'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Jazz From Hills
TrimmedBush and Hedges
The CIA nd Bush CONTINUE to Deceive
We're all grown ups here aren't we? Especially in the times we're going through. We're big boys and girls and we should be able to handle any terrorist plot, I mean, what was this situation that comes our way, hmmm?
Then why in the fuck are there coded names in the 9/11 report? We're playing games at a time that the cloak and dagger games are up, fellars. Christ almighty, why all these Shrouds of Quantico lingering over a "PUBLIC" report to serve us dumbshits "THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC". I mean, the dumbest thing you can do when you have fucked up the war to the extent that it currently resides, I'd think Bunypants would offer to his staff (this is Bunnypants talkin' now) "We best come clean here, boys, we's done caught.. a,I, well, we imagine some here are some of us might be going to federal prison and it mig be for a long haul. Dick, you oughtta start gettin backup.
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No More Bush
Here is a good "No More Bush" photo:
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
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New Site
'the Umlaut'
Hey everyone. It's Thursday and we're launching a new political/comedy site called the Umlaut.
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Topple Bush
Here is an excellent photo and poem:
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Bright, sunny day.
We went to the Orange County Fair down in Costa Mesa today.
Had a great time, ate too much, walked too far, stayed too long.
Gonna be an early night.
British guitarist John McLaughlin performs at the Stravinski stage, during the Blue Night of the 38th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, late Wednesday, July 14, 2004.
Photo by Fabrice Coffrini
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Dumped By Slim-Fast
Whoopi Goldberg
The Slim-Fast diet drink company has dumped Whoopi Goldberg from its advertising because its executives were unhappy with remarks the comedian made at a recent political rally that mocked resident Bush.
"We are disappointed by the manner in which Ms. Goldberg chose to express herself and sincerely regret that her recent remarks offended some of our consumers. Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast general manager Terry Olson said in a press release Wednesday.
Goldberg participated at a recent Democratic fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York, joining performers such as John Mellencamp, Jon Bon Jovi, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and John Leguizamo.
At one point in a speech mocking the Bush administration, Goldberg used his surname as a sexual reference.
Whoopi Goldberg
So much for freedom of speech at a private gathering. Looks like they're trying to Dixie-Chick Whoopi.
To loosely quote Dickless Cheney, Slim-Fast, 'go fuck yourself.'
Fireworks burst over the Eiffel Tower as France celebrates Bastille Day in Paris, July 14, 2004. The national holiday, which marks the storming of the Bastille during the French revolution, is celebrated by an annual military parade on the Champs Elysees and nationwide celebrations.
Photo by Emmanuel Fradin
Slams Bush Regime
The Future Dictionary of America
If you've never dropped the word "dubyavirus" into casual conversation, urged that an official be "ashcrofted" or commented upon "The Cheney Effect," then you haven't seen the future. At least, not the future according to McSweeney's latest publication.
The genre of anti-Bush books has now entered the reference field. In August, McSweeney's, the publishing house founded by author-activist Dave Eggers, is releasing The Future Dictionary of America, a Utopian tome set "sometime" beyond the present.
Contributors include Eggers, Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Franzen, Wendy Wasserstein and more than 100 others. Proceeds will be donated to "groups working for the public good in the 2004 election."
"The dictionary was conceived as a way for a great number of American writers and artists to voice their displeasure with their current political leadership, and to collectively imagine a brighter future," reads an introductory note from the editors.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is the basis for "rumsfeld," defined by Vonnegut as "one who can stomach casualties." Attorney General John Ashcroft inspired novelist Robert Coover to coin "ashcrofted," when one is "removed from or disqualified for public office on grounds of religious delusions."
Stephen King contributes "sloudge," his term for the endless political opining on cable television. "Most sloudge," King writes, is conducted by "overweight white men" seated around "shiny tables" and mouthing off against the liberal state.
Sample usage of sloudge, a la King: "The President's press conference was followed by over three hours of sloudge on MSNBC and six hours of sloudge on Fox-TV."
The Future Dictionary of America
Portrait to Hang at Okla. Capitol
Woody Guthrie
Dust Bowl troubadour Woody Guthrie's portrait will be hung Thursday at the state Capitol.
Guthrie wrote hundreds of songs after leaving Okemah, Okla., as a teenager, including the folk anthem, "This Land Is Your Land."
Artist Charles Banks Wilson chose Guthrie as the subject when asked to do another Capitol portrait, said state Sen. Charles Ford of Tulsa, president of the Oklahoma Senate Historical Preservation Fund.
