“We Didn’t Know What The Hell Was Going On”
A Democrat explains the reasoning behind the Obama stimulus package: “We didn’t know what the hell was going on.” With video.
Year: 2011
A slap on the wrist for the Wisconsin doctors who handed out fake sick notes.
Why am I not surprised? A slap on the wrist for the Wisconsin doctors who handed out fake sick notes during the protests last year.
Richard Branson talks to the Wall Street Journal
Richard Branson talks to the Wall Street Journal about space.
Mr. Branson is still radiating enthusiasm. “We’ve got just short of 500 people now signed up to go, which is actually more people than have been up to space in the history of space travel, and we hope to put those up in our first year of operation,” he says, predicting the first commercial flight by “about next Christmas,” although he acknowledges that there have been many delays.
Russian rocket completes its second launch from French Guiana
A Russian Soyuz rocket has completed its second launch from French Guiana, carrying six military satellites into orbit.
Comet Lovejoy lost its tail in skimming through the Sun’s atmosphere
Comet Lovejoy lost its tail in skimming through the Sun’s atmosphere Thursday.
Solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center up their prediction for the next solar maximum
The solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have upped their prediction for the next solar maximum, calling for a sunspot number of 99 in February 2013. Their previous prediction called for a maximum sunspot number of 89 in March 2013.
Hey, they still let us drive
Frank Fleming: “Hey, they still let us drive.”
Driving is basically a grandfathered freedom from back when people cared less about pollution and danger and valued progress and liberty over safety. They had different equations related to human life then: We could lose 10,000 men in a single battle in a war and call it a victory.
We’re talking foolhardy people who eventually sent men to the moon strapped to a giant rocket that had less computational power than it takes to calculate the trajectory of an Angry Bird. Their kids dangled from jungle gyms over pavement. [emphasis in original]
Russia announces it supports Canada’s decision to pull out of the Kyoto accords
More bad news for the global warming crowd: Russia has announced it fully supports Canada’s decision to pull out of the Kyoto accords.
NASA Faces Further Cuts in Last-minute Spending Package
NASA faces a $325 million additional cut in the last-minute spending deal now before Congress.
These cuts will bring NASA’s budget back to what it had in 2008, hardly a disaster for space exploration.
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Tea Party Patriots leader arrested at airport for checking in lawful pistol.
He should have told them he was a Mexican druglord: The Tea Party Patriots leader was arrested yesterday at a New York airport for following TSA rules and checking in a lawful pistol.
Obama’s Watergate
Operation Fast and Furious was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and overseen by the Justice Department. It started under the leadership of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Fast and Furious enabled straw gun purchases from licensed dealers in Arizona, in which more than 2,000 weapons were smuggled to Mexican drug kingpins. ATF claims it was seeking to track the weapons as part of a larger crackdown on the growing violence in the Southwest. Instead, ATF effectively has armed murderous gangs. About 300 Mexicans have been killed by Fast and Furious weapons. More than 1,400 guns remain lost.