Those Wacky Republicans

[gwb-trading]

I recall a time a couple of years ago, right here, when credit for the Clinton surplus was being claimed by reps, for keeping his spending in check. So it existed back then, lol.

It's all politics.

However I believe after reviewing the raw data that the "Clinton Surplus" was primarily optics and in reality no surplus existed. He simply moved money around to make everything look good.

Did Clinton do better with the budget than the presidents surrounding him in office? Yes, I will freely admit that. Was there a real surplus? No.

Clinton benefited from holding office in a strongly improving economy. He also implemented tax increases that enhanced revenue - which is a good study for those who always claim that cutting taxes is the only way to improve the overall economy. The reality is that there needs to be a balance between taxation and spending and necessary services.

 

[Ricter]

It's not enough to say climate change is not occurring, but we must also cease all observations of even the possibility it's occurring!


'The GOP’s War on Science Gets Worse'
Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker:

The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse: During last fall’s midterm election campaign, “I’m not a scientist” became a standard Republican answer to questions about climate change. ... Now, it seems, they are trying to go one better. They are trying to prevent even scientists from being scientists. Last week, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, headed by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, approved a bill that would slash at least three hundred million dollars from NASA’s earth-science budget. “Earth science, of course, includes climate science,” Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat who is also on the committee, noted. ... Defunding NASA’s earth-science program takes willed ignorance one giant leap further. It means that not only will climate studies be ignored; some potentially useful data won’t even be collected. ... The vote on the NASA bill came just a week after the same House committee approved major funding cuts to the National Science Foundation’s geosciences program, as well as cuts to Department of Energy programs that support research into new energy sources. ... “It’s hard to believe that in order to serve an ideological agenda, the majority is willing to slash the science that helps us have a better understanding of our home planet,” Representative Johnson wrote. Hard to believe, but, unfortunately, true.

 

[gwb-trading]

It's not enough to say climate change is not occurring, but we must also cease all observations of even the possibility it's occurring!


'The GOP’s War on Science Gets Worse'
Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker:

The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse: During last fall’s midterm election campaign, “I’m not a scientist” became a standard Republican answer to questions about climate change. ... Now, it seems, they are trying to go one better. They are trying to prevent even scientists from being scientists. Last week, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, headed by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, approved a bill that would slash at least three hundred million dollars from NASA’s earth-science budget. “Earth science, of course, includes climate science,” Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat who is also on the committee, noted. ... Defunding NASA’s earth-science program takes willed ignorance one giant leap further. It means that not only will climate studies be ignored; some potentially useful data won’t even be collected. ... The vote on the NASA bill came just a week after the same House committee approved major funding cuts to the National Science Foundation’s geosciences program, as well as cuts to Department of Energy programs that support research into new energy sources. ... “It’s hard to believe that in order to serve an ideological agenda, the majority is willing to slash the science that helps us have a better understanding of our home planet,” Representative Johnson wrote. Hard to believe, but, unfortunately, true.

OK... let's try this again. What is the core mission of NASA?

 

[Ricter]

OK... let's try this again. What is the core mission of NASA?

It is what we say it is. At this time it still includes planetary studies.

 

[Covertibility]

Nebraska woman files suit in federal court against all homosexuals


An Auburn woman claiming to be an ambassador for God and his son, Jesus Christ, is suing all homosexuals.

Sylvia Driskell, 66, asked an Omaha federal judge to decide whether homosexuality is a sin.

Citing Bible verses, Driskell contends “that homosexuality is a sin and that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in the closet(?)”

Driskell wrote in a seven-page petition to the court that God has said homosexuality is an abomination. She challenged the court to not call God a liar.

“I never thought that I would see a day in which our great nation or our own great state of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some people(’s) lewd behavior.”

Driskell could not be reached by phone. She is representing herself in the lawsuit.


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Just about everything you buy has a warning label, why not religious texts?

 

[gwb-trading]

It is what we say it is. At this time it still includes planetary studies.

Here is some help... go read NASA's core mission statement as defined by the United States government.

 

[Ricter]

Here is some help... go read NASA's core mission statement as defined by the United States government.

I already did. I'm comfortable that studying planet Earth falls within.

This move is nothing more than politics. NASA is simply not saying what the energy sector wants to hear.

 

[gwb-trading]

I already did. I'm comfortable that studying planet Earth falls within.

This move is nothing more than politics. NASA is simply not saying what the energy sector wants to hear.

More like reducing a huge waste of government money not being spent on NASA's core mission. Goddard is supposed to be a rocketry testing center. It's role should strictly limited to that.

 

[Ricter]

More like reducing a huge waste of government money not being spent on NASA's core mission. Goddard is supposed to be a rocketry testing center. It's role should strictly limited to that.

Even Cruz doesn't support that limited a scope.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

More like reducing a huge waste of government money not being spent on NASA's core mission. Goddard is supposed to be a rocketry testing center. It's role should strictly limited to that.

Cutting it would require leadership. Let's not forget that nutcase zealot James Hansen got his start under the Bush administration, which could have easily shut him up or fired him but instead did nothing.