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Tuesday edition - December 26, 2006
It's good to be back in the saddle again. Hold on tight, it's going to be one heckuva week! Bah, HumBush! www.seriouskidding.com
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
Merry Bushmess www.seriouskidding.com
He May Read But Does He Comprehend?
Is
there hope for newspapers after all? Readers may be abandoning the printed
versions, but over the last couple of years, at least one person seems to have
started reading them, at least sometimes. He lives in the White House.
By Don Davis
Disturbing News
W, I have your exit strategy: apologize, bring the troops home, resign, enter rehab. - www.seriouskidding.com
Yet Another Bush Failure
President Bush's ambitious AIDS-fighting program in poor countries has pushed so hard for fast results that basic record keeping and accountability often went by the wayside, making it hard to judge the true success, according to government audits and officials.
Republican Shenanigans News
Even A Political Hack Opportunist Criticizes Bush
“I’m
growing more disturbed every night by how isolated George W. Bush has become,”
the former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough said on his MSNBC program last
week. “Shouldn’t more Americans be disturbed at this unprecedented example of a
White House that’s in — and you can only call it this — a bunker mentality?” The
screen below him read, “Bush: Determined or Delusional?”
Rock-the-Voter News
"This is a country that is worth the investment because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor, you'll have a very different kind of Middle East. And I know that from the point of view of not just monetary costs, but the sacrifice of American lives, a lot has been sacrificed for Iraq, a lot has been invested in Iraq." Condoleezza Rice, Associated Press interview, December 21, 2006
Yep, He's Staying the Course
President Bush has appointed an outspoken conservative television producer to the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Warren Bell, executive producer of ABC's "According to Jim," was first nominated by Bush in June. In September, his nomination was abruptly pulled from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's agenda because of some senators' concerns.
Biz/Tech News
First there was the “mission accomplished” banner. Then, last year, there was a “plan for victory” and, just this past October, the presidential assertion, “Absolutely, we’re winning.” Now that President Bush is seeking “a new way forward” in Iraq, he is embracing a new verbal construction to describe progress there: “We’re not winning. We’re not losing.”
New York Times
Bush-Prison-Torture News
CHRISTIAN RIGHT EMBRACES CHENEY’S DAUGHTER AS THE NEW ‘VIRGIN MARY’ By Don Davis
Go-F**k-Yourself News
Odd News
Greg Pike's dog Booger, cat Kitty and white mouse Mousie, rest at the end of a day in Bisbee, Arizona, December 24, 2006. Photo/Jeff Topping
Peace.
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