POL words won't suffice... Redefining NASA

Redefining NASA
http://patterico.com/2010/07/04/redefining-nasa

There was a time when the mission of NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — was "to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."

Not anymore:

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“In the video below, Charles Bolden, head of NASA, tells Al Jazeera that the "foremost" task President Obama has given him is “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.” Thus, NASA’s primary mission is no longer to enhance American science and engineering or to explore space, but to boost the self-esteem of “predominantly Muslim nations.”

Exploring space didn’t even make the top three things Obama wants Bolden to accomplish. The other two are "re-inspire children to want to get into science and math" and "expand our international relationships."
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Imagine the possibilities when little things like agency mission statements no longer apply.

OMG!!!

I just watched the video. The head of Nasa actually said this!!!

Re-inspire children to get interested in math and science.

Obama kills our manned space program entirely, and wants to get kids interested in math and science.

He can kiss the fattest part of my rear.

To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Wanted to Go Before
07/05/2010

It is looking more and more like El Supremo is going round the bend.

NASA’s goals have been shifted. Now, they don’t need to worry so much about going into space. Apparently we are to only do things so long as we do them with other countries. If all the children can’t play, then nobody is going to play. No more grand dreams about going to the planets, or to other stars. Now, only little political dreams about everyone playing in the sandbox, making each other feel good.

Now, the main goals of the agency are to mostly stay on the ground and inspire children – and Muslims.


This is so bizarre as to call into question the President’s state of mind

In a far-reaching restatement of goals for the nation’s space agency, NASA administrator Charles Bolden says President Obama has ordered him to pursue three new objectives: to “re-inspire children” to study science and math, to “expand our international relationships,” and to “reach out to the Muslim world.” Of those three goals, Bolden said in a recent interview with al-Jazeera, the mission to reach out to Muslims is “perhaps foremost,” because it will help Islamic nations “feel good” about their scientific accomplishments.

In the same interview, Bolden also said the United States, which first sent men to the moon in 1969, is no longer capable of reaching beyond low earth orbit without help from other nations.

Bolden made the statements during a recent trip to the Middle East. He told al-Jazeera that in the wake of the president’s speech in Cairo last year, the American space agency is now pursuing “a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.” Then:

When I became the NASA Administrator — before I became the NASA Administrator — [Obama] 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 contribution to science, math, and engineering.

Bolden’s trip included a June 15 speech at the American University in Cairo. In that speech, he said in the past NASA worked mostly with countries that are capable of space exploration. But that, too, has changed in light of Obama’s Cairo initiative. “He asked NASA to change…by reaching out to ‘non-traditional’ partners and strengthening our cooperation in the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia and in particular in Muslim-majority nations,” Bolden said. “NASA has embraced this charge.”

“NASA is not only a space exploration agency,” Bolden concluded, “but also an earth improvement agency.”

Our government has been taken over by incompetents:

http://penraker.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/has-obama-gone-insane/

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Our government has been taken over by incompetents:

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No, they know exactly what they are doing. The systematic dismantling of the United States while the citizens look on in disbelief. Even actually getting some to believe that the administration has their best interests in mind.

There WILL be REAL hope & change for the better with a new POTUS in the near future.

We need someone with vision, leadership and the desire to bring the USA UP, not down as the current occupant of the White House repeatedly does.


We need to have a leader that looks UP - and not endlessly bowing down to foreigners and conducting apology tours berating our nation.

This WILL happen, but not until the current occupant is replaced with a new one.

November 2010 elections - the beginning of the end for the totalitarian tyrant.

I'm speechless....

Insanity is the ONLY possible explanation for this carp...

Summerthyme

Obama is a f-n idiot.

Yes, there are significant contributions to science, math & book publishing made by Arabs & Persians.

>Arabic Numbers we use
>Names of stars & constellations

those are just what comes to mind, most (all?)of their advancements came to an end since Mohammed.

We have agencies within the State dept that do these kinds of things. Hell we give so much money to the UN have them do this crap.

Obama is taking America apart piece by piece and remaking in his image or destroying it when he cannot.

The sooner he is gone the better.

Sure the country is broke, and yes we can't afford to keep sending spaceships around, but to waste $ to make the muzzies feel better is truly outragous.

I am trying to think of a single advancement, made by a muslim nation, that contributed to space exploration... excluding, of course, missile development.

This is a hoax, right..............please tell me its a wind up...........

...the "foremost" task President Obama has given him is “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”

WTF?!?!?!


This reminds me of (IIRC) RoboCop II, where OCP wants to sabotage him, so they fill his programming with about 2000 "directives" (as opposed to the three that he originally had). This caused him to be absolutely unable to function. The entire Obama administration seems to be doing that with every governmental agency. I believe we're seeing the destruction of the US government without an over coup d'etat. We're seeing it via "mission redefinition", all nice and "progressive" of course...

"What are your directives?

