Two topics monopolised the news last week. Race and sex.  Pundits pontificated ad naseum about Eliot Spitzer's meteoric fall from grace and Obama's 'race' speech. America's racial divide became a chasm and a new low was set for politician's sex lives. Meanwhile, other news got short shrift:

 

Overlooked News:

 

Last year, conventional wisdom among opponents of the war was that the U.S. Army was on the verge of breaking. Like so much on the left, this has turned out to be 'factually incorrect.' It appears our Army isn't broken after all. Surprise, surprise.

 

Osama bin Laden released another message, warning the EU over publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, and slamming the Pope with threats of retaliation. This was met with a big yawn. Congress was too busy seeking a new indictment against Barry Bonds for alleged steroid use. Exhausted after toiling night and day on 'the people's business', House Democrats left for a two week break without voting on the Senate's Protect America Act. (Which has a bipartisan majority.) This means terrorists still have carte blanche to communicate and plot our downfall without having to worry about having their privacy violated. 

 

China has moved thousands of troops into Tibet to quell anti-Chinese riots. Reports are sketchy but it appears close to 1,000 Tibetans have been arrested as the death count rises. See photos here.

 

Environmental champion (as long as its not in his own back yard), Ted Kennedy, was caught dumping oil from his yacht into Nantucket Sound. No word from the rabid environmentalists.

 

Hillary and Obama:

 

Hillary gained the lead over Obama last week, as he dealt with major fallout for attending a 'hate-America,' black separatist church for the last 20 years. Obama's controversial pastor had barely retired before it was found that Obama also had the endorsement of the New York Black Panthers. The endorsement was quickly removed from his web site and consigned down the old memory hole.

 

Ann Coulter's column, 'Throw Grandma Under The Bus', neatly sums up the Obama situation. Invaluable insight is also available in this interview with Shelby Steele, one of my favorite authors, who authored the book on Obama, 'A Man Unbound'. Due to the deepening racial divide caused by all this, I need to state the fact that Shelby Steele is black. How much longer will we have to refer to people's skin color?

 

Meanwhile, Hillary had her own problems, as 11,046 pages of her White House schedules were released. They prove that Hillary's boast of extensive and major foreign policy experience as First Lady were, well, factually incorrect. Oh, and one more juicy Clinton item that I predict will remain unsolved. The CFO of the company that built the Clinton Library has disappeared. Vanished. I wonder if the ongoing financial audit of the Clinton Library had anything to do with it. Like all the other strange things that happen to Friends of Bill, I expect this guy will not only be stay gone, but will be forgotten.

 

Sex:

 

You'll be glad to know that former NY Gov. Spitzer, who resigned from office due to messing with hookers, is seeking help. He has gone into therapy to explore whether he has an addiction to sex. We wish him well with his sexual healing. Expect a major best seller, with an intro from Boy Clinton, to hit the market in, oh, about 7 months. You heard it here first.

 

Meanwhile, a day after being sworn in as NY Governor, David Paterson revealed that he, too, has had multiple affairs. At least one was with a state employee. Oh, and he also used campaign money to pay for at least two sexual trysts. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Paterson will seek sexual healing.

 

Teen tarts can gain a lesson from the experience of Spitzer's hooker. After reaping a one day profit of $200,000 from curious Americans downloading the song she had posted on My Space, the famous hooker was entertaining million dollar offers from skin magazines. Alas, old nude videos of her emerged on the internet and all offers were withdrawn. Why buy the cow when the milk is free?

 

Speaking of the plentitude of free milk: The oldest bordello in Hamburg's red-light district is shutting down for lack of business. Not to worry, Dutch officials just voted in a new set of rules which now allow gays to have public sex in the city's famous Vondelpark.

 

As sex continues to be devalued, camel beauty pageants are becoming more popular. "It's just like judging a beautiful girl," said a camel breeder near Riyadh. "You look for big eyes, long lashes and a long neck." The times, they are a changin.'

 

Shadenfreude:

 

No matter how bad you have it, someone out there has it worse. A German woman who went into the hospital for a leg operation came out instead with a new anus. Oops.

Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh was forced to perform an emergency operation on Ukrainian Marian Dolishny's head, using a 9.6 volt Bosch drill to excise a brain tumor. This, as the patient remained conscious. We all need to count our blessings.

 

I leave you with a bit of good news. Ben Stein's new movie 'Expelled,' which pretty much debunks Darwinism, will be appearing in theaters soon. See the trailer here.

 

Till next Monday,

 

Nancy M

 

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