"Hey, President Obama has found a way to quickly close Guantanamo Bay. He's going to turn it into a Pontiac dealership." --Jay Leno
 

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,299 AP

• Afghan and U.S. forces kill 34 militants in drug raids Reuters

• Ex-soldier gets life in prison for Iraqi slayings AP

• To cover both wars, Senate passes $91.3B bill AP

• UN seeks $543 million for Pakistan war refugees AP

• N.Korea may be planning missile tests: report AFP

• Calif. military jet crashes; pilot killed, 1 hurt AP

• U.S. defense chief lauds soldier in pink boxers Reuters

Obama Nails Speech, But Misses Chance to Permanently Silence Cheney
By Don Davis

Top Ten Things I've Learned During Fleet Week In New York City - David Letterman Show

10. Fish from the Hudson don't taste right
(Petty Officer First Class Veronica McCoy)

 9.There truly is no place like New York City during Tony Awards season
(Petty Officer Second Class Damien Defazio)

 8. I spent a month's pay on Yankee tickets
(Captain Nicholas Whitman)

 7. I've seen many ships, but nothing surpasses Applebee's Baja Potato Boats
(Petty Officer First Class Loretta Henderson)

 6. Today's the perfect temperature... unless you're in Letterman's studio
(Corporal Robert Sandoval)

 5. How do you people eat those street vendor hot dogs?
(Lieutenant Commander Carissa April)

 4. Traffic lights are just for decoration
(Gunnery Sergeant Sarah Nolan)

 3. Katz's Deli has knishes that'll make you plotz
(Lieutenant Brad Davis)

 2. With 0% financing there's never been a better time to buy a 2009 aircraft carrier
(Petty Officer First Class Veda May)

 1. Not everyone in a dress is a woman
(Commander Tony Ceraolo)
 

Graphic by Larry

Disturbing News

• WKMG: 250 rescued from Florida floods

• NM mom charged with killing son on the playground AP

• 2 kids inside California home as parents killed AP

Virus Hits FBI and US Marshals' Computers

WASHINGTON - Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution.
 

"Vice President Joe Biden is on a trip to Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo. The White House is calling it 'Operation Keep Biden Away From the Microphones.'" --Jay Leno
 

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Bush: It's 'liberating' to be out of office AP

• GOP Senators Delay Vote on Hamilton, Citing “Troubling Rulings” Wall Street Journal Blogs

• Miss. governor meets with Chinese delegation CNBC

Sarah Palin Says No

Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday became the only governor to turn down federal stimulus money for energy efficiency, a move that legislators called "disappointing" for a state with some of the country's highest energy costs.

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Subject: Ole Joe Skar Borrow at it again

One does not have to go far to support the concept of "idiot America"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/21/ed-schultz-defends-obama_n_206260.html

Dennis - Colorado

One of the comments on the Huffington post said it best of Joe Scarborough...

Just imagine... developmentally arrested at fourteen, elected to Congress and has his own cable show.

What a country.

And another comment...

Joe Scarborough tries to put a velvet glove on it, but he advocates for the iron fist of fascism, just as surely as the crew at FOX News. Let's summarize the long term position of Joe and his Republican friends:

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

And now we can add:

Torture is Relief

 

Pelosi Is Going To China

 China's leadership will play host next week to one of its fiercest human rights critics — Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi — in a visit that symbolizes the complex and deepening relations between the two countries.

Rock-The-Voter News

• Obama speaks at graduation for McCain's son  CNN

• Biden urges Pennsylvanians to back Specter CNN

Hillary Pantsuit Lawsuit

The Justice Department is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that argues that Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot legally serve as secretary of state.

The suit filed by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is based on an obscure section of the Constitution called the emoluments clause. It says no member of Congress can be appointed to a government post if the pay was increased during the lawmaker's current term.
 

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Biz-Tech News

• Oil stays above $61 amid weakening US dollar AP

• Emirates airline profit plunges on fuel costs AFP

• Florida's BankUnited fails, will cost FDIC $4.9B AP

• Former head of pension agency takes the Fifth

Republican Wants Pot Legalized

He's best known for taking a hard line agaInst immigration during his tenure in Congress and in the course of his abortive campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, but now former Representative Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, has acquired another distinction: He's joined the growing ranks of former political figures who, upon leaving office, admit that drug prohibition is a failed and disastrous policy and who call for consideration of legalization as a solution.

"Pfizer has announced that they will be giving their drugs away to anyone who lost their job, including Viagra. They want to give everyone Viagra to give fired employees the chance to do to their loved ones the same thing their company just did to them."- Jimmy Kimmel

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Belgium reiterates willingness to take Guantanamo prisoners Xinhua

• Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich's Racist Stupidity Foreign Policy Journal

"And the price of gas, that keeps going up. I'll tell you how bad it is. Today, I saw Dick Cheney driving a Prius." --Jay Leno

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• Cheney's speech contained omissions, misstatements McClatchy Newspapers

Buy Your Memorial Day Gas Today!

The national average for regular unleaded gasoline ticked up to $2.39 a gallon today. That’s up 3 cents from yesterday and 10 cents from last week. Expect the price to be higher by the end of the weekend, as well.

All Hat No Cattle Weekend Commentary

Put terrorists in custody of Cheney, where they belong

The Obama Administration’s plan to close the terrorist detention facility in Guantanamo, Cuba, and move the prisoners to the United States has sparked intense debate, especially over where to hold them here.
All Hat No Cattle endorses the closing of Gitmo and the transfer of the detainees to the United States – specifically to Wyoming, home state of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
What better a place for these men to receive their three hots and a cot each day than the ultra-conservative fiefdom of Grand Inquisitor Cheney?
And talk about security! It would be pretty darn tough for a band of fellow terrorists’ intent on springing their comrades from prison to penetrate the high plains desert and mountain ranges of Wyoming.
Imagine a van load of Arabic- or Pashtun-speaking fellows trying to travel through that state unnoticed. Even wearing cowboy hats wouldn’t disguise them adequately.
And doesn’t everyone in Wyoming carry a gun at all times? It would be like having an army of private security surrounding the terrorist prison. Not to mention the former VP’s own Praetorian Guard. Cheney’s got so many personal body guards that he doesn’t need the Secret Service protection he also receives.
Then there is the matter of Cheney’s continuing role in the handling of the detainees.
The don of enhanced interrogation techniques is out of a job now, so perhaps he could be convinced to serve as warden of the new terrorist prison. Of course, the facility would have full wheelchair access so Cheney could scoot around the cell blocks and interrogation cells to personally supervise the questioning and punishment of prisoners.
Part of that punishment would entail audio and video programming. Translated broadcasts of the Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham radio shows would be piped into the cells at high volume for the prisoners’ edification. The television in the common area would be locked on FOX News.
Reading material also would be strictly regulated, of course.
No Koran for these guys in the custody of Warden Cheney, no sirree. They would read only the King James version of The Bible. They would read it and like it – or get extra time on the waterboard.
That particular activity would be part of every prisoner’s daily regimen.
Sean Hannity of FOX would be contracted to supervise the waterboarding, which he has assured the nation repeatedly is not torture. Hannity even offered to undergo the procedure to prove that it is not torture, but we’re not holding our collective breath waiting for him to fulfill his promise.
Besides, Cheney and Hannity and their ilk have decided that we should make suspected terrorists practice holding their breath. While being waterboarded.
 

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