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8 June, 2004

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Issue #108

Disinfotainment Today

By Michael Dare

 
Mourning, Noon, and Night!
 
Issue #108
is brought to you by
 
Our barbaric past
 
 
Reagan Greeted by 72 Virgins
 
 
In his first posthumous interview with Disinfotainment Today correspondent Helen A. Handbasket, ex-President Ronald Reagan said "I'm quite happy to be back with my old buddy Errol Flynn. I might have gotten laid during my last 10 years, but due to the Alzheimers, I don't remember. This is going to be great. Oh, and tell Nancy she can go ahead and date Ashton."
 
"For seven and-a-half years I've worked alongside Reagan, and I'm proud to be his partner. We've had triumphs, we've made mistakes, we've had sex... uh, I mean setbacks...."
- Vice President George Bush, May 6, 1987 -
 
This article brought to you by Viagra, the only boner drug recommended by nine out of ten dead ex-presidents who have to service 72 virgins on a regular basis.
 
Film Martyr of the Week
 
The absolute worst thing about the death of Ronald Reagan is that it got me to watch Dark Victory, a horrible film he co-starred in with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. Aside from the irony of watching a film about someone dying because of something wrong with their brain, Dark Victory has little to recommend it other than a singularly irritating performance by Bette Davis in full Scarlett O'Hara mode, and the dubious pleasure of watching a future president stumble around drunk in a moronic impersonation of a millionaire alcoholic playboy. Davis is going to die and Reagan plays the character who deserves to but doesn't. I watched the whole damn thing looking for a pithy quote from the Gipper and the best I could come up with was "I need another drink." A special cell in hell is reserved for the studio schmuck with the brilliant idea to cast Humphrey Bogart as the poor stableboy with a heart of gold who loves the snotty socialite with the brain disease. With an overwrought score by Max Steiner and a script that begs for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment, the only way to get through Dark Victory with your sanity intact is to watch it with a bunch of drunks with whom you can impersonate Ronnie and shout at Bette Davis in unison "Die, die, die!"
 
Totally Paranoid, Neo-Con Nightmare, Terrorist Extravaganza,
We're All Going to Die Site of the Week
(unless it's all true)
 
Rogue Bush Backers prepare Super 9/11 False Flag Terror Attacks by Webster Griffin Tarpley dares to tell us that "The organizers of the [new] attacks would in reality be substantially the same secret command cell in the United States which set up the 9-11 events and its associated networks, which have been able to continue in operation because of the abject failure of all 9-11 investigations to date to identify them...."
 
No, wait, I changed my mind. The most totally paranoid etc. site of the week is voxfux's MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT - 9/11 WAS AN "INSIDE JOB" From top to bottom - an inside job. We're all going to die. Surprisingly well documented. See you in hell.
 
Belated Christmas Gift from Hell
This reproduction of Edison's original gramaphone makes things that look like CDs but are actually good old fashioned records. The site, which seems to be the only one selling the item, is in Japanese, so go to babelfish, paste in the address, click on "Japanese to English," and voila, you can find out that "According to the book not to be wrong assembling, the difference of the sound quality appears due to the person who is assembled."
 
Satan Doesn't Want You to Know
 
Coffee has lots of medical benefits, including preventing gallstones, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease. Decaffienated coffee has NO medical benefits so cut that out.
 
Contest of the Week
 
Slate film critic David Edelstein had a contest. Apparently in The Day After Tomorrow, after America has been decimated by the effects of global warming, the vice-president of the United States goes on TV and says "I was wrong." The contest? What would Cheney say under similar circumstances. Here's the winner, and here are all the winners.
 
    "It is now clear, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Mother Nature is responsible for the death of our citizens and the damage to our cities. And I can assure you that we will capture her. Dead or alive.
    "In 2002, our intelligence sources confirm that Mother Nature arranged for a secret meeting in Afghanistan with Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11. She was attempting to procure the very weather of mass destruction that has now been deployed to such tragic effect. Mother Nature is also well-known to Saddam Hussein.
    "The CIA has proof that Mother Nature was behind Hurricanes Andrew and Gloria and Hugo. And she has destroyed over 540 trailer parks in the Midwest alone.
    "With the help of Attorney General Ashcroft and the FBI, we are questioning meteorologists of Arabic descent, and we are encouraging them to help us catch this cowardly hater of freedom and liberty.
    "The Democrats would have you believe that these sinister acts of violence were somehow our own fault; that the use of gasoline, the very lifeblood of the greatest economy of all time, directly resulted in a wall of ice burying Manhattan. Not only is this preposterous and scientifically laughable, but it insults the memories of the brave men and women who died at the hands of a ruthless terrorist organization. Sen. Kerry can blame me, but I will not stand by while he blames the American people.
    "Our great nation will prevail in this struggle, and God favors our undertakings. At some point soon, once we get a break in this weather, I will return to the surface of our fine planet. Until that time, stay the course, remain vigilant, and don't forget your mittens."
- George Long -
 
Google Smackdown of the Week
 
vs.
and the winner is...
 
"enlighten me" by 77,800.
 
