The Star is actually the sun's mirror image seen through curved space and the orbiting object is earth.
I read something along those lines on a Mayan wall so it must be true.

The space program is another waste that doesn't do much else than make people feel good about the achievement of their government.

There are plenty of other things which need to be done first to increase the standard of living.

Space exploration with available technology is not profitable.

Continuing waste under the premise that there won't be enough money to waste is just another catch-22 military-types have gotten us into.

The problem is that the investment in destruction machines is destructive rather than constructive.

There is plenty of money the government should be spending for constructive purposes if it freed up funds from killing machines. For example investments to lower the cost of living and increase the standard of living could always go to companies like Boeing and Cessna.

One thing that comes to mind as an example is the horrid condition of all american airlines and their aging fleets and terrible service. Just look at airlines like Emirates or Etihad which are heavily subsidized by the UAE government. Their economy class is like flying first class and people working for the airlines are proud of it. Of course, in America for some reason that expenditure is seen as wasteful while a new stealth killing machine with no real purpose at all wouldn't.

If you haven't noticed, we do this in our foreign policy too.
On one hand we blow a country to pieces and on the other hand we send them arms, food, and medical supplies.

Psychotic.

PS South Park covered it best in the episode "I'm a Little Bit Country"

... so ban drinking water to prevent extermination of millions of innocent people.

Also make sure you have tax payers foot the bill for enforcement.
Coca Cola will fund the study.

From my observation, Asperger can make people pretty impulsive and violent for no reason. Not bat-shit crazy, just very impulsive and driven. That would mean that his mental condition could have led him to the massacre even if he rationalized his actions.

One thing for sure though, he did have a lot of pent up anger at his mother.

Really sad for those children, what did they have to do with anything? There is nothing that can be done for them anymore and none of the knee-jerk reactions our politicians are about to have for political gain will help this in any way.

I always wondered why commercial airliners never use the technology to supplement in-cabin energy needs.
After-all they're always above the clouds.

"the average American family probably owns close to a quarter million dollars in assets (including their house)"

You must be one of the people that the quarter-millionaire advertising has gotten to. That was BS made up to get people to refinance their homes to take out solid invested money to spend on doodads like boats, race cars, trophy chicks with big fake boobs, over-priced McMansions made out of wood which are nothing more than more liabilities which just increase people's debt.

Yeah, the average American is probably half a million in debt by now but their doodads seem like assets to the outsiders.

Weed is probably the only true asset left because it can't be bought on credit.

Did you ever see how they "sign" the citations? They are printed signatures in low dpi meaning noone really reviews them on a case by case basis.

I got a ticket once and tried to dispute it based on the fake signature but the judge was as crooked as the cop who showed up in court because he admitted the case even though the fake printed signature should have invalidated the complaint to begin with.

Someone high up in position of authority is filling up their pockets and the pockets of their cronies with money from those shotgun-approach speeding tickets.

Meanwhile, those freeway speed cameras are gone as they were ruled illegal but I did not see a dime back and I still had to deal with my insurance rates going up because of the points.

I had really low expectations for these movies ever since I've seen the trailer and found out they will have 3 movies out of one book.
Those expectations are now even lower. The soap opera effect is awful.

Don't blame the fiscal cliff, it's Bing that will make Santa fall off the cliff.

Apple mis-treating Chinese people isn't news.
Why isn't anyone outraged about this corporation's behavior?
They are the 1984 Big Brother they warned you about in their ads.

Here's another nickel. Get yourself a better cell phone.

Some of them actually take the dollar coin. I had one from the post office and tried it in a Coke machine along with a couple of quarters and it didn't work, so I dropped it in a Pepsi machine, and bang, it worked. Conclusion: Coke hates freedom. (the coin has the statue of liberty on it)

Are you fucking kidding me? We sell our top of the line people killing machines to them.
We'd go broke.