Since the scandal broke, US Catholic authorities have paid out close to 2.8 billion dollars in damages, forcing many dioceses to sell off their assets. Catholic coloring book warns US kids of pedophile priests
The Catholic Coloring Book
Too little, too Late from the Catholic Church
If it worked in Austrailia, maybe we should try it here…!?
The Flashmob Guerillas singing:
Vote the Bastards Out!
We old-timers remember when Republicans had real (rather than party) principles and common sense.In 1964 Goldwater said, “Vietnam? Let’s win the damn war or get out!”
Barry Lost the election and the OCCUPATION dragged on for eleven more years under Johnson, Nixon and Ford.
America would be a better place today if Goldwater had become president.
A question from an openly gay ex-general at the Repressive Party debate
FROM NICK:Jim Morrison As James Dean
Florida State University: Toward a Greater UniversityThis is a public relations film on Florida State University that, in two brief scenes, features a young Jim Morrison years before his more recognized role as lead singer for The Doors.
(1964 / V-221; CA314)
What the hell was going on in 1964? THE BABY BOOM. It began exactly nine months after the end of WWII in 1946…thus twice as many kids graduated high school in 1963 as in 1962.
Not enough jobs…colleges and universities were swamped. What to to do? LBJ invaded Vietnam based on a lie (Attack on our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin…never happened…like WMDs)
and thus increased the draft to keep those extra teens busy.
Teens couldn’t find permanent and/or summer jobs, especially in the inner city where the unemployment rate was already staggering. Black Boomers were “Dancing in the Streets” amid a “Heat Wave” in 1964. Might as well. Ain’t no work around.
Many of the teens from the pioneer Boomer class headed for college in the fall. Their group was 20% larger than the previous year’s, and they found themselves waiting in long lines, trying to get into overcrowded classes. The vast freshman army forced many colleges to install computers to handle the registration load. Boomer students wore T-shirts that read, “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate… I am a human being.”
From PUZZLING EVIDENCE
Each year we ask our readers to become CONSTRUCTIVE ANARCHISTS by celebrating BUY NOTHING DAY.
It’s safe and easy. The NSA will not tap your phone.
The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping orgy of the year. If you want to drive a bunch of billionaires crazy…gas up, stock up on Wed and ignore their white sales.
Stay home on Friday…enjoy your friends and family…and BUY NOTHING!
My family joined 100,000 like-minded people at Ad Busters a decade ago. It feels good.
BELOW: Ad Busters 30 second anti-ad for this year.
ON A TIP FROM CAROLE:
Cheney and Obama Are Distant Cousins
WASHINGTON (Oct. 16) - Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.”
Eighth cousin, that is.
Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.
She said she uncovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.
“This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.
According to her spokeswoman, Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650’s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.
A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black U.S. president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response. “Every family has a black sheep,” said spokesman Bill Burton.
Blackwater
The War for Profit from Mark Fiore
Mark raised the bar again…this is his best animation yet!
Link to NASA article
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn On a tip from RYAN
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.
“This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”
Do Americans care what Iraqis think about this escalation?
In Nov of 1967 General MacArthur told us that the war was going great in Vietnam because of the escalation. Does this sound fami(liar)?“Almost over…Only a mop-up operation remains.”
Two months later the Viet Cong overran the country in the Tet Offensive
21,000 Americans were killed between 1968 and 1972.
In every Iraqi poll in the past year the vast majority want us to leave immediately…more than half think it is okay to attack and kill American GIs. Our kids are in great danger.
Mark Fiore
Please link and check out Mark’s new animation.
IRAQ POLL ON THE SURGE
The United States has increased the number of its forces in Baghdad and surrounding provinces in the past six months. Please tell me if you think this increase of forces has made it better, worse, or had no effect?
Here is the Latest Iraqi Poll
CA Exclusive!
Daniel Johnston concert in Hollyweird
TOP RIGHT Kurt Cobain helped put Daniel on the map
ABOVE RIGHT Alissa Giacona and Elvis Slobinski
Daniel cast a spell upon the entire staff of CA at the Music Box (Henry Fonda Theater) Friday.
