The World's Number One Weekly Weblog - Issue 78 - Week of 06/09/2003 - Monday Edition
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Scientist Proves Bush is an Alien from Outer Space

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Bush Denies Using Midgets to Make Him Look Taller

Saddam Hussein Seen Leading Shriner Parade in Findlay, Ohio

Where in the World is Saddam San Diego?

Bush Orders FBI to Drain Persian Gulf in Search of Saddam's WMD

"Technically Speaking, Bush Wasn't Lying About WMD." Says Condoleeza Rice

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The Senate's Official Potted Plant

John Ashcroft's Jihad

Israeli Protestor Loses National Spelling Bee

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Invasion of the Saucer-Cons

Ann Coulter's Free Eric Robert Rudolph Campaign

Chirac Presents Bush With the Codpiece of Freedom

Michael K. Powell - FCC Chairman - GOP Most Wanted Playing Card

The Bush Administration Explains Iraq's Missing WMD

Rupert Murdoch

Bill Frist Attacks Tony Snow's Cat on Fox News Sunday

George Bush Shows Paula Jones His Sock Collection

Lynda Tripp's TV Theme Favorites

William Bennett's Virtuous Gambler Songbook

Ashcroft's Surfin' Safari

Baghdad Bob Meets Bat Boy

<More>

The Week in Humor and Kitsch

• Alphadrome Vintage Robots and Space Toys (SG)

• get your war on - page twenty-five
  Cavalcade of knock-knock jokes.
  
  

• Bush: Saddam's Denials Proof He Had WMD
  A satire from Andy Borowitz.
  
  

• Idiot Son of an A**hole-and He's Our President!!!
  Hilarious Anti-Bush song and animation!  [Flash]
  
  

• What Was Found in Sammy Sosa's Other Bats
  Satire from the NYT no less.
  
  

• Eighties Ending
  Parody of the typical 80's movie ending.  [QuickTime and Real]
  
  

• Mark Walker - Mr. Basketball (MC)
  This 3 and half year old kid is amazing!  [QuickTime]
  
  

• Like a Bug on a Wire (MC)
  Nice Friday game. [Flash]
  
  

• FriedSPAM (UI)
  Paybacks are a ______. ;-)
  
  

• Corked Bat
  A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
  
  

• Weebl and Bob: Wee-Lo
  Bum Clouds!  [Flash]
  
  

• FCC Minister of Information
  An Animation by Mark Fiore. [Flash]
  
  
• Church Leaders Fly to Nigeria After Receiving Urgent Request for Financial Aid
  A satire from Landover Baptist Church.
  
  

• Road Map to Middle Yeast Infections
  A satire from Whitehouse.org.
  
  

• How Your Government Works
  A Schlock 'N' Roll cartoon by Ward Sutton.
  
  

• The Middle East peace process
  A cartoon by Steve Bell of the Guardian.  This is how the UK views our fearless leader.
  
  

• The Lexus Minority Report Experience (MC)
  Pretty amazing Lexus ad. [Flash]
  
  

• Mail Order Husbands (GA)
  Here's your chance ladies!
  
  

• Beer ice cream goes on sale
  No thank you.
  
  

• Bush Visits U.S.S. Truman For Dramatic Veterans'-Benefits-Cutting Ceremony
  A satire from the Onion.
  
  

• Study Finds Jack Sh*t
  Yet another silly satire from the Onion.
  
  

• Mobile WMD and Ice Cream (BF)
  A satire from Buzzflash.
  
  

• Visible Barbie Project
  Oh no!!!!!
  
  

• Mahnamahna with Bush, Blair and Saddam Hussein (MC)
  Based on the Muppet Show version. [Flash].
  
  

• Foul-mouthed parrot on the loose
  Doh!

06/13/2003

• Photoshop Phriday - Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Hilarious!

• WMD Finder
  An excellent animated Satire from Mark Fiore.  [Flash]
  
  

• Martha Sings
  A Martha Stewart Parody.

