(2007-09-01) — Russian President Vladimir Putin today announced his “dramatic vision” to put a man on the moon by 2025, and “to return him safely to earth, if at all possible.”
The announcement was seen as part of Mr. Putin’s increasing efforts to position Russia as a co-equal superpower with the United States.
In an inspiring televised address, Mr. Putin also challenged Russian government employees to develop a vaccine for polio by 2050, a removable-replaceable “sticky note” by 2075 and “a trade route to the East Indies” by the end of the century.
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1 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 8:28 am
They will never find the East Indies, nor will they find tea there!
2 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 8:52 am
…But will they find that the moon is made of cheese?
3 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 8:54 am
Well sure…isn’t it?
4 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:04 am
That’s what I always thought.
5 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:12 am
I guess the whole gang is out at a park in Western Pa today.
6 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:13 am
God Bless America
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:20 am
As I may have mentioned once or twice before, I do not like Putin. My mind’s eye morphs him into Stalin. And that’s not a good thing.
My veins pulse with a Russian blood level of 50.00% which gives me certain sensory “powers”: I can see right
through Putin’s KGB agenda.
8 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:21 am
He reminds me of Chavez, they make a good team
9 Putin: Russia to Find Trade Route to East Indies | ZardozZ News and Satire // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:31 am
[…] Russia Plans Man on Moon and Vaccine for Polio: (MOSCOW) — Russian President Vladimir Putin today announced his “dramatic vision” to put a man on the moon by 2025, and “to return him safely to earth, if at all possible.” The announcement was seen as part of Mr. Putin’s increasing efforts to position Russia as a co-equal superpower with the United States. In an inspiring televised address, Mr. Putin also challenged Russian government employees to develop a vaccine for polio by 2050, a removable-replaceable “sticky note” by 2075 and “a trade route to the East Indies” by the end of the century. […]
10 Fred Sinclair // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:48 am
“Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.” Jn. 14:5 (Amplified)
Russia and the US can go to the moon, create vaccines and sticky notes, but without Jesus it all smoke and mirrors, for both sides.
To gain the world but lose one’s soul, is a pretty ‘not good’ trade.
Heirborn Ranger
11 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:51 am
Re: #10 - Couldn’t agree more.
Re: the rest of it -
it IS looking rather lonely…
I guess I’ll have to post today, instead of just reading.
OK to post off-topic?
12 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:10 am
off topic away! no one is watching…
13 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:20 am
O.K. - thanks… although you may not be the most sympathetic listener : )
(don’t know how to do those smiley-face thingies.)
I’m back in school (change of career), in an art education program. Of course, I expect loony-bin spewings from fellow students and professors.
The secretary of the department (or whatever the p.c. title is these days) sends out e-mails about gallery openings, etc.
I got this one yesterday:
Shane House Gallery
Joe Rebholz
Iraq War Portraits
During the month of September, while politicians and military generals make excuses to continue the ugly and senseless Iraq war, visit the Shane House Gallery and consider for a moment all the beautiful people who have died in this war, as represented by these digital portrait paintings. Some of these portraits are unique in that the state of Arizona, in an obvious attempt to suppress free and artistic speech, may have made them illegal.
14 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:26 am
I usually bite my tongue, but I had to respond to this one.
So I sent the lady (cc:’d the artist) an e-mail asking her to refrain from sending such biased statements, since our University’s e-mail system is provided through public funds.
I mean, pah-leez. I’m sure even people on the left could see that the statement is inflammatory and biased.
O.K., maybe not.
But still…
15 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:29 am
These are excerpts of my e-mail:
“politicians and military generals make excuses to continue the ugly and senseless Iraq war.”
Is this a statement of fact, or artist opinion? Does the artist know the difference?
regarding the digital portraits of “beautiful people who have died in this war”, “the state of Arizona, in an obvious attempt to suppress free and artistic speech, may have made them illegal.” Why is this? Is it because the families of those beautiful people do not agree that their loved one’s likeness should be used to promote a cause in which they didn’t believe?
16 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:36 am
Sorry for the length of those posts.
I know I’m in the minority in the art community - a conservative artist.
