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Tao's of Pauly's Top 11 Movies about WritersAnniversary Party Author Author Barton Fink Deconstructing Harry Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Finding Forrester Henry and June State and Main Where the Buffalo Roam World According to Garp Wonder Boys ***All these films you should see, if you have, see them again*** | Permalink | The Fuji Rock Festival in Tokyo, Japan has been going on. My friend Yuh, a Japhan whom I met in Tokyo for the 2000 Phish tour writes this mini review (in English I might add!): "Fuji Rock was very good. I saw a lot of bands: Galactic, String Cheese Incident and Karl Denson and also a few Japanese (bands). Galactic was really cool. They were better than last year. They played with Karl Denson and George Clinton. SCI were good, too. They became to play a little techno taste during jam. And Travis (from SCI) joined Karl Denson. I, Jun and Kohey saw ZOBO at SCI show. He was excited to gather us and to see a lot of Japanese friends. And .... it seemed he traveled with Japanese girl, then he said all Japanese girls loved Zobo. Do you think so? I don't wanna believe it!" By the way, I can't stop laughing at the last two sentences! Domo Arigato, Yuh! | Permalink | $6 or $60? a great article written by Thomas Friedman in today's NY Times. Here's an excerpt: "Depending on how the war went, that impact could be very bad and lead to a sharp spike in oil prices, like $60-a-barrel oil. But — wait a minute — it could also be very good, and lead to $6-a-barrel oil that would weaken OPEC and, maybe, also weaken the Arab autocrats who depend on high oil prices to finance their illegitimate regimes and buy off opponents..." | Permalink | Tuesday, July 30, 2002
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end." - Henry Miller | Permalink | From an e-mail I wrote to Boogie yesterday: "I shall rescue you with morid tales of catostrophic disbelief, innocence lost, sibling betrayal, corporate sexual scandals, erotic revenge and pants dropping laughter. but enough of my weekend trip to Canada to see the Pope..." | Permalink | Señor to Star in Cambodian TV SeriesYes! Señor has been the latest pop culture hit in Cambodia after he filmed a local version of the reality based/inspired series of Meet the Parents: Cambodia. Here's what Señor said about the last episode: "Today this chick took me to meet her whole family, I'm talking parents, aunts, uncles, cousins... and none of them speaks a word of english!!!!! They all stared at me, touched me and smiled, it was bizarre." | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball UpdateWeek 2 Update as of 7.29.02 @ 1:18pm TOP 5: 1 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly 1) 995 2 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 895 3 Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly 2) 886 4 Subway Rats (Spider McNamara) 866 5 The Money Shots (Jessica) 862 Team of the Week: Rib Boy's Latrells (423 points in Week 2) For a complete update visit: Pauly's Pub Overall Standings (Top 5): 1. Furcal's Phisheads 5382 (1) 2. Pauly's Pranksters 5231 (2) 3. Rib Boy's Latrells 5132 (5) 4. Holla Atmeyoes! 5112 (3) 5. JD McNugents 5022 (4) For a complete standings visit: Pauly's Pub | Permalink | Monday, July 29, 2002
"The rest of the country looks at New York like we're left-wing, Communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers. I think of us that way sometimes, and I live here." - Woody Allen | Permalink | Donut Diet: 8 Days since I gave up eating donuts! I have a new economic-dieting theory. Ever since I gave up eating donuts last weekend, the Dow is up 590 points! Coincidence? | Permalink | Today's predicted high tempature: 97º. It's gonna be a HOT muthafucka in the big city today. | Permalink | Blog! is an article written by William Safire in the NY Times Sunday Magazine, explaining the recent web log trend sweeping the internet. I wonder if they have seen the TAO? | Permalink | Sunday, July 28, 2002
Lance Armstrong First American to Win Fourth Tour de France Here's a bit from Espn.com: "PARIS- Lance Armstrong is getting used to this, cruising toward the tree-lined Champs-Elysees with a bright yellow jersey on his back and a glass of champagne in his hand... for the fourth straight year, Lance Armstrong was wearing yellow in Paris...the Texan with the iron legs to match his will handily won his fourth Tour de France... to the cheers of thousands of fans, many waving U.S. flags, who lined the famous boulevard." | Permalink | Saturday, July 27, 2002
I'm writing a new novel. It's offical. I started the new one, oh, about three weeks ago. But I threw it out. All of it. Yes, this morning, I chucked it, and started a re-write. Draft #2. That's when I know it's a serious idea... when I scrap what I got and start again from Page 1. I have been riding a steady wave of inspiration the last few weeks, coupled with a freshly discovered confidence in my writing ability (thanks to the support of my new Tuesday's Writers Group) and the particpation of my friends and fellow scribes with my projects (Truckin & E-Story) which has really gotten my creative juices flowing and the words are seeping out of my head and brain and need to go somewhere... So far the new novel is called: Untitled 2002. Exciting, huh! If I write one page a day, I will have a 340 page novel by July 4, 2003. That's my goal. I'm being as realistic as I can regarding my time, taking into account my employment circumstances and lack of time to write, in addition to sharing my writing time with the daily ramblings to the TAO and the monthly E-Zine, Truckin'. More updates to come... | Permalink | • I just added a couple of things to the left side of the TAO... it's to let you know what exactly I'm writing these days. Have you noticed them, just after the Dostoevesky quote? Here's a quick explanation: Featured Projects: completed ramblings or websites that I wrote or published, for example, I finished the July issue of Truckin' yesterday. Upcoming Projects: are recently completed projects that I will be publishing soon, like E-Story 4: Merry's Gift, which comes out on August 1st. Current Projects: stuff I'm working on like the TV sitcom or my novel, or the next issue of Truckin or E-Story. | Permalink | Fighter Crash Kills 78 at Ukraine Air Show A Ukrainian fighter jet hurtled to the ground and cartwheeled in flames into crowds at an air display in Lviv, killing at least 78 people and injuring 115 in the world's deadliest air show disaster. Princeton Hacks into Bush Niece's Yale Admissions Files An IVY twist to this latest Princeton-Yale hacking cyber scandal. Lauren Bush, a model with the New York firm Elite, was accepted at Yale and Princeton. | Permalink | F-16s Pursue UFO over Washington?? From the Washington Post: "Military officials confirm that two F-16 jets from Andrews Air Force Base were scrambled early yesterday after radar detected an unknown aircraft in area airspace. But they scoff at the idea that the jets were chasing a strange and speedy, blue unidentified flying object." | Permalink | Just got an e-mail from Señor!! He returned to Asia on Wednesday. Here's a bit: "Now I