Obama Wins Second Term

Well it happened with or without my vote. Obama wins 2012 reelection.

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To Vote or Not to Vote; That Is the Question

I have been up in the air about which way to vote now for the last two months and I'm still not sure. I see these two candidates as equally unsavory. I usually vote to the right,but this election I am not very happy with either choice.

Every time I try to make my decision these two thoughts go through my mind:

'One poison,two  poison'

and

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

So...

I'll probably opt out.

( Without a personal call from Mitt or Barack in the next 12 hours convincing me otherwise I'm sitting this one out.)

Does this make me a bad American? Does this take my right to comment or complain?

Will my vote make or break the election?

I seriously doubt it so...bring on the clowns and trained monkeys and on with the show!

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My plea to the undecided

Last Man on the Moon Gene Cernan Speaks of Romney's Space Program

 While it can be argued that Obama’s space policy is terrible, it may be a leap of faith to imagine that Romney’s may be better. Will the businessman, turnaround artist, and center-right politician devise a space program that will do the nation proud and can be sustained? Cernan says yes, but the answer will remain uncertain unless and until Romney becomes president and starts to fulfill his promise.

The problem of course is that the space flight gap, the period between the end of the space shuttle program and whatever follows, is the result of a decision taken by President George W. Bush to end the shuttle program in order to free funding for the space exploration program. To be sure it can be argued that Obama made things worse by cancelling the Constellation program and instituting a controversial subsidy program to encourage nominally commercial spacecraft.

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Space Jumping Daredevil Baumgartner is a Tree Hugging Greeny Against Space Exploration!

Baumgartner stated that going to Mars is a waste of money:

"A lot of guys they are talking about landing on Mars. Because [they say] it is so important to land on Mars because we would learn a lot more about our planet here, our Earth, by going to Mars which actually makes no sense to me because we know a lot about Earth and we still treat our planet, which is very fragile, in a really bad way.

So I think we should perhaps spend all the money [which is] going to Mars to learn about Earth. I mean, you cannot send people there because it is just too far away. That little knowledge we get from Mars I don't think it does make sense."

To be fair, Baumgartner is talking about Mars exploration specifically, not space exploration in a general sense. But Mars always has been, and will be, a primary focus for NASA and others, and is still the first planet that humans could travel to after the Moon.

Can you believe this guy? One would think that he would make a great spokes person for the avocation of space exploration. And here I was looking upon him as a hero of sorts.

Well,never mind...