Archive for 12 Apr 2010

NASA News: STS-1 Anniversary…

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 in Government, NASA
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Here’s a little history from NASA. The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base two days later.

Cool stuff.

Some trivia; the shuttle booster is painted white here. They stopped doing that to lower the weight.

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The Boldest Test Flight in History

Early on the morning of April 12, 1981, two astronauts sat strapped into their seats on the flight deck of Columbia, a radically new spacecraft known as the space shuttle.

John Young, the commander, had already flown in space four times, including a walk on the moon in 1972. Bob Crippen, the pilot, was a Navy test pilot who would go on to command three future shuttle missions. But nothing either man had done or would do was quite like this.

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Obama is a Moron…

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 in Axis of Idiots, Buyers' Remorse, Comarade Obama, Democrats, Failure, Government, Neo-Marxists, Political Correctness, Politics, Socialism, Stupid People, WTF Files
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Butthead once again demeans America. This shit is getting old. This may even belong in the WTF files…

Obama Spokesman: Obama Thinks We Are Still Working On Our Democracy But Don’t Worry, He’s Making Historic Steps In That Direction

It’s pretty clear that at best, Obama thinks the United States is just another country on the UN roll call, right between United Republic of Tanzania and Uruguay. At worst, he thinks the United States has done far more evil than good in the world.

While talking to the President of Kazakhstan (a country which the State Department says is a human rights violator), Obama seems to indicate there are some similarities between the countries.

NSC senior director Mike McFaul said on a conference call with reporters Sunday. “Both presidents agreed that you don’t ever reach democracy; you always have to work at it. And in particular, President Obama reminded his Kazakh counterpart that we, too, are working to improve our democracy.”

The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman asked McFaul to clarify.

“You seemed to be suggesting there was some equivalence between their issues of democracy and the United States’ issues, when you said that President Obama assured him that we, too, are working on our democracy,” Weisman said. “Is there equivalence between the problems that President Nazarbayev is confronting and the state of democracy in the United States?”

“Absolutely not … There was no equivalence meant whatsoever,” McFaul said. “[Obama’s] taken, I think, rather historic steps to improve our own democracy since coming to office here in the United States.”

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Filthy Thirteen Member Passes On…

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 in Military, US Army, Veterans
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RIP

Another member of the Greatest Generation passes on.

Member of Unit Linked to ‘Dirty Dozen’ Dies in Pennsylvania

John “Jack” Agnew belonged to the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial unit within the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, that parachuted into France to take a bridge over the Douve River during World War II.

PHILADELPHIA — John “Jack” Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the movie

“The Dirty Dozen,” has died at age 88.

Agnew belonged to the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial unit within the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was pronounced dead Thursday at Abington Memorial Hospital after becoming ill at his home in the Maple Village retirement community in Hatboro, where he and his wife moved about a year ago, his daughter Barbara Agnew Maloney said.

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