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Same old...same old....Peace in the Middle East...is that even
possible anymore? The Jews and the Arabs have been fighting
for so long that peace is no longer in their dictionaries! Everytime
they get within range of peace...something happens to derail it...but
I think I have finally figured it out! It is NOT the Jews and it is NOT
the Arabs that restart each conflict...it is the weapons manufacturers!
Figure it out...if there was peace in the Middle East...where the heck
would they sell their goods? If the Arabs and Jews weren't shooting
at each other...they would all go broke! So instead of blaming Arrafat
and Sharon...lets go after the real villains here and get the weapons
producers...shut them down and watch the peace begin! Yeah I know
my mail box is gonna fill up with mail from you...especially them union
folks over at the companies that would be affected...but if there was
peace over there then all them newly unemployed and overpaid workers
could apply for new jobs in reconstruction in the affected areas! Think
about it...who really is behind the fighting?
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Stan, Barb, Marina, Tom.
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Robert decided to treat himself to a real fancy
dinner at a posh downtown restaurant. He was ushered to a
table by a formally dressed maitre d', and sat down to a
place setting of the finest china and crystal. Taking the
damask napkin from the solid silver napkin ring, Robert
unfolded it, put it around his neck and proceeded to tie
a knot in the back.
Staring at him, the maitre d' said, between gritted teeth,
"Will Sir have a shave or a haircut?"
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Speaking at the Staff Meeting, a very
pert and pretty female engineer named
Renee told the male manager of the
Division, "I'd like to get something
off my chest."
"What's that, Renee?"
"Your eyes."
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Two men, sentenced to die in the electric
chair on the same day, were led down to
the room in which they would meet their
maker. The priest had given them last
rites, the formal speech had been given
by the warden, and a final prayer had been
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I love dance music. Could you please play
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"Certainly," replied the warden. He turned
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"Please," said the condemned man,
"kill me first."
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sits next to a local honey already having her first beverage.
As he tries to strike up a conversation she keeps ignoring
him. Finally he says, "you know me, why don't you talk to
me?"
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Are you tired of all those mushy "friendship" poems that always sound
good
but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a
"friendship" poem
that really speaks to true friendship.
My Friend...
When you are sad, ... I will get you drunk and help you plot revenge
against the sorry bastard who made you sad.
When you are blue, ... I'll try to dislodge whatever it is that is choking
you.
When you smile, ... I'll know you FINALLY got laid.
When you are scared, ... I will rag you about it every chance I get.
When you are worried, ... I will tell you awful stories about how much
worse it could be and tell you to quit whining.
When you are confused, ... I will use small words to explain it to your
dumb ass.
When you are sick, ... stay the hell away from me until you're well again.
I don't want whatever you have.
When you are heaving, ... I will hold your hair while you pay homage to the
porcelain god.
When you fall, ... I will piss myself laughing at you.
This is my oath, ... I pledge it till the end.
Why, you may ask? Because you're my friend!
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Paul decided to go skiing with
his buddy, Kurt. They loaded up Paul's van
and headed north. After driving for a few
hours, they got caught in a terrible
blizzard. They pulled into a nearby farm
and asked the attractive lady who answered
the door if they could spend the night.
"I realize it's terrible weather out
there and I have this huge house all to
myself, but I'm recently "widowed,"
she explained. "I'm afraid the
neighbors will talk if I let you
stay in my house."
"Don't worry," Paul said. "We'll be
happy to sleep in the barn. And if
the weather breaks, we'll be gone at
first light."
The lady agreed, and the two men found
their way to the barn and settled
in for the night.
Come morning, the weather had cleared,
they got on their way and enjoyed
a great weekend of skiing.
About nine months later, Paul got an
unexpected letter from an attorney.
It took him a few minutes to figure it
out, but he finally determined that it
was from the attorney of that attractive
widow he had met on the ski weekend.
He dropped in on his friend Kurt and asked,
"Kurt, do you remember That good-looking
widow from the farm we stayed at on our
ski holiday up North?" "Yes, I do."
"Did you happen to get up in the middle
of the night, go up to the house
and pay her a visit?"
"Yes," Kurt said, a little embarrassed
about being found out. "I have to
admit that I did."
"And did you happen to use my name
instead of telling her your name?"
Kurt's face turned red and he said, "Yeah,
sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did.
Why do you ask?"
"She just died and left me everything."
