Old songs are the best. I’ve never been a big fan of Bing Crosby, though. However, this topped the charts in late 1943 for seven weeks.
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“Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth for blood and garbage, and the result is that you are daily overfed and suffer a surfeit. By habit you stow this muck every every day, but you come by and by to take no vital interest in it — indeed, you almost get tired of it. As a rule, forty-nine-fiftieths of it concerns strangers only — people away off yonder, a thousand miles, two thousand miles, ten thousand miles from where you are. Why, when you come to think of it, who cares what becomes of those people? I would not give the assassination of one personal friend for a whole massacre of those others. And, to my mind, one relative or neighbor mixed up in a scandal is more interesting than a whole Sodom and Gomorrah of outlanders gone rotten. Give me the home product every time.”
— Mark Twain
“Italian Without a Master,” 1904
Straight Line of the Day: It’s now possible for anyone to send a message into space. Of course, …
New Project Headed by Apollo’s Charlie Duke to Send Messages to Space
When astronaut Charlie Duke walked on the Moon in April of 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission, he brought along a very personal memento with a message he wanted to leave behind.
“When I walked on the Moon, I took a photo of my family along and wrote a brief message on the back of the photo to leave on the Moon,” Duke said. “I wanted my family to be part of my mission and it was my way of taking them with me – to celebrate my family.”
Duke has now helped spearhead a project that allows people on Earth to send their message into space. He says this project, called AstroGrams, enables anyone to celebrate, commemorate or communicate in space in a truly unique way.
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Duke’s photo that he left on the Moon has long been an inspiration for anyone wanting to leave a legacy in space. On the back of the photo, Duke wrote, “This is the family of astronaut Charlie Duke from planet Earth who landed on the Moon on April 20, 1972.”
The photo shows Duke and his wife Dorothy Meade Clairborne along with their two sons Charles and Thomas, ages seven and five at the time.
Sometimes, the solutions are obvious.
How to solve the Iran crisis? Easy. And, I think the left will go along with it. Why don’t we send an Iranian to the moon?
Now think about it. The left was wetting themselves in excitement when Barack Obama had NASA doing “Muslim outreach.” This suggestion would be the culmination of that.
The question is, which Iranian. Well, I suggest putting no limit on it. We could dedicate an entire fleet, if necessary, to sending Iranians to the moon. And, we could begin with Ali Khamenei, then Hassan Rouhani, and all their generals. Welcome them with open arms, load them on a rocket, and send them to the moon.
Just think about how meaningful all this would be. What’s that symbol on all those flags, after all?
Yep, that’s a crescent moon. So, imagine how important a symbol it would be to send all those Iranians to the moon. That would show just how nice and friendly the U.S. is, right?
Oh, and that star in the crescent and star? I suggest we replicate that too. Like this:
Right on the Mecca Moon Base. We’d do the ultimate in Muslim outreach, and achieve Frank J’s lifelong goal, all at one time.
I don’t see a down side.
