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We need to avoid the trap of continuing to defend the Ptolemaic structure of the universe, as observational data comes in by creating an ever less elegant structure of little suborbits to explain the motion of the planets, least the house of cards come down on us with us at the epicenter. Maybe Bush needs to see a serious erosion of his base, to get "sober" again about fiscal matters. When he started chatting about Mars in the context of mega-deficits, I though he may well have achieved terminal velocity.

Maybe it is time for some tough love. The bogus numbers on the drug thing quite disgust me, and I think have hurt Bush politically quite substantially, and he deserves the hurt. He is putting at risk his agenda on those matters which some of us care about most.

President Bush receives tough love from jwalsh07 on a schedule based on how ticked off I am. The White House is programmed into my cell and I use it early and often to express my displeasure at his profligate spending and support of unconstitutional reforms.

As for squaring the circle their is only one way to do it. There will be a tax increase on the rich. Torie, jwalsh07, sabertooth and the like. It will come soon after the next election regardless of who wins. And there you have it as you are wont to say.

We need to avoid the trap of continuing to defend the Ptolemaic structure of the universe, as observational data comes in by creating an ever less elegant structure of little suborbits to explain the motion of the planets,

As well as the Potomac epicycles.

least the house of cards come down on us with us at the epicenter.

If the Center will not hold.

When he started chatting about Mars in the context of mega-deficits, I though he may well have achieved terminal velocity.

While I'm skeptical of Big Space, will will be entering a time, soon, when the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty will become as increasingly irrelevant as the 1972 ABM Treaty did. We will need to counter China's hegemonic ambitions in the near Solar System, and the consequent arms race. If the Mars and Moon projects are being undertaken with an eye on all of that, then I'd support them in principle, though perhaps not as currently outlined.

Maybe it is time for some tough love. The bogus numbers on the drug thing quite disgust me, and I think have hurt Bush politically quite substantially, and he deserves the hurt.

Welcome to the dark side of orbital dynamics.

He is putting at risk his agenda on those matters which some of us care about most.

"Strategery," "write your congressman," etc.