Mars landing too risky

Posted on August 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Mars landing too risky

“In “Not Close Enough,“ a team consisting of NASA and international astronauts sits in orbit around Mars but doesn’t get to go to the surface.  NASA has decided it’s too risky.”

The story is from a good new book Blue Collar Space by Martin Shoemaker. Wherein NASA’s fear of losing astronaut lives is explored. That fear has crippled our space program, space lawyer Laura Montgomery argues. And it makes sense. Such that our only hope to ever land on Mars or do anything else except at great expense is with commercial space, and blowhards like Elon Musk.

Via Ground Based Space Matters

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The NYT’s latest Fake News

Posted on July 31, 2018 | 4 comments

Former Tel Aviv University historian Martin Kramer: “Nothing gives a historian greater satisfaction than correcting a persistent error. And nothing is more frustrating than the resurrection of that error even after it’s been corrected. Especially if it suddenly surfaces on the front page of the New York Times.”

Especially when it’s fake Israeli history intended to back the Pally cry against “the occupation” with a spurious quote from David Ben-Gurion.

“In the print edition, this claim about Ben-Gurion wasn’t sourced, but the online version provided a link. Where did it lead? To an article by the late Arthur Hertzberg, once a prominent American rabbi, in the New York Review of Books back in 1987. There Hertzberg claimed to have heard Ben-Gurion, right after the 1967 victory, ‘insist that all of the territories that had been captured had to be given back, very quickly, for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.’”

Kramer: “I went to the trouble of asking the Ben-Gurion Archives in Sde Boker to help locate the transcript of the talk that Hertzberg attended. They did, and there’s no evidence whatsoever that Ben-Gurion said what Hertzberg claimed he heard.”

Via Medium

UPDATE: The NYSlimes refuses to correct its error. Why am I not surprised.

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Socialist Music

Posted on July 30, 2018 | 3 comments

“The so-called ‘Music Modernization Act,’ which already passed the House and is working its way through the Senate right now, would create, by government force if passed and signed into law, a ‘collective’ that pays out to various parties. The major problem with said ‘collective’ is that it would be run by the government, specifically the U.S. Copyright Office, making it prone to cronyism, corruption, and mishandling of intellectual property.”

The correct palms have been greased by the lobbyists. The law only awaits passage. And much-to-be-wished veto by President Trump. If Felonia were president, Socialist Music would be a shoo-in, with the Clinton Foundation taking a periodic cut.

Via Breitbart

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Gonna get his legacy

Posted on July 29, 2018 | 2 comments

Via The People’s Cube

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If the Dims capture the House

Posted on July 28, 2018 | Comments Off on If the Dims capture the House

Historically the opposition party has taken part or all of the Congress in a mid-term election. So it would not be a surprise if the Dims do it in November. Impeachment of the president would be the first result, among other things.

“Most observers think the Democrats will, indeed, capture the House in November. Among other things, this will enable them to shut down the investigations that have slowly shed light on the extraordinary abuses of power that occurred during the Obama administration. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”

So get out and vote in November. The coastal elites that own the Dim party are notoriously lazy. The heartland and rustbelt working class could stop them.

Via Power Line Blog 

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Republicans: Party of the Working Class

Posted on July 27, 2018 | Comments Off on Republicans: Party of the Working Class

“Democrats are now the party of the rich! Not all kinds of rich people, of course. Mostly so-called ‘creative class’ types in the coastal regions, in tech, finance, and entertainment. People who make things out of raw materials—not so much.”

Because those people have turned Republican. They’re why Trump won and may go on winning this year and in 2020. And may be joined by Trump-backed Tea Party types as the establishment GOP is defeated. Because the working class get out and vote, while the coastal “rich” often can’t be bothered.

Via Power Line Blog

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You say Beto, I say Beta

Posted on July 26, 2018 | Comments Off on You say Beto, I say Beta

“This is where we find our Texas Democrats today. With Betard Beta O’Rourke, the young soymigo from El Paso with a nationwide funding effort bringing sweet and skunky hippie money in from all over. This is their plan to defeat incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in the fall. And they will fail.  In the meantime, we shall point and laugh.”

Via Earl of Taint

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