Moving toward space; Pledge Week

View 794 Sunday, October 13, 2013

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”

President Barack Obama, January 31, 2009

Christians to Beirut. Alawites to the grave.

Syrian Freedom Fighters

What we have now is all we will ever have.

Conservationist motto

Still recovering from whatever I picked up in San Diego. The afternoon was taken up with doing a TWIT broadcast http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/427 which was interesting. Since it’s pledge week I have to remind you that this would be a great time to subscribe to this site http://www.jerrypournelle.com/paying.html or just use the subscribe button over here on the right.

I continue to be depressed about the crazy state of things in Washington. I do wonder why the Democrats didn’t take the life buoy thrown to them by the Republicans in the offer to put Obamacare off for a year; given that they had three years to bring out this center piece of the Obama administration and enrolling in the new plan is so difficult, the chance to put it off a year and blame the delay on the Republicans seems irresistible, I must have missed something.

I do have this good news

Grasshopper

Dr Pournelle

You’re gonna get your DCX and SSTO. http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/10/12/grasshopper-flies-again-sets-new-altitude-record/

Live long and prosper

h lynn keith

Which is to say that private enterprise is taking mankind to space. After all that’s how the airlines were built.

I had meant to do a full mail tonight but it would have been short shrift, and much of the mail deserves comments. Apologies but I am recovering.

This is Pledge Week at KUSC which is when I traditionally annoy you about subscribing or renewing to this site. This place operates on the Public Radio model, free to all but it stays open only if enough subscribe to keep it open. It has always been that way and we have always had enough subscriptions and renewals. I run my subscription drives in the weeks when KUSC the Los Angeles good music station runs its public radio pledge drive, and they have started their pledge week.

I do things this way so you won’t be continuously annoyed with commercials for the site and of course I don’t take advertisements here.

So if you have not renewed your subscription for a while, this would be a good time to do that. And I hasten to add, if the economic times are getting to you, I am not after eating money. Just some of your beer and wine money. Paying for this place…