Beldar implies that Senator Kerry may be afraid to defend his service record. At least in a venue where actual rules of evidence apply, and people can be issued subpoenas, instead of just repeatedly screaming “LIAR” on cable news.
…some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command
Beldar implies that Senator Kerry may be afraid to defend his service record. At least in a venue where actual rules of evidence apply, and people can be issued subpoenas, instead of just repeatedly screaming “LIAR” on cable news.
…some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command
Ben Chertoff and Carl Hoffman at Popular Mechanics are live blogging the public announcement of NASA’s exploration architecture from NASA HQ. Chertoff’s calling it NASA’s “lunar retread.”
[Update at 1:15 PM EDT]
Griffin on commercial contractors:
…when you use a prime contractor in the traditional way it IS more expensive, but at least you know that you’ll get what you ask for. We don’t want to get in a position where we ask for something and they can’t make it happen.
Yeah, they cost more, but we all know that prime contractors never fail to come through.
I’m with Hoffman:
Only one question about commercial space activities – Rutan, X prize, Bezos, Elon Must [sic], who’s about to launch his first rocket with commercial payload into orbit for a reported $16 million – that was never mentioned by Griffin himself. And that has to make you wonder whether anything has changed at all…
Diana West asks what we’ve got to show for all our handouts to the “Palestinians.”
Diana West asks what we’ve got to show for all our handouts to the “Palestinians.”
Diana West asks what we’ve got to show for all our handouts to the “Palestinians.”
This article describes why NASA’s plans are probably fiscally and politically unsustainable, though you have to read between the lines:
NASA
I expect that we’ll be seeing Greek alphabet names within a couple weeks–there are only four names left.
All of the computer models show Rita heading through the Florida Straights, which means just some wind and rain for Palm Beach County, but we’ll keep an eye out and be ready to shutter anyway. I haven’t seen anything to indicate that this thing has much chance of hitting New Orleans, though–all of the tracks show it heading farther south, down near the Mexico/Texas border. It might hit Texas, or even western Louisiana, but eastern Louisiana looks pretty unlikely to me.
I’ll sure be glad when this hurricane season is over.
[Update at noon eastern]
Just got our first heavy shower from the outer bands.
It’s that time of year again.
You know what I mean.
Avast, me hearties–it’s the day to talk like a pirate.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Which reminds me of how much that recent commercial–you know, the one with the pirate?–irritates me. He has a parrot on his shoulder, and to make sure we know he’s a pirate, he says “Arrrggghhh…”
Arrrgggghhh.
Pirates don’t say “Arrrggghhh,” unless they just sat on a belaying pin, or saw a stupid television commercial. They say “Arrrrrr…”
Stupid television commercial writers.
Stephen Moore has a depressing column in today’s WSJ on the big-government Republicans:
Both political parties are now willing and eager to spend tax dollars as if they were passing out goody-bags to grabby four-year-olds at a birthday party. The Democrats are already forging their 2006 and 2008 message: We will spend just as many trillions of dollars as Republicans, but we will spend them better than they do. After witnessing the first few Republican misappropriations for Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats may very well be right.