SAILORJ.com » Politics http://blog.sailorj.com Walking a Straight Line to Infinity... Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:12:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Colbert should have gotten the NASA nod http://blog.sailorj.com/2009/04/15/colbert-should-have-gotten-the-nasa-nod/ http://blog.sailorj.com/2009/04/15/colbert-should-have-gotten-the-nasa-nod/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:58:29 +0000 Sailorj http://blog.sailorj.com/?p=211 Stephen Colbert was using the power of his audience to get a module for the International Space Station ISS named after him. Nasa in their дивани brilliant manuever instead named a treadmill after the comedian.

NASA screwed up! In a day and age where budgets sway on public opinion, the Colbert Army is a good one to have on your side. These aren’t just your morning drive guys, these are polically motivated 20+ year olds. These are people who actually can make an impact and influence policy.

Now while it looks as if there was no animosity between the two camps, it still proves that Colbert is a force to be reckoned with.

Remember what happened when Colbert wanted to make a point about wikipedia? Where he got people to change information on Elephants. It was big news. In any event, I fail to see a reason why it would not be called the Colbert module. In 10 years from now, are they afraid they would be saying, who is Stephen colbert? Well if he puts the energy and resources onto being their cheerleader then that would not likely happen.

]]> http://blog.sailorj.com/2009/04/15/colbert-should-have-gotten-the-nasa-nod/feed/ 0 Democrats still have no identity http://blog.sailorj.com/2007/02/25/democrats-still-have-no-identity/ http://blog.sailorj.com/2007/02/25/democrats-still-have-no-identity/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:15:26 +0000 Sailorj http://blog.sailorj.com/?p=180 It is pretty interesting to me to read all the crap going on with the Democrats these days.  The rumor mill/media seems to want to push Joe Lieberman over to the Republican side, probably to create more drama in the news.  Hillary and Obama are going head to head with over 18 months left to go, and there is still plenty of time for any Dark Horse to enter the race.  Could it be Al Gore that will clean the clocks of the Democrats?

The way I see it is that the Democrats need to get some sort of published foundation out there.  Something that says these things are the values and issues that they stand for, and the basic positions they will be taking as a party.

If the Dems keep fighting, they could easily forfit control of the Senate, and be so divided that they give the Whitehouse away.  It will take someone at the National level to get these people all on the same page.  It doesn’t mean they have to agree on everything, but they do need to learn how to act in public so they don’t cut each other’s throat.

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VOTE

Just Do It!

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Another test posting

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