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October 5, 2006

Terror Surveillance Won't Matter Much If You're Dead

S
enator John Cornyn (R-Tx) famously said about objections to the administration's domestic syping, "None of your civil liberties matter much after you're dead."

Well, here's an especially depressing article about how one third of Earth will be a desert in less than 100 years.

I read things like this and feel compelled to say our political leaders really stink. And so does the media.

UPDATE: To clarify my last sentence: "I read things like this and -- believing that if there's even a 1% chance millions of people in the U.S. could die because of indifference -- I feel compelled to say our political leaders really stink . . . "

Posted by shertaugh at October 5, 2006 9:07 AM

Comments

Like you, I find it extremely unlikely that predictions of climatological apocalypse could be even partially wrong. Millions -- no, make it billions -- will die. It is wasn't true, the newspaper wouldn't have published it!

Posted by: reuben at October 5, 2006 1:23 PM