CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Reuters) -- At least 20 people were injured on Tuesday when an explosion ripped through the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town's popular waterfront, witnesses said. "At the moment it seems like it was a bomb. I heard the bomb explode and I came running," said a police officer who was among the first people on the scene. The explosion occurred in the U.S.-franchised restaurant around 7:30 p.m., while it was packed with tourists and after-work revelers. "It seems like something was thrown into the restaurant from outside," the policewoman said. A Reuters correspondent on the scene said she saw at least 20 people being carried from the restaurant, many of them covered in blood. A waitress said she saw a woman whose legs appeared to have been blown off. Cape Town, South Africa's foremost tourist venue, has been the scene of an escalating war between gangs who run the city's drug business and Muslim activists calling themselves People Against Gangsterism and Drugs. Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

Planet Hollywood? Finally, terrorism for the thinking man.

i keep having to remind myself that white south africans are people too. anyone have a guess as to who the anti-christ is? he must be around somewhere. i keep thinking: if i were god, who would i let into the post-apocalyptic city of gold?

Haven't I told you yet, Nate? Benjamin Netanyatu is the anti-christ. Isn't it obvious?

Oops. Netanyahu. Probably misspelled it then, too. Aw, fuckit...

The Anti-Christ is actually the one person who knows the secret recipe of Coca Cola (a corporation who we all know are slowly paving their way towards world domination...the obvious mission statement for said Anti-Christ).

What...the fuck....is this all about?

its about YOU spider. because YOU are THAT scared. motherfuckers wanna attack on election day the last thing we should do is stand down and move the date. if they (administration) fucks with election day, say hello to a revolution.

Yeah, don't you love the contradiction? If we alter our way of life because of an attack, then the terrorists win! Except if we delay the election because of an attack. Then we win.

When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?

The monkey is wearing blue pants. Franz Kafka was in Baltimore yesterday. Do not play with fire on Tuesday.

exactly spider.

heh. http://www.dogtoyormaritalaid.com 10 out of 14, both rounds.

Whoa, 14 out of 14 and 12 out of 14. What would you do with that one thing in the difficult round that's got a little pink ball on one end of the lucite rod and a bigger pink paper maché(?) ball on the other?

Oh, and what the hell kind of dog toy is the white thing right underneath that? I shudder to think.

While they are postponing elections, or planning to, the Bush Administration is also leaning hard on Pakistan to capture a "HVT" or high value target during the Democratic convention, and/or in October. Nice that the War on Terror can be timed so well to serve as a campaign tool for Bush.

no. the scary thing is that Soaries, who not surprisingly was appointed by Bush, even ASKED to be given the authority to delay an election. yes sir, be very afraid.

sem, did you read this? http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/7921/

That was enlightening. I wish I could say it was shocking, but in this day and age, it's not.

I mean, check this out.

Read this speech by Al Gore. It's long but it's awesome.

OK, it's really long, but at least read the first ~10 paragraphs and skim the rest if you have to. There was an article in the paper today about how the telejournalists are calling for a debate/discussion on the postponement of the election thing, saying we're in dire need of such a debate, and I keep thinking, but..but..but if Abraham Lincoln and his Congress didn't postpone the 1864 election during the Civil War, who are these punk-ass bitches crying about the glimmer of a possibility of an attack during.... I mean, what the fuck could happen? First of all, what can someone do, worse than CIVIL WAR, that would warrant the entire country postponing the election? What can they do, firebomb the ENTIRE COUNTRY? No. So...what? Would they attack on Election Day? Um, so if we postpone Election Day, won't the terrorists get wind of the new Election Day and just attack then? And then, what, so they attack a few cities? What about EVERY OTHER city, town, village, and hamlet in this vast land of ours? Why couldn't they still vote? I mean, if people could vote during muthafuckin CIVIL WAR, with hundreds of thousands of men in service, hundreds of thousands of men wounded, battlegrounds springing up all over the country, practically the whole state of Georgia in ruins, Richmond in ruins, bloody fighting right outside of Washington, ummmmmmm....yeah, why couldn't we vote if (IF IF IF) we were attacked, again? I mean, WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE. This makes me want to punch a few faces.

Look what I found: if you can't be bothered to read Gore's speech, you can listen to it by clicking here.

i have read that gore speech. you know, i was pretty wishy washy on gore 4 years ago. motherfuck, if only. . . i'm like 99 percent sure those are all his words, too.

I know. What a horrible mistake. I keep thinking of the Bill Hicks bit on his Reagan prayer. "please God, let this all be a horrible dream. Won't you reach down from heaven and pinch my butt to wake me up?" Now I'm even more pissed off at republicans. Talk about deserting their ethical responsibilities. Bush should not be running for re-election, he should be facing an impeachment process.

and they still very much control the message being communicated by the major media outlets. as long as they can frame the debate, they will have the message advantage. the popular thing now is to avoid debate on the issues and talk only about the tone and how uncivil things have become. so now, when gore or dean or whoever attempts to unveil the bush administration's methods and strategies, people immediately dismiss it as more raving. i think that, unless we can find a way to expose the pure contempt for the electorate that drives the republican machine's propaganda, we will ultimately find ourselves in a privatised version of soviet-style fascism. i wonder who they laugh at more -- their supporters for being so gullible or their opposition for repeatedly handing them their asses.

i read this history of the electoral college last night before going to bed. and STILL couldn't sleep!

yup. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=16996&mode=nested&order=0

Check out this example of "changing the tone" http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiveturky/185733.html

The great thing about that, if it's true, is that Bush is reckless. If he's actually stupid enough flip off someone who has a camera he could easily do it again. Maybe next time the glare from a bus window won't save him. His handlers will probably clamp down, though.

http://www.outfoxed.org/Clips.php http://http.dvlabs.com/carolina/Trailer_A.wmv

um Martha Stewart. Prison. is that the 4 horsemen?

and her stock is going up up up! oh my god. hallucenigens for everyone!!!

people keep asking me through this whole thing what i think about Martha's legal trouble, because i love her magazine and tv show and high-quality products (though i never actually buy anything). This is what we've come too, of course, that people actually get upset and defensive when one of their beloved celebrities goes to jail. Like i care! I don't even know her. If she did something wrong she should punished, just like everyone else. Rowlf was watching CNN this morning* and said that when asked for her reaction re:sentencing, she just looked straight into the camera and plugged this month's issue of her magazine. Ah, she's so amazing. *i want you to know that in case you were wondering, Rowlf watches CNN almost constantly. Sometimes i worry.

Maybe Rowlf doesn't want to miss a fine commercial like this one,maybe this dumb fucker should have hired an actor.If your at work I wouldn't watch this there.

God I'm goofy http://homepage.mac.com/stevelyon/vacation/imovie.html

that sounds like me when i get pissed off. ok, not really. but i do cuss a lot.