Thursday, January 26, 2012

He's goin' to da moon!

Had to check the date on the calendar to make sure it's really January, not April 1st. But it's no April fool. Elect "Hold `er Newt" Gingrich and America will build a permanent base on the moon!

I know. I had trouble believing it too. But Reuters is reporting it, so it must be true. Right? Speaking in Cocoa Beach FL, the erstwhile Republican presidential contender called for a base on the moon and an expanded federal purse for prize money to stimulate private-sector space projects.

Said Newt, "We want Americans to think boldly about the future." [Surely "boldly go where no-one has gone before"! Ed.] In order to do this, he explained, it will be necessary to cut NASA's bureaucracy and expand on private-sector space programmes already proposed by President Hussein Obama.

But for now, America will stop at the moon. "It will take some time and further research to put a man on the sun," Gingrich said. "We'll have to figure out a way he could go at night, when it won't be so hot."

Reports that Newt had been out in the Florida sun too long could not be verified.

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