Politics for the week.
We’ll start with Al Gore.
Al Gore on SNL… From the Transcript :
In the last 6 years we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack. As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine, but I assure you: we will not let the glaciers win.
Right now, in the 2nd week of May 2006, we are facing perhaps the worst gas crisis in history. We have way too much gasoline. Gas is down to $0.19 a gallon and the oil companies are hurting. I know that I am partly to blame by insisting that cars run on trash.
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We’ve got some problems with the way we’re sending troops in to combat, but I’m sure you already knew that…
Concurrently, We’ve got some problems with WHO we’re sending in to combat, but… I guess we need to fill the ranks, right?
From CNN.com, Report: Mentally ill troops forced into combat
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — U.S. military troops with severe psychological problems have been sent to Iraq or kept in combat, even when superiors have been aware of signs of mental illness, a newspaper reported in its Sunday editions.
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And in what is simply one of the scarier developments in the continuing destruction of our civil rights and privacy in this nation, the DOJ moves to dismiss the EFF Lawsuit over NSA wiretapping and phone records.
From eff.org: DOJ Moves to Dismiss AT&T Class Action under Cover of Night
Early Saturday morning, in the darkest hours of the night, the Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss our class-action lawsuit against AT&T, contending that AT&T’s collaboration with the NSA’s massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans’ communications (which violates the law and the privacy of its customers)–despite being front page news throughout the United States and the subject of government press conferences and Congressional hearings–is a state secret. The motion was accompanied by declarations by Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency and John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence.
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Just a few nuggets from the feed this morning, hoping that all of you are just a little more aware of the world we live in.