[PAA-Discuss] FW: Mark Morford: Kneel Before The Meteorologist

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Mark Morford's Notes & Errata

      ==== Mark Morford's Notes &  e rrata =====
      SFGate.com - Wednesday, September 28, 2005


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      Kneel Before The Meteorologist
      At last, one scientist BushCo will definitely -- albeit resentfully --
listen to. Sometimes
      By Mark Morford

      So now we know. This is what it takes. This is how far the nation has
to crumble and this is how many people have to die and this is how many tens
of billions it has to cost and this is how far his dirt-low poll numbers
have to fall before Bush will finally come out and say he agrees with one of
those godforsaken gul-dang book-learned scientist types.

      You know the ones. Those informed and well-educated data-crunchers he
normally despises like a kid hates broccoli and whom he normally thinks are
lower 'n a snake's belly to a mud puddle and whom the GOP normally treats
the way a cockroach treats a dunghill. Which is to say, not very well at
all.

      It takes a hurricane. Check that: It takes two hurricanes of such
lethal and undeniable force that even the Bush administration is forced to
kneel in abject deference before the great altar of the professional
"forecaster," a.k.a. the trained meteorologist, a.k.a. the atmospheric
scientist, those smart nerdy button-down types most of whom work for the
nonpartisan National Weather Service and who put out all those dire warnings
about imminent storms and deadly heat waves and massive floods and who
actually are, sorry Dubya, well-trained scientists with genuine university
degrees and who can do all that complex math and research and other stuff
Bush loathes the way Paris Hilton hates polysyllabic words.

      And now, whenever these damnable weather dudes march into the Oval
with bad news of some damnable upcoming lethal storm readying itself to
smash into the nation, well, Bush has to wake up from the hammock and take
notice and alert the gutted FEMA teams and scowl and pretend to care, lest
the nation impale him on the hot spike of his own incompetence, again. ...

      (click here to read the rest)





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