Stuff You Need to Know

Instead of going on a long-winded rant on any number of topics, let's do the shotgun approach. Here's some headlines from yesterday and today.

- Nancy Pelosi warned Gen. Patreaus not to try and sugar coat the recent violence in Basra, Iraq when he testifies next week on Capitol Hill. Interesting - I don't remember her warning Patreaus not to try and downplay the success we've had since the The Surge has been in full effect. For any leader of this country to be (or even to pretend to be) this ignorant about military affairs is sickening.

- Ted Turner, because he's an expert on the Earth's climate, says the earth will be 8-10 degrees warmer in 30 or 40 years. He claims that crops won't grow, and mankind will have to result to cannibalism. D&F reader B1 comments - "How did this man become a billionaire?Thank God he'll be dead before we become cannibals - I hate a Turner Steak.When the Muslims cut back to 1 or 2 children from 8 - 10 kids the world will be safer." I comment - SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE. IT'S PEOPLE!

- In ironic coincidence news - the World Meteorological Organization's Secretary General stated that the Earth's temperature has not risen since 1998. So don't go out getting copies of Alive for cannibalism pointers just yet.

- Obama has managed to energize the youth vote. What is his secret? Is it the "hope" for "change" and a better future? Is it Obama's pledge to FINALLY bring the country together and do away with the devisive partisan politics? Nope - it's Dave Matthews tickets.

- Just so everyone is on the same page - Hillary's pathological lying is now a joke, and, therefore, no longer a major personality flaw. After all, lying as part of a joke makes the joke funnier.