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"AMNESTY REPORT RAPS POST-SEPT.11 POLICIES
The United States has lost its 'moral authority' as a defender of human rights
because of violations the Bush administration has committed in the war on
terrorism, Amnesty International claims in its annual report on human rights
released Tuesday." (CNN) [article]
[About time somebody said it.]
"FLA VOTING RIGHTS NOT DENIED
The Justice Department has concluded that the vast majority of Floridians were
not denied their right to vote during the 2000 presidential elections, and
that the few problems that did exist could not have affected George W. Bush's
victory..." (CNN) [article]
[Yeah, but look who's running the Justice Dept.]
5-18-02
"TURKEY PASSES STRICT NEW LAWS"
"By an overwhelming majority, Turkey's parliament passes a restrictive
Internet law that is sending shudders through the fledgling sector." (Wired News) [article]
[Once again, a U.S. supported repressive regime pretends to be a democracy while it exercises its heavy-handed practices at the expense of its citizens.]
"WHY 'SPIDER-MAN' TOPS 'STAR WARS'"
"All those readers who respond to critics dissing blockbuster summer movies by
saying 'Hey, man, we don't want heavy drama and deeper meaning -- we just
want to be entertained,' well, those readers just don't get it." (CNN) [article]
[First of all, does 'Star Wars' really have a deeper meaning than 'Spider-man'? And since when is heavy drama and deeper meaning not entertaining? What's really meant is that summer (and winter) audiences want movies that airheads can watch without having to be required to think too much.]
5-3-02
YOU SAY POTATOE AND I SAY...
"Al Kamen, Washington Post...Former vice president Dan Quayle, appearing on 'Hardball' on MSNBC on Tuesday, was explaining why the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is separate from the war on terrorism, 'How many Palestinians were on those airplanes on September 9th?' he asked. 'None.' Hard to disagree. Who knows who was on those planes on Sept. 9." (Hardball Newsletter)
[That one speaks for itself.]
"PARENTS PEEVED AT PRINCIPAL'S PANTY CHECK
Angry parents demanded the resignation of a California high school vice
principal Tuesday because she lifted the skirts of teenage girls at a dance in
front of men and male classmates to make sure they were wearing 'appropriate'
underwear." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[Great premise for the next Porky's sequel.]
A CLINTON-CLINTON TICKET IN 2004
Hillary on top and Bill as her running mate? A political insider says "It's perfectly within the bounds of the Constitution." (Page Six) [article is no longer online] [I'd vote for them. I like the woman on top. And wouldn't it be great to have someone with a sense of humor back in the White House? (Bill, I mean.)]
SECURITY CHIEF WON'T STOP BOMBINGS
"The chief of Palestinian security says that it is not his priority to stop attacks on Israel and that the era of cooperation is 'over.'" (Washington Post)
[article]
[Well, that just about says it all, doesn't it? If anyone doubted that The Palestinian Authority could have put a stop to terrorists bombings, but didn't, this position clears up that matter once and for all.]
SEX ABUSE IS A CRIME
The Pope says that sex abuse is "rightly considered a crime" and there is no place for it in the Church. [article]
[Talk about stating the obvious twenty years too late.]
A PERFECT "10"
Bo Derek is pushing "Bless the Beasts," a line of animal care products, and she has a new book out entitled Riding Lessons: Everything That Matters in Life I Learned From Horses [article]
[Hmmm. Everything?]
AND SPEAKING OF ANIMALS
Sen. Jesse Helms will undergo open-heart surgery to replace a pig valve that he had inserted ten years ago. [article]
[Pig valve. Now, doesn't that just about figure?]
AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT
Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan leader, has started a fashion trend. His hat is the focus of Milan and Paris designers. But--get this--it's made of "the downy fur of aborted lamb fetuses." (AP) [article]
[No kidding? Where can I get one?]
"CARDINALS DISCUSS SEX ABUSE CRISIS
U.S. cardinals and Vatican officials are debating how the Catholic Church
should handle priests who have molested children." (CNN QUICK NEWS) [article]
[With kid gloves, of course.]
