Of course, in classical mythology the moon was sacred to the goddess Diana. So, the American capitalist male conquest of the moon was really just a form of rape, played out on a national scale, for the amusement of straight white cisgendered males like Walter Cronkite.
That we had seen a demonstration of man at his best, no one could doubt — this was the cause of the event’s attraction and of the stunned, numbed state in which it left us. And no one could doubt that we had seen an achievement of man in his capacity as a rational being — an achievement of reason, of logic, of mathematics, of total dedication to the absolutism of reality. How many people would connect these two facts, I do not know.
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The response of Congress to Apollo 11 included some prominent voices who declared that NASA’s appropriations should be cut because the lunar mission has succeeded.(!) The purpose of the years of scientific work is completed, they said, and “national priorities” demand that we now pour more money down the sewers of the war on poverty.
If you want to know the process that embitters, corrupts, and destroys the managers of government projects, you are seeing it in action. I hope that the NASA administrators will be able to withstand it.
Our elected class has gone even deeper into the above reproach waters to “Don’t you even fucking dare question or criticize me, you racist!” abys, and they are maniacal…
*** Do you recall the above? It is just a small offering of examples of what happened after Donald Trump was duly elected POTUS. Our nation— our representative republic has never seen anything like it. This is the type of fucking bullshit we see in third world “democracies”, the democracy the left means when they spew the damn term. These are an example of the basest of the base of the AOC “Squad’s” followers and supporters, not necessarily Hillary Clinton’s followers. No, she was designed by the left to have been the next mere stepping-stone after Barack Obama to the next level of rabid rancid socialist candidate that we are currently seeing in the democrat 2020 contenders. Oh, I know, they are not bringing torches and firebombs to the democrat debate stage(s). No, but listen to what they are saying, and how they are fully outside the realm of reality and truth when they spew their racist pap for their own unwashed masses of rioting assholes, and also their socialist agenda for the nation. But in order to do that they must first rid themselves of those troublesome establishment priests of the democrat party that still hold onto the fact that the vast majority of the American people are not fucking lunatics…
If you think Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and any other long-in-the-tooth stayed-too-long-at-the-dance democrat leaders are still in control of their party you are horrifically mistaken … and time is running out on Pelosi to use the power she does have to put these radical members in their place and take back full control of the party before the 2020 election cycle. I, for one, hope Nancy fails…
The socialist party has absorbed what is left of the old Democrats. At first, the progressive old guard in Congress, like good Girondists, found the revolutionary carnivores useful in reducing the ranks of the Trumpians, the Tea Party, Reagan Democrats, old Perot voters and the white working class to the inanimate status of “deplorables,” “irredeemables,” “clingers” and “dregs” — and with them, the bigoted, racist, sexist, nativist, classist, homophobic and xenophobic GOP.
Certainly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a few geriatric sympathizers such as Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin enjoyed the progressive feasting on the ancien régime — especially the unity offered by a shared hatred of the obviously soon-to-be-impeached, deposed, exiled and discredited President Trump.
But revolutionary carnivores are rarely sated. Once they run out of easy hostile targets, they get hungry and as cannibals start to eye their own.
We have already seen that autophagy in the initial primary debates in which all the major Democratic presidential candidates shouted out the most outlandish agendas possible in a desperate effort to ensure that no rival could possibly pose more to their left.
Poor, condemned Joe Biden renounced almost everything he once believed in and yet still was reduced metaphorically to screaming for his life on the guillotine stage that he was a revolutionary after all!
All the while, Pelosi, Schumer and a host of old Democrats enjoyed the new energy that was directed against the evil Trump. To revolutionary cheers, 1 million illegal aliens crossed the border in the first six months of 2019. The media-left-wing-celebrity nexus sought to devour Trump by myriad means.
Once all these efforts to destroy Trump failed, so too waned superficial revolutionary solidarity. In the manner that Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety guillotined naïve Girondists, so, too, “the Squad” of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib are now damning Pelosi as a racist.
Again, Pelosi is old, and in the way, and is a target of her party’s quick adoption of her own identity politics. What were the Pelosi generation, the left-wing journalist crowd and the professoriate thinking when they harangued nonstop about the forthcoming irrelevancy of supposed old, white dinosaurs? That thereby, such woke white liberals somehow had purchased exemptions from the very executioners whom they had helped create?
