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issue238
<malkav> the fact that I don't know him
[marauder of LOD] makes it obvious that
he's not very important.
Hi, I'm prime anarchist and here's my rant
for the weekend of August 17, 2000. The moon was
full. Did you get to enjoy it at all?
Bob Griese's son is playing for the Denver Broncos
this year. How bizarre. Dale Earnhardt Jr, Muhammad
Ali's daughter, Hank Williams' grandson. What next?
Does "Pudge" Fisk have any athletic kids?
Anyone know any big trucking companies besides
Rollins and Ryder? I need a new stage name.
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Laura Nero, will you marry me?
Anti-bioengineering slogan of the month. GM is BM.
This paradigm shift brought to you by USB.
The United States of Being.
Music for this trip has been RATM's newest album
and GD's Skeletons From The Closet.
See Dick
See Dick Rock
See Dick Rock his youknowwhat off with his new KOSS headphones.
Mattel got the contract for the DARE mobile. How easy to
predict. Can you say plastics? Ramses corporation has announced
a recall of 100,000 rubbers. The ribbed ticklers have been
peeling off. Feelix Tso Sensitive, spokesman for Ramses said...
[this should be in PAWN, Marco. Not here...]
Are you ready for this cowpoke election? You have the
sly dog, Toto who's lookin' like he's not in Hope, AK
anymore passing the baton to Tipper's Tennessee Valley
Posse going head to head at Mr. old west, Wyoming Cheney
where Levis bootcut are still ten bucks and change and
if you've got odd sizes, there's probably still hemp or
leather pants for sale from Decades gone by, teamed up with
Dubba Bubba from the Texas stocks a.k.a. George "Hang 'Em Twice"
Waldo, Jr.
And Tipper's secret weapon in all this?
An old cowhand named Zion Joe, scarier'n Indian Joe because
not only can he spout off hate and drivel faster'n you can
say "sure as flies on tarpaper, he's from Konetiuk," but his
six-gun from-the-hip wife Hadassah "rapid-fire" Liebenschmaltz
is the real secret weapon behind the secret weapon.
Oh and of course there's her husband.
Expect elephants.
I'm prime anarchist, and I said that. Enjoy...
#'s run for 7:17 pm the 47th day of month #7.
Yes way.
http://www.arcweb.org
http://www.angrycoffee.com
http://geocities.com/downrun
http://WWW.UPPERDARBYTOWNSHIP.COM
http://www.savepacifica.net/strike
http://www.negativland.com/riaa/dowesue.html
http://pia.kracked.com/piamagazine/issue1/PIAissue1.txt
http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1947
http://www.netwizards.net/~acohen/nicole.html
http://members.aol.com/drovics/home.htm
http://www.thenation.com/diary/cooper
http://www.emailxtreme.com
http://GenerationNet.org
http://www.bartcop.com
> LETTUCE From Our Readers:
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> "aye tee eye haz h1z 386 4nd h3 gn0z h0w3 t3w Us3 17^#^%"
> --[malkav #2600]
You forgot to include a "translation" for those uncool oldsters who
aren't "1337" (pronounced "leet", and short for "elite"), and can't read
the W4R3Z (Warez) Language.
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"ATI has hells 386 and he knows how to use it!."
- The Cheshire Catalyst (age 50)
http://SpaceyIdeas.Com/cheshire/humor/nato.attacks.hackers.html
to ati@etext.org
Are you familiar with Nomar Garciaparra's quirky ritual that he performs
every time he comes to the plate? After each pitch he fastens and
unfastens the velcro on his batting gloves. And while the pitcher is
beginning his windup Nomar repeatedly digs first his right toe and then
his left toe into the dirt of the batter's box. He does the same thing
each time. There's a certain rhythm to it.
Well, my friend Perry tells me his girlfriend April (a serious baseball
fan) noticed that last night Nomar performed his entire ritual before
each pitch .... even though he knew he was receiving an INTENTIONAL BASE
ON BALLS!!! I guess he isn't aware of what his hands and feet are doing
when he is at bat. The man is possessed!
What do you think of Ralph Nader's position on the issues? I agree with
him more so than with any other candidate in this or any other election.
I hope lots of people vote for Nader. I realize that many people view it
as helping Bush by "robbing" Gore of votes. But in the long run it's wise
to vote for Nader and the Green Party now, because if the Green Party
gets enough votes this year it can be guaranteed federal election funding
in future elections. Then we'll truly have alternatives. But you already
knew that.
