OBAMA RETURNS FROM G-20; immediately starts working on a fairway to settle the Syria dilemma. Then on Sunday and Monday, there's the NFL. Syria can wait till Tuesday; after all, how many Syrians can be killed in only three days?

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. When Obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America, I didn't realize he meant into a laughingstock.

OBAMA EXPANDING SYRIA TARGET LIST, telegraphing every punch he plans to (not) throw. He'll back down as soon as Congress votes against him.

WELL, FOR THE AVERAGE LIBERAL the most useless body part is the head.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: Syrian Adventure Edition. My favorite doesn't mention Syria though.

UPDATED to add link. Also, the correct mpg is 40.9; still not bad.

CONTEST WINNERS: A Commanding Pose for the Commander-in-Chief?

At least one of the contest winners noted, as did my brother, that had the Commander-in-Chief been in any kindergarten or elementary school in the U.S., he would have been suspended indefinitely for making a gun with his finger.

JUST ASKING: Why are lesbians so fat? Our government is funding a study to find out....

FRIDAY'S JOBS REPORT: Even the Washington Post's Ezra Klein http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/06/the-five-worst-things-about-this-crummy-jobs-report/can't find anything good to say. Best comment: "Reading the comments, the crowd seems hostile to the current administration. Where are all the left wingers? Bars haven't closed yet?"

CRIME DOESN'T PAY -- especially when the victim is armed.

NEW JERSEY MAN makes mailbox in form of giant revolver. Post Office approves.

THE DECISIVE BATTLES OF BARACK OBAMA:

We shall fight on the beaches—mostly on Martha’s Vineyard, where everybody was over Labor Day weekend—we shall fight at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, we shall fight at the U.N. Security Council, we shall fight in the House of Representatives and the Senate when Congress is finally back in session; we shall never surrender unless we don’t get enough votes or our poll ratings are low.

I came, I saw, I ... skedaddled. Read the rest.

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.

FLIGHT TESTING the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

BILL CLINTON: Remembering history as he wants it remembered.

EVERYTHING YOU DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FEDERAL BUDGET: It's bad; really, really bad.

IT'S ALL ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM.