'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
TrimmedBush and Hedges
The Closing Of Parishes, What Will These Guys Do For Cash?
Let's see here, apparently thousands of children's lives being ruined for life by weird men in weird clothes, these men still believing, sometimes literally (or so they say) what is contained within these books, hmmmm....Bishops and Priests living in ungodly palaces of poverty(?) who say that they cannot afford these palatial mansions; tithing being down to who knows what...These guys need help is what was on the news earlier. Their income has dropped considerably.
I'll just bet ya that the rape of all those young 'uns might have a tad to do with the drop in tithing. Wild guess, but I'm just tossin' out ideas here, sorta like a "Let's go have a brainstorming session on how to improve our company!!" (if you ever hear that, start sending out your resumes and network like a mother***%$#@...)
Back to the Cloaked Weirdos. You know, when you cover up unbelievable numbers of claims of rapes, THAT goes beyond "The Church" being insensitive to this issue during the course of the past 10 or twenty centuries. Shit, we've had "Crimestoppers" and "America's Most Wanted" for decades now.
That cover up is gonna be one hell of a hat trick for an institution to baffle the audience with. Maybe, since they're all in the magic biz, David Copperfield might be a solid suggestion to begin with. I also saw a guy on the Today Show pull off some amazing trickery, and he was acting all superstitious and weird. If I'm asked, I'll try to get hold of Katie and see who that guest was. In fact, I'd like to get ahold of Katie Couric for a whole host of other reasons I better not mention in case she would stumble upon this one man's sexual attraction to the middle-aged multi-millionaire to whom I'd make one hell of a house husband.
Oops, did I "fuck up the trick" as they say in the magic biz??? Well, darnit, I was just trying to help the poor, I just tend to get sidetracked easily.
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Reader Comment
Re: West Wing
Once one of networks most popular network programs, West Wing kept
viewers coming back for more each week.
Sometimes when things get changed in a popular program, it seems to fall
apart at the seems -- at least to some viewers.
The viewers who created Don't Save Our Show
think the show has gone down the tubes and
they want the world to know it.
Since creator Aaron Sorkin and director Thomas Schlamme left, there are
those who are ready for the show to fade to black -- permanently.
They would much rather see the show end with some measure of dignity
than to leave in the bottom of the heap. They have a petition for
like-minded people to sign.
Thanks, Jim K!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Mr. Hawk - Heldover!
Blackadder
Sorry I wasn't able to keep up lately.
But I did want to drop a few lines about the last show in series 3 of
Blackadder.
In someways this typifies the series, Blackadder meets another
famous person and cracks historical jokes. This week the person is
Wellington, who beat Napoleon at Waterloo. This of course leads to many
soiled boot jokes. The best part of the show is when the Prince and
Blackadder change places and Wellington decides to teach the uppity
manservant a lesson.
The best thing I can say though is that's its better
than watching faux news (but then most things are).
I would like to inform
everyone that BBC america is running the classic Faulty Towers at 2:00 pm
eastern followed by Are You Being Served. Both shows are fun to watch even
after all these years. I just wish they would move them up to around 7:00
pm.
Next up is series 4 set in WWI. It might be a bit like watching the evening
news to some.
On another note I would like to say that my home state of West Virginia has
taken a lot in this war. We had the first hero in Jessica Lynch and now the
poster child for abuse in Lyndde England. We have Bob Byrd, standing alone,
hands shaking with age and rage, in a desperate fight against tyranny.
We had our own sex scandal when the governor had to disclose an affair. But
the worst thing we have had to endure is the visits from King George. We
are a strong people here in our mountains but there is only so much we can
take. Ya'll take him for awhile, we keep smelling dead skunk when he comes.
Mr. Hawk
Dissent is not Terrorism
Freedom is not Legislated
Thanks, Mr. Hawk!
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast morning, lovely sunny afternoon.
Did the CostCo trip early - wanted charcoal, but since I can't lift the 100 lb bag anymore, had to go when the 'muscle' was available.
Also picked up some photos, but they weren't the pictures I was expecting.
Clineice Stubbs, wife of Four Tops member, Levi Stubbs; Four Tops member Abdul Fakir; Levi Stubbs; Yone Payton, wife of deceased member Lawrence Payton and Four Tops member, Renaldo Benson; from left, display the Michigan Senate Resolution that declared Wednesday, May 26, 2004, Four Tops Day in the State of Michigan, in the Senate Chambers of the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich.
