This was my first post...
Veterans continue campaign against Kerry
August 22, 2004 at 7:09:08 PM PDT · 57 of 70
EasySt to Guillermo
“Didn’t John Edwards himself say to “spend 3 minutes with anyone who served with John Kerry?”
Well, so far I’ve spent 60 seconds with some of them, having seen the first and now the second of the Swift Vets 30 second ads.
That was enough to get me to send them $100, thus doing my little part to aid them in giving the country the much needed remaining two minutes worth.... ;-)
This was some time later, but one of my favorites:
US on the moon ‘by 2020’
September 19, 2005 at 6:20:39 PM PDT · 107 of 222
EasySt to Aussie Dasher
Why?
Because the last time we went, we didn’t stay.
We need to stay because we need to respond to the challenge of this Millennia. We need to open up the new frontier and reap the economic, societal, environmental and cultural benefits of space based manufacturing, energy production, research, exploration, tourism, jobs and ultimately, emigration. This can actually be better than tax cuts. It’s not a zero sum game. Property rights, however, are considerably more difficult to enforce when one is not in “residence”. Especially if someone else (China?), is.
Space, the Moon, planets, asteroids, comets, all offer resources and possibilities to lift the human condition, and preserve it.
Assuming we don’t perish by our own hand, or suffer extinction from some Texas sized asteroid, we already know that ultimately, our own sun will do this planet in.
So, are we gonna be a space faring race, or not?
The longer we stay anchored to this rock, the more scarce its resources become. We have a window of opportunity to jump start the species into space and let the limitless potential there fuel our imagination and progress, or we can squabble here until we scrape this ball clean, and get real creative with population controls so we have just the right number of people here to watch that last sunset.