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This Blog is a Believer in the Manned American Space Program,

Dear Obama Supprter;

We  have already destroyed this planet, check out the Brazilian rain forest, or the Gulf of Mexico as oil despoils  it.

Now we must discuss our very survival on this planet, and the key to that  survival is space, specifically Helium-3 on the Moon. We need to go to the Moon and mine Helium-3.

The following is from SPACE.COM

“…Helium 3 as the perfect fuel source: extremely potent, nonpolluting, with virtually no radioactive by-product. Proponents claim its the fuel ofthe 21st century. The trouble is, hardly any of it is found on Earth.But there is plenty of it on the moon.

Society is straining to keep pace with energy demands, expected to increase eightfold by 2050 as the world population swells toward 12 billion. 

 

 With the mining of the Moon’s Helium-3, we can solve this planet’s need for energy, for 12 BILLION PEOPLE. We can do it without radioactivity, and we can do it for a thousand years. We can have energy without destroying the sky, the air, the wind, the earth, the sea and our children.It is there, waiting for us,  on the Moon, all we have to is go take it.We have the guts to do it; we have done it before. We can create  technology to do it, we have created more difficult technology..All that is lacking is  leadership with JFK’s vision.

We  have a President who cannot see the future, nor seize it.

President Obama has cancelled our manned space program; in another day and time, he would have cancelled the steam engine.  

Mr. Supporter, tonight,  look at the moon; it was put there to solve our problems here on earth, let’s go do it.

SIDEBAR

Since we are Americans, we will not only solve our energy problem by mining  Helium-3, we will also figure out how to have SEX IN SPACE.

 

 

 

 

On June 29, 2010, on his cable program COUNTDOWN, Keith Olbermann and Derrick PItts discussed, SEX IN SPACE. I would be remiss if I did not inclde the conversation.

