Still Unclear on the NASA Mission July 6, 2010
Posted by geoff in News.trackback
The administration just doesn’t get it. Here’s their response to criticisms over the “top 3 NASA goals” flap:
“The President has always said that he wants NASA to engage with the world’s best scientists and engineers as we work together to push the boundaries of exploration . Meeting that mandate requires NASA to partner with countries around the world like Russia and Japan, as well as collaboration with Israel and with many Muslim-majority countries.”
Errrr…..no. We don’t want to “engage with the world’s best scientists and engineers.” We want to be the world’s best scientists and engineers. Working with other countries used to be a diplomatic gesture of goodwill, not a necessity to patch shortfalls in our own diminishing capabilities.
But maybe I’m too much of a jingoistic technology guy. After all, there are some benefits to collaborating with Muslim countries in space exploration ==> (click to see Barbara).
Great, now I’m gonna have the jingle stuck in my head for the rest of the afternoon.
This is a question to all Americans:
Seriously, folks, WT effing F? How did you end up electing this sad sack evil clown?
I…uh…I wanted some of my free Obama-money?
Tushar – We got the Government we deserve, unfortunately….
I recommend watching the South Park episode where the final voting choices for a new school mascot are split between a ‘turd sandwich’ and a ‘giant douche’.
http://tinyurl.com/6z8yko
Not for the first time, I am struck dumb by the policies of this administration.
And yes, even I thought Jeannie was HOT.
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of engaging with the best scientists in the world, and returning safely to Houston”
Har.
Ask not what your country can do for you…but what you can do to make Muslims happy.
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose, and its formerly robust technology with an embarrassing need to solicit help from third world countries.”
“If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no 9/11 Commemorative Mosque within the United States.”
O/T for those who actually read my poats: Stepdaughter found a job. After bills, she will have just enough money left to feed either herself OR her gas-tank. But, it is a job.
That’s good news, Reason.
Congrats to your stepdaughter, reason.
“We choose to appease the Muslim in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we are chicken-shit cowards. “
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men should help Muslims to feel like they are not such losers.
I look forward to learning all that rocket stuff to
put bigger nuclear weaponspeaceful energy useRoamy has some cartoons on the issue over at The Snausauges.
I only regret that I have but one life to give for Obama’s official Sniveling Cur Agenda.
Mrs. Reason is highly relieved that the steppie has found a source of income. It’s nice when your prayers get anwered with a “yes,” and, quite possibly to His own dismay, God made Mrs. Reason rather persistent.
“Can my daughter get a job today?”
“No.”
“Please let her find a job today.”
“No.”
“I ask of you that my daughter will find a job today.”
“No.”
“Please help my daughter find work today.”
*sigh* “Oh, for the love o’…fine!”
(This game is fun and hilarious, BTW.)
The peoples of the earth face the future with grave uncertainty, composed almost equally of great hopes and great fears. In this time of doubt, they look to the United States as never before for good will, strength, and wise leadership. It is fitting, therefore, that we take this occasion to proclaim to the world the essential principles of the faith by which we live, and to declare our aims to all peoples.
The American people stand firm in the faith which has loathed this Nation from the beginning. We believe that all men have a right to equal justice under sharia law and equal opportunity to share in the stonings of harlots and slatternly daughters. We believe that all special-interest groups have the right to freedom of thought and expression. Ululululululu! Allahu Ackbar!
From this faith we will not be moved.
Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [I am a Roman citizen]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein NASA Engineer’… All free men, wherever they may live, are supportive and engaging to underachievers with no record of accomplishment , and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Big Comfy BooBoo Bear!’
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the sandy ground of Saudi Arabia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of, um, current slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Iran, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will somehow, even though it is totally uncharacteristic for them, be responsive to our rah-rah PC bullshit.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the ability to count their goat herds.
“Let us never patronize out of fear. But let us never fear to patronize.”
Ask not, what your Space Administration can do for you, ask rather, what your Space Administration can do that really has nothing to do with Space. Make a short list, get back to me in the morning.
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or run by Barack Obama. “
“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. But not our nation.”
The crew of the space shuttle Falafel honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and beat their wives one last time, waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” while “blowing up on the launchpad.”
“Riyad we have a problem”.
Next on History Channel International: The firey new documentary To the Moon and Baklava