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  •  Makes one wonder if these (1+ / 0-)

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    Dems2004

    25 who signed the letter were bush plants or, was there a real problem?

    "Though the Mills of the Gods grind slowly,Yet they grind exceeding small."

    by Owllwoman on Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 03:07:44 PM PDT

    •  The names I saw were top notch (4+ / 0-)

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      nota bene, Dems2004, elfling, inclusiveheart

      The people I saw quoted last week were some of the best in the business.  Guys like Lixion Avila and Jim Franklin were among the ones speaking out.  Both of those guys have been doing NHC forecasts for decades and they have a lot of credibility.  If you read the NHC forecast discussions about any Atlantic hurricane, you've read their work.  They are not political hacks by any means.

      - "You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?"
      - REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.

      by Hoya90 on Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 03:33:18 PM PDT

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      •  Thanks for that info. (1+ / 0-)

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        escapee

        I wasn't sure what to make of this news at all.

        The Bush Administration has been trying to shut down NOAA since they came in in hopes of moving the "service" into the private sector so I was warry that he was fired for speaking out about a real problem stemming from their under funding and cuts to the program.  Then I was totally confused by the fact that his ouster seemed to come from the scientists who've been there a long time.

        So much treatchery in this government that it is always hard to read a situation on a few bare facts out of context.

        by inclusiveheart on Mon Jul 09, 2007 at 03:53:58 PM PDT

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