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Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
The AAAS's ScienceInsider confidently reports that NASA is in line to receive $1 billion more next year. Reader coop0030 sends this quote: "President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the Moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars... The president chose the new direction for the US human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion. NASA would receive an additional $1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency's fleet of robotic Earth-monitoring spacecraft."
the first payload to the moon in the new launcher will be the entire Congress. One way
Let's make it a little more instructive: The congresscritters who submitted the top 50% of earmark spending amendments. Repeat annually until none are selected.
The brain damaged failures known as 'federal funding for faith-based medicine' and 'abstinence only sex educaitons' my trollrific friend :)
He's also saving us money by telling the AG to not prosecute pot users in states that make such use legal. I do wish he'd pull every US soldier and asset out of the ME immediately, but military people who know better than I say that would be a bad idea.
Blar.
Which is worse being a TeaBagger or a Fister?
Fister being an Obama bot, google: Ken Jennings if you have no idea what I am talkin' about.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Hell, just 2 days ago Obama signed $1.1 trillion more in spending, on a whim. WTF?
I love the scene produced by this evocative statement. Obama's playing Tetris on his cell phone and an aide approaches with a silver platter covered in spending bills. "Sir, congress has prepared for you a selection of the finest budgets." Obama glances quickly away from his screen with a scowl. "Bring them back later. I can't figure out how to pause this thing." "Very good, sir." The aide bows and begins backing away. "Damn it," Obama shouts in dismay. "You made me miss with my T. Whatever, give me a pen." He grabs a bill at random. "I'm only signing this one. Throw out the rest. Tell them that next time they either need to combine all the bills or include a grant to fund research into pausing Tetris."
"I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
It doesn't matter as long as it was modded up.
Free Martian Whores!