Posted on 08/25/2013 3:02:29 PM PDT by Marcus
Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist who was best known for a snarky book about how Texas has far too much influence over how the United States is run, turned her gimlet eye toward the civil space program.
Her column was a meandering look at the current crisis over which destination to pick for space exploration efforts going forward, with some side swipes against her favorite targets, Texas politicians such as Lamar Smith and Ted Cruz. Should be go to an asteroid (or rather, as the administration wants to do, bring it back) or go back to the moon. One gets the impression that Collins favors the former,
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Is this the space program that is designed to promote Islam? Maybe they deserve snark?
Yeah, but you have to admit he’s pacing himself.
This woman wouldn’t know the right stuff if she sat on it.
I thought a snark was what she WAS sitting on.
Oh No, this isn’t going to be another “Snarkanado” thread?
What space program is being referred to here?
We now pay Russia three times what we were paying to buy a space for our space cadet to travel in their capsule. We have no way to service or replace our satellites. Our national security has tanked.
NASA has been an arm of the central socialist government’s spy network for a decade or so.
Do we really have to suffer through the next 3 plus years of this criminal’s term in order to get our nation’s space program and security back?
By that time Russia will have nuked American cities over our impending incursion into Syria.
Let’s send some ditzy feminists to the Moon. Oh, and send ‘em on the space shuttle.
But what’s the rule for Yahoo? If somebody writes something and then sells it to Yahoo or AP, I don’t think they can release their own material here in full because they no longer own it.
We had a guy, Bob L-something who is on OC Register staff (paid) who would post stuff here in excerpt from OC Register. They own it, not him, so does he have to post his blog in its entirety here to pass your rules?
But what’s the rule for Yahoo? If somebody writes something and then sells it to Yahoo or AP, I don’t think they can release their own material here in full because they no longer own it.
We had a guy, Bob L-something who is on OC Register staff (paid) who would post stuff here in excerpt from OC Register. They own it, not him, so does he have to post his blog in its entirety here to pass your rules?
There is not a rule, nor is it mine.
Posting excerpts here to drive traffic to a blog is scummy all by itself.
It is no wonder that leftist newspapers like the NYT are going under. Just about the entire paper's writings are tedious and predictable, in other words, boring.
The writers just make assertions based on opinion, with maybe a token fact once in awhile.
Better to read newspapers from the UK; they have substance.
Thanks Marcus, extra to APoD.
You missed my point. Very often authors don’t have ownership of their own material because they’re paid. They’re professional writers. Should they refrain from ever posting on FR?
But it is interesting to focus on Obama's priorities with NASA, since NASA programs are one of the few programs has has cut. While he likes to claim government spending is an investment, he doesn't seem to feel this way regarding NASA. I have felt that this is because historically, the black civil rights movement has been against NASA spending.
"On the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, July 15, 1969, Abernathy arrived at Cape Canaveral with several hundred members of the poor people to protest spending of government space exploration, while many Americans remained poor. He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to “feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.” Mr. Paine told Abernathy that the advances in space exploration were child’s play compared to the tremendously difficult human problems of society, and told him that “if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button.” On the day of the launch, Dr. Abernathy led a small group of protesters to the restricted guest viewing area of the space center and chanted, “We are not astronauts, but we are people.”
Ralph Abernathy was Martin Luther King’s successor as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Gail “I’m writing as bad as I can” Collins who makes Maureen Dowd look like Ava Gardner.
And this is coming from a NEW YORK TIMES writer?
NY city has 8.2 million people, NY state 19.5 m and Texas 26 million.
GA and combined NC have about the same population as NY state. Do they have the same influence?
Atlanta, Charlotte & Raleigh-Durham have a combined metro population greater than NYC. Does these cities have the same influence?
MOST of the rest of the country could care less if NYC, Boston and Washington, DC disappeared. Throw in Chicago, LA and San Francisco, and things would be measurably better.
She was trying out a little snark and awe!
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