Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com has been keeping track of a story regarding NASA and Bush appointees within the organization that have been supressing information on global warming and attempting to insert religious slant into educational materials.
As if that’s not bad enough, one of the Bush appointees was a member of the Bush election campaign, recently resigned over the fact it was revealed that he didn’t actually graduate from Texas A&M as he claimed in his resume. (Seems to be a lot of resume lying in the Bush administration.)
Was reminded yesterday of how when Joe Alba took over as head of FEMA, he gutted most of the employees and replaced them with former workers and interns from the Bush election campaign. That is before he then quit to leave Brown in charge (who lied on his resume) to become a lobbyist, directing federal contracts to various private companies that are connected to Bush and Cheney.
The insane illegality and corruption and cronieism in the administration aside, I really wanted to focus on the REALLY bad astronomy that the White House is trying to put out, ironic to the impress they’ve been trying to make as being a progressive and space interested administration. Yeah.
First read Phil’s blog entry from a couple of days ago giving some background to this NASA issue:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/04/outrage-at-attacks-on-nasa-science/
Then check out the latest followup on some of the activity going on inside NASA:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/02/10/people-at-nasa-must-be-breathing-a-sigh-of-relief/
It makes me literally sad and depressed at how much the Bush administration is trying to turn this country into a Dark Ages empire controlled by rich, hypocritically religious power mad liars and crooks who think we are all subjects of their regime as opposed to the fact that THEY work for US! We are their employers. But they don’t get that.
— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government….
(By the way, did you notice that it said the government’s power is derived from the people, NOT from God?)
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