What is the next wrinkle in this revolutionary trajectory to the guillotine? Pelosi, now playing the role of a Thermidor, hinted the other day that the Squaders still represent just a few thousand constituents in gerrymandered, minority, left-wing districts….
Kaye's question is pretty dumb. The 4 congresswomen are the face of the Justice Democrats, literally, it's on the Justice Democrats' website and has been for many months pic.twitter.com/ajdYAU4fle
As one of its many checks and balances, the Constitution, you probably remember, allows Congress to impeach a president for “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Well, treason and bribery are fairly clear cut — you know what those are. But what, exactly, are high crimes and misdemeanors? Scholars have debated that very question for centuries now.
But no longer. This week, a group of newly-elected Democratic members of Congress finally defined the term. Here it is: “A high crime and misdemeanor is when you insult liberals.” …
All four of these Congresswomen, meanwhile, have accused their countrymen, most Americans, of being racist. Recently, they suggested even Nancy Pelosi is a racist. But this is projection, like everything else they say.
These women, they’re the ones who reduce other people to their skin color….
Nothing any of these four women say can be criticized by definition. We’re learning that. That’s what we’re hearing on cable news, 24/7. That’s the new rule. Okay. But there’s a cost to that.
The Democratic Party has decided to defend these lunatics, no matter what. That means the Democratic Party now owns their positions. The American people are racist. Borders are immoral. The United States is no different from Al Qaeda or Nazi Germany. That’s what they’re saying. That’s the party’s new message.
Is that a message Democrats can win an election on? We’re about to find out.
GOHMERT defends ICE/border patrol agents against Dem attacks: "I have personally seen many, many efforts to protect the children by Border Patrol and by ICE…who are not paid enough for the hell they go through trying to enforce our laws."
Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice” pic.twitter.com/2NIj5Vvcor
ICYMI: The so-called “squad” thinks that America was wicked in its origins & is even more wicked today. They’re entitled to their opinion, but I’m entitled to my opinion too, & I think they’re left-wing cranks. They’re the reason there are directions on shampoo bottles. pic.twitter.com/6uY8j5uiXK
NEW: The RNC releases a brutal new campaign ad highlighting the extreme rhetoric coming from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) pic.twitter.com/8hEtPv4UyD
When I think of a strong independent woman the first thing that comes to mind is how they’re constantly trying to portray themselves as a victim https://t.co/dY1OQZ2W2G
At some point in our nation’s history there had to be a prezzy that had done this in order for Joe to warn about a return to it were Mitt Romney elected, or something…
This is an LBJ quote reported by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Keep in mind when you toss around "most racist president ever." pic.twitter.com/iFFj2kU6at
REVEALED: Joe Biden claimed that busing to achieve school integration would lead to his children being raised in a "racial jungle." https://t.co/Jr1o48opIx
WATCH: In Des Moines, I asked @joebiden what he would say to Americans who agree with President Trump’s tweet about freshman Democratic lawmakers. “I’d say I’m ashamed of you,” Biden said. I asked: You’d say that to a voter? Biden: “I’d say that to anybody who’s that racist.” pic.twitter.com/VSwgQ5JgYh
Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged Americans who “like” their employer-based or private insurance plans could keep them under a sweeping healthcare reform proposal his campaign unveiled on Monday.
Biden, who was instrumental in helping President Barack Obama pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA), made the promise during an AARP forum in Iowa when discussing how his “public option” proposal differed from Medicare for All.
“How many of you like your employer-based health care? Did you think it was adequate?” Biden asked those attending the forum. “Now, if I come along and say, ‘finished, you can’t have it anymore,’ well that’s what Medicare for All does. You cannot have it, period.”
Joe Biden repeats Obamacare lie while describing his healthcare plan: “If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you like your private insurance, you can keep it.”pic.twitter.com/WBZe6FQWGf
Joe Biden’s new health-care plan would enshrine Roe v. Wade in federal law and would cover abortion procedures. I wrote last month that Biden was never really pro-life, and he continues to prove me right. My latest: https://t.co/XRTt3Zf1XL
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) July 15, 2019
Instead of running smartly as a moderate, Joe Biden is pandering to the #Socialist wing of his party.
