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The Polar War

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As simple as picking up a pen and signing a piece of paper, no more difficult than endorsing a check but the administration has another alternative plan. The US Congress is considering a proposal to build two new heavy polar ships. No doubt to be followed by an increased military presence to guard the ice that’s not melting and to sail the still frozen seas. Instead of realizing that the melting seas might be signal our own eventual demise and might by its very existence be our death warrant. The administration instead intends to militarize it as a last lavish funeral pyre.

A celebration of recklessness and excess and the degradation of mankind. But that’s not how Lenny would say it! I can imagine how he might say it but I couldn’t repeat it here, and by God he would be right!

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Wouldn't it be nice by Andris on Tuesday, Aug 7, 2007 at 10:29:44 PM

 
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