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Gov. Sonny Perdue on President Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony:

“Today’s inauguration of President Obama marks yet another peaceful transition of power in our nation’s great history. Mary and I were honored to attend today’s ceremony and our prayers are with President and Mrs. Obama as they take on this awesome responsibility. Georgia looks forward to continuing to work closely with the incoming administration as we address our softening economy and the impact it is having on our citizens. I also want to thank President Bush for his service to our country and for his support and friendship during his time in the White House.”

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With just a few pages remaining on our “countdown to a president who can actually pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ and who doesn’t look or act like he sprouted from the egg of a dim-witted chimpanzee fertilized by the irradiated sperm of Roy Rogers” page-a-day calendars, George W. Bush has already given up even pretending he’s president.

Instead, Dubya is in ex-president mode, focusing his energy on legacy-management.

Roughly half the White House home page is now occupied by links to documents that attempt to spin a positive, alternate history of the Bush years.

The most obnoxious is the 40-pager titled, “100 Things You May Not Know About The Bush Presidency.”

In the “every day is opposite day” dream-world from which the document emanates, Bush actually boasts about his economic leadership.

“[S]ix years of uninterrupted economic growth and 52 consecutive months of job growth,” says one bullet point. Conveniently missing are the bits about how he steered the economy into its deepest hole since the Great Depression.

Even more asinine is this bullet-point boast, appearing under the header “Kept America Safe”: “For more than seven years after September 11, 2001, prevented another attack on our homeland.”

Excuse me? Um, George, you were actually president on 9/11. It was the deadliest ever foreign attack on U.S. soil, and unless Wikipedia is lying to me again, the deadliest violent event in the U.S. since the Civil War’s Battle of Antietam.

“We haven’t had an attack while I was President except for that huge one that happened while I was President,” isn’t much of a boast.

It’s a bit like your wife standing up at your 10th wedding anniversary dinner and toasting you with “Honey, I just want you to know I haven’t been unfaithful to you since that weekend seven years ago when I snuck off to Vegas to star in Gangbang Party 14: Under the Milfy Way. Other than that, honey, totally faithful.” (more…)

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• Too many shoe-throwing jokes over the weekend to try and crack another one this Monday morning. Let me just say we all felt surprised Bush was able to duck so quickly (on second thought, are we really that surprised?…). And because I know y’all can’t get enough, here’s an animated GIF of the whole thing (for you Reddit-dwelling trolls).
• Less money, more problems: States are running out on funds for jobless.
• Sex of the times: These darn kids, turns out, not only are they knocking on the backdoor more often than not, now it’s all about hooking-up to gauge their interest in dating. (It is 2008).
• Newspapers are saved! All hail Blago! We just need a corrupt governor in every state and the newspaper industry is back in business.
• A top Gwinnett Co. arts instructor says art is essential to academic success … so spend some time over at our revamped A&E Portal and let us know what you think.
• Braves all but dormant in Baseball’s Winter Meetings last week … now where do they go?
• Thieves prioritize: First the forklift, then the ATM.
• Turns out Google’s algorithm isn’t the only thing determining search results. They’ve got this new thing called “human eye-balls” curating searches.
• And speaking of the “Don’t Be Evil (but take over the world anyway)” search giant, they’re not too happy about a Wall-Street Journal story on their stance on Net Neutrality.
• Planning on going to the inauguration? DC is anticipating crowds that may cripple the transportation infrastructure.
• Scary: Diebold machines dropped votes in Ohio.

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President George W. Bush yesterday issued 14 pardons and commuted two prison sentences in what surely will be one of the lame duck president’s most monumental acts in the last eight years. (Yes, I know, every president pardons ne’er-do-wells and scoundrels. Clinton had Marc Rich, Carter had Attila the Hun. Obama will probably pardon Predator.)

As Ken Layne at Wonkette accurately pointed out, a lot of the crimes Bush pardoned are run-of-the-mill — drugs, importing protected wildlife, and killing the nation’s majestic feathered symbol.

But with everything involving crime and silliness, there’s a Georgia angle. According to the Associated Press, among the folks Bush pardoned yesterday was in the most lotto-happy town in Jawjuh:

Obie Gene Helton of Rossville, Ga., whose offense was unauthorized acquisition of food stamps.

Yep. Food stamps. Is this “compassionate conservatism?”

