Muslim Outreach? NASA Chief Heads to Saudi Arabia
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Just months after NASA Administrator Charles Bolden drew public attention for claiming his “foremost” directive from the Obama White House was increased outreach to the Muslim world, he’s embarked on a trip this weekend to Saudi Arabia.
In early July, Bolden told Al Jazeera network that one of President Obama’s directives for him was “to reach out to the Muslim world and engage with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering.” Days later, the White House contradicted Bolden’s remarks; Press secretary Robert Gibbs reported that such activities were not among Mr. Bolden’s assigned duties.
A NASA spokesman told Fox News Friday that Bolden’s trip to Saudi Arabia is part of a “multi-country tour.”
A NASA spokesman said the visit is part of a multicountry tour. Administrator Charles Bolden and a delegation of several other NASA officials arrive in Saudi Arabia on Friday following a trip to Prague. From the Middle East, they will head next to Nepal where Bolden will give a keynote address at a climate change conference.
Though Bolden’s comments about Muslim outreach earlier raised concerns that the White House was squeezing him into an out-of-place diplomatic role, NASA spokesman John Yembrick said the trip “was not initiated” by either the White House or the State Department.
“This trip, including the visit to Saudi Arabia, is driven by specific, appropriate agency-level objectives,” he said in an e-mail.
On Bolden’s itinerary this weekend is an aerospace technology conference and a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the shuttle flight STS-51G, a U.S. mission that carried the first Muslim into space. According to Fox, Bolden may also hold a meeting with King Abdullah during his time in Saudi Arabia.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Bolden makes the trip despite “several top NASA officials” having urged him not to, a likely attempt to avoid re-conjuring criticism from the president’s conservative critics over the changed role for NASA.
At the end of last month, Bolden was publicly reprimanded for violating ethics rules after “inappropriate” communications with a senior Marathon Oil Corp. executive. NASA’s inspector general reported that the 10-minute phone conversation last April was inconsistent with an ethics pledge the Administrator signed when he took office in 2009. Further, the IG said the conversation raised concerns about an appearance of conflicting interests during a time when the space agency was considering an alternative fuels project.
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Comments (140)
AlaskaRick
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:06amHow about a little outreach to us! This is crap and means nothing to them. What have they ever done in their culture besides kill and destroy and enslave those that don’t believe in their founders pedophile visions!
Report Post »nomad360
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:53pmCan anyone, muslim of otherwise, enumerate a single scientific accomplishment from a single islam since the seventh century. Impossible, their claim to science is beheading with a sharp knife. Boy that’s a real accomplishment. This “touchy feely” crap with muslims is going to eventually jump up and bite Maobama right in the ass, They only acknowledge strength, and this piece of slime projects such weakness, he is a laughing stock around the world, and particularly in islam world. What ****** me off, this slime is putting me and all of you in jeopardy.
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Windsong
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:43pmI never thought I could think of NASA as anything but America’s finest…but now I can.
Mr. Obama trashes yet another American icon. Oh, and don’t ask the American taxpayers to support sending Americans into space on a foreign spaceship in the future. We had our own space program…Mr. Obama trashed it and lost the hearts of adventurous Americans.
Sending NASA over to the Muslim countries is a slap in the face to every astornaut – regardless of country or race. They worked hard, dreamed hard and accomplished what no other men ever will, and Mr. Obama calls himself a leader.
As usual, Mr. Obama didn’t think anything through. I wonder how hard the Muslims, Russians and Chinese are laughing right now. They now have complete control over space and every sattelite in it. Seriously, Mr. Obama, do you actually believe they have any intention of sharing ANYTHING with you?
While the taxpayers pay their last dimes to the government, who will hire more people to do a study on why Americans have lost hope, you won’t know one thing about new scientific discoveries, communications systems or space flights taking place. Poor Mr. Obama has bowed and groveled and apologized until the world is laughing at him and his weakness. It’s downright embarrasing.
Hang in there, NASA. DOn’t stop inventing or designing. You will be reinstated to your rightful place – albeit with a new chief the minute Mr. Obama leaves office. Don’t you dare give up on the Americans people or our dreams. Oh, and make sure to vote in the upcoming election.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:03amHussein doesn’t care about America. He hates it.. that’s why he has to re-make it. He is living the dreams of his father. Every time he takes down another icon he celebrates.. paaaaarty at the WH…. wonder when he will get his 72 ( can’t remember the exact number) virgins?
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:24amIf you think we do not have military superiority for our space assets, you are very uninformed.
