New Bush space speech planned

WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush plans to make a major speech early this summer defending his plan for a new U.S. space exploration initiative, administration sources told United Press International.

Sources said although drafting the speech -- termed a vigorous call to support the president's new space exploration policy he announced last January -- has not yet begun, aides have been narrowing prospective dates and venues.

"The president wants to speak about space," a senior administration source said.

The speech apparently will be timed to coincide with a report by the presidential commission appointed earlier this year to review the space plan and seek broad public comment. The commission, headed by former Pentagon executive Pete Aldridge and featuring leaders from industry, non-profit groups and the military, is expected to release its report in July.

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why not try it again!

:eyes:

You STOLE it! You, you, you.... TOAST STEALER, you!

lol

What a joke.

I find it hilarious the way the Republicans like to ream Kennedy at the same time they try to emulate him.

david

If we can't get there just yet, why don't we commission a report on space exploration and have it come out just when the Democrats are having their convention.

Yeah, that's the ticket, no one will suspect that it's a shameless political stunt. /sarcasm

. . . in search of water and other stuff.:7



TYY

Thank you very much, I'm tempted to use it as wallpaper!

You're welcome to use it if you want. Be careful . . . looking at that face could mar your sensibilities. Do you need me to make it bigger for you?

TYY

"you sad, strange little man, you have my pity"

Currently I have the Canadian Rockies as my wallpaper, I can't bring myself to take away that scene of beauty and replace it with Bush Lightyear.

I will bookmark this post though, you never know.

I need to hire you for a childrens party! :D

He would flourish on the *warring* planet... and we might have some peace on earth!
:bounce:

One way ticket :kick:

.......but, hey, it's 'old hat' to this shrub.

They do seem a bit desperate, don't they?

What other movies has chimpy been watching? stargate? the Time Machine? Sliders?

ROFL

:)

eom

It's either another opportunity to skim your tax dollars for his friends - or -
His handlers think it will fill our chests with patriotism and hope in our future.

Too bad we're a broke country.

and even I think this is just about the stupidest thing ever!

That and I don't believe a word he's saying. Oh and that it will bankrupt the rest of NASA. Oh and his poppy said the exact same stuff 12 years ago and it went NOWHERE.

david

They have zero interest in exploration unless they decide a buck could be made. His buddies in the armaments industries will make a killing arming the new frontier. After all, everybody on earth is already armed to the teeth...need a new market.

He's only "set aside" $1B which is less than 1% of the actual cost of sending people to Mars..... It's a ploy to fill us with patriotism, but even mega-space-exploration advocates know the money is laughable.

I'm all for exploring space, and I have advocated manned missions to the Moon and Mars on DU.

BUT DON'T YOU THINK THAT THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS ON YOUR PLATE RIGHT NOW DUMBASS!!?? YA KNOW, THE PRISONER TORTURE THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT FOR 5 MONTHS AND DID NOTHING ABOUT UNTIL 60-MINUTES AIRED PHOTOS OF IT!!

That being said, I really do want to go back into space, but I think we can all agree that it can wait until Kerry is president.

n/t

Taxpayers pay, not Halliburton or Brown, Kellogg, Root.

Either they're self-destructing, or he is really lost in space already.

Even the die-hard freepers must be scratching their heads at this nonsense.

A space science program was advocated in old foreign policy planning as a way to maintain high high-tech outlays during periods of reduced arms development.

It seems more likely he will use it as a budget category for star-wars programs to say we're investing in science instead of showing it all in the defense budget.

to try and divert the attention of my fellow 'merikans. Not gonna work monkey boy, but nice try.

I was at a screeing of "My Dinner with Andre" with Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory a couple months ago at UCSB.

Someone in the audience asked what they thought of BushCo. Andre is a great Liberal as we all know (and Kucinich supporter!).

When Wally answered he said he was floored by what he reads in the newspaper. He said something like "I'm still getting used to the crazy stuff he did 3 or 4 months ago, then today I pick up the paper and read that he wants to invade Mars???"

Oh we had to laugh like hell.

Makes sense, though. Iraq didn't work out so well, so may as well try somewhere else.

david

Of course, he could've used his one-word-summary from "Princess Bride" - "Inconceivable!"

