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Ask What You Can Do To Get To Mars

If God had meant for man to fly in space, he would have given him a brain to figure out how to build and navigate spaceships! Now, that THAT issue is settled, the Chief strongly believes that we need to be pushing ourselves into that great beyond.

For many years people have asked the ever so important question, "Why Mars - why should we go to Mars?" For every individual who ponders this question there is a unique response. There is no correct answer to the conundrum and there is no single best answer either. Everyone must challenge their own intellect and form their own opinions on why, or why not, which brings about the focus of this rant. The driving question for those of us already dedicated to human space exploration should not be "Why Mars", but rather "What?" Mars. As in, what will you do to help set the human race on the path to Mars? It is as cliché as "everyone has to do their part" and as direct as John F. Kennedy?s famous speech "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

It's a universal principle that anything that exists is either expanding and growing, or else it is contracting and dying. This applies to humanity as well as anything else. We need to be moving along...if we don't we will surely go down the tubes.

Mars is a goal worthy of only the greatest efforts that we as a civilization can offer. We cannot garner the social, political and economic momentum on the blind faith of assured success alone. We cannot fly to Mars "on the wings of love," or even fuel our rockets with hopes and dreams. Instead, it is by the sweat of our brow, the ache of our muscles and the drive of our will that we have always blazed the trail of exploration, and will continue to do so in the future.

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Ohio Prosecutor Extorting First Amendment

It's hard to imagine judicial abuse getting much worse than this, but then again, since this is all dealing with lawyers, I'm SURE if they put their mind to it they could get even more outrageous.

This is so far beyond the pale that the mind boggles to consider it!
Read it and weep!

H/T to Emperor Misha on this one. He's right - these weasels actions DO deserve a wide audience, and appropriate action in response.

Here's a story in today's Rapid City Journal, which mentions the record level of funding for South Dakota in the just adopted highway bill:South Dakota's share represents a 30 percent increase for the state over the previous transportation bill, passed...

The slightly greenish android from Next Generation, shown below in need of some touch-up work. Yoda may be the greater power in the Universe, but he is a lot uglier....

Ain't this quite a sight? And the player being inducted with Sandberg this year was also pivotal during one of the greatest sports moments of my life: Wade Boggs. In 1996, I watched the Yankees rally back in the series...

I have written below on the pettiness of current attempts to discredit John Roberts, the President's nominee to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. The New York Times is at it again. Consider this scoop:In a proposed response...

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