Yesterday, a NASA space shuttle commander revealed that astronauts on his shuttle are prohibited from knocking anti-gravity boots. 
On April 5th, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  On board, three women and four men, led by Commander Allen Poindexter.  Their mission is a 13-day tour at the International Space Station.  Yesterday, more than two months after returning safely to Earth, the crew of Discovery was on a media tour in Tokyo when Poindexter was asked a hypothetical question about coitus among the stars. 
According to the “Agence France Press,” Poindexter was quite serious, responding, quote, “we are a group of professionals.  We treat each other with respect.  And we have a great working relationship.  Personal relationships are not an issue.  We don‘t have them and we won‘t.” 
As far as an official policy regarding sex in space, NASA as an organization doesn‘t appear to explicitly prohibit it.  As we stipulated before, at some point reproduction in micro gravity is going to have to happen.  Our future kind of depends on it. 
Luckily, our friends at the History Channel already took the trouble to explore the pitfalls of sex in space and how to work around them.  
VIDEO
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  One thing everyone does agree upon is that one or more of the mating partners needs to be restrained. 
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  What you could have is some hand holds and perhaps leg holds, similar—made out of bar kind of material, similar to the hand holds you have to assist you in the bathtub. 
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  Any mechanism that would simulate constraints on motion, that would at all mimic gravity, would probably facilitate mating in space.  It could be Velcro. 
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  And one of the parties could wrap legs around something and then perhaps foot holds similar to the kind of thing you put your feet in in water skis, to secure the bottom. 
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  For sex in space, I think you might want a seat belt. 
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN:  Well, we should perhaps be talking to Isabella Rossellini for a demonstration, but who gets to follow that?  No, a scientist.  Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, who is probably regretting that choice right now.  Good evening, Derrick. 
DERRICK PITTS, FRANKLIN INSTITUTE CHIEF ASTRONOMER:  Thank you, Keith. 
I‘ll try to keep a straight face. 
OLBERMANN:  That‘s one of us.  If it‘s going to take several years to get to Mars, are those people just out of luck? 
PITTS:  No, I don‘t think they are because, you know, it‘s such a long trip, this is one of those things that‘s going to have to come out of a relationship of people traveling together.  They are going to have to figure out what to do with their sexual urges, and I‘m betting that something interesting is going to happen on that trip. 
OLBERMANN:  But isn‘t there already a report that supposedly that—it was never really answered whether the couple on the Shuttle, that fell in love in the lead-up period to the launch and got engaged just before they took off, so to speak, that they never really denied that perhaps the marriage began in a physical sense somewhere in sub-orbital space? 
PITTS:  Yes, you‘re right.  They essentially refused to answer that question, saying it was nobody‘s business and we really didn‘t need to get into that, because of their level of professionalism.  I really doubt that anything has happened in any of the American space program missions.  And partly the reason is that, you know, if you‘re an astronaut, you really do not want to jeopardize your future chances for returning to space, so you‘re going to do everything you‘re told, and you‘re not going to do anything that you shouldn‘t be doing. 
OLBERMANN:  Well, but that begs the question, doesn‘t it, that on some of these three-year trips, that you might be instructed to procreate on the way to Mars.  What if you don‘t want to? 
PITTS:  I think they‘ll figure out how to set up the pairings.  I think maybe they‘ll do a little space computer dating system, you know, to figure out who‘s going to be an astronaut and who isn‘t.  It‘s just an extra box you check, Keith, that tells you what happens. 
OLBERMANN:  MatchInSpace.com. 
PITTS:  You got it, there you go. 
OLBERMANN:  We showed a little of the History Channel, which actually did a special about this.  And they had some great ideas for how to get it done.  Is, in fact, the space station big enough where there would be any privacy anywhere? 
PITTS:  The space station is a really good size, and there are plenty of nooks and crannies where people could sort of get themselves away in a corner and have a little fun.  So there‘s plenty of room.  And when you take a look around the various components, you find out that, you know, the Russian areas are a little bit more—have a little bit more privacy in some of their spaces. 
But I think those kinds of spaces and those kinds of opportunities are going to continue to develop and present themselves. 
OLBERMANN:  You just hit the nut of the point here.  Is there a space sex race and did we lose it to the Russians? 
PITTS:  You know, I don‘t think anybody is going to tell us whether that has happened or not.  I think we have to just look at the faces of the cosmonauts and see if they‘re smiling or not.  That might give us some hint as to what happened. 
OLBERMANN:  Whether it‘s a cosmonaut or an astronaut, is there downtime enough to have done this on your own at some point? 
PITTS:  Actually, Keith, that‘s a very good point.  You know, this is such an expensive endeavor that the ground controllers absolutely schedule every last second of time they possibly can to get the most efficiency out of this, out of the work that‘s being done.  And so there really isn‘t very much time.  Although astronauts always do have some personal time and, you know, let‘s—
We should just mention that where there‘s a will, there‘s a way.  If there‘s time, somebody can get to it. 
OLBERMANN:  Derrick Pitts of the Franklin Institute, who‘s our champion tonight for getting through this in one piece, great thanks. 
PITTS:  Thank you, sir. 
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While CNN and Anderson Cooper fetishize the rotting corpses of poor Haitains, Keith Olbermann is doing good and great things for the Native Americans freezing to death on the Cheyenne River.

OVER $250,000 HAS BEEN COLLECTED to help the Lakota on the Cheyenne River survive a fierce winter whiteout. This has been collected without a rock star or a rock concert or a WE ARE THE WORLD remix, just Americans coming through for Native Americans.

Kudos to you Keith.

FEBRUARY 12, 2010 UPDATE

Donations continue to aid the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/35374592#35374592

Feb.  12: Quick Comment: Countdown’s Keith Olbermann gives an update on the crisis on the Reservations in South Dakota where FEMA has completed its investigation and is awaiting the administration and state’s “preliminary damage assessment.”

FROM KEITH OLBERMANN’S PROGRAM, 02-09/2010

OLBERMANN

“  The second of tonight‘s comments.  This is how bad the continuing latest humanitarian crisis has become.  At a college basketball double-header next week, they are asking fans to share your sole—S-O-L-E.  They‘re asking fans to bring shoes. 

