Iraq banned from Olympics

This has to smart for Bush and McCain:

The International Olympic Committee has banned Iraq from competing in the upcoming Summer Olympics because of what it says is political interference by the government in sports….

The move stems from an Iraqi government decision in May to suspend Iraq’s Olympic Committee and form a temporary committee to handle its duties.

I wonder if there is any precedence for this, but you know the right wingers are going to claim that the Olympic Committee is just doing this to make Bush look bad.

Though apparently this decision has largely expected for the past month or so.

PUMAs: We finally admit Obama was born in Hawaii, but…

It looks like the amount of completely overwhelming evidence has finally forced even the PUMAs to admit that Obama was “likely” born in Hawaii.

However, they won’t let that stop them trying to prove that Obama isn’t eligible for the Presidency, through a series of argues involving Obama being born with dual American and Kenyan citizenship, and the possibility of him gaining Indonesian citizenship.

They might particularly stress the Indonesian citizenship since, apparently Indonesia doesn’t allow for dual citizenship so, their argument would probably go, if he became an Indonesian citizenship, Obama would have had to relinquish his “natural born” citizenship.

However, this is not how it works.  While foreign naturalization can be a basis for losing citizenship, it must be shown that you did so with the intention of revoking your American citizenship.  It is unclear wither the Indonesian law forbidding dual citizenship would actually impact the United State’s recognition of your US citizenship were you to return.  However, reading through the law definitely suggests that, from the eyes of the US, if you are born in the US, you are a citizen, period.  More information can be found here.  In any case, US law clearly states that a minor cannot lose their US citizenship due to an act of their parents and cannot otherwise commit an expatriating act as, by definition, a minor cannot consent.

In any case, dual citizenship, even if Obama has it, would appear to have no impact as the only requirement is that he is a natural-born American citizen, which he clearly is.

Oh, and they still think the birth certificate is fake, but contains Obama’s “real” information as to, for some reason, cover up some sort of embarassing information on his real birth certificate.  What this “embarassing information” could possibly be, I have no clue (and neither do they), but obviously Obama must be hiding something!

Just so we can counter those Al-Qaeda MiGs

What could the rationale possibly be for this move:

The Bush administration plans to shift nearly $230 million in aid to Pakistan from counter-terrorism programs to upgrading that country’s aging F-16 attack planes, which Pakistan prizes more for their contribution to its military rivalry with India than for fighting insurgents along its Afghan border.

A mere days after Obama said that we have to work with India to improve their relationship with Pakistan, Bush goes and gives the Indians a giant middle finger. Nice.

And $230 million is hardly spare change:

The financing for the F-16s would represent more than two-thirds of the $300 million that Pakistan will receive this year in American military financing for equipment and training.

Actually, it’s more than three-fourths of the money we’re sending to Pakistan this year.  But have no fear, the State Department says that they’ll be helpful in the war on terror:

State Department officials say the upgrades would greatly enhance the F-16s’ ability to strike insurgents accurately, while reducing the risk to civilians.

Because air bombing is so well known for it’s lack of risk towards civilians.

The Jokes Write Themselves

No really, this goes into the “what were they thinking” category:

No, you are not seeing things.  That is indeed a John McCain doormat, so that you may stomp your muddy feat all over John McCain’s name.  However, it will cost you $70 to do so.

You can buy that along with the John McCain ice scraper, so that you may never surrender in the face of terrorist ice and, of course, no purchase from the John McCain store would be complete without his signature golf gear.  Oddly, the golf gear costs less than the doormat.

But don’t fret.  For the Obama fans, you can buy your own terrorist fist jab button, or stickers with suspicious looking foreign writing on them.