Archive for January, 2006

Where is Marginal Melvin when we need him?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I went back to this because of its great plot-line.

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Crop circle photo by Steve Alexander.
The general image appeared wth story 8/25/05
but I cannot find it. I know that I did not draw it.

I think Richard Serra handled it a lot more gently than would have I.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Background is a scene from SCREAM, 1997

Both photos: Rafa Riva/Agence France-Presse - Getty Image

Only 25% of the American people want W. to set policy. If that’s not a mandate for him, what is?

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

NBC/WALL STREET JOURNAL POLL SHOWS WE ARE NOT AS DUMB
AS THE ADMINISTRATION MAY BELIEVE

Stop whining and change your name to CHARLES MARTEL DAIRIES.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Nordic firm hit by Arab boycott

Dave’s Accu-Chart Sampling:

A Country’s Probability of Deeply Offending Someone

Within any 10-Day Period

France (98 out of 100)

Israel 96
Saudi Arabia 96
Iran 95
United States 95
North Korea 91
China 89
Great Britain 87
Switzerland 84
Russia 82
Cuba 76
Indonesia 72
Australia 66
Spain 64
Germany 59
Belgium 51
Italy 50
Venezuela 42
Libya 40
Egypt 40
Belgium 33
Canada 27
Sweden 22
Fiji 12
Norway 10
Iceland 6
Canada 4
Finland 2
Danmark 1

This man is Ohio’s governor and–like our president–comes from a political family.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Ohio GOP poised to gut election protection on way to permanent national domination

(JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

CLEVELAND ROCKS

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Peace activists stage spy-in’

Cheney + Rove + Alito + Gonzalez + Rice + Delay + Frist + Abramoff + Brownie + Robertson + …

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Gonzalez is Challenged on Wiretaps
Feingold Says Attorney General Misled Senators in Hearings

On the Eve of Destruction…

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I was thinking of the countless replays of Martha-Ann Alito’s tears in early January at her husband’s Judiciary Committee “advise and consent” hearings. Everyone speculated in CableNewsonia that she was upset by the attacks upon her husband, but I shall take a contrarian view–only for the sake of argument.
Before stating that opinion, I claim no […]

Name other situations in which there was a statement discounting any long term hazard.

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Radiation Threat from Florida Fire Low, Official Says
Each of the following have been–at one time or another–no problem.

Ground Zero
New Orleans-Post-Katrina
Tuna fish
Teflon pans
Cell phones
AIDS scope
Leaded gasoline
Drinking and smoking while pregnant
Hand Washing in hospitals
Silicone implants
High Tension wires
Sun Tanning
Asbestos
Lead paint
Cigarettes
chewing tobacco-cigars-pipes
Disease from cockroaches
Disease from cats
Beef three times a day
Drinking and driving
Shoe store x-rays
Sneezing into one’s hands
Painting radium wristwatch […]

Please listen to us, Mr. Vice President…

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Just as we had advised you that placing a Select Comfort on a rack does not allow us around the Geneva Accords; we must strongly urge you not to expect the hiring of the June Taylor Dancers to indemnify us during illegal taps.
NEWSWEEK REPORTS ON INSIDER DISTASTE FOR ADMINISTRATION EAVESDROPPING

Workin’ hart onna State th’ Union…

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Now that Washington state has enacted a Gay Rights bill, can BOYCOTTARAMA not be around the corner?

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

THE PETULANTS

Washington state can provide a cornucopia of products and services from which anti-gay believers may choose.

DON’T FLY ON AIRPLANES FOR WHICH NAMES BEGIN WITH NUMERAL SEVEN!!

PACIFIC SALMON IS SATAN’S GARAGE DOOR OPENER

MICROSOFT IS..er… (They may have a point.)

EVE ATE A WASHINGTON STATE APPLE

Generally speaking, my long experience with the Roman Catholic Church has provided […]

Only two games remain; matching them against crosstown rivals–Brooks Lawrence & Nick Altrock high schools.

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

“Controversial Industries Have Backed Boehner

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 29, 2006; Page A05
Two controversial industries industries — for-profit colleges and trade schools, and private student lenders — have been the major sources of financing for Rep. John A. Boehner’s bid to become House majority leader. Boehner has been […]

Now we can see how it feels! “Do you want a copy of SAW GRASS SPEAKS?

