Humpday Thread

Update from Shelley in the comments:

Speaking of science, this is worth, I think, immediate e-mailing to your Senators and Reps:

The Environmental Protection Agency libraries are at this moment being gutted by the Bush administration. The libraries are being closed as we speak.

Scientists who hold valuable records about pesticides and the environment are being forced to literally put these documents in the shredder.

On Al Franken's show on airamerica today, we were told that not only is vital material being shredded, but in one EPA library they were forced to sell off $40,000 worth of office furniture for $327.

It is happening now in an attempt to dismantle these libraries (so important for keeping data about polluters) before the new Congress can get in and stop it.

I asked Shelley if she had a link, and she pointed me to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility web site. Here's a link about the closing of the EPA library.

For anyone who missed it, Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" from Monday's show...

But tonight’s winner, Linda Crosshauer, the National Science Teachers Association president. Laurie David, co-producer of the Al Gore movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” and wife of the actor Larry David, tried to donate 50,000 DVD copies of the movie so science teachers could show their students.

She said they e-mailed back that they couldn’t accept the DVDs because, among other things, doing so would place, "unnecessary risk upon the National Science Teachers Association capital campaign," especially certain targeted supporters. Who might they be?

Who wouldn’t donate lots of money to the Science Teachers Association if it accepted copies of “An Inconvenient Truth?” Try Exxon Mobile and Shell, which had already donated millions to the association and the American Petroleum Institute, whose own movie the association happily accepted and distributed. It’s called “Fuel-Less, You Can’t Be Cool Without Fuel.”

I got Copernicus and Galileo on the phone. They say the Earth revolves around the sun. What hang up on them? All right, I’m sorry, we have taken millions from the Flat Earth Society. Linda Crosshauer, president of the National Science Teachers Association, available at the right price, Monday's Worst Person in the World.

“Fuel-Less, You Can’t Be Cool Without Fuel.” ? Yer kidding, right? Sounds like one of those videos voiced by Troy McClure that the kids on The Simpsons watch at Springfield Elementary.

And from last night's show...

Gingrich against freedom of speech?

Nov. 28: At a dinner honoring the First Amendment, Newt Gingrich reportedly suggested a "different set of rules" might be necessary to stop terrorists using freedom of speech to get out their message. Keith Olbermann discusses the constitutionality of this with Jonathan Turley.

In the comments, floridagal reminded us that Howard Dean is in Canada today.

It would be nice if some Dem I could get excited about was planning to run in '08, but at least Frist has said he won't run. (But, there goes that series of "Cats Against Frist" designs. Dang.)

This is funny--long, but funny... Have A Walker Texas Ranger Christmas by Hunter. It's not just about Chuck Norris' wobbly on WorldNetDaily about people saying "Happy Holiday", but also goes on to describe the Very Right Wing commentary by a WND writer about the imams who got kicked off the airplane for praying. But, back to Chuck Norris, after reading this diary, you might want to take a peek at Fact: Chuck Norris does not understand irony if you didn't see that blog entry when it was published last month.

Finally, in response to the peace wreath kerfuffle.

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