WATER ON THE MOON


I do not know exactly why, but this little bit of info from BBC News and The Daily Beast really got to me:
A fine film of water coats the particles that make up dirt on the Moon, and though the quantity of water is small, it's generating great excitement. BBC News reports that data from three spacecraft, including India's Chandrayaan probe, have confirmed the presence of water, although it would take a cubic meter of lunar dirt to squeeze out a liter of water. The U.S.' earlier Apollo missions found lunar soil that was "damp" but couldn't rule out the possibility that water got into the samples after they returned to Earth. The quantity of water increases nearer the poles, where the Apollo missions never reached. Scientists suspect that water is created in the soil via a chemical reaction involving solar wind and oxygen atoms already in the soil. Next month, a NASA probe will bomb the moon in order to see if the dust that is kicked up includes water vapor.
Two other satellites to look at the Moon - the US Deep Impact probe and the US-European Cassini spacecraft - back up Chandrayaan. Both collected their Moon data long before Chandrayaan was even launched (in the case of Cassini, 10 years ago), but the significance of what they saw is only now being realized. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8272144.stm
Water on Mars and water on the moon!!! If this little nook in the corner of an almost infinite universe has all this life giving liquid, imagine the amount of life out there.
But my real concern today, again, turns to that peckerhead Glenn Beck. An ignoramus of the first order. A dangerous demagogue who has been given a powerful dais in the main stream media. These are some gems that issued from the mouth of this moron that I found on the internet:
- Everyone is Hitler, except for me!
What in the hell does that mean? You know, if I had lost an aunt or a
grandmother at Auschwitz, I really would not appreciate
this line. As a matter of fact I did not lose anyone in WWII, but I still
despise this line anyway.
- Hello, you sick twisted freak.
This is how glenn opens his show.
- Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your
son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the
president? Could you do that?
- Comment on Michael Berg, the father of murdered American businessman Nicholas Berg
The man has no tact, no respect for the grieving, no sense of decency.
- I find this guy [father of Nick Berg] despicable. Everything in me says that. The want to be a better person today than I was yesterday says he's a dad, he's grieving, but I don't buy that. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. I think he is grieving, but I think he's a scumbag as well. I don't like this guy at all. [1][2]
This peckerhead could not possibly wish to be a better person today or any day.
- Would you kill someone for that?...I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore...I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it,...No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure. [1]
He also said that he would pay for the bullet that killed Michael Moore. This is a felony, by the way, if any DA would like to pursue the matter.
- Cindy Sheehan is a tragedy slut.
What would anyone add to this? What could anyone add to this?
- During his February 8, 2006 show, Beck repeatedly referred to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as "a waste of skin", adding that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was not a bigger waste of skin because "[a]t least evil is using that skin." [3]
Jimmy Carter could and has accomplished more in one day of his life of 80 years than peckerhead could in two lifetimes.
- I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.
Well, that is disputable.
- You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one -- I can`t speak for you, but I`m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Out of the mouths of babes and insane people comes truth, once in awhile anyway.
- Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
Sometimes the babes and the insane prove they are babes and insane. Nothing shuts up this insane peckerhead.
- "With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let`s cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."[3]
Any enemy of this peckerhead is a friend of mine.
- Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax....You need to have fear. You needed to have the fear of starvation. You needed to have the fear of the whole place going to hell in a handbasket. Which -- do we have that fear now with global warming?...Then you have to discredit the scientists that say 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing].[4]
How could anyone forget Hitler's contribution to environmentalism in the 20th century?
- The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?"
I am afraid that the most used phrase in peckerhead's administration would be: What exactly does the Secretary of State do and where are my Depends?
- It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived -- Fox is here! (Feb. 3, 2009)
Yessiree Bob, the Fox is guarding the henhouse. That is for sure. But the horsemen have arrived on jack asses.
Peckerhead beck pisses people off. I came across this gem concerning glenn's assertion that something went wrong during President Obama's Oath of Office. Here is an example of beck's grasp of American History:
Franklin Pierce was the only president known to use the word affirm rather than swear. Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when taking the oath in 1901. Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Richard Nixon swore the oath on two Bibles. John Quincy Adams swore on a book of law. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in on a Roman Catholic missal on Air Force One. Washington kissed the Bible afterwards, and subsequent presidents followed suit, up to Harry Truman, but Dwight Eisenhower broke that tradition by saying his own prayer instead of kissing the Bible. Barack Obama used a Bible when taking the oath the first time, but then did not use a Bible when re-taking the oath in private the following day. http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/03/07/neo-nazi-fat-face-glenn-beck-the-new-lying-lunatic-skunk-at-fox-news/
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/new-reports-small-busines_b_270116.html
So who cares? We know all of this stuff already. As other blogs have noted, including mine, back the peckerhead spent all of one semester in college, has a history of mental health issues (so do I, especially when I am reading glenn beck), a history of drug and alcohol abuse, claims family values--at least for his second marriage, and is a terrible writer and a terrible speaker. Some of the above sentences are so twisted that it is difficult to discover what his point is. His vocabulary sucks, his syntax is abominable, and his sentence structure sometimes looks like an adventurer attempting to hack himself out of a tropical jungle.
