Let's see here...

The Administration declassified some documents stating that Coalition forces in Iraq found somewhere in the neighborhood off 500 artillery shells loaded with mustard gas and nerve gas. Comes to between one and two tons of lewisite and sarin.

This is news? Let me whip out a Ouija board and we can ask a whole bunch of metabolically-challenged Kurds if this is news.

With amazing predictability, a certain ... segment ... of the political spectrum has decided that this doesn't really count as "mass" destruction.

Me, I'm just a redneck, but I figure that one metric ton of a substance that requires less than a milligram to Kill 'Dog Dead is pretty far up there in the "mass destruction" category.

But that's just me.

The National Academy of Sciences has declared that they're "pretty sure" that the Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years.

When asked how warm was the Earth prior to the last 2,000 years, the N.A.S. responded by annoucing that the Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years.

When asked if the statement: "The Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years" meant that the Earth was warmer than it is now at 0 B.C. and before, the N.A.S. responded by announcing that the Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years.

When asked if the statement: "The Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years" meant that the Earth was warmer than now during the height of the Roman Empire, the Hellenistic Period, the Inca Empire, the Aztec Empire, several squillion Egyptian Pharoahs, Odin-only-knows how many Chinese Emperors, and various random cultures between the Tigris and Euphrates and/or south of the Himalayas, the N.A.S. responded by sticking their fingers in their ears and announcing that the Earth is the warmest it's been in the last 2,000 years.

When it was pointed out that the fine print in the N.A.S. report indicated that the study was certain only for the last 400 years, and that the temperatures of the years before the last 400 were still only an educated guess, the N.A.S. responded by announcing that the Earth lalala warmest lalallalala 2000 years lalalalala GLOBAL WARMING!

Said announcement followed by rioting Congress-critters, hyper-ventilating Hollywood-critters, and much solemn sermonizing by plastic Media-critters.

*sigh*

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