Foo Camp Movies: Celebrity Death Aikido Match

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Foo Camp Movies: Celebrity Death Aikido Match
Here’s a celebrity death aikido match between Paul “Schmoo” Holman and Jeremy Borenstein.
This was shot on October 12, 2003.
Jeremy was nice enough to provide me with a little explanation:

“Pablos and I originally met because we were both training in the same
aikido dojo. This movie shows us, out of shape and out of practice
but still having fun trying to maul each other. There’s a variety of
aikido techniques more-or-less demonstrated there. Pablos takes some
nice high falls (when he leaves the ground completely for a time) and
doesn’t get hurt, which is a testament to his skill.”

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Foo Aikido Match (Small – 6 MB)
After the Match (Small – 1 MB)
Foo Aikido Match – All (Small – 7 MB)

















Rob Courddry On The Shrub’s Blaming The Navy For “The Sign”

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This clip was shown after this clip on October 29, 2003.


In this clip, Rob Courddry probes further into the familiar pattern of the Shrub’s blaming his mistakes on other agencies he, theoretically, has complete control over as Commander In Chief.
For example, it was the CIA’s fault about the faulty WMD intelligence that was included in his State Of The Union Address. Now it’s the Navy’s fault for following orders and hanging up the “Mission Accomplished” sign at his May 1 press conference.

Rob Courddry On “The Sign” (Small – 6 MB)


(Below: What the sign said.)


(Below: What they meant for the sign to say.)





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Jon Stewart On The Shrub’s Blaming The Navy For “The Sign”

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This clip from the October 29, 2003 show has the Shrub answering questions at his latest press conference (Oct 28-29, 2003 or so), where he talks rather vaguely about “terrorists” who are responsible for the latest round of suicide bombings in Iraq.
(This clip goes with this clip.)
What the Shrub says, and what his press secretary clarifies later, is that it’s the Navy’s fault for misrepresenting that the war was over with the “Mission Accomplished” sign. (Despite the fact that all the Navy did was put up the sign that the White House printed up and brought to the event.)
Jon Stewart:

“The White House is basically saying they can’t be held responsible for what the Navy does with a sign that they made and brought to the ship.”

Here’s the little clip about “the sign”:
The Shrub Blaming the Navy for “The Sign” (Small – 4 MB)
Here’s the complete clip of this bit:

Jon Stewart On The President’s Latest Press Conference (Small – 11 MB)







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Hip Hop Record Label Owner Receives Strange Visit From Secret Service

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I’m going to be in a hip hop video being shot next week by Ryan Junell. The song is called Under Surveillence by the group Variable Unit.

By a strange coincidence, that very same day I was recruited for the video, Billy Jam sent me this story, which details a situation where Dave Paul, owner of San Francisco’s tiny Independent BOMB Hip Hop record label, was questioned by two Secret Service Agents who were responding to a tip from Cheaptickets.com, who claimed Paul had made threatening statements about the Shrub while purchasing tickets over the phone.

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Hip Hop Record Label Owner Dave Paul Interrogated By Secret Service Under Suspicion Of Being Threat To President George W. Bush
by Billy Jam for HipHopSlam.com

“The Secret Service showed up at my door. I was not here. They had told my mom that I had said some stuff on the phone and that I needed to answer to it. So I called the agent on his phone and he claimed that cheaptickets.com had reported to them that I had said some things about George W. Bush when I was on the phone working on my flight. I assured them that I said absolutely nothing and they wanted to come over and interview me in person, which they did with two agents. And they even wanted to come in and take a look around my room to make sure that there were no photos of “so-called person” with a target drawn on it or something to that effect. I don’t know if it’s someone at cheaptickets lying or maybe the Secret Service just used that as an excuse to investigate since the name of the record company…. I even gave them a flyer for tonight’s show but they didn’t look like they were too interested. I invited them down. They were pretty nice about it. I think just because when you’re making flight reservations and the company name is what it is and that’s what on your credit card and it shows four people going to Oklahoma City that I’m sure someone at cheaptickets pulled a red flag on it.”

