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Neil Armstrong on Obama’s NASA
by Maynard on May 13, 2010A post by Maynard I don’t necessarily trust any bureaucracy to do anything beyond getting itself paid. And I don’t know enough about the NASA situation to weigh in with great clarity. But it’s significant when someone like Neil Armstrong, who has historically stayed out of the spotlight and might even be described as reclusive, feels compelled to make a public condemnation using the strongest possible words. Armstrong, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 moon landing mission in July 1969, criticized what he billed as an air of secrecy that preceded Obama’s February announcement which cancelled NASA’s Constellation program aiming for the moon. That plan, he told a Senate subcommittee, was a surprise to many among NASA, academia and the...
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Katie Couric’s Forbidden Dance of Gin
by Tammy on November 23, 2009When she’s done ambushing Sarah Palin, Gawker reveals Katie loves the Forbidden Dance of Gin. Besides dancing inappropriately in front of a little kid, Couric has indeed committed the unpardonable sin of making people not want to see women dance together. Even I may have to keep my eyes closed while I’m doing it. Dancing, that is, not humping another woman in front of a kid and co-workers. (HT conservativeBC) Katie Couric’s Forbidden Dance of Gin When CBS News anchor Katie Couric isn’t asking Sarah Palin gotcha questions, she’s doin’ Da Butt, or the Lambada, or whatever white ladies do when the Black Eyed Peas are on the sound system. More unbelievable images after the jump. UPDATE: We’ve learned that...
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It’s a Good Life
by Maynard on October 14, 2009Don’t worry, people. It’s only a fictional show about an alternate reality — and a warped and unbelievable reality at that. Nothing so stupid could ever happen here.
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When a Raccoon Is Just a Raccoon
by Tammy on October 13, 2009When wild, paranoid leftists attack (and get delusional) they see not dead people, but racists. Everywhere. In everything. Always. The instance at hand, Patterico filets a rather amusing paranoid rant from the Left complaining about the Raaaaaacism! in my Cracker Jack/Raccoon post just after the Urkel Nobel Trinket announcement. That post, of course, followed my main commentary on the Nobel Joke Prize noting that I, too, had just won, finding my trinket in a Cracker Jack box. Sadly, No! Sees the RACISMS!! in Tammy Bruce’s Photo of Her Pet Some fringe leftists enjoy nothing better than to accuse conservatives of racism. It makes them feel very tingly with self-righteousness, and that is a great feeling to many a fringe leftist....
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The Moon isn’t made of green cheese—or anything else green
by Pat_S on August 25, 2009A post by Pat One day the Russians and the Chinese may have laser weapons pointing at us from their moon base while NASA employees are enjoying cool breezes and natural light in their earthbound “green” building. The $20.6 million building near Moffett Field in California will be fancifully named Sustainability Base in homage to Tranquility Base on the moon. It’s more like a ludicrous mockery if you ask me. NASA gets ready for new green building NASA’s Ames Research Center is ready to begin construction of what is planned as the greenest building ever built by the federal government, a structure that will use state of the art sensors developed for space missions but also rely on the age-old...
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Obama the Vulcan??
by Maynard on May 19, 2009An editorial comment by Maynard Drudge linked to this Breitbart article. President Barack Obama said in a report Sunday that he saw the new "Star Trek" film recently -- and not just because it was last week's top-grossing movie. "Everybody...
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Will Someone Please Tell Me…
by Tammy on April 23, 2009How Al Gore got out this far? I'm just askin'...
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Classic Star Trek in the News
by Maynard on October 22, 2008Maynard's News for Nerds William Shatner is the man that supporting Star Trek actors love to hate. Their feuds have become the stuff of legend. Some of this is in jest (look for Comedy Central's Shatner roast; it's pretty vulgar,...
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Iranian Satellite Launch
by Maynard on August 20, 2008A post by Maynard Two days ago, the Iranians proclaimed their great success in launching a satellite: Iran said it had sent a home-built rocket carrying a dummy satellite into space on Sunday, in a move that could further exacerbate...
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Space Aliens!
by Tammy on July 25, 2008"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!" A post by Maynard Former moonwalker Edgar Mitchell says that space aliens are real. Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell said he was aware of many UFO visits to Earth during his career...
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Of Plutoids, Centaurs, and Cubewanos
by Maynard on June 11, 2008An artist's conception of Pluto. Pluto, having been demoted from planethood in 2006, is now officially a "plutoid." Oh brother. Pluto Now Called a Plutoid The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term "plutoid" as a name for...
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Puppet or Alien?
by Maynard on May 30, 2008No, this is not a post about Barry, Hillary or Juan. At least I don't think it is. Video Purportedly Showing Space Aliens Shown A video purportedly showing aliens has been shown to the press, the Denver Post reports....
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Space Station Toilet Broken
by Maynard on May 28, 2008Do they have a Taco Bell up there? Space station crew to NASA: Our toilet is broken WASHINGTON — The international space station's lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order...
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Israeli Civilian Builds Retaliatory Rocket
by Tammy on March 6, 2008Don't try this at home, kids! A post by Maynard Ever since Israel withdrew from Gaza and Hamas took over, southern Israel has been bombarded by rockets. The Israeli government is squeezed between citizens demanding the rocket fire be stopped,...
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Earth and the Moon, As Seen from Mars
by Maynard on March 5, 2008Funny how we can get this glorious picture of Earth and the moon as seen from our Mars orbiter, but getting the 'Virtual' Border Fence to work proved just too difficult. Yeah, right....