Honeymoon over ? 4 Secrets Obama must know

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Wednesday January 07, 2009 · 7:21 AM PST

2009/01/07 · 07:21

Now that President-elect Obama's honeymoon with the press is officially over
and now that Mr. Obama is blamed with everything from the Israeli-Gaza fighting to the
selection of Mr Burris to fill his senate seat, I feel I can reveal four secrets that will
serve him well in his coming political trials.
First: NASA and the space industrial complex will try to convince him that a Manned Mars Mission
is the necessary next step in space once NASA can actually get back into space, and
they will try to convince him that a Manned Mars Mission is not a one-off
mission and that Manned Mars is better for America than a permanent Moon base.

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Monday December 15, 2008 · 9:54 AM PST

2008/12/15 · 09:54

>>Reprint of Oct 23, 2008<< <br>On August 19, 2008 the Washington Post reported Mr Obama's plan for NASA that included the 2020 Moon and the one-off Manned Mars plan of the current President and reported that Mr. Obama went on to criticize the Bush administration for "poor planning and inadequate funding" of NASA. Mr. Obama has not denied this position, and I agree with the "poor planning and the inadequate funding" of NASA wholeheartedly, but to have Manned Mars reinstated without a bottom up review of that wasteful, near impossible and crew risking Manned Mars program is not sound. In light of what could be done with a permanent Moon base the one-off Manned Mars Mission is criminal with regard to crew risk and the judicial use of funds.
To me the course that is set in a very few weeks from now is very important, and the part that NASA will play in that furure (not for me, I'm too old) for our grandchildren is very important. If we choose to waste this opportunity to build a permanent base on the Moon instead of a one-off Manned Mars Mission we may loose that chance for another thirty years. We lost one chance to build a permanent Moon base and opted to do a crippled ISS instead and now world and national events have brought a second chance to do the proper thing.

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Thursday December 11, 2008 · 2:19 PM PST

2008/12/11 · 14:19

The idea of Mr Obama funding NASA as it is now just seems a real shame. The waste in NASA is a part of the system and even Mr Sean O'Keefe with all his ability was beaten by the system of shell games that NASA plays with money and projects. I wrote my last diary on NASA just last week and one of the persons who replied to the diary said Mr. Jack Schmitt told his group that the Moon landings might be extended into a permanent Moon base if all goes well. If that's what was indicated by the speaker at "superheed"'s meeting, and it sounds just like normal NASA propaganda, it is not true. Let me assure you NASA has no plans for making one of their quick landings on the moon into a permanent Moon base. The amount of stores, lunar capable shelters and power modules needed for an extended stay on the lunar surface are just not in any budget I've seen. Are there some plans for lunar modules that I haven't seen? Yes, I'm sure there are many things I haven't seen, but I know of no shelter on the drafting boards or in funding, or in planning for long duration use on the Moon. In short, the manned Moon missions are now planned to be just a short series of one stop hops to get man back into space till the Great Foolish one-off Manned Mars Mission can be sold to Congress

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 10:08 AM PDT

2008/10/29 · 10:08

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 10:15 AM PDT

2008/10/23 · 10:15

On August 19, 2008 the Washington Post reported Mr Obama's plan for NASA that included the 2020 Moon and the one-off Manned Mars plan of the current President and reported that Mr. Obama went on to criticize the Bush administration for "poor planning and inadequate funding" of NASA. Mr. Obama has not denied this position, and I agree with the "poor planning and the inadequate funding" of NASA wholeheartedly, but to have Manned Mars reinstated without a bottom up review of that wasteful, near impossible and crew risking Manned Mars program is not sound. In light of what could be done with a permanent Moon base the one-off Manned Mars Mission is criminal with regard to crew risk and the judicial use of funds.
To me the course that is set in a very few weeks from now is very important, and the part that NASA will play in that furure (not for me, I'm too old) for our grandchildren is very important. If we choose to waste this opportunity to build a permanent base on the Moon instead of a one-off Manned Mars Mission we may loose that chance for another thirty years. We lost one chance to build a permanent Moon base and opted to do a crippled ISS instead and now world and national events have brought a second chance to do the proper thing.