Joe Biden holds a world record. He has been serving in Washington for more years than any other candidate ever. In the last 11 elections, the candidate with the fewest years won. #SleepyJoe
On July 16, 1969, three men took humanity’s hopes, dreams, curiosity, and prayers with them as they crawled into their cumbersome spacesuits and climbed an explosive missile with a claustrophobic cabin hollowed out in it for them and their
So many years and so much very hard work with long days, filled waste baskets and erased chalkboards of rejected formulations and configurations, and human goal pushing ahead of human fear — of the known … and the unknown — to get three astronauts off the face of Earth, slingshot using Earth gravity for speed and momentum to break free of that gravity, hold a trajectory for our moon, navigate it for a safe departure from an orbiting mothership in a smaller craft barely larger than your bedroom closet, and four days later land it without crashing and briefly step out onto a lunar surface they were not even certain would hold them without swallowing them under the eerie dust.
(Original Caption) Diagram of Lunar Landing Mission and time table of events for the scheduled July 16th blastoff of Apollo 11.
I touched on some Moon mission history on last Wednesday’s Hump Day post Un-Obstructed View, and in it I linked to The Smithsonian Magazine’s What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission with very interesting and informative information on the Apollo 11 mission background and what the mission astronauts were thinking at the time. One of their biggest concerns was the Moon dust and if it was volatile and would catch fire or explode the lunar module or orbiter ship…
The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. Each pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon tramped lots of Moon dust back into the lunar module—it was deep gray, fine-grained and extremely clingy—and when they unsnapped their helmets, Neil Armstrong said, “We were aware of a new scent in the air of the cabin that clearly came from all the lunar material that had accumulated on and in our clothes.” To him, it was “the scent of wet ashes.” To his Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin, it was “the smell in the air after a firecracker has gone off.”
All the astronauts who walked on the Moon noticed it, and many commented on it to Mission Control…
Moon dust was a mystery that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had, in fact, thought about. Cornell University astrophysicist Thomas Gold warned NASA that the dust had been isolated from oxygen for so long that it might well be highly chemically reactive. If too much dust was carried inside the lunar module’s cabin, the moment the astronauts repressurized it with air and the dust came into contact with oxygen, it might start burning, or even cause an explosion. (Gold, who correctly predicted early on that the Moon’s surface would be covered with powdery dust, also had warned NASA that the dust might be so deep that the lunar module and the astronauts themselves could sink irretrievably into it.)
Among the thousands of things they were keeping in mind while flying to the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin had been briefed about the very small possibility that the lunar dust could ignite. “A late-July fireworks display on the Moon was not something advisable,” said Aldrin.
Armstrong and Aldrin did their own test. Just a moment after he became the first human being to step onto the Moon, Armstrong had scooped a bit of lunar dirt into a sample bag and put it in a pocket of his spacesuit—a contingency sample, in the event the astronauts had to leave suddenly without collecting rocks. Back inside the lunar module the duo opened the bag and spread the lunar soil on top of the ascent engine. As they repressurized the cabin, they watched to see if the dirt started to smolder. “If it did, we’d stop pressurization, open the hatch and toss it out,” Aldrin explained. “But nothing happened.”
The Moon dust turned out to be so clingy and so irritating that on the one night that Armstrong and Aldrin spent in the lunar module on the surface of the Moon, they slept in their helmets and gloves, in part to avoid breathing the dust floating around inside the cabin.
By the time the Moon rocks and dust got back to Earth—a total of 842 pounds from six lunar landings—the odor was gone from the samples, exposed to air and moisture in their storage boxes. No one has quite figured out what caused the odor to begin with, or why it was so like spent gunpowder, which is chemically nothing like Moon rock. “Very distinctive smell,” Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad said. “I’ll never forget. And I’ve never smelled it again since then.”
Please, read the whole piece if you’ve not yet done so.
And even after all the lunar landing and scientific exercises had been met, the next hope and fear would be the lift off from the Moon surface to make their way back to the obiter where Collins was waiting for them and the four day trip back home to Earth … and still hoping and praying not to be burned up entering Earth’s atmosphere. But it all began years before this date, July 16, 1969, and on this day very early in the morning with three excited and pumped (and probably sleep deprived) men, and the hundreds-of-thousands who made it all possible for them to be named “The First Men on The Moon” in our Earthling history…
To fuel a big day of spaceflight, the Apollo 11 crew ate a pre-flight breakfast of steak, eggs, toast, juice, and coffee #OTD in 1969. #Apollo50thpic.twitter.com/OI8lpNabvH
Wake up- it's launch day. Today in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew got up around 4 a.m. and began preparing for their flight. They had a 9:32 a.m. rocket to catch. #Apollo50thpic.twitter.com/0xIIJSH7t9
400,000. 3. 1969. 151.
