Bail Mag
From: duash@home.com
Subject: duh
duh.
Uh wuh?
hmmmpf.
Could you use a glass of water?
Or perhaps some intubating?
So you want to legalize pot right/ Or just decriminilize it?
If Phillip Morris produced joints, say,
twenty to a pack for $6, cancer deaths
would soon drop by 300,000 a year, cancer
victims would gain weight and
thus live longer, crime would drop by half
and domestic abuse by two thirds.
Since it costs $1 or less per pack to produce,
we'd take $4.00 in per pack
in taxes and could throw it at Reagan's
debt. On the cover, Mr. Zipp could say,
"Smoke and joint and make America stronger."
Hell, even DWI's would fall because pot
would be cheaper than beer.
So yeah, I'd go with that.
Is it Ralph Nader you want?
Do I want Ralph Nader?
Compared to who?
Compared to Smirk?
Sure.
Compared to Gore, no.
Just because you are more creative than
the nazis
(if there really are any) does not make
you any closer to the truth.
Who said anything about the truth?
This isn't about "the truth."
You must be new here.
If my Bush joke is better than your Gore
joke - I win.
Nobody reads this and says, "He's right!
I'm voting for Gore!"
Hate is negative and boring no matter who
it comes from.
Duane Ash
Is it better or worse than e-mail that fails to make a point?
bc
Hard to believe, but there is news about Steve Kangas.
Click Here
Be sure to read the two accompanying articles, too.
I didn;'t know Steve was a former Army intelligence officer.
Thanks to Marc Perkel,
the next Republican senator from Missouri.
One of the all-time great bumper stickers.
I'm trying to find out if they're for sale.
I need one
VCR Alert
From: watsmata4u@monmouth.com
Subject: Sam Greenfield
Please be sure to watch Hannity and Colmes Friday nite when Sam
is on.
He is on the air today preparing himself.
He is ready to cut Hannity down to size.
Callers are calling in asking him to destroy the idiot.
I dont get FOX so I need a report on how m'man does. Trust me,
you'll
like him. If he can work in radio with his voice, anyone can.
Speaking of radio, Stern had this to say this morning. A caller
asked
what he thought of Rush wanting the MNF job. Stern proceeded
to call
Ruch a bloated slob and a few other choice names and then said
something
like " I know Al Michaels personally and he dispises Limbaugh"
That is the best news I've heard all day.
Mail Bag
From: (withheld)
BartCop,
I didn't know Heather Locklear was a Nazi.
I will no longer masturbate to her pictures.
(withheld)
ha ha
That'll teach her...
Elian's Father Pleads for Help From American People
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The father of Elian Gonzalez
appealed on
Thursday for the American people to help get
his son back from family
members the boy has been living with for the
last five months.
Juan Miguel Gonzalez accused his relatives in
Miami, who want to stop
Elian from returning to Communist-led Cuba, of
abusing the child
by keeping him away from his father.
"It pains me to see what they are doing with my
son
and the abuse they are committing,'' he
said.
"My son is a child of only 6 years. He's a boy
like any other boy,"
Gonzalez told reporters outside the house
where he has been
staying in suburban Washington.
"Please, anyone who has feelings,
anyone who knows a father's love for his
son, help me.
Don't let them smother this in politics.
It's just a father and a son,'' he said.
I have a question:
Today is Hitler's birthday,
yet Rush is working.
Can anybody explain?
Bush Backers To Talk About Clean
Air Rules
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff
Writer
Several state environmental officials who have
struggled fiercely against
tougher federal air pollution regulations plan
to meet next week with top
executives of polluting industries to discuss
how those standards might be
loosened if Texas
Gov. George W. Bush (R-Smirk) wins the presidency.
We don't need clean air?
We don't need clean water?
How many times has Rush whaled,
"The Democrats claim that we want dirty air!"
And when these delusional pricks think they might win the White House,
first thing on their list is how to fuck up the cleaner air Clinton
gave us.
We know what Houston looks like.
Do we want America to look like that, too?
What a Nut!
Rush seems to think that since Ernest Hollings was governor of
Carolina in 1962 when the Slaver flag went up, that Smirk
shouldn't be held accountable for promoting it in the year 2000.
