The Enduring Cult of Kennedy!
 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/op...me&ref=general


Note: November 26, 2011

In before August.:haha:

I need to ask about the PT-boat stories:hmmm:.

That's the beauty of dying at the pinnacle of success and charisma. The wide-eyed idealistic optimists of yesteryear assume we would be living in some sort of political nirvana right now if Kennedy had escaped the assassin's bullet. Human and American history says otherwise. Ted Kennedy lived a long time and it often wasn't pretty.

For me JFK will always be the president who Canceled Project Orion and basically gave the finger all of humanity.

...and he did it just to spite you.:yeah::dead:

Quite a good President IMHO.

And pray tell, why would canceling research on nuclear pulse propulsion be giving the finger to all humanity?

Steven King doing a story about JFK? :doh:

It wasn't. TLAM just really, really likes space stuff.

By stranding us here on this rock to we wiped out by war, plague or the next comet that passes too close.

Not to mention the vast amounts of natural resources found outside of Earth that could be fueling our civilization right now:
One near Earth asteroid could have enough mineral wreath to pay off the US national debt.
Saturn has enough He3 to fuel a fusion reactor the size of Texas.
There is enough silica on Luna to build solar mirrors to control rising global temperatures.
and the Ort cloud has enough water to cover Mars in it.

Sooooo... economic collapse, energy crisis, climate change, water shortages: those would all be gone. Not to mention an Orion is one hell of an orbital defense platform capable to engaging ICBMs.

You're presupposing that space travel will change human nature.

Yeah well all the humans seem to get along pretty well with each other in Star Trek, Mr. Smarty Pants. :O:

Oh well in that case, QED. :haha:

Really? From what i've seen of their various flavors, as long as they have to defeat the Borg or the Romulans they get along fine, but otherwise nearly every human visitor to the ship brings drama of one form or the other.

I remember coming home from school in 63 finding mum glued to the radio listening to the news about the death of President Kennedy.

Kennedy was a light to the free world at a time of despair after being devistated by global conflict, and looked like starting over with Russia. He brought hope to people around the world of better things to come.

I know since his death many things about his private life have been aired in public, but let he that is without sin, etc etc.

I find it a shame that people can only pick over this great mans spirit to glorify themselves with pointless and meaningless books and movies.

Let's see...

According to documents released after his death and accounts by reputable persons who were privy to the White House during the "Camelot" years, at the time of his death, Kennedy was actively pusuing an end to U.S. involvement in Vietnam; was moving forward on a plan to either rein in or eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank system; moving to end CIA infiltration of non-political humanitarian efforts such as the Peace Corps.; broadening the efforts of the U.S. Attorney-General, Robert Kennedy, to clamp down on organized crime and its links to the labor unions; pushing for accountability from the FBI (and J. Edgar Hoover); actively endorsing technological advances; attempting to break the "unholy alliance" of the "military-industrial complex"; and, had successfully faced down the USSR...

Not to shabby for less than three years efforts... :hmmm:

Yeah well lets not confuse accomplishments with wish lists. I can say I'm pushing to end world hunger. That doesn't mean I should put it on my resume'.

These were more than just "wish lists"; these were active, on-going efforts, cut short by 11/22/63...

Gee, I wonder who benefitted most from that bullet?... :hmmm:

Well off the top of my head:
The Mob
The Castro regime
The storied Military-Industrial complex
L.B.J.
The Soviets
The Red Chinese

Take your pick...

Oh and FWIW my effort to end world hunger is both active and ongoing. I tossed a buck in the Salvation Army pot this weekend and will likely slip them more before the holiday season is over! :D

He even left his mark in our parts. The diesel engines he gave Tito as a gift are still operational after 50 years

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