am in Cambodia and have already met up with two cuties I was friends with from last trip. It's great... like Señor's Reunion Tour." Comment from Jessica on the Señor Reunion Tour: "Handsome Little Man with Lots of Hair... that's what Señor means in Cambodian." Editor's Note: Señor is actually 5 feet 7 inches tall, a good 6 or 7 inches taller than the average Cambodian woman. I always thought Señor in Cambodian loosely translated to: Smiling man who drops his pants during the monsoon. | Permalink | "It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons." - Henry Miller | Permalink | Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe is an article in this week's Village Voice. It's scary and something you all must read. Here's my favorite line: "Privacy may seem like a luxury in a nation at war, but that moral concept lies at the heart of constitutionally guaranteed liberties. That's why so many people are willing to fight for it." | Permalink | Heady News Osbournes Sued Over Sitcom Idea A Los Angeles-based producer has sued Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, claiming that the couple stole his idea. Unabomber Essay Urges Attacks on 'Techno-Industrial System' In an article published this spring by Green Anarchy, a radical environmental newsletter, Kaczynski calls on revolutionaries to "eliminate the entire techno-industrial system." Great, the Unabomber gets published AGAIN while I sit in my studio, poor and unpublished. What has our world come to? | Permalink | Friday, July 26, 2002
Truckin'NEW!! July 2002 Issue This month's issue features the thrid and fourth installments of Señor's Asian travel stories which take place in Laos and Myanmar. He's back! Armando Huerta returns with a humorous tale of local hospitality in Greece, during a recent business trip. Jessica E. Lapidus writes about Paris and Piagalle. First time writer, Zobo tells us all about his three days of fun and music at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennesse. And I wrote about an interesting day in Reykjavik, Iceland. Relax, enjoy, and please tell your friends about Truckin'. Thanks for all your support. Salukis! McG •The Worst Subway Ride by Tenzin McGrupp •I Love Greece by Armando Huerta •Réjouissance by Jessica E. Lapidus •Señor, Your Plane Is Waiting For You... by Señor •La Bakeri by Tenzin McGrupp •Bonnaroo by Mark 'ZOBO' Zoblotsky •Deep Thoughts: Myanmar by Señor Visit and Read: Truckin' | Permalink | "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love." - Henry Miller | Permalink | Thursday, July 25, 2002
News Alert... Boy's Penis Re-attached After Donkey Bites It Off Rabat, Morocco: Surgeons have managed to stitch back a boy's penis after it was bitten off by a donkey. No word on how or why it was bitten off. | Permalink | Heady News Expert: Asteroid May Hit Earth, but Don't Panic! A massive asteroid might hit Earth in 2019, a British scientist said. Other space experts say they are pretty confident this nightmare scenario will not come about. Any rate be on the look out for 2002 NT7! The Mayans figured the end of the world will be Decemeber 21, 2012, the exact date their calendar ends. For more information on the end of the world Mayan style, visit Survive 2012.com. Their 2012 end-date predicted a special happening in our universe… kids, I hope to be living in Iceland by then. In business news... DOW SOARS 489 Points for a record setting day on Wall Street. It was the best day for 2002 and it ssnapped a 4 day losing streak. The 489 point gain in one day was also the second largest in history. BUT stocks are expected to dip today as lingering concerns about murky corporate accounting weigh on the market despite a dramatic late-day rally yesterdayy. AOL Time Warner is the next comapny under scrutiny. | Permalink | "During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent act of stupidity." - Nietzsche | Permalink | Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Heady News Update SF Considering Growing Own San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to get into the pot-growing business to supply patients with medicinal marijuana, under a measure headed for the November ballot. NYSE Considering 2nd Trading Floor in Burbs The New York Stock Exchange, which has operated in lower Manhattan for 210 years, may move half its trading to Westchester County to ensure the market stays open after a disaster. Splitting trading between two active floors, miles apart, would allow the NYSE to operate in the wake of a terrorist attack or other event that destroyed its floor and killed its traders. More brokers were killed on 9.11 than firefighters and police, a sad stat that is often overlooked. | Permalink | "My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am." - Henry Miller | Permalink | Tuesday, July 23, 2002
"I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances— from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Permalink | Morning News IRAN Paid $10 Million to Cover Up Bombing Iran bribed Argentina's then-President Carlos Menem $10 million to cover up an anti-Jewish bombing in 1994, said a New York Times report on Monday that was rejected by both Iran and Menem's family. Menem plans on suing the NY Times Guardian Unlimited Launching the First Competition to Find the Best British Blog The winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and five runners-up will receive £100 each for the best weblog. I just entered, under the name Prince Harry Pothead and my site: The Tao of Harry Pothead. Israeli Air Strike Kills Hamas Commander Israel killed the commander of the military wing of Hamas, 14 other Palestinians and wounded at least 145 others in an air attack in the Gaza Strip. Hamas Vows Revenge. ENRON Paper Trail Leads to CITIGROUP Citigroup said to mold deal to help Enron skirt rules. Prince Ahmed Dies of a Heart Attack Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz became the first Arab owner to win the Kentucky Derby. Monday, the genial owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner War Emblem died of a heart attack at age 43, shocking the thoroughbred racing world. Personally, I think he was WHACKED. | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball ChallenegeSecond Half - Week 1B Update Top 5: 1 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly #1) 656 2 Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly #2) 587 3 Subway Rats (Spider McNamara) 547 4 Tytanic Tyrants (Ty Lockhart) 528 5 The Money Shots (Jessica) 524 5 JD's McNugents (J D McNugent ) 524 Team of the Week: Pauly's Pranksters Check Pauly's Pub for Complete Update Overall Standings: 1. Furcal's Phisheads 5083 2. Pauly's Pranksters 4892 3. Holla Atmeyoes! 4800 4. JD's McNugents 4725 5. Rib Boy's Latrells 4709 Check Pauly's Pub for Complete Standings | Permalink | Monday, July 22, 2002