Your Pigness,
Did you know that in 1962 we didn't even have a Civil Rights
Bill?
We had segregation in 1962, you ignorant slut.
The idea that Ernest Hollings might have been racist 38 years
ago
does not excuse Smirk and the GOP from being racists today.
Why don't you understand what the voters understand, Rush?
Rush opened his third hour telling people not to listen to their family doctor.
He said all that crap about eating non-fatty foods was "just a bunch
of lies
from the same people who claim the Earth is getting warmer."
He called them, "the same people who tell all those lies about the
combustion engine being the cause of pollution."
I saw the same article in USA Today that he did,
but telling people to ignore fiber because their doctor is lying
makes me wonder how our side has ever lost
an election.
By the way, General Oink, HERE'S
THE LINK that shows the polar
icecaps melting, and here's what the internal combustion engine does.
Great Piggy Quotes
El Pigbo just said,
"Janet Reno ordered the incineration of those children at Waco."
I believe it, don't you?
I can hear her now:
"Don't you come back here until every one of those
innocent little babies is charred beyond recognition, dammit!"
Yep, Pigboy is using God's talent well.
BartCop - Punisher
is getting lots of advice
on how to beat Hillary.
Heather Locklear has written something for George magazine
giving the little kitty
advice on how to beat Hillary.
Heather Locklear is a Republican?
Heather Locklear wants Hillary to lose?
She must be punished.
I can think of a fun way to do this, too.
I'm going to run some, shall we say, unflattering pictures of
her, including
the only known topless picture. Unlike most pictures that
have been posted
on bartcop.com I can verify that these pictures
are all real..
You women won't like this, but action must be taken.
Since you have to click to get there, you don't have to
see Heather's punishment unless you really want to.
Precedent is Everything
From: HARTMANM@state.mi.us
Subject: 1985 7TH CIRCUIT COURT RULING!
You appear to have left out an important part of your analysis
of the recent 11th U.S. Circuit Court ruling.
Their ruling also cited the 1985 case of Walter Polovchak. In
this case, the
7th U.S. Circuit Court explicitly stated that the 12-year-old
Polovchak was
"presumably near the lower end of an age range" of maturity to
assert rights
separate from his parents.
Elian Gonzalez is only HALF that age.
Doesn't THIS information appear to indicate that, in considering
Juan Gonzalez
the only "proper representative" to speak for his son, the INS
did, in fact,
consider the relevant factors? Is it possible that the INS took
this previous
ruling into account before making their early decision?
I see an inherent contradiction in 11th Circuit Court's ruling
and their
citation of this earlier "landmark" case.
Vengeance Is Mine, Says
Starr’s Successor
by my good friend
Joe Conason
The other day Robert Ray—the prosecutor appointed to succeed
former
independent counsel Kenneth Starr in the six-year-old
Whitewater-Foster
suicide-Travel Office-F.B.I. files-Rose Law Firm files-Monica
Lewinsky-Kathleen Willey investigation—announced that
he may seek to
indict Bill Clinton after the President leaves office
next January. Evidently he
is in no hurry to complete the legally required reports
about the long list of
pending probes left behind by his predecessor. Instead,
he apparently
considers it his primary duty to vindicate Mr. Starr.
Even the editorialists at The New York Times, who strained
to excuse the
excesses of the Starr investigation, think that Mr. Ray’s
proposed adventure
is a bit much. Richard Posner, the ultraconservative legal
eminence from the
University of Chicago and no friend of the President,
has written that the
prospect of a Clinton indictment next January is far-fetched.
Winning a felony conviction of Mr. Clinton might lie beyond
the reach
of the most persistent prosecutor. Would he be charged
with perjury?
He certainly lied, but the independent counsel would have
to prove beyond
a reasonable doubt that the President’s prevarications
were actually
material to the Paula Jones case.
Would Mr. Clinton be charged with obstruction of justice?
Given what we already know about the grand jury testimony
of
Ms. Lewinsky and others, an obstruction count would be
equally hard to
prove. Had the independent counsel really believed that
Vernon Jordan
or Betty Currie were lying about the Lewinsky scandal,
he could have
indicted them two years ago and tried to induce them to
testify against
the President. Evidently there was insufficient evidence
to support any
such theory, no matter how fervently Mr. Starr may have
believed it.
