Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 20 January, 2004

Tuesday

20 January, 2004

(Updated Daily)

Issue #89

 

 

I Have a Scheme

 

Martin Luther King was a bit of a hypocrite, and so are many Americans, which is one of the Top 10 Reasons why Martin Luther King Day is The Perfect American Holiday. It's an article worth reading for some scattered facts you might not know about, like MLK apparently spent his last night on earth with a white prostitute he beat up, though you've got to take it all with a grain of salt since it's clearly written by someone with a racist agenda. A black or a Jew does something bad and immediately it's because of "blacks" or "Jews," as though the problem was inherent to the entire race instead of just some personal problem inherent to the individual. Yep, that's the problem with "disinfotainment." I'm not the only one who uses facts as a platform to take off into lala land.

 

In a more sensible manner...

 

    "King was a brave and courageous person. I agree with him that a person should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin. To those who stress King's loose sexual morals, I reply that sin is that for which we ask God's forgiveness.

    "My problem with Martin Luther King Day is that it celebrates a civil rights revolution that achieved the opposite of King's intention. Today we are judged by the color of our skin.

    "This conclusion is inescapable wherever we look. Those with darker skins have become 'preferred minorities' with rights to employment, promotions, training programs, university admissions, and federal contracts that are greater than those of 'whites.'

    "New crimes known as 'hate crimes' are being created that only 'whites' can commit and only 'preferred minorities' can suffer. If a 'white' assaults a 'black,' the charge will be assault and a hate crime. If a 'black' assaults a "white," the charge is only assault."

- Paul Craig Roberts: Martin Luther King Day -

 

    Just as hapless Bushites are known to stumble across the anti-administration whitehouse.org instead of the fascist whitehouse.gov, seekers after the truth about Martin Luther King will invariably find themselves at martinlutherking.org, a site dedicated to repealing the national holiday. This site has a lot in common with those trying to repeal Columbus Day in that they're convinced the bad he did outweighs the good he did. Since Disinfotainment Today insists that deification is a bad thing under any circumstances, I'm afraid I must recommend you check it out.

 

English as a Second Language

 

Don't you have to be elected ONCE before you can be re-elected? 644,000 sites have selective amnesia? Shouldn't that say "The Official Re-appointment Site for President...?" The media is "liberal" when absolutely everybody is reporting about Bush's "re-election" campaign despite the fact he was never elected in the first place? Are people actually reading those headlines and saying to themselves "Yep, we should elect Bush AGAIN?"

 

Aerial Art of the Week

Artist John Quigley re-created Pablo Picasso's 1959 Amnistia

on the sand just north of 10th Street in South Beach, Florida

using people as his art material.

 

I Feel So Much Safer Now

 

A mother was hassled by the cops for buying Microsoft's Flight Simulator for her son.

 

Last month's earthquake in Iran was obviously triggered by the United States using HAARP technology.

 

The value of the dollar has fallen so low against the euro that Germans can save 60,000 euros by buying a German Porsche Carrera GT from a dealer in the US and have it shipped back to Germany where it was originally manufactured.

 

Since 9/11, U.S. and Canadian military aircraft have intercepted or diverted nearly 1,700 aircraft regarded as suspicious.

 

"The first thing to do would be to build an implant that could 'speak' the same language as the brain. You would then need to figure out how to connect it to the right tissue so that the tissue would correctly accept the information. The easiest way to do this would be to go through the same pathways the brain uses to take in other information to the sensory systems. This is already being done for the auditory system with cochlear implants and is close to reality for the visual system with retinal or visual cortex implants. Such an interface would give you direct, instantaneous access to information - and it would be the ultimate virtual reality system, a la The Matrix - but it would not necessarily give you knowledge. I see this type of system being available in a fairly short timeframe, say 20 years or so."

- Peter Passaro: Is it Possible to Download Knowledge into the Brain? Mind-machine interfaces will be available in the near future, and several methods hold promise for implanting information -

 

"AG Ashcroft can now have you arrested -- more accurately, abducted and detained -- and thrown in a military brig or sent to the Guantanamo concentration camp. Like military dictators in Chile or Guatemala, or the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, the Bushites don't have tell your family where you are, or even acknowledge your detention. They can detain you for years, decades -- or until Bush's war on 'terr'sim' is over -- that is to say forever. All of this is now perfectly legal -- or so the Supreme Court ruled the other day when it refused to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details of hundreds of people detained after 9/11. In other words, Bush may continue abducting people and throwing them in secret prisons without charge."

- Kurt Nimmo: Bush and the Supreme Court Going After the Bill of Rights -

 

Jews of the Week

 

Listen to five hilarious songs by Gefilte Fuck.

 

If Operating Systems were Airlines

 

DOS AIR: All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on, and jump off when it hits the ground again. Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, etcetera.

 

WINDOWS AIRLINES: The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants are all very attractive and the pilots very capable. The fleet is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds, and at 20,000 feet it explodes without warning.

