'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
September 10, 2002
President George W. Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair got
together at Camp David to talk about Iraq; at a news conference both
men cited a satellite photo showing recent construction activity at an
old Iraqi nuclear site as evidence that they must invade Iraq now.
resident Bush compared Saddam Hussein to a crawfish and said he was
"stiffing the world." Bush and Blair also mentioned a 1998 report by
the International Atomic Energy Agency and said that Iraq could be six
months away from developing nuclear weapons. "I don't know what more
evidence we need," Bush said. But the IAEA report, it was soon noted,
said no such thing. In fact, the report said that Iraq had been six to
24 months away from developing the bomb _prior_ to the Gulf War
and the subsequent weapons inspections but that there was no evidence
that Iraq had retained the physical capability to develop nuclear
weapons now. An IAEA spokesman pointed out that Bush had also
misinterpreted the satellite photo: "There is no new information about
any Iraqi nuclear activity." A White House official later admitted
that mistakes had been made.
The leaders of Russia, France, Germany,
and China all refused to support resident Bush's plan to attack Iraq.
The White House said not to take the refusals too literally. Nelson
Mandela said he was "appalled" by the United States' threats to attack
Iraq and said that America was "introducing chaos in international
affairs."
Congress, which convened briefly in New York for the first
time since 1790 to commemorate September 11, promised weeks of
hearings on the war issue.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked by
his deputy Paul Wolfowitz for advice on how to deal with the press,
replied: "Here's how you deal with the media. Begin with an illogical
premise and proceed perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion."
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
audio file interview with Hunter S. Thompson
(it's a long one at 37:52).
Reader Suggestion
from skyy
Came across this link, it reminds me of past links you've posted on your site where an alternative name, based on a movie, game or such is generated.
Anyways this a role-playing character builder.
www.squid.org/tools/AO/index.html
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"I'll swap you two units of Notum for your cookies."
Thanks, Skyy
Reader Suggestion
from PassItOn
The Ballad of John O'Neill is available on the web.
Plus, there is a nice explanation of why we should care
about John O'Neill.
And the original lyrics.
~ PassItOn
Thanks, PIO. And while on the topic, don't forget
Remember John.
New TV Schedule - Season/Series Premieres
Wednesday
(all times eastern) ABC 8 - 8:30 My Wife & Kids (Sept 25) 8:30 - 9 George Lopez (Oct 2) 9 - 10 The Bachelor (Sept 25) 10 - 11 MD's (Sept 25) * CBS 8 - 9 60 Minutes II (Sept 25) 9 - 10 The Amazing Race 3 (Oct 2) 10 - 11 Presidio Med (Sept 25) [Special premiere Sept 24 @ 10pm] NBC 8 - 9 Ed (Sept 25) 9 - 10 West Wing (Sept 25) 10 - 11 Law & Order (Oct 2) The WB 8 - 9 Dawson's Creek (Oct 2) 9 - 10 Birds of Prey (Oct 9) * Faux 8 - 8:30 The Bernie Mac Show (Sept 18) 8:30 - 9 Cedric the Entertainer Presents (Sept 18) * 9 - 10 Fastlane (Sept 18) * UPN 8 - 9 Enterprise (Sept 18) 9 - 10 The Twilight Zone (Sept 18) * * Denotes New Program
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sure like the weather here, wish I could say as much about the city of Long Beach itself.
Seems that Dick Cheney is scheduled to visit rush today. Nothing partisan in that move.
Today, Wednesday, CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes II' with an interview from the White House. It is followed by a 'special' '9/11'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave is Nanci Griffith.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Ben Stein, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and Marilyn Scott.
NBC starts the night with a 'special' 'Tom Brokaw 9-11', then another 'special' 'A Concert For America', hosted by Pickles (who said to turn the TV off), and sponsored by Boeing.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay is a celebration of republicans - Sen. John McCain and James Woods.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Sarah Vowell and Joan Osborne.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Denis Leary and Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise.
ABC is so excited about their 'special', that they're starting it an hour early, killing off syndicated programming like 'Jeopardy' and 'Wheel of Cheese'.
The WB has the movie 'My Dog Skip'.