Letters of the Week
 
heya Michael,
 
    Longtime fan here. Disinfotainment is great. I love the political news.
    I just thought I'd point something out about this item: <<The ultimate right-wing paranoia flowchart about the left-wing.>>
    That flowchart is actually the ultimate LEFT-wing paranoia flowchart. I should know. I'm a paranoid lefty. Somewhere between a socialist and an anarchist (well OK much closer to the socialist side), I'm definitely part of the anti-capitalism movement that is so active nowadays.
    The thing is, the US (as well as Australia and the UK) is one of the precious few places in the world with a NON-socialist "left" and we (people like me) are kinda pissed about that. The CIA (amongst others) have done all they could to create a non-socialist, non-anarchist, non-revolutionary, pacifist, pro-CAPITALIST "left." And they have succeeded.
    The Left Gatekeeper folks have pointed out what FOIA-obtained official documents have made clear: CIA money goes to media that upholds electoral politics ("Personality Politics" if you will), protesting while paying taxes, etc. They want a manageable, defanged left.
    An excellent book that won't have you fashioning a tinfoil hat is The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders...(a synopsis of the book):
    Its about how the CIA propagated an "acceptable" left in order to control the width and breadth of political dialog in the country so as to stave off the threat of revolution. Culturally, such artists/musicians as Jackson Pollock and Louis Armstrong have received CIA largesse, all in the name of creating a non-political paradigm for artistic _expression, an orthodoxy of "art for art's sake" which is still pretty much the rule today. And writers such as George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem created a political left which is fundamentally pro-capitalist.
    Anyways, this all seems like it would be of interest to you. Keep on keeping on!
 
En Radicalavacado Commutardo,
 
Jason Sayre
aka Choobie LeBon
aka The Mule
 
Hey DT,
 
He's dead!! He's dead!! Am I the only one who feels like dancing? Maybe they should construct his grave with one of those wooden disco floors over it! No more Ronnie.. although his legacy lives on in his evil clone, the Commander -In- Thief. Speaking of Bushwinkle, he just said ,"His work is done, and now a shining city awaits him." Apparently, Hell looks like Oz.
 
- Howard Anshell -
 
I Feel So Much Safer Now
 
    "Three artists have been served subpoenas to appear before a federal
grand jury that will consider bioterrorism charges against a
university professor whose art involves the use of simple biology
equipment.
    "The subpoenas are the latest installment in a bizarre investigation
in which members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force have mistaken an
art project for a biological weapons laboratory (see end for
background). While most observers have assumed that the Task Force
would realize the absurd error of its initial investigation of Steve
Kurtz, the subpoenas indicate that the feds have instead chosen to
press their 'case' against the baffled professor."
 
Bugsy
 
Prominent kabbalist rabbi David Basri called homosexuals and lesbians "subhuman" and claimed they would be reincarnated as rabbits.
 
Protester Arrested for Copyright Infringement
A felony in more ways than one
 
Mr. Conspiracy Says...
 
Here's a complete list of everybody at the Bilderberg's annual meeting last week. Senator John Edwards was hobnobbing with Ralph Reed. The president of Fannie Mae lit the cigar of the president of Coca-Cola. Henry Kissinger made a pass at Bill Gate's wife. I can say whatever the fuck I want to say about it because "Not a word of what is said at Bilderberg meetings can be breathed outside. No reporters are invited in and while confidential minutes of meetings are taken, names are not noted. The shadowy aura extends further â€" the anonymous answerphone message, for example; the fact that conference venues are kept secret."
 
Yeah, That'll Work. Urging. Why Didn't I Think of That?
 
Iraq's new interim prime minister Iyad Allawi urged insurgents to halt attacks on U.S. forces.
 
Don't Take My Word For It
 
"What we don't tell them is that after they've deflowered all the virgins, there are no more virgins left, so they have to spend the rest of eternity celibate."
- Allah -
 
"'I am going to send troops...' You get the first person. 'I am going to...' I spent three years in World War II, I never heard President Roosevelt say 'I'm going to send troops to China, and I will then send them to Southeast Asia...' President Roosevelt never said 'I.' We. We are the United States. 'We' will do this. All together with our allies. 'We' will do this. So it's 'I.' I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do that. How a fool like this can be tolerated by a country whose median IQ cannot be lower than Inner Slovenia, that they allow him to say ridiculous things and get away with it... I've never felt the country was so naked as it is now. There is no official voice. There is no representative government. Congress doesn't represent anybody, and the Supreme Court, I must say, why some of them are not in jail I don't know."
- Gore Vidal on Democracy Now, 6/4/04 -
 
"mainline,burning with shame,mainline,burning with shame,mainline,burning with shame.mainline,burning with shame,mainline,burning with shame. Refinance today."
- anonymous e-mail -
 
"A supposed intercept of a U.S. military SSB radio transmission on 26 January of this year referred to a mysterious 'countdown' to an unnamed event which (by the countdown) will occur around June 19 or 20 of this year. In the past few weeks, however, naval units worldwide have been putting to sea in unusual numbers, sufficient to cause us to revisit the original message to assess movements and adopt a watch mode going forward into the June 19-20 date area."
 
