getting mooned

GETTING MOONED
Okay, most honorable apologies and profuse feelings of unworthiness, I can't give you too much of my drivel today. I had to go to the bank and the RV parts store. Problems with the inverter and I can't do anything needing AC power. It seems I was a dumbass this whole time and was using the plug in not designed for quite the load. It is a wonder the thing worked as long as it did. Now I have to worry about if I killed the batteries. So, despite my earlier proclamation that 12 volt is so easy even I can do it, it seems I was a bit hasty in my smugness. Stay tuned on this one.
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The major media breathlessly announced that we just had our 40th anniversary of landing on the moon. Of course, they also breathlessly announce when a celebrity in Hollywood has a stray thought on world affairs that is at complete odds with reality. Nonetheless, it seems the moon landing news is a new low even for these toupee wearing clowns trying to keep a serious face as they read the Teleprompter version of the National Enquirer. They sound like a seriously fat three chin wheezing windbag breathlessly announcing that forty years ago he delivered the touchdown for the Maryville Molesters that won them the championship. A has-been bragging about how wonderful he used to be eons ago before his 896th cheeseburger, fries and chocolate shake combination tipped his scales from beefy athlete to obese slob. Let's not get into a debate about the moon landing being a Capricorn One event or not and just assume it was real ( I don't doubt it was genuine, but it is fun to play the Devils Advocate in most matters and great fun to elevate the blood pressure on anti-conspiracy folks ). Why was that the pinnacle of our technology?
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Back in the day, we had computers the size of rooms that couldn't match the memory of today's I-Pod. Supposedly we have advanced slightly since the last Nazi rocket scientist has voluntarily given up his secrets to us as a very good alternative to being shipped to Siberia. Unless. Unless the moon landing was the end of our assent. Shortly thereafter we did start peaking on our domestic oil supply, our dollar went off the gold standard and the entire factory system was shipped overseas. I suppose it isn't that we don't know how to get back to the moon ( yes, it is costly, but considering our supply of our ores it seems that a moon base for mining the asteroids would pay for itself ) but that we can't afford it. Unless it never happened, which would also explain things. Or that we never actually thought the Soviets to be that true of a threat and so we didn't think there was a need to colonize space as a back up plan to nuclear annihilation. Doesn't it raise a lot more questions than you thought possible? Fun stuff, now get ready for the eclipse that will kill us all tomorrow ( and you think I worry about worthless crap- the folks harping on that really need to get a life ).
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