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It is now July, time once again to celebrate the start of this webpage in 2010 with my annual July fund-raising campaign.

 

This year I celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black. During that time I have done more than 33,000 posts, mostly covering the global space industry and the related planetary and astronomical science that comes from it. Along the way I have also felt compelled as a free American citizen to regularly post my thoughts on the politics and culture of the time, partly because I think it is important for free Americans to do so, and partly because those politics and that culture have a direct impact on the future of our civilization and its on-going efforts to explore and eventually colonize the solar system.

 

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The defense strategy of Democratic party officials under arrest for voter fraud: “Voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections.”

The defense strategy of Democratic party officials under arrest for voter fraud: “Voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections.”

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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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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

  • Kelly Starks

    Whats the Term – Hutzba?

    ;)

  • Chris Kirkendall

    Yep, that’s “Chutzpah” all right – the best example is the man who kills his own father & mother & then throws himself on the mercy of the Court, because he’s an orphan. Has anyone ever notioced that the most dishonest people always accuse others of doing what they’re doing? I knew a kid in school who routinely cheated on tests & insisted everyone else was cheating too, so he wasn’t doing anything wrong ! !

  • Kelly Starks

    We seriously must upgrade the reliability, and SECURITY, of our voting processes!

  • Chris Kirkendall

    Absolutely right, Kelly ! !f we can’t trust the integrity & accuracy of election results, how will we ever know We the People have been fairly represented? This is especially true in states with a lot of Electoral Votes up for grabs & where the contest is close – the potential & temptation to cheat is just too great to ignore.

    In a related example, I live in the Chicago area, well-known for ballot tampering, dead voters, etc., so I know the importance of making sure everyone casting a “vote” is a real person, with a real address, within the district, and ALIVE ! ! And since I can ever remember, in every close election, all the downstate & suburban (collar counties) votes would be in (99% or more), but certain wards in the city of Chicago would not have reported their results. The Republican candidate would be ahead by some 10s of thousands (or even 100s of 1,000s) of votes, but at the last minute, these unbelievable vote totals from certain wards would come in & put the Dem just barely over the top. It wasn’t too hard to figure out they were holding back their vote totals till they saw all the votes from GOP-leaning districts & could figure out how many “votes” they needed to “generate” to overvcome the lead. It happened every time – what a joke…

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