Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang yesterday. Is it just me or does it seem like that news just kinda sailed over our heads here in Kuwait? I didn't go out last night, but for the people who did, was there a maseera going on or anything? Were people dancing in the street? Flashing their headlights? Dancing in their cars? Any sort of sign that we Kuwaiti's applauded this verdict? I would think that there would be considering that Kuwaiti's, in general, tend to look for any excuse to party. And this seems like a pretty good reason to get out into the street and shake your groove thang...

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In honor of the verdict, and because its always fun to highlight Bushs' inability to speak, I give you a Bush-ism to get you through your day. I always find that a Bush-ism makes me feel better about myself, if someone as incompetent and inarticulate as Bush can become president, well then.. I could just about take over the world.

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."-Interview with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006.

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Midterm elections are coming up tomorrow, for those of you who don't know, midterm elections are elections in the United States in which members of Congress, state legislatures, and some state governors are elected, but not the President. It is a battle for control of the House of Representitives. The world is used to the hard-core battle that is the presidential election or Race to the White House, but the midterm elections usually fly by, unnoticed... at least in this part of the world. This year, however, the midterm elections have been all over the news and, in fact, have been tied to nearly every piece of news that has come out... From the Saddam Hussein Trial, to the state of the economy to immoral conduct by evangelical preachers. Democrats are spinning every news story they see into an illustration of the Republican Party's refusal to live in the real world, which, you have to admit, is not hard to do at this point.

What I find amusing is that the Democrats will most probably lose the election tomorrow even though the most horrifying thing to come out of the donkey camp was Kerry's 'met-with-cricket-sounds' joke about "If you don't stay in school, you wind up stuck in Iraq." ... So, it seems that a botched war, a delusional Defense Secretary and two prominent Republicans going down in flames of homosexual allegations and child-abuse won't be enough to bring down the Republicans... at least not this year.

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