Wow! The old yippies in our group agree: There is no other performer today who brings back the excitment of 1960s R&R like Daniel. We (sorta) remember standing in line to see Jimi, the Lizard King
(Jim Morrison) or Zappa and wondering, “Will tonight be pure magic or a complete disaster?”
Magic Moments are worth waiting for.
Daniel hypnotized the audience Friday. We were helpless…ready and willing to drink the Kool-Aide.
Great artist…Incredible songwriter!
Check out these vids:
True Love Will Find You In the End
Daniel tries to tune his guitar, then sings Mean Girls
Trailer for the Doc The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Go rent it today.
Hub Kapp and the Wheels
Stephen Spielberg, Alice Cooper and I were in high school in Phoenix in the mid 1960’s.We all agree: Hub Kapp was better than the Beatles!
The first 3 songs on the album above are on my 100 Greatest R&R Songs of all time list…especially “Work, work a dirty word…the dirtiest word I ever heard”. How rare and great is this album? There is one used copy available on Amazon for only $299.00. Nothing on Ebay.
OR, you can buy Wallace and Ladmo’s Greatest Hits for $15. It includes six of Hub Kapps best tunes.
I have video of Alice Cooper: “Hub Kapp inspired me to seek a career in music.” I will try to get this posted on YouTube by next week.
Pat McMahon (Hub Kapp was one of many of his characters) interviews the Lizard King 1968
Wallace and Ladmo Show : Hub Kapp and the Wheels
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Unfortunately Hub Kapp signed with Capitol Records who forced them to cover old 50s crap.
The band soon died.
PLEASE HELP! If you have any video footage of the greatest 1960s American band please contact Greg
Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna will write a children’s book about a mischievous boy who likes to do everything but read, HarperCollins Publishers announced this morning
Link to articleLaura explains the story: “The plot will come from my personal experiences: I have twins, thus there will be twins (perhaps one is evil…or not), and there will be a mischievous boy who never reads and chokes on a pretzel, but is spared because he’s doing the LORD’S WORK!…but, he still can’t read.
Jenna’s comment: “Whatever…”.
The book will be ghost-written by Elvis Slobinsky, who also penned Millie’s Story Buy this classic HERE for a penny! Slightly overpriced in our estimation.
Class Action Filed Challenging Government’s Mistreatment of Returning Veterans Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Author: Morrison & Foerster LLP Published on Jul 24, 2007
Attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP have filed an unprecedented national class action lawsuit alleging “shameful failures” by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) and other government institutions to care for those veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”). The firm is handling the case on a pro bono basis.
The action was brought on behalf of veterans and their families seeking or receiving death or disability compensation for PTSD, as well as those who have pending claims or who have applied for VA medical benefits based upon the disorder. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.
Morrison & Foerster estimates the class size as between 320,000 and 800,000 veterans, by multiplying the number of military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan (1.6 million) by the estimated percentage of PTSD amongst the returning troops (20% to 50%). The non-profit Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth are among the plaintiffs.”Read More”:http://www.yubanet.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/61/61841/printer
Harry Potter Exposed!
Red State Update
FROM SCOTTActivists Reject new Coke Museum as “Fairy Tale” Land
Atlanta: Over a hundred protesters gathered today at the New World Of Coke museum in Atlanta - the hometown of Coca-Cola - to question the company’s human rights and environmental abuses.A 20-foot banner - Coca-Cola Destroys Lives, Livelihoods, Communities - was hung in front of the museum as speakers from denounced the company’s practices in India, Colombia and internationally.
“This World of Coke museum is a fairy tale land, and the real side of Coke is littered with abuses,” said Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center, the primary organizer of the protest. “We are here to set the record straight.”
The New World of Coke is Coca-Cola’s latest museum that opened on May 24, 2007, and promises visitors to “Discover the secret formula to happiness within!”
Protesters also delivered a large picture of a protest against Coca-Cola in India as an exhibit to be added to the museum.
