BartCop Entertainment Archives - Tuesday, 9 November, 2004
Tuesday
9 November, 2004
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Issue #127
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
The Only Daily That Suffers from Irregularity.
Issue #127
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Theories can never be proven. As soon as they're proven through the gathering of empirical evidence, they're no longer theories but fact. The discussion's over, right? Has Newton's theory of gravity been proven sufficiently to enter the realm of fact? Not as long as there's an expanding universe theory stating that EVERYTHING is growing at a set rate, literally doubling, tripling, quadrupling in size, and what's keeping us on earth is not some mystical force called "gravity" but simply the natural force of the earth expanding beneath our feet, which we don't notice because we're expanding at the same rate. As long as there's a plausible competing theory, Newton's theory of gravity will remain a theory. Go ahead and PROVE the expanding universe theory is wrong. Can't be done. Sorry Newton.
Some theories can never be proven or disproven. My belief in the theory I'm about to propose is as resolute as anyone's belief in Jesus or Allah, that is it will NEVER be proven with empirical evidence that would stand up in court. It's only strength lies in my ability to cram it down the most throats.
In order to formulate my theory, I have considered the stories Black Box Voting Web Site declares 2004 election a fraud, Exit polls, final count -- not even close, Wide exit poll and vote count disparities, Private company counts our votes on election night, Screen shots show CNN changed exit poll data!, GRAND JURY EVIDENCE: 3 hrs. (9:52pm-1:31am) missing from election-night primary--Sept.14, King Co., Wash. Diebold GEMS audit log--24 insecure remote modems connected, GRAND JURY EVIDENCE: King County primary election summary totals now missing from audit log (just seven weeks ago!), More evidence the vote was rigged, AP: Just one electronic machine gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio, Citizens Are Responsible for Understanding Current Events, http://www.donotconcede.com/, and HACKING THE PRESIDENCY.
I considered these two charts:
and
I have considered the refusal of due process and habeas corpus to foreign detainees in Cuba and the U.S., allowing the CIA, the FBI, and other intelligence agencies to spy on American citizens (tapping phone lines, seizing property based on trumped-up charges, monitoring internet usage, and on and on), the deliberate destruction of workers' rights and welfare in acting for big-money interests (e.g. Enron, Halliburton, agribusinesses, Afghan pipeline) in every arena, lying about not having been informed prior to 9/11 about Arab men training in American flight schools and planning to hijack large airliners, the use of their own failure to act on the warnings they had received to justify grabbing even more power, at the expense of our civil liberties, by deceiving Congress and the American people.
I have considered all of this and asked some real simple questions: Considering the proliferation of untraceable electronic voting machines, was it POSSIBLE to steal the election? Obviously, yes. Before the election, if somebody asked George W. Bush if he wanted to guarantee his re-election by stealing it, would he have said "you bet" or "no way, I want this election to be legitimate (just like the last one)?"
I rest my case. Who needs proof? The very fact that he could means he did. Why wouldn't he? What did he have to lose except the presidency?
The 2004 election was decided by those who count the votes, not by the voters. We can't throw the guys who actually decide national elections out of office because they're not IN office. The fix is in and it will be in forever. Kerry's entire campaign was not aimed at the voters but at those who actually decided the election. That's why his agenda was so close to Bush's, he was telling those who would actually decide the election that if they picked him, things wouldn't change that much. Those who actually decided the election were Christian war profiteers, so Kerry let them know he wouldn't cut into their profits by halting the war, and he wouldn't cut into their pseudo-morality by halting the march against gay marriage and abortion. Unfortunately he wasn't drooling maniacally so he lost.
P. Diddy's "Vote or Die!" initiative might as well have been called the Sean Combs "Waste Your Fucking Time" initiative if the election was rigged. Mary J. Blige, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck would have done just as much good making a sequel to Gigli as trying to boost the youth vote if the election was rigged. The whole "Get out the vote" campaign actually helped the Republicans by giving the election a veneer of fairness. Without all those Kerry votes, the overwhelming tidal wave of computer generated Bush votes would have looked suspicious. In order to seem legitimate, they had to "Get out the vote," knowing the only votes that counted were the ones they wanted to count.
I haven't seen the question in any poll, but I'd be willing to bet that 99% of those who actually voted for Bush get their news from TV rather than the Internet. Once you're on the Internet, you don't have to scavenge around very hard to dig up dirt. Hell, truth permeates places as popular as Yahoo and Google news. The problem is that less people are looking for truth than justification, and the Internet justifies just about everything, with equal space given to the opposition.
So let's face it. The president of Diebold gets to decide who our president is. Forget the ballot box as a means of resistance. If we can no longer count on democracy in elections in the United States, we must give it up. All vote gathering activities, definitely on a national level, probably on a state level, and maybe on a local level, are futile. The game is over. It's totally fixed. Who bets on a race that's fixed? Morons. Don't chase bad money with good. Start a new race. One that can be won. Immediately refuse to participate in any Republican/Democrat discussion on any level, national, state, or local. As soon as you're one or the other, you're one of them. The only logical goal must be to ensure that the next president of the United States, or governor of any state, or mayor of any city, or member of congress, is neither Democrat nor Republican. A third party that tallies its votes independently on the Internet might be the only option. They must provably win the popular vote by a substantial lead, AND get it covered by the media. It'll take a lot of money or hijacking Microsoft.
Some say that Bush must be taunted into committing an atrocity so egregious that even the morons take notice and rebel. You'da thunk Abu Ghraib would have done the trick but no, it turns out he was giving them what they wanted... entertainment value while making us feel tough. There's got to be a better way.
