Space ‘Triumphs’ (Mars in another light)

the feared and hated lewrockwell.com ^ | 1/16/04 | Tibor Machan

[CharacterCounts]

SO SELL ALASKA BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Louisiana purchase, also. I did go over the Constitution and could find nothing in in it which explicitly authorized either purchase.

[from occupied ga]

Come; there's no need to be pedantic.

In other words you can't. If you're too dim to realize I was showing where I think the government is spending wasting money then that's your problem.

What you really ought to do blah blah blah

What you really ought to do is get over your inability to do anything except insult if you disagree and post a logical response if you're up to it. Which it appears that you're not

[from occupied ga]

SO SELL ALASKA BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since you two are so fond of the false straw man argument, how about getting back the $trillion of so that the government spent unconstitutionally on welfare over the last 40 years or so? And since you seem to hold the constitution in such low regard, then what do you think should be the criteria on which taxation and spending is based? Majority vote? Politician's whim? Do you think there should be any limits on taxation and government spending at all? If so what?

[mikegi]

Okay, do you think the interstate highway system is a positive or negative thing? I see no mention of it in the Constitution.

[Agnes Heep]

In other words you can't. If you're too dim to realize I was showing where I think the government is spending wasting money then that's your problem.

Nice try, but I don't think so. You were trying to let us know how bright and principled and politically astute you are.

[68 grunt]

Listen campers, the only way to treat "from occupied ga" is to ignore him ...

Bingo!

[mrsmith]

You're using the strawman.
The question is only whether it is wise to spend hard earned tax dollars on such ventures.

The constitutionality of it was settled for me hundreds of years ago by the acts of the people who founded our country.

I'm sorry you hold our Founders decisions in such low regard. But many living constitutionalists do.

[from occupied ga]

You were trying to let us know how bright and principled and politically astute you are.

OK I admit it. I'm smarter, more principled and more politically astute than you are.

[from occupied ga]

The constitutionality of it was settled for me hundreds of years ago by the acts of the people who founded our country.

You've never read it have you?

[Agnes Heep]

OK I admit it. I'm smarter, more principled and more politically astute than you are.

Are you trying to say that you have more brains in your whole head than I've got in my little finger?

[mrsmith]

I read the one our Founders wrote, ratified and practised.

The one that means nothing to you.

[Axenolith]

Can I be Interior Minister or head of the USGS sire? :)

[American_Centurion]

How much tribute will you pay for the privilige?

[mrsmith]

The Louisiana Purchase was an obviously good deal: lots of fertile lands and the opening of the Mississippi river that we'd wanted since before the revolution.

But Alaska was just like the Moon: a cold far-away wasteland with apparently nothing we'd ever want.
I'm amazed we bought it since the only good reason to was a rather vague national defence one.

[from occupied ga]

Okay, do you think the interstate highway system is a positive or negative thing? I see no mention of it in the Constitution.

Good question. Section 8 Clause 7 "To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" Positive, but the interstate is paid for by federal taxes on motor fuel (or at least that is my understanding of where the funds come from) So in reality you determine how much you contribute to the interstate system by determining how much you drive. NASA, along with the HEW, HUD and other alphabet soup in Moscow Washington is direct wealth transfer, and not really a pay per use system.

[Axenolith]

All tribute will be paid in precious metals and gems. I'm sure the gracious regent will set an amount fair as he sees fit.

Hey! This monarchy stuff's kinda cool. It's like being a salaried groupie :)

[American_Centurion]

Not to mention perks like "stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool, huh?"

Ouch! I can't believe I said that. (washing mouth with soap)

[sonofatpatcher2]

Many, many years ago my wife and I visited an old friend of my parents in Houston. It was in the mid-1960s and the race to the Moon was in high gear.

After dinner and a few drinks, the space race came up. The old friend's wife made the statement that we would never get to the Moon because it did not say we would do so in the Bible.

My wife and I were somewhat surprised but did not offer a reply as a person's religion is their own affair. There was a pregnant silence.

The old friend, an Aggie, took a swing from his Old Crow and said to not worry. "When we get there, my wife will find a passage in the Bible that lets us land."

I see a certain person among us who has still not found that passage, if you know what I mean...

[from occupied ga]

Are you trying to say that you have more brains in your whole head than I've got in my little finger?

No I'm just playing your little flame game, but you started out boring with nothing to say and that hasn't changed. If you have a good moral reason that justifies taking money at gunpoint that I worked for and spending it on pictures of rocks and dust just say so.

[Agnes Heep]

No I'm just playing your little flame game, but you started out boring with nothing to say and that hasn't changed. If you have a good moral reason that justifies taking money at gunpoint that I worked for and spending it on pictures of rocks and dust just say so.

So now it's not a matter of principle but just a question of whether it's a good idea?