Michael, George and the Hef And once again, an infamous link dump. But what a juicy one it is. I begin with Squirrels on Snark's magic heroic superhuman power. I think the photo says a lot but her take on the bloggers bash is quite nice. You must go to see it to see her super prowess. Then we move to politics.It sort of makes you just cry and laugh at the same time.

The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme -- in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race -- will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan, according to a motion filed by his attorney Thursday.

Shaun Hansen, the former owner of the company that placed hang-up calls to jam Democratic phone lines, was indicted in March for conspiring to commit and aiding and abetting the commission of interstate telephone harassment relating to a scheme to thwart get out the vote efforts on Election Day, 2002.

But that's not all campers. How about this one from Colin Powell, recovering from a hospital visit after dining with the Clintons:

"Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately," Powell said. He said the value of holding prisoners there was unclear, but the price we were paying around the world for doing so was obvious. He said we should not release the prisoners and dismissed the objection there was no other alternative. "We have ways of dealing with this population" that do not require Gitmo, he said.

But if that weren't enough, let's go here for more fun and frivolity. Or a big case of the blechs:

A former associate suing Michael Jackson for $1.6 million suddenly claimed on the witness stand Friday that he once was dispatched to help the pop star adopt boys in Brazil, but the singer's attorney denounced the story as a smear.

But, remember it's only been three days on North Korea and diplomacy, dammit, isn't working. I think he mentioned Iran for good measure.

President Bush expressed frustration Friday with the slow pace of diplomacy in dealing with North Korea and Iran and prodded world leaders to send an unmistakable message condemning Pyongyang's long-range missile test.

And from our "Say What?" files, this little gem from Hugh Hefner, who claims to be the stud. Didn't we go through this a few years ago with Gene Simmons of Kiss.

Hugh Hefner has slept with over 2000 women. The Playboy boss - who celebrated his 80th birthday last month - says he has bedded so many beautiful ladies in his lifetime he has lost count. He said: "I stopped counting a long time ago. My life is more about quality than quantity. Mind you, I still reckon I’ve easily had more than 2,000."

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