• Pretty solid sounding suspicions of fraud arose after officials discovered that 23,900 out of 23,900 ballots from a certain area were all cast for incumbent president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. [New York Times]
• There is no one left to serve on America’s juries, as the only people who can afford gas and cars are the finance executives awaiting trial. [New York Times]
• Back to school shopping is still at relatively low levels. This already has people who work in stores and people who buy things from stores worried about holiday spending. [Wall Street Journal]
• The Taliban is destroying Afghanistan’s Western-built infrastructure in exciting new ways and more successfully than ever. [Washington Post]
• Big jump for car sales in August, mostly because of government incentive programs that allow people to afford cars. Good economic news! or… bad news for people called to jury duty? [Reuters]

• Europe will not buy worthless America from Hank Paulson, who is selling it for six homosexual Lincoln pennies. [Crooks and Liars]
• The EPA has been spiking your drinking water with rocket fuel, which means water is now $100 a barrel. [Daily Kos]
• McCain owns three foreign cars, and the only American vehicles he does have were made for him in a children’s sweatshop in Michigan by Barack Obama. [Marc Ambinder]
• The only known exchange between Palin and Karzai was Karzai telling Palin his son’s name is Mirwais and Palin responding “Oh nice.” Sarah Palin knows of no other thing on this Earth besides baby-naming and even this she cannot do correctly. [Jonathan Martin]
• Even Joe Biden thinks Barry’s dumb teevee commercials are terrible. Literally, he called them “terrible.” [CNN Political Ticker]
• According to Norm Coleman, the federal government will turn a profit from the total implosion of the economy. [Andrew Sullivan]

Each week, veteran Condiwatcher Peter Huestis (also known as Princess Sparkle Pony) provides a summary of the searing wit and infinite wisdom of America’s Favorite Princess Diplomat™!

Last week, our plucky favorite asked for just over a thousand new secretaries, skipped off to London and then hooked up with dreamy David Miliband for an OMG SURPRISE trip to Afghanistan, but I had trouble paying attention because I kept getting distracted by touching artistic tributes to Madame Secretary scattered all over the web. Learn more about Condi’s week and the Condicentric art world after the jump!

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