Haiti?  South Dakota.  The shoe donations are being sought at the University of South Dakota.  And they‘re for the residents of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.  Two weeks ago, the reservations of the Dakotas were hit by blizzards and ice storms.  Twenty five hundred utility polls fell.  Electricity and water, and, thus, heat and light, were cut off.  And dozens are still cut off.  And the government has done next to nothing for the Native Americans, who, on a nice sunny spring day there, still face unemployment of 85 percent.

Doing nothing for these people, an American tradition since at least 1776.  I mentioned this in worsts last night, and many viewers advised us they were horrified.  It‘s not Haiti.  It‘s not three million people affected.  It‘s more like 50,000.  And it‘s 450 miles away from St. Paul, Minnesota. 

The most bang for your buck online source for donations we‘ve found is Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Storm Relief Emergency Assistance.  We‘ve linked to it from our website, COUNTDOWN.MSNBC.com, principly because the address there is really long.  The gist is up to 25,000 dollars total, the Edith Bush Charitable Foundation will match your donations.  This is your starting point.  It‘s a two-fer if you want to help. 

The university is asking for shoes for these people.  The local energy companies are accepting donations so they can buy more propane for those people who are still without heat, for god‘s sake, in America, tonight. ”  

FROM COUNTDOWN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“OLBERMANN:  And now, tonight‘s first “Quick Comment.”  And you overwhelm me, as usual.

Last night, continuing our coverage of the humanitarian crisis on the ice storm and blizzard-ravaged reservations of South Dakota, I mentioned the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Storm Relief Emergency Assistance Fund and we linked to it.  They were hoping by the end of the month to have raised $35,000.

In 24 hours, you donated approximately $185,000.  They thank you and I thank you.  If anybody wants to go further, the chairman of the tribe tells us the consciousness of politicians is as important as donations.  FEMA has yet to declare the region a disaster area and there‘s something else that could kill about 40 birds with one stone there.  They patched much of the water and power infrastructure back together, but they really need an overhaul and something in the jobs bill, where some stimulus money could not only protect power, heat, and water there, it could also put some of the thousands of unemployed Native Americans to work in their own community.

So you could call, write, or e-mail your congressman and/or senator.  If you‘re still looking to donate, the Cheyenne River Tribe has its own site.  There‘s also a terrific charity that looks out for all of the reservations affected by the horrific winter in South Dakota, the Native American Heritage Association, and we have linked to both of them off our site, COUNTDOWN.MSNBC.

Every time I feel the futility of not knowing what to do about one of these crises, I forget to ask the most reliable people I know: you guys.  Thanks again.”

This blog’s take on his issue.

http://gerrymaxeyworkshop.com/blogging/?p=3317

On Monday, February 8, 2010, Keith Olbermann, on his TV program COUNTDOWN,named the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD, for their disgraceful handling of the natural disaster on the South Dakota Sioux Reservations.

From this admirer of the Native American peoples, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your concern and interest.

Now where in the hell is Anderson Cooper? He must like his warm weather disasters better than American disasters.

http://gerrymaxeyworkshop.com/blogging/?p=3317

THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD

COUNTDOWN MONDAY, 02-08-2010

“”But our winners, the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.  Where are you guys?  Three major Native American reservations in South Dakota, particularly the Cheyenne River Reservation, have been buried under snow and ice with major power failures for two weeks.  Power lines down, thousands of other Lakota and other tribes people who already face 75 to 85 percent unemployment before a blizzard, and an ice storm that added six inches of ice weight to utility poles hit—two weeks since those lines were knocked down and most of the electricity went with it.  They managed to get the water turned back on at Cheyenne River.  Unfortunately, most of the water goes into a pipe system that failed during the storm.  The pipes are broken. 

With the wind chill, it was minus 19 there today.  What will you find out about this at the website of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs?  Some means of donating to the affected tribes?  Means of underwriting the energy companies now distributing propane tanks by hand?  An emergency hearing on the crisis there?  Nothing.  There is a committee meeting Thursday to discuss regular business.  The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, AWOL, today‘s worst persons in the world.”