These digits may seem like a random number sequence, but for a select few people in this country’s history, they mean everything.
More than 400,000 people worked tirelessly to put three astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into space on a hot Florida day on July 16, 1969, for the most famous space exploration mission in history, Apollo 11. After touchdown on July 20, Armstrong would spend just slightly more than 151 minutes walking around on the Moon’s surface, with Aldrin clocking in at 40 minutes less. For these men, July 16 was nothing short of extraordinary — and extraordinarily hectic.
“Mission control was talking to me 24 hours a day,” Collins recalled in an interview with Fox News last month, before adding that July 20 was an even busier day. “The last task we had coming back from the Moon was reentering the atmosphere at a distance of 250,000 miles. The corridor we had to hit was 40 miles high, a tiny, tiny target. When we splattered into the ocean, we had to go through a whole other sequence. So [on both days], we were busy, busy, busy.”
But for the 400,000-strong men and women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to achieve those first lunar footsteps, this was years in the making….
As a result, people from all walks of life (engineers, scientists, pilots, secretaries and more) and various parts of the country participated in making the Apollo 11 voyage a rousing success. However, it was chaotic up until the last few seconds of the journey, especially for those inside Mission Control on that fateful day….
50 years ago, Apollo 11 launched holding astronauts that would soon make history and walk on the moon. Today, under the leadership of President @realDonaldTrump, the US has rededicated itself to deep space exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond! #Apollo50thpic.twitter.com/emAwB7EVY7
Apparently there is either a real or a fake movement trending on social media (Facebook and Twitter) that has an alleged growing group of truther-like people who plan to storm the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada in order to reveal the truth about dead space aliens and their alien spacecraft (and our military’s study of its technology)…
There is no longer any doubt(s) the democrats goal is to completely seize and transform our government, our nation, our capitalist economy, and our very way of life into something our Founding Fathers would never recognize, and we would never want. The primary problem is that those right now fawning over The Squad, Beto, Kamala, Fauxcahontas, Bernie, etc. would hoist these republic destroyers on us with their votes, and then years later be the loudest bitching and moaning how bad their lives and the country are … and with little to no self-realization they hold responsibility in being snookered into believing the bullshit being presented to them as Utopia by the radical progressive-socialists in the US Congress and the establishment dems who now struggle to go along with their young pups’ flame-broiled version of what they themselves have been painstakingly selling and building for decades and decades but wanted the slow and calculated frog-boil to continue, so as to ease the masses into the well-done desperate and needy dregs of a socialist society they want. This is where the newbies divide themselves from and now turn on the dino-dems in their way…
The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.
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The old affirmative action protocols designed to accommodate the historical grievances of blacks and Mexican-Americans have been reinvented with revolutionary speed as “diversity”—loosely defined as anyone “not white.” Thus, the vast new rubric is inclusive of wealthy Chinese-Americans, recent South American middle-class immigrants, well-off Punjabi arrivals, upscale Middle Easterners and almost anyone else, including those who fake a nonwhite identity in the manner of Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill. Suddenly the “woke” nonwhite were no longer 15-20 percent of the population, but comprised a supposed 30-40 percent powerful “constituency,” all united by their loathing of supposed “white privilege” and victimization from “white supremacy.”
The progressive-socialist party has absorbed what is left of the old Democratic Party. Its iconoclasts are not satisfied with erasing the images or commemorations of old white public enemies of the past—Father Serra, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson—but have quite logically turned their identity politics venom on all old white people of the present, including some of their own left-wing brethren.
At first, the progressive Old Guard in Congress, like good Girondists, found the revolutionary carnivores useful in reducing the ranks of the Trumpians, the Tea Party, Reagan Democrats, old Perot voters, and the white working class to the inanimate status of “deplorables,” “irredeemables,” “clingers,” and “dregs”—and with them, the bigoted, racist, sexist, nativist, classist, homophobic, and xenophobic Republican Party. Certainly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and a few geriatric sympathizers, such as Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), enjoyed the progressive feasting on the Ancien Regime—especially the unity offered by shared hatred of the obviously soon to be impeached, deposed, exiled and discredited Donald J. Trump.
But revolutionary carnivores are rarely sated. Once they run out of easy hostile targets—and they have with the collapse of the Mueller hoax and all the other impeachment melodramas—they get hungry and as cannibals start to eye their own.
