OKAY, IT’S ALL OVER
The ever watchful Kaymo sends over the following. The first real bad news comes from London and The Guardian...
"In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.A fitting name, astronomers reasoned, for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace. Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it. Nasa has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere."
But for a whole lot more...
http://www.space.com/news/051103_asteroid_apophis.html

BUT THE INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR CONFERENCE (ICC) IS STILL FIGHTING
"For Inuit, warming is likely to disrupt or even destroy their hunting and food-sharing culture as reduced sea ice causes the animals on which they depend to decline, become less accessible, and possibly become extinct,"
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/07/051207182757.ht1oak7y.html

LIKE HURRY IT UP, OKAY?
I keep hearing tantalizing whispers that a megaton Republican sex scandal is about to burst that will blast all the way from the White House to Saudi Arabia, but the damned thing so-far refuses to detonate. Here are a couple of examples of the current whispers...
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/12/dc_sex_scandal.html
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/duke-cunningham/index.php
I just wish someone would move it along and solve the problem of...

THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER
Historians move towards the conclusion that Boy George is finally easing out James Buchanan (1856-1860) for the title (sent by doug the bass)...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucrr/20051203/cm_ucrr/isgeorgebushtheworstpresidentever

AND HAROLD PINTER EXPLAINS WHY
Pinter, too sick to pick up his Nobel Prize, delivers a searing attack on Bush and much much more. (sent by munz)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1208-28.htm

AND FINALLY
Momma said there’d be days like this
There’d be days like this, my momma said
I can only present this graphic with no further comment.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/25788560/

The secret number is Delusional

(Roll credits – play theme)
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
(Fade to black)