That leaves the Kathleen Willey affair, in which Mr. Starr
and his deputies
attempted to show that someone associated with the Clinton
White House
had tried to intimidate her from testifying about the
alleged
Presidential grope.
But Linda Tripp, Mr. Starr’s other star witness, severely
undermined
Ms. Willey’s credibility when she swore that Ms. Willey
had desired a
romantic involvement with the President.
Yet Mr. Ray may not be discouraged by such factual obstacles.
It must be tempting to make history as the first prosecutor
to indict a
former President; and if most Americans would not approve,
there is still a
small and very powerful minority who would applaud loudly.
Conservatives
who once tried to justify the pardon afforded Richard
Nixon—a man whose
crimes in office make Mr. Clinton’s peccadilloes seem
vanishingly insignificant
—now admonish us that "no one is above the law."
Based on Mr. Ray’s previous service, he may indeed become
the perfect
champion of that unreconciled faction. Prior to taking
over from Mr. Starr,
he served as chief deputy to Donald Smaltz, the independent
counsel who
spent years and millions in the bumbling, intensely politicized
and ultimately
unsuccessful prosecution of former Agriculture Secretary
Mike Espy.
While Mr. Espy was found innocent of accepting an illegal
gratuity from
Tyson Foods, the giant Arkansas poultry processor, others
caught up in
that probe didn’t fare as well.
One of those unfortunates was Archie Schaffer. As a Tyson
official,
Mr. Schaffer invited Mr. Espy to two events in early 1993:
an inaugural
party and a birthday party for company chairman Don Tyson.
On that basis,
Mr. Ray charged Mr. Schaffer with violating the Meat
Inspection Act, a
statute whose true purpose is obvious from its title—that
is, to punish
butchers who try to bribe federal inspectors.
Mr. Ray won a conviction of Mr. Schaffer, which was overtuned
on appeal
by the trial judge. Among other problems, the judge noted
that the
Meat Inspection Act doesn’t cover the poultry industry.
(Ediotr's note: ha ha)
He ruled that "no rational trier of fact" could find that
Mr. Schaffer had
tried to influence Mr. Espy’s official actions.
Two months after Mr. Schaffer’s conviction was overturned
in
September 1998, the former Agriculture Secretary was acquitted
on all counts.
That repudiation by the jury, however, didn’t dissuade
Mr. Ray from seeking
to punish Mr. Schaffer on the flimsiest grounds.
He sought and won
reinstatement of the conviction, even though the aims
of the investigation
had been permanently thwarted.
Just weeks ago, Mr. Ray once more demonstrated that he
is ruled by a
vengeful impulse, well beyond any necessity to uphold
the law. He personally
appeared in a federal courtroom in Virginia to oppose
Julie Hiatt Steele’s plea
for reimbursement of the enormous costs of protecting
herself from the
mad-dog prosecution of her. Under Federal law she
is entitled to such assistance,
but Mr. Ray thinks the destitute single mother should
be denied it.
The prosecution of Ms. Steele was a low point for the Starr
office,
but Mr. Ray appears doggedly intent upon "vindication"
there, too.
Such poor judgment is a bad omen for the heavy decisions
that still await
Ask BartCop
From: pwh011s@mail.smsu.edu
Subject: blind bastard quotes
Near the beginning of the second hour Rush said this:
"This has been the finest two weeks in the
history
of the EIB network.
When you're a professional, you know when
you're doing well
and you know when you're not.
Unless you're an insecure mass of quivering
jello,
which of course I'm not."
Um, has Rush ever said one of his shows was bad?
--Steve
Steve,
My sources say no.
BartCop
All Elian, All the Time
First, doesn't it seem odd that these things always drag on forever?
It started with Tanya Harding.
It went on and on and on and on.
Then it was OJ.
Oh Lord, will this OJ crap ever finally be over?
The first OJ trial was so highly-rated, they managed to squeeze
out a sequel.
Then came Clinton's cock, the most important story in human
history.
When the Martians land in 2026, it'll be on Page Two because
some
money-grubbing whore will be making a no-proof claim that day,
and the papers will run with it "because it might be true."
Now we have Elian.
It's never going to end.
This poor bastard has already had his life ruined.
If this kid is raised in America, he'll never hear the word,
"No."
His only chance at normalcy would be to return to Cuba and even
then,
Castro will make him a celebrity and he'll never have a normal
life.
The poor kid is screwed either way.
To make things worse, he has Dan Burton as an ally.
And what's with that 3-judge court of jesters?
I looked them up.
This is so wild, I've never heard of it before, but the court
made their
decision without hearing from both sides. That's
weird and crazy.
The court used a videotape of a six-year old being held by a
group
of people he's never even met as "evidence."
That's insane!
You can't do that.
After seeing the probably-bogus videotape, the idiot court said,
"Not only does it appear that Plaintiff might be entitled to
apply
personally for asylum, it appears that he did so."
For all the court knows, they told Elian,
"We're going to make this tape, and you better say what we told you
to say
or we're taking your toys away and no more McDonalds for you!"
...so the scared little boy makes the tape.
The court decided Elian wants to stay.
So, what if a four-year old says he wants to stay in America?
What if a German three-year old likes visiting Disney World so much,
he says, "I don't ever want to go home?"
Some relatives can snatch him from the parents and petition the court?
And the court says the kid stays until they have hearing next month?
The Father hasn't even been allowed to see his kid.
There's a word for this kind of reasoning.
It starts with "horse" and it ends with "shit."
Didn't we used to have the best legal system in the world?
Last night, I watched the tape of the OKC ceremony.
Clinton, as always, was magnificent.
I don't know if you caught any of it, but
after some expected remarks,
he slowly started turning the message from
horror to a brighter future.
He closed with "cast off the darkness and
put on the armor of light."
He had a big smile on his face and seemed
to be telling Oklahoma
it was time to get back to living and looking
forward.
He got a really enthusiastic response from
the crowd afterwards.
The local paper called it, "upbeat," and
"a noisy celebration of overcoming."
A lesser politician wouldn't have done
as well as The Master.
A couple of observations:
They had the good sense to keep that human
shitball Sen. Pissquik away.
He likely would have scolded the survivors
for being late that day.
What a worthless fecal nugget that son-of-a-bitch
is.
I really don't know why they re-elect him
every time,
unless his overwhelming, intense and undisguised
hatred for Clinton
is what Republican voters find so goddamn
attractive.
The private, morning ceremony began outside.
At the conclusion, Air Force jets did a
low fly-over.
I'm a patriotic type of guy.
I always get a charge out of seeing the
jets do a fly-over.
When you combine our computers, our Pratt
& Whitneys,
and the best and bravest pilots in the
world, we own the air.
Can't nobody fuck with us - nobody!
Of course, the cameras missed the damn jets.
They ALWAYS miss the jets.
Even when they know the jets are
coming,
even after hearing the roar a few
seconds ahead of time,
the professional cameramen ALWAYS
miss the shot of the jets.
Closing on a positive note, and this didn't
come up yesterday, but
privately, they're saying Tim "government-is-the-problem"
McVeigh
won't see New Year's Eve 2001.
I hope they use a dirty needle.
Do you remember that November Las Vegas
trip where
I had the legal troubles with Mrs. BartCop's
Touring Sedan?
Before we left town, we had a mechanic double-check
the car to see if it was good for 2800
miles.
The idiot mechanic said there was "no problems,"
yet we had to spend over $1000 to get home.
(The problem was manifesting itself before
we left,
that's why we took it to him for
a check-up.)
I open today's K-Drag Daily and see his
picture on the front page.
He told some friends he wanted to murder
his wife.
The friends called the cops,
the cops called the wife,
she poured catsup on her face,
climbed in the trunk of a car,
they took pictures,
showed them to the idiot mechanic,
and he paid them $1,000.
They arrested him.
He's so guilty, Ol' BartCop couldn't get
him off.
Goodbye, Sonny.
Chelsea will be out of office 15 years before we see you again.
