Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

July 4th, 2002: During one of Cobain's backing concerts for the Who in Los Angeles, he once again makes statements against President Bush. He also alludes to a new album that Nirvana will begin producing in the winter, which is intended for release sometime in mid-2003.
 
July 9, 2002-During a concert in Atlanta, Cobain brings up support from Democratic Senator Max Cleland, to denounce the rush to war. Cleland states that he and Barbara Lee have officially co-sponsored a bill to allow for presidential revotes, and that "if you help us take back Congress, passing this bill and bringing the Kyoto Protocol back up for ratification will be our first actions in the new session." The crowd goes ecstatic, and Cobain joins The Who onstage during "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."

July 11, 2002-Ted Nugent is brought to full froth at the Antelope Valley Fair in Lancaster, California. He angrily denounces Cobain, Cleland, Barbara Lee, and everyone. "And I say firmly, all of you are motherfucking traitors. You know what the penalty for treason is?! If President Bush isn't going to do it himself, I'll step in and do the honors."

July 15, 2002-Jerry Garcia launches a 45-date tour with the Jerry Garcia Band, with all proceeds heading to the campaigns of Democratic Senators and Congresspeople to take back Congress. "If we don't unseat the Republicans, we have no chance of stopping President Bush's plans, and restoring justice to this country. We must do what we can. Oh, by the way, I'm a guest spot on the next Nirvana album."
 
July 31, 2002-The musical Dance Of The Vampires, an English adaptation of a successful Vienna production, begins previews in the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. The musical contains songs by legendary lyricist and producer Jim Steinman, and features Drew Sarich in the lead role as Count von Krolock. Ignoring ideas by Steinman's manager David Sonenberg, the musical is a straightforward adaptation of the original show, with a few new songs and some added dialogue by original writer Michael Kunze.
 
August 7th, 2002: Layne Staley speaks out against Nugent's comments, stating: "Just because we don't like what our President's doing, doesn't mean we don't like our country. Would you have supported Hitler just because he was our President? I'd think not." He then mentions Nugent's controversial sexual history, threatening to disclose it to the public if he doesn't ease up on his statements.
 
August 8, 2002-Nugent adds Staley to his hit list in his rants. "Everyone knows Uncle Ted. You all know I'm a family man. All those girls, I had their parents' permission for, every single one. You know it, I know, Real America knows it. And if this lying motherfucker thinks he can take me down, he's got another thing coming. Besides, you know what he did 10 years ago? Heroin, the worst fucking drug on Earth. Once a junkie, always a junkie."

August 10, 2002-Nirvana officially signs a new record contract with Virgin Records, including the remastering of their studio and live back catalogue, and outtake material. Their 2003 album will be their first for the label.
 
August 11, 2002-Cobain gives a smiling video to the Nirvana website. "I'd like to be in a room alone with Uncle Ted and meet face to face. I bet he'd like the challenge, since he thinks he can destroy me so easily. Well, I'd like to confront him personally. You hear that, Uncle Ted? Let's thrash it out at your place."
 
November 18, 2002: Delta Connection Flight 1910 from from Atlanta to Newport News, operated by a Bombardier CRJ-100, loses control and crashes ten minutes from landing, killing all 25 passengers and three crew members.
 
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August 20th, 2002: A week before Nirvana's Scandinavian tour begins, Cobain once again targets Nugent and asks him a simple question. "Why do you support America no matter what it does? If America told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?"
 
Seriously, the Cobain-Nugent shitflinging is starting to get repetitive. Can't we focus on something else?

November 19, 2002: Texas governor Rick Perry says that Delta Connection Flight 1910 was "almost certainly" brought down by terrorism.

November 20, 2002: Cobain criticizes Perry's statement, saying "we should leave this to the investigators instead of jumping the gun".
 
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September 11, 2002-The first anniversary of the terrorist attacks is marked around the world in various fashions, from playing Mozart's Requiem, to prayer, to reading the names of the victims, and statements from the World Trade Center site, or Ground Zero. Nirvana, for their part, mark it with a concert in Helsinki. Their cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World" makes its way back into the setlist after seven years of being shelved.

October 3, 2002-The full text of the Cleland-Lee Bill is posted online, starting with Senator Cleland's reelection campaign site. The rules for a presidential revote are described as follows:

-Congress can call for a revote anytime between the general election of one campaign and the primary season of another, with only the Democrat and Republican candidates on the ballot, and one four-hour debate a week before the day of the revote.
-If the contest is between two candidates that are not currently in the White House, the usual rules regarding Presidential terms apply to whomever the winner is.
-If an incumbent wins the revote and is in their first term, they still have to stand for reelection, should they want a second term.
-If the challenger to a first-term incumbent wins the revote, the new President can choose to either win a term of their own in the next scheduled election, or stay on through the election following, but cannot be elected to a second term. This would of course mean that if a Bush-Gore revote were to be held, and Gore won, he could either stand for a term of his own in 2004, or agree to stay on through 2009, but not run for another term in the 2008 election.

Pundits and the public debate their feelings about the revote bill.
 
August 15th 2002-Johnny Ramone is successfully treated for prostate cancer.

September 12 2002-Johnny Ramone and the rest of the Ramones call out Kurt Cobain in a MTV interview saying that he is unamercian and that he should lay off attacking President Bush
 
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August 15th 2002-Johnny Ramone is successfully treated for prostate cancer.

September 12 2002-Johnny Ramone and the rest of the Ramones call out Kurt Cobain in a MTV interview saying that he is unamercian and that he should lay off attacking President Bush

September 18th, 2002: Cobain responds to the comments the Ramones made about him and his remarks and he replies that he: "Isn't attacking Bush, just criticizing his actions" and that he's not being un-American by: "Caring about how Bush's recklessness affects America."
 
BTW I have been reading the story and just finished it. BTW who is Tabitha Secret suppose to be? It sounds filmilar but I can't wrap my finger around it?
 
November 2002-By the skin of their teeth, the Democrats hold 61 Senate seats and 230 House seats. Many refer to it as the biggest paradigm shift in politics since the 1994 midterms.
 
October 2nd 2002-Kurt Cobain says it is disappointing that the Ramones have become more conservative

He says "Its not the Ramones I knew growing up'
 
January 2003-Following on their pledge, the Democrat-controlled Congress ratifies the Kyoto Protocol and passes the Cleland-Lee Bill. Both are vetoed by President Bush, and both are overridden, as some Republicans cross the aisle to try and save their own seats in the future. A presidential revote is then called for May, with President Bush and former Vice President Al Gore having one four-hour debate the week before. In addition, Congress works to block the mobilization of forces to Iraq.
 
January 7th, 2003: Saddam Hussein is killed in his Baghdad home when forces raid his compound and fill him with bullets. A picture of Hussein's bullet ridden, mangled mess of a corpse is leaked onto the internet several days later.
 
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