Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 30 March, 2004

Tuesday

30 March, 2004

(Updated Daily)

Issue #98

Clarifying the Difference Between This, That, and The Other Thing

 

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Calling All DJs

 

Check out this excellent guide to Protest Music for the 21st Century and play something meaningful for your listeners, even if the only listener is you.

 

People You Don't Normally Think About

 

    Meet Dudley Hiibel. He's a 59 year old cowboy who owns a small ranch outside of Winnemucca, Nevada. He lives a simple life, but he's his own man. You probably never would have heard of Dudley Hiibel if it weren't for his belief in the U.S. Constitution.

    One balmy May evening back in 2000, Dudley was standing around minding his own business when all of a sudden, a policeman pulled-up and demanded that Dudley produce his ID. Dudley, having done nothing wrong, declined. He was arrested and charged with "failure to cooperate" for refusing to show ID on demand.

    The issue is before the Supreme Court. Go to Hiibel's site, watch the video, and decide for yourself because God knows you can't trust the Supreme Court's decision.

 

Calling all Screenwriters

 

It's a newsletter that's only been out a couple weeks but it's enough for me to say that CS Daily is absolutely mandatory reading. Incredibly well written, constantly fascinating, better than Variety and Reporter, and best of all, free.

 

Har Dee Har Har

 

Here's a transcript of one of Dubya's latest speeches in which he makes gosh darn fun of just about everything, as though his entire time in office was just one big joke.

 

Gallery of the Week

Memorializing that magic moment when the distribution

of LSD moved from sugar cubes to Blotter Art.

 

Let Freedom Ring

 

The pro-Israel lobby has slipped an anti-Free Speech resolution
through the House; This resolution would criminalize criticism of
Israeli policies on US college campuses. Whatever you think of Israeli policies, I think you'll have to agree it shouldn't actually be illegal to criticize them. Contact your Senators listed below, or go here, and politely request they vote against H.R.3077.

Backwards Jigsaw Puzzle

I give you the answers, you figure out the questions.

(Hint: There's only one question.)

 

Thanks to Mad Kane for the inspiration.

 

Don't Take My Word For It

 

"Even if Bush does not believe he lied to or misled the public, how can he make fun of the rationale for a war that has killed and maimed thousands? Imagine if Lyndon Johnson had joked about the trumped-up Gulf of Tonkin incident that he deceitfully used as a rationale for U.S. military action in Vietnam: 'Who knew that fish had torpedoes?' Or if Ronald Reagan appeared at a correspondents event following the truck-bombing at the Marines barracks in Beirut--which killed over 200 American servicemen--and said, 'Guess we forgot to put in a stop light'... Yet there was Bush--apparently having a laugh at his own expense, but actually doing so on the graves of thousands. This was a callous and arrogant display. For Bush, the misinformation--or disinformation--he peddled before the war was no more than material for yucks. As the audience laughed along, he smiled. The false statements (or lies) that had launched a war had become merely another punchline."

- David Corn: MIA WMDs--For Bush, It's a Joke -

 

"FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, was offered a substantial raise and a full time job in order to not go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the FBI and CIA. Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working part time with the FBI for six months-- commencing in December, 2001. In a 50 reporter frenzy in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds said 'Attorney General John Ashcroft told me 'he was invoking State Secret Privilege and National Security' when I told the FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the pre 9-11 intercepts.' 'I appeared once on CBS 60 Minutes but I have been silenced by Mr. Ashcroft, the FBI follows me, and I was threatened with jail in 2002 if I went public,' Edmonds told tomflocco.com."

- Tom Flocco: DOJ Asked FBI Translator To Change Pre 9-11 Intercepts -

 

"Today before the 9/11 panel, Colin Powell repeated the lie told by Condi Rice last week as to: why an armed Predator was not used to take Osama Bin Laden out in the summer of 2001. Both Rice and Powell say the armed Predator (unmanned plane) was 'not operational.' This is a bald-faced lie. From CNews: 'By summer 2001, the Predator was armed for another test in the Nevada desert that destroyed a mock-up of a home bin Laden was suspected of using in Afghanistan...Hellfire missiles were attached to the drone after unarmed Predators flown by the CIA from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan spotted a man that several U.S. intelligence analysts believed was bin Laden, or his trademark Japanese truck, as many as three times in September and October 2000, the officials said.' What is the penalty for lying to Congress?"