Here's an "only in America" ticket: Lieberman (a Jew) and Nader (an
Arab-American, specifically Lebanese). Both from CT, of course.
Gelf
to ati@etext.org
OK people, as you already know, this is WAR...
click and read and sign... and forward the site
to everyone you know who wants to win this one!
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Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the
LAPD's operation Monday night is that the one
way in which police did show a discriminating
use of force was by targeting the media present
at the event. One veteran journalist heard
officers receive express directions to "shoot
that [expletive] with the camera." He was shot
six times. Another freelance photographer
standing by as the protesters were dispersed
was shot in the head by an officer at point-blank
range.
[ref]-[http://www.commondreams.org/views/081600-104.htm]
POSTED IN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
by D.eny N.ational C.rimes
If i got 9 of my friends, walked to the morristown, nj municipal
building, and asked for a permit to march against the prison
industrial complex, i'd be kicked out by the mayor, my phone
would be tapped, my house searched, my family harrassed, and
i would be branded a terrorist and a thug.
it's okay though. the roman empire fell after three hundred
years to a few Goths and Vandals, too. Here's to the last
years of the amerikkkan empire.
OVERHEARD SOMEWHERE "USENETTISH"
Dear Free Market,
I'm concerned that, a few months ago, I may have eaten some
strawberries that weren't laced with pesticides or picked by
underpaid migrant workers. What should I do?
Tommy Jones
Dear Nate,
Please tell us EXACTLY who you bought the strawberries from
and we will make sure the mistake is permanently erradi-..uh...
corrected.
The Free Market
[ref]-[http://www.michaelmoore.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002241.html]
Crackdown On Dissent In Cradle Of Liberty
By Steven Slosberg
Whether Los Angeles proves more tolerant than Philadelphia toward
public displays of disaffection will be known imminently. Adam Cook,
for one, wont be there to observe the reception on the streets
surrounding the Democratic National Convention.
Hes just out on $30,000 bail after being busted in Philadelphia
at the onset of the Republic National Convention. His offenses?
Nine misdemeanors, including possessing instruments of crime such
as duct tape, chicken wire and PVC pipe. He was also charged with
conspiracy to harm a police officer.
Cook, the 26-year-old son of state Sen. Cathy Cook, a Groton
Republican, may be angry, but he is not the mad anarchist. Hes
a puppeteer.
He lives in New London, works at the Color Outpost, a graphic
design shop on State Street and studied at the Bread and Puppet
Theater in Vermont. At 6-foot-5, hes achieved rather recognizable
standing in puppeteering, including a two-man itinerant street
theater enterprise, Insurrection Landscapers.
Credentials notwithstanding, Cook was just another activist
putting together 20-foot-high puppets for a march protesting
the death penalty and criminal justice system when scores of
Philadelphia police knocked on the door of an old trolley
building in West Philadelphia. This was Aug. 1, a Tuesday
afternoon, just as the GOP convention, miles away in downtown
Philadelphia, was hitting stride.
"We asked if they had a warrant, and they responded by spraying
Mace through the mail slot," said Cook, sitting at his second-floor
worktable at the Color Outpost on Monday.
"There were 30 to 50 cop cars and helicopters. They came through
skylights and spit down on us. They sawed through the building next
door."
Police arrested some 80 people in the puppet making warehouse.
In all, nearly 400 protestors were booked during the convention.
Cook, whod staged protests against the International Monetary
Fund last spring in Washington, D.C., came to Philadelphia to
participate in demonstrations organized loosely by the Direct
Action Network. He said the protests were not as well orchestrated
as in Seattle and Washington, D.C., and the violent confrontations
with police on bicycles, motorcycles and horses were more the action
of individuals.
"Those were stupid tactics and we need to work to curb them,"
said Cook. "But you get more property destruction after a hockey
game and nobody gets treated the way we were."
Cook says he did not participate in vandalism or violence. He and
the others arrested with him -- the "Puppetistas" -- made figures out
of paper and plastic.
They were handcuffed -- most, including Cook, behind the back --
herded onto buses and spent the next 10 hours being driven around
the city in 90-degree heat inside vehicles without ventilation or
water. He wasnt physically abused, but said the handcuffs were
tighter than they had to be. Cook was kept 48 hours as a "John Doe"
in a jail cell with five other people. He is due in court in
Philadelphia in September.