Funny Shit!Hilarious Cannabis Cartoons can be found at this sight. I can speak muthafuckin German, I just can't read muthafuckin German. Anyway, pot humor is just plain funny in any language. Some of these cartoons are trippy funny stuff! This artist is pretty good. "Make the most of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere!" - Geroge Washington, 1794 | Permalink | Gil Shapir was in a nasty car accident yesterday near midtown. He tells me he's OK, but went to the hospital this morning to make sure everything is OK. Send him Good and Happy Thoughts... HERE! | Permalink | "Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error. " - Goethe "Apparently, no one told this to Arthur Andersen." - Dave Simanoff | Permalink | Morning News Girl Injures Herself Trying to Fly Like Harry Potter Only in North Carolina. NY Yankees Take 2 out of 3 from the Boston Red Sox as they rally in the 9th inning to beat the hated Redsox. Read another article on the Yankees win! They are now in first place, up 4 games on the Sox. | Permalink | Buiness News... I was told upon arriving at work, that today will be one wild day and I should make sure I'm wearing a helmet, safety goggles and if necessary, a bulletproof vest. More to come. The Asian and European markets have been down since they opened earlier this morning. Even the chairman of the NYSE says Monday Will Be a Rough Day. I got a stern warning from one of the partners today: DO NOT LOSE ANY CLIENTS TODAY... IF YOU DO, YOU LOSE YOUR JOB!!! Gulp! Investors are starting to panic, have been doing so the last 2 weeks and I expect them to pull even more cash out of the stock market. Alas, if I can get through today, I'll have a job AND survived one of the toughest days on Wall Street in the last 50 years. I should have gone to medical school and been a doctor. In other sad news, Worldcom Files for Bankruptcy WorldCom Inc. filed the largest U.S. bankruptcy last night after the long-distance telephone and data services company buckled under a $3.85 billion accounting scandal and a mountain of junk-rated debt. | Permalink | Sunday, July 21, 2002
"The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack out of him." - Henry Miller I could not have summed up how I feel right now, any better than what Miller wrote. Merci, HM! | Permalink | Got my ER Bill from Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan this week. I have to pay 100% of it because I have no insurance. Here's the rundown: ER Visit Charge: $550 X-Ray Charge: 3 Fingers: $132 Radiology Charge: $25 NY State Surcharge: $55.79 Total: $752.79 $752.79 is the price I am billed for getting my finger snapped back into place by an Ivy League educated, White, Jewish, male doctor who speaks perfect English, that works in a hospital in near Spanish Harlem. If you haven't been to an ER in NYC recently, then you wouldn't know just how lucky I got to have to pay top dollar for the best doctor on rotation that morning. If you would like to donate any money to the Tao of Pauly ER Bill Fund send me an E-mail and I'll write you back more information on how you can help. | Permalink | String Cheese Incident covered the Talking Heads song Burning Down the House during a short acoustic set during last night's show at Radio City Music Hall. Here's the setlist: SCI 7.20.02 Radio City Music Hall, NYC Set 1: Round the Wheel Lost > Dudley's Kitchen Ten Miles to Tulsa Turn This Around > Dear Prudence > Turn This Around Freedom Jazz Dance Restless Wind Set 2: Acoustic Elvis' Wild Ride Sittin' on Top of the World Burning Down the House ??? Acoustic Set ends Windy Mountain > Best Feeling > Emma's Dream > Miss Brown's Teahouse Encore: Way Back Home | Permalink | Cowards is an article written by Oliver North for the Freedom Alliance. Ollie writes about Israel and how Americans are cowards for not visiting and spending their money there. I agree. It's what I call the pussification of America. Here's an excerpt: "It took me a few days to figure it out. The shuttered shops, lonely overlooks, and empty vistas were a manifestation of cowardice. That's a pretty tough word, but I can think of no other. The fearfulness isn't that of Israelis. The much maligned people of this nation have made the Negev bloom, the skyline of Tel Aviv and the hills around the New City of Jerusalem bristle with high-rise businesses and condos in a building boom that rivals that of any nation on earth. And they have done it all with one hand holding a weapon to protect themselves from angry, resentful and bitter neighbors. And the apprehension isn't in the hearts or minds of Israeli Arabs who live in peace with their Jewish neighbors here in this much-contested capital city. No, the fear resides instead with pusillanimous pilgrims, the craven "Christians," and cowardly Jews of Europe and the United States who have decided to stay home, giving the two-bit street thugs of Yassir Arafat's Al Aqsa suicide brigades and Hamas, a victory they could never have won against the people of Israel." More Heady News... Israeli Train Attacked After High-Level Talks A bomb planted under an Israeli passenger train wounded its driver today in an attack that clouded prospects for easing Israeli restrictions on Palestinians under curfew in seven reoccupied West Bank cities. California Court: No Prosecution for Medical Pot Users In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court reasserted the voter-approved law granting ill patients the right to use marijuana for medical purposes without fear of prosecution. Fire up, Johnnie. | Permalink | Saturday, July 20, 2002
Breaking News... Explosion at East Village Power Plant leaves parts of downtown without power. From the NY-1 Website: "Nearby roads, including 14th Street to FDR Drive, and FDR from Houston to 34th Street as well as other adjacent roads, have been closed as emergency crews including police, ambulances and National Guard, respond to the scene." Other Heady News Angelina Dumps Billy Bob Ms. Jolie is single again after she gives Billy Bob the heave ho! What happened to their Cambodian baby? Who gets custody? Princess Lizzie Cries in Court Belle of the Bawl: Lizzie Grubman became the Princess of Wails yesterday, crying for forgiveness outside a Long Island courtroom. | Permalink | String Cheese Incident 7.19.02 Radio City Music Hall, NYC Set 1: Cedar Laurels Dirk > Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms ??? MLT Little Hands > Roundabout Set 2: Born on the Wrong Planet > Tom Thumb's Blues County Road Blues Jellyfish > Sand Dollar > Rollover Encore: Remington Ride | Permalink | "You argue Jerry is missing from the mix and it can't be the same anymore. I argue that he's here - every time you notice him gone poof he's back, in the things and ways he created to outlive him, ways of doing music, a peculiar sense of humor to it all and an attitude to life that we all partake in, each changed by him to function more honestly and directly with the world, knowing our only weapon is mutual love, good humor and music. A sure strong knowledge that if this can't save us, nothing will." - Robert Hunter about Jerry Garcia Henry Miller Quote of the Day: "We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full... but we are all potentially free." | Permalink | Heady News Update Lance Armstrong Wins Second Straight Stage; Holds Overall Lead in the Tour de France. US Medical Pot Users Flee to Canada US cannabis refugees cross border as persecuted medicinal marijuana users seek asylum in Canada. Couple Busted in Illegal Botox Operation Patients of a Queens couple who ran an illegal Botox and liposuction business that left at least two patients disfigured are being urged to come forward, while investigators are also looking for another person who may have posed as a fake doctor in Washington Heights. | Permalink | Friday, July 19, 2002
