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Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
June 11, 2002
President Bush, who continued to insist that he has "seen no evidence
to date that indicates that this country could have prevented the
[September 11] attack," nonetheless called for a new cabinet-level
agency for domestic security. The proposal combines 22 federal
agencies into one but leaves the C.I.A. and the F.B.I., whose
computers are so primitive that agents are able to search files for
"aviation" and "schools" but not for "aviation schools," essentially
untouched.
Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed that federal
authorities had prevented a terrorist attack on Washington, D.C.;
Ashcroft said that the arrest last month of an American Al Qaeda
operative named Abdullah Al Mujahir at Chicago O'Hare airport had
disrupted "an unfolding terrorist plot to attack the United States
with a radioactive dirty bomb." An unnamed official admitted, however,
that Mujahir, whose real name is Jose Padilla, did not actually
possess such a bomb: "We don't believe it went beyond the planning
stages."
The attorney general also proposed regulations requiring
100,000 Muslim and Middle Eastern foreigners to register with the
federal government and submit to fingerprinting; potential terrorists
who are already in the country are expected to comply voluntarily.
The inspector general of the Justice Department testified before Congress
that the I.N.S. and the F.B.I. are "years away" from integrating their
fingerprint files.
Kansas repealed a law that barred Asian immigrants
from owning property.
Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler was suspended
from duty for publishing a letter to the editor in a California
newspaper in which he called President Bush "a joke."
President Bush
was asked about the recent report by the E.P.A. that contradicted many
of his previous statements on global warming: "I read the report put
out by the bureaucracy," he replied, and then he reiterated his
opposition to doing anything about global warming.
In Oregon, a state
appeals court reinstated $79.5 million in punitive damages against
Philip Morris, saying that the company's perpetuation of a spurious
argument over the safety of cigarettes warranted "strong judicial
punishment."
Japan ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
Indian soccer fans attacked the offices of the local electric company
in Kalikavu, Malappuram, because the power kept going out during the
World Cup.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
--Roger D. Hodge
Reader Movie Review
'The Omen II'
By George J.
There was a movie that predicted the Bush II Fraud Presidency
OMEN II
Yep, George Worthless Bush (like young Damien) is always surrounded by
nursemaids, handlers, devil dogs, servants, etc who protect and enable him
in all of his twisted indulgences.
Damien and Bush parallel so much I am
revolted that so many "Christians" have gleefully overlooked this tie.
Everyone that stood in Bush's way have died conveniently and unnaturally.
Bush continues not because of his own efforts but because of the efforts of
Satan's minions around him.
All criticism melts away under the unholy glare
of his handlers. The big doom continues onward despite the protests of the
honest and earnest because no single person takes the effort to end the
Anti-Christ effectively.
That of course is the lesson of the movie.
Working alone we cannot defeat the evil as it grows more dangerous, but
working together we can overwhelm the Satanic nursemaids and expose the
gross evil for what it is and smother it finally.
Thanks, George. Interesting spin. Hmmmmmm. How about - even though Damien was adopted, both boys' mothers are a bitch. ; )
Interesting Link
Uncommon Sense
From Jeff Crook
Is Jose Padillo Jon Doe #2 from Oklahoma City?
Go to http://uncommonsense.20m.com
and look at
the mug shot/artist's composite at the top of today's
update.
Thanks, Jeff.
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Today's adventure had to do with discovering the new kittens were walking flea-markets. Thanks to a sympathetic vet, all is well now.
The current issue of 'The National Enquirer' has another story about Jenna imbibing (again) in public.
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II', then the second half of the movie 'Joan Of Arc'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Freddie Prinze, Jr., Mike Daisey and Alicia Keys.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers is John Viener.
NBC has the 'Lakers vs. Nets', and a rerun of 'West Wing', too.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are D.L. Hughley, Colin Farrell and Dirty Vegas.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan is ?
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Zach Braff and Musiq.
ABC has reruns of 'My Wife & Kids', 'Jim', 'Drew Carey', and then a fresh 'My Adventures In Television', followed by a fresh
'Boston 24/7'.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are Tim Stack (actor), Peter Stormare (actor), Tom Fitton (Judicial Watch Pres.), and Valerie Harper (actress).
The WB offers 2 reruns of 'Dawson's Creek'.
Faux has an hour-long rerun of 'Malcolm' followed by a fresh 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has reruns of 'Enterprise' and 'Wolf Lake'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Celestial Sass
Aquarius
Astrological Forecast for Aquarius for 6/11 - Bastille Day 2002
by Gare Galbraith
For Entertainment Purposes Only
Aquarius 1/20 - 2/18 Be of good cheer, Aquarius birthtypes! Oh, I'm already starting on the wrong foot... you never get anywhere with you WaterBearers by speaking in imperative sentences. Hmmm..... wouldn't it be nice and good for the group if you were of good cheer? No, dang.... you KNOW when someone is trying to manipulate you. Sorry.... but hey, do you think i want to write to you while there are gorgeous international kickboys all over my sportschannel for hours on end?. How are they so cute? They wouldn't have to use their hands with me, either. Goal!! But i digress....
