The World's Number One Weekly Weblog - Issue 70 - Week of 04/21/2003 - Monday Edition
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Current IWR Parodies
Updated Frequently

• Sen. Rick Santorum GOP Playing Card

• The Commander-In-Chimp

Me Tarzan.  He Chimp.

• Saddam Hussein's Favorite Singer Iraqi Playing Card

• Women Support Socialized Drinking Legislation

National Happy Hour

• Close to You - An IWR Karaoke Sing-A-Long

They planned it this way, didn't they?

<More Rummy>

• Hans Blix to Lead U.N. Inspection Team On Hunt For Leprechauns in Ireland

"Leprechauns or WMD,
what's the Difference?" said Mr. Blix

• Iraqi Information Minister Says The Detroit Tigers Will Win the World Series

Comical Ali's Pitch

• Rummy's Mind Meld

Can he do it?

• Rush Limbaugh, Denies Authoritarian Clown Charges

Remember this is only satire.
So hold the Neo-McCarthyite hate mail please!

• The Adventures of Shrub Baby - Islamic State
   

• Where in the World is Saddam San Diego?

Saddam likes those buffalo wings

• U.S. Military Nabs Key Iraqi Conspirator

• SARS Hotline

• The Invisible Man
   

• Jug Ears Speaks with Forked Tongue
   

• Terrorist Abu Abbas Arrested at Subway's

• King James Version of the Bill of Rights
  
  

• Iraqi Information Minister to Marry Monica Lewinski

• Rummy's Magic Vase
  
  

• Saddam Hussein Spotted at the Damascus Starbucks

<More>

The Week in Humor and Kitsch

• Bridesmaid Dresses From Hell (UI)
  You have to wonder what these people were thinking.

St. Patrick's Day Wedding?

• Pets Photo Gallery by Erwin van Beek
  Funny pictures of cats mostly.  Also, see these ridiculous cat hats from Japan.

He must be listening to the MPEG below.

• Teach Your Parakeet to Talk [MPEG]
  Ridiculous recording by the pet food company Hartz Mountain company on how to train your parakeet to talk from April Winchell.
   

• tickle robot
  
   

• Girlie Magazine Covers of Yesteryear
  Ah those were the days, when women were women and men spanked their wives?  Something like like.  [Fark].

Almost Patriotic ;-)

• Daily Show on Bush's Speech to Iraq - Baby Talk (LR)
  A brilliant Daily Show satire by Jon Stewart.  [QuickTime].

• The Iraqi Information Minister Doll
  It was only a matter of time I guess.  That the man who said: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!", would have an action figure made in his honor. This site has a few select videos of Comical Ali. [Real]

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• Honda's Accord Commercial (UI)
  This is a great commercial.  I wonder how long it took them to set up all of the Rube Goldberg effects?  [Flash]
   

• CNN Obituaries Discovered
  According to the Smoking Gun, some Farker found these obituaries, e.g., Dick Cheney, Fidel Castro, etc. on CNN.  CNN then shut off access 20 minutes after the links were Farked.
   

• Vandals Loot Rumsfeld’s Home
  It's nice to see that Bob Hirschfeld feels Rummy's pain. ;-)
   

• 45 More Legislators Lose Jobs To Increased Congressional Automation
  Clever satire from the Onion.
   

• Strong Bad's Latest Email
  Strong Bad recalls his best emails. [Flash]
   

• The Three Stooges Online Filmography  (Y)
  The Threestooges.net is a great site.  Lots of Real videos, sounds, and images.  Here are two sounds from my favorite shorts: Moe! Larry! Cheese! and Dr. Howard. 

As the Blog Turns

04/26/2003

• Clone'O'Matic PDA
  The Clone'O'Matic lets you create silly combinations of faces from Saddam, Dubya, Elvis, etc.  It also displays random video clips of Comical Ali, the Iraqi Information Minister.  [Flash]
  
  

• Compassionate Conservatism
  The descent of man? ;-)
  
  

• 'Most Wanted' Novelties Boost Iraqi Economy
  A timely satire from The Specious Report.
  
