- Expect more claims that Barack Obama is trying to undo Christmas. The White House has sent out its Christmas cards with the phrase “Season’s Greetings.” Nowhere on the card is Christmas mentioned, or is there a Biblical passage, as the Bushs liked to use.
- Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a devout Mormon, has penned a Hanukkah song. “Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will do,” Hatch said.
- The Afghan army has had a wave of recruits recently. That is because of pay increases that put the army pay closer to what the Taliban are paid. It takes a decade for people to figure this out? No wonder the Afghan government is losing the war.
- Rep. Joe Baca has withdrawn his legislation to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal.
- Saudi Arabia is running out of sand. Well, accessible and construction grade sand anyway. Saudi Arabia has banned its export because it does not have enough in convenient locations.
- The U.S. Department of Justice now has its own tip line for those who think they have been the victims from abuse of power by Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
- Barack Obama is skipping some Nobel Prize ceremonies, but the Norwegians are replacing him with a cardboard cutout. Really.
- In North Carolina, the Wake County Board of Commissioners was deadlocked 3 to 3 between Republicans and Democrats with the Democratic chair absent. When one of the Democrats took a quick bathroom break, the Board quickly voted to elect one of the Republicans chair.
- With half the population of Gaza wanting out of the territory, many are resorting to bribery for obtaining fake medical diagnoses as a way to slip past the tight Israeli and Egyptian blockades.
A statue of a 10-year-old Barack Obama has been unveiled in the Indonesian neighborhood where he spent 4 years of his childhood.
