The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Here's an Idea

    By cmaukonen on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 9:49pm |

    Convince the upper income bracket, especially those in the tea party right, that the ONLY way they will be safe from crazy Islamic terrorists, economic catastrophe, revolution and environmental disaster is to colonize and relocate to another planet.

    We would get a major boast to the space program, and increase in employment and best still, we would be free of a major nuisance.

    We could call it The Project for a New Astronomical Century.

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     or PNAC for short.  Later we could merge it with the Council for Unilateral Liability Liberation, and we'd have  PNAC-CULL. 

    We could also convince the upper income bracketeers that the REALLY big money to be made is in Outer Space real estate speculation.  Trouble is, in order to flip a condo on Mars, you have to be there in person for the closing.  (Naturally, their Lawyers will need to be in attendance too...)

    This has real possibilities... And it might even turn NASA into a for-profit business. 


    by MrSmith1 on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 5:50am

    DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT…WE WERE FOREWARNED

    [last lines]
    Klaatu: I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you. 

    Memorable quotes for
    The Day the Earth Stood Still 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfpSXI8_UpY&feature=related

    @1:08


    by Resistance on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 3:47am

    I love that speech!

    I must have been six or something the first time I saw that movie on TV.


    by Richard Day on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 3:46pm