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May 11, 2001
GUEST COLUMNIST COCO GETS FAN
MAIL
From: "S.,
Dominique M."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 5:21 AM
Subject: Coco
fan mail
Dear Diva,
Please extend
my admiration to Coco for a guest column well done. The Gale
Norton
litterbox-poop analogy was nothing short of brilliant. And to write
it in simple
language with very short words that even a non-elected
pResident could
understand was a politically astute maneuver.
Coco's column
is a fine
example of innate feline
shrewdness. I look forward to future
columns by
Coco.
And as a
soccer-phile, I just wanted to suggest another sports metaphor. I
suspect that
you also want to "find the back of the net" with your speech.
(I have no
doubt you will do so, particularly if you follow the example set
by feline
genius Coco.)
Good luck!
Nikki S.
Chicago, IL
********************
GUEST COLUMNIST BETH ON PAUL
HARVEY
[DIVA NOTE: This was written in
response to a Paul Harvey
'Warm-and-Fuzzy Inboxer' sent to the BBBR YahooGroup
by Resistance Fighter Beverly]
From: Beth
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: [BBBR]
Re: Fwd:The best things in life aren't things!
THE DIVA WROTE:
I absolutely detest Paul Harvey... but that's just me.
I don't know
that much about him, but it really sounded to me like
A) he doesn't
have any idea what kids are up to these days,
B) he bitterly
assumes that it's "no good",
C) we're all
spoiled,
D) the only way
to have a good childhood is to be relentlessly
conformist to a
certain cultural habitus -- his.
I agree that
the best things in life aren't things, (or "are free",
whatever), but
that's not a justification for the number of people
in this country
without health insurance, or the one in five kids
that lives
below the poverty line.
I'd really like for
them to know about hand-me-down clothes and homemade ice
cream and leftover
meatloaf sandwiches.
Well, the first
two, I did. We didn't have meatloaf
that often,
but if the
point is the leftover, I got that covered.
I hope you learn
humility by being humiliated and that you learn honesty by
being cheated.
Gee,
thanks! Did you wish for my classmate
to spit in my hair,
too? Was that good for my character?
I hope you learn to
make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And
I really hope
nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
Dude, you don't
have to wish that for people who aren't *rich*.
The cultural
presumptions this article makes are astounding.
It will be good if
at least one time you can see puppies born and your dog
put to sleep.
Does knowing my
dog got put to sleep, and seeing kittens get born,
count?
I hope you get a
black eye fighting for something you believe in.
Well, at least
you didn't hope my parents would beat me...
I hope you have to
share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all
right if you have
to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he
wants to crawl
under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let
him.
I don't have a
younger brother, and anyway, I'm the only girl in
my family. Why are you so relentlessly male-centric in
your advice.
When you want to
see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I
hope you'll let
him.
I almost never
saw movies. Does that make me more or
less morally
upstanding?
I hope you have to
walk uphill to school with your friend and that you live
in a town where you
can do it safely.
You mean when
I'm not getting humiliated or getting a black eye?
On rainy days when
you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your
driver to drop you
two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as
un-cool as your
Mom.
"My
driver"? "My
driver"? I never knew I had a
driver.
I hope you learn to
dig in the dirt and read books.
Okay, while I
liked sandboxes and all, I find it weird that reading
and digging are
on the same level to this guy.
I hope you get
teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a
girl, and when you
talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap
tastes like.
Oh, that's just
wrong. I got teased by my friends for
my first
crush on a
*boy*... whassup, Harvey? You mean
you're *not*
heterocentric? Or do you mean a girl should get ostracized
for
her first crush
on a girl?
May you skin your
knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and
stick your tongue
on a frozen flagpole.
May you be
clumsy and foolish.
I'm all over
the skinned knee thing -- as a child, I had them all
the time -- but
what kind of person *wants* a small child to
stick their
tongue to a flagpole? Put down the tape
of a Christmas
Story, and back
away from the VCR...
I don't care if you
try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a
friend offers you
dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.
Yes, your
hierachy of drug evil makes so much sense.
"Dope or a
joint"? Uh-huh.
Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy
Department. Besides, I thought friends should *share*,
right?
I sure hope you
make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing
with your Uncle.
Because if you
live somewhere without porches or ponds, or if your
family isn't
the fishing type, you're not a *real* American.