The next time someone asks you your political affiliation, answer "The party's over, pal. I'm in NO party." When they ask what you mean, just spell it out for them. "K-N-O-W. The KNOW party." When they say "whatayuh know?," just say "whatayuh wanna know?" Let them lead the discussion. Whatever they say, say "If I don't know, I don't guess, I don't trust, and I don't believe. I know. I find out. That's my party. The KNOW party." Find out what THEY'RE resisting. As soon as they're resisting something, invite them in, they're one of us. The resistance. Our numbers will only grow. I know.
If we can't win because we're bigger and meaner, we can win because we're better.
If you occasionally pick up hitchhikers for no other reason than to offer a ride to someone who needs it, then you my friend are a winner. If you don't donate to charities but actually give food to hungry people without the middleman, you my friend are a winner. As a means of winning this election, if it never occurred to you to go to the front of your neighborhood Starbucks, set up a voter registration table, register hundreds of voters, throw away the registrations from the opposing party who would then show up to vote and find they weren't registered, forcing them to fill out provisional ballots that would take weeks to count, thereby winning the election through fraud and deception, then you my friend are a winner, not in the game of "Who Gains Power?" but in the game of "Who is a Decent Human Being?"
If those with the power get in the way of your ability to be a decent human being, and you refuse to play their game of fraud and deceit, then change the rules. Use subterfuge. Take advantage of their denial of reality. Hit them in places they don't acknowledge exist. Hey, we've got a president who DOESN'T READ THE PAPER. That's what I'm talking about. We can used newspapers against a president who doesn't read. We can use art against a president who has no use for it. We can use songs against a president who can't hear singing. We can use the Internet against a president who's never surfed in his life. We can use thought against a president who doesn't think.
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
"'Five thousand years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials,' Rove said on NBC’s Meet the Press."
"Those who don't overthrow five thousand years of human history are doomed to repeat it."
- Xarvon, alien investigator -
The Road to Violence
by Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
Mr. Conspiracy Says...
Killing Osama bin Laden won't stop terrorism any more than killing the Pope will stop Catholicism or killing Jesus stopped Christianity.
Shortest Book of the Year
Why They Love Us
Chart of the Week
| |
State |
Avg. IQ |
2004 |
| 1 |
Connecticut |
113 |
Kerry |
| 2 |
Massachusetts |
111 |
Kerry |
| 3 |
New Jersey |
111 |
Kerry |
| 4 |
New York |
109 |
Kerry |
| 5 |
Rhode Island |
107 |
Kerry |
| 6 |
Hawaii |
106 |
Kerry |
| 7 |
Maryland |
105 |
Kerry |
| 8 |
New Hampshire |
105 |
Kerry |
| 9 |
Illinois |
104 |
Kerry |
| 10 |
Delaware |
103 |
Kerry |
| 11 |
Minnesota |
102 |
Kerry |
| 12 |
Vermont |
102 |
Kerry |
| 13 |
Washington |
102 |
Kerry |
| 14 |
California |
101 |
Kerry |
| 15 |
Pennsylvania |
101 |
Kerry |
| 16 |
Maine |
100 |
Kerry |
| 17 |
Virginia |
100 |
Bush |
| 18 |
Wisconsin |
100 |
Kerry |
| 19 |
Colorado |
99 |
Bush |
| 20 |
Iowa |
99 |
Bush |
| 21 |
Michigan |
99 |
Kerry |
| 22 |
Nevada |
99 |
Bush |
| 23 |
Ohio |
99 |
Bush |
| 24 |
Oregon |
99 |
Kerry |
| 25 |
Alaska |
98 |
Bush |
| 26 |
Florida |
98 |
Bush |
| 27 |
Missouri |
98 |
Bush |
| 28 |
Kansas |
96 |
Bush |
| 29 |
Nebraska |
95 |
Bush |
| 30 |
Arizona |
94 |
Bush |
| 31 |
Indiana |
94 |
Bush |
| 32 |
Tennessee |
94 |
Bush |
| 33 |
North Carolina |
93 |
Bush |
| 34 |
West Virginia |
93 |
Bush |
| 35 |
Arkansas |
92 |
Bush |
| 36 |
Georgia |
92 |
Bush |
| 37 |
Kentucky |
92 |
Bush |
| 38 |
New Mexico |
92 |
Bush |
| 39 |
North Dakota |
92 |
Bush |
| 40 |
Texas |
92 |
Bush |
| 41 |
Alabama |
90 |
Bush |
| 42 |
Louisiana |
90 |
Bush |
| 43 |
Montana |
90 |
Bush |
| 44 |
Oklahoma |
90 |
Bush |
| 45 |
South Dakota |
90 |
Bush |
| 46 |
South Carolina |
89 |
Bush |
| 47 |
Wyoming |
89 |
Bush |
| 48 |
Idaho |
87 |
Bush |
| 49 |
Utah |
87 |
Bush |
| 50 |
Mississippi |
85 |
Bush |
- IQ and Politics -
Gallery of the Week
Important Information for Teenage Boys of Draft Age
"The Army induction officer instructed the draftees to 'take one step forward' as their names were called, and said that step would signify their induction into the Army. When reluctant Willie's name was called, he answered present, but did not step forward. After the ceremony, he went home instead of to camp. When the MP's came for him, he went to court for a writ of habeas corpus to retain his freedom. 'The officer himself,' Willie argued, 'said the step forward is what would make me a soldier. As I didn't take the step, I'm still a civilian and the Army has no claim on me.'
"Counsel for the Army replied, 'The Army isn't being run by childish games. Willie and a hundred others appeared to be inducted, and he was inducted before the whole group as any fool there could plainly see.' Willie retained his civilian status. The court ruled that the draft law required some definite ceremony to transform a civilian into a soldier. As the Army decided to have one step forward constitute the ceremony, and Willie didn't take the step, he wasn't a soldier. U.S. Court of Appeals, 1954"
The Outstanding Public Debt
as of 08 Nov 2004 at 11:59:03 PM GMT
The estimated population of the United States is 294,747,521
so each citizen's share of this debt is $25,231.95.
