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Former Astronauts & NASA Employees Letter On The Politicized And Unsubstantiated Claims Of Global Warming

Former Astronauts & NASA Employees Letter on Global Warming Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer  Date: 12 April 2012 Time: 10:02 AM ET       Editor's Note: This is the text of the letter sent by 49 former NASA employees to the agency asking it to stay out of what they see as a politicized and unsubstantiated field — human-caused global warming. It was originally posted on the blog Watts Up With That?   A NASA spokesman confirmed that the agency received the letter on Tuesday (April 11). March 28, 2012 The Honorable Charles Bolden, Jr. NASA Administrator NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. 20546-0001 <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/tmn.livescience/;kw=adsense1;sz=575x185;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" ><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/tmn.livescience/;kw=adsense1;sz=575x185;ord=123456789?" border="0" al Dear Charlie, We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Godda

Individual Revelation About Purpose And Meaning

Perhaps what I wanted (fame, fortune, and influence) would have blinded me from the world, as God wanted me to see it.    History has shown us that fame, fortune, and influence, leads to blind obsession of more of the same at any cost.    They live life for their own individual desires thrusting anything not serving that interest under the bus.    They cannot fill the their addiction for more and more.    In wonder...I have always asked what I am doing here and what is my purpose.   Why were the things I chased no closer than they had been 25 years ago?   Who has not wanted to be rich, famous, and influential?   After two-and-a-half decades of struggle, working hard for long days, and taking many chances, I have just limited wisdom to show for it all.   As I sit here on a rock in a stream, on a beautiful sunny day, these thoughts come to me again.   These very thoughts were the very ones that tortured me and kept me from sleep so many nights.    As I walked up the stream, I crossed ma

The Lack Of Government Restraint Is Hurting Everyone, Everywhere

“…For all the power the government has, being only for the good of the society, as it ought not to be arbitrary and at please, so it ought to be exercised by established and promulgated laws, and the rulers too, kept within their bounds…” (11, 137) John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government. The bounds of our rulers today, at all levels of government, now stretch well outside of their designated boundaries. My own experiences have shown the lack of restraint placed upon government officials at all levels leads to the erosion of individual liberties. When my wife and I bought the Old Washington School in Esko, MN (Thomson Township), we learned the hard way that government was “always” right. The local zoning board decided what we could do in our building. They called them “covenants”, while we considered them overly intrusive. It specifically could not be used as a hotel, lodging (outside of a Bed & Breakfast), recreation center, or manufacturing. The gym that had alway