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From the CBC
Members of Canada’s scientific community praised the contributions of the and expressed regret over the government’s decision to phase out the position at the end of March.
On Wednesday, confirmed that national science adviser Arthur Carty would be retiring on March 31, and that the position and office would be phased out.
John Smol, [...]

Got friends who still think Bush and his GOP cabal are still the cat’s meow? Send them this.

THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY
The Country He Inherited, The Country He Leaves Behind

United States & The World
January 20, 2001
Today Under Bush

Real GDP Growth1
4.09% Over Prior 8 Years
2.65% Over Prior 7 Years

National Debt2
$5.7 Trillion
$9.2 Trillion

Budget Deficit/Surplus3
$431 Billion [...]

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[tags]Bush legacy, Bush Republicans, State of the Union[/tags]
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It’s enough to make you c-c-c-c-cry
Ok here’s the original

[tags]Election 2008, sickening, puke fest, they think we’re stupid, Bowie, change, changes[/tags]
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In honour of the greatest Scots poet, Robbie Burns, on the occasion of his 249th birthday
To A Louse
On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
(1786)
Ha! whaur ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly;
I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
[...]

From Greg Palast’s newsletter
…the late and lionized King of Union Busters, , would be proud today, were he alive, to learn that the woman he called, “” Hillary , whom he placed on ’s Board of Directors, is front-runner for the presidency. She could well become America’s “Greeter,” posted at our nation’s door, to welcome [...]