The Chattanoogan:

Obie Gene Helton was sentenced April 1, 1983, to two years probation for unauthorized acquisition of food stamps. He was fined $500 and ordered to pay $875 in restitution, according to information provided by the Justice Department.

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Rupert Murdoch’s influence? Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed page featured this jaw-dropping editorial, which reads as if they’d picked up an Onion piece by mistake.

The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

Maybe the WSJ edit board decided to rewind after the election by smoking peyote.

(HT to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.)

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BAILOUT: President Bush, looking concerned, nervous but still slightly amused, tells the nation that the “entire economy is in danger.”

PALIN: CNN’s Campbell Brown issued a rant to the McCain campaign Tuesday, calling for it to stop sheltering its VP candidate and treating her “like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment,” in response to the campaign barring reporters from asking her questions at a U.N. appearance. Palin was then turned loose to Katie Couric Wednesday, and it did not go well.

MCCAIN: Suspends his campaign to focus on the economy, and asks Obama to postpone Friday’s debate if a bailout deal isn’t reached by then. Obama declines, saying “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”

GAS PANIC: Still going on, and people are still fighting at gas stations.

MERGE PROTECTOR: Northwest Airlines’ shareholders this morning approved merging with Delta, whose shareholders will also vote today. Antitrust approval still awaits.

EURO TRIP: Gov. Perdue’s upcoming trip to Spain is expected to cost taxpayers $100,000 at a time when Georgia faces a nearly $1.6 billion budget shortfall and has asked state agencies, including the governor’s office, to cut back.

SHOOTING THE BREEZE: The Gainesville Times reports that relocated city slickers often are shocked this time of year by their neighbors outside, guns a-blazin’, because much of unincorporated Georgia allows residents to shoot guns on their own property.

UGA VS. ‘BAMA: Officials warn that Athens may be flooded with counterfeit tickets Saturday, as average real-ticket prices are more than $300.

TERROR LEVEL RED HOT: The New Englandish region (touché, Jimbo) isn’t establishing a good track record with bomb recognition. First there was the 2007 Aqua Teen Hunger Force scare in Boston; now the Philadelphia Phillies blew up some hot dogs before losing to the Braves Wednesday night.

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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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HURRICANES: The high seas continue to use the Southeastern U.S. as their chipping green, with three more storms en route. Hanna was downgraded to a tropical storm this morning but may become a hurricane again; Savannah and cities from the Outer Banks to Miami are preparing for impact. Meanwhile, Gustav dawdles over Texarkana after sparing New Orleans the feared devastation. Still, Mayor Ray Nagin says it won’t be safe to return until at least Wednesday.

RAIN BARRELS: Especially useful during hurricane season.

RNC: Resumes today in St. Paul, with President Bush delivering a via-satellite speech at 9:30 tonight. Police have arrested nearly 300 protesters, and have charged 130 with felonies.

GRAY’S ANATOMY: Gray’s Reef, located 40 miles off the Georgia coast, shows effects of human pollution but is generally healthier than researchers had feared.

LOVE IN THIS CUB: The newborn panda cub at Zoo Atlanta has been put in an incubator for closer monitoring based on the behavior of it and its mother, Lun Lun.

BRIAN FINNERAN: Knows he’s lucky to be back on the Falcons’ roster after being out since 2005 with back-to-back knee injuries.

THE CHROME STRETCH: Google readies Chrome, its new browser it hopes will compete with Internet Explorer 8.0.

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THIS TIME IT’S PERSONNEL: City Council unanimously passes an ordinance requiring the mayor to get its approval before making additions or reductions to the city’s personnel, the latest in an ongoing melodrama between the council and mayor.

DEER IN HEADLINES: A six-legged deer found in Rome, Ga., is understandably popular.

BUSH: Went down to Georgia.

CHILDRESS: Hawks’ restricted free agent is considering an offer to play in Greece.

RIGHT TO AIR ARMS? U.S. House Homeland Security Committee chairman doesn’t think we should have guns at the airport.

ROCK DRUMMERS: Require at least as much physical endurance as soccer players, according to a recent British study that used Blondie drummer Clem Burke as its test subject.

LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER: Researchers and companies like Xerox are backing away from utopian visions of a paperless society that became popular in the late 20th century, using the phrase “paper-less” instead to focus on the more pragmatic, but less glamorous, goal of simply not wasting as much paper as we do now.

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What a difference eight weeks make.

