North Korea Throws A Party, Pakistani Jailbreak!

"Because Mitt Romney is a Mormon he can actually have several vice presidents. Did you know that?" – David Letterman

"After dropping out of the GOP race, Rick Santorum emailed his supporters to ask for help paying off his campaign debt. So if you believe in his message of responsible spending and no handouts, just give him a handout to cover all his irresponsible spending." – Jimmy Fallon

"Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he is supporting Mitt Romney for president. Jindal said he couldn’t think of a better way to show his support than waiting until Romney was the only guy left." – Jimmy Fallon

"Florida congressman Allen West made an interesting statement yesterday. He believes there are about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party who are members of the Communist Party. Really? I think it's time for someone to lay off the Tom Clancy novels." – Jimmy Kimmel

“This presidential campaign makes me want to start doing drugs.” - unaffiliated Republican consultant

Happy Birthday North Korea! Your leaders couldn't afford to make enough cake for everyone, so you got another military parade, instead... It was supposed to be a glorious celebration of the birthday of Kim il-Sun, the dictator who cemented his rule by instituting the official paranoia that the US wanted to permanently invade the country, legitimizing starving the peasants in favor of  large military expenditures. Hey, they were only pretending to be China's Mini-Me...

Instead of candles or fireworks, a wondrous long-range ballistic missile was launched, which, unfortunately for the greater glory of Kim's grandson and said military, the damned thing fell apart after two minutes and fell into the ocean. This was the third missile launch in a row that fizzled and failed, so the best thing to do was to act as if it had never happened. In the case of the first two missile launches, North Korea insisted that they had been successes, and are orbiting satellites that broadcast patriotic songs to Kim Jong-il to this day. It's as if they have hired Republican strategists to form their official policies...

To show the world how much they've changed under the new rule of the Little Prince, journalists were invited to witness this launch. Since the US had declined to have any members of the State Dept there, it frowned on having any of our journalists attending. Tough, said MSNBC... Unfortunately, communication lines had to be established out of the country, and when the news organizations back home began asking if it were true that the missile fell apart, the news came as a shock to their North Korean handlers, who all but abandoned them in a blind panic until hours later.

It was decided that the best way to handle this potential fiasco was to ignore it, act as if it never happened, offer to take the journalists to a sporting event or cultural display to complete their tour. In his speech yesterday, Kim Jong-un also ignored the missile failure, instead kept to his prepared speech of supporting the military and continuing to build it up in might and strength. The emphasis on nuclear and missile development is because the North Koreans don't have much else to sell on the world market, and they were at least hoping to sell copies of their latest missile to Iran, which wisely didn't put in any pre-orders. On the other hand, it could be that the missile launch was sabotaged so that everyone will feel sorry for those cute lil' screw ups, send them food and ipods, maybe schedule a hot concert for them by Beyonce or an Elvis impersonator... More important, is the realization for any nation ordering military munitions from the North Korean catalogue, is that a parade and blustery speech is all you can expect as backup, if things go wrong and do not work as advertised...

To celebrate the new negotiations between the US and Pakistan, with Pakistan insisting that US drones and the CIA mercenaries stay out of their country, the Pakistani Taliban mounted the largest jailbreak in that country's history. Over 100 Talibanese freed 384 prisoners at the largest prisons, perhaps showing what Paper Tigesr the police and military really are... Most of the escapees are thought to have gone to North Waziristan, leading me to ask just who is going to have to feed and clothe over 300 new members? Does this mean that the opium harvests went well this year? Or will the Pakistani government now reverse itself and ask the US to please send in some more drones into North Waziristan? And how do we really know it was the Taliban who freed those prisoners? How do we know if it wasn't a bunch of CIA mercenaries that freed them, therby insuring that they'd have jobs for the next few years, roaming through the tribal areas and playing whack-a-mole?

Part of the US's problem, is that there are elements that don't want our wars to end, mostly those that benefit from the Pentagon's war budget. If we pull out of Afghanistan, take our drones back out of Yemen and Somalia, where else will we be able to deploy them, except on ourselves? Should we let the states of Arizona or Florida develop a drone of their own, as the redneck solution to the immigration problem and racial profiling? It's bad enough that each year, more returning servicemen commit suicide than have lost their lives in  Iraq and Afghanistan...