"Accountability for the massive crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration should not be limited to a handful of low-level scapegoats who implemented their policies at Abu Ghraib prison. It should lie with those at the very top in Washington, who bear ultimate responsibility for the profound and multi-dimensional crisis to which they have brought our nation and our world. If we do this in full view of the world, then our fellow citizens, friends and allies may be able (after our great poet Langston Hughes) to say 'Let America be America again.' Only then can we get on with the serious business of repairing the severe, long-term damage done by these crimes, and restoring our security, freedom, and system of fairness and equal justice for all."
 
    "Reagan drove deficits way up while funneling more money to the super wealthy and taking money from the needy, leading to huge increases in homelessness, poverty, and income disparity. He illegally gave money to the Nicaraguan Contras while illegally selling arms to Iran. He supported Saddam Hussein and other dictators through the CIA. In the 1950s, Reagan joined the McCarthyism witchhunts against progressives who they called communists, a trend that is returning these days. As an actor, Reagan could read lines in a forceful enough way to fool enough Americans into voting for him.
    "Greed was good under Reagan. I don't think that's the kind of legacy I want to leave when I depart from this land. But that is apparently the kind of legacy embraced by many Republicans."
- Jackson Thoreau: Reagan should NOT be on Mount Rushmore -
 
"[L]awmakers Tuesday called into question the use of tax dollars for procedures such as a male inmate's breast reduction surgery and skin treatments at a Beverly Hills dermatologist. Paying millions to shuttle prisoners to hospitals hundreds of miles from where they are locked up also faced criticism... In fiscal 2002-03, for example, the state [California] spent more than $8.7 million transporting inmates to and from hospitals."
 
"The Israeli forces use chemical-contaminated ammo, which makes the skin of the victim fall once touched."
Dr. Mohamed El-Hashim: the Health Department in the West Bank town of Qalqiliya -
 
"Elsewhere in Iraq, the seedlings planted by Bush administration occupation policy have begun to bear bitter fruit. The city of Falluja, where not so long ago our troops were ordered to kill or disarm all insurgents, has now reportedly become -- shades of Taliban Afghanistan -- a mini-'Islamic' state with whippings for selling liquor and hair-shavings for long-haired young men; while in the south, the rebel cleric Muktada al-Sadr, previously to be "killed or captured," has evidently struck a deal to maintain his militia intact and his own existence as well -- and still the fighting there and elsewhere goes on with yet more American deaths, more British casualties, more convoys of unidentified Western "civilians" ambushed, and further fighting near holy sites over the weekend. And -- a sign of things to come? -- the approximately 100 Iraqi policemen whom the Americans had just emplaced in the holy city of Najaf, after some sort of agreement was reportedly reached with Sadr, have, according to CNN, already deserted their posts and left the city.
 
    "1. Please tell us more about your notion of 'full sovereignty' for Iraq. Will this be like our returning Okinawan sovereignty to Japan in 1972, when we retained exclusive control over the 38 military bases on the island and the deployment and behavior of American forces on them?
    "2. Please tell us: If we plan to return Iraq to the Iraqis, why is the U.S. currently building fourteen permanent bases there?
    "3. Presumably the American troops to be stationed on these bases will remain under the control of the Pentagon and beyond the legal reach of any 'sovereign' Iraqi state. Such arrangements are usually covered by a "Status of Forces Agreement" (SOFA) that we normally impose on the government in whose territory our bases are placed. Who will sign the SOFA on the Iraqi side? What are its terms? Will it be binding on the new government you hope the Iraqis will elect early next year?..."
    "As revealed in the White House memo, with the exception of the Defense Department which would grow 5.2 percent to $422.7 billion and the Justice Department which would increase 4.3 percent to $19.5 billion, in the 2006 budget nearly every major domestic program would be slated for large decreases.
    "The Veterans Affairs Department budget would fall 3.4 percent from $29.7 billion in 2005 to $28.7 billion. This would include a $910 million cut to the existing veterans health care budget and a $53 million cut for the homeownership program, nearly reversing the $78 million funding increase that Bush pledged for a homeownership program in 2005."
 
    "Dear World Legislators, Parliamentarians, and World Citizens,
    "We have watched with alarm that the sad and tragic events of 9-11 (11 September, 2001) have resulted in two wars and a global rollback in civil liberties.
    "Iraq had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks, yet it has been attacked in the name of them. 
    "People in countries worldwide have suffered reduced civil liberties in the name of 9-11, and intelligence surveillance of ordinary citizens has expanded dramatically.
    "I submit to you that before any more wars are launched or liberties are lost in the name of the 'war on terror' launched by the Bush Administration after 9-11, a 'full international inquiry into the events leading up to and on 9-11' be held, which includes 9-11 victims' family members from the U.S. and other nations.
 
"Every purchase is political. Every purchase affects the environment. Every purchase is your conscience. Every purchase is a vote. Every purchase is a prayer. Every purchase matters. Buy local. Buy little. Buy organic. Live in the world you want to create. Create the world you want to live in."
 
