[Jaysun]

The object - named 2004 AS1 - turned out to be around 500 metres across, and passed the Earth at a safe range of about 12m km: some 32 times the distance between the Earth and the moon.

GREAT SCOTT! That thing only missed us by about 7,644,800 miles! It's interesting that an amateur astronomer was able to give the "all-clear." The global warming nonsense has recently been losing steam. Is this the new "crisis" that the left and the UN will demand billions of dollars to study, evaluate, and lie about? They're kooks.

[weegee]

More people voted for President Bush than voted for Clinton/Gore in 1992 or 1996 but somehow he doesn't have a "mandate" since Al Gore Junior got 0.52% more of the vote (in absence of a national recount).

The statisticians are feeling neglected. Hyperbole rules the day.