DOW Tumbles Below 9.11 Low The Dow suffered a devastating 4.8 percent loss today, tumbling below its post Sept. 11 intraday low to levels not seen since September 1998 in its ninth down day over the past ten. The blue-chip barometer has fallen almost 14 percent since the start of the month. Bob Dylan said it best: "It's a hard rains that's gonna fall." | Permalink | CONAGRA Orders 2nd Largest Beef Recall After 19 people reported they are ill after a potential contamination with a deadly bacteria. ConAgra's recall of more than 18.6 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef. | Permalink | Breaking News Police Arrest Suspect in Samantha Runnion Murder Police said on Friday they had arrested a man suspected of the abduction and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. His name is Alejandro Avila. | Permalink | Lounge 225 Hosted a Rowdy Poker GameIt was an epic night of card playing in the backyard of Lounge 225 in the East Village last night. A 4 hour and 40 minute game came to an end right before 1am earlier this morning. Mike Ying was the big winner taking home a cool $45 in cash from the rest of us saps. I walked away with $4 in winnings after being down $20 in the first 90 minutes. I rallied back only to lose a crucial $15 hand of Kings and Little Men. I thought I had enough to win, but my four of a kind TENS were no match for Spider's four ACES! Gil, Senor, Gittler, Darryl rounded out the rest of the seats in the 90 plus degree sweltering summer air. The highlight, without a doubt was the now infamous window incident... which I will blog more later!! Stay tuned for this epic story of sheer erotica. | Permalink | Good article sent to me from Gil: Analysis: An Israeli view of foreign news coverage Describes the various news channels coverage in Israel. DOW is down 277... er 278 points as I type this. I have been on the phones non stop since 7:57am. Now the DOW is down 280.64 points. It's gonna be another wild ride. | Permalink | Updates...The July issue of Truckin' will be out next friday... I just started a new E-Story called E-Story 4: Merry's Gift which will be posted in a couple of weeks. | Permalink | Child Killer Still On Loose in California A violent sexual predator who police warned would strike again soon after killing 5-year-old Samantha Runnion was still on the loose in California despite a massive manhunt and more than 1,000 leads from the public. Julia Butterfly in Ecuador Jail After Oil Protest An excerpt: "The little gringos have been arrested, including the old cockatoo who climbs trees," Ecuadoran President Gustavo Noboa said of Hill." | Permalink | OK, thanks to Girtz who is always looking out for the TAO. He told me earlier in the evening that he had noticed a slowdown in recent blogs to the TAO and wonered what was up. Well, Girtz, here are my three excuses: •Swamped at work, no time to blog the last 48 hours. •Blogger was down this morning when I attempted to blog a few news articles. •I took the afternoon off yesterday to enjoy our 95 degree weather. All blogs today are deadicated to Girtz! | Permalink | "Life is like an open sea and the truth is the wind in our sails." - Talib Kweli (Lyric sent to me from Chris in El Paso.) | Permalink | Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Investors Head for Home Sweet Home is an article written by David Simanoff and appears on the front page of today's edition of the Tampa Tribune. | Permalink | "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason." - Hunter S. Thompson Thanks to The Daily Dave for the accurate HST quote. Dave Simanoff, star reporter for the Tampa Tribune found the original quote, which had been altered and manipulated and misquoted over the years. Even by yours truly! | Permalink | Breaking News... Seven Reported Killed in Ambush of Israeli Bus This just off the news wire. Palestinian gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus near the Jewish settlement of Emanuel in the West Bank today, killing at least seven people and wounding about 20 others. | Permalink | In other news... Four Arrested on Cannibalism Charges Ukraine's police have arrested three men and a woman on suspicion of murdering five people and then eating their flesh. Yes, I won't having the Chicken Kiev tonight. El Duque and Joe Torre Tossed from Game Yankees starter Orlando Hernandez was ejected in the seventh inning after hitting Carlos Delgado with a pitch. Three pitches earlier, Hernandez threw behind Delgado. The Blue Jays slugger took a step toward the mound and screamed at Hernandez. Yankees manager Joe Torre also was tossed. Toronto starter Steve Parris hit Jason Giambi and Chris Widger early in the game. Blue Jays reliever Corey Thurman threw over the head of Widger and Derek Jeter in the sixth. Scott Cassidy almost hit Jeter with a pitch in the eighth. | Permalink | Monday, July 15, 2002
My Complaint E-Mail to AOL Original Sender: McGrupp@aol.com To: AOL Complaints Re: SPAM Once again I am writing to complain about the HIGH volume of SPAM going to my AOL account. These sex emails have to stop. I do not have children (yet) and this is one reason why I will make sure we don't use AOL in the future of this continues. This has to stop, and please do not send or FWD me one of those FORM letters telling me how hard you are working on this problem, b/c thats all you send me when I complain. ACTION! I like to see action, not talk. Do something about this very soon, or I will pull my AOL account. I have been looking into Net zero and Earthlink and my coworkers tell me they do a MUCH BETTER JOB THAN AOL at reducing spam and those SEX XXX emails. I am loyal to AOL, been so since JAN 1997, and I foolishly shell out over $200 a year to be harassed. Maybe it's time for a change b/c im not feeling the LOVE from AOL. The only love I'm getting is from those nasty horny teenage cheerleaders who email me up to ten times a day to tell me that they want me to see their naked bodies and ejaculate on them while their new voyeur cam captures all this for their latest website. THEY Seem to be doing a better job at selling their product than you do. Yours in heat, McGrupp Editor's Note: I know, I know. I LIED about the kids part. But who cares, it's fucking AOL! | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball Challenge 2nd Half Results Week 1 Update Top 5: 1 Subway Rats (Spider McNamara) 250 2 Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly 2) 245 3 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 202 4 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly 1) 193 5 JD's McNugents (J D McNugent) 192 TEAM OF THE WEEK: Subway Rats (250 Points) OVERALL STANDINGS thru 7.15.02 at 7:57pm 1. Furcal's Phisheads 4741 (1) 2. Holla Atmeyoes! 