 

MAC AIRWAYS: Tickets are expensive. The cashiers, flight attendants, and pilots all look the same, feel the same and act the same. When asked questions about the flight they reply that you don't want to know, don't need to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie.

 

LINUX EXPRESS: Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there.

 

- Langalist -

 

History Lesson from Hell

 

    "When Bush took office, the White House was told that a Predator drone had spotted Bin Laden several times recently in Afghanistan, and Richard Clarke wanted the suspended drone flights resumed to track the terrorist down and kill him.

    "Clarke was a holdover from the Clinton administration, chief of the Counter-Terrorism Security Group. He had special concerns about Bin Laden; after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000, Clarke had put together a comprehensive plan for attacking Al-Qaida with military force, with efforts to stop its international financing network, with police attacks on known cells in foreign countries and with counterterrorism aid to countries like the Philippines and Uzbekistan.

    "Clarke wanted to take the fight aggressively to Al-Qaida, but his plan was completed only in December 2000, as Clinton was leaving office, so Clarke and his plan were forwarded for consideration by the new Bush team.

    "Consideration was not forthcoming; the Predators weren't put back in the air, and the administration sat on Clarke's attack plan. Meanwhile, Bush was contemplating his 'multipronged assault on Saddam Hussein.'"

- Star Tribune editorial: Saddam, Osama - Bush chose wrong enemy -

 

Hypocrisy of the Week

 

It's okay for Rush Limbaugh, the most popular radio talk show host on earth, to constantly refer to feminists as feminazis and Hillary Clinton as Hitlery Clinton, but let two losing submissions out of 1,500 to a contest at moveon.org compare Bush to Hitler and the right wing goes apeshit. Moveon.org removed the submissions from their site but they're here.

 

CBS has refused to air the winning 30-second spot, which simply shows a bunch of children working at a factory set to a folk guitar, then shows a title saying "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit?" You can see it, and all the other winners, here.

 

Gallery of the Week

Did you know the Russians landed on Venus in 1975 with a Venera lander?

Here are more spectacular shots.

(Speaking of Venus, here's a much more interesting space mission 

than the proposed one to Mars.)

 

Don't Take My Word For It

 

"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the U.S. are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it."
- Fr. Edward Dowling, an American Catholic priest, as quoted in the Chicago Daily News, August 28, 1941 -

 

"Associate with all the smart, funny, talented, creative people you can, learn to write beautifully, but don't stay locked in your room to do it: go out and try new things, meet new people, have a wonderful, rich, compelling, and interesting life -- and then tell me about it in the most beautiful prose imaginable."

- Jeff Kleinman -

 

"These are the simple observations of a boat owner earning his living by sailing back and forth across a small river between two different countries where different currencies are being used. Over the past two years, he would have seen the US Dollar fall in value by almost 30% while at the same time he could read in the US papers that total national wealth still stood at an enormous $US 50 TRILLION in terms of land, buildings, factories etc.. From his external perspective, it was a clear case that Americans had lost $15 TRILLION in cross-river terms in just two years."

- The Privateer -

 

"The Internet has changed everything, even desperation."

- Sara Solovitch -

 

"My dad is a great man and I would really, really miss him if he was sent back to Italy forever. Like my dad, I play soccer, and my dad has coached me since I was 5. He also encourages me with my piano. When my dad comes home from work, he usually makes all three of us dinner and we sit down and eat together. My dad has also been teaching my brother and I how to handle a garden. All people like my dad and you would like him too, so please don't send him back to Italy."

- George Garofano pleading to the Judge for his father who's been detained as a terrorist because of a past cocaine conviction -

 

"Well, who really cares, right? So what if we lied about WMD, misled as to 'war on terrorism' objectives, and wasted well over $200 billion we didn't have, deployed 150,000 troops, and killed over 500 of them (so far and not counting suicides, or the thousands maimed) unnecessarily. Look at the bright side - on March 24, George W. Bush confiscated Iraqi bank and national financial assets, including assets of the oil ministry. On May 22, George W. Bush became the proud new administrator of the Iraqi Development Fund, and future oil sales that would feed it. On August 28, George W. Bush made sure that all additional government and Ba-ath official property be transferred into the Fund. All Iraqi oil sales are back in dollars too. We broke it, we bought it, we switched it back to dollars."

- Karen Kwiatkowski: About Those Neocons: Thinking Again, or Just Wondering? -

 

    "No one can seriously believe that terrorists have struck America because they hate our freedom, our democracy, or our prosperity. If that were true, they would have warmed up first by attacking Switzerland - an easier target.

    "And if someone asks how you would handle the terrorists without war, now that Pandora's Box has been opened, here's a simple answer: I'm not certain what I'd do, but I know one thing for sure: With $2 trillion a year at my disposal, I could hire the best minds in the world to find a solution that didn't involve using the cave-man tactics of trying to beat people to death. But no one in power is interested in finding alternatives to war. They arm to the teeth and then tell us we will obtain 'peace through strength.'"

