NASA's New Mission - Reach Out to the Muslim World

[Broadsword2004]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...tions-muslims/

[Ambush Master]

We are SO SCREWED!!!!

[T-Rock]

....and make them feel good about themselves...Un-friggin-believable

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e857ZcuIfnI

[abc_123]

Let's see... Nazi Germany... totally destroyed. Armies defeated. Cities reduced to rubble. Occupied and goverened by Allied military and only gradually transitioned to HN civilian control. Japan. Armies decimated, capital citied firebombed. Nuked twice. Occupied and governed by Allied military and only gradually transitioned to HN civilian control.

Both of these nations are our friends now.

There must be a commonality there somewhere??? I wonder what lesson could be learned on how to "improve relations"?

[incarcerated]

...I can think of a few launches that would lead to ‘better relations with the Muslim world,’ as the article title says…

[Sdiver]

You've got to be kidding me ?!?!?!

First Barry and the Mao Zedong fan club want to re-write our Constitution, now they want to re-write our favorite TV show/movie !!!!

I can see it now.......


Islam....the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Goodship Lollipop
It's continuing mission
To explode strange new weapons
To convert all none believers and kill all infidels
To boldly go where no Muslim has gone before.....


I know who they'll have as their 1st officer......Fascinating

[Paslode]

I this earlier on another forum. There is really nothing to see here, it's just another common day in the reign of Barack Hussein Obama.

We have aleast two more years before Sharia Law prevents alcohol consumption, so grab a lawn chair, crack open a 30-pack and watch as the Obama Wrecking Ball lays waste to the once Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.


Anyone who stills believes his actions are due to naivety, inexperience and still believes in his advertised Good Will mission of HOPE & CHANGE is a blind fool.


Keep your powder dry and some pig blood for dipping. It may come in handy.

[Todd 1]

“To help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview

The Nazi party made amazing contributions in those area’s as well, but that did not stop us from fighting Germany with all our might and the world is better off for it.

[rdret1]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

You've got to be kidding me ?!?!?!

First Barry and the Mao Zedong fan club want to re-write our Constitution, now they want to re-write our favorite TV show/movie !!!!

I can see it now.......


Islam....the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Goodship Lollipop
It's continuing mission
To explode strange new weapons
To convert all none believers and kill all infidels
To boldly go where no Muslim has gone before.....


I know who they'll have as their 1st officer......Fascinating

Hilarious! You knew something was up when he said he was cutting NASA's funding and we were cutting future programs. It is a shame to make the premier space exploration agency a second rate muslim outreach program.

[Shar]

Do you think Robert Gibbs has whiplash yet? My favorite part is how he can keep a straight face through all the crap he has to dish out.

See, they didn't actually send Bolden to the Middle East last week for any particular reason - nor did they set up an interview with Al Jazera for any particular reason. Just giggles. I'm not sure what disgusts me more, the original plan or the fact that they can't stay a course... ever.

From FoxNews today:

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries.

"That was not his task and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs said.

Bolden, though, said last month in the interview that it was President Obama who gave him that task. He made a similar claim in February.

The White House also backed up Bolden last week when his remarks first stirred controversy. A White House spokesman last Tuesday said Obama wants NASA to engage with the world's best scientists and that to meet that challenge, NASA must "partner with countries around the world like Russia and Japan, as well as collaboration with Israel and with many Muslim-majority countries."

NASA last week walked back Bolden's claim that Muslim outreach was the "perhaps foremost" plank of his mission, saying that Bolden was merely talking about his "outreach" responsibilities and that space exploration is still NASA's No. 1 job.

But Gibbs on Monday appeared to deny that Bolden was asked to focus on Muslim outreach at all.

Asked whether Bolden misspoke, Gibbs said: "I think so."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...est=latestnews

[Saoirse]

Originally Posted by T-Rock

....and make them feel good about themselves...Un-friggin-believable

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e857ZcuIfnI

T...this is for you!

[brown77]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

You've got to be kidding me ?!?!?!

First Barry and the Mao Zedong fan club want to re-write our Constitution, now they want to re-write our favorite TV show/movie !!!!

I can see it now.......


Islam....the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Goodship Lollipop
It's continuing mission
To explode strange new weapons
To convert all none believers and kill all infidels
To boldly go where no Muslim has gone before.....


I know who they'll have as their 1st officer......Fascinating

May the Force be with you!

[T-Rock]

T...this is for you!

Thanks

Do you think Robert Gibbs has whiplash yet? My favorite part is how he can keep a straight face through all the crap he has to dish out.

He's starting to sound a little like this guy....Oh wait, ...it is him:
BaghdadBobGibbs2.jpg

[Richard]

And Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the matter.

And so it goes...

Richard

It Cannot Be That NASA Has Nothing Better To Do
Victor Davis Hanson, 11 July 2010

NASA chief Charles Bolden, an impressive former Marine Corps major general and astronaut, recently waxed eloquent about his tripartite mission at the space agency he was entrusted with by President Obama. Strangely, his third “and perhaps foremost” objective is apparently “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.” This, Bolden explains, is part of the president’s “Cairo Initiative,” a reification of the speechmaking he offered to the Muslim world last summer in Cairo.

One’s first reaction: Surely General Bolden does not mean what he said (just as General Casey could not have really meant that a key worry after the Fort Hood massacre was a possible loss in support for the army’s diversity program). First, is the recent record of NASA so sterling that now, in a time of record deficits, we have manpower and capital to invest in public relations with the Muslim world? And if so, why not with Latin America, or the African world?

Second, if the Iranian bomb program, the Syrian SCUD franchise, or Dr. Khan’s nuclear store are any indication, the Muslim world seems quite well acquainted with the potentials of stratospheric research and development — something we will come to know very soon without NASA outreach.

Third, is it really the business of a government scientific agency to produce historical and scientific narratives for political purposes? And do we really wish to return to the embarrassment of last June’s Cairo mythmaking? In that address, the president misled his audience on nearly every “fact” he presented, from the absurdity of Muslims in Cordoba supposedly serving as beacons of tolerance during the Inquisition (there were essentially no Muslims in Cordoba at the time) to the assertion that Muslims helped to jumpstart the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (when, in fact, flight from or reaction against Islam in the eastern Mediterranean had far more to do with both European intellectual awakenings).

Bolden, like so many Obama appointees, has impressive dossier and yet seems to say some very strange things that put ideology above all else — e.g., Eric Holder (“nation of cowards”), Hilda Solis (“documented or not”), Janet Napolitano (“man-caused disasters”), Ken Salazar (“boot on their neck”), or Steven Chu (“no more agriculture in California”).

We all know that Bolden means well and wishes to get his agency on board with President Obama’s larger plan to create a kinder and gentler image to the Muslim world in order to lessen world tension and reduce terrorist attacks against the U.S. Unfortunately, world tensions are rising, and 2009 saw the most foiled terrorist attempts against the U.S. mainland since 2001, so one can wonder about the efficacy of these approaches, or even worry that they are having the opposite effect of what they intend. But the real problem with using NASA as an arm of the State Department’s current politically correct agenda is that it is supposed to have other things to do.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson071110C.html

[akv]

T-Rock here is one...