On May 15, President Bush mocked Americans who want diplomatic dialogue with Iran — comparing them to appeasers who bargained with Hitler:

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Last night the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper announced the U.S. plans to open a diplomatic mission in Iran.

Why the about-face? Yo no se.

Maybe those Iranian missiles last week made a bigger impression on the White House than I thought.

Maybe President Bush finally realized that, when oil is at $140 per barrel, oil-addicted nations should try to avoid threatening to start war that could reduce the world’s daily supply of oil by 40%.

Maybe Bush started reading my column.

Whatever happened, I can’t imagine the McCain campaign is pleased with Bush’s flip-flop.

McCainiacs can’t attack Obama for wanting to talk with Iran when President Bush is opening diplomatic missions there.

Bush can do McCain a favor though and denounce himself as an appeaser.

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Pres. George W. Bush today lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling. Kind of snobbish that only CEOs get to drill for oil off the coast, but whatever, I don’t make the rules.

Gov. Sonny Perdue applauds the move and urges Congress to act:

“With record gas prices straining the budgets of many Georgia families, we cannot afford to take any option off the table. It is imperative that we take a balanced approach of conserving, developing alternative energy technologies and increasing the supply of domestically-produced resources. I want to thank President Bush for his action today and I urge Congress to hear the voices of the American people who are asking for relief from our dependence on foreign oil.”

If Congress fails to act, Bush’s order will just go in a file cabinet somewhere.  Whether you’re fer it or agin it, contact your elected official and let them know.

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President George Bush recently attended the G8 Summit in Japan. His kind farewell to other world leaders convinced Americans abroad to continue stitching Canadian flags on their backpacks.

The Telegraph reports, with emphasis added:

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world’s richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.

One official who witnessed the extraordinary scene said afterwards: “Everyone was very surprised that he was making a joke about America’s record on pollution.”

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George Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in Augusta.

Seriously.

(Tip o’ the crack pipe to Rogue109 at Peach Pundit)

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Amount Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $1,305,275

Amount Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $2,458,219

Number of votes Obama received in 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: 704,247

Number of votes McCain received in 2008 Georgia Republican Presidential Primary: 304,751

Number of votes Sen. John Kerry received in 2004 Georgia Democratic Presidential Primary: 293,265

Number of votes George W. Bush received in 2000 Georgia Republican Primary: 430,480

Number of votes Libertarian candidate for President Bob Barr received in 2000 to win Georgia’s 7th District Congressional seat: 126,312

Number of votes independent candidate for President H. Ross Perot received in Georgia in 1992: 309,657

Last time a Democrat won Georgia in a presidential election: 1992

Sources: Center For Responsive Politics, Georgia Secretary of State

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Yo! Satan called and wanted to let everyone know that Hell’s getting frigid.

According to the Washington Times, the venerable right-leaning publication owned by a verifiable God, the Bush administration may push the U.S. Congress to pass a bill this week calling for action on global warming. The article says it wouldn’t be toothless resolution either, but a specific proposal aimed at reducing the nation’s contribution to the phenomenon. Better late than never?

So sayeth the paper of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon:

Bush administration officials have told Republicans in Congress that they feel pressure to act now because they fear a coming regulatory nightmare. It would be the first time Mr. Bush has called for statutory authority on the subject.

“This is an attempt to move the administration and the party closer to the center on global warming. With these steps, it is hoped that the debate over this is over, and it is time to do something,” said an administration source close to the White House who is familiar with the planning and who said to expect an announcement this week…”

Still, Republican members of Congress who were briefed last week let top administration officials know that they think the White House is making a mistake, according to congressional sources and others familiar with the discussions. Opponents said Mr. Bush could be setting off runaway legislation, particularly with Democrats in control of Congress.

Rumors vary as to whether it’ll be sector specific — say, forcing utilities to adopt a cap-and-trade system similar to that used in Europe — or a broad sweeping plan. Critics quoted in the article claim that the United States is already at the front of reducing CO2 emissions — something I find hard to believe — and that because of Europe’s system, the nation has been plucking manufacturing jobs because its less-regulative milieu is less harmful to the economy.

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PITCH IMPERFECT: Bush throws “high heat”; Hudson dominates but Moylan gives up walk-off homer in the ninth as Braves lose season opener in Washington’s new Nationals Park.

TRAILING OFF: Alabama footpath now connects to southern terminus of Appalachian Trail in Dawson County; Congress could officially designate it as the new ending point of the 2,500-mile trail.

