China's Space program and our program - why are we so weak?

A few thoughts of why we are not so active with our NASA programs today:

When the total bill for the Iraq Oil War is tallied - including the 60 years of veteran care - we could have sent 80 million Americans to college on a four year scholarship  - even with the present cost to date (Jan/2012) we could have sent over 100 Million Americans to college for a full year.

With our incredibly successful War On Drugs we have managed to put over a million people in jail, 4/5th of which are in there for petty drug charges. We continue to destroy countries in South America and around the world with this fantastically successful War on Drugs which we have engaged in for about 40 years now.

We continue with the Reagan policies of giving tax incentives for our corporations to move off shore for as Ronald Reagan said "We need to remain competitive".

We allow corporate "individuals" to split up into separate groups - move their profit centers to countries like Dubai and keep their loss centers here in the US so they pay no taxes.

The largest drug seller in the US pays no taxes in the US - they have a small offshore location.

And you wonder why we are easy off the technology investment?

We have idiots that believe only private enterprise should undertake what is best done by a group effort - but the mere idea of a "group effort" makes them puke.

Our politicians are required by us to spend 80% of their time refilling their coffers and we blame them for being sellouts? Yet if any CEO were gone 80% of the time we would consider that completely unacceptable (though we would probably pay them 500 times the average wage).

It is amazing we are still the number one world power - at some point the insanity will ebb - the question is whether it is because of self-effort or happenstance - I cannot image anything but happenstance - and if that is the route we continue on - lets just hope the cake-eaters die soon.

What to do with a dead donkey?

For two triumphant years we have heard nothing from the Democrats but followership!

 After 8 years of Bush Jr. - and silence for all that time - followed by 2 more years of silence and followership, it is truly time to begin another tack entirely.

It is time to dismantle the Democrats - destroy the fabric of the party and perhaps destroy it for good - let it die off like so many parties from our past that live only in the history books.

Given the Corporate abilities to purchase ever increasing clout and the new speaker of the House - John Bohner - who has pledged to "beat Obama" (and he will succeed)  we cannot allow our votes to continue supporting this group of utter wimps.

It is no longer possible to give the Democrats even one more inch - for 10 years - 10 very harsh and horrible years, the Democrats have been the kid who gets beaten up by the bullies and keeps going back - never ever fighting back, always retreating and with unending patience, never helping out their best and brightest.

Go to your meetings and throw out the leaders that are emerging - they are part of the disease!

If they cannot tell you in one minute devastating information about the Republicans,
devastating information about Ronald Reagan as well as Bush Jr. - toss them out on the street!

If they cannot tell you fantastic facts about progressives in one minute - run them out of town and do not give them the time of the day!

Take every book you have of George Lakeoff and burn it - know that he and the current Democrats could not frame a picture of their own mother if their life depended on it!

The Democrats deserve no more chances - it is time to destroy them and move on!
10 years of complicity (for silence is complicity) - they are the silent Germans that stood by while Hitler seized control.

It is time to topple the walls that hold us to this party of ninnies - it no longer matters that we will kill the party and "hand over the reins to the Republicans" - we already have!!!!  Wake - up and shake up our country if you love it - and understand, that for the rest of our lives this will be a big uphill battle. We have gone down a very rocky road in silence - the worst is definitely yet to come - it will take 10 or more years to come out of it at the very best.

Today, here on 11/3/10, the day after the mid-term elections, Obama gives a speech of apology for his first 2 yrs in office, it was an obscene speech!  So utterly an echo of the followship and dower complexion of the dead donkey that is this party that must die and forever go away.

What is the calcium in this message?

If you are a true Republican you will have become an Independent, for the spending, lies and utter disregard for our constitution by those calling themselves Republicans has forced the true Republican to leave and wash their hands of the patina of scum that has circumvented that party.

If you are a true Democrat, you will have to walk away from this dimness, this lack of life and paralyzing fear that has put this party on its death bed in hopeless despair and weakness for fear of its shadow - and not even its own real shadow, but a shadow it has allowed to be drawn by its opposition. This once proud stallion is now festered with maggots and has no prognosis for recovery.

