Phil Jones has been contemplating suicide.
I wonder how he’d do it? By putting an extra blanket on the bed?
Category Archives: Political Commentary
More Constellation Cancellation Pushback
It figures. Of course, most trekkers have no interest in actual space policy, so I don’t expect much will come of it.
The End Of The Apollo Cargo Cult?
I have a longish rebuttal to Tom Jones up at Popular Mechanics.
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In case you’re confused, there are a couple problems with the piece that I’m trying to get fixed. First of all, obviously, that was supposed to be two billion dollars per launch not two bucks per launch (if only…). And I’ve quoted Tom Jones in the first paragraph on the second page, and farther down the page, Charlie Bolden, but there are no quote marks right now, so it makes it look as though their words are mine.
[Late afternoon update]
Jeff Greason weighs in on fairing-size issues in comments, and Jon Goff has some thoughts on heavy-lift technologies.
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The quotes on page two have been fixed, but we still have dollar-store prices for Ares I flights.
[Early evening update]
Ken Murphy says it’s the dawn of a new space enterprise.
John Murtha
RIP.
As I was taught, if you don’t have anything good to say…
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I assume that there will be a special election. I’ll bet that a Republican will have a good shot at taking the seat.
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Yup, a special election on primary day, May 18th, and it’s the only district in the country that voted for both John Kerry and John McCain. The only thing, really, that kept getting him reelected was the pork. Looks like a likely Republican pickup to me.
[Late afternoon update]
An obit from Rick Moran. With the good, the bad and the ugly.
Meeting Without Preconditions
Good enough for Iran, but not for Republicans. This administration seems to be confused about who we’re at war with.
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America isn’t ungovernable. Her president simply hasn’t been up to the job.
Given his experience, resume and history, there was never any reason to think that he would be.
The Delicate Flowers
…at NOW.
Man, if they didn’t like the Tebow ad, they should be going ballistic over Betty White being tackled.
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You know, considering how many people watch for just the ads (about half, I think) they should put together a Superbowl ad show without the game, and see what kind of viewership it gets. It wouldn’t cost them a dime to produce.
The Human Rights Facade
…is beginning to crumble.
There is a vital role for groups like HRW and Amnesty to play in the world. Properly understood, their mission is to use their moral authority to shame and condemn tyranny and those who wish to make the world a hospitable place for tyrants and terrorists. But moral authority requires moral clarity. HRW and Amnesty have been overtaken by activists who use their position to wage easy campaigns against open societies instead of taking on the more difficult, thankless, and sometimes dangerous struggle against closed ones.
Kind of like the global warming scam. Amnesty International should be ashamed, but it’s apparently incapable of it.
Captain America
…apparently hates Americans. Though I liked the Fantastic Four and Spiderman when I was a kid, I’ve never been a big Marvel fan. This is just one more reason.
Best Ad
I missed the first half (after giving up on our Costco trip yesterday, being unable to find a parking space and having forgotten that everyone would be stocking up for the game today, we went about game time. Lightest traffic ever…), but my favorite ad in the second half was Audi’s. Selling us green cars by showing us our ecofascist future…
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I agree:
I can’t wait for the video showing Hitler’s reaction to Peyton Manning’s fourth-quarter interception.
I think that it says something about the culture that, sixty-five years later, Adolf Hitler has become a pop-culture joke. Unfortunately, I think that the ideology of radical Islam and Allah will be much more resistant. Partly because when we make fun of Hitler, there aren’t riots in the streets, with threats of decapitation.
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Did the Colts get the kiss of death?
He also thought the Olympics were a shoe-in for Chicago because of his involvement (epic fail), that Corzyn would win in New Jersey, Deeds in Virginia, Coakley in Massachusetts, and that he would by himself succeed in Copenhagen. That’s 0-5 there tough guy! From NFL.com: President Obama predicts Colts victory in Super Bowl XLIV.
I’m guessing that there are a lot of donkeys who will be begging The One to stay the hell away from their campaigns this fall.
Obama Isn’t A Keynesian
He just thinks he is:
If Keynes were alive today, what would he think of President Obama’s fiscal policies?
He would roll over in his grave if he could see the things being done in his name. Keynes was opposed to large structural deficits. He thought that they chilled rather than stimulated the economy. It’s true that we’re stuck with large deficits now. The goal should be to reduce them, not to take on new spending that makes them worse.
Today, deficits are getting bigger and bigger with no plan to significantly lower them. Keynes understood what the current administration doesn’t understand that the proper policy in a democracy recognizes that today’s increase in debt must be paid in the future.
We paid down wartime deficits. Now we have continuous deficits. We used to have a rule people believed in, balanced budgets. And now that’s gone.
But misinterpreting Keynes allows them to pursue their political agenda of growth in government.