Just seems like we could use a little levity around here right now...it is a holiday weekend after all. At least in this country....
President Bush with Chile President Ricardo Lagos and friend Vladimir. The three are shown taking a break on the Hollywood set where they are starring in the remake of The Three Amigos.
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Porter Goss waves goodbye to two more top agents who announced their departure this week. Sources say the agents were pressured to leave because the new CIA chief did not like their use of passive-voice verbs in their communiques. With a temporary personnel shortage looming due to the exodus of experienced agents, the CIA will employ the National Hockey League's locked-out Washington Capitals to help patrol the borders; Attorney General-designee Alberto Gonzales has suspended the league's rules against high-sticking, slashing, spearing, and sodomy.
The TSA's new policy of significantly more "intimate" pat downs of airline passengers has made many women uncomfortable. Here, a highly suspicious looking passenger is picked out for extra scrutiny. Before it could be completed however, the woman deftly executed a flying drop kick to flatten the inspectors, and escaped by commandeering a large bomb-sniffing dog and riding away to safety.
Pete Townsend announced that The Who would record their first album of new material in over 20 years, but stunned the audience when he announced that he had replaced lead singer Roger Daltry with former Attorney General Janet Reno, shown above teaming with Townsend on a rousing version of My Generation.
[`What the fuck IS that thing?']
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg went berserk on Thursday and chained himself to a lampost while wearing a Santa outfit. The Mayor has been under a lot of pressure lately, with continuing legal claims by arrested RNC protesters, a public feud with a Cablevision honcho over a proposed Manhattan football stadium, and the city's Summer Olympics bid that hinges on the stadium's approval. Police subdued him with the controversial orange netting it employed during the Republican convention, but accidentally also scooped up two startled businessmen, a tourist from Topeka, Kansas, an angry Episcopalean monk, several large rats, and Calvin Klein. The Mayor went to an unidentified retreat to rest, but the bystanders accidentally arrested will have to go through the NYC court system, and are expected to be released sometime by Memorial Day.
And finally.....seriously....
Faces of the disenfranchised:
Top: Street protests in the Ukraine
Bottom: Protest at the 2001 inauguration, Washington D.C.
Have a nice rest of the weekend.
Peace.