Thursday edition - July 24, 2008

The legacy of Condoleezza Rice

As you all know, Barack Obama is over in the Middle East. Hey, did you see him playing basketball with our troops in Iraq? Did you see that one shot he made from 40 feet? Let me tell you something. If shooting baskets is now a requirement to be president, a white guy may never have that job again. - Jay Leno

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

• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4124 The Associated Press

• Son of Iraq journalist shot dead by US forces AFP 

• Gunmen in Iraq kill 3 US-allied fighters The Associated Press

• 34 Taliban killed in Afghanistan clash: ministry AFP

• Turkey bombs 13 Kurdish targets in northern Iraq The Associated Press

• Ambassador: al-Qaida leaving Iraq for Afghanistan AP

• 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy is reexamined Los Angeles Times

• Air Force flying unmanned MQ-9 Reapers in Iraq Stars and Stripes

Condoleezza: Not So Fast Obama

"Sen. Obama is a senator, let's remember. He sits on the Foreign Relations Committee and he is a candidate for president. He is all of those things," Condoleezza Rice said. "But he has said, and we continue to act on the basis, as do our foreign partners, that this government remains in power until January 2009."

Disturbing News

• Spill closes Miss. River from New Orleans to Gulf Reuters

• Powerful quake injures 92 in Japan CNN

• Massive flooding feared as Hurricane Dolly hits Texas Los Angeles Times

"A lot of people think, to take some of the spotlight off of Barack Obama, that John McCain will announce his vice presidential choice this week. And most think it's gonna be Mitt Romney. See, I don't know. You know, when Romney and McCain stand together, doesn't it look like one of those slick Countrywide lenders trying to trick your grandfather into reverse mortgage?" --Jay Leno
 

Californication

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans next week to slash the pay of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum of $6.55 per hour to help ease the state's budget crisis, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Chronicle on Wednesday.

It's OK When Republicans Do It!!!

Robert Novak aka "The Prince of Darkness"

The pedestrian who was struck by prominent Washington columnist and commentator Robert Novak is in worse shape than first thought, a hospital source tells ABC 7 News...Novak said he did not know he had struck anyone and he didn't know anything was wrong until a bicyclist rode ahead of him and blocked traffic. The bicyclist, attorney David Bono, informed Novak he had hit a pedestrian....Bono dismissed Novak's assertion that he never saw the struck pedestrian." There was a pedestrian splayed on his windshield -- I don't think there is any way you can miss that."

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Turns out this is not the first time Novak has had a run-in with pedestrians. The Washington Post's Lloyd Grove reported back in March of 2001 that CNN researcher Evan Glass was walking across Pennsylvania Avenue at noon one day when he passed in front of Novak's Corvette. "Learn to read the signs!" Novak snapped, according to Glass. Novak told Grove: "He was crossing on the red light. I really hate jay walkers. I despise them. Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that."

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August 2005

Novak's History of Anger Management Issues

Send Karl Rove To Jail

Republican-Shenanigans News

• Rice says will push Congress hard on India deal Reuters

• Senate GOP hands Dems oil ultimatum The Hill, DC 

• As Obama heads to Germany, Republicans appeal to US Berliners Reuters

• Republicans Worry McCain May Pick His Running Mate Too Soon U.S. News & World Report

• Missouri: Republican gubernatorial debate gets testy Joplin Globe, MO 

• Robert No-whack: Conservative commentator Novak hits DC pedestrian New York Daily News

John McCain called a press conference today. Unfortunately, all the press were out of the country covering Obama. - Jay Leno

Hillary Update

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)  jumped right into the middle of the Air Force’s competition for new aerial refueling tankers.

The Pentagon is required by law to consider the impact of decisions about major weapons buys on the domestic industrial base, she said, taking a position sure to please Boeing supporters

Rock-The-Voter News

• Obama in Germany on European tour BBC News

• Obama Visit Leaves Good Impression on Israelis, Palestinians Voice of America

• Obama makes surprise visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall guardian.co.uk

• Obama leads McCain by 6 points: poll Reuters

• Can Democrats Claim The Alaskan Frontier? CBS News

"After a quick meet-and-greet with King Abdullah, Obama was off to Israel, where he made a quick stop at the manger in Bethlehem where he was born." --Jon Stewart

Biz-Tech News

• Oil Steady Near 7-Week Low as Dollar Rises, Prices Curb Demand Bloomberg 

• Ford Posts $8.7 Billion Loss on Writedown, Falling Truck Sales Bloomberg

• Existing home sales fall 2.6 percent Reuters

• Survey predicts vast supplies of Arctic oil, gas Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Google Launches Knol, The Monetizable Wikipedia Washington Post

• Many economists see McCain better for stocks: poll Reuters

• Minimum wage rises to $6.55 an hour starting Thursday Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks AP

"Well, experts say gas prices should fall by up to three cents a gallon over the next week. Three cents a gallon, how about that? Well, this is just in preparation for gas rising to $8 a gallon by Labor Day." --Jay Leno
 

Shooting the Messengers

It is becoming less unusual to hear of American journalists abroad who are detained, kidnapped or even killed in the line of duty. But for local journalists across Africa, Asia and the Mideast, kidnapping, detentions and threats to their families are disturbingly familiar.

Journalists from these places assume a target on their backs the moment they pick up a pen, and conduct their work dodging the scopes of local mafias, corrupt officials - and now, the U.S. government.
 

www.offthewahl.com

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Defendant walks out of Guantanamo war crimes trial Los Angeles Times

Republican Turns On Cheney

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia reports that Vice President Dick Cheney upbraided him for overriding the White House on the Medicare veto.

"Dick, I'm beyond that," Chambliss reports he told the vice president, adding that Cheney is "my good friend and my hunting buddy, but my mind was made up" to back his local doctors and senior citizens.

He did not repeat Cheney's reaction.
 

Go-F**k-Yourself News

• The Dark Knight Turns Out to Be a Dick Cheney Fantasy Mother Jones

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Odd News

• Tabloid Links John Edwards To ‘Mistress’ WISN.com, WI 

• Ebert and Roeper No Longer at the Movies New York Times

• Florida won't nominate Tebow for Playboy's All-America team USA Today

• WTO chief says eat bananas for negotiating success Reuters

• Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house AP

• Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do AP

The newly unveiled 2010 Chevrolet Camaro is shown at the GM Design Center in Warren, Mich., Monday, July 21, 2008. Assembly for the new car will begin in Feb. 2009 at the Oshawa facility in Canada. Who would have ever thought--a Canadian Camaro.
Photo/Carlos Osorio

Peace.