OK, so lot's to talk about.

First off we have

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_us/ike_housing_shortage
No riots, no looting, no bitching, no blaming. Just playing with the hand they are dealt. Ray-Ray Nagin take note please.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97844
The illustrious UN launched its "largest ever aid appeal" of over 7 billion dollars to be spent willy nilly across Africa and, get this, Iraq even after the billions we've dumped into the economy and infrastructure there. The Un (and yes I mean Un not UN because they seem to undo shit that works world wide) is worried that the global economic crisis will stifle "humanitarian funding in 2009" so rather than keeping out own countries afloat we should dump money into warlords and corrupt governments. Got it. Speaking of corruption... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html That there buys a whole lot of bowls of rice.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_obama
Al Qaida's number two honcho called Barrack Hussein a "house negro". Personally I love this story. There were celebrations, as I predicted, in the streets of the major Muslim cities around the world and mainstream Muslims love him but, also as I predicted, the hard line Muslims hate him. Leaving the Islam is punishable by death and I don't care what Hoos says, he was born a Muslim (if nothing else due to the fact his father was Muslim) and that to the Islamists is no good at all. I recall an incident a year or so ago where a guy was beheaded for leaving the faith.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24684272-912,00.html?from=public_rss
And in a final bit of insanity we go to Egypt where 400 teens were arrested for flirting. The report goes on to say that they are cracking down on "sexual harassment" so I'm not exactly sure how flirting applies to that but anyway, there is the story.