“The museum is a shameful attempt by the Coca-Cola company to hide its crimes,” said Sanjay M.G. of the National Alliance of People’s Movements, the largest coalition of grassroots movements in India.
Students from the United Students Against Sweatshops also staged a die-in to reflect Coca-Cola’s human rights abuses in Colombia and globally.
The Coca-Cola company has been accused of creating severe water shortages and polluting the land and water around its bottling facilities in India. One of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling plants in India has been shut down since March 2004 due to community opposition.
More than 20 colleges and universities in the US, UK and Canada have removed Coca-Cola from campuses as a result of student-led initiatives to apply pressure on the company.
The protest came during the United States Social Forum, a gathering of primarily US-based social movements. Coca-Cola products were banned from most forum events, including the main venue - the Civic Center - as a result of the campaign.
The action against Coca-Cola in Atlanta was endorsed by a large number of groups participating in the United States Social Forum, including Indigenous Environmental Network, United Students Against Sweatshops, National Alliance of People’s Movements (India), Grassroots Global Justice, Southwest Network for Economic and Environmental Justice, Southwest Workers Union, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Ruckus Society, Massachusetts Global Action, NYC AIDS Housing Network and India Resource Center.
First President to lose his watch on his watch!
After massive anti-Bush, anti-American domonstrations in Germany and Italy(Ignored by our FREE PRESS), the White house demanded that Homeland Security Mass Media push images of loving fans in Albania. Unfortunately, one of Dubya’s fans ripped off his watch!
You clearly see the watch on Boy George’s left wrist at about 40 seconds…and
SHAZAM! It’s gone 20 seconds later.
“I have never seen such a ludicrous story,” Bush said Wednesday of the media’s coverage.
Just to prove the point, Bush rolled up his sleeve to show photographers in the Oval Office that he was wearing the watch.
The White House says the watch was not stolen, and that Bush instead had put it in his pocket.
WATCH THE VIDEO AGAIN. CLEARLY DUBYA NEVER REMOVES THE TIMEPEICE TO SLIP INTO HIS POCKET! After 6 years of lies, who are you going to trust…Bush or your eyes?
Tour the Creation MuseumStop it with those emails! The monkey’s t-shirt reads, “Not Curious-at-all George”.
Link to one of the best Mark Fiore toons ever
From my brilliant nephew Kyle Giacona
FLASHBACK TO:
1999- Texas Governor George W. Bush demands Kosovo Exit Timetable from President Clinton
George W. Bush, 4/9/99, Houston Chronicle: “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” And on the specific need for a timetable:George W. Bush, 6/5/99, Scripps Howard/Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
Link to the full text of the 1999 articles.
Our First Cross-Dressing President?
Note how well his legs were shaved when dancing with the Rockettes in 1997. Rudy also dressed up as an old lady on SNL, etc,etc,etc. Giuliani’s been married 3 times (the first one to a cousin) and so has his current wife. I’m confused, FAMILY VALUES REPUBLICANS…The leading Democratic candidates are still working on their first marriage and don’t cross-dress. McCain? Yeah, he’s run through a few wives as well.
This weeks FEATURED ARTISTS: Lalo at La Cucaracha, Darrin Bell at Candorville, and the great tunesmith Roy Zimmerman
This is TV TURN OFF WEEK (April 23 to 29) from Ad Busters
Can you do it?…unplug your TV for a week?!!!
Below: Ad Busters’ anti-TV TV ad. Huh?????
Bush and Rove: The Thug Life
On a tip from Blue Steel at Pollyticks.
Below: On the New York Times Front Page:
Link to articleWe love Code Pink
Constructive Anarchy at the Alberto Hearing on Thursday
Medea and Zool of Code Pink in the background, Geoff and Adam from Iraq Veterans Against the War in the front. The final count of “I don’t recalls” was about 150.
Home for Easter
More Veterans Calling The Streets Home…An Estimated 200,000 U.S. War Veterans Are Homless
(CBS) Hassam Elgoarany knows the price of war. He fought in Afghanistan and then in Iraq, where a sniper’s bullet took his best friend. “His head got blown off — I get nightmares about that.”