Report Post »Badler
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:28pmI can only hope that we can rebuild NASA, and our exceptionalism. Sick of this de-developing and de-exceptionalizing of one of our greatest institutions.
Keep these foreigners out of our national technological centers. They’ve been taking the Muslim nations to NASA, and to the Counter Terrorism Centers, They are getting to know us pretty well.
It is not NASA’s purpose to spend our space development money to try to inspire religions.
We need to keep on top of the space program, one of our last bastions of Exceptionalism. And the rewards from investments in NASA have always been great, both monetarily and in peace and safety for the The US and the world.
Report Post »abc123
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:21pmOk, I follow conservative thinking on most things. But I’m not sure I get this one… Couldn’t it be that reaching out to the Muslim world in a positive way be a good thing for everybody? We reached out through the space program to Russia. Why does it have to be that Obama is using this to change us all into Muslims?
Report Post »Just an honest question….
cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:52pmLearn arabic.
Report Post »Read koran.
Not the sanitized version translated into English.
Read the real thing . Go live in an islamic country for a few years while you learn the language.
Do your own research.
You will find the answers to all your queries , because nothing we say can convince you
poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:59pmZig Ziglar said it best, “You can’t do a good deal with a bad guy”. If Saudi Arabia was motivated for exploration beyond their own world, they would’ve ask for a our partnership long ago. The fact that our president has a directive for a muslim out reach, using NASA funding, is questionable beyond a resonable doubt.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:59pmabc123. either you are a plant or in denial
Report Post »Waiting4George
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:12amThe 99,is an animated series for children based on a comic book The 99. The president says of the comic book:” they’re superheroes who embody the teachings and tolerance of Islam….”There is a link in the following article to a preview of The 99.
Report Post »http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/obama_in_the_99th_percentile_o.html
usconcerned
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:47amYes, somebody can be reaching out to the Muslim world without being a Muslim. This is not a case with Obama. The evidence screams that he is a Muslim.
In one interview, Obama told that Muslim Call for prayer is “the prettiest sound on earth”. He even recited few first lines from this call for prayer where he told in perfect Arabic “Allah is Great, Allah is Great. There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.” Reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim, and tells the Muslim world that you are in complete acceptance of, and total commitment to the message of Islam. Obama has extensive Muslim background, he knew what he was doing. In addition, many times, Obama referred to the Koran as the “holy Koran” while mocking the Bible and Christians.
Percy Sutton, a staunch Obama’s supporter, told in interview (you can see it on YouTube):
“I was introduced to him (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour from Texas. He is a principle advisor to one of the world’s richest man, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal. He told me about Obama, wrote to me about him, and his introduction was: ‘There is a young man that is applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends left there. Would you please write a letter in support of him.’”
It was Saudi’s Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal who paid for Obama’s education in Harward. Would he do it if Obama was not a Muslim?
Pakistani Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani wants President Obama to offer Muslim prayers at Ground Zero and become the “Caliph,” or ruler, of the Islamic nation, according to Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper. Would he do it if Obama was not a Muslim? Would this Muslim minister want a non-Muslim to be the Caliph (ruler) of all Muslims. Islam is not a religion of tolerance.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Abul Gheit said on the Nile TV “Round Table Show” that he had had a one on one meeting with Obama who swore to him that he was a Moslem. Was Egyptian Foreign Minister lying? I do not think so.
The list with evidence clearly indicating that Obama is a Muslim goes on and on and on. If you need more, I can present you more, much more. But do you really need more?
Report Post »unionrockstar
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:12pmWell for one
Report Post »We reached out to Russia to partner in the research of space
We didn’t send a Chruch representative to achieve common space exporation
Now we send the NASA chief to partner with muslims; for what common cause?
I will admit this; he does need something to do since our limited space program doesn’t need a full time chief.
BeingThere
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:17pmIt’s actually a secret conspiracy to shoot all the muslims into space.
Report Post »usconcerned
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:27pmGood idea. I would definetely like it to do, at least, to the muslim-in-chief.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:02pmHow costly was NASA outreach to Russia?
Report Post »usconcerned
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:47pmProphet Muhammad commanded Na‘im bin Mas’ud, a convert from an adversarial tribe that refused to submit to Islam, to conceal his new Muslim identity, go back to his tribe — which he cajoled with a perfidious “You are my stock and my family, the dearest of men to me” — only to betray them to Islam.
Report Post »We are this tribe, America!
Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:58pmI don’t recall Obama ever saying that we are his “stock and family, the dearest of men”. I only remember something like this is the first time they’ve ever been proud of America.
Report Post »usconcerned
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:35pmOur muslim-in-chief makes me sick.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:56pmmega-dittos
Report Post »hamrs_62
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:31pmthey need to shut down nasa, billions saved
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:44pmWow, billions. Gee.
That means they can increase entitlement spending by, oh, one or two percent…..
You actually *get* things from exploration. You know, like a whole country. Take America for example. Who focuses on exploration to save money, when we waste 5,000 times that much on Socialist excesses?
Focus, man, focus.
Report Post »FSUDAVE
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:29pmIf there is nothing on the moon we need and we are not gaining anything from space research, then downsize the agency and save the taxpayers billions. But DO NOT the purpose of the agency into Muslim outreach or use the funds for the global warming farce.
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:36pmFsudave writes: “If there is nothing on the moon we need and we are not gaining anything from space research, then downsize the agency and save the taxpayers billions.”
I agree with you in principle. However, there is such a thing as the morale of a society. Societies that are alive and vibrant explore and examine and stretch the boundaries of reality.
If we want to save *trillions*, we can end entitlement programs, which currently absorb about 1.2 trillion a year. I’m sure we can afford a bit of space exploration, for medicinal reasons of course, on a fraction of the savings there…..
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:22pmWell, now the moon can go blood red, and the sun can go dark. No one will be visiting anytime soon. However the UN in the infant wisdom has appointed a :alien ambassador;. She is to meet and great all future off world visitors, starting with the fallen angels and Lucifer himself. Rumor has it she will try to “bargin” with Jesus upon his return. Fact is there is no wiggle room when He does come, praise GOD.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:15pmKing Abdullah–the guy Obumma bowed so deeply to–now, wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall and hear what Bolden and he discuss? Hmm,,,NASA has been sold down the drain by Obumma. Just one more thing in his anti-colonialism baggage, like Churchill’s bust.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:16pmAs a goofy teddy bear always says, lets look at the facts and lets look at the actions and then form an opinion.
Fact : Moon is sacred in islam and muslim holy calender is lunar .
Action : Obama defunded our lunar expeditions , when he took office. Instead he wants us to land on asteroids
Opinion : He made muslims happy and contributed to the de-development of USA with this act
Fact : Environazis and our enemies want to bring our country’s prosperity down, a notch or two , every opportunity they get
Action : Obama killed off-shore / deepsea exploration of oil in USA while sending billions in taxpayer money to Soros and Mexico to do the same
Opinion : Obama made environazis and USA’s enemies very happy while kicking our country in the gut
Fact : islamic world needs weapons technology of every kind to vaporize Israel and USA
Action : MASA gets to take orders from saudi‘s while USA’s missile defence shields are removed and our nulear secrets outed
Opinion : Helen Thomas wants to send Jews to Poland and Germany, Obama doesn’t agree . He doesn’t want them to go to another country…………………….
Report Post »( fill in the blank)
usconcerned
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:18pmDinesh D’Souza made a conclusion that Obama is anti-colonialist based on Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father”. The problem is that Obama did not write this book. There is a sufficient evidence that Bill Ayers was a host writer of “Dreams From My Father”. Therefore, all thoughts in this book actually belong to Bill Ayers. This anti-colonial ideology may be found in the Weather Underground Manifesto. It does not mean that Obama is not anti-colonialist. He may well be.
Report Post »But, this story with Saudi Arabia, all his outreach to Muslim world cannot be explained by Obama’s anti-colonialial ideology. Nevertheless, if you ask yourself a question, “What if Obama is a Muslim?”, then a lot of his statements and deeds can be perfectly explained. He is a Muslim, and there is a plenty of evidence that he is.
cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:26pm@ usconcerned
Is it possible that AlMansour would have financed Obama’s ivy league education and lifestyle if he were a non-muslim ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzyuiSUiuQ
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:55pmvery glenn-like analysis.. excellent
Report Post »usconcerned
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:21amTo: CHEEZWHIZ
Percy Sutton, a staunch Obama’s supporter, told in an interview:
“I was introduced to him (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour from Texas. He is a principle advisor to one of the world’s richest man, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal. He told me about Obama, wrote to me about him, and his introduction was: ‘There is a young man that is applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends left there. Would you please write a letter in support of him.’”
So, it was the world richest man, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, who paid for Obama’s education in Harward. He also gave 20 million as a gift to Harward. Would he do it if Obama was not a Muslim?