06/12/2003

• Necoro Robot Cat Video (GA)
  Check out the NeCoRo home page for more pictures.  [WMV]

• Beware the TMD (C)
  Trailers of mass destruction, at home and abroad.
  
  

• Iraq's WMD?
  A Clay Bennett cartoon.
  
  

• Tony Small's Tax Cut Estimator
  Interactive Flash Cartoon.

• Is Sharon to blame? Israelis wonder
  Sharon is a terrorist just like the leader of Hamas is.  There are no good terrorists.  Get it right for a change, Dubya and the US press!

06/11/2003

• The (Revised) Official Bush Administration History of the War on Iraq
  This Modern World.
  
  

• Infographic - Exaggerating the WMD Threat
  A satire from the Onion.
  

• Blix: I was smeared by the Pentagon
  Hans Blix unplugged.

• US prints Saddam banknotes
  Just like you planned it, right Rummy?

06/10/2003

• Texodus (LR)
  A funny clip from the Daily Show. [QuickTime]
  
  

• Concocting the Dots
  A cartoon by Clay Bennett.
  
  

• All hail to the pods
  A satire of sorts by Al Kennedy of the Guardian.

• U.S. Soldiers Face Growing Resistance
  This occupation is sounding more like a quagmire every day.
  
  

• U.S. Hunt for Iraqi Banned Weapons Slows (BF)
  US military units have run out of places to look.
  
  

• Who's Accountable?
  Krugman on those missing WMD:
  I'll tell you what's outrageous. It's not the fact that people are criticizing the administration; it's the fact that nobody is being held accountable for misleading the nation into war.
  
  

• Suu Kyi 'in good health'
  It's good to hear that pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi has not been injured, but the Burmese military needs to set her free.
  
  

• Giving God a Break
  Nicholas Kristoff reports that Muslim bashing evangelicals have been rebuked by saner conservative Christians. 

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Arts and Culture

• Tragic Beauties (SG)

• Kannon - Goddess of Mercy (PL)

• Sanjusangendo Hall
  The Plep link above reminded me of this temple I visited in Kyoto, which is my favorite temple in all of Japan.  If you are in Kyoto, please check out the spectacular 1001 Kannons.

• Kouji Komatsu Gallery (SG)

• Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters (UI)

• Ukiyo-e (SG)

• Surf Movie Posters (UI)

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The Week in Science and Technology

• Packet tracking promises ultrafast internet
  Imagine an internet connection so fast it will let you download a whole movie in just five seconds, or access TV-quality video servers in real time. That is the promise from a team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who have developed a system called Fast TCP.
  
  

• Taming the Terahertz (BB)
  Interesting article on the T-rays.

• Interior Deputy Secretary's Conduct Questioned
  Last week Bill Moyers did a special on Bush's revolving door Interior Department.  It seems the foxes, especially, Steven Giles, are gaurding the henhouse.

Health

Blood disease symptoms resemble child abuse
New Scientist (06/07/2003)

Astronomy, Physics and Space

NASA Will Send Two Robotic Geologists To Roam On Mars
Science Daily (06/06/2003)

Environment and Nature

EPA: Few Fined for Polluting Water
WP (06/06/2003)

Plants Prospering From Climate Change
ENS (06/06/2003)

Rare Forest Bird Rediscovered after 89 Years
ENS (06/06/2003)

Activists Identify Most Endangered U.S. Forests
ENS (06/05/2003)

Pew Report Finds U.S. Oceans in Crisis
ENS (06/04/2003)

Greenhouse gas emissions 'to rise'
BBC (06/04/2003)

Psychology, History and Evolution

When humans faced extinction
BBC (06/09/2003)

Early humans lost hair to beat bugs
New Scientist (06/08/2003)

Scientists Find The Root Of Learning In The Brain’s Hippocampus
Science Daily (06/06/2003)

Sons make mums eat more in pregnancy
New Scientist (06/06/2003)

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A tale of two photos

 Child's Poster (Japan)

Stop George in 2004!

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The Weekly Political Rant

06/09/2003

• Weebl and Bob's Birthday
  Yep those dudes are now one year old.
  
