“At least NASA knew where that computer was: a Congressional report this week said that the some $94 million worth of the agency’s computers, office equipment and supplies had been lost over the last decade because of sloppy administration — and that when NASA was made aware of the problem five years ago, they loosened their rules instead of tightening them.

(Weirdly, the report cites one case of an employee who accounted for a missing laptop computer assigned to him by claiming that it had actually been sent up on the shuttle, broken down and been ejected to burn up in the atmosphere — and his bosses apparently bought the story.)”

That’s 4 scandals, by my count. Pathetic!! But then what can we expect from any govt agency under this monumentally-incompetent administration. Other govt agencies are in the same boat NASA is in.

I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but there have been larger embezzlements in the postal service, the department of defense.. many other agencies. If you employ tens of thousands and have a budget of billions, shady stuff will occasionally happen. That’s the nature of humans.

I’m just glad it hasn’t been found to be common or wide-spread and that it wasn’t one of the major higher-ups in the agency, like Griffen or something…

And before people go judging me for the content, I’m not a bible thumping right wing nutjob, and I have many of the same feelings about a lot of subject as he does. I’m just turned by the smug and self righteous tone of the content of late.

Yes, it’s his blog, he can write what he wants. I respect and support that.

Why not? Why would you assume people at NASA are any more “just” or less inclined to do bad things than the people you so regularly vilify publicly? Because they’re…scientists?