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Wecome to the new Lunar American State of Gingrich!
The Speigel couches the GOP debate as the theater of the absurd!
Maybe Gingrich thought that historians viewing the debate years from now
would remember his vision and name the new American Lunar state after him for his
far sighted vision. Clearly the man is on the lunatic fringe with that suggestion! (smile)
Lunar Landings
And space travel took up almost a half an hour of the debate, thanks to Gingrich who recently promised voters a colony on the Moon, including a lunar US state........
Maybe the best solution came from Paul, who said: "Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there."
Wait a minute, wouldn't GOP astronauts have to recycle their pee! and drink it in their space suits (smile)!
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On the serious side here can we ask are the GOP's millionaires up there on stage mooning working class America with all this lunar talk? Because they are privileged enough to have their heads up there in the clouds so they according to the speigel don't have to even talk about the economy during their debate. The economy is working just fine for them so they can hold their heads high, have their sights set high enough to see the moon. Why wouldn't they? Their heads aren't pushed down, holding their breath in underwater mortgages, their kids aren't left drowning in student loan debt. No wonder we can't see the moon. That is unless we can't pay the power bill, at which point moonlight might be the only light source working class houses have!
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the GOP isn't just drinking the Koolaid they must be drinking moonshine. Right?
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That may make for good TV, but it's the voters who pay. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer tried to heighten the drama by asking absurd questions about US colonies on the moon, Swiss bank accounts, and Puerto Rican statehood, not to mention which of the four candidates' wives would make the best first lady.
For 120 minutes they "debated" the "hot topics," producing sound bites but offering no insight into how these men would cope with the enormous challenges facing the US. The most important topic for voters, the economy, wasn't addressed at all.
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Each candidate loves Israel. They all love Ronald Reagan. Each loves his wife, a born first lady, for a number of reasons: "She is the author of a very famous cookbook, 'The Ron Paul Cookbook'" (Paul); "She wrote a book about manners" (Santorum); "she plays the French horn" (Gingrich).
To read the full Spiegel article please click on the link below:
http://www.spiegel.de/...
Personally I think Newt sounds like a registered absentee voter from the future American lunar state of Gingrich, don't you? Also does anyone in America really believe that the billions this would cost would only be paid by the private sector and never be paid for by the tax payer in the final analysis?
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Perhaps somebody should tell Newt Gingrich and the farcical far right GOP fringe party of, for and by the 1% that given the poor state of the American economy the only space program today that working class Americans could afford to fund is the Lego man in space, wherein recently some Canadian teenagers launched a Lego man into outerspace on a budget of about 500 dollars (and they have the video to prove it).
Given the fact that America is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't have universal medical access for all of its citizens as a human right, and is the only major industrialized country not to provide any job protected paid maternity leave by right of law, as well as not providing any paid annual leave, paid sick leave or affordable college tuition. Perhaps we ought to consider asking Mr Gingrich to quit mooning working class America with farcical tales of an American lunar state in 2020, but instead adopting the austerity Lego man space program, and finally let go of the GOP led class warfare against working people in America.
Newt Gingrich may be planning to build a colony on the moon by 2020, but he may have some major competition. A pair of Canadian 17-year-olds just launched a Lego astronaut into space — and have the video to prove it.
Teenagers Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad constructed the craft using a helium weather balloon and a tiny Lego astronaut holding a Canadian flag. After floating up to a height of 80,000 feet, the craft fell back down to Earth. It landed safely thanks to a parachute, and was retrieved with the aid of a GPS receiver.
Thankfully, the pair of amateur rocket scientists thought to attach a video camera to the Lego craft, so we have full documentation of the epic journey into the Earth's atmosphere.
http://www.tecca.com/...
You can check it out on YouTube.
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Sometimes all you can do to keep going is just to keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep smiling through your tears, so on that note this diary with a smile wishes you well. Keep going, keep smiling and keep hope alive!