THE DAILY TRAVESTY | We Succumb to the Elian Craze
The Daily Travesty
 
24 April 2000                    Email
Vol. 1, Issue 73                On the Web
 
 
                    
    Welcome to your life
                    There's no turning back
                    Even while we sleep
                            We will find you
              Acting on your best behavior
              Turn your back on mother nature
                                       Everybody wants to rule the world.
 
                            Tears for Fears
 

 
Elian Seized
 
reported by Eric Francis in Miami, Saturday morning
eric@planetwaves.net
 
    Corrected raid time: it lasted three minutes between
    5:15 am to 5:18 am.  Just saw video of the raid, in-
    cluding a still shot of a black agent with an automatic
    weapon screaming into the face of Elian and the man
    holding him, with his finger above the trigger, the cop
    in a helmet and goggles.  Elian looks terrified.  Taken
    out by a bilingual female INS agent.  Taken first by
    chopper than plane to Andrews Air Force Base.  The
    house was totally ransacked.

    ++

    I have often thought of the Caucasian Chalk Circle,
    in which the judge settles a dispute over a child by
    offering to cut it in half and give half to each side of
    the family.  The real mother, of course, says "Don't
    do it, leave the child whole."  In this case no side of
    the family has said to leave the child while,
    reminding me again and again that neither side of
    the family are his real parents.

    Witness describing the raid live on Miami TV a moment
    ago described the agents as very tall men, descending
    on the house with battering rams,

    "Dressed in black with full gear, right in front of us
    Started spraying us with gas immediately.  They didn't
    wait."

    She described Elian, whom she saw being carried out
    of the house by a female agent:

    "The fear, desperation panic that I saw through that
    little child's eyes..."

    Currently watching live video of angry crowds, and
    there are reports of arrests.  Busses with arrested
    people "rapidly filling up."  Traffic blocked in
    Little Cuba and surrounding areas.

    ++

    As of 10:03 first reports that Elian had been reunited
    with his father at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland,
    "a little while ago."

    ++

    News reports via CBS news.

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Microwave Peep Jousting!
 
Now that Easter is over, and all that Easter candy is 50% off, it's time to unveil the newest sport of the season:
 
Microwave Peep Jousting is the latest craze among trailer park people, and kooky grandmothers all over the world.  The process to observe this new sport is simple.
 
1. Buy a package of Peeps (Marshmallow candy creatures covered in sugar).  Bunnies can't be used, use the chicks instead.  Also purchase a box of toothpicks. 
2. Insert two toothpicks into the peep's "chest."
3. Place two Peeps about 1 1/2 toothpick length apart, facing each other, then turn on the microwave.  Don't leave them in too long because melted marshmallow is impossible to get out of a microwave.
 
Barry Johnson


Say that you'll never never never never need it  One headline why believe it??