Posted
4/02/2005 01:47:00 PM
by Douglas
Strange news, coming as it does on Friday,
April 1st.US President George W. Bush declared today that he had signed a rare Presidential Decree canceling any further expenditure of Federal funds on the US Space Shuttle program.
"We cannot find any justification to continue the deficit funding of a program that has no application other that proving that with enough money America can do anything," said Bush.
"The whole world knows that already, so why keep spending money on it," he added.
Who could argue with that? But I knew something was amiss after I read this line:
During the press conference Bush told reporters, "I don't want to see another NASA administrator - appointed on my watch - left to justify a program to Congress based on lies, dis-information, half-truths and sexed up reports."
First of all, Bush doesn't have press conferences. Also, no one on the planet, not even Bush, would
ever confuse a NASA report with being "sexed up."