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To: paret who wrote (16225)	12/10/2003 8:31:48 AM
From: George Burdell	Respond to of 48461

One day the Little Red Chickenhawk told the Duck, the Cat and the Dog that there was wild rice, millet and durum wheat growing in the desert. "This wild rice, millet and durum wheat should not be out in the desert," he said. "Who will help me go get the WMD?" "Not I," said the Duck. "You're nuts if you think that stuff grows in the desert," said the Cat. "Oh, me, me, me, me! Can I come with you? Huh? Huh? Huh?," said the Lapdog. So the Chickenhawk and the Lapdog went into the desert to get the WMD. And there was only a little water, so they were very thirsty. Then a desert snake bit the lapdog, and the chickenhawk got a third degree sunburn. And the chickenhawk yelled real loud to the Duck and the Cat that they ought to go to the desert and look for the WMD so the chickenhawk and the lapdog could go home and watch TV. "But when you find the WMD, we'll make it into bread, and you can't have any," said the chickenhawk. And the Duck and the Cat told the chickenhawk to shove the bread up his ass.

To: paret who wrote (16225)	12/10/2003 8:47:53 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Iran's Ebadi Collects Nobel, Takes Swipe at West By Inger Sethov OSLO (Reuters) - Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Wednesday and sent a bold anti-war message to the West, accusing it of hiding behind the Sept. 11 attacks to violate human rights. Reformist lawyer Ebadi, who was recognized for her work for the rights of women and children in Iran, was handed the prize by the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, at a glittering ceremony at the Oslo City Hall. Ebadi slammed the U.S. administration for double standards in ignoring U.N. resolutions in the Middle East, while using them as a pretext to go to war in Iraq. The audience included Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, star hosts of Thursday's Nobel concert. "In the past two years, some states have violated the universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of Sept. 11 and the war on international terrorism as a pretext," she said in a prepared acceptance speech. "Regulations restricting human rights and basic freedoms ... have been justified and given legitimacy under the cloak of the war on terrorism." Wearing no headscarf for the ceremony, the 56-year-old who won the $1.4 million prize for her work for the rights of women and children in Iran, lashed out at what she called breaches of the Geneva conventions at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military jail. Ebadi said Guantanamo prisoners had been "without the benefit of the rights stipulated under the international Geneva conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the (U.N.) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." Ebadi, Iran's first female judge before the 1979 Islamic revolution forced her to step aside in favor of men, said it was worrying that human rights were violated by the same Western democracies that had initiated the principles. The laureate said she, like other human rights activists, questioned why some U.N. resolutions were binding to the West and others were ignored. Ebadi, who has become a symbol of reformist hope in Iran while labeled a political stooge of the West by conservative clerics, also pointed a finger at her own government, urging Tehran to accept that reform is inevitable. "In fact, it is not so easy to rule over a people who are aware of their rights, using traditional, patriarchal and paternalistic methods," she said.

To: paret who wrote (16225)	12/10/2003 2:45:40 PM
From: Bob	Respond to of 48461

Absolutely fabulous post.

To: paret who wrote (16225)	12/11/2003 9:49:18 AM
From: Joel Karlinsky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

One day as the Little Red Bush was scratching in an Iraqi field, he found a pool of oil. "We should control this oil," he said. "Who will come with me and invade this country, blow the hell out of it, and run the oil fields?" "Not I," said the French. "Not I," said the Germans. "Not I," said the Russians. "Then we'll do it ourselves," said the Little Red Bush. And he did. Soon the country was in a shambles and needed to be rebuilt. "The country needs to be rebuilt," said the Little Red Bush. "Who will help skim the profits?" "We will," said the French. "We will," said the Germans. "We will," said the Russians. "No way, Jose," said the Little Red Bush. The money is going to all my chicken friends. And it did.