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Reported Obama Plan Would Privatize Manned Launches
couchslug writes with this excerpt from the not-yet-paywalled New York Times: "President Obama will end NASA's return mission to the moon and turn to private companies to launch astronauts into space when he unveils his budget request to Congress next week, an administration official said Thursday. The shift would 'put NASA on a more sustainable and ambitious path to the future' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But the changes have angered some members of Congress, particularly from Texas, the location of the Johnson Space Center, and Florida, the location of the Kennedy Space Center. 'My biggest fear is that this amounts to a slow death of our nation's human space flight program,' Representative Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, said in a statement." If true, this won't please the federal panel that recommended against just such privatization.
How is that Hope and Change working out for you NASA. I see this as a way to siphon off funds to be redirected to more social programs (I mean buy votes). Flame On!
Conservative, mod down for violating
I'm used to it by now. The Obama administration has, thus far, (when one counts actual policy actions, rather than words) been pretty much a long sequence of Obama doing something that is centrist-democrat at best, "Bush III, but literate" at worst then being howled at by republicans(many of whom supported virtually identical policies in the recent past) because anything a communist-fascist-muslim-sleeper-terrorist from kenya does simply must be evil.
Obama? A centrist? Bush III? I think your ideas of what defines a "centrist" are off. Cap and Trade, Universal Health Care, Income Redistribution, cancelling the moon and Orion missions and repurposing NASA to study global warming... hardly what I'd call centrist. Boy, I'd hate to see what you call a lefty.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
I thought it up while I was banging your mom, son.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you want to start a discussion like this, please also provide the number of white americans who did *not* vote for barack based solely on the colour of his skin.
Oh, and also some references to where you got your numbers. Until then, I'm just going to ignore your post and assume you just invented the numbers.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
It really disrespectful to refer to our President that way, you racist.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty whites are free at last!
Well, except from a generally unconstitutional Federal government...
Seastead this.
Taking money from hardworking people and giving it to non-hardworking people is NOT a noble intention. Many of his claims (such as transparency, fiscal responsibility, no lobbyists) were made to get those who wouldn't vote for him to support him during the election - then he showed that he never cared about any of that and it was just words to get elected.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
As off-topic as the OP was, he's right and everyone doesn't want to admit it. Black people are more racist than Whites, plain and simple. In my 30+ years of life, I have only seen 1 White group of people attack a Black guy (and this guy had the nerve to blatantly, sexually harass the daughter of the local KKK leader, while living in the same trailer park - I call that "death by sheer stupidity", as he was found hanging from a tree at the front of the park, and all of a sudden there were a bunch of people that developed mass amnesia about where they were that night and "must have stayed home with the family, right honey?"). I've seen the reverse multiple times (and actually been the target once - some dumb bitch on an interstate bus who had been openly bragging about running phone sex lines with her mom accused me of not being Christian because of my tattoos...like "What the fuck do my tattoos have to do with religion, bitch?"; harsh words were said at a rest stop, I sent my now ex-fiancee inside, and duked it out with the half-dozen or so "brothas" "defending" a "sista's" honor (I believe that was the gist of their beef, it's hard to translate Ebonics while fighting for your life), ended up stabbing a couple of them before it was over). So "don't call me whiteboy, nigger" (famous Ice T & Perry Farrell song if you don't catch the reference.). Hate breeds hate, plain and simple.
And if you think Chris Rock is anything other than a loud-mouth toad with an inferiority complex (and probably a crack habit, the way he runs off at the mouth), you need your head examined. And if you believe that as well as his assertion that Obama is qualified (especially when measured against John McCain), we can skip the examination and just move you somewhere where you can chew on the crayons during Art Therapy.
You'll probably eat all the brown ones is my guess.
PC moderators can suck my White pierced, tattooed dick. If you think pride == hate, s/dick/Aryan meat mallet/g.