Thursday edition - August 10, 2006

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White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection |
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Plot to blow up UK flights in mid-air foiled |
US Warns PC Users of Flaw in Windows |
Geez, terror in the sky, fear of Microsoft Windows, and retroactive immunity for torture in one day.
President Bush told reporters Tuesday that Condi Rice is handling all phone calls to U.S. allies and brokering the Lebanon cease-fire. He's kicking back in the easy chair while Condi does all the work. And people say he's not really a Southerner. ---- comedian Argus Hamilton

The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
Washington Post
Three US soldiers killed in action in Iraq
Iraq: Suicide Bombing Near Major Shi'ite Shrine Kills 30
Fighting kills 20 in Afghanistan
AP
Two servicemembers missing after Black Hawk crashes in Iraq
Stars and Stripes, D.C.
4 held in reporter's abduction San Francisco Chronicle, USA
UK Needs Helicopters, Land Rovers for Iraq, Lawmakers Say
Israel pauses to give diplomacy a chance
Lebanese Hezbollah denies Iranians among its fighters
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates
Disturbing News
US raises threat level to 'red Newsweek
Russian convicted
spy colonel worked for Britain's MI6
Navy charges sailor with spying Reuters
China Evacuates 1.3M As Typhoon Nears Cumberland Times-News, MD
Cuba warns on pirate TV Reuters
"How embarrassing is this: Former White House domestic advisor Claude Allen has pled guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge for stealing stuff from Target and then taking it back for a refund. Guy works in the White House, he would steal stuff from Target and then bring it back to get the money. How embarrassing is that? Republicans shopping at Target." --Jay Leno
Emails
Subject: What to name after Bush
If we have to
name something after Bush, I'd prefer it to be his cemetery.
Reagan was the absolute most hideous leader ever. Bush is too incompetent to
ever challenge that fact.
Doug Alley
I never understood renaming airports, the Florida Turnpike, etc... after Ronald Reagan. He fired the air traffic controllers while president, did absolutely nothing positive for the state of Florida highways and the GOP even named an aircraft carrier after him. I guess it's the GOP way to put false idols in front of us.
------
Lisa, do you
think a Sewage Treatment Plant might be more appropriate for GWB, even though a
Federal Prison sounds good if he is locked up in it.
L
Haha. The George W. Bush Sewage Treatment Plant does have a nice ring to it!
Also, now I do think it was appropriate to rename the CIA Headquarters "The George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence" considering their track record for the past 40 years.

Republican Shenanigans
Washington state Republican Senate candidate backs Lieberman Boston Globe
Mayor of DeLay's home town to seek his House seat as write-in ... Contra Costa Times, CA
Bush to host Bachmann benefit Pioneer Press, MN
When All Else Fails, Blame the Clintons
The only scheduled debate between the Republican
candidates for Senate turned into a mud-slinging match last night when
Kathleen (KT) McFarland accused her opponent, John Spencer, of
philandering and nepotism.
"John, the problem with you is that you are like the Clintons: You've
taxed and spent like Hillary and you've behaved like Bill," McFarland
said.
"We are considering sending every voter a copy of that debate,"
crowed Howard Wolfson, spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Lieberman's Website still down

Holey Joe Fires Entire Staff
Lieberman said that he fired his campaign manager and spokesman, and
asked for the resignations of his campaign staff.
The Richard Nixon Library on Tuesday marked the thirty-second anniversary of his resignation. In the final days he drank heavily and blamed the Jews for all his problems. We never knew until today that what he really wanted to do was direct. ---- comedian Argus Hamilton
Rock-The-Voter News
Dems dump Lieberman, but he'll run as independent Chicago Sun-Times
Mexico Recount Begins, and Protests Go On New York Times

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney lost her Democratic primary in Georgia Tuesday in a landslide. She denounced Israel and later slugged a cop who detained her. She may have lost her congressional seat but Mel Gibson has found his leading lady.
---- comedian Argus Hamilton
Another Laptop Theft, This Time In Flori-duh
A laptop computer used by the
Department of Transportation to combat fraud was stolen in Doral last
month, putting the sensitive personal information of almost 133,000
Florida residents at risk of the criminal activity the agency was trying
to guard against.
Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses were on the laptop
assigned to a special agent in the Miami office
when it was stolen from a government-owned vehicle

The government said it may have to dip
into the strategic petroleum reserve. That oil is only to be released to the
public in an emergency. You know, like at election time. -- Jay Leno
Biz-Tech News
Prudhoe Bay and $100 Oil
UK probes Halliburton over Nigeria contracts Gulf Times, Qatar
Disney's Earnings Climb 39%
Day labor group to align with AFL-CIO Chicago Tribune
Coke and Pepsi prohibited in India Siberian News Online, Russia
Vietnam's online censors target politics not porn, says study AFP
"Yesterday the company BP announced that it's shutting down its Alaska pipeline after a spill revealed some corrosion. The shutdown means the cutoff of 8% of our domestic oil supply and another uptick in the prices, because you know summer was just too awesome. You all remember BP, they're the cool oil company, their slogan is beyond petroleum because apparently that can leak. BP even invites their customers to speak to them. Oh, I have a question. Hey, you know that main pipeline that connects your product to the U.S. mainland. You ever check that?." --Jon Stewart

Bush-Prison-Torture News
Prosecutors try to block CIA testimony
“Here's an odd story -- a candidate for the president of the Congo has called a press conference to deny that he is a cannibal and said he has never eaten any pygmy. That's what he said. Finally, a candidate who cares about the little people.” -- Jay Leno

On this Day - August 10
1990 -
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared a "jihad" or holy war against the U.S. and Israel.
1993 - A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 - Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
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Odd News
Robot Shopping Carts Follow You Around Houston Chronicle

In this photo released by the Nakheel Development, construction goes on at Jumeira Palm Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai's three palm-shaped islands is just four months away from its first residents moving in, the developer says. (Photo/Nakheel Development)
Peace.