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Ted Cruz, Longtime Foe Of NASA And Science, Will Oversee NASA And Science In New Congress (Hahaha!)
The Huffington Post ^ | January 12, 2015 | Ashley Alman

Posted on 01/12/2015 9:11:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let me have a go at re-writing the Headline:

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Ted Cruz, Longtime Foe Of JUNK Science, Will Oversee NASA And Science In New Congress

21 posted on 01/12/2015 9:32:33 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Huffpo journalists, let’s debate some science.

I’m ready anytime, along with thousands more of us who actually have physics/math/engineering degrees and who have actually produced things that WORK.

Be prepared to have your Obamaholes crammed up your Obamaholes, idiots.


22 posted on 01/12/2015 9:39:19 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama gave directions that NASA’s mission was to praise and help MUSLIMS!!! Anyone else remember that??


23 posted on 01/12/2015 9:39:23 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

facts are not important to leftists


24 posted on 01/12/2015 9:40:18 AM PST by GeronL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As soon as I saw HuffPo as the source of this nonsense, I knew Bandini was being spread...


25 posted on 01/12/2015 9:41:30 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz is an opponent of the bastardization of “science” which has held NASA hostage to political correctness.

NASA, DOD, and their contractors are not free to express their fact based opinions of Congressional and White House policy.

They will not bite the hand that feeds them.

If somebody wants them to build a satellite to measure something, they will build it.

The fact that somebody lies about the meaning of the data is a different story.


26 posted on 01/12/2015 9:45:49 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The current support from the Left for NASA, which has not always been a hallmark of the Left, has two main sources - a knee jerk support BECAUSE it’s Obama’s NASA, and a knee jerk support for NASA as part of a knee jerk support for “science” that amounts to a form of support regardless of a dysfunctional program (just like it does for “education”).

The controlling issue is that many “scientists” are on the Left and their lobbying among their co-political-faithful amounts to nothing other than lobbying for support for themselves, personally as support that does not question what they are doing. Which is typical of the Left where all answers are already known and you are not supposed to think independently.


27 posted on 01/12/2015 9:50:48 AM PST by Wuli
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comments at the article show how screwed we are as a country. I don’t think these people even realize what Obama has done to NASA, including the number one priority for NASA to do Muslim outreach. These people are the very definition of low information voters. I don’t do Facebook, but could someone that does go over there and post something sensible?


28 posted on 01/12/2015 9:50:52 AM PST by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I didn’t realize NASA still had a space program. I thought the Obama regime had changed their mission to one of Muslim outreach.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html


29 posted on 01/12/2015 9:57:58 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (Bitter clinger & creepy-ass cracker)
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To: pogo101
LOL!

I guess you could call that liberal word squeeze.

Add so many unnecessary anti-republican fillers as possible into a sentence before making some kind of "point".

30 posted on 01/12/2015 10:07:45 AM PST by boop (I never use the words democrats and republicans. I use liberals and Americans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ashley Alman is social media editor for Politics at The Huffington Post. She graduated from Duke University.

And so of course Ashley is going to lecture all of us about Science.

31 posted on 01/12/2015 10:16:01 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
32 posted on 01/12/2015 10:16:28 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Da Coyote

33 posted on 01/12/2015 10:19:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"and many have said the agency suffered lasting damage due to the freeze...."

What absolute bunk.
34 posted on 01/12/2015 10:20:01 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: miliantnutcase

I once headed a project that built an antenna for the ISS. It was maybe 20K in total parts and some engineering and testing. By the time it was all over, the bill was $1M - all because of the BS and paperwork.


35 posted on 01/12/2015 10:20:51 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

NASA is just the straw man — this is actually about the global warming hoax.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3245785/posts


36 posted on 01/12/2015 10:21:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmmmm ..?? Maybe he asked for that assignment .. in order to learn what he doesn’t know about NASA or space science in general (even though his state is very involved in space). He’s a very intelligent person .. and I rather believe he’s playing CHESS while the rest of them are playing paper dolls.

I’ve personally never heard Ted Cruz utter an unkind word about NASA or science in general. So, this subject just may not have interested him - and he was involved with other pursuits .. and since there is so much activity taking place with NASA and space science .. it just might afford him the opportunity to be on TV a lot ..?? While .. it also gives him on-the-job information about what’s going on in space exploration.

People are so short-sited .. they never look beyond the end of their nose.


37 posted on 01/12/2015 10:22:15 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Regarding Cruz and NASA, please consider the following side note.

I enjoyed following NASA on TV when growing up. But it remains that NASA, like so many other federal spending programs, was established outside the framework of the Constitution, the states never amending the Constitution to authorize the feds to tax and spend for space exploration purposes.

So until patriots who want to see NASA continue its mission wise up to what’s going on and work with state and federal lawmakers to successfully propose a NASA amendment to the Constitution, it’s best to let NASA remain mothballed, imo, to comply with the constitutionally limited federal government that the Founding States had intended.

In fact, consider that Obama’s mothbolling of NASA was actually the right thing to do under the Constitution.


38 posted on 01/12/2015 10:27:51 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's see now. The writer criticized Cruz for being "skeptical" about the "progressive" government's coercive policies and position current scientific views on climate change, implying that such a position is bad.

With all the worldwide emphasis on "freedom" today, is such skepticism a bad thing, or might it be that Cruz's "skepticism" is directed toward coercive government, now science?

Hear Thomas Jefferson:

"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food.

"Government is just as infallible, too, when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere; the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his error. This error however at length prevailed, the earth became a globe, and Descartes declared it was whirled round its axis by a vortex. The government in which he lived was wise enough to see that this was no question of civil jurisdiction, or we should all have been involved by authority in vortices. In fact the vortices have been exploded, and the Newtonian principles of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in and to make it an article of necessary faith. Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desireable? No more than of face and stature. Introduce the bed of Procrustes then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter." - Thomas Jefferson

Sounds like Jefferson's concern about "fallible" human beings, organized into powerful political groups, with "private as well as public reasons" for using "coercion" to force other human beings into uniformity of opinion is a concern which is both legitimate and in keeping with the idea of liberty.

That legitimate concern is of special note when one considers the billions of dollars of wage earner dollars which are confiscated by those "fallible" persons who exhibit "bad passions" when challenged on their unyielding policy positions which impact the lives of their fellow citizens.

39 posted on 01/12/2015 10:32:48 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: CyberAnt

This fercockt gonif found eight things:

8 Dumb Quotes About Science From New NASA Overseer Ted Cruz
http://gizmodo.com/8-dumb-quotes-about-science-from-new-nasa-overseer-ted-1678965577


40 posted on 01/12/2015 10:36:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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