irsouth2

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 1:34 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 13:34

Both Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain claim they want change and that they will
look at every part of the US government and find the proper solution
for the future of America. That sounds real good and it it makes a nice
sound bit for the rockheaded media that still play NASA's Disney styled
propaganda films as if they were the innocuous words from the Great Rig
Veda texts. The only problem is that both of these candidates are saying
that they want to soon see a manned American spacecraft land on Mars.

irsouth2

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 10:50 AM PDT

2008/05/08 · 10:50

***Reprint of March 13, 2008 diary***
The Honorable Gentleman for the 7th District of Massachusetts
Mr. Edward Markey has worked for the people of America in Congress since 1976 without fanfair or taking on airs of grandure. If you choose to look at Mr. Markey's record at some place like The Washingtom Post (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000133/) I think you'll be well pleased.

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 1:07 PM PDT

2008/03/13 · 13:07

The Honorable Gentleman for the 7th District of Massachusetts
Mr. Edward Markey has worked for the people of America in Congress since 1976 without fanfair or taking on airs of grandure. If you choose to look at Mr. Markey's record at some place like The Washingtom Post (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000133/)I think you'll be well pleased.

irsouth2

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 1:14 PM PST

2008/02/26 · 13:14

Taking funds from NASA programs to support schools is
something I support and I would back Mr Obama's plans
to do that, but the question rapidly becomes which
programs should be cut and which are worthy of being
kept? The Manned Moon program is the one program I
feel is a necessity for America to persue.

It's no secret that I have long derided the Manned
Mars Mission as a one-off, bloated, dangerous,
spacebizcentric monstrosity designed to give the
maximum financial return to NASA and techonology
builders while having a minimum knowledge return to
the public. NASA has tuned its internal program
advancment to the ability of the funding that any
one program can produce, and not to the long term
benefit that a program will have for the American
public. In that respect I have no qualms in seeing
many of NASA's programs .....

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Tuesday August 21, 2007 · 2:58 PM PDT

2007/08/21 · 14:58

I have learned that most of the bridge resurface projects like the ill-fated Interstate 35W bridge usually have money within the contract for traffic control, often termed "detour money." So far, none of the people I've tried to talk to will confirm that there was detour money in the I35W contract or how much it might have been, but if there were the normal or usual amount slated for traffic control in the contract then the question becomes how was that money used?

irsouth2

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Thursday August 09, 2007 · 1:24 PM PDT

2007/08/09 · 13:24

Re-routing of all public traffic on bridges under
repair should have been NTSB's recommendation in the
preliminary report issued yesterday on the Minneapolis
bridge disaster. Instead, a strange statement about
"issues with design" and paying close attention to how
contractors load a bridge during repair came out.
I'm pretty sure the NTSB knew within hours that the
bridge was loaded heavy on the Westbound side and I
can't help but wonder if any MNDOT people would even
get on the bridge it they saw and felt the sway the
road workers later talked of.
We may never know if MNDOT knew how bad the bridge was
during its final days, and we may never know if the
bridge road workers' concerns were heard by their
company officers and the MNDOT. What we do know is

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 10:17 AM PDT

2007/08/06 · 10:17

Since people are still asking about how the bridge was loaded let's go through that one last time or read all of my blog Aug 02,2007 "Bridge a Bad Sign of Modern Reporting" on Dailykos. The short version is there are eight lanes on the bridge. The TWO Outside Westbound lanes(South into the city) were in use by the public; the two Inside Westbound lanes were loaded with heavy machinery, tools and workers. The TWO Inside Eastbound (North) lanes had Eastbound public traffic going out East(North). The Two Outside Eastbound (North) lanes were empty. I think the heavy off-center loading let a cracked frame member close to the East footing on the South set of footings on the West bank go into tension that it couldn't take and it failed. I think the bridge fell, starting close to the West bank of the Mississippi going out in both directions.

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