May you feel sorrow
at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
Gee, and I had
that backwards... why do I need you to tell me
this?
These things I wish
for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and
happiness. To me,
it's the only way to appreciate life.
Translation:
Welfare bad.
Written with a pen.
Sealed with a kiss. Pass this on to all of your friends
who mean the most
to you.
Thank you,
Beverly. I really do appreciate the
sentiment from you,
I just don't
agree with the particulars of what Harvey said.
Beth
By the way, I
*adore* the Coco letter. It makes me
happy. Bad, bad
(p)resident! No bicky!
********************
[DIVA NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Cynthia C."
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: I'll
be there
Hi Diva,
I am coming to
the protest in SF from Seattle. I have
my sign ready:
BUSH et al:
WE KNOW YOU ARE
CORRUPT
DO YOU?
I love your
website, you help me through the bad days.
Keep up the
good work.
I look forward
to seeing you at the rally!
Cynthia
********************
[DIVA
NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Mindy F."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: RSVP
Dear Tammy,
I plan on
showing up for the reception and just wanted to formally RSVP.
Sincerely,
Mindy
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[DIVA NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From:
"Cynthia C."
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: I'll
be there
Hi Diva,
I am coming to
the protest in SF from Seattle. I have
my sign ready:
BUSH et al:
WE KNOW YOU ARE
CORRUPT
DO YOU?
I love your
website, you help me through the bad days.
Keep up the
good work.
I look forward
to seeing you at the rally!
Cynthia
********************
KIRSTEN'S RSVP's FOR VOTERWEST
[DIVA
NOTE: WOO-HOO!!!!!]
From: "Kirsten"
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Count
me in!
Just give me
the wheres/whats/whens and I'll be there.
If you need some
ideas on places
to meet/things to do here in San Francisco let me know, I'm a
native so I
know ALL the cool stuff!
Kirsten
PS on
Coco:
My best wishes
to Coco on her radiation. My Mom's cat
Poodie was diagnosed
with lymphoma a
little over a month ago and has been in chemo since - he's
doing
wonderfully and they expect him to make a full recovery. They can do
amazing things
for cats these days, and I'm hoping they can do the same for
Coco. I have three cats myself and know what
you're going through.
********************
DAVE C. ON AL GORE IN FLORIDA!
From: "Dave
C."
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 4:47 AM
Subject:
[Voter] Fw: I rallied for The President of the United States, Al Gore!
I got up at 7:20 in the morning (very rare
for a day off from work) and
made the trek
with some of the most loyal Democratic friends anyone could
ever have. My goal, to rally and let the people of the
State of Florida and
the US know
what I know: that Al Gore is the TRUE
President of the United
States of
America. There were lots of media and I
even got to meet someone
who I now look
up to as an activist, Mr. Bob Kunst.
There were lots of
signs, some
pro-Gore, some pro-Gore but with a curiosity as to why he hasn't
spoken up, and
some that were anti-Bushit. I was
interviewed by one woman
from a radio
station in Orlando, though I never heard it.
Otherwise, none
of the other
media actually talked to me, but I got on plenty of cameras. I
was kind of
suprised, considering I was the only one there that *appeared*
to be under 30,
in other words, a young person.
The sign that I held up most of the time
when I wasn't on the bullhorn
said
"Welcome back, Mr. President." On the website of one of the TV
stations
in Orlando
later that evening, they mentioned a sign that said "Welcome
back, Mr.
President." Needless to say, I was enthralled that even though my
picture didn't
make it, my message did! Occasionally,
I would have a turn
on the bull
horn and shout something to the effect of "Welcome back,
President
Gore." My best power trip, so to
say, came when I said "The State
of Florida
welcomes the duly elected President of the United States of
America, Al
Gore!." There was even a plane circling overhead with a banner
reading:
"FLA WELCOMES PRESIDENT GORE! LEGITGOV.ORG." Needless to say, it
got
us all very
excited and I'm sure got some people confused on I-4 and
International
Dr. Unfortunately, within minutes after
leaving is when Gore
left, but we
got the media coverage we wanted.
The next thing we did was decorate our
vehicles with orange fringe and
Oral Majority
signs. I think we got enough people to
notice us.
Occasionally,
due to traffic laws that we didn't want to violate, we were
separated, but
always managed to get back together.