Hey, you lovable KNOW-it-alls ( i was raised by one and have been with one for 20yrs.... and watch out... they sound the most knowledgeable when they know absolutely NOTHING about which they are speaking. I've learned it the hard way from "Playboy is not a good stock. Hefner will be out of business in 2 yrs" (1975)... to "Oh, we won't need reservations." (about every other week). Your best days in the forecast period are 5:36pm(EST) 6/26 - all of 6/28. Shine it up and let people KNOW what you are about and how you would expect/appreciate cooperation. It's an excellent time to begin what you want to sail thru the future on the water you've borne. Downtime for you is 6:39pm 6/13 thru 10:23pm 6/15 and 7/11 - 4:41am 7/13. Whatever you want will be ignored by and because of roaring prima donnas. Don't try to confront or push..... just take a detached step back and use it as a social study.
1st Decan Aquarius 1/20 - 1/30 I hope the mellow fog that you've been twirling in since last fall is one of creativity and appreciation of new healthytype escapes rather than finding yet another set of crunks to hang with just because you use the same drug. Until next year, you have the chance to inspire with your dreams, beliefs & creativity or to get lost in the flotsam of waiting for you dealer. After 6/15, there are dynamic attraction issues with challenges either legally or in how much you put your ID into that one you are partnered with.
2nd Decan 1/31 - 2/9 From now til 7/1 you will be so appreciating the home that you have in your partner. It's almost like you've hung new lights on him/her and have found vintage wine in the cellar. A celebratory mood is upon you concerning this, but in a quiet fire raging in your eyes. This object of affection will present mazelike paths to affection 6/24 - 7/3. This is a time, that if you want to keep said partner, you gotta pay a lotta attention.
3rd Decan 2/10 - 2/19 The Frame-of-Knowledge-Belief-Structure revamp that began late last year gallops on. Take no part of your routine for granted til early next year (I can't tell you when exactly, cos i'd have to get outta my chair and soccer is on). You are having inspiration by the barrelful. Take none of it for granted, even if you wake up laughing at it. By delivering fairly and with out resentment to your partner (or types thereof) you can avoid the shitpiles concerning this that you've sniffed (or didn't you smell them coming?) or had your nose rubbed in (?) the last 2 weeks. Smile... and don't be afraid to blend in sometimes. GOAL!
Thanks, Gare!
Big Dog Watch Continues
Bill Clinton In Dubai
Former President Bill Clinton, right, stands with Crown Prince of Dubai, General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum during the graduation ceremony at the American University
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, June 11, 2002.
Photo by Aziz Shah
At K-Rock's Dysfunctional Family Picnic
The Osbournes
Kelly Osbourne is boy crazy. The cherubic 17-year-old spawn of Ozzy has been dating MTV personality Gideon Yago, spies tattle. And at K-Rock's Dysfunctional Family
Picnic on Saturday, Kelly was practically swooning over Julian Casablancas, the dreamy frontman of the Strokes. Kelly's brother Jack - who was perched onstage during
the set by headliner System of a Down - stifled groans at his little sister's lovestruck behavior as he mingled backstage with mom Sharon, Howard Stern and girlfriend
Beth Ostrosky and Mia Tyler.
The Osbournes
Cool Link
The Avengers Forever
The Avengers Forever
Wedding Accomplished
Heather & Paul
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills were married Tuesday in a remote Irish castle, while fans and journalists thronged the gates for a glimpse of the ex-Beatle and his bride.
More than 2 hours after the ceremony, as the newlyweds and their guests feasted on Indian food in large tents on the Castle Leslie estate, McCartney's spokesman, Geoff Baker, emerged to reveal some details.
The bride, wearing a fitted ecru lace dress she designed herself, carried a bouquet of 11 pink McCartney roses — named for her new husband — and two peonies, Baker said.
McCartney's brother Mike was best man. Among the 300 people in attendance were McCartney's children from his first marriage, Stella, Mary and James, and his stepdaughter, Heather. The rest of the guest list was kept pretty well under wraps.
Ringo Starr, the only other surviving Beatle, was seen being whisked through the gates to attend the ceremony at St. Salvator's chapel within the walls of the well-guarded estate.
Baker had confirmed earlier that Beatles producer George Martin and Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour also would be there.
For a lot more details, Heather & Paul
Osbourne Souvenirs
Ozzy Bank
Dell Furano, CEO of Signatures Network, shows off an Ozzy Osbourne coin bank, an item from the Osbourne collection of products at right, at the Licensing 2002 International show
at New York's Javits Convention Center, Tuesday, June 11, 2002.
