Bush Forces NASA to Ignore Earth:
The Bush administration, in an attempt to force our leading scientific community to ignore the most serious problem facing us, global warming, changed NASA's mission statement: “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.”
The phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” was deleted and substituted with “to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”
This might seem like a small thing to Texans who don't hold much with words no how, but the mission statement reflects how all the money is spent by NASA in leading the country's research projects. If you haven't caught on by now, the Bush administration has only two constituencies: the handfull of oil companies and the northeastern banking concerns.
You can read more about the situation in today's New York Times. Oh, and check the weather. What we are seeing now in record setting heat waves and storms are a direct result of global warming, more examples of how the Bush administration and the people who bought the White House are failing you and your children.
Cultural Shift?
The New York Times reports that a growing number of Baptist Colleges are cutting their ties to the mother ship, their state conventions. The colleges, evidently, want to pursue "education" as opposed to "indoctrination."
The great irony here stems from the history of the Baptist movement in the U.S., which originally was at the forefront in fighting for many of the freedoms that the U.S. claims to hold dear, such as separation from church and state.
About a quarter of a century ago, demogogues in the U.S. realized that any group of people who believed in "the literal interpretation of the Bible" could be led around by the nose and made to charge into burning buildings for the sole purpose of enriching the scum who ordered them into the buildings.
The definition of "literal interpretation" is "to read aloud without explanation or explication." This act defies any notion of education beyond the simple ability to form sound.
And then there is the question of the "Bible." Which "Bible"? According to Baptists, the Bible is the word of God and cannot be altered, but they themselves have advocated different versions of the Bible, including the King James version, which nearly all authorities agree is inaccurate.
The Bush administration, in an attempt to force our leading scientific community to ignore the most serious problem facing us, global warming, changed NASA's mission statement: “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.”
The phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” was deleted and substituted with “to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”
This might seem like a small thing to Texans who don't hold much with words no how, but the mission statement reflects how all the money is spent by NASA in leading the country's research projects. If you haven't caught on by now, the Bush administration has only two constituencies: the handfull of oil companies and the northeastern banking concerns.
You can read more about the situation in today's New York Times. Oh, and check the weather. What we are seeing now in record setting heat waves and storms are a direct result of global warming, more examples of how the Bush administration and the people who bought the White House are failing you and your children.
Cultural Shift?
The New York Times reports that a growing number of Baptist Colleges are cutting their ties to the mother ship, their state conventions. The colleges, evidently, want to pursue "education" as opposed to "indoctrination."
The great irony here stems from the history of the Baptist movement in the U.S., which originally was at the forefront in fighting for many of the freedoms that the U.S. claims to hold dear, such as separation from church and state.
About a quarter of a century ago, demogogues in the U.S. realized that any group of people who believed in "the literal interpretation of the Bible" could be led around by the nose and made to charge into burning buildings for the sole purpose of enriching the scum who ordered them into the buildings.
The definition of "literal interpretation" is "to read aloud without explanation or explication." This act defies any notion of education beyond the simple ability to form sound.
And then there is the question of the "Bible." Which "Bible"? According to Baptists, the Bible is the word of God and cannot be altered, but they themselves have advocated different versions of the Bible, including the King James version, which nearly all authorities agree is inaccurate.
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