Weekend Odds and Ends

What a busy week. And we'll have to start another soon. Yikes! Here's the news...

Not the most encouraging sign just days after this week's summit: "In an about face, the United States on Friday withdrew a U.N. resolution endorsing this week's agreement by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008, apparently after Israel objected."

Remember that post I did on the GOP's use of racism? Here's more fun.

With the CNN/YouTube debate revealing the ugly side of the GOP base, conservatives are going back to the well... blaming media bias (omgz, they lets gay and muslims ask questions!!1). Meanwhile, Time magazine's Joe Klein observed a conservative focus group live reaction to the candidate. Money quote: "Any time any candidate proposed doing anything nice for anyone poor, the dials plummeted." Ladies and gentleman, the grand old party.

(Apparently they mau-maued CNN enough to get the gay question cut from rebroadcasts)

Hey speaking of that ol' liberal media and Mr. Klein, here's an update! Klein's source on the anti-Dem FISA story he had to retract? It was crazy GOP Rep. Peter Hoekstra, who-- in 2006-- found the non-existent Iraqi WMDs with Rick Santorum. Definitely a guy whose spin you want to print without question.

And the Washington Post helps keep alive the Obama=Muslim right-wing meme with a front page story on the 'controversy'. Maybe they should address those rumors I just started that George Will eats babies.

Speaking of Sen. Obama, he was in my home town again, chillin' with Mikey Bloomberg and eating at Sylvia's with Al Sharpton (no, Bill O'Reilly wasn't invited). All that, and the cover of Time!

And some news from around the world... China is all grumpy with us and we don't know why; Venezuelans protest the dictatorial power-grabs of Hugo Chavez; Vladimir Putin scores electoral wins (all legit, no doubt); Race and poverty issues cause riots in France; and Sudan has some really crazy muslim fanatics.

Finally, are the days of the FEMA trailers in New Orleans coming to an end?