But it’s still annoying to be subject to all of the ranting and raving.
Can a nice left-winger understand??
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18 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 10:56 am
Yes, that is quite odd and could easily be offensive to many (probably not many at college but still)
However, at least it lets you know up front the “slant” of the exhibit which lets you make a more informed choise to attend it or not.
If it were an exhibit claiming to demonstrate the dramatic improvments in Iraq that have not been touted by the “liberal media” (whatever that tired old phrase is supposed to mean) I’d sure attend. One, because I’m hoping to see something like that but fear I never will and two, to at least chat with the “artist” involved.
I’m always up for learning something.
19 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:06 am
Even if (perhaps especially) if my current beliefs are being challenged. I’m 52 and the wonderful thing about aging is the onset of a certainty that I know little, if anything about most subjects. It’s oddly comforting and quite liberating.
20 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:06 am
I’m always up for learning something, too, as long as the source is fair.
Yes, it does let me know that the exhibit is probably one of those “I triple-dog-dare you to prove me wrong” things.
I hate that. Very arrogant.
21 Fred Sinclair // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:26 am
You know, I’ve been thinking, there’s just a whole lot I don’t know, at least not all that good, but it appears to me that there is a few things I do know - real, really well.
(1) There is a war
(2) People are going to die.
(3) America has few choices
(a) A few (only about 900
per year thus far will
die overseas).
(b) A lot (tens of thousands or
hundreds of thousands) will die
here in America.
(c) We can surrender (very costly)
(d) We can win (somewhat less costly)
Americans are addicted to winning (it’s in our dna, I suspect) We didn’t like what happened at the Alamo (not a bit); So the correction was made at the battle of San Jacinto, where Santa Anna got whipped soundly (and then some). America hates cowards (unlike some Europeans) and our cowardly (cut and run) liberals won’t figure it out and will be amazed that they lost yet another Presidential election in ‘08.
Heirborn Ranger
22 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:49 am
(1) Yes there is. Now if we could figure out who we are fighting we might be on to something
(2) Yes they are but it is not our sworn duty to do the killing, it’s a choice
(3) Correct, it’s too late to take back the horrifyingly bad idea now. So, the man in charge just shrugs and says “wadda ya gonna do?” Swell. But, we do have choices going forward, some involve less American deaths, some involve more
(a) only?
(b) because they will “follow us home?”
Please don’t trot that out…please? Lets take a moment to examine that if you will. Let’s assume the “enemy” (see #1) could get here, would it make better sense for them to wreak havoc now and say “if you leave Iraq we will stop attacking and killing you in America”? Or would it make more sense for them to come here after we have gone? Just a smidgen of common sense, that’s all I’m asking for.
(c) costly for who? Even among the same ethnic groups there is tremendous fighting, lets not even get into how much the different groups detest each other. How will military might change that (give me the absolute, pie in the sky, best case scenario you can muster, feel free)
(d) please shre with me precisely what “victory” will look like. Take as much time as you need, use a separate piece of paper in needed. Precisely what is the “best case” here? What does “winning” entail.
If the answer is what I suspect, peace in the ME, then there is no need to answer but I would like to borrow your glasses for a while.
23 boberinyetagain // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:49 am
I gotta go, y’all have a great holiday!
24 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:59 am
“if you leave Iraq we will stop attacking and killing you in America”
Do you really think they’d say that, bob?
Even if they did, would you believe them?
They don’t need to follow us home. They were here before, remember??
25 Fred Sinclair // Sep 1, 2007 at 12:51 pm
#22 the difference is I deal in facts - not some pie-in-the-sky; will-o-the-wisp, head in the sand, liberal traitor, whose only hope and desire is to see America with it’s neck under the Islamic’s headsmans axe.
Cowards don’t last long in America (they do seem to do well in France though) slime covered anti Ameicans, rotten enough to gag a maggot, working dilligently to bring about America’s defeat.