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert F. Kennedy: University of Cape Town, South Africa, June 6, 1966 -
 
"Tenet was the obvious scapegoat for two reasons above all. First, President Clinton appointed him. This alone made him the obvious choice."
 
"True evil does not develop in a vacuum. Evil is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character. Evil... creates a world of shadows - shadow play - shadow government. It lives by the lie. The Big Lie, once thought to be the exclusive purview of the Nazis, has become canonized in our form of government. And it is growing more perverse, more insidious. Like the Nazis before the fall of the Third Reich, we are a nation wallowing in the murky darkness of our own psychosis. I can think of no contemporary American family more twisted and evil than the Bush dynasty."
- George Bush: World Class Monster (An EXTREMELY well-documented and annotated history of the Bush family) -
 
"Would removing Hussein be worth it if the cost were just one human life but that life was yours? Would you be willing to die to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq? If the answer is no, then anything you have to say about the world being a better place now, about collateral damage, about the glory of soldiers sacrificing their lives for their country, is meaningless. You're not willing to pay the price. You're like so many people who believe various government programs are wonderful provided someone else pays for them."
 
"Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new, Star Trek-like weapon [see above illustration], but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds.People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly."
 
    "It's time we reconsider the advice of the founding fathers and the guidelines of the Constitution, which counsel a foreign policy of non-intervention and strategic independence. Setting a good example is a far better way to spread American ideals than through force of arms. Trading with nations, without interference by international government regulators, is far better than sanctions and tariffs that too often plant the seeds of war.
    "The principle of self-determination should be permitted for all nations and all demographically defined groups. The world tolerated the breakup of the ruthless Soviet and Yugoslavian systems rather well, even as certain national and ethnic groups demanded self-determination and independence.
    "This principle is the source of the solution for Iraq. We should suggest and encourage each of the three groups - the Sunnis, the Shiites, and the Kurds - to seek self-government and choose voluntarily whether or not they want to associate with a central government."
- Congressman Ron Paul: Fresh Failures in Iraq -
 
"George Bush was head of the CIA in 1975-76, appointed by President Gerald Ford; as Vice President under Ronald Reagan, he was our top drug cop for eight years; one of his chief aides, Donald Gregg, was a direct contact in the Contra line of communication to the White House. Ollie North's personal diary has more than 550 entries citing drug money being used to support contra operations. If George Bush didn't know about the drug smuggling, he wasn't doing his job. If he did know about it, then he is clearly culpable. Either way, it doesn't stand as a credit for a man who would represent the best interests of the United States."
- Colonel Bo Gritz: Called to Serve -
 
"The evidence shows ... that the majority of people in the first half of the nineteenth century did become literate (in the technical sense) largely by their own efforts. Moreover, if the government played any role at all in this sphere it was one of saboteur! For the first few years of the nineteenth century it was a subject of government complaint that the ordinary people had become literate. The government feared that too many people were developing the 'wrong' uses of literacy by belonging to secret 'corresponding societies' and by reading seditious pamphlets. Far from subsidizing literacy, the early nineteenth-century English governments placed severe taxes on paper in order to discourage the exercise of the public's reading and writing abilities."
- E.G. West: Education and the State -
 
"How happy is he born and taught
Who serveth not another's will.
Whose armor is his honest thought
And simple truth his utmost skill.
That man is freed from servile bonds
Or hope to rise or fear to fall -
Lord of himself, though not of lands.
And having nothing, yet hath all." 
- Sir Henry Wooton -
 
"It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."
- Euripides -
 
"personal reasons"
- George Tenet -
 
"If you desire destruction, simply ignore the rules and provoke those who, if they desire, can destroy you."
- Tirukkural 90: 893-894 -
 
"If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing."
- Frank Gehry -
 
    "Ronnie's long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him. Because of this, I'm determined to do whatever I can to save other families from this pain.
    "Science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that for so long have been beyond our grasp.... We have lost so much time already. I just really can't bear to lose any more."
- Nancy Reagan to Congress -
 
"Fortunately, we have a president whose moral compass is secure. He understands the issue. He understands that were talking about killing unborn human beings, and fortunately, the American people have elected a president who is not willing to do that."
- Richard Land: president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission -
 
"[A]s president, he attacked the federal funding in medical care for the most vulnerable patients, the very elderly and the poor."
- E. Richard Brown: director of the Center for Health Policy Research at UCLA -
 
"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."
- Malcolm Forbes -
 
    "The truth is straightforward: Virtually every significant problem facing the American people today can be traced back to the policies and people that came from the Reagan administration. It is a laundry list of ills, woes and disasters that has all of us, once again, staring apocalypse in the eye...
    "Saddam Hussein was a creation of Ronald Reagan. The Reagan administration supported the Hussein regime despite his incredible record of atrocity. The Reagan administration gave Hussein intelligence information which helped the Iraqi military use their chemical weapons on the battlefield against Iran to great effect. The deadly bacterial agents sent to Iraq during the Reagan administration are a laundry list of horrors.
    "The Reagan administration sent an emissary named Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq to shake Saddam Hussein's hand and assure him that, despite public American condemnation of the use of those chemical weapons, the Reagan administration still considered him a welcome friend and ally. This happened while the Reagan administration was selling weapons to Iran, a nation notorious for its support of international terrorism, in secret and in violation of scores of laws.
    "Another name on Ronald Reagan's roll call is that of Osama bin Laden. The Reagan administration believed it a bully idea to organize an army of Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union. bin Laden became the spiritual leader of this action. Throughout the entirety of Reagan's term, bin Laden and his people were armed, funded and trained by the United States. Reagan helped teach Osama bin Laden the lesson he lives by today, that it is possible to bring a superpower to its knees. bin Laden believes this because he has done it once before, thanks to the dedicated help of Ronald Reagan."
 
