The Nightly Rebuke

[finknottle]

Krauthammer has an interesting editorial which raises the question: with all the stimulus money that is being spent, much of it obstensively for nothing more than simply the sake of being spent and thereby stimulating the economy, why didn't we throw a few bucks NASA's way? That serves the same purpose as mowing the lawns of the Smithsonian, and might actually have some lasting benefit.

 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/...rgot_97498.html

But look up from your BlackBerry one night. That is the moon. On it are exactly 12 sets of human footprints -- untouched, unchanged, abandoned. For the first time in history, the moon is not just a mystery and a muse, but a nightly rebuke.

[DC Tom]

Krauthammer has an interesting editorial which raises the question: with all the stimulus money that is being spent, much of it obstensively for nothing more than simply the sake of being spent and thereby stimulating the economy, why didn't we throw a few bucks NASA's way? That serves the same purpose as mowing the lawns of the Smithsonian, and might actually have some lasting benefit.

 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/...rgot_97498.html

 

Because NASA creates manufacturing jobs, and we're a service economy.

[DC Tom]

I pass the gutted factories in Bethpage regularly.

 

Oh, Christ. You're not going to start another teary-eyed "The F-14 is the most bestest plane ever!" sob story, are you?

[Alaska Darin]

Oh, Christ. You're not going to start another teary-eyed "The F-14 is the most bestest plane ever!" sob story, are you?

I'll send him on vacation. I swear I will.