  

• Flash Kitty Kat
  I like this little kitty kat and no kitty litter is needed either. [Flash]
  
  

• Parade of Robots
  Robots theme for this "Photoshop Phriday" from Something Awful. [PG Language]
  
  

• Coverage Interruptus
  Mark Fiore on the news media's tunnel vision. [Flash]
  
  

• White House Officials: 9/11 Was Main Reason for War
  The Bush Administration should have zero credibility with anyone keeping track of their shifting flavor of the month reasons of why they wanted to go to war with Iraq, e.g., 9/11, nuclear weapons, regime change, free the Iraqi people, WMD, terrorist connections, Iraq is a threat to America, etc.  None of these really provided justification for a pre-emptive war.  What did we liberate first?  We liberated the oil fields and the oil ministry of course.  BS is BS no matter who says it, and that includes the President of the USA!

04/25/2003

• Entertaining McCarthyism (SC)
  Ellis Henican asks the key question: "Can loyalty oaths be far behind?"
   

• Over 167,000 Page Views in April
  This has been our best month by far at IWR.  In April, this site has gotten over 167,000 page views already.  Although you have really have to wonder about a site, that places near the top in Google searches for phrases like "French Tickler", "Iraqi Playing Cards" and "SARS Hotline".  ;-)
  
  

• Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards of  Looted Museum Art (BB)
  Rummy's Magic Vases?
  
  

• A 'Voice for Inclusion'
  Richard Cohen sticks it to yet another GOP bigot, Sen. Rick Santorum.
  
  In 2001, 1,393 hate crimes were committed against gay and bisexual Americans -- 14.3 percent of total hate crimes. This was clearly a spontaneous effort on the part of some non-elites to contain matters before -- as night follows day -- incest, polygamy and foot fetishism are made legal, maybe even compulsory, throughout this great country of ours and even taught in our godless public schools.

  Deconstructing Santorum is no easy matter. His logic is Euclidean, his analogies Limbaughian, and he has, I must add, a stern countenance that in no way bespeaks the resolute voice for inclusion he really is. But he does, I think, raise a profound question that he ought to answer himself: If you have the orientation of a moron, do you still have to talk like one?
  
  

• Dixie Chicks' nude protest
  The Dixie Chicks get my vote.  Every notice that the people who complain most about "political correctness" are the same people most likely to brand their opponents as traitors?

04/24/2003

• Boohbah
  I'm not quite sure what this is all about, but it's a very creative use of Flash.
  
  

• Weebl and Bob - Clowns
  More Hats for Clowns songs.  A hand washed turkey? [Flash]
  
  

• George W. Bush's Resume
  Would you hire this guy?
  
  

• Israel's WMD (C)
  Can you say hypocrisy?
  
  

• Hawks Rip Into Mideast Plan
  The last thing that the Neo-cons want is peace between Israel and Palestine.  These are some really sick puppies.

04/23/2003

• Greasel.com (SD)
  It isn't just for breakfast anymore.  Now you can eat your grease and drive it to.  Don't be intimidated by the high technology.
  
  

• New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq
  Sounds about right, doesn't it?
  
  

• Our Top Priorities
  Cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
  
  

• Chest Banging, Here and There
  Maureen Dowd on the Dubya et al.
  
  The Bushies pretend that we don't want an all-access pass to Iraqi bases (we do); that we are not interested in influencing the disposition of Iraqi oil (we are); that we will stay out of Iraqi politics, even if they go fundamentalist (we won't); and that we will leave Iraq soon (we can't).
  
  

• Iraqi Shi'ites March
  Yahoo reports "Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims thronged the holy city of Kerbala in a pilgrimage marked by religious fervor and slogans denouncing the continuing presence of U.S. troops in Iraq".  I turn on CNN and that dork Aaron Brown reports that "thousands" marched.  There is a difference!  All I want is the truth for Christ sakes, and I think everybody else does too.  The Bush administration didn't plan it this way, did they?

<More>

Arts and Culture

• Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains (SR)
  I really liked these tipi drawings.

Eagle Tipi

• Tokyo National Museum
  If I ever make it back to Tokyo, I'm going to have to check this museum out.

The poet Ki no Tsurayuki
at the Aridoshi Shrine.

• The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection (SR)
  This is a wonderful treasure trove of sheet music.  I found the Civil War sections especially interesting, but there are many other fascinating categories.  Please note that you can browse by cover.  There is even a minstrel section.

Down With the Traitors Serpent Flag

• Ethiopian Icons: Faith & Science (PL)
  These icons from Ethiopia are beautiful.

• John Heartfield (SP)
  Many images of John Heartfield's anti-Hitler campaign artwork.

