Daily Question for President Obama

Q-n-A # 54: Mr. Obama, are you one of those ....

2009-07-14T07:43:00.002-04:00

Men in Black ?

Q-n-A # 53: Mr. Obama, here is proof you been lying to America, would you like to comment you gutless liberal?

2009-07-11T12:04:00.001-04:00

Q-n-A # 52: Mr. Obama, WTF, Whitey ain't buying your Healthcare Reform Scam....

2009-07-10T08:59:00.002-04:00

Nows what u gonna do?

Q-n-A # 51: Mr. Obama, Tell us, are you getting all these ideas from Aliens....

2009-07-08T09:10:00.001-04:00

or, are you just that damn stupid?

Q-n-A # 50: Mr. Obama, The Meter is Running

2009-07-07T08:47:00.001-04:00

But not for all of us.....

Q-n-A # 49: Mr. Obama, Did you know this is a typical Obama Supporter?

2009-07-04T11:28:00.002-04:00

I like Obama's liberal ideas, I will have free bananas.

Q-n-A # 48: Mr. Obama, Did you know someone is looking for you?

2009-07-02T12:04:00.001-04:00

Q-n-A # 47: Mr. Obama, Doesn't it bother you that the Muslim World has shunned you?

2009-06-27T08:59:00.003-04:00

As a Muslim in disguise yourself, Mr. President, just what do you have to say, now that the Arabs think your just another George Bush?

Q-n-A # 46: Mr. Obama, Does this bring back any Memories?

2009-06-24T08:39:00.003-04:00

Reports are running amok all over Africa that your ancestors on your Muslim Father's side wore this mask before converting to Islam, would your like to comment on this Mr. President?

Q-n-A # 45: Mr. Obama, Why Help IRAN?

2009-06-23T13:10:00.003-04:00

Those bastards held over 400 Americans Hostage.
The fact that they want change, then let them do what they did 30 years ago, revolt and overflow the government without any help from the USA.

Q-n-A # 44: Mr. Obama, Where's the Change You Promised Us?

2009-06-01T11:32:00.002-04:00

Gasoline is on the rise again. Consumers are all ready in extreme hardship.
Your energy plans will take years, maybe even decades to come about.
We need HELP Now!
These gasoline prices, are again being manipulated by commodity and derivative traders.
Close the loophole in this con game and eliminate derivatives and gasoline price speculation now!
Gives us the CHANGE you promised, while there still is an America to save...

Q-n-A # 43: Mr. Obama, We're asking the question again - how about an answer?

2009-05-20T12:23:00.002-04:00

How many Americans have to get sick or die before you round up all these useless Illegals and close the border with Mexico?

Q-n-A # 42: Mr. Obama, I see people continue to make products in your image

2009-05-15T07:40:00.002-04:00

Is this your idea of putting two million Americans to work?

Q-n-A # 41: Mr. Obama, So what the hell is going on with all these Illegals?

2009-05-10T08:08:00.002-04:00

You and Congress need to stop bullshitting the American people.
Is this the scum you want to let into our country?
Screw this idea that we can't deport 20 million illegals.
It can be done, you just don't want to kick out low life uneducated assholes who will vote for idiots like you and continue your socialist agenda of destroying America from within.
Now what do you have to say for yourself, Mr. President?

Q-n-A # 40: Mr. Obama, I can why you want national healthcare

2009-05-08T08:21:00.002-04:00

Would you lie to comment on this or any of your other 1,000 socialist programs that will bankrupt America?

Q-n-A # 39: Mr. Obama, I see you're starting to whine like a little baby, any comment?

2009-05-05T12:57:00.002-04:00

Even Democrats are siding with the Republicans about your NEW so-called carbon tax bill that could increase homeowners utility bills for electric by 300%. If you think the economy is bad now and there are a lot of foreclosures how do you expect anyone to pay their mortgage and car payments with idiot Liberal socialise taxation like this?
Your dumbass is headed for a quick impeachment soon as this reality sets in with those stupid voters who put you in office.

Q-n-A # 38: Mr. Obama, more government spending?

2009-05-03T09:06:00.002-04:00

Rumor has it you bought a NEW jumbo jet for Michelle so she can run around the country planting water melon gardens and teaching kids how to be green. Make sure she takes that dumb ass Hillary Clinton with her.

Q-n-A # 37: Mr. Obama, Yes We Can Collector Plates

2009-05-02T10:14:00.002-04:00

I see many people are capitalizing on making money off your Presidency.
Many would like to know what you think of this capitalist concept since you are after all a devout socialist.
By the way, I think this set of Collector Plates really resembles you and Michelle.

Q-n-A # 36: Mr. Obama, is this how you protect America?

2009-04-29T11:42:00.003-04:00

Sign of the times, they say. Reality is the 'Pandemic' has started. If you and the rest of the scuz ball useless ass politicians in America would have woken up sooner, closed the damn borders and kick all the asshole illegal Mexicans out then maybe we wouldn't have this problem.
Tell us Mr. President, what are you going to do when the bodies of Americans start piling up now over this disease you could have prevented?

Q-n-A # 35: Mr. Obama, about your ancestors

2009-04-28T12:34:00.002-04:00

I hear they just unearth a caveman in Kenya that can be traced directly back to your linage. What do you say about that Mr. President?

Q-n-A # 34: Mr. Obama, care to comment?

2009-04-27T13:05:00.002-04:00

Q-n-A # 33: Mr. Obama, have you seen the latest cartoon of you jogging?

