Bush hosted Japan's Prime Minister Shingo Abe at Camp David where he signed formal surrender papers making the defeat of General Motors by Toyota official.
Obama is the first presidential candidate to receive Secret Service protection----even though the Clinton campaign has signed a pledge not to have him whacked.
Mitt Romney's camp admits they pay college students a commission for every campaign contributor recruited on campus, with a special bonus if the contributors ever heard of Joseph Smith.
Don't wonder off. This gets better as it goes along!
British Army lieutenant Prince Harry is headed to Iraq with his tank unit, the elite 357th "Don't Shoot, He's a Royal!" Armoured Battalion.
Latinos gathered to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in LA's MacArthur Park. Or, as the LAPD calls it, "the practice range."
Evander Holyfield, 44, will fight Lou Savarese on June 30 in El Paso. The "three knockdown" rule will be in effect, with special consideration for strokes.
The Archieves of Pediatrics reports that 40% of 3-month old toddlers regularly watch television. More disturbing, 86% of them think it's good.
The British fashion chain TopShop has launched its new Kate Moss line which includes stone-washed blue denim cargo pants with pockets specially tailored to accomodate prescription hallucinogenics.
A GAO report shows the average plane used by the Air Force is 23.5 years old. Juggle the numbers and you get the average age of stewardesses on Delta----53.2.
David Hasselhoff has lost visitation rights to his teen girls. Worse, if he wants to speak to them by phone, he has to go through Alec Baldwin.
Cheney has had four coronaries, two angioplasties and quadruple bypass surgery. And he thought he had heart problems before Tenet drove a stake through it.
The 98% white Cleveland Bar Association has launched a program to educate blacks on the Constitution, civil rights and social studies and already it's paying off. They've signed seven of them to NBA contracts.
DC madam Jeane Palfrey's girls charged, according to police records, $300 an hour, which isn't bad considering they also did routine plumbing.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced she's dropping the "Rodham." May not mean much to you but now she has to change the monograms on 350 pant suits.
Tony Snow told his class reunion at Davidson College "God hasn't promised us tomorrow but He has promised us eternity." Bush only makes it seem like eternity, Tony.
The Judge in the Phil Spector trial admonished the jury to disregard the defendant's hair, pretty much neutralizing the defense's catch phrase "If the wig fits, you must acquit."
The British Court has charged Hugh Grant with hitting a photographer with a can of baked beans. In England, throwing food is a misdemeanor. Eating it is a felony.
April was the deadliest month of the year for troops in Iraq. It wasn't too kind to Don Imus, either.
A mineral has been discovered in Serbia that contains the same elements as Superman's nemesis, Kryptonite: sodium, lithium, boron, silicate, and hydroxide. Oh, sorry----that's Rush Limbaugh's medicine cabinet.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first use by a Renaissance French cartographer of the name "America" for the US. Replacing its previous title----Cleveland.
The 100th birthday of John Wayne will be marked by celebrations in his hometown of Winterset, Iowa. They've commissioned Dr. Scholl to provide a bronze statue of the flat feet that enabled the Duke to duck the draft during World War II.
Last year, the US imported $206 million worth of diamonds from Botswana, most of which ended up on the finger of Kobe Bryant's wife.
Bill Clinton's saxophone sold at a New York charity auction for $64,800. Rare because it's the only thing in the Oval Office that HE blew.
Excerpted from www.bereftontheleft.blogspot.com
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