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because of the hunting excursions he arranged and shared with them. As
will happen, the king died and his eldest son took the throne. Now this
new king was an animal lover to the core, and immediately outlawed all
forms of hunting and fishing. His subjects accepted this for only a
short time before they finally ousted him. This was a truly a
significant event because it's the first time a reign was ever called on
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There is a lot of talk about the United Nations creating
a combined strike force with troops from several nations
included in it.
Could it work? Let's take a look at one operation.
A combined force beach landing on a tropical island.
When the troops hit the beach.........
The Royal Marines go fishing.
The US Marines wait for CNN to arrive.
The French don't care whose beach it is; it's French
territory now, and say the English gave them no other
choice.
The Canadians watch the Americans very closely, then
offer guard their landing strip.
The Dutch have a beach party and smoke some dope saying
the English don't understand them.
The Italians go sunbathing.
The Germans land and build a car factory.
The West Indians go looking for the Dutch.
The Austrians just watch the Russians and Germans.
The Chinese win the natives hearts and minds then kill
them.
The SEALs arrive after dark and kill anyone who is not
a SEAL.
The Aussies and Kiwis land then start fighting each
other over a sheep.
The South Americans send a contingent of 2000 generals.
The South Africans start shooting at anyone with a tan.
The Saudi's start drilling for oil.
The Russians open a chain of massage parlours.
The Brit airborne troops get charged with murder even
though they have not opened fire yet.
The Spanish are late.
The Portuguese are late but blame the Spaniards.
Delta Force makes a movie about the landing.
The Greeks and Turks turn up then send a bill to the
Yanks and Brits.
The British Army cannot come because all six of them
have flu.
The Japanese don't know who owns what ships and decide to
sink them all.
The Californian National Guard contingent won't land until
someone opens a Starbucks.
The New Yorkers paint their Amtrak's yellow and will
take you ashore for 50 bucks.
The Irish Army will be late because they say they
are still celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
The Israeli's start building a kibbutz and shell the
Palestinians as a precaution.
The Scandinavians like it off shore and stay there
killing whales for the Japanese.
The Polish tunnel under the beach looking for coal.
The Palestinians say it used to be theirs but the
English gave it away.
The Oklahomans have no damn idea what a beach is.
The Scottish claim to have found the beach first but
accuse the English of stealing it.
The Texans look for anyone bad mouthing them.
The Mexicans invade Arizona by mistake.
The Welsh say it's King Arthur's last resting place
but the English stole it.
The Swiss apply for a bank charter.
The Lybians blow up two UN planes.
The UN will send an Ambassador if the member states pay
their dues.
The Kentuckians open a KFC.
The Panamanians ask the U.S. what they should do.
The Floridians demand a recount and free Prozac.
The EU want to set up a commission of 50,000
administrators paid for by the English.
The Swedes just want to screw.
The Michigan contingent issue a safety recall and sue
General Motors.
The Matell Corp. sends 10,000 GI Joe's and one Barbie.
Some guy from Tennessee swears that Elvis and Jimmy Dean
are just over the dunes.
The Romanians and Albanians finally arrive and surrender.
The Coloradans cut off the Kansan's water supply.
H. M. The Queen will give anyone a Knighthood if they
can grab her a few hundred acres or find a job for Charles.
The New Hampshire contingent declares that everyone
there is Sooooo Cruel and open a soup kitchen.
The North Koreans have no idea what is going on but blame
America anyway.
Washington State NG builds a monument to Bill Gates.
The Pakistanis build a Motel Six, a convenience store
and gas station.
Jimmy Carter arrives and declares peace.
George W. Bush doesn't know where the island is, so he
orders the U.S. Airforce to bomb Hawaii.
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A guy goes into a public washroom and has to use the only available urinal,
between two elderly men.
He glances to his left and sees the guy pissing, but there are two streams.
"What the hell is that?" he asks.
"War wound. I took a bullet in the penis in North Africa. They were able
to
save my dick but they had to leave two holes."
Then the guy looks to his right and sees. . .three streams !!!
"What the hell is that?"
"War wound. Germany, bullet in the penis, left three holes."
The two veterans then look over at the guy in the middle and see . . . 12
streams!!
"War wound??"
"Naah, my zipper's stuck."
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An Australian man is waging a legal battle to keep
his adopted name containing a four-letter word.
The man took the name, Prime Minister John Piss the
Family Court and Legal Aid, in 1997.
