How could this happen? How could such an obvious hoax as “Bush Indictment” become the number 1 search term on Technorati? Wishful thinking? 🙂

Another “Freedom of Press” debate brewing …
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it will not renew permission for ABC-TV to operate in the country after the network broadcast an interview with a notorious Chechen warlord…
… The
ministry called the broadcast a “clear fact supporting the propaganda
of terrorism” and said it contained “direct vocal calls for violence
against Russian citizens.”
In the interview conducted by
Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky, Basayev, who has a $10 million
bounty on his head, said he was plotting more attacks.
Among
other attacks, Basayev has been linked to a 2002 hostage-taking assault
on a Moscow theater that left 170 people dead, a 2003 suicide attack in
the Moscow subway that killed 41 people, and a 2003 double suicide
bombing at a Moscow rock concert that killed 17 people.
On
Sunday, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said he was barring military
personnel from contact with ABC and said the ministry now considered
the network “persona non grata.”
Source: AP via YAHOO news
Hm
… Autocratic Russian regime showing what they think of Freedom of
Press? But wait … what would we think if a
friendly foreign Media Agency broadcasted an interview with
Osama? Ohh, I can’t wait for the huge debate about to start soon…
Update: What a coincidence (nothing more implied) that ABC gets
kicked out of Russia, and News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) buys into Russian TV
broadcasting.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Media, Television, Freedom of Press, Press, ABC TV, Russia, News Corp, Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Fox, Fox News

King George (Bush) gets his way
confirm his nominee? So what? Who cares about the Senate
anyway? That’s what a recess appointment is for … and we’re stuck with Bolton till January 2007.
come back… you’re not needed. Down with Democracy, Long Live
King George!
Update (7/28) – A very relevant story on 115.org.
Update (7/29) It’s happening soon.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Humor, Senate, Congress, Bush, Democracy

Senator McCain in Raunchy Movie (???)
WTF! This has to be a joke! (???) … or so I hope. According to the Drudge Report, "Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- who once held hearings chastising Hollywood studios for producing R- rated films and marketing them to teens -- is now playing a part in one!"
Opening this weekend, WEDDING CRASHERS, a movie packed with raunchy moments and bare-breasted beauties bedding down with the guys."
I guess if actors can turn into politicians, it has to work the other way around, too... (???)
What's next? Howard Stern to the Senate?

“Midwest” Discovered between East and West Coasts
“NEW YORK—A U.S. Geological Survey expeditionary force announced Tuesday that it has discovered a previously unknown and unexplored land mass between the New York and California coasts known as the “Midwest….
… Thus far we have discovered places known as Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin,” said Randall Zachary, chief navigator for the expedition. “When translated from the local dialect into English, these words seem to mean ‘summer camp….
… surprised to learn that the Midwest, whose inhospitable environment was long believed to be incapable of supporting human life, is indeed populated, albeit sparsely…
…Though the Midwest territory is still largely unexplored, early reports describe a region as backwards as it is vast. “Many of the basic aspects of a civilized culture appear to be entirely absent,” said Gina Strauch, a Los Angeles-based anthropologist…
…We must remember that these people are not at all like us,” Conde Nast publisher and Manhattan socialite Lucille Randolph Snowdon said. “They are crude and provincial, bewildered by our tall buildings and our art galleries, our books and our coffee shops. For an L.A. resident to attempt to interact with one of them as he or she would with, say, a Bostonian is ludicrous. It appears unlikely that we will ever be able to conduct a genuine exchange of ideas with them about anything, save perhaps television or ‘the big game.'”
source: the ONION:
Interesting … reminds me of another map we’ve all seen in 2004 and 2000:
Technorati Tags: Midwest, US Map, Election Map, Humor, Political Humor, Bush Country, BushCo

Accidental President
Our Accidental President (remember Florida!) proves to be Accidental in more then one way; he seems to be having a lot of accidents:

Drapery is Expen$ive in NY, DC
So you think Tyco Tycoon Kozlowski’s $6,000 shower curtain was extravagant? Not quite … a piece of drapery at the Capital cost $8,000:
“With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1/2 years.
Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice’s ceremonial Great Hall.
The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.”
Ashcroft Gone, Justice Statutes Disrobe, from the Washington Post
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