All posts by Rand Simberg

More Deja Vu

Kate O’Beirne agrees with me.

Anyone who doesn’t appreciate how the Berger bunch has used the fortuitous timing to their advantage must have slept through the Clinton years. The defense is classic. First, the mean Republicans, then the meaningless personal testimonials–“if you knew Sandy Berger like I know Sandy Berger (or Betty Currie). . .,” then the irrelevant–he is an extremely hardworking guy who was only trying to help the Commission (we’re working, working, working here at the White House), and finally (the political use of FBI files, the lost billing records) the removal of the classified documents was “inadvertent.”

Screw The Future

Jeff Foust rounds up more stories on the House cuts to the NASA budget request. A quote from Congressman Weldon:

This bill takes care of most of our needs at Kennedy Space Center, so I’m hard pressed not to support my chairman when he’s taking care of Florida.

Yup.

I’ve got mine. What did posterity ever do for me?

I also always wonder if they understand the impact of “delaying” a program for a year. A contractor has a team put together, and they can’t just put them in cold storage until Congress decides to finally fund the program. They get reassigned to other projects, and it’s hard to reassemble them later, resulting in putting together a new team, with associated learning curve. This is one of the reasons that government space programs are so inefficient and costly.

She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims

That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.

Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?

My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.

You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.

She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims

That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.

Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?

My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.

You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.

She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims

That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.

Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?

My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.

You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.