Embarrassed looks all around when Pakistani picnickers misunderstand potato sack race concept at unity pajama party.

Just add Jimmy Carter

This article is funny/frightening on lots of levels, concerning lots of subjects:
PREPARE for a new America: That’s the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week. He promised “fundamental changes” in US foreign policy – saying America must “heal wounds” it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the “arrogance of the Bush administration.” The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end. Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.

Army blocks soldier from bringing puppy back

WASHINGTON – More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a Minnesota soldier, who fears that “Ratchet” could be killed if left behind.

“I just want my puppy home,” Sgt. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis wrote to her mother in an e-mail Sunday from Iraq, soon after she was separated from the dog following a transfer. “I miss my dog horribly.” Beberg, 28, is scheduled to return to the U.S. next month.

But I’ve never seen the expression he shows here–bemused? politely appalled? Do you think he signed it?

Joan Sigurdson, left, holds a sign opposing Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as she greets with Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at the Maumee Bay Resort in Oregon, Ohio, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008.

I can’t believe I never noticed this before–LOOK FOR IT:

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this guy gets cozier with SARS victims than Paulson . . .

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) shakes hands with Japan’s Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa before their meeting at the Treasury Department in Washington October 10, 2008.