Photo by Kevin W. Fowler
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Book to Be Published Next Month
Bill Clinton
The much-anticipated memoirs by former President Bill Clinton entitled "My Life" will be released on June 22, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said on Wednesday.
The book's suggested retail price will be $35. Knopf reportedly paid between $10 million and $12 million for the book about Clinton's political career and scandal-plagued presidency and the first printing will be 1.5 million copies.
The former president is scheduled to embark on a worldwide tour when his book is released.
Bill Clinton
Eighth grader Andrew Wojtanik of Overland Park, Kan., shakes hands with host Alex Trebek after he won the '2004 National Geographic Bee' on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 in Washington. The eighth-grader prepared by compiling a book with all 193 countries in it -- with 432 pages, and weighing about five pounds.
Photo by Evan Vucci
'Super Size Me' & MTV
Morgan Spurlock
Film documentary "Super Size Me," a critical look at the health impact of a fast-food only diet, has been downsized at cable network MTV which has refused to air advertisements for the film, its distributors said on Wednesday.
Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films said in a statement the cable TV channel targeted to young audiences has told them the ads are "disparaging to fast food restaurants."
The distributors said MTV sister network VH1 was planning to use clips from the movie in a program called "Best Week Ever," but the clips were pulled before the show aired.
Morgan Spurlock
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Be Honored at Latin Awards
Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana will be honored as the Latin Recording Academy's 2004 Person of the Year for his professional, cultural and social contributions to music.
Santana, 56, will receive the honor Aug. 30 at a tribute dinner and concert in Los Angeles, the organization announced Tuesday.
Carlos Santana
A recently taken undated hand out photograph received on May 26, 2004 shows the exterior of the former home of thome of the author J.R.R. Tolkien in Oxford, southern England, which has gone on sale for 1.5 million pounds sterling ($2,721 million). Number 20 Northmoor Road, which was built to house some of Britain's leading academics in the 1920s, was home to the writer and his family from 1930 until 1947.
Photo by Carter Jonas - Nigel Francis
Judge Dismisses Attempt to Evict
Bianca Jagger
A judge on Wednesday dismissed a New York landlord's attempt to evict Bianca Jagger, former wife of the Rolling Stones lead singer, who has sued over mold she says made her $4,600-a-month apartment uninhabitable.
Jagger says she is "homeless" and has been living out of suitcases at friends' homes for almost three years because of a mold infestation in her four-room Park Avenue apartment.
She was served with an eviction notice earlier this month while pursuing a $20 million lawsuit she filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan against the landlord and contractors.
Bianca Jagger
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
'Fell' for Iraq Misinformation
NY Times
The New York Times acknowledged on Wednesday it had failed to adequately challenge information from Iraqi exiles who were determined to show Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and overthrow him.
In an unusual note from the editors, "The Times and Iraq," the newspaper said it found a number of instances before the March 2003 U.S. and British invasion of Iraq and early in the occupation, of "coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been."
The note said editors "should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism."
NY Times
A Canadian Buddhist places a piece of paper with a wish on it onto a lantern during a ceremony celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Buddha at Chogye temple in Seoul May 26, 2004.
Photo by You Sung-Ho
Sues To Keep Van Gogh
Elizabeth Taylor
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has sued the family of a victim of Nazi rule in Germany as part of a legal battle to hold on to a precious Van Gogh painting that she claims is rightfully hers.
The violet-eyed movie goddess filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against the South African and Canadian descendants of a Jewish woman who fled the Nazis who say the painting was looted from their relative and have demanded its return or a share of its sale proceeds, court documents showed Wednesday.
Double Oscar-winner Taylor, 72, says she bought Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 work, "View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy" for $257,600 at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963, at the height of her fame.
Taylor maintains that the catalogue from the 1963 auction at which she bought the piece stated that the painting had once belonged to Mauthner, but that it passed to two reputable galleries before it was sold to a German Jew, Alfred Wolf, who himself fled the Nazis in 1933 for Buenos Aires.
Elizabeth Taylor
A Place To Blow Stuff Up
Youngstown, Ohio
Economic decay could be the salvation of Youngstown, Ohio.
The industrial city, which once had a population of 250,000, has been impacted by the elimination of manufacturing jobs, and its population now stands at 80,000.
But according to Richard Ouzounian, who runs the Youngstown Warren Film Commission, the town is a virtual film set waiting to happen. It has an airport, complete with a new terminal and 9,000-foot runway, which handles only four flights a week. It has a 2,016-bed prison that houses only 21 inmates. There's also an empty hospital as well as empty schools and libraries.
