A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA (Deutsch)

[TomInTib]

And the hits just keep on coming....


George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

Mr. Deutsch's resignation came on the same day that officials at Texas A&M University confirmed that he did not graduate from there, as his résumé on file at the agency asserted.

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Mr. Deutsch, 24, was offered a job as a writer and editor in NASA's public affairs office in Washington last year after working on President Bush's re-election campaign and inaugural committee, according to his résumé. No one has disputed those parts of the document.

According to his résumé, Mr. Deutsch received a "Bachelor of Arts in journalism, Class of 2003."

more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nasa.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[JuniperLea]

1. Yur doin' a heckuva job there, Georgie!

Another one bites the dust... hey hey hey!

Gee, I've always liked shiny bombs and planes... do ya think W can get me in a top spot with the Air Force? :sarcasm:

Oh, brother.

[buff2]

2. The unqualified pRESIDENT appointing unqualified people

How fitting is THAT?

[JuniperLea]

7. Henceforth, we should refer to all such people as

Brownies... what else?

[Kurovski]

10. ...or fudge brownies, considering the lies on the resumes.

[Chimichurri]

3. Trickle down incompetence

Fast talking slackers have never had it so good.

[Plaid Adder]

4. Can't see the story, so someone tell me...

...did he have a degree from ANYWHERE? Other than high school?

The Plaid Adder

[Lerkfish]

5. here's the salient part...

"George Carlton Deutsch III did attend Texas A&M University but has not completed the requirements for a degree," said an e-mail message from Rita Presley, assistant to the registrar at the university, responding to a query from The Times.

[dusmcj]

6. I remember the Young Republicans

circa 1983. Bad Newt haircuts, zits, topsiders and inaccurate recitations of Reaganisms. Seems like the torch has been passed to a new generation of dorks.

[Mabus]

8. Here's an interesting article written by George Deutsch from Texas A&M

written in 2003. It is attributed to "The Battalion" which is the paper at Texas A&M.

Misplaced Aggression
Posted by CN Staff on March 07, 2003 at 14:47:45 PT
By George Deutsch
Source: Battalion

Apparently frustrated with the miserable failure of the war on drugs, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator John B. Brown turned their ill-informed aggression toward legitimate businesses in a nationally televised address on CNN last week. Citing ambiguous federal law, Ashcroft, Brown and others announced the indictment of more than 50 sellers of tobacco pipes, or as Ashcroft might say, illegal drug paraphernalia distributors.

What should enrage freedom-loving Americans is not the crackdown on drug paraphernalia, but how broadly "paraphernalia" is being defined. According to www.DEA.gov the government cites Title 21 U.S. Code Service Section 863, a 1996 law concerning what constitutes paraphernalia. Among the many vague stipulations considered about a product under this law are "circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the items to the total sales of the business, the existence and scope of legitimate uses in the community and expert testimony concerning its use, ... (and any) other logically relevant factors." Well, that clarifies everything.

The fact that the federal government itself is determining the "existence and scope of legitimate uses" of these products and what factors are considered "logically relevant" is disheartening, as no government agency could ever make these decisions objectively, assuming the agency even understood the obscure jargon of this law. This is the type of stupidity of thought that tax-paying citizens should hold their representatives accountable for.

***

In reality, a pipe in its own right hurts no one. Drug abuse may very well be a problem in this country, but destroying pipes with legal uses will do nothing to curb that problem. The issue does bring to light another, much bigger, problem: governmental irresponsibility. Unless U.S. citizens hold agencies such as the DEA and individuals such as Attorney General Ashcroft accountable, they will continue to persecute and prosecute innocent Americans, defining federal law as they see fit.

Complete Title: Misplaced Aggression: Ashcroft Wasting Time and Money on Trivial Issues

Source: Battalion, The (TX Edu)
Author: George Deutsch
Published: March 07, 2003
Copyright: 2003 The Battalion
Contact: [e-mail]
Website: http://www.thebatt.com/

source: The Cannabis News at http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15668.shtml

Could this be the same George Deutsch at Texas A&M in 2003? Hmmm. If it is I am truly :rofl: Maybe he was doing penitence at NASA for the article blasting Ashcroft.

[TomInTib]

9. That was right before he "graduated". And that's the Tommy Chong

law that he was writing about.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. the A& M Graduate quoted in the article was pres of Aggie Democrats

and is a Rhodes Scholar this year.

Go NICK!!!!!