Obama's Idiotic Defense Cuts

They're clinking mao-tai* glasses in Beijing tonight.

First, President Obama gutted the U.S. Space Program. Now he's cutting the muscle and bone out of the Defense Department and armed forces.

As Fox News National Security Analyst K.T. McFarland editorialized:

Whose bright idea was it for the president of the United States to unveil his defense budget cuts [on] the cusp of a crisis with Iran and in the Pentagon’s briefing room? -- What were they thinking?

Perhaps they think it makes President Obama look like a tough commander in chief to announce he’s slashing the defense budget with the victims standing right behind him.

Perhaps they think it’s a smart political move that will appeal to his anti-war base, cutting defense while keeping entitlements whole.

The legacy of the Obama cuts will be even worse, and invite aggression against U.S. interests around the world. Because, guess what, President Obama has only begun to cut back on America’s defenses. There is another half trillion dollars of cuts on the horizon.

It is clear that Obama intends to make the U.S. a second-rate power, both economically and militarily.

It is not Jimmy Carter all over again. It's even worse.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/05/obama-unveils-defense-cuts-while-iran-threatens-war/#ixzz1ifyhYEvU

*a strong Chinese liquor made from sorghum

Apollo-Soyuz Command Module

This notice was sent to me this evening:

Apollo-Soyuz Command Module



Although built to fly to the moon as Apollo 18, its mission was changed when funding was cut for the Apollo program. Also known as the Apollo-Soyuz Command Module, the capsule was flown by American astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand to rendezvous with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft parked in orbit around the Earth. Instead of flying to the moon, its mission was to create a rescue system to serve both U.S. and Soviet astronauts.



You can read more information at http://goto.californiasciencecenter.org/apollo18.

Sounds interesting!