Dispatch from Wingnuttia

We haven't heard from the loony Tom Coburn (Wackjob-OK), he of Lesbians In High School Bathrooms fame, for a while. It's kind of nice to have him back....reminds us of what we're up against:

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn challenged the accuracy of Terri Schiavo's autopsy Thursday, saying he has a copy of the Florida woman's medical file.

Coburn's comments came during the taping of a television show for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority in Oklahoma City. He was responding to questions from a panel of journalists, including a Tulsa World reporter and Terri Watkins, a reporter from KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City.

"I have on my desk a complete medical file of Terri Schiavo, and I would challenge the accuracy of many of the statements by people involved in that case in terms of her medical condition, and I would also challenge some of the autopsy findings based on what I have on my desk in Washington," Coburn said.

Coburn is an obstetrician and gynecologist and is not trained as a pathologist or medical examiner. He said he had reviewed Schiavo's medical file but had not examined her body.

In the Land of Wingnuttia, medicine is ALWAYS practiced third-hand.

Thanks to Ron Beasley for that little nugget.

Meanwhile, from the "with friends like this, who needs enemies" file, comes this little goodie from Skippy:

president bush's top independent intelligence adviser met last winter with investment bankers in china to help secure his law firm's role in lobbying for a state-run chinese energy firm and its bid for the u.s. oil company unocal corp., according to his law firm, akin gump.

the involvement of james c. langdon jr., chairman of the president's foreign intelligence advisory board and a major bush fundraiser, underscores the tangled washington connections beneath cnooc ltd.'s bid. both cnooc and its rival for unocal, chevron corp., have enlisted lobbyists and public relations professionals with deep ties to the bush white house and republican leaders in congress. wayne l. berman, a principal lobbyist for chevron, is a bush "ranger," having raised at least $200,000 for the president's campaign. his wife, lea, is the white house social secretary.

So now we have people close to the president looking to sell more U.S. companies to the Chinese -- including Unocal, one of the largest U.S. oil companies.

Now, I thought that as oil becomes more scarce, China was one of our biggest competitors in terms of vying for control of the world's oil. So why the hell are foreign intelligence advisors facilitating such a sale?