Roseanne Unleashes Venom on City, Still Angry Over Singing Debacle

Words worth quoting.

* Bombs still bursting in air.

It’s been two years since her screechy “Star Spangled Banner” at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, but Roseanne Arnold hasn’t forgotten or forgiven.

In her HBO special this Saturday night, she decides it’s time for payback.

After she calls President Bush “that (bleeping) pinhead of a wimp” for criticizing her singing, she blasts the Padres for “deserting me like (g.d.) rats off a sinking ship.”

Then she’s got a few words for San Diego.

“That horrible (bleeping) town--they’ve got the worst (g.d.) baseball team in the whole (g.d.) world. They ought to be kissing my (posterior) because the only time they won a (g.d.) thing is the day I went down and sang on them.”

As the crowd laughs heartily, Arnold adds:

“I just live to get even. It feels so good. Do you believe I get paid for this (material)?”

No, as a matter of fact, I don’t.

* North County bumper sticker: “I Am Woman. I Am Invincible. I Am Tired.”

* Leighton Worthey, 18, has a new gig.

He had a short run for San Diego mayor and then wrote a picaresque 30-page account. Now he’s the troubadour of the Golding-Navarro runoff.

His first effort is “Pete Navarro Whines,” a takeoff on Elton John’s “Elderberry Wine.” Quoth:

There’s a primary in the summer

A runoff this fall

And I’m scared he’ll make it.

There’s a PLAN in the offing

He’s trying to pass

If it wins, our city will have fallen through

I know he’d better get it together

Or we’ll all stand in welfare lines

His thoughts amaze me

His plans are crazy

And Pete Navarro whines.

Gripes all the time

Where’s his mind?

Oh, Pete Navarro whines.

War Crime Case Being Questioned

San Diego supporters of a German rocket scientist who worked in San Diego after World War II and later was accused of war crimes cling to hope that Congress may reopen his case.

Supporters of Arthur Rudolph are buoyed by news that the internal affairs division of the Department of Justice is reviewing the department’s handling of the John Demjanjuk and Andrija Artukovic cases.

“He deserves to have his name cleared,” said Bob Magness, one of the San Diego engineers who worked with Rudolph at Solar Aircraft in the late 1940s.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. (D-Ohio) has introduced House Resolution 404 calling for a hearing into Rudolph’s case.

Traficant is convinced of Rudolph’s innocence, in part because of a lie-detector test that Rudolph took in 1989.

Traficant had pressed for a review of the Demjanjuk and Artukovic cases; all three cases were handled by the Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations, the so-called Nazi hunters.

Rudolph, now 85, relinquished his naturalized American citizenship and moved to Hamburg in 1983 after OSI alleged that he had ordered the execution of slave laborers at a V-2 factory.

Rudolph helped develop the Saturn V rocket that put Americans on the moon. He claims that OSI threatened to take away his NASA pension and have his daughter fired from her job with NASA.

Traficant said he hopes recent revelations in the Demjanjuk case--that the U.S. government may have suppressed documents that undercut its case--will embolden someone within the government to leak similar documents involving Rudolph.

“I believe that OSI wanted to get Werner von Braun and settled instead for Rudolph to get headlines,” Traficant said. “They threw out the Constitution to get Rudolph. They pressured an old, sick, frightened man.”

Deep Thoughts

Word play.

* Bob Davidson of La Jolla reports seeing a bumper sticker: “Meditation Is Not What You Think.”

* Think about it.

Sign at a downtown store: Spanish Spoken Here.