Here’s a multi-punchlined gem from President Bush’s news conference today. He was responding to a question about Amnesty International’s recent report about U.S. abuse of war prisoners. I transcribed it after hearing it on the news.

“It’s just an absurd allegation. In terms of, um, you know, the detainees we’ve had thousands of people detained. We’ve investigated every single complaint against the detainees. It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of, uh, and the allegations by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble. That means not tell the truth.”

Click here for the audio.

BONUS BUSH IS AN IDIOT MOMENT:

From President Bush’s May 23 joint news conference with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai:

Q: And if I may ask you, Mr. President, as you know, the casualties of Iraq is again high today — 50 more people dying. Do you think that insurgence is getting harder now to defeat militarily? Thank you.

PRESIDENT BUSH: No, I don’t think so. I think they’re being defeated. And that’s why they continue to fight.

I e-mailed both of the above to Slate.com’s Complete Bushisms page. I’m sweet that way.

Last year, after Bill Clinton announced that he had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery, I wondered aloud on this very web site about how long it would take before some right-wing radio boob stated that Clinton deviously timed the build-up of muck in his arteries to help the Democrats win the election.

As I recall, the answer was about 20 hours, but I can’t remember if it was Limbaugh or Hannity.

I’m starting a similar make-believe timer today.

How long do you think it’ll take the right-wing radio boobs to turn the reported Chlamydia outbreak in San Francisco’s zoo into an excuse to take another stupid, bigoted jab at gays and/or liberals? My guess is that it’ll happen by the end of the day.

I’ll keep you posted.

Go to My ‘Lanta for my latest Podcast. In today’s installment, Phil and I read some of the best and most puzzling recent entries from Atlanta’s Craigslist pages.

I’ve been posting quite a bit to my other blogs lately.

Check out My ‘Lanta for posts Atlanta-themed Podcasts and blog entries.

Also take a look at Monkeysars for my latest music bloggings.

The latest My ‘Lanta podcast is now available for download at http://www.my-lanta.com.

My ‘Lanta is an audio program about Atlanta. Each week, hosts Andisheh Nouraee and Phil [O’Steen] take themselves (and, they hope, some listeners) on a sarcastic, geeky tour of community news, upcoming events, local oddities, and, local music. Phil and Andisheh hope that recording My ‘Lanta each week will help achieve their goal to Keep Atlanta Awesome!

You can download My ‘Lanta right here.

My ‘Lanta is available in the MP3 audio format. Once you download it you can:

1) Listen to it on your computer
2) Burn it to a CD
3) Listen to it on an MP3-capable audio player such as the iPod.

My ‘Lanta’s home page is www.my-lanta.com.

If you have any questions or comments, Phil and Andisheh can be reached at my-lanta@andy2000.org.

The following sentence appears on Lunesta.com.

Side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, drowsiness and dizziness.

Lunesta is a sleeping pill. Go figure.

Enjoy this fun, odd and AWESOME sound snippet. It’s a man expressing his enthusiasm about how AWESOME it is to have a conservative, traditionalist Pope. It’s from an NPR Morning Edition story on Wednesday about Pope Benedict XVI.

TRADITIONALISTS ARE AWESOME!