Report: new space vision to offer little change. A proposed new "vision" for the US space program current being developed by the Bush... [spacetoday.net]

Once again, the Bush administration pisses away an opportunity to actually do something good for the country. Instead, we get more of the same; a bunch of money funneled to crony contractors, to maintain obsolete systems that support dead-end programs that are funded to fail. Another notch on the bedpost of shame for Dubya and Co..

A proposed new "vision" for the US space program current being developed by the Bush administration will offer little change from current policy, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday. That report based its conclusion on analysis of internal NASA documents the newspaper obtained as well as interviews with people familiar with the administration's ongoing space policy review. The report said there are no plans for a bold new initiative, such as human missions to the Moon or Mars. Instead, the focus is on existing programs, including return the shuttle to flight, completing the International Space Station, and developing the Orbital Space Plane. The proposed new space policy would also offer no significant increase in NASA's $15-billion budget; existing programs could experience near-term cuts to pay for the costs of the shuttle return to flight program.

There's just enough money for NASA to buy a nice rope with which to hang themselves.

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Nebraska Fires Football Coach Solich. Frank Solich was fired after winning more than 75 percent of his games over six seasons but failing to keep the Cornhuskers as a national powerhouse. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Oh. My. God.

Look at the SIZE of that headline!

Did we just declare war on Karjackistan by shooting off some big-ass cannon called the "Solich?"

No.

The local university just fired its football coach. Apparently, this means war.

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Chillout eyemasks for fashionable frequent fliers.

Paris Hilton's been wearing the Barbie one full-time for months now. It goes, like, so well with her extensions.

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