NOTICE:  I will be on vacation next week.  I will return a week from today on Friday, September 1 -- unless Osama is captured or the Rapture begins. Hell, Bush has taken about 47 vacations since my last week off a year ago!

I am running a Name That Toon! contest while I'm gone so you won't be completely bored!.  The winners get free bumper stickers.  Enter as often as you like. I'm still answering thank you letters. I'll miss you all!

TGIF/Next Week edition - August 25-31, 2006

I wonder if George Washington took a Florida vacation after the Battle of Trenton?

The Middle East: a rose-petal-cakewalk-last-throes extravaganza! - Grant Gerver, Shot Off The Press

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

• US Military Deaths in Iraq Washington Post

• Iraq Body Count

• Bomb, gunfire kills 2 US soldiers in Baghdad MSNBC

• Insurgents kill nine as Iraq violence rages AFP

• Turkey bombed Kurdish rebels at Iraqi border Scotsman, United Kingdom

• U.S. generals: Baghdad violence curbed AP

• Dutch, Seeing No Terror Link, Free 12 Held After India Flight New York Times 

• Aer Lingus Flight Evacuated in Ireland Guardian Unlimited, UK

• Russia rejects UN sanctions against Iran Reuters Canada 

Kennebunkport Trivia

• It has been two years since President Bush has been in Kennebunkport.

• Bush plays speed-golf, fishes and enjoys plenty of verbal jousting with his family and friends.

• The former president, George H W Bush also notably retired to Walker's Point in Kennebunkport three days after ordering American forces deployed to reverse Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

• The area also was the place where, in 1976, after a Labor Day weekend visit to a bar, George W. Bush was arrested, later pleading guilty to driving while under the influence of alcohol. That incident remained under wraps throughout his early political career, only surfacing late in his first campaign for president in 2000.
  
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Bill Maher Returns Tonight

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Why Not Impeachment?

Disturbing News

• Ernesto on the way; Debby no threat WBBH, FL

• Attacks on homeless up, activists say AP

President Bush signed an executive order Tuesday requiring federal agencies to compile health care information. This can only mean one thing. He's bored with eavesdropping on phone sex and now he wants to see medical records. -- Argus Hamilton, comedian

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No-Bid Contracts: GOP Perk

The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released Thursday by Democrats.

Republican Shenanigans

• Booby-trapped: Politicians get caught on candid cameras San Francisco Chronicle 

• DeLay says courts made mistake in ballot ruling abc13.com, TX 

• Jeb Bush says Democrats negative, lacking vision Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL 

• Rove slams Democrats at Toledo fund-raiser Toledo Blade, OH 

• TV ads raise ire of GOP Albany Times Union, NY 

• GOP dips in religion poll AP

• Chertoff: Policies deterring illegals AP

Mystery Solved: Horse at SF Zoo Not Named After Ann Coulter Editor & Publisher 

Air Marshals Get Makeover

Air marshals were told Thursday they will be allowed to dress the way they want and choose their own hotels in order to protect their anonymity while on missions...Air marshals had complained that Brown's predecessor, Thomas Quinn, insisted on a too-formal dress code that allowed people to pick them out. The marshals said, for example, that being forced to wear a jacket and collared shirt made them stand out on flights to Hawaii.

Rock-The-Voter News

• Lamont faults Lieberman, Bush on Katrina AP

Ann Coulter gets her freak on- Walks Off Fox Set

New Orleans began the observances of the one-year anniversary this week of the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. There was no celebration. Federal officials say the trucks carrying the cake and punch were last seen in Little Rock heading north. -- Argus Hamilton, comedian

New Orleans vs NYC

During the "60 minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars still on the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair," according to CBS...Nagin, known for his blunt style, is not the first to compare the two cities. New Orleans residents frequently complain that the federal government's response after Katrina has been far more sluggish than it was after the Sept. 11 attacks.
 

I DON'T HAVE TO SUPPORT THE MORON.
I'M AN AMERICAN, NOT A JOCKSTRAP!

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Do You Think Sen Allen Is A Racist?

S.R. Sidarth had built an impressive record of achievements for such a young man: straight-A student at one of Fairfax County's finest high schools, a tournament chess player, a quiz team captain, a sportswriter at his college newspaper, a Capitol Hill intern and an active member of the Hindu temple his parents helped establish in Maryland.

But for all his achievements, the moment that thrust him into the national spotlight this month came when Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) called him "macaca."

The remark stung the young man of Indian descent. What hurt more, Sidarth said, was when Allen gave him a sarcastic welcome to his own country, his birthplace even. It was too ironic, he thought. "I was born and raised in Fairfax County, and he's from California,"

Biz/Tech News

• Oil prices rise on Iran, storm threats BusinessWeek 

• Halliburton snags multimillion-dollar contracts Bizjournals.com, NC

• Ford considers going private: report Reuters

• Canadian Drugstore Company Retreats From US New York Times

• Apple Recalls 1.8 Million Battery Packs The Ledger, FL

• Tech pros to get look at Microsoft's Explorer 7 Sun-Sentinel.com, FL 

• First Female Space Tourist Ready To Go CBS News
   

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Last Turk Held at Guantanamo Released Zaman Online, Turkey 

• Shoe bomber Reid: no regrets over mid-air death plot Daily Mail - UK, UK 

President Bush met Hurricane Katrina survivor Rocky Vaccarella Wednesday. He thanked the president for saving New Orleans. During the hurricane he was hit in the skull by a flying two-by-four but you would never know it from listening to him. -- Argus Hamilton, comedian

HISTORIANS DEMOTE BUSH TO ‘DWARF PRESIDENT’

Go-F***-Yourself News

• Dick Cheney, however, is not invited Arkansas Times, AR 

• Cheney Visits Western Hills For Political Fundraiser WCPO, OH 

Compassionate, As Not In Compassionate Conservative

Oprah Winfrey used her talk show tactic of springing surprises on her audiences at the weekend, when she told 73 girls who had turned up for an interview that they had been selected for a new school she is building in South Africa.
Winfrey has been working for six years on creating the school for disadvantaged girls. "I grew up with my grandmother. We had almost nothing, but my grandmother believed I had to give back what I received," she said...."It's like I am daydreaming," the Soweto primary school pupil told the Pretoria News. "They wanted someone like me who is not shy - and I talk too much!" Winfrey hugged Buhle and told the assembled audience: "When I asked her why she wanted to come to the academy, she said: 'It's my tomorrow.'"
 

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