Mabuto Revisited. Times UK is reporting that the Mugabes have paid 4 million sterling for a private home in Hong Kong. This is just disgusting beyond words, and unfortunately shows how little things have changed when it comes to African leaders moving money out of the country for their own gluttonous benefit while starving out their fellow countrymen. Grace Mugabe is paying for her house furnishings with buckets of cash, which appears to verify my theory that a direct correlation exists between runaway inflation and runaway thievery.

In Algeria, islamicist anti-americans have been handed another recruitment gift by US intelligence [sic] as the digital files of the CIA station chief come to light. This guy was drugging and raping algerian women, and further explored his macho dimentia by documenting it all with photos and video. Obama may talk a good talk about restoring America's reputation around the world, but he might consider more seriously whether it is a reputation worth restoring. This kind of stuff is hardly new.