Photo by Richard Drew
Finale Is June 27
'Millionaire'
ABC has a final answer for one-time megahit "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
The English import, which attracted almost 40 million viewers at its peak but later was partly blamed for ABC's ratings declines, will sign off for good as a regular network series June 27.
To send it off, the network will air a 90-minute edition of the Regis Philbin-fronted gamer. After that, as it previously announced, "Millionaire" will be revamped as an occasional series
of specials, similar to how the program debuted in 1999.
"Millionaire" isn't expected to return to primetime until at least November, in order to avoid competing with the show's syndicated launch this fall.
'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'
A Link From Sharon
Joe Sances
This guy does parodies of Thomas Kinkade's work. Kinkade does the cutesy
pie stone cottage with the picket fence. The Joe Sances parodies have
doors in the pictures you can click on that have another picture behind
them. There is also a rustic stone bridge with a tank rolling over it and
snipers in the stream under it. They are being exhibited at a gallery in
Vallejo CA that the Babtists are very upset over.
Joe Sances
Thanks, Sharon!
Show Hits Snag
Grateful Dead Reunion
A county highway committee denied a permit to the promoters of a Grateful Dead reunion concert Tuesday, saying the area could not handle the enormous crowd expected.
The Walworth County Highway Committee voted 4-0 to turn down the request by Clear Channel Entertainment to stage "Terrapin Station — A Grateful Dead Family Reunion" Aug. 3-4 in East Troy.
The two-day concert would have been the first time Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir staged a concert together since the death of Jerry Garcia,
the Dead's leader and founder. Garcia died in 1995 of a heart attack.
Michael Cotter, a Walworth County attorney, said Clear Channel can appeal the decision. The county would set up another hearing, and Clear Channel could present
more evidence on why it deserves the permit. The company also can sue the county for the permission.
Clear Channel did not immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press.
Grateful Dead Reunion
The Other Ones Web site
It's B-a-a-a-a-a-c-k
National Debt Clock
With the U.S. national debt ticking higher and the government deep in deficits, a huge electronic clock that showed the numbers whirring by will soon make a comeback.
A New York City landmark since 1989, the massive digital clock about a block from Times Square was put to rest nearly two years ago when Washington faced with budget
surpluses. "It never was intended to show the budget strengthening, so that's why we shut it off," said Douglas Durst, president of the Durst Organization which owns
the building where the 11-by-26-foot (3-by-8-meter) sign is perched. "With the deficit growing again, we're going to put it back on." File photo from October 29, 1995
of the national debt clock on New York's Sixth Avenue.
Photo by Jeff Christensen
If His Lips Are Moving...
Ari Fleischer
In a stunning admission, chief White House flack Ari Fleischer 'fessed up yesterday: President Bush didn't actually read a 268-page federal report
that blamed global warming on oil refineries, cars and people.
Still, his boss dissed the report last week.
"I read the report put out by the bureaucracy," Bush said, before reiterating his opposition to the international Kyoto treaty on global warming that the U.S. refuses to sign.
"Whenever Presidents say they read it, you can read that to be he was briefed," Fleischer answered when asked if Bush had read the report.
Then he suddenly realized that, perhaps, he had been just a tad too frank and open.
"I've enjoyed working here, thank you," he told the White House gaggle of reporters to hoots of laughter.
Ari Fleischer
'Witchblade' Resumes Production
Yancy Butler
Production on the remainder of TNT drama series "Witchblade's" second season resumed Monday with series star Yancy Butler back on the set.
The show had been on hiatus while Butler spent time at a rehabilitation center for alcohol treatment. Six of the 13 episodes ordered for the season were in the can when Butler checked into rehab.
Yancy Butler
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Offers Shirt for UN Refugee Auction
Angelina Jolie
T-shirts signed by actress Angelina Jolie and supermodel Naomi Campbell are among the celebrity items being auctioned on eBay.com to mark World Refugee Day, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.
A model car signed by Formula One racer Michael Schumacher, a tennis racket owned by Martina Hingis and a silk Ungaro blouse and scarf worn by the late actress Melina Mercouri are also on the block to benefit
UNHCR programs for women around the world, the agency said.
It hopes to raise $250,000 through the auction, which began Monday night on eBay.com's main Web site (
http:/ members.ebay.fr/aboutme/worldrefugeeday_usa) as well as its various national sites.
World Refugee Day is June 20.
Angelina Jolie
Re: McEnroe's Book
Tatum Speaks Out
For months, John McEnroe assured Tatum O'Neal that she would like the way he portrayed her in his new memoir, "You've Got to Be Kidding."
Well, her review is in.
"The book is all b-------," rages McEnroe's ex-wife. "It's not true."
