Wednesday edition - April 19, 2006
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Iraq Police Deny Report of Teachers
Killed
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Report: Blair
will not back Iran strike |
Bush to raise
Iran nuclear issue with Hu |
Bush acts like he's itching to nuke Iran.
The Bush administration: spreading Greedom. -- Grant Gerver
You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
20,000 kidnapped in Iraq this year Australian, Australia
Many flee parts of Baghdad because of threats to Shiites Houston Chronicle, United States
Iraq's Kurds Aim for Own Oil Ministry Los Angeles Times, CA
Attorney Pursues Iraq Contractor Fraud Wall Street Journal
"I'm the decider and I decide what's best."
--President Bush, on keeping on Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense
"Sometimes it's not the nuns getting raped, sometimes it's the strippers getting raped." -- Geraldo Rivera on the Duke Lacrosse team rape allegations
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F.B.O. Federal Bureau of Obfuscation
The family of late columnist Jack Anderson has
rejected the FBI's demand to grant government investigators access to the
famed muckraker's papers and notes.
In a letter to the FBI Tuesday, attorneys for Anderson's family said the
family had concluded
it would be
inconsistent with the life's work of the reporter to provide the materials
to the bureau.
DON'T IMPEACH BUSH. COMMIT HIM.
Another White House Resignation
White House press secretary Scott
McClellan announced his resignation on Wednesday as part of a shake-up of
President George W. Bush's senior aides.
"I have given it my all, sir," McClellan told Bush
outside the White House before a group of reporters.
Disturbing News
Messengers versus Scooter Libby
Lawyers for NBC News, The New York Times, and Time Inc. accused a former White House aide yesterday of threatening the integrity of their news gathering operations by seeking access to a wide range of documents in the CIA leak case.
They are asking US District Judge Reggie B. Walton to block seven subpoenas seeking access to drafts of news articles, e-mails, and notes generated by any and all of the news organizations' employees -- not just the three reporters involved in the case.
"Rumsfeld is defiant. He says he is not backing down and he says he's going to stick around and let people criticize him for the Iranian invasion." --David Letterman
Karl Rove Given More Time for Dirty Tricks
As expected, Scott
McClellan is quitting his job as the human pinata of the press room. Not so
expected is new Chief of Staff Josh Bolten's decision to
clip the wings of
George Bush's political alter-ego of 33 years, Karl Rove.
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Republican Shenanigans
DeLay Wins A Round In Court KWTX, TX
John Wayne Generals
AMERICAN generals on duty in Iraq spend too much time acting like Hollywood
heroes John Wayne or Sylvester Stallone, a British brigadier has claimed.
Alan Sharpe OBE said the "strong streak of Hollywood"
in his US
counterparts was counter productive in the war zones.
Rock-The-Voter News
Condoleezza Rice has banned Playboy and Penthouse at the State Department
Bill Bennett: Pulitzer prize winners should be jailed
"While [President Bush] was doing his taxes, under dependents he listed
Scooter Libby, Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. Then he caught himself,
'Dependents? Oh, I thought it said defendants.'" -
Good News
Gay man wins Internet fight vs. Falwell New York Daily News, NY
Anti-Abortion Protestors Allowed to Harass
A federal judge has ruled that a city law imposing a
buffer zone on abortion protesters violates free-speech rights and has ordered
the city not to enforce it.
The law —
enacted in October after someone set fire to the Presidential Women's Center,
the last clinic in Palm Beach County where abortions are done — created a
20-foot buffer around entrances and other public areas outside health-care
facilities.
Biz-Tech News
Oil prices ease in Asian trade but still near 71 usd - UPDATE Forbes
Skilling Withheld Information on Losses, Prosecutor Alleges Washington Post
Court rejects Microsoft request for Novell to hand over documents
Google to release new version of search software MarketWatch
"The big story continues to be that seven retired generals have come forward and called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to step down. In response to that, President Bush said he fully supports Rumsfeld. You know what that means? Sounds like somebody's going on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney." --Jay Leno
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Ex-Gitmo Commander Ordered to Testify
Rumsfeld can't testify, military judge says
Cleveland Plain
Dealer, OH
U.S. City Embassy in Iraq
The 104-acre complex — the size of about 80
football fields — will include two office buildings, one of them designed
for future use as a school, six apartment buildings, a gym, a pool, a food
court and its own power generation and water-treatment plants. The average
Baghdad home has electricity only four hours a day.
The current U.S. Embassy in Iraq has nearly 1,000 Americans working there,
more than at any other U.S. embassy.
Go-F*ck-Yourself News
The Easterner
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!
-- Will Rogers
Odd News
A Brazilian surfer flies off a wave at Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Peace.
