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    Bush Joins Meeting of Faith-Based Groups The cover of the glossy, full-color booklet being distributed during a conference at the Washington Hilton yesterday showed a flaming shrub and proclaimed: "Not everyone has a burning bush to tell them their life's calling." The Old Testament imagery suggested a religious tract, but this was a government brochure. The guide, published by the Department of Labor, tells congregations…. 
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    Preaching to the Choir, Bush Encourages Religious Gathering … Mr. Bush had signed an executive order on Tuesday morning creating religion-based offices in the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Commerce and the Small Business Administration… | 
    
    Experts See Possible 
    Conflicts for Ryder WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army general who reported last fall there was no mistreatment at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq also commands the criminal investigators now pursuing the abuse cases... | 
I'm not sure if Bush is drunk on alcohol or power--maybe both-- that might explain the burning bush brochure distributed by the Department of Labor. This is getting creepy. I'm going to start wearing garlic around my neck.
"President Bush has been campaigning around the country and today the crowd got so pumped up they started chanting, 'Four more wars, four more wars.'" —Craig Kilborn
 
“On behalf of my stellar cast — GW, Dick, Rummy, Condi and Wolfie — we thank this incredible coalition of the willing for bringing ’Fahrenheit 9/11’ to the people.” -Michael Moore getting ready to visually stick it to compassionate conservatives
Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ’ finds domestic distributor San Mateo Daily Journal, CA
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam-News
  
  
  Bush lauds change, keeps distance
  
  Newsday, NY
  
  
  Militants Fire at Americans in Riyadh, No Casualties
  
  Reuters 
  
  
  US critic named Iraq president
  
  Arizona Republic, AZ 
Four Killed, 20 Wounded in Baghdad Car Blast-Police - (Reuters)
Militants Fire at Americans in Riyadh, No Casualties - (Reuters)
U.S. Troops, Iraqi Militia Clash Again Near Najaf - (Reuters)
UN Members Want More Specifics in Iraq Resolution - (Reuters)
New Iraq President Says Was Pressured to Step Aside - (Reuters)
Iraqi Fury Makes Way for New President, Government Reuters -
Senator sacked me over tales of congress

What do you do after your online sex blog hits the headlines and loses you 
your job? Jessica Cutler reveals all 
Guardian - Wednesday June 
2, 2004
Imagine dropping your diary on the street somewhere, and the next day, it's 
world news. That's what happened to me several days ago. Except, I posted my 
diary on a blog - the 
Washingtonienne - so my friends could read it for fun. As a young single 
woman, the diary was mostly about my sex life. I could not believe anybody 
besides them would want to read such a thing. But thirteen days later, it was 
all over Capitol Hill…click 
here for entire story 
The Most Important Thing I Learned in School This Year
http://www.counterpunch.org/wilson05202004.html
By BILLY WILSON
The following is an essay written by a High School sophomore in Freyburg, Maine, as the essay part of the final exam in his English class. His teacher sent it to CounterPunch as an example of the uprightness of modern youth.
The 
most important lesson I learned this year in school is to pay attention in class 
and not to doodle while the teacher is talking. The worst thing you can do is 
draw a picture that shows President Bush's head on a pole with blood gushing out 
of his bulging eyesballs. If you do something like this, it means you're 
probably going to blow up the Oklahoma Book Depsitory, or fly remote conrtrol 
planes into the White House, like the CIA did on 9/11. Even if you're only 15 
like me, you can hijack a bus (like Sandra Bullock did in that cool movie, 
Speed), and drive it into the Bush ranch at Waco, and burn all the children to 
death.
I learned that drawing pictures of the President with his arms growing out of 
his head is no laughing matter. It's bad to make the President look stupider 
than he already is. You can't draw him writing memos on wide-ruled paper with a 
crayon, or dressed up like a cowboy and playing with toy pistols in the Awful 
Office. That type of humor isn't funny. You can't make him look like Alfred E. 
Newman from Mad Magazine, with blood gushing out of his ears.
It is OK to draw a picture of Saddam Hussein on all fours, with Condolisa Rice 
in a furry African bikini and rings around her neck, holding the evildooer on a 
leash, and Donald Rumsfeld whacking him on the behind and making him bark like a 
dog, because that's just a frat prank (like the sexy girl soldier Lindy English 
did at that prison in IsraelI mean Iraq). But the President is God, which is why 
his picture is on the dollar bill, and why you can't make him look like an 
elephant like those soldiers did. You know. Kneeling with his feet up in the air 
and one finger in his nose and the other in his anus. That's really bad.
You can't draw the president's face on a stick, even if you make it look like a 
lollypop or a Bubblehead doll. You are a bad person if you do that and if you do 
that, the Secret Police will come to your house at midnight and make you stand 
on a box with a shopping bag over your head and electrodes attached to your 
generals. Then they'll bulldoze your house into dust! (Which is way cool to see 
them do that on TV.)
If you make fun of the president that means you hate him and are a enemy 
combatant. The president has so much to worry about, like his physical fitness 
and if he takes his sedatives on time, he doesn't need some wise-ass kid 
sneaking into the Lincoln bedroom at night and fucking 
his wife (you shouldn't say fuck), 
or his really cute daughters, who drink a lot and fall down at parties and are 
pretty easy. The president was bad too, like his daughters, before he learned 
that Jesus wanted him to kill all the Arabs. The president is truly blessed, so 
you can't tell your freinds you made a videotape of him masturbating and sent it 
to Seymour Hersh. You can't do that, because one of your friends may be an 
informer for Homeland Security and then they'll chop your fucking 
head off!
What I learned this year is that the President is not someone to mock. Even if 
he is an idiot and a war criminal who deserves to be hanged, and even if no one 
in the media has the balls to say so. (You shouldn't say balls either.)
Billy Wilson
Billy Wilson can be reached through his teacher at: redspruce@comcast.net