Back at home, he couldn’t find work. His wife took their baby boy and left. Robbery led to prison. When he got out, Hassam became one of many homeless veterans.
One in three homeless Americans is a veteran. On any given night in this country, an estimated 200,000 are living on the streets.
As President Bush orders more troops to Iraq, the Senate Committee on Veteran’s Affairs wants more focus on those coming home.
“They train you to transfer from a civilian to a killing machine,” said Elgoarany. “When you get out they should have trained me to go back into being a civilian.”
The Army says one in three Iraq veterans will return home with mental health issues. Sooner or later, caring for them will become another cost of war.
US high court mulls free speech
US Supreme Court from the BBCIt is the first major test of student free speech rights in two decades. The US Supreme Court is considering its first major test of students’ free speech rights in two decades.
At issue is whether a school principal violated a student’s right to free speech by suspending him for displaying a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. (above right). High school student Joseph Frederick unfurled the banner during a school trip to watch the Olympic flame pass through Juneau, Alaska, in 2002. Former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr is representing the head teacher, Deborah Morse.
Mr Starr investigated former US President Bill Clinton over the Whitewater land deal and the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Mr Frederick said the words on his banner did not relate to drug use and were meant to be funny in an attempt to get on television. Ms Morse destroyed his banner shortly after he unfurled it and suspended Mr Frederick, 18 at the time, because she said the banner promoted drug use. “This is a case about free speech,” said Mr Frederick’s lawyer Douglas Mertz. “It is not a case about drugs.”
Ms Morse and the Juneau school board are supported by the Bush administration which wants a broad rule that public schools do not have to tolerate speech that disrupts their basic educational mission. But several of the justices seem reluctant to give schools too much authority at the expense of students’ free speech rights. “It’s a political speech, it seems to me,” said Justice David Souter. “I don’t see what it disrupts.”
Link to Mark Fiore’s animation- Ouchie at Walter Reed
Link to free bumperstickers at Move On or print this one out and stick it on your car with their blessings (and ours).
We combat vets have been protesting against the deplorable conditions our returning heroes must suffer at Walter Reed Hospital for years. Finally the media and the public has taken notice. Greg Giacona
Essay and Photo by Bruce Wolf
Sisters and Brothers,
The Friday night vigil in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center started two years ago, and continues. From the beginning, the Walter Reed Vigil has called for funding the needs of the wounded and other returning veterans, not the War. The Vigil has called for care for the wounded, full benefits for veterans, and jobs. At the same time, we declare that the best support for our troops is bringing them home now. We must not forget our sisters and brothers after their return.
In the light of recent public disclosures of the conditions that await our wounded when they arrive here from the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Walter Reed Vigil insists that Congress act now. Congress must restore full funding for the care of our wounded soldiers and full funding of their promised benefits, including care for their wounds, and the effects of PTSD, for as long as necessary.
There are already budgeted funds earmarked for Iraq. Congress must use these funds for the welfare of our troops, care for the wounded, and transport to bring our troops home.
The many doctors, technicians, nurses, and other workers inside Walter Reed devote their energy to heal and care for our wounded. Those who toil inside WRAMC confront the horror of this war everyday, witnessing what it has done to so many young lives. At the same time, the army bureaucrats and politicians entrusted with overseeing the hospital and its services fail in their duties. Funds for healing, treatment, and benefits repeatedly end up cut or misspent. For the wounded, life in Walter Reed can seem like being in prison.
Family members come to Walter Reed to give the care their children and spouses might not otherwise receive. A mother stays at Walter Reed, hoping each day that her son might show some small sign that he recognizes her presence. Walter Reed employees, after a long day inside, make their way home, shaking their heads, thinking of what they have seen and wondering why this war still goes on. The white WRAMC buses, more often now with sirens wailing and lights flashing, hurry their fresh burden through the gate on Georgia Avenue.