Pakistani Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani wanted President Obama to offer Muslim prayers at Ground Zero and become the “Caliph,” or ruler, of the Islamic nation, according to Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper. Would Durrani do it if Obama was not a Muslim?
Does somebody need more proof?
Egyptian Foreign Minister Abul Gheit said on the Nilie TV “Round Table Show” that he had had a one on one meeting with Obama who swore to him that he was a Moslem.
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 5:50pmusconcerned
Dinesh D’Souza doesn’t have an issue with Evolution which, according to Mr. Beck, makes him a supporter of the Nazi’s and Stalin so why should we listen to what he has to say?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:15pmMaybe the “crazies” will LAUNCH THIS FOOL into outer space on his way to visit Allah!
Report Post »baldwin4freedom
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:07pmMaybe he is going to share some of our technological knowledge.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:05pmWhy is it Muslim outreach? Why does he have to reach out one religion over another?
I’m so dam* mad at this administration I could spit. If I told the truth, I would do a whole lot more than spit.
I love the USA and am tired of hearing the left dragging my country through the mud. If you need to vent like me, please read my latest “Nasty Election Season”… http://welovetheusa.wordpress.com/
God bless the USA and protect Glenn and his family!
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:26pmHis intent is to pretend that all the intellectual plunder of historical Muslim conquest was *actually* done by the Muslims themselves, so as to assuage the chronic inferiority complex they suffer from, having descended from the pinnacle of society to the sand-eating savages of today.
In the absence of the freedom to steal, they are revealed as a sham peoples, with little to recommend them. I gather Obama thinks some kindergarten revisionism can make them feel better.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on October 6, 2010 at 8:44amWhy do we have to reach out to the Muslim world? Dude, so we can stop all these very expensive wars. We will never get out of debt until we get out of wars in the Middle East – why do you think we are going bankrupted as it is – 3 trillion dollars in wars!!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-aZ
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:05pmOur president is not a practical man. He is ruled by feelings not facts as are most liberals. So…he takes a man involved in science a very productive endeavor and turns him into a pop psychologist. WTF!
Report Post »ARCHON
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:59pmBuzz Aldrin has been talking about the OBELISK on the MARTIAN MOON and Ed Mitchell has been discussing the GALACTIC FEDERATION and we’re wasting time patting the most ANTI-SCIENCE culture on its back?
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 5:46pmMany on here trash the muslims for being anti-science yet no one trashes Mr. Beck for being anti-science.
Why?
Report Post »Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Czar
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:57pmnon story.
There is a buttload of money in that region and if we can get them to help pay for trips into space in the future, all the better.
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:41pmUh, I think California has a larger GDP than any Arab nation.
They aren’t going there for the money, my friend….
Report Post »nephewofdboone
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:57pmI don’t want the Chief of our National Aeronautics and Space Administration going to any muslim country. Islam is founded on the principle that infidels can’t stay here, on earth. We’re the infidels. We need our space administration to be looking out for us, not them. Islam is why we have a military.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:31pmIslamic world needs nuclear weapons and advanced missile technology.
Report Post »Pakistan is nuclear weapon capable, soon Iran will join the rank ( before Obama leaves office)
Obama can’t force the DOD , yet.
So he settled for NASA ‘s “ outreach ” .
poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:54pmWould somebody show me any Nobel prizes for math or science from the Muslim world? Obama is the new chief executive and all of America’s wrong. The original mission statement of America is wrong. That’s the Constitution, and that’s under assault, too. Not just the initial mission statement of NASA. If he‘s going to run around and say that NASA’s purpose now is to spread science and math understanding to Muslim countries and to recognize their contributions to math and science, then you can imagine what this bunch thinks of the Constitution. El Rushbo July 6, 2010
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:20pmPovertySucks asks: “Would somebody show me any Nobel prizes for math or science from the Muslim world?”
There’s an excellent review on this topic called “Human Accomplishment”, by Charles Murray. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Accomplishment-Pursuit-Excellence-Sciences/dp/006019247X
As one might expect, and I’m reluctant to utter out loud, most human achievement of note is by white, Christian males.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:33pmThe muslim world is stuck in the bronze age. It is delusional to assume they have anything to contribute to the modern world. It is a one way relationship. The modern world defends muslims,educates muslims, TOLERATES muslims. They respond by hating the western world.
Report Post »Outreach is pointless and naive. And since when is a space agency empowered to do ANYTHING such as reaching out to a certain religion to the exclusion of others. Lets get the EPA to reach out to Lutherans. OSHA to get tight with Hindu’s. SEC with Wiccans.
