Let's get to the meat of the matter regarding this sham of an election in Iraq, that essentially says let's vote for this constitution that we'll change come December. I heard it passed. So what. Was that election just for entertainment purposes? Was it to show the U.S. that Iraq's inevitable war against the insurgents, essentially a civil war, will be postponed till the new year?
America has to figure out that these guys smell. They emit odors that are offensive, and democracy, or republicanism to be more accurate, hasn't existed in countries that stink. India is possibly an exception. They have cowshit in the streets. So that would definitely smell. But can you thnk of another industrialized republic? I'll bet not.
This is due to the fact that hygeine, God, apple pie and the American way go hand in hand with soap, preferably anti-bacterial soap. Soap isn't a greatly needed product on the African continent, as well as the Middle East. They bathe about once a week, even when they have soap.
I lived in a college dormitory when one of the princes of Iran ( the folks against the Shah) was going to school in Norman, Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma. This guy was a really nice guy, lived about three doors down from my dorm room, but you could smell him from the hallway about eight doors down. The guy's name was Ali, and he was fascinated with western music of which I had a huge collection of jazz, so we became friends, and he took up percussion.
Percussion might be the worst group of instruments for a man who doesn't bathe due to the amount of perspiration it makes one profuse. Perspiration incremented by non-bathing caused a mini-revolt one night when several guys were in my room getting drunk on beer when Ali decided to come over. Some of the more drunk guys in the party told Ali how bad he stunk, there was no reason for it and they threw him in the shower and forcefully scrubbed him down. He didn't think it was all that funny, told the resident assistant, who reported on us and we all got reprimanded.
The reprimand, the party, the shower, those things are all interconnected to the real problem of Ali not bathing. When he was getting the involuntary scrubdown, he shouted the reason he bathed once a week was to preserve water. Well, Norman has plenty of water so that argumentwasn't too strong of an argument. He was taught not to bathe more than once a week.
Now place yourself into a republic, where senators are sitting around doing nothing, and representatives are sitting around doing nothing, other than perspiring. These men need to be reasonably clean so they can sit together for long periods of time doing nothing. Think about it. The Greeks and their bath houses. George Washington and the Washington D.C. bath houses. They stimulate the sweat glands so they don't smell when they put on their robes and suits. That way they can do nothing for literally hours at a time at their constituents expense, making shit up how to rule lives.
It ain't gonna work in the Middle East cause they have no bath houses, nor do they bathe every day, nor every week. So there you have the reason, the most basic reason, to pull out of this stinking fucking war. The Middle East stinks. Africa is no peach either.
Rachel Neumann: Working Hard or Hardly Working (AlterNet.org)
In this exclusive interview, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about the thin line between the middle class and the working poor and why she wants to slap the next person who insists on the power of positive thinking.
Paul Krugman: Questions of Character (truthout.org)
George W. Bush, I once wrote, "values loyalty above expertise" and may have "a preference for advisers whose personal fortunes are almost entirely bound up with his own." And he likes to surround himself with "obsequious courtiers."
Purple Gene's review of Bill O'Reilly on the "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart on the Comedy Channel on October 18th, 2005:
I have been rejoicing all day with the news of the warrant being issued in Texas for the ritual arrest of Tom Delay…….I can't wait for the Mugshot on the cover of the "National Enquirer" magazine….but I stayed up late last night just to get a little sword fighting in! Yes….Bill "the arrogant, "no spin zone", talk dirty on the phone, bad to the bone, O'Reilly from FOX was going to be on the "Daily Show" with the "Guru of Gaffs"….Jon Stewart. Last year, just before the elections, these two guys went on each others shows and traded saber sharp witticisms with dueling syllogisms and downright rude repartee!
O'Reilly called the "Daily Show" …DOPEY and it's viewers "Stoned Slackers" . Stewart skewered O'Reilly for endorsing "Freedom Fries" !
Tonight I expected a continuation of the light hearted lambasting and secretly hoping that Jon Stewart would do a "Tucker Carlson" on O'Reilly.
They entered the room together and sat down and exchanged pleasantries. Then O'Reilly fired first….with a remark about Stewarts hair. But Stewart retorted with…"Why do ya have to pick on Cindy Sheehan???" And he followed with…"Still eating Freedom Fries????" To which O'Reilly said "all you do on your show is play for a "giggle"…and then he said "all you do is add "insult to injury" !!!!"
Then Jon Stewart got that look in his eyes and delivered the sharp edge right to the heart…he said…."You sir, just add "INJURY" !!!!!!!!!!!!!! the crowd erupted into applause and Stewart shut them up and then said to O'Reilly "By the way, you know, they still haven't found "Those Weapons" !!!"