RoboCop's initial directives:

1 "Serve the public trust"
2 "Protect the innocent"
3 "Uphold the law"

Once OCP got done with him (from IMDB):

RoboCop's new directives are (in numerical order): -

(incomplete list)

DIRECTIVE 233: Restrain hostile feelings. -
DIRECTIVE 234: Promote positive attitude. -
DIRECTIVE 235: Suppress aggressiveness. -
DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values. -
DIRECTIVE 238: Avoid destructive behavior. -
DIRECTIVE 239: Be accessible. -
DIRECTIVE 240: Participate in group activities. -
DIRECTIVE 241: Avoid interpersonal conflicts. -
DIRECTIVE 242: Avoid premature value judgments. -
DIRECTIVE 243: Pool opinions before expressing yourself. -
DIRECTIVE 244: Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility. -
DIRECTIVE 245: If you haven't got anything nice to say, don't talk. -
DIRECTIVE 246: Don't rush traffic lights. -
DIRECTIVE 247: Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars. -
DIRECTIVE 248: Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not. -
DIRECTIVE 249: Don't be oversensitive to the hostility and negativity of others. -
DIRECTIVE 250: Don't walk across a ballroom floor swinging your arms. -
DIRECTIVE 254: Encourage awareness. -
DIRECTIVE 256: Discourage harsh language. -
DIRECTIVE 258: Commend sincere efforts. -
DIRECTIVE 261: Talk things out. -
DIRECTIVE 262: Avoid Orion meetings. -
DIRECTIVE 266: Smile. -
DIRECTIVE 267: Keep an open mind. -
DIRECTIVE 268: Encourage participation. -
DIRECTIVE 273: Avoid stereotyping. -
DIRECTIVE 278: Seek non-violent solutions.

Other than inventing zero, what else have they done?

At what point are Americans going to wake up and see bam bam doesn't have American interest in mind? (Besides the people on this board, we ALL know don't we?)

The problem is that the general public never learns this stuff.

If they did, it would never happen.

CBS / NBC / ABC are enablers to keep this info away from its viewers.

this is a little lengthy but, i can see why they need to be coddled and made to "feel"better about themselves.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS..I thought you would be interested in reading this...(What a contrast!)




How could the picture be 'painted' any more vividly?

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000

ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:

(zero)

Physics:

(zero)

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

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The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000
Only FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:

1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
196 2 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - P eter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis


TOTAL: 129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!


The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!


The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew that has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew that protests by killing people.


The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them!!

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'.


-Benjamin Netanyahu

WTF!!! thats nuts, whats next the FBI to act as a PR agency and persuade people thats Muslims are just following they're cultural heritage when they blow us up

You forgot "Peace": Barack Hussein Soetero Obama

Summerthyme

Richard said:

This is a hoax, right..............please tell me its a wind up...........

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No, Richard, it isn't. As a man working on the program of record as a contractor, and watching it from fairly deep inside the chaos of the moment, let me assure you that I am continually shocked by what is being done to NASA. In the best of times, it is a dysfunctional place that manages by heart and technical competence to do things nobody else can do. Others WILL do them, and someday somebody was always destined to do more things than NASA, before NASA. But right now, we still do the big things first.

The effort has never been perfect, but it is driven. And progress continues to be made in space. As I said, in the best of times.

Unfortunately, it is NOT the best of times, and NASA is suffering greatly. These words by General Bolden are HUMILATING for Americans to read and see, and no better than patronizing to the Al Jazzeera audience he was speaking to. In no way is there an upside to this.

In being sent to Al Jazeera for this interview, General Bolden has been told by the regime to 'get lost'. Being a loyal marine, he has dutifully replied: "Yes, sir! Getting Lost, sir!"

When I first caught this on Drudge, I felt sick - NASA-Muslims? Our space program has been one of the greatest successes in the past generation and we are dumping it. I can't understand this insanity. And WTF doesn't the MSM report and talk about this "Muslim" thing instead of the next elections? We are doomed.

It used to be that our Space Program was a source of pride for the nation. We showcased not only our "can do" ability but developed new technology to be used in many fields.

What a far cry we have come. The Muslim in Charge wants to encourage Muslims to excell. What about our children? We have lost all sense of pride with this current leader and he is destined to continue to make it worse.

I've been bouncing in and out of NASA Watch all day, and I think some of lights are beginning to come on for the O's space policy cheerleaders. Some are even starting to turn their positions... Most of the posters there are logical people, caught up in a personal dislike of the Program of Record, and favor their own pet issues and methods in our nation's space program. They latched onto the Hopenchangey NASA plan (i.e., no plan) because they saw a personal benefit, not because there was any definable technical merit. Kind of sad, really.

The true cluelessness of the O and his team on space policy is becoming harder and harder to deny for the cheerleaders.

NASA = National Aeronautical Self-esteem Association

(saw this as a comment elsewhere - wish I could say I came up with it!)