Obama’s Space Shuttle funeral dirge a show for all to see

Canada Free Press ^ | April 29, 2012 | Judi McLeod

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Those lucky enough to still be here to look back at history post Barack Obama will recognize the last sight-piggyback funeral dirge of the once noble Space Shuttle as the Obama Regime’s defining moment.

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.

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Few will remember that it was on the fullest moon of the year last January when NASA scientists were told they wouldn’t be able to visit any longer and that in his new budget, President Obama planned to eliminate the space program’s manned moon missions.

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 to ferry astronauts to the space station after the space shuttle retires.

In Obama’s Ban Free Market world, how many volunteer entrepreneurs will build private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the NASA-abandoned space station?

The American moon mission was America’s finest moment in time, signaling to the world not just proof of American ingenuity but keeping aflame man’s dream to reach the moon.

In this final chapter, Obama didn’t just gut the space program’s manned moon missions, he flew proof of America’s dead dream over Washington and New York landmarks.

The American astronaut and the concept of space shuttles have been relegated almost overnight to the obscurity of museum relics.

Every child who flies a kite with big dreams of someday reaching the moon will look to the space missions of other nations now and not their own.

[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

[Yorlik803]

First: Kudos for a Canadian newspaper for telling it like it is.
Second: The sheeple want bread and and games. They dont care about how great the country is. They want other peoples money,land and stuff.
Soon the Chinese flag will replace ours on the moon. It willbe a dark day when it happens.

[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.

[hal ogen]

The main problem with retiring the shuttle program and developing private space projects seems to nbe keeping NASA as some wacky sort of moozlum science outreach...and we all know how into science the moozlum culture is.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

To Obama and the Left, the Shuttle funeral dirge represents the funeral for American greatness.

How interesting that the same cities where terrorists flew planes into landmarks, the Obama administrations chooses as photo-op backdrops to showcase for the world the death of America’s ingenuity and can do spirit - socialist smothering of The Right Stuff.

[Jim Noble]

The Space Shuttle was a bad idea from day one

Actually, it was a good idea, but so badly executed that it never should have been allowed to fly.

Another gift from the Nixon Administration.

[tanknetter]

First: Kudos for a Canadian newspaper for telling it like it is.

Um, not exactly. The shuttle program was really ended by George W. Bush after the loss of Columbia. But Bush was also the one who initiated the Constellation/Ares/Orion/etc program to get American BACK into space, back to the Moon and beyond.

And to be more accurate, while the shuttle was ended by Bush, it was really killed before metal was even cut for Enterprise by poor design choices that drove overambitious expectations and major engineering flaws. The two key among many were the need to make the payload bay large enough to handle the biggest USAF/NRO spy satellites (NASA wanted a smaller, simpler shuttle) and the decision to mount the return vehicle on the SIDE of the launch stack rather than on the top (see how the USAF's X-37 mini-shuttles are launched compared to the shuttle).

I've had a lot of sadness over seeing the end of the shuttle program and seeing the surviving shuttles retired, cannibalized and sent of to be museum displays. But I also recognize that, as someone who watched Enterprise's ALTs on a B&W TV and got to stay home (several times) to watch the first spaceflight of Columbia (this time on a color TV), those emotions are driven more by nostalgic remembrance of what the shuttle promised to be rather than what it actually was.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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.

It opens up nothing. It closes doors. Obama used "commercial" to gut exploration and U.S. power (as in Elon Musk's SpaceX -- Musk also has an elec car company and a solar panel company -- all get government funding -- and Musk repays with Obama campaign money and an inaugural ball). Plain and simple.

If you don't understand that, you can't see the forest for the trees.

[Russ]

Besides, Obama can use the money from the space program to fund social welfare programs, low interst government loans and any other entitlement he can think of. He can get alot more votes from the societal knuckledraggers for that spending than from a space program.

[Russ]

Besides, Obama can use the money from the space program to fund social welfare programs, low interst government loans and any other entitlement he can think of. He can get alot more votes from the societal knuckledraggers for that spending than from a space program.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...., those emotions are driven more by nostalgic remembrance of what the shuttle promised to be rather than what it actually was.

No it's driven by knowledge and an understanding of what has happened.

There was a program in place to move beyond Shuttle and it was delayed. This provided the anti-America crowd their opening to "re-evaluate the program, pronounce it dead and offer no plan to replace it.

Programs were submitted that would fit in under the budget cap given but they were ignored.

It was set up to die on the vine.

[saganite]

We shall see but it’s a safe bet that the NASA replacement was never going to fly. As for the shuttle, it existed to serve the ISS and the ISS served to justify the shuttle. The perfect circle jerk and together they have stalled our space program for 30 years.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That “circle jerk” proved that humans can construct, transport and assemble (and have them work as planned on cue) complex structures in space.

What did you do today?

[bossmechanic]

Yup. As an engineer, I know I’m more inspired by government handouts, welfare programs and Obumo’s relentless drive toward mediocrity.
Say what you will, the US space program was the platform from which engineers were born, new technologies developed, and limitations destroyed. Contrast that with phoney wind and solar power companies that were economically feasible only with massive subsidies and yielded little in the way of new technologies.

[Truth29]

"It opens up nothing. It closes doors. Obama used "commercial" to gut exploration and U.S. power (as in Elon Musk's SpaceX -- Musk also has an elec car company and a solar panel company -- all get government funding -- and Musk repays with Obama campaign money and an inaugural ball). Plain and simple."

Right on. The private sector being nurtured is just crony capitalism subsisting on government contracts. The decision to end the shuttle before a replacement system was developed is the type of fork in the road decision that crushes the human spirit and perfectly symbolizes the decline of the US lead by Obama. Learn Chinese or Russian if you want to be part of a new human spaceflight program.

[Servant of the Cross]

That American Presidents in uniform pic is PRICELESS!!!

Outstanding! LOL. The muslim outfit on 0 is great, but the band uni on BJ is simply hysterical!