In the News
Posted at 9:49 am on Tuesday, December 5, 2006, in In the News, and tagged bush.
- South Park will be airing a cartoon based on Bush and his cabinet as little children, but it won’t be without political bite… “When Lil’ Bush’s school serves falafel instead of hot dogs for lunch in one episode, he and his pals torture the cafeteria employees with methods made famous during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.“
- And in what has to be the dumbest use of taxpayer money, NASA plans to construct a base on the moon. Yep, a base on the moon. NASA announced that the ambitious plans will commence in 2020, although, “many gaps in the plan remain to be filled in.” Hmm… I don’t mean to go off on a rant here, but aren’t there hundreds, if not thousands, of things that could be approved on Earth, in the U.S. and around the world, before we spend upwards of a trillion dollars to build a lunar space station, which will be nothing more than a modern-age treehouse for the wealthy. Could we solve hunger? Disease? Find cures for cancers and diabetes? Reform the tax code to relieve the stress on the middle class, raise the poverty line, and provide blanket health care coverage for every working American? Aren’t there just a few things down here within our own gravitational pull that can use some fixing before we set out on some never-ending budget-busting boondoggle? I’m just saying.
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December 5th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Looking forward to the “South Park” satire–it should be rich!
I think you miss the point about the moonbase, though. I think we really do need one of those so we can torture “enemy combatants” there without the pernicious oversights of the Congress or the press to get in the way. Either that, or we could send this president to the moon on a one-way ticket to try it out.