'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Best Lies Awards Banquet
The Bush administration held its Best Lies Awards Banquet, the Bamboozles, at the White House last night to celebrate nearly a full term's worth of what it has called the "best damn lies this country has ever seen."
Reader Rant
Austrian Village
A small Austrian Village ...
... established in 1070 is tired of having their Village signs stolen.
(please follow the above link before taking offense at the snark below)
I can just see the council meeting "For Fuck's sake, we can't rename our
village!" and "We are Fucking, we have always been Fucking and we will
always be Fucking!"
Apparently the Fucking villagers are tired of people stealing their
Fucking signs. So far the police haven't been able to locate any signs
of Fucking, (maybe they should hire Ashcroft;-), but vow to get to the
bottom of the ring.
If caught and convicted the Fucking thieves will be sentenced to a month
in a Fucking jail. (Kind of a different slant on 'thirty days in the
hole';-)
BTW, the Village of Fucking (48' 03" N 13' 51" E) has
a website:
I especially like the sub-head on their village sign:
Bitte - nicht so schnell! (Translation= Please - not so fast)
Boy, how many times have I heard that!
"Sire, sire! The peasants are revolting!"
"What do expect from a bunch of Fucking Villagers!?"
What an email address to have!: username@fucking.at
And what a place to propose! If you she accepts, for the rest of your
life you can say you were engaged in Fucking.
The village motto, like this post must have seemed, is "Fucking forever!"
Thank you, goodnight! I'll be here all week, please tip your bartenders
and waitresses!
bph in indiana
Thanks, b!
from Mark
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sun broke through in the late morning, followed by a breezy day.
While at CostCo found the Disney 'War Years' DVD I'd been wanting.
The kid got nearly as big of kick as I did at 'Der Fuehrer's Face'.
We found some more kittens. OMG!
Directors Harry Thomason, left, and Nickolas Perry, right, arrive with Susan McDougal to the New York premiere of 'The Hunting of the President,' Wednesday, June 16, 2004. The film, which claims to expose ``the 10-year campaign to destroy Bill Clinton,'' is a 90-minute documentary which re-creates interviews conducted for the best-selling book of the same name by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. McDougal, who went to jail rather than cooperate with Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, plays a large part in the film.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Never Considered Quitting
Bill Clinton
Former President Clinton tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that he never considered resigning and is proud he fought efforts to impeach him amid the scandal over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The interview, to take up the full hour of Sunday's program, is timed to next week's publication of Clinton's memoir, "My Life," which covers his Arkansas childhood, his tenure as that state's governor as well as his presidency.
Clinton sees the Lewinsky affair as "a terrible moral error" whose disclosure to his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, put him "in the doghouse."
"I did something for the worst possible reason. Just because I could," Clinton says of his infidelity. "I think that's just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything."
Bill Clinton
Celebrated in New Jersey Exhibit
Bruce Springsteen
Rock icon Bruce Springsteen has used cars and the open road as metaphors for both the American dream and the American nightmare throughout his career.
Now, more than 30 years after he asked fans to come along for a ride "about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88," the Newark Museum on Thursday opened "Springsteen: Troubadour of the Highway" -- the first major exhibition devoted to the New Jersey native.
The exhibit features music, lyrics, photography, videos, vinyl albums and other memorabilia. It also shows more than 70 works by renowned photographers Annie Leibowitz and Lynn Goldsmith as well as Springsteen's sister, Pamela.
Bruce Springsteen
Writer Kurt Vonnegut and his wife Jill Krementz arrive at the New York premiere of 'The Hunting of the President,' Wednesday, June 16, 2004.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Most Powerful Celebrity Says Forbes
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, whose controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" paid off big at the box office, is the year's most powerful celebrity, according to Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 power rankings.
Golf star Tiger Woods, the leading money-maker among athletes with $80 million, was second on the list, followed by talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who matched Gibson in earnings.
Actor Tom Cruise ($45 million) was fourth, followed by venerable rock group Rolling Stones ($51 million). "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling was sixth on the list, boosted by her earnings of $147 million.
Actress Jennifer Aniston, who topped the rankings last year, slipped to 17th place on the 2004 list.
Mel Gibson
Signs 5-Year 'Live' Contract
Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa will be a "Live" star for five more years, according to the syndicated TV entertainment show "Extra."
Ripa, who landed her co-host role beside Regis Philbin in February 2001, reportedly will be paid about $40 million under her new "Live with Regis and Kelly" contract, or $8 million a year.
Philbin, 72, has two more years on his current contract.
Kelly Ripa
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
3,000th Live Show in Russia
Paul McCartney
Notching a key milestone in the long and winding road of his career, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is expected to play his 3,000th live show when he performs later this month back in the former USSR.
