Loading ...In honor of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, I have added the “live as it happened” mission audio to the blog for a few days. Apollo 11 and her crew landed at Tranquility on July 20, 1969 at 2017 UTC (3:15 pm CDT). This will be an on-going post updated regularly in memorial of that event.
Rep. Cohen has never been very fond of NASA [h/t] Mick Wright
Lift-off
July 16, 1969
To the moon! Commemorate Apollo 11′s 40th anniversary
New Photos of Apollo Landing Sites from Lunar Orbit
Descent – Part I
July 20, 1969
Apollo 11: Forty Years Ago
Remembering Apollo 11
Descent and Landing
July 20, 1969
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
July 20, 1969 – 9:56 CDT
JOHN, What about the shooting of a trucker on Brooks rd????
Unconstitutional!
BS! Same spirit as Lewis and Clark which our founders (and authors of the Constitution) thought to be very much constitutional.
I have heard nothing about a trucker being shot.
Would not be the first time that men made a law and turned around and broke them.
To Mickey breathing is unconstitutional.
Ok, where in the constitution does it say we can do it?
Mickey,
It does not say you can breath in the Constitution!
SO STOP IT!
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;”
We have had this conversation before and the answer is the same. You may not like it, but whether you do or not, exploration is for the ‘general Welfare’.
Please don’t argue the meaning of ‘general Welfare’ with me either. Constitutional scholars a lot smarter than we are have been arguing it for over 220 years now and that is why we have a Supreme Court. You can disagree with them all you want, but Constitutional is what they say it is.
That is why Presidential elections have consequences in such matters. Now we have to put up with it being what ‘a wise latina woman’ says it is.
Thomas Jefferson obviously agreed that it meant exploration for the benefit of commerce with Lewis and Clark
The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce
Congress agreed with him and funded the exploration effort.
so all of OBAMA’s actions (ALL OF THEM) are constitutional?
You would have to ask the Supreme Court that. That is why it is there.
Look through their rulings and most of the issues will have been addressed by it already. I am not a constitutional lawyer or scholar. We are a nation of laws, built upon the foundation of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers. Each generation addresses the issues of its age in light of those documents. No one person (nor should they be) gets to rule something constitutional or not. You will notice that the Court is usually split on such issues because there is more than one way to look at the issue. Madison, Jefferson and Hamilton are still debating and perhaps always will be.
How can that be, since Congress has the authority to tell the SCOTUS they may NOT rule on a specific bill?
It is called seperation of powers silly (checks and balances). Until Congress does set such limitations, then the Supreme’s have the say.
Hey there. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, I organized a feature week on space memorabilia . I invited collectors to displayed their prized space collections. Check it out here http://www.collectorsquest.com/featured-week/Space.html