The only bad experience
that we had,
and I personally had, was when two men who were obviously of
Palestinian/Arab
heritage, asked me what we were doing.
When I said
"Protesting
the fact that Bush stole the election," they proceeded to
verbally
assault me by saying "The Democrats lost, the Jews lost." Being
Jewish, that
highly offended me, so I said "Thank you, Hitler" while rolling
up my
window. I flashed my Mogen David (Star
of David) and ignored them. I
was literally
praying that they didn't have a gun or anything. I pulled
ahead when the
light changed to green and the men cut in front of Suni and
proceeded to
attempt to break up our caravan.
However, you can't keep a
good dog down,
and we all caught up with each other thanks to some strategic
red lights.
We met later at a restaurant in the area
for an OM meeting and came up
with some great
strategies for getting more people involved to get this
voter fraud
investigation against Jeb Bushit and Florida's Cruella DeVille,
Katherine
Harris, going. Bob Kunst also suggested
running against Jeb Bushit
in next year's
gubernatorial race when the Democratic Party and the citizens
of the State of
Florida in general, toss the GOP OUT of the governor's seat.
We also put
together a GREAT plan for our nation's 225th birthday, a caravan
down the I-4
corridor re-enacting the American Revolution, this being the
next Revolution
after the rape of our country in it's 225th year. I will
connect with
the Bostonian's I came from and act as Paul Revere (pronounced
Paul Reveah in
the Boston accent). I can't wait!
Democratically
yours,
Dave C.
Tampa, FL
"Friends
Don't Let Friends Vote Republican"
********************
ON THE USA TODAY RECOUNT STORY
From: "Ann
Schneider"
To: sccdcc@svpal.org; CaliforniaDemocrat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 2:31 AM
Subject:
[CADemocrat] Gore Wins If, bush wins if............
This is a report of the
results of one of two newspaper syndicate actual
counts of the
ballots that were never counted in Florida.
The more
detailed actual
count is still being conducted by a University/accounting
firm from
Chicago for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and other major
national papers
(I think Knight Ridder - but then they own the Miami
Herald who was
part of the actual count reported below.)
Keep in mind
that none of these actual counts include the people who were
turned away
from the polls by Florida HWY patrol men who set up blockades
in black
neighborhoods, or people who were incorrectly added to a felony
list (supplied
by a firm in Texas and under contract by the Secretary of
State in
Florida, Katherine Harris) and therefore prevented from voting
(several 1,000
people). And I am not sure if any of
these counts include
ballots from
around Jacksonville that are part of a lawsuit between the
papers and the
Registrar of Voters over access. And
they may not include
ballots from
several counties that had optical scanning voting machines
but the polling
workers turned off the automatic error checking function
(the machine
tells the voter if they have under or overvoted and will not
let the
"transaction" complete until the error is fixed. The locals
turned this
function off to save .23 cents for reballoting. Count there
something like
5400 votes. (San Mateo and San Francisco counties use
optical
scanning machines.)
Florida
legislators recently voted to replace all punch card voting
equipment with
touch screen equipment under one condition.
That no one
running for
Governor next year be allowed to accept campaign donations
from people
outside the state of Florida or risk losing matching state
campaign funds. Gov. bush doesn't use the Florida matching
funds so this
provision won't
hurt him but will limit his less wealthy opponents in
next years
election. And the jury is still out on
touch screen voting
machines that
do not provide any hard copy ballot that would show the
intent of the
voter. MIT and other Universities
recently released a
report
cautioning against the use of touch screen machines because the
are easily
manipulated.
One other
newsflash, San Francisco just voted to allow Instant Run-off
Voting.
Learn more
about election methods and machines and hear some music by
coming to the
West Coast Voter Rights March to Restore Democracy next
Saturday, May
19, 2001 in San Francisco at the Civic Center.
We need
your presence
because our numbers will tell the media and people in power
that we want
true election reform.
