Weekend Update - December 13th

• A good day for reflection Saturday. Eight years ago today Al Gore conceded the presidency to George Bush. Author Bob Sommer writes about the beginning of the national nightmare. (Scroll down the page.)


• No more clearin' brush for Bubba Dubya. You see, George never was a cowboy, Molly Ivins told us that from the beginning. He's even afraid of horses. So he and Laura bought a 2 million dollar mansion in the heart of a tony Dallas neighborhood, and just like that, the movie's over. Also, check out the hilarious Will Ferrell skit.


• The Lunatic That Is Bill O'Reilly still rants away about the ficticious "war on Christmas." after all, once we secularists get religion out of government, it's only just a moment before we pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, lions, tigers, and bears. Oh my. And you know what? There's something racist about this whole thing.


• Bernard Madoff, former chairman of the Nasdaq, and current chairman of a Wall Street investment securities firm, was arrested and charged with running a "Ponzi Scheme,' something that adds up to $50 billion in losses. And we bailed these people out!?


• Yesterday, CNN's Rick Sanchez tried desperately to get the phrase "Blagogate" to stick -- the latest in a long and overwhelmingly annoying post-Watergate pattern of ham-handed efforts to hype a scandal by appending the suffix "-gate" to the end of a word. The MSM: Picking Up Where They Left Off 8 Years Ago.


• Al Franken is just plain not giving up 'till it's over. Good for you Al, go get 'em.


• After giving BILLIONS to Wall Street hucksters and criminal investment bankers -- billions with no strings attached and, as we have since learned, no oversight whatsoever -- the Senate agrees to bail out the American Auto Industry IF the factory workers take a $20 an hour cut in pay. Michael Moore explains.


• To America's ruling class: We told you so we told you so. ahem.


• When the indictments are handed out for War Crimes, Donald Rumsfeld's should be on the top of the pile. We can't wait for the "perp walk."