No More Shitty Santorum Jokes Here, Disbarred In Arizona

Joseph P Kennedy ll

"President Obama has signed into law a bill that bans members of Congress from insider trading. However, they are still allowed to mishandle campaign funds, cheat on their wives, and kill the occasional drifter." – Jay Leno

“Newt Gingrich says he still has a chance. He say people walk up to him all the time and beg him to stay in the presidential race. It’s a group of people known as Democrats.” – Conan O'Brien

"The FBI is reporting that American universities are being infiltrated by foreign spies. They say everyone should be on the lookout for any student who's paying attention and taking notes." – Conan O’Brien

The link above to Joseph Kennedy's opinion piece is in the NY Times. I can easily link to it because I have a subscription, but I'm not sure if the website will let other people read their material for free. It's one reason why I stopped adding links to opinion writers at the top of each post, because I disagree with paying for reading their websites. I subscribe to the printed paper version of the NY Times, which I love to read while drinking a cup of coffee each morning, and because I'm a grouchy old man trying to exist on medical disability retirement and can't afford much... Anyway, its about time someone else, other than myself, wrote about the evils of commodity speculation, or futures trading, and the rising prices in gasoline and the food you buy. Instead of gambling at the poker table, commodity traders are betting on your tank of gas and bowl of cereal. Wall Street has created a virtual world with no socially redeeming value other than they make money that you pay for in the end, yet very few people have protested about such a blatant rip-off...

To be honest, I was surprised that Rick Santorum lasted this long in the primary process. It must be a testament to how far to the right the Republican Party has drifted. Now, Mit Romney's campaign can shake things up like an etch-a-sletch, and redraw their candidate in more moderate tones, and Mr Santorum can go back to being the international Internet symbol for anal leakage. That's right, now if you call someone a santorum, it means that they are worse than a douche... Maybe, with the remaining states left to elect delegates, Ron Paul might have a resurgence, after all, its now between him and a much subdued Newt Gingrich.

 I like Ron, but he has several factors going against him. One: he looks like one of the puppets I use at the beginning of my post; I expect his nose to grow with each public appearance. Two: he's from Texas, an ignorant place run by good-old-boy politics. No matter how much Rick Perry now says he was on painkillers when he made all of his gaffes, it doesn't hide the fact how stupid the man is. Three: Ron has some good ideas, but it's his crazier ideas that worries me, letting him near so much nuclear arsenals. If you want to know just how crazy the environment he creates can be, listen to his son Rand talk... Batshit personified.

As for Newt, the whole country now knows him as a blustery, egotistical, incredibly bad politician unsuited for any kind of public office. He's pretended to be an intellectual history professor, but few remember that he taught at some obscure college in Georgia, and was let go from that job when his peers voted not to give him tenure, an act that was eerily repeated when he was kicked out of Congress for screwing up as Speaker of the House... Which means that we're left with Mit Romney, a man who cannot tell the truth even if his life depended on it.

Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has lost one of his cronies, a valuable member of his posse. An ethics review board has ruled that the former county district attorney, Andrew Thomas, will be disbarred as a result of violating the rules of conduct for lawyers. Andrew had been a naughty boy, in that he launched criminal investigations against two county employees and one judge, whose only crimes were they had publicly been critical of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The investigations were announced to embarras and publicly humiliate the officials. Andrew still thinks he did nothing wrong, and that he is a victim of a political witch-hunt.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio first came to our attention when he created a tent city for over-flowing prisoners, and for giving them all pink underwear. He then tried to turn that publicity into making some money, writing a book and calling himself the Toughest Sheriff in America. Joe also tried to market his famous pink underwear as a fundraiser for the sheriff's posse, but refused to tell where the money went, which was into his own pockets. He has become more strident over the years, and is now under federal investigation for violating his prisoner's rights. Hey, it can get hot in those tents, one time the temperature was recorded at 145 degrees, and the prisoner's shoes began to melt... Now, Sheriff Joe seems more like a small, minor egotistical blip overshadowed by the rest of the crap coming out of Arizona. I mean, pink underwear says you are a tough guy???

Russian Travesty, American Strip-Search

“Did you hear about this? According to a new book coming out, Governor Rick Perry of Texas used painkillers to help him get through the Republican debates. Hey pal, join the club!” – Jay Leno

“According to this new book, Perry had back surgery, and he's now saying that his campaign was derailed by pain pills. Now don't confuse that with Herman Cain's campaign, which was derailed by Viagra pills. That was a totally different deal.” – Jay Leno

“President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?” – Jay Leno


“So they were profiting from insider information. Why didn't they use inside information to pay off the $15 trillion debt?” – Jay Leno

When a system is corrupt, there is no justice. This is true everywhere around the world, from Sanford, Florida, now being patrolled by a white neo-Nazi group, to the mean streets of Moscow, Russia. Now that Putin has safely been elected, his corrupt friends are using the courts to whitewash their crimes.