Sad Goodbyes
From: CNS_230@webtv.net
Subject: Have to say good-bye
Barbara Olson called last night...told me
if I didn't stop reading
BartCop....I would be held down and forced
to have sex with her......
I sure you can undestand I have no choice.......
My wife is in the "Witness Protection Program"
if you are reading this Mabel....call home
!!
ha ha
My sources tell me she gives oral sex to plastic clowns.
Wild Crazed Bastard Quotes
"Even tho the courts have ruled Janet El Reno can't steal
Elian,
I wouldn't put it past her, or this administration,
to try something."
Have you ever heard such wild fucking rhetoric in your life?
This nutty bastard, with talent on loan from Almighty God, is
warning
the religiously-insane Cuban Catholics in Miami that "Waco Janet"
is coming for the "Christ Child" with bad intentions on her mind.
The FCC lets this son-of-a-bitch broadcast this
nutty hate speech,
but Howard Stern has to pay a fine for saying
the word "penis?"
Since God asked Rush to give them that important message,
how in Christ's name can that message be ignored?
...and when this whole logpile crashes, killing hundreds,
God will have Rush reveal it was all the fault of Bill Clinton.
Who Wants to Be...
Did you see Regis Tuesday night?
One of the "Fastest Finger" questions was,
"Who has had the most spouses?"
How many of you knew immediately that this man,
Larry (Eight-Wives) King
was first?
From: The Boot Newt Sing Along Page
Subject: George F(ool) Will rated below Chippy The Chimp?
"Arithmetic suggests Clinton might be the
fourth president since 1976
to be defeated...In 1992 he carried only
four Southern states other
than Arkansas....Judging by the Democrats'
1994 collapse in the South,
Clinton should assume he starts his re-election
race with his margin
of electoral votes reduced to 59.
Since the 1994 elections Republicans hold
the governorships of eight
of the nine most populous states, with
218 electoral votes....
In 1994 Clinton's party lost 52 seats....Democratic
House strength is
below 200 for the first time since the80th
Congress ended in 1948.
Clinton must again win the 54electoral
votes of California,
which has voted Republican in nine of the
last 11 presidential elections."
GEORGE F. WILL, Newsweek, October 30,
1995 on why
Clinton will lose in 1996:
George Will is always wrong.
Not only is George Will more stupid than Chippy the Chimp,
I'll bet he's even more stupid than Smirk - and I'm not kidding!
PS: Good luck on Newt coming back!
Now he says...
That he knew "all along" that the judges were going to rule
in favor of screwing Elian's father out of custody,
"but I didn't want to say anything."
...and the sheep buy it.
Stroke Me, Stroke Me
Now, he's mocking Admiral Borda for committing suicide.
Has toilet-mouth ever passed up a chance to mock the dead?
Once in his miserable fucking life,
has he ever passed up a chance to play with a corpse?
There's no doubt Elian wants to stay in America.
Of course he does.
He's got the brains of a Republican right now.
They gave him every toy but a pony!
McDonald's, Nike, MTV, unlimited candy,
Of course he'd rather stay.
Are you going to let a doctor examine you that hasn't seen you?
Huh?
Elian's Dad doesn't even own a suit.
What?
He should lose his kid for that?
From: BSmasher@flash.net
Subject: THE LEG
I was going to write up a lengthy rant and rave why the Murrah
Building was
blown up and all the people I felt were responsible for motivating
Dummy to
do what he did. As I reflected on the bombing and the five years
since, I
thought about the leg. Someone's leg was found and never matched
to any of
the bodies. They buried the leg. Who was this person? 168 people,
8 unborn
children and 1 leg. Pardon my tears, I am working on forgiveness
today.
Since I live in Food-Phone, near Oklahoma City, I thought about
going to the
memorial and there would be our Senator, Jim Inhofe.
I want to yell, "Hey Jim, how many federal workers are playing
hooky today?"
But, I am trying to practice forgiveness today.
I was a mortgage broker in those daze. I got up that morning and
was
going to go down and see my jack booted friends at HUD.
I knew the office manager, couple of the secretaries and a few
of the appraisers.