O'Reilly called Stewart a "Pinhead" ! Then Stewart asked O'Reilly if , because of all the corruption in Washington, is he beginning to distrust the Bush administration?" O"Reilly said….."YES"
Stewart said "does that mean you're on our team now ?" O'Reilly said…."No…I distrust all politicians!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives the Daily Show duel ….a "DRAW"….both these guys are sharp…(I just happen to hate one of them)!
P.S. look for Tucker Carlson to be on "Real Time with Bill Maher" this Friday night on HBO !
Mostly overcast & brisk. Well, brisk for these parts.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Guatemala', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The Original One', then a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Uma Thurman and Melissa Etheridge.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Stockard Channing, Michael Connelly, and Jamie Cullum.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Joey', followed by a FRESH'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'Apprentice: The Donald', followed by a FRESH'ER' (starts 1 minute before the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Ed McMahon and Weezer.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Val Kilmer, Gabrielle Union, and Mark Leyner.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 9/28/05) are Bill Bellamy and the Like.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Alias', followed by a FRESH'Night Stalker', then 'Primetime'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 10/10/05) are Freddie Prinze, Jr., Bill Simmons, and Mike Jones.
The WB offers a FRESH'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'Everwood'.
Faux has a RERUN'Reunion', followed by another RERUN'Reunion'.
UPN has a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', followed by a FRESH'Love, Inc', then a FRESH'Eve', followed by a FRESH'Cuts'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Cold Case Files', and a FRESH'The First 48'.
AMC offers the movie 'Braddock: Missing In Action III', followed by the movie 'The Delta Force', then the movie 'Delta Force 2'.
BBC -
[1pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 38;
[2:40pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 1;
[3:20pm] 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Episode 2;
[4pm] 'Jonathan Creek' - The Scented Room;
[6pm] 'BBC World News' - BBC World News;
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Brightlingsea;
[7pm] 'Benny Hill Show' - Episode 39;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[10:15pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Ep. 3 How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[11:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fashion;
[12:20am] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Fat;
[2:15am] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Ep. 3 How to Recognize Different Types of Tree From Quite a Long Way Away;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Most Outrageous Live TV Moments 3', and a FRESH'Celebrity Poker Showdown'.
Comedy Central has 'Comedy Central Presents', 'Reno 911!', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Comedy Central Presents', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and a FRESH'Showbiz Show With David Spade'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jim Cramer.
Scheduled on a FRESHAdam Carolla is Dane Cook.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Cannibals', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] Beijing Bicycle (2001);
[8AM] A World Apart (1998);
[10AM] Wild Man Blues (1997);
[12PM] You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[1:30PM] At The IFC Center (2005);
[2PM] A World Apart (1998);
[4PM] Beijing Bicycle (2001);
[6PM] You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[7:30PM] Persuasion (1995);
[9:20PM] The Broken Hearts Club (2000);
[11PM] Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998);
[12:45AM] The Cup (1999);
[2:30AM] Dream of the Dead: The Making of George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005);
[3AM] Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998);
[4:45AM] The Festival #3 (2005);
[5:15AM] The Festival #4 (2005);
[5:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has the movie 'The Bone Snatcher', followed by the movie 'The Mummy Returns'.
Sundance -
[7AM] The Al Franken Show: (10/19/05);
[8AM] Claude Chabrol L'Artisan;
[9AM] The Flower of Evil;
[10:45AM] The Critical Path;
[11AM] The Al Franken Show: (10/19/05);
[12PM] Career Girls;
[1:40PM] Oleanna;
[3:10PM] Grass;
[4:30PM] The Man on the Train;
[6PM] I Am NOT an ANIMAL: Money;
[6:30PM] No Problem;
[7PM] Career Girls;
[8:30PM] The Toll Collector;
[8:45PM] Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness;
[9PM] Breasts;
[10PM] Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights And The News;
[11PM] TransGeneration: Episode 5;
[11:30PM] The Al Franken Show: (10/20/05);
[12:30AM] Ginger and Cinnamon;
[2:15AM] The Toll Collector;
[2:30AM] The Al Franken Show: (10/20/05);
[3:30AM] American Eunuchs;
[4:45AM] The Man on the Train. (ALL TIMES EDT)
British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking and his wife Elaine (R) visit the stand of German bookseller Rowohlt at the Frankfurt book fair, October 19, 2005. Hawking visited the world's largest book fair to promote his book 'A Briefer History Of Time' . The fair opens from October 19 to 23.
Photo by Alex Grimm
Clinton
Friends say former President Clinton is enjoying his foray into the music business so much with the release last week of a CD featuring his favorite recordings that he already is planning a second CD.
