You Can't Make this Stuff Up!

Once again magic trumps science (or even common sense) courtesy of the Bush Administration...

Due to pressure from Bush Administration officials, the National Park Service is not permitted to give an official age for the Grand Canyon. Additionally, a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood is for sale at the National Park's bookstore.

Read the entire article here.

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Bibliography: McCarthy, Carolyn. deepcanyon.jpg. July 2004. Pics4Learning. 29 Dec 2006

My Dog Ate the President's War Plans

Check out this exchange between CNN and a spokesperson for the White House regarding the capture of Osama Bin Laden.

A jittery second grader couldn't have phrased it better...

WH: bin Laden Capture "A Success That Hasn't Occured Yet"
By Justin Rood - December 29, 2006, 8:25 AM

Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is still at large -- but that's not a failure of White House policy, says Frances Fragos Townsend. As she explained to CNN's White House correspondent Ed Henry last night:

HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president said, dead or alive, we're going to get him. Still don't have him. I know you are saying there's successes on the war on terror, and there have been. That's a failure.

TOWNSEND: Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure.

From... http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002250.php