- http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/06/24/118754-ap.html

 

    "Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace. Our military is being forced to trade away its maneuverability in the wider war against terrorism while being placed on the defensive in a single country that never will fully accept its presence.

    "There is no historical precedent for taking such action when our country was not being directly threatened. The reckless course that Bush and his advisers have set will affect the economic and military energy of our nation for decades. It is only the tactical competence of our military that, to this point, has protected him from the harsh judgment that he deserves."

- James Webb: Veterans face conundrum: Kerry or Bush? -

 

"First, it is appalling that the FCC has spent so much time focusing on and singling out one broadcaster for special persecution to the vast exclusion of others. How can this administrative bureaucracy of the executive believe that it is upholding the Constitution of this country by fining, admonishing, and attempting to exile a single broadcaster, Howard Stern, while not raising a finger against others with similar objectionable material? How is Oprah Winfreys humorous discussion of oral sex on March 18, 2004, any less objectionable than anything on the Howard Stern show? Similar content is shown daily on the Jerry Springer show. By far, the most objectionable material I have ever heard is the regular humiliation the Maury Povich show broadcasts when it parades men and women through a television circus in order to find out the parentage of the women's children."

- David Klein: Speech to the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee -

 

"Imitating the ostrich-like posture of certain German Jews who ignored the growing danger during Hitler's rise to power, today's liberals are deliberately blind to the real threats of violence that surround us. Their narcissistic self-image requires absolute solicitude toward angry savages plotting acts of terrorism. The only people who scare them are the ones who worship a Jew."

- Ann Coulter: The Passion of the Liberal -

 

"I'd rather hear Freddy Krueger drag his nails across a chalkboard than listen to the lunatic ravings of Ann Coulter -- but if there was a government-endorsed movement to silence Coulter, I'd be the first in line to protest on her behalf. This is America, and even a stick-thin harridan with an irrational hatred of liberals deserves to be heard! Life in America in 2004 shouldn't be so different from life in America in 2003 just because Janet Jackson's nipple-shielded breast flopped out on TV for a second."

- Richard Roeper: By FCC standards, Oprah more dangerous than Stern -

 

"Man, if I had breasts and the opportunity to flash the world, I'd sure as hell do it. Bravo for Janet."

- Xarvon, Alien Investigator -

 

"Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is getting a little help from his friends and from George W. Bush's friends. Nearly 10 percent of the Nader contributors who have given him at least $250 each have a history of supporting the Republican president, national GOP candidates or the party, according to computer-assisted review of financial records by The Dallas Morning News."

- Wayne Slater: GOP donors double dipping with Nader, Contributors deny that financial support is designed to hurt Kerry -

 

"At the beginning of the last century, nine out of ten people killed in war were soldiers. At the beginning of this century, nine out of ten people killed in war are civilians, most of them children."

- A Child's Century of War: Free Speech TV -

 

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
- Matsuo Basho -

 

"A Vote For Bush? A No-Brainer!"

- Dave Cogan -

 

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water."

- Swedish Proverb -

 

"Generation Y needs its own Cobain: We need someone unafraid to break through the slick candy icing of pedophilic Britney Culture and deliver a relentless 'Fuck You' to the World. We need someone to stand up and say, 'America is full of bullshit and here's why.' We need someone to infiltrate the mass media with Pure Fucking Energy and decry our societal loss of Innovation. And above all, we need to ask the question: Is Marty Beckerman this Majestic Savior from Above?"

- Marty Beckerman: Why Britney Spears Fucking Sucks Out Kurt Cobain's Dead Messianic Asshole: A Doomed Generation's Beleaguered Spokesman Laments the Festering Corpse of American Pop-Culture -

 

"This White House has decided that there is not any inherent value in meaningful public dialogue, and for the past three years it has been mostly right from a purely strategic standpoint."

