Let's send the immigrants! Yes? You illegal? Colonize Mars!
You know, if I wasn't so anti-Bush that his pronouncements made my skin crawl, I would probably agree with his announced Missions to Mars and the Moon.
But this proposal would probably go along all the others, such as immigrant amnesty, just getting the attention of various sectors of society, promising enormous plans, and then forgetting everything.
Oh, but Bush could! A space elevator would be a mere $5 billion, and from then on stratospheric trips could cost what, $5000 per person? Moon, here I come!
Specially fitting, since by doing that Bush and cronies could be able to set up a penal colony in (inside) the moon and get rid of all this liberal thinking people. All while generating revenue for his friends!
Can you imagine, me blogging from the Moon?
We made touchdown in Tranquility Sea, now renamed Ashcroft Plains, and are being moved to our permanent residency, the sol called Powell Apartments. I was issued an ill-fitting uniform with a lot of logos, I feel like a fuckin' NASCAR driver! Of course, tonight we had the Flag Allegiance thing (god above all or something), and we were told that this all s for our happiness. Also, for our happiness there is going to be no freedom of speech, so it means blogs are going to be pretty boring from now on.
The dating rules suck, no sex, no oral sex even, and since we lack anticonceptives, cream is highly priced here in Luna. Of course, us uncut boys don't need it, so it kind of gives us an advantage! I was sent to work with the Hispanic contingent, no matter that I hate the little moniker.
Yesterday some security forces threw a couple guys out of the hatch, to settle a bet on death by decompression vs. asphyxiation. Of course, they were drunk, and although there was an investigation, the gov around here, Andrew whatever, the same one that funcked up so bad in the Mesopotamia, came up on the vid to tell us that it was the guys fault, that they were playing around a restricted area. Yeah, sure, everything around here is an area of some sort of other!
Anyway, life here is not that bad: we got all the Mexican restaurants, only Taco Bell owns them but the cooking is real Mexican; we have as well a lot of Asian, South American and Arab stores; the parties are real fun, all that salsa and nobody to dance with, and work, even heavy work, is a hoot in a sixth of normal gravity.
But the real kicker is seen all these white supremacist boys being a minority here
sorry to read that so anti-Bush that his pronouncements [make your] skin crawl.
i know extreme conservatives who had the same sort of reaction when clinton proposed something that they'd like if only it weren't a clinton idea. shame on them.
in any case, how many "liberal-thinking people" has Bush locked up so far? just asking.
Posted by: chris hall at January 13, 2004 05:15 PM