Thursday, July 31, 2008

Exciting Day

Today I opened my mail box and was SO excited to find my voters' pamphlet (which is more like a booklet, but why be picky)!!! You may be thinking, wow, she's really taking her right to vote seriously, or, wow, she's easily amused, or wow, that must be some pamphlet.

Well, of course all of those are true, but what I really look forward to in each pamphlet is the Candidate Statement from Goodspaceguy Nelson. And this time he is the FIRST candidate listed!!! He runs for office every time there's an election. He stands for space colonization. Check out his blog: http://colonizespace.blogspot.com

Among other things he describes his significant career experience that would give him the clear ability to serve as our Congressman as "Goodspace guy became an amateur jack-of-all-trades and astronomer and economist and wants to advance rejuvenation and medical technology and wants tall buildings and more movies to be made in Washington state." I don't know. I was on the fence, but knowing he is as passionate about rejuvenation as I am... I can't see how I'd live with myself if I didn't vote for him.

Not to mention reading his candidate statement is enough to make me cry. I mean, to have someone who so completely speaks to my hopes and vision and experience. Read it. Like poetry to my ears.
  • "Goodspaceguy wants Orbital Space Colonization to be one of the great tasks for our new 21st century... after profitable success in Earth orbit, we should then build additional profitable colonies in orbit around the Moon and Mars, where solar power is also plentiful."
  • "Goodspaceguy believes that the number one problem on Spaceship Earth is the tripling of people during the last 100 years... we should use nicer methods (head tax and birth fees and study and work and social security) to decrease the number of people boarding Spaceship Earth."
I don't know about you, but I haven't heard a peep from Obama or McCain about space colonization. Where do they stand? I think this really could be the swing issue this election year...

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