All coming soon, to a planet near you.

Twenty years ago, June of 1988, Jim Hansen of the Goddard Space Institute presented the first sound data showing human involvement in changing the Earth’s climate. Since then all of his predictions, from temperature rise to melting of the polar ice caps and the glaciers, have come true. With new data, a more comprehensive understanding of the feedback mechanisms and better modeling, he sees much worse to come: sea level rises that will displace hundreds of millions of people, floods and drought on a scope and scale far beyond anything known in human history, extinction of half or more of the species on the planet and collapse of entire ecosystems.

Not to worry, though; we still have twenty years before it all spirals hopelessly out of control.

Maybe.  Read more 

We knew that Christianists in the military put the country they’re sworn to defend third on the list—and that they’re using prayer as a decision making aid. (You can imagine the scale of the Iraq Clusterfuck if God wasn’t helping these people out, right?) Hear the cry of the loon:

“I found a wonderful opportunity as a director on the joint staff, as I meet the people that come into my directorate,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack J. Catton Jr. says in [Christian Embassy] video. “And I tell them right up front who Jack Catton is, and I start with the fact that I’m an old-fashioned American, and my first priority is [1] my faith in God, then [2] my family and then [3] country. I share my faith because it describes who I am.”

But Jack Patton is just some Pentagon bureaucrat.

But Bush said exactly the same thing on April 19 before that small, friendly crowd in Ohio:

[BUSH:] I emphasize, that is the priority for me as the President. It’s [1] my faith, [2] my family, and [3] my country.

WTF! Couldn’t Bush at least put his country #2?  Read more