Newsweek: Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff DO NOT USE E-MAIL! Astounding! I know people, who will remain nameless, who are completely inept around computers. However, they thave learned to do 2 things: Google and use e-mail. Unfortunately, Rumsfeld and Chertoff have not.
The Newsweek article has a reaction from a professor about Rumsfeld and Chertoff's lack of e-mail knowledge:
...Dr. Irwin Redlener, a disaster-preparedness expert at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, expressed surprise that two officials in such critical positions would not be adept at routine methods of modern communication. “This can’t be true,” he said, only half-jokingly. “It’s almost inconceivable in 2006 for officials at that level of government not to be directly connected to systems of communications...”
The next time there is a presidential press conference, I'd like a reporter to ask the president to name his favorite search engines.
>>>Even though the Bush administration doesn't believe in global warming, there is more evidence that it is really happening. It really is sad when so-called educated people don't believe in scientific proof.
MSNBC reports that "Satellite observations indicate that Greenland's glaciers have been dumping ice into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate that's doubled over the past five years, researchers reported here on Thursday. The findings add yet another factor to the long-running debate over the effect of climate change on the world's ice sheets and sea levels...."
Security Risk? They say that the Bush family is very close to these Arab oil companies. Now we have proof that they are willing to trade our security for their friendship:
The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.
Lawmakers asked the White House to reconsider its earlier approval of the deal.
The sale to state-owned Dubai Ports World was "rigorously reviewed" by a U.S. committee that considers security threats when foreign companies seek to buy or invest in American industry, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said....
....The world's fourth-largest ports company runs commercial operations at shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.
Four senators and three House members asked the administration Thursday to reconsider its approval. The lawmakers contended the UAE is not consistent in its support of U.S. terrorism-fighting efforts....
David Letterman--"The comic book people have announced that Batman will go after Osama Bin Laden. Looks like Bush does have a plan."
