End of week

Here are the end of the week news & musings:

6/5: Obama in Germany is not seeking any commitment from Germany to take any detainees from Gitmo--Germany wants them all resettled in the U.S.

6/5: Obama visits Buchenwald concentration camp as "tribute" to uncle who liberated a nearby camp. His uncle condemned him for this earlier this week saying it was not in tribute of him, but a political calculation and opportunity for Obama.

6/5: Jobless rate hits 9.4% in May, the highest in 25 years--remember Obama's own economic team saying that if the stimulus bill passed, unemployment would not rise above 8.4% until 2012?

6/5: GM to sell Saturn to Penske

6/5: Obama appoints Great Lakes czar. The Romanov family produced 18 czars between 1613-1917 and Obama has produced at least 20 (total number is fuzzy as some are not called czars but fall into the same category).

6/5: Mattel hit with $2.3 million fine for lead-paint hazard

6/5: U.N. nuclear agency finds traces of uranium at nuclear site in Syria after it was bombed by Israeli planes in 2006 which may mean it was an almost completed plutonium producing reactor.

6/5: International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran is expanding its uranium enrichment program despite U.N. sanctions.

6/5: Obama arrives in Paris & is greeted by wife & children who went on ahead of him.

6/5: Suicide bomber in Pakistan kills 30 in mosque

6/5: Government now says it will not seize land for Flight 93 memorial.

6/5: A retired State Department official with high security clearance and his wife are arrested and charged with spying for Cuba

Well, another week and the U.S. is still intact for now, but another week closer to the end.