A dunk is...just a dunk

A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, and a dunk, well, it's just a dunk according the Vice President.

As an unexpected October blizzard dumped a foot and a half of the fluffy stuff in Colorado, Tony Snow was doing his own snowjob back in Washington.

"We don't talk about techniques, that would include waterboarding," Snow said, trying to twist Cheney's words into something palatable to the just-say-no-to-torture administration. "He does neither - he neither confirms nor denies its use; neither supports nor shows a lack of support for it."

Snow added, "A dunk in the water is a dunk in the water," then broke in an extraordinary rendition of Louis Armstrong's As Time Goes By.

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh
A scream is just a scream
The fundamental things apply
Except habeas corpus
As time goes by

Really Tony Snow? Really? That is all you could come up with? You are the press secretary for god's sake, you can lie better than that. That is why they are paying you the big bucks. Better shape up or you will be a permanent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, like Geraldo.

Snow went on to suggest another possible interpretation of Dick Cheney's statement, explaining that Cheney doesn't support torture, he is a Methodist, and as a Methodist by dunk in the water what Cheney was really refering to was the Methodist form of salvation;
baptism. He is trying to save them through dunking.



While Snow writhed and twisted like a scarecrow in a cornfield (or Michael J Fox off his meds), time has gone by for Bush and Maliki, whose brief camaraderie is looking more and more like Paris and Nicole's adversarial relationship on an episode of the Simple Life.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki winced and grimaced as he told first the President on Friday, then his senior aide today, that he is a friend to the US, but not "America's man in Iraq."

No worries, Prime Minister, we all know who holds that title.



Time finally caught up with Fr Anthony Mercieca, the Catholic priest hung out to dry by former U.S. congressman Mark Foley looking for a scapegoat to help cushion his fall in Congressional-underage-page-sexual-textual-sex-scandle.

Mercieca, who now resides in Malta, an island paradise where even the Boy Scout Association of Malta embraces gay members, has admitted to swimming naked, being unclothed in the same room as Foley and massaging him in the nude, but said the allegations did not constitute a basis for him to be prosecuted.

"[Mercieca] considers the aggressive and unfavorable exposure as being unfair and unjustified," said his lawyer.

And Mercieca's agressive and unfavorable exposure in front of young men is justified?

The priest was quoted as saying: “We were friends and trusted each other as brothers and loved each other as brothers”.

And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

It gives a whole new meaning to "here's looking at you kid."