Inside the Asylum

OK, I admit that this is partly an excuse to post another clip of hot Lebanese singer Haife Wehbe, but that doesn't make it any less amazing. While filming this music video, a plane was supposed to fly low over the top of the car she was driving. It flew a bit too low, and actually hit her vehicle. They mixed the real collision into the video, as viewed from an in-car camera. Stunning!

It's nice to have KCNA back. They didn't go away, so much, as just get remarkably tame and (astoundingly) even sometimes a bit conciliatory. Today, we got to see a bit of vintage North Korean weirdness. The North Koreans warned

The U.S. and its “allies” had better cogitate, mindful of the grave consequences to be entailed by their reckless military actions.

The U.S. is hell bent on reinforcing the military alliance with Japan and south Korea, labeling the DPRK "an unstable factor," but this is nothing but sophism to cover up the criminal nature of its Asia strategy for domination. The U.S. revealed its scenario to militarily stifle the DPRK by putting forward Japan and south Korea as its shock brigade.

Of course Democrats who knew they were going to lose, were already trying their best to spin the defeats as "nothing to do with Obama." But come on ... you can't have it both ways. Obama went to both states to personally campaign for the two Democrat contenders. Either he was part of the race or he wasn't. So, let's see what foreign media is saying on the issue.

Obama suffers setback. Gulf News (Dubai)
Obama, Democrats tested in 2009 elections. Xinhua (China)
In blow to Barack Obama, Republicans win 2 US state races. Times of India (India)
Obama suffers major setback Guardian (Britain)
test of Obama's clout. Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina)