Should NASA Send a Man to Mecca?
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down — again — with President Obama to discuss U.S./Israel relations. Obama told the Israeli leader that the bond between the two countries is “unbreakable.”
Nice words from Obama, but the historic bond between the U.S. and the state of Israel has been shaken to it core by the Obama administration’s new “even-handed” policy toward events in the Middle East.
The most recent insight into the mindset of the Obama presidency is comments made by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Bolden was in the Middle East recently, one year after President Obama traveled to Cairo to address Muslim nations’ concerns about America’s policies toward Islamic interests.
But take a look at what Bolden revealed about what Obama told Bolden about his mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency:
When I became the NASA administrator, well before I became the NASA administrator, he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contributions to science and engineering.
Okay, it’s a good thing to encourage kids to seriously engage with the hard sciences, and there’s not much to quibble with regarding Obama’s charge to expand international relations with foreign space travel agencies.
But hold on. Obama now wants to make America’s space program a tool of his foreign policy aims?
Anyone who’s seen my Hicks File commentaries dealing with Obama’s presidency knows that I’ve been tough on him — but fairly so. I’ve not bashed him without due cause, and have occasionally complimented him when he’s done something I believe was the right thing to do — like assigning more troops to the Afghanistan war, something Stanley McChrystal, then the war’s commander, had made a case for.
But why is it NASA’s job or, by extension, America’s job to make Muslims feel good about themselves?
“ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Islam.”
John Kennedy
“Mr. president take down your jihad.”
Ronald Reagan.
ya that’s the way I’m hearing those speeches repeated. lately my hearing’s going bad.
Why is there a Turkish flag in the picture? Mecca is in Saudi Arabia (and is far more fundamentalist than turkey). I don’t get it.
styx
The flag should show one of Mohammed’s cartoons.
Riverstyx, yes you’re right. However, the crescent and the star are the symbol of Islam which is to be found on every minaret. Also with the latest drastic move of Turkey towards Islam (Turkey really was never part of Europe even so America praised them as one of the staunchest European allies which is a complete misnomer and lack of geographic, geopolitical understanding) and to become together with Iran the new powerhouse as well as a populist dream of the reemergence of the former Ottoman Empire, it’s not farfetched.
My little dream — now that NASA is nothing more than an overpaid social worker for Muslim states, I hope that Israel jumps into the vacuum (literally and figuratively) and becomes a major player in space technology. They have the brains, the creativity and the drive.
To place the Star of David on the moon and Mars – Wow!
(While the Arab street is still trying to figure out which hand to use to wipe their butts)
The left hand, Loretta, and it should contain three smooth–but not too smooth–stones. See askanimam.com.
Now, there will be those out there in the “birther” movement (do you mean those who want to see original qualifying documentation or those who believe that the Constitutional term natural born citizen requires that both parents be United States citizens?) argue that this confirms Obama’s natural alignment with his fellow Muslims. As you know, they continue to claim that Obama is a “secret” Muslim and that the guy’s not even a legitimate American citizen!
It is, of course, abject BS — all anti-intellectual and conspiratorial “beam-me-up” nonsense.
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Bolden’s Al Jazeera interview doesn’t prove Obama’s “really a Muslim,” but it gives additional evidence of a left-leaning ideology which causes him (like other leftists) to see Muslims — somehow — as victims of Western suppression . Obama believes that America must absolve itself of guilt by showing preference to Muslims … in a policy sense.
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Right. He’s not a Muslim (practicing taqiyya) but he somehow sees Muslims as victims of Western suppression.
You sound like a naive hick, Hicks. If it walks like a duck… It doesn’t matter whether he’s a Muslim. He acts like one.
You are right, Terry. Anybody who had nothing to hide
would have produced the birth certificate. I’ve had to
provide my birth certificate a dozen or more times in order to
get a passport, to join the Marines, to get GI benefits, etc.
But Obama has been allowed to reject this qualification for becoming
President.
In fact, Obama has gone to great lengths and expense to conceal
his place of birth. John McCain had to prove to a Congressional committee (by supplying documents) that he was qualified to be President on the same
question that Obama is being allowed to evade.
I’ll believe Obama is not a Muslim when he goes to Jerusalem and speaks glowingly about the achievements of the Jews.
Obama did not make a chump of Bolden. He did it to himself. He had the option to refuse. The worst that could have happened is a firing. That is better than being a toady.
Just maybe NASA could give the Muslims tips about reaching outer space, their try with those Ugandans really didn’t get them off the ground. Space exploration must have been the goal, for this is a religion of peace and love. Isn’t it?
NASA should be forced to start bussing the muslims to outer space. Isn’t that where allah is?
What “contributions to science and math”? Name three. Things they stole from places after they decimated them don’t count.
If you have to go back 1000 years, to find the last time your culture contributed something of value, then your culture has nothing to feel proud of.
The Israeli satire programme Latma TV (of We-Con-the-World fame) have this take on the subject:
“NASA head Charles Bolden said that President Obama told him to postpone plans for another moon landing and invest his energy in growing closer to the Muslim world. Bolden responded that the distance between the enlightened nations and the Muslim world is identical to that from the planet Earth to the moon, and that rocket scientists are already working on it.”
watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeL2n0UagFI&feature=channel
After we’ve patted the Muslims on the head and thanked them for their contributions to space travel, let’s make sure we give thanks to the Amish for all their contributions to the art of dance. Where, where, where would Broadway be without the Amish?
But the Amish were the first to put bio-fueled vehicles on modern roads.
And while we are at it, lets make Christian Scientists feel good about their contribution to modern medicine and lets put more emphasis on creationism – that Darwin guy needs to have his acclaim re-distributed.
Maybe NASA should be studying Muslim space travel. After all, NASA has only made it to the moon, while Mohammed made it all the way to seventh heaven aboard a winged horse. My guess is that he stole the blueprints from the Greeks who also had a winged horse called Pegasus.
I think NASA should send a man to the White House; it’s occupied by sissies.
Non-Muslims are not permitted to enter Mecca under Saudi law. It is verboten.
Joe: what is wrong for a President to use every available tool to advance our forign policy regradless of who the prsident is.. Bush, Obama, Clinton etc…
and if you hate muslims so much then stop buying their oil and ride a donkey to work..
When we stop buying their oil it is they who will be riding on donkeys.
1. It is the foreign policy that is screwed up. It should not be “advanced” at all.
2. Not every government program should be used to advance foreign policy – the NASA money is allocated for a different purpose. Would you agree to cut social welfare programs to improve our relationship with Iran?
3. Why does expecting our government to act rationally in the country’s best interest mean that we hate Muslims?
4. Oil is fungible. No one person can know where their oil-based product purchases originated from.
5. Donkeys are not allowed on our roads and highways. I hope this is not a problem for you.
NASA will henceforth be known as NAASA– National Apparatus for Arab Self-esteem Augmentation.
The dhimmitude of the West reaches new lows every day.
I posted this comment on another site dealing with the now disputed NASA mission, but it seems appropriate here as well.
Now, now folks. Don’t be hasty. This is all a well thought out plan the details of which (like Obamacare) will eventually be known.
However, I can now reveal one of the heretofore undisclosed objectives. The intention is to develop an enormous spacecraft, or perhaps several, so Muslim-friendly that they will all gladly board for a trip to another planet. To do so, it is of course necessary to ascertain their likes and dislikes.
Those who have read Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy five volume trilogy will recall in it the prophetic genesis of this plan and know that the Earth was populated countless milenia ago by useless beings from another planet in another universe who were persuaded that their world was in immediate danger of destruction and that they, the most productive members of society, would be sent off to save the race. They included members of various essential professions, such as telephone sanitizers, hairdressers, marketing executives, attorneys and the like. Eventually, on arrival on Earth, their descendants formed committees to work on such things as the development of fire; however, before they could proceed beyond the initial and most important stage it was necessary to appoint committees to decide what color the fire should be and how it could best be marketed, so that people would accept it.
That’s pretty much the current NASA plan, as revealed to me by a confidential but very high
ly placedsource.This is the stupidest thing to be done since BozObama said “the US is not a Christian nation”, DUMB, DUMB, DUMB just like the rest of this fools administration.
