Heh - his name is "Pooh"...
Jack Cafferty asked his viewers last night on CNN: What would you suggest for Preznit Lawn Ornament's summer reading list?
Besides Richie Rich comics?

'We got close to 1,000 e-mails in the last 35, 40 minutes, and some of them we can even read. Some of you folks are just downright mean...

'Dan in the Bronx, New York, writes this: "I just finished reading a very good book named 'The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism.' I'm very interested to know if the president has read the Patriot Act."

'Richard in Mississagua, Canada writes: "Mr. Bush should seriously consider reading 'How to Win Friends and Influence People.' He could not have read it before."

'Dave in Japan: "Reading for President Bush? How about Lou Dobbs' book, 'Exporting America'?"

'Karl writes: "How about 'My Pet Goat'? On September 11th, he was holding it upside down. Perhaps he'd get more out of it this time."

'Deidre writes: "How about the newspaper?"

And one other nut job writes simply: "...my lips."'

- transcript.


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43 more killed in Baghdad as Bush "gets on with his life."


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Why do the Bush twins hate freedom?
Are aWol's daughters AWOL?

Thanks in large part to Cindy Sheehan, people are starting to raise the issue of why Jenna and Barbara Bush aren't serving in the military. It's a tough question, but I think it's a fair one. The President of the United States is calling on American young people to volunteer to go to war, but his own daughters, who are certainly of the appropriate age, are better known for their drunken nightclub escapades than for any acts of patriotism.

So here's a question I think a White House reporter should ask the president: "if your own two daughters won't enlist, how can you expect anyone else's children to join the military?"

- Richard Bradley, HuffPost.com.


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Hep, Unca Dick. Ah can't find Waldo
"Gas prices are climbing, motorists are fuming and President Bush is at his ranch with a book about the history of salt."

According to the White House, one of three books we're supposed to believe Bunnypants is reading during his five-week vacation is "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. Another is "Lollipops Through the Ages: A Pictorial."

Mr Kurlansky said he was surprised to hear that Bush had taken his book to the Lazy W: "My first reaction was, 'Oh, he reads books?'"

Probably the same way he reads National Security alerts like "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US."


"Heh heh! Look, Unca Dick, the pet goat is gettin' away again!"
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Keepin' us safer
"[If} we have to give up our passports to prove that our 11-month-old is not a terrorist, it's a waste of their time."

Though if it were up to me, ALL babies would be on a no-fly list.


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Camp Casey news
They hate us for our freedoms

In a stunning show of support for the troops, a redneck in a pickup truck mows down crosses bearing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq.


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Pic by szincza szincza.

Wash. Post drops sponsorship of propaganda event
The WaComPo dropped its sponsorship of the Defense Department's "Freedom Walk," organized by the Pentagon to remind people how brave and manly Bunnypants was when he finally showed up at Ground Zero days after Saddam attacked us on 9/11. The newspaper's news employees' union had urged the paper to reconsider, saying it was possible the event would become "politicized."


Bush, rigid with fear during a reading of 'My Pet Goat' on the morning of the attacks, returned to the story prior to bunker-hopping his way across the country to avoid any danger of the public seeing him carrying a pantload of his own poopie.
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Getting on with his life
... and with his five-week summer vacation.

"So, Lance - that yore name, 'Lance'? What's it like havin' only one nut?"

Lance Armstrong will be Bunnypants' special guest Saturday, for a bike-ridin' man-date around Bush's Crawford, Texas bunker, the Compound W.


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Science news
Meat to be grown in test tubes. Which I think is how George Duhbya was conceived.


"Gah!"
- G.H.W.B.
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Meeting of the mindsplats
Guests and topics on Tony Snow's radio show today include "A Bold Man With a Bold Vision: Ted Nugent is a man who's never without a pithy comment. He'll drop by to opine on all matters political and social -- from Cindy Sheehan to President Bush to the Rolling Stones."

I wonder if they'll mention my favorite Bold Nugent Vision: how he avoided the Vietnam War draft by virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement!


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What now, Karl?
Traitorous, vindictive asshat Karl Rove and loony boobopath John Ashcroft face new allegations in the Valerie Plame affair.

"The new information, that Ashcroft had not only refused to recuse himself over a period of months, but also was insisting on being personally briefed about a matter implicating his friend, Karl Rove, represents a stunning ethical breach."

- Representative John Conyers.


"Like I care! I'm in charge!"
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Jerking off to visions of W's thick monkey penis
"It's too bad that Mrs. Sheehan can't connect the loss of her son to the positive effects of the war." -- some kool-aid-swigging rethug mindsplat, writing from the safety of his stinky cubicle at the NY comPost.

Yeah, really, that selfish, unAmerican spoilsport. OK, besides us finding no WMDs, Iraq turning into the new terrorist breeding ground; most of the cities going without water, power, or sanitation; and the thousands of civilians maimed or killed, let's review some of the current positive effects:

Six soldiers die in Iraq bombings

Bombs kill 10 in Iraq

Sunnis may be ready to bolt from Iraq talks, scuttling the constitution

Military deaths reach 1853

Women could be big losers under Iraq constitution

"He died in a country erupting into civil war and turned into a hellhole by Bush, a place where democracy has no chance of prevailing, a country that will become a theocracy like Saudi Arabia."


NY comPost columnist's daily essential.
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"This is Texas"
Ummmm, sorry, but you spelled incredibly stupid feebville wrong.

Some moral values-voters are taking potshots - for real - at the traitorous terrist-enablers of Camp Casey, with the blessing of the Secret Service.

Speaking of values, shrewish nutbar Michelle Malkin is all over the Sheehan divorce story like flies on shit, and one of RimJob's mouthbreathing defectives wonders if it would be wrong if "freepers were to stand with foil covered cardboard reflecting the august texas sun at the anti-war protestors" to help end the "notorius stalking" of courageous, manly Preznit Accountabilitude.

Sure, go for it, fuckwit.


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How ah spent muh five-week summer vacashun
"[T]here is one sure-fire way that Cindy Sheehan could get all the face-time she wants with the president - by simply donating $25,000 to the Republican party. See, while Bush is too chickenshit to meet with the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq, he did meet with a group of his rich buddies last week." -- from this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots at DU, which also included this beaut from our compassionate, moral, hard-workin' president:

"Whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there's somebody who has got something to say to the president, that's part of the job. And I think it's important for me to be thoughtful and sensitive to those who have got something to say. But I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."

Yep, as the death toll of US troops in Iraq climbed past 1850, the War Preznit got on with his life: a BBQ party that doubled as republican fundraiser on Friday, and, in addition to a two-hour bike ride on Saturday, a nap, some fishing, and an evening baseball game.

- from Determined Iraq war protestor spoils Bush vacation (actual headline) at Yahoo news, and DKos.


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Photoshopped by Fox Nooze?


A gobsmacked Alan Colmes can't take his eyes off Katherine Harris's perky, humungous new breasts.
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Cool stuff on a hot day
Mobile foodstuffs!

The bf just yelled for me to look out the window - on the front lawn were a deer with her fawns, and calmly walking down the middle of the street was a family of turkeys, walking single-file, and acting like they were the Queen out for a stroll in the park or something.

Maybe once they get off the road they'll eat some of those damn cicadas.


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"Woopsies!"
While not admitting to fucking up on a titanic scale, the Bush misadministration is "significantly lowering expectations" on the future of Iraq.

The Bushistas no longer expect to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, US officials say.

"We set out to establish a democracy, but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic," said another US official. "So you can kiss women's rights, human rights and religious rights goodbye."

Great. Meanwhile soldiers are still dying for a war that seems to have been about nothing.


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"Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. 'We will stay the course,' he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?"

- from Someone tell the president the war is over, by Frank Rich.


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It's hot. God, it's hot. The heat index is supposed to go up to 110 today. It is so steamy already that everything feels wet. The only things that seem to be moving outside are the cicadas, sounding like thousands of miniature spaceships ready to take off to somewhere cooler.

I need a cold drink.


