More questions have surfaced about how and when Saddam Hussein
was captured. Metafilter reports U.S.
military photos of the spider hole capture show yellow fruit is
visible in the background on the date palm trees. The fruit turns
yellow and is harvested in August in Iraq not in December which
brings up questions about the timing of the capture. There are
more media reports claiming it was the Kurds who actually captured
Saddam with some reports saying they later abandoned him and he
was found by U.S. forces. No explanation is given why they would
not have turned him in for the reward. Greg Palast speculates it
was
actually PFC Jessica Lynch who captured Saddam and he is
demanding back pay going all the way to the first Bush
administration. Saddam Hussein's latest novel Be
Gone Demons! which predicted he would lead an underground
resistance movement to victory over the Americans had a press run
of 40,000 copies but The Telegraph of India reports most copies
were destroyed during U.S. bombing.
Today's smears from the extreme right include an attack on Clark
from Tom Delay on Sunday morning's Meet The Press to which the
Clark campaign responded
"...The closest to real combat that Tom
'Chicken-Hawk' Delay has ever come was when he got himself a
student deferment from Vietnam and instead suited up in his
exterminator outfit and defended the people of Texas against
invading cockroaches..."
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram mentions
a New Hampshire poll released Saturday which was done for the
Concord Monitor which
continues to show Dean leading, Kerry second, and Clark in third.
It shows that Bush would defeat Dean, Kerry, and Clark by a wide
margin in head to head matchups.
Former U.S. Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) has decided to run
for the open seat in Florida of retiring Bob Graham (D-FL).
His name is Julius
and he is deaf. He is something of an omen of good luck to the
Clark campaign in Little Rock. As some of the Clark staff prepare
to go home for the holidays, one staff member talks on the Clark
blog about Julius who was there in 1992 and worked around the
office when a guy named Bill Clinton was running.
From the heart of the Cajun country on the Bayou Teche near New
Iberia, Louisiana are stories on two Louisiana Democratic
politicians. Gov.-elect Kathleen
Babineaux Blanco talks about growing up in rural Louisiana as
she gets ready to be sworn in as the state's first woman governor
while U.S. Senator John Breaux considers
many lucrative offers.
ABC's The Note will be on hiatus
until sometime in January leaving political junkies with
withdrawal symptoms.
I was stealing ideas from KamaSutra's site and ran across the new
Psycho
Santa game which has a story line of Santa "addicted
to crack and armed with two pistols". The same game
producers are perhaps best known for their online game Escape
From Neverland Ranch.
Colors are popular in the news today. Tom Ridge's Office Of
Homeland Security has declared an Orange Alert. There have been a
lot of media stories
lately on color coded jelly sex
bracelets which were made popular by Madonna in the 80's.
Some really, really lucky person can only hope to meet a tall
slinky blonde wearing one.
Rob is the founder of the progressive news site robwire.com 
