The Daily Background

Oh boy. The Associated Press has teamed up with their Super Serious Polling Partner^tm/New Best Buddy^tm AOL to provide us with the following poll results:

Six in 10 people think the U.S. will be the victim of another terrorist attack next year, more than five years after the Sept. 11 assault on New York and Washington. An identical percentage think it is likely that bad guys will unleash a biological or nuclear weapon elsewhere in the world.

There is plenty of gloom to accompany all of that doom.

Seventy percent of Americans predict another major natural disaster within the United States and an equal percentage expect worsening global warming. Fewer than one-third of people, or 29 percent, think it is likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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One in four, 25 percent, anticipates the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Boy, and I thought my 2007 predictions were unlikely….

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