Bad News For Radio Listeners

Huckabee says he probably will not run in 2012: "...2008 Iowa Caucus winner and current GOP poll leader Mike Huckabee says it is "less than likely" he will run for President in 2012. Huckabee was a guest on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace when he made the remarks..."

Slippery Bin

Report: 'Bin Laden was within our grasp' - CNN.com: "...A report released by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blamed the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was cornered in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountain region in December 2001. The report, released Sunday, said the situation in Afghanistan presented greater problems today because of the failure to nab bin Laden eight years ago..."

No Swiss Mosques

Switzerland Votes to Ban Minarets - WSJ.com: "Swiss voters Sunday approved a ban on the construction of new minarets on mosques, defying appeals from the government to reject the proposal and raising the specter of a new round of tensions in Europe concerning the role of Islam on the Continent..."

It Ain't One World

...as Paul Harvey was fond of saying.

Report: Scores of albinos in hiding after attacks - CNN.com: "As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.

The killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania, who are targeted because their body parts are believed to have special powers, have sparked fears among the population in the two countries, the report said."

Bloody Lipped Terrorist

Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist - Iraq | War | Map - FOXNews.com: "Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com..."

Who's Underqualified?

Of all the knocks on Sarah Palin, her qualifications are the most absurd. Name all the jobs Obama held-- ok, community organizer. And? And? And? Compared to Obama, Palin is a tower of qualifications. It seems that most of the people complaining the loudest, other than kool-aid drinkers, are writers of some sort, a class of people not known for having responsible positions of power and trust on their resumes. So glass houses... (My bold in the snippet.)

We can't stop looking at Sarah Palin | Katha Pollitt | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "...As just about every columnist in the world has noted by now, including me more than once, Palin is a bundle of contradictions: a Christian reactionary who has kind words for Title IX and thinks it's fine to have a top government job, five kids and a lower-earning husband; a seriously underqualified politician chosen by the desperate John McCain at least partly because of her gender and looks who exploits those assets every chance she gets – but if called on it, accuses her critics of sexism..."

Call Of Duty Cash Cow

I put the new Call of Duty aside to play Dragon Age Origins-- the best role-playing game since Baldur's Gate.
Call of Duty Franchise Claimed To Surpass $3 Billion

Worm Turnin' 'Toons

The Worm Turns * Open Thread : NO QUARTER

But They're Pro Life!

Dublin Bishop Says Vatican Silence on Abuse Cases ‘Regrettable’ - Bloomberg.com: "The Vatican’s failure to cooperate with a panel investigating the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland is “very regrettable,” said an auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of Dublin, Eamonn Walsh..."

Birther Brit

No, I don't think all the questions have been satisfactorily answered, but I think there is more fire in other areas of O's past. The former British police officer who wants to bring down Barack Obama | World news | The Guardian

What? No Petrocash?

Dubai Debt Delay Rattles Confidence in Gulf Borrowers (Update2) - Bloomberg.com: "Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001..."

Skating Again

Roman Polanski gets bail -- if it sticks, will he skip again? [POLL] | Ministry of Gossip | Los Angeles Times: "Ministry of Gossip

Bail in the amount of $4.5 million has been approved for director Roman Polanski, who's been held in Zurich, Switzerland, facing extradition to Los Angeles to be sentenced for unlawful intercourse with a 13-year-old girl more than three decades ago."

If You Can't Discredit The Message

Hacked climate emails called a smear campaign | Reuters: "(SolveClimate) Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a 'smear campaign' aimed at sabotaging December climate talks in Copenhagen..."

Top Brit Says Stop Violence Against Women

British foreign secretary calls for end to violence against women_English_Xinhua: "British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Wednesday pledged support for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, calling on the international community to exert more efforts to help end gender based violence..."

God Sends GOP

Billy Graham: God was using Palin 'to wake America up' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com If God likes the GOP so much, why doesn't He just wipe-out the Democrats and save everyone a lot of aggravation? Or, maybe, just as God installed Little Skippy The Chimpmaster Bush Boy as Preznit, He is using the GOP to punish us.

Fudging Data Cools The Earth

Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails - WSJ.com: "Congressional Republicans have started investigating climate scientists whose hacked emails suggest they tried to squelch dissenting views about global warming..."

The Daily Duh: Dowd Edition

Barack Losing Mojo and Modo : NO QUARTER: Quoting MoDo here: "McChrystal and Gen. David Petraeus should have been giving their best advice to Obama — and airing their view against scaling down in Afghanistan — in confidence. Instead, McChrystal pushed his opinion in a speech in London, and Petraeus has discussed his feelings in private sessions with reporters. This creates a “Seven Days in May” syndrome, where the two generals are, in effect, lobbying against the president and undercutting him as he’s trying to make a painfully complex, life-and-death decision..."

Gee, that ain't the first time the generals have tried to back-stab the President. Remember Colin Powell and Bill Clinton? Oh, wait. You were helping with the back-stabbing there. All the Presidents could take a lesson from Harry Truman and MacArthur.

Stunning News

Err, uh, this isn't the main story at this link but it's the most interesting: TechBytes: News Corp. vs. Google - ABC News: "...The words 'Set your 'phasers' to stun' are straight out of 'Star Trek' but now scientists say they've created a device that can do just that. The 'Star Trek'-like 'phaser' they've developed only works on worms right now. The machine temporarily paralyzes the worms but researchers believe the 'phaser' could someday be used to treat medical conditions in humans..."

Public Option Fakery

Is the Controversy over the Public Option the biggest Red Herring Ever? - GLG News: "Nothing has raised the hackles of partisan Democrats and especially Republicans more this year than the public health insurance option. On the left, liberals consider it to be the indispensable component of true healthcare reform. On the right, conservatives refer to it to the first step on the slippery slope to socialism, if not a return to the Third Reich this time in America. Yet, the truth is that its impact will likely be so small, its presence (or absence) hardly merits any debate..."

Casual Outing

"...Asked the Boston Phoenix: "Is this the most casual self-outing by a gay Republican in the history of politics or what?" ---Frontiers of gay Republicanism - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com.

Answer: "Yes."