Predatory Religions

At one point or another the United States needs to deal with predatory religions.
I define this predation as religions from whose leadership we hear a calling for the death/assassination of someone, the calling of a religious war against another religion, and an utter intolerance to critical observation.

If this calling is in the writings of the religion it must be removed from the text and denounced in its teaching here in the United States. A clear departure from teachings must be made and maintained.

It is already well known that the consequence for making cartoons or writing books against some religions can lead to a price being put on ones head and death (not just the threat of death).
The United States cannot tolerate as some joke the likes of Pat Robertson when he calls for assassinating someone, without the realization that it is no longer a religion, it is a political party – or worse: an army of one with a million+ automatons raging behind it.

Religious intolerance is often overplayed from the other side and whole nations placate the extremists in the name of “a free and open culture”. We cannot forget that being killed by extremists for exercising our most basic freedoms is completely unacceptable and it must have immediate consequences.

If we add to the rules whereby a religion can loose its tax-exempt status the above clause regarding a call for death/assassination, I think we can create a powerful tool for restraint. The very practice of restraint tends to teach wisdom and squelch hot headedness. I think it would also be easy to install this new rule and remove their tax-exempt status while encountering little legal challenge.

Our country must protect its freedoms of speech, the freedoms of religions to practice and the freedom from bullies, killers, and Madmen.

I have said nothing of any particular religion - nor should the Democrats mention any particular religion in the debate. This is about our freedom and it is about our way of life – we cannot be worried that the customs and beliefs of other regions find our freedoms unrestrained and perhaps even godless.

A great many of the customs in other regions of the world are abhorrent to us yet common in their cultures.

Going Independent

The silence has taken its toll.

The Democratic Party is eunuch.

The hopeless opposite of the Republican party.

Both are subsidiaries of the Corporatocracy.

I suggest taking a close look at members of any party and voting for those you like and that have a chance to win and a good chance of holding their ground.

It has been said that "if you intend to take the high road in Washington, you will find the  traffic very light".


I have not given up on Democrats, but as a group, they have dispersed and fear their own shadows. Leadership is something they shun, they are ungrounded - vacillating - sleep walker's.

If you find an individual - vote for them if they have a chance - help them to have a chance.

In the coming elections we will see an abrupt end to politics as we know it. The Republicans will storm the house and it will be ugly - even uglier than what we see now and in the past retched Bush Jr. administration.

The new finance laws have undercurrents that the coastal Dems have not grasped.
And let face it - they have not grasped much in 10 years.

Before the Independents can affect a change for the better - the fix will be in and it will cement for some time the retched changes put in place by the previous All Republican thievery.


I hope I see us come out of the abyss we have decided upon as a nation.
It is my great hope that we come out of it in my lifetime, but I do not think we will recover in the 30 to 40 years that I hope I have left.

I fear "Civil War" though nothing civil will be a part of it.
Sound wacko?
Listen to the sounds coming out of the mouths of our sleeping robot "leaders", our singularly owned media groups. Look up the stats on Gun and Ammunition sales - the manufacturers cannot keep up with demand - the greatest demand in our history.

As a nation we are armed to the teeth with stupidity and bullets - our reactionary mind is well exercised in reflexive stupidity, requiring no need for contemplation and resourceful deliberation.

We sit on plenty of fuel and oxygen and the ignition will be coming aplenty in the not to distant future. The arrogance of the Republican party - the self righteous and brattish "patriotism" and diseased religiosity - do not be surprised if the result is violent.


We are about to descend into the second dip of this recession/depression. 
The whole mess was utterly the fault of the Republicans and in the complicity of silence, that of the Democrats as well. The Republicans are gaining steam right as we take the second plunge.

A very few clear heads will arise and cry out - help them on what ever side they surface.

Drop your party lines - use your head and heart - both parties are a mirage.

Something for nothing

Republicans always want something for nothing.

