Weekend Update - December 1st

• Oh let's just start off with Jesus. Bible thumpers are boycotting "The Golden Compass" because it's a really cool movie that pisses them off. Mark Morford describes the silliness.
• David Brooks, Lou Dobbs, and their massive egos may not realize this, but we do not have to choose between their flawed economic visions for American and the world. From Common Sense.
• It's clown time at the political circus. Some dude walked into the Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire with a gun and demands to talk to Hillary. Right wing bloogers are having a sarcastic field day. Oh well, it's all in sick fun.
• U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they're planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.
• The active-duty deaths in Iraq are horrible own their own, but a little reported fact is that 120 war veterans commit suicide every WEEK. Reach out to a veteran today.
• In the history of the American Republic, perhaps no political family has been more protected from scandal than the Bushes. As a matter of fact, the Bush Family gets away with crimes that would land anyone else in jail.
• And just in time for the holiday travel season, check out "Motor Home Racing." (I laughed so much at this one my stomach hurt. Thanks, Brother Michael.)
• And Karl Rove's mouth gets ahead of his brain...or his brain is ahead of his mouth....or whatever. Does he really think he can change history on a whim? When assholes write books, the rest of us try to figure it all out.
• Wolfowitz is a name which the mothers of Iraq use to scare their children, so it should be no surprise that the Bushies, blind as ever to the consequences of their criminal enterprise in Iraq, have called upon this "prime architect of the Iraq War" to fix what has gone wrong with the Iraq War. Makes perfect sense. -Uncle Bob
• For those of you who still admit to voting for BushCo, here's something that should make you cringe. George Bush's legacy: $30,000 from each man, woman, and child in this country. That's what his idiotic adventures have cost us. Like to start a list of things we could have used that money for...?
• George and his motley crew can pack up and go home early if they'd like. Turns out they lied about Iran's nukes, too. Gee, what a surprise.
• And here's this week's Top Ten Conservatives Idiots. Only ten?