The Evening Dinner Quickie.

Hopefully, this Saturday night finds you either living it up or relaxing somewhere peaceful with a loved one. While you do that, I'll bring you a quick version of the news.

And tonight we start of with an interesting tidbit: Americans don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either; "Aides in the president's circle say Bush still has it. They suggest that his likeability will serve as a get-out-of-trouble card no matter how mad people get about the war in Iraq or other woes." Well...yeah, if you take into account that the people surrounding Bush--I'm looking at you, Karl--only look at polls done for the GOP by the GOP, then I suppose you would believe that everything is peachy keen.

Bush breaks pledge made in 1999 to veto any tax increases; apparently, teens are now having any interest and capital gain they own taxed at rates just as high as their parents, if not higher...whoops, Bush's people got caught in another lie.

Oddly enough, Hastert gets into a verbal battle with Cheney over the firing of his friend, Porter Goss; "That wrath reflects the feeling in the House Republican cloakroom that Goss, who gave up a safe congressional seat from Florida for a thankless cleanup mission at the CIA, is being made a scapegoat for the government's intelligence mess. But Hastert's discontent goes beyond the CIA. The GOP mood on Capitol Hill, particularly the House, is poisonous."

After Mexico's foreign secretary, Luis Ernesto Derbez, says that they'll file a lawsuit if there's evidence that the National Guard is directly helping to detain Mexican citizens who came to the US illegally, everyone's favorite falafel king, Bill O'Reilly threatens to boycott Mexico (video: QT, WMP).

Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility; "the revival of the religious left is a reaction against conservatives' success in the 2004 elections in equating moral values with opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage."

Finally, after 5 months, Iraq swears in a Cabinet...admist violence.

The Border Patrol catches 91 illegals hidden in the back of a box truck.

Today was the day for New Orleans to choose a mayor; Landrieu or Nagin? Who do you think it'll be?

From Cannes: a US film featuring actors performing real sex is a "call to arms" against President George W. Bush; "Shortbus, an explicit, largely improvised arthouse flick that includes a rendition of the American national anthem during a gay sex scene, is a direct provocation, director John Cameron Mitchell admitted."

Daimler faces fine in US graft probe; "DaimlerChrysler could face a $640 million fine as a result of a bribery probe by the U.S. justice department and the U.S. stock market regulator, German weekly Der Spiegel said on Saturday."

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