America's half-century of manned spaceflight came to a crashing end (actually a safe landing) today as the space shuttle Atlantis completed the final flight of the entire NASA program. In a nation that refuses to care for its sick and find work for its tens of millions of idle people, sending a 1970s low-orbit glider around the Earth every so often is obviously out of the question. As for replacements, there
Heaving stuff into orbit is a profitable business, and businesses are itching to do it. Commercial launches won't have everyone waving the flag and singing the national anthem, but I think it's about time we got past that.
NASA will continue to work on the hard stuff, like getting men to Mars. That's going to be one very cool mission... and we'll probably break out the flags again.
One of the best reasons to hope we find signs of intelligent life out there, is the resulting epidemic of exploding heads in the right-wing religious wacko community. The Mormons will be antsy to send astronauts in white shirts (raising doubts among the aliens over whether <i>they&#039;ve</i> discovered an intelligent species), but the rest of &#039;em will die of terminal cognitive dissonance.
Chase, BofA, and Citi already offer loans on Klingon terms... they&#039;re way ahead of the curve. (Or maybe it&#039;s Ferengi terms -- someone help me out here.)
&quot;...collecting unpaid income taxes.&quot;
Not from the Job* creators, you don&#039;t!!!! _____________________ *(Given that the zillionaire class is busily scarfing up the half of everything that they don&#039;t already own, leaving middle class Americans to suffer the trials of Job, I think we need to change how we pronounce &quot;Job creator&quot;. I&#039;m gonna be capitalizing the &quot;J&quot; from now on.
I haven&#039;t seen them lately, but there were those ads on TV with happy people talking about how they only paid a fraction of their taxes thanks to the so-and-so tax service. They were always well-to-do. And happy. It made me crazy. They reap the rewards of living in America and are <i>proud</i> that they dodged responsibility to their fellow citizens. I think that attitude is considered heroic by the TP&#039;ers.
It was. My grandmother, who was about 80 at the time (she grew up with horses and buggies on the roads), was sitting there quietly, and suddenly asked, &quot;Wait a minute ... are they <i>really on the moon</i>?&quot; We all assured her that this was the news (that&#039;s <i>Walter Cronkite</i>, after all), and yes, a man was standing on the moon at that very moment.
She sat there for a moment, and said, &quot;Well, I&#039;ll be damned!&quot;
Are you kidding? They&#039;ll come back towing a forty-trillion-ton moonlet made of pure carbon, wanting to burn the whole fucking lot of it in Chinese power plants.
Rick Perry said WHAT?!?!?
You won&#039;t have to fret for long: <a href="http://www.spacex.com/" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.spacex.com/">http://www.spacex.com/</a>
Heaving stuff into orbit is a profitable business, and businesses are itching to do it. Commercial launches won&#039;t have everyone waving the flag and singing the national anthem, but I think it&#039;s about time we got past that.
NASA will continue to work on the hard stuff, like getting men to Mars. That&#039;s going to be one very cool mission... and we&#039;ll probably break out the flags again.
One of the best reasons to hope we find signs of intelligent life out there, is the resulting epidemic of exploding heads in the right-wing religious wacko community. The Mormons will be antsy to send astronauts in white shirts (raising doubts among the aliens over whether <i>they&#039;ve</i> discovered an intelligent species), but the rest of &#039;em will die of terminal cognitive dissonance.
Perry would take the Federal pork, then claim the jobs were created by Texas&#039; bass-ackwards Republiclown policies.
Chase, BofA, and Citi already offer loans on Klingon terms... they&#039;re way ahead of the curve. (Or maybe it&#039;s Ferengi terms -- someone help me out here.)
Built up to world-class status, then out-done by the Japanese. Where have we seen this pattern before?
&quot;...collecting unpaid income taxes.&quot;
Not from the Job* creators, you don&#039;t!!!! _____________________ *(Given that the zillionaire class is busily scarfing up the half of everything that they don&#039;t already own, leaving middle class Americans to suffer the trials of Job, I think we need to change how we pronounce &quot;Job creator&quot;. I&#039;m gonna be capitalizing the &quot;J&quot; from now on.
I haven&#039;t seen them lately, but there were those ads on TV with happy people talking about how they only paid a fraction of their taxes thanks to the so-and-so tax service. They were always well-to-do. And happy. It made me crazy. They reap the rewards of living in America and are <i>proud</i> that they dodged responsibility to their fellow citizens. I think that attitude is considered heroic by the TP&#039;ers.
A bit of wingnut weirdness I never knew about: <a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.c..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/20...">http://cache.gawkerassets.c...
The idea that &quot;medical marijuana&quot; is what mellowed them out is pretty funny. The old lady must have shit a brick when that happened.
It was. My grandmother, who was about 80 at the time (she grew up with horses and buggies on the roads), was sitting there quietly, and suddenly asked, &quot;Wait a minute ... are they <i>really on the moon</i>?&quot; We all assured her that this was the news (that&#039;s <i>Walter Cronkite</i>, after all), and yes, a man was standing on the moon at that very moment.
She sat there for a moment, and said, &quot;Well, I&#039;ll be damned!&quot;
Christ ... how high is Arizona gonna have to make that fucking wall??
No matter how psychotic or demented you are.
Are you kidding? They&#039;ll come back towing a forty-trillion-ton moonlet made of pure carbon, wanting to burn the whole fucking lot of it in Chinese power plants.
Works for me, so long as Branson does that Job creatin&#039; thing with most of the money.
&quot;The world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.&quot; Chronicles 16:30
End of discussion.
Can they revoke his gayness for that?