4492 (2) 3. Rib Boy's Latrells 4439 (3) 4. Pauly's Pranksters 4428 (4) 5. JD McNugents 4393 (5) For a complete update and to see standings, check out Pauly's Pub. | Permalink | Regis News... An excerpt from an e-mail that I got today: "The 2002 Annual Fund has come to a close. We are very grateful to the alumni for their generosity. The loyal support Regis receives enables it to carry out its mission as an all scholarship school of excellence. Preliminary figures show alumni gifts total $2.6 million with 53% participation. Overall Annual Fund gifts come to $3.3 million." | Permalink | Lance Armstrong Takes 2nd Place in the Tour De France. He moved up six places to second overall after he finished in second place in today's stage from Lanester to Lorient in the western region of Brittany. For complete coverage, check out ESPN's Tour de France stuff. | Permalink | What a ride! What a day...! I witnessed one of the craziest days on Wall Street in recent memory, as the DOW rallied back from a 400+ point deficeit late in the trading day. Read more about it. Zimbabwe Acquits US Journalist A Zimbabwe court finds American journalist and British reporter not guilty on charges of publishing falsehoods. | Permalink | Breaking News... John Walker Lindh, U.S. Taliban Fighter Pleads Guilty John Walker Lindh, an American captured by U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan, has agreed to plead guilty to aiding the Taliban fundamentalist movement and carrying explosives. Great now send him up here to NYC for sentencing. Let us have a crack at him. | Permalink | Phil & Friends 7.14.02 Jones Beach Amphitheater - Wantagh, NY Set 1: *Liberty > *Jam > *Roadrunner > *Jam > *Not Fade Away +Friend of the Devil > Duprees Diamond Blues Soulshine * w/ Mickey Hart + w/ Reid Genauer Set 2: Jam > Mason's Children> No More Do I > Space > Cryptical Envelopment > Jam > The Other One > St. Stephen > Cryptical > Jam > Unbroken Chain Goin' Down The Road > We Bid You Goodnight Encore: Night of 1000 Stars Phil Lesh sat it with Mickey Hart's band for Fire on the Mountain > Aiko Aiko | Permalink | Pissed Off Pauly: Studio Robbed!!!My studio was robbed on Friday while at I was at work. After some investigating on my part, I discovered that there was no forceable entry into the studio AND coincidentally my uncle (who owns the studio) let my cousin into my studio unsupervised to remove some personal items. I am missing a gold watch that my mother gave to me for my graduation from Emory in 1994. I strongly suspect my cousin stole my watch. And when I brought this to the attention of my uncle, he stood behind my cousin's statement of innocence, and then proceeded to accuse me and my guests of the theft. WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!! He told me that I have no proof and no plausible motive that my cousin stole the watch and my uncle told me that I have no proof that it's missing and that I am lying. Once again, I am unable to get any respect from my own family. My 19 year old, Lexus driving cousin who is a spoiled brat fat bastard, mocked me in the process. Any suggestions on how I handle this situation? I am at the end of my wit's end and I am more sad about losing a rare gift from my mother than the same old family bullshit. | Permalink | Morning News Round Up Sheikh Omar Defiant After Pearl Death Sentence A court in Pakistan sentenced British-born Islamic militant Sheikh Omar to death Monday for the kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, drawing a threat of vengeance and calls for Muslims to respond. Man Takes Shot at Chirac A deranged neo-Nazi fired a rifle shot in an attempt to assassinate President Jacques Chirac during France's Bastille Day parade on Sunday. Government Planning on Recruiting 1 out of 24 Americans as Domestic Spies Where do I sign up? I have a shit-list of people I'd like to get in trouble with the federalies! | Permalink | Sunday, July 14, 2002
Heady News Updates Prince Harry Pothead Throws Royal Coke Party Gotta love Prince Harry! Harry knocked back vodka after vodka as partygoers snorted cocaine in the toilets. British Taliban links Seattle and London Radicals Taliban captive links Seattle, London radicals A British Taliban fighter in custody in Guantánamo Bay provided U.S. investigators a crucial link between a group of Seattle militant Muslims and members of a radical mosque in London. Israeli Air Strike Targets Hamas Home in Gaza An Israeli F-16 warplane attacked the home of a senior Palestinian militant in the Gaza Strip. Israel Says It Catches Palestinian Gunman-Bomber Israeli troops captured a Palestinian would-be suicide bomber after he opened fire at a military patrol conducting searches outside a Palestinian village near the West Bank border. India Condemns Kashmir Raid as Death Toll Rises India Sunday condemned a raid in Kashmir by gunmen, some dressed as Hindu holy men, who killed 27 slum dwellers. | Permalink | Saturday, July 13, 2002
"Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles." - Sun-tzu, The Art of War | Permalink | Tao reaches readers and artists in Japan!!!Read this e-mail I got from Marcus Grandon a Japhan from Tokyo, whom I met during Phish's 2000 Tour of Japan. He has a new book coming out on Monday called Fried Sushi which you all must read! OK, here's his e-mail to me: Hi, First of all, I want to say that I think you have a killer website. I loved surfing around its various corners. Pauly, I am Marcus Grandon from Japhamily, tour and that world. Sometimes, people refer to me as Tokyo Marcus. Not Marcus from NYC. While I know that we have partied in the same buildings on numerous occasions, I am not sure if we have talked. Are you the same Pauly that I hung out with in San Francisco for the Les show on 12/30/00? We did the Les show then walked across to that bar, hung out, and you told people that I was Christian Slater (As he looks just like me). It may not be you, I can't remember your last name. I think that this Pauly is Canadian. Anyway, I am really writing to you because we are of like minds. Check it out: I am a writer, I have a video production company (Grand Marquee Productions - A part of NIkmat Enterprises), I studied business as an undergrad and worked in the corporate world for a few years (what was I thinking?). Among the numerous projects I have been a part of in the last year, one has finally come to fruition. I, along with a group of foreign writers living in Japan, have published a book of short stories to be released in bookstores here on Monday. Our book is called "Fried Sushi - Stories by Foreign Writers Living in Japan". We have mostly fiction, but have also included some travel writing. It is a cool mixing of the talents that gives this book some real energy. 24 stories by 6 writers. See attachment for an invitation to our book release party tomorrow. We were wondering if "Truckin" would like to run a travel story, or perhaps a bit of fiction from 'Fried Sushi' BTW, nice piece on Fukuoka. As for my contribution to Japan tour, well, I have nearly 5 hours of digital video footage in my archives of the places we saw, and scenes from outside the venues. I am trying to get around to editing them. Maybe this summer. Peace, Marcus Editor's Note: If you can pick up Fried Sushi. | Permalink | Morning News Update Standoff at Mexican Airport Continues Mexican peasant farmers protesting against the construction of a new airport on their farmland have warned they will resist any police efforts to free the 12 hostages they have taken captive. Chinese Missile Buildup Targets Taiwan China's military is engaged in a threatening buildup that includes extending the range of its nuclear missiles and developing forces to coerce and attack Taiwan. | Permalink | Friday, July 12, 2002
