Monday-Thursday edition - June 11-14, 2007

 I was delayed in getting my Internet service restored at All Hat No Cattle's Central American Bureau. Mea culpa. I will return with another edition on Friday, when I return from a few meetings I must attend in San Jose.

Thank you all for your e-mails!!!

"There seems to be tension between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Again, President Bush thinks this is good. He thinks a new Cold War could help end global warming." --Jay Leno

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The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News

• U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 3,505 AP

• www.iraqbodycount.org

• Three US soldiers killed in Iraq suicide attack Irish Examiner

• GIs trapped after Iraq bridge bombing AP

• Bomber kills 7, wounds 45 in Tikrit AP

• Suicide truck bomber kills nine Iraqi policemen AFP

• Some Sunnis in Iraq receive US arms to fight Al Qaeda Boston Globe

• Iraq to Turkey: stop shelling north Iraq AP

• Israel launches spy satellite AP

• Troops struggle with finding therapists AP

"Undaunted by the protesters, the leaders focused on finding consensus over global warming. And by 'consensus,' we mean getting Bush to agree with the other seven." --Jon Stewart, on the G8 Summit
 

Democrat Wants to Attack Iran

Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday that the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq.

"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers."
 

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OUTRAGED VIEWING PUBLIC DEMANDS A DIFFERENT ENDING FOR … ‘THE BUSHPRANOS’

Disturbing News

• 'Dirty snow' warming Earth, study finds National Post

• Algae smothers China lake

• Landslides, storms kill 73 in Bangladesh AFP

• 66 die in China flooding, landslides AP

• Floodwaters follow savage Australian storm AFP

"Our boss didn't let us go on Christmas vacation, but now he's giving us a day off because of Bush?" - An unnamed Bulgarian sales clerk

Republican Shenanigans

• Bush Vows to Get Immigration Bill Passed New York Times

• Bush defends humanitarian record with pope in visit at Vatican San Diego Union Tribune

• Bush makes a gaffe at Vatican City Times of India, India 

• Snow: Bush's call on CIA leak case AP

• Former leading Republican Gingrich sees losses in 2008 if nominee ... International Herald Tribune

• Thompson shakes up GOP race, poll shows Seattle Post Intelligencer

Putting the Chill Back Into the Cold War

President George W. Bush said on Monday said he hoped that a plan for U.S. and Russian experts to analyze each other's proposal for a missile defense shield would be beneficial...Bush reiterated that he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin in talks at the Group of Eight summit in Germany last week that: "I simply do not view Russia as an enemy."

The above photo is undoctored. Is that a beer Bush is drinking? Does Laura know?
 

"They say it's just a matter of time before former senator and 'Law & Order' actor Fred Thompson gets into the Republican race. Apparently, 10 rich white guys doesn't offer enough choices to the voters. They need 11 rich white guys." --Jay Leno

Rock-The-Voter News

• Richardson: I'd leave no troops in Iraq AP

• Dean: Democratic president would end war AP

• Lawmakers want Capitol to go green AP

"Vice President Dick Cheney said today the surge policy is working. In fact, gas prices have surged almost $4 a minute." --Jay Leno

Biz-Tech News

• Oil Prices Rise to $65.19 a Barrel Houston Chronicle

• Autism Vaccine Case Hits Federal Court CBS News

• YouTube to launch Chinese service Bangkok Post

• Whisky sales on the rise in China AFP

• Yahoo weighs in on free speech in China AP

"A low-level researcher at Yale University has been arrested for a scam he was running out of the Yale Law library. The guy claimed to be a lawyer and was charging illegal immigrants $5,000 a piece to get a greencard. They say this is the biggest scam pulled off at Yale since, I guess, George Bush got his diploma" --Jay Leno

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo Washington Post
   

"Scooter Libby has been sentenced to 30 months in prison ... even though he is a good friend of Vice President Dick Cheney. Hey, he got off easy. Cheney's other friends got shot in the face." --Jay Leno

Go-F***-Yourself News

• Cheney's Pacemaker Needs Fresh Battery ABC News 

"After serving only three days of her prison sentence, Paris Hilton has been let out of jail. When asked about it, Paris said, 'Usually I'm not a fan of premature release.'" --Conan O'Brien

Odd News

• Thousands Hail Bush in Visit to Albania New York Times

• Paris' Weekend in Jail Entertainment Tonight

• Inbreeding doomed woolly mammoths Los Angeles Times

• "Sopranos" ends in crescendo of ... nothing Reuters

• Napoleon's sword sold for $6.4 million AP

A fish, of the genus Guyanancistrus was discovered by the 2005 RAP team. This species of dwarf catfish, likely to be unique to the eastern plateaus of Suriname, is called "big mouth" by its discoverers due to the unusually large size of its mouth. It is one of 24 new species found in the South American highlands of Suriname, conservationists reported on June 4, 2007, warning that these creatures are threatened by illegal gold mining. Photo/Jan Mol

Peace.