Monday edition - August 7, 2006

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Fidel Castro was reported Friday to be recovering from intestinal surgery in Havana. No one doubts he's a survivor. During Fidel Castro's time in power he's outsmarted ten presidents, but it's obvious that it has gotten progressively easier. -- Comedian Argus Hamilton
 

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

• A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq AP

• Iraq Body Count

• 3 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Bombing ABC News

• Bomber Attacks Iraqi Funeral, Killing 10 ABC News

• 9 Iraqi soldiers killed in truck bombing AP

• U.S., Iraqi forces raid Shiite militia AP

• Chronology of deadliest Mideast fighting AP

• Military court told soldiers took turns to rape Reuters

• Iran says will expand nuclear activities AP

• No good military options in Iraq: leading US senators AFP

• Negroponte Orders an Update On Terrorism's Influence in Iraq at The Washington Post

• Gays flee Iraq as Shia death squads find a new target at The Guardian (UK).

• Israeli strikes kill 15 ahead of Arab meeting Newsweek

• Lebanon rockets hurt China peacekeepers AP

• Casualties in Lebanon-Israel fighting AP

• Arab anger at their governments grow AP

• USTroops in Iraq Tell McClatchy Reporter: Yes, It is a 'Civil War' Editor & Publisher 

• U.S. activists call for troop withdrawal AP

• Carter: Bush Israel's 'worst ally' in D.C.

Okay, I won't blame Bush for the Middle East meltdown. But, I will give him all the credit for it. How's that for a "spinjob?"  -- Grant Gerver

Did You Know Colin Powell and Dick Armitage Went to Syria?

QUESTION: Many strategists say that we'll never get to the bottom of this crisis unless the U.S. engages directly with Syria and Iran.

Why not talk to them directly about this and have a back-and-forth conversation?

BUSH: Yes, that's an interesting question. I have been reading about that, that people have been posing that question.

We have been in touch with Syria. Colin Powell sent a message to Syria in person. Dick Armitage traveled to Syria. Bill Burns traveled to Syria. We've got a consulate office in Syria.
 

But we have a good president. I pray for him. Sometimes I'd like to pull down his britches and switch him, but I still love him." -- Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas

Hoping to atone for his anti-Semitic sins, Mel Gibson joins the Kinky Friedman campaign.  -- Grant Gerver

Rush Limbaugh's Ex-Girlfriend

CNN midmorning anchor Daryn Kagan is leaving the network after 12 years to start up her own online business.

Kagan, who anchors CNN Live Today weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon, will sign off Sept. 1. Her new website, darynkagan.com, launches Nov. 13.

Her contract with the network was set to expire sometime later this year. In a memo sent out Thursday to CNN staffers, Kagan said the website will ``be an inspirational, online community dedicated to the radical idea that the world is a good place.''
 

Journalism groups on Saturday decried the jailing of a video journalist and other recent court rulings pressuring media workers to divulge information to the government.

The news media becomes an information-gathering arm of law enforcement when journalists are ordered to give up confidential sources or unpublished material, said Tony Overman, president of the National Press Photographers Association.

"Yesterday Mel Gibson was formally charged with having an open container . . . and a closed mind. ... He could face up to six months in prison. Life, if he gets a Jewish judge." --Jay Leno

Florida, in all likelihood, will never be able to offer the nation a spectacle quite like the loopy splendor of the 2000 presidential election.

But be warned: It appears those plucky little rascals in the Republican Party are trying their darnedest to re-create some of the thrills, chills and I-think-I'm-gonna-be-ills of yesteryear in this fall's U.S. Senate campaign.

Cover your eyes now -- and peek through your fingers at your own risk.

Katherine Harris buys an opossum. Really.
 

The week before the elections, why don't we see who raised the most money, declare him/her the winner and deposit all the campaign funds in the treasury. Nothing would change except we'd help the budget instead of the publicists. -- Zing!

Tony Blair postponed his summer holiday to work on achieving a cease-fire in Lebanon, while President Bush vacationed in Crawford. Americans shouldn't be embarrassed. The only time peace is possible is when President Bush isn't working. - Comedian Argus Hamilton

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Odd News

• Madonna "crucified" in Rome, Vatican protests Sun2Surf, Malaysia

• Hundreds expected to come to Masturbate-a-thon Reuters

• Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings AP

• DEADLY LATEX RISK FROM FOOD PACKAGING Scientist Live, UK 

• Turkmen chief offers cars-for-cotton reward scheme Reuters

• Bedbug infestations on rise across U.S. AP

• Speeder Turns Around to Help Trooper Washington Post

• "Anti-stupid" pill tested on mice Reuters.uk, UK 

• Bar in China allows stressed out customers to beat up staff AFP

 

 

 

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A floating bed created by Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars is seen in this handout illustration, August 5, 2006. The bed hovers above the ground supported by magnets in the bed and the floor and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros. Photo/Janjaap Ruijssenaars

 

Peace.