Two Things to Fool Us All...

First, on Wednesday, NASA will finally launch the space shuttle again. Now despite any of their claims, the real reason that NASA does not want to fly the shuttle is that it is a waste of money. It costs in excess of 700 million to launch the damn thing. I am a proponent of manned exploration of space but the only valid reason left to launch the shuttle is the maintenance of the hubble and NASA is not planning to do that. NASA should be working intently on a space plane.

Note I recently read a decent novel, the earliest (in terms of occurance) novel in Ben Bova's grand tour sequence, Powersat. I heartily recommend this novel as a decent look into how the space program should be...private

One final note, you know that the only reason that the networks are covering this is because they want to see it blow up.

Second, who is Sen Harry Reid kidding, this is what is at stake with the new SC nominees:

Does this look like an economic drain?

Sen Reid is recently said to have stated that he won't filibuster any of President Bush's SC nominees unless there are extreme circumstances...

...You know, like the candidate is alive and breathing...

Any SC Justice who will be aggressively against the recent decision in Kelo vs. New London, will most likely be filibustered. The Democrats do not care. The liberal activist judiciary is their last chance to have some power.

Will the debate be civil read this