E-Story 3: The Bloody HandsIt's complete! Visit the E-Story Website to read the latest edition, a 2517 word story written by 14 authors! The largest and best effort to date. Thanks to all those who wrote! Here's a peek: "He quickly walked into the bathroom in silence, and systematically washed the blood from his hands and from underneath his fingernails..." More E-Story 3 E-Story 3: The Bloody Hands was written by Paul McGuire with Brad Singer, Juan F. Rib, Jessica Lapidus, Jen Biaggi, Derek McGuire, Dave Simanoff, Stephen Adkins, Keren Gottesman, Señor, Mike "Modeski" Weiner, Armando Huerta, Lori Blandford, and Skipford Van Beaverhausen. | Permalink | TWINS POLL COMPETE: TAO READERS SAY YES TO JENNA BUSH!Twins Poll Updates It's Official! After almost 2 weeks of polling, and 100 people voted, here are the results. The stats don't lie. The Bush Twins are better looking! 42% of you said so! And 53% of Tao of Pauly readers say they wanna party with Jenna Bush! 100 votes cast with 99% of corrupt ballot counters reporting: Which is the better looking set of twins? 42% Bush (42 votes) 28% Olsen (28 votes) 26% Neither (26 votes) 4% The Gore's (3 vote) 1% Meetze Twins (Brad and Sean, Spider's Brothers) 1 Vote Which Bush Twin is hotter? 53% Jenna (53 votes) 25% Neither (25 votes) 20% Barbara (20) 2% Lauren Bush (2) as of 7.12.02 10:30am EST. | Permalink | "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin | Permalink | Thursday, July 11, 2002
Heavy Merde As Britian has loosened up on Marijuana Laws, France has done the complete opposite, busting potheads all over Frenchie land for smoking, what the locals call Shit. | Permalink | Irate Traveler Drops Pants at Airport Hmmmm. Possible Señor sighting? Where has Señor been the last few days? | Permalink | Heady News Alert 5000 Suspected Al Qaeda Living in the US!!! I think that number is 3 times higher! There's gotta be at least 5,000 of them running around NYC as I type this. An excerpt from the Washington Times: "Small groups of about a half-dozen men in Seattle, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta are under surveillance by FBI and other intelligence agencies and are thought to be part of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network..." | Permalink | Furcal's Phisheads Win the First Half of Pauly's Pub Baseball Pool!!FIRST HALF CHAMP: Furcal's Phisheads 4496 Points (4287 Place Overall) The first half is over and we have a winner. The second half starts today. Best of luck to all. Final First Half Standings: 1 Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly 2) 4496 (1) 2 Holla Atmeyoes! (Gil Shapir) 4303 (2) 3 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire ) 4237 (6) 4 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly 1) 4236 (3) 5 JD's McNugents (J D McNugent) 4201 (5) 6 The Bronx (P. von Urkel) 4195 (4) 7 Señor's Sherpas (Senor Sheer) 4177 (8) 8 Big Sal's Goodfellas (Sal Biaggi) 4175 (7) 9 Dick's Weed (Dick Weed) 4118 (9) 10 Second Half Is Mine (Ty Lockhart) 3974 (10) 11 Subway Rats (Spider McNamara) 3913 (11) 12 Long Island ADERMEISTERS (Steve Ader) 3876 (12) Team of the Week: Señor's Sherpas (378 Points in Week 14) Check Pauly's Pub for the complete Week 14 Update. PAULY's PUB FIRST HALF AWARDS Best MLB Team: NY Yankees Worst MLB Team: Milwaukee Brewers Biggest Surprise: Minny Twins Jerry Garcia Award (Best Team): Furcal's Phisheads Phil Lesh Award (Best Comeback): Rib Boy's Latrells (From 11th Place to 3rd Place) Tortise & Hare Award: Ty the Cobbster (From First to Worst) Best Ty Lockhart Team Name: From First to Worst CABLEVISION AWARD: Bud Selig, Cablevision, Martha Stewart, Ted Williams Kid Most TEAM of the WEEK AWARDS: TIE 2 times (The Bronx, Big Sal's Goodefellas, Ty the Cobbster) Most WEEKS in FIRST PLACE: Furcal's Phisheads (6) Best Week: Ty the Cobbster 453 Points in Week 1 Most 300 Point Weeks: Furcal's Phisheads (13) BEST TEAM NAME: Dick's Weed WORST TEAM NAME: Second Half Is Mine (Ty's last name change) TY's NAME CHANGES: 4 Best Moment Shawn Green's 4 HRs Worst Moment: Griffey gets injured (pick a time) Check out Pauly's Pub for complete Awards Listings. | Permalink | Morning News Updates Global Stock Markets Hit Lows Global markets hit fresh lows for the year on new concerns of corporate credibility together with set-backs for the drug sector and further negative sentiment towards the media and insurance sectors. WSJ Reporter Lauds Blogspot! Peggy Noonan wrote in her July 4th article: "Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines, under new pressure, breakdown..." 7 Million Year Old Skull Found in North Africa Scientists recently unearthed human-like skull which is being described as the most important find of its type in living memory. | Permalink | Wednesday, July 10, 2002
"The secret of man's being is not only to live, but to have something to live for." - Dostoevesky | Permalink | Derek Jeter's Stalker's Night to Remember From the NY Daily News: "The blond woman who dashed brazenly onto the field Opening Day and slipped her phone number to Derek Jeter had a night to remember, but not with the hunky Yankee shortstop. Kristilee Wilcox spent night in jail after failing to make court appearance in connection with April dash on field to give Derek Jeter her phone number. Makeup artist Kristilee Wilcox said her crush instead got her 16 "horrible" hours in the slammer with junkies, jerks and a woman, as big as (Yankees) pitcher David Wells, who stole her sandwich. "It was the longest night of my life," said Wilcox, 24, who told the Daily News that creepy cellmates scared her and a guard taunted her." Read More Here. What will Jordanna say of this? | Permalink | Tuesday, July 09, 2002
"I have heard of Rochester. But I have never heard of exciting Rochester." - Dave Simanoff | Permalink | Monday, July 08, 2002
"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller | Permalink | I will be out of the office and out of town today on a business trip to exciting Rochester, NY. | Permalink | Sunday, July 07, 2002
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk." - Henry Miller | Permalink | A comment from Al K. Dah about the anonymous e-mail post from earlier called: ENTP. I still have no clue who sent me that e-mail! "That anonymous email was weird... three things came to mind when I was reading that blog... 1) One of your friends is playing a goofy joke on you by making you think that some random person wrote this about you without even knowing you. 2) Some psycho, who happens to read your website and is obssesed with it or you, analyzed all the information that you blog onto your website and cross referenced his objective perceptions about your personality with a physcology book and just spouted out the generic phsyco babble analytic BS pertaining to certain "general" personality types. 3) THEY (the CIA, Illuminati, the Student Loan Corp., Dick Cheney, Fox Mulder, Elian Gonzalez, al Qaeda, aliens, and/or the Skulls, etc. - you pick one) are watching you and messing with you and/or attempting to contact you for some reason. Your Lone Gunman Theory has THEM watching you. Maybe THEY are trying to see if you are a threat to them. Either way... do NOT blog this e-mail because I don't need THEM watching me too. The next time I go to the dentist, I don't want to end up needing some strange and unnnecessary dental work so THEY can install bugging devices." Read the orginial freaky e-mail a few bloggs below! | Permalink | Saturday, July 06, 2002