Ann Schneider
I Support a
VOTER'S Right To Choose
Co-Chair, Voter
March West
********************
ACTION ALERT! CENTRAL CALIFORNIAN RESISTANCE FIGHTER
NEEDS CARPOOLERS FOR TRIP TO VOTERMARCH WEST
From: thediva@coup2k.com
To: "Everyone"
Cc: "Mr. Evans"
<mhjim@prodigy.net>
Sent: Thursday,
May 10, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: [BBBR]
VOTER MARCH WEST: Bus Available for 15 Riders coming from Central California
REPLY TO: mhjim@prodigy.net
Voter Marchers:
Anyone needing
a ride to Voter March West in San Francisco on May 19 that
lives in the
Fresno area and points north including Madera, Merced, Turlock,
Modesto,
Manteca, Tracy, Livermore, Pleasanton and other towns/locations in
this vicinity
should contact Mr. Evans (mhjim@prodigy.net)
at (559)294-0111.
Mr. Evans is a
disabled man who would like to come to the Voter Rights March
in San
Francisco on Saturday, May 19th, but needs help with gas expenses.
Mr. Evans has a
mini-bus that carries 15 passengers. r.
Evans says the bus
is running in
tip top condition. Anyone interested in
helping Mr. Evans get
here for the
rally and you are in need of transportation, this might work
for you. Give Mr. Evans a buzz if you need a ride or
you can make a
donation to Mr.
Evans for his gas expenses.
I have included
Mr. Evans email below:
Thanks ---
john vance,
outreach
Voter Rights
March
==============================================
Jim Evans "Freedom Fighter"!!! here.
I'm having trouble getting the
funds necessary
together so that I can get up there for the rally. One very
nice lady
contacted me and let me know that she's willing to send me $50.00
for gas, but
that's only a forth of what I need to
safely get up there, and
back!!!
"Unfortunately I require a minimum of $150.00 for gas because I live
in central CA.,
Clovis CA. Next to Fresno CA.
"If you
hear of anybody coming up from my area, maybe I can connect with
them and we can
all come up together for the rally"???
"My only
transportation is a former mini-passenger bus with a wheelchair
lift that gets
about eight (8) miles per gallon, and I
use this to get
around because
I'm disabled and use this for transportation.
Please let me
know.
My E-mail is:
mhjim@prodigy.net
My phone number
is:
1-559-294-0111
My address is:
361 W. Santa Ana
Ave, #105
Clovis CA, 93612
Thanks, Jim
Evans
"Freedom
Fighter"!!
mhjim@prodigy.net
********************
ACTION ALERT! BUSH IN ST. PAUL, MN
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2001
[DIVA
NOTE: A GREAT WAY TO GET GEARED UP,
NO?]
From:
"Daniel Brown" daniel_p_brown@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject:
Protest in St. Paul next Thursday
Local
newspapers are reporting that ex-Gov. Bush will
be in St. Paul
next Thursday, obviously to groom the
anointed Senate
candidate Norm Coleman.
It's only a
couple days before the big Voter March on
both coasts,
but I was really hoping that some of your
multitudes of
contacts might be interested in a
dry-run in
Saint Paul, or that individuals on their
way to
Washington or the west coast would deviate to
the midwest for
a Thursday protest.
I would hope
that we could be loud, proud and in His
Fraudulency's
face the whole time he was in St. Paul,
or at least
make lots of news telling him he's full of
it.
News accounts
say he is going to be "making an energy
announcement,"
so involving Greenpeace or other
alternative
energy sources would be super cool.
Anyway, if you
could do anything to publicize this,
I'd really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dan Brown
Saint Paul, MN
State Moderator
Minnesota
Democrat - Connected & Informed in Minnesota
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MinnesotaDemocrat
Part of the USDemocrat Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USDemocrat
Member
Trust The
People Twin Cities - Taking Resistance to
the Streets
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/trustthepeople-twincities
Part of the CounterCoup.org Network
Democrats-Minnesota
- State Chapter of Democrats.com
for MN
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Dem-MN
Part of the Democrats.com Network
Democrats.com -
connecting dot com Democrats
Buzzflash.com -
home of the Buzz Flash Report
CounterCoup.org
- Direct action Democracy
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ACTION ALERT! BUSH YALE -- NEW HAVEN, CT
MONDAY, MAY 21, 2001
[DIVA
NOTE: A GREAT WAY TO KEEP THINGS GOING!]
From:
"Daniel Brown" daniel_p_brown@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday,
May 11, 2001 6:17 AM
Subject:
Protest in St. Paul next Thursday
On Monday, May
21st, Yale will be honoring GW Bush.
And we will be th