I stumbled across yesterday an interview with Clint Curtis, a Republican-turned-Democrat who is considering running against Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), whose district includes KSC. It’s a wide-ranging, and somewhat odd, interview, although when asked what his top issues would be, Curtis mentioned several, including “Stop the gutting of NASA.” (Oh dear, there’s that evisceration theme again.)
Mr. Curtis does have a campaign web site, and devotes several paragraphs on his issues page to NASA. That’s where things get a little odder. Curtis’ primary concern is that the US is losing ground to China in space, and that Rep. Feeney is only making matters worse: “Mr. Feeney takes trips to China, who knows who actually paid for this trip, and touts how advanced they are. He promotes that we should share our technology with them in the spirit of cooperation. Sounds very much like a prelude to outsourcing more American jobs.” Curtis proposes restarting a space race with China: “What Russia lacked in manpower and economic might, the Chinese already possess. While Mr. Feeney is bragging on how impressive the facilities are in China and suggests that we should cooperate in the development of their space program, our own space program has been under-funded for the entire duration of his time as this districts [sic] representative.”
Incidentally, Rep. Feeney is scheduled to speak about China’s space program, and the results of a recent trip to China he took that featured a visit to Chinese space facilities, at a Space Transportation Association breakfast in Washington this morning.
Never mind Curtis’ space policy; his web site has terrible writing. I know that a lot of politicians have other people write everything for them. Even so, if the grammar is that bad on the whole site and Curtis doesn’t even know that it’s bad, it “spels truble”.
I must apologize for my grammar and spelling. If I had spent a little more time in English class, I might have been able to convey the idea that Mr. Feeney has allowed a Chinese contractor to remove Gigabytes of data from NASA’s computers and send it to China(Confirmed by polygraph test). After several years of notifying the proper authorities a single employee was arrested and plead guilty to transferring military technology to China. Specifically he admitted to sending hellfire missile guidance chips to the capital of Communist China. He admitted to doing so over twenty times but received only a $100 fine and was not even deported. After the trial I asked him about the sentence and he stated that he did not even have to pay the fine because it was “taken care of”. He also stated that as long as he kept quite he would be allowed to stay in the country. The single employee was not the major source of spying activity. Under Mr. Feeney’s protection this company still has a top level security clearance as well as NASA contracts.
Once again I apologize for any errors in English. My Chinese is even worse.
Clint Curtis: If this is really the Clint Curtis who is preparing to run for Congress, then the Internet is amazing! It seems like anybody can use it to get anybody’s attention.
Anyway, you don’t have to apologize to me for your grammar. I’m not in your district, and even if I were, I might vote for you anyway. You might have reason to apologize to yourself, though. You would make a better impression on the college-educated part of your district if you found a good editor. You shouldn’t just fix the run-on sentences and malapropisms. You would do well do organize your message better. Somehow the site rambles; it keeps coming back to corruption allegations against Tom Feeney. You make it seem as if all you really care about is getting even with one personal enemy. Of course, you have to criticize the other guy to win, but you could do it more deftly.
On the other hand, I’ll grant that you have a sense of humor.
I’m a computer programmer. Most of my writing is in program language syntax, so my English writing skills are minimal at best.
If you have the time, I would greatly appreciate any rewrite suggestions you might have. To me the message is more important than the writing style. I would, however, like to make the message as clear and enjoyable to read as possible.
If you do have the time, and are interested in suggesting edits, supporting documentation and background information can be found at
http://www.BradBlog.com/ClintCurtisSummary.htm
http://www.BradBlog.com/ClintCurtis.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis
Thanks,
Clint
In God we trust.
Everything else is made in China.
China is already ahead in the game. Perhaps it is more a question of how badly does China really want to embarrass any nation that sends it hundreds of billions of dollars every year? Unless the dollar completely shrivels up, I think China will want to go back to the moon together with its indebted partner. In fact for several hundred billion dollars a year, if I were China I would insist the Americans step foot first off of the Shenzhou back upon the moon’s surface. It is such a small price to pay to be humble.
No, I take it back. After reading the Wikipedia biography of Clint Curtis, the Internet is not as amazing as I had thought.
Your funniest comment ever Dr. K.