Sergei L. Magnitsky was a 37 year-old lawyer who worked for an investment fund based in London. He brought charges in Russian court that a group of officials had set up shell companies and used his investment fund as a front for stealing over $230 million from the Russian treasury. When such a thing as this happened in Afghanistan, everyone just shrugged it off and ignored any charges. But in Mother Russia, where they never forgive or forget, the same officials had the lawyer, Mr Magnitsky arrested and thrown in prison. Instead of living to fight another day, he promptly died.

Evidently, a scapegoat had to be found, so the two prison doctors were arrested and charged with neglecting Mr Magnitsky's health, of which they were convicted. A travesty of justice, I hear you say, but at least one wheel of justice seemed to be working... But Russia's top investigative agency has just released one of the prison doctors, Larisa A. Litvinova, saying that the statute of limitations had run out on the case. Friends of Mr Magnitsky are not happy, and are being quite vocal in their opposition. In response, the Russian government, which doesn't seem to mind being ripped off for such a huge amount, has also announced that it is thinking of refiling the criminal charges against Sergei Magnitsky... I guess they can dig him up from his grave and do something else sicko and revulsive, as long as it besmirches what reputation is left to his name... I also hear that Putin is thinking of making polonium 210 the national radioactive element of Russia...

Speaking of travesties of justice, my sister and I have been arguing the last few days over the Supreme Court's decision that all police can order you to be strip-searched, whenever they bring your sorry ass down to the station. Yes, this can easily be misused as a tactic for humiliation, and I'm sure it will be used for just that an awful lot. But, my sister was employed as a nurse in a Texas prison, and she says that the wisest thing to do for everyone coming into the prison is to be strip-searched.

She told me that many women will hide drugs, knives or other weapons, or their jewelry up inside their vajay-jays, and you can never tell what-all you might find up there... She also offered that the cleanliness habits are rather low on some, and the combination of contraband, rotting plastic baggies, and stewing body juices make for some of the worst smells she's ever encountered. And yes, men will shove knives and things up their butts, too.

So, I guess I'll try to be gracious about it, the next time I'm brought in by our hard-working boys in blue. A little lube maybe the best I can hope for... Of course, our boys in blue these days have to be coaxed to respond to such low-level problems such as traffic accidents or domestic violence. My brother-in-law got rear-ended last night, while parked at the supermarket. The other driver thought she had her Chevy Blazer in reverse, but it was actually in drive when she gave it some gas, leaped over the concrete divider and across the aisle into the back of his parked car. The police didn't want to respond because the accident took place on "private" property. My brother-in-law was insistent that they send an officer, because the other driver was a sixteen-year-old girl, driving without a license, and he wasn't sure if her insurance company was real or not. Luckily, he made it home without being strip-searched, and I presume the girl did, too... But, it was dicey there for a few moments, you could see it in the policeman's eyes...

Poking At The Patriarch And The Pope

“Recently at the White House, President Obama admitted he's a Trekkie. Although Trekkies say he doesn't qualify because he has a wife and a job.” – Conan O’Brien

“Last night Mitt Romney went three for three by winning the primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. Not to be outdone, Rick Santorum went three for three by offending women, atheists, and Latinos.” – Jimmy Fallon

“There is a strange new law making its way through the Arizona Legislature that would make it illegal to post negative comments on the Internet. The penalty for annoying or offending someone is up to six months in jail. That is good. They're always saying the prisons aren't full enough.” – Jimmy Kimmel

One of the most popular e-mailed stories reported in the New York Times today, deals with greed and corruption and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. It's so lame and in-your-face that you might think that they hired Karl Rove to create the denials.

"Editors doctored a photograph on the church’s Web site of the leader, Patriarch Kirill I, extending a black sleeve where there once appeared to be a Breguet timepiece worth at least $30,000. The church might have gotten away with the ruse if it had not failed to also erase the watch’s reflection, which appeared in the photo on the highly glossed table where the patriarch was seated."

