Daily Archives: July 20, 2009

Forty Years After Space Race, What’s Next? : NPR

NPR has been running a series tied to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. A couple of high points have been an interview with Buzz Aldrin and a story on the hopefully accidental erasure of the original Apollo 11 tapes.

Also of interest is a backup speech that Nixon would have used if the landing had befallen some form of disaster. Pretty chilling but good that even Tricky Dick had a backup plan, something we haven’t seen in a president for the majority of this decade.

Wired had a rollup of related Apollo 11 news, some of it new to most of us.

Let the Record Show …

There are six members of the Senate Democratic Caucus who are against the public health care option. They are currently being called the Gang of Six, alluding to the thugs who ran China after Mao died.

Each of these nitwits has taken many millions of dollars from the health and insurance industries and parrot their talking points whenever possible. They should be on *our* side, but inside side with the wealthy and powerful.

You want proof? Here ya go. These assclowns are against spending a trillion and a third or so to prove good health care to ALL Americans because it might cost some money. However, four of them had NO issues whatsoever in voting for Bush’s gift bag o’ tax cuts for the ultrawealthy.

So…a trilliion in free money to billionaires already tax dodging or health care for average Americans, and these jerks side with the rich people.

Someone needs to be changing their priorities…and soon.

Why do Republicans hate America?

It turns out, if you are an American soldier captured by the Taliban, conservative media types have no problem – and actively encourage your captors – if you are executed. Presumably this would likely involve having your head lopped off with a Ginsu knife.

Granted, Ralph Peters – who is STILL pissed off he wrote a half dozen books on a Russian war in Europe that never happened – swears this particular soldier deserted, even though he has no real proof of this. Even so, get the soldier back, try him in a military court, and send him to Leavenworth if guilty.

They used to say anti-war lefties were traitors for not wanting our troops in Iraq. Now, conservatives actually wish for our soldier’s murder if they are captured by our enemies. And this ass clown was actually in the military, unlike so many armchair generals in the GOP.

If that isn’t treason, I’m not sure what is, folks.

Meanwhile, media clown and hatemonger Randall Terry is promising violent domestic terrorism if Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Wait a minute asswipe. You don’t have to like the lady – as I certainly loathe Roberts, Scalia, Alito, and Thomas – but each of them went through a confirmation hearing and were voted by the Senate – as the Constitution proscribes.

So basically, we have one Rethug arguing for the execution of a soldier held by our enemies in a combat zone and another calling for terrorism in our borders if the Constitutional confirmation process is followed.

And all the airtime on FAUXNews to argue for what is treason in about every sense of the word.

The Moon Landings: Fact, Not Fiction | GeekDad

I love GeekDad. Basically, it’s a Wired blog for the parental set.

One of today’s entries dealt with how to correct the misinformation regarding the moon landings. Namely, how to show your kids that, yes, they did happen.

This is pretty easily proved, but there are so many things out there that either well-meaning Luddites or evil Talibangelicals try to debunk using flawed logic. The same nitwits that refute the Theory of Evolution have no issues with the Theory of Relativity because they want a nuke plant in every ghetto and a MIRV hitting every country populated by brown people.

Just saying. Keep it up GeekDad!