The New Scientific Method:
1) Find something the United States produces as a byproduct of necessary industry
2) Call it "pollution"
3) Get EPA and UN to holler about it
4) Profit, sweet, sweet profit!
I would question why the US Navy needs to have a brand new F-35, when, it just re-armed itself with F-18 Superhornets, and those are honestly almost a brand new aircraft.
To replace the Harrier. Super Hornets may be super but they don't to V/STOL.
we have about 12 active duty super carriers, but do people know that the 20 or so assault carriers operated by the US Marines are actually about the same in capability as the carriers of other countries?
Just because other navies suck, does not mean we should make ours suck. Also, the amphib ships'ses only fixed-wing asset is the Harrier, and will be the F-35. So that's why we need large carriers as well as small, and F-35s to use with the small ones.
we can't even spare a ship to go take out some pirates?
Why should we? All that will happen after the pirates are killed and captured are second-guessing and recriminations, and sailors on trial for squinting meanly at captured pirates, and the ACLU and EFF suing over reading pirate SIM cards.
Let the rest of the damned world try to take care of a single tiny problem without the United States leading the way.
ensure that The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 was being upheld
Such treaties are only meant to hogtie the United States.
You're leaving out the middle step - Duh Media's reportage.
"George Bush plans to cancel NASA...."
"George Bush plans to cancel NASA over Global Warming scientist...."
"George Bush plans to cancel NASA and Sesame Street over Global Warming scientist"
They have their templates, after all.
Why is this on
Because it generates hits from the "OMFG USA suxxorz!!" crowd.
the main tank was left unpainted. This gave the Shuttle launch stack its trademark rust-orange color. By making this simple change, NASA realized they could shave off hundreds of tons of launch weight [emphasis added]
You probably mean pounds. Or maybe metric slugs or something.
WRT Iran,
It is among the most developed countries in the Middle-East and Central Asia, and definitely the one with the best-educated population.
Except Israel.
I mean, you did say "the one" with no additional qualifiers to dig out of the hole. There can be only one "one."
It is perhaps correct to except Israel, as what they've done in a half century is far more impressive than what the rest of the Middle East has done for a thousand years. By excepting Israel, you avoid embarrassing the rest.
Problem is, that puts you on the same side as those who are trying to except Israel by force.
Will the ultimate causes of the GFC (global financial crisis) be nearly as well investigated as this accident
Don't be silly. One of the guilty will soon be President.
until you can think of a reason WHY somebody would want to place their nuclear arsenal two days away on the moon.
To hoist big chunks of Moon out of its gravity well and down the long slide to Earth!
Just think of Moon chunks reigning down. Awesome kinetic energy, far more than the explosive energy of the nukuler propulsion.
Good riddance, good riddance, good fucking riddance.
These party organs have done incalculable harm to humanity.
When Biden's "bring it on" remark gets it brought on, it will be time to stop the presses, permanently.
For Al Gore to get involved, he would have to follow the same scientific method involved in anthropogenic climate change theories.
Step One: Find out if the United States produces magnetic fields as part of a vitally important industrial process.
Step Two: Line up all of the political scientists to bash the United States. The U.N. can help here.
Step Three: Profit. Oh, sweet, sweet profit!!!
Isikoff spikes again.
Nowhere in his article does he identify the calls as international.
The good news is that it's in Newsweak, and only imbeciles read such crap.
If we do not get back to the moon, it will be Obama's fault.
The exact issue is that the school system is modeled after the one room schoolhouse. The entire concept of grades K-12 needs to be thrown out, and instead just have each student advance in each subject at his/her own pace.
I know people who went to one-room schoolhouses, and the learning was very individualized.
The kids who could handle the more advanced subjects got to them before they would have in the modern idiot factories. No kids were held back so that the 0.1% of them who might make a buck playing pro sports will be at maximum mass when they graduate college. No kids were promoted to satisfy social quotas and protect the NEA.
But most of it had to do with class size. Sure, the school had a 40:1 ratio in total students per teacher, but it got down to 8 or 9 to 1 (or was it 25 or 6 to 4) when you consider each subject. The kids not taking the given class were doing homework.
What must be got rid of is Big Ed and the NEA with their industrial-scale idiot factories.
It is a sad thing when most people are more willing to replace an old but working computer than they are to replace a clearly broken system.
Because if you dare talk about it you must hate teachers and children.
The Army of the United States of America is the greatest peacemaking organization the world has ever known.
I hope the peace sim makers remember that and give due credit, because "conflict resolution" means two things:
1) Keeping the parties from fighting until the army gets there
2) Keeping the parties from fighting after the army has moved on
But the Virtual Peace Simulator might be a very good thing for the world, if it keeps the "world peace," UN, and NGO dogooders busy playing a game.
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
