Nancy Morgan on the week that was.

The raid on the US Treasury continues with ever more supplicants lining up for a chance to get our tax dollars. Latest entries: the porn industry and homebuilders. This isn't change, this is socialism. No end in sight as Bush appears to be working with Obama to get the latest $350 billion of our tax dollars released.

Meanwhile, Pelosi and friends are urging Obama to repeal the Bush tax cuts even before they expire in 2011. Forget the pirates in Somalia – we need to contain the pirates in Congress.

Foreign money is fleeing the U.S as a direct result of the ongoing tax and spend frenzy. Neither a projected $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009 nor a new 16-year high (7.2%) unemployment rate has slowed the massive redistribution of our tax dollars.

Memo to liberals: The total value of the bailouts undertaken by the federal government in 2008 now exceeds the combined cost of every major war the United States has ever engaged in, according to the Congressional Research Service.

As the economic crisis expands, Obama signals his main priorities, saying he isn't ruling out prosecuting Bush officials for abuse. "No-one is above the law," he gravely intoned. He then called on all Americans to sacrifice more and, by the way, he might not be able to live up to his campaign promises.

Before I grind my teeth to stubs, I'll take a cue from the Left and move-on:

CULTURE

Rebutting the notion that all cultures are equal is this Shi'ite Muslim dude. He's gashing his head with a sword during an annual ritual to mark the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein at the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

More shocking than that, is a recommendation from an international medical organization. They want children as young as 12 who question their sexual identity (don't they all?) to be given drugs to block the onset of puberty. Why? They want to give these kids time to decide what gender they want to be. I kid you not.

In what appears to be a new trend, female baristas in Seattle-area coffee shops are shedding their clothes and donning lingerie and skimpy outfit in order to percolate business.

This isn't exclusive to Seattle. A one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day – topless coffee shop waitresses. For the record, staring at bare breasts isn't the way I want to start my day. Oops, does that make me a homophobe?

The fact that California is out of money and will soon start closing state offices every other Friday hasn't stopped the legislators there from continuing to implement costly new laws. The latest zinger: millions of Californians with limited English proficiency now have the right to an interpreter from their commercial health and dental plans – made possible by a first-in-the-nation law.

Meanwhile, new stats show that some 32 million U.S. adults (14%) can't read. No wonder – our government schools recently spent $67,000 on 30 cappuccino machines that no one wants.

Businesses continue to sign up to the gay agenda with AFA reporting that PepsiCo has given $1,000,000 to companies promoting the gay agenda, while refusing to donate to any pro-family groups. Ditto, Campbells Soup. They're running a cute little commercial showing a family consisting of two moms. I'm awaiting their new soup – cream of PC.

I have a lot more news, but its all depressing. I've decided to exercise writer's discretion and skip to the weird, trivial and fun stuff.

TRIVIA:

Check out Hefner's new girlfriend. 22-year-old psychology student Crystal Harris has joined Hef and his current 19-year-old twin girlfriends in the Playboy mansion. She claims she's a "good girl." Viva Viagra.

Joe the Plumber has arrived in Israel in his new stint as a war correspondent, and he's not happy. "You should be ashamed of yourself," he told foreign reporters. "You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks," he said. I think I'm in love.

The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash. Talk about a bad hair day . . .

The world's first flying car is set for take-off and scientists have discovered a new species: pink iguanas.

You all may now considered yourselves informed.

Till next week, keep smiling.

Republished with permission from Nancy Morgan.