Totally ridiculous.
poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:37pm“Would somebody show me any Nobel prizes for math or science from the Muslim world?”
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:29amOh I guess we stole that from them. We (the west) stole their knowledge and left them with nothing but a waste land.
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 5:44pmTheir have been as many Muslim Nobel Prize winners as their have been Young Earth Creationist Fundamentalists Nobel Prize winners.
Too bad that so many in the GOP are YEC Fundamentalists.
Report Post »phlogiston
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:51pmMeh, they should be more worried about getting back to the gosh-darned moon. Somehow now that we have computers in cellphones more powerful than those on the ground that guided the Apollo missions, it’s impossible to actually get back there.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:56pmThere’s nothing of value on the moon.
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:14pmPovertySucks writes: “There’s nothing of value on the moon.”
Leaving aside the preposterous notion that this determination can be made based on a couple of short walkabouts….
That‘s because we haven’t built anything of value there yet. Grow some imagination.
The moon, with its small gravity well and absence of atmosphere, makes a perfect staging area for the collection of interstellar hydrogen (fuel) and launching pads for more distant destinations. It is the obvious first stage for further efforts.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:23pmGo make it happen dude
Report Post »Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:37pmI’m unclear that my inability to personally make it happen indicates there is nothing of value on the moon….
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:48pmCost approach to bring your product to market seems to have negative value. Like let say, Obamacare. Goverment Motors, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Letting Bush Tax Expire.
Report Post »arx
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:54amI just had a good laugh…
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:15amThe moon is a natural staging point for further space travel and research. Product to market? how about for the advancement of all mankind. The discoveries waiting for us there most likely can not be concieved yet. Building the space craft on the moon for exploration or refining materials not yet known to man are just the most basic of possibilities.
Ye of little brains.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:43am@AmericanPatriot01
You’ve got to think like the future head of a global tyranny. If you go and advance space exploration, that will only serve to engender hope among the world’s peoples that escape may one day be possible. Hopes and dreams are powerful motivators and must be crushed at every opportunity. Complete demoralization, hopelessness, and resignation to their fate is the preferred state of mind for slaves, after all.
O Lord, how I pray I was writing that in complete jest. :(
I refuse to abandon hope and the dream of a once-again free America leading the way forward as humanity takes it’s place among the stars. America and it’s people are capable of miracles with a firm reliance on Divine Providence, as history has proven over and over.
Obama and his Progressive minions & puppetmasters are an attack on this country as surely as was 9/11. Like that terrible tragedy, we will overcome and rebuild our space exploration capabilities after cleaning house and setting our great Nation back on the path to being the Shining City On The Hill that Reagan described with such inspiration and reliance on Divine Providence.
We Shall Overcome!
Strat
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:49pmTime will tell but there sure is a preference to placate muslims. All you others on the bench screaming discrimination….move over one. The ones bumped off the bench, some sit and whine while others walk on 2 feet.
Report Post »YERMOM
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:48pmretarded…. NASA…it’s two year mission….to boldly kiss the ass of the Muslim World
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 9:40pmNASA = MASA now
Report Post »FreedomOfSpeech
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:00pmCan you get to the moon on a flying carpet?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:16pm@ FreedomOfSpeech
If one consumes plenty of hummus before embarking on the magic- carpet ride,
Report Post »one can get to the moon ….and beyond
How else do you think muslims explored the galaxy in the 7th century ?
Prospero
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:16pmFreedomofspeech asks: “Can you get to the moon on a flying carpet?”
That depends on how long you can hold your breath :)
Report Post »FreedomOfSpeech
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 10:52pmOK, tell me how it‘s the Tea Party that’s racist?
Report Post »http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/
loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:19pmThat’s funny.
Report Post »He looks like a Muslim….. do we know if he is?
Why do I suddenly feel like I’m living in a Muslim country? this is so creepy.. nothing against Muslims.. but yikes…is this a bad dream?
MAULEMALL
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:21pmDidn’t that dipwad trying to build the mosqu in New York just get back from a kissamuslimsbutt tour off the taxpayers dime…
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:24pm“This trip, including the visit to Saudi Arabia, is driven by specific, appropriate agency-level objectives,” he said in an e-mail.
Interesting double speak. Translation: global warming initiatives and also turning our space program over to third world countries. We will be required to hitch a ride with Russia inthe future…the very same Russia making deals with Iran. …go figure!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:26pmOh, and violating ethics rules???? I didn’t know this administration had any such worries since they violate the oath of office all the time and refuse to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States of America.
