Mars Rover Journey Begins
Rover Tire
“This drive really begins our journey toward the first major driving destination, Glenelg, and it’s nice to see some Martian soil on our wheels.” Mission manager Arthur Amador. [Glenelg is a location where three types of terrain intersect. Curiosity's science team chose it as a likely place to find a first rock target for drilling and analysis.]
Curiosity is three weeks into a two-year prime mission on Mars. It will use 10 science instruments to assess whether the selected study area ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.
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44 Responses to Mars: Curiosity On The Move
Now on The Trail
tony, same to ya pal; but what’s amazing is how you put up so sweetly with amazing grace your rw co-worker. speaking of sweet and amazing, how ’bout these voices
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/dispatches-from-glenelg-the-scottish-namesake-of-curiositys-first-destination-on-mars/
We are just stomping all over the universe, leaving tracks and candy wrappers everwhere
patd…
warrior queens… the world needs more of them!
sturg… if you think you’re a Greek… then you MUST read “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt. One of the best books my book club ever read.
that maybe the original idea for our creation. God gave us a big playground and all we have to do is climb out of our crib.
R.Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
AKA Theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey
oh yeah… and while we’re talking football…
GO PATRIOTS!
In his Speech for Harlem Tenants Association on November 14, 2008, the late Robert Fitch outlines “Friendly FIRE wants the same kind of education reform as FIRE: the forces that brought about welfare reform have now moved onto education reform and for the same reason: crippling the power of the union will reduce teachers’ salaries, which will cut real estate taxes which will raise land values.”
Obama’s Chicago political base comes primarily from Chicago FIRE—the finance, insurance and real estate industry. “Friendly FIRE” is FIRE power disguised by the camouflage of community uplift; augmented by the authority of academia; greased by billions in foundation grants; and wired to conventional FIRE by the terms of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1995. Let us not forget that Valerie Jarrett, sometimes described as “the other side of Barack’s brain,” is a Chicago real estate executive.
Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in his all out assault on public service unions is proving to be an unmitigated disaster for Chicago. Between his attack on the teachers union, predicated by Robert Fitch, and Chicago’s murder rate that is also currently quadruple that of New York and double Los Angeles’ rate, Great Job Rahm.
But remember that the only thing worse for the U.S. Economy than President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress is a Republican President and/or a Republican Congress. Vote for Joe Biden for Vice President!
Chicago Teachers May Strike, Teach Political Lesson
By Becky Vevea, NPR, September 9, 2012
Teacher strike? now there is a stupid idea.
I am amazed at how good the High-Resolution images are. Almost makes you wonder what they can see on earth?
….leaving tracks and candy wrappers everwhere
jamie, as the trail’s body language expert that you are, what’s your take on this analysis?
When Obama and Romney smile, what are they thinking?
Jack,
Go spend five years getting a master’s degree, spend 8 hours a day in the company of 40 people under 18 in broken down facilities then go home for another 2 to 4 unpaid hours of paper grading, lesson planning etc. and do it all for $45-60 thousand a year (maybe) … All to hear the right wing yell at you for wasting tax payer dollars and that you shouldn’t think about asking for more. Sounds like a great career choice.
bad timing for a teachers strike if they’re democrats. better to strike after the election. too big a backlash likely.
come to think of it, that strike may well be a goper dirty trick.
patd
I actually read the two faces shown before reading the article and was interested that we seemed to come to the same conclusions.
The President is a very private man with some definite trust issues saving his most intimate expressions for those who have been in his life the longest. There is a smidge
of arrogance as he takes pride in his brain power and abilities. He does not have a very high opinion of the competition.
Romeny is less confident. He’s used to power but also seems to be aware of deficiencies in his abilities when outside his comfort zone. He doesn’t like to have his assumptions challenged and this is actually part of his foundation belief in family and religion.
Ann Romney is starting to piss me off. She may be a very nice woman in private but out of the campaign trail she comes across as arrogant and entitled.
Interview re birth control
Jamie, nobody spends 8hr a day in the class room
Teachers are represented by unions in their salary etc negotiations — why wouldn’t they have the right to strike.
For many years, opponents of the right to strike for teachers — tried to pin a limiting badge on teachers — saying true teachers did not care about money and would not abandon their classrooms. That’s a pile.
Teachers have every right to strike and they have rights as employees to withhold their labor and for others to understand the impact.
Paul Kurgman should get the medal of honor from the rest of us --he on tv with Cokie-head Roberts and George Unwilling (who slept with the bosses daughter to get a byline)
Ona lighter note, Obama now leads in NC. PPP says he’s up by 4 and Rasmussen concedes it’s a tie. Rasmussen always skews 2-4% toward ripuplicans.
So, as of today it looks like a 347 -- 191 finish.
Corey Booker just took Rand Paul to school (with the coke head and the unwilling having to follow along)
No Jack. They spend it on class grounds watching children, in the cafeteria monitoring children, at school events after hours watching children, in counseling, in the principal’s office, after hours meeting with parents etc etc etc. So no it isn’t 8 hours a day. It’s often 12 hours a day.
