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Anyone who knows me, knows that this post will be long, and full of parenthesis and jokes. However, I would like to have a thoughtful discussion about where YOU think the country is going. Please, no DEMO-CRAP or RE-PUBE-LICKER talking points, no swooning over Obama, and no asking for his birth certificate (we all know Donald Trump stole it), No Rush Limbaugh’s or Bill Maher’s. Sheopard Smith’s and (whoever is ACTUALLY FAIR on the other channels) are welcome, but let’s keep it light. We are all friends here, and this is a touchy subject. (Sadly)
I would like to hear your thoughts on the state of… well… THE States. (forget the money parts, wall street and all that, I'm talking about the PEOPLE, and their slow inexorable and frankly inexplicable slide toward the butt end of the Roman Empire’s Timeline.)
So without further ado, let us wade into this moral swamp of conflicted opinion, where facts float on the top of murky liquid lies, and as we move toward each other, they mix together into an incomprehensible soup that resembles raw sewage in both odor and appearance. Finding clarity in such dirtied waters is nigh impossible without the aid of a sewage treatment plant. Please, let this topic be that purifier. And maybe, just maybe, we can find a way for people on both sides to meet in the middle and discuss ideas, rather than wield them as clubs to attack each other.
(I am not referring to this community, but rather America, and on a lesser level, the whole world. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I for one, cannot abide this cesspool, and if the waters cannot be cleaned, I think I would rather stay dry, even though the soul withers without the sustaining waters of shared thought.
Now that the foreword is out of the way, let me ask my question, say my piece, crack a joke, and then welcome yours.
When was the last time any of you can remember when we were proud of our president? (I mean REAL PRIDE, not one half of the country liking the guy cuz he's on their team, and the other half hating his guts) I think it all died around the Clinton/first Bush era. Both of ‘em were liked by MOST but not even close to ALL. And it’s only gone downhill since then. I think that, more than anything, is why both sides reference Reagan with a sense of pride and smile when they hear stories about the man. He was the last AMERICAN president. We no longer have one any more. We just have a D prez, or an R prez, and we just switch every 4 years or so. If history TRULY repeats, then let us hope we get another Reagan before the part about Rome collapsing under senatorial bickering and legislative gridlock comes around again. I think its gettin' kinda’ close. (Maybe we can go dig him up and do the “Weekend at Bernie's” thing? Whatcha' say guys? Hey, and if he wins, we get a Hard Light presidency!
I would stake every single cent I own, my life, even my immortal soul, that if ANY of us were president right now, we would get N.A.S.A. back into space, and out of the Middle East doing their Muslim outreach.
I truly want to ask those of you who support Obama, if YOU would have slashed N.A.S.A.’s budget to nothing? Would you have cancelled the next shuttle project, leaving us totally dependant on the Russians to get us into space, which we have to pay them a substantial sum for? Now just those facts would have been the most abominable slap in the face to every hard working man and woman at NASA, nevermind the utter destruction of so many of ours and our children’s hopes and dreams for the future.
But sadly, that was not the end of it. The poisoned blade was twisted further. Years of struggle, loss of life, blood, sweat and tears, thousands of hours of study, training, hoping, praying, for that next great leap into the heavens. The brilliant, motivated, and passionate people, for whom the phrase “To Boldly Go….” is not some iconic quote, but their very way of life, have been betrayed so deeply, that it’s a wonder the rate of people choosing to quit NASA after years, DECADES even, has only been 35%.
Their mission has been changed. They are to lower their eyes, away from the stars. That’s easy to do when your head is hanging in defeat.
NASA’s new mission is: “Muslim Outreach”
I read the report, not from a news agency, but direct from the white house website, and I cannot promise you that this is word for word, because I have tried to erase it from my memory, and would rather die than read it again. Essentially their mission is defined as this: NASA’s top level engineers, scientists, astronomers, etc, are to meet with the leaders of the Muslim world, to highlight the contribution Muslims have made to get mankind into space. Obama wants the Middle East to know that he values their insight, ideas, and sacrifices to help all mankind achieve a better future.
The very next year data was collected and it was revealed that the suicide rate among NASA employees was actually higher than that of combat soldiers suffering from PTSD.
That’s a pretty sad freaking commentary on our future.
But by far, the most egregious, and unforgivable act had to be to cancellation of the next gen spacecraft. It was already under way. It was 60% complete! They would have been able to get people back into space within 2-3 years after the shuttle was retired. I struggle very hard here to remain civil, as this was the moment that I stopped “disagreeing” with the president, and actually started HATING him. Despite multiple petitions, NASA’s management begging, and pleading, hell, even against HIS OWN advisors, he cut... no… he DESTROYED the project. He cut ALL funding, and REASSIGNED the people working on it to other areas and projects... (Like Fuc**ng Muslim Outreach!)
I think the saddest part of the whole deal is that HE absolutely WASTED a TRILLION dollars of OUR hard earned money, telling the whole world he was going to save the economy, jobs, and America as we know it. And all the lazy, ignorant ass did was write a BLANK CHECK to each state, which they promptly SQUANDERED!
NASA only needed 200 Billion. That’s all.
Obama wipes his butt with bigger piles of cash. I'm sorry, but there is NO EXCUSE for his actions. They were done out of nothing but MALICE and SPITE. (Like how he returned the Winston Churchill bust to England, which was a gift from the prime minister. Is it just a coincidence that his father, who he himself said he wanted to be just like, grew up HATING the British) if everyone in America just sent in 3 dollars and 50 cents, NASA would have had all the funding it needed. But as soon as he found out about a few people trying to organize a NASA donation drive, he did the only thing he could to kill the program, and he took away the people who were working on it, and locked it up tight so that even if they had the money and didn’t need a single penny of taxpayer money, they would not be ALLOWED to work on the project.
