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Nasa Needs a Ride Board
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Having abandoned the Space Shuttle by the side of the galaxy, NASA relied on the kindness of Russians for transportation to the International Space Station. Bad move. While NASA minds contemplated the finer points of alien attack (not involving relatives of the president), a Russian Soyuz blew up, leaving the space station lost in space.
Wrong Stuff
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In his State of the Union, Obama referred to our Sputnik moment. It was an attempt to rally the nation to “win the future” or do something or other. The one thing it was not was an attempt to deprive the Russians of a monopoly on manned space travel.
Feeling Safe
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Diane Sawyer blindsided National Security Director James Clapper last week by asking him about the arrest of 12 suspected terrorists in London. Clapper attributed his cluelessness to his devotion to the New Start Treaty.
Wormhole
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Sixties style future House leader, Don Draper, a.k.a. “John Boehner”, called the Democrats tax bill “chicken crap” (Politico). Meanwhile, the president is focused on saving us from having to “duck and cover” by pressing on with his New START Treaty (George Will, Washington Post).
Whacky WikiWorld
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WikiLeaks leader, Julian Assange, doesn’t care for the United States’ meddling in world affairs. Yet his recent document dump showed that it’s Iran’s Arab neighbors who most want the U.S. to take out Iranian nukes. Other tasty morsels include a very close relationship between Putin and Berlusconi, Sarkozy as a “naked emperor“, an Afghan vice president with $50 million in cash, and Gadhafi’s voluptuous Ukranian nurse.
Suburban Moles
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The Russian spy ring in the burbs had cutting-edge gadgetry according to the NY Times. Maybe, but the invisible ink and short wave radios remind me of gadgetry I used to cut out of comic book ads. It looks like the Ruskies are still behind the curve in rubber vomit technology.
Wrong Stuff
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Neil Armstrong feels Obama has made a giant leap in the wrong direction by canceling the NASA Constellation program. The president says he’s still spending astronomical sums on space and plans on a mars landing by the mid 2030s. A convenient getaway before social security goes broke in 2041.
Will They Respect Us in the Morning?
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The Russians celebrated Obama’s victory by announcing the deployment of short range missiles the day after the U.S. election. Putin later halted the deployment after Obama suggested he may stop an American missile shield based in Poland and the Czech republic. Here’s the story in the U.K. Times Online.