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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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One expert estimates that 129 million people, 68% of those who buy health insurance, will lose their plan by the end of 2014 because of Obamacare.

Finding out what’s in it: One expert estimates that 129 million people, 68% of those who buy health insurance, will lose their plan by the end of 2014 because of Obamacare.

I am sure all those people will be grateful to Obama and the Democrats for standing strong and shutting down the government rather than allow any changes to this law.

Note: I keep repeating this point about the government shutdown because it is important to remember the real cause of that shutdown: The Republicans objected to Obamacare and the Democrats endorsed it. We mustn’t forget this very fundamental fact as we watch Obamacare roll over the country like a bulldozer.

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

4 comments

  • Cotour

    And in the wake of the Bulldozer the brave new progressive world will be built.

    Is the abandonment of the Constitution the rubble that the new world will be built upon? And the people perpetrating this new paradigm truly believe that they are doing the best works of their lives.

    Sick, sick, sick.

  • Pzatchok

    I for one welcome our new overlords.

    I can see that all they do is for our best wishes and well being.
    They offer everything and ask so little in return how could they be wrong?

  • Edward

    “Like a bulldozer”? Gee, that implies construction. This is pure destruction. It is more like a thermonuclear device gone wrong.

    “How could they be wrong?” (I know, that was said with much sarcasm, but …) Funny you should ask.

    I have a new theory about the intelligentsia that is running this country, and this theory points out how they could be wrong. I call it the Aristotle Syndrome. Aristotle (and Plato, and others of their time) believed that because he was so smart, all he had to do was sit and think about something to figure it out. There was the other popular thought at the time that experimentation was necessary to prove that the thinking was right, but this philosophy was overruled by the Aristotelian intelligentsia. Thus, for two millennia, mankind thought that heavier objects fell faster in proportion to their weight (and other misgivings). And that was perhaps the best work of his life. We lost a couple of millennia of scientific and technological progress because of such thinking. Thus, ‘very smart’ people can easily fool themselves into thinking that they are right when they are, in reality, very wrong.

    The modern ruling intelligentsia believes similarly. They think of a solution (e.g. Keynesian Economics) and if it doesn’t work when they apply it, they reason that the failure is because not enough was applied, because the theory *must* be right — after all, they thought of it, and they are very smart. One of the latest examples of this is the recent failed stimulus plan. When $800 billion didn’t improve the economy, they declared that they needed another $50 billion in order for it to work (i.e. they missed it by 6%). It is ironic, however, that this same intelligentsia claims to be scientific when they deny the evidence before their very eyes (‘who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?’). We are losing our future financial and sociological well being due to such thinking.

    I know that this new theory of mine is true, because I thought of it, and I am very smart.

  • John M. Egan

    I like it! ’tis great!

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