It was an Engineer that said DO NOT LAUNCH. And the manager said “take off your engineering hat and put on your managers hat”.

“‘A manager came by my room and asked me if I was concerned about an 18 degree launch,’ recalled Ebeling. ‘I said ‘What?’ – because we’re only qualified to 40 degrees. I said ‘what business does anyone even have thinking about 18 degrees, we’re in no man’s land, we’re in a big grey area.’ ”
“‘We discussed what might happen below our 40 degree qualification temperature and practically to a man we decided it would be catastrophic,’ added Ebeling. ”

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2007/01/remembering-the-mistakes-of-challenger/

And to get back on topic, that has nothing to do with the fact that the IRS treated different groups DOING THE EXACT SAME THING differently.

Sir, why can’t you just see the obvious? The IRS was illegally using political considerations to treat group A different from group B. It’s not difficult.

Anyway, various groups, such as home-schoolers, are intertwined. Back when Dick Armey was majority leader an arcane bill came up that had a provision affecting home schoolers. The fax machines and telephone lines of Congress were overwhelmed. It was spectacular. My sense of it is that right wing operatives saw 4c status as a way to get around the listing of donors required by 527 status. The consequent scrutiny can be fair and disproportionate.

By the way, the focus of the IRS scandal seems to be moving from “targeting” to a delay in informing the White House. Such a shift is consistent with my view of the matter.

Yes, I know that Dr. Feynman was arguably the smartest man of his time and that I compete for the dumbest. That is why I was pleased to see that he independently came to the same conclusion as I did. I wish that I kept a copy of Dr. Feynman’s essay. Readers of overlawyered.com would enjoy it.

You and Dr. Feynman? Did he consult with you before he made his findings? I believe someone is having delusions of grandeur.

Consider the Roger’s report about the first space shuttle lost. The report made no sense at all according to me and Dr. Feynman. The recommendations were applied at great expense, but we had a second lose.

By the way, the Rogers Commission Report was the report that determined the cause of the first Space Shuttle disaster, Challenger, based on the investigation done by Dr. Feynman. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986. The second Space Shuttle disaster was the Columbia that occurred on February 1, 2003. It was due to damage that was sustained during takeoff when a piece of foam insulation broke off and damaged the protective heat tiles. This had nothing to do with what happened to Challenger. I would suggest that your comments might be taken a little more seriously if you took the trouble to get your facts correct.

“The IRS used…criteria … based upon their names…instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. ”

And yet, William, all the 4(c) groups with “Progressive” “Social Justice” or other similar (e.g. code for Democratic Party) sailed through the process in 9 months, versus 3 years for the groups with “Tea Party”, etc (heard on ABC radio this morning).

Tell me again, how this is EQUAL TREATMENT under the law?

You seem to be willingly ignoring the fact that left leaning groups got a pass while those that apparently took a different view than Team Obama got a back side exam with a fist.

And what is this distraction about PP, Challenger / Columbia, etc?

Those have zero to do with anything about the question of how the IRS abused groups with a certain view point. Please, stick to the question at hand and spare the good readers irrelevant distractions – then again, I know why you’re pulling out canards, to distract from the blatant violation of the Constitution that the IRS committed.

One must consider the fundamental problem with investigative reports, the authors are inclined to find something and make recommendations. Consider the Roger’s report about the first space shuttle lost. The report made no sense at all according to me and Dr. Feynman. The recommendations were applied at great expense, but we had a second lose.

Republicans, including the substantial number of tea party folks, working for smaller government cut funds to agencies such as the IRS. Combine that with the surge of attempts to do political activities through 4c organizations and you have a nightmare for those who manage work flow.

I would give the bureaucrats the benefit of the doubt in this case. By the way, the tea party Senator from Pennsylvania wanted to default on government debt and send the world finances into a turmoil.

And Planned Parenthood is a wonderful organization that actually does social good, including safe and legal abortions for the roughly one third of women who want them at some time in their lives. Governor Romney actually declared jihad against Planned Parenthood.

Here’s what the IRS Inspector General said:
“The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. ”

Linky: http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/14/read-the-inspector-generals-damning-repo

“It is hubris when Michael Savage calls our president a communistic fascist and then decries those, like me,who find Tea Party people and self proclaimed patriots scary.”

What is “scary” about “Tea Party people” and “self proclaimed patriots”? Their stance on limited government (I said LIMITED, not NONEXISTENT government, as Harry Reid would like to claim)? Or is is lower taxes? Maybe it’s their insistance that government actually follow the document that creates it in the first place, our Constitution?Perhaps the fact that they are orderly and clean up after themselves during and after demonstrations? Or is it that you believe the completely unfounded propaganda out there that tries to label them racist, violent extremists? Despite all these terrible, frightening attributes, the point is that the government does not have the RIGHT TO SINGLE THEM OUT, regardless of whether you are cowering in your basement in fear of horrendous tax cuts.