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[T] he primary purpose of public schools in America has always been to help produce citizens who have the knowledge and the skills and the values to sustain our republic as a nation, our democratic form of government.
[T]he primary purpose of public schools in America has always been to help produce citizens who have the knowledge and the skills and the values to sustain our republic as a nation, our democratic form of government.
The New York Times reports today that White House officials simply refused to open an email from the EPA last year because they knew it contained a policy recommendation they didn’t like — part of the Administration’s on-going battle with scientists at the EPA over global warming issues. The document, which ended up in e-mail limbo, without official status, was the E.P.A.’s answer to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that required it to determine whether greenhouse gases represent a danger to health or the environment, the officials said.
So this is what it comes down to? Maybe they should print out a copy and hire a process server to deliver it.
The Bush Administration’s newest tactic for policymaking is to ignore emails.
The New York Times reports today that White House officials simply refused to open an email from the EPA last year because they knew it contained a policy recommendation they didn’t like — part of the Administration’s on-going battle with scientists at the EPA over global warming issues.
The document, which ended up in e-mail limbo, without official status, was the E.P.A.’s answer to a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that required it to determine whether greenhouse gases represent a danger to health or the environment, the officials said.
Instead of officially acknowledging the email and responding to it in a normal bureaucratic manner, the White House instead launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to pressure the EPA to drop the recommendation’s essential conclusions.Both documents, as prepared by the E.P.A., “showed that the Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases,” one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. “That’s not what the administration wants to show. They want to show that the Clean Air Act can’t work.”
[From TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Today’s Must Read]
Is it 2009 yet?
Patrick was zipping along in the lead of the 2005 Indianapolis 500, 25 miles from becoming the first woman to beat the Brickyard, when crew orders came to conserve fuel…. The fourth-place finish became more frustrating when, Patrick says, she learned her car had a couple of gallons left at the checkered flag.
no idea how far “a couple of gallons” would go, but still . . . I thought these cars had all this super instrumentation?
INDIANAPOLIS — Danica Patrick’s greatest triumph at Indianapolis Motor Speedway also happens to be her biggest disappointment at the world’s most famous racetrack.
Patrick was zipping along in the lead of the 2005 Indianapolis 500, 25 miles from becoming the first woman to beat the Brickyard, when crew orders came to conserve fuel. Patrick backed off 226 mph to 221, fading behind Dan Wheldon, Vitor Meira and Bryan Herta.The fourth-place finish became more frustrating when, Patrick says, she learned her car had a couple of gallons left at the checkered flag.
[From At Indy, Patrick after a greater sense of history – USATODAY.com]
Dictionary.com Word of the Day – latitudinarian: having or expressing broad and tolerant views
Just as well I never smoked as a yout’, either cigs or The Other Stuff. Currently in the throes of my second bout of pneumonia. A mild case, took a chest X-ray to find it, but joyless nonetheless.
Not mine 😉
is this intentional or the result of letting anyone run their own ad campaign? 
we know they can spell refrigeration.
is this intentional or the result of letting anyone run their own ad campaign?
we know they can spell refrigeration.
We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did. [From Macs Trounce PCs in Popular Mechanics “Ultimate Lab Test†] Remember when buying a Mac meant you were either some kind of pretentious graphic artist or a complete dumbass who couldn’t cope with Real Computersâ„¢?
“In our speed trials,” reports Derene, “Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.
[From Macs Trounce PCs in Popular Mechanics “Ultimate Lab Test”]
Remember when buying a Mac meant you were either some kind of pretentious graphic artist or a complete dumbass who couldn’t cope with Real Computersâ„¢? How woulda thunk Apple would have the edge in general computing hardware?