It's been a good week in politics.  Note to AR-KAY the Spineless Cunt: there
are no political points here, so you should feel no need to edit this like
you usually do before posting it to the DUmp.

1.  Our intellecually curious and very bright President Obama says he has no
plans to read "Going Rogue," Sarah Palin's policial memoir. 
You'd think the
brightest and best read man in the world would want to know what all the
fuss is about; after all, the AP assigned 11 reporters to fact check the
book, so there must be a lot in it.  By the way, did the AP ever fact check
"Dreams from My Father" or "The Audacity of Hope," a
title taken from a
Jeremiah Wright sermon?

2.  Al Gore tells Conan O'Brian that the Earth's core is heated to "millions
of degrees," providing us with a spiffy energy source.  When I took Geology
in college, we studied something called "the geothermal gradient," which
predicts temperatures from the Earth's surface to its core.  Methodologies
vary, but scientists believe that the Earth's core is between 5-9,000
degrees celsius.  If the Earth's core were "millions of degrees," Earth
would not be a planet.  It would be a star.  Al Gore won the Nobel Peace
Prize for his knowledge of these things.  I wonder if the AP will send 11
reporters to fact check Gore the next time he speaks?

3.  Obama bows to Japanese royalty.  At the nadir of his bow, Obama's spine
is parallel to the horizon.  That was a DEEP bow - and is an apt metaphor
for O's bowing approval numbers.

4.  After refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama, Obama tells the Chinese head
thug that he considers Tibet to be Chinese property.  During all this, China
executes three Tibetan dissidents and jails another for comments made on his
blog.  The White House has no comment.

5.  Obama tells a reporter that Kalid Sheik Muhammed will be found guilty in
a New York court and put to death.  Maybe Obama believes that Americans are
so tired of listening to him drone on that potential jurors didn't hear this
bizarre statement.

6.  While in China, a student asks Obama if he (the student) should be able
to use Twitter.   Obama answers, "I have never Twittered."  He says his
thumbs are too big to use the keys deftly.  Obama adds that he wishes he
could control the flow of news in the US so he doesn't have to read
criticism of his divine self.  It's all about the Big O, ladies and
gentlemen.  Wouldn't a simple "yes" have sufficed from the leader of the
free world?

7.  John Kerry's daughter is arrested for DUI.

8.  Pat Leahy says that when we capture Bin Laden there will be no need to
Mirandize him because there will be no need to interrogate him.  I am not
making this up.  The mastermind of 911, murderer of 3,000 Americans
including Barbara Olson (whoo hoo! AR-KAY) and there will be no need to
interrogate him.  I am not making this up.

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