Rewind seven years...

On 9/12/2001 if someone had told you that by the end of 2008:

• There'd have been nary a single terrorist attack inside the U.S...

• A man with the middle name of Hussein would have been elected President of the United States...

• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be bankrupt; and Citibank would be trading at $3 a share...

• An undersea earthquake would kill nearly a quarter of a million people...

• The Clinton administration would be back in power...

• The Saudi Arabian Navy would have joined forces with NATO...

• The entire planet would be suffering through a catastrophic cooling cycle...

• An SNL comedian would be just a few dead voters away from winning a U.S. Senate seat...

• Saddam Hussein would have been hung by the neck until dead by a new and Democratic Iraqi government...

• The New York Times would be both a laughingstock and a penny stock...

• Gas prices would have swung from $5 a gallon to $1.50 in just a handful of months...

Well, if someone had told you all of that, you'd seriously have that person committed. Seriously.

Well, this proves at least one point.

Science fiction ain't s**t.