Crack Menagerie

Israel's election authorities have voted to ban two of the three main Arab political parties from running in next month's general elections.

The Israeli high court can still overturn this, but considering some recent developments...

A special report is out from Newsweek about the election, lots of interesting stuff in there. Haven't read the whole thing yet since parts are still going up, and I think the entire print version's going on sale next week.

Some awesome stories showing just how well-organized the Obama campaign was, but I was also heartened to see that McCain really did try to run a clean campaign but lost control of it. Reinforces my belief that he wasn't suited for presidency (he really is more of a legislator), but I'm glad the old McCain was still in there somewhere :).

On the other hand Sarah Palin can still go die in a fire, and is apparently even dumber than everyone thought. As you watch this video, remember that this is Fox News reporting :D.

Her fail has been well-documented by now, but thought I'd share a couple of incidents that happened within the last few days.

1.

Palin: I don't know if abortion clinic bombers are terrorists...

Note, by her logic 9/11 now isn't considered an act of terrorism. But I guess that's okay because it didn't happen in Real America!

2. Palin gave her first actual policy speech that someone else wrote for her about expanding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to help disabled children on Friday, and she had this to say about the earmark money she'd presumably use to fund it:

Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Fuck you Palin, fruit flies have done more to help mankind than you ever will. Fortunately, others have been kind enough to point that out :D.