All for the crime of making puppets. His possessions, including
tools, were destroyed during the raid.
He saw protest marches curtailed under the guise of charging
$10,000 for parade permits. He saw what he calls the pageantry of
protest -- theater, puppets, parades -- crushed, and confrontations
reduced precariously to cops against activists. "There is a crackdown
on political dissent," said Cook. "In Philadelphia, cradle of liberty,
they shut down the right of free speech."
As he watches LA from afar, Cook, registered as an independent,
wonders how much his vote, bolstered only by his voice and creativity,
matters. It no longer seems quite as intimidating a force for change
as, say, duct tape.
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To Beat The Devil: Parenting In Modern America
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By Patrick Moore
Part 2
"A Parent Opposes The PMRC"
I must admt that until the PMRC hearings, I had never heard of Tipper Gore.
Nor had I heard very much on her husband, Al, except that he was the son of
a powerful Tennessee senator who served in the 1950's and 1960's. But as I
watched the news reports of the hearings, I was amazed that records like
that existed.But at the same time, I had heard of very few of the groups
cited for obscene lyrics.
At that time in 1985, I was 21 years old, and living in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi. At first, my impression of the PMRC was ambivalence.
"They're not trying to censor, so what?" I thought. This is America.
We don't censor. Besides, I don't buy those records anyway.
But as time goes by, your values change.
I got married for the first time in 1986. My wife was a Catholic.
The community she was from was very close-knit. Shortly after we
got married, I was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. We lived
off-post, in Colorado Springs. It was there that she (and I) got
a heaping taste of religious bigotry. There was a church called
"Victory Chapel", a non-denominational church in Colorado Springs
that tried to "save" Catholics. Well, one day, one of the members
tried to tell her that she was an "idol-worshiper", and this hurt
her feelings deeply. I confronted the guy that did it, and he said
her religious beliefs were "wrong". Later, this same person was
busted on DWI (driving while intoxicated) charges. Nobody from
Victory Chapel was at his hearing.
One day, I found a copy of Frank Zappa's autobiography. I knew he
testified against the PMRC, but never read his testimony. It didn't
take long to realize that I should have paid more attention.
After my discharge, I returned to Mississippi. I began working at
the hospital in Itawamba County. One night, I was channel surfing,
and I caught a John Ankerberg program that dealt with rock music.
Ankerberg had a rock music "expert" by the name of Eric Holmberg
who told the TV audience that, in essence, rock music was responsible
for everything from teen suicide to bad grades. He proceeded to give
examples of "bad rock" that gave credence to his claims. He showed
album covers that, in his opinion, were anti-religious or satanic.
One of them was Dead Kennedys' "In God We Trust, Inc.", which showed
a crucifix made of dollar bills. And, of course, the Beatles' "butcher
cover"(which was never made available for retail sale, but some copies
got out with the new cover pasted over the old one).
Being the curious soul I am, I decided to put Ankerberg and company
to the test. I bought a copy of "In God We Trust, Inc.". After viewing
the TV program, I realized that Rev. Ankerberg and Co. were twisting
the truth. One day in Memphis, I spotted a copy of Jello Biafra's
"No More Cocoons" LP. On a whim, I decided to buy it. I have listened
many times since.
Later, I ordered a copy of Tipper Gore's book, "Raising PG Kids In An
X-Rated Society", the book that was mentioned on "No More Cocoons".
Jello was more truthful than Tipper. My first impression of the book
was that Tipper had not the faintest clue what was going on in America.
In short, she struck me as someone who had little, if any, idea what
parenting in America was about.
In 1992, my son Matt was born. Because Cathy had complications during
birth and gestational diabetes, we decided that one was enough. As a
parent now, I began to pay closer attention to what was being done in
the name of "the children". Most often, those who gave the impression
of "helping" kids were actually furthering their own agendas. And, in
the long run, these agendas were harmful not just for children, but
for all of society in general. And, it was up to me, as a parent, to
guard against such things.
Part 3: Parenting in the New Economy
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I listen to the men talk, and
I try to keep my mouth shut, because
Everything they say
Pisses me off.
They talk about the old times,
They say that things were better
Before the world was run
By niggers and cunts.
I sit in the corner, and
Listen to their bullshit
While they spread their lies and hate.
As their asses get bigger
>From all the beer they drink,
I watch the minutes tick by,
And wish that I weren't here-
Because in their twisted minds
I know it's all my fault.
