December 2008
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Simple Solutions to Simple Problems
John Glenn, first American man to orbit the Earth, on the upcoming interregnum in America’s spacefaring capacity: “I never thought I would see the day when the world’s richest, most powerful, most accomplished spacefaring nation would have to buy tickets from Russia to get up to our station,” Umkay. I hear that India is in the Space Station market. Just give them the damned thing....
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THIS IS NEXT
The clearest statement I’ve yet seen on where the GOP goes from here is available from this piece that quotes that lovable scamp, Newt Gingrich: “Look,” Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said the other day (on the air, to Bill O’Reilly), “I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence… . I...
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File under: Yep.
Nice to hear, not unexpected quote from the National Governors Association meetings: Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, the incoming head of the DGA, was more blunt: “Just to have an administration, a president, a vice president, who listened, engaged, and came to meeting prepared — it’s a brand new idea.”Competence! What a fucking concept. Next: It is discovered that Obama...