I went to Houston Texas the other day. I flew down on Continental to George Bush International Airport, and the shareholders' meeting was in the George Bush Room of the Conference Center, I presume not far from the George Bush Toilet and the George Bush Dog Grooming Aquarium.

We lost the deal; our attempt to throw out the board of the oil/energy company narrowly missed being approved by the shareholders. Our loss was due to the company's stupidities, not ours, as we usually win in these kinds of situations. The company is TERRIBLY badly run, the stock price is in the toilet etc so it is surprising we lost in our attempt to throw the bastards out. Our director who was running this attempted coup d'etat is an Iraqi Jew with a heavy accent (though a fine and distinguished business record) so maybe that had something to do with it.

Because I noticed Texas is not a very enlightened or broad minded place. I was working hard the whole time but I did get to visit a book store next to the Four Seasons where I was staying. You can tell quite a bit about a place by their bookstores and TV and I always try to get to both when I travel. The biggest sections were the...wait for it...Christian Living section and motoring section. The small space devoted to politics (all US politics, no other countries at all) was filled with anti-Clinton (both Bill and Hillary) works and books by famous right wing conservative assholes like Bill O'Reilly and William Bennett. Sigh.

Didn't get to eat a lot as I was only there for two full days but they are extremely carnivorous with ribs ribs ribs everywhere. They have stuff called "pulled pork" or "ripped pig" and other vegetarian nightmares.


The flight back was nice because even though we lost the deal, our director let us use two of his private jets to come back home. Some cronies and I were in the Gulfstream which seats 11 in two small cabins with one flight attendant and a galley.

Not sure what trips are on the horizon but I know there aren't many left for this "busy season". That's unfortunate. I've done well this year but I should look for a real job now. I'm REALLY hoping our services will be required back in Honolulu and if they are I will certainly stay on a few days after I'm required there.

D.

Steven Hatfield is a "person of interest" in the anthrax thing. He's not a suspect b/c there's absolutely no evidence against him, but Ashcroft has invented "person of interest", a new legal term I presume for "somebody we want to persecute."

If they had ANY evidence he'd be arrested by now.

Did you hear on the weekend he got out of his car and took some pictures of the FBI car that has been tailing him. The car took off and ran over Hatfield's FOOT. And THEN they TICKETED HATFIELD for "walking to create a hazard"

They ran over him and then BOOKED HIM.

Gotta love that FBI, they certainly make ME feel safe.

Now that Bush is talking about "our treasures, our forests" which is big coming from such an environmental vandal.

D

Date: Sat, 17 May 2003
From: "Doc"
Subject: cliches
To: comments@foxnews.com

When I studied journalism at Georgetown University my
professor (Ted Gup of Time) said the worst enemy of
the journalist is the cliche.

Pursuant to that, perhaps you want to talk to your
anchor people and guests about the use of the phrases
-

WAKE UP CALL
and
SEND A MESSAGE
and (lesser)
TURN THE PAGE

You use the first two CONSTANTLY which is boring,
repetitive, and mindless.

D. Anderson, B.A. (Journalism), JD
NYC

It's funny watching my friend in Hokkaido, the naturalized Japanese American, and his activism against store and bath house racism where he lives. He actually took a pubic bath house to court in a lawsuit and won! He's always causing trouble there all around the country challenging and almost always winning his little battles with larger implications. He even had a book about racism there published in Japanese. I think I'll buy it. I had my own battle with a snack bar once which I pursued to a point, but I'm not made of stuff to be a professional troublemaker.

Japan is a moderately racist place and I admire his efforts. Its funny though, most of the racism where he lives involves the behavior and actions of Russians, of which there are quite a few in Hokkaido due to trade. They, and to an extent South Americans and Africans have it rough there. There is a large difference between the treatment of people who speak Japanese well and those who don't. Perhaps more than any other place, acceptance in Japan comes with a linguistic price tag.

I have no idea what the Russians DID in the bathhouses there but they SURE pissed a lot of people off. They have special "Japanese Only" signs written in Cyrillic.

His adventures are at http://www.debito.org/

D.

Fox News in a trailer asks "Have they spun the Laci Peterson case out of control?"

Have "THEY"? This from a network that gives the scant facts WALL to WALL coverage to the extent of interviewing a *psychic* about the case last night and running countless specials.

Have "THEY"?

WHERE'S SADDAM? Who CARES about damn Laci, her fetus, for floaties, her loser husband?

God.

D.
NYC

Fan mail to the attorney general

John Ashcroft
Attorney General of the United States
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Monday, April 21, 2003 (in blue ink)

Dear Attorney General:

I thank Jesus for you, and your reign of justice. As a Regent of Christianity I can’t imagine a better person to hold in trust my destiny than you, one who can see God and has the ability and the power and the will to save individuals from themselves.

It is my sadness that due to governmental error you are not in the chain of command with access to the power of the atom. This awesome power, the power of the sun, should not be held in the hands of false Christians afraid to use it, but rather, in the hands of the Righteous, those who understand the physical manifestation of the Devil AND who welcome Armageddon, the apocalypse, the tetragramation.

For this fight against terrorism and drugs is dual fight against the Devil. “Freedom” is a dark rock under which the Devil hides and the Constitution is the shield which He uses to protect himself from our Holy Fire. Rights, protections, checks and balances are the last refuge of the libertarian scoundrel in his (or, increasingly to my horror - HER) quest for terrorism, destruction of the family, heroin, orgies, and lust.

In our government of “moderates” and the “compassionate” only you, Ayatollah Ashcroft, can embrace and channel the cleansing flame to smite the enemies of God from the earth, regardless of the cost. There are enemies within us and without, and there must be NO mercy for the wicked.

Don’t ever listen to the loud quacking of the homos, pinkos, trial attorneys, immigrants, liberals, ducks, immigrants, fake Republicans, atheists, dogs, and monkeys. You and I know the True Path, and use all the power at your command to not only follow it yourself, as you do, but ensure all others are on that path.

They always have an alternative if they are not...

Yours in Jesus,

D

Do you like the color scheme?

I do.

A NZ Nauruan North Korean refugee scramble.

I have too much time on my hands today...

This is a great collection of portraits though. I particularly like the Toureg ones b/c I’m interested in Touregs, in part because they are blue, and also because the men (only) wear the veils. I'd like to wear a veil.

More Touregs.

Regime change in Washington Now.
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These people have an interesting take on things. It's run by an Israeli big shot, so it is very Israel slanted, but that's not necessarily a bad thing and their quality of information is quite good.

Centcom also have a list of the coallition forces and
what each country is doing.

and the famous deck of cards – a propaganda gold medal in my opinion, better even than the Moroccans naming a cigarette after a city they invaded in Western Sahara, “Dakla”, whose pack should read “First we smoked you, now we smoke you.” Consumables named after the vanquished are fantastic – looking forward to my first Damascus Ashtray.

Then there's this, of course.


regards

Doc
NYC Spring
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"