USA TODAY reports:
Saudis reject Bush's plea to increase oil output
The article quotes Stephen Hadley as saying, "What they're saying to us is ... Saudi Arabia does not have customers that are making requests for oil that they are not able to satisfy,"

Allow me to translate:
(Saudi response) "Your lack of approval ratings in polls is not our concern.  Our concern is supply and demand.  What we do not see in the U.S. is long lines due to fuel shortages.  We also do not see any suffering on the part of U.S. oil companies, or any new refinery construction, which they can well afford, especially since they currently receive subsidies from your own government of which you are the chief executive.  In addition, we regularly view webcam footage of the Golden State Freeway, which regularly shows 7000 lb SUVs traveling at 85 mph, as well as more efficient (though less convenient) transit trains traveling half-empty.  We regret that the less fortunate cannot participate in the 85mph 7000lb SUV option, but that is something we are not able to address.  Once again, we address supply and demand.  We are responsibly meeting the supply.  The price will go down when the demand goes down.  Nothing personal, it's just business."

So then Bush, rather than "jawbone" the Saudis to lower prices, as he promised in his 2000 campaign, in effect said, "Hey, hey, no problem; how 'bout some nukuleer inferstruchter?  You know, the stuff we kick the Irranians fer"

As Captain Barbossa played by Geoffrey Rush said in 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (regarding the pirate's code), "They're not so much rules as guidelines".

It bears repeating because it's mostly ignored in MSM news reporting.  When DNC officials and their delusion enablers repeatedly tell us that "rules are rules" with regard to Florida and Michigan, they're obscuring the truth, which is that they're not so much rules as DNC leadership failure.

The DNC told all states that there was a firm earliest date for primaries, then said there would be "special" early dates for IA, NH and SC.  The result was that there were not TWO states with early primaries, but FIVE, as IA, NH and SC went even earlier than their "special" early dates.  Since early states were all supposed to lose half their delegates as a consequence, how is it then reasonable that FL and MI got DOUBLE consequences, and IA, NH and SC got ZERO?  To quote another movie line, from 'Roger Rabbit', "The whole thing stinks like yesterday's diapers".

Pegasus News reports that the 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church rejected the Bush Library at Southern Methodist University; voted down by the Conference 844-20.  It's now up to the 2008 South Central Jurisdictional Conference (where SMU is in Texas) to decide if they want to sell the proposed land for the project.

The General Conference is the UMC official governing body, and meets every four years.  George W. Bush is presumed to be either a member of UMC or at least associated by way of his wife Laura's membership in Crawford.  The UMC motto is "Open hearts; Open minds; Open doors", which appears on the marquis in front of many of their churches.

A contentious hot point is that UMC and SMU want "open doors" to also mean keeping the doors open for SMU academic oversight of the proposed partisan think tank at the proposed library, proposed to be run by Karl Rove.  The library promoters apparently won't allow the oversight.  Besides that, many Methodists object to association with the W.Bush administration and particularly it's torture policies.  Somehow those policies just don't seem like the best expression of "Open hearts, open minds..."