It's Sunday after a busy week at work, (plus a long weekend wedding trip) so you all know what that means: Weekend News Roundup.
1. After a full weekend down south meeting with Latin American leaders, which on Friday prompted protests and riots, Chimpy took some time out to insult some of those leaders. Incidentally, on the subject of protests, I'm amazed that no enterprising tourist agency has come up with an Anti-Globalization Protester Package Tour...("Come for the protests, stay for the hospitality!")
2. Speaking of rioting, Paris has been seized by rioting for over 11 straight days now. Apparently, the disaffected Muslim youth are no longer going to tolerate the 23% unemployment rate for the under-25 segment of the population. Apparently, the rioters are now becoming more co-ordinated and violent in their attacks on the police. Using the Administration's benchmarks for our Iraqi adventure, the rioters are a bunch of dead-enders in their last throes.
3. My buddy Ken Tomlinson, the goon responsible for attempting to bring more conservative viewpoints to the allegedly liberal-biased Public Broadcasting systems, has been forced out and is under investigation for financial shenanigans, which if substantiated could involve criminal violations. The tears I shed are copious, indeed.
4. Finally, the New York Times reports that we have more evidence suggesting that the Assministration knowingly misrepresented the intelligence used to argue for the invasion of Iraq. A key detainee whose information was a primary source for the claims that Iraq was training Al-Qaeda members, was identified in February 2002 as having mislead "debriefers". This source was subsequently cited by Bush, Cheney and Powell when selling the war.
And that's our weekend, people. Enjoy.
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