We have already seen that autophagy in the initial primary debates in which all the major Democratic presidential candidates—Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Robert O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—shouted out the most outlandish agendas possible in a desperate effort to ensure that no rival could possibly pose more to their left.
Poor, condemned Joe Biden renounced almost everything he once believed in and yet still was reduced metaphorically to screaming for his life on the guillotine stage that he was a revolutionary after all! Had Biden in his first debate only yelled back at his attacker, Harris, “If you really want the return of federally mandated busing of school children, then go out and run on busing and see where it gets you!”
The candidates, of course, were the cleaned-up versions of their handy Jacobin street fighters, the thugs of Antifa, the motley remnants of Occupy Wall Street, the loud ranks of Black Lives Matter, and the assorted provocateurs who inhabit the activist groups and most college campuses, and who do the dirty work of kicking incorrect enemies out of restaurants, stalking conservatives, beating up journalists, shouting down speakers, swarming the homes of incorrect politicians and newscasters, and taking over coffee shops and intersections.
All the while, Pelosi, Schumer, and a host of old Democrats enjoyed the new energy that was directed against the evil Trump…
Once all these efforts to destroy Trump failed, so too waned superficial revolutionary solidarity. After all, the subtext of the new revolutionary progressive party was that a changing demography brought on by open borders, a new diversity chauvinism, and the suicidal tendencies of a supposed shrinking, embittered and white working class had permanently changed America. A series of identity candidates would both follow in the footsteps of Barack Obama, and also make him look tame in comparison, in the way the Black Panthers, H. Rap Brown, and Stokely Carmichael once used to mock the “appeasement” of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the manner that Robespierre and his Committee of Public Safety guillotined naïve Girondists, so too, “the Squad” … are now damning Nancy Pelosi as a racist. No matter that just hours earlier Pelosi herself had called Donald Trump a racist who wanted to turn away all nonwhite people at the border simply because they were nonwhite.
Again, Pelosi is old, and in the way, and is a target of her party’s quick adoption of her own identity politics. What were the Pelosi generation, the left-wing journalist crowd, and the professoriate thinking when they harangued nonstop about the forthcoming irrelevancy of supposed old white dinosaurs? That thereby, such woke white liberals somehow had purchased exemptions from the very executioners whom they had helped create?…
Read the whole thing.
Meanwhile, these neo-Stalinists persist, endangering the old guard Stalinsists…
Here again, a progressive politician tells black, brown, Muslim, and gay voices that they are only welcome to speak if their talking points pass liberal muster.
“Queer” is an offensive slur. I would demand an apology for that, but as this clip illustrates, the left takes pride in peddling in offensive slurs. If you’re concerned only w/presenting a reductive black, brown, Muslim, or “queer” voice, then you’ve already marginalized yourself https://t.co/NZWo2tkcsM
How dare you embrace YOUR individual right as a human to own your personal ideas/beliefs and #resist being a cog and shoved into the collective machine that churns out dictated identity politics/ideology. ///////
This polling is why @SpeakerPelosi had begun to distance herself from @AOC & @IlhanMN. Polling showed "the squad" is EXTREMELY unpopular in key groups @TheDemocrats need to have a shot at winning in 2020. Today she’s forced to defend them & their electoral fates intertwine again.
I still firmly believe the polls in 2016 that had Hillary burying Trump were so manipulated in the poll-taking through questions and by lopsided stacked democrats being polled over republicans/independents/un-decideds and in the numbers reported in the MSM. I also believe the ‘internal polling’ numbers revealed the very serious trouble Clinton was in, and getting worse as the election day neared. It is why we did not hear “internal polling says…” from the MSM and political commenters in conjunction with those alleged polls being pumped out through the MSM. Those publicized polls were not intended to gauge where the presidential candidates stood with likely voters, but were intended to manipulate and sway voters still on the fence, and even already firmly decided…
Note that sub in the article’s title. It is as I said, the polls were meant to guide and manipulate the voters, and make the MSM look like the geniuses they’re not … not to simple gauge the race. Hence, polls, even good ones in our favor, are not to be believed or trusted.
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….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
It’s 1000x worse than anything she said. She voted to support terrorism
— (((Aaron Worthing))) (@AaronWorthing) July 15, 2019
Nobody panders quite like the insufferable shithead Beto:
Something that we've been talking about in town hall meetings — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection. I was recently given documents showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves. https://t.co/rGKKLqcoKf
(HT: BK)
