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Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares
FleaPlus writes "Senators Richard Shelby (R-AL and ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee handling NASA funding) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) have added an amendment onto an emergency spending bill for military operations in Afghanistan, reiterating that NASA must continue spending its funds on the Constellation program, particularly the medium-lift Ares I rocket. Alabama and Utah have strong ties to Ares/Constellation contractors, and both senators are opposed to the new direction for NASA, with Shelby describing it as a 'death march' for US spaceflight and criticizing the emphasis on commercial rockets."
And corporations are made up of...wait for it...prairie dogs in suits! Thats right! Stand up, looks out across the cube-tops and greet your fellow prairie dogs! We are corporation! We are America! We deserve representation! Meer cats suck, by the way. Freakin' commies.
True and it boils down to the 3 laws of politicians 1: If a politician's lips move he's lying 2: He or she is full of shit, the only question is human, bull, dog, or horse. 3: Yes, laws 1 and 2 are true of your favorite politician too. Why yes, I am a bit jaded and cynical.
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Universal health care is a good thing. It's not socialist. Get over it.
When the whole Universe starts paying for health care, maybe, just maybe it would be a good thing.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
It keeps thousands of aerospace engineers, scientists, and technicians productively employed.
You can spin it any way you want, but it doesn't change the fact that when the government gets into the business of designing and micromanaging rocket programs, it's socialism.