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impeach the gop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-28-03 04:34 AM
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Judgement day (this is funny)
the producers (aka the US Supreme Court) will permit, Arnold
Schwarzenegger would really like to shoot his latest movie up
and down California, with a cast of thousands. Working title:
Arnie's Big Adventure. Subtitle: The Man Who Would Be
Governor. The plot? Putting an action-movie star in charge of
solving a fiscal crisis in the world's fifth-largest economy. There's
only one problem. Some of the studio's executives, committed
Democrats, are determined to halt production, and send the star
into 'turnaround'. As a result, no one's quite sure if it's going to
be a political thriller or a screwball comedy, or a bit of both. And
absolutely no one knows how it will play on the previously
scheduled opening night: election day, 7 October. At the time of
writing, indeed, no one has any idea if the show will open at all.
This is a shame, because,until the lawyers got involved, Arnie's
Big Adventure was shaping up to be first-class entertainment for
most of the family.

On Labor Day at the Sacramento State Fair, a crowd of gawkers
and thrill-seekers has joined the world's press in a huddle
beneath the fairground's Sky Coaster. It's swelteringly hot.
Campaign rock is thumping in the background. The smell of
pizza and the warm cardboard aroma of popcorn drift across
from a bank of fast-food trailers. Overhead, the daredevils on the
Sky Coaster swoop and dive like action-movie extras. The
Terminator himself, narrowly the frontrunner in an unprecedented
gubernatorial race which has brought a simmering
Republican-Democrat conflict to the boil once more, is punching
out his message to the cameras: 'Ve haf to stob dis government
from overzpending, overdaxing und over-regu-lading...' It's Arnie's
unique medium as much as his message that has inspired the
late-night comedians to propose 'Four More Vowels' as his
campaign slogan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1051491,00.html
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