The exact number of live shows McCartney played in the early years of the Beatles and their precursor band the Quarry Men, was not perfectly kept, but a new tally by his management indicates he is now in the vicinity of 3,000 performances.
The Beatles gigs alone -- ranging from Shea Stadium and live radio and TV performances to the multiple sets the Fab Four played nightly in Hamburg, Germany, during the early 1960s -- numbers approximately 2,523, his management said.
With the addition of 140 live appearances with Wings, plus 325 other post-Beatles gigs as either a solo artist or at such events as Live Aid or the Super Bowl, his official count prior to the start of his "Live Experience" tour in Europe on May 25 stood at about 2,988.
Paul McCartney
Spurs Flood of Job-Seekers
'Airline'
Perhaps it is the mysteries of lost luggage and the lore of lushes too drunk to fly that is causing a surge in job applicants at Southwest Airlines Inc. in the days following broadcasts of a reality TV show featuring the low-fare carrier.
Southwest officials said on Thursday that the number of job applicants sending resumes to their offices triples on days after cable TV network A&E's broadcast of "Airline."
The Dallas, Texas-based carrier typically receives about 180 job applications a day, but that number regularly nears 600 on Tuesdays after the show airs Monday nights.
'Airline'
Television actor George Takei, who played Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek series, arrives for a special VIP party for the new Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, June 16, 2004. The museum's collection which includes original pieces and interactive exhibits from art, film and literature opens to the public June 18th.
Photo by Robert Sorbo
Baby News
Sofia Bella Pagan
King of Queens star Leah Remini gave birth Wednesday to a baby girl, publicist Samantha Hill announced today.
Sofia Bella made her grand entrance in an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital at 3:01 p.m., weighing in at 6 pounds, 4.7 ounces and measuring 18 inches. She is the first child for Remini and husband Angelo Pagan, the fast-working couple tied the knot last July and announced the pregnancy in December.
The birth came a day after Ma Remini marked her 34th birthday.
Sofia Bella Pagan
Chooses 'Esther' As New Name
Madonna
Call her Esther: That's the Hebrew name Madonna has chosen for herself as a follower of Kabbalah.
"I was named after my mother. My mother died when she was very young, of cancer, and ... I wanted to attach myself to another name," the singer says in an interview on ABC's "20/20," airing at 10 p.m. EDT Friday. "This is in no way a negation of who my mother is ... I wanted to attach myself to the energy of a different name."
During the interview, Madonna wears the red string around her wrist that's a symbol of the Jewish mysticism, though she wears it beneath her watch. She says she's sensitive when critics suggest her interest in Kabbalah is just a trend.
Madonna
Shooting Film in U.K.
Woody Allen
Writer/director Woody Allen will shoot his first movie in Britain this summer with help from a who's who of local acting talent, including Kate Winslet, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the film's producers said Thursday.
Backed in part by BBC Films, the as-yet-untitled project is scheduled to shoot entirely on location in and around London in July and August. Details on budget or storyline were not available.
Woody Allen
Disappoints at Auction
John Lennon Sketch
An autographed sketch that John Lennon gave to a fan minutes before his 1980 murder in New York has failed to sell at auction after missing its reserve price, organizers said Thursday.
Rock memorabilia auctioneers Cooper Owen had set a $150,000 minimum for the cartoon-style sketch.
John Lennon Sketch
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Pleads Not Guilty
Andy Dick
Comic actor Andy Dick, who starred in the NBC series "NewsRadio" and the 1998 movie "Bongwater," pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge.
A June 29 pretrial hearing was ordered for Dick, who was cited for allegedly possessing less than an ounce of marijuana.
Dick, who currently appears in the ABC comedy "Less Than Zero," was arrested by Indio police on May 2 after a security guard at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival reportedly saw him trying to light a joint.
Andy Dick
Director Robert Altman arrives at the New York premiere of 'The Hunting of the President,' Wednesday, June 16, 2004.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
Trying To Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Conservatives
While the White House and the Republican National Committee have taken an official "no comment" approach to Michael Moore and his new anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," some conservatives have mobilized a letter-writing campaign and crafted ads that slam the film and its maker.
One of the organizations rallying against Moore is Move America Forward, a pro-Bush group that evolved months ago from the letter-writing campaign that led CBS to drop its controversial TV movie "The Reagans."
Howard Kaloogian is the chairman, a former California Assemblyman who helped organize the Gray Davis recall campaign and made a failed bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.
Another independent conservative group, Citizens United, is crafting video ads for television and the Internet that slam Moore.
The group's head, David Bossie, is a former Republican congressional aide who was one of President Clinton's harshest critics. He was fired in 1998 by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich for withholding the public release of testimony transcripts favorable to the Clintons in a campaign fund-raising probe.
