17 thoughts on “The Next Issue Of National Review”
I you need to up your rhetoric.. it’s not just that “space isn’t important”, it’s that anyone who “cares about space” is committing political suicide. Jobs-in-districts is considered a more noble goal than space settlement – and I think we can say that without a trace of cynicism.
Here I am, with the brain the size of a planet, and I am forced to debate these guys and answer questions from those moderators . . .
Are you channeling Obama? 🙂
Um, that was Marvin’s line, or a paraphrase thereof. I don’t know if Marvin was even paranoid let along depressed. Most of the time he seemed put upon.
Gov. Brown, AKA Governor Moonbeam, learned that lesson over thirty years ago when he was advocating space settlement. Note his complete lack of interest in what is happening at Mojave now?
Which is why even if NASA was full of folks interested in space settlement, rather then space science, space settlement would never work as an agency goal. To do so would be funding suicide. Its far more politically acceptable NASA to search for martians or study climate change. Which is why space advocates really need to move Beyond NASA. Even if you got a President that supported space settlement as a goal it would never get pass Congress. So why keeping wasting the time and money on lobbying for it?
Looks like Time is also making fun of Newt Gingrich’s space ideas…
Viewpoint
The Silly Science of Newt Gingrich
By Jeffrey Kluger Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
[[[It’s Gingrich’s advocacy of moon mining, however, that is getting the most attention — and drawing the most derision — partly because this is a drum he doesn’t seem willing to quit banging.]]]
Yep, he’s silly because he wants to mine the Moon 🙂
Of course the real message here is that it looks like 30 plus years of advocacy by different space groups has had little impact on the general public’s or MSM view of space settlement…
Oh, I was thinking about Marvin the comic strip baby. (With Mitt Romney as Bitsy the Dog?)
Come to think of it, maybe NR is right – Newt’s campaign is fizzling like the overrated Illudium Pu-36.
A candidate with faults is one thing – tectonic faults is another. Newt’s San Andreas is that he’s a loser. As Speaker he got beat up by Clinton and by conservatives in his own party. If I were one of the candidates I’d be running an ad with written captions noting key highlights of his Speakership failures, with George S. Patton’s voice providing the audio:
Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in Hell for a man who lost and laughed.
Final image: a smiling Newt with the caption “LOSER.” Reason #6,389 why the RNC will never let me run for office. If i ever want a political career, I’ll have to learn Estonian. (I’ve been linking their Index of Economic Freedom report on my blog for years – that oughta be worth some votes. But it’s coooold up there. And no Texas barbecue.)
Lots of people suffer failure and rise from the ashes. Sometimes it takes failure to make someone successful.
Whatever happened to the Eleventh Commandment?
One of these people, whether or not we prefer him or her to someone else in the primary race, will be the candidate who goes up against Brack Obama. Why give the Democrats ammunition by tearing each other down?
Dammit, I think the Republicans are gonna blow it.
Murgatroyd,
I course they will. That was clear from the start. Why do you think only the third string candidates are running this year? They are letting the fringe self-destruct so they will have a clear field in the next round.
Four governors and a former speaker of the house is the 2nd string? I wish there were other people running and that some of the people running got more coverage but you will be hard pressed to assemble people with better resumes.
Thomas has a stable of Canadian girlfriends, honest! No, he doesn’t have to tell you who they are — just take his word for it.
I thought of, first, the depressed robot, and secondly, the guy who got his brains blown out all over the back window of Samuel Jackson and John Travolta’s car in Pulp Fiction. I think Warner Brothers cartoon characters may have finally given up their lease on the American imagination… at least in the case of Rand’s readership.
I dunno there are a lot of signs that Obama is in some serious trouble. All in all people still like the guy, they just don’t want him to be our president anymore. In swing states people are leaving the Democratic party in droves. Polls among Millennials show that they don’t think he will be re-elected. That young vote was crucial to Obama’s 2008 success. Plus, the harder he seems to hammer on this class warfare rhetoric the more it seems to be turning people off. And there are no signs that he really has any other coherent message to offer that isn’t laced with a bunch of same old tired sloganeering that people are growing increasingly weary of. Nobody believes he saved 3 million jobs, nobody liked the stimulus, Obamacare only has a favorability rating of 23%, saving the auto industry has only served to earn GM the not-so-endearing moniker of “Government Motors”, and his foreign policies are a joke despite his ridiculous assertion that he’s the 4th best president in U.S. history. Once the Republican field clears the wheat away from the chaff then I’d expect to see the 50-50 re-election numbers up on Intrade start to skew more towards whichever Republican candidate gets nominated.
Josh,
Yep, this is the Republican’s election to lose, and the Republicans are working hard to do so 🙂
I resent resemble that remark! Where’s my disintegrator?
