‘ConRANTings’ Archives
Ally is psychic
Shortly after Christmas, Ally at Milwaukeean Rhapsody had the following to say: Christmas cards are great. Christmas e-mails are even OK. But the "Merry Christmas" text message that does not include the recipient's name and/or a personal message (which my little sister tells me is officially called "chain texting") is absolutely impersonal and [...]
The Great Gift Giver?
The Glacier has joined the ranks of Presidential candidates with Christmas ads... well actually in true Clintonian fashion, it's a "Holiday" ad: "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville This video is perhaps most disturbing because [...]
NASA gets screwed again
Already it seems like no one is happy with the budget that eventually made its way through Congress this week. Well, you can certainly add me to the list of malcontents. Not only does NASA have to deal with at least one Presidential candidate (Barack Obama) who wants to end US manned spaceflight, but the omnibus bill will also prevent NASA from [...]
The Average American is… well, uninformed
Last week I wrote about Senator Obama's plan to "pause" manned spaceflight for at least an entire decade, rather than building the Orion spacecraft and the capability to return to the Moon by 2020. It turns out that as moronic as Obama's plan is, it is really just a symptom rather than the problem. As this poll released a week earlier seems to [...]
What I will miss most
Now that I'm on the long road to Atlanta... I've made it most of the way, but I'm staying with my family in Huntsville for a few days before I had down there this weekend... I've been thinking about what I will miss now that I've once again left the midwest for a while: Midwestern Accents - I have only been back in the southeast for a matter [...]
Obama wants immediate US withdrawl… from space
Senator Barack Obama has done what previously would have been thought impossible... he has actually made Senator Clinton look reasonably palatable as a Presidential candidate (cue soap opera music). So far only two of the 127 people running for President have bothered to formulate any sort of space policy. Hillary Clinton to her credit, has [...]
IPCC: We’re all doomed!
The IPCC has issued another report on Climate Change... before we go any further lets think about that for a second, the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" what would happen to them if it were proven that human beings weren't causing climate change at all? What about the thousands of scientists who get sweet government grants to study [...]
