Comet survives the sun, 4th Amendment shredded and Bill of Rights in tatters, new space lauch vehicle for the masses, no work again and waiting on debit card, England planning on chaos when the Euro collapses, NASA reverts to Space Act era language to keep CDEV on track due to Congressional budget cutting, and I told you so.



A lot has happened since I last posted, so here goes :

• Comet Lovejoy swung to within 180,000 miles of the Sun’s photosphere on Thursday evening December 15 Mountain Time, and it survived the passage thru the several million degree solar corona, but the comet’s tail detached during perihelion passage, and then redeveloped after the comet began its centuries long climb away from the sun. Several different spacecraft out in the solar system, along with one in Earth orbit imaged Comet Lovejoy during its close brush by the sun, and the dynamic nature of the comet’s tail in the corona has physicists baffled so far. To me, the view inbound showed the tail acting like a jet contrail, subject to winds at an angle to the path of the comet, and the tail detached and remained trapped in the corona for hours. Explain that ? After perihelion, Comet Lovejoy raced away from the sun and redeveloped both gas and dust tails, and definitely survived its death defying swoop to less than the moon’s distance from the earth from the 11,000 degree photosphere, and it’s bath in the million plus degrees of the corona. And spacecraft sensors saw it all. Amazing ! Comet Lovejoy gave everyone a pre-Christmas show of the awesome dynamic nature of our solar system, and that maybe comet nuclei aren’t the fragile dirty snowballs everyone thought.
• The U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the completely Unconstitutional National Defense Authorization Act, specifically the section where the continental US becomes a “Battlefield”, and any US citizen could be detained, (whatever that can be construed to mean) and held till hell freezes over without charges, and with no hope of bonding out under Habeas Corpus, in short, the Fourth Amendment is history. How our House members could sell out the American people, shred the meaning and intent of the Bill of Rights limiting government power, and then claim they were just “doing the will of the American people”, is so far beyond my ability to comprehend, that I must conclude that Congress is either acting 0ut of overt stupidity, ignorance and apathy, or they are sinister actors in an ongoing plunge towards tyranny and slavery for the formerly free citizens of the US. There is still time to contact your US Senators and tell them to stop this overt cancellation of the 4^th Amendment, and basically a government takeover in it’s tracks, and restore power to the people, which is the point of having a limited, Constitutional republic, instead of mob rule or the tyranny of the majority. I can’t say it any plainer, or with more truth. It is time for a Housecleaning of monumental proportions in government at every level in the US- local, county, state, and federal. These two-faced, tyrannical so called representatives must be voted out en-masse come next November, or this nation is headed for a horrible fate- namely a fight for freedom and a Civil War. And to be frank with everyone, I don’t expect to survive such a war. I expect I will die in such a conflict. So be it. I WILL NOT LIVE AS A SLAVE UNDER TYRANTS !!!!! Time to live up to the standards our forefathers who gave their lives, fortunes and sacred honor did in the War of Independence, and those brave souls who fought for independence against a tyrannical federal government during the War Between the States. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH !!!!!
• Burt Rutan and Paul Allen, amongst others, announced a new reusable launch system to put people and cargo into orbit by 2018, at much less cost than current systems. Their proposed Stratolaunch system would use the world’s largest aircraft to carry a Falcon 4 or 5 upper stage and crew/cargo compartment to altitude, then air drop the upper stage and crew/cargo module like the X-15 was so long ago, and the engine would fire up, and propel the spacecraft into earth orbit. Payload capacity is supposed to be equal to a Delta II, about 10,000t pounds to orbit, eventually including passengers to whatever destination they have bought and paid to get to. If this system works as Rutan and Allen and others intend, it could revolutionize flight to orbit, as well as craft a practical means of intercontinental travel in a few hours at most, as opposed to the ¾ of a day or more it now takes to get anywhere on Earth from anywhere else. Who knows, if I live long enough, I might even get a chance to fly into orbit at an affordable price-my lifelong dream, and one as yet unfulfilled for me. Maybe in a few years, if the coming collapse and war don‘t kill me first ……….
• Work has dried up for me, and with no vehicle yet in the offing to provide transport to or from a work assignment site, I await my loaded debit card from Chase Bank/the Colorado Division of Labor and Employment. I feel no shame at asking for unemployment-my steady work is anything but - and I have no work scheduled for tomorrow, so I take advantage of a state government program I am entitled to. The Great Depression of the 21^st Century has laid its heavy hand across my life, and it’s effects are felt by an ongoing want and a steady degradation of the quality of my life this entire decade. I can thank socialists, Republicans in Name Only, those who have successfully perpetrated a FRAUD on the American people by way of bank and insurance company bailouts, continued overregulation to the point of strangling commerce here in the homeland, bought and paid for co-conspirators-namely the US Senate and House of Representatives members who respond to lobby money rather than the needs of their constituents, the flood of illegal aliens that have bid down wages and taken work from US citizens, all to pad the pockets of employers who have been clever enough to lobby for a privatizing of benefits and socializing of costs, that people like me must pay, whether or not it’s moral, ethical, or just plain wrong. And it is most assuredly wrong.
• The British Government has advised the Home Office to prepare for Civil Unrest when the Euro collapses and the financial house of cards collapses under it’s ill advised crudely constructed flimsy structure. They are planning on rescuing British Nationals from European countries like Italy, Greece, Ireland, etc, where their countrymen and women could be in mortal danger from rioters and chaos in those countries where the Euro was once dominant, and now on the wane, with a final collapse to come in the next calendar year or so. And if you think the collapse and social unrest will be confined to Europe, think again. FEMA has solicited bids to construct camps on the fly, as soon as possible, to “relocate” people for whatever reason the national command authority, FEMA, the President, or his designee down the chain of command deem necessary and proper. Dark news indeed, for preppers and lovers of Liberty and a limited government.
• Congress passed a spending bill for Fiscal Year 2012, which includes only a $ 444 million cut to NASA, and causing NASA to return to the Space Act of 1958 in dealing out less money than planned to the participants like Space X and Sierra Nevada, amongst others, to create new rockets and spacecraft to supply the International Space Station with crew and supplies in as short a time as possible. NASA went back to the National Aeronautics and Space Act to find a rationale to fund CCDEV, because of a budget cut caused by, who else, Congress as a whole, who still “don’t get it”, as far as space policy and programs are concerned. $406 million instead of the requested $850 million, is better than nothing, but this action by NASA, whose hand is forced by Congress, has again reneged on an agreement with private industry to keep American astronauts flying to and from a Space Station we started with much fanfare and expectations, and cut back on, reduced it’s uses while escalating it’s costs, delaying it’s construction for years while scoping back it’s capabilities. Typical for the US Government as a whole, the new dysfunctional NASA, begging for money like a homeless person while making do with less, so typical of NASA vis a vis the Congress and the Administration, no matter who they are or what letter they have behind their names.

My fellow conservative spacer Mark Whittington added this on the Space Politics website about the financial cutting and its deeper meaning : “The irony here cannot be more delicious. NASA has been forced not to go to the FAR approach solely because Congress was stingy with funding. I suppose that the supporters of Obama’s commercial crew will now thank the appropriators for keeping the space agency on a tight fiscal leash. Mind, commercial crew is still flawed with its subsidies and lack of private markets. But thankfully it is now less so.”

Well put.

For everyone who ever thought I was “weird” , “out there”, etc, this week’s events have vindicated me, and I was RIGHT, and all of you ill informed so called “critics”, were WRONG.

Vox Populi, Vox Humbug !