He already uses the name on his driver's licence,
bank account and medical records. But now Australia's
passport office is refusing to issue a document with
the offensive name on it.
The dispute has reached Australia's Federal Magistrates
Court, reports The Age newspaper.
Prime Minister John Piss the Family Court and Legal Aid,
or John for short, is a 56-year-old father-of-four from
Seaford, Victoria State.
David Perkins, John's Lawyer, told the court the word
"piss" had many meanings, and it could be taken as "an
exhortation" to the prime minister to "abolish" the Family
Court.
"If it is offensive, it's contended that doesn't make the
slightest difference," he said. "It's simply a name, full
stop."
But lawyer Michael Crennan, acting for the passport office
said the name was "insulting and contemptuous of the Family
Court."
He drew the court's attention to 'piss' in both the Shorter
Oxford English Dictionary and the Macquarie Dictionary.
Magistrate Murray McInnis will rule on the name at a later
date.
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Five little hippies looking for a score,
One smoked some rotten hash, now there's only four.
Four little hippies going on a spree,
One went executive, now there's only three.
Three little hippies smelling like a zoo,
One copped some Dial soap, now there's only two.
Two little hippies broke and on the run,
One met a city cop, now there's only one.
One little hippie, stoned as he can be,
Revealed his secret stash, now there's forty-three.
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[||||] T H A R I T
B L O W S ! [||||]
Lloyd's List, the world's oldest shipping industry newspaper, caving to
the politically correct police, will no longer refer to ships as
"she."
(AP)
Henceforth, boats will be referred to as "it" and cruise ships as
"midnight buffet delivery systems."
Copyright 2002 by Bob Mills, all rights reserved.
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After all the new information I keep hearing daily
concerning the Arabs, Palestinians, Afghans, etc.,
I have decided to search out my Islamic roots.
From now on, please call me by my new Muslim name:
Oseldom Bin Laid.
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Wendy: I can't understand why men are so afraid
of commitment!
Anni: Tell me about it! I lived with one guy for a year
and a half, and I finally had to give him an ultimatum.
Wendy: What did you say?
Anni: I just told him, "Look, either you tell me
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What do you call a homo Jewish Male?
A Heblew.
--------------------------EDITORIAL--------------------------------
Who's Going to Hell This Week?
by Helen A. Handbasket
April 1, 2002
Only one person is going to hell this week.
1. "I love Jews," said Reverend Billy Graham in response to a
White House tape of him saying the exact opposite. "Heck, if it weren't
for Jews, Richard Nixon wouldn't have anyone to play pinochle with in
hell."
Ha ha. Just kidding. April Fools. You're all going to hell.
Personal to Sharon: Peek-a-boo.
Personal to Arafat: I see you.
ARITHMETIC FROM HELL
11 Palestinians killed by masked gunmen for collaborating with Israel times $29
million in heroin-grade morphine seized by Turkish police plus 70 to 90 million
doses of smallpox vaccine discovered in a pharmaceutical company closet minus
$30.2 million brought in by "The Panic Room" equals 500 yards between
Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and Israeli tanks times every DVD sold of
the new R-rated "Lord of the Rings" minus $76 million spent by
Michael Bloomberg to become Mayor of New York City plus every bunny cloned in
time for Easter.
QUOTES FROM HELL
"All Truth passes through Three Stages: First, it is ridiculed...Second,
it is Violently Opposed...Third, it is Accepted as being Self-Evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer -
"There is madmen in the world, and there are terror."
- George W. Bush -
"Terrorists may now be employed at nuclear reactors in the United States
just as terrorists enrolled in flight schools in the U.S."
- Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. -
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War
4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein -
BROADWAY MUSICAL FROM HELL
In the planning stages, an all black rap revival of Music Man. "Now either
you are closing your eyes to a situation that you do not with to acknowledge,
or you are not aware of a caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a
crack house in your community. W-e-e-ell, you got trouble my friends, Right
here, I say trouble right here in Motor City..."
DON'T SUPPORT TERRORISM
Buy as many illegal drugs as you want but don't buy gas from companies that get
their oil from the Middle East.
Major companies that import Middle Eastern oil
(for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01).
Shell
205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco
144,332,000
Exxon/Mobil
130,082,000
Marathon
117,740,000
Amoco
62,231,000
At $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION!
