IPCC Forecasts Dramatic Changes in Climate, Now Hard Science:

The Exxon Mobil owned Bush administration will now have to work even harder to mislead us about human involvement in climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released hard data, forecasting what the next century will look like, and it doesn't bode well for any of us.

However, it should come as no surprise that those who will suffer least will be the rich, like the CEO of Exxon Mobil and its lackeys in the Bush administration. You can download the "Summary for Policymakers" here.


Left Agog at Newt Gingrich's Blatant Racism:

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (A.K.A. Nuke Getrich) has stirred leftist (actually centerist—there is no left in the U. S.) bloggers with his blatant appeal to racism as he tests the water for a presidential campaign.

Getrich, who was run out of congress for being a crook back in the last decade, has used his boyish smile to ingratiate himself with the far right, appearing regularly on the Murdoch Empire's Fox propaganda network. Those pearlies seem to have blinded the knee jerk white supremists to the fact that they had all fallen out of love with him because of his close relationship with their arch enemies, the Clintons.

Getrich (driven from office for ethics violations) passes himself off as an intellectual who is an anti-intellectual. He's now telling audiences that the country needs to stop its bilingual educational programs because they are undermining America. John McWhorter, writing for The New Republic's Open University addresses the issue in "Gingrich Language Ideology Ghetto."


Too Good To Pass Up:

Under the Here We Go Again column, The New York Times reports that

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials.

Trying to make things work in an unreasonable world is a difficult task and requires diplomacy, something the Bush administration has told its supporters as not being necessary.