Some friends and I discussed ironic bumper stickers earlier tonight, and these were our top three favorites:

3. A Ford Explorer with a "Let's Roll" sticker.  (See, because of the Explorer's proclivity for rollover accidents.  Heh.)

2. A Mothers Against Drunk Driving sticker next to a one for Bush/Cheney 2004.  (Here's a woman who must not have followed Bush's history very closely...)

1. Perhaps not the best one, but the only one with photographic evidence.  Note the license plate:

Couldn't have said it any better myself.

For my birthday a month ago, a friend gave me a George W. Bush plush doll that he and his wife had converted into a Bush Voodoo Doll by adding a box of pins and a small noose.  I happily stuck a pin in each eye, one square in his forehead, and another in his right ear.

Then I tossed it aside and forgot about it.

Time passes.  The first debate takes place.  What were some of the notable mistakes committed by Bush?

1. Blinking a lot (eyes)
   
2. Unprepared (ears)
   
3. Petulant, uncharismatic, couldn't think on the fly (brain/forehead)

Not to mention that he was favored to win the debate but "choked!"  (noose)

Since I'm apparently a Voodoo Shaman and didn't realize it, does anyone have suggestions for horrible things I can do to the doll before the second debate? :-)

If you didn't notice, the stock market was up -- way up -- following Kerry's victory in the debate last night.  I was just perusing a Reuters article about it on Yahoo (Stocks Rise; Nasdaq, S&P at 3-Month Highs) to see if any it made a connection between the two events, and sure enough it did.

The Montreal Expos are officially moving to Washington DC, and now begins the great debate over the team name.

Take the poll below, or nominate your own (serious or silly):

From the AP, via Yahoo:

From the AP, via Yahoo News:

Huh?  What the heck does THAT mean?  Is Bush confusing reality with some "Bin Laden has wired your children's heads to explode -- and you only have two minutes to rescue them!" video game plot?

Any other ideas?

From Variety, via Yahoo News, comes this news: 'Daily,' MSNBC tie on Dem coverage

To summarize: Daily Show tied MSNBC's DNC coverage at 1.3 million viewers, just behind Faux News (2 million) and CNN (2.3 million).

And on three of the four days, Daily Show had higher ratings than ANY cable news network among adults 18-34 and 18-49.

All this for a show that airs OUTSIDE of prime time, too late for some viewers.

Hot on the heels of the New Mexico "Democrats forced to sign Oaths of Fealty to see Dick Cheney speak" story comes this item from my hometown of Tucson, AZ:

KAET/ASU. 7/15-17. MOE 5%. (6/10-13 results)

Bush 41 (47)
Kerry 42 (35)

On Bush's handling of the Iraq War:

Approve 42
Disapprove 55

Which is, of course, a whole lot better than Behavioral Research Center's 48-36 Bush lead from a few weeks ago.

Follow this link to a LiveJournal entry about a protest at a Bush campaign stop in East Lampeter, PA, and how some teenagers pissed off the most powerful man in the world:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jiveturky/185733.html

There's even a picture.  I just wish there was less window glare so we could see the finger in action...

From Reuters UK (click for a pic of the Scary Face of International Terrorism!):

Freed Guantanamo prisoner denounces camp

LONDON (Reuters) - A Briton flown home from U.S captivity in Guantanamo Bay says conditions were so inhuman that animals in the prison camp were given better treatment than the detainees, the Daily Mirror newspaper reports.

Jamal al Harith, 35, was the first of five men to go free on Tuesday shortly after the group landed at RAF Northolt air base in west London having been handed over to British custody by the United States. The others were released on Wednesday.

"They actually said that -- 'You have no rights here'," Harith, from Manchester, told the Daily Mirror. "After a while, we stopped asking for human rights -- we wanted animal rights.

"In Camp X-Ray my cage was right next to a kennel housing an Alsatian dog. He had a wooden house with air conditioning and green grass to exercise on.

"I said to the guards, 'I want his rights' and they replied, "That dog is a member of the U.S army'."

Held in captivity for two years, Harith also said he was assaulted with fists, feet, knees and batons after refusing a mystery injection.

All five Britons handed over to British authorities were released a day later, due to the total lack of evidence against them.

Where was that link to the ACLU again?  Oh yeah, here it is.

From Counterbias.com (click the link for a picture):

GEORGE W. BUSH RUBS MAN'S HEAD FOR "LUCK" IN JOVIAL DISPLAY OF RACIST IGNORANCE

George W. Bush recently displayed a glimpse of his dark side as he partook in a public display of racial insensitivity.

Before speaking to a March 3rd Los Angeles audience at the White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Mr Bush was introduced by an African-American male, whose head Mr Bush proceeded to rub while grinning and smirking.

The man, identified as Alphonso Jackson, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared nervous and somewhat bewildered, while attempting to preserve an appearance of happiness to welcome Mr. Bush.

As an individual identified as Cory wrote in letter published online, rubbing an African American's head for luck was at one time thought of as a "joke amongst those who didn't generally say "black person" when referring to one". He noted that the racist practice "may well have faded into obscurity", but would've been "a good way to lose a hand" in more multi-racial neighborhoods in the late seventies and early eighties.

Mr. Bush has long been thought of by many as a stereotypical elitist with a notably racist, anti-black attitude, but this latest misadventure lends credence to such an assumption.

If the intent was not a racist one, the event did make Mr. Bush appear somewhat condescending, as well as disrespectful of a high-ranking government official.