This is why I support the space program. We spend trillions of dollars every year on idiots who won’t put the government’s social security, healthcare, and unemployment to good use, and NASA gets a measely $17 billion.
Friday the 13th of April 2029 could be a very unlucky day for planet Earth. At 4:36 am Greenwich Mean Time, a 25-million-ton, 820-ft.-wide asteroid called 99942 Apophis will slice across the orbit of the moon and barrel toward Earth at more than 28,000 mph. The huge pockmarked rock, two-thirds the size of Devils …

President Bush announced that we’ll be sending 10 tons of new troops to Iraq, while admitting that mistakes have been made. I like Bush, but can’t he be a little bit more decisive? Quotes like this -
Bush recognized that the progress of the war is “unacceptable to the American people — and it is unacceptable to me,” adding, “Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.”
could have been made years ago.
Not only that, we’re presented with this:
“Our troops will have a well-defined mission: to help Iraqis …