The Nazification of the Church

• Japan SAQ (Seldom Asked Questions) (GA)
  Everything you always wanted to know about Japan, but were afraid to ask.  For example, ever wonder what they wear beneath those kimonos?

The Kimono FAQ has the answer

• Fruits: Tokyo street style - photographs by Shoichi Aoki  (AD)
  The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is exhibiting Shoichi Aoki's photography taken in Tokyo from 1997 - 2002.

Pretty in Pink?

• Horror Movie Posters (SP)
  This site has a large collection of horror movie posters.  I had never seen this poster before from the 1932 Movie Freaks.  I also liked Satan's Satellites a lot too.

Controversial Freaks Movie 1932

Science and Technology

Science News
Astro. Pic. of the Day
BBC Sci/Tech
CNN Sci/Tech
Environmental News
Improbable Research
Nat. Geographic (NG)
Nature
New Scientist
NY Times: Science
Science Daily (SC)
Sky and Telescope
Space.com

The Week in Science and Technology

• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain (SR)
  Colorful and informative map from the USGS that blends geology and topology.

• Distributed computers power new search engine
  Interesting article on Grub web crawler project is based on the SETI concept.
  
  A distributed computing project called Grub, which harnesses individual users' spare computing power and internet bandwidth, began cataloguing millions of web pages this week.
   

• Parallel Universes (SD)
  Parallel universes seem to be supported by astronomical observations.
  
  Is there a copy of you reading this article?
  
  Do Do Do Do.
  

Psychology, History and Evolution

How male or female is your brain?
Guardian (04/17/2003)

Most ancient DNA ever?
BBC (04/17/2003)

'Earliest writing' found in China
BBC (04/17/2003)

Ancient Odeon gave restricted views
Nature (04/16/2003)

Oldest evidence of Andean religion found
Nature (04/15/2003)

Astronomy, Physics and Space

A Mathematician's World of Doughnuts and Spheres
NYT (04/20/2003)

Environment and Nature

Iraq: The State of the Postwar Environment
NG (04/18/2003)

Relief on the Way to Animals and Humans in Iraq
ENS (04/18/2003)

Satellite keeps watch on disaster hazard
BBC (04/17/2003)

Vietnam dioxin spray estimate quadruples
Nature (04/17/2003)

Bush Administration Tackles Nonroad Diesel
ENS (04/15/2003)

Health

Premature-ageing gene found
Nature (04/17/2003)

Security, Utilities, Hacks and Patches

Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen
The Register (04/17/2003)

CNN Blames Obituary Blunder on Human Error
Wired (04/17/2003)

Homeland Security Dept. Fills Privacy Post
TechNews (04/16/2003)
 

Political News and Commentary

A tale of two photos

 Child's Poster (Japan)

Iraq-O-Meter

The Osama Clock


Political  Commentary
AlterNet
American Politics
American Prospect
BuzzFlash (BF)
Cursor.org (C)
Daily Howler
On Lisa Rein's Radar
Michael Moore
Mother Jones
Nation
National Review
New Republic
OpinionJournal
Reason
Salon
Slate
Smirking Chimp (SC)
Tompaine.com
Town Hall
Weekly Standard
WorkingForChange

Favorite Columnists
Art Buchwald
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Maureen Dowd
Molly Ivins
Robert Novak

News Periodicals
Atlantic
New Yorker
Newsweek
Time
Usnews.com

The Weekly Political Rant

04/22/2003

• Tea helps fight off infections
  I should drink more green tea.
  
  

• Fast food comes to Iraq
  That was quick.
  
  

• What Monty Python Character are you? - Quizilla
  Parrot shop owner perhaps?
  
  

• 300 reasons why we love The Simpsons
  Yep, 300.
  
  

• Rebuilding Iraq
  A Clay Bennett Escher Political Cartoon.
  
  

• Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions
  Bush launched and justified the war with a flat declaration of knowledge "that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction." Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who took the lead public role in defending that proposition, said, among other particulars, that "our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons" agents.
  
  

• I Said That?
  Pretty fair appraisal of the war to-date.  Like Kristof and most people I imagine, I thought the street fighting in Baghdad would have been severe.  I also thought there would be more civilian casualties.  It turns out that Saddam Hussein's regime was indeed a paper tiger and certainly not a threat to this great nation.  I still don't support the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war, but I hope now there will be peace in both Iraq and in the USA.

