We have to call on the First Lady of Jazz, Ms. Ella Fitzgerald, to take us out of the week
Snap your fingers and tap your toes (Well, musically, not that other way) to "Bush's Place (also known as C-Jam Blues - you decide what the "C" should be for).
Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against the regime's recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese embassies.
Embassies in the UK, Thailand, Australia and Singapore have all been targeted by the "Panties for Peace" campaign, co-ordinated by an activist group based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
"Not only are they brutal, but they are also very superstitious. They believe that touching a woman's pants or sarong will make them lose their strength," Ms Pollack told Guardian Unlimited.
Too bad J. Edgar Hoover wasn't still around, to give the Junta's security some assistance ... I'm sure he'd want to personally investigated all the evidence ...
Or the surprises of surprises ... Who knew that Britney Spears was into activism? ... Bonus Link
7. Thought recruits were political savvy when a good number of them indicated they knew former Congressman Mark Foley
6. Were encouraged by the female (lesbian) recruits and how forcefully they said they'd have absolutely no problem with staying away from men while on duty
5. Understood GLBT to be a Guacamole, Lettuce, Bacon, and Tomato sandwich
4. Thought the questions about if the "PX carried K-Y" was a reference to one of those new energy drinks
Late Pontiff's Bend Was Measured "Religiously"; Never Used Contingency "Roller Skate Gloves".
The Vatican, this morning, dashed the hopes of a Polish photographer, indicating that a picture of a bonfire claiming to resemble Pope John Paul II, in his classic "blessing" pose, is not the late Pontiff.
After studying the photograph, the Vatican indicates that the "flames are not hunched over enough to be authentic."
"We can say this with certainty," offered a Vatican spokesperson.
"His Excellency was religiously measured, monitored and tracked, for the bend in his back. We have very precise measurements on this and the flames in the photo do not correspond to our records."
"You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Cielecki and Lukasik drew the attention of the Vatican, only after they allegedly signed deals with eBay and GoldenPalace.Com, to purchase the photograph, and the ashes left over from the bonfire.
It was said the price dropped due to the pair not being able to sell the bonfire, while it was lit, as well as not having the official endorsement of The Vatican.
A second rumor says that the sale was complicated by The Vatican's insistence of receiving a larger percentage of the sale.
New Discovery
In damping down the "Flaming Pope", as it is called inside The Vatican, journalists were offered to look over the voluminous register book on the recordings of Pope John Paul's hunched back.
Measurements were taken daily, and escalated to twice daily in his last few years, with specially-designed "Papal Calipers" and included weekly xrays.
Also included in the measurement book were detailed design sketches of what was titled "Roller Skate Gloves".
Officials in The Vatican were concerned that Pope John Paul's hunching was increasing, and, potentially, if he lived longer, he would be bent completely over and, in order to complete even some basic perfunctory tasks, as well as move around the vast Vatican palace, some mechanical device would be needed.
A wheel chair was ruled out by John Paul himself, not wanting to appear weak to his flock.
The specs for the "Roller Skate Gloves" called for them to be gold-plated, and trimmed in red.
In a related story, Catholic League President William Donohue lambasted liberals and gays, claiming that they were "biased and prejudiced" against flames resembling Catholics.
"I happen to think the situation in Iraq is complex -- one that requires an impenetrable stand on the issue."
Satirist Barry Crimmins, donning his weathered fedora and dusty gumshoes, caught up with the all-but-crowned, front-running Democrat candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton, "on the campaign trail in Pork, Iowa" for a little sit down ...
Power comes from lying ... Lying big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you ... Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you get them by the balls
Just curious there, piano girl, but do you ever see yourself on television? Do you review your public statements, so, theoretically, you don't go out the next time and put your knee-high-booted foot in your mouth?
"In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.
"I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma," said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament."
First off, when did the memo go out that Russia was a beacon of democracy?
Are they going with an a la carte democracy, or did they buy the Starter Kit, complete with a ready-to-go Constitution and a bonus set of "Mission Accomplished" banners?
