'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Sick Of This Crap!
3 days until the start of the mass debate. WalMart is running out of 50 gallon barf bags. Better hurry
This week's issue features:
* Kerry vs. Rove
* Pat Buchanan?!?!?! Am I in the anti-unverse?
* We Need More Politics in Intelligence Analysis
* Partial Democracy - the glass is half wonderful!
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Link from Bruce
Betty Bowers
"To celebrate Jenna and Barbara's graduations, President Bush has come out in favor of eliminating preferential treatment in college admissions for the children of wealthy, connected alumni."
Reader Comment
bull shit
Winter's coming so what do you think - higher gas prices !!!
Of course, but I
think the oil companies are really scratching someone's ass. They're now
saying due to hurricaine Ivan, oil will pass $50.00 per barrel.
Personally, I
think this is all bull shit and just a way to stick it up our asses by
charging more for gas at the pump and in our homes.
Now for the candy bars that we are told that they are down sizing
because they're conserned for our well-being due to fat intake. Are you
kidding? Bigger bunch of Bull Shit I have never heard!
Try 'We're giving
you less for the same price!'
Hell, put a warning label on the damn Wrapper.
Thomas
Thanks, Thomas!
from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
Reader Suggestion
Suggested Bumper Stickers
John Kerry: A President Who Won't Act Like A Moron
Bush/Cheney; Sending Your Kids Off To War
Thanks, Bruce!
Reader Question
Re: Sundance
Do we here in Michigan get a different Sundance channel? Al Frankin is on at 10 AM weekdays here.
Pete
Hi Pete - Sounds to me like your cable outfit is running the west-coast feed of Sundance, but I could be wrong.
Found this link - www.sundancechannel.com/members/ - where they offer to send you correct schedule information monthly, and acknowledge time zones & cable providers can muck things up.
The Sundance Channel schedule below is based on East Coast time, if that helps.
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Cooler, sunny & beautiful.
Frank Pierson, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, USC alumnus and film director Ron Howard, USC alumnus and film director Robert Zemeckis, director Steven Spielberg, USC alumnus and film producer Brian Grazer and USC alumnus and film director George Lucas (L-R) applaud after presenting a specially commissioned award honoring the USC School of Cinema-Television, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, at the 75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration for the USC School of Cinema-Television in Los Angeles, California September 26, 2004.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
Refutes O'Reilly's Claim
Comedy Central
The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers." So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?
Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.
Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't.
Although seemingly taken aback by repeated "stoned slackers" references while talking with O'Reilly, Stewart was ready with a joke.
"This election is going to rely on the undecided," he said. "And who is more undecided than stoned slackers? Ice cream or pretzels? Ice cream or pretzels? What's it going to be?
Comedy Central
Leno Gives 5 Years Notice
Conan O'Brien
NBC announced Monday that Conan O'Brien will take over from Jay Leno as host of the "Tonight" show. But he'll have time to write his jokes - the planned succession won't happen until 2009.
The announcement solves a delicate problem for NBC, which realized O'Brien was getting antsy in his "Late Night" time slot (12:35 a.m. Eastern) and wanted to keep him from jumping to another network.
O'Brien has openly talked about wanting to move on and, in the late-night world, that means an earlier time slot.
Conan O'Brien
Author and artist Art Spiegelman, shown in his New York studio on September 17, 2004, who turned the pain of the Holocaust into a Pulitzer Prize winning comic book novel, has returned to serious cartooning with a controversial book on the September 11 attacks and their aftermath. 'In the Shadows of No Towers,' a colorful, 38 page broad sheet sized book, paints the Bush administration as a villain. Photo taken September 17.
Photo by Henny Ray Abrams
Hosting National Book Awards
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor, the humorist and best-selling author, will host this year's National Book Awards ceremony.
"I am thrilled to be the emcee of the National Book Awards ceremony, a big night in the book world, when you get to see distinguished authors feign nonchalance though they're all giddy and sweaty and their hearts are pounding," Keillor said in a statement Monday released by the awards' sponsor, the National Book Foundation, a non-profit organization.
The awards ceremony will take place Nov. 17 in New York. Keillor, a native of Minnesota, will announce the finalists on Oct. 13 at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
Garrison Keillor
Foresees Unfair Vote in Florida
Jimmy Carter
A repetition of problems that plagued the 2000 US presidential election is likely, former US president and veteran elections monitor Jimmy Carter said, charging that "basic international requirements" for a fair vote are missing in Florida.
Reforms passed in the wake of the debacle have not been implemented due to lack of funding and political disputes, Carter observed in a hotly-worded opinion piece in Monday's Washington Post.
"The disturbing fact is that a repetition of the problems of 2000 now seems likely," he said.
"Some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida," including non-partisan electoral officials and uniformity in voting procedures, he said.
"A fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons," he said.
Jimmy Carter
Famous Guitarists Performed
Fender Show
Famous guitarists such as Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones, Brian May of Queen and the Eagles' Joe Walsh played at Wembley Arena in a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster.
When he took the stage at the outdoor concert Friday night, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd brought some of the packed crowd to its feet by playing the first-ever Fender-made 001 model of the guitar.
The concert, which raised money for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity, also featured guitarists Hank Marvin of the Shadows, Gary Moore and Genesis' Mike Rutherford.
Fender Show
A Canada goose is seen flying across the moon at Oak Hammock Marsh, a wildlife reserve, just north of Winnipeg on Sunday Sept. 26, 2004.
Photo by John Woods
Rock's Dysfunctional Family
Ramones
When four misfits from Forest Hills, New York, formed a rock 'n' roll band in the early 1970s and adopted the single surname Ramone, it was a defiant symbol of solidarity.