"The Bill Clinton Collection," available at Little Rock's Clinton Museum Store and on the store's Web site, has sold 1,000 copies so far. The CD features 11 tracts ranging from jazz to gospel to blues and folk.
The CD contains: "My One and Only Love" by John Coltrane, "Harlem Nocturne" by David Sandborn, "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis, "The Town I Loved So Well" by Phil Coulter, "There Will Never Be Another You" by Art Tatum, "Summertime" by Zoot Sims, "In the Presence of Jehovah" by Mickey Mangun, "Nostalgie" by Igor Butman, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" by Nina Simone, "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" by Mahalia Jackson and "Chelsea Morning" by Judy Collins.
Clinton was so involved in the compilation that he rejected an early version of the CD because it didn't have his preferred version of "Chelsea Morning," Fails said. Collins recorded three versions of the song.
Antonio Banderas has been presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 16 years after he arrived as a penniless young actor. Banderas got down on his knees and rubbed his hands over his new Hollywood star Tuesday. His latest film, "The Legend of Zorro," opens in theaters Oct. 28.
He was accompanied by his wife, Melanie Griffith; their 9-year-old daughter, Stella; and other family members. Sharon Stone also attended.
Banderas is the 2,294th person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Actress Sigourney Weaver speaks at an announcement for the Dian Fossey Legacy campaign in Washington, October 19, 2005. The campaign commemorates the 20th anniversary of the death of Fossey and will honor her contribution to gorilla conservation.
Photo by Jim Young
Southern California's Movieland Wax Museum, opened in 1962 by silent-film star Mary Pickford, is closing its doors -- a victim of the thrills and spills of huge theme parks and action-packed video games.
The owners of the museum, one of the largest in the world and home to more than 300 wax celebrities, said the attraction would take its final bow on October 31.
Many of the exhibits will be moved to the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco but the Movieland site is likely to be redeveloped as a pizza restaurant.
Repeats In, Living With Fran and Blue Collar TV Out
WB Schedule Changes
In an effort to build up the Monday 9 p.m. hour, stop the bleeding on Friday, and more competitively duck the Desperate Housewives bullet, the WB will make changes on three nights of the week. Two current series, Living With Fran and Blue Collar TV, will go on hiatus to coincide with the new line-up.
Although repeats of Related will remain in its current Wednesday 9 p.m. hour (effective on Nov. 2), original episodes of the recently introduced drama will move to Monday at 9 p.m. out of 7th Heaven (and in place of the canceled Just Legal). A second (translation: repeat) episode of sitcom What I Like About You will relocate into the Friday 8:30 p.m. time period in place of Twins, which moves to 9:30 p.m. out of Reba (and in place of Living With Fran). The current Sunday double dose of Blue Collar TV (which never belonged on the WB to begin with) will be replaced with a repeat of Supernatural.
A breakdown of the changes:
Monday (effective Oct. 24)
8:00 p.m. 7th Heaven
9:00 p.m. Related (new day)
Friday (effective Oct. 21)
8:00 p.m. What I Like About You
8:30 p.m. What I Like About You (R another weekly telecast)
9:00 p.m. Reba
9:30 p.m. Twins (new time)
Actress Shelley Winters, who won two Academy Awards and was nominated twice more, was recovering after suffering a heart attack, her family said Wednesday.
Winters, 85, was being treated at an undisclosed hospital in the Los Angeles area and was expected to be released within a week, a spokesman for the family said Wednesday.
Broadway legend Carol Channing introduces her new husband, businessman Harry Kullijian, during a performance of her one-woman show,'The First 80 Years are the Hardest,' at the cabaret Feinstein's at the Regency in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005. Channing, 84, and Kullijian were sweethearts during the 7th, 8th and 9th grades, but lost track of each other and did not meet up again until 70 years later. Flanking them are pianist Ken Ascher, left, and Dick Sarpola, right, on bass.
Photo by Richard Drew
"ER" star Noah Wyle played dad instead of doctor as he and his wife welcomed their second child, a girl.
The baby, weighing almost 7 1/2 pounds, was born in Los Angeles on Saturday to Wyle and wife Tracy, People magazine reported. The baby was named Auden, after the poet W.H. Auden.
"Boston Legal" star William Shatner was taken to a hospital from the set of the ABC series Tuesday after complaining of lower back pain, a spokeswoman said.
Shatner, 74, had completed filming for the day at the Manhattan Beach studio when the problem occurred, series publicist Stacey Luchs said.
He was being checked out at a nearby hospital and was expected to return to work Wednesday, Luchs said.
Bono may not have had to sing for his meal, but the U2 rocker had the ear of resident George W. Bush over lunch on Wednesday.
In town to perform a concert, Bono was invited to the White House residence to follow up on discussions he and Bush had at the Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in July, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
"Both share a deep commitment to combating AIDS, preventing malaria, and expanding trade to lift people out of poverty, particularly in developing countries," McClellan lied.
