response 1 of 25:

Feb 9 17:01 UTC 2006

Thursday, February 9, 2006; Posted: 11:23 a.m. EST (16:23 GMT) 
BROCKTON, Massachusetts. (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the
meaning of sexual harassment long before he'll be able to spell it.

The first-grader was suspended for three days for sexual harassment after he
put two fingers inside a classmate's waistband, school officials told his
mother, Berthena Dorinvil. The boy told her he only touched the girl's shirt
after the girl touched him.

...There have been similar cases. In 1996, a New York second-grader was
suspended for kissing a girl and ripping a button off her skirt -- an idea
the boy said he got from his favorite book "Corduroy," about a bear with a
missing button. Earlier that year, a Lexington, North Carolina, 6-year-old
was separated from his class after kissing a classmate on the cheek.

response 3 of 25:

Feb 9 17:14 UTC 2006

This wouldn't have happened if the girl was wearing a burkha.

response 5 of 25:

Feb 9 20:04 UTC 2006

 I wonder if it's too early to request tickets for the Medal of Freedom
 ceremony..

response 7 of 25:

Feb 9 20:59 UTC 2006

I think the Grex BoD should require that every staff member add the word
"theory" after every diagnostic claim of the cause of system problems...

"We are excluded from sending e-mail to yahoo because of the blackhole
list theory"

or

"We believe last night's crash was due to the memory problem theory"

response 9 of 25:

Feb 9 21:02 UTC 2006

re #7
I agree with your 2nd analogy.

response 11 of 25:

Feb 9 21:07 UTC 2006

Re 10: Whose?

response 13 of 25:

Feb 9 21:08 UTC 2006

Here's a more thorough coverage - and opinionated - article about George 
Deutsch. 24? And telling scientific managers what they can and can't say?
And a prosletizer of "intelligent design"? 

"In October, for example, George Deutsch, a presidential appointee in NASA 
headquarters, told a Web designer working for the agency to add the word 
"theory" after every mention of the Big Bang, according to an e-mail 
message from Mr. Deutsch that another NASA employee forwarded to The 
Times."

"... The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential 
appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose rsum says he was 
an intern in the "war room" of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. 
A 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs 
officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen's public statements."

"... The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, 
adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration 
such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts 
intelligent design by a creator." It continued: "This is more than a 
science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that 
young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That 
would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on 
us for factual information the most."

Editor's note: George Deutsch got his job at NASA was a reward for being a 
loyal young republican. Otherwise, based on his reported comments in this 
and other articles - and I'm just guessing folks - but it would seem that 
he did not take very many science classes in college - political science 
perhaps. Not exactly the ideal background for someone whose job it is to 
communicate science. Perhaps we can get George to detail his background 
for us - and why he thinks that he knows more about the topic than the 
people who actually do the research.

Personally I think George is in over his head. Based on the quotes in this 
article he is pursuing his own personal political/religious agenda - at 
taxpayer expense. What's even more annoying is the fact that George seems 
to have been operating without any adult supervision by NASA PAO - or has 
the White House really directed NASA to do the things that George has been 
doing?."

from http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/george_deutsch.html

response 15 of 25:

Feb 9 21:22 UTC 2006

Re #13: that article is a bit out of date.  Turns out that George Deutsch
claimed on his application that he had a degree in journalism from Texas
A&M, but in reality he dropped out.  He has resigned his position, so
now there's a position open for some cocky kid who has very little
education but thinks he knows more about science than real scientists.

response 17 of 25:

Feb 9 22:51 UTC 2006

Deutsch at NASA reminds me of the old Soviet system, where there 
was a Communist Party officer installed in most organizations to 
be sure that the staff were appropriately loyal to the party and its
ideology.

response 21 of 25:

Feb 10 00:30 UTC 2006

I believe the term you're looking for is apparatchik.

response 23 of 25:

Feb 10 00:54 UTC 2006

I hope they kick his ass all the way to the moon.  Now they have made room
for someone with a real journalism degree!  Where do I send my application?