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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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Democrats blame lack of gun control for knife and bomb attacks

You can’t make this stuff up. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) told reporters on Tuesday that the Islamic knife and bomb terrorist attacks this past weekend in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey were the fault of Republicans for blocking new gun control legislation.

Nor was Durbin alone. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) joined him in blaming Republicans and the lack of new gun control rules for the terrorist attacks.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

8 comments

  • Cotour

    Here’s a little reminder for you all where this IMO all started..

    https://youtu.be/MADYzQstpsU
    (I remember thinking at the time that I did not like these words and what they potentially meant)

    Refresh your memory? This is the president that started it all, and the Clinton’s, his son and Obama have delivered us to where we are today, essentially failing in most every “lofty goal” set forth by this, the “well intentioned ” former president. A world where the “law of the jungle” and apparently common sense no longer applies”.

    Like I have pointed out, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Although I really do not interpret G.H.W. Bush’s statements in all that good of a way in the long term. I read further into it and understand that for this “New World Order” to exist the country that will make it all possible by necessity must be diminished.

    The American Constitution and the Bill Of Rights must be diluted and not promoted, for the greater good of course. And we have all of this counter intuitive crap (like the story above) issuing forth from the political party’s and the purposefully confused populous. G.H.W. Bush started us all down this road to insane thinking.

    I say BS to these “lofty” goals.

  • Phill O

    OK, this sure sounds like pie in the sky! What is missing is the extent of depravity that some go ,based on the human condition. The Clintons push those limits of ethics well past anything even remotely close to the 10 commandments. No wonder those precepts are being removed from court houses etc.

    I had a lawyer tell me how to put them out of business; “People just need to do what they promise!”

  • ken anthony

    Once it’s understood that reason is not a factor it all makes sense.

  • Can not one single reporter ask ‘how’?

  • wodun

    Trump has it exactly right. Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats treat their fellow Americans worse than they treat Islamic Terrorists.

    Excuses and defenses are always provided for Islamic Terrorists while the worst things that can be said are said of their fellow Americans.

  • Orion314

    Our political hacks should become lifetime blood donors, , on an hourly basis

  • INSOMNiUS

    Was it Franklin that said “For those who sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither”?
    Sadly, our people are surrendering to that mantra because of worsening economy, “What good is freedom when you can’t put food on the table or a roof over your head.”

  • Phill O

    { wodun
    September 21, 2016 at 2:05 pm

    Trump has it exactly right. Obama, Hillary, and the Democrats treat their fellow Americans worse than they treat Islamic Terrorists. }

    Just read Zero Level Heroes. Their area commander sure treated the Taliban better than the US soldiers! The Taliban even had a wife and daughter shot so some Taliban survivors could get out free. Truly, the Israel Defense Force is a better way. Putin would not put up with it; and he gets a pass from prosecution but not an American president who defends the country! The world is going to pot! Or maybe it is on it!

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