You know HUD, the oppressive government agency that helps make
affordable
home loans to millions of Americans. I had to see a couple of
the appraisers
on paper work stuff. I turned on the radio right before I left
and after listening
for a while, it seemed I wouldn't be needed at the HUD office
that day.
My anger is starting to well up at the thought of my friends
that I lost,
so I need to remember I'm into forgiveness today.
It was a ground level blast.
Most of the people killed from the blast were on the first and
second floors.
Then as the building collapsed, some were killed in the fall.
A friend had her
three year old at the day care at the YMCA. His face was horribly
cut up
by the flying glass.
Bombs don't kill people, people kill people.
I just tell little Timmy try and turn that glass scarred cheek,
neck, face,
and we will practice a little forgiveness today.
You know Mr. Dummy #2 lives here in town at the Federal Transfer
facility.
He has a private room. He's scheduled to go on trial for murder.
We have the
death penalty here, we use it, and #2 slipped by on his federal
charges
without getting the death penalty, so we are going to see if
we can get him
convicted of the killings and slip him the needle.
Personally, I would like to see our state let all three dummies
loose.
Yep, just let them go.
Of course we want maximum public relations/media hype on the
time
and place of letting them go. I think the whole matter would
be settled
in a few short hours at a very minimal cost to taxpayers.
In fact, I KNOW the matter would get handled quickly.
I am just trying to forgive today, so let's set those dummies
free!
Let's not forget Vernon Howell, stage name David Koresh ascending
into heaven seven years ago today. We are remembering all his
follower
victims and the law enforcement personal that lost their lives
that day
because of another misguided individual. I was going to try and
get
Carol Howe to drive a yellow Ryder truck into downtown Oklahoma
City
this morning, but I'm trying to practice forgiveness today.
BrainSmasher
Stroke Me, Stroke Me
From: Nmmeeks@aol.com
Toward the end of the first half hour Captain
Jeeprot read an e-mail
from one of the ditt-heads who dislikes
golf & cigar chat.
After spending a few moments calling his
fan a loser and the like,
the ass-master claims that he talks about
cigars and golf to prove
he's not a sexist, racist, or homophobe.
Although I cannot make the connection between
these,
apparently in his cyst impacted brain in
makes sense.
john
Captain Jeeprot?
ha ha
VCR Un-Alert
Tonight's Biography is a re-hash, retread repeat of David Koresh!
More Whining
Uncle Oink is screaming at the state of Arkansas because they
have some pro-Dixie flag law or something.
Hey, Pigboy!
Governor Huckabee is a super-Christian Republican!
Go scream at him.
Remember, this is the same idiot who held up tornado relief funds
because Arkansas law considers tornadoes "acts of God."
Please, Lord, deliver me from your fans.
From: Tim_Ebben@edm1.com
Subject: History Clearing
Bartcop,
As a liberal sysop, I feel you and your
readers should know that
clearing your browser history is only the
beginning. If you use a
modem, then browser history is the only
history, if you have a dedicated
line (i.e. T1, ISDN, etc), then you probably
have a firewall. The way
that most companies monitor employee internet
usage however is much more
difficult to clear. They us what is called
Firewall - URL logging. The
firewall machine at whatever company you
work for is a machine that sits
between your companies network and the
internet to prevent the wrong
people from hacking your network via the
internet. Most firewall
software commercially available has URL
logging that will tell exactly
which files were pulled from the internet
by which employees at which
times and which URLs were visited. It's
turned off on our firewall, but
you can bet most companies is not. Please
take precautions, as the only
way to clear this history is to have access
to the firewall, which most
users do not.
Yipes!
Court Rules Elian's Father is Unnecessary
Perfect.
That kid doesn't need his father.
He needs an gaggle of alcoholic cousins, instead.
Fun With Uncle Oink
"There's no way anyone can say Elian has been mistreated
without interviewing him, personally."
So, since I've never met Rodney King,
he wasn't mistreated by the LA cops?
Fun With Anagrams
Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
Stroke Me, Stroke Me
El Pigbo just yelled at an e-mailer for sending him
an e-mail "with cheap perfume" on it.
You could hear him crumple some paper.
Then he said he was going to tear up the e-mail and shred
it.
