Monday edition - November 27, 2006
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Bush Find "A Way Forward" for Iraq?
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Cheney asks Saudis for help in Iraq |
Bush calls
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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Given the events of the year past, it is surprising that the turkey didn't pardon the president. --Zing!
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
US Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,875 Forbes, NY
Israel kills Palestinian gunman, woman despite truce Reuters
Lawmakers Lose Patience With Iraq Gov't Wyoming News
Iraq insurgency pays for itself through crime
Iraq has no proof to link Iran with Qaeda: Official
IRAQ: Fighting swords with pens Reuters AlertNet, UK
Report suggests US talk with Iran, Syria San Francisco Chronicle
Poland to
leave Iraq by end of 2007
UK troops to reduce by 'thousands' by end of 2007 The Sunday Times
China shun Iraq in football group stage at Doha Asiad
Explain to me again why it is OK for President Bush to be wined and dined in communist Vietnam while families in Florida are not permitted to visit their relatives in Cuba. -Zing!
Give Peace a Chance? Hell, NO!
A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has
threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath
with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of
Satan.
Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob
Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association
Lisa Jensen said she wasn't thinking of the war when she hung the wreath. She
said, "Peace is way bigger than not being at war. This is a spiritual thing."
Jensen, a past association president, calculates the fines will cost her about
$1,000, and doubts they will be able to make her pay.
But
she said she's not going to take it down until after Christmas.
WHAT IF THEY GAVE AN IRAQ STUDY
GROUP, AND NOBODY CAME
By Don Davis
Disturbing News
British minister criticizes Putin as police probe death of former ... Seattle Times
Radiation tests after spy poisoning CNN International
Bird flu crops up again in South Korea News-Medical.net
Groom dies in hail of police bullets Telegraph.co.uk
"A new poll finds that 60 percent of Americans think George W. Bush is a worse president than his father. However, President Bush's advisers cheered him up by telling him he's the second best George W. Bush who's ever been president." --Conan O'Brien
Iraq Job Creation - Smuggling
Smugglers were
loading gasoline on a ship at an illegal port in southern Iraq when police
surprised them with a raid that ended with five smugglers and two policemen
dead.
The October clash at Abu Flus was one of many attempts by security forces trying
to stop
smuggling of Iraqi petroleum products to neighboring countries, a practice
that is costing the country billions of dollars every year.
Republican Shenanigans
Texas is Toxic
Among all states, Texas is by far the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gas pollution. But Texas has no plan to stop it, slow it down or deal with the consequences. We don't even have an official state inventory of what's at risk. Other states are trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but Texas is poised to build 19 coal-fired power plants that will emit an additional 110 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution a year
Vice President Dick Cheney flew to Saudi Arabia last week for a meeting with the royal family. It's an annual pilgrimage. Once a year Dick Cheney travels to Saudi Arabia to visit the Republican holy cities of Crude and Light Sweet Crude. - Argus Hamilton, comedian
Rock-The-Voter News
Pa. lacks paper backup to voting electronically Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Democrats say no liberal plans in next US Congress Reuters AlertNet
Republican Brownback `Close' to Decision on Presidential Run Bloomberg
"I don't own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life -- the machines… it's going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America… did you ever talk to these computer geeks? I mean, can you carry on a conversation with them? …I really fear for the United States because, believe me, the jihadists? They're not playing the video games. They're killing real people over there." --Bill O'Reilly
Good News
Biz/Tech News
Oil rises, Saudi lends support Reuters
Wal-Mart Shares Fall on November Sales
Ford to Seek $18 Billion in Debt Financing Smartmoney.com
Google sued over copyright infringement United Press International
Bush Ain't No General Omar Bradley
The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the US involvement in the conflict that President Bush's father fought in, World War II.
Subject: Bush hand holding
Hi Lisa,
You showed the picture of Bush holding the hand of the Saudi prince/king
(whatever he is). Please tell my why the fundies don't accuse him of being gay.
They accused poor Sponge Bob of being gay for holding hands with his friend.
Just asking.
Keep of the good work.
Jan
Thanks Jan.
What I find disturbing about Bush's hand holding is that he is the only world leader photographed doing that. Actually what is more disturbing is wondering what else Bush is holding.
Sponge Bob is gay?
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Married to a Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Kavkaz Center, Turkey
Our Banished VEEP (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
He’ll be banished from office, VEEP Dick;
Not his job, but his real estate pick.
He had primo House space,
But eviction he’ll face,
Cause the Democrats won. What a kick!
Go-F***-Yourself News
Cheney returning to US after talks with Saudis The Brunei Times, Brunei Darussalam
Did you have a good time today?
US MAIL:
Lisa Casey - PO Box 88 - Ashford, AL 36312
Odd News
British scientists invent male pill Telegraph.co.uk
Theory: lightning causes smudges in Saturn's rings
Troubled comic says he's ‘shattered’ by racist remarks MSNBC
German police get their phoney U.S. Highway Patrolman Reuters
A NASA computer graphic shows the position of Mikhail Tyurin when he hits a golf ball during his spacewalk from the International Space Station, November 22, 2006. (Photo/NASA)
Peace.