Faux has it's own 'special' - 'Faux News: 9/11'.
UPN re-re-replays the 2-hour first episode of 'Enterprise'.
Even PBS is getting into the 'special' routine with 'Frontline' and 'A Requiem For September 11th'.
AMC tries to set a lighter pace with 'screwball' comedies & musicals -
Desk Set (1957), starring
Spencer Tracy and
Katharine Hepburn.
Next up, it's Bringing Up Baby (1938),
directed by Howard Hawks, and starring
Cary Grant and
Katharine Hepburn.
Then it's time for the musicals - Swing Time (1936), starring
Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers, and then
another 'Fred & Ginger' - Follow the Fleet (1936).
TCM celebrates 'New York, New York - the city so nice they named it twice', starting with
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) with
James Cagney,
Pat O'Brien,
Humphrey Bogart and very young 'Bowery Boys'.
Then it's 42nd Street (1933), followed by
On the Town (1949), written by
Betty Comden and
Adolph Green, starring
starring Gene Kelly and
Frank Sinatra.
Then, the classic King Kong (1933),
followed by Sweet Smell of Success (1957), and
Manhattan (1979).
Next up is the Martin Scorsese
directed New York, New York (1977).
The evening wraps with Midnight Cowboy (1969).
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Big Dog Watch Continues - From July
Bill Clinton
Event At University of Tampa
Greg Palast
When: Saturday, September 21st 7:00pm
Where: Falk Theater, University of Tampa
How Much: $10 advance, $15 door
FILM and SPEECH: UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Not only the Tampa premiere of the new film, with the film's co-director Joan Sekler
(co-founder of The Independent Media Center) but also a speech by BBC
investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN
BUY.
Palast's speeches on WMNF's Radioactivity program have caused a
torrent of interest from listeners. The film is the riveting story about the
battle for the presidency in Florida during the 2000 election. It also tells how
Republican political operatives used their access to voting lists to
undermine the black vote.
This event is being sponsored by WMNF, 88.5FM
Thanks, Stevan
DW3 Classical Music Resources : Sound / Image Databases
Holds Class in West Bank
Daniel Barenboim
Jubilant Palestinian teenagers greeted pianist Daniel Barenboim on Tuesday before he sat down and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at a master class for young musicians in the West Bank.
The event, attended by some 100 students in Ramallah, came nearly six months after the Israeli army refused to grant Barenboim permission for a visit. This time, Barenboim simply ignored the Israeli travel ban
and entered the West Bank under German diplomatic escort.
Barenboim, 59, is musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Staatsoper Berlin.
He said many people have asked him why he was so eager to perform in Ramallah.
"I tell them it's very simple," he said. "I'm not a politician, I don't have a plan to end the conflict. But I think the lesson we have to learn from the 20th century is that every human being — small, young as
you or older like I — has to think of his responsibility as a human being and not always depend on the politicians and the government."
Last week, Barenboim and U.S.-based Palestinian writer and critic Edward Said were named the winners of Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Prize for their efforts toward bringing peace to the Middle East. Since
the early 1990s, the two men have run a summer workshop for young musicians from Israel and Arab countries in places like Germany, the United States and Spain.
Daniel Barenboim
''Nothing Like A Cheap Gimmick''
'Push, Nevada'
"Push, Nevada" a new television show created by actor Ben Affleck has a new way to attract viewers. The producers are offering $1 million to the person who can solve
the mystery written into the ABC dramatic series.
Affleck jokes that "there's nothing like a cheap gimmick to get people to watch your show."
Viewers can choose to watch the show like any other dramatic series or they can solve the mystery by watching the show. The show will also provide clues that take them
to Web sites that can also help solve the mystery.
"Push, Nevada" premieres Tuesday, Sept. 17, on ABC before settling into its regular Thursday night time slot.
'Push, Nevada'
'Give Peace a Chance'
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono Tuesday pleaded with the world to "Give Peace A Chance" with the release on the MTV music channel of a short film to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
John Lennon's widow said in a statement: "Let's create peace, unity and light. I think John's words are needed just as much now as when they were written -- 'Imagine all the people
living in peace' and 'Give Peace A Chance."'