COYOTES: Two caught in DeKalb after killing cats.

ISAIAH RIDER: Former Hawk charged with car theft.

R.E.M.: Has new album, midlife crisis.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Former DA challenges constitutionality of judicial review panels, which reconsider and sometimes reduce prison sentences.

SINO THE TIMES: Perdue takes inaugural Atlanta-to-Shanghai flight to promote Georgia in China.

NOW MUSEUM: Now you don’t. Georgia Museum of Natural History is given a 44-acre archaeological site, which includes Indian mounds and artifacts, but the nine-year-old museum still doesn’t have an exhibition space. Its collections are stored in various buildings around Athens, where it’s based.

WRESTLEMANIA: Simulated mania becomes genuine mania for fans in Orlando.

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Alabama followed Florida’s lead today, asking President Bush to deny Gov. Sonny Perdue’s request to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ release of water from Lake Lanier.

Citing the “profound socioeconomic” effect such an act would have on Apalachicola River and Bay’s commercial fishing industry, Florida Gov. Charles Crist told President  Bush in a letter that “further reductions would only hasten the decline of this important component of Florida’s economy.”

Crist also took an apparent swipe at Georgia’s laissez-faire development model:

Florida has enacted comprehensive water supply legislation to ensure water is available to meet the needs of its communities, prior to development. The legislation provides the plan and funding for developing alternative water supplies such as desalinazation, reuse, and conservation as well as adding new requirements for regional water supply plans to make them more useful to local governments and enhance consumptive use permitting. By ensuring water is available prior to development, Florida is, and has been, less vulnerable to periods of drought.

Zing!

Crist goes on to say the state is willing to work with Alabama, Florida and the Corps to develop a better water-sharing model, but that “reacting to the concerns of an upstream State to suspend environmental laws unilaterally at the expense of a downstream State’s ecology and economy cannot be justified in any circumstance.”

Click here for the PDF file of Gov. Charles Crist’s letter to President Bush

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At a press conference at Lake Lanier, Gov. Sonny Perdue – fresh off the plane from a business jaunt in Japan – designated 85 counties in the state’s northern third as being under a state of emergency and requested that President George Bush declare the region a major disaster area exempt from the Federal Endangered Species Act. The federal law requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, to release water from the dwindling lake to sustain two endangered species of mussels in addition to its duties providing water for two power plants and other needs downstream.

The governor’s declaration creates an advisory panel – the Drought Response Unified Command Group – comprised of various state agencies including the Georgia Emergency Management Agency and the state’s Environmental Protection Division. The president’s declaration would free up federal funds for stricken areas and allow businesses to apply for low-interest loans. In the meantime, aside from conserving water or taking advantage of the free low-flow fixtures that some metro counties are offering to customers, you can only wait and pray for rain.

The 80-days-till-dry countdown being bandied about in the media and by elected officials? It’s off-kilter, says the Corps, the entity that oversees Buford Dam at Lake Lanier, and which, throughout the entire water-shortage debacle, has been public enemy No. 1. The Corps says the state’s number for Lake Lanier is a month shy of accurate.

The light precipitation the metro area has seen today and during the past two weeks is only momentarily stopping that clock. The region is 16 inches shy of its annual average, and barring two weeks of steady rain, the drizzles are more bought time rather than a saving grace. That rare glimpse of precipitation Atlanta saw a little over a week ago? It amounted to .08 of an inch, says the National Weather Service.

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In a move that seemed to anger as many Republicans as Democrats, President Bush vetoed the children’s health care program just before he left Washington, D.C., today to speak to the Chamber of Commerce in Lancaster, Penn. (The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce? Is that the best gig he can get?)

The veto has significant ramifications in Georgia. As Mike King pointed out in That Other Paper, it leaves 273,000 children who are enrolled in PeachCare in limbo. That’s on top of another 300,000 children who have no health insurance at all. Federal funding will be in place until Nov. 15, but unless a resolution is reached, PeachCare funds would run out at the end of November.

At least one prominent Republican, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, hopes the veto will be overridden. Reports the New York Times:

“Unfortunately, I believe that some have given the president bad advice on this matter,” said Hatch. He said supporting the health bill “is the morally right thing to do.”

Another Republican, Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon, expressed similar sentiments and called Mr. Bush’s decision “an irresponsible use of the veto pen.”

