What I learned this a.m.

[babylonsister]

$79M price tag to bomb the moon, once, to see if there's water under the ice. (if there's ice, wouldn't that indicate there's water?)

Kids in some CA schools have to bring their own toilet paper if they want to wipe, because it wasn't incorporated into the budget.

What is wrong with this picture?

(both heard on m$nbc)

[lunatica]

1. If there's water on the Moon they can ravage and rape the Solar System

Corporations will have no limitations. Instead of the sky being the limit, it'll be space unlimited.

Greed drives both bombing the Moon and not buying toilet paper.

[driver8]

2. There is always money to kill people and destroy things...

but never enough money for education.

People wonder why our country is so screwed up?

[AllentownJake]

3. Oh-uh

Your going to piss off the NASA people who will tell you that everything NASA does has a positive impact on society and spurs innovation.

[spanone]

4. humans are highly priority challenged....in other words...we're fucked up

we kill kill kill on a daily basis with tax money and no one complains......but try and allocate additional monies for education or healthcare and people will march in the streets. we're pathetic.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. How much does this 'Af Pak' adventure add up to?