Here are some large companies that do not import middle Eastern oil:
Citgo
0 barrels
Sunoco
0
Conoco
0
Sinclair
0
BP/Phillips
0
QUIZ FROM HELL
Which death was funniest?
a) Billy Wilder
b) Milton Berle
c) Dudley Moore
d) The Queen mum
LETTERS FROM HELL
AL BIEREH, West Bank:
As I write the Israeli army is going from neighborhood to neighborhood
demanding all males from 16-60 exit their homes and gathering them at a local
school (Mugtarabeen) yard. My sister-in-law just called and advised that her
husband, Mohd Yacoub, was one of the tens that were rounded up in her area.
The Israelis have taken over Al-WATAN local TV channel in Ramallah and is
airing programs that are anti-Palestinian. This aggression is much more than
the tanks you are seeing on CNN.
Electricity is off in several areas. We were without it for the most of yesterday.
Israeli tanks make systematic rounds through the neighborhoods. Gunfire was
heard most of the night.
A lot of physical damage is being done to the city, but that is secondary right
now while human loss that still threatens us.
The real damage is to the children. Sharon has created another generation of
resistance that will not know the notion of reconciliation or have hope for
peaceful co-existence.
The US and Israel will torture the word terrorism for months and years to come,
but the Palestinian resistance, armed and otherwise, that the Palestinians will
embark on for years to come will be all the more legitimate and justified given
the terror of 37 year of military occupation and 18 months of aggression led by
an Israeli war-criminal cabinet. Frankly, I do not think that Palestinians will
give a damn from now on how the powers-to-be term their struggle.
And as for the suicide bombings that Sharon has bluffed the world into
believing he is stopping with his aggression, well, painfully they will
increase, to the disliking of all, even those under the occupation. More and
more Palestinians will now equate life and death and undertake actions that
reflect such a mental and physical condition.
Our Palestinian brothers and sisters within Israel have taken to the streets
today in commemoration of LAND DAY and to call for an end to the latest Israeli
aggression.
No one here is surprised at Sharon's actions or the US' pitifully inaction. But
we wonder where is the Israeli public? Where are those that know damn well that
when all is over and done they are going to live with us, happily or not? Do
they know that their silence will create an amount of hate that will need
decades to repair? Do they care? Can they not see a people in desperation? Do
they not have limits to their personal involvement in humiliating a whole
people? Do they not fear their children's lives as they rampage Palestinian
cities?
As for Arafat, Sharon has put Israel in a corner. If he is killed, the
ramifications in the region will bring many black days on Israel. If he lives,
the Palestinian people will have, yet again, defeated Sharon with barely no
resources.
Well, I leave to spend some time with my daughters before becoming a prisoner
of the occupation...
Sam B. Saturday, March 30 2002
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
March 31, 2002
Dear Friends
Since all of you are worried and some send me a lot of emails that I can not
answer all but I will now in the last week I have been in Ramallah, Palestine's
temporary capital.
The situation is fucked up. Arafat could be killed anytime and the Israeli army
is going crazy killing, massacres all the shit in the world since Adam is now
in Ramallah.
They attack every hospital and search and destroy. All ambulances can not move
unless they call the Israeli army which means any injured people are dead.
In the beginning there was some light resistance but every Palestinian bullet
has a tank shell respond.
The journalists are being asked to leave which we did not coz if we do that
means holocaust in Ramallah without coverage. They started with taking media
buildings. We have been kicked out.
This day a bank was robbed by the Israeli army. Palestinian poor policemen like
traffic police were slaughtered. Every policeman is a target.
There is no water, electricity nor telephones except for places far from
downtown and far from president Arafat's office and finally I got Internet so I
emailed you my friends.
Food is now a very big problem. People who need hospital have to go to the
moon. I feel so sad and angry if this continues people will die starving and
more Ramallah is isolated for 4 days with 24 hours curfew. The Israeli speakers
say,
"there is a curfew and whoever goes out of his house will be killed"
Events are developing and Sharon will not stop whatever happens and the
Palestinian people now are in danger. Genocide, war crimes and no respect for
medical staffs or media personalities, even a cameraman was shoot in his jaw.
I wish this will end soon but it does not seem so. I went today to a house were
22 people live in. Most are children in one room were the army controlled all
their building.
Tanks are more than cars in Ramallah and anyway all the cars we can see are
smashed.
I am fine do not be worried. I miss you all. I love you all and I promise to be
careful and not stupid.
