Columnist – John Sammon
Did you see where NASA (stands for, no a-hole bigger than a scientist a-hole), the spaced-out agency that wastes your tax dollars, crashed a rocket into the moon? It reminds me of an old racist slogan about Latino immigrants.

If they (immigrants) can’t eat it or steal it, they paint it (graffiti).

The statement for NASA ought to be, if they can’t control it or exploit it, they bomb it.

The military industrial colossus and its technocrat lackeys, not content with attacking impoverished countries for their oil in the Middle East under the guise of bringing to justice a Saudi Arabian (Bin Laden) by attacking other countries other than Saudi Arabia because we love the Saudi royal family. No. Not content with that, they are now bombing holes in celestial bodies, ostensibly to explore the possibility of water on the moon.

The United States has attacked more countries since 1900 than any other country. The United States has the biggest arms budget and is the biggest arms merchant in the world, all the while professing peace and nobility. The United States views other countries who threaten to attack as outlaw states and labels them as “rogue” nations.

But it’s okay for the United States to launch wars because the United States is always in the right. Now, as if that isn’t enough, the United States, in its infinite corporate fascist wisdom, has decided to attack the F..’ckin’ poor helpless moon.

I have this message for NASA. You bunch of white-coated cowards. You can’t even get it up, or grow hair on your chest. You won’t spend a nickel on a decent second-hand computer for a run down inner-city school, but you spend billions to punch a hole in the moon. I bet if angry people came down there to your windowless bunker where you plan your operations, you’d hide under your desk shaking with a slide rule in your hand.

What’s the moon ever done to you?

Oh I know. If we can somehow guess that there was once water on the moon, we’ll be able to say, hey! There was once water on the moon. That will really help us down here. Nearly half of every ten Americans are now living in poverty. We don’t want to focus any effort on doing anything about it.

Just remember the extreme right wing credo, if it’s money spent on bombing someone, anyone, no matter how many billions, then it’s patriotism, but if it’s money spent on helping people, it’s disloyal communism and subversion. Thus, a right wing extremist knows the cost of some things, and the value of nothing.

So what if we blow a hole in the moon? That was a hole that wasn’t there before. All the right wingers claim they know God personally. God created the moon, didn’t he? Then we come along, and defaced it.

We’re proud of ourselves. We love nothing better than gadgets, things. We don’t care about people, just gizmos. If we can punch a hole in the moon, we’re tough, we’re better than others. We dominate. If we can do it to the moon, anybody we don’t like down here better watch out.

Is there any way we can now pollute the moon like we’ve done our oceans? NASA will find a way. We can store our garbage on the moon. Then, we can pound our chest like apes and say, there was once water on the moon, and now our garbage is on the moon. We conquered the moon.

Just let it go. You’re too busy bombing the moon. The United States is also engaged in bombing two other countries under the guise of installing freedom.

Based on its use of bombing as an instrument of foreign policy and its hypocritical pandering to the arrogant philosophy that the United States is infallible and thus incapable of error, and the fact that the United States has in the last century out-bombed everybody else, but doesn’t want other countries to copy our lead and develop bombs. And to now include in the bombing extra-terrestrial bodies such as the moon.

Based on this display of arrogant, sonofabitch, craven cowardly, dishonest, ivory-tower, holier-than-thou, ruthless corporate, chauvinistic, values-twisted, greedy, lying, Roman-Empire-style act of pillage and hooliganism, defacing the moon.

I would like to see the United Nations (UN) formerly declare the United States to be a dangerous aggressor nation.

The United States, if it didn’t rule the world, would be forced to pay a fine and to repair the damage it has done to the moon, and to formally admit that this was an act of simple vandalism, as well as twisted, misdirected values.

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By BARACK OBAMA

This is a defining moment in our history. We face the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — 760,000 workers have lost their jobs this year. Businesses and families can’t get credit. Home values are falling, and pensions are disappearing. Wages are lower than they’ve been in a decade, at a time when the costs of health care and college have never been higher.

At a moment like this, we can’t afford four more years of spending increases, poorly designed tax cuts, or the complete lack of regulatory oversight that even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now believes was a mistake. America needs a new direction. That’s why I’m running for president of the United States.

Tomorrow, you can give this country the change we need.

My opponent, Senator McCain, has served his country honorably. He can even point to a few moments in the past where he has broken from his party. But over the past eight years, he’s voted with President Bush 90% of the time. And when it comes to the economy, he still can’t tell the American people one major thing he’d do differently from George Bush.

It’s not change to come up with a tax plan that doesn’t give a penny of relief to more than 100 million middle-class Americans — a plan that even the National Review and other conservative organizations complain does far too little to benefit the middle class. It’s not change to add more than $5 trillion to the deficits we’ve run up in recent years. It’s not change to come up with a plan to address our housing crisis that puts another $300 billion of taxpayer money at risk — a plan that the editorial board of this newspaper said “raises more questions than it answers.”

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this economic crisis, it’s that we are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers, we all have a stake in each other’s success because the more Americans prosper, the more America prospers.

That’s why we’ve had titans of industry who’ve made it their mission to pay well enough that their employees could afford the products they made — businessmen like Warren Buffett, whose support I’m proud to have. That’s why our economy hasn’t just been the world’s greatest wealth creator — it’s been the world’s greatest job generator. It’s been the tide that has lifted the boats of the largest middle class in history.

To rebuild that middle class, I’ll give a tax break to 95% of workers and their families. If you work, pay taxes, and make less than $200,000, you’ll get a tax cut. If you make more than $250,000, you’ll still pay taxes at a lower rate than in the 1990s — and capital gains and dividend taxes one-third lower than they were under President Reagan.

We’ll create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and laying broadband lines that reach every corner of the country. I’ll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new, green jobs that pay well, can’t be outsourced, and can help end our dependence on Middle East oil.

When it comes to health care, we don’t have to choose between a government-run system and the unaffordable one we have now. My opponent’s plan would make you pay taxes on your health-care benefits for the first time in history. My plan will make health care affordable and accessible for every American. If you already have health insurance, the only change you’ll see under my plan is lower premiums. If you don’t, you’ll be able to get the same kind of plan that members of Congress get for themselves.

To give every child a world-class education so they can compete in this global economy for the jobs of the 21st century, I’ll invest in early childhood education and recruit an army of new teachers. But I’ll also demand higher standards and more accountability. And we’ll make a deal with every young American: If you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford your tuition.

And when it comes to keeping this country safe, I’ll end the Iraq war responsibly so we stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq while it sits on a huge surplus. For the sake of our economy, our military and the long-term stability of Iraq, it’s time for the Iraqis to step up. I’ll finally finish the fight against bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century, and restore our moral standing so that America remains the last, best hope of Earth.

None of this will be easy. It won’t happen overnight. But I believe we can do this because I believe in America. This is the country that allowed our parents and grandparents to believe that even if they couldn’t go to college, they could save a little bit each week so their child could; that even if they couldn’t have their own business, they could work hard enough so their child could open one of their own. And at every moment in our history, we’ve risen to meet our challenges because we’ve never forgotten the fundamental truth that in America, our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

So tomorrow, I ask you to write our nation’s next great chapter. I ask you to believe — not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours. Tomorrow, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, create new jobs, and grow this economy so that everyone has a chance to succeed. You can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo. If you give me your vote, we won’t just win this election — together, we will change this country and change the world.