So this is how you get a cushy job at NASA...

[carrrnuttt]

...campaign for Bush, and lie about your resume.

And now, even 'God's messengers' are starting to turn against him.

Not only is the 24-years-young George Deutsch, not a graduate of the college he said he got his degree from, but even if his credentials were real, he claimed he had a bachelor's degree in JOURNALISM. How the hell did this dip-wad get APPOINTED by the Administration to oversee NASA's climatologists? What's JOURNALISM got to do with CLIMATOLOGY?

Feel free to read more about it: http://news.google.com/news?num=100&...nG=Search+News

I have NO opinion about the environmental crap behind all of this (well, I do, but environmentalists won't like it). My main issue is the blatant misuse of power, and the attempt to CONTROL INFORMATION. Sound familiar?

Here's a somewhat heated exchange I found on a blog:

Originally Posted by christian

sorry....but, when the Hitler propaganda play book is in use, i think the comparison is viable. our "leaders" are bullies and cowards and the only way they can win is to manipulate the populace with propaganda. and for those who don't yet believe we are on a steep slide to fascism, i dunno what to say. read more....

Originally Posted by mark

Christian--oh please--you live in the most free society in human history--you should only live in a truly fascist society for one minute to see how foolish and naive a comment like that is--and the "Hitler propaganda play book"?? You need to study more history and live in a few more places--but you do illustrate how spoiled this country is--

Originally Posted by Rotwang

In defense of Christian, the "most free society in human history" won't stay that way for long, if people like Mark continue to assert that status as a changless axiom. Freedom in the US is under assault from a number of sides, and is no less vulnerable to sudden inversion here than in any other society.

As for "Nazi" comparisons, granted that they are often unproductive. But there's no denying we already have our echoes of the Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act. We've declared unprovoked war on a vastly inferior nation. Competent generals have been fired for being competent (and outspoken). Qualified personnel are being systematically replaced with pliant Party hacks. Science is being rewritten to support an untenable magical philosophy. We live in fear of an all-evil racial enemy. Military fetishism and symbol-worship are on the rise. And our substitution of manipulative Public Relations for real policy is a strategy that shines forth from every page of Goebbel's 1943-44 diaries...which I'm presently holding in my lap.

Oh, and our president is an unremarkable fellow of outsized ambition who governs not from facts, but from a sense of instinctive certainty and holy mission.

Mark is entitled to get all huffy about this. But I'm hard-pressed to figure out which parts of this are opaque to him.

[directory]

nasa are such idiots anyway..

"hey, let's use the same deisgn of the shuttle over and over --even after it proves deadly".....dumb

[03cavPA]

Under Godwin's rule, those Hitler references would let us kill a thread in other groups. Does that apply here?

LOL

[fredjacksonsan]

It's just amazing and irresponsible that someone like Douche (oh, did I spell that wrong?) would be appointed to that position, having absolutely no qualifications for the position!! It also speaks to the character of people today that he would accept the position, knowing he was incapable of performing the job(probably), and was completely unqualified(definitely).

Ambition is one thing, but this is pretty bad. Heinous even.

I have to agree 100% with Rotwang's commentary. There are many parallels.

[directory]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

It's just amazing and irresponsible that someone like Douche (oh, did I spell that wrong?) would be appointed to that position, having absolutely no qualifications for the position!! It also speaks to the character of people today that he would accept the position, knowing he was incapable of performing the job(probably), and was completely unqualified(definitely).

err..uhh..wait..are we talking about nasa or the president here....?