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OsamaBama
So Reuters ran an article spelling Obama's name as 'Osama'. They're trying to pass it off as a 'spelling error', and not, say, some disgruntled staffer. Riiight. Because those S and B keys are so close together.

In a little noticed flub, the Reuters news agency referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) several times as 'Osama' in a widely distributed news article Wednesday, an article they pulled later in the day.

Though transcripts of the original article are hard to find, RAW STORY located one this morning. Many of the corrected articles distributed to news agencies scrubbed the original mistake.

The article was titled, "Obama takes on rivals over economic woes."

The following is reproduced from the cached Reuters article on AOL.

Reuters attributed the mistake to a 'spelling error.' A rewrite distributed later said it "Corrects spelling of Obama in paragraphs 14 and 18."

A spelling error they made, then made again four paragraphs later!

Wow, what a bad typing day!

Source: Raw Story

Hmm, Whiskey
On fire, no less.

Source: Whiskey Fire

Lifestyles of the Rich and Dictatorial
An NBC report showing where dictators live, from satellite photos.

Oddly, it doesn't sound like the White House, or the House of Saud's palaces, or Musharraf's place are in there.

Funny, that.

Source: Raw Story

Avarosis == Ass
I had to stop reading Americablog back in the runup to the Lebanon-Israeli massacre, as John Avarosis posted an angry screed about how Lebanon deserved to be blown to bits because the Israeli military just had to drop cluster bombs on civilians to regain their confidence, or some such nonsense. I very rarely even read a link from that site, as the man is a colossal tool. Apparently he's kept it up over the years.

But for the life of me, I'm just not really able to understand John Aravosis' take on it at AmericaBlog:

That's because far too often the Democrats don't give a damn about anybody who isn't a minority or starving to death (both valid causes to be sure, but are they the ONLY causes out there?). If you're in the middle, you're on your own.

And don't think this is only about a stupid $300. It's about health care. It's about education. It's about every single issue you care about. The powers that be simply aren't in this to help people in the middle. The Republicans want to help the big pharmaceuticals and the big business hospitals, while the Democrats want to help uninsured poor people and kids. And while all of that's nice, what are the rest of us supposed to do when our premiums hit $2000 a month and, God forbid, something catastrophic hits us?

The Republicans ONLY want to help the rich, and the Democrats ONLY want to help the poor. Screw everybody else. I am so sick of these people.

Yeah. Democrats don't want to help the middle class at all. It's not like better education, roads, jobs and healthcare help the middle class, right?

Source: Shakesville

Armory
A game I've never heard of gets armor designed by the guy who did Ghost in the Shell for a special event.

Why couldn't Galaxies have done this when I played it? They had more money than god, and never came up with any nifty promotions.

Source: Codemasters (Warning: TONS of images)