BAGHDAD - Iraqi police officials say at least 51 people were killed in a car bombing in a mainly Shiite section of Baghdad.

Judging how the senior white women and the uneducated whites voted in the primaries, they don't have a problem with staying in Iraq. Both McCain and Hillary voted for the war and then voted several times to fund it so Bush could keep on keeping on.

General David Petraeus, Bush's butt boy in Iraq, and his crew must feel like they're in the movie Home Alone. The British have only a handful of troops in Iraq now. Less than 4,000 and they're in the South, as far out of harms way as it's possible to get. Australia has even less than a handful of troops, and they would be harder to find than a Denmark cartoon. Whatever happened to that cartoonist? I know the coward went into hiding. I keep hoping to hear that Al-Qaeda has chosen him to play a part in a Legend of Sleepy Hollow sequel as the Headless Horseman.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich defied his party leadership on Monday by calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war--but his move was not expected to go anywhere.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she opposes trying to remove the Republican president who leaves office next January because such an attempt would be divisive and most likely unsuccessful.

As a Republican, I just want to gag when I hear the sociopaths in our party talk about family values. Oh, I understand why. Even though the Christian Fundamentalists know the truth, if you want their money and vote, you'd better convince them that you believe the Jonah and the whale story. But just for a second, let's not listen to one of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson's old speeches; instead consider the #1 rule for discovering why people do the things they do, and that is "Follow the money".

Summary: Political Burials

Dear Republican Representatives: As a registered Republican and a wholesaler of top quality caskets and handcrafted urns, it is my profound pleasure to offer each of you, at my cost, the casket or urn of your choice to bury your political careers in.

Not in the history of the Republican Party have Republicans elected to county, state and federal offices come together as one body to exhaust every possible avenue of misappropriation of public funds, to show total disregard for international and domestic laws, and commit and/or condone war crimes and acts of genocide as you have.

WASHINGTON - Gaining ground this political season is a proposed League of Democracies designed to strengthen support for the next president's overseas agenda and ensure a global leadership role for the United States.

John McCain, the virtually certain Republican presidential nominee, has endorsed the concept of a new global compact of more than 100 democratic countries to advance shared views and has discussed the idea with French and British leaders.

"It could act where the U.N. fails to act," he said last month, and pressure tyrants "with or without Moscow's and Beijing's approval."

Analysts at think tanks in Washington and elsewhere envision a league focused on maintaining peace and limiting U.S. military intervention, such as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday.

Wait, there's more good news about how this Commander-in-Chief and his butt boys in the Pentagon support our troops.

FRESNO, Calif. AP - Forced to leave the combat zone after his two brothers died in the Iraq war, Army Spc. Jason Hubbard faced another battle once he returned home: The military cut off his family's health care, stopped his G.I. educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus.

Around the world people are rediscovering the Solanum tuberosum, a starchy tuberous root vegetable that was first cultivated in Peru some 7,000 years ago, or so says Wikipedia. In the US we produce an average of about 450 million hundredweight (112 pounds) of potatoes each year. That's a bit more than one potato, two potato, three potato, or four. And you can expect that tonnage to increase in direct proportion to the decrease of dollars in peoples’ pockets. That's not all of the bad news; those dollars, wherever they're being kept, are being devalued.