The film starts with the viewer trailing down a dark corridor to reach a door with light pouring through it. Yoko Ono greets the viewers and takes them up a ladder to read the
words "Give Peace A Chance" written on the ceiling.
Yoko Ono
Denounces Bush As Warmonger
Gore Vidal
U.S. author Gore Vidal has denounced President George W. Bush as wanting the war on terror to go on forever and said some Americans were delighted that
the September 11 attacks had singled out Muslims as the enemy.
Remembering the attacks and the suffering they brought had become something of a "new religion" for Americans, the outspoken writer said in an interview
broadcast on the BBC World Service.
"First of all this is the anniversary of what is becoming more like a new religion than anything else in the United States," Vidal, one of contemporary America's
most prolific writers and harshest critics, told the "East Asia Today" programme.
"Some people in the United States were rather delighted that it (the attacks) mobilised the entire country and focused on a single enemy, which we'd been
demonising for quite some time -- the Muslim world," Vidal said.
"He (Bush) wants this to go on forever. He said to Congress after 9/11: 'It's going to be a long war'. He was thrilled."
In the BBC interview, to be broadcast on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m., Vidal also accused the U.S. government and media of misleading the public about the reasons for the attacks.
"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed by their government," he said. "This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't
even say corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't want us to know."
Gore Vidal
Baby News
Elliott Anastasia Stephanopoulos
One down, one to go: Our congratulations to Alexandra Wentworth Stephanopoulos, who delivered 6-pound 9-ounce Elliott Anastasia Stephanopoulos, at Sibley Hospital yesterday morning. We
hear that her labor was kick-started by a Mexican dinner the night before. Meanwhile, we await Sunday's scheduled birth of George Stephanopoulos -- the baby's dad -- as the new sole
anchor of ABC News's "This Week."
Elliott Anastasia Stephanopoulos
Faux Producer In Cheesy Publicity Stunt?
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
A man who publicly confronted astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin over whether he actually went to the Moon said on Tuesday that the Apollo 11 hero almost sent him into space with a punch to the jaw.
Bart Sibrel, an independent filmmaker from Nashville, Tennessee, said he was trying to conduct an ambush interview with Aldrin outside a hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday
when the astronaut punched him and ran away.
"I approached him and asked him again to swear on a Bible that he went to the moon, and told him he was a thief for taking money to give an interview for something he didn't do," Sibrel told Reuters.
The incident was videotaped for Sibrel's second film, which claims to prove that the Apollo 11 astronauts faked footage of their July 1969 trip to the Moon to fool the
Soviet Union into thinking the United States had won the 1960s space race.
The encounter with Aldrin was Sibrel's third since he said he discovered footage in NASA's archives showing that the Apollo 11 astronauts had placed a
transparency of the Earth in front of their space capsule window and videotaped it to simulate a journey to the Moon.
But Sibrel contends in his first film, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon," that Apollo 11 never left Earth's orbit and that no one has ever walked on the Moon.
He also produced a Fox TV show last year entitled "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?"
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Regained Some Movement
Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve has regained some movement and sensation in his hands and feet, seven years after a horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
The "Superman" star also can breathe on his own for 90 minutes at a time, according to an article in the Sept. 23 issue of People magazine.
The actor has received treatment for the past three years through the "activity-based recovery program" that his doctor, John McDonald, created. The therapy consists of
electrical muscle stimulation combined with repetitive motion exercises.
The results: Reeve can move the fingers on his left hand and the toes on both feet. He can feel a pin prick on most parts of his body and can tell the difference between hot
and cold, and sharp and dull.
"No one who has suffered an injury as severe as Chris', and failed to have any initial recovery, has regained the amount of motor and sensory function he has," said McDonald,
the medical director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Christopher Reeve
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Cartoon Network Buys Rerun Rights
'Futurama'
The Cartoon Network is spending about $10 million to buy the cable-TV rights to the 72 half-hours of Twentieth TV's primetime animated series "Futurama."
Cartoon will schedule "Futurama" somewhere in its weekly Adult Swim animated block from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sundays, starting in January. Established a year ago, the three-hour Sunday Adult
Swim block has vaulted into the top 10 among all cable networks in the time period among men 18-to-34, the demographic target of the programming.