Earth ENDS 2050 It's the end of the world as we know it. New report states that human kind will not be able to sustain itself at the current booming population rate and will use of all of it's resources within 50 years. This is why I'm moving to Iceland. | Permalink | Memorabilia Prices May Have Hit Peak is an article that was written by Dave Simanoff in today's Tampa Tribune about Ted Williams, collectors memorabilia, and his recent death. | Permalink | Heady Noon News Update Texas Floods Force Thousands to Evacuate Homes after record rains in central Texas threaten thousands more. Here's another story from Austin360.com. EL AL Probing 2nd July 4th ATTACK after a SAM (Surface to Air Missle) exploded and nearly missed an EL AL flight over Russia the other day, prompting officals to investigate the possibility of multiple terrorist attacks in America and Russia. Afghan Vice President Whacked in an assassination attempt yesterday in Kabul. | Permalink | Strange! This is an e-mail that was anonymously sent to me: ENTP Ok. Ready? You like to chase the novel and complex. You have faith in your ability to overcome any challenges you face... highly independent... value adaptability and innovation... you encourage and value change. You need freedom for action... you resist hierarchy and structure... you push against all odds to further your projects with your entrepreneurial tendencies... you can argue and find the flaws in any position. How'm I doing so far? You rarely accept things just as they are... you like to test new meanings and relationships... when you don't get what you want, you use your cleverness and ingenuity to bring people around to your point of view... when you choose a career, you tend to set flexible goals that allow you to incorporate new information and accommodate to new circumstances. "Keep your options open" is your middle name... you like to explore the "road not taken." Your flexibility can look like indecision to others who don't have a clue about you... you take advantage of opportunities... you realize potential of many things because of your ability to see connections and relationships between SEEMINGLY unrelated things... you cannot be ordered around, but rather handle things best when they are *suggestions*.... you love excitement. Competence is key to you... you don't take advice or respect someone you don't see as competent... you want work to be enjoyable... you're a relentless learner. Knowledge is important to you... you use your enthusiasm to get others involved in your learning... you learn through give-and-take discussions and by questioning and challenging others... you like challenging your teachers and colleagues... limitations are mere challenges to you... you take initiative, and once the ball is rolling, you like to turn it over to someone else. You like to organize logically and strategically... your work space might not LOOK organized, but underneath it all is a system that works for you. You like to have an impact... you need a job that allows you to be innovative. you like to take risks and explore... an open calendar for the weekend is really appealing... you're often "in on the latest things." You like travel, because it allows you to open up new vistas and horizons (corny, huh?). Falling in love happens when there's a good "fit" with another person... you often know after the first meeting whether there's any "real potential"... you may not like to commit until that right person comes along... therefore you probably won't settle down early... you don't like to lose at ANYTHING you undertake... you're a born enterpriser. Things to be on guard for: you have a great fear of looking dumb or incompetent... you may tend to think you have the perfect solutions for problems, and may become competitive when others challenge you... you might start to think that you're the only one who's in on the truth of things, so you might not like to listen to the input of others... you may have the tendency to overextend yourself as you jump in on lots of ideas without considering how long it takes to work 'em through... commit to too many projects? You are a rebel... you find it difficult to accept standard operating procedures... and hate HAVING to follow exact rules or policies... learn to work within the system. ENTP: "Each New Thought Propels" Editor's Note: I have no idea who sent this funny, but oddly true E-mail to me. Do you? | Permalink | Yankees Big 3 Team Trade where they sent Ted Lily to the Oakland A's, who in turn traded Carlos Pena to the Detroit Tigers who sent pitcher Jeff Weaver to the Yankees to complete the 3 team trade. | Permalink | Big Brother IS Watching as SPY CAMS are being tested on Virginia Beach. Tampa Bay is the only other city to use face recognition. Magnus Spectat Frater Te! | Permalink | "The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble." - Henry Miller | Permalink | DEBKA.com LINKS LAX SHOOTER TO EGYPTIAN JIHAD TERRORIST GROUPHere is some of the article from Debka.com called DEBKAfile’s Counter-Terror Sources: Hadayat Belonged to Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s Operational Arm: "Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen, 25 – both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the El Al terminal of Los Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources as a Muslim extremist. During his ten years in the United States, he was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad who maintained undercover links to the same Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York, as the “blind sheikh” Abdul Rahim Rahman and Ramzi Yousef. Both are doing time for perpetrating the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Hadayat is also believed to have abetted a previous, contrived airline disaster: On October 31, 1999, an Egyptair Boeing 767 Flight 990, which also took off from LAX for JFK in NYC. After JFK, the plane bound for Cairo plunged into the Atlantic off Nantucket Island... killing all 217 passengers and crew. In a special probe, the US NTSB found that the copilot Gameel el-Batouty was at the controls when the plane went into its dive. His voice was recorded shouting, “I put my faith in Allah!” The report held back from referring more directly to the Egyptian copilot’s responsibility for the crash. Our sources affirm that Hadayat, who lived in Irvine, California... knew Batouty well. There are also indications that, in the years 1998 and 1999, Hadayat was in