Thanks neverdem.
|
Posted on 06/01/2013 11:02:47 AM PDT by neverdem
I’ve been a big O’Rourke fan for years, but this time he just served up a dog’s breakfast of observations with the explanation that government is run by dolts. That is not the case. There is a concerted effort to muck it all up to usher in a fascist state. Keep your eye on the ball P.J.
Not dolts.
Our problem is something called “state capture”.
The author, of course, makes the common mistake that Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars are to be spent on the improvement of America for all Americans.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars are to be coerced by a corrupt congress in order to provide funds for the purchase of votes from corruptible Americans.
We need to keep that in mind.
Had there been panels on Muslim Outreach and Climate Change they would have found the money to be there.
Commercial developers will take the lead now — because government lacks the Vision and Wisdom to do it. But it will go a little slower, because it’ll have to pay its way in profits — which is how it should be.
But foremost, we must catch the imaginations of our young people. Nobody dreams of rendevous with an asteroid. How pathetic — and illustrative of the poverty of Vision in WASHDC.
I suggest this motto to excite the kids once again, as I once was...
“First to Mars, and then to the stars...”
I hope somebody can use it to reignite snuffed imaginations.
I used to love PJ O’Rourke when he wrote for the National Lampoon many years ago. I even liked some of his early political writing. But after I saw him bashing Rush Limbaugh on Bill Maher’s show, and watched him drift into leftist BS world, I was done with him. Another sellout.
0bama killed NASA because they generate too much patriotic nationalism. Also, 0bama doesn’t like the idea of saying “Yes NASA!”.
Earky on NASA gained enormous prestige. Therefore, it became necessary to share that prestige with the scientifically inept portion of our society. NASA is rapidly becoming a showcase for the hiring of minorities and women. Its performance will bear an inverse relation to the number of the latter hired.
NASA must make sure that space research provide Muslims with a sense of belonging. Otherwise whats the point in the exploration of anything?
Bump. He still has a wicked pen, but he regressed into a wormhole.
I grew up watching the lift-offs of NASA’s pre-shuttle manned rockets and was facinated by man walking on moon like everybody else. But now that I’ve actually studied the Constitution, unless you define NASA as a branch of the military, the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to tax and spend for space exploration purposes.
In other words, in order for Uncle Sam to tax and spend for NASA, the states need to amend the Constitution for Congress to tax and spend for such purposes as much as amendments are required for Obamacare, public schools and regulating environment as examples.
So killing NASA is one thing that Obama did right regarding Congress’s constitutionally limited powers regardless that his motives are questionable.
June 10, 2013?
I'm okay with that. Missile technology. Satellite technology. Other advancements that help our military come from it.
The global corporations would just as soon sell to China and Iran as they would, well there is no one here to sell it to...
Hispanics and blacks have never liked the space program, they figure a dollar spent on NASA means one less dollar spent on social programs for them. And young white people are heavy into and brainwashed by the "green BS" being promoted today, not space exploration. The are more interested in America being as green as possible, they fall for that Obama BS. They are regressing from the industrial age to the agricultural age.
The funniest thing I ever read: “I will never forget the look on that cows’ face”
pj o’rourke on nasa
A NASA geek would probably say move a decimal point...;-)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
