DAILY BUZZSAW - LINKS - Tuesday - September 17, 2002
Today is Constitution Day. One wag commented recently that "the U.S. Constitution isn't much of an impediment to the government we have today."
AL MARTIN, the man who take flamboyance to a new level. Satire, sarcasm and well-concealed facts, Fun:
This weeks topics: Florida's Homeland Insecurity; New Coins of the reich, er, realm; commercials you'll never see; GWB, Eli (Prozac) Lilly's best friend; tax stats & scams
almartinraw.com
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BUSHISMS: "A Guide to how to speak Southern": (Caveat emptor - No guarantee you'll end up any less ludicrous than that cracker waitress in Shoney's who created the astonishing 700 Keystone Kop arrest on Alligator Alley.)
uptowncity.com
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ELECTIONS & THE FRANCHISE/ Felons and the Vote -- Many of us have been questioning the corrosion of the advances of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Here's a cynical view of how minorities, ok, blacks, are being systematically disenfranchised across America.
hrw.org
Mirror, with comment: Message 17999287
Gary Webb asks: Are drugs being introduced into minority neighborhoods in order to disrupt them, disenfranchise them and demoralize them?
mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html
Have we immorally absorbed the lessons of the British mercantilists, Queen Victoria and the opium trade?
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ENRON: Houston Real Estate, Cheap, Towers on the Block, Pelli landmark......... Carlyle in the hunt?
quote.bloomberg.com
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KRUGMAN, Paul -NY Times-- another excellent ravaging of the Bush Cabal, Tom White's chicanery while at Enron exposed:
nytimes.com
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MEDIA: A friend has requested that we try to get our local public TV outlets to a carry this important message about Palestine on public broadcasting:
216.239.51.100
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PROPAGANDA MINISTRY REVIVAL: You thought we'd driven a stake through the rotten heart of the Office of Strategic Influence, did you? Guess again, meet "the Office of Global Communications, whose existence will not be formally announced until next month."
Today:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-418110,00.html
August Announcement: miami.com
These days reality has a way of outpacing satire? You be the judge:
satirewire.com
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