers, said Linda Horsley, a pet sitter from Nahant, who is helping to organize the reward efforts with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Pryor and his wife, Jennifer, have donated $1,000 to the reward fund, Horsley said. They have also paid for a banner to appear at a fund-raising walk for the MSPCA on Oct. 17.
Richard Pryor
Animal Lovers
Stations Ordered To Air Anti-Kerry Film
Sinclair Broadcasting
The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
Sinclair has told its stations - many of them in political swing states such as Ohio and Florida - to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," sources said. The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POWs accusing Kerry - a decorated Navy veteran turned war protester - of worsening their ordeal by prolonging the war. Sinclair will preempt regular prime-time programming from the networks to show the film, which may be classified as news programming, according to TV executives familiar with the plan.
Station and network sources said they have been told the Sinclair stations - which include affiliates of Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, as well as WB and UPN - will be preempting regular programming for one hour between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24, depending on the city. The airing of "Stolen Honor" will be followed by a panel discussion, which Kerry will be asked to join, thus potentially satisfying fairness regulations, the sources said.
The company made headlines in April when it ordered seven of its stations not to air Ted Koppel's "Nightline" roll call of military dead in Iraq, deeming it a political statement "disguised as news content." Sen. John McCain, the Republican from Arizona who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, was among those who criticized Sinclair's decision not to air the "Nightline" program, which featured the names and pictures of more than 700 U.S. troops.
Sinclair Broadcasting
Here's some of what Atrios has to say:
It's bad enough that Sinclair is ordering its stations to run an anti-Kerry movie produced by a Moonie Moonie apologist, but what's really bad is the "liberal media" will be quiet about it. Imagine if, say, an owner of a bunch of NBC affiliates ordered them to run "Going Upriver" or "Fahrenheit 9/11" the night before the election. A media shitstorm of epic proportions would erupt. Aside from the screeching right wingers, Howard Kurtz would write endless columns about it. They'd trot out hundreds of employees who were outraged by the decision (under cloak of anonymity if necessary) to condemn the horrible liberal bias of their affiliate owner. There would be talk of nothing else on the cable nets all the time. WE'd hear demands for "equal time" or other such nonsense. We'd hear screeching about biasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbiasbias until the election.
Urges Elfriede Jelinek To Pick Up Nobel
Günter Grass
German author and Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass has urged this year's prize winner, reclusive Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, to travel to Sweden to pick up her award.
"I'm pleased with her being selected and I hope that Mrs. Jelinek will change her mind about not going to Stockholm," he told Saturday's edition of the Dresdener Morgenpost newspaper.
Jelinek said on Thursday that she could not receive the prize in person on December 10 because she had "social phobia."
Jelinek is fiercely critical of Austrian society and politics and withdrew from public life in 1996 after right-wing politicians denounced her disturbing and often sexually explicit work as low and immoral art.
Günter Grass
West Virginia International Film Festival
John Sayles
John Sayles, the independent filmmaker who wrote and directed "Matewan," will be a featured guest at the 20th annual West Virginia International Film Festival next month.
The festival opens Nov. 5 at the Capitol Center Theater in Charleston. Ticket prices and other details are still being worked out.
John Sayles
Painting Removed From Museum
Nude Bush
A cartoonish painting of resident Bush in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called "Man of Leisure, King George," adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's "Olympia," that scandalized Paris in 1863, and now hangs in the Gare d'Orsay Museum in Paris.
The painting by local artist Kayti Didriksen, shows a caricature of Bush, reclining in the nude on a chaise lounge, his head propped up by pillows.
Instead of the female servant who stands behind Olympia's couch, a man in suit and tie resembling Vice President Dick Cheney stands nearby, holding a cushion with a crown and a miniature oil rig on top of it.
Expected to formally open this month, the show, including the Bush painting, was abruptly shut down Monday after some of the artists' themes were considered unsuitable.
Nude Bush
What's On The Bottle
Marilyn Wines
A California vintner specializing in wines whose labels bear images of Marilyn Monroe has launched a 2002 vintage featuring the late actress's famous 1949 nude photo that appeared in the centerfold of the first issue of Playboy Magazine.
Prices are 200 dollars for a single 1.5 liter bottle, and 1,000 dollars for a set of three bottles: three-liter, 1.5 liter and 750ml, including velvet-lined fitted display cases.
