[Cincinatus' Wife]

John P. Holdren, Obama Science and Technology Czar, has used his White House tenure to level the playing field and cripple the United States.

[ScottinVA]

Yet another sign of a once-great nation`s continuing decline. And not a peep from the muddled masses.

[devolve]

"If I had sons they would look
like the Muslim DC Snipers!"

- Barack Hussein Obama

Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammed

THE MUSLIM DC SNIPERS

[Diogenesis]

Romney is an expert on abuse against those serving as patriots in uniform.

"National Guard Lt. Anthony Circosta poses in his backyard in Agawam, Mass., on June 9, 2007.
At left, his wife Danielle and daughter Kylie, 2, talk near the swing set. Circosta,
a decorated Iraq War veteran, seemed like an ideal candidate for a pardon from
then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the 29-year-old's boyhood conviction
for a BB gun shooting. Romney denied the pardon,
twice, despite the recommendation of the Governor's Council."

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"Governor Orders POW/MIA Flags Flown for Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day"

"Office of the Governor of the State of Alaska ^ | 04-09-09 | Gov. Sarah Palin
April 9, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today signed a proclamation declaring April 9, 2009,
as Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day. The governor has ordered POW/MIA flags
to be flown in honor and memory of American men and women
who have placed themselves in harm’s way and faced the horrors of combat."
“The price paid by POW/MIA soldiers in defense of liberty is worthy of our highest
gratitude and most solemn remembrance,” Governor Palin said.
“On this day and always, they are in our thoughts and prayers. We will never forget them or their service.”

[yldstrk]

He ought to be ashamed of himself.

[saganite]

The Space Shuttle was a bad idea from day one. I honestly don’t know why anyone mourns its retirement. It opens the way for private companies to move into space and reduce the cost of getting to orbit. I say good riddance.

[Servant of the Cross]

The first and last men to walk upon the moon, Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, testify at a Congressional hearing that NASA is a national disgrace.

"For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable." ... Neil Armstrong

"NASA and the present Administration's now obvious agenda to dismantle a space program that has been five decades in the making." ... Eugene Cernan

And from Cernan and Armstrong's point of view, the US space program is headed down the extraterrestrial crapper.

[LomanBill]

There’s only one candidate who’s advocating the revitalization of the USA’s Space Program.

3 2 1...Blast Off. Go Newt Go!

[theBuckwheat]

While on the level of national pride and symbols of aspiration, I think the author is spot on. However, on the rational level, the STS program is an acme example of big government. It costs about $1 billion per launch cycle. Because of its architecture, what it can haul is limited from the standpoint of dimensions, hazards and weight.

One of my college professors worked on STS planning. He stated that the risk of loss of a given mission was 1/100. We lost two craft and crews in 135 launch cycles.

Manned space launches should have been privatized long ago. We would have more people in space for less money and we would have had a diversity of launch capabilities.

I am happy to see that money-sucking monstrosity retired to the big government museum of big government program artifact.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Now that it’s all over, NASA is left behind with its glory days fast fading as the shill to entice companies to build private spacecraft

...AND as the shill for global warming propagandists.

[ILS21R]

Were an artist to paint a picture of a small boy looking at up at his flying kite as the space shuttle passed over Manhattan yesterday, no portrait of the story of America’s deliberate ruin at the hands of a single politician could ever come closer to the truth.

Powerful stuff.

[catfish1957]

Earlier in the week I saw a caption on a Shuttle pic that was being sent from Houston to DC. It basically stated that it was on a "victory lap".

Just another example of how delusional the pro-Obama MSM is. Calling the funeral of our space program a victory lap is mind boggling.

[ronnie raygun]

Everyone bought into the drive by medias “we were great once theme” and seemed to be satisfied. These cretans will have no resistance with thier final assualt