Please do not forget our loved ones. They do not want us to call them heroes. They did their job, now they want the care and benefits promised. They want to know that we have not forgotten them. They want to pick up their lives and continue, and they want their buddies home from Iraq.
Contact your Congressperson, write letters to your local newspaper, or call radio talk shows. Tell Congress to act now. We do not need tears; we need action.
In solidarity,
Bruce Wolf
Walter Reed Vigil
Washington, DC
Walterreedvigil.org
Privatizing Eternal Conflict
American War Profiteers became rabid during the peaceful Clinton years. Big Oil hated Bill’s deal with OPEC which fixed the price at $20 to $30 a barrel (about $1.50 per gal for us).Corporate America needed a war in the Middle East…one that would maximize profits forever. The enemy couldn’t be a specific people or place. We might win and everyone would ask us to leave.
No, our foe had to be an eternal beast of mythic size.
“Terrorism…why not a war on dandruff?” says Gore Vidal.
Terror, dandruff, diarrhea, acne…all of these ills existed a million years before America.
Our War Profiteers now have their own army in Iraq. Check out the following article:
Census Counts 100,000 Contractors in Iraq
Civilian Number, Duties Are Issues By Renae Merle Washington Post
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
“There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military’s first census of the growing population of civilians operating in the battlefield… Link to article For the loneliest geeks in the galaxy (on a tip from ClickClack): Trek Passions
We celebrated again this year…Did you? It’s so easy! Corporate America depends on the day after Thanksgiving to be the biggest consumer orgy of the year. Send them a message…BUY NOTHING! Make Buy Nothing Day a family tradition.
Link to Ad Busters
Advanced CAs: Gather up friends and family and go to Walmart. Each of you push an empty shopping cart and clog up the aisles…and BUY NOTHING!
11-30 Update
Walmart reports its worst FRIDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING in more than a decade. Record numbers showed up, but few bought. Walmart stock dropped 79c today. The city of San Diego, CA banned stores of more than 90,000 squqare feet…Walmarts are more than twice that size. You can make a difference.On a tip from ClickClack. MARTHA STEWART suggests:
Dress up your baby on Thanksgiving
WW III? US Naval War Games off the Coast of Iran!
DUBYA DOUBLE-DARES YA!LINK TO ARTICLE
Link to GULF OF TONKIN
We Will Not Be SilencedOn a tip from
TECHNOHIPPIE The Army has a new slogan!
We were wondering why the Army continues to pay $200,000,000 a year to a major advertising agency when recruitment is in the toilet. The teens have already improved the new slogan:
Millions of teens came to the same conclusion as CA: The Army was always a good career except during the eight years of the WORST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF in American History.
The old slogan: AN ARMY OF ONE worked great after 9/11, but the war soon soured and creative teens used a few quick swipes with a black sharpie to make a great (free) anti-war bumpersticker.
We don’t understand the new slogan. Is it a Neanderthal thing?
Rev. Alissa G. is this week’s winner in the
“I WANT THE ARMY TO PAY ME $200,000,000 A YEAR FOR STUPID SLOGANS” contest.
Duckworth: Bush has slogans, not strategies on Iraq
Read the ChiTrib article
WEDDING DAY FOR NEPHEW JOHN AND HIS LOVELY BRIDE AMANDA IN NYC
GROUNDHOG DAY E-MAILS: “I agree with you, but I feel so helpless…What can I do?” We so admire the amazing ladies in the Granny Peace Brigade (above) and Code Pink (below). Get involved.
Code Pink
Do you feel a draft?
Read the manifesto and sign On a tip from Country Joe
to the DRIVE-THRU IMPEACHMENT table at the corner of Flood Avenue and Symmes in Norman. Jim Goodnow, 67, of Terlingua, Texas, said after protesting Nixon’s presidency in the ’70s, he never thought he would have to resurrect “Committee to Impeach the President” again. Once again Dubya proves that he is a Uniter. Too late! The bus left for Washington DC on Friday. However, you could start your own petition.
