Comments on: Couric takes a jab at NASA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: The Management http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9054 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:50:41 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9054 I have deleted the last round of exchanges between Messrs. Elifritz and Puckett because of their vulgar nature, and have closed this post to further comments. I apologize to anyone inconvenienced by this development.

]]> By: Chris Mann http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9053 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:50:12 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9053 But clearly you hate America, otherwise why would you be defending the worst administration this nation has ever experienced?

Buchanan?

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9052 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:41:37 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9052 NASA? Nobody cares what NASA does anymore. It’s the United States of America that has become the laughing stock of the world. Clinton’s brilliance was at what he didn’t do. He didn’t turn a great nation into the laughing stock of the world.

I’m laughing at you Mike. I’m also laughing my ass off at NASA’s future manned space flight plans.

NASA – just one more thing to laugh about in America.

]]> By: Mike Puckett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9051 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:05:06 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9051 “To paraphrase LBJ, “If we’ve lost Katie Couric, we’ve lost the American people”.”

To look at her dismal ratings, it appears that it is Katie Couric that has lost the American People.

She is back down in third place to about 7 million viewers in a nation of 300 million.

Stick a fork in her, she is done as is the evening news.

]]> By: Mike Puckett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9050 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:57:56 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9050 Tommie Lee,

You think Bush has been so bad for NASA.

What did your perjuring hero do so wonderful for the space program during his eight years or do you just give dhimicrats a free pass?

]]> By: Chris Mann http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9049 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:43:23 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9049 And why do you assume military spaceplanes must be “super expensive”?

If they weren’t super expensive you’d have them by now.

]]> By: Edward Wright http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9048 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:26:05 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9048 >> If we keep cutting the military and some other nation (China, for example)
>> develops military spaceplanes first, how will that affect the social programs
>> you want?

> It’s really quite simple. If they develop super expensive military spaceplanes,
> we just develop a much cheaper asymmetric response. Kinetic energy interceptors.

In the real world, we do not have asymmetric kinetic energy interceptors that can shoot down spaceplanes. Much less cheap ones.

And why do you assume military spaceplanes must be “super expensive”?

> The major reason the US is losing is because they’re spending hundreds of
> billions of dollars for ‘networked battlefields’, ‘ballistic
> missile defence’, aircraft carriers, nuclear missile submarines,

The US is losing??? Wow. When do the tanks roll into Washington, DC?

> None of the gear works and humvees and tanks are sitting useless at holding yards

Sure, Chris — and Apollo never landed on the Moon, either. :-)

You’re just reciting the old “military reform” line — no weapon more advanced than an M-1 rifle can possibly work — which was thoroughly discredited in Desert Storm. The military wants better weapons not because they are stupid but because they have been to war and if they have to face a numerically superior enemy, they want every advantage they can get.

]]> By: Mike Puckett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9047 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:16:58 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9047 Bill Clinton? That guy who tried to put your grain silo SSTO into orbit? Wasn’t he your buddy Tommy?

]]> By: Thomas Lee Elifritz http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9046 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:03:02 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9046 Once again, we see why the mighty space movement has been going from triumph to triumph for decades now.

Yes, it’s all Katie Couric’s fault! The Iraqnam War, the military industrial complex, our government incompetance and corruption, public ignorance and apathy, corporate greed and massive weapons programs had nothing to do with it at all. It was Clinton’s fault I tell you! Liberals are EEEEEVIL!

]]> By: Monte Davis http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/10/05/couric-takes-a-jab-at-nasa/#comment-9045 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:55:04 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=1119#comment-9045 Like most in the media, she’s a moron. They are not worthy of our attention.

Once again, we see why the mighty space movement has been going from triumph to triumph for decades now.

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