Last Chance to Visit!
Call Your Travel Agent Now!
Prediction of the Week
The red states won by Bush will:
- Bring back slavery and take away racial minorities' and women's right to vote.
- Criminalize homosexuality, being Arab, and having Democratic or "librul" views.
- Make it a law that everyone must be a Christian, have their foreheads branded with a cross and watch Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ every night before sleeping.
- Outlaw abortions so that even women who get raped have to carry those children. And if women die during child birth, well, that's just God's will, right?
- Do away with environmental regulations so they can drink more polluted water, breathe more contaminated air, live next to nuclear power plants and gain higher rates of cancer.
- Do away with taxes on the rich and big businesses and impose higher taxes on the middle class to fund their invasions of other countries.
- Outlaw unions and minimum wage and child labor laws so companies can go back to paying kids ten cents an hour to slave away 12 hours a day.
- Do away with companies paying for health insurance but keep a few clinics around where lower income people go, while making established hospitals only for the wealthy.
- Do away with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare and any social program that helps needy people.
- Pull out of the UN, break all international treaties and start any damn war they please.
- Bring back public hangings on courthouse steps that must be watched by every citizen, including children.
- Implement Big Brother cameras everywhere to spy on people, even in their own homes.
- Jackson Thoreau: Divided we stand, united we fall - into fascism: What a Red State-Only America Would Look Like -
Free Online Book of the Week
by Jackson Thoreau.
Don't Take My Word For It
"Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin' chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad that no other dog or person will even go near that poor beast. Thing'll smell so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.
"The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans."
"I believe the best response against an Islamic fundamentalist network operating from a South Asian cave which used boxcutters to attack us is to invade a secular Arab dictator living in 11 palaces in a Middle Eastern country whose (supposed) weapon of choice was nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. I further believe that the best way to accomplish that mission was to land on an air aircraft carrier in military garb and stand in front of a banner declaring it so."
"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous 'trickle-down' theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow "trickle down" to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to pre-industrial America, when only white male property owners could vote."
"This year's presidential election provides voters with a choice between two men with very different approaches to foreign policy decision-making. Where John Kerry is pragmatic, George W. Bush is an ideologue. While Bush's approach to the war on terror appeals to many voters because it seems to be grounded in a comprehensive underlying vision, in reality ideologues have a difficult time learning from events, making them both unrealistic and dangerous."
"The sensible take on the next four years will not be found in the President's faux offers of thorny olive branches with very short stems. Bush and Cheney are not going to trim their sails, and with the ship of state listing dangerously starboard, no one should expect smooth sailing for the next four years. Humility does not come easily to these men of hubris. Rancor should be expected. Indeed, it may be necessary to keep them from sinking us all."
"A new Swedish study suggests that people who use a mobile phone for at least 10 years might increase their risk of developing a rare benign tumor along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold the phone."
"A group linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network threatened the US with reprisals after the re-election of President George W Bush, warning of 'unbearable hell', in a website statement yesterday.
"'The coming days will show you that the one you preferred will lead you to an unbearable hell,' said the group calling itself the Abu Hafs Al Masri Brigades after the Al Qaeda military chief killed in Afghanistan in October 2001.
"It was not possible to immediately verify the statement.
"The same group claimed responsibility for the train bombings in Madrid in March this year that killed 191 people in Spain's worst attack and injured another 1,900.
"'Although the criminal Bush has spilt blood of Muslims during the last four years and despite the butcheries that he committed and continues to perpetrate in Afghanistan, in Palestine and in Iraq, we see that... the applause of his people is increasing,' it said.
"'This shows the nature of the American people who approved the war against Islam led by criminal America,' it added."
"If souls were faces, Americans would gaze into their bathroom mirrors each morning and see their rotting skin covered with oozing sores, putrescent pustules of their suicidal disease caused by their intransigent focus on tormenting trivialities, caused by their willing ignorance of their soldiers -- their own children -- raping Iraqi children, blowing Iraqi families to bits, then, as their deeds set into their curdled spirits, coming home and hanging themselves in the shattering silence of realizing their own horrified depravity."
"Americans have not only lost their souls into insane religious practices, they've lost their brains as well. What other country on Earth can't even keep track of its own voting process, that offers two candidates who are hand-picked androids of the power elite, who both cheerily endorse senseless killing of people already oppressed by enemies invented by the very people who fight them?"
"The German experiment, except to those who are its victims, is particularly interesting, and, like the offer of a strong man to let himself be vivisected, should make a great contribution to political science. For the Germans are the most gifted and most highly educated people who ever devoted the full strength of a modern state to stopping the exchange of ideas; they are the most highly organized people who ever devoted all the coercive power of government to the abolition of their own intellectual life; they are the most learned people who ever pretended to believe that the premises and the conclusion of all inquiry may be fixed by political fiat."
- Walter Lippmann: The Good Society -
"Until now."
- Xarvon, alien investigator -
"The 2004 election revealed that American citizens are as intellectually and morally incompetent as the Germans in 1930. Such incompetence and ignorance always lead to tyranny. The United States is exactly at the same point in national degradation as the German nation in the 1930s when Hitler assumed absolute power and began his regime of mass murder and war crimes against the people of the world...
"In a democracy such as ours in America, it's the responsibility of citizens to inform themselves and to struggle against any encroachment of constitutional liberties. If some people are too unintelligent or morally deficient to see the tyrannous acts of the Bush administration, if some people are too cowardly to stand against those acts, it's still your individual responsibility as an American citizen to uphold the principles of democracy on which this nation is founded."
"I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted."
- John Kerry -
"The Tax Foundation has released a fascinating report showing which states benefit from federal tax and spending policies, and which states foot the bill.
