Five Minutes to Doomsday

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Linda S. Heard
Online Journal Contributing Writer

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1647.shtml

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Today, the Doomsday Clock, presently set at seven minutes to midnight, is set to be moved forward by its caretaker The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. This symbolic gesture reflects the sense of foreboding experienced by many in the face of wars, nuclear and biological weapons proliferation, terrorism and global warming. Rarely has our planet been as threatened. Rarely has the human race thrust humankind into such jeopardy.

As if erratic weather systems, tsunamis, melting icecaps, fast disappearing species, disease and poverty wasn’t enough for the world’s leaders to tackle, it seems we have taken to shamelessly annihilating each other. Our politicians and generals even have nice words for this phenomena, like cleansing, subduing, pacifying; words that all translate into someone’s death.

The individuals who wield the tools of such destruction are worshipped as "the nation’s finest." They are always the good guys; the victims of their missiles, bombs and torture camps, always the rogues.

Rogues like the nomadic herdsmen bombed with their livestock in Somalia; rogues like the village folk buried under a bomb crater in Pakistan; rogues like the celebrants at wedding parties in Afghanistan and Iraq, who ended up in coffins or attending funerals. Human beings with shared hopes and dreams reduced to collateral damage in the time it takes a pilot to push a button...

[jus_the_facts]

1. k'n'r

[corkhead]

6. OMG, your graphic is hilarious!

I've been without power, heat, etc. for 2 days and I am a bit punchy.

:rofl: :spray:

[jus_the_facts]

8. I find it fitting...sure hope the DU'er I *borrowed* it from...

...doesn't mind too much. :D

[wakeme2008]

2. I made it 5 :) nt

[badgerpup]

3. K & R...it's on Greatest, but needs to move UP!

:kick:

[OneBlueSky]

4. Bush MUST be impeached, and NOW . . .

whether it's successful or not, at least impeachment proceedings may keep him occupied enough to prevent him from destroying the planet . . .

[ClintonTyree]

5. And the fundies are jubilant....

the rapture is coming, the rapture is coming! :woohoo: Isn't it great? I can't wait to be raptured right out of my car on the way to church. I guess I'd better wear clean underwear everyday. Wouldn't want to go through the pearly gates with skid marks in my drawers.

The thing that saddens me is that there are people who actually think this way. Doomsday is a GOOD thing and should be looked forward to. :eyes:

There's just SOOOOOOOOO much madness in this world. :cry:

[dweller]

7. from the homepage of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

http://www.thebulletin.org/index.htm


tick tock.
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