Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations -- This is an issues brief for members of Congress. it needs to be read when you are ready for bed or after a few cups of coffee.

It is a pdf file and is 19 pages. I need to read when I can see it. later.

Election.com Sold To Group Tied To Saudi Nationals

Old news but just too funny and scary. Election.com, start-up scheduled to provide online absentee ballots for U.S. military personnel in the 2004 federal election, has quietly sold controlling power to an investment group with ties to unnamed Saudi nationals. Hey let's recall how little Bush became pres. It was not the recounts, It was not the chads, IT was the absentee military ballots. Now FOB -- friends of bush-- own an online election service and they are able to count ballots after the cut off again. This should be very very very good for bushy

Sex pros get ready for party

I missed the Daily News-- I usually see the headlines. Period. But this piece of Journalism is worth reading. I will pass it to peoplr I know going to the grand old party's big party. News you can use!

TV Crews Catch Bush Changing Clothes

You can't make up this stuff... It is just funny. There is a suit, but is there a brain?

Bush was spotted by television cameras -- at Dromoland Castle changing clothes. The little Bush also had trouble figuring out what day it was. It must be jet lag or is it something else? you tell me.

CNN.com - Lewinsky: Clinton lied about�relationship - Jun 25, 2004

What could she be thinking... that he had sex with "this woman" because he loved here? This is a bad joke. She was there. She was available. He took advantage of the situation cause "he could." It is too bad that people are focusing on Monica. It was her 15 minutes of fame and she should move on.

The New York Times > Business > Charitable Giving Rises in 2003

This is good news... Nice to see that people are doing their part to repair the world, especially when the goverment's funding is not certain -- people are now a much more important source of funds for charities..

Charity life insurance: there has to be a tax angle (NY Times article)

Investors have bought policies on the life of Caroline Rose Hunt, fourth from left, promising to give charities some of the proceeds. The policies purchased on Ms. Hunt's life are an example of a newer approach, offering charities the prospect of a small benefit at little or no cost to them or their donors because investors, who hope to profit substantially, buy the insurance and pay the premiums.

This is a gotcha item -- be very careful here...

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Didn't see my piece on baby boomer retirement?

Here is a link. It ran in Accounting Today and was work seeing.

The retirement revolution: Boomers change everything.. Someone just sent me an e-mail with new lyrics to old songs for today’s baby boomers. They ranged from Herman’s Hermits’ “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Walker” to Bobby Darin’s “Splish, Splash, I Was Havin’ a Flash” to Leo Sayer’s “You Make Me Feel like Napping.”

What follows are the entire list of songs from the email: Some of the artists from the 60's are re-releasing their hits with
>new lyrics to accommodate us Baby Boomers .. good news, for those feeling a little older and missing those great old tunes...

Herman's Hermits - "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker"

Bobby Darin - "Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' A Flash"

The Temptations - "Papa's Got A Kidney Stone"

Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It through the Grape Nuts"

Procol Harem - "A Whiter Shade of Hair"

Johnny Nash - "I Can't See Clearly Now"

Paul Simon - "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver"

Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel like Napping"

ABBA - "Denture Queen"

Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face"

Commodores - "Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom"

The Bee Gees - "How Can You Mend a Broken Hip"

Ringo Starr - "I Get By With A Little Help from Depends



Does CPA Mean Career Passed Away?