DESTINATION DEIMOS: stepping stone to a Mars landing.

HEY, AS LONG AS THE COSTS fall on someone else ....

MAKING A PROFIT seems like a good reason to me. "The National Labor Relations Board Wednesday said aircraft maker Boeing Co. violated federal labor law by building a second production line for its 787 Dreamliner at a non-union factory in South Carolina, siding with union workers in Washington State who charged the decision was retaliation for their past strikes."

MORE here.

NOT ENOUGH TO DO IN WASHINGTON: President Obama will attend next week's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour.

THE REST OF US GET THE SLEEPING CONTROLLERS: FAA announces supervisors must oversee planes carrying Biden, first lady.

TSA UNION ELECTION heads to a runoff. Now it's time for the 20,000 or so TSA employees who didn't vote (nearly 50%) to join with the 3,111 who voted not to elect union representation.

AND THAT IS SUFFICIENT REASON TO RETIRE: "We know that every intersection surrounding this new BRAC center site on Seminary Road and I-395 is going to be at a failing level of service."

ENVIRONMENTALISTS WONDER: Has the green movement been a miserable flop?

Uh, yes.

GALACTIC ROSE.


The Hubble Space Telescope turns 21 years old.

A BOON FOR OBAMACARE: energy-saving compact flourescent light bulbs can kill you.

SO WHAT'S NEW? "[Transportation Secretary Ray] LaHood seems blissfully uninterested in actually making things under his purview better. Rather, he spends most of his time going from cover-your-ass mode to laying on new fines and regs to anyone he can."

PENSION FUNDS unite Wall Street, public employee union politicos: ”The partnership between Wall Street and government unions wouldn't be so troubling except for one simple problem: When things go south, the taxpayer will end up holding the bag.”

COMING SOON FROM THE AIR FORCE: mind-reading drones:

Someone’s got to say it. Predicting a pilot’s intent might prevent collisions. But it can also neutralize a human counterattack. Or it can allow the drones’ armed cousins to mimic Israel in the Six Day War and blow up the manned aircraft on the tarmac. Coincidentally, according to the retcon in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, April 19, 2011 is the day that Skynet goes online. Think about it.

A bit overwrought, I think.

YOUR iPHONE IS SPYING ON YOU, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

NASA, Houston has a problem.

NASA should be honest and provide the answers we seek on the criteria used to reach this decision and why Houston failed to meet those criteria. If, as we suspect, the measures were purely political, we will do everything in our power to make this right.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden has some explaining to do.

CROSSING THE LINE. It is long past time for moderate liberals - if that isn’t an oxymoron - to put their frothing mad dogs on a very short leash (preferably a choke chain).

OBAMA’S FISCAL FANTASYLAND: Obama's [deficit] plan resides firmly in the fantasy camp. "His vision is that America's financial problems can be fixed by raising taxes on 2 percent of the population. Everything else will take care of itself (by kicking the can) down the road."

BOONDOGGLE IN GREEN: U.S. taxpayers cut a $276 million check to a Portuguese company in order to create jobs in Denmark and Vietnam.

THE TOLERANT LEFT: They never miss an opportunity to let the mask of hatred slip. “If the taxpayers of Iowa feel the need to start budget-cutting, the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies sounds like a good place to start.”

HERE’S THE KIND OF IDIOT we must put up with in Washington DC.

This was taken at a press conference held by D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray regarding his opposition to Congress's re-authorization of DC's school voucher program. The reporter is the Washington Times’ Kerry Pickett.