Republicans love their reputation as fiscal conservatives while in fact they spend money like drunken lottery winners. Reagan broke all previous records, increasing the National Debt by 700% - then Bush Jr. came along and outspent Reagan by over 400%!
Republicans are not interested in spending any money on things that will actually help the government - it is in their interest to destroy our government programs and services and show us that Big Government doesn't work. They are doing a great job!

Republicans love their reputation as "the ones you want in power when a war is on or about to happen". The Iraq war and the Afghanistan war were about the worst run wars in our history and definitely the most expensive. On a per dollar basis or a benefit per life basis - the Republicans are the top choice of our enemies! Yet - we give them the status as "the best for the job" with no argument - after all - we are chatting and pointing but the last thing we would ever do is frame a subject. Democrats agree - Republicans are the best for the job!

The "upper 2%" was never framed by the Democrats and some 17 to 19% of the voters in the 2004 election thought they were in the upper 2% - believing that they were benefiting from the HUGE tax cuts that the Bush Jr and all Republican administration gave to this group.

With an average income of only $118,000 PER Month or a minimum of $20,000 per month at the low end and around 80,000 per hour at the high end - we would all have to agree that this 2% is the group that deserved a tax break - particularly at the outset of 2 wars.
Good job Republicans for watching out for the "self made" man!

Democrats used to like good public schools - I don't know what they like anymore - (the theme here is "I have no clue who the Democrats are anymore - get that - they chat and point and do nothing - great victims though - really - great victims!)

Our public schools are a disgrace and they should be! - public schools can't possibly work and even if they did - all they would do is create a group of liberal commie pinkos!
While the Democrats of old would argue otherwise - that argument - whatever it was has been lost.
Our public schools continue to decline and with the fabulous voucher system we can be assured that they will die completely - with the exception of the poor areas - where they will be maintained at a bottom rung level and all the students will be victims. Programming your child has not been this easy since nunneries reined supreme!
Republicans are saving our great and diverse land!

Republicans are the patriots, safeguards of our borders, of our children's mind's, our American Way - our system of government and our future!!

While the Republicans have done nothing to deserve these beliefs -

the Democrats have done nothing to dispute them......

God love the Republicans - ask them - they will tell you.

(Ronald Reagan began his term with a National Debt of approximately 500 billion. When he left office that number had increased seven fold to over 3.5 trillion. In real dollars - inflation adjusted - he outspent all previous Democrats combined times a factor of 2!
When George Bush Jr. arrived in office he inherited the well known 3.5 trillion dollar savings left by the Clinton administration, by the time he left office the National Debt was over 10 trillion - a 13.5 trillion dollar spending spree! (40% of which is owed to Communist China).  By the time you add the interest and the cost of taking care of the some 80,000 seriously injured soldiers from the Oil war as Alan Greenspan and John McCain have called Iraq, the price of the Republican administration in those short but painful 8 years will round out at around 17 to 20 trillion!!!!!!!)

The Bush legacy, the legacy of George Bush Jr. History's Biggest Spender, The Fear-monger, Fear Monger, fearmonger

George Bush Jr. has taught our children the following:

Saving money is not very important.
(during his administration we had the lowest savings rate in some 40-50 years)

Spending money on credit is the way to go!
(highest credit card debt in history and by a very large margin, the largest US debt in history -
Reagan increased the national debt by 700% from 500 billion to 3.5 Trillion, crushing all provious spenders. Bush Jr. blew that away, taking a 3.5 Trillion dollar surplus from the Clinton administration and spending 13.5 Trillion leaving us with over 10 Trillion dollars in debt with 45% of it owed to Communist China)


He taught us:

Science is only to be tolerated, but gut reactions and personal opinions of non-experts are better if they believe in Gauwd.
Bending the truth of Science for the agenda of Gauwd is perfectly acceptable.


Our compassionate conservative defines it as follows:

Compassion means taking from others and feeling good about it.

If you say you are christian and go to church, then you can steal and back stab and hide your deeds from the world. As long as you don't get completely caught and drawn before the public court, you are doing the work of Gawd.