04/21/2003

• Spot the Weapon of Mass Destruction
  "Fun for the whole family," claims the The Rockall Times.
  
  

• Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act
  American cities tell Bush and Ashcroft that they can take their Patriot Act an stuff it.  Say no to authoritarian government!
  
  

• War. What Is it Really Good For?
  Nothing except for Big Business.  according to Bob Herbert of the NYT. 
  
  The blatant war-mongering followed immediately by profiteering inevitably raise questions about the real reasons American men and women have been fighting and dying in Iraq. President Bush told us the war was about weapons of mass destruction and the need to get rid of the degenerate Saddam. There was also talk about democracy taking root in Iraq and spreading like spring flowers throughout the Arab world.

  The two things that were never openly discussed, that never became part of the national conversation, were oil and money. Those crucial topics were left to the major behind-the-scenes operators, many of whom are now cashing in.

04/20/2003

• Treasure our freedom to ask questions (BF)
  Mitch Albom explains that freedom means being able to ask those tough questions of those in authority without having your patriotism questioned.
   

• Anthrax, chemicals and nerve gas: who is lying? (SC)
  Andrew Gumbel of the Independent says there is growing evidence of deception by Washington.
   

• Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch
  Frank Rich on Jon Stewart's Daily show.
   

• A Tale of Two Fridays
  Maureen Dowd gets it right once again.
  
  Instead of hectoring those who expressed any doubt about the difficulty of occupying Iraq, the conservatives should worry about their own self-parody: pandering to the base by blessing evangelical Christians who want to proselytize Muslims; protecting their interests by backing a shady expat puppet; pleasing their contributors by pre-emptively awarding rebuilding contracts to Halliburton and Bechtel; and swaggering like Goths as Iraq's cultural heritage goes up in flames.
   

• No role for UN in weapons hunt
  Yet another bad decision by the Bushites.  Having UN inspectors participate under US jurisdiction would have added credibility to any WMD discovery.  Now most of the world will view any such future evidence with skepticism.
   

• Plea to end Baghdad chaos
  The International Red Cross makes a plea to US forces to restore power and other services to avert a growing health crisis.  See also Stealing Water Exacerbates Shortage in Basra.
   

• Liberty's Decline in Bush's America
  Computer writer Dan Gillmor makes the point that Bush, not Ashcroft, is the real threat to liberty!

The Weekly Rant Continued

04/19/2003

• Prove Iraqi guilt, MPs tell Blair
  Tony Blair is feeling the heat from Parliament because of those missing WMD. 
   

• Sunnis in Iraq Protest U.S. Occupation
  Everything is going as planned?  Perhaps Dubya needed to read the article below.
  
  

• Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr. (C)
  This article written in 1998 mysteriously disappeared from the Time site. 

04/18/2003

• Rumsfeld: Bioweapons May Be Hard to Find (BF)
  I thought we had definitive evidence  of WMD sites in Iraq.  I mean was Powell's U.N. WMD presentation just all BS?
  
  

• U.S. Culture Advisers Resign Over Iraq Museum Looting
  "We certainly know the value of oil but we certainly don't know the value of historical artifacts," Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, told Reuters on Thursday.
  
  

• Hawks recycle arguments for Iraq war against Syria
  David Sands on Dr. Strangelove's quest for Armageddon.
  
  

• Why The Anti-War Movement Was Right
  Good column by Arianna Huffington.

04/17/2003

• Many Iraqis Turn Anger Toward the U.S.
  I think the longer that we are there the more our troops are going to become the object of Iraqi ire.  This is where having a multinational U.N. force would have helped greatly.  See, also Chaos mars talks on Iraqi self-rule.

04/16/2003

• Robert Fisk: Priceless documents are set ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad
  How tragic.  How could we let this happen?
  So yesterday was the burning of books. First came the looters, then the arsonists. It was the final chapter in the sacking of Baghdad. The National Library and Archives ­ a priceless treasure of Ottoman historical documents, including the old royal archives of Iraq ­ were turned to ashes in 3,000 degrees of heat. Then the library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment was set ablaze.
  
  

• Now Free to Protest, Iraqis Complain About Americans
  We won the war, but the winning the peace will not be so easy.
  
  

• Baghdad Did Not Fall - It Was Handed Over
  Something sure seems fishy with the way all the Saddam's troops just vanished into the woodwork.

04/15/2003

• Straw refuses to back US line on Syria
  There will be no coalition if the U.S. invades Syria next.