"The report shows that of the 32 states (and the District of Columbia) that are 'winners' -- receiving more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes -- 76% are Red States that voted for George Bush in 2000. Indeed, 17 of the 20 (85%) states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are Red States."
"About 61 million of the votes in November, more than half the total, will be counted in the computers of one company, the privately held Election Systems and Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Nebraska. Altogether, nearly 100 million votes will be counted in computers provided and programmed by ES&S and three other private corporations: British-owned Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, California, whose touch-screen voting equipment was rejected as insecure against fraud by New York City in the 1990s; the Republican-identified company Diebold Election Systems of McKinney, Texas, whose machines malfunctioned this year in a California election; and Hart InterCivic of Austin, one of whose principal investors is Tom Hicks, who helped make George W. Bush a millionaire.
"About a third of the votes, 36 million, will be tabulated completely inside the new paperless, direct-recording-electronic (DRE) voting systems, on which you vote directly on a touch-screen. Unlike receipted transactions at the neighborhood ATM, however, you get no paper record of your vote. Since, as a government expert says, "the ballot is embedded in the voting equipment," there is no voter-marked paper ballot to be counted or recounted. Voting on the DRE, you never know, despite what the touch-screen says, whether the computer is counting your vote as you think you are casting it or, either by error or fraud, it is giving it to another candidate."
"Now that George W. Bush has been officially elected, single, sexy, American liberals - already a threatened species - will be desperate to escape. These lonely, afraid (did we mention really hot?) progressives will need a safe haven. You can help. Open your heart, and your home. Marry an American. Legions of Canadians have already pledged to sacrifice their singlehood to save our southern neighbours from four more years of cowboy conservatism."
"I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him. I never saw that coming. That's really special. And I mean 'special' in the sense that we use it to describe those kids who ride the short school bus and find ways to injure themselves while eating pudding with rubber spoons. That kind of special."
"My country is the world. My religion is to do good."
- Thomas Paine -
"He will start the draft in 2005 and World War 3 and in March 2006 he will be shot and come back to life with Lucifer Satan inside of him and in 06/06/06 he will ban Christians and Christianity and execute us. His unpatriotic Patriot Act already says Christians are the terrorists and it gives the military the right to execute us."
"I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry.
"Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.
"So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, 'Who did you vote for?' Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial, question, 'Was your vote counted?' The voters don't know. Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded."
"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one."
- Mae West -
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity."
- George Bernard Shaw -
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
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Albert Einstein -
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Until we end our violence against the earth - a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants."
- Wendell Berry -
"Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is."
- G.I. Gurdjieff -
"We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. We must break the obsolete social and economic systems that divide the world between the over-privileged and the under-privileged. Each of us, whether government leader or protester, business executive or worker, professor or student, share a common guilt. We have failed through our lack of responsible awareness and thus added to suffering around the world All of us are cripples-some physically, some mentally, some emotionally. We must, therefore, strive cooperatively to create a new world. There is no time left for destruction, for hatred, for anger. We must build, in hope and joy and celebration."
- Ivan Illich -
"I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management."
- E.B. White -
"The seeds of joy and freedom are buried deep in our consciousness. If we do not water these seeds, peace will never be obtained. We run away from ourselves because we do not want to touch our pain, suffering, anger, or despair.In today's society, everything encourages us to run away from ourselves and look outside for happiness. So it is important for us to learn to embrace our pain, anger, and fear in a very tender way, to accept them, and to make our peace with them.The energy of mindfulness will help us. When we do this, a transformation takes place and we touch the deep peace, joy, and stability that are within us."
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
"In the final analysis, our most common link is that we inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
- Chief Seattle -
"Any religion which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion."
- Albert Schweitzer -
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"The American imposes himself on everyone. Americans accuse our children in Palestine of being terrorists - those children, who have no weapons and have not even reached maturity. At the same time, Americans defend a country, the state of the Jews, that has a policy to destroy the future of these children. Your situation with Muslims in Palestine is shameful - if there is any shame left in America. Houses were demolished over the heads of children. Also, by the testimony of relief workers in Iraq, the American-led sanctions resulted in the death of more than one million Iraqi children. All of this is done in the name of American interests. We believe that the biggest thieves in the world and the terrorists are the Americans. The only way for us to fend off these assaults is to use similar means. We do not worry about American opinion or the fact that they place prices on our heads. We as Muslims believe our fate is set. This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves. It is our duty to lead people to the light."
"Eighty-seven percent of Bush supporters think he favors putting labor and environmental standards into international trade agreements. Eighty percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treaty banning landmines. Seventy-six percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treat banning nuclear weapons testing. Sixty-two percent believes Bush would participate in the International Criminal Court. Sixty-one percent believes Bush wants to participate in the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Fifty-three percent does not believe Bush is building a missile defense system, a.k.a. 'Star Wars.' The only two Bush stands the majority of his supporters got right were on increasing defense spending and who should write the new Iraqi constitution."
"Before they were overrun by the Communist Chinese, Tibetans lived simply -- even without ELECTRICITY -- yet they are legendary as being one of highest civilizations ever made. Why were they so great? Because they governed their lives by one simple question which they asked themselves constantly -- 'If I do thus and so, will it be of the highest benefit to the most sentient beings? What can I do to help those around me?' As a result of their concern and care for others and, despite Communist propaganda to the contrary, pre-invasion Tibet, not Disneyland, was the happiest place on earth."
"From the Oval Office through the vast red majority of our hinterlands, the driving force of American Christianity has suspiciously, no, make that purposefully, removed the blessedness of the peacemakers, the inheritance of the meek, the first stone throwers, the cheek turning, the money changing, the eye of the needle and universal forgiveness not to improve our lot, but to insure Right-wing control of our government."
