Archive for October, 2004

Need A Costume for your Kid?

Friday, October 29th, 2004

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Have no fear! Seattle's The Stranger has you covered.

Check out this article for some great political-statement costumes for your little ones. Complete with description, how to, cost and time to construct.

Above, we have my personal favorite, The Lyndie England

Transform Daddy's little girl into America's NEW favorite bad girl, Private First Class Lyndie England. For the costume, simply add an invisible-dog leash from a novelty shop to a pair of camouflage pants and a khaki-colored shirt from your local Army/Navy surplus store. (Candy cigarette optional.)

Total cost: Under $30.
Total time: Under an hour.

Wonderful!

Huge Anti-Bush Ad

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

As Lady and I were driving to the Post Office earlier tonight – and by the way, the main Post Office in Illy is open until MIDNIGHT but that's a whole different post – I spotted a huge ad on the side of a very large building right on the east side of the Schuylkill across from the Post Office. It was W's smirking face and there was text underneath. And then the text changed to more text. And then the photo changed. It was a huge projected slide show. It seemed like 3 projectors in all, judging from the changing slides above and underneath the main photo, but who knows, it may be one huge, building-projecting-sized projector. The mother of all projectors.

I have no idea who put it up there or how long it's going to be up there for, but it was awesome. If I can remember, I'm going to try to get back there and take some photos of it tomorrow night with my tripod.

Eminem's 'Mosh' Lyrics

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible…
It feels so good to be back..

I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel and re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has held onto few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back

[Chorus:]
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)

All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)

[Chorus]

Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six…
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.

[Chorus]

And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy's hear us…hear us…[laughing] (Hailie)

Eminem Speaks Out

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Eminem's newest single, "Mosh" is some good stuff. See it here via the Guerrila News Network, who created the video.

If MTV plays this non-stop, there should be enough newly registered, young voters going to vote, against the Liar in Chief that it should be a landslide for Kerry-Edwards.

"Mosh for the future of our next generation."

Get your black hoodies on and vote.

Al Qaqaa Explosives, Actual Footage

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

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You bet your ass that's a photo of some of the 380 tons of explosives and what not that were later removed by who knows who from the Al Qaqaa munitions dump.

Thank you KSTP of Minnesota for using cool technology [GPS receivers] to triangulate your exact location.

A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared, and may have videotaped some of those weapons.

The missing explosives are now an issue in the presidential debate. Democratic candidate John Kerry is accusing President Bush of not securing the site they allegedly disappeared from. President Bush says no one knows if the ammunition was taken before or after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003 when coalition troops moved in to the area.

Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne Division, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has determined the crew embedded with the troops may have been on the southern edge of the Al Qaqaa installation, where the ammunition disappeared. The news crew was based just south of Al Qaqaa, and drove two or three miles north of there with soldiers on April 18, 2003.

Watch The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert report on the Al Quaqaa mess here.

Counterfeit Tickets

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

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The NY Times has uncovered a new scandal, counterfeit tickets! Good lordy, Circuits really has to get with the times [pun] and start doing some stories on more current thangs. Counterfeit tickets have been around forever. Yes, these newest tickets look better than older ones using scanners and nice glossy paper, but c'mon.

Things that they could be covering instead:

And so many more things other than sports tickets.

While Circuits does have some great and very indepth articles, methinks that they really need to get more cutting edge, ya dig?

58,000 Broward County Ballots Missing

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Yes, you read that right. Broward County mailed out 60,000 absentee ballots. Only 2,000 ballots have been returned. That means 58,000 ballots are mising. That's a 3% return rate.

The missing ballots have fuelled an atmosphere of intense suspicion in Florida, with Democrats already backing nine separate law suits in the state, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.

If the outcome is close and decides the result in the presidential race – and both of those eventualities are perfectly possible – it seems virtually certain that protracted legal battles will follow, our correspondent says.

More Florida hijinks are sure to follow in the coming week[s].

Return of the King Special Edition DVD

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

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It's getting closer until the Return of the King Platinum Series Special 4 disc DVD comes out. December 14th!

From December 14 through the 16th, I shall be watching the 4 DVD set during every free moment I have. Normally, on the day the new LoTR 4 DVD set comes out, I watch the entire extended version of the film in a sitting. This one has a solid 50 extra minutes of new footage bringing the total to 250 minutes. That's 4 hours and 10 minutes. 4 Sweet sweet hours of LoTR goodness. Then, on the second day, I watch one DVD of extra footage and then on the third day, I watch the final DVD of extra footage. The extra footage is usually around 5 hours of stuff. And yes, I watch all this straight. Crazy? I don't think so.

Bill Clinton, Back Stumpin'

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

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This is definitely the best photo from Monday's rally in Philly that I've found so far. Oh Bill. You've still got it.

Here's a final edit of my photos from the rally here.

Photo: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

Frontline: Rumsfeld's War

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

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Last night, PBS aired it's latest Frontline piece, Rumsfeld's War. It outlines his rise to power from the Nixon administration [when he initially brought Tricky Dick "Angry Father" Cheney into the fray] to the current administration of shame. It gives quite a bit of insight into the interaction between Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and others, but primarily those three. To no surprise, the two really hate Powell, but being the good soldier that he is, he will "stay the course" and not break formation. What a shame.

Starting on the 28th, you can watch the entire program here along with 30+ past great Frontline programs. I'm gonna get to all of them someday.