Republican Shenanigans
  
  
  High-court ruling gives police leeway on Miranda warnings
  
  Seattle Times, WA 
Disturbing News
  
  US Says Russia 
  Should Remove All Bases from Georgia
  
  MOSNEWS, Russia 
  
  
  Electricity shut down across Georgia
  
  Hi Pakistan, Pakistan
Prisoner abuse murals the latest artistic addition to Tehran's highways
More possibly bomb-grade highly enriched uranium found in Iran - IAEA AFP

roflol*
Crawford mayor is Kerry 
supporter
Macon 
Telegraph, GA - 6-1-04
BY 
GROMER JEFFERS JR. (KRT) - Crawford may be the heart of Bush country, but the 
town's mayor says John Kerry is the best choice for president. ...

U.S. President George Bush's daughter Jenna jogs on a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Santiago de Compostela near Melide, northwestern Spain, Tuesday June 1, 2004. Jenna and her friends started the estimated 180 kilometer, 112 mile, pilgrimage last Saturday and are expected to arrive in Santiago in two days after completing 30 kilometers, 19 miles, a day.
Jenna hits the pilgrimage trail in Spain Hello Travel Magazine
Inquiring minds want to know, has Jenna been born again?
George W Bush Biography
http://www.famoustexans.com/georgewbush.htm
The Bushes need pruning.
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"The 
Catholic church has been through so much recently," Gina Morgan said. "I am glad 
I don't have to make that decision." 
Reaction of Chicago cathedral parishioner to archbishop's enforced order to 
refuse communion to gay-identified worshippers. 
Ain't it reassuring to belong to a group that does your thinking for you? 
BOB SCHWARTZ 
Maybe this is the reason why our founding fathers believed in separation of church and state.
I bet they never envisioned pedophile priests in that equation.
"President Bush is leaving Washington for a long vacation. I'm sorry that's November's joke." —Craig Kilborn

"I'm 
honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by 
Saddam Hussein." 
-- President Bush, meeting Iraqi amputees at the White House on May 25.
Making Hay Out of Straw Men  
By Dana Milbank - Washington Post
 

Nursery Crimes
A Dinar, a 
Dollar,
a 'C' minus scholar,
What makes you
so blind and dumb?
You watch them die
and turn your back;
flip-flop 'til your
mind is all numb.
John Grant - Japan
Biz/Tech News
Enron manipulated energy prices during California brownouts: report AFP
Inexpensive Chinese cars on way soon? USATODAY.com
Jobs Loss May Affect Who Wins The Vote washingtonpost.com
Best of 2004 PC World

GAO: 
Pentagon Gulf War Illness Data Wrong
Tallahassee Democrat, FL - 6-2-04
... 
The Defense Department refused to accept a GAO recommendation to stop using the 
computer modeling data for studies on Gulf War illness. ...  
"President Bush announced that the Abu Ghraib prison will be closed. Another place Bush put out of business." —Jay Leno

10 Questions for Rush Limbaugh
Time -6-2-04
TIME's Richard Zoglin was last week's caller.
...WHAT KIND 
OF SEASON IS DONOVAN MCNABB GONNA HAVE? 
Let me just share with you what I read in a newspaper when the Eagles signed 
[receiver] Terrell Owens. They said now McNabb has no excuse. What happened 
after [my comments], I inoculated McNabb from any criticism the rest of the year 
because nobody, of course, could dare run the risk of agreeing with Rush 
Limbaugh. So whenever McNabb threw an interception, it was a receiver's fault or 
an offensive lineman's fault. He was incapable of making a mistake. He owes 
me a lot...
 
Is arrogance a symptom of OxyContin abuse?

Odd News
Turning lemons into lemonade, US student turns cicadas into stir fry
Good News
  
  
  Democrat wins South Dakota House seat
  
  Seattle Times, WA 

WASHINGTON (IWR News Parody) - President Bush in a rare Rose Garden news conference said that the new interim Iraq leaders appointed today were "technically not puppets", but really more like those "friendly Muppets guys".
"I mean you just wanna grab a hold of one of those pudgy little suckers and give him big hug and then a kiss on his bald greasy head.
In that way, they're a lot like Cheney. He's like a wind up automaton of the gas and oil industry. You know, like that little monkey that plays the cymbals that I have on my desk in the Oval Office.
Shoot. I've even heard that some folks have called me Karl Rove's puppet, but that kind of talk don't bother me none, then again, I don't read newspapers cause my doctor said it gives me hypertension, whatever the heck that is," said Mr. Bush.

Lava from the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park enters the Pacific Ocean at dawn Tuesday, June 1, 2004, in Volcano, Hawaii, as a photographer retreats. (HO)
Peace.
*roflol means rolling on floor laughing out loud