libertarian_warrior wrote:
'Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens. -Ted "Eskimo Power" Kennedy
Kennedy's statement was hyperbole, but Bork still would have been a shit justice for the court. Truth be told, though, not much worse than Alito or Scalia, who are already on the bench. His philosophy of originalism was crap jurisprudence - was, and is.
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"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making." - Al Gore
Unless you're prepared to dismiss global warming as unreal (here we go again) (and I could discuss some recent unheard of heat waves in Russia with you), I would say dealing with it is a rational response to a rational threat -- the opposite of irrational fear.
