Weekend Odds and Ends

Spoiler alert-- I heard the 'Cloverfield' monster is a liberal fascist. Here's the news...

Deregulation = delicious! WaPo: "A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats."

As some seek a special counsel, has the CIA found a fall-guy in the destroyed tapes case?

Congress has just passed a new mine safety bill, which builds upon one passed in 2006. The President says he will veto it, because he feels that the old bill was good enough for him.

Watch Chris Matthews have a semi-meltdown on 'Hardball' on Thursday evening.

News from the Middle East... If I am reading this report correctly, it implies the September Petraeus report was faulty and misleading. OMGZ! Must be MoveOn's fault. Meanwhile, Sec. Gates continues to get pissy with NATO over Afghanistan. The IPS news service has an analysis of how the official story of the Straits of Hormuz incident unraveled. And President Bush's talk of freedom and democracy in the Middle East... empty? Blasphemy!

Finally, with the GOP South Carolina primary tomorrow, McCain is proposing-- get this!-- more tax cuts for corporate business. Huckabee wants to let his invisible friend God rewrite the Constitution. And the Onion News Network looks at the disgusting allegations that Mitt Romney may have once been tolerant of homosexuals.