Peckerhead will start out whacky; scream and yell and rant and rave; and then collapse into a pile of mush, weeping like a child who just lost his puppy.
I wrote this to notify all of you that do not already know; this idiot, this demagogue, the uneducated pile of manure just wrote a book on the United States Constitution.
In a chapter in his new book purporting to explain to "idiots" what "our Founding Fathers really intended," Glenn Beck praises an obsolete provision of the U.S. Constitution that prohibited Congress from outlawing the slave trade before 1808 and capped taxes on the slave trade at $10 per slave. In his explanation of the provision, Beck does not mention slavery, saying instead that the provision means that the Founders apparently "felt like there was a value to being able to live here" and lamenting: "Not anymore. These days we can't ask anything of immigrants -- including that they abide by our laws." http://mediamatters.org/research/200909230042
This is just a damn shame. I do not know what else to add here.
We'll have a Black President when
Pigs fly and we find water on the moon
PC's provide us with free tunes
When We have electric cars and
No smoking in bars
When all men and women are free
Yeah that will be here any time soon.
When we have Dick Tracy watches
When we have Nicotine patches
No key latches
Water proof matches
We will have all these as soon
As pigs fly and we find water on the moon
But when will the insane
Take over the asylum
When will the unread
Teach the young the value
Of being illiterate
And when will that cretan Glenn
Unravel the enigmas of our Constitution
When pigs fly and we find water on the moon.
















Can we possibly send Beck to the moon to check on the water supply? I'll be happy to chip in for the hydrazine required for fuel.
Let's do the rest of us all one small favor though. Do not include a radio in his kit.
Oh yes, and is the sea boiling hot, by any chance?
September 24, 2009 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. We will send him with some Tang and no water.
He can figure out the mixers once he gets there.
This will give him some good old fashioned capitalistic inspiration!!!
September 24, 2009 7:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo
Somehow I thought this song was fitting, on both levels.
September 24, 2009 7:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
a little 2001 aint so bad, but its soooooooooo early decade. hahahaha
Great link. eeeeeeeeeeeeerie.
September 24, 2009 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking of this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU6nn4deuCQ
September 24, 2009 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chad and Jeremy. Been awhile Jonnie. Thanks
September 24, 2009 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQziHb74J9A&feature=related
brain damage
The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in the hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
and if there is no room upon the hill
and if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
you raise the blade, you make the change
you rearrange me ' till I'm sane
you lock the door
and throw away the key
there's someone in my head but it's not me
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
you shout and no one seems to hear
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
eclipse
All that you touch and all that you see
all that you taste, all you feel
and all that you love and all that you hate
all you distrust, all you save
and all that you give and all that you deal
and all that you buy, beg, borrow or steal
and all you create and all you destroy
and all that you do and all that you say
and all that you eat and everyone you meet
and all that you slight and everyone you fight
and all that is now and all that is gone
and all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
September 25, 2009 5:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I never went through these lyrics before Resistance.
Thank you.
The Dark Side of the Moon indeed.
September 25, 2009 6:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1F7d6f1Qk
Glenn Beck the New Hal 9000
No 9000 has ever made a mistake .34 sec
Fool proof and never made an error .39 sec
I think you’ll agree there’s same truth in what I say .59 sec
He knows you and others are coming to disconnect him 1.09 sec
Conversation can serve no purpose anymore, 1.22 sec
Dave’s not around; so Dick, unplug the current Hal 9000. Glenn Beck 2009 series
September 25, 2009 6:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
I do not think anyone is going to disconnect this poor misshapen mind. His numbers are too high.
September 25, 2009 6:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
On Saturday, Beck will be given the keys to the town of Mount Vernon, WA, by the mayor. Mount Vernon happens to be Beck's home town, so the mayor wants to honor a local kid who made it big.
When I first heard about it this morning on Morning Joe, I was "oh great, another sign of how far we have to go as a country."
I used to live just up the I-5 freeway from Mount Vernon for a few years. Its basically a rural farming community and Bush/Cheney country, so it didn't surprise me too much.
But then they showed a clip of the people articulating their outrage to the mayor (whose sole decision it was) at a council hearing and that lifted my spirits. (of course there were some who support the mayor). One report had at least a dozen citizens at the city council meeting wearing bright orange shirts saying, "Hate is not a Mount Vernon value." All hope is not lost. And the city council has distanced itself from the decision by the mayor (who is sticking to his guns). Council passing a resolution Wednesday making it clear they don’t endorse the event.
