USA Politics

Just watched Bowling For Columbine again for the first time in 10 years.
Say what you will about him, but Moore is a master at making his point.
The scene with the flack from Lockheed Martin talking about how nothing in the community would make kids think killing was the answer while weapons of mass destruction are manufactured in the background - pure awesomeness.
 
This cracked me up, the White House response to the petition (which got over 25K signatures) to build a Death Star



This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
  • The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
  • The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
  • Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts -- American, Russian, and Canadian -- living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs -- one wielding a laser -- roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo -- and soon, crew -- to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White Housescience fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Glad to see there's someone with a sense of humour in the government who will put up with petitions like these.
 
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And NY takes the lead, making stricter rules.
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Travis. Remember, you're watching Fox News. You're watching people who have their brains in their underbelly, who don't like changes on this topic and who force these opinions on the viewers.

Look what that dumb blonde is saying: "is that appropriate"? Look at the reactions. They find it a cynical idea, but look at themselves (especially that man!).

Later on she says Newtown seems to be loosing its effect already. Holy shit. How come? How come? Because they're contributing themselves, showing off their fear of weapon loss; a fear which looks bigger than the urge to try to make a safer environment. They are trying to save their lobby asses. They are armdeep into the shit that is called weapon lobby business.

I think using children is a good move, because more eyes need to be opened. Trying something else is a good thing. Let's show what this issue really is about. IT IS ABOUT CHILDREN. These wise children have written letters. They realize that something needs to be done.
 
I can't see how this will have a good end. Not in a country that has fought a civil war over slavery.
 
That's the problem with the news and media. It's biased either towards the right or left. I'd really love to have a news station that was completely unbiased and in the middle.
 
Yeah, but there are varying degrees of bias. And Fox News is about as biased as it gets.
 
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