GOP Ignores Global Warming

                  God, as I imagine Her!

I swear to God! I really do. She shakes her head also,
unable to believe the stubbornness of some people  – 
unable to believe the risks they’re willing to take with
the lives of future generations. I swear to God.

I spend considerable amounts of time contemplating
what she might look like  –  God that is – and how
she can be so patient with us.

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As Andrew Sullivan says on his blog (The Dish*), “…the Republicans in Tampa either ignored climate change or flat-out mocked it.”
by Charlie Leck

There wasn’t any mention in the speeches in Tampa, from the Republicans, of global warming – neither yea or nay!

Andrew Sullivan, on his very popular blog, goes on to list “what else the party has ignored.”

“The thunderstorm and tornado swarms of early 2011, including the monstrous Joplin, MO., disaster. Hurricane Irene, which inundated much of the Northeast. The worst heat wave in Russia in 1,000 years. Record-shattering heat and drought in much of the United States this year. The lowest level of Arctic sea ice ever measured. The melting of virtually the entire ice sheet of Greenland, something not see in 30 years of satellite measurements.

“And yet climate change is barely a blip on the political radar in this year’s campaign. The topic appears in the Republican convention platform only in one passage berating the Obama administration for elevating climate change to a ‘severe threat’ equivalent to foreign aggression.”

I swear to God! I really do. She shakes her head also, unable to believe the stubbornness of some people – unable to believe the risks they’re willing to take with the lives of future generations. I swear to God.

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It's my birthday today. My goodness! 72 already. The image of God (above) is a birthday treat to myself today. It's a computer drawing I did that was based on an image I found at a web site called loverne.com, a site that I'm not too sure is entirely reputable; however, one probably ought to take a chance or two on one's 72nd. Don't you think?

*You can find Andrew Sullivan's blog, The Dish, at http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 

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