"I cannot say for you, but if the Iraqis invaded the United States and started privatizing the assets of my home state, literally stealing what is the economic backbone of my state and my nation, I think I would be inclined to pick up a gun and be an 'insurgent'.
"You see, there is a big difference in a Patriot standing up for their nation, and a 'terrorist insurgent' when the nation has been invaded by a trespasser, a thief. The more I look at what Bush-Cheney are up to, the more I am coming to the conclusion that most of the Iraqi insurgency is a legitimate opposition to our occupation of their nation and systematic theft of their national assets by deceit and subterfuge. I do not think it is the presence of our military that is the problem. I think it is the robber barons of this nation, what I call Financial Terrorists that are carving up Iraq like they carve us up that are driving the insurgency."
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
- Eric Hoffer -
"An artist says, 'I can't do anything about the chaos in the universe or my country, or even in my own miserable life, but I can at least make this piece of paper or canvas, or blob of clay or chunk of marble, exactly what it should be.'"
"She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad."
- George Orwell: 1984 -
"What we respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations."
"I will reach out to every one who shares our goals."
- George W. Bush -
"That leaves me out."
- Michael Dare -
Everything Else
Scientists compared the recent bin Laden recording to 20 other tapes and concluded it was a fake.
Just say no to Hillary vs. Arnold in 2008.
Q: What is the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
A: George W. Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
Don't let this happen to you.
and call it tax deductible.
Acknowledgment
dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is free and may be reproduced in any form. It consists of information from dozens of sources, cut up, thrown in the air, and recycled randomly. It is sent all over the place, so I apologize if you're seeing the same thing twice. If you see a joke, graphic, or news item that came from or through you, thanks, send more, and please accept the fact that much of dIsInFoTaInMeNt ToDaY is unacknowledgeable, and if I sought permission from everyone whose bastardized material showed up here, I'd never get anything else done. Please note that I don't even put my own name on it. If you're still pissed off, hey, it's either satire or fair use.
Thanks,
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Thanks, again, Tim!
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Weekly Link
Sick Of This Crap!
Okay, we're calming down a bit and realizing the election is not the end of the world. It just puts in place all the pieces necessary to bring about the end of the world. While we contemplate the long-overdue makeover of the site, we bring you our Monday morning quarterbacking in the form of:
* The Uglier Aftermath. - marketing to the voter/consumer
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Reader Suggestion
Another Bumper Sticker
Election 2004: Mr. Straw Meets Mr. Camel
Thanks, Bruce!
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Reader Contribution
'We Been Had'
Here's a little folksong about the election, dashed off in a fit of fury. Hope you enjoy it.
John V
Gulfport, MS
(Link goes to Internet Archive page with multiple listening formats)
Thanks, John!
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Monthly Link
Modern Mirth
"Post-Partisan Arts and Entertaining Entertainment Issue"
Featuring -
American Idol¹s new single
Phyliss Schlafly¹s new dreams
Jennifer¹s new blog
Ruben Studdards new Crib,
a very special Halloween special
Plus- Monet, Moliere and more!
SOME MATERIAL AND LANGUAGE
MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR
SENSITIVE VISITORS
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Reader Opinion
Future Bumper Sticker
Next Election, We Need A Bumper Sticker That Says:
"Christians For Kerry" (Or Whoever Is Running Then)
Thanks, Bruce!
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Reader Suggestion
Veterans' Day Film Festival
Marty -
How about a Veterans' Day Film Festival?
For those of you who don't know, Veterans' Day is traditionally remembered on the anniversary of the Armistice of WWI, which happened on November 11. We mostly forget about WWI now because it was nasty, long and costly. Also because it never lived up to its promise of being the "War to end all Wars," or the struggle to bring democracy to the world.
WWII was a much better subject for film, and we will, no doubt, see no end of tributes to the Greatest Generation this week on TCM, AMC and the History Channel. It's tough to argue that fighting Hitler wasn't good and necessary, even if we had a choice in the matter--people frequently forget that Hitler actually declared war on us, not the other way around.
But as our troops--beloved Sons, Brothers, Fathers, Daughters, Sisters and, yes, even Mothers--grind through Fallujah in hopes of bringing democracy and 'freedom' to the ignorant, I want to bring some of the great anti-war veterans' films into the spotlight, with Ralph's Veterans' Day Film Festival.
We start out with Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's grand tale of love triumphing over war. Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is drafted into the Russian Army to serve in WWI, where he falls in love with a nurse. Their love is not meant to be, however, as he returns to revolutionary Russia, only to be drafted again to serve with a Red unit. His foils, his brother Yevgraf (played by the incredible Alec Guiness) and the brutal Strelnikov, reject Zhivago's dismissal of politics and war, embracing the brutality of their time. Yevgraf, however, gets it in the end, when he tries to help Zhivago's daughter.
All's Quiet on the Western Front. See the original, Milestone version. Erich Maria Remarque's classic story of boys inspired by their teacher to join the German Army in the opening days of WWI. The greatest anti-war epic ever, no less so because it depicts the war from the German perspective. Lew Ayres, a pacifist himself, plays the roll of Baumer, the reluctant warrior that is taken under the wing of Sergeant Katczinsky, played by character actor Louis Wolheim, who plays his greatest roll. Everyone thinking of enlisting should see this movie first. "Every Kaiser needs a war to make him great." is a line that echoes down to the current day.
Academy Award winner for best foreign film No Man's Land is a modern classic. The ingenious idea behind this film is to take the shellhole scene from All's Quiet and stretch it out to a feature length movie. Knowing your enemy changes everything, and some modern twists are thrown in, like the French officer confronted with the responsibilities of peacekeeping and the English general that wants nothing more than to prevent escalation. The ending is truly horrible, not in a gorey way, but in a way that brings home the angst of warfare.
