Tuesday edition - August 8, 2006
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Poll: Majorities Disapprove of Bush on Ethics |
Red Cross: Israel
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Thanks to Grant Gerver for the cartoon idea!
The Middle East: a rose-petal-cakewalk-last-throes extravaganza! -- Grant Gerver - Shot Off the Press
Gee, I wonder when Ann Coulter will attack this woman?
Lizbeth Flores of Mission plans to join
Cindy Sheehan’s second anti-war vigil in front of President George W. Bush’s
summer vacation home in Crawford, Texas, for three days beginning Monday.
In early July, Flores lost her husband, 27-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Omar D.
Flores, during his second tour of Iraq and
has been looking for a way to tell the president how she feels about the war and
her husband’s death.
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Samarra, north of Baghdad WIS, SC
Investigator: Troops drank, golfed before Iraqi killings, rape CNN
Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 8 Reuters AlertNet, UK
Militias Flex Their Muscles at Newsweek via MSNBC
"Yesterday President Bush flew out to his prairie-chapel ranch in Crawford, Texas, to begin his eleven-day vacation. It's not really a ranch. There's no cows or horses. It's more like an estate. But ranch sounds better. You know like when you call Iraq a democracy. It sounds better." --Jay Leno
Disturbing News
SUV Flips in Border Chase, Killing 9, Injuring 13 Los Angeles Times
US Capitol Police Officer In Court For Sex With Minor W*USA 9, DC
Mariel Boatlift II?
The Bush administration is
preparing to help reunite some Cuban families with relatives already in the
United States as part of a limited easing of immigration rules following Fidel
Castro's handoff of power.
At the same time, draft documents obtained Monday describe proposals to
discourage smugglers trying to sneak immigrants into the U.S. from Cuba, in
hopes of impeding any mass migration. In addition, the plan would refuse entry
to Cuban government officials
who have
engaged in human rights abuses but make it easier for some Cuban doctors to move
to the U.S.
"And the Senate voted against raising the minimum wage yesterday, and Wal-mart employees are furious. They said we never would have come to this country illegally if we knew we were going to be treated this way." --Jay Leno
Republican Shenanigans
Ohio
congressman tangled in Abramoff scandal drops re-election bid
Calif. congressman helped disgraced lobbyist win contract
Republican Candidates Increase Share of Business PAC Donations Bloomberg
The Top 10 Conservative Idiots
Interior Designer Resigner
The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced his resignation yesterday, six months after the launch of an internal investigation into questionable spending on a new headquarters and other items during his tenure...Sources familiar with the project told The Washington Post earlier this year that Truscott planned to buy, among other things, nearly $300,000 in extras for the new director's suite, including a $65,000 conference table
Bush is 2-for-2 and batting a 1000: civil war in Iraq, and possibly Lebanon. That ole "Mission Accomplished" thing keeps coming back like acid reflux. -- Grant Gerver - Shot Off the Press
Rock-The-Voter News
Lieberman campaign says Web site hacked Seattle Post Intelligencer
Middle East Explodes In Violence; Evangelicals Salivate - The Bilge Bucket
According to the conservative Human Events, the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th century are:
Deutsch and Rush Limbaugh Inspire Singing Lawyer PR Web (press release), WA
Iraqi TV
Jon Stewart, step aside. Welcome Ali Fadhel, rising
star of Iraqi spoof news _ or so he hopes. For now, the 24-year-old is a popular
contestant on Iraq's new hit reality television show "Saya Wa Surmaya," or "Fame
and Fortune."
The show features Iraqi men and women taking on challenges in hopes of winning a
contract with Al-Sharqiya television, which airs the program. Fadhel tried his
hand at a fake newscast.
"Fame and Fortune" presents a different "reality" from every day life in Iraq _
no kidnappings, no killings, no
explosions _ except for the odd cooking accident.
http://www.stupidgitsaysso.blogspot.com/
"President Bush traveled to his ranch in Texas for a ten-day vacation. The president said now is the perfect time to take a vacation when everything in the world is running so smoothly." --Conan O'Brien
Biz-Tech News
BP: Pipeline Closing May Last for Months Wilmington Morning Star, NC
Brace yourself for $1.25 gas Calgary Sun
Consumer Borrowing Rises Sharply in June
Russian Rocket Blasts European Satellite Into Orbit TechNewsWorld
Study: Keyboards Could Be Easily Bugged SPACE.com
Children and Cell Phones in Iraq
The cool kids in Iraq
all want an Apache, the cell phone they've named after an American military
helicopter.
Even more telling are the text messages and images that Iraqis share over their
phones...One of the most popular messages now making the rounds appears onscreen
with the image of a skeleton.
"Your call cannot be completed," it says,
"because the subscriber has been bombed or kidnapped."
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Memo to lawmakers: Consider our values Christian Science Monitor
Cyclist Floyd Landis has gone from
being the "Toast of France" to "French Toast." With Bush and now Landis, the
U.S. needs a Department of International Image Repair. --
The
Buzz
The Sultan's Son
Go-F*ck-Yourself News
Cheney plans Roswell fundraiser KRQE, NM
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Odd News
An Earthquake So Violent It Even Shook Gravity New York Times
Cheese-factory workers say they're the Powerball winners Boston Globe
Pediatricians Want Shopping Cart Restrictions for Children Consumer Affairs
Massive Manatee Favors Manhattan Suburbs
Giant panda gives birth to giant cub, twins to twins Reuters
Hundreds of visitors filed through a Virginia Tech greenhouse to get a glimpse, and a whiff, of a powerfully malodorous "corpse flower" as it bloomed. The large Indonesian plant, whose botanical name is Amorphophallus titanum, began opening up about 6 p.m. Friday and was in full bloom by early Saturday morning. The plant emits a stench to attract decaying flesh-eating beetles, flies and sweat bees for pollination. Once it blooms, the odor lingers for about eight hours, then it takes several more years before the plant has enough energy to bloom again.(Photo/Virginia Tech)
Peace.