Fresh Loaf

BUSH: Secretly ordered the recent covert military strike in Pakistan, according to the NY Times, a major detachment from the usual U.S. tactic of using unmanned Predator spy planes to fire at suspected al-Qaeda targets in the country.

MCCAIN: Leads Obama by 18 points in Georgia.

HURRICANE IKE: Barreling toward Houston and Galveston, expected to be a Category 3 when it hits Friday night. Thousands of coastal Texans are evacuating.

CAGLE: Will run for governor in 2010.

THE POACH STATE: Georgia is among the fast-growing states poaching teachers from more economically strapped states, such as Michigan.

EXCELLENCE DEFICIENCY: The Commission for School Board Excellence, formed at the request of the Georgia Board of Education, is recommending that Georgia should have more power to intervene in dysfunctional local school boards such as Clayton’s.

BOBBY COX: Will return next season.

TOUCH AND GO: A Fulton Superior Court judge dismisses a lawsuit by VOTER GA challenging the fraud-proofness of the state’s touch-screen voting machines. VOTER GA’s Garland Favorito says the group may appeal.

CUMBERLAND ISLAND: Will begin tours of its north end, which had previously only been accessible to visitors via a 17-mile hike.

UGA: Will face its first real test of the season as it enters SEC play against Spurrier’s Gamecocks in Columbia Saturday.

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The U.S. and Iraqi governments claimed the Feb. 1 suicide bombing of a Baghdad pet market was carried out by two women with Down syndrome duped by al-Qaeda into carrying the bombs.

Subsequent reporting has uncovered that, other than the fact that the women didn’t have Down syndrome or any evident ties to al-Qaeda, the governments’ claims were spot-on.

Remember, these are the same people who keep telling you the surge is working.

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“The Internet is the new Afghanistan,” says NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

But I thought it was a series of tubes.

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Let’s see if I get this. Sunni insurgents in Iraq are often the allies of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia. So, what does the Bush crime cartel do? Why, it’s giving arms to those very same militias in order for them to fight al-Qaeda (which, it’s worth remembering, wasn’t in Iraq until GWB invited it via his deceit-propelled war of conquest). What will happen to those arms? Yep, they’ll end up killing Shiite Iraqis — and American soldiers.

The Bushies’ justification, by the way, was that it had had some success with the program in Anbar province. They must have neglected to read the reports that the anti-al-Qaeda alliance in Anbar was crumbling.

If that isn’t sufficient to make you slap your forehead this Monday morning — and I swear I’m not inventing this — it appears the military considered developing a “gay bomb.” No, not the sort of bomb the religious fruitcakes would want — one that would kill gays — but one that would turn enemy soldiers into sex-crazed homosexuals.

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