I you need to up your rhetoric.. it’s not just that “space isn’t important”, it’s that anyone who “cares about space” is committing political suicide. Jobs-in-districts is considered a more noble goal than space settlement – and I think we can say that without a trace of cynicism.
Here I am, with the brain the size of a planet, and I am forced to debate these guys and answer questions from those moderators . . .
Are you channeling Obama? 🙂
Um, that was Marvin’s line, or a paraphrase thereof. I don’t know if Marvin was even paranoid let along depressed. Most of the time he seemed put upon.
Gov. Brown, AKA Governor Moonbeam, learned that lesson over thirty years ago when he was advocating space settlement. Note his complete lack of interest in what is happening at Mojave now?
Which is why even if NASA was full of folks interested in space settlement, rather then space science, space settlement would never work as an agency goal. To do so would be funding suicide. Its far more politically acceptable NASA to search for martians or study climate change. Which is why space advocates really need to move Beyond NASA. Even if you got a President that supported space settlement as a goal it would never get pass Congress. So why keeping wasting the time and money on lobbying for it?
Looks like Time is also making fun of Newt Gingrich’s space ideas…
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2102471,00.html?xid=gonewsedit
Viewpoint
The Silly Science of Newt Gingrich
By Jeffrey Kluger Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
[[[It’s Gingrich’s advocacy of moon mining, however, that is getting the most attention — and drawing the most derision — partly because this is a drum he doesn’t seem willing to quit banging.]]]
Yep, he’s silly because he wants to mine the Moon 🙂
Of course the real message here is that it looks like 30 plus years of advocacy by different space groups has had little impact on the general public’s or MSM view of space settlement…
Oh, I was thinking about Marvin the comic strip baby. (With Mitt Romney as Bitsy the Dog?)
Come to think of it, maybe NR is right – Newt’s campaign is fizzling like the overrated Illudium Pu-36.
A candidate with faults is one thing – tectonic faults is another. Newt’s San Andreas is that he’s a loser. As Speaker he got beat up by Clinton and by conservatives in his own party. If I were one of the candidates I’d be running an ad with written captions noting key highlights of his Speakership failures, with George S. Patton’s voice providing the audio:
Final image: a smiling Newt with the caption “LOSER.” Reason #6,389 why the RNC will never let me run for office. If i ever want a political career, I’ll have to learn Estonian. (I’ve been linking their Index of Economic Freedom report on my blog for years – that oughta be worth some votes. But it’s coooold up there. And no Texas barbecue.)
Lots of people suffer failure and rise from the ashes. Sometimes it takes failure to make someone successful.
Whatever happened to the Eleventh Commandment?
One of these people, whether or not we prefer him or her to someone else in the primary race, will be the candidate who goes up against Brack Obama. Why give the Democrats ammunition by tearing each other down?
Dammit, I think the Republicans are gonna blow it.
Murgatroyd,
I course they will. That was clear from the start. Why do you think only the third string candidates are running this year? They are letting the fringe self-destruct so they will have a clear field in the next round.
Four governors and a former speaker of the house is the 2nd string? I wish there were other people running and that some of the people running got more coverage but you will be hard pressed to assemble people with better resumes.
Thomas has a stable of Canadian girlfriends, honest! No, he doesn’t have to tell you who they are — just take his word for it.
I thought of, first, the depressed robot, and secondly, the guy who got his brains blown out all over the back window of Samuel Jackson and John Travolta’s car in Pulp Fiction. I think Warner Brothers cartoon characters may have finally given up their lease on the American imagination… at least in the case of Rand’s readership.
I dunno there are a lot of signs that Obama is in some serious trouble. All in all people still like the guy, they just don’t want him to be our president anymore. In swing states people are leaving the Democratic party in droves. Polls among Millennials show that they don’t think he will be re-elected. That young vote was crucial to Obama’s 2008 success. Plus, the harder he seems to hammer on this class warfare rhetoric the more it seems to be turning people off. And there are no signs that he really has any other coherent message to offer that isn’t laced with a bunch of same old tired sloganeering that people are growing increasingly weary of. Nobody believes he saved 3 million jobs, nobody liked the stimulus, Obamacare only has a favorability rating of 23%, saving the auto industry has only served to earn GM the not-so-endearing moniker of “Government Motors”, and his foreign policies are a joke despite his ridiculous assertion that he’s the 4th best president in U.S. history. Once the Republican field clears the wheat away from the chaff then I’d expect to see the 50-50 re-election numbers up on Intrade start to skew more towards whichever Republican candidate gets nominated.
Josh,
Yep, this is the Republican’s election to lose, and the Republicans are working hard to do so 🙂
I
resentresemble that remark! Where’s my disintegrator?Where’s the Earth shattering kaboom?