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Thursday edition - July 2, 2009 |

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Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran - FBI reports
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Sanford backs out of vow to release records to AP |
Limbaugh suggests Jackson died because of Obama |
“President Obama was so upset about the Iranian crackdown…that he told the Iranian diplomats that they would not be invited to the Fourth of July party. … And I said, well, by God, that will teach them right there.” - David Letterman

The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
"I think
it's become very clear that Dick Cheney is now in full blown stage 4 Balzheimers.
I believe that his nuts now may be the size of baby elephants." - Jon
Stewart

"Where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold, build and work toward transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces." — Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson on a major operation involving 4,000 U.S. Marines to clear out Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan.
Ode to
Mark “Sweet Talker” Sanford
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dear Sanford, you need to stay mum
Cuz your statements are dumb as they come.
Tell me: Why would your wife
Take you back in this life,
When your soul mate’s another? You bum!

Fox News Will Destroy America (With Bin Laden’s Nukes?) To Save It - Wonkette
Disturbing News

http://www.republican-elephant.com/index.html
Republican-Shenanigans News
House of Pain: GOP's Class of '94 at Politico
Palin ethics complaints cost Alaska $296000 News & Observer
SC governor silent as clamor grows for resignation The Associated Press
Republicans fail to see the humor in a comedian elected to Congress, but they have no trouble supplying the late night comics with material. - Laugh Lines

I'm A Runner: Sarah Palin - Slideshow from Runners World
Let's not all act shocked that the new Miss California is also against gay marriage. Of course they're conservative. They're beauty pageant contestants. If they were liberals, they'd be in college. - Bill Maher

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Just What Florida Doesn't Need, Another Ethically Challenged Governor
Attorney General Bill McCollum and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, Republican and Democratic rivals respectively in the 2010 race for governor, are now the targets of ethics complaints charging that they used state airplanes for personal travel.

ORGANIZED IRRESPONSIBILITY - John Legry

Rock-The-Voter News
The Christian "Skull and Bones" Society?
For years, the brick
facade of a three-story house near the Capitol has functioned as a shield for
the lawmakers who live and pray there, offering sanctuary from the temptations
of political life — and discretion for those who succumbed.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford blew away much of the privacy of the place over
the past week,
revealing he had confided in his "C Street" friends, a collection of current and
former lawmakers

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Biz-Tech News
"Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff's crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead ... one that takes a staggering human toll." -- U.S. District Judge Denny Chin after sentencing Bernard Madoff to the maximum of 150 years in prison
Interesting Business Move By Putin
Russia closed down its casinos overnight as gambling was banned nationwide...Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, came up with the idea in 2006 when he was president after the Interior Ministry linked several gaming operations in Moscow to Georgian organized crime.
The Kremlin plans to restrict gambling to Las Vegas-style gaming zones in four rarely visited regions deemed to need investment

Bush-Prison-Torture News
Guantanamo detainee seeks `black sites' accessThe Associated Press
"Eradication is a waste of money. ... It might destroy some acreage. But it just helped the Taliban." _ Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan, in announcing the U.S. was phasing out its drug eradication efforts in Afghanistan in favor of interdiction and alternate crop programs
Compare and Contrast: A Woman With Pneumonia Goes to The Local Clinic

Go-F**k-Yourself News

An artist in Wales received a $33,000 grant to create plaster casts of women’s buttocks which will be shown in an exhibition about cultural attitudes towards female tushes. The museum hosting the buttocks exhibition is appropriately called the Guggenheinie.


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Odd News
Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum AFP
Air New Zealand staff bare all to get flyers' attention Reuters
To Help You Deflate Photo

Anna Kane, 5,
of Alton, Ill. lays down on 'The Ledge,' the new glass balconies suspended 1,353
feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears
Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will
open to public on Thursday.
Photo/Kiichiro Sato
Peace.