A Sunday-night success on the Fox Network since it debuted in March 1999, "Futurama" has slipped in the ratings in the last year or so. Fox hasn't made it official, but the show is unlikely
to come back after it burns off its final original episodes during the 2002-03 season, where it's scheduled Sundays at 7 p.m. Each half-hour of "Futurama," created by Matt Groening and
David X. Cohen, costs well over $500,000 to produce.
Cartoon has the cable rights to "Futurama" for five years. But the deal is not exclusive: Syndicator Twentieth Television reserves the right to sell it in syndication if TV stations should
show an interest at some point in buying the rerun episodes.
'Futurama'
Man With An Opinion
Ike Willis
A former bandmate of Frank Zappa says his son Dweezil Zappa is crazy for auctioning off the guitar his father was given by Jimi Hendrix. Ike Willis, Zappa's longtime guitarist
and backup singer, calls Dweezil's decison to auction the instrument - which Hendrix famously set on fire at the Miami Pop Festival in 1968, before giving it to Zappa - "ridiculous."
Willis says: "I would never even dream of selling the thing. It should be played so that others can feel the magic instead of [letting it] sit in a glass case collecting dust." The
guitar goes on the block in London Sept. 24.
Ike Willis
At The U.S. Open
Art & James Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel and his son, James, sing prior to the men's singles championship at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York Sunday Sept. 8, 2002.
Photo by Elise Amendola
Fails to Boost 'MNF' Ratings
John Madden
John Madden's debut on "Monday Night Football" was the lowest-rated opener for the program in at least eight years.
The New England Patriots' 30-14 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on ABC on Monday drew an average rating of 12.8 and 23 share, down 3 percent from the 13.2/23 for last year's
Monday opener, when the Denver Broncos beat the New York Giants.
ABC said the rating was the lowest for a MNF opener since at least 1994.
Madden jumped to ABC from Fox in February with a $20 million, four-year deal to join play-by-play announcer Al Michaels. "Monday Night Football" dumped comedian Dennis Miller and
analyst Dan Fouts after two years in which ratings fell more than 15 percent in total.
The number of people watching "Monday Night Football" viewership has declined for seven straight years.
John Madden
Killed in Hit and Run
Justin Timberlake Fan
A woman who was in a crowd of people waiting to see 'N Sync star Justin Timberlake was killed when a pickup traveling in reverse struck her, authorities said Tuesday.
Anne White, 21, was standing on the sidewalk outside the studios of radio station KIIS-FM on Monday night when a pickup hit her, police Lt. Tim Stehr said. She was
pinned under the truck and dragged for about a block. She then fell to the street, and the motorist drove off.
Cameron Duty was arrested later for investigation of murder and drunken driving. Bail for the 23-year-old was set at $1 million.
Both the driver and the woman apparently were in a crowd of about two dozen people gathered outside the station, Stehr said.
The radio station was hosting a special late-night interview with Timberlake, who was promoting his upcoming solo album.
Justin Timberlake Fan
BartCop TV!
Bob Hope Humanitarian Award
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey will be the first to receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award to be given at the 54th annual Emmys.
Bryce Zabel, chief executive of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, described Winfrey as a "truly qualified individual ... whose deeds and actions have had a lasting impact on society."
The award was established this year and will be presented by Tom Hanks at the Sept. 22 ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium.
Oprah Winfrey
Mom PO'd At O'Really
Ludacris
The mother of rapper and one-minute Pepsi shill Ludacris is lashing out at Bill O'Reilly for forcing Pepsi to scrap its promotion deal with him. O'Reilly called her son a "thug" and cited
his sexually graphic lyrics and videos. "How irresponsible, arrogant, erroneous and slanderous of you," Ludacris' mom writes in a letter to the Fox News gabber in a letter posted on daveyd.com. "Let's
keep it real. Fox cannot take the high ground with respect to artistic expression."