Left off the list: Apocolypse Now, which kind of mixes its message at the end. Are we to believe that the end of war is insanity or that when engaged in war we should go all out. I blame this on the tremendous performance of Brando, who is so overpowering that he convinces you in spite of his madness. Catch-22, which I have seen only in pieces. It's on my list this year. Johnny Got His Gun, which I can't find, but I understand that Trumbo triumphed as a writer, but muffed as a director.
Any others?
Tim H
Great idea, Tim!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Rained off and on most of the day.
Poor Jo, the (lucky) lizard, barely had any time outside today.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS fills the night with 'The 38th Annual Country Music Awards' - LIVE on the East Coast, tape delayed on the left.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Salma Hayek, 2004 CART auto racing champion Sebastien Bourdais, and Jimmy Eat World.
Scheduled on a FRESH 'Craiggers' with guest host Craig Ferguson are Mark Harmon and Hugh Laurie.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH 90-minute 'The Biggest Loser', followed by a FRESH 'Scrubs' (why is NBC trying to kill this show?), then a FRESH 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Wanda Sykes, Eddie Izzard, and Live.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Tina Fey and Fatboy Slim.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Doris Roberts, Tommy Lee, and Ray LaMontagne.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a FRESH 'George Lopez', then a FRESH 'Jim', followed by a FRESH 'Rodney', then a FRESH 'NYPD Blue'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are Jennifer Tilly, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Fabolous.
The WB offers a FRESH 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'One Tree Hill'.
Faux fills the night with SERIES PREMIERE of 'The Rebel Billionaire: Branson's quest For the Best'.
UPN has a FRESH 'All Of Us', followed by a FRESH 'Eve', then a FRESH 'Veronica Mars'.
A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (George Lucas), 'Cold Case Files', 'Dog The Bounty Hunter', and another 'Dog The Bounty Hunter'.
AMC offers the movie 'Harlem Nights', followed by the movie 'True Lies', then the movie 'The Real McCoy'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'As Time Goes By' - Episode 9;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Hoorah for the Holidays;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 2;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - The Paper Chase;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 92;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Pigott;
[7pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Detling 25;
[7:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Xenia;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[9pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Penarth;
[9:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Cricket;
[10pm] 'Holiday Showdown' - Baltic Cruise/UK Bus & Festival;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[12am] 'Changing Rooms' - Penarth;
[12:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Cricket;
[1am] 'Holiday Showdown' - Baltic Cruise/UK Bus & Festival;
[2am] 'Bargain Hunt' - Detling 25;
[2:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Xenia;
[3am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 1;
[4am] 'Changing Rooms - Penarth;
[4:30am] 'Changing Rooms - Cricket;
[5am] 'Holiday Showdown - Baltic Cruise/UK Bus & Festival;
[6am] 'BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Manhunt...', and 'Celebrity Poker Shwodown'.
Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Reno 911!', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and a FRESH 'Wanda Does It'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is Richard Branson.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Wild West Tech', another 'Modern Marvels', 'Mail Call', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'Sisters' (1973);
[7:45AM] 'IFC Short Film Showcase';
[8:45AM] 'Gray's Anatomy' (1997);
[10:15AM] 'Barry Lyndon' (1975);
[1:30PM] 'The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980);
[3:30PM] 'IFC Short Film Collection I' (2003);
[5:30PM] 'IFC In Theaters' (2004);
[5:45PM] 'Barry Lyndon' (1975);
[9PM] 'Dinner For Five #33' (2004);
[9:30PM] 'Film School #9' (2004);
[10PM] 'Dancing At Lughnasa' (1998);
[11:45PM] 'Liam' (2000);
[1:30AM] 'Spinal Tap Goes To Twenty' (2004);
[2AM] 'Nil By Mouth' (1997);
[4:15AM] 'Dancing At Lughnasa' (1998) (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has all 'Andromeda' all night.
Sundance -
[7AM] 'Stranger Than Paradise' (Feature);
[8:30AM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary);
[10AM] 'East Palace, West Palace' (World Cinema);
[11:35AM] 'Yi Yi' (Feature);
[2:30PM] 'Life After War' (Feature);
[3:45PM] 'Aftermath: The Remnants of War' (Feature);
[5:05PM] 'Resisting Paradise' (Documentary);
[6:30PM] 'Stranger Than Paradise' (Feature);
[8PM] 'DIG!' (Documentary);
[10PM] 'Tom Dowd & the Language of Music' (Documentary);
[11:30PM] 'Kissed' (Feature);
[1AM] 'Soho Square' (Feature);
[2:25AM] 'Zus & Zo' (Feature);
[4:05AM] 'American Fabulous' (Documentary);
[5:50AM] 'East Palace, West Palace' (World Cinema) (ALL TIMES EST)
TCM:
[6am] 'I Married A Doctor' (1936);
[7:30am] 'Stolen Holiday' (1936);
[9am] 'Beg, Borrow Or Steal' (1937);
[10:30am] 'Song Of The City' (1937);
[12pm] 'You're Only Young Once' (1938);
[1:30pm] 'The Chaser' (1938);
[3pm] 'Miracles For Sale' (1939);
[4:30pm] 'Dust Be My Destiny' (1939);
[6pm] 'Pride And Prejudice' (1940);
[8pm] 'West Side Story' (1961);
[11pm] 'Casablanca' (1942);
[1am] 'Waterloo Bridge' (1940);
[3am] 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965)
Wednesday - 11/10
TCM celebrates Claude Rains (who was born on this day in 1889) all morning & afternoon, then
spends the night with Clark Gable.