 ”Gerry

It looks like you had it right about Obama’s men back in Jan. The June issue of Harper’s confirmed much of what you predicted. Compared Obama to Hoover. And the Need to seize the day! and make radical change!…”

Thanks for the compliment Radical Bomb Throwing Left Wing Unknown Fan, yes I was right….so what does that make me?, simple, Cassandra before the Trojan War. I am right and no one believes me. Obama’s team is fixated on numbers versus people, theories versus people, grand paradigms versus people.

My Grandmother was going to lose her home during the Great Depression; about to be foreclosed. Desperate for relief, she did what people did in a simpler time, she wrote a personal letter to the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, asking for help. Mrs. Roosevelt was not out shopping or traveling to Paris or having date nights in Manhattan,for the cameras. Mrs. Roosevelt was not living a Reality TV show fantasy as First Lady. She was home reading her mail from people being evicted. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote the cruel Brooklyn banker, on White House stationery , and BY NAME told him to leave The Maxey home alone for ninety days. By that time, we had saved the home.

And you want to know why the past was better? We had First Ladies without  degrees from Princeton looking out for the people by action and not theory.

So let me explain this Recession for the befuddled team of fabulous Ivy League intellectual whiz kids, President Obama has cobbled together.

In the film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, Omar Sharif as the Bedouin chief kills a fellow Arab over his use of a waterhole. Lawrence(Peter O’Toole)  is non plussed; Sharif’s character tells the intellectual outsider that in the desert the man is nothing; in the desert the water is EVERYTHING.

In this recession the banks are nothing; JOBS are everything.

Below is an interview with Vice President Biden explaining how the Obama team misread the economy. The key  line is “WE AND EVERYBODY ELSE MISREAD THE ECONOMY,” The key words being,WE and EVERYBODY ELSE.

Biden is so high school, everybody did not misread the economy, many people understand JOBS, JOBS, JOBS….Perot understood that in 1992, but the Obama Administration failed to heed that creed, now he will be seeking another stimulus package, but it will be too late….the jobs necessary for the continuance of our society,culture,stability have already been lost at car companies, and auto dealerships all over the country.

 Now back to my Cassandra mode, Governor Rick Perry, the Conservative Republican Governor of Texas was booed at a conservative Tea Party, in Texas, on the 4th of July.

Keith Olbermann on his July 6th program, was ecstatic at the news, and asked liberal commentator Richard Wolffe what he made of the news,

Wolffe’s reply is prescient,

“Here’s the problem here. It’s not just about Perry or about the Republican Party. These are people who are obviously conservative by nature who are disillusioned with a brand that is very tarnished and they are going to find a political voice for themselves. It obviously isn’t Perry, it’s no one in elected office in the Republican Party, but they will find a voice.”

I could not find a written transcript for the rest of his remarks(well I did but it was only available for $19.95, and his comments were Not that valuable),but I have a link to the video of his interview.

http://twitter.com/Count_Down/status/2508738713

Listen to what the uber liberal is saying about the future of politics in America(it is toward the rear of the Interview) and why the Obama White House is afraid.

Now for BIDEN’S HIGH SCHOOL APOLOGIA(everyone is cheating teacher) interview

Big admission from Vice President Joe Biden today.

“The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy,”Biden told me during our exclusive “This Week” interview in Iraq.

Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent in June — the worst in 26 years.

“The truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited,” said Biden, who is leading the administration’s effort to implement it’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

“Now, that doesn’t — I’m not — it’s now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we’re in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we’re in,” he told me.

The vice president argued more time is needed for the stimulus to work.

“We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package,” he said. “The truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that that recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having to distribute the bulk of money.”

Bidendidn’t rule out a second government stimulus package, but downplayed calls from Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman this week that a second stimulus will be needed.

I pressed the vice president, who is also leading the administration’s middle-class task force, on whether he’d rule out a second stimulus package.

“So, no second stimulus?” I asked.

“No, I didn’t say that,” Biden said, “I think it’s premature to make that judgment. This was set up to spend out over 18 months. There are going to be major programs that are going to take effect in September, $7.5 billion for broadband, new money for high-speed rail, the implementation of the grid — the new electric grid. And so this is just starting, the pace of the ball is now going to increase.”

–George Stephanopoulos