Tatum is going on the PR offensive to tell what the supposedly reconstructed tennis brat left out of the autobiography, in which he paints himself as a modern family man.
"He's a sociopath," Tatum charges in a series of interviews she just gave to Britain's Daily Mail. Though she says her father, Ryan O'Neal, "could be violent,"
she contends she has "never met a crueler man in my life" than McEnroe.
"He has convinced the children I am stupid, so they will never come to me for advice. He has poisoned them against me," she snarls.
O'Neal claims her ex is far from the ideal dad. But it's his notorious rudeness that really draws her ire. On trips, O'Neal says, he would "push past kids at the airport, and his tennis
rackets would be just at the level where they'd hit them in the face. But he wouldn't even look back and apologize. So, guess what, I now have boys who just bash through doors and push past little girls."
Tatum Speaks Out
The Australian Team
Bodypainting
Models from the Australian Bodypainting Team enter an exhibition on body art at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Tuesday, June 11, 2002. During a three-hour process, the
models are decorated with paint, face masks, tinsel and feathers in an effort to showcase the art of bodypainting.
Photo by Rick Rycroft
Lawsuit Filed
Britney Spears
Two musicians have filed a lawsuit against Britney Spears, claiming that a couple of songs on her multiplatinum second album, "Oops! ... I Did it Again," were based on a tune they wrote.
Philadelphia songwriters Michael Cottrill and Lawrence Wnukowski claim in the lawsuit that they authored, recorded and copyrighted a song called "What You See Is What You Get" in late 1999 and
submitted it to one of Spears' representatives for consideration on a future album.
The song was rejected, the lawsuit says, but the musicians claim that the 20-year-old pop singer later released two songs, "What U See (Is What U Get)" and "Can't Make You Love Me," that were
"virtually identical" to the song they submitted.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, names Spears, Zomba Recording Corp., Jive Records, Wright Entertainment Group and BMG Music Publishing.
The liner notes for "Oops! ... I Did it Again" credit both songs to several writers and producers at Cheiron Studios, the Swedish recording studio that also wrote hits for the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and Celine Dion.
Britney Spears
BartCop TV!
Lawsuit Settled
Woody Allen
Woody Allen's real life courtroom drama ended abruptly on Tuesday as the filmmaker settled his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his old friend and producer Jean Doumanian.
Allen's lawyer had called eight witnesses, including Allen and Doumanian, during the nine-day jury trial before the two sides reached an agreement.
Details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Allen, 66, had claimed Doumanian and her companion, Jacqui Safra, cheated him out of at least $12 million in profits on movies produced by Doumanian's Sweetland Films.
Doumanian and Safra said Allen had received a total of $19.5 million from Sweetland and in fact owed them money.
Woody Allen
A Link From Sharon
Suchard Chocolate
Suchard is the best damn milk chocolate in the world, IMHO.
Suchard Chocolate
Thanks, again, Sharon!
Basel, Switzerland
Arnold Skip
U.S. artist Arnold Skip lies underneath a pane at the art fair ART in Basel, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 11, 2002. He rested some hours under the pane near the entrance
without moving.
Photo by Markus Stuecklin
Signs Six-Year Deal with TNT
Marv Albert
Marv Albert, whose manic affirmation has become synonymous with professional basketball coverage for years, inked a six-year contract with the TNT network to be the lead sportscaster
for National Basketball Association games, starting next season.
Under the terms of the deal, Albert, who currently calls national games for NBC and TNT, will call national games exclusively for TNT, which will televise 52 regular season games
and more than 50 playoff games a year.
Albert, who turns 61 on Wednesday, said he had talks with ESPN and ABC, as well. "But Turner had an option in my contract," he said. "This is where I wanted to be. It was too
complicated to do games on the other networks.
TNT was the first national network to hire Albert after a two-year hiatus. He was fired by NBC in 1997 after he plead guilty to assault and battery of his longtime girlfriend. "I
feel a great loyalty to TNT," Albert said. "I'm very fortunate to be back. Life couldn't be better on or off the court."
Marv Albert
More Resignations
Adelphia
Cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp., the target of regulatory and criminal investigations of its accounting practices, said on Tuesday another member of its
founding family resigned from the board of directors.
Peter Venetis, son-in-law of former chief executive John Rigas, stepped down following a resolution by the company's new management team last month calling for his resignation.
Century Communications Corp., an Adelphia's unit that holds the company's Los Angeles cable systems, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.
John Rigas, his son and chief financial officer Timothy Rigas, and two other members of the family have resigned in the last month following disclosures of billions of dollars
of off-balance sheet loans to the family backed by the company.
Adelphia
By Aaron McGruder
The Boondocks
Still Seeking Volunteers
'The Osbournes'
Fairly freshly updated - 'The Osbournes' ~ Page 2 !
'The Osbournes' ~ Page 1
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