RECYCLING SUSPENDED
Mayor Bloomberg is putting New York's recycling program on hold to try to reduce the city's $5 billion budget deficit. [article]
[It's not easy being green.]
CHRIS MATTHEWS SAYS:
"I can't believe that during the biggest pedophile scandal in the country, Clinton would appear on stage with a man who paid $20 million to settle a child-molestation case" (Hardball Newsletter) [article]
[I can. What's not to believe? It's like poetic, man. Everything's converging to a focal point. (more)]
TERRORISTS HAVE 'DIRTY BOMB'
Abu Zubaydah, recently captured terrorist leader, says Al Qaeda has the capability of building a "dirty bomb," and intelligence officials believe him, despite skepticism about his credibility. [article]
[C'mon now. This is a non-story (like, probably, most of the recent terrorist warnings). First of all, anybody who knows how to make a bomb and who has access to radioactive or biological waste can make a "dirty bomb." There's no real additional technology involved. These "press releases" or "leaks" are trickled out by the administration to keep the terror threat alive, so that Bush may continue to enjoy his wartime popularity. (They should think up a new name for 'dirty bomb' like they did for 'suicide bomber.' All bombs are dirty.)]
4-11-02
READERS' RIGHTS UPHELD
The Colorado Supreme Court, ruling that a bookstore does not have to turn over sales records to the cops, says that The First Amendment and the Colorado state constitution guarantee the right to anonymously purchase books. [article]
[What's this? A little bit of sanity in a world that's going paranoid?]
GOV'T CREDIT CARDS USED FOR CASINOS, RENT
"The Interior Department is changing its policies and retraining employees on
use of government-issued credit cards after an audit found employees used them
to pay their rent, withdraw money at casinos and buy jewelry and furniture."
(CNN Quick News) [article]
[Retraining? Retraining? Does anyone really believe that people don't know it's wrong to charge personal expenses to government accounts? This better be a case of misstatement via reportage or else I am going to be very pissed.]
3-27-02:
SPUDS INVOKED IN MIDEAST PEACE EFFORTS
A caption on a CNN news spot re the disintegrating peace efforts of Anthony Zinni in the Mideast reads "Plan In Taters."
[I wonder if they'll serve steak and veges with that.]
3-22-02:
GODDAM GREAT FILTER
ICRA releases software that can filter Internet content at custom-set levels so that surfers can avoid becoming offended.
[What if it's censorship that offends me?]
BAD GUYS WEAR BLACK HATS
A Colorado newspaper criticizes White Hat Technologies for running a 'Hacker Camp.'
[Would someone please go and look up the (real) definition of 'hacker' before you pretend to know what you're talking about?]
THE GOO-GOO-GOOGLY EYES
Google removes links to sites critical to the Church of Scientology because the church threatens to sue for violation of copyright. Then, the next day they restore the links because free-speechers complain.
[You can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but...]
THE 'W' STANDS FOR 'WAYNE'
After a car bombing in Peru kills 9 and wounds 25, Bush says the incident will not affect his trip to the country, declaring "Two-bit terrorists aren't going
to prevent me from doing what we need to do."
["Well, you just go ahead and try to interrupt my visit, Pilgrim."]
CA BODIES LINKED TO RUSSIAN MAFIA
Six people have been charged with kidnapping and related charges after five bodies were found in California. Co-conspirators are sought in Russia.
[Well? Whattaya expect? It is the home of Hollywood, after all.]
RISING POSTAL RATES
Post Office wants to raise first class stamp to 37 cents.
[So what? I haven't used a stamp in nearly two years. Land mail is dying, a subsidiary victim of the 'print is dead' phenomenon. Digital information transfer is the way to go. Catch up, cats and kittens.]
NYU GROWS PROTEIN CHUNKS
On long space flights, future astronauts may grow their own protein from chunks of meat and fish, thus bypassing the mess of butchering livestock.
[Yeah, but think of the missed opportunities to discharge all of that butchering residue into the empty regions of space where it might somehow coagulate and, by some heretofore unknown process, create a new form of (space) life. (A sci-fi fanatic's dream.)]
