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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan beat out the Mainstream Media today to win LGF's "Idiotarian" award for 2006. Annan first received word that he'd won the highly coveted award late this morning. "I was too busy with all the New Year's celebrations, so I didn't really have time to log in to LGF today," Annan told a group of LGF Lizaroids this morning, "but my secretary told me that I'd won and I almost fainted from joy when I heard the good news." "To beat out the Mainstream media and to win such an award, wow, does it get...

Some commentators insist that the opposition to the Dubai Ports deal was much ado about nothing and was simply ignorance of the way ports and terminals function. They insist that the whole sale was just about management of several terminals - nothing which would effect homeland security.Question: If this ports deal was really nothing serious, why was the Coast Guard initially worried and opposed to the deal? It would seem from the Coast Guard's initial concern that there is much more at stake with this deal then some are willing to admit. It certainly indicates that security concerns to this...