His SOTU fatwah: "The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message -- that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character. So tonight I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches, and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough, and to get rid of steroids now."

I've been too busy to check...is it still a problem, or have we gotten rid of them?

I mean ALL of them. THEN we can talk about Mars, dammit.

And it simply amazes me that he actually believes he can do such a "collection" while destroying this earth!!!

He is like an inside-out wear on humanity.

He and his evil beast of a cabal. I swear, they are the worst evil to visit the 21st century. I suppose I should be glad that the world is keeping up, this time,...and will extinguish such arrogance.

I am not arrogant,...I am not even confident,...but, I do believe that this "disease" will be treated before it can spread.

He and his cronies have looted the treasury.

This is just a ploy to increase his poll numbers going into the election.

He isn't. He's set aside what amounts to be around 1% of the actual costs of sending humans to Mars by the most conservative estimates.

$1B won't cut it, this is clearly an election year ploy, and an insanely poor planned one.

This is almost funny, really. Karl Rove is not a genius.. he's an idiot. He and his merry band have plunged the entire world into chaos by only thinking in purely political terms. This speech should be a REAL big thrill...

I actually support space science-But to discuss this now is just plain weird and very inappropriate

Check out post 8 for a sane view on what his priorities should be.

I hear it's all terra incognito in there.

It's not ENOUGH that he has the 1.3 billion Muslims enraged at us, he's angling for the little green men too.

What's he gonna say, "We come in peace?" HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have a reputation for going easy on the tinfoil, but 2004: A Bush Odyssey has very little to do with space exploration, IMHO.

If you've noticed, right after Bush's last fly-by of the issue, funding for all space-based environmental science programs was slashed, including the series of programs designed to monitor global climate change.

As they say in Texas, powerful interestin', innit?

Why, with the money we'll save from these budget cuts, that $300 tax cut can be expanded to $302.78! And, as we're being evacuated from Boston as the snow and ice accumulate during the Great Climatic Snap-Back, we can take hope that the Raleigh-Durham Red Sox have finally been playing winning baseball.

--bkl
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft:
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! OUR PLANET IS BEING DESTROYED BY LUNATICS! HELP!

can t wait to see the pictures of our 'boyz' abusing some poor martians!!!

"But I keep telling you ... Roswell was the Zeta Reticulians. We're from Procyon ..."

--bkl

eom

To explore strange new worlds,
To seek out life, and new civilizations,

Then invade and torture them.

To BOLDLY KILL WHERE NO MAN HAS KILLED BEFORE.

and the same right wing game of diversion away from the unpopular, right now torture and the chaos that is Iraq. What else is going on now that shafts the people while the press is focused on W's tortured Achilles heel? It always happens, the right takes advantage of even massive negative press exposure by slipping domestic shivs while no one is looking.

be the best spokesman for any kind of space travel.

don't ya think?

I can see it now. In his space suit with US flags all over it.
Looking as dumb as ever.
When will it end! This is so draining on my beautiful mind!:cry:

Bush on his way to Mars... :bounce:

:)-Lori Price

n/t

He wants to abandon the Hubble Telescope, which has proven of incalculable value.

He wants to spend trillions we don't have on this pipe dream of going to Mars.

Just one more scheme to bankrupt our country. Idiot.

Remember the first astronauts were chimps.... Could be an idea whose time has returned, though those chimps actually knew more about the space program than this one does.

Hekate
(former lifelong supporter of the space program)

"earth calling Bush, earth calling Bush. Come in, please..."

I know, I can be nasty!

"Nearly bankrupt and with only a skeletal staff, once-venerated United Press International found a financial savior yesterday in News World Communications Inc., owner of the Washington Times, which purchased the wire service's assets for an undisclosed amount.

UPI was a formidable competitor to the Associated Press until the 1980s, when it had 1,500 reporters and 200 bureaus around the globe. Since 1992, it has been owned by six Saudi Arabian families and now has 157 employees in Washington, London, Latin America and Asia--and few clients.

The wire service's new owner is controlled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church and the conservative voice behind the Times's editorials."

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif74.html

:shrug: