Issue 228
Week of 06/05/2006
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Behind Bush's Green Door 06/06

Bush Calls Operation Kill For Peace A Success 06/02

See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak Evil 06/01

The Infamous Bush Monkeys

Tony And The Pea Brain 05/30

Fredo's "Profile In Courage" 05/29

Cheney Claims He's Not Dead 05/25

Green Zone Acres 05/23

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Snow Calls Condi A 'Tar Baby' 05/17

Rove Blames Bush's Bad Karma For Low Approval Ratings 05/16

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They're Coming To Take Pickles Away, Ha-Haaa! 05/14

Trolling For Impeachment 05/12

A Troll In Monkey's Clothing

Don't Kiss Me, Kate! 05/10

Bring In The Coneheads 05/09

Men-Of-War Magazine 05/08

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What Bush Prayed For On National Prayer Day 05/05

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Turning Up Again

Frist Arrested For Solicitation 05/01

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Oilman's Adventure Magazine 04/26

Cheney's Baboon Gas Price Torture

Bush Makes Appeal To Gays 04/25

The CDC Issues Medusa Alert 04/24

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Unka Dick 04/24

The Patsy 04/20

Prisoner Pâté 04/20

FrankenDecider 04/19

Tippecanoe And Lieberman Too! 04/18

The Last Gospel Of George Judas Bush 04/17

Kinky Boots 04/14

Rumsfeld Resents Being Called 'A Real Dick Cheney' 04/14

Bush Calls The Truth 'Wild Speculation' 04/11

Dick Cheney's Candid Camera 04/10

Bush Caught Leaking With His Monkey Pants Down! 04/07

Bush Calls Missing Link Fake 04/06

Lunatics In Charge At Homeland Security! 04/05

A Pickle A Day Keeps Satan Away 04/04

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As The Blog Turns

06/09/2006

Monty Python - Lumberjack Song
What a great way to start off the weekend with this classic Monty Python skit.  YouTube is great!

Michael Palin and Connie Booth

Radiohead - Karma Police (Live on Letterman)
This IWR Friday Jam Session features Radiohead performing their trademark song live on the David Letterman show.  BTW, there are a lot more live concert versions of this great song on YouTube, or if you prefer the original 1997 music video.

Thom Yorke

Ann Coulter "Godless" Mrs. Betty Bowers Reviews Ann Coulter -- And Her Book, Too.
A brilliant book review by Mrs. Betty Bowers.

June 8, 1944 - War Rationing Board Restricts Nylon Use to Armed Forces, J. Edgar Hoover Only
The Onion.

Ann Coulter: Hard Times for Widows in New York Town
KDANTEATER.

Ann Coulter Challenges Iranian President To Insane Comment Contest
Andy Borowitz.

Poll: U.S. disapproves of Iraq war (BF)
The poll found that 59 percent of adults say the US made a mistake in going to war in Iraq — the highest level yet in AP-Ipsos polling.

Al-Zarqawi: A life drenched in blood (AB)
This is one of the more lucid appraisals of Bush's manufactured Boogieman.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a little-known Jordanian petty criminal turned Islamic fundamentalist fanatic until he was denounced by the US in 2003 as an insurgent leader of great importance.

Zarqawi Is Dead, but Weary Iraqis Fear the Violence Won't Subside
The boogieman is dead, but the criminals and death squads in Iraq will continue their dirty work, largely unchallenged.

The skepticism springs from how Iraqis see the violence. Mr. Zarqawi is part of a larger galaxy of gangs and criminal groups that kill and kidnap with virtual impunity as the state watches helplessly. In the past year, the killing has shifted from spectacular suicide bombings, often attributed to Mr. Zarqawi, to assassinations, kidnappings and other criminal violence, and many Iraqis say they are now more afraid of the latter.

DeLay Bids the House a Torrid Goodbye
Hey Hammer, don't let the door hit you in the ass!

06/08/2006

Bush's Manufactured Boogie Man Is Killed
Although it is always nice to see an al Qaeda nutcase terrorist eliminated, I don't see how this will significantly impact the Iraqi civil war between the Shiites and Sunnis or help get our troops out of this unnecessary quagmire any sooner.  It took us 2 to 3 years just to kill one low-tech  loony.  Who will the next Islamic Rambo be that Bush is going to blame for Rummy's bungling?  Meanwhile, the sectarian strife continues unabated and Osama runs free.  Needless to say, I don't think it's time to break out the party hats and champagne.

06/07/2006

Robot Chicken: Terrorism
Homeland Security releases a new public service announcement.

Terrorism

Jon Stewart Hammers Bill "The Blimp" Bennett

Jon Stewart

Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows On The Today Show
Why does the conservative hate queen get so much air time, anyway?

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."

NSA Wiretap Reveals Subject May Be Paying Too Much For Long-Distance
The Onion.

The Real Threat to Marriage: Top 10 GOP Adulterers (BF)
This is a good article on the hypocrisy of the falafel party.

The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed (BF)
As if we needed more evidence to impeach the worst president -- ever!

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House.

06/06/2006

The Nick Of Time - 6/6/06
Uh-oh!

06/05/2006

Robot Chicken: George W Jedi
This is a hoot.

Bush Vs Lincoln

Summer Salad Fashion Show

Salad Fashion Show

Colbert Tells College Graduates: Get Your Own TV Show
I hope someone posts the video somewhere on the Internet.

Get your own TV show. “It pays well," he observed, "the hours are great and you have fans. Eventually, some nice people will give you an honorary degree for doing jack squat.”

Bush, Senators Renew Fight Against Gay Marriage
Yet another "profile in courage" from this morally bankrupt administration.

Bar group will review Bush's legal challenges (BF)
It's too bad the Congress isn't doing this.  Again, if you're not an oligarch, you are SOL with this administration.

Among the laws Bush has challenged are the ban on torturing detainees, oversight provisions in the USA Patriot Act, and ``whistle-blower" protections for federal employees.

Medical Privacy Law Nets No Fines
This administration could care less about your privacy.

In the three years since Americans gained federal protection for their private medical information, the Bush administration has received thousands of complaints alleging violations but has not imposed a single civil fine and has prosecuted just two criminal cases.

06/02/2006

Skatalites - Latin Goes Ska
This IWR Friday Jam Session features the greatest ska band of all times --the Skatalites playing live in 1984.

The Skatalites!

Olbermann Exposes O'Reilly On Malmedy
Olbermann skewers O'Reilly big time for getting his facts ass backwards.

Keith Olbermann

Iraqi Accuses U.S. of 'Daily' Attacks Against Civilians
Can someone please remind me, what the hell is our mission in Iraq?  If Bush et al are trying to alienate the entire Muslim world, they're doing a heckuva job!

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians.

New 'Iraq Massacre' Tape Emerges
This latest alleged massacre occurred in Ishaqi in March.  We really need to get our troops out of that country.

The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians.

Bush Tops List As U.S. Voters Name Worst President (BF)
That's my man - Monkey Pants!

Bush was named by 34% of voters, followed by Richard Nixon at 17% and Bill Clinton at 16%, according to the Quinnipiac University national poll.

Was the 2004 Election Stolen? (BF)
Robert Kennedy, Jr. thinks it was.

06/01/2006

Mother Please! (MF)
This is pretty ridiculous, but it does successfully capture the deep seated alienation of our modern times.

Mother Death Rays

Yet Another FOX News Blunder
This is pretty funny. Fox News confuses the new Treasury Secretary with the new Iraqi Ambassador. I wonder if Bush killed Paulson's cousin too?  Fox News also missed Bush's big fat lie.

Yahoo Personals Ad Girl Is Eva Braun!
That cute Aryan blond haired girl in those Yahoo! Personals ads has been identified as Hitler's ex-girlfriend Eva Braun.

A Real Hot Date -- Eva Braun!

Pentagon Orders Missile Defense Shield To Protect Rumsfeld
Andy Borowitz.

Critics Blast Al Gore's Documentary As 'Realistic'
The Onion.

Church Responds to Success of X-Men With Marvel™ Comic Book Bonfire
Landover Baptist Church.

"The Da Vinci Code" Movie Review: "Anything that irritates Catholics can't be all bad!"
Betty Bowers.

U.S. troops kill pregnant woman in Iraq (BF)
"U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post."

Insurgent attacks in Iraq at highest level in 2 years (BF)
"Militants exploiting political uncertainty, Pentagon says."

Homeland Security grants rile D.C., NYC
"Somehow this administration thinks that Georgia peanut farmers are more at risk than the Empire State Building."

Batwoman Is Back As A Lesbian (AB)
"We had a feeling it would attract some attention, but we're a little surprised it did this much."

05/30/2006

Plagiarism
The Daily Show on the plight of modern plagiarism.

Jon Stewart

Art and Culture

06/05/2006

Sakae Kurada

Her Method

Legh M. Kilpin

Untitled

Kaoru Saito

Cozy Cat

Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Hatshepsut was the great female pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.

Block Statue of Inebni

Tomohisa Ishizuka

Soldier's Rage (2006)

Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan. By John L. Stephens

End facade of the Monjas,
at Chichén Itzá (1843)