The Warsaw Uprising began sixty years ago. Not the ghetto uprising–the other one that essentially destroyed the city as the Nazi regime was entering its death throes. It was a true display of the evil of both Hitler and Stalin.
By the way, I happened to watch “The Pianist” last night, and I was amazed at the level of destruction shown in the movie, and was wondering how accurate it was.
Here’s more on the Return To The Moon Conference a couple weekends ago, by Leonard David. In USA Today. It’s got some new stuff that wasn’t in his initial space.com piece.
[Via Thomas James, who seems to be posting more now that he’s settled into his new digs in Colorado. Though shouldn’t he change the name of his blog to the Colorado Mars Society?]
You know all those things you haven’t done in a blue moon? Well, get ready to do them again tonight.
I heard Kerry dredge up another old socialist chestnut today, when he was talking about health care. “I’m going to give every citizen the same health care that senators give themselves.”
That kind of demogoguery is just as nonsensical now as it is when the senator’s portly colleague, the senior senator from Massachussetts, used it over two decades ago.
Does he propose to provide every American citizen with a Senator’s salary? With other senatorial perks and benefits, such as free haircuts and subsidized meals? Free gym memberships?
Secret Service security details? I’ll bet a lot of people in the inner cities would like that one.
How about a generous pension?
No?
Then what’s his point? Why should they get senatorial health care?
Just heard a clip of Bush on his new tour (as in the title of this post)–a dig at Kerry’s comment that the heart and soul of America was represented by Whoopie Goldberg & Co. He said “Springfield, Missoura.” I wonder if that’s a natural Texan pronunciation, or if he knows it’s what the natives (outside of St. Louis) call it?
Just heard a clip of Bush on his new tour (as in the title of this post)–a dig at Kerry’s comment that the heart and soul of America was represented by Whoopie Goldberg & Co. He said “Springfield, Missoura.” I wonder if that’s a natural Texan pronunciation, or if he knows it’s what the natives (outside of St. Louis) call it?
Just heard a clip of Bush on his new tour (as in the title of this post)–a dig at Kerry’s comment that the heart and soul of America was represented by Whoopie Goldberg & Co. He said “Springfield, Missoura.” I wonder if that’s a natural Texan pronunciation, or if he knows it’s what the natives (outside of St. Louis) call it?
If you think that the prospects for Iraq are good, here’s a way to make money on your belief.
…just keeps going, and going, and going…
Here’s the latest from Florida Today. The Kerry people didn’t just shoot themselves in the unlucky rabbit’s foot on this one. They kept reloading:
Kerry’s campaign team asked for the pictures and helped pass them out to reporters, NASA said. Once the photos surfaced on Web sites and in newspapers, becoming joke fodder for pundits at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Kerry’s campaign got defensive.
The Kerry team hinted at dirty tricks. Campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said the pictures were not meant to go public.
NASA routinely photographs touring dignitaries and posts them online. Kerry’s group included four current or former U.S. senators. Two of them, Glenn and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Melbourne, flew in space. So there was nothing unusual about publicizing the photos…
…NASA did not elaborate on whether lawyers deemed the Kerry campaign event Monday was an improper use of the Visitor Center. Nor did the agency say how it differed from the ways other politicians have used NASA locations and high-profile space events for political purposes.
It’s wabbit season!
That’s what irritated me about this. There was no “high-profile space event” here. It was simply using a NASA center as a prop to talk about things that had nothing to do with space. It was purely a campaign event, and despite Lori Garver’s flimsy defense of him (and I like Lori), the senator continues to strike me as someone who is as profoundly unserious on the space issue as he is on all others, except for achieving his lifelong dream of being the second JFK.
…is, to me, one of the most irritating people in public life. I’m listening to the 911 hearing stuff on the Hill. Like Algore, she talks to us like a kindergarten teacher, and she sounds a little slow herself. I really think of her as one of the dimmer bulbs in the Senate (which is really saying something, considering all the competition), and it’s a little frightening to have her playing a significant role in this activity.