Arial view of Monkey Nazca Lines in the Nazca desert is seen October 5, 2005. The latest threat to the vast U.N. Heritage site where the enigmatic shapes and lines, stylized figures of birds and animals were etched in the desert some 2,000 years ago, is a camp of around 30 shacks that appeared in August.
Photo by Mariana Bazo
Move over Troy. Bye-bye Greek heroes. You've had your turn Frodo. Make way for the blood-soaked medieval adventure of Beowulf and Grendel.
With at least two major feature films, an opera and an off-Broadway play, the epic poem Beowulf - about a warrior hero and a monster - is poised to jump out of English class and invade the mainstream like never before.
Beowulf is also getting the Hollywood treatment courtesy of Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich. That film, which will be computer-animated, is slated for release in 2007.
Until recently, the 3,182-line poem has been largely kept within the confines of academia. The gory tale has long been a mainstay of English curricula.
An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals - and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse - was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday.
Police began investigating James Tait, 54, and another man who lived at the rural Southeast King County farm after the Seattle man died of injuries suffered during intercourse with a horse in the summer, Enumclaw police said.
The criminal-trespassing charge stems from a July 2 bestiality session involving Tait, the 45-year-old Seattle man and a horse in a neighbor's barn, charging papers say. According to the King County Medical Examiner's Office, the Seattle man died of acute peritonitis due to perforation of the colon.
King County prosecutors say it's the most-severe charge they could file; Washington is one of more than a dozen states that does not outlaw bestiality.
The tall ship Lady Washington sails past the San Francisco skyline in this view from Fort Baker in Sausalito, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005. The merchant brig replica, Washinton state's tall ship ambassador, is visiting Sausalito through the weekend.
Photo by Eric Risberg
Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies "The War at Home," "The Family Guy" and "American Dad," topped a parents group's annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing.
The Parents Television Council's president, L. Brent Bozell, said he was alarmed that the three Fox Sunday night comedies are being marketed as family friendly.
The Fox drama "The O.C." was fourth on the PTC's list of worst prime-time shows for families. Add in "That '70s Show" and "Arrested Development," and the network that tries to be hip for young viewers makes up 60 percent of the list.
The owner of ScienTOMogy, a Tom Cruise-skewering Website that came under scrutiny from the Church of Scientology for its too-close-for-comfort URL has agreed to change the Web address.
"He said he would change it, so, we're waiting for him to do that," Helena Kobrin, an attorney representing the Church of Scientology, said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, ScienTOMogy.info was still a valid address, and according to the site, a more popular than ever destination, thanks to recent headlines over its engagement with Scientology lawyers. But changes appeared to be in the works. A new URL, registered on Oct. 13, also was bringing users to ScienTOMogy's vault of Cruise parody videos.
The destroyed statue of the second Abassides Caliph and builder of Baghdad, Abu Jaafar al-Mansour, is removed by Baghdad municipality workers after it was hit by a bomb explosion on Tuesday night, central Baghdad, October 19, 2005. The statue was built in the seventies to honour the memory of al-Mansour who built Baghdad in the year 762 AD as well as the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Photo by Ali Jasim
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 10-16. Each ratings point represents 1,102,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. Movie: "Twitches" (Friday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 4.1, 4.57 million homes.
2. NFL Football: Houston vs. Seattle (Sunday, 8:28 p.m.), ESPN, 3.9, 4.27 million homes.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.3, 3.6 million homes.
4. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.2, 3.49 million homes.
5. Movie: "Twitches" (Friday, 9:40 p.m.), Disney, 3.1, 3.37 million homes.
6. Movie: "Twitches" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.0, 3.27 million homes.
7. Movie: "Twitches" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 3.0, 3.26 million homes.
8. Movie: "Halloweentown High" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.8, 3.09 million homes.
9. "Law & Order: SVU" (Saturday, 10 p.m.), USA, 2.8, 3.06 million homes.
10. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.95 million homes.
11. Movie: "Hocus Pocus" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.7, 2.94 million homes.
12. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Sunday, 10 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.7, 2.92 million homes.
13. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Saturday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.89 million homes.
14. Movie: "Halloweentown High" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.6, 2.89 million homes.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Sunday, 9:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.6, 2.87 million homes.
Veterinarians check the San Diego Zoo's unnamed female giant panda cub's feet during her weekly exam October 19, 2005. They discovered that the cub has grown her first tooth, a left upper molar. For a couple of weeks, veterinarians could feel teeth below the gums but it had not emerged until now. The cub currently weighs 3.5 kg (7.78 pounds).
Photo by Tammy Spratt
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