ATTRACTIVE DRIFT
The North Magnetic Pole drifts continually, but lately it's been speeding up and will soon leave Canada and enter Russia.
[Does this mean that Asia will begin to attract all of the world's attention instead of North America?]
3-21-02:
CIA GETS CAUGHT WITH HAND IN COOKIE JAR
A complaint by a "private group" prompts CIA to remove software that tracks Internet usage via cookies. A CIA spokesman said, "It was a mistake on our part. It was not intentional. The public does not
need to be concerned that the CIA is tracking them. We're a bit busy to be
doing that."
[Yeah, right. And my name's George W. Bush. Do people actually believe it when they spout this crap? Their real mistake was in getting caught.]
3-14-02:
PIG-HEADED
A federal committee, along with experts, are discussing xenotransplantation, the transfer of organs from pigs (and other animals) into humans. Opponents of the proposed practice vehemently object.
[I don't know what the big deal is. The transfer of DNA from pigs to humans has been going on for millennia. It's called pork, ham, and bacon.]
3-10-02:
PSYCHOACTIVE PRESCRIPTIONS
Psychologists in New Mexico may now prescribe drugs, but physicians bewail the new legislation.
[Because psychologists could NEVER be as competent as physicians at assessing a patient's mental condition. The argument, of course, is that psychologists are not competent to assess a patient's physical condition. Yeah, but doctors are allowed to prescribe psychoactive drugs and they don't necessarily have any competency in the assessment of mental illness.]
3-6-02:
THE EVIL OF FILE TRADING
File Swapping Services must be more intensely regulated because 'we're in the process of raising a generation to think that stealing is OK,' says News Corp's COO.
[Of course he would say that. Why don't we just come out and say it? File swapping is costing the corporations too much money and is threatening the stranglehold that the American oligarchy has on democracy.]
NO COPY PROTECTION
Reports from the House indicate that certain key representatives are resisting the idea of embedded copy prevention software in DVD and other types of recorders.
[What's this? Evidence of sanity on Capitol Hill?]
3-4-02:
"DILUTED SMALLPOX VACCINES EFFECTIVE
A nearly completed study indicates that diluted forms of smallpox vaccine are effective, meaning the current national vaccine supply of 15 million doses can be diluted to 150 million doses, a leading government scientist said Sunday. 'I can say with some certainty that it's been a successful experiment,' Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN."
[You see, this is the kind of news release that worries me. "I can say with some certainty" suggests to me that there is also some uncertainty. And the fact that the source is a government scientist suggests that he might not be speaking so straight-forwardly. The comment sounds more like an attempt to appease than a statement of fact. Oh sure. No problem. We've found a solution. We'll just dilute the vaccine. Until an epidemic comes along and we discover that millions are dying because the diluted vaccine doesn't work so good, and meanwhile, all of the government officials got the full-strength version.]
MUSLIM POLL INDICATES RESENTMENT
A poll of nine Muslim countries reveals that the predominant attitude of their citizens is that they are "resentful" toward the U.S. because it is "ruthless and arrogant."
[Talk about a severe case of psychological projection . . . It's interesting, though, that they are resentful. I'd always thought that resentment was a negative personal trait revealing a tainted heart.]
2-26-02:
The president of ICANN calls for greater business and government control over the Internet.
[They won't be happy until they can control it completely.]
2-22-02:
Sound can now be aimed by a new kind of transmitter that can single out individuals in a crowd for private listening.
[Sounds like a schizophrenia-inducing device. Alien UFOs may have been using this technology for millennia.]
2-19-02:
John W. Gardner, "the father of campaign finance reform," founder of Common Cause, which promotes participatory democracy, dies at 89.
[A portent of things to come?]
2-18-02:
STUDENTS GET RASH -- Students in 7 states [PA, NY, WV, VA, OH, OR & WA] have a red, itchy rash of unknown origin, causing schools to close. The rash goes away when the students leave school.
[Yeah, I think I had that infection too when I was in school. Different symptoms, same result.]
2-16-02:
MS LEAVES ANOTHER HOLE -- Another Microsoft program that is supposed to increase the security of Web software ends up creating more holes for hackers.
