Who would have thought Bush would provide us with laughter after such a horrific week of news?

Republican noses aren't only in American's sex lives.

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

• Iraqi senior official survives attack Salt Lake Tribune, UT 

• 20 Iraqis dead in mosque battle but political costs mount for Bush AFP

• Report Links U.S. General to Iraq Prison Abuse Case  Reuters

• Fighting Continues in Kufa; Karbala Quiet AP

• Car Bomb Kills 5, Injures Iraqi Minister  AP

• U.S. Soldier Killed South of Baghdad  AP

• Released Iraqi Prisoners Tell of Abuse  AP

• Australia Probes Alleged U.S. Jail Abuse AP 

• 4 U.S. Soldiers Injured in Afghanistan  AP

• Justice Probes CIA on 3 Prisoner Deaths AP

• Gadhafi Threatens to Leave Arab League  San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA 

• U.K. Paper Publishes Alleged Iraq Memo  AP

• U.S. Says No Evidence of Wedding at Site  AP

• Chalabi Wants US Compensation After Baghdad Raid Reuters

"Not everyone can walk around in an alcoholic haze and then at the age of 40, decide to be president. You've got to work really hard." Jon Stewart at his alma mater, William & Mary

"On the job and elsewhere in life, choose your friends carefully." Advice from the president (who put Chalabi in power, then removed him, and son of the president who put Noriega in power and removed him) after receiving an honorary doctor of science degree from Louisiana State University

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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)

Dan.

Hi Dan,
Thanks for writing.
The quote you sent inspired me to write a little 2 line poem--yet untitled.

The sound of the death knell that would be so sweet
Is the snap of Bush branches beneath Kerry's feet

It is our only hope to stop the madness.

Rush Limbaugh and Private England: The Odd Couple

Disturbing News

• 28 killed in Kashmir landmine blast day after new Indian PM takes ...  Channel News Asia, Singapore 

• Red Cross Will Return to Guantanamo Bay AP

• Pakistan Army Lodges Protest AP

• Prison Abuse Anger Unites Arabs at Summit AP

• U.S. Pension Insurer Posts $9.7B Deficit AP

• Nazi-Era Judge Nomination Rattles Germany AP

• Navy Crew Remembers 1967 Israeli Attack  AP

• Dissent runs in family of soldier who deserted; father is leftist ...  San Francisco Chronicle, CA 

• Official Compares Israeli Action to Nazis'  AP

Republican Sex-On-The-Brain News

DeWine fires aide for racy Web diary
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - 5-22-04
An entry-level aide to Ohio GOP Sen. Mike DeWine was fired Friday for posting "unsuitable and offensive" sexual material on a Web ...

Biz/Tech News

• More oil from OPEC? CNN

• New Web Structure Promoted  PC World

• Internet Transforms U.S. Adoption Process Reuters

• Drug Firms Say, 'No, Canada'  Los Angeles Times

• G7 to Call on OPEC to Pump More Oil  Reuters

• White House: Inflation Not a Threat  Reuters

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Republican Shenanigans

• Justice Dept. Memos Dispute POW Treaties  AP

• South Dakota Senate Race Ensnarls Leaders  AP

• Many Oppose U.S. Peacekeeper Exemptions AP

• U.S. to Deny Visas for Resort Chain Execs  AP

• House Panel Argues Over Abuse in Iraq  AP

• GOP Leaders Retreat, Postpone Budget Vote  AP

• U.S. Hears of Uzbekistan Torture Reports  AP

• Prisons Based on Faith The Ledger, FL

• U.S. Bioweapons Research May Violate Law  AP
• Surge in Bush campaign funds spark doubts The Hindu, India

"I was a Republican. Today, I am a Democrat. I am 75 years old. To have to wait three years to go to Cuba to see my grandson? He lost many thousands of votes here."  said Carlos Chediak, who voted for Bush in 2000

Nursery Crimes

Ahmad Chalabi told a lie.
Ahmad Chalabi made Bush cry.
But all of our tanks,
helicopters and troops,
couldn't change Chalabi's lies
to truth.

John Grant – Japan

Good News

• Democrats ' Bill Combines Homeland Security And Civil Liberties Information Week 

• GOP Senator Rips Bush on Iraq, Terrorism  AP

• Senator to Veneman: Resign Over Mad Cow AP

• GOP feels heat as poll numbers fall Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN

• N.Korea Lets Japan Abductees' Relatives Leave  Reuters

• Iraqi Insurgents Release Spanish Reporter  AP

You might be a rightwing republican if...you think Clinton's recently-destroyed budget surplus was
"voodoo economics."

You might be a right wing republican if...you respect a news organization that employs Oliver North
 

American Wart News

• Russert subpoenaed in CIA leak probe MSNBC

• Former BIA official urged prison fixes  USATODAY.com

• Pipe bomb found at Boynton Beach park exploded South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL

• FDA: Outbreaks May Be From Salad Packages  AP

• Suit: Disney Fired Woman Who Wore Hijab  AP

Republican Honor and Dignity in Congress

Rep. Tom Reynolds of New York, Matsui's Republican counterpart, said that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who on Thursday said Bush was an incompetent president, "should just go back to her pastel-colored condo in San Francisco and keep her views to herself" rather than blame Bush for the war.


Pelosi replied to Reynolds through an aide who said "the Democratic leader lives in a red brick townhouse in San Francisco," not a pastel condo

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., interrupted his questioning to observe that if Pelosi attended a hearing and listened to U.S. generals, she would "spend less time trying to bash those who are trying to protect this country" and "might learn a thing or two."


Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo, defended Pelosi from Miller's attack, saying: "With all due respect, Mr. Miller, I sat here and listened to you politically attack the leader of my party who I think asked some very serious and sobering questions. And if you're going to turn this into a political meeting perhaps you should leave this building to do that."
 

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Odd News

• Ex-minister who killed wife gets parole MLive.com, MI

• ESA admits "Great Wall" on satellite photo a mistake Xinhua, China 

• Bush Grants Pardons, Commutes Sentences  AP

• Customs Admits Reporters With Wrong Visa AP

• Boston in an Uproar Over Democratic Convention Plan Reuters

• Seattle Radio Host Running for Congress AP

• Spanish Prince Marries Ex-TV Anchorwoman  AP

• UK Mulled Using Birds for Bio-War After WW2 - Files  Reuters

• History Film Sparks Airport Security Scare  Reuters

• First Janet Jackson, Now Nipple Video Banned  Reuters

• Women strengthened Russian WW2 spy rings

• Canada rolls out red carpet for Mexican strippers

• Bruce, Brenda or David? Canadian Man Raised as Girl  Reuters

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You might be a right wing republican if...you think that the fossil record is the work of the devil
 

Approximately 3,000 Los Angeles school children sit in the sand to form the message 'keep oceans alive!' Friday, May 21, 2004, at Dockweiler Beach in Los Angeles. The aerial art was part of a statewide Ocean Day beach cleanup, which the students also participated in as part of an Adopt-A-Beach school assembly program. (City of Los Angeles, Rene Macura, HO)

Peace.

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