Bloggers had caught the mistake and ridiculed the church, so much that it issued an apology and restored the wristwatch. Unfortunately, before the apology was issued, the Patriarch himself, gave an interview to a  journalist known for sucking up to the Kremlin, and said that it must be some form of hijinks, because he's never worn such an expensive watch, ever, ever, in his whole life. But, yes, it seems that he did, indeed own one...

The Russian Orthodox Church has been squirming itself back into the average citizen's life, now claiming influence in health care, education and politics. The patriarch publicly supported Vladimir Putin during the last election, and bloggers have been publishing rumors that he also owns a country house, a yacht, and like to take skiing trips to Switzerland. When asked, the Patriarch denied it all, saying that he was just rehearsing for the church's latest production of Patriarchs On Ice, coming to an arena near you soon... It's going to take awhile for the Russian Orthodoxes to plunder and hoard away enough wealth to once again rival the Catholic Church, but it seems that they are right on track...

Not to be outdone in the craven department, the Pope lashed out at his fellow priests, showing how he earned the nickname "God's Rottweiler." I only know him as the Nazi Pope, because of his membership in a World War 11 era German youth group... Anyway, the Pope is displeased that there are priests out there who are wont to disobey his wishes, and continue to advocate ordaining women and ending celibacy for priests.

These radical ideas have been spread around by an Austrian group called the Preacher's Initiative, who also would like the Holy Communion to be given to divorced Catholics who have remarried without an annulment and who drive hybrid cars. The group has been endorsed by over 400 priests, and the Vatican fears that it could cause a schism within the church... Right now its merely causing a mere sense of alienation, difference, disagreement, discord, dissension, disunion, division, divorce, faction, fissure, fracture, gap, parting, rift, rupture within the church... In no uncertain terms, the Pope, speaking while sitting on a golden throne, said that these priests, instead of being driven by their own preferences and ideas, should instead turn to a "radicalism of obedience."

Either the Pope doesn't want to be questioned about these ideas, or he really wants to keep the child molesters in the closet, doesn't want them to stalk young boys in the light of day, even if ending celibacy would either contribute more to that situation or help alleviate it... Needless to say, I am neither a Catholic nor Russian Orthodox...

Happy Birthday North Korea

“Welcome, lotto losers. Remember, you're not just losers. You're mega-losers! If it makes you feel any better, the odds of winning were 176 million to 1 — about the same odds the Supreme Court will pass Obamacare.” – Jay Leno

“Despite being broke and coming in last in the polls, Newt Gingrich says he's in the race for the long haul, describing himself as ‘the tortoise in the race.’ The tortoise! See if he picks Donald Trump as his running mate they could be ‘the tortoise and the hair.’” – Jay Leno

"George Zimmerman's family has been all over TV this week. The dad told Fox News that the real problem is so much hate coming from Obama. You know what, man. Obama has drones and Seal Team Six. If he hated you, you'd know about it." – Bill Maher

Sometime next week, North Korea will be launching a long-range, polar orbiting missile. It has invited observers from the US to watch, but we have declined, since it's better for us to make ultimatums and throw hissy fits from a distance. North Korea is saying that the missile is for scientific purposes, to help map resources on the Korean Peninsula, and to bolster communications, yet the fear is that it will a an inter-continental ballistic missile test, instead.

North Korea makes a combination of good reasons for this missile along with some downright silly ones, which begs the question why do countries like North Korea and Iran feel that their pride and identity as a country is at stake, if they are successful or not??? Asia Times reported on this press release, the four reasons why North Korea feels it must launch this missile:

"Firstly, the satellite launch has long been planned as part of nationwide celebrations for Kim Il-sung's centenary. No one can stand in its way.
Secondly, firing a satellite into orbit is pursuant to the will of the late, great fatherly leader Kim Jong-il. For the Korean people, there is no disobeying it.
Thirdly, the Kim Jong-eun administration is only exercising its inalienable right of sovereignty. For Pyongyang to yield to outside pressure and demur on the planned satellite would suggest that North Koreans are not as proud a people as they are.
Fourthly, the payload mounted on the Unha (Milky Way) rocket is a polar-orbiting observation satellite. It is designed to transmit important prospecting data on the underground resources of the Korean Peninsula, as well as weather and mapping data."

