The End of the World

“Forecasters said the unusual winter tornadoes were caused by unusually warm temperatures in the region. But cold weather, possibly with snow and sleet, was expected to follow the line of thunderstorms.”

50 people dead across Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Kentucky in something like 67 simultaneous tornadoes.

I am not so much a God person, but I think it is some sort of divine message that this has happened on Super Tuesday. Whichever one of you assholes gets elected (and believe me, you’re all assholes, even you Obama– I don’t trust a-one of you), you have to deal with this. No more fucking around.

It’s time to take a good look at our presidential candidates’ environmental record. None of them are doing enough. Even Obama (the candidate of “change”) is all entangled in the coal interest (which is about the oldest and dirtiest form of energy we have).

“‘According to the League of Conservation Voters, in 140 debates and interviews since early 2007, five top TV interviewers (Tim Russert, Chris Wallace, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Schieffer and Wolf Blitzer) have asked 2,484 questions of presidential candidates, and they have mentioned global warming only three times and asked only 24 questions related to the issue,’ notes Stinebrickner, who holds a University Professorship at DePauw. What’s equally worrisome: the candidates themselves aren’t bringing up environmental issues, he states.” (full article here.)

It’s time we start demanding that these questions be asked and answered…and if anybody knows how that’s done, um, I guess, do it and, um, let me know.

Oh, brother.