    "In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as 'enemies of the state.'
    "Worried White House aides paint a portrait of a man on the edge, increasingly wary of those who disagree with him and paranoid of a public that no longer trusts his policies in Iraq or at home.
    "In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be 'God's will' and then tells aides to 'fuck over' anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration."
"President Bush needs your help!"
- Terry Nelson National: Political Director Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. -
 
"Hasn't anybody got the guts to accuse the worst perpetrator in this whole Abu Ghraib prison debacle - CBS and 60 Minutes II? What do you call it when, in time of war, someone takes military intelligence and turns it over to the enemy, who in turn uses it to kill Americans? Isn't that the definition of treason? Did Benedict Arnold do worse? Did Julias and Ethel Rosenberg pay with their lives for something like this?"
- Pat Boone bravely articulating the pro-torture viewpoint -
 
"Thousands of women have been sexually assaulted in the United States military. Thousands more have been abused by their military husbands or boyfriends. And then they are victimized again. This time, the women are betrayed by the military itself."
 
"Disaster comes only because of ignorance."
- Judah HaNasi, Talmud: Baba Bathra -
 
"We've all heard why these terrorists are so highly motivated. It's because they're told that waiting for them in heaven are 72 virgins, and I guess for those terrorists, that's a great thing to look forward to. For those virgins, heaven isn't quite what they expected, is it? I would hate to get that talk as a young child: You be a good little girl, you must always wear a burkha, you must always wear a veil, you may not go to school, you may not have a job, you may not learn to read, you may not vote, you may not drive a car, you may not sing, dance, play games, or listen to music, do everything your father says, and when you die you will go to heaven... where you will be a sex slave for terrorists."
- B.J. Novak on Conan O'Brian -
 
"So today is June 4. I've heard about the date, but I'm not sure why it's important. It's probably in some history book I've forgotten."
- Guo Qingshuang, 20, a travel agent sitting in Tiananmen Square on guess what day -
 
Everything Else
 
For a fascinating and disturbing look at individual victims of 9/11, check out The unusual Passengers of Flight 77.
 
Florida is hiding their new list of Felons. They're going to do it again.
 
 
The Wizard Boys have a lovely collection of Zen Campfire Tales.
 
Supporters of the outlawed far-right Kach Party assaulted Mordechai Vanunu at the Jerusalem District Court, forcing him to seek refuge in a nearby pharmacy.
 
Got a fast connection and a jones for The Simpsons? Watch them all here using bit torrent technology.
 
Here's a lovely list of U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel, almost every one on a vote of 14-1.
 

Contact George W. Bush - president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Jeb Bush - jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Contact Saddam Hussein -
president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Kim Jong Il - eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac - france-presse@un.int
Contact the Pope - accreditamenti@pressva.va
Contact the Democratic Candidates:  Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Dick Gephardt, Bob Graham, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton
Embassy of France in the US: 202-944-6000
German Embassy in the US: 202-298-4000
Embassy of the Russian Federation: 202-298-5700
Embassy of the People's Republic of China: 202-328-2500
White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414
Contact your Senator -
http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
Contact your Representative - http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Links to Central Government Agencies -
http://www.firstgov.gov/
 
Mordechai Vanunu
c/o Cathedral Church of St. George
20 Nablus Road
PO Box 19018
Jerusalem 91190
Israel
 
 
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BROTHER RAT

BROTHER RAT: PART TWO

BROTHER RAT: PART THREE

BROTHER RAT: PART FOUR

BROTHER RAT: PART FIVE

BROTHER RAT: PART SIX

GOOD RIDDANCE BROTHER RAT

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Last Night

Coastal Eddy has settled in, and the weather is cloudy, cool & very nice.

Over the weekend, Boeing had a corporate picnic & for whatever reason, flew in a B1-B bomber. It left about 10:30am today, setting off all the car alarms in the neighborhood.

Had more kittens dumped in the yard yesterday.



Tonight, Tuesday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Navy NCIS', followed by a RERUN 'The Guardian', then a RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave are Bette Midler and Fantasia Barrino.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Melina Kanakaredes, Michael Stipe, and Patti LaBelle

NBC starts the night with the 2-HOUR SEASON PREMIERE of the rigged 'Last Comic Standing', followed by a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Lindsay Lohan, Tom Papa, and Wilson Phillips.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Jay Mohr, Richard Schiff, and Simple Kid.
On a RERUN Carson Daly are (from 5/27/04) David Spade and Ben Lee.

ABC has 'NBA Basketball Final', so prime time on the left coast will be mostly local programming and a RERUN '8 Simple Rules'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel is Tom Lennon.