So, we can see that they are going to launch this missile to save face for some insane dead guy, who officially began their special form of institutionalized paranoia over 40 years ago. But never fear, because the US has at least one fleet prowling the area, and the Japanese, who never have had a paranoid event in their history, will have their own missiles pointed at the North Koreans and their harmless rocket, no need to worry, what could go wrong? And here I thought that Syria or Israel would spark the next world war...

We just haven't figured out if the new Kim is more level-headed than his father and grandfather, and if the hoary old generals will let him make decisions for his country. They already decided to let people starve and launch this missile instead, ruining a deal where the US would send them some food. Enjoy that incredibly large firework, and remember, that we are all just waiting for some lame excuse to shoot it down from the sky... After all, the worst they could do with a successful long range missile, is sell it to Iran...


If you;ve never seen a rocket launch into polar orbit, it really is quite beautiful. A few years ago I worked outside at night in California, and happened to watch a missile leave our atmosphere at two o;clock in the morning. At first, I thought that I was watching a meteor, until I realized that it was going in the other direction, upwards towards space. It took several minutes before it winked out and disappeared as it left our atmosphere. My father told me the next day that the Air Force Base at Lompoc often fired missiles to send satellites into polar orbit, and what I saw had been launched over 400 miles away. I was actually able to see this one more time about three months later, which somehow made the job I was doing seem alright...

But Hillary, Surely You Can't Be Syrians...

“This weekend 71-year-old former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant. And I thought this was nice — they let him shoot the donor himself.” – Jay Leno

“Fox News sent Dick Cheney flowers. MSNBC sent chili cheese fries.” – Jay Leno

“Dick Cheney was talking to a reporter right after the surgery and he said he wants to live long enough to make sure nobody else gets healthcare.” – David Letterman

David Letterman’s “Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Spending $50 On A Photo With Newt Gingrich”

10. How much have I paid for pictures with other guys named Newt?
9. Should I just photograph myself burning $50?
8. Do I look Newty enough?
7. Should I just get a free photo with some other guy who's not going to be president?
6. Do I have to touch him?
5. Is this how Newt met his three wives?
4. Seriously, have I lost my mind?
3. Does Newt have to be in the photo?
2. What would Rick Santorum think of this idea?
1. Will Rush Limbaugh think I'm a slut?

The Syrian revolution is now officially over, Assad and his government have won. George W Bush came out and gave his verbal support for the Syrian opposition, so the show is over, I hear the fat lady singing... Short of a full NATO invasion, it's obvious that there is no way that the opposition will ever win, and Assad is willing to raze many large cities to achieve his goal. Unfortunately, the only other way that any reforms will take place is if Assad is assassinated, no matter what Hillary Clinton and the Saudis say.

The latest UN inspired cease fire is supposed to be happening now, and so far the Syrian government has ignored it like all previous agreements. Tanks still roam the mean streets of Homs, and refugees still try to flee across the border. The excuse given is that they will wait until life returns to normal before they pull out. The opposition has  been asking for more weapons in a last ditch effort to legitimize their position. The Saudi foreign minister has said that the arming of the opposition should be their duty...

There is no win-win solution here, just as there was no obvious goal achieved in Iraq or Afghanistan, and the natural consequence is that people are getting tired of the US meddling and trying to influence events in the Middle East, unless it can keep Israel from attacking Iran... We tried to hold Egypt hostage by trading a few people that were about to go to trial for updated weapons systems and $1.5 billion in annual foreign aid. Polls taken in Cairo show that a majority of the people no longer want freebies and gift money from the US because they don't want to be beholden to our interests. Even when we think we are doing good, like helping to build democracy, we tend to be overbearing and smothering.

One of those overbearing non-government organizations, the National Democratic Institute, which is also a CIA front, was shut down in Egypt and is under investigation. Over the weekend the government of Bahrain revoked its license to work in their country, without giving a reason. The NDI was using Bahrain as a base for running programs in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait. Back in Washington, the head of NDI could only describe the programs it funds in vague terms, but wanted us to know that they included working with women to bolster their leadership skills. It joins over 600 other organizations that suck up donations and money from our government that you pay for with tax dollars. I'm thinking that a good place to start limiting government spending is to stop funding these fake organizations run by cynical liars... If you think that I'm being too harsh, just do what the Egyptian government is doing, asking for a list of projects they have funded, how long they have been functioning, and the current status of each project. I would be surprised if there were over six working projects in all of Iraq and Afghanistan, and those require millions of dollars in annual maintenance...

Be Still My Bleating Heart, The Mayans Were A Bit Off...

