Obama signals break with Bush in new science team

P.S. I apologize for the length, I am just so bored of people's end of the world stories.

My god freegnu, that was alot of conspiracy theories. I personally can't wait until 2012 is over so I can stop hearing people say "The Mayans have it all figured out, the world is going to end in 2012." People are so obsessed with talking about what the Mayan calendar predicts but barely any of them even know how it works. The Mayans had 3 separate calendars, not just one. They had a solar calendar that was 365 days long, a ceremonial calendar that was 260 days long, and, to measure longer time periods, they developed the long count calendar which was based on increments of 5, each less then 20. The first day in the Mayan long count calendar was 0.0.0.0 which was August 11th 3114 bc. Now, every 144,000 days or about every 395 years the calendar would reset itself, which they called a baktun. It's equivalent to December 31st 1999 when the world got to watch our millennium reset itself into the year 2000. Well thats exactly what is going to happen on December 21st 2012 to the Mayan calendar. It's going to roll over from 12.19.19.17.19 back to 13.0.0.0. Just like it has done since the first baktun. There has yet to be a single shred of archaeological evidence to suggest that the Mayans thought anything other then a new baktun would take place on this date. Now granted, the Mayans did only have a long calendar for up to 13 baktun's but instead of taking the route that this means the end of the world, how about we take a more logical approach to this. That being that the Mayan calendars were carved of stone and I highly doubt they ever considered that people of the 21st century would be obsessing over how they keep track of their years. And say something would happen in 2012 why would it have to be due to the Mayan calendar prediction?(which, by the way, we still don't know what people who believe this actually think will happen.) In 2012 it was also predicted that a new planet, Planet X, (which is suppose to be some type of comet planet....you figure that one out) is going to be discovered. Now, this story does suggest that the planet comet is suppose to come so close to the earth that it could flip our planet upside down. Problem with this prediction is that through most of this stories history Planet X was suppose to come about in 2003. It was changed when 2003 came and went and nothing happened. Infact, when it comes to end of the world stories 2012 is surprisingly lacking for the amount of fear people have for it. Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in July of 1999, December of 1999, June of 2002, and October of 2005. Infact, different translations of Nostradamus also predict a zombie uprising. But even with his 4 apocalypses and the zombie uprising, he never once said anything about 2012. Shakers believed the world would end in 1792. Seventh Day Adventist believed it would take place in 1843. There was a book published in 1988 by a Jehovah's witness that was called "88 Reasons the Rapture would happen in 1988." And so on and so forth. So what WILL happen in 2012? Well the Olympics will happen in London, Barack Obama will run for his second term, the US will give the Korean military back to the Koreans, the Earths population will hit 7 billion people in October, and the sun will flip it's magnetic polls as it does at the end of every 11 year sunspot cycle. So before we start talking about doom and gloom how about we get more then hear say.

I think anyone under 30 who chooses to express their political opinion should put their age in their post so we can see why they are so optimistic about their guy. It's hella convenient don't ya think that our countries coffers were emptied right before we get a young vibrant president. Doncha think? They are still giving the money away by the billions right now even though we are in debt up to our eyeballs and the economy is in tatters and the banks charge usury fees with out a peep from the regulatory officials. When I was young 20% interest was considered loan sharking and it was illegal. Charging more than a few percentage points about prime or the lending rate used to be considered usury. Now they charge 5% on mortgages when the prime rate is effectively 0%. And our credit card rates have no connection to reality with people paying 30% interest on their balances. Our energy problems and technological advancement as a country and civilization has been held back for more than a century now by big oil. What makes you think they won't hold us back for another century. They already have you distracted worrying about stopping the inevitable global warming. The glaciers have been melting since the last ice age. We need to execute plans to thrive through worse environmental disasters and climate changes than drought. Or didn't you know that starting in 2012 the Earth's magnetic field might fade in and out while reversing direction intermittently for the next 1,000 years when we align behind the Sun with the black hole at the center of our galaxy. The Mayans had it all figured out when it came to astronomy. And that's not all. If Yellowstone goes off at the same or the Atlantic shelf shifts there won't be a US to worry about because the technology isn't in place to save any of us. There won't be anywhere to run to. But with a little luck Obama will get us our health care bill and green energy act before disaster strikes. If we're realy lucky we can go on pretending that this planet was made for sustaining human life. Ignoring the fact that the planet has only been about to sustain any life for a fraction of a fraction of the time it's been around. So unless you're going to sprout wings like the highly evolved dinosaurs our "lucky" streak will eventually run out.

Best news in years

Once the inauguration is over, Obama can shelve GWB's "Godclogging" ways and get down to some serious modernization in D.C.

First: I like that picture!
Second: This may be kinda off topic but I am getting soooooo tired of hearing my parents go on and on about their conspericy theories about obama just because they don't like him. Why can't people just accept that he is the new prez!?!?!? Also I think he will be pretty good for this country. It really has gone to the dogs and I think he will, If just a little bit , Pull us back.

Yessssssssssssssss finally. I'm so happy he won the election, I actually feel like the world will change for the better when he takes the hot seat.

Hot Damn! It's about time!! Having Bush as our leader has made us all, every single one of us, a little bit more stupid, by proxy.

We are stepping out of the dark ages and into the 21st century.

Bush represents darkness while Obama signals light.