Al Qaeda has recently used mentally challenged women as bomb carriers they detonate from afar. Now the US military has found a video in Iraq of children being trained as attackers and kidnappers. Although all are wearing ski masks, one of the trainers shown on the tape appears to us to be a woman. One of the voices on the tape also sounds American. The balaclava wearing children end their gun and grenade toting session with prayers as a child in the background peeks in from a doorway and quickly withdraws when he sees the camera.

It's unknown whether the video shows the actual terror training of children, or whether its purpose is propaganda. ABC hosts the video here.

He may look like he's been sucking lemons, but when Jesse Jackson looks at Barack Obama he sees change he "can believe in". Photo via Drudge

Apropos of nothing, John McCain won the most delegates on Super Tuesday across the board, but, interestingly, in the caucuses Mitt Romney won 8 out of 9. (Gov. Huckabee won the 9th).

According to the CDC Moms with HIV who masticated food for infants have infected their babies with HIV. Although the practice of adults chewing food before feeding it to babies is more common where pureed baby food is unavailable, as in Africa, the practice has led to 3 documented cases of HIV transmission in the US:

The first involved a 15-month-old African-American boy in Miami, diagnosed in 1993. His great-aunt was infected with HIV and pre-chewed food for the boy when he was between the ages of 9 months and 14 months.

Then a 3-year-old Caribbean-American boy was diagnosed in 1995, also in Miami. His HIV-infected mother pre-chewed food for her son.

Still uncertain they had definitively connected the practice to the spread of HIV, the doctors wanted more evidence. It was years later before they could confirm a third case, which occurred in 2004. A 9-month-old African-American girl was diagnosed with HIV in Memphis. The mother began pre-chewing the girl's food when she was about four months old.

All three children were infected with HIV at a time they would have been teething and had inflamed gums. It may be that both a caregiver and a child must have wounds in their mouths for the virus to have a good chance of passing from one bloodstream to another, the investigators said.

The quote above is from a story at NY Post.

When their pens failed to work at their polling place in Chicago some voters were told by poll workers not to worry, it was okay because their pens had invisible ink! But at least one voter failed to be convinced and returned home to flood the election board with complaining phone calls. The squeaky wheel finally got the grease, and voters with blank ballots were called back to vote for real. Chicago, Chicago, that toddling town...

Read the details at the Sun-Times.

From Brit Hume:

The students at Virginia's Washington and Lee University have had an uncanny knack for picking the right nominee for the party not currently in the White House. Students have been holding elaborate mock conventions since 1908 — and have been wrong only once in the last 60 years — when they chose Ted Kennedy over George McGovern in 1972. This year — it wasn't even close.

Hillary Clinton easily won the nomination in the mock convention — with more than 2,100 delegates — about 100 more than needed. Obama finished more than 400 delegates behind, with Edwards a distant third.

If you've feel like you're getting deja vu all over again when you see Hillary and Bill on the campaign trail, try this hilarious video we found out about at Lucianne's.

We're thinking it's more acceptable to make a little inside joke about a genus going extinct when it happened 700 to 1300 years ago. Rather than if it happened at the turn of your own century. The Conquered Lorikeet for example. It belongs to the species known as Vini and was named in absentia Vini vidivici. (We love David Steadman's choice for the name, by the way).

Image: a non-extinct type of Lorikeet.

Looking in from the outside, a writer at The Telegraph describes the relative styles of Senators Obama and Clinton thus:

The charismatic Mr Obama goes down well with a people reared on the plangencies and stereotypes of Hollywood: no writers’ strike need matter while he is around to provide a daily dose of oratorical theatrics. In Britain such exposure to him as the Americans now have would cause us to regard him as a phoney, just as we tend, for different reasons, to regard the better-known Mrs Clinton. Their acts, and the whistling, yelling crowds with which they surround themselves, all look dated, and somehow at odds with a country with as many difficulties as this one.

Via Lucianne

Shepherd Smith went all medieval on Naomi Wolf's derrière after she made a veiled diss of Fox News when the former asked what she meant about a statement she had made about Democrats having to hold their noses in order to vote for the Democrat presidential candidates for the last few elections, (as in John Kerry, Al Gore and Clinton, the Bill variety). It's really worth watching on so many levels. View the visibly chastened feminist (and author of Al Gore's brown voter friendly garb) get her dressing down, here.