The WB offers a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', followed by a FRESH 'summerland'.

Faux has the SERIES PREMIERE of 'The Juty', followed by another FRESH 'The Jury'.

UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'All Of Us', then another 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'Rock Me Baby'.

A&E has 'American Justice', 'Biography' (Smarty Jones', and a FRESH 2-hour 'Cold Case Files'.

AMC offers the mvie 'Working Girl', followed by the movie 'The Breakfast Club', then the movie 'Sixteen Candles'.

BBC  -   
[2pm] 'The Vicar of Dibley' - Dibley Live;     [2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - Think Tank;     [3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 6;     [4pm] 'The Saint' - The Desperate Diplomat;     [5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 9;     [6pm] 'BBC World News';     [6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Fry;     [7pm] 'House Invaders' - Swindon A;     [7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Salisbury;     [8pm] 'Design Rules' - Light;     [8:30pm] 'Design Rules' - Colors;     [9pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Judith;     [9:30pm] 'What Not to Wear' - Alice;     [10pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Rabbitts;     [10:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Doyle;     [11pm] 'Design Rules' - Light;     [11:30pm] 'Design Rules' - Colors;     [12:00 am] What Not to Wear' - Judith;     [12:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Alice;     [1am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Rabbitts;     [1:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Doyle;     [2am] 'House Invaders' - Swindon A;     [2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Salisbury;     [3am] 'Design Rules' - Light;     [3:30am] 'Design Rules' - Colors;     [4am] 'What Not to Wear' - Judith;     [4:30am] 'What Not to Wear' - Alice;     [5am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Rabbitts;     [5:30am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Doyle;     [6am] 'BBC World News'.    (ALL TIMES EDT)

Bravo has 'West Wing', 'Queer Eye', the SERIES PREMIERE of 'Blow Out', and another 'Queer Eye'.

Comedy Central has 'MAD TV', 'Crank Yankers', 'Insomniac', 'South Park', 'Chappelle's Show', and another 'Chappelle's Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jon Stewart is David Brooks.

History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Deep Sea Detectives', 'Tactical To Practical', and a FRESH 'Wild West Tech'.

IFC  -   
[6AM] 'Lost in La Mancha' (2003);     [7:30AM] 'At The Angelika #85' (2004);     [8AM] 'IFC Short Film Collection II';     [10AM] 'Country Life' (1994);     [12PM] 'Lost in La Mancha' (2003);     [2PM] 'Shower' (1999);     [3:45PM] 'Country Life' (1994);     [6:15PM] 'Lost in La Mancha' (2003);     [8PM] 'A Decade Under The Influence - Part 1' (2003);     [9PM] 'Dinner For Five #36' (2004);     [9:30PM] 'Rocked With Gina Gershon - Episode #3'(2004);     [10PM] 'Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels' (1999);     [12AM] 'The Way Of The Gun' (2000);     [2AM] 'Maniac' (1980);     [3:30AM] 'Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels' (1999);     [5:30AM] 'At The Angelika #85' (2004).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

SciFi has '5ive To Midnight' (part 1), followed by a FRESH '5ive To Midnight' (part 2), then '5ive To Midnight' (part 2), again.

Sundance  -   
[6:30AM] 'Bastards in Paradise' (Bastardos en el paraiso) (Feature);     [8:30AM] 'Shorts Program 97' (Short);     [9:30AM] 'Gaudi Afternoon' (Feature);     [11AM] 'My Friend Paul' (Feature);     [12PM] 'By Hook or By Crook' (Feature);     [1:45PM] 'Home Road Movies' (Short);     [2PM] 'Chile, Obstinate Memory' (Documentary);     [3:05PM] 'Bastards in Paradise' (Bastardos en el paraiso) (Feature);     [5PM] 'Charlotte Sometimes' (Feature);     [6:30PM] 'Gaudi Afternoon' (Feature);     [8PM] 'My Friend Paul' (Feature);     [9PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Garden State' (Original Production);     [9:30PM] 'Rachel Griffiths: Two Short Films' (Short);     [10PM] 'Zus & Zo' (Feature);     [11:45PM] 'Lives of the Pharaohs' (Short);     [12:30AM] 'Soho Square' (Feature);     [1:55AM] 'Darren Vigil Gray: Counterclockwise' (Documentary);     [2:30AM] 'Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End' (Documentary);     [4AM] 'Different For Girls' (World Cinema);     [5:45AM] 'Chunhyang' (Feature).    (ALL TIMES EDT)

TCM spends the morning & afternoon celebrating Alexis Smith, who would have celebrated her 83rd birthday today. The evening pays tribute to Cary Grant.
 [6am]    'She Couldn't Say No' (1941);
 [7:15am]    'The Smiling Ghost' (1941);
 [8:30am]    'Steel Against The Sky' (1941);
 [9:45am]    'Three Sons O'Guns' (1941);
 [11am]    'The Decision of Christopher Blake' (1948);
 [12:30pm]    'Whiplash' (1948);
 [2pm]    'One Last Fling' (1949);
 [3:15pm]    'Split Second' (1953);

