IF THINGS WEREN'T SCARY ENOUGH

News Headline: "NBC to launch all-horror network."
But most viewers will remain loyal to C-SPAN

QT Early Warning System:
The deputy director of FEMA during Hurricane Katrina
is now a senior adviser at NASA

Yes, you can bear it.
TV sports announcer discussing cleat sizes during the
Bears-Seahawks playoff game:
'Which is more, one-half inch or five-eigths inch?'
In case NASA is looking for more senior advisers.

Congressional checks, balances:
News Item: "Senate Democractic leaders on Friday
embraced a proposal to shed light on the murky
practice of Congressional earmarks, reversing
themselves after trying to block an almost identical
measure the day before"
Refreshing isn't it, to see political leaders who
are willing to admit a mistake?
Well, you know, when caught in the act?

Risky business:
News Item: Soldiers ordered into battle
for the lastest Iraq surge will have insufficient
armor on vehicles, as armor production
continues to lag.
We put our soldiers at unnecessary risk over
there so we don't have to put them at ----
well, no, wait, but there must be some
slogan for this.

Not the rocket science class:
The Case for Zero Tolerance of Modern
School Administrators:
Nineteen percent of American college
students really have no idea who the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was,
according to a survey released
on his birthday.

Politically uncorrect:
News Item: Navajos in the United
States protest a British group's use
of the name "Navajo" for its program
to promote respect and acceptance
for gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
When multicultural sensitivity
awareness collides with multicultural
sensitivity awareness.....