[mrsmith]

Drought or politics?

Conservatives would have maintained a 7 year supply of food in reserve...

Liberals would have squandered the 7 years supply.

(Even if the drought was prebiblical, the principle would still apply.)

[Jim from C-Town]

American Society has been destroyed by 90 years of liberal policies and 3 years of Obama. America's Caligula hellbent on destroying the empire.

I think will call The big O Gaius Germanicus from now on.

[GeronL]

eating their children? Isn’t that what the US is doing economically??

[SunkenCiv]

The drought was completely unexpected. There’s some evidence that the monsoon cycle (the one that causes famine in Africa due to lack of rain when it cycles down) was discerned by the Egyptians, whose fortunes were inextricably tied to the Nile “out of season” flood cycle. And they were also aware of the cause of that cycle, which is snowmelt. Herodotus recorded that as the fourth and (as he saw it) least likely of the four explanations he was told in Egypt for the odd flood cycle of the Nile.