 [4:45pm]    'Rider From Tucson' (1950);
 [6:00 pm]    'Dynamite Pass' (1950);
 [7:15 pm]    'MGM Parade Show #25' (1955);
 [8pm]    'The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer' (1947);
 [10pm]    'Arsenic And Old Lace' (1944);
 [12:15am]    'I Was A Male War Bride' (1949);
 [2:15am]    'Bringing Up Baby' (1938);
 [4am]    'Night And Day' (1946).
.    (ALL TIMES EDT)


Wednesday  -  06/09

TCM features 3 films from Alfred Hitchcock tonight.
 [6:30am]    'Every Girl Should Be Married' (1949);
 [8am]    'This Time For Keeps' (1947);
 [10am]    'Easy To Wed' (1946);
 [12pm]    'All This, And Heaven Too' (1940);
 [2:30pm]    'The Ghost Comes Home' (1940);
 [4pm]    'Escape Me Never' (1947);
 [6pm]    'My Dream Is Yours' (1949);
 [8pm]    'Psycho' (1960);
 [10pm]    'Vertigo' (1958);
 [12:30am]    'North By Northwest' (1959);

 [3am]    'Manhattan Melodrama' (1934);
 [4:45am]    'Men In White' (1934).    (ALL TIMES EDT)



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James Taylor plays a tune with his band at the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival, Sunday, June 6, 2004, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Photo by Tony Gutierrez

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The Information One-Stop

Moose & Squirrel

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Too Risque for Republicans

Broadway's Best

Gay puppets, transvestites, assassins and a pedophile child killer piled up Tony honors on Sunday but those shows will be shunned by Republican delegates at the political party's convention in New York this summer.

With thousands of Republicans set to descend on the Big Apple to nominate resident Bush for re-election, convention organizers decided to treat delegates to the glitz of Broadway before they knuckled down to the business of politics.

Besides Tony winners such as the naughty puppet musical "Avenue Q" and best play "I Am My Own Wife," about a German transvestite, other hits including Mel Brooks' "The Producers," were vetoed by those arranging Broadway outings.

"The Republicans were so desperate to escape Roger DeBris, the cross-dressing buffoon concocted by Mel Brooks, that they have gone and picked two shows set in France," wrote New York Times columnist Frank Rich, referring to evergreen musicals "Beauty and the Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera."

Broadway's Best

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Cancels Concerts

John Kerry

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has nixed his campaign plans -- including a pair of high-profile celebrity fundraisers -- through June 13 out of respect for former president Ronald Reagan, who died Saturday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall was to host a bill featuring Willie Nelson, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond and Billy Crystal Monday night. A New York event was scheduled for Thursday at Radio City Music Hall with Jon Bon Jovi, Bette Midler, James Taylor, John Mellencamp, Wyclef Jean, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg scheduled to perform.

John Kerry

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MTV to Cut Shot

Eminem

Rapper Eminem moons the audience during taping of the MTV Movie Awards show in Culver City, Calif., Saturday, June 5, 2004. The scene will be edited-out of the final version of the show to air June 10. At left is an unidentified member of the band. Photo by Chris Pizzello

Eminem's moon has been eclipsed. MTV plans to cut a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards when the show is broadcast Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a network representative confirmed.

Eminem, who performed at the Saturday night taping with his group D12, appeared onstage dressed in a long red wig and jeans in a parody of Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose.

He repeatedly groped and flashed a studded codpiece in front of the cameras and the thousands of people in the live audience. Toward the end of the performance, he pulled down his trousers and flashed his bare backside at the audience.

Representatives for MTV, which was slammed for producing Janet Jackson's Super Bowl halftime performance, immediately said Eminem's act would be sanitized for broadcast, possibly by blurring out his backside. Ultimately, the producers chose to edit out his rear altogether, the network said Monday.

Eminem

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Fans Line Up to Reserve Clinton Memoirs

'My Life'

New Yorkers waited hours on Monday to reserve a copy of the memoirs of Bill Clinton, although some fans said they were unlikely to read all 957 pages of the former U.S. president's book.

The line of buyers stretched down the sidewalk outside the Hue-Man Bookstore, just blocks from Clinton's Harlem office, where scores of people arrived as early as dawn to reserve a $35 copy of "My Life," to be published on June 22.

The former president will sign the pre-ordered copies at the bookstore on the evening of the release date.

'My Life'

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'ER' Contract Not Renewed

Alex Kingston

Alex Kingston says she's being axed from "ER" for being too old.

The British actress, who plays Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the long-running medical drama, said she was recently told that after seven years on the show, her contract would not be renewed.

In an interview with Radio Times magazine, Kingston, 41, said the program was increasingly focused on young characters, "and apparently I, according to the producers and the writers, am part of the old fogeys who are no longer interesting."

Alex Kingston

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An unidentified protester holds a sign reading 'No Franken-Food!,' as busloads of Biotechnology Industry Organization conference attendees arrive at an opening night reception in San Francisco on Sunday, June 6, 2004. Protesters, who object to the proliferation of genetically modified food, plan larger demonstrations as the biotechnology industry's annual conference kicks-off this week.
Photo by Noah Berger

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Mulls Naming Street After AC/DC

Melbourne

The Australian rock band that belted out "Highway to Hell" could soon stroll down a lane named in their honor.