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Hullaballo Over “Mission Accomplished” Banner – Shrub Says It Wasn’t His Idea, Sorry For The Miscommunication — White House Press Release Suggests Otherwise

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As if the “Mission Accomplished” banner was the only thing that implied “Mission Accomplished,” during the Shrub’s memorable flight suit May 1 extravaganza.
Oh you thought I meant the mission was accomplished. I just meant a mission was accomplished: The mission of the USS Abraham Lincoln, of course… Sorry to give the wrong impression.
Gee, you don’t think anyone got that wrong impression because the White House sent out a press release that said President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended or anything, do you?

Bush Disavows ‘Mission Accomplished’ Link
In The Guardian UK.

When it was brought up again Tuesday at a news conference, Bush said, “The ‘Mission Accomplished’ sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished.”
“I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff – they weren’t that ingenious, by the way.”
That explanation hadn’t surfaced during months of questions to White House officials about proclaiming the mission in Iraq successful while violence continued.
After the news conference, a White House spokeswoman said the Lincoln’s crew asked the White House to have the sign made. The White House asked a private vendor to produce the sign, and the crew put it up, said the spokeswoman. She said she did not know who paid for the sign.
Later, a Pentagon spokesman called The Associated Press to reiterate that the banner was the crew’s idea.

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The Daily Show On David Blane’s Incredible Starvation Trick

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David Blane’s latest “magic” trick was hanging in a box above London and starving himself for 45 days. I’m not kidding. That’s the whole trick.
As Jon says: (paraphrase) It’s incredible! How did he do it? How do millions of people in third world countries all over the world do it every day! What a feat!
Jon took it upon himself to comment on David Blane’s starvation routine twice last week. Once on October 20, 2003 and again on October 21, 2003. Additionally, Ed Helms provided an insightful commentary on the subject on October 21, 2003.

Jon On David Blane – October 20 (Small – 2 MB)

Jon On David Blane – October 21, 2003 (Small – 6 MB)

Commentary On David Blane By Ed Helms (Small – 4 MB)











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States Rebel Against Shrub Anti-Environment Policies – Sue To Block Changes In Clean Air Act

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States Rebel Against Bush over Pollution Measures
By David Usborne for the Independent UK.

A group of 12 American states has rebelled against President George Bush and his environmental policies by suing to block changes in the Clean Air Act that will make it easier for industrial plants to upgrade their equipment without paying for anti-pollution devices.
The coalition of states, most in the east of the country, downwind of generating plants and refineries in the Midwest, filed the lawsuit in a Washington DC court this week. They were joined by several large cities, including New York, Washington DC and San Francisco. A separate suit was filed by the state of Illinois, and a collection of environmental pressure groups, including the Sierra Club, was expected to file its own legal challenge yesterday.
At issue is a relaxation in regulations put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December and published on Monday. The plaintiffs claim that the amendments will lead to an increase in harmful emissions. “It amounts to a get-out-of-jail-free card for some of the nation’s biggest polluters,” said Frank O’Donnell of the Clean Air Trust.
Critics insist that the changes are the most significant made to the 33-year-old Clean Air Act since it was strengthened by Congress in 1990. At the core of the Act were emission ceilings for all big industrial plants. But a “grandfather” clause gave exemptions to facilities built before the Act was introduced. However, even those older plants were to be fitted with scrubbers and other controls if they were modernised or expanded.
It is this stipulation that the EPA wants to relax. During the 1990s, under President Bill Clinton, the EPA strictly enforced the rules. But there was a change of thinking with the arrival of President Bush in Washington. Vice-President Dick Cheney pressed for an easing of the rules to save costs for the energy industry, with which he is closely linked.
The move by Mr Cheney was resisted by the former environment secretary, Christie Whitman. In a memo, which has recently been circulated by environmental lobby groups, she warned that the administration would “pay a terrible political price” if it undercut the rules.
There are more than 500 plants across the US that benefited from the pre-1970 exemptions. Most are power plants, generating about 51 per cent of national electricity.
“We are not going to sit by quietly and allow the energy interests in this country to receive special treatment while so many of our children and elderly are needlessly suffering from respiratory problems,” said Tom Reilly, the Massa-chusetts attorney general.

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