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I may have the rationale behind Vice-President Cheney’s propensity for secrecy…

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

His residence in the Carpathian Highlands of Washington, DC is a fortress protected by impassable roads nine months out of the year.

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Many had believed that the intricately constructed back entrance would allow for more visitors, but
the road way was wide enough only for one wheeel chair or two Izetas.

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The Vice-President entertains only a few trusted […]

High atop the Hotel Oink, this has been the Summer Dance Hour from NBC Blue.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

The original postcard was titled:
Upper Broadway, Councill Bluffs
lincolnhighwayassociation.org

No food court? No Beeman’s Pepsin chewing gum dispensers? No 1918 King Sano cigarette machines?

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

2,400 Foot Tunnel Beats Them All
Builders of Passage well funded, investigators say
By Ornell R. Soto and Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
January 27, 2006

JOHN R. MCCUTCHEN/Union-Tribune
The 2,400-foot-long tunnel runs from a warehouse near Tiajuana’s airport to this Otay Mesa warehouse. A sigb says it is the home to V&F LLC, but it is unclear who rents […]

I wonder what Senator Geary would have said about it.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Don Michael Corleone: You heard what happened in my home?
Frankie Pentangeli: Mike, I almost died myself. It was all so…
Don Michael Corleone: IN MY HOME! IN MY BEDROOM WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS! Where my children come and play with their toys. In my home.
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U.S. Army detained suspects’ daughters, wives as leverage
Saturday, January 28, […]

Mayor Richard Daley keeps up appearances…

Friday, January 27th, 2006

despite the investigations swirling in Chicago.

Style-Grace-Ostentation…Wealth has its options.

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Let the mundane become extraordinary with balloon white wall tyres.

Where’s Gerwaldo?

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Thx, Time-Warner & Little, Brown

“You know, Laura? I think that translator wasn’t too good. Those guys weren’t laughing at any of my jokes.”

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I saw Edward James Olmos do this in WOLFEN…

Friday, January 27th, 2006

but he ended up buck naked with a mouth full of spittle.

Next week; @ Nebraska

Friday, January 27th, 2006

I can already see the grad school seminars…

Friday, January 27th, 2006

687.1 The Geographic Roots of Environmentally-Induced Social Displacement in the Matrix of Early 21st Century Municipal Reorganization & Its Lessons for Mixed-Use Land Development.

Students will shorten the course title to the more meaningful CULTURAL GENOCIDE or Cult-Gen for the truly hip.

How can we blithely watch the destruction of an American city?

Easy!

Corporate America and their […]

How am I supposed to top a story about a piece of talking granite?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Company embeds video memories in tombstones
By JOHN PAIN AP business writer

AP / Lynne Sladky

DEARLY BELOVED.

“Sergio Aguirre, founder of Vidstone LLC, poses with his product featuring a solar-powered video panel embedded in a tombstone in his Miami office. The video serenity panel plays a five- to seven-minute multimedia video featuring the best moments from someone’s life.”

Ripped from yesterday’s headlines…

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

In September, Variety wrote that Martin Scorsese would direct Leonardo DiCaprio in an adaptation of Pulitizer Prize-winning Edmund Morris’s biography–
THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Apologies to my favorite film director,whom my son
believes has seen every movie ever made–at least twice.

Do you recognize the man with the thermo-nuclear afro?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

It’s Sergeant Preston of the Yukon–
had he been an ABA power forward or
the second banana in a mid 1970’s police melodrama.

I thought Holy Mother Church had bigger worries…

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Apparently, God made everything except homosexuals. Since when is Gay the equivalent of molester?
Excerpted from the New York Times of September 15, 2005
“By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
A 12-page document with instructions for the review is now being distributed to seminarians and faculty members. It asks whether the doctrine on the priesthood presented by the seminary is […]

Say it ain’t so, Limbo…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

According to reports, all souls in Limbo must find new housing. The half-way houses used by Friday meat-eating Catholics have been packed for forty years.

Apologies to Alonso Cano (1601-1667)

Remember this Winter Solstice headline? “Where would Jesus shop?”

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Florida, 2000; Ohio, 2004; Baghdad, 2005. Nutella in ‘06?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

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Whenever I see him, I think of former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey’s observation.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) believes that multimedia teaching aids hurry the passage of his important legislation. Here, the senator uses hand puppets to plead on the floor that the Devil’s temptations have led women out of the home and necessitated the rise of slavery which led to the introduction of animism to a Christian culture.

