Politically Prostituting NASA
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is a graduate of the Naval Academy, a retired, highly decorated Marine major general, and a former astronaut. Bolden is also a dutiful politician.
NASA’s website cites the agency’s aim to “pioneer the future in space exploration and aeronautic research” and outlines its “vision”: “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.”
There is no mention anywhere on the NASA site of getting involved international politics, such as improving relations with Islam, or promoting the global warming scam but both are on its agenda.
Bolden demonstrated that NASA’s mission had radically changed a year after he was named administrator when he said during an interview with Al Jazeera, the Arabic language news network. Under Bolden, NASA’s is being politicized and its “foremost” mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world, and not space exploration or aeronautic research.
He told Al Jazeera that he was “ordered” to effectively forget NASA’s historic mission of space pioneering, etc. and to adopt a totally new and markedly different goal. As Bolden admitted to the voice of Islam, “Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science. . . and math and engineering.”
At the behest of his boss, Bolden was abandoning NASA’s position as the world’s pre-eminent scientific body in order to serve “foremost” as cheerleaders for ancient Muslim achievements, that is, to fulfill Barack Hussein Obama’s political ambition to suck up to Islam and help Muslims “feel good” about themselves.
That extreme departure contradicted the president’s own words spoken in March, 2009.
At that time, he said, “Let’s be clear: promoting science isn’t just about providing resources–it is also about protecting free and open inquiry. It is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, . . . It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda–and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Except when those decisions and facts conflict with Obama’s ideology.
NASA has again departed from its mission on another Obama pet issue–the lie of anthropogenic global warming. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21481.)
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
The End of the Shuttle, the End of Exceptionalism
The End of the Shuttle, the End of Exceptionalism
The final flight of America’s space shuttle does not simply represent the end of an era. The successful landing of the Atlantis signaled an undeniable indicator of the beginning of the end of American exceptionalism.
The belief in the United States of America as an exceptional nation long pre-dated the Atlantis. Indeed, it long preceded President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s 1961 Special Address to Congress in which he pledged to send a man to the moon and return him safely within the decade was just the capstone of our exceptionalism.
In that speech, JFK called for a national commitment from “every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant . . . that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.”
We accomplished that goal a year early in 1969. America’s incomparable feat not only put the U.S.S.R. on notice that we were in the space race but that we were far in the lead and planned to stay there.
As momentous as the Apollo 11 lunar landing was, it merely represented a footnote to our exceptionalism.
Apollo 11 and our subsequent achievements accented what Americans had known for almost two centuries, that this nation had accomplished more in 200 years than any other country in the history of the planet, that we had become the richest, most powerful, most influential, the most free, most innovative, and most productive country ever to grace the Earth.
Long before 1969, most Americans were well aware that the United States was “different” in the best sense from the rest of the world. We had and have our flaws but among boundless other benefits, our nation offered every citizen opportunities and potentialities denied to even the most free of European countries. We had achieved more in a scant few centuries than Europeans had accomplished in hundreds.
We had gone to the moon and back, our horizons were unlimited, we were exceptional.
American exceptionalism ended on Thursday, July 21st, 2011, as per the design of President Barack Hussein Obama . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5060)
The final flight of America’s space shuttle does not simply represent the end of an era. The successful landing of the Atlantis signaled an undeniable indicator of the beginning of the end of American exceptionalism.
The belief in the United States of America as an exceptional nation long pre-dated the Atlantis. Indeed, it long preceded President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s 1961 Special Address to Congress in which he pledged to send a man to the moon and return him safely within the decade was just the capstone of our exceptionalism.
In that speech, JFK called for a national commitment from “every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant . . . that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.”
We accomplished that goal a year early in 1969. America’s incomparable feat not only put the U.S.S.R. on notice that we were in the space race but that we were far in the lead and planned to stay there.
As momentous as the Apollo 11 lunar landing was, it merely represented a footnote to our exceptionalism.
Apollo 11 and our subsequent achievements accented what Americans had known for almost two centuries, that this nation had accomplished more in 200 years than any other country in the history of the planet, that we had become the richest, most powerful, most influential, the most free, most innovative, and most productive country ever to grace the Earth.
Long before 1969, most Americans were well aware that the United States was “different” in the best sense from the rest of the world. We had and have our flaws but among boundless other benefits, our nation offered every citizen opportunities and potentialities denied to even the most free of European countries. We had achieved more in a scant few centuries than Europeans had accomplished in hundreds.
We had gone to the moon and back, our horizons were unlimited, we were exceptional.