“Today we learned that the same president who is willing to throw away a half trillion dollars in Iraq is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that amount to bring health care to American children,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

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11 Alive’s “Atlanta & Company” invited me on today to chat about, among other things, the cover story I did for CL about President Bush and his monumental mismanagement of the War on Terrorâ„¢.

Unfortunately, our live interview was preempted by a live press conference by the man himself, President Bush.

He’s trying to silence me, but mark my words, he will fail.

“Atlanta & Company” will air my interview at 3:35 a.m.

I dare you to wake up and have a live news conference then, Mr. President.

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Neal Boortz joined eight other conservative radio talk-show hosts at the White House yesterday for a meeting with President Bush.

Says Boortz on today’s Nealz Nuze Web page:

“I was particularly impressed by his grasp of the political and cultural interactions among the various Muslim sects and countries of the Middle East.”

A guy who doesn’t know anything or care to know anything about “various Muslim sects and countries of the Middle East” is impressed by a guy who appears to know slightly more than he does.

It’s 2007. Praising Bush for grasping “interactions” of “Muslim sects” is like praising a plumber for bringing a plunger to work.

“Hey, Neal, how was that plumber you had over to the house the other day?”

“I was particularly impressed by his grasp of unclogging the various drains in my bathroom.”

Despite being impressed with the president’s intellect, Neal’s visit gave him cause to whine:

“Now .. just so you know. When a reporter for the Washington Post, CNN or any of the big three broadcast networks is invited to spend some time in an off-the-record conversation with the president, that’s all hunky dory. But when a conservative (I’m now sure they know I’m a libertarian) talk show host is invited to discuss issues with the president, we’re simply there to get our talking points and marching orders.”

Do you hear that, people? NO REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS FROM NEAL BOORTZ.

Other Nealz Nuze items today include:

“How long have I and other talk show hosts been telling you that Democrats are invested in failure in Iraq?”

“Has there ever before been a time in America where a major political party would virtually pray for our defeat in a war so that they could demonize the leader? …”

“What we’re seeing here is simply an attempt to bring Hillarycare – socialized medicine – quietly through the back door. “

“… Obama illustrated vividly that he is not seasoned enough, or perhaps just flat-out not qualified, to be our president.”

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A recent poll indicates only 25 percent of Americans believe Bush is doing a good job.

Many commentators have attempted to put Bush’s massive unpopularity in historical perspective by comparing him with past presidents.

The New Republic’s blog the Plank goes one better.

They’ve put together a short list of other things that only one in four Americans believe. For example, 25 percent of Americans apparently believe the Second Coming will happen this year.

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The Department of Energy awarded the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology, partnered with other research labs and universities, a cool $125 million over a period of five years for the development of one of three bioenergy research centers.

Says Alan Darvill, head of UGA’s team:

This research, which uses biotechnology approaches to reduce the high cost of processing plants into biofuels, has the potential to make ethanol a significant replacement for fossil fuels for this country’s future energy needs.

Read more.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman explained the center’s mission to the Associated Press:

These centers will provide the transformational science needed for bioenergy breakthroughs to advance President Bush’s goal of making cellulosic ethanol cost-competitive with gasoline by 2012, and assist in reducing America’s gasoline consumption by 20 percent in 10 years.

Read more.

The center will be based at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the University of Tennessee.

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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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I think the ATL cops must have some serious problems down there. They needn’t bust in on innocent old grandmas. Just go over to the Mayor’s house……

– Aging Hipster remarks on the front-page story in today’s AJC about a federal investigation of whether Mayor Shirley Franklin’s daughter, Kai Franklin, laundered money for her convicted drug dealer ex-husband, Tremayne Graham.

Two weeks ago, CL’s Mara Shalhoup wrote about the investigation in her cover story about Graham. I would have said “wrote about it brilliantly,” but I’d hate to be accused of bias.

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Bush’s re-election has been one of the worst things to happen to this country since Jimmy Carter was in office.

– Jason Pye at JasonPye.com. Pye’s hackles were raised by Bush’s support of a bill that would increase the minimum wage.

I met Jason at the Peach Pundit happy hour last Friday. I didn’t see any hackles.

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The AGMC exploits the desires of some of Atlanta’s gay men to get in a group and sing. Of course, it is also a means of hooking up with new partners and a great networking tool for them. They must pay excessive quarterly dues that almost completely supports the group and keeps them singing.

– The person who writes the blog Atlanta Classical Music thinks the Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus is a rip-off.

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