Their body armor likely saved them, “otherwise these would have been fatal wounds,” Gamble said.

This may seem like an odd question, whose body armor were they wearing? Were they out there is the same gear the army has been issuing or did ABC spring for something better? My own guess is "something better," but I'd like to know.

ABC anchor, cameraman treated in Germany

The United States said it will review funding to the aid-dependent Palestinians if Hamas enters government and Israel suggested it might suspend customs revenue transfers, adding economic uncertainty to the political upheaval.

That's right, we're all for democracy! As long as people we like win anyway...

Hamas, Fatah battle over election results - Yahoo! News

"You can't have a peace process if you're not committed to the right of your partner to exist."

Nice line from Condi. I'd love to see her try and explain it in the context of going to war in Iraq.

Bush Says U.S. Policy on Hamas Unchanged - Yahoo! News

"My advice to your clients is that you better do it soon or we will mandate it if you don't," Republican Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record) of Alaska, chairman of the Commerce Committee, told Paul Cambria, general counsel to the Adult Freedom Foundation.

There already is one you fucking moron. Now please go back to trying to bilk us of money to build 250 million dollars for a bridge to your summer home asshat.

Rating system urged for adult Internet content

For four generations, our family has worked hard to serve this country we love. I enlisted as a young man of seventeen into the United States Navy, so I could serve my nation in WWII. My brother did the same, and we both served in South Pacific. My son dedicated his life to patriotic and religious causes, which have made this nation great. He gave unsparingly of his time and resources to help those in need.

An open reply to Frank Abramoff:

Mr. Abramoff, I am sorry to say I did not watch the event of which you speak, and I would doubt that the intention of Mr. Clooney was to insult your father, or to insult the service you gave this country. The comment was the sort of sophomoric humor found in high schools across the country, and certainly not in the best of taste.

That being said, your son has pled guilty to working to destroy those very same things that you fought for 65 years ago. He has turned the good name of your father into a curse for all that wrong about politics, and specifically the Republican Party, in America.

Abraham Lincoln said at Gettysburg, "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Your son has worked vigorously to eliminate the "of the people, by the people, for the people" part from that statement, and that statement IS America. It is what separates us from the rest of the world, and makes this a country worthy of the service you gave it.

I am sorry that your family and family name is being dragged down by the actions of your son, but he did it, he admitted doing it, and those actions are against everything that this coutry stands for. Mr. Clooney's insults pale in comparison to the damage done to all of us by Jack's actions.

USATODAY.com - Abramoff's dad bashes Clooney's 'ridiculous attack'

I suggest everyone immediately hit AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!, and repeatedly do a search for "Laura Bush humping midgets."

Politics? Humor? Who says you can't have both!

Eric Schmeltzer: Bush Wants Porn Searches, Let's Give Him Porn Searches

"He did his part. It was a great ride, a great trip, I loved him and I'm sure he was well-loved, and I just hope that he's given his props," Michael Wilson Pickett, the fourth of the singer's six children, told WRC-TV in Washington after his death.

PLay it loud Wilson, we want to hear it all the way down here.

Wilson Pickett Dead From Heart Attack

The Bush administration, seeking to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, has subpoenaed Google Inc. for details on what its users have been looking for through its popular search engine.

Let's see, the Supreme Court already said this law is dead, but these guys want to go ahead and use it anyway? No. Absolutely not. They talk a good "Rule of Law" game and pay absolutely no attention to it.

At this point I would like to see this administration find out what "Rule of Law" really means, and see them sent somewhere like Marion Federal Penitentiary.

Feds Seek Google Records in Porn Probe

Specifically, the statement said that the administration would interpret the amendment "in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the president to supervise the unitary executive branch and as commander in chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on judicial power."

In other words, I'm attaching a rider to this so it means whatever the hell I want it to mean, and go screw.

For President, Final Say on a Bill Sometimes Comes After the Signing - New York Times

THE COMPLETE LIST OF MAD Magazine's 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2005:

1. Hurricane Katrina: The Bush League Response
Shattering his old record for totally ignoring a national disaster (8 minutes of slacking following the 9/11 attacks), President Bush set a new standard this year for utter cluelessness. As Katrina grew to a class five hurricane and smashed the Gulf Coast, leaving New Orleans underwater and thousands stranded and suffering, Dubya spent his time clearing brush, presenting a birthday cake to John McCain, strumming a guitar at a GOP fundraiser, and sleeping. By the time he apologized to the nation two weeks later, it was painfully clear that the President had a lot in common with the citizens of New Orleans: he, too, was in way over his head.

Brownie you're doin a heck of a job! What me worry?

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