A Look Back at a Wacky Week

1. Who offers their brother or sister to be one of the 50,000 American troops left behind in Iraq after August 31, 2009? To help in the "transition", that is. This is the world's longest "transition", no? Might as well just call them "50,000 Targets".
2. I'm sure those "non-combat" troops staying behind have nothing to do with protecting one of the world's largest underground lakes of crude oil. Right.
   
3. Some truthiness: There was no "Al Queda in Iraq" before President Bush's invasion and occupation. And the real, bad-ass Al Queda was inspired to mobilize its terror campaign after President Bush #41 convinced his buds in Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. troops to stage there prior to driving Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait in 1991.
4. Tim LaHaye's book, "Left Behind" has sold 65 million copies. Rapture that!
5. Spring training games on the radio! Tuned in to the local wing-nut AM station the other day to conduct opposition research and was pleasantly surprised to hear play-by-play of the Rockies' first game against Arizona.
   
6. Today's research: Listened to Rush Gas-Bag and heard him mock President Obama's ideas to help "small bid-nesses" grow and create new jobs. Yes, he pronounced it "bid-ness".
7. Farewell, Rocky Mountain News. Today's issue was the last for this 150-year-old paper. I've had the Denver Post landing on my driveway since moving here, but always enjoyed the Rocky while grabbing a quick meal -- the tabloid format was easier to handle while eating.
8. "Octo-Mom"! Much more interesting for the wing-nuts to harp about food stamps for these 14 kids than explain how we let a jug-eared drunk run the country for 8 years and run up double-digit unemployment, wreck the banking system, and loot our grandchildren's Social Security and Medicare.
9. George W. Bush: "I just can't quit you!"