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Liberals can stop complaining about the conservative slant Fox News takes: The FoxNews.com homepage makes our Commander-in-Chief look even more foolish than anyone could hope. Sure, it might happen (when we find the billions of dollars that must be in a treasure chest somewhere in the Rose Garden; hey, is the map to the treasure what Cheney has in his secret folder), but for now, we'll be disbelievers because we're afraid of the deathmatch between us and the Martians.

Updated: low culture's Matt tells us about a movie that is actually about searching for treasure hidden by the founding fathers. Damnit, why aren't we developing our screwy ideas into bad movies starring Nicolas Cage?

President Bush speaks about the space program today. And for more President Bush fun, buy My First Presidentiary.

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Looks like another big blank check being written to the military industrial complex. YEAA HAAA.

God I can't wait until Howard Dean or Wes Clark get to debate this Asshat.

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2020...no problem...that should be just about the same time i'll be paying 90% payroll taxes to supplement the social security i'll never see, which ultimately will go to finance baby boomers titanium hip replacements (most likely the parents of the first colonists)...throw in a trip to mars and the moon as well...sure...what mental midget..

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2020...no problem...that should be just about the same time i'll be paying 90% payroll taxes to supplement the social security i'll never see, which will ultimately go to finance baby boomers titanium hip replacements (most likely the parents of the first colonists)...throw in a trip to mars and the moon as well...sure...what a mental midget..

Re the photo: Guess which one shows signs of intelligent life?

You can't look at the number itself, you have to look at as a ratio. This is exactly how idiots like Dean say that Bush has cost America more jobs than any other President, when the truth is that as a % of our workforce, it's actually one of the lower percentages, and it's getting better.

The revised space program totals increases of less than 1% to the federal budget - it's peanuts.

Space is the place. Sun Ra knew it. So do you.

If the billions don't go to this particular space program, it's just going to turn into pork at the hands of a few senior members of the Senate appropriations committee. A few pet projects can really eat up a budget. This way, at least the city of Pasadena will be safe from a recession for a while.

But seriously, if all you Wes Clark clones want to stay on planet earth and watch your old VHS copies of Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff, and feel content with the space program's golden years, I guess I feel sorry for your non-space exploration asses.

Shouldn't you get crackin' on those petitions to bring down the Hubble telescope? What are you waiting for?

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No, silly. He's Frances Ford Cokula's nephew.

They did the moon already.

1969.

wait, how does this work? increase spending, decrease taxes, increase deficit...hmm. that's some fuzzy math that doesn't seem to add up to me.

I think we should send Bush to the moon immediately.

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Javier, that is awesome. And tien, I was trying to figure out the same thing. "Programs that can affect society more immediately or some moon plan that will take $12 billion to even draw up the plans?"

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