It was also a symbol of profound family-style dysfunction, a new documentary film about the fabled punk rock group the Ramones reveals.
"The Ramones' dysfunction was their genius, but it limited their careers," said Jim Fields, who made the film with Michael Gramaglia.
Working in the same do-it-yourself spirit as their subjects, the first-time filmmakers spent the good part of a decade documenting the saga of the Ramones.
The result, Magnolia Pictures' "End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones," now in limited release in the United States, also serves as a valedictory to Johnny Ramone (né John Cummings), who died on Sept. 15 é John Cummings), who died on Sept. 15 of prostate cancer. He was the third member of the original band to die within the past three years. Candid interviews with the notoriously close-mouthed guitarist are a key part of the film.
Ramones
Memorabilia To Auction
Brigitte Bardot
A 61-year-old Dutch man will end his 45-year love affair with Brigitte Bardot when his vast collection of memorabilia tracing the former French film star's career goes under the hammer in Paris.
Some 8,500 posters, photographs, magazine covers, postcards, books, records and other items will be up for sale at the Drouot auction house in central Paris -- a sale timed to celebrate the actress's 70th birthday.
Cees Storm, who now lives in The Hague, fell in love with Bardot at age 15 and began collecting items related to the French actress, combing book stalls along the Seine for rare documents and even travelling to Saint-Tropez.
Among the items up for sale are original posters from the 1956 film "And God Created Woman", which made Bardot an international star, and from the 1963 movie "Le Mepris" (Contempt), now difficult to find on the memorabilia market.
Brigitte Bardot
Charged With Murder
Phil Spector
Record producer Phil Spector was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday with murder in the shooting death of a B-movie actress at his mansion last year.
Spector, 64, leaned on the arm of his attorney as the indictment in the slaying of 40-year-old Lana Clarkson was read, but showed no emotion. Outside court, he railed at prosecutors, comparing District Attorney Steve Cooley to Adolf Hitler.
He spoke only briefly in court, answering, "Yes, your honor," to Judge David S. Wesley's questions. Wesley set Dec. 16 as the earliest possible trial date.
The judge agreed to keep the trial in Los Angeles rather than move it to Pasadena, closer to Spector's home in Alhambra. Attorneys for both sides expressed concern about the crush of reporters expected to attend it, and the courtrooms in Los Angeles are bigger.
Phil Spector
Chilean author Isabel Allende signing books at the Bog & Id bookshop in Aarhus, Denmark, Monday, Sept. 27, 2004. She is attending an international book fair in Aarhus.
Photo by David Bering
Found Story Won't Be Published
Ernest Hemingway
A newly discovered handwritten letter and short story by Ernest Hemingway will be auctioned in December, but custodians of his estate have not granted permission for the works to be published.
The two-page letter and five-page story, based on an incident at a bullfighting ring and written in 1924, were discovered last year by the son of Donald Ogden Stewart.
The works, based on Stewart's experience, cannot be published without permission of the Hemingway estate, which has so far withheld it, although it is not clear why.
They can be sold as artifacts, however, and Christie's in New York said Monday it plans to auction them Dec. 16. They are expected to sell for $12,000 to $18,000, said Patrick McGrath, a Christie's books and manuscripts specialist.
Ernest Hemingway
CNN Producer Seized in Gaza
Riad Ali
Armed Palestinians kidnapped an Israeli Arab producer for the CNN television network from a car in Gaza City on Monday after asking for him by name.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. A CNN correspondent who was in the vehicle with the producer, Riad Ali, said the gunmen gave no clue why they were taking his colleague away.
"We were going up a main street and a white Peugeot drove in front of us. A young man got out of his car, pulled a gun out of trousers and said ... 'Which one of you is Riad,"' the correspondent, Ben Wedeman said in a CNN broadcast from Gaza.
"He said, 'I am Riad,' and they said, 'Get out of the car."'
Riad Ali
Hindu devotees pull an idol of elephant-headed God Ganesh for immersing it into the Arabian Sea in Bombay, India, Monday, Sept. 27, 2004. Idols of Ganesh are immersed in the sea, as a ritual during the 10-day festival, which is celebrated by millions across India.
Photo by Aijaz Rahi
Ban Too Broad
Erotic Dance Moves
Local governments cannot bar nude dancing clubs from staging simulated sex acts, a U.S. federal court ruled on Monday.
In a legal fight dating back to 1997, Dream Palace in Tempe, Arizona, sued over local regulations in Maricopa County that, among other things, barred dancers from performing "simulated sex acts."
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, sided with the adult club that such restrictions were unconstitutional.
The county's ban "is far too broad, and restricts in sweeping terms the ability of erotic dancers to convey their intended erotic message."
Erotic Dance Moves
Still Spry At 90
Jack LaLanne
At 90, American fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne is still preaching what he practices: a sensible diet and regular exercise.
LaLanne, who has spent his life urging Americans to eat better and exercise more, can still lift weights, do abdominal crunches and hoist his 78-year-old wife Elaine.
"I've got no aches and no pains," he said. "If I get a sniffle, it's gone the next day. Everything's working. Just look at my wife. She's smiling."
LaLanne turned 90 Sunday, an event marked by nine hours straight of reruns of his 1960's fitness show by a cable sports channel, and numerous appearances on television and radio talk shows.
Jack LaLanne
American-born female giant panda Hua Mei holds one of her cubs, at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, Sept. 27, 2004. Hua Mei, who did not know how know how to feed her babies after giving birth to them, learned some basic nursing skills in a 7-day training session held by the staff of the research center. Now, Hua Mei and the personnel of the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center take care of the two cubs together.
Photo by Chen Xie
