Posted on 05/17/2014 11:06:41 AM PDT by Nowhere Man
I had a thought a while back and decided to post it:
There is a side of me that feels like I time travelled back to the 1970's. Let's face it, like then, we have a horrible economy, an inept President, gas (and energy in general) prices are high, we have a weakened military, Islamic radicals causing trouble, the Russians are invading their neighbors and we have Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown as governor of California.
I see what you did there.
Last horse race I ever watched.
Anyone who doesn’t think that video is the shit is...just...well...dead to me.
didn’t they do “American Band”?
I haven’t been in a mall in literally years. Even then, I only used to go there to keep my kids occupied.
At the heart of it, I think it’s the antisocial atmosphere - from the clerks to the loudmouth, pushy, rude clientele dressed like slobs.
Just heard “Limousine Driver” by GFR on the radio today. They just don’t write ‘em like that anymore
Or not.
There’s just no pleasing you.
:-P
One of the albums I probably played the most during my high school years was LRB’s “Backstage Pass” Live Album....Great Stuff, they recorded most of it with a symphony orchestra. I’ve been searching high and low on iTunes for it.
Mel, Don and Mark.....Hell, Yeah!
People forget just how huge these guys were in the 70s.
Best GFR story, was when they opened for Zeppelin, Peter Grant threatened their manager and told them they couldn’t tour anymore with them because they were blowing Zeppelin off the stage.
My favorite was “It’s a Long Way There.”
Grand Funk concert, upstate NY, five bucks. Sweet.
The real point (which you may well recognize) is that after retirement of the Shuttle and Obama's cancellation of Bush's Constellation program, NASA no longer has clearly identified, ambitious manned space flight goals around which to gather political and public support and plan and budget the development of missions and suitable new hardware.
Obama's proposal to have astronauts chase near earth asteroids offers little challenge or inspiration. Such a small goal does not stir our sense of adventure and demand useful new technologies in the way that manned Mars missions and a permanent base on the Moon would. Obama seems content to let NASA founder and have Russia and China lead mankind into space. It is as if, after discovery of a new hemisphere, Columbus was told to stay home and conduct coastal patrols around the Spanish peninsula.
70’s weren’t so bad....remember all the patriotic celebrations for 1976?...the Tall Ships?....my wedding?...the birth of two of my children?....
The difference is this: in the 70s, as liberal as the media was, they knew and reported that Carter was a failure.
The media today, obsessed with race and sexuality, refuse to trumpet the truth about this abject failure Obamugabe.
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