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poor bushie baby, boo hoo: "i fucked up this war since before it even started, and now those nosy dems are trying to tell me how to prosecute it, as if they didn't trust me. don't they realize i know what i'm doing!"

Anyone else catch this NYT article on Utah Student Groups?

"Next month, a 17-page law will take effect governing just about every nuance of public school extracurricular clubs, from kindergarten jump rope to high school drama. How groups can form, what they can discuss in their meetings, who can join, and what a principal must do if rules are violated are addressed.

But the school clubs law, signed last week by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., was not really intended to rein in the rowdies down at the audio-visual club, some lawmakers said. The real target was homosexuality."

Best part:

"But Ms. Lear said she did not think the law would have much effect on gay-straight clubs, which she said were protected under the Federal Equal Access Act of 1984 from being singled out for sanction or special regulation....

In a paradoxical twist missed by almost nobody in the clubs debate, the federal equal access law was co-sponsored by United States Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, to make sure that religious and Bible study groups were not discriminated against by secular-minded principals. "

Did everybody miss the announcement by the President of Gambia that he has found the cure for AIDS?

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says the recipe for the murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices was revealed to him by his ancestors in a dream. The president, a former army colonel who has no formal medical training and whose highest degree is a high school diploma, claims his family has a history of healing people through traditional African medicine.

Observers outside the government are skeptical, to put it mildly. Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the U.N. envoy to Gambia, was abruptly kicked out of the country after saying on February 9 that patients should continue their normal treatment and that Jammeh's concoction be "assessed by an international team of experts."

Meanwhile, the Gambian Health Minister Tamsim Mbowe, a trained physician with multiple medical degrees, defended the so-called herbal cure: "I've seen His Excellency, my leader, coming up with herbal medications that are able to treat and cure patients with HIV-virus, which have been proven within all medical and laboratory parameters."

I think the Gambia story was posted a few weeks ago.