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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/29/2008 : 01:11:11
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Hat tip to Ed Brayton. The original Washington Post article is about the slew of unqualified political appointees with which Dubya is "front-loading" the Federal science bureaucracy by turning political the appointees into permanent Civil Service jobholders: | In one recent example, Todd Harding -- a 30-year-old political appointee at the Energy Department -- applied for and won a post this month at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There, he told colleagues in a Nov. 12 e-mail, he will work on "space-based science using satellites for geostationary and meteorological data." Harding earned a bachelor's degree in government from Kentucky's Centre College, where he also chaired the Kentucky Federation of College Republicans. |
(Anyone else notice the part above where Harding makes it clear he doesn't know WTF he's talking about?) Then there's: | And in mid-July, Jeffrey T. Salmon, who has a doctorate in world politics and was a speechwriter for Vice President Cheney when he served as defense secretary, had been selected as deputy director for resource management in the Energy Department's Office of Science. In that position, he oversees decisions on its grants and budget. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/29/2008 01:12:45
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George Bush leaving slime trail behind in science