The Melbourne City Council is considering renaming Corporation Lane, a narrow downtown alley, AC/DC Lane as a tribute to the band.

AC/DC already has a street named after it in Madrid.

Melbourne

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Arrested on DUI

David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff was arrested over the weekend on suspicion on driving while intoxicated, police said Monday.

The former "Baywatch" star was arrested late Saturday night on Ventura Boulevard in the Encino section of the San Fernando Valley, said Officer Sara Faden, a police spokeswoman. He was released the next morning.

David Hasselhoff

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Cyclists ride past a field of poppies in the southern German town of Olching, near Munich June 7, 2004.
Photo by Michaela Rehle

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Tony Bounces Back in Finale

'The Sopranos'

The somber fifth-season finale of "The Sopranos" aired Sunday night on HBO. Much of the episode, co-written by "Sopranos" creator David Chase, found crisis-beset Tony Soprano increasingly helpless as his life's work, and his life, unraveled.

Titled "All Due Respect," the finale repeats Monday at 10 p.m. EDT on HBO2, then will leave fans hanging for at least 18 months until the series returns for its last 10 episodes. But for now, surprise! Tony is sitting pretty - with the emphasis on "surprise."

Some of the "highlights" included Tony Blundetto taking a shotgun blast to the head from Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), despite numerous pledges of loyalty to his wayward cousin, and Tony gaining a new lease on life - just in time.

His New Jersey gang seemed close to an uprising over his perceived weak leadership. Then his biggest adversary - New York mob boss Johnny Sack - was busted by the Feds right before Tony's eyes.

He had stuck his neck out too far for his cousin Tony B. (Steve Buscemi), whose grudge execution of a Sack family member brought that gang's wrath crashing down on the Soprano mob.

For more, 'The Sopranos'

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Networks Plan Extensive Coverage

Reagan Funeral

Television networks planned extensive coverage this week of former President Ronald Reagan's funerals and other ceremonies leading to his burial.

The three networks will cover live the funeral procession to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday evening and the state funeral that follows, along with the national funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral on Friday.

NBC will also cover ceremonies surrounding the casket's arrival back in California on Friday night. The ABC and CBS plans for Friday night were unclear.

CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC were providing more extensive coverage.

The coverage was also something of a time warp; Sam Donaldson, ABC's former White House reporter now seldom seen on television, was back on the air. Frank Sesno, CNN's former Washington bureau chief who left the network in 2001, was also back to help out.

In fact, Sesno's voice was heard during some of the prepared packages that the network has run in the past few days - material that was recorded before he left his job.

With Reagan suffering a long, slow decline due to Alzheimer's disease, most news organizations had plenty of time to prepare their coverage. Some of CBS' pieces were at least eight years old, like a "60 Minutes" story on Reagan's humor, McGinnis said.

Reagan Funeral

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In Memory

Robert Quine

Guitarist Robert Quine, one of punk rock's most daring soloists, was found dead Saturday (June 5) in his New York apartment. He was 61. According to close friend and guitar maker Rick Kelly, who discovered Quine's body, the musician died of a heroin overdose Memorial Day weekend. He had been despondent over the recent death of his wife.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Quine was heavily influenced by the Velvet Underground, whose music he recorded obsessively while living in San Francisco. He moved to New York in 1971 and became the lead guitarist for bassist Richard Hell's important group the Voidoids, with whom he recorded two albums. His skittering, unpredictable work with Hell defined the possibilities of punk guitar.

During the '80s, he recorded and toured frequently with Lou Reed and played on saxophonist/composer John Zorn's best-known albums. Quine made key guest appearances on Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs" (1985) and Marianne Faithfull's "Strange Weather" (1987). In 1989, he began a long association with Matthew Sweet; he also worked regularly with Lloyd Cole.

In 2001, Universal released a three-CD box of Quine's live 1969 recordings of the Velvet Underground, "The Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes."

"Robert Quine was a magnificent guitar player -- an original and innovative tyro of the vintage beast," Reed says in a statement released to Billboard.com. "He was an extraordinary mixture of taste, intelligence and rock'n'roll abilities coupled with major technique and a scholar's memory for every decent guitar lick ever played under the musical son. He made tapes for me for which I am eternally grateful -- tapes of the juiciest parts of solos from players long gone. Quine was smarter than them all. And the proof is in the recordings, some of which happily are mine. If you can find more interesting sounds and musical clusters than Quine on 'Waves of Fear' [from Reed's 1982 album "The Blue Mask"], well, it's probably something else by Robert."

Robert Quine

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Two brown bears relax in the 'Dancing Bears Park' in the Rila mountain, near the town of Belitza, some 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of Sofia, Bulgaria Sunday, June 6, 2004. Thirteen of the 24 bears that have been used in dancing shows to make money for their owners, are being returned to a 'normal' bear life in a new park set up by animal rights activists together with French actress Brigitte Bardot's animal protection foundation.
Photo by Velislav Nikolov

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