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2013-07-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-22 05:45|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 That same year - 1969 - we also had a half a million men in a land war in Asia and we right in the middle of the largest infrastructure program ever - the Interstate Highway System.

After 44 years of "progress", we have a tiny space program, a shrinking military, and crumbling infrastructure.

I prefer the 1969 priorities.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-22 09:27|| 2013-07-22 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Good, albut somewhat depressing stuff:

The eagle landed in a mud puddle in D.C. The last men who walked on the moon will probably be dead within a decade.

Well tell our kids about it and theyll shake their heads because whats the big deal anyway? Everyone flies around in spaceships in all the movies. Why bother doing it in real life? They dont bother doing anything in real life. And then theyll go off to another class that will teach them how much carbon waste the space program added and how many super-hurricanes it caused and how much better off we are now that we no longer have cars, plastic bags or air conditioning.

Sad really....

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-22 11:14|| 2013-07-22 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly. I grew up in the Space Shuttle era, and watched the dream die. It's why I don't have children, and would hesitate if the opportunity came along. I feel it's wrong to give up hope. But I also feel it would be wrong to condemn my own children to a world that no longer values big dreams.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-07-22 11:41|| 2013-07-22 11:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry but the manned space program is the most politically vain, "panem et circences" misallocation of taxpayer capital IN THE WORLDS HISTORY.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-22 15:08|| 2013-07-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Columbus was a dope, BP.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-22 15:19|| 2013-07-22 15:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Are you saying America's future could fare as well as Portugals?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-22 16:03|| 2013-07-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#7 That's a best-case scenario, BP, if the Leftists keep screwing with our country. >:-(

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-22 17:33|| 2013-07-22 17:33|| Front Page Top

#8 BP is mad cause we didn't ask a Kevin to come along. :)

Posted by Shipman 2013-07-22 17:38|| 2013-07-22 17:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Without the manned space program, we wouldn't have Tang(tm)

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-22 17:46|| 2013-07-22 17:46|| Front Page Top

#10 or the Space Pen

Posted by Frank G 2013-07-22 19:22|| 2013-07-22 19:22|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm broadly all for supporting + helping America's international allies or partners dev their SpaceProgs, but NOT iff it means Amer astronauts fall behind in skill proficiencies, + our OWG-NWO Govts,Perts consensus remains there is no such consensus.

IFF THE BAMMER = USA WANTS LEGIT FREE MARKETS FOR THE PERVASIVELY FAILED-N-FAILING
"GREEN/ENVIRON TECHS", THEN WE NEED TO GO BACK INTO SPACE PRONTO. As thingys stand, the Fed desires to firmly establish + entrench these
"green/environ techs", but has forgotten they need the normal justifications, etc. for setting up any such markets for same.

Even loyal Guam-based Democrats here on Guam admit or believe that all the Bammer + Admin is doing is using US Taxpayer dollars to payoff Party-Campaign Cronies using "Green/Environ Techs" as legal PCorrect-Deniable cover story.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-07-22 19:50|| 2013-07-22 19:50|| Front Page Top

#12 If you think about it, Columbus was not only a great explorer but also an early environmentalist; after all to cross the Atlantic he only used three galleons....

Posted by USN,ret 2013-07-22 20:50|| 2013-07-22 20:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Go to your room, ret.

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-22 22:13|| 2013-07-22 22:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Aaaaw, come on, any Ron/Rand Paul Libertarian KNOW that the moon landings were FAKED!(And da joo is behind 9/11)

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