touch with a group of high Egyptian air force officers and helicopter pilots posted at the time at Edwards Base north of Los Angeles. They were there to learn how to install command and control centers in Egypt’s air defense systems, operate anti-air missile batteries and fly Apache gunships. Most of those officers were on the doomed Egyptian airliner after completing their courses. Although the long-delayed US Transportation Board report never referred to the presence of this high-ranking Egyptian air force delegation on the flight, DEBKAfile ’s Washington sources reported at the time that most of the investigators were satisfied that Batouty could not have seized control of the Boeing 767 without the aid – certainly the compliance - of those officers. Two years ago, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak exerted all his influence on President Clinton to keep the federal board’s findings out of its published report and, above all, the fact that a group of Egyptian air force officers was on the plane. He warned that citing the Egyptian copilot as deliberately causing the crash would have a negative effect on Egyptian-US relations. The report therefore fell short of clear conclusions. Hadayat’s murderous attack on El Al flight 106 passengers points back to the Egyptair 990 disaster of 1999, reviving the many questions left open by that earlier, half stifled inquiry, which carefully stepped round any suggestion of terrorism. It also raises the question of how many sleeper cells the Egyptian Jihad, al Qaeda’s primary operational arm, maintains in American cities. Hadayat struck the El Al ticket line on his 42nd birthday. The initial FBI inquiry found through records of his fingerprints at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which issued him with a limousine license, that he was married with at least one child, and had lived in Irvine for the last two years, working on a green card. Since the attack, the possibility that he arrived in America as a sleeper terrorist must be seriously addressed. US investigators realize he was not a lone operative and are seeking his accomplices in such matters as setting up the hit, providing the guns he carried and intelligence on the security situation at the Tom Brady terminal." | Permalink | Isolated Incident... Lone Gunman. BULLSHIT!Don't believe the hype! Word on the Conspiracy Street is that shooter was Egyptian, a sleeper cell probably with Egyptian Jihad. Rumors are flying about the net that a second gunman or accomplice eluded airport security and/or the FBI have him in custody and aren't releasing that information (for various security reasons, which i do agree with). However, the real story is the LONE GUN MAN/ISLOATED INCIDENT THEORY. This is AMERICA's FAVORITE COVER UP STORY, the Lone Gunman Theory (e.g. John Wilkes Booth, Sirhan Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald, David Hinkley, Timothy McVeigh). And yes, most Americans are stupid enough to believe it, espcially if CNN says it over and over enough times. As the papers spread the propoganda, and the TV news programs keep spreading the cover story, that all will weigh in heavily on America's minds and if you tell a lie enough at some point it becomes fact and and I'm sure the so called experts and pundits will denounce the LAX shooting as terrorism and hammer home the notion that it was a lone gunman. I loved it when that Israeli security expert guy got on CNN yesterday and was saying TERRORIST this and TERRORIST that, and the pussies at CNN were giving him a hard time for saying that without proof, what more proof do you need??? They were trying to prevent a panic and scare on a festive day. I call this the Pussification of America and it has to stop today! And this is why we are doomed to fail in this war on terrorism. How many subways and buses will have to be blown up in our cities before CNN and the media acknowledge that we are in deeper shit than they are leading us to believe, and that is unexcusable AND a gross mis-use of media outlets. We need to adopt a more aggressive strategy, the likes of what the Israelis have done so with Palestine, let's knock down doors, and ask questions later. Hey, these terrorists give their malnourshied 4 and 5 year old kids copies of the Koran, guns, grenades, and explosives to play with so they can kill Jews and Americans when they turn 12 or 13. For fuck's sake America, no more Happy Meals, Nintendo and Harry Potter books for our little ones. Instead of Brintey Spears videos, make our kids watch the Daniel Pearl murder. Make them watch videos of those poor souls who jumped out of the top floors of the WTC on 9.11. Force them to listen to the horrible gut wrenching sounds that the bodies of those jumpers make, like lighting striking, when they crash into the street in front of the WTC. Instead of MTV, have them listen to the messages of hate and destruction spewed out towards Americans and Jews, daily on Al Jezerra Arab TV. Maybe then, the $100 they spend at the mall that day will actually MEAN SOMETHING. Our lavish lifestyle and all those Starbucks and Men In Black 2 movies are making our kids soft and reliant upon money and pursuit of luxurious and unnecessary material items, all of which are tools to suck away your cash and are well placed distractions from the harsh reality of the world we live in. While in America if you don't spoil our kids, you're looked at as shitty parents, and you know what? That is an attitude that will never change. While in the Arab world, they are breeding new generations of terrorists, and in America, we're breeding consumers and fat lazy workers. We're fucked. So enjoy that Happy Meal, America because it might be your last. Lone Gunman? Propganda from from Reuters.com. Israel Says Attack on El Al Was Terrorist Act Israel said the naming of an Egyptian as the gunman who attacked its El Al airlines counter at LAX strengthened its belief the shooting was a terrorist attack. I applaud their leadership and BALLS! Maybe these guys should be running our security and immigration policing, eh? | Permalink | Friday, July 05, 2002
Breaking News... Ted Williams Dead at 83 and 2 Bombs Rock Algeria at least 35 are dead. Stock Market Surges, UP 324 points Record day on Wall Street. | Permalink | "You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread." - Henry Miller | Permalink | Heady Morning News U.S. Plan for Iraq: Attack on 3 Sides Now this is in today's NY Times so I'm sure Saddam is reading it too, so it makes me wonder will he be stupid enough to believe what were are saying? Or will he over think and understand this is a trick and he'll fcous his forces else where? Or is this just a stupid warning for him to get all his scientists and germ and chemcial labs out of Iraq before we attack? Oil Spill in Galapagos Islands A barge spilled 1,800 gallons of diesel fuel in Ecuador's pristine Galapagos Islands yesterday, but appeared to harm none of the park's exotic wildlife. Bullshit! Body Parts For Sale in Texas Feds are probing a report that a medical school employee was brokering body parts. | Permalink | Thursday, July 04, 2002
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