WTF Is It Now?!?

"I've learned a few lessons about national security as a soldier and a senator, but the mathematics I learned in elementary school prove that Arctic drilling won't make a difference for national security," - Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a decorated Vietnam veteran and American Hero.




Today in History

1775 Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass..

1906 a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died.

1949 the Irish republic was proclaimed.

1955 physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, N.J.

1978 the U.S. Senate voted 68-to-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999.

1994 former President and nutcase Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, N.J.; he died four days later at a New York hospital.

2001 U.S. and Chinese diplomats began two days of talks over the April 1 collision involving a U.S. spy plane after Beijing and Washington staked out opposing positions on who was to blame for the incident.

2002 George of the Bungle, in a fit of pique at losing over drilling in ANWR, seeks relief in a bottle of pretzals.