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So like forty-eight hours after this Historic Deal was struck, nobody agrees on what it says, not even a little bit. There are loopholes, there are congressional votes, there are supreme court decisions, this shit will never end, blah. Anyway for your reading "pleasure," we submit:

• Greg Grandin on why this deal is so screwy, from a lefty perspective.

• This Wall Street Journal editorial, which pretty much comes to the same conclusion from a not-lefty perspective.

• The Moderate Voice, on how douchey the Washington Post has been on all this.

• Some unsourced rumors, in Spanish, about how the Honduran congress made a deal with Clinton to vote Zelaya back in.

• Some sourced rumors, in English, that lefty US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be on the "verification commission" to make sure that this screwy, loophole-ridden deal is enforced.

• An English translation of the whole thingamajig. Luck you!

So one teensy little detail in the Honduran "bring back constitutional democracy deal" of 2009 is the tiny formality that Zelaya's return must be "approved" by "congress," so naturally:

"The head of Honduras' Congress said Monday that he has yet to decide when to call lawmakers back into session to debate whether ousted President Manuel Zelaya should be reinstated.

Jose Alfredo Saavedra ... said he has yet to call Congress to meet and will not be rushed despite calls from diplomats not to delay the vote."

Meanwhile in the world's greatest democracy.

Hey guys! Remember me? I've been very busy in the non-blog life this week, so I'm just cold catching up in my news the old fashioned way: reading all the links you people put in the clicky section!

Lets see here...holy mac! It turns out that that awesome unity deal in Honduras isn't turning out so well! Evil coup goblin Roberto Micheletti went and formed an official Unity Government, only he forgot to include Mel Zelaya. Sneaky! But the U.S. will never stand for this! Oh wait:

After threatening that it would not recognize the presidential election scheduled for Nov. 29 unless Mr. Micheletti signed on to the deal, the Obama administration hinted that it would accept the results even if the accord's terms are not fully met.