- Harry Browne: Is War Necessary? -

 

"Unless preparations are made for its eventuality, the announcement of Bin Laden's capture will be the death-knell for the 2004 Democratic campaign. And, like the 'heroic rescue' of Jessica Lynch or the toppling of Hussein's statue by 'jubilant throngs' of Iraqis, it needn't even be real. (See this, this, and this.) So Democrats must have a pre-emptive strategy in place; the most obvious being, early in the game, to accuse the White House of sitting on Bin Laden for political gain."

- Eric A. Smith: Thoughts on the coming "Discovery" of bin Laden - The Best Propaganda Money can Buy -

 

"Hitler today is a bureaucracy. It is a corporate network that coldly carries out the single-minded agenda of its own advancement without remorse, without reservation, without human inhibitions, a cold inhuman machine. It is fascism with a friendly face. And every bit as lethal, arguably much more lethal, than the earlier version with an ugly face. It can only be dismantled when it is recognized for what it is. It was very intelligently built up. It's going to have to be very intelligently taken down. The effort to stop it must be as relentless as this network has been in usurping democratic power in this country."

- David Cogswell -

"Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move."

- Paulo Coelho -

 

"The press has turned on Dean over the past two weeks. Why, we are not sure. Perhaps it's his 'bulging neck,' as that embarrassment to the once-great New York Times Maureen Dowd posits this morning. No doubt the once-Clinton-obsessed 'MoDo' is sulking that Dr. Dean did not keep his telephone appointment with her. We have one word for you, Maureen: lavalife.com! It is the most stud-u-licious online dating site in the known universe, especially for a cosmopolitan babe such as yourself. Take my word for it -- as in I'm speaking from experience, hon. It will help your writing -- maybe to the point where you might actually deserve that next Pulitzer. But I'm not banking on that as even a short long shot."

- Sharon Soon -

 

    "Of course, the collapse of Corporate America wouldn't be such a bad thing. At least we would have the opportunity to rebuild our economic system on a foundation of fairness and justice for American workers and halt the exploitation of foreign workers. We also could end corporate personhood, an oxymoron that has allowed inanimate entities to grab more rights than any flesh and blood person.

    "The question is do we withhold as many of our dollars as we can to hasten the collapse, thereby lessening the pain, or wait for the inevitable implosion of Corporate America? The decision is ours, unless you believe getting used to becoming a slave in a banana republic is an option."

- Bev Conover: The good-paying jobs have gone bye-bye, get used to it -

 

"If by renouncing a lesser happiness
one may realize a greater happiness,
let the wise one renounce the lesser,
having regard for the greater."

- Buddha: Dhammapada 290 -

 

"You can only have bliss if you don't chase it."

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana -

 

Everything Else

 

How do I know I could edit a newspaper? Because I got every one of the answers correct in this excellent grammar quiz. Nyah nyah.

 

Got money lying around? Here are the ten gadgets you'll covet most in 2004.

 

If you want to see a picture of everything, you better check out the picture of everything.

 

In a TV special actually aired in Canada, they found that "even the most outlandish conspiracy theory may have its basis in a legitimate question.  In the course of separating fact from fiction, Bob [McKeown] delves into the labyrinthine and surprising ties between the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. What he finds out may startle you as much as any conspiracy theory."

 

Will somebody please ask Michael Jackson If it's all right to sleep with little boys, why doesn't he sleep with little girls too? Hmmm, I guess THAT would be bad.

 

Oh, by the way, here's how to terraform Mars.

 

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The State of the Union Address Drinking Game 2004

Reader Answer

from Mark

Reader Comment

Selected Readings

BREMER AND BUSH NEED SOME KOFI

ALL GODS SUCK

REPUG INC

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

WEAPONS of MONKEYBRAIN DODOS

WHY OUR SOLDIERS DIE IN THAT GOD FORSAKEN PLACE

MORE COMPASSION

BUSH FUCKING KNEW

THE THINGS THAT MATTER

REPUG SLUG WATCH

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In The Chaos Household

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Actress Cicley Tyson speaks in the Liberty Bell pavilion in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, during a ceremony honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Thousands of volunteers participated in hundreds of acts of community service in the city and its suburbs.
Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek

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Photo by Philippe Wojazer

May Withdraw Grammy Nomination

UPDATED FOR 2004!

On Reality TV Show

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, left, Def Jam Records President Kevin Liles, center, and recording artist LL Cool J, foreground right, join others as they raise a single finger during the launch of the 'One Mind. One Vote.' campaign in New York, Monday, Jan. 19, 2004. The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, partnered with The Doug Banks Morning Show, hopes to register 20 million voters in five years and two million voters in 2004 through the campaign.
Photo by Tina Fineberg

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Photo by Koji Sasahara

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