"I'm outta here!"
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Key figure in DeLay investigation indicted
Jack Meoff, high-powered rethug lobbyist and close friend of ethically-challenged scumbag Tom DeLay, has been charged with fraud. Rep. Bob Ney (R-Nokidding), who was also involved, has not been charged yet.


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Open letter to Cindy Sheehan

Dear Ms. Sheehan,

From your grief over the loss of your son, Casey, in Iraq has come the courage to spotlight nationally the cowardly character trait of a President who refuses to meet with anyone or any group critical of his illegal, fabricated, deceptive war and occupation of that ravaged country.

As a messianic militarist, Mr. Bush turned aside his own father's major advisers who warned him of the terroristic, political, and diplomatic perils to the United States from an invasion of Iraq. He refused to listen.

This rogue regime, led by two draft-dodgers and officially counseled by similar pro-war evaders during the Vietnam War, is not "our country." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes.

- - from Ralph Nader.


A toast, sir.
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"President Bush says it's too early to pull out of Iraq because he's still busy screwing them."
- headline at Fark.

Dead people make folks sad
Vacationing Bush to mother who lost her son in Iraq: 'I feel your pain.'

"I grieve for every death. It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one," Bunnypants said while playing in his sandbox. "I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place."

Blah blah blah... now lea' me alone, ah want muh ice cream.


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Cropped from original pic by HBFarker.


What did the president know and when did he know it?
Probe investigates issue of what Karl Rove told Preznit Responsibility.

Whether Rove shaded the truth with Bush two years ago is a potential political problem. The president so far has stood by Rove's side, even raising the bar for dismissing subordinates. Two years ago, Bush pledged to fire any leakers, but now he says he would fire anyone who committed a crime.

If Rove didn't tell Bush the truth, that theoretically could be a legal problem for the presidential aide under the federal false statement statute.

Law professor Peter Henning said the false statement law covers statements made to all members of the executive branch, including the president acting in his official capacity.

Presidential scholars say a White House's refusal to comment can suggest an administration in political trouble.

Heh. Oh please oh please oh please.
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Karma's a bitch
Surly, bilious, vindictive prune-faced old geezer gets his.

For nearly 50 years, [vituperative, dismissive and mean-spirited bully] Robert Novak badgered and bullied his way to the top of Washington. His disgrace in the Valerie Plame affair has brought him crashing down -- and he has only himself to blame...

At CNN, Novak's Aug. 1 column created something of a crisis. For some time, the news director and producers had tried to ask Novak about his knowledge of the Plame affair. How could the network claim to be a serious news organization if it gave Novak a free pass?

- read the whole thing at Salon


Hopefully, where Mr Novak and his career are heading.
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Hmmmmm....
"Only President Nixon, who had by then begun to tumble into the abyss of Watergate, had a lower presidential approval rating [than the Chimp-in-Chief does now]."


"9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! 9/"
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Misadministration goes off the deep end
Par-tay! In what may be the epitome of bad taste ideas, the Bushies are planning a huge celebration on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

The Pentagon will hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld said in an unusual announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing yesterday.

The news also reignited debate and anger over linking Sept. 11 with the war in Iraq.

"That piece of it is disturbing since we all know now there was no connection," said Iraq veteran Paul Rieckhoff.

Rieckhoff suggested the event was an ill-conceived publicity stunt . "I think it's clear that their public opinion polls are in the toilet," he said.

Though Rumsfeld's walk had some relatives of 9/11 victims fuming, misadministration supporters insisted Rumsfeld was right to link Iraq and 9/11, and hold the rally.

Good grief.


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Pic by Stephen Forsyth.

"Democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial
But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Halliburton."

- "Sweet NeoCon," The Rolling Stones.



Why does Cindy Sheehan hate America?
Traitor and terrorist-enabler Sheehan's partisan politics hurting troops, war preznit, says FreeRepublic.com.


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Military families to join Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
More members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of Preznit aWol coWard's Texas bunker, Compound W, where he is vacationing for five weeks while troops continue to die in Iraq.


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Fun time-waster
Newspaper invites you to colorize loony harridan Katherine Harris!


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WWJD?
Conservative pro-family group to withdraw support for godless homo-lover.