Conservatives
Reschedules Tour Amid Legal Woes
Courtney Love
Rocker Courtney Love will not tour in June or July so she can focus on mounting legal troubles - including a felony drug case and an alleged assault with a liquor bottle, her publicist said.
Love, 39, and her new band The Chelsea were scheduled to tour in June and July to support Love's new album "America's Sweetheart." Instead, Love will join the band Aug. 1 in Japan, where they will headline the Fuji Festival, according to the statement.
Courtney Love
Fans Line Up for Viewing
Ray Charles
Fans of the late Ray Charles lined up Thursday to say goodbye to the influential singer of "Georgia On My Mind" and "What'd I Say" during a public viewing at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The Grammy-winning musician, who died last week at 73, lay in an open casket wearing his trademark dark glasses, adjacent to a baby grand piano with sheet music from some of his songs.
A funeral was scheduled Friday at a Los Angeles church with B.B. King, Stevie Wonder and Willie Nelson among the planned participants.
Ray Charles
Had Right Stuff
Giant Octopus
J-1 was doing more than whispering sweet nothings to Aurora as the two clutched each other in a secluded corner last month.
Aurora, a Giant Pacific octopus, began laying long strings of nearly translucent eggs last weekend by dribbling them down the sides of her tank.
Lately, she's taken to laying discrete clusters. She could lay 60,000 to 100,000 eggs - about what's expected from her kind.
If the eggs are fertile and they hatch, the center would be lucky to have a handful survive. Then aquarists have to figure out what to feed the babies as they grow. Hocking said octopuses are pretty specific about what they will eat and when.
Giant Octopus
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Tea pickers work in one of the largest tea plantation in West Java, Gunung Mas outside Bogor city on June 17, 2004. Hundreds of villagers work on the tea plantation earning a salary of 300,000 rupiah (about $33) per month.
Photo by Supri
Ordered to Pay $77M
Franchise Pictures
Franchise Pictures was ordered to pay $77 million to its former financing partner after a federal jury ruled the producer of such box-office bombs as "Battlefield Earth," "The Whole Ten Yards" and "3000 Miles to Graceland" padded the budgets of 17 films.
A U.S. District Court jury ruled Wednesday that Franchise was guilty of fraud and owed compensatory damages to movie distributor Intertainment, one of several German companies that struck production deals with the company in the 1990s.
Intertainment claimed in its lawsuit that Elie Samaha and his company ran a scheme to fleece it with inflated budgets.
Neither Intertainment nor Franchise disputed that budgets were inflated, but Samaha maintained it was the German company's idea to boost them to impress stockholders.
Franchise Pictures
Hospitalized
Johnny Ramone
Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the legendary punk band The Ramones, was hospitalized with an infection related to prostate cancer, his publicist Paul Bloch said Thursday.
Ramone, 55, whose birth name is John Cummings, was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
He and his wife, Linda, released the statement in response to recent, conflicting reports about his health, Bloch said.
Johnny Ramone
Basic Cable Networks
Rankings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 7-13. Each ratings point represents 1,084,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. "Fairwell (sic) to President Reagan" (Friday, 10 p.m.) Fox News Channel, 3.7, 4.02 million households.
2. "2004 MTV Movie Awards" (Thursday, 9 p.m.), MTV, 3.7, 3.99 million homes.
3. "Fairwell (sic) to President Reagan" (Friday, 11 p.m.) Fox News Channel, 3.4, 3.70 million households.
4. "Fairwell (sic) to President Reagan" (Friday, 9 p.m.) Fox News Channel, 3.0, 3.28 million households.
5. "Law & Order: SVU" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.0, 3.26 million homes.
6. "WWE Raw Zone" (Monday, 10 p.m.), Spike, 2.9, 3.151 million homes.
7. "Law & Order" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.9, 3.148 million homes.
8. "Fairwell (sic) to President Reagan" (Wednesday, 7 p.m.) Fox News Channel, 2.8, 3.01 million households.
9. "Fairwell (sic) to President Reagan" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.) Fox News Channel, 2.7, 2.90 million households.
10. "Zenon: Z3" (Friday, 8 p.m.) Disney Channel, 2.7, 2.89 million households.
11. "Law & Order" (Monday, 8 p.m.), TNT, 2.7, 2.87 million homes.
12. "Law & Order" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNT, 2.6, 2.79 million homes.
13. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Spike, 2.6, 2.774 million homes.
14. "Law & Order" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 2.6, 2.767 million homes.
15. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.5, 2.67 million homes.
Rankings
Three-year-old dog Spitzerich wears a traditional Bavarian hat in Hailing, near the southern German town of Straubing, June 16, 2004. Hildegard Bergbauer designs traditional Bavarian dirndl and leather trousers known as Lederhosen and combined her profession with her love of animals in a new traditional collection for dogs.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
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