"According to a new book, President Obama blames Fox News for his political problems and losing voters. How could Fox News lose voters? If you're watching Fox News, you're probably not voting for him in the first place." - Jay Leno

"Rick Santorum said he's not worried about unemployment. Well, he will be in November." –David Letterman

“Here’s how nice it was here on the Eastern Seaboard. It was such a beautiful day today that Mitt Romney was riding on the roof of his car.” – David Letterman

It looks like Dick Cheney got in under the wire with his heart transplant, as the Chinese government has announced that it will stop trafficking in human organs. Whether they follow through and actually stop it, remains to be seen... Human organ trafficking is a worldwide business that can be more lucrative than smuggling heroin. Because many body parts have a short shelf life, often only a matter of hours, the Chinese would wait until they got an order for one, then executing a prisoner and harvesting his body for the needed organ.

The harvesting of organs goes on wherever there is acute poverty. There are boys in the slums of Rio de Janeiro missing a kidney, convinced to sell one of theirs for a few hundred dollars, a thousand if they are lucky. Last year there was a scandal in Israel because some Israeli organ harvesters were using poor Palestinians as their base. Outside of Israel, Egypt, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, India and Iraq are some of the biggest players in the game. In the US, we recently had a case indicting 44 people in New Jersey for money laundering to buy illegal organs, that included state and local officials and local rabbis.

Back in 2005, it was estimated that over 10% of kidneys that were transplanted came from illegally harvested sources. Since then, the need for kidneys has grown, and the legal means cannot keep up with the need for them. Many hospitals and surgeons don't ask where their organs came from, just glad that they are available as needed. More dramatic organs like the heart are watched more closely, as there are more problems of matching a heart to the recipient correctly... I understand that in Dick Cheney's case, he got to shoot his own donor, and that he will be speaking fluent Chinese... It was a successful 8 hour operation, with the first seven spent trying to find his own heart, first...

There was some criticism of both Iran and Afghanistan awhile back, for their use of stoning people to death for infractions of tribal custom in rural areas. More recently, in Baghdad, the Minister of Culture denounced young men who had adopted wearing the black clothes and make-up of disenfranchised "emo" youths of the West. He gave the power to the police to arrest anybody who they thought were "emos," which also became a code word for labeling gays. He also encouraged neighborhood gangs to stone the kids to death if they refused to conform, and so far there have been over two dozen kids who have been beaten, arrested by police, executed, and their bodies dumped in alleyways and by the side of the road.

We had a near miss last year, of a meteorite that came close to hitting the earth, it came inside of the moon's orbit to the earth before passing by. Another asteroid is predicted to come closer to us in 28 years, begging the question that the Mayan calendar is a bit off... But, according to NASA: "Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years from now. Here is a scientific reality check of this relatively nondescript space rock which is currently ranked a "1" on the 1 to 10 Torino Impact Hazard Scale

As of Feb. 26, 2012, asteroid 2011 AG5 is one of 8,744 near-Earth objects that have been discovered. It is approximately 460 feet (140 meters) in size and its orbit carries it as far out as beyond Mars' orbit and as close to the sun as halfway between Earth and Venus. It was discovered on Jan. 8, 2011, by astronomers using a 60-inch Cassegrain reflector telescope located at the summit of Mount Lemmon in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona."

If there is any real danger, we won't know it until the asteroid is observed in 2039, and we can predict how much the earth's gravitational pull will affect its orbit. Observing the asteroid is made more difficult because they've only been able to track it at night. If it were to hit earth, yes, it would wipe out all life as we know it, but so far, the scientists that are tracking it doubt that it will come close enough to be warped by earth's gravity, and will join the other 9000 asteroids scheduled to pass the earth along with it... I'm sorry that I don't have any jokes about ending all life on earth, though I know they are out there... The closest I could find orbiting out there is this:

Top Advantages of An Asteroid Really Hitting Earth

For starters, you'd be able to surf in South Dakota

Wouldn't have to hear that garbage Aerosmith song anymore.

The one dinosaur on the planet (here's a clue..he's purple) would be extinct.

We'd miss out on Tony Danza's or Jenny McCarthy's next sitcom.

Puts a major damper on that Molly Hatchet/Judas Priest reunion tour.

Pretty good chance that the Gorditas Dog from the Taco Bell commercials wouldn't survive.

There'd be no more movies on the topic, that's for sure.