Report Post »FreedomOfSpeech
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:34pm“Barry wanted me to help Muslims recognize their historic contributions to science and math and engineering.” The tape ends there but he finished his point by saying:
“Without Muslim contributions to science and math and engineering we would not know such things as:
1. How to separate a human head from its body,
2. How to beat your wife in a way that will not leave bruising,
3. How to conceal explosives in a vest or baby carriage,
4. How to kill someone by stoning
I mean, I could list the accomplishments all day. Muslims should be very proud of contributions like these.”
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:38pmand this is just the stuff we know about…don’t even want to think what the deceiver-in-chief is doing/planning behind the scenes. But today I laughed out loud when Hussein said” Rahm has informed me today that he is leaving.. yeah right. Here’s my take in “reading between the lies”…. Hussein called Daley and said “retire” probably offered him a lofty sum of taxpayer’s money. So now all he has to do is get Rahm elected.. which I’m sure is in the bag.. you know.. dead voters and other fakes. Here’s the deal.. he can check Chicago off his list of cities that he now has direct control of.. and he marches on in his remake of America the way he and Bill Ayers have dreamed and plotted.. isn’t Bill Ayers a blue eyed devil? That confuses me.
Report Post »And no doubt his hand is in the bogus SS letter that mysteriously surfaced about Whitman… hmmmmm Too bad his birth certificate doesn’t surface soon.. oh that’s right, it can‘t because there isn’t one.
loveoursoldiers
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 11:41pmfreedomofspeech.. you are killing me!
Report Post »aeronut44
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:04amGod please have mercy on our country….no, I am not joking.
Report Post »NotWaiting4Godot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:59amObama’s bow in Saudi Arabia has already signaled to the Islamic street that America has submitted to Sharia. Don’t forget to make you own bows as you travel the circuit. Oh, and the Jizya. Don’t forget to pay the Jizya!.
Report Post »NotWaiting4Godot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:03amMECA – We have a problem!
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:21amOh yea just think of their first encounter… “DIE INFIDEL!!!!! YALALALALA”
But hey, maybe they figured out that aliens used the pyramids as a power source for their space crafts and want access to them for further study. lol
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:26amAs a child I idolized the astronauts, was so proud of NASA and our accomplishments in space. Even dreamed of going into outer space one day.
How sad to see how far NASA has fallen. A once proud agency dying “not with a bang, but a whimper”.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:51amJust another Obama lie. He can not tell the truth on any thing when a lie will suffice.
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 11:18amNow let’s see here, what could possibly have Saudi Arabia interested in jump-starting a non-existent lunar expedition program out of nowhere?
“What is mining the moon for helium-3, Trebek?!”
Follow the money and resources. It’s got nothing to do with Muslim outreach. That‘s the very bad cover story to take the attention off of the Obama administration sneaking out the backdoor with our country’s technology to redistribute our plans and wealth so we can’t “go colonial” on the moon.
Ask yourselves, why would Obama suddenly find fiscal clarity in becoming a budget hawk for a brief stitch in time, to cancel the NASA Constellation Program last February, which Bush enacted in 2004 to send our country back to the moon? When the Senate told Obama to hold-off while they committeed on what the implications would be to cancel Constellation so hastily, Obama unilaterally canceled it anyways while they were in committee after he promised them time. Strange for an administration that has never met a dollar it doesn’t like to spend.
While we’re all busy being distracted by the idea that our government is canoodling yet again with the shadier side of Islam, the fact is they‘re selling us out to every nation with half a space program or two Sanjay’s, Chang’s, or Mohamed’s in a radio tower with a telescope…allowing America to sit idly by while the rest of the world races past us to the next great energy source.
Report Post »NoName22
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:02pmThis is really !#$#@%@ing stupid.
You know the numeral system we use in America was created by the Arabian nations influenced by Islam? The story of Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Tales of the 1001 Nights, all come from a golden age in Arabian nations, influenced by Islam.
Thanks to them, we don’t have Roman numerals to work with. Absolutely stupid.
Report Post »NotWaiting4Godot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:34pmDear NoName22
re: Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:02pm
You mentioned that the Muslim world gave us the numeral system; the story of Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Tales of the 1001 Nights.”
You are certainly right, and I believe that everyone who appreciates the arts should be grateful for the contribution. I also believe that the quid pro quo should not be a gradual subordination of Western culture to Sharia.
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