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Yahoo decided to repost this file photo to use as a hook for another one of it's scurrilous captions. We'll happily use the photo on the Dose while figuratively giving Yahoo the finger. President Bush speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, February 28, 2005.

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Vice President Dick Cheney, right, leaves a briefing in the U.S. Capitol along with White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Friday, Dec. 16. 2005 after talking with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee leadership. (Another briefing. Maybe the problem with the senate is that they all are suffering from dementia. They sure do seem to forget the many briefings they receive.)

The Vice President will go to Afghanistan next week for the first session of its new parliament, and also make stops in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman. (I'll bet this is the first most of us have heard that Afghanistan has elected a new parliament. While it rushes to give away national security secrets, our media can't be bothered telling us some really significant good news.)

The Vice President and his wife, Lynne, sit down to a town meeting with U.S. troops. They are flanked by 42nd Division's Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Taluto, left, and Lt. Col. James Lettko, right, after a rally for the 10th Mountain Division and the 42nd Infantry at Fort Drum, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005.