Link to Norman Transcript articleDear Blue State Elitists, “Lots of good folks in the Red States are working hard to Take Back America. What have you done lately?”
City Lights. The best book store in the world. Poster Boy on a tip from TOMM. Send this to your smoker friends (God bless them).
Link to the 10-minute video
Link to Put Away the Flags by Howard Zinn
Link to trailer
Who Killed the Electric Car?See the trailer
Clowns Invade Oakland Recruitment Center This is CONSTRUCTIVE ANARCHY: attack the symbols and talking points of the war machine, generate free publicity…no one got hurt (or, even arrested). ABBIE Award of the Week (our highest honor) to these great Americans!
Link to Mark Flore’s animation I Gotta Plan
Tony Snowjob says, “It’s just numbers,” As the Pentagon admits 2,500 dead and 20,000 maimed for life. If you disagree, please link to this video: Did You Ever Wonder What 2000 Looks Like?
or check out:
Why Billy, Why? Link to music video
Link to Core Values Training Animation from Mark Flore
Abbie Hoffman’s Wake Up America (1969) at Technohippie
For those of you with short attention spans listen to track 2: Malachy’s Bar and Grill where call-in radio rednecks and racists attack our hero because he questions authority. Who wins this debate? When we finish our book of Constructive Anarchists Abbie will grace the cover…one of the greatest Americans ever. Defied and mocked LBJ, Nixon and Vietnam when they were at the top of the pop charts. Police and National Guardsmen beat the hell out of him, but Abbie never backed down…never sold out (Madison Avenue offered Hoffman millions to write commercials). Where are the Abbies today? Isn’t it time for another Wake Up America album?
Also from Technohippie: I’m a Wartime President by Ariel
Also from Technohippie (is this our favorite site, or what?)
This week in this 50th of Ginsberg’s Howl…In celebration we humbly link to America
Link to An Inconvenient Truth Trailer.
White House toilet clogged by U.S. Constitution
President Bush today promised to continue sending plumbers to Iraq until his White House toilet was unclogged. “We will finish the mission,” Bush said. “And today’s mission for the U.S. plumbers in Iraq is … card please … ‘fix my toilet.’”
Bush also announced that corporate benefactor Haliburton has graciously volunteered to accept a no-bid, seven-billion-dollar contract to clear the blockage. “We will continue pouring money down that toilet until it clears,” promised Haliburton C.E.O. Richard Wahd.
From Faux News
Link to article
Lamp Lifters from Mark Flore
The Yes Men set the bar high for wannabe constructive anarchists. On a tip from CliuckClack
Halliburton Co. fell victim this week to a group of pranksters pushing a “SurvivaBall” to save corporate executives from the effects of global warming. Members of the Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists, gave a presentation at a trade conference pretending to be Halliburton executives touting large inflatable suits that provide corporate managers safety from global warming. They also distributed a phony press release through e-mail and set up a Web site, halliburtoncontracts.com, similar to the real Halliburton site, halliburton.com.
read on at Yes Men pull Halliburton hoax by Jen Haberkorn
On April 28, 2004, at a London banking conference to which they had accidentally been invited because of their satirical website, “Dow representative” Erastus Hamm unveiled “Acceptable Risk,” a Dow industry standard for determining how many deaths are acceptable when achieving large profits. The bankers enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which described several industrial crimes, including IBM’s sale of technology to the Nazis for use in identifying Jews, as “golden skeletons” - i.e. skeletons in the closet, but lucrative and therefore acceptable ones.
Several of the bankers in attendance then signed up for licenses for the “Acceptable Risk Calculator” and even posed with Acceptable Risk mascot “Gilda, the golden skeleton in the closet,” for photos.
For much more visit The Yes Men
My mother’s gonna hate this one:
Google search (I’m feeling lucky) “asshole” and the first entry will take you here -Music video link
Rolling Stone article
Okay…unlike Bush, we can admit that we were wrong! RS presents a very strong case the Bush may only be the third worst president in American history. But, we all agree that Dubya is the worst in the last 150 years.