- Ron Suskind -

 

"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope."

- Max Gunther -

 

"Love is bigger than government."
- Jesse Ventura -

 

"They didn't plan on co-producing the largest lesbian gathering in the world when they moved to California."

- Trey Clark: Weekend evolves into major party -

"It's democracy, I mean you have to deal with everybody else so you learn how to give everybody their space and it just makes you calm. You're cool. Everybody, from the band to the people who are taking you to the gig to why the microphone isn't working. We learn how to love everything about everything. It's beautiful. You don't like this song? It's okay, we're still going to play in tune. I don't like the way you're playing on the beat? That's okay, we're still gonna be swingin'."

- Wynton Marsalis on The Daily Show explaining why jazz musicians are cool -

 

    "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment protections to do-it-yourself online publishers.

    "Online free speech advocates praised the decision as a victory. The ruling effectively differentiates conventional news media, which can be sued relatively easily for libel, from certain forms of online communication such as moderated e-mail lists. One implication is that DIY publishers like bloggers cannot be sued as easily."

- Xeni Jardin: Bloggers Gain Libel Protection -

 

    "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that as long as I'm a Web logger, I can say whatever I want and nobody can do dick about it. As a 'do-it-yourself online publisher,' I'd just like to say you can take the first amendment and shove it. I don't need your stinking protection. Go protect someone else. Your 'protection' demeans what I do. You're basically saying that only 'conventional news media' is worthy of being sued for libel. Why is that? There are just as many if not more dirty lying bastards in the 'conventional news media' as there are 'online.' Why do people who avoid dead trees get special treatment? Besides, anybody can sue anybody for anything. Everybody knows that. You can't 'protect' me from being sued. If anyone wants to sue me, they will, whether they have a good case or not, and they'll win because I can't afford a lawyer. Fuck 'em, and fuck you too. There's no stopping me."

- Xarvon, Self-Destructive Bastard Who Will Never Be Invited to Place His Comments Here Ever Again -

    "Say you were a terrorist in the late 1990s, around the time Osama bin Laden was planning the attack on the World Trade Center, and you wanted to get your hands on some weapons of mass destruction. You could have tried to track them down in Iraq, at one of the chemical-weapons facilities that the Bush administration accused Saddam Hussein of operating. Of course, neither the United Nations nor the U.S. military has managed to find a single chemical weapon in Iraq, so you probably would have come away empty-handed.

    "Or you could have just paid a visit to Newport, Tenn., population 7,242. There, east of town, past the Pigeon River and the True Gospel Free Will Baptist Church and the county dump, you would have stopped near a gated drive that led up a steep slope known as Rock Hill. Beyond that gate, in a small wooden shed, you would have found what you were after. No intricate alarm system to disable, not even a padlock on the shed's door -- just a thin pine branch jammed in the hasp. And behind that door, canisters filled with PFIB, a deadly, lung-attacking gas restricted under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention."

- Miles Harvey: Welcome to Armageddon -

 

    "Say you were Osama bin Laden and you wanted to make a video tape to show the world what you had to say. For the past few years, anybody on earth with access to commerce has been able to walk into an electronics store and buy a digital video camera with impeccable picture and digital stereo sound. They're down to around a hundred bucks but have been around for years. Even three years ago, a billionaire like bin Laden could have easily sent a minion to a Good Guys to purchase a camera, and hey, why not one of the best? Surely Osama could have afforded a Betacam or Canon GL2? So why do all his 'tapes' look like they were shot with a VHS camera circa 1985? Everyone knows that digital technology offers perfect reproduction, ESPECIALLY an Arab in a Circuit City, and DOGME95 makes it quite clear that lights are unnecessary. Why aren't Osama's tapes technically perfect?

