Al-Jimzeera Talking Points

* Those late night prank calls to Saudi Arabia are looking *a lot* less funny this morning . Why do we need an extension of the Patriot Act? The president could always just authorize agencies to break what few laws protect us from them. They got one guy who was planning to cut down the Brooklyn Bridge. Who the hell where the other 499 people? Because if they had anything on them they'd be screaming it from the hills. And apparently the New York Times' new motto is "All the News the White House Wants Us to Print." "Endangering ongoing operations?" Are the editors there really that gullible? And if they've been sitting on the story for more than a year, shouldn't this have been Kerry's October Surprise? Way to go, Gray Lady. You bitch!

* And let Cuba play baseball, you horrible bastards.

* Oh, there's a book! No wonder they held up the story in the New York Times!