After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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Pentagon fears global-warming
George W. keeps telling us that global warming isn't happening, so why are his Pentagon planners warning that "There is substantial evidence that significant global warming will occur during the 21st century," that this could lead to "an abrupt climate change," and that this change could "destabilize the geo-political environment, leading to skirmishes, battles, and even war?"
The Pentagon's report was commissioned by Andrew Marshall, head of the Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment—a man known as the "Yoda" of the Pentagon.
The report warns that shortages of food, fresh water, and energy could inspire "have" nations to build fortresses around themselves to stave off have-not nations. Its conclusion: The risk of global warming "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern."
Please, someone read it to George W.