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The Head of Vecna

I'm sure there are any number of people who would work to dispute this top ten list. It's unfortunate for all of us that Reeves is right.

Yahoo! News - THE REAL ISSUE: BUSH IS INCOMPETENT

] First lady Laura Bush, in a rare foray into foreign
] policy Tuesday, planned to present her husband as a
] commanding warrior against terrorism in a prime-time
] convention speech highlighting his leadership in "the
] most historic struggle my generation has ever known."

Well I don't think anyone who has read me thinks I have any respect for the president, and they'd be right. This "warrior" is perfectly generous with other people's lives and money, and what she's talking about (the war on terror, ooooh, let's fight a concept) isn't all that.

But she's right that we're looking at the most important struggle of my generation (not hers, that would be Vietnam, the cold war or Nixon's subversion of the democratic process, although shrub's version of that wasn't any better). Four more years of Shrub will probably be sufficient to throw this country into the kind of distopia that pops up in bad television and movies like Max Headroom, Freejack and Robocop.

The Bush revolution is to have government intrude on a moral level, to spend so prolifigately that any ability the government might have had to do things to protect its citizens from others will be lost because they can't afford it. At the same time, the interest caused by that public debt will go towards funnelling more money and more power towards the same people who have been and will abuse it.

Yahoo! News - First Lady Promoting Husband As Warrior

Nothing significant to this one, it's just funny.

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] SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found
] passed out at a campground in Washington state recently
] after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a
] campground worker said on Wednesday.
]
] "We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and
] wondered what was going on until we discovered that there
] were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson,
] a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 km)
] northeast of Seattle.
]
] The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years
] old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and
] teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.
]
] It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate.
] He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to
] Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his
] drinking binge.
]
] Wildlife agents chased the bear away, but it returned the
] next day, said Broxson.
]
] They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and
] two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was
] captured for relocation.

[ That is some funny shit. A little sad, but funny. -k]

Nice to see even bears think Busch sucks.

Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground

] More than half of Americans, 54 percent, continue to
] believe Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass
] destruction or a program to develop them before the
] United States invaded last year, according to a poll
] released Friday.

I don't think this is what PT Barnum was thinking about when he said there's a sucker born every minute. Or, isn't national policy important enough not to base it on fooling the suckers?

Yahoo! News - Poll: Many Still Link Iraq With WMD

] Kennedy said he was stopped at airports in Washington,
] D.C., and Boston three times in March. Airline agents
] told him he would not be sold a ticket because his name
] was on a list.
]
]
] When he asked the agent why, he was told, "We can't tell
] you."

I think as far as the Bushies are concerned, if Teddy Kennedy can't get on an airplane, that means the system is working.

Yahoo! News - Error Puts Kennedy on Airline No-Fly List

] Cash-strapped United Airlines said in a bankruptcy court
] filing Thursday that it "likely" will be necessary to
] terminate and replace its employee pension plans.

Just out of curiousity, I wonder what the top brass at United is paying themselves...

Yahoo! News - United Likely to Terminate Pension Plans

] U.S. forces stormed a Najaf house belonging to a radical
] Shiite cleric, who has led a deadly uprising against
] coalition and Iraqi troops for more than a week, as
] American and Iraqi soldiers launched a major assault
] Thursday on his militiamen.

I believe the phrase that they're looking for here is "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"

Yahoo! News - U.S. Forces Storm Shiite Cleric's House

] President Bush (news - web sites) said on Tuesday that
] abolishing the U.S. income tax system and replacing it
] with a national sales tax was an idea worth considering.

Why not just headline this, "Bush Says Fuck the Poor"

Yahoo! News - Bush Says National Sales Tax Worth Considering