With love, Ahmad
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm here in Aida Refuge Camp outside of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is apparently
under siege. H. is in Ramallah at the compound with Arafat and was just heard
on a Palestinian TV channel. There are apparently about 50 internationals in
the compound. Tension is very high here.
Earlier in the day we heard that tanks had surrounded Bethlehem. We heard also
that Arafat has vowed not to leave and has his gun and said he would become a
martyr.
There were two events in Bethlehem yesterday -- we marched, about 80
internationals, to Beit Jala and confronted Israeli soldiers in tanks. Later in
the day there was a huge march to angle Square with hundreds of people.
Today, Eid (Easter), we joined hundreds of people in Beit Sahour and marched to
the center where Palestinian officials made speeches and children burned an
Israeli flag from the roof of a building.
We are going now to our Palestinians families in the camp and expect some heavy
Israeli attacks tonight. Will write again as soon as I can.
Gale T.
------------------------------------------------------------
We got a call from our friend Tzaporah (a Jewish American woman from
Minneapolis) at 3 a.m. this morning. She is in Ramallah, where the Israelis
have Arafat's compound surrounded and are shelling him. She is only a few
houses away. She was sitting on the floor whispering. She told my husband how
the Palestinian women and children are trying to escape from Ramallah, and
soldiers in jeeps chase them and snipers shoot at them.
The snipers have taken over the rooftops and are shooting anyone that moves,
women and children included. The Palestinians are running out of food. The
Israelis have shut off the electricity. They won't let anyone leave.
Anyone who ventures onto the street is shot at. Tzaporah has been shot at. All
this, while they/we demand that Arafat put an end to the violence. The
hypocrisy of it leaves me stuttering with rage. The Israelis are firing their
tanks into the compound, and going room to room, shooting with automatic
weapons. There are perhaps 50 "internationals" in there, trying to
shield the Palestinians.
The Israelis announced a few minutes ago that in one hour they will storm the
compound. We believe they mean to kill Arafat. If they do, there will be no
stopping the war. Many Palestinians didn't much like Arafat before this
escalation, but if the Israelis kill him, Arafat will be, as a Palestinian
friend of ours put it, "what Jesus is to the Christians."
CNN has been showing suicide bomb footage nonstop, but there isn't a word about
how they're mowing down civilians in Ramallah. The suicide bombings are shown
as a freak of nature, without context, with no explanation of the utter despair
and overwhelming anger that drives such an act.
I cannot bear to listen to the inarticulate jingoism of Bush, but was shocked
that he referred to "Homeland Security" for Israel, equating their
"security" with our own. His remarks essentially give Sharon carte
blanche to commit another massacre, perhaps exceeding the scale of those he
already bears responsibility for in Sabra and Shatilla.
Is the "security" of Israel (read colonial occupation and war crimes)
worth the risk of igniting World War III?
Caitlin R.
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IT IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE HERE THERE ARE DEMONSTRATIONS EVERY WHERE AND THEY ARE
ASKING THE GOVERNMENT TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR JIHAD SO EGYPTIANS CAN GO FIGHT THE
ISRAELIS. THE ISLAMIC COLLEGE TOLD MUBARAK THAT THEY DOD NOT CARE ABOUT HIS
AGREEMENTS AND THEY WANT THE GOVERNMET TO ALLOW THEM TO GO AND FIGHT. EGYPT
30/03/2002.
Wael. R.
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The mighty US-tax funded Israeli army that has taken over local, private
Palestinian TV channels in Ramallah is now broadcasting hard core pornography.
It started last night and is now on again (3:45pm).
I guess this is how Israel plans to stop suicide bombers and build healthy
neighbors.
I close with two quotes sent by a friend
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." -- Dante
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing." --Edmund Burke
Sam B.
Bush is 100% behind Israel.
CHILDREN'S SONG FROM HELL
WAR ON TERROR
(to the tune of Frere Jacque)
War on terror
War on terror
How's by you?
How's by you?
How's by you Osama?
Did you have a trauma?
Hope it's true
Hope it's true
War on terror
War on terror
So what's new?
So what's new?
Feeling sort of bomby?
Wanna call your mommy?
Oh boo hoo
Oh boo hoo
War on terror
War on terror
Feeling blue?
Join the queue
Palestine bombed daily
Soon will be Israeli
Quite a coup
Quite a coup
(Sing as a round till you puke)
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