[6:30am] 'A Farewell To Arms' (1932);
[8am] 'Four Daughters' (1938);
[10am] 'The Wolf Man' (1941);
[11:30am] 'Mr. Skeffington' (1944);
[2pm] 'Passage to Marseille' (1944);
[4pm] 'Deception' (1946);
[6pm] 'Notorious' (1946);
[8pm] 'Possessed' (1931);
[9:30pm] 'Strange Cargo' (1940);
[11:30pm] 'Chained' (1934);
[1am] 'Forsaking All Others' (1934);
[2:30am] 'Love On The Run' (1936);
[4am] 'Laughing Sinners' (1931);
[5:15am] 'Night Nurse' (1931). (ALL TIMES EST)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
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Warren Beatty and Lauren Bacall pictured arriving to the 2004 Stella Adler Studio of Acting Awards held in New York, Monday, Nov 8, 2004.
Photo by Stuart Ramson
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Visits Regis
Dave Letterman
David Letterman cracked a few jokes, showed some baby pictures and, yes, was a little cranky about going on television so early in the morning.
But, as Regis Philbin said, Letterman "did the right thing" and appeared on "Live with Regis and Kelly" Monday, especially since Philbin has been one of the CBS late-night host's favorite foils for many years.
By a "Late Show" count, Philbin has appeared 83 times on Letterman's show since it moved to CBS in 1993. He was a guest host when Letterman underwent heart bypass surgery in 2000 and recovered from an eye infection last year.
Letterman, who's rarely seen on TV outside of his own show, had visited "Live" twice before, the most recent in February 1997.
Dave Letterman
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DNC Chairman?
Howard Dean
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party.
"He told me he was thinking about it," Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of the Democratic National Committe, said Monday. Grossman was a Dean backer during the former Vermont governor's failed presidential bid.
The roughly 240 members of the DNC will elect a new chair early next year. Several names are already being mentioned, including former Clinton aide Harold Ickes; Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore's presidential campaign, and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack.
Howard Dean
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A worker, top left, changes the days-remaining sign on the roof of the Clinton Presidential Library to read '9 Days to Open' late Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, in Little Rock, Ark. Dedication for the building is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 18.
Photo by Danny Johnston
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'Man of Peace' Award
Yusuf Islam
Singer-songwriter and peace activist Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, will receive a 'Man of Peace' award Wednesday, two months after being refused entry to the United States on security grounds.
Islam, 57, will receive the prize from the Gorbachev Foundation at the opening of the 5th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at Rome's city hall.
The award is given annually "to a distinguished personage of culture and entertainment for peace messages, fraternity and integration between nations".
Yusuf Islam
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Challenges FCC's Planned Jackson Fine
CBS
Twenty CBS television stations have challenged plans by federal regulators to fine them $550,000 collectively for airing the Super Bowl halftime show during which singer Janet Jackson exposed her bare breast, according to a filing obtained on Monday.
The Federal Communications Commission in September said it planned to fine the stations each the maximum $27,500 for the incident in which her breast was exposed for a brief moment on air, prompting outrage from family groups and lawmakers.
While acknowledging the incident had become "a defining moment" in the commission's aggressive campaign to combat indecency, the stations denied the fleeting glimpse of a woman's breast violated decency standards.
CBS
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'Guys and Dolls'
Ewan McGregor
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, famous for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, will make his musical theater debut in a remake of "Guys and Dolls" in London's West End, producers confirmed Monday.
McGregor, 33, will play the role of Sky Masterson in the West End revival of Frank Loesser's 1950s classic which will premiere in June next year.
"Guys and Dolls" opened on Broadway in 1950. Next year's show will be the first new London production 23 years.
Ewan McGregor
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Asheville Film Festival
Rance Howard
Rance Howard, the father of Ron and Clint Howard, has received the Asheville (S.C.) Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Rance Howard, 77, appeared in most of his son's films, including "A Beautiful Mind" and "Apollo 13." He earned his first major movie role in the 1956 film "Frontier Woman" and moved four years later to California, where the entire family pursued acting careers.
Rance Howard
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Peter van Stolk, CEO of Seattle-based Jones Soda Co., poses with all-soda holiday meal Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, at the company's headquarters in Seattle. Capitalizing on the unexpected craze of last year's Turkey & Gravy Soda, the company is launching a limited edition pack of five unique soda flavors: Green Bean Casserole, Turkey & Gravy, Mashed Potato, Cranberry, and Fruitcake.
Photo by Ted S. Warren
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Nets $41,000
Truffle
An elderly Italian-American restaurateur paid a record 41,000 dollars (31,600 euros) for a large white truffle at a charity auction of the delicacies near Turin, the organisers said.
Max Giambelli, 89, fended off bids from a young Russian following the auction by satellite link-up from Moscow to nab the truffle weighing over one kilogramme (2.2 pounds).
Giambelli was among bidders located at a New York hotel as 15 expensive truffles went under the hammer at the medieval Grinzane Cavour castle, set in the heart of Piedmont truffle country outside the northern city of Turin.
Truffle
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National Music Museum
Cash Guitars
The National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota has acquired two guitars and a banjo from the estate of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash.
The guitars are a 1971 Martin D-28 known as the "Bon Aqua" and a 1967 Gibson "Hummingbird." The banjo is a 1980 Gibson that was given to Cash by bluegrass performer Earl Scruggs.
Cash Guitars
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pissed
(formerly 'The Vidiot')
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Sues Ex-Girlfriend
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds sued a former girlfriend, alleging that she was threatening to falsely accuse him of abuse if he didn't pay millions of dollars in extortion.
The lawsuit says that Pamela Seals falsely accused Reynolds of yelling at her and stomping on her toes. Seals, who was Reynolds' girlfriend for 10 years, told the actor she would publicize her allegations if he didn't agree to a hefty settlement that included support for Seals and her mother, half of Reynolds' Jupiter home and other compensation.
Reynolds' lawyer, Bob Montgomery, called Seals' threats blackmail, saying the actor offered to settle the matter for $1 million but Seals refused. He said because Reynolds and Seals were never married, she is entitled to nothing under Florida law.
