President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?

Brian Stretch writes " According to the National Review: 'When President Bush delivers a speech recognizing the centenary of heavier-than-air-powered flight December 17, it is expected that he will proffer a bold vision of renewed space flight, with at its center a return to the moon, perhaps even establishment of a permanent presence there. If he does, it will mean that he has decided the United States should once again become a space-faring nation.' Here's hoping. The article also includes talk of nuclear engines and using the moon as a testbed for going to Mars."

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Running Dogs of Capitalist Imperialism

[RealProgrammer]

All your base are belong to us.

Re:What's the real reason

[cerebralpc]

Actaully the real reason that the search 'miserable failure' ranks so high in google is because so many blogs are linking his site to the words 'miseralbe failure'.

God I wish I had something better to do than post here...

Re:I couldn't agree more

[demaria]

If it was that simple to compute taxes, then we would be sending our tax returns in via post cards. Have you ever done a tax return? Know what deductions are? Adjusted gross income? Guess not. Standard deductions? Itemized deductions? How about the fact that not all your income is taxed at 25%. Some is taxed at 10%, some at 15%, and some at 25%. Since that last part is missing from your equation, your last two posts can be declared 'completely wrong'. Forgivable if you're not from the US.

Also, I never indicated that my tax cut was only $300.

Largely true, except about Cheney.

[Futurepower(R)]

What you said is largely true, except the part about Cheney not benefiting from his involvement with Halliburton, as mentioned above in the grandparent post: "Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton."

You didn't mention the alcholic personalities of Bush and Cheney. The grandparent post gave links to their DUI records. Basically, Republicans are, in general, more out of touch with their feelings than Democrats. So Republicans tend not to notice alcoholic personalities:

• Absense of deep or sophisticated thinking (If anyone has any information about George W. Bush showing evidence of sophisticated thinking, please write to me.)
• Polarized thinking (Bush's "you are either with us or against us" is an example. Another example is his statement, "Look my job isn't to try to nuance. I think moral clarity is important... this is evil versus good.")
• Rigid thinking
• Lying (A June 18, 2002 article in Salon says, Losing the "trifecta" says, "It takes a brazen politician to make up a story that can be proven false and then to keep lying about it after being busted repeatedly." Also see the October 8, 2002 CounterPunch article, Bush's Leaps of Illogic Don't Answer People's Questions About War.
• Anger ("... why is Bush so eager to engage in violence and so incapable of explaining why?" See the Sept. 24, 2002 American Politics Journal article and Addiction, Brain Damage and the President -- "Dry Drunk" Syndrome and George W. Bush )
• Obsessive repetition (On August 7, during his "working vacation" at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, Bush used the word "home" six times in a minute of conversation with reporters: "It's nice to be home ... This is my home ... It's good to be home ... This is where you come home ... This is my home," etc. In a five-minute speech later in the month, Bush mentioned values at least seven times and "neighbor" or "neighborliness" or "neighborly" six times. In a twenty-minute speech the next day he used "character" eleven times. -- Some of the examples here are drawn from a September 6, 2001 article in The Atlantic magazine, The Bumbling Communicator. Not only was Bush repetitive, he was lying. The article says, "Bush lived in the Texas governor's mansion and vacationed in swank resorts and at Kennebunkport before the campaign began.")
• Inability to perceive the needs of others, inability to understand someone different from oneself
• Grandiosity, believing that one's own ideas are all-important. (Bush, and the oil and weapons people who support him, say the U.S. has the right to take military action before the adversary even has the capacity to attack.)
• Impatience ("If we wait for threats to fully materialize," President Bush said in a speech he gave at West Point, "we will have waited too long.")
• Incoherence. Things don't make sense in the mind of an alcoholic. An alcoholic's pattern of speech sometimes reflects his or her inner chaos.