Currently, NASA’s budget barely surpasses 0.5 percent of the Federal budget, and has seen a steady decline in the proportions of its funding, now reaching all-time lows. The cultural mindset brought on by NASA has allowed us to reap the benefits of economic growth, creating an influx of people wanting to become scientists and engineers.

There is no question that the government has money to fund NASA: $850 billion was spent on the bank bailout, several hundred billion dollars more than the 53 year running budget of NASA. If we want to invest in our future, we must fund NASA at higher levels.

Tomorrow is gone without NASA. Please at least double NASA’s annual budget, and continue to support the most inspirational program in the country.

Please follow this link, sign the petition, and share the message with friends.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/least-double-nasa%E2%80%99s-annual-budget-one-penny-every-government-dollar-spent/WHRSzLRj

And yes, I do understand that this doesn’t apply to all conservatives, or all people who identify as Republican. But I would say that, based on my observations at least, it applies to most.

An essay by Christopher Hitchens called America the Banana Republic is the best encapsulation of this phenomenon that I’ve ever read.

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JRE #192 – Sam Harris, Brian Redban from JoeRogan on Vimeo.

Moderate Republicans in this country need to see how ridiculous Santorum looks when compared to someone who is both reasonable and compassionate. They need to be embarrassed. I want them to physically cringe every time Santorum opens his silly face to speak. I want them beaten into submission by Santorum’s idiocy. I want them to see how ugly of a human being they tried to replace Obama with.

By the end of the campaign Santorum and the GOP will be so beaten down that it will feel mean to make fun of them. This matchup, if it happens, will signify the end of the modern GOP. All talk of conservative politics afterward will be about a “restart”, or a “renewal”.

I simply cannot wait.

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America is wide open and trusting. This shouldn’t change.

The idea of stopping terrorist attacks from occurring is simply asinine in this light, as it’s just too easy to walk into a mall and cause havoc.

The message to terrorists (also heard by the American people) should not be,

We’ll stop people from setting off bombs in malls.

…but rather,

It’s easy to set off a bomb in a mall. So what. If you do you’ll kill fewer people than died that day from car accidents — in a single large state. We’re not afraid. We’re American. We won’t panic and we’ll simply hunt you down and kill you.

Put things in perspective. Don’t overreact. Obesity and alcoholism make Bin Laden look silly by comparison.

Sure, we still stay vigilant. We still look for suspicious activity. We still report things that might be dangerous. And we build that defensive eye into our education system. But we don’t open our legs to fear by considering an attack to be proof that our security has failed.

Us being attacked isn’t a failure. A mall bomb or seven, or an airplane or two going down on the same day: we should consider these extremely annoying and grounds for an asswhoopin’ — not evidence of the weakness of our country.

We should plan on this happening. Expect it. And not flinch when it does.

This is how we increase our security — by collectively controlling our response to attack and putting an end to pretending it won’t ever happen.

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