JFK, 1961: “…I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
BHO, 2010: “…I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of making at least one Muslim – somewhere – feel good about himself, returning him safely to his delusions of grandeur.”
JFK, 1961: “…I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
BHO, 2010: “…I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of making at least one Muslim – somewhere – feel good about himself, returning him safely to his delusions of grandeur.”
Great Idea! let’s build a ginormous rocket; advise the muslim world they can go to meet allah on NASA’s dime, load ‘em up, launch, and send ‘em all to Mecca with an intermediate stop on Uranus!
#19 and 20.. as Markthegreat can tetify, I was born and raised a muslim and I have no illusions about it either. it is a f….up religion no matter how you paint it. however we have a big dilema here. what do we do with 1.5 billion muslims? so how can we accomplish the goal of not having any muslims around. there may be three solutions:
1- stop buynig their oil. this would defenitly do them in. but this solution is highly not going to happen because the oil comanies are too powerful and most of you here still like to drive F150 trucks. so we need their oil. but if we tried it could work.
2-we could try to find out why they do the things they do and try to offer a counter argument. But I do not belive anyone on this site is willing to do this either.
3- this solution is probably the best and the fastest way of eliminating muslims.
Gather the best scientists in Technology, Medicine, enigineering, chemical scientist and form a group and let’s call them and let’s call them committee to eliminate muslims. call the people at Yad Vashim museum in Israel and get a copy of the blue print that the Nazi made of Aushwits.
have the scientisit study it and duplicate but adhere to the 21st century technology. and build a place about 500 times the size of that blue print say some where in a desrt in Saudi Arabia and make it look like a mosque. trick all muslims in this facility that looks like mosque and they think they are going there to pray but they will be gassed up. we should learn a lessons from Nazi as they reward a few jews for doing other jews in. so we need to recruit a highly respected and trusted Imam to lure them in. we then get rid off mulims. prior to that we should also put some people who are expert in energy to see if there is any fuel after gassing them up. once they are all gone we then have one muslim living. that would be the Imam. castrate him so he will reproduce and everything is happily ever after…
Such nonsense. The solution is simple and is indeed threefold.
1- Containment
2- Re-education.
3- Regulation.
Wow! Just think of the suicide belt technology that the Muslims will now have. Lightweight titanium frameworks, high-tech explosives, projectile shaping — wonderful!
BTW, anyone want to buy one of my suicide-belt shop franchises? Get in on the ground floor. The Northeast Yemen and the Heathrow Airport franchises are still available. You do not have to be Muslim to own a fine suicide-belt shop!
Menachem and Geez: I actually like riding donkeys!
Menachem: can you elaborate more on your solutin specailly the regulation part?
thank you
Regulation- Simply put any religion that denies freedom of worship to others will not be permitted in the USA.
Backpedaling, Spinning, Re-interpreting, and Lying–Part One
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive:” Sir Walter Scott
Politicos are very adept at changing course, denying, and outright lying when it comes to the fine art of retraction. The technique may be described as clarification but always involves backpedaling, spinning, and/or reinterpreting what had been said or done earlier.
NASA. Space or Politics: NASA chief Charles Bolden caused a brouhaha last month when he re-defined the mission of our space agency by telling the Arab language newspaper, al Jazzera, that his “perhaps foremost” priority was outreach to the Muslim community thereby standing on its head NASA’s long-established mission of space exploration.
(See “I Betcha Thought NASA Was Still NASA,” http://tiny.cc/v2u3f)
That mission seemed eminently reasonable considering that NASA is an acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
White House head flack Robert Gibbs gently reminded Bolden that he was wrong, that he had misspoken and “That [reaching out to Muslims] was not his task and that’s not the task of NASA.”
However, Charles Bolden is not a dumb bunny and didn’t unilaterally take it upon himself to change the mission of his agency: He was directed to do so by none other than his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1783)
Republican candidate for congress and Harvard Physicist Mike Stopa addresses the NASA Islamic outreach on the Sean Hannity Show, calls the President a “dilettante”.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvC4HfGMrxc