(a) only? - Yes “only only about 900 per year cmpared to 66,000 who died in one day, taking an island in the Pacific in WWII; compared to the thousands that gave their life on June 6, 1944 invading the Normandy coast; compared to the boys taking Hanburger Hill in Korea after being told the night before that the “brass” was expecting 70% casualities tomorrow. These men and boys died to buy for you the right to 50 odd years later to have your freedom of speech, to spill your filth and vomit inducing garbage as a left wing liberal nutcase. only? You bet “only”
The “Battle of the Bulge” in Germany in ‘45 wasn’t an only. It was an investment in America’s future. What have you invested, other than your pig slop, to secure these freedoms you now enjoy for those to follow? I suspect, “Not Much”.
Heirborn Ranger
26 da Bunny // Sep 1, 2007 at 1:03 pm
its-just-me, unfortunately most of our college campuses have been overtaken by ultra-leftists who have no interest in any other opinions than the ones they subscribe to…and the lefties are quite fascistic in their efforts to suppress/denigrate anything that doesn’t coincide with their world view.
Best of luck to you in your return to the academic life!!
27 gafisher // Sep 1, 2007 at 2:25 pm
“… return him safely to earth, if at all possible.”
I’m with JL3 (#7) on this. Besides, the Soviets are way too smart to announce a pullout date.
28 gafisher // Sep 1, 2007 at 3:02 pm
That polio vaccine might be closer than people realize. According to his blog, ol’ Vlad’s been Salking around the dacha all weekend.
On the other hand, the sticky-notes thing might have to wait until Putin can come up with stable bank notes.
29 PanamaRed // Sep 1, 2007 at 3:04 pm
#22
They came here on 9-11-2001 and we weren’t in Iraq. They went to Spain, Malaysia, Britain et al and sowed the seeds of terror.
What you faikl to see or understand Bob, is that terrorists seldom ever win the objectives they seek, Al they do is wear down their “enemy” until they are gven that which they cannot acheive by any other means.
The goatherder Bin Ladin didn’t even have the decency to acknowlege or thanhk the US for helping the Muhajadeen for running the Russians out of Afghanistan. No, the ungrateful jerk claims that because we were on sacred Saudi soil protecting that sacred Saudi soil from Saddam Hussein, that we deserved to have the WTC and Pentagon attacked. How would you deal with this type of logic?
Now we can employ the liberal’s cut and run strategy that panned out so well in SE Asia after our departure in 1973 but I’m sure you feel no blood on your hands from the killing fields in Cambodia, the Hmuong in Laos or the tens of thousands that risked (and often died) their lives on rafts, rickety boats, etc. to get the hell out of South Vietnam over the next ten years.
Yes, we’re in Iraq now and it will take more than four years to get them stable with a working government, but no one said that things like that were easy. Our own war for independence exceeded 10 years and we still didn’t have a workable govt. We had a civil war too so maybe the defetist attitude can b dropped and the positive side looked at, ya think?
30 conserve-a-tips // Sep 1, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Its just me: Would it help to know that you have a kindred spirit? I got my BS in art education in 1975 at a school that was respected for its “liberal arts” programs. (liberal being the operative word) I had started out with a BA and had extensive training in drawing, painting and sculpture, and then, almost at the point of graduation, I decided to throw in the extra 30 hours of education just in case I wanted to teach. My professors were not happy with me as fine arts vs education was a no brainer for them. If you were to be part of the ‘elite artists’ group, you didn’t go for an education degree, you got a BA. Never mind that they were teaching!!!
Anyway, even at that young age, though back then I thought I was liberal, I was very conservative and I stuck out like a sore thumb in the department. I was a Christian, didn’t drink or do drugs and I saw God in everything I painted or sculpted. I was the brunt of many a practical joke and my freshman and sophomore years were sheer hell. I got through it because they made me just mad enough, and I am just stubborn enough, to bow up, grit my teeth and dig in my heels.
By the time I graduated, my major painting professor confided in me that on the first day he saw me, he decided that I wasn’t going to make it and that he was truly surprised at how I had taken the bull by the horns and exhibited a growth and talent that he had not seen. He was very disappointed when I went for an education degree. What do two letters change anyway???
