In Celebration of the Individual - Issue 91 - Week of 09/15/2003 - Monday Edition
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Brooks and Friedman Married in Private Ceremony

Cheney's Believe It Or Not

Ashcroft In Hot Pants

Bush Admits He Doesn't Know Why We Invaded Iraq

The Codpiece Speaks

Ann Coulter's School of Beauty and Elocution

Fembot Heaven

Bush's Shows His Compassion For Those Colored People

Neocon Pledge of Allegiance

Bush Meets the Dalai Lama

Osama bin Laden at the Annual al Qaeda Picnic

Dan Quayle's Bust Unveiled in US Senate

Cosmo Spacely For Governor?

Ashcroft Recommends Using Racial Profiling In Iraq

Bush To Have Pledge Drive For Iraq

The Universe According to Karl Rove

Here's Karl!

Rummy's Epiphany

France Agrees to Send Help to Iraq

Bush Outlines His New "What, Me Worry?" Plan for the Economy

Dubya Quixote

How Soon He Forgets

Chirac Emerges from Wormhole in the Crab Nebula

The Ideal FoxNews Anchor Woman

Bush Ushers in a New Era of Indentured Servitude

Satyr In Chief?

Saddam Hussein Attends Harley-Davidson's 100th Birthday Party

Schwarzenegger Hugs His Hero

The Birdbrain In Chief

Bremer to Sell Off Iraq's Assets on eBay

Shinola or Skoal or Shinola-Skoal?

Howard Dean's Karate School

Choose Wisely Grasshopper

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Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 19!

09/19/2003

• Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day with Weebl and Bob
  Move your cursor over the bar menu to hear the silly pirate sounds.
  
  

• Pirate Haiku Contest (DB)
  The results are in.
  
  

• Econo Eyes
  An animated satire by Mark Fiore.

09/18/2003

• The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus

• Truth / Too little of it on Iraq
  Cheney is political dog meat.  Bush is most likely going to have to dump Dick for his 2004 campaign.  That assumes Bush is not impeached first!  BTW, the Codpiece's poll ratings are have hit a new low.

09/17/2003

• Drift (MC)
  A dancer without a body. [Flash]
  
  

• nasu (DB)
  A singing Japanese eggplant, what more could you ever want?  Here are translated from Russian lyrics. [Flash]
  
  

• The Shredding
  Ashcroft stars in this psycho thriller movie.
   

• George In The Box (MC)
  The perfect gift!
  
  

• Ask the White House - John Ashcroft
  A satire from whitehouse.org.

• Rumsfeld sees no link between 9/11 and Iraq (BF)
  Unlike the dishonest Cheney, Rummy sees no Iraqi link to 9/11.
  
  

• Cool War (MF)
  "Economic sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction."
  
  

• Arab world condemns US Arafat veto
  How to win friends and influence people?
  
  

• How Wahhabis fan Iraq insurgency
  Just like you planned it, right Rummy?

09/16/2003

• Spacesuited Women (UI)
  I bet Ann Coulter would look sexy in a spacesuit, especially if she were headed permanently to Pluto! ;-)
  
  

• Neowhig Party and Hamster for President (Metafilter)
  Sounds about right doesn't it?

• Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of Counterterrorism Law
  Now librarians are targets of John Ashcroft's vendetta against freedom and liberty.
   

• Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship
  Finally, the truth comes out.
  
  

• New terror laws used vs. common criminals
  Salon identifies another reason to rollback the Patriot Act and while were at it why not impeach Bush at the same time!

09/15/2003

• Teen Girl Squad #4
  When you fall into a bottomless pit, you die of starvation. This is especially true when it's Fighting Growlbacks Bottomless Spirit Pit! [Flash]
  
  

• Comment Cards
  Generic comment cards from All Too Flat. [PDF]
  
  

• That $200 Bush Bill
  The NC cashier took the bill and gave $50 in change!

• Daily Mislead
  The people at Moveon.org have created a site to track the Bush administration's BS.  I hope they have enough hard disk storage!

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• 'Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda' images, art, and pictures (Plep)
  
  

• Emily Carr Image Gallery

Indian Village: Alert Bay (1912)

•  Teenie Harris Archive

Rosebud

• Tree Spirit: The Woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara

Inari (1976)

• Hong Kong Museum of Art

The Bhodhidharma @1950

The Five Storied Pavilion (1926)

• Audrey - Paintings (Dublog)

Lapus Lazuli

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Free Aung San Suu Kyi

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09/14/2003

The Nine Inch Nails Hurt video is a haunting and remarkable tribute to the legendary Johnny Cash.

• The George Bush Show IV
  Bush satire from Ebolaworld.  [Flash]
  
  

• Historic Tale Construction Kit (MC)
  This is pretty cool.  [Flash]
  
  

• MAME Jump!
  Van Halen's Jump meets Donkey Kong.  The great long jump is really quite impressive.  [Flash]
  
  

• Smokey the Cigarette in "Best Friends" and the George Bush Show (MC)
  There's an important moral to this story or maybe not. [Flash]
  
  

• Death Rays (BB)

Electrolux Death Ray

• Fuhrer or Faker? (B3TA)
  A photo quiz.
  
