Space Rant

When you hear that rags are literally holding together and sticking out of the Discovery, you know our shuttle program has problems.

I am sick of how much money is wasted in NASA. We're spending billions on insignifigant progress. While this op-ed in the NY Times claims that progress requires risk and investment, that's only true if there is progress, and if that risk cannot be reduced. We need to reduce the amount of money wasted by NASA. The Russians send their people to space with a fraction of the cost we do.

FYI: Annual NASA budget: Approximately $15 billion, or as NASA chief Griffin put it: "If you took all of that money, $60 a day wouldn't get the average American through very many meals (actual quote from Meet The Press, July 31st, you read that right).

John Bolton is now officially our ambassador to the band of thugs known as the U.N.

"The U.N. is an organization with thousands of people from all over the world with one thing in common: They badly need to be yelled at, preferably by a guy who looks like Wilford Brimley."
-Ann Coulter