Cut the budget, increase the budget, cut the budget, which is it?

Listen carefully… what did they say Obama said first about cutting the NASA budget and then he got to Florida and he said what he needed to say to get elected and now that he is on office what did he do?

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Obama aims to ax moon mission

NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.

There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.

Guess he lied.
Plan for NASA lacks vision

He proposes more spending for robotic scouting missions, climate change research, forecasting and other applications valuable on Earth.

Climate change research? Hey dumbass why don’t you take a look out the window.

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GENERALLY…24 TO 32 INCHES OF SNOW HAVE FALLEN ACROSS NORTH OF A LINE BETWEEN ANNAPOLIS MD TO WASHINGTON DC TO PETERSBURG WV. SOUTH OF THIS LINE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE VA…APPROXIMATELY 14 TO 20 INCHES HAVE FALLEN AN ADDITIONAL 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL FALL ACROSS THE REGION BEFORE THE SNOW TAPERS TO FLURRIES LATER THIS EVENING.

But not only does Obama’s plan lack vision it lacks jobs…

But the 2,000 jobs the administration expects private companies to create in Florida under the plan is far less than the 12,000 NASA and private jobs that Florida’s east coast expects to lose when the shuttle is retired.

This is what happens when a guy that’s never had a paper route tries to get involved in business.

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Is it ethical or is it just poor judgment?

A little local Commonwealth of Kentucky stuff here, but it might arise in your own state.

States’ Secretaries of State Are Tipping Balance of Power

In 2000 it was Katherine Harris, the secretary of state of Florida, who made critical decisions that helped swing the state Republican.

In 2004 it was Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio’s Secretary of State, who earned democratic wrath for ensuring a close Republican win.

In 2008 it was the Secretary of State of Minnesota, Mark Richie, who handed that state’s Senate seat to Al Franken and control of Congress to the Democrats.

In every major election since 2000 Secretaries of State have emerged as key, often decisive, and partisan figures in the outcomes of those ballot battles.

Here in Kentucky our own illustrious Secretary of State Trey Grayson is running for senate to fill the seat vacated by a retiring Jim Bunning. Rand Paul has made the request that Grayson recuse himself from the tabulation of the GOP primary vote, in a statement Rand Paul said…

“I really feel like if you’re in the election, you shouldn’t count the votes,” Paul told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I think he shouldn’t have access to any computers counting or tabulating the votes.”

I find this is be a reasonable request – if you’re in a race should you really oversea the tallying of the results of that race? If it is not a ethical violation it certainly gives the appearance of impropriety at least in my eyes and I am a voter.

The Grayson camp said…

Grayson spokesman Les Fugate called the request absurd. Fugate said Grayson wouldn’t recuse himself.

“It is an insult to the judgment of Kentuckians that Mr. Paul suggest Secretary Grayson stop doing the job that they elected him to do,” Fugate said. “Secretary Grayson is a national leader in elections reform who has received broad, bipartisan support for his commonsense ideas that make our elections more secure, more accessible, and more honest. This political request is absurd and blatantly self-serving.“

“Absurd and blatantly self-serving”, really? I disagree and find the Grayson camps response more than a little defensive, but perhaps I’m bias as I’ve stated previously I’ve measured and weighed the candidates and I found Grayson lacking and I agree Grayson was elected to do a job by the people of Kentucky, however I doubt that the people of Kentucky elected him to oversee his own election, talk about a fox watching the hen-house.

To paraphrase William Shakespeare – me thinks the candidate doth protest too much.

Kentucky has a long history of political corruption and questionable elections so I ask Grayson why feed into the appearance of impropriety and as I’ve stated before don’t waste your time listening to what a candidate says right now on the trail, but look and see what they have done in the past.

As one reader pointed out as the saying goes… “It’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes.”

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Movie of the Week #3 – Knute Rockne All American

Knute Rockne All American

Today is Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday, the greatest President in my lifetime that started with Kennedy. So in honor of President Reagan or as we referred to him on the military as I served during his presidency – Uncle Ronny I offer up a Reagan film, yes I thought about Bedtime for Bonzo but how can you pass on Knute Rockne All American in which Reagan plays the George Gipp, I mean what a name Knute Rockne, just sounds like someone that would kick you ass. So take a peek at this movie and watch one for the Gipper.

(Oh by the way if you have Big Lots Stores you can get this for $3.00 along with 100o’s of other movies.)

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