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Edited on Sat Nov-03-07 03:24 PM by tom_paine
--Ambassador Kosh, from the TV series 'Babylon 5'
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The Turks are skirmishing in N. Iraq.
Pakistan is a mess: martial law and a dictator. ISI, al-Qaeda, and Bushies together.
Afghanistan is a mess, Taliban Rising and Poppy, too!
Iran is a diplomatic mess, very possibly the match that touches off the brushfire, and we now KNOW that DubyaDubyaThree is very much on Nutsy Caligula's mind.
Nusty Caligula has now officially threatened DubyaDubyaThree publicly, Mafia-style ("You wouldn't want there should be an accident").
Environmental tipping points are not just being reached but shattered. Permafrost mountainsides sliding, the Arctic Icecap soon to be no more in summer, and ALL environmental changes are happening "far faster than we estimated", to say the least.
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Go ahead and flame and crucify me for being a pessimist, but can you tell me that anything I have said in the short post above to be factually untrue. I am a realist.
Oh, and for all the hard data on all the environment stuff, just search around the Environment/Energy Forum and you'll find the data. Not just opinions and articles, but the scientific data itself.
So I ask...
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This poll should not be construed to be in favor of giving up, for to stand and be true in a good cause that may yet be doomed is still desirable over bending the knee to totalitarianism.
As the original Tom Paine said, "Better fare hard with good men (and women) than feast it with bad."
And remember, where there is life, there is hope.
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