Posted on 08/08/2012 9:43:14 PM PDT by Kartographer
American icon Neil Armstrong, the first man ever to walk on the moon, was recovering from heart surgery Wednesday (Aug. 8), with well-wishes pouring in from NASA.
Armstrong, who celebrated his 82nd birthday Sunday, underwent cardiac bypass surgery on Tuesday after a health checkup, according to NBCNews.com, which stated that the celebrated astronaut is doing well.
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If this happened 5 yrs from now, he’d never get that course of treatment unless he went to a boutique offshore medical facility.
No way the Baraqqicare Death Panels are going to allow that for anybody over 75.
He has a wonderful take on exercise. Asked after he left NASA why he didn’t jog or do some other kind of daily exercise, Armstrong replied: “I believe you have a certain number of heartbeats allocated to you for your life and I see no reason to use them up any faster than necessary.”
Armstrong’s life stands as a sharp rebuke to the loathsome Obama’s killing of our manned space program so he can divert the money to his welfare lump voters. Armstrong won everything through very hard work. Obama is a loser who has been given everything. Space travel is strictly a pay me now or pay me later proposition. We WILL exhaust the Earth’s resources some day and will have to move out into the solar system for more. Every dollar the loathsome Obama stole from the space program will take 20 to recoup in lost time and technology. The future will not treat The One kindly.
I remember a scene from the movie ‘The Faculty’
Coach Willis: You’re not much into sports.
Casey: I don’t think that a person should run unless he’s being chased.
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