I think the point is that the mayor (supposively) just sees it as someone who has made onto the national stage, and that the exact details of what Beck spouts are not relevant. But they are. It isn't that he disagrees with the president, or that he is conservative. It is that he is fear-mongering, hateful, and batpoop crazy. To honor him in any way gives legitimacy to his rantings.
Oh well. I kind of want one of those "hate is not a Mount Vernon value" t-shirts.
September 25, 2009 8:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
We are now to believe that BECKERHEAD (got that from Neohoho) is a constitutional scholar. What an amazing world we live in.
This is like rush writing a tome entitled: How Einstein's Calculations Were Wrong.
Your Volkskunde take is interesting. beckerhead will sometimes fall into one of his whines that too many people hate him. ha!!!
Theatre of the Absurd to the max.
September 25, 2009 9:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rush's reason for why Einstein was wrong: Einstein used numbers, and we know how numbers lie. Liberal scientists use them all the time to prove global warmning. See. So the sun does orbit the earth. The world is flat.
September 25, 2009 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm thinking it's more like Theater of Cruelty, but in an opposite sense of what what Antonin Artaud had in mind: a violent determination to CREATE A FALSE REALITY to lie like a shroud over our perceptions.
September 25, 2009 10:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
I aint gonna claim deep knowledge of Artaud, although I am lookin him up right after this, but acamus, you have touched on something here that may be clear to you but not so clear to others.
ONCE THEY GET INTO THIS ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE, THEY CANNOT COME OUT. It would be admitting defeat. Admitting that they were wrong.
You know Biden can sponsor a bill making crack a more serious violation of the law than cocaine and then years later admit it was discrimination against poorer people. He and other liberals change their minds...
This conservative right build this structure that pens them in. The 6000 year creationists cannot come out of their artificial world.
You, unlike me, have a life. I would like to see an essay on this.
September 25, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Art, it has been said, is a lie that tells a truth. Political commentaries like those of Beck's are lies claiming to be the Truth.
Politics, it has been said, is the art of the possible. Herbert Blau said theater is the art of the impossible, what it seeks always just at the vanishing point.
Political theater. Theatrical politics.
Illusions and stagecraft.
Who is it really up there on the stage? or has the stage expanded so that we are all actors in the play? Or play within the play? Actors in search of a director? Given the wrong script? or so it seems?
All the world is a stage. But it's not, and while Shakespeare wrote it, he didn't believe it.
September 25, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I enjoy reading DickDay's comments and blog, but I don't read articles on Glenn Beck.
September 25, 2009 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay John. That is fair enough. How about blogs on water on the moon?
I promise to skip beckerhead next time. hahahahaah
September 25, 2009 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll see your videos, and raise ya this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4
September 25, 2009 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now lour local newspaper editors are chock full of letters in homage to glenn beckerwood. Even, ahem...our kids' fourth grade teacher loves him; they all think he's THE BOMB! Now how could we tie that into your news that scientists want to bomb the moon to search for more water?...
September 25, 2009 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahah. Gin. Now that would be worth seeking. Some gin on the moon.
September 25, 2009 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
For ppl who might be interested in the space science, I just posted about the purported topic of this thread. I was hoping for more content on that subject, but realized I'd better take matters into my own hands...
Thanks for leaving things unsaid DD, it gives me a rare reason to post a blog.
September 25, 2009 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
oh gooooooooooood. I will be right there.
I really love this stuff.
September 25, 2009 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Add in Ann Coulter attacking the 9-11 widows to that list of right-wing jackassery.
The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that all Democrats (and the media) do is to shake their heads and tsk, tsk such comments, while Republicans (and the media) would flame-broil any Democrat making the same sort of statements.
September 25, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know Newton. You are so correct.
BUT WHAT IS A MOTHER TO DO?
September 25, 2009 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
off topic, check out Easter under attack - peeps
http://www.colbertnation.com/home
September 25, 2009 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thought we'd hear more about the moon. (BTW, it was a fine movie.)
In other news, Europe looks good these days, especially Berlin. Had easy September weather, and with nothing bad to talk about I felt no need to comment. But I read this news with interest, more for the source than the facts, which fit with new thinking about low-temp solar-system stuff. It's that it was an Indian machine. Even if it had parts supplied by others, so do ours.
The future is here and we don't really notice; two-way wrist radios (cellphones) that also are video cameras and web browsers, artificial-intelligence systems correcting test papers or running machine guns, live video from Saturn's equinox, and plans for colonizing the planets.
September 25, 2009 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
And remember, mentioning the idiot's name in ASCI text makes another searchable reference. Don't discuss clowns like him, crowd them off the bandwidth.
September 25, 2009 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah it was India. Ha! Who'd a thunk?
I like it that India is succeeding. So much poverty, so many people...
We do live in quite an age, quite an age.
September 25, 2009 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink