Really, Didn't They Know?

The City of Los Angeles is going to rethink its policy of letting "rave" type events happen in the Coliseum. They currently have a moratorium on them. This decision comes on the heels of the event on June 30, at which more than 100 people were injured, several people were arrested, and one 15 year old girl died.

Who's brainchild was this anyway? Did anyone think to ask the cops what happens at raves: young people exposed to dangerous behavior, the almost trademark abuse of the drug "Ecstasy"? Was the money that good that this event just needed to happen? With immigration protests and Laker championship games, aren't there enough dangerous events?

These LA City Council People - and the responsible bureaucrats - should have used some common sense. This waste of resources was surely not an event that needed to happen. Although, thinking about the type of event and the class of attendee, the Coliseum was probably the right place...now if they just had lions.

Blasting Off to Islam

As has been under-reported, NASA has a new mission: manned missions to Jupiter, Saturn? Well, not exactly. According to NASA Director, Charles Bolden, in a July 5, 2010 interview, the new directives are these:

1. Re-inspire children in math and the sciences.
2. Expand international relationships, in particular reach out to the Muslim world.

I'm looking for where exactly the "S" in NASA fits in there...

Anyone else? No?

So the Space administration is no longer going to be primarily interested in "space"...save for the space required to accommodate some sort of special Muslim area, sort of like what's being planned in New York at Ground Zero.

The re-inspiration of children presumably will take place until at such time it interferes with directive number 2 above. If these are the new directives, how will NASA inspire children to break boundaries, surpass what's been done, or have a vision for the future when the space agency itself will apparently be static and resting upon its accomplishments of long ago?

Obama's directive is to reach out to the Muslim world - a specific religion - not the Arab world. So is he conferring his presidential favor upon one religion in favor of others? How does that sit Constitutionally? And why devote an entire governmental agency to Muslim outreach, doesn't Obama think that his public bowing, scraping, and pandering to his jihadi friends has been enough?

I'm growing more and more disgusted with this silly and dangerous president who weakens the United States.