Marilyn Wines, a division of Nova Wines, Inc., of St. Helena in central California's Napa Valley, is putting the new vintage out in its "Red Velvet" series.
Marilyn Wines
Classmates Sue Over 'Dazed and Confused'
Richard Linklater
Three former high school classmates of "Dazed and Confused" director Richard Linklater have filed a lawsuit claiming they have suffered embarrassment and ridicule because of characters based on them in the movie.
The men - Bobby Wooderson, Andy Slater and Richard "Pink" Floyd - say Linklater did not get their permission before creating three characters in the 1993 cult classic sharing their surnames and likenesses. The suit was filed Thursday in Santa Fe against Universal Studios, which released the film.
The suit was filed in New Mexico because it has a longer statute of limitations than other states for claims of defamation and false light, attorneys said.
Richard Linklater
A man takes a picture at an exhibit of photographs of Argentine-born Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2004. The exhibition, called 'Che Guevara: by the photographers of the revolution', is held to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the death in Bolivia of the charismatic yet ultimately failed revolutionary Che Guevara, who became an icon after helping Fidel Castro lead the Cuban revolution. Guevara, captured by soldiers in Bolivia, was executed in October 9, 1967.
Photo by Marcos Brindicci
Major Exhibit Set To Open In Germany
Edward Hopper
A German art museum expects to draw record attendance beginning Saturday with the opening of the country's first comprehensive exhibit on American painter Edward Hopper in over 20 years.
Some 70 Hopper paintings and sketches on loan from American museums and private collectors will be on display through Jan. 9 at Cologne's Museum Ludwig. They include Nighthawks, one of the best-known images of 20th-century art, depicting a brightly lit all-night diner and its three customers.
Other well-known works in the exhibit are Early Sunday Morning, which depicts a storefront barbershop and street bathed in morning light, and A Woman in the Sun, both from New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Lighthouse Hill comes from the Dallas Museum of Art, and Office at Night from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Edward Hopper
French comic book artist Gilles Chaillet shows a reproduction of his hand-drawn and painted, partially imaginary, partially accurate map of ancient Rome set in 314 AD , presented at the French Cultural Institute in Rome, Thursday Oct. 7, 2004. In painstaking detail, Chaillet has brought the ancient city of Rome back to life with an immense map based on a lifetime of research and a touch of artistic license. Chaillet dreamed up the project when he was 9 years old. Nearly 50 years later, he came to the Eternal City to show it off to the Romans.
Photo by Corrado Giambalvo
Canada Tries to Deport Flying Squirrel
Sabrina
A flying squirrel named Sabrina is at the centre of a fight between Canada, which wants to deport the rodent, and its owner who says the creature is harmless and has bonded to him.
Ottawa wants to send the animal back to the United States, citing a 2003 ban on importing rodents into the country after a monkeypox outbreak south of the border last year.
Naturalist Steve Patterson, who brought the squirrel across the border last June after filling out the necessary papers, said the government is simply being stubborn.
It is illegal to capture flying squirrels in Ontario, prompting Patterson to travel to Indiana to obtain the animal for educational purposes, he said.
Patterson, whose squirrel got a clean bill of health from a veterinarian, won the opening round of the court battle after a judge denied Ottawa's request to make him turn Sabrina over.
Patterson has set up a Web site at www.glaucomys.org/sabrinato appeal for donations to the Save Sabrina Legal defence Fund, to help pay for his legal battle.
Sabrina
In Memory
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
Derrida, who divided his time between France and the United States, argued that the traditional way we read texts makes a number of false assumptions and that they have multiple meanings which even their author may not have understood.
His thinking gave rise to the school of deconstruction, a method of analysis that has been applied to literature, linguistics, philosophy, law and architecture.
It is heralded as showing the multiple layers of meaning at work in language, but was described by critics as nihilistic.
Born into a Jewish family in El-Biar in Algeria on July 15, 1930, Derrida began studying philosophy at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure in 1952 and taught at Paris's Sorbonne University from 1960 to 1964.
From the early 1970s, Derrida spent much of his time teaching in the United States, at such universities as Johns Hopkins, Yale and the University of California at Irvine.
He was seen as the inheritor of "anti-philosophy," the school of thought of predecessors such as Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.
Jacques Derrida
Rick Cajigas holds his 23 pound Maine Coon cat as they wait to be judged at the Cat Show New York, October 9, 2004. The Cat Show New York features more than 40 feline breeds and 25,000 devoted cat lovers.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