Excuse me, estúpido feo cerdo, but if that was an
e-mail,
the cheap perfume belongs to you or your staff.
Question:
Why is Marta letting you out of the house?
Does she want you to push yourself too far?
Does she want you to have a bigger stroke?
Is Florida a community property state?
Hey!
Want to cast a ballot in a poll?
If you go to www.fadetoblack.com
they have a poll asking,
"Which phrase heard on the radio makes you believe
quicker that you are listening to a moron?"
Mega Dittos Rush! 38%
Can I hear a block of 98 Degrees?!
61%
We can't let the vulgar Pigboy lose this, can we?
The poll only goes till Saturday.
April 19, 1995
President Clinton: Tell me what you need.
Governor Keating: Mr. President, we need everything.
Subject: April 19th
OUR LOST DAY:
a personal memory of April 19th
by Christine Bollerud
APRIL is the cruellest month,
breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing Memory and desire--TS Eliot
For many of us here in Oklahoma, April is
indeed the cruelest month.
For though the redbuds are in bloom,
blood still stains that small child
in the arms of the firefighter in our memory.
Though the sun is out
and it calls out it's new season, it's
rays will never shine so brightly
for those who lost someone on that day.
I didn't lose a person. I lost THE
DAY.
I didn't know anyone who died, but every
year, that day is marred for me
where it had before been a happy day--it
is my daughter Niaz's birthday.
April 19th had previously been celebrated
in flowery parks and musical
skating rinks by our family and friends
as the day we were blessed
with a special little girl.
Niaz was only ten years old when the Murrah
Building was bombed--but it's
impact was not lost to her. She didn't
feel right going through with any
birthday plan we had but sat numbly in
front of the television and watched
and watched until she couldn't watch anymore.
She cried for all the children whose mommies
and daddies didn't come home.
She prayed for all the parents whose children
were taken from them.
She made sure I turned on my headlights
during the day like every other car
in the state of Oklahoma until the last
body was recovered. And when we
finally made our pilgrimage to the building
site the night before they tore it down,
Niaz stood in silent reverence with about
100 strangers bonded for life.
This is the first year Niaz is celebrating
the day she was born--on the day
she was born. She never felt right doing
it before--always the day before
or the day after. She is 15 now and a more
compassionate young lady you will
never meet. She will always feel the of
pain and loss of this season--it will
never escape her-- but she also knows that
growth and renewal must eventually
spring from it. Though death is our constant
shadow-- life does go on.
Happy Birthday, Niaz.
Fun Smirk Quotes
"I was raised in the West ," Bush declared Friday.
"The west of Texas . It's pretty close to California.
In more ways than Washington , D.C., is close to California ."
Huh?
Well, we got hosed on Biography doing Laura the Unloved last night.
They more than implied this was an update, but the
60-second introduction was the only thing that was new.
It would be nice if Biography was above prostituting themselves
so people like me wouldn't remind people like you to catch the update.
Rocker for President?
Atlanta stands to cheer for return of John Rocker
ATLANTA (AP) -- The cheers began slowly
in the eighth inning.
A small group of fans, dangling just above
the Atlanta Braves' bullpen,
spotted someone familiar getting up to
throw.
One man unfurled a sign, ``Rocker For President.''
By the ninth, just about everyone at Turner
Field was part of the
John Rocker lovefest, all 34,903 of them.
They generated such a
crescendo of noise that even his teammates
were caught off-guard.
"I was a little surprised," third baseman
Chipper Jones admitted.
"I didn't really think it would be quite
to that extent."
The harshest reactions are most likely to
come in New York,
where Atlanta meets the Mets in a series
beginning June 29.
Already, photocopied fliers have been passed
out at Shea Stadium
advertising "John Rocker Battery Day" for
Atlanta's first series in
New York, where fans are still outraged
by the pitcher's infamous
interview in which he dissed foreigners
and homosexuals with AIDS.
ha ha
Battery Day?
He's going to need a football helmet to pitch.
Great Show-Biz Quotes
"What part of naked bongos don't you understand?"
-- Matthew McConaughey's T-shirt
Do you make a lot of money?
You Gotta go Here
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