NASA’s new mission: make Muslims feel good about themselves

Hopefully its not a five year mission. Charles Bolden, in an interview with Al Jezeera TV, let’s the cat out of the bag and it is almost laughable. No, I take that back. It is laughable.

Bolden, NASA’s new chief, tells Al Jazeera, that soon after he was appointed Obama called him to the White House with a bold new mission. First to get more students interested in science, to expand international relationships and to reach out to Muslims. I kid you not.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87RJJYQmHjI

Ed Morrissey notes at Hot Air notes one thing that should be obvious to all. Obama’s mission for NASA includes just about everything, except for one thing.

The big takeaway from Byron York’s piece on the new mission of NASA will probably focus on making Muslims feel better about their scientific achievements, but that’s really just one part of the problem.  The expressed instructions from Barack Obama to Charles Bolden, the new administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, all have one thing in common: they have nothing to do with space.

You think the scientists at NASA are demoralized? This is an agency that has seen it’s budget cut, seen the shuttle grounded after its next flight, seen the next mission to the moon cancelled and now this? In fact, American astronauts will have to hitch a ride with the Russians just to make it to and from the space station. This though is in keeping with the young President’s radical and lefty background. I know because it’s all I heard in college.

Why are we spending money on space (or actually any non social welfare program), when we have so many disadvantaged people in the country. The man is keeping us down, yada, yada, yada. Set aside if you will, for just one moment, that the space program has advanced the standard of living for all Americans from food, to pharmaceuticals, to computers, to … well you get the idea. The space program also advances science, which advances our understanding of the universe and helps us be good stewards for this planet.

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Jim Vicevich

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6 Comments

  1. Anne-EH on July 6, 2010 at 8:37 am

    Your goverment, (barf) at work Jim. While at the same time, Obama at first throwing Isreal under the bus then trying to make nice again.



  2. Tim-in-Alabama on July 6, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    I think this just acknowledges what some of us have suspected, but never dared utter – Muslims are from another planet.



    • Anne-EH on July 6, 2010 at 3:31 pm

      You said it Tim. Every time there is something that "offends Muslims", I think the same way, my goodness, are they from another planet?!



  3. Valerie on July 6, 2010 at 4:22 pm

    Well there is one good thing…lt's not going to take him long, is it?



  4. Wind on July 6, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    This makes about as much sense as a pay toilet in a diarrhea ward.  JFK is rolling in his grave.



  5. Dimsdale on July 6, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    Anyone ever read the short story "Marching Morons"?  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
     

    Maybe it is secretly the answer to the growing numbers of brainwashed muslim youth.

     

    As an aside, will female astronauts now be forbidden to fly, or will they have to wear space burkhas?



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