Plz note that the below is satire
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First draft of Miers withdrawal letter:
Dear Mr. President-
I’m out. Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to be publicly dissected while still alive.
At least I know what my own funeral’s going to be like.
Good luck to you and Turd Blossom on finding another patsy to run the Supreme Gantlet.
I want to turn this country back to the way it was 50 or 100 years as badly as you do, but I just can’t take this anymore.
I think we need to be apart for awhile, so I?m going to my Mother’s house to think about things for awhile.
The flowers were very nice of you, but I don’t want you to call, email, or message me anymore. Yes, we’re done. You remember the line from the Led Zeppelin song, When I whispered in her ear, I lost another friend.? Well, you did.
You won’t hear me say, It’s not you, it’s me., because that’s not true.
It IS you, not me.
Good luck with the rest of this week, the rest of your term, and the rest of your life.
Sincerely,
Harriet
PS. I want my records back.
Scientists say they still don’t know how to protect the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon without disrupting water and power production upstream.
Despite a decade of trying, few attempts have succeeded in trying to mimic the natural conditions erased by construction of Glen Canyon Dam, which supplies water and electricity to millions of people.
Endangered fish continue to disappear, habitat erodes almost as fast as it is rebuilt and interloping fish and plants find new ways to thrive.
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A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault.
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In the past five years, the scientific community has often seemed at odds with the Bush administration over issues as diverse as global warming, stem cell research and environmental protection. Prominent scientists have also charged the administration with politicizing science by seeking to shape data to its own needs while ignoring other research.
Evangelical and fundamentalist Christians have built a powerful position within the Republican Party and no Republican, including Bush, can afford to ignore their views.
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Polls for many years have shown that a majority of Americans are at odds with key scientific theory. For example, as CBS poll this month found that 51 percent of respondents believed humans were created in their present form by God. A further 30 percent said their creation was guided by God. Only 15 percent thought humans evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years.
Other polls show that only around a third of American adults accept the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, even though the concept is virtually uncontested by scientists worldwide.
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The FBI may not track the locations of cell phone users without showing evidence that a crime occurred or is in progress, two federal judges ruled, saying that to do so would violate long-established privacy protections.
In separate rulings over the past two weeks, judges in Texas and New York denied FBI requests for court orders that would have forced wireless carriers to continuously reveal the location of a suspect’s cell phone as part of an ongoing investigation. Other judges have allowed the practice in other jurisdictions, but the recent rulings could change that.
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