Former President Bill Clinton is heartily praising “Decision Points,” the new memoir by his successor, former President George W. Bush, as “well-written and interesting from start to finish.”

“I think people of all political stripes should read it,” Clinton said in a statement Friday. “George W. Bush also gives readers a good sense of what it’s like to be president, to take the responsibilities of the office seriously, do what you think is right, and let history be the judge.

“The book may not change the minds of those who disagree with decisions President Bush made, but it will help you to understand better the forces that molded him and the convictions that drove him to make those decisions.

“I hope ‘Decision Points’ will help my fellow Democrats to see why I like George Bush, in spite of our differences, and will encourage all Americans, whatever our politics, to be more open to listening to and working with those with whom we disagree. America needs that now.”

I was going to just post this in the headlines, but decided it needed some introduction.  It’s one of the most surreal and bizarre things I’ve ever read, yet it’s like the proverbial trainwreck- I couldn’t look away.

To sum up- Curtis got slapped by a white teacher.  And his mother (I mean, sovereign mother, intellectual property owner, creator and caretaker) is not happy.  She has a short list of demands to make this right, including a $1500 Wal-Mark gift card, every year for the next 9 years, an annual 7 Day all expense paid trip to Disney World, and of course, a personal audience with President Obama and Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan.

Oh, and it’s real.

I think you’re caught up.  Now click, but you’ll need a spare half-hour or so, because you just can’t stop reading this.  (Sorry about the annoying ads)

Crouching behind his own cover, a U.S. soldier armed with the XM-25 can point his weapon at the wall behind which the enemy is hiding to get the precise distance. The rounds, which come four to a magazine plus one in the chamber, can then be programmed to travel just a short distance behind that to explode precisely where the insurgent is believed to be hiding.

With the scope aimed at the top of the wall, the round will fire and explode before impact, at the precise location programmed by the soldier, raining a hail of explosives and fragments on to the enemy.

It all takes mere seconds — five to program and fire, two for travel.

The rounds also take into account air pressure and temperature to accurately hit their marks.

“Our soldiers can stay behind cover and shoot this weapon at the enemy who’s behind cover and we can take him out,” Lehner said. “But they can’t take us out because we’re behind cover and they don’t have this weapon.”

Utopians will always be less happy than those who know that suffering is inherent to human existence. The utopian compares America to utopia and finds it terribly wanting. The conservative compares America to the every other civilization that has ever existed and walks around wondering how he got so lucky to be born or naturalized an American.

Skanky Celebs now push PrePaid Debit Cards…

1. Spelling card with a ‘K’… Really?

2. What is the US coming to?

One serving of Polar Bear liver contains a lethal dosage of Vitamin A.

Source: Good Eats

Alcoholic Energy drinks will soon be presumably banned by the FDA.

Four Loko contains 12% alcohol by volume

The Meles regime is “rapidly becoming one of the most repressive and dictatorial on the continent,” wrote Helen Epstein in The New York Review of Books last May. An expert on both AIDS and Africa, she too went to see for herself. She found that the government controls all the land, as well as telecommunications and the banking system. There is no population strategy, and the population has exploded. People don’t have enough land to feed themselves. Although aid agencies have tried to decentralize their efforts, the government can (and does) deny fertilizer and food to anyone who doesn’t support it. And hunger once again stalks the land. Just as in 1984, children aren’t starving because of natural disasters. They’re starving because of politics.

Most of us believe that humanitarian aid is a morally pure way to respond to suffering in the world. But what if our good intentions are just a newer version of colonialism? That’s what Mr. Gill thinks. “The colonial mindset of ‘we-know-best’ has surely persisted,” he writes. The trouble is that we haven’t learned the difference between doing good and feeling good. Until we do, many of our aid efforts will be worse than useless.