{"id":4118,"date":"2011-02-20T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2011-02-20T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T15:59:38","slug":"what-can-we-do-about-the-teabaggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/20\/what-can-we-do-about-the-teabaggers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Do About the Teabaggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tea-partier1\"I still remember how I felt in 1957, when the Soviets launches Sputnik.  That made two things I knew about the Russians.  They were evil, and they had just done something we (the good guys) couldn\u2019t do.  I felt scared.  Life was simple then for a nine year old boy.  I remember feeling comforted when Jack Kennedy promised we would beat the Russians to the moon.  Today I am 62 and I feel scared again because our nation, once again is threatened.  But if science gave us the answer to what we could do about the Soviets, perhaps science can give us the answer to what we can do about the Teabaggers.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

At least 500 million of those planets are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold zone where life could exist<\/strong>. The numbers were extrapolated from the early results of NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope.<\/p>\n

Kepler science chief William Borucki says scientists took the number of planets they found in the first year of searching a small part of the night sky and then made an estimate on how likely stars are to have planets\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now with 500 million planets from which to choose, I figure that there must be one suitable for Teabaggers to inhabit.  But finding the right planet could be problematic.  First, it must have no other life forms.  To inflict Teabuggery on a nascent population, even of microbes, would be inhumanly cruel.  Second, it must be a planet where justice is automatic.  For instance, when a Teabagger shoots at something he or she perceives as \u201clibrul\u201d, socialist, or Muslim, the bullet must circumnavigate the globe, hitting the Teabagger who fired it in the ass.  Third, in the interest of kindness, it must be a place where Teabaggers can be happy.  That means laws of science (Teabaggers hate \u201cskience\u201d!) must not operate there.  Then they can call up \u201cdown\u201d, in \u201cout\u201d, or whatever insaniTEA they can manage.  They can pollute with no risk of climate change.  They can become more free by denying rights.  Even Sarah Palin would make sense there!  <\/font>Now this may seem like a tall order, but if we can muster the same Yankee ingenuity and strength of purpose we did in the 1960s, we can accomplish this worthy goal.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still remember how I felt in 1957, when the Soviets launches Sputnik.  That made two things I knew about the Russians.  They were evil, and they had just done something we (the good guys) couldn\u2019t do.  I felt scared.  Life was simple then for a nine year old boy.  I remember feeling comforted when […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}