Pointing a finger is the right thing to do even if its all a lie:

Daddy's favorite radio host, Rush Limpburger, is a drug addict and total hypocrite - he's the ultimate bushie!

Hiring convited felons is OK if they are republican because republicans work for god and only do illegal things for god or because they made a booboo:
(The Bush Jr. administration employed more convicted felons in his administration that any other in history).


Huge spending, no savings, buddies with felons and plundering your country are the great lessons the shrub jr. has taught our children.

Among the most Godless of those very few presidents that wore God on their sleeve.
A user of God's robots - a feckless and fetid front for the corporate whore's that have glossed over our notion of all that is actually right and good.

The "Fear-monger" is his moniker - though it actually fits the little Dick Cheney and his elfish Rove-a-tron.

The Decade in review: Greedenomics and the dawn of the Great Debtor Nation

Greedenomics!

It was a decade of many false gods and all of them were tied to greed.

The God of the web - for some reason a business did not need to make money or even have a plan to make money and the heads of the company seemed most likely to succeed if they still had acne. While this madness was mainly part and parcel of the last decade - it did tip over into this decade, and it's proximity to the next excessive madness is amazing.

We came off that crash with a resounding shake of our heads - "what the hell were they thinking"

By 2003 it became clear that Real Estate was the only safe haven and as our Realtor's would point out: "You can't lose on Real Estate - (in the long run)". Most of the time the words in the long run were not actually said aloud and in most cases the Realtor's and other Real Estate salespeople had no concept of motivating thought in a purchase, let alone history - signing was the main concern. (need we point out that having a Real Estate license does not require so much as a high school diploma - though Real Estate purchases are typically the biggest purchase that we make in our lives).
Creative lending made all kinds of sense - you sold off the mortgage contracts as soon as they came in and made a pile - leaving it to the banks and overseas investors. While the World Bank was screaming at the US in 2003 for allowing Fannie Mae to be leveraged to the tune of 78 to 1, it didn't even make BJ (Bush Jr.) blink - what else did he have going besides a war and lunatic spending?!

Bush Jr. decided that spending money in a fashion not dissimilar to Reagan would be a great idea - after-all - most people are not aware that Reagan increased the national debt by 700% so why worry about that - "everyone knows that the democrats are the spenders".

Bush Jr. spent some 13.5 trillion dollars, taking us from a nation with a 3.5 trillion dollar surplus left over from the Clinton administration, to a Debtor Nation with a national debt of over 10 trillion dollars - quite a republican accomplishment - (who else but a republican spends that kind of money - know one in history - that's who! - Reagan is the only one ever remotely close).
As astounding as this might now seem - what is even more astounding is that the spineless democrats never took the time to make this known to the American public and now it appears that all of our deficits are because of Obama. (pays not to frame an issue).

Bush Jr. also decided that giving those making an average income of $118,000 per month,
a huge tax cut, would be the perfect way to stimulate the economy and that it was a wise thing to do in light of the fact that we were in two wars.
Once again the spineless democrats decided that framing the "upper 2%" was of no value and so in the 2004 elections, 17-19% of those that voted believed they were part of the "upper 2%".
For some reason the democrats decided not to point out that the very bottom of the "upper 2%" makes over $20,000 per month and that the average income of this group is $118,000 per month.

Throughout the decade of Greedenomics we saw one overbearing stupidity: an overwhelming belief in Self Regulation - why.....anything else is communism! (though 45% of our debt is to communist countries - Bush's buddies - god they love him!)

In 2004, enlisting the forces of God himself - Ralf Reed - the man that could deliver the robotic masses of the religious fetus brains - Bush Jr., Rove and President Dick along with talk radio drug addict Rush Limpburger - we came to understand that all of our woes came down to two things:
Gays and Hispanic's - OMG! It was also obvious to some of us that God himself was a real problem - God (Gauwd) apparently hates, and he hates quite a few things - a hateful punishing guy........

Perhaps Fearnomics is the better coin....