Caption contest

Reuters-Larry Downing

I'll prime the pump.

1. Karl Rove's inner child.

2. "Very funny, I hope you bought the extended warranty on that Epilady...."

Best name of a real company that is not a blog, yet

Alas, I don't always have camera with me. Today I saw a delivery truck from (drum roll, please)

The Liberal Beef Company

Tell me that is not a great name for a blog (and even for a beef company.)

Happy Indonesian Independence Day

From the BBC

This looks like great fun to me. Beats the heck out of bingo and raffles.

A spectator watches as youths climb greasy poles to claim prizes such as bicycles and cookers in a traditional game to celebrate Indonesia's 62nd Independence Day in Jakarta.

There is something in the water in Virginia

How else can you explain all the craziness?

The latest assault on reason.... A Virginian, Henry Hager (the horrible?), became engaged to Jenna Bush, famous first twin.
Read all about it in Yahoo!

"YOU'RE WHAT?" he is not reported to have asked when proposing to her.

Global Warming is Real

REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Kids today have it easy. When I was a kid we walked through snow, uphill to and from school.

Real caption:

A child carries his belongings as he wades through floods in Manila August 15, 2007.

We'll miss him

AFP/File/Rob Elliott

Bush, Cheney, and Bolten lament the imminent departure of their friend Karl.

"Don't forget to count the silverware," they neglected to add.

No truth to the rumor

There is no truth to the rumor that Karl Rove is contemplating a career on the Star Trek Convention circuit to coincide with the new movie version of Voyager.

Look what's on sale

(AFP/Mychele Daniau)

Lynne! Have you seen the sale flyer from the grocery store?

From West Wing Story

REUTERS/Larry Downing

I feel petty, oh so petty,
So petty and witless and gray

Uh, Oh!

REUTERS/Larry Downing

George begins to regret the second weasel burrito. "Should have gone for the kitten kabobs"

Chimpy demonstrates "management" techniques...

(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

"I like to delegate. On one hand, I have Fredo and on the other, turd blossom."
"Karl is my right hand man," Bush was not heard to say.

Thanks for the memo-ries...

Picture from Ten Grain via Bleu Gal.

August 6 -- PDB day.

Maybe if he used email, Harriet could have marked it important and used the background with the little hearts....
Oh, and she could have used the RNC email account, so he would have known it was double super secret.
At least he continues to do a heckuva job.

How many candidates are in the race now?

REUTERS/Kham

Candidates eager to get snout and trotters in the public trough, vie for air time. (and shouldn't the photographer's name be Ham...?)

Bush brain teaser

(Larry Downing/Reuters)

"See, see it's like a riddle, heheh. His name is Brown, but he's not brown, and I live in the white house. So what color is the the dawg?"

"Blimey, he is a charlie."

What's missing from this picture?

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Hey Rummy, I think you forgot something....