Public - and if by "public" you mean "white, straight 'Christian' males" - Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio will announce in a photo-op on Wednesday that his group of bigoted crackpots is withdrawing its support for Judge John Roberts' SC nomination, due to Roberts' past support for the "radical homosexual lobby."


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Mwwwwaaaaa!
In response to being called a 'staff puke', hero/patriot/Marine Paul Hackett calls Rush Limbaugh a 'fatass drug addict.'

There's more:

"Ask Rush how come he wasn't taking phone calls for the two days when he was on the attack with me. Ask him why his phone lines were clogged up. That's because he was getting thousands of calls from veterans from this war and other wars who were clogging up his phone lines, giving him an earful."

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Transparancy and accountability
August 8, 2005
Scooter Libby
Under the Vice President's Desk
Undisclosed Location in the White House

Hey assclown:

Stop stonewalling the Valerie Plame investigation, you #ucking chickenshit traitor.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary

Louise Slaughter
Ranking Member, Committee on Rules

Rush Holt
Maurice Hinchey


Pic from Fark.
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Today on muh summer vacashun...
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - Bunnypants.

As gas prices soar even higher, an 'upbeat' Preznit Privilege meets with his economic team to eat BBQ, play horseshoes, dismantle Social Security, and discuss further ways of screwing the American people.


"I don' wanna talk 'bout th' ecomnitude! I wanna play wid the' bunnies!"
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- Ted Rall.


"You call yourself a Christian
I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot
Well, I think you are full of shit."
- The Rolling Stones, "Sweet Neo Con"

This morning's LJHP* moment: RimJob's mouthbreathing, basement-dwelling pudpullers calling Mick Jagger a "loser."

*LOL - Jebus, how pathetic.



Stolen honor
"How can you ask a soldier to be the last to die for a lie?"

The Bush smear machine tries to pull their Joe Wilson/McCain/Max Cleland swift-boat bullshit on the grieving mother of a soldier killed in the Boy King's bloody Iraq folly. But it may backfire.

If the President's cause is so noble America's families should sacrifice more and more of their children, Cindy [Sheehan] asked, why hasn't he asked his children to serve in Iraq?

Indeed. Why do the Bush twins hate freedom?


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The army you have
Ironically, it's becoming pretty close to actually being an army of one.

The Marine regiment that took heavy casualties last week in Iraq - including 19 killed from a Reserve unit headquartered in Ohio - had repeatedly asked for about 1,000 more troops earlier in the year.

Those requests were not granted.

Supportin' the troops.
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Fretards, Fristers flipped the finger
Michael Schiavo was given the Guardian of the Year Award by the Florida State Guardianship Association yesterday, for his commitment in honoring his late wife Terri's wishes not to be left as a pawn for brain-dead politicians.

LOL. RimJob's smeggy troglodytes are in full barf mode - "This is sick! When are they presenting Hitler or Stalin with an award??" - but must be slipping: in fifty posts, they have yet to blame this on Hitlery or Bill Xlintoon.


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Quote
"Why is it that Congress cares if Rafael Palmiero lied to them about steroids in baseball, but doesn't seem to care that George Bush lied to them about Iraq?"
- headline at Fark.

Indeed.

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Is the fix in?
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may have to report to one of Bush's frat-hole buddies in his investigation of the Plame leak.


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Coffee-nose
"Man, if I were back in school now, I'd have a field day with this..." - the Top 10 Conservative Idiots from DU.


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Brat camp
"Power is being president."
An' it's hard work!

"I have a busy couple of weeks down here, and I have a lot - going to have meetings with people who come - from my administration who come down, the economic people," Bunnypants sputtered from The Lazy W, where he is spending his five-week summer vacation.

Never a big fan of Washington, the president much prefers spending aimless, brain-dead days on his broiling, arid fake ranch, where he can clear brush, toodle around in his truck, ride his bike an' play The Outlaw Josie Wales Asspounds Some Damn America-hatin' Injins.

Fun fact: Bush takes about as many days off each year as a typical worker in France, a nation whose men and women are not dying in Iraq by the metric shitloads.


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