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Enjoy this hilarious clip of Jon Stewart assessing Bush's lack of expertise (or expertease:

Enjoy this (spoof) video of Steve Jobs unveiling the latest products by Apple, a parody on Bush's fantastic foreign policy blunders.

In their continued effort to confuse the irrefutable facts about global warming, ExxonMobil funds multiple Institutes (e.g. Cooperative Environmental Institute, Marshall Institute) to publish misleading facts about global warming. While this misinformation is not nearly as frequent or as reputable as the overwhelming scientific concensus on global warming, it is gaining nearly equal press time, helping confuse consumers in the US and elsewhere. ExxonMobil has already spent nearly $16 Million to fund a carefully crafted campaign of confusion and misinformation on global warming.

ExxonMobil has gone as far as hiring many of the individuals and agencies that have helped tobacco stay so successful despite the proven health risks associated with smoking.The tactics of the oil giant have been compared to ongoing tactics used by the tobacco industry, and rightfully so. ExxonMobil has gone as far as hiring many of the individuals and agencies that have helped tobacco stay so successful despite the proven health risks associated with smoking.

On a more personal note, I was very disheartened to learn that the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association), which I was a member of until this weekend, is heavily funded by ExxonMobil and has helped cloud the issue of global warming in our nation's schools.

Cartoon courtesy of Seppo Leinonen. Be sure to check out his other great cartoons!

The Bush administration is once again excercising executive power over climate scientists, now subjecting any scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey to controls over any research which might have results that conflict with official US policy.

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Since this is the most popular reason people visit this site, I thought I'd highlight it. Go ahead. Take a crack at "W". You know you want to.

I take no credit for making this. I'd love to credit the animator...

Sometime in February, NASA quietly altered its mission statement. Since 2002, the all-important mission statement read:

"To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can."

This year, it was changed. The phrase "to understand and protect our home planet" was slipped out, and the mission, clearly published on this year's budget and planning documents, states tthe agency’s mission "to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."

Recently, more and more people feel they’ve been stepped-on by our administration as it has increased its power. Our government, which had been a relatively smooth blanket over the nation for centuries, has slowly built itself up into a power pyramid resembling the governments of the earlier second millennium.

Are you angry? Curious? Wondering how a government establishes such powers? Read the whole story at TheSequitur.com.

It is now clear to the rest of the world that the US is responsible for far more than its share of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the gasses responsible for global warming. What is also clear is that the time for change has long since arrived and the Bush administration sits back and does nothing. What is worse is that 6 years ago, while first campaigning for president, Bush promised that he was committed to the environment and would sign and ratify the Kyoto Protocol. One of his first acts as president was to withdraw from the Kyoto talks and refuse to sign the treaty.