Bush Administration hiding 8,000 bodies in New Orleans, says Governess Blanco. Developing.....

UN's Kofi Anan, also blaming Bush, threatens that if the reform summit fails, he will blame the U.S. because "They are the host. You cannot be a host and destroy the party." Rosset once again has the goods.

It seems at this stage that no one expects managerial competence or integrity from Annan. It is enough that he presides over a global icon, runs programs disbursing billions worth of other people's money, and performs well at parties. It is perhaps pleasing to Russia, France, and China that last October he denounced as "inconceivable" the idea that their positions in the debate over Saddam's Iraq could have been influenced by Saddam's payoffs (and ensuing opportunities for blackmail).

Claudia, once again, strikes....

The U.N. is the leading global clubhouse legitimizing the dictators whose policies produce the world's worst poverty. (Watch for their motorcades on Fifth Avenue this week).

And Condi Rice has morphed into Colin Powell......