    "Say you wanted to fool the public into believing that the attacks of 9/11 were from Osama bin Laden, an employee of the CIA living in Afghanistan. You'd produce tapes from bin Laden that looked home-made and backwards, with bad video quality and PARTICULARLY bad audio so that the actual words would be debatable and you could come up with your own translation that suited your purposes. An actual terrorist who actually had something to say would have made sure the quality of the video was perfect. Only a master of fooling the public would have deliberately produced low-tech work that looked like it came from a low-tech tribe in a cave in the middle of nowhere. Gimme a break. You think Osama doesn't have satellite? He knows what TV looks like. There's no reason he would deliberately produce something tacky with an antiquated camera. He would want his words to be heard PRECISELY. It was an actor, or Osama himself is an actor. Either way, his tapes are 'produced' pieces of propaganda."

- Xarvon, Alien Investigator Rehired -

 

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Unknown -

 

"It's important, when you read the inevitable attempts to impugn the character of the latest whistle-blower, to realize just how risky it is to reveal awkward truths about the Bush administration. When Gen. Eric Shinseki told Congress that postwar Iraq would require a large occupation force, that was the end of his military career. When Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV revealed that the 2003 State of the Union speech contained information known to be false, someone in the White House destroyed his wife's career by revealing that she was a C.I.A. operative. And we now know that Richard Foster, the Medicare system's chief actuary, was threatened with dismissal if he revealed to Congress the likely cost of the administration's prescription drug plan."

- Paul Krugman: Lifting the Shroud -

 

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

- Sigmund Freud -

 

"Demons bother only those who bother them."

- Sefer Hasidim -

 

Everything Else

 

Al Gore rips Dubya a new one.

 

No Irish have died. All Ireland does is let the US land its planes there, yet thousands rallied in Dublin against the war.

 

Here's a handy-dandy transcription of the 9/11 hearings so far.

 

Change the hand cursor on your computer to something a bit more obnoxious.

 

 

Contact George W. Bush - president@whitehouse.gov

Contact Jeb Bush - jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Contact Saddam Hussein - president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Kim Jong Il - eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac - france-presse@un.int
Contact the Pope - accreditamenti@pressva.va
Contact the Democratic Candidates:  Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Dick Gephardt, Bob Graham, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton

Embassy of France in the US: 202-944-6000
German Embassy in the US: 202-298-4000
Embassy of the Russian Federation: 202-298-5700
Embassy of the People's Republic of China: 202-328-2500
White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414
Contact your Senator - http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
Contact your Representative - http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Links to Central Government Agencies - http://www.firstgov.gov/

 

 

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Actor Robert Redford receives an award from actress Meryl Streep while being honored by the Natural Resources Defense Council at its 'Sixth Annual Forces for Nature' Gala, in New York, on March 29, 2004.
Photo by Albert Ferreira

The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel Information One-Stop

Tickets Sold Out in 16 Minutes

Wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee arrive at New York's Apollo Theater before a taped celebration of the theater's 70th anniversary Sunday, March 28, 2004. The event will be broadcast in June as a two-hour special.
Photo by Diane Bondareff

'King Kong'

Thrown To Ratings Wolves

In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends

ABC & Fox

Singer Janet Jackson talks to David Letterman on 'The Late Show with David Letterman,' Monday, March 29, 2004, in Jackson's first network television interview since her performance at the Super Bowl halftime show. Her new album 'Damita Jo' will be released tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30.
Photo by John Paul Filo

No Evidence of Abuse

Slesinger Suit Tossed

Formerly 'The Vidiot'

pissed

Eight Years

This detail photographed at the Museum of Science in Boston, March 15, 2004, is from a paper written in 1946, in which Albert Einstein explained how he derived the formula E=MC(2), a consequence of his Special Theory of Relativity, first published in 1905. The letter is part of an exhibit about the life and work of the genius on display through June 2004.
Photo by Josh Reynolds

Lawyer Seeks Jail Order Rescinded

Arrested in Texas

In Memory

Sinta, an 8-year-old Orangutan, kisses her newborn baby Sunday, March 28, 2004, in Prigen Safari Park, Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia.
Photo by Trisnadi

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Custom Kaleidoscopes by Ed the "BearMan"

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