Ludacris
Street Walking
katherine harris
Republican candidate and former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris campaigns to passing motorists alongside her father George Harris, who is dressed up as
Uncle Sam, at in intersection in Sarasota, Florida, September 10, 2002. Harris, who was embroiled in the Florida 2000 presidential election ballot certification process,
is running for the U.S. Congressional seat which will be vacated by retiring U.S. Representative Dan Miller.
Photo by Charles W. Luzier
Ticketed for Watering
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was issued a summons for violating New Jersey's water-use restrictions after police found sprinklers running at her estate.
"Nobody gets special treatment here," police Lt. Jim Hughes told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Tuesday's editions.
Hughes said an officer went to the home Monday after police received a complaint that the sprinkler system was on at night. The sprinklers were running and puddles had formed in the curbs at the property
the pop star shares with her husband, singer Bobby Brown, police said.
State officials imposed water-use restrictions last month because of ongoing drought conditions. Residents are banned from watering lawns or washing cars.
Hughes said the officer told a security guard the sprinklers had to be shut off, but the guard didn't know how to do it and had to call the landscaper.
Whitney Houston
King Preaches Abstinence
The Royal Reed Dance
Thousands of bare-breasted Zulu girls paraded outside the palace of their king as part of an ancient wife-choosing ceremony this weekend, and were told to stay virgins to keep them safe from AIDS.
The Royal Reed Dance was once a chance for the head of South Africa's largest tribe to pick new wives from his assembled subjects, but lately King Goodwill Zwelithini has used the
occasion to address his subjects on morality and development.
His shoulders draped with the skin of a leopard, Zwelithini called on around 2,000 Zulu maidens on Saturday to abstain from pre-marital sex and to use contraception to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS among his people.
Zwelithini, who counts among his ancestors the great Zulu nation-builder Shaka, and Dingane, who fought the British army in the nineteenth century, called for a revival of the
traditions and culture of the tribe, once the most powerful in Southern Africa.
Nomagugu Ngobese, a mother and traditional virginity tester who brought a bus load of girls to Enyokeni from Durban, said the ceremony played a role in
emancipating young girls from traditional roles.
Far from reinforcing stereotyped subjugation, the parade raised girls' self esteem and enabled them to make their own choices in life, she said.
"We are expecting (them to become) teachers...we are expecting ministers," Ngobese said. "We are teaching them to abstain from sex...we teach them to have
that self esteem. Sex is not the only way to live.
The Royal Reed Dance
Could Turn Candidate
Rob Reiner
Actor-turned-director Rob Reiner, sometimes talked about as a potential candidate for California governor, isn't ruling out a run for office.
"That's a big decision," Reiner told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview about Proposition 10, the 1998 initiative he supported which hiked the cigarette tax to fund early
childhood development programs statewide.
Reiner, who first attained fame on TV's "All in the Family," said he hadn't planned to become a leading advocate for early child development issues.
"As I got more involved, it became clear there was no real spokesperson," the 55-year-old said. "It just kind of dropped in my lap as a void I felt I had to fill."
Rob Reiner
Conch Shell Yields Treasure
40.2-Carat Emerald
A diver has discovered the treasure of a lifetime -- a 40.2-carat emerald embedded in a conch shell -- while diving at the site of a Spanish galleon wrecked in a Florida Keys hurricane 380 years ago.
The part-time wreck diver, who teaches elementary school in northern Florida but does not want his name revealed, discovered the giant raw emerald while washing a bucket
of shells in a classroom laboratory.
The diver had gathered the shells from a dive off the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita, which sank on September 6, 1622, about 30 miles west of Key West, an island city at Florida's southern tip.
The diver works with Amelia Research & Recovery, a salvage company in Amelia Island, Florida, hired by Mel Fisher Enterprises to search the remains of the Santa Margarita.
The stone, measuring one inch by 1.5 inches with a dark green centre surrounded by lighter shades of green quartz, is believed to be from Colombia's Nuzo Mines.
For more details, 40.2-Carat Emerald
Face On The Bathroom Floor
#41
An Iraqi worker cleans a mosaic featuring former U.S. President George Bush as guests step on it at Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2002. Iraq
faces the threat of possible U.S. strikes if its government does not allow access to U.N. arms inspectors.
Photo by Amr Nabil
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