American exceptionalism ended on Thursday, July 21st, 2011, as per the design of President Barack Hussein Obama . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5060)
Friday, February 4, 2011
Obama's War on Science
Obama's War on Science
Our president is waging an undeclared war against “inconvenient” science.
Evidence of Obama’s subversion of apolitical scientific inquiry became apparent last summer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA’s preeminent role as America’s scientific leader has been undisputed for over half a century and NASA has rewarded the nation and the world with phenomenal accomplishments including the Apollo moon program, Skylab, the International Space Station, and the Hubble telescope Space Telescope, not to mention developing Tang.
It’s been speculated that had not the United States wasted trillions over the years on useless and unproductive social boondoggles, America could already have visited and even established colonies on other planets but politicians preferred to buy votes rather than explore the universe, but that issue is tangential to Obama’s war on science.
NASA’s mission statement incorporated plans to “pioneer the future in space exploration and aeronautics research.” That was then, this is the Obama administration.
Last July, NASA’s new civilian administrator, Charles Bolden, let the cat out of Obama’s bag of tricks during an interview with Al Jazeera, the Arabic language news network, that his “foremost” mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world. He was ordered to forget all that pioneering and scientific research: “Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science. . . and math and engineering:” http://tiny.cc/b5oa0
Granted, Muslims achieved great breakthroughs in mathematics, science, and medicine during Islam’s Golden Age. However, that gild was applied between five and eight hundred years ago and Islam’s chief advancement since then has been perfecting much more practical creations such as ied’s and land mines designed to kill and maim in its bloody worldwide jihad.
America’s greatest scientific enterprise thereby took a backseat to Obama’s twisted political expediency and bizarre effort to make Muslims “feel good” about themselves as if building up their self esteem would make them nicer people.
Obama’s attempted destruction of NASA–Bolden subsequently retracted his statement which meant he had either lied to Al Jazeera or the president had lied to him–hasn’t worked. Yet.
The bitter irony in the president trying to divert the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s scientific mission into becoming Islamic cheerleaders is highlighted by the president’s lofty words on science spoken in March, 2009 when he said, “Let’s be clear: promoting science isn’t just about providing resources–it is also about protecting free and open inquiry. It is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient–especially when it’s inconvenient.”
Here was his kicker: ”It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda–and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Such outrageous hypocrisy!
An article on RedState.com, “Obama Administration Covering Up Abortion Data,” begins by citing the above quotation . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3550)
Our president is waging an undeclared war against “inconvenient” science.
Evidence of Obama’s subversion of apolitical scientific inquiry became apparent last summer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA’s preeminent role as America’s scientific leader has been undisputed for over half a century and NASA has rewarded the nation and the world with phenomenal accomplishments including the Apollo moon program, Skylab, the International Space Station, and the Hubble telescope Space Telescope, not to mention developing Tang.
It’s been speculated that had not the United States wasted trillions over the years on useless and unproductive social boondoggles, America could already have visited and even established colonies on other planets but politicians preferred to buy votes rather than explore the universe, but that issue is tangential to Obama’s war on science.
NASA’s mission statement incorporated plans to “pioneer the future in space exploration and aeronautics research.” That was then, this is the Obama administration.
Last July, NASA’s new civilian administrator, Charles Bolden, let the cat out of Obama’s bag of tricks during an interview with Al Jazeera, the Arabic language news network, that his “foremost” mission is to improve relations with the Muslim world. He was ordered to forget all that pioneering and scientific research: “Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science. . . and math and engineering:” http://tiny.cc/b5oa0
Granted, Muslims achieved great breakthroughs in mathematics, science, and medicine during Islam’s Golden Age. However, that gild was applied between five and eight hundred years ago and Islam’s chief advancement since then has been perfecting much more practical creations such as ied’s and land mines designed to kill and maim in its bloody worldwide jihad.
America’s greatest scientific enterprise thereby took a backseat to Obama’s twisted political expediency and bizarre effort to make Muslims “feel good” about themselves as if building up their self esteem would make them nicer people.
Obama’s attempted destruction of NASA–Bolden subsequently retracted his statement which meant he had either lied to Al Jazeera or the president had lied to him–hasn’t worked. Yet.
The bitter irony in the president trying to divert the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s scientific mission into becoming Islamic cheerleaders is highlighted by the president’s lofty words on science spoken in March, 2009 when he said, “Let’s be clear: promoting science isn’t just about providing resources–it is also about protecting free and open inquiry. It is about letting scientists . . . do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it’s inconvenient–especially when it’s inconvenient.”
Here was his kicker: ”It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda–and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”
Such outrageous hypocrisy!
An article on RedState.com, “Obama Administration Covering Up Abortion Data,” begins by citing the above quotation . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3550)
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