And, if they are installing the Bush-Style Democracy, they shouldn’t have any problems complying with their FISA Act, being, if it takes a week to make a phone call, there's plenty of time to get down to the courts for the warrants.
Secondly, and here you have the boatload of irony, did it occur to you there Missy ... Well, better asked ... Is not having countervailing institutions and "the power of any one president" a problem for already-established democracies?
I'm surprised Putin didn't laugh in your face and shoot back - "You, mean, like in your country!"
What started out, in the Dog Days of Summer, of taking a week, or two, respite, turned into ... Well ... We got kind of lazy and carried away with the new-found freedom ...
At least we left a poll up that had legs ... Is there anything that isn't being recalled today?
Lead hasn't been in the news this much since Murder Incorporated was in business ... Or, the old George Reeves "Adventures of Superman" show aired, and it was one of the many episodes of Superman being saved by a house built of lead, a lead shield ... Something prominent that was made of lead that Lois or Jimmy would happen to come up with.
Now, you have to think, if Superman was real, how would he, after all, believing in that "Truth, Justice and the American Way" thing, deal with the Bush Grindhouse?
The Results - The Garlic's Weekly Poll August 14 - October 14, 2007
Fearful of China, the Bush Grindhouse is calling Mattel's Toy Recall ...
1. The Exploration of Healthy Toys Tally 36%
2. A new terrorist threat, probably committed by al Qaeda in Iraq Tally 35%
3. The Clean Shelves Act Tally 17%
4. A Faith-Based Cultural Withdrawal Tally 11%
This week’s Poll -If Al Qaeda in Iraq is vanquished, President Bush will have to ...
Scroll up to the top right corner to place your vote
Something Moody, Something Moola Something Rudy, Something Payola And a silver-lined no-bid contract for Motorola
And this man, exploiting 9/11 like it was an entitlement, wants to be President? ... God Help Us all if that every comes to play ...
One thing that could put a dent in America's Mayor's balloon is this new video - The Real Rudy - from Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films.
This BNF investigative report calls attention to four key questions about Rudy's handling of the broken radios from firemen's families and experts:
Why was nothing done to improve FDNY radio performance for seven years after a clear need was demonstrated in the 1993 World Trade Center attack?
When new radios were finally ordered, why did the city block other companies besides Motorola from bidding on the contract? Once Motorola was given the contract, why did its cost jump from $1.4 million to $14 million?
Why were these new radios never tested?
These questions should and must be investigated. New York City councilman Eric Gioia has the power to begin an investigation. If we can garner enough attention and signers, we have a major opportunity to help launch an investigation.
Check out the new video and use the links to sign the petition
Something, I'm sure, the Neocons will be curled up with bewilderment, for years, is how did the most powerful Vice President in history allow his best buddy to be fired? Oh, my goodness gracious!, how did he let one of them get axed?
Rummy is, after all, the flawed architect of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq, the artist of the Katzenjammer Kids blueprint these Neocons drew up. And while he was glib at the earliest stages of the disaster, you have to think how Rummy would have reacted, in his former heyday as CEO of the Searle Drug Co., if one of his production managers offered, as the reason for a failed batch, "stuff happens".
Was it a Tessio moment, as in 'The Godfather', when the former loyal capo is made for his plot, and blurts out "Hell, he can't do that ... It screws up all my plans ..."
Hard to put the Genie back in the bottle without calling attention to himself.
Best he could do, very pointedly, was to call his Armageddon-weekend pal "The finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had,”
As to Jimmy Carter ... The VP must have run out of ink, furiously scribbling notes in the column on this one, albeit, with no Covert-CIA Agent-wife to expose in retribution.
How frustrating.
Along with "denouncing Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster", in the BBC World News America interview, the peanut-farming, home-building ex-Prez also added;
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
I'm sure he's not feeling like "Dick, The Magic Vice-Prez" these days. Rummy, and The Scooter, are gone and his current staff of law-breaking, Constitutional Stormtroopers must be tiring of having that same "Let's bomb Iran" conversation every day.