[The more things change, the more they stay the same. MS can't seem to win for losing these days.]
2-14-02:
CNN Quick News headline: "BUSH WANTS TO CUT DRUG USE BY 25 PERCENT"
[I thought he said he quit a long time ago.]
2-13-02:
"GAMERS LEARNING BY DEGREE -- No more jokes about video games being mind-numbing toys. Programmers are now getting college degrees in game design." (Wired News)
[Interesting. We're graduating in mind-numbing degrees. What's next? A PhD in Home Economics?]
CANADA AGAINST CHILD PORN REGULATION -- Canada is considering a law that will criminalize even the act of alerting authorities that a website is selling child pornography.
[Whew! Talk about your anti-regulatory regulation.]
2-12-02:
Voice stress analysis is being increasingly used by law enforcement to measure minute frequency vibrations that occur when a person lies. A voice recording is run through an analyzer that indicates which of us should be suspected.
[Looks like people with anxiety disorders are going to be in for a lot of hassling.]
2-10-02:
A Texan is the first American [that we know of] to get AIDS from a blood donation since the country began new HIV-testing of the national blood supply three years ago.
[I knew it wasn't safe. It was only a matter of time. There is no safe vampire system.]
The editor of the Concord Monitor admits that the paper was wrong to include an editorial cartoon showing a "Bush Budget" plane crashing into two "Social Security" towers.
[So much for dissent and off-color humor. Political and social correctness are ruining democracy in this country.]
2-8-02:
The Magna Science Adventure Centre in Northern England is teaching two teams of robots to hunt together and protect each other.
[Oh, oh. Here we are, at last. Look out. The Terminators have arrived.]
2-6-02:
Young men, roaming in bands through the streets, continue ethnic violence while the police avoid the problem areas in Lagos, Nigeria.
[Oh. For a minute there, I thought they were talking about LA.]
2-3-02:
[We've come a long way as a society from lunch counters in the South.]
"WORLD FORUM SCIENTISTS: GRIM FUTURE Scientists at the World Economic Forum predicted on Friday a grim future replete with unprecedented biological threats, global warming and the possible takeover of humans by robots. 'Extreme pessimism seems to me to be the only rational stance,' said Sir Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal, at a session devoted to the future threats and opportunities presented by scientific advances. He said he was especially concerned about the development of new biological weapons." (CNN Quick News)
[Yep. That about says it all. No need to elaborate any further.]
2-2-02:
Justice has requested that Bush keep all White House records back to Jan, 99 that pertain to Enron.
[Yeah. We don't want no more of that Nixon crap.]
1-31-02:
After students were caught downloading music, movies and porn from the Internet, a VA school district restricted access to over 11,000 iBooks.
[Hey! How the hell are the kids supposed to learn?]
1-29-02:
Because a PA YMCA reads Harry Potter books to kids, a local PA police department will not direct their triathalon traffic. They say it "promotes witchcraft."
[Who says religion and politics don't mix?]
1-28-02:
Wired News: "The changing nature of the workplace -- and the employee -- in the
corporate world is hashed out at a conference focused on human resource policies for the 21st century."
[Wow! No kidding? The workplace sure is changing. I wonder what kind of hash it was.]
An enterprising teen invents a device for translating American Sign Language into text. It's made from a golf glove.
[That's nothing. You should see what I can do with my sock.]
1-27-02:
The Senate threatens a probe of the American Red Cross, forcing it to recall thousands of pints of blood because of federal safety violations.
[I knew it. I never did trust those vampires.]
1-25-02:
The Pope opines that the Internet is a 'wonderful instrument,' but feels that its degrading and damaging potential will require it to be regulated.
[Didn't the papacy have a similar opinion about Galileo?]
1-24-02:
No more new permits for cyber cafes in LA, and curfews are imposed on them for kids on school nights, because stabbings and other crime proliferates in their parking lots, and even inside.
[I guess violent video games just aren't real enough any more.]
Netscape is suing Microsoft for damages caused by MS's allegedly illegal, monopolistic practices.
[It seems that Netscape will do to anything to get a bigger market share--anything, that is, except making a better product.]
