CAIRO: You may be wondering why the dateline for a story about NASA’s Chief would read Cairo. That’s the point of this “I kid you not” story. Obama as you may know has been canceling space programs since becoming elected. According to the Chief Administrator of NASA their new frontier is better Muslim relations. On a trip to Cairo Charles Bolden set about to achieve his new task and was interviewed by Al Jazerra TV.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Fox News.

This is too mind-boggling for the NIP to comment upon, so we’ll let you make your own judgement after watching the June 30th interview:

MILWAUKEE, WI: Peggy West is a member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors and is calling for support of the Arizona boycott. She finds Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer out of line for her desire to seal the border and thinks boycotting Arizona in retaliation is appropriate payback. After all, according to Ms. West, Arizona doesn’t even share a border with Mexico.

Congratulations Peggy for showing us why the left is so hard to deal with. Could it be that others on the left are like you, woefully ignorant of facts but still more than willing to opine based on their feelings and political orientation?

Judge Stephen C. Robinson

PORT CHESTER, NY: Port Chester has 30,000 residents and nearly half are Hispanics. The village is run by six elected trustees, none of whom have been Hispanic. The Federal court says that the dim-witted people in this village should have elected an Hispanic to the village trustees by now and since they haven’t, federal judge Stephen Robinson has torn up the traditional one man, one vote system that our country has used since its founding and directed that each citizen vote up to six times beginning as early as five days before the election day.

Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation…

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas. Jim Fitzgerald, AP

Some voters have given all their votes to one candidate in the hopes to help stack the deck, presumably much to the satisfaction of Judge Robinson. The election is now going on and final results aren’t in yet. This election scheme could be the one that finally puts Alfred E. Neuman into office.

What if the newly rigged system fails to elect a Hispanic? We here at the NIP certainly hope that Judge Robinson will throw out the election and just go up to Port Chester and pick the trustees he wants. That’s how they do it in Iran, Venezuela and other more modern countries.

BABE HUGGETT: For the malleable young, nothing beats having a role model to look up to and emulate. That’s why sports figures, rock musicians and celebrities need to be so circumspect in their lives. They’re not, of course, because it’s in their commercial interest to keep the current toxic popular culture churning away for their risk adverse, corporate masters. Scandals help to hide the lack of talent amongst the unoriginal, cookie-cutter star set while generating you-can’t-pay-for-this-type-of-publicity headlines sure to push off real news in favor of the mental cotton candy floss so beloved by commercial interests.

However, this type of decadent, inartistic slovenliness gets repetitiously boring after a while and a teen’s radar is exquisitely tuned to winnowing out the bogus from the merely banal. So what’s a poor teen looking for someone to pattern themselves after supposed to do? Our past heroes and heroines are either excoriated for not being politically correct, if they are even mentioned at all, or are considered so out-of-date as to be irrelevant. In fact, what with all this eco-greenie Gaia worship going on in our public schools, humans themselves are not only not held up as something worth while but actively despised for their respective and collective carbon footprints. Even that current socialist secular living saint, President Obama, is proving to have feet of clay for them because BP oil is still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico soiling US beaches, destroying Louisiana tide water ecosystems and killing untold numbers of marine and animal life all while he goes on yet another vacation and/or tees off at the nearest golf course. Read more…

Obama Golfs While Poland Mourns

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE: While 38 million Poles mourned the tragic deaths of their President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and dozens of top Polish government officials, last Sunday Barack Obama decided it was an opportune time to take in his 32nd round of golf since becoming President. President Obama is as good at offending our allies as he is in bowing to our enemies.

Last month Obama snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the White House. Barack Obama was mad that the Israelis did not fall in line with Obama’s order to cease settlements in Jerusalem, their nation’s capital. Obama’s dictate was meant to show the Arab world his power over the Israelis. The NIP further speculates that their disagreement also extended to Obama’s buying time for the Iranians to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.

A newly declassified Pentagon report warns that Iran will have ICBM capacity to strike the US with nuclear weapons within five years. Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that this administration has no effective plan or policy to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. Iran’s regime has repeatedly made clear their desire to wipe Israel off the map, and with ICBMs able to reach the US could attacks on the Great Satan be far behind?

Last year Obama cancelled Poland’s missile shield, exposing Eastern Europe to Iran’s nuclear threat. With Iran’s nukes looming and US striking capacity just a few years away, it may soon be time for Poland to golf while the US mourns.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL: Today President Obama laid out his vision for future space exploration after cutting NASA’s mission to the moon. NASA had discontinued further deployment of the space shuttle to be able to afford their planned mission to the moon due to Congressional budget cuts, and now the moon program has been scrapped. The NIP has previously warned that the US is about to become a third world country in space.

Obama, being sensitive to criticism, scheduled his trip to Florida today to not only shore up support for his NASA cuts but to shine the spotlight away from thousands of Tea Party protests all over the country on this tax day. NASA is one of the many non-entitlement programs that Obama is cutting to finance his socialistic dream.

I interviewed Dick Gordon, command module pilot of Apollo 12 today after the President’s speech. When asked what he thought of the speech he answered, “Not much. The President was long on rhetoric but short on specifics. Wait until the Russians are the only game in town. Their $50 million fee to the space station will escalate.”

Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon was interviewed today by Neil Cavuto after the speech. Cernan stated, “I have concerns about the future of this country. I’m not on board with Obama’s transformation of America. The President’s vision is a vision to nowhere. Nothing has changed today after I heard the President. You can take parts of his glib presentation today and add them up and there is no defiinition, no detail, there’s no real destination, no focus.”

Cernan wrote an open letter to President Obama with Neil Armstrong and James Lovell that graphically warns us of the dire consequences of the decisions made by this administration: Read more…

Today's Discovery launch, photo courtesy NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL: Early this morning NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery, one of the last launches of our shuttle fleet. Only 3 shuttle missions remain this year before the retirement of the most successful takeoff and reentry vehicle in space history.

Considering that our entire communications infrastructure depends on satellites, our administration is taking an enormous risk. Discontinuing the shuttle program before a replacement vehicle has been put into service has severe repercussions:

• USA held hostage to Russians to enter space
• International Space Station is turned over to Russians
• No emergency repairs to communications satellites
• No more repairs to Hubble Telescope
• No entry into space to counter potential Chinese offensives
• No defensive military use of space shuttles
• Our entire communications grid is at risk
• NASA will experience a “brain drain” as engineers leave the program

The “International” Space Station was built almost entirely with US funds. Now it is hands of the Russians. Private space exploration is far from being able to take over for NASA. Virgin’s new commercial space flight has nowhere near the power necessary to project a spacecraft into orbit. Only massive boosters like the space shuttle’s can do that. Read more…