Punkass Crusader Link to music video…then hit “click here to start”.
Aquaman elected mayor of New Orleans
Arthur Curry, also known as Aquaman,
has been elected mayor of New Orleans with 53 percent of the vote.
“We gotsta face facts,” said Burblin’ Street shop owner Renee Lester. “Patchin’ up the existin’ levees ain’t doing no good. Next direct hit, and we’ll all be dog-paddlin’ to the Superdome again.”
In the event of another flood, the new mayor promised voters that he would telepathically request assistance from his friends in the deep.
“Next hurricane season, Gulf Coast dolphins may be 10,000 miles closer to New Orleans than the Lousiana National Guard, and they come right away in an emergency…even if they’re on vacation.”
White House toilet clogged by U.S. Constitution
President Bush today promised to continue sending plumbers to Iraq until his White House toilet was unclogged.
“We will finish the mission,” Bush said. “And today’s mission for the U.S. plumbers in Iraq is … card please … ‘fix my toilet.’”
Bush also announced that corporate benefactor Haliburton has graciously volunteered to accept a seven-billion-dollar contract to clear the blockage.
“We will continue pouring money down that toilet until it clears,” promised Haliburton C.E.O. Richard Wahd.
From Faux News
Art School Confidential from Terry Zwigoff…director of Ghost World, Crumb and Bad Santa.
See the trailer
Paul Gauguin: “All I see when I look at your paintings is just that you paint too fast.”
Vincent Van Gogh: “You look too fast!” (from Lust For Life- 1956).
It is impossible to look too fast at The Devil and Daniel Johnston…a new documentary on the troubled life of a modern Van Gogh. Do you think Brian Wilson had issues? As a young man Daniel could barely hold a job cleaning tables at McDonald’s…naive technique as an artist…a solo act who can barely play guitar…and yet…Johnston’s message is straight from the heart…no commas…no sugar…flow of consciousness…Kerouac, Joyce, Beckett, Celine…Jim Morrison, Jimi and Cobain, at their best…walking that tortured thin line between genius and madness.
Link to Trailer
3-8: You must read “Impeace Bush” by Garrison Keillor
Garrison is a radio legend in the red states.
2-26 Left Coast Theater Alert!
A NEW PRODUCTION FROM THE ACTORS’ GANG
Tues-Sat at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm
Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and War is Peace.
Tim Robbins directs his first production since the acclaimed and controversial Embedded, in this new stage adaptation of Orwell’s classic by Michael Gene Sullivan (San Francisco Mime Troupe).
See the play or reread the book…fiction to us…a blueprint for Wolfy, Pearl, Cheney and Rummy.
For more info hit The Actors Gang
3-9-6: How many Neocons are needed to change a lightbulb ?
The Answer is TEN:
1. one to deny that the light bulb needs to be changed,
2. one to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed,
3. one to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,
4. one to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for darkness,
5. one to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Haliburton for the new light bulb,
6. one to arrange a photo-op for Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner — Lightbulb Change Accomplished,
7. one administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark,
8. one to viciously smear #7,
9. one surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb changing policy all along,
10. and finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
By Captain Buckey at Buckaroo
1-21 ABBIE Award of the Week to Google. If we lose free speech there is nothing left to defend.
1-1-6: ABBIE Award of the Year (2005) to Cindy Sheehan and John Murtha!
Best film of the year: Good Night and Good Luck: “If you’re not with us you’re with the communists…or, was it terrorists? I’m so confused…Who would Jesus hate?”
For theatre lovers (and we are) you must see Tim Robbin’s Embedded
Best Foreign Film: Merry Christmas from Sony Classics.
Best Documentary of the Year: Robert Greenwald’s The High Cost of Low Price (please see The Great White Corporate Shark).
Two great docs to start 2006: Why We Fight and The Devil and Daniel Johnston!
1-7: Hugh Thompson…ABBIE Hall of Fame! He defied his peers…risked his lif
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Published by Greg at 12:00 AM on December 7, 2007