Burt Reynolds
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Mintu Porel, an Indian artist, puts the finishing touch on a 'pandal', or makeshift stage, designed in the form of a demon in Calcutta November 8, 2004. An idol of the Hindu goddess Kali will be placed inside the stage for Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, on November 12.
Photo by Sucheta Das
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Hopes to Restart Career
Leo Sayer
British pop star of the 1970s Leo Sayer says he hopes to move to Australia to restart his career.
The London-based curly headed singer who had hits with songs like "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You" said he is disillusioned with the modern music industry in Britain.
Australian show business is "much more interesting and its much more inspiring so, yeah, it would be great to sort of kick things off for me again in Australia," the 56-year-old told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio in Canberra in a telephone interview Monday from London.
Leo Sayer
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Guitar Legend at 89
Les Paul
Guitar legend Les Paul can use only his left thumb and pinkie to perform at his weekly nightclub gigs in New York.
The 89-year-old takes no medication for his painful arthritis and permanent injuries from a car accident 56 years ago, because it exacerbates his ulcers.
But twice every Monday night, the renowned musician also known for his innovations on the solid-body electric guitar and multitrack recording gets on stage with his trio at the Iridium Jazz Club.
For the rest, Les Paul
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Extends CBS, Fox Broadcast Rights
NFL
The National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
The new agreements between CBS, a division of Viacom Inc., and FOX, owned by News Corp., begin with the 2006 season and include no changes in the current kickoff times.
Each network will televise two Super Bowls during the term of the contracts, with CBS carrying Super Bowl games XLI and XLIV in 2007 and 2010, and FOX airing the remaining games, NFL officials said in a statement.
NFL
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A Malaysian Hindu paints her hand with 'mehendi' or henna in Kuala Lumpur on November 8, 2004. Hindu community, which is seven percent or 1.75 million out of Malaysia's 25 million population, will celebrate Diwali, festival of light, which marks the 'victory of good over evil', on November 11.
Photo by Bazuki Muhammad
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Wins Hunting Suit
Tom Brokaw
A judge has ruled in favor of "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw in his attempt to keep an outfitter from bringing more big-game hunters on land bordering the newsman's ranch.
Judge Randall Spaulding ordered the Montana Board of Outfitters to revoke David Nelson's additional permits to guide big-game hunting trips on the land near Brokaw's Montana ranch.
In his ruling released Monday, Spaulding said there were serious safety concerns in adding the hunters. He said "novice hunters armed with rifles" guided by Nelson are a danger to people and buildings on Brokaw's land, and said the Board of Outfitters "failed abysmally" in considering safety issues before awarding Nelson the extra hunting permits.
Tom Brokaw
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Getting An Award From Poppy
Ahnold
California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is to receive a public service award from the former US leader George Bush's presidential library, officials said.
The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation announced that the former movie star who campaigned in the crucial state of Ohio to get Republican resident George W. Bush re-elected last week, will accept the 2004 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service on November 30.
Ahnold
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Last 'Casablanca' Actor Marks 80th Birthday
Joy Page
In the pantheon of favorite motion pictures of all time, "Casablanca" rates, if not Numero Uno then certainly among the top two or three, right there with "Gone With the Wind" and "The Godfather."
The 1943 "Casa" came in No. 1 in the AFI's recent list of the top romantic films, No. 2 (to "Citizen Kane") on its list of 100 greatest American movies and, even after 60-plus years, its popularity shows no hint of a slowdown.
That makes this date particularly relevant because the last surviving cast member from that classic film celebrates her 80th birthday today.
She's Joy Page. The actress played the raven-haired, beautiful Bulgarian bride who is rescued early in the film by Rick (Humphrey Bogart). He helps her win a stash at a roulette table at Rick's Cafe Americain so she can avoid the clutches of a lecherous Claude Rains and thus get out of town with her husband (Helmut Dantine).
For a great read, Joy Page
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A double rainbow forms at Hopi Point, after a rain shower at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, Monday, Nov. 8, 2004.
Photo by Jim McKnight
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Theories can never be proven. As soon as they're proven through the gathering of empirical evidence, they're no longer theories but fact. The discussion's over, right? Has Newton's theory of gravity been proven sufficiently to enter the realm of fact? Not as long as there's an expanding universe theory stating that EVERYTHING is growing at a set rate, literally doubling, tripling, quadrupling in size, and what's keeping us on earth is not some mystical force called "gravity" but simply the natural force of the earth expanding beneath our feet, which we don't notice because we're expanding at the same rate. As long as there's a plausible competing theory, Newton's theory of gravity will remain a theory. Go ahead and PROVE the expanding universe theory is wrong. Can't be done. Sorry Newton.
Some theories can never be proven or disproven. My belief in the theory I'm about to propose is as resolute as anyone's belief in Jesus or Allah, that is it will NEVER be proven with empirical evidence that would stand up in court. It's only strength lies in my ability to cram it down the most throats.
In order to formulate my theory, I have considered the stories Black Box Voting Web Site declares 2004 election a fraud, Exit polls, final count -- not even close, Wide exit poll and vote count disparities, Private company counts our votes on election night, Screen shots show CNN changed exit poll data!, GRAND JURY EVIDENCE: 3 hrs. (9:52pm-1:31am) missing from election-night primary--Sept.14, King Co., Wash. Diebold GEMS audit log--24 insecure remote modems connected, GRAND JURY EVIDENCE: King County primary election summary totals now missing from audit log (just seven weeks ago!), More evidence the vote was rigged, AP: Just one electronic machine gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio, Citizens Are Responsible for Understanding Current Events, http://www.donotconcede.com/, and HACKING THE PRESIDENCY.
I considered the mind-boggling fact that Ohio simultaneously re-elected Bush for president AND Kucinich for Congress.
I considered these two charts:
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