Arrowsmith, 50 Cent, Chain Mail

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

New York Times

November 18, 2005

National Briefing | Washington: Washington: Military Body Armor Recalled
“The Army and Marine Corps said they had ordered the recall of 18,000 torso-protecting vests, some used by American troops in Iraq, after determining that the body armor failed to meet ballistic specifications. Military officials insisted that […]

Who doesn’t love model trains?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

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Thanks to www.mth-railking.com for the layout photos.
Saudis were not part of the display.

One of the pictured men was a friend of Dick Jones in ROBOCOP and a Wisconsin father…

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

the other has been making the speech circuit about safeguards to our liberty.

Distrust of NSA has roots in the ’70s
By Peter Grier | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – Hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, top National Security Agency officials paid a calming visit to the NSA’s counterterrorism office. Workers […]

“Why does that red hot, electric stove burner keep hurting when I put my hand on it?”

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger

NEW YORK TIMES

January 24, 2006

By ERIC LIPTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city would probably soon be inundated with floodwater, forcing the long-term relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, documents to be released Tuesday […]

Haute Courture de Beanie Baby could be next.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Remember this story. Has anyone purchased any of the the clothes? Except the story, this is a figment of my imagination. I don’t know what the clothes look like or cost. Frankly, I don’t care.
Mattel launches Barbie clothes for women
By Angela Moore Fri Oct 14, 2005

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toy maker Mattel Inc (NYSE:MAT […]

Oh, for those pre-Alito days…

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

when I actually felt compassion for the nominee.

Not only do retail stores carry the same merchandise, soon all products will become part of the Universal Oneness.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Karl Rove wouldn’t be smiling.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

That’s how you know I faked this photograph. Still, how would the administration like it if the citizens surveiled their private moments? The names of the adult web sites are embarrassing enough. It seems the entire industry is beholden to the same dozen men. There would be no need for investigation if those twelve guys […]

Dick does have that 1956 Red Square Jaw.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

My pal Jack and my brother are right!

My name is Mr. Heydrich. I’ll be your first interrogator. May I see your papers, please?

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

TSA: Program may use fliers’ financial data

By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY

Updated 1/23/2006 6:33 AM

A new program to speed travelers through airport security may require passengers to agree to a check of their personal and financial records, the Transportation Security Administration said.
The TSA said it will require “in-depth security background checks” that may […]

He’s not worried about the $950,000 Breeders Cup at Santa Anita.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Santa Anita found in 2centstypepad.com

It worked on the Mississippi; it’ll work on the Tigris.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Halliburton Cited in Iraq Contamination

January 22, 2006

By Larry Margasak Associated Press

WASHINGTON– Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn’t get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.

Busby Berkeley Piano Movers

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

ISRAELI DEFENSE CHIEF HAS MESSAGE FOR IRAN
January 22, 2006
From Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state was preparing for military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program, but he said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.
“Israel will not be able to accept an Iranian nuclear capability, […]

Some pundits say Senator John Kerry lost because he did not connect with the people.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Eighteen long years before Blue Steel, Magnum and Derelict, there was Easy Money and its fashion statement–THE REGULAR GUY LOOK personified by the late, great Rodney Dangerfield.

Instead of losing votes by doing this,

he could have gained votes by appearing like this.

No one said co-opting God’s powers was easy. Condemnation cries for exercise!

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

“Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness,
and naked radiators an abomination”

Frank Lloyd Wright, Church builder

Why cannot cable news programs devote more coverage to stories like this?

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Whales, dolphins, accordion-playing mice and psychic mountain goats aren’t the only fascinating fauna which should upstage War, Famine, Pestilence & Death.

Susan Walsh, AP

Possible repercussions of placing the Ten Commandments outside public buildings.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

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How many times can you use ‘fabulous’ in a sentence.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

The name Charles Taylor played a role in each of their lives.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Ellen Johson-Sirleaf
President, Liberia
Afrol News

Vincenzo T. Lombardi
NFL Hall of Fame Football Coach
Onlinesports.com
As far as I can tell, Vernon J. Biever is the photographer.

Standin’ in the corner/ Watchin’ all the I.L.G.W.U. picketeers go by.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress & the
American Social History Project-Center for Media & Learning
CUNY