CNN reports that "...too few doctors have the time or training to deal with nutrition choices that are making their elderly patients sicker--or even realize how medications can sabotage a senior's already precarious diet."
[They realize it. They're dumb like foxes. What's in it for them if they use up their valuable time teaching the elderly how to eat right? Fewer sick people translates into fewer patients, which translates into less money.]
1-20-02
An upcoming rally by the Klan prompts Newport, TN officials to increase security efforts after a cross is burned on the first black mayor's front lawn.
[Hey, what about a war on our local terrorists? Don't they deserve some attention? Just because they haven't killed anybody recently (that we know of) doesn't mean they aren't terrorizing people. Let's weed these severely repressed degenerates out like we are weeding out the Al Queda in Afghanistan.]
1-18-02
China tightens down even more on the Internet by ordering ISPs to screen all e-mail for "political content" and to assume responsibility for "subversive" content on websites they host.
[The degree of repression that a regime exercises is directly proportional to the trouble it is having justifying itself as a legitimate government.]
A CT scan viewed backwards resulted in a Rhode Island Hospital surgeon operating on the wrong side of a man's head.
[Whoops. Right brain error.]
After recent increased activity, Germany warns eBay about trading illegal racist music and other neo-Nazi items on its website.
[You have the right of free speech, as long as we agree with what you say.]
1-17-02
"DOCTORS ADVISE AGAINST ONE COLON CANCER SURGERY"
"A type of colon cancer surgery involving an extremely small incision does not
necessarily mean a quicker, less painful recovery, and should be avoided until
more is known about whether it helps people live longer, disease-free lives,
researchers say." (CNN Quick News, 1-17)
[How we gonna know if it helps people live longer if they avoid it?]
1-11-2
It turns out that NetupProfits, an Internet lottery concern, was NOT attacked by a Trojan, according to Antivirus companies. Nevertheless, the hacker attacks forced the company to decide to cease tracking online users.
[Ha! Power to the people.]
A device invented by a Mom from Canada mutes "nasty and naughty" words (like moron and jerk) on television programs.
["Bad" words do not damage kids; but censorship just might. Parents who exhibit a fear of their kids hearing or seeing certain things may pass their phobias and pathologies on to them.]
Toymaker re-programs Tickle Me Elmo Surprise dolls. They now sing when you squeeze their noses.
[Now how 'bout they make ones that cry when you pinch their nipples?]
1-10-02
Reports from Somalia indicate that people there are fearful that the U.S will attack them next.
[They sure are changing their tune, aren't they?]
Quantum Leap: Seize the Light
"Two papers present frameworks that could speed up progress in quantum
computing, including one concerning a method of stopping, storing and
retrieving light pulses." (Wired News)
[Light can now be stopped. See. I told you so. So much for the last remaining constant in the universe.]
Democratic lawmakers at the Future of Music conference doubt that digital music will become regulated by law this year.
[Buy an extra hard drive and keep downloading while you can.]
1-8-02
A study of 50 overweight middle-aged Swedish men suggests that long-term stress could make people fat.
[Or, long-term fat could be making people stressed.]
1-4-02
Wired News: "For a second consecutive day, researchers cite new achievements in altering pigs to make them more suitable organ donors for humans. Critics doubt the viability, saying scientists are just being pig-headed."
[Maybe they gave themselves brain transplants.]
Scientists say that research indicates that when people lie, thermal imaging cameras reveal an increase in heat around their eye sockets. Wired News says, "Experts aren't so sure."
[Who are these experts, then, if not the scientists? Maybe they're the one's who should be doing the research.]
12-25-1
Guiliani is named Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
[Once again, a news organization chooses blind patriotism and public opinion over objective reality.]
12-23-01
Enron's former CEO denied responsibility for the banckrupcy and said he had "no idea" that the company was in financial trouble.
[Well, no wonder they went bankrupt.]
12-21-01
Chaos reigns in the streets of Argentina, riots break out, and fires are set at the palace gates as the government teeters on the brink of collapse.
[Just another sign. Not to worry--unless you happen to live in Argentina.]