The Oklahoma Gazette, the largest weekly newspaper in Oklahoma, is raising money for the portrait and Wilson is donating his fee to the fight against Huntington's Disease, officials said.
Guthrie died in 1967 in New York of Huntington's Disease, a degenerative brain disorder.
Woody Guthrie
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Returning To Toronto's Second City
Joe Flaherty
Joe Flaherty, a revered member of the old SCTV cast, will be joining the onstage cast of Toronto's Second City later this month to reprise some of his famous SCTV sketches and characters. The performances will take place from July 21 to 24.
The evening will begin with a welcome from Caballero - Flaherty's Godfather-type station manager at SCTV - followed by the troupe's current review, Invasion Free Since 1812.
Then the piece de resistance: an updated sketch of the Sammy Maudlin Show which will pay homage to the late John Candy, who used to play Sammy's fawning sidekick-announcer William B.
Joe Flaherty
Entertainers Penn Jillette, left, and Teller, second from left, and cast members of the Cirque du Soleil show 'Zumanity,' ride the new Las Vegas monorail Wednesday, July 14, 2004, on the Las Vegas Blvd. 'strip.' The monorail opened with a preview for politicians, media and cast members of Las Vegas shows. The 3.9-mile, privately funded, fully automated monorail opens to the public Thursday morning.
Photo by Joe Cavaretta
Celebrates 86th Birthday
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman, one of the great masters of modern film, celebrated his 86th birthday Wednesday with a sour gift for fans - an announcement that he's retiring from the stage.
Bergman said his 2002 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghost at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre would be his last. "After Ghost, I decided that this must be it. I do not want them to carry me out of the theatre. I'm leaving by myself," he said in an interview with the newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
"Nobody will need to say, 'Now the old man has to quit'."
Ingmar Bergman
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Brings Orchestra to Radio City
Elton John
Elton John has performed with some big names - Cher, Billy Joel, Eminem - and at some big places - Westminster Abbey, Central Park, Caesars Palace - in his lengthy career.
But never before had John appeared with a full symphony orchestra in North America, or at Radio City Music Hall. During a concert Tuesday night, he did both.
John wowed the crowd - which was a little Metropolitan Opera and a little Madison Square Garden - with gigantic hits such as "Tiny Dancer" and "Don't Let the Sun." Favorites "Bennie and the Jets" and "Rocket Man" were absent, though, with John opting strictly for orchestration-friendly fare.
The two-hour concert, the first of five at Radio City, finished with a duet of "Your Song" with opera diva Renee Fleming. After the show, the glitterati filed into the Rainbow Room for what John described as a "gay-la" dinner. The proceeds from the opening night concert and gala will benefit the Julliard School and the Royal Academy of Music.
Elton John
The Mexican training Tall Ship Cuauhtemoc enters Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts July 14, 2004.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
3 Generations Appear in Vogue
Presleys
Life after Elvis is far from heartbreak hotel for the Presley women. In the August issue of Vogue, three generations of Presleys - Priscilla, her daughter, Lisa Marie, and Lisa Marie's daughter, Danielle Riley - candidly discuss their lives.
Lisa Marie, Elvis' daughter turned pop star, expressed relief that her teenage daughter, who uses her middle name, Riley, hadn't turned out like Paris Hilton.
In April 2003, Lisa Marie said similar things about Paris and her sister, Nicky, to the Los Angeles Times: "Those two are the epitome of what my mother raised me not to be. I don't know what they've done. Maybe it's the bleach that fascinates people." (The Hiltons didn't return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment on Monday.)
Lisa Marie, 36, is working on her second album, a follow-up to 2003's "To Whom It May Concern."
Presleys
Underground Railroad Museum
Slave Pen
A pre-Civil War slave pen, made of roughhewn logs on a farm in Kentucky and reassembled at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, was dedicated Tuesday night as the focal point of the $110 million museum.
About 200 guests attended the dedication of the 20-by-30-foot, two-story structure. The Freedom Center is set to open to the public in August.
Researchers say the pen, which looks like a small house, was built by a slave merchant in Maysville, Ky., in 1833. It was used in the so-called internal slave trade, which mostly comprised children of slaves taken from eastern plantations who were held until they could be sent to the South and West, officials said.
The structure was donated to the Freedom Center by a man who bought the Kentucky farm and found the pen inside a tobacco barn. Freedom Center officials say it is one of only a handful in existence.
Slave Pen
A frog stays cool in an algae covered pond Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at Powell Gardens near Lee's Summit, Mo.
Photo by Chris Ochsner
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