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To Save his Own Neck, Bush Suddenly Wants to Make Friends. With Science.

The story By David Grimm is on ScienceNOW Daily News "Science" online, entitled "Bush to Science: Let's Be Friends."

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/401/1< p>

As the following excerpt from David Grimm's article, Bush is reaching "out" on behalf of his much-suppressed "inner researcher."

--the excerpt--
"Bush promised to be a better steward of the planet. "I haven't always been clear about the threat global warming poses," he said. "In retrospect, having oil industry lobbyists edit our climate reports was probably a bad idea." He also admitted that initiatives such as "Healthy Forests" and "Clear Skies" had led to excess logging and air pollution, respectively. To make amends, he has appointed former rival and Nobel laureate Al Gore to head his new conservation initiative, which calls for mandatory cuts on greenhouse gas emissions and rigorous protection for species classified as threatened or endangered. "We're calling it 'Pristine Planet,' " said Bush. "And this time we mean it."
-- David Grimm

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[Whenever the President reads to children like he was doing on 9-11 several years ago (2001) the children are assured they are safe. People keep expecting some building to fall, in another "take down."]

Even with the promise of a sudden $10 billion infusion to HHS and lifting the policy on stem cell research, it may not be enough to buy him or John McCain a reprieve from delayed justice. The sudden reversal of the need to wait for a new President to change policy, and this the "out reach" to science is "scary." Some research facilities are becoming bullish on security, wondering what the "real" meaning is -- just what the President might be trying to "buy."

Members of the scientific and legal communities explain, "It is important to realize he (Bush) is reacting to the pressure even a former President may face in the era of new environmental laws, expected to be enacted by a Majority Democratic Congress with both House and Senate winning a 61-39 majority control in the Senate.

A Democratic National Committee member, trying to distance herself from the legislation to be presented on behalf of a coalition of citizens, said, "These laws will be retroactive, and seek to become effective from the point in time the atmospheric CO2 exceeded 350 ppmv, which would impact both his Father's freedom and former Secretary James Baker as well as the man behind the scenes, Dick Chaney. The new administration's first Justice Department move will be to seek the full federally mandated penalties for national security violations. This first move being prosecution for participation in the "outing" of Valerie Plame -- and no one to exercise a pardon. The environmental disaster these people and their corporate manipulators have engineered since 1980 is part of what they are trying to buy off. The criminal outing of a CIA covert operative is what can put them both away."

Image: whitehouse.gov Chaney some time after the Texas "Friend shooting."

The Northern and Central Ocean Study Center Bush built for coal and oil friends at Gillette, Wyoming, near Wyodak -- will likely be closed down for lack of work according to NOAA's Inspector General. Even the vice president couldn't keep it open.

Russ Feingold (D) WI, assigned a surrogate to speak for him, "You may think prosecution for things done while in office should be suspended when the person is out of office. That is next years April Fool's Joke on the President. What is funny about it, though, is that the serious prosecutions will start next April 1, 2009."

Bush Fool's Day!!