Microsoft releases a fix to MSWindows XP. The great solution to all of Microsoft's software problems is even MORE vulnerable to hacker attack, leaving users' files and system accessible.
[A fix? Already? It just came out last week! Why do we put up with this? Because the company is a monopoly and we have no choice. And the government is going easy on it, protecting it, when it's supposed to be protecting us from companies like it.]
12-20-01
Authorities report that an Amtrak train, traveling at high speed, killed three people who were "trespassing" on railroad property north of Philadelphia.
[That'll teach 'em not to trespass.]
Researchers announce that new software codes will allow developers to build computers that can see what's happening beyond them.
[What are you doing, Dave?]
Research reveals that alcohol in fizzy drinks like carbonated wines and Champagne gets absorbed into the blooodstream faster than ordinary alcoholic drinks.
[In other words, you get drunker faster on Champagne. We needed research to tell us that?]
12-16-01
Referees and players and a number of innocent bystanders (if there were any) were struck as fans threw thousands of bottles onto the football field in Cleveland after officials reversed a ruling that handed Jacksonville the game.
[Yep. Sports is a great way for people to relieve their aggressions in a socially acceptable way.]
12-13-01
A scientist proposes that we create a cheap, stable energy source by placing power plants on the moon to beam energy to Earth via concentrated microwaves.
["Power Plants on the Moon." Great title for a science fiction novel or a television SciFi spoof.]
The Pentagon says that it's wary of releasing new high resolution Earth maps because it worries about "how much the public will get to see."
[So, what else is new?]
An FBI official admits that the U.S. government is developing Magic Lantern, "a keystroke logging system implanted electronically that can spy on Internet users" (Wired News)
[Carnivore, Etherpeek, Echelon, and now Magic Lantern. Is this a government conspiracy, or what?]
12-12-01
From Wired News: "Microsoft's partnership with Predictive Networks in its television venture will allow advertisers to monitor what viewers are watching. But honest, they won't know your name, they claim."
[Right.]
12-11-01
The Congressional Budget Office opines that Social Security reform should benefit the entire economy, not only the program's funding for the future.
[That's political code for: borrow the money we need to fund the war, etc. from the Social Security fund.]
12-10-01
"PHYSICISTS: NO SIGN OF 'GOD PARTICLE' After years of searching and months of sifting through data, scientists have still not found the elusive subatomic particle that could help to unravel the secrets of the universe, a science magazine reported Wednesday. The Higgs boson, the missing link that could explain why matter has mass and other fundamental laws of particle physics, is still missing -- and physicists fear it may not exist. Scientists have been searching for the Higgs particle ever since Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University first proposed in the 1960s that it could explain why matter has mass." --CNNQuickNews
[Now that's news. Keep looking, dudes. Don't give up. It's there.]
12-4-01
A presidential commission on American health care contends that cancer patients have to battle not only their diseases, but the system as well.
[So, why should they be treated any differently than anybody else? ]
An advisory committee on organ transplants was told that payment to families donating a deceased person's organs is ethical, as long as the money received isn't enough to be considered a "bribe."
[But one person's bribe is another's pocket money. ]
12-3-01
On his program "Hardball," Chris Matthews asked a guest how we were supposed to take Yassar Arafat seriously when he's "running around like a Ringo Starr character."
[I've been thinking this same thing for years, but I can't believe Chris actually said it on TV. They should make a bad movie of Arafat's life, starring Ringo. That'd take care of any serious intent he ever had. (Arafat, not Ringo. He's never had a problem with being taken seriously.)]
At a recent concert, Elton John told the audience that "Songs From the West Coast," will be his last album. He's not going to do any more recording in protest over "the state of the music industry."
[The man's a genius. What better way to improve the state of the music industry?]
CNN reports that "U.S. Marines and Afghan opposition groups were preparing Sunday for a possible final assault on the remaining Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, with the number of U.S. attack and support helicopters on the ground nearly doubling overnight."
[In other words, they're going to attack if they don't get too much negative feedback from Americans or from the world.]
12-1-01
Despite free-speech advocates' opposition, a U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law making illegal the providing of information re bypassing copyright protection technology.
