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Bush speaks of 'Soviet dinar'
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia --
8-19-04
U.S. President George W. Bush spoke today of "the Soviet
dinar," appearing to mix up the Russian ruble and the Iraqi dinar. |
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War of words heats up as Iran warns of preemptive strike on U.S. forces
AFP --
8-19-04
In a
marked escalation of a war of words between Iran and its arch-enemies Israel
and the U.S., Tehran has for the first time threatened a preemptive strike
against US troops in the region. |
Kerry: Bush Lets Groups Do 'Dirty Work'
AP --
8-19-04
Sen.
John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of relying on front groups to
challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do
his dirty... |
Who do you trust with their
finger on the nuclear button? I trust Kerry because he can pronounce
nuclear.
"Homeland
Security Director Tom Ridge announced that Al Qaeda has plans to attack
buildings in Newark. After hearing this, Al Qaeda said, 'Are you crazy? Even we
won't want to go to Newark.' " -- Conan O’Brien
TRAVERSE CITY, MI. (IWR
News Parody) -- President Bush today distinguished
his Stalinesque*
vision for American from that of the Kerry campaign. "Unlike that flip
flopping Lurch,
we
stand for something. We will bury him in November," said Mr. Bush as he
pounded his shoe on the podium.
http://www.internetweekly.org/2004/08/cartoon_bush_stalinesque.html
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
Military Documents Contradict Kerry Critic
Thursday August 19, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Vietnam veteran who claims Sen. John Kerry lied about being
under fire during a Mekong Delta engagement that won Kerry a Bronze Star was
under constant fire himself during the same skirmish, according to the man's own
medal citation, a newspaper reported...
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"It's
been reported the Israeli army is now treating combat stress by giving its
soldiers marijuana. As a result, Nabisco is expecting a huge spike in the sale
of Kosher Oreos." -- Conan O’Brien
Disturbing News
Today's haiku features peaceful protest discounts, Halliburton favors,
Republican Astroturf, and the Plame investigation:
Discount ticks, cheap wings
Seduce peaceful protesters.
Others jailed for free.
Army reverses
Halliburton punishment.
Cheneyed yet again.
The rest of today's news haiku is here:
http://www.madkane.com/notable01_04b.html#08_19_04
Are those inflated condoms they're holding?
Republican Shenanigans
“The
problem with a suck-up press for Democrats is that with no adversary press to
call them on it, Democrats develop wilder and wilder Walter Mitty fantasy lives
until finally one day, when they are at the zenith of their political careers,
someone notices that they're not Irish, they didn't deserve their war medals,
254 Swift Boat veterans hate them, and they didn't spend Christmas Eve, 1968, in
Cambodia. (Or that they are white-trash serial molesters and unrepentant rapists
who somehow talked their way into an Arkansas governorship.)” -- Ann
Coulter, crazed anorexic right winger
Nice photo/story
about Republican concept of free speech
Good News
"This
week, the Bush campaign unveiled its new slogan. The new slogan is, 'We've
turned the corner, and we're not turning back.' This replaces their old slogan:
'Do what Dick Cheney says, and nobody gets hurt.' " -- Conan
O’Brien
New biography looks at US Vice-President Cheney with critical eye
Alaska Highway News, Canada --
Aug 17, 2004
Nichols
writes: "It is not the practice of Nelson Mandela to speak ill of other
prominent players on the world stage, but he will make an exception for Dick
Cheney."
Cheney as a congressman was isolated in the "Less Than 10 Club," Nichols says.
Among 435 representatives, he was one of four to vote against the Undetectable
Firearms Act of 1988, a plastic gun measure; one of eight who opposed the Older
Americans Act in 1987, a nutrition program; one of eight who, the same year,
voted against reauthorization of the Clean Air Act; one of nine who opposed a
plan to grant federal employees time off to care for sick relatives.
Along with Cheney's voting record, Nichols details Cheney's Vietnam draft
deferments; he also notes Cheney's compensation by Halliburton Corp. and the
billions in government contracts his former company received. Though Nichols has
covered Cheney as a reporter and spoken with him briefly on occasion, the author
says his aim was a book "grounded in the official record and news reports."
Go-F***
-Yourself News
"The
federal government reported that despite much higher expectations, U.S.
employers only added 32,000 jobs to the payrolls last month. Even worse, all the
jobs were in India." -- Conan O’Brien
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Biz/Tech
News
Kerry/Edwards News
Texas Children Home After African Odyssey
Reuters --
Wed Aug
18, 2:41 AM ET
Seven Texas
children were recovering on Tuesday after surviving for 10 months in a Nigerian
shack when their adoptive mother abandoned them, child welfare authorities said
on Tuesday.
What is it
with Texas women? They run over their husbands with their Mercedes, they drown
their kids or stone them to death because God told them to …. it must be the
drinking water.
Odd News
They say
blondes have more fun, but redheads will have the edge on Sunday when they get
into London Zoo for free to view a rare new-born ginger-colored monkey. The
endangered southeast Asian monkey, called Laa Laa, has typical baby orange fur
that will turn a glossy black in six months. (London Zoo)
Peace.