OMG Obama's not wearing his flag pin!

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, said she didn't know if it was a "serious issue" that Obama didn't wear a pin and added, "There are so many ways that Americans can show their patriotism." ...

Gov. Bill Richardson, who was wearing a flag pin at the time, what he thought of the matter. "Patriotism is what you do and I don't think anyone should — if you feel good about wearing it, wear it,” he said. “I wear it. It's perfectly good to wear it. I love this flag. I love this country. I wear it. But patriotism is about what you do, not what you say." ...

Obama told a KCRG-TV reporter this week that he has made a conscious decision not to wear the pin.

Osama Bin Laden also showed the flag pin he had purchased. "I wear the American flag," he said, "Look, I wear it upside down. If this doesn't show anti-patriotism, I don't know what will. Maybe blowing something up... I did that, you know."

President George Bush also weighed in, "he's allowed to do whatever he wants," the President said. "But the you can bet that anyone not wearing a flag pin will be red "flagged" by the TSA." He laughed.

Across the country, millions of chinese workers cheered. Mr. Deng,a foreman at one of the numerous American flag pin factories in Shanghai was especially exuberiant. "It is just more money for us. The more flag pins Americans buy, the more I get paid." He demonstrated the numerous flag pins he had. "I have American flags, German flags, Russian flags, Chinese flags.... I wear them all! I'm very patriotic."

U.N. Security Council Debates Action On Burma

and do nothing...I'll bet

Artist Builds Secret Apartment in a Mall

He lived in it for 4 years. His website is here. He has a tunnel. It's strangely fascinating.

Say What?

Darfur rebels attacked an African Union peacekeeping outpost.

The AU troops took refuge in a ditch in one corner of the camp, where dozens of empty shell casings from AK-47s were strewn in the sandy soil. "Once we ran out of ammunition, we all laid down in that ditch," Abu Bakr, one of the peacekeepers, said.

The rebels looted the camp on their way out, taking six armoured personnel carriers, a dozen jeeps, fuel, AK-47s and boxes of ammunition.

Uh Oh, Somebody's In Trouble

Woman Found Dead In Airport Holding Cell.

Synopsis: Carol Ann Gotbaum became agitated after she was refused passage on a US Airways flight (she was apparently late). She was rebooked on the next flight, and started running around. Officers handcuffed her and placed her in the holding room where she kept on screaming. They checked on her when she stopped screaming and found her dead. They speculate that she tried to get out of her handcuffs, got entangled and ended up with them "around her neck."

What's even worse is:

"Gotbaum was the daughter-in-law of New York City's public advocate. PubicAdvocate Betsy Gotbaum tells the New York Daily News that the family is "extraordinarily upset." She says the family is watching the investigation closely. She says her daughter-in-law had three very small children."