"You have industrial sites," Ouzounian says. "Unlike most cities where they don't want you blowing things up, around here they'd be thrilled to death if somebody came here and blew up some of this stuff up!"
Youngstown, Ohio
Robert Pritikin smiles next to his painting of Prince Philip bare-chested with strands of cress sprouting from his right index finger and a bluebottle fly on his left shoulder in San Francisco May 26, 2004. Pritikin bought the painting after it was thrown out by Buckingham Palace last week for $45,000 and says he plans to frame it and sell it for $150,000. Prince Philip posed for acclaimed artist Stuart Pearson Wright last year who was commissioned by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Photo by Kimberly White
Used Stun Gun On 9 Year Old Girl
Tucson Police
A police officer who used a Taser on a nine-year-old girl-- that's the issue for South Tucson police tonight.
Investigators are looking into whether the officer did the right thing- and not because of the girl's age.
On May 8th, South Tucson police answered a call to Arizona's Children Association and used a Taser ...on a nine year old girl.
There's an investigation not simply because police Tasered a child but because she was already in a police car and already handcuffed at the time that they did it.
Tucson Police
Unearthed In Egypt
University of Alexandria
Polish archaeologists have unearthed 13 lecture halls believed to be the first traces ever found of ancient Egypt's University of Alexandria, the head of the project said Wednesday.
The lecture halls, with a capacity of 5,000 students, are part of the 5th century university, which functioned until the 7th century, according to a statement from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Ancient Alexandria was home to a library, which was founded about 295 B.C. and burned to the ground in the 4th century. Ruins were never found, but Alexandria was an intellectual center where scholars are thought to have produced the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, and edited Homer's works.
University of Alexandria
In Memory
Richard Biggs
Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Stephen Franklin on "Babylon 5" and also had a long run on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," died Saturday. He was 44, according to the actor's Web site.
A posting on a "Babylon 5" message board by J. Michael Straczynski, the sci-fi show's creator, said the cause of death has not been determined but that "paramedics who showed up suggested it was either an aneurysm or a massive stroke."
Biggs, a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre, gained his first major exposure as Dr. Marcus Hunter on "Days of Our Lives." He was on the NBC show for five years.
He also appeared on Lifetime's "Any Day Now" and "Strong Medicine." Most recently, he played Clayton Boudreaux on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light."
"Richard was a consummate professional, but more than that he was an honorable, stand-up guy," Straczynski wrote in his posting. "He was, quite simply, a terrific guy, and everyone here is just devastated at the news."
Biggs is survived by his wife, Lori Gerber, and two sons.
Richard Biggs
In Memory
David Dellinger
Peace activist David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Seven arrested and tried for their part in the violent anti-war protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, has died at 88.
Dellinger died Tuesday, said Peggy Rocque, administrator of Heaton Woods, the Montpelier retirement home where the activist had been living.
Dellinger was a pacifist who devoted much of his life to protesting. A member of the Old Left whose first arrest came in the 1930s during a union-organizing protest at Yale, he was a generation older than his Yippie co-defendants in the Chicago Seven case.
At the Chicago Seven trial in 1969 and 1970, Dellinger and four co-defendants - Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and Rennie Davis - were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 convention. Those convictions were overturned by a federal appeals court, which cited errors by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman.
When Hoffman invited Dellinger to address the court during sentencing, he continued to speak after the judge ordered him to stop.
"You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade, and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth," Dellinger told the judge. "And the fact is, I am not prepared to do that."
Born in Wakefield, Mass., in 1915, Dellinger studied economics at Yale, spent a year at Oxford University in England and studied for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary. He wrote several books, the most recent, "From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter," published in 1993.
Dellinger fought for unions in the 1930s despite being called a communist, and walked with civil right leaders in the South in the 1950s and '60s, despite the risk of violence.
A conscientious objector during World War II, Dellinger spoke out against the practice of putting black soldiers in the back of trains ahead of defeated Germans. During a three-year prison term - one of several stints behind bars - Dellinger refused to sit in the all-white dining area.
Just three years ago, at age 85, Dellinger got up at 2:45 a.m. at his home in Montpelier and hitched a ride to demonstrations in Quebec City against the creation of a free trade zone in the Western Hemisphere.
"Three percent of the richest people in the world control more wealth than 49 undeveloped countries," he said. The trade agreement "is going to extend that kind of system."
David Dellinger
Royal College of Art student Kate MccGwire examines her work 'Brood 2004', which is composed of 22,000 chicken wishbones as part of her final degree show in London, May 26, 2004.
Photo by Peter Macdiarmid
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