The question is, how to prepare ourselves.

* Dow hits all-time (non-inflation-adjusted) high as investors rush to safety of blue chips (although small-caps, S&P and NASDAQ lag behind)
* Oil and gold getting cheaper by the day
* Iran thumbs nose (again) at EU, US and UN - says 'bring it on - death to America'
* Iraq firmly in cινιℓ ωαr, nobody in US cares
* US passes law making torture and no right to trial (habeas corups) OK, nobody in US cares
* North Korea readies a nuclear test, nobody in US cares
* The guy in charge of protecting kids from internet predators is... drumroll... an internet predator after kids. Head of House of Reps protects him like some bishops protected the child molestor priests.
* Home prices reported to be rising 4.1% and prices barely dropping, when we all know home sales are plummeting and prices are crashing
* Guy in charge of housing studies for Harvard is a paid shill of the housing industry
* Britney and Kevin still married

Here's the update from Iran. Look for this to finally heat up, but the election does add a twist to the timing of our eventual attack.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the West that sanctions would not stop his government from uranium enrichment.

"You are mistaken if you assume that the Iranian nation will stop for even a moment from the path toward using nuclear energy due to your nagging," he told supporters, drawing chants of "Death to America!" from a crowd in Hashtgerd, outside the Iranian capital, Tehran.

"It's been 27 years that they (the West) haven't allowed us to use technologies that they possess," Ahmadinejad said. "This nation is powerful and won't give in to one iota of coercion."