  

• Photographer beats nude photo record
  7,000 Spaniards strip naked and enter the record books.
  
  

• Robot Cut Outs (B3)
  These are pretty cool.  Just print, cut out and assemble.
  
  

• Butch Mushroom (GA)
  See how many insects that you can catch.  Very creative.  [Flash]
  
  

• 4 Dimensional Rubik's Cube
  I like Butch (above) better, but this ones still worth checking out. [Java Applet]

• Mobile Labs Not for WMD, but for Artillery Balloons (BF)
  Can you say impeachment?  Unless the Shrub People can come up with those "thousands of tons" of WMD, I think they are toast.  The press can even see there's blood in the water.
  
  Related stories: Ex-Official: Evidence Distorted for War, Captives Deny Qaeda Worked With Baghdad.

06/08/2003

• Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense? (BF)
  You bet!  Excellent FindLaw article by John Dean.  Here is President Bush's radio address from last October.  I think these statements by Bush could be his undoing.  I look forward to seeing the mad cowboy on the witness stand!

  Radio Address October 5, 2002

  "The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."

  "We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

  "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States."

  "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" - his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons."
  
  Related stories: Fresh doubts over Iraq's arsenal, Spies threaten Blair with 'smoking gun' over Iraq, The arms hunt: were they weapons of self-delusion?, Coming clean on dirty weapons and Bush and Blair have some 'splainin' to do.

06/06/2003

• Iraqi Attacks Imperil U.S. Rule
  Just like you planned it, right Rummy?
  
  

• Blix criticizes coalition over Iraq weapons
  "I thought - my God, if this is the best intelligence they have and we find nothing, what about the rest?"
  
  See Also Cloaks and Daggers.
  
  

• UN envoy arrives in Burma
  Burma must be pressured to release Aung San Suu Kyi.
  
  

• Duped and Betrayed
  Paul Krugman rants on the Bush tax cut.

The Weekly Rant Continued

06/05/2003

• Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil
  Surprise. Surprise. surprise.  Let the impeachment proceeding commence!
  
  

• The Whole Truth (C)
  This is a good summary of growing WMD scandal -- IraqGate!
  
  Nonetheless, what the administration knew about WMD and when it knew it - to paraphrase the famous Watergate questions - are now claiming the limelight, to the administration's clear discomfort.
  
  Note: The Guardian has retracted the Waldorf transcript story.
  
  

• Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney Visits (BF)
  Oh what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive.

06/04/2003

• Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims (C)
  The under reported [in the US] "Waldorf transcripts" are very interesting, indeed.   This story was retracted by the Guardian.
  
  

• How Their Big Lie Came to Be and Bomb and Switch (BF)
  "It worked so well even our Marines were fooled."  The WMD story seems to have some major legs: Iraq Arms Report Now the Subject of a C.I.A. Review, Iraqi Weapons Expert Insists Search Is Futile and US Senate opens Iraq weapons probe.
  
  

• Middle Class Tax Share Set to Rise
  Three successive tax cuts pushed by President Bush will leave middle-income taxpayers paying a greater share of all federal taxes by the end of the decade, according to new analyses of the Bush administration's tax policies.
  
  

• Poll shows U.S. isolation: In war's wake, hostility and mistrust
  How not to make friends and influence people.
  
  

• Bush shines in the time of the lie (C)
  There are no truths inside the gates of the White House, which reminds me of different Dylan song.
  
  While preachers preach of evil fates
  Teachers teach that knowledge waits
  Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
  Goodness hides behind its gates
  But even the president of the United States Sometimes must have To stand naked.
  -- Bob Dylan It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

06/03/2003

• Standard Operating Procedure
  Paul Krugman has a good rant on Bush's BS.
  
  

• Report: 9/11 Detainees Abused
  These abuses by Ashcroft and company need to investigated  by Congress.  This is the USA not the Soviet Union!
  
  

• Ex-Army boss: Pentagon won't admit reality in Iraq (SC)
  So what else is new?