But the funniest thing just happened the other day when my daughter sent me a test that was given to her entire department to track how people learn and which side of the brain they use. Maybe I’ll post the link next week and everybody can take it and compare notes. It was really interesting and a hoot. Anyway, one of the comments on my results said, “You are artistic without needing to be “odd”, an active learner and yet reasonably logical and disciplined.” Couldn’t have asked for a more gratifying assessment!
Keep your chin up and fight the good fight. Realize that they will attempt to push your buttons, because you are the mirror into which they do not wish to look.
31 gafisher // Sep 1, 2007 at 3:22 pm
“Mr Putin is the first Russian leader since Peter the Great to have the simple advantages of being punctual, efficient, fit, sober and concise.”
In an earlier comment I linked the article from which that quote was taken, but it’s good enough to deserve a link of its own. Read [this] for some fascinating insights on Mr. Putin.
32 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 4:01 pm
da bunny & c-a-t -
thanks for the encouraging words.
I am through will all of the art classes. Now I’m just finishing up the remaining education classes before student teaching.
It’s good to know I have a kindred spirit out there!
(And here I thought I was the only one - guess I had an Elijah complex - ha!)
I was an engineer before returning to school, so I like to think I’m somewhat well-rounded, too.
I guess college students have always been the “jump-on-the-bandwagon first and ask questions later” type…
Did y’all see how George cLooney is praising Obama up one side and down the other? Says he has the appeal of a rock star.
Gee, if an actor says the guy’s O.K., then he must be!
33 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm
my dog ate my post…
34 its-just-me // Sep 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm
never mind.
35 conserve-a-tips // Sep 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm
BTW, I heard that the Russians are bragging about some discovery they have made regarding sound. They have managed to create this box with wires that sends sounds to another box where the person at the other end hears what is said from the first box. Pretty innovative stuff. I believe that they are calling it the telephoneski.
36 prettyold // Sep 1, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Those Russians are so darn funny. That telephoneski idea could never work.
37 prettyold // Sep 1, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Re#31 Gafisher But is Mr. Putin clean? I’m sure Jope Bide will want to know.
38 prettyold // Sep 1, 2007 at 5:45 pm
WEll ,Duh. My keyboard isn’t working right and I keep forgetting “preview”. That was supposed to be Joe Biden. How does one get food out of ones keyboard?
39 conserve-a-tips // Sep 1, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Prettyold: You asked how one gets food out of a keyboard….don’t you have a mouse????
Oh, and I knew what you meant!
40 gafisher // Sep 1, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Prettyold #37: Jope and Company are no doubt pleased that Vlad is as clean as the snow that blows through the barred windows of the Siberian prisons he favors.
41 conserve-a-tips // Sep 1, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Well folks, it’s a cool Saturday night with the time for turning into pumpkins drawing near. I’m sure that our “comrades in charms” are having a ball at the Scrapple get together. I bet that our ears should be burning too!
But here at the acreage, having seen Michigan’s rug pulled out from under them, the University of Oklahoma skin, bar-b-q and eat North Texas and Tennessee stumble through what they thought was a football game, I am ready to crawl under the covers and call it a day. G’night all.
42 Libby Gone // Sep 2, 2007 at 6:29 am
I think the Ruskies just invented sliced bread and something called the Telekommunistkation Graphtski
43 gafisher // Sep 2, 2007 at 6:54 am
Graphtski used to be called “walkin’ around money” back in the day.
44 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 2, 2007 at 7:00 am
Just before dawn this morning, I stepped out the door and it was 73°.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…..
Now, where’s my earmuffs?
45 Fred Sinclair // Sep 2, 2007 at 7:15 am
Libby Gone - At least we have bragging rights on the Internet which our man who was once “The next President of the United States” just happened to invent.
Heirborn Ranger
46 Effeminem // Sep 2, 2007 at 9:07 am
prettyold,
You can stick a pen underneath your keyboard keys and pop em off to clean it. They snap right back on. Well, if it’s a laptop you have to be careful. But any desktop keyboard is sturdy enough for this.
47 Possumtrot // Sep 2, 2007 at 11:16 am
And it’s my understanding that the Russians invented the wheel, the flying machine, and the coldest winters on record.