Even though I am a conservative leaning social moderate, I have tried to put aside all my misgivings about his past, his words, and his actions. I have tried to ignore his hypocrisy when he asks for more civil discourse, and in the next sentence bashes everyone who isn’t on his side. I’ve done my best to let slide his many reckless actions, and his outright LIES when the facts are right in front of him, on paper, double, triple checked by number crunchers, scientists, and whoever else has to waste their time finding truth so he can dance around it, and speak over it. God forbid he is confronted with the truth, he laughs like it’s a damned joke, blames everyone but himself, and then goes on a 30 minute rant about all the good HE is doing. Not his team, not America, HIM ALONE. If he talks for more than 5 minutes you will hear the word “I” so many times, that were you to count them on paper, your pencil would run out of lead before the 2 and a half minute mark.
And he has a host of goons and mobsters in all but name, ready to yell and scream at whoever DARES question the glorious perfection that is HIM. He can do no wrong. If he says the sky is green, and let’s say, I dunno, some scientist has the nerve to try and explain that the sky is blue, due to the diffraction of sunlight by the gases in our atmosphere, letting in predominately blue light, and blocking the others, do you know what the response would be?
Simple. The scientist is disagreeing with the president, because he is a racist.
Nevermind the explanation, which is accurate, and provable. The scientist must be a racist. Why else would he go out of his way to make Obama look bad?
Then the scientist must spend months trying to prove he isn’t a racist. And the end result is that he never says anything else about it. And neither do the other scientists who agree with him. They don’t want to be shunned by society, called a racist, become a social pariah. And the result?
Everyone just comes to accept that the sky is in fact green, and sadly the whole world, save for the perfect president has a specific form of genetic color blindness.
Yes this is a silly and extreme example. But it quite handily illustrates a point, which anyone who watches more than one source of news can see for themselves.
I know I run the risk of getting slammed with the race card, for this post (I doubt by any of the intelligent people here), but I do not fear it.
I know that in my heart, I do not hate the president because he is black.
I hate him because he has a black heart.
Oh and a bit of news for you: Were you aware that the Russians just decided that they were going to make the International space Station crash into the ocean in just a few short years? It is absolutely true. They waited until we had no way into space without them, and then, just to show that they are now in control, made the announcement that the ISS is just a waste of money, and that they were going to destroy it. They did not consult with the USA, or Canada, France, UK, Japan, or any of the other countries who contributed to this achievement which is the realization of thousands of people’s dreams and desires. If that doesn’t make you sick, then you could probably survive on dog turd sandwiches.
So with that long winded and gloomy bit of rant out of the way, how about a little levity before you add your rant to mine.
Sadly, I am not going to meet the age requirement to run for president this election. But 2016 is gonna be MINE!!!!! (You gotta be 35)
I have a 10 point plan, to not only save America, but the whole damn world.
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1. Ummm... pay our bills?
2. Quit spending 80 bucks per foot of PVC pipe, and 400 dollars for cheap toilet seats in the DMV?
3. ANNEX CANADA! (Why? Umm.... cuz we can?)
4. Implement the Nightsong Tax Plan (taxes stay the same, but on your tax forms, YOU get to pick where your money goes. will probably lead to the shutdown of 98% of government offices, and a 10,000% increase to infrastructure, and a 1 million percent increase to NASA's budget.)
5. Because of point 4, NASA now IS the government.
NASA now controls the USA, so we never get beyond point 5. Instead, NASA implements its own 10 point plan for world awesomeness (at least they let me make the first point!):
1. Political parties are banned. (No more D's and R's, YAY!!!!)
2. Construction begins on; Moon base, Orbital Elevator, Mars Colony, Space Drydock Facility, Next Generation Shuttle (with obligatory pew pew guns), International Space Station expansion and renovation into the first Zero-G hotel for Hard-Light Members only (can you even do the horizontal mambo in zero-g? if up and down have no meaning, how can the horizontal be quantified? Hmmm.....)
3. Research into Effects of Zero-G on Human Coital Interaction (aka Bow-Chikka-Wow-Wow in space)
4. Pluto is hereby REINSTATED as the Sol System's 9th Planet. (And anyone who says different will be launched into the sun)
5. Begin Construction on FTL Research Facility at Earth's LaGrange Point. (This one might in all seriousness yield results)
6. Begin Construction of 4 Massive Colony Ships. (Just in case we go asteroid boom boom bye bye)
7. Retrofit the Hubble Space Telescope into a High Definition Projector with a maximum resolution of 25,000² x 18,500² AU. Make sure it has HDMI inputs.
8. Begin mounting booster engines onto the surface of the moon. Use booster to move the moon to low earth orbit, keeping the tidal forces in check by hollowing out the entire moon in order to reduce mass.
9. Conscript Volition, and the top 10 experts in every field of game design for classified project. Launch shuttle to run HDMI cable from bottom of orbital elevator, to the Hubble Space Projector. Alienware and Saitek conscripted to build custom Interface Design at base of Orbital Elevator.
10. Massive Blackout as entire Earth’s electrical grid is shut off. Bewildered masses head outside. With a blinding flash of light, humankind looks up to the moon, which takes up 75% of the night sky. Hubble fires up. Orbital Elevator relays signal via HDMI. The moon becomes the largest screen in the galaxy. Freespace 3 begins playing on surface of moon.
World peace ensues.
