September 14, 2005

I don't know, just perspective, I guess.

I'm not trying to make a point about one or the other, or draw any conclusions, or diminish anyone's sense of loss, but something that happened in the very near past continues to nag at me. I don't know, maybe it's short memories, or an unwillingness to think beyond the present, but two years ago during the summer of 2003, Europe had a heat wave that wound up causing 20 to 35 thousand deaths, with more than 14,000 in France alone.

Sometimes it just seems we lose track of such things, and for the wrong reasons.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at September 14, 2005 02:05 PM
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I seem to recall they blamed Bush for that one, too.

Posted by: Larry Anderson at September 14, 2005 02:36 PM

Well, you know, bandwagons ARE a lot of fun.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at September 14, 2005 02:51 PM

George W. Bush was president then, right? Gotta be his Global Warming policies that caused that tragic loss of life. [/sarcasm]

Posted by: Nate at September 14, 2005 03:34 PM

It's a policy? I thought the line was that GWB was too stupid to have a plan for anything unless it involves oil.... oh wait if there is real good global warming we can have a lot of plankton and plankton turns into oil given a few million years.....

Posted by: Larry Anderson at September 14, 2005 04:06 PM