They certainly gave birth to one of the greatest snipers of all time. Zaetsev, or something like that. Ask any German who occupied Stalingrad; that boy hit what he aimed at.
Our Marine, Carlos Hathcock, ran a good second-best and is a legendary character. The Mythbusters have tried to reproduce his countersniping shot through the scope of a Moisen-Nagant rifle, but they aren’t using the right equipment.
And then, there was a tank mechanic named Kalishnikov who somehow managed to provide cheap, easy firearms to the world.
Never underestimate the Russkis. They are only one step behind us, and their flashes of genius are extraordinary.
BTW, completely off topic, I have some take on reading my dad’s murder file at United Possums International.
48 its-just-me // Sep 2, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Possumtrot -
I hope they get got, whoever did it.
One of the shows I watch on TV is Cold Case Files.
I like to watch the bad guys go down years later when they think they’ve gotten away with murder….
49 its-just-me // Sep 2, 2007 at 6:50 pm
(of course, I’d rather them not get away with it at first…)
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 2, 2007 at 10:02 pm
I must be really dumb because this statement by Mexico’s new president doesn’t make sense (well, I mean logical):
Grrrrr…..
51 Possumtrot // Sep 2, 2007 at 10:38 pm
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53 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 3, 2007 at 8:15 am
God Bless You
54 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 3, 2007 at 10:42 am
Calderon:
“Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”
Imbecile? Moron? Idiot? Fool?
Yes, to all of the above and more.
If it were up to me, there’d be a fence between here and Mexico so tall they’d need the Space Shuttle to install the electrified razor-wire on top of it and so deep they’d need to wear asbestos togs to lay the footing.
55 gafisher // Sep 3, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Re Calderon, if this policy means they take responsibility for their own citizens wherever they might be, I say more power to ‘em. Last I heard, at least within the US you can’t be an American and a Mexican at the same time.
56 da Bunny // Sep 3, 2007 at 12:51 pm
I’ve been out of the “loop” over the past couple of days, and missed Calderon’s spew. I say let him have all of his Mexican citizens back immediately, and he can begin “protecting their rights” once they get home! And, Felipe needs to be set straight…Mexico does, indeed, end at its borders,” and how dare you say otherwise, El Buffoon!!
57 prettyold // Sep 3, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Effeminem,46 , The trouble is all those little swuare things fly all over the room when I do that . Actually , I think that is what is wrong with my shift key ,I think I broke something.
Oh well, I’ve been waiting for an excuse to buy a New Computer,but I was waiting until they got the bugs worked out of Vista……. Looks like a long wait.
58 Darthmeister // Sep 4, 2007 at 10:15 pm
… put a man on the moon and a vaccine for polio?
I guess that only leaves a cure for the common cold. Just looking at and listening to Putin almost makes me a believer that man descended from apes.
59 antodav // Sep 6, 2007 at 2:30 am
If you go and read the link it says that not only is their goal to send a man to the moon, but to also establish a permanent base there within two years after the landing AND to send a manned mission to Mars within ten years after that.
They do all that, and they will be well ahead of us in the space race. It’s like the tortoise and the hare…we’ve been napping under the tree for the last 30 years.
The American people no longer believe that space exploration is important. They couldn’t be more wrong. Space is the future of America and of the human race; what’s left of America’s pioneer spirit could and should be used to tame the vast uncharted wildnerness of our solar system (and beyond) just as it was used to tame the wild west two centuries ago. It’s the continuation of manifest destiny, except that it will reap tremendous benefits not just for Americans but for all of mankind.
On the other hand, if we choose to take a pass and let countries like Russia and China dominate the solar system and acquire exclusive access to its vast resources and potential, the American age will come to a quick end. The 21st Century belongs to whoever is willing to reach high enough.
At this time, that’s not looking like it’s going to be us. A very inauspicious start for the new millennium. A world where America is relegated to a third rate power is not one in which I want to raise my children, when I have them. We need to get our priorties straight and start looking to the future again, instead of being consumed by our petty problems in the present. Who knows-the solutions to those problems could be out there, somewhere. We just have to be willing to go look for them.
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