Yeah… we got a kleptocracy going on… and one of it’s tactics is to pit little people vs little people..
you know… like… house fixer uppers vs teachers, etc, etc, etc. Meanwhile… the fat cats laugh all the way to the bank.
but anyhoo… it’s Sunday… it’s football time… and we will be watching our beloved Patriots at a family party… everyone have a good day today.
To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.
Krugman. 2002. Calling for a housing bubble.
It’s amazing how some people can only recognize selflessness in themselves and allow their own limited experience to define the rest of the world --no matter how narrow that experience is everyone is judged by that tiny little experience -- they come in every walk of life and political persuasion -- they are surely among the most annoying people around
Yes Ann(toinette -- credit BW)) Romney does not recognize all of her own entitlements and lack of experience
Romney and Ryan will not be carrying their home states
unless they are planning on moving in with Prick Cheney
Of course Romney is going to blame being a mormon for his loss
mqw
too bad that no one took Krugman’s advice they took Shrub’s instead. Instead of investing in housing for people who traditionally could not get into the market
the policy was to let predatory bankers take advantage of the desire of a home to scam people
Greenspan did exactly what krugman advocated
That worked out well didn’t it ?
After the Horror’ New York Times (Sept. 14, 2001): ‘Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack — like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression — could do some economic good.’ He went on to note how rebuilding would stimulate the economy by business investment and job creation.
Another krugman oldie but goodie
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/09/09/mars-curiousity-on-the-move/#comment-297335
Ha Pat, too funny!
Yep, Grace is a one woman FOX news talking point spewer..Grace has worked all her life and done well..Ah but her and her husband enjoy the best government has to offer yet bitch incessantly about government..Man, when i helped them move recently, wow, the food they have stockpiled and the safe with guns and ammo..Yep, they also listen to Glenn Beck daily through their ROKU..Amazes me how working stiffs vote against their own interest and actually idolize the rich..Grace and i go back and forth about the issues of the day all the time and it keeps work interesting..The only time i ever got mad at Grace was just after 9-11, she blamed President Clinton for the attack and left precious President Bush out of the equation, you know the one who ignored the Clinton administrations warnings…
Obama: I’ll work with Republicans if they agree to raise taxes
By Olivier Knox,
Krugman was temporally on advisory board for Enron ,
Excerpt from an article about Enron
Enron does own gas fields, pipelines, and utilities. But it is not, and does not try to be, vertically integrated: It buys and sells gas both at the wellhead and the destination, leases pipeline (and electrical-transmission) capacity both to and from other companies, buys and sells electricity, and in general acts more like a broker and market maker than a traditional corporation. It’s sort of like the difference between your father’s bank, which took money from its regular depositors and lent it out to its regular customers, and Goldman Sachs. Sure enough, the company’s pride and joy is a room filled with hundreds of casually dressed men and women staring at computer screens and barking into telephones, where cubic feet and megawatts are traded and packaged as if they were financial derivatives.
Gee and goopers just told us last week the only reason we got out of the depression was because of world war 11
mqw you have to stop reading the greenspan apologists and read what Krugman actually says not some quote tailored by the right to exclude actual facts
REPEAT SHRUB did not do what Krugman suggested at all
Krugmans space alien invasion economic fix
too bad the goopers have exhausted their credibility on clowns like Nudie, The Pizza Pimp and Mittens
Obamarama is pulling ahead --the media can talk about mittens ad campaign all they want but so far not having any impact or even stalling the slow steady increase in Obama’s support.
Be sure and ask the question are you better off in Ohio today even the current gooper gov says yes they are!
The republicans are the best argument for better public education there is higher republican registration in places with the lowest test scores
I’m upset at interviewers in their desire to have a horse race. Every time any politician quotes another politician on the opposite side, the interviewer should immediately play the WHOLE quote with the context. Failure to do so, just encourages the handlers, spokespeople and various knee jerk commentators.
Yes both sides do it. Of course I happen to believe that when you play more of a right wing quote it gets worse, and when you play a left wing one it becomes perfectly understandable.
This was on msnbc today ,there’s a part two but its not on you tube yet
KGC
Once upon a time decades ago, not only did I vote Republican, but I actually had a political column. You might enjoy this back to the future shot across the bow of Jerry Brown
NEW THREAD!!
MQW,
…hoping you realize Krugman was using a “space alien invasion” as a euphemism for war in that clip you posted. You might want to take a few steps back out of the rabbit hole if you didn’t.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/09/09/mars-curiousity-on-the-move/#comment-297361
“… It’s amazing how some people can only recognize selflessness in themselves and allow their own limited experience to define the rest of the world --no matter how narrow that experience is everyone is judged by that tiny little experience — they come in every walk of life and political persuasion — they are surely among the most annoying people around ”
I’m trying to understand what you’re saying here, because I can’t understand how anyone (including us on TM) can judge anything ‘outside’ our own experiences ( as Jack would said, perception is reality) or from what we’ve learned from others??
Does this mean you find ‘everyone annoying’?
Would you say that Obama had a ‘limited’ amount of experience before he ran for president? But then, Ann Romney isn’t running for president. How do you know for sure that the Romney’s don’t ‘recognize’ their entitlements? And how do you know how inexperienced they are?
I’m honestly just trying to understand the reasoning here. Maybe it’s the so called ‘know it alls’ that you find annoying? Is that it?