[First, it became illegal to plan to commit a crime (conspiracy laws.) Now it's illegal to merely exchange information. What's next? Thinking about it?]
11-26-01
Pope John Paul II apologizes via the Internet to victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
[Nothing like a good apology to set things right.]
11-16-01
CNN QuickNews reports that researchers said Wednesday "The brain waves of professional musicians respond to music in a way that suggests they have an intuitive sense of the notes that amateurs lack."
[Duh.]
11-10-01
Ken Kesey dies at age 66 after cancer surgery.
[So young. He was just a kid. All things must pass. Now we know the days of joy are really over.]
11-7-01
One of the lead stories on CNN Headline News today was about a flaming stolen truck being chased through the city by police.
[I see some ordinary news is trying to insinuate itself into the overkill and propaganda.]
11-4-01
David Christian, in an interview on Fox News, said that using "nucular" weapons would stir up the "freeze-dried" hippies from the sixties.
[Now, lessee if I got this right. If we don't believe that nuclear weapons should be used, we're some kind of remnant peaceniks who should be ridiculed.]
10-31-01
[The news has been all repetitions lately. Nothing worth commenting on.]
10-24-01
Bob Dylan has made a deal with Simon & Schuster to write his autobiography. It will be a multi-volume project entitled 'Chronicles'.
[Finally, some good news for a change.]
10-23-01
CNN reports that an "LAPD officer who shot a man with a fake gun at a Halloween party was justified."
[I wonder how he managed to make the fake gun fire real bullets.]
Khaddafi [or however they're spelling his name this month] condemns the war on terrorism as 'horrifying'.
[The duplicity escalates.]
10-20-01
Saddam Hussein, over the web, offers an American citizen condolences for the 9-11 terrorist attack.
[What's the matter, bub? Feel like you need some PR? Getting worried?]
10-19-01
China commits to support the war against terrorism.
[That's the great thing about politics. Everyone's your friend when there's something to be gained from it.]
Bush adminstration criticizes Israel for responding to assassination of cabinet member by invading West Bank towns.
[Let's see. Israel shouldn't defend itself against Palestinian terrorists while the U.S. is defending itself against the Afghan terrorists. Is that what we're saying here?]
10-17-01
NY Gov Pataki says 'We're going to drive these people back into the caves where they belong.'
[Hoo-yah !! (I think I'm starting to become too caught up in all of this.)]
The ACLU complains that new legislation threatens fundamental rights of American citizens.
[Warrants. We don' need no stinking warrants.]
10-14-01
HHS Sec Tommy Thompson ups the domestic ante by defining the anthrax scare as terrorism
[Now, we, as Americans, can officially be terrorists too.]
Paul McCarney says he wants to make up with Yoko Ono.
[Ob la dee, ob la dah, life goes on...]"
10-13-01
5 stranded pilot whales off the panhandle coast of Florida have died.
[A state dept. spokesman says it's not believed to be related to the terrorist attack.]
10-12-01
Re what the government reveals to the American people about terrorism, John Ashcroft said, 'We should promote caution, not insight paralysis.'
[Them damn insights can be terrifying.]
10-11-01
Pres. Bush says that this 'time of testing has revealed the true character of the American people.'
[Ain't it the truth.]
The FBI labels Florida's anthrax cases as criminal, but not terroristic.
[If it's done by Americans, it's a crime; if it's done by foreigners, it's terrorism.]
Pres. Bush asks America's children to send $1 to the White House for Afghanistan's children.
[Isn't that something like what Soupy Sales got in trouble for?]
10-10-01
New York officials report that they will need $54B to rebuild.
[Mayor Rudy wants to remain involved, so hold a fund-raising marathon and let him host it.]
10-9-01
David Azman (sp?) of Fox News says, 'We're behind them [Dubya and his gang], whatever they decide.'
[It's no wonder people get themselves into trouble, following the herd.]
10-8-01
Rush Limbaugh reports that he's losing his hearing and will soon be deaf.
[He never did really listen anyway, did he?]
The Pope says that the war against terrorism fits the criteria for a 'just war.'
[So much for the peaceful and non-violent resistance of evil that Jesus preached.]
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