  

• Hamish (B3TA)
  This is obscene. ;-)

09/12/2003

• Your Attacks Dollars at Work
  A satire from the Daily Show. "Bush misread the price tag for prevailing in Iraq. Turns out it's 87 Billion Dollars!" [Real]
  
  

• News Hunter Game
  A good game from the Daily Show. [Flash]
  
  

• Democratic Debates (Lisa Rein)
  Yet another Daily Show video. [QuickTime]
  
  

• Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders (Metafilter)
  A satire by Greg Palast.
  
  

• The Farting Preacher and Freakin Brothers (MC)
  [WMV]
  
  

• Dan Quayle's Senate Bust
  A satire from whitehouse.org.

09/11/2003

• A SPACE ODDITY? Strange Kansas City marker part of world-wide mystery
  This is a fascinating story about mysterious street tiles that have been found in several US cites and even in South America.
  
  

• The First Computer Bug
  He gave his life so that others might blog. ;-)

09/10/2003

• Take-Charge, Can-Do Guy Makes Horrible Decisions
  Sound familiar?
  
  

• Relations Break Down Between U.S. And Them
  A satire from Them Onion Dudes.
  
  

• Opus the Penguin Back In the Funny Business
  Good news for comics fans.  Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is back.
  
  

• BushFlash (MC)
  Several interesting anti-Bush clips on this site.  I liked Schwarzkopf explaining why it would stupid to occupy Iraq and Fear by Steve.  [Multiple formats]
  
  

• Number Song (MC)
  Another annoying Japanese animation.  [Flash]

09/09/2003

• The Lollipop Tree (MC)
  This is an excellent animation by Mike Mayfield.  [WMF] [QuickTime]
  
  

• The Reformation Online (UI)
  The Information Superhighway to Heaven!
  
  

• More Optical Illusions From Japan
  These are pretty weird.
  
  

• Super California Recall
  A musical satire from the Capitol Steps [MP3]
  
  

• Sound science is quackers
  What is the sound of one duck quacking?

09/14/2003

• Iraq Takes A Toll on Rumsfeld
  Just like you planned it, right Rummy?
  
  

• Public Says $87 Billion Too Much
  Six in 10 Americans said they do not support the proposal, which the president announced in his nationally televised address last Sunday night.
  
  

• Liberal authors triumphant as US bookshelves lean left
  The pendulum seems to be swinging back towards the middle for a change.
  
  

• Gunsmoke and Mirrors
  Maureen Dowd on Dubya's changing fortunes.
  
  

• Coolest thing in the Universe revealed
  The coolest thing in the Universe is now a cloud of sodium atoms in a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
  

• Pentagon official: 'Should have been more precise' (BF)
  It's time for Bush to retire all his neocon nutcases including himself!  See also, Bush Insists U.S. Has Clear Iraq Strategy. Yeah right!

09/12/2003

• Exploiting the Atrocity
  Krugman points out the Bush administration's shameless exploitation of 9/11 for their own political gains.
  
  

• WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANSWERS TO THESE 9/11 QUESTIONS? (Metafilter)
  Here are 20 unanswered questions from Philly News.

09/11/2003

• President Asks for Expanded Patriot Act
  Dana Milbank on how Bush and Big Brother Ashcroft are joined at the hip.
  
  

• Bush's Many Miscalculations
  On Sept. 11, the president was handed a historic opportunity. He ignored it.
  
  See also Foreign Views of U.S. Darken Since Sept. 11.
  
  

• Gen. Clark Reportedly Is Asked to Join Dean
  The would make a very strong ticket.  See also The Baltimore Debate - A field goal for Kerry, a touchdown for Dean.
  
  

• BuzzFlash Interview with Paul Krugman
  
  

• Another Day, Another Windows Patch

09/10/2003

• Employees Paying Ever-Bigger Share for Health Care
  Another Bush domestic policy failure.  Any tax cut is more than offset by rising health care costs.
  
  People in employer-sponsored health plans are paying 48 percent more out of their own pockets for care than they did three years ago.
  
  

• Bush's Speech: The War in Iraq is Not Over and Neither Are the Lies to Justify It
  The title says it all.
  
  

• Poll: More Think Iraq War Ups Terror Risk
  It's almost like bin Laden is secretly controlling our foreign policy.
  
  

• Two Years After 9/11: Ashcroft’s Assault on the Constitution (Metafilter)
  It's time for Bush to replace this creep.
  
  

• Who Aided Hijackers Is Still Mystery
  The FBI never found out who sent those anthrax letters either.
  
  

• 12-Year-Old Sued by the RIAA for Music Downloading
  These people are out of control.

09/09/2003

• Reserve Tours Are Extended
  I wonder how recruiting is going these days?
  
  

• Rumsfeld: Criticism of Bush Strengthens U.S. Foes and Rumsfeld Is Muted On Weapons Hunt
  It's time for Rummy to retire.
  
  

• Outsourcing War (BF)
  An inside look at Brown & Root, the kingpin of America's new military-industrial complex.
  
  

• Other People's Sacrifice
  It's now clear that the Iraq war was the mother of all bait-and-switch operations.