Oh Sure a Bolt Here and a Bolt There.....

Astronauts lose another bolt to space

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 1 minute ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts working to bring to life a new 17 1/2-ton addition to the international space station lost another bolt to the void during a spacewalk early Wednesday.

Well that can’t be good, it’s not like you need to be rocket scientist to put in a bolt? Oh wait…

I’m still amazed at times, at what we as people, find to be important. The same country that can’t figure out how to get trailers at point A to folks who need them at point B have no issue with dropping billions into a space program. We still haven’t figured out how to rebuild the Gulf Coast or how to deal with insurance companies like Nationwide, but we can still spend a ton on space. Hey don’t get me wrong, it is pretty cool, the whole space thingy, but at times I can’t help but wonder if we might want to reconsider our priorities.

As a conservative liberal I find myself having gone from peace and love look at life in my teens, to how tall should that fence be anyways? When I see pictures of the total devastation that hurricanes reeked on the Gulf Coast and 12 months later much of it hasn’t been resolved, I worry where our sense of reality has moved.

We are concerned with Iraq, Iran and the little man in North Korea, I’m just not sure we all agree on why we are worried about them. My look at life is very simple; fix your own backyard before you look to mow your neighbors. I certainly have no clear-cut solutions to the war on terror or how to make our country safer. I wish I did, I would be happy to share them with you. But it does seem that it might be time for us to take a long hard look at what we as a nation really regard as the most important. Have we become so hardened by the day-to-day events around the world that we just surrender to reality TV as the best way to cope? Hey I was as shocked as anyone that Mike won Big Brother All-stars, and what is the deal with Rock Star Super Nova, why are there no Americans in the final 4? I don’t care who wins as long as it isn’t Lukas, that dude is spooky. And don’t even get me started on Dancing With the Stars, Carlson Tucker, what’s up with that?

I guess I do wonder about one thing though; didn’t they bring some spare bolts with them on the Shuttle? Let me guess, it’s a lump sum bid and procurement wouldn’t allow for any extra charges for 10% field overages.

Gotta run, “The View” is coming on and I want to see what Rosie is wearing.