2009-04-25T08:24:00.003-04:00

I think it's funny, tell all of America Mr. President do you have a sense of humor?

Q-n-A # 32: Mr. Obama, is this the 'Change' you're talking about?

2009-04-23T14:42:00.003-04:00

If it is it I can live without it.
Your reckless spending, out of control social agenda and issues are turning America into a 'Banana Republic', are you aware of this?

Q-n-A # 31: Mr. Obama, are you laughing at the voters?

2009-04-17T07:51:00.002-04:00

Mr. President you just have to wake up everyday laughing your ass off at so many stupid people who voted for you. America loves a liar and the sheeple have spoken and put you into office.

Q-n-A # 30: Mr. Obama, Does the American Tax Revolt make you feel like you got a Monkey on your back?

2009-04-16T08:43:00.003-04:00

Mr. President and all politicians in America, no matter what party you are in, we are fed up and we are NOT going away!

Q-n-A # 29: Mr. Obama, Are your aware of the upcoming Tea Party?

2009-04-14T09:38:00.003-04:00

Americans are sick to death of losing their jobs, crime, illegals, crooked politicians, and taxes.
A Tea Party will be held, just like real Americans once staged to oppose the British.

Q-n-A # 28: Mr. Obama, No One Ever Hears the Truth About....

2009-04-13T08:32:00.002-04:00

Tell us Mr. President, what is your opinion on the World Order, the North American Union, et al?
After all it should fir right into your socialist ideas.

Q-n-A # 27: Mr. Obama, America wants to know, when is there next Stimulus Check coming?

2009-04-10T07:47:00.003-04:00

Stop giving the world our taxpayer dollars and start helping Americans you flipping Liberal idiot.

Q-n-A # 26: Mr. Obama, Inquiry Minds Want to Know

2009-04-09T10:54:00.002-04:00

Mr. President, is it true you have Fried Chicken and Water Mellon at least once per week at the White House?

Q-n-A # 25: Mr. Obama, Did you hear about the hand?

2009-04-07T08:48:00.003-04:00

Just discovered in space, a Giant HAND, see picture included with this Blog Posting.
Some say it is the hand of God reaching out to crush mankind for being so damn stupid. Personally I am hoping if this is true it just takes all the ignorant Liberals.
Do you have an opinion on this unique discovery?
After all you seem to have an opinion on everything else!

Q-n-A # 24: Mr. Obama, Have You Seen This?

2009-04-03T12:05:00.003-04:00

The newest Barack Hussein Obama Doll.
It looks pretty good, a nice resemblance I think.
The world would like to know what you think, after all you love to see yourself and hear yourself talk.
Comment on this .....

Q-n-A # 23: Mr. Obama, Do You Agree?

2009-04-01T10:29:00.002-04:00

Lets face it, it's time you and Congress get a reality check and acknowledge that...

Q-n-A # 22: Mr. Obama, Rumor has it, you are buddies with scam artist, Robert Allen Stanford

2009-03-30T10:48:00.003-04:00

I see you slamming GM, Ford, Chrysler, AIG, Bank America, and Citigroup but no mention of Bernie Madoff or this guy.
I am wondering why?

In case you don't know who this guy is, here's the story....
Being a Texas billionaire who loved cricket should've raised some red flags immediately. Now Robert Allen Stanford may be charged as the newest scam artist on the financial block...once the Securities and Exchange Commission finds him.
Not that Searchers haven't been looking for the money manager themselves. Queries for "allen stanford" (also known and misspelled online as "robert allen stanford," "r allen stanford," "sir alan stanford," and the like) popped up into the top 5,000 searches after a "caravan" of feds drove up February 17 and took over the headquarters of his financial services company, the Stanford Group, under charges of old-fashioned fraud.
Sir Stanford, however, wasn't there to hand over the keys and to face charges, although his cohorts were. His whereabouts were unknown. One report says he tried to hire a private jet to fly to his Caribbean home but ignominiously failed due to a rejected credit card. It appears only wire transfers are acceptable from sweaty-palmed financiers.
The Stanford Group (which has more than 50 offices spread across six continents), ratcheted triple the searches of its founder. Stanford, however, may only be a pip-squeak version of Bernie Madoff: Despite allegedly perpetuating an $8 billion fraud (Madoff's damage is an estimated $50 billion), there's no evidence of a Ponzi scheme here, according to The Business Insider.
The fraud involved telling customers that the CDs they were buying came from investments in "easily sellable financial instruments, monitored by more than 20 analysts and audited by regulators on the Caribbean island of Antigua." Instead, Stanford and chief financial officer otherwise known as the accomplice James Davis allegedly handled the whole thing, hid 90 percent from oversight, and funneled a chunk into not-so-easy-to-sell assets like real estate and private equity investments.
Still, the why of Stanford's alleged fraud demands an explanation, and people have been seeking clues into the fifth-generation Texan's background ("r allen stanford biography"). His Sir title came courtesy of Antigua although its prime minister once called him "haughty, arrogant and obnoxious." The West Indies island is also where he based his Stanford International Bank and flamboyantly funded the Stanford Superstars cricket team, which beat mighty England in November and won $20 million. Unfortunately, the chance to recoup any losses through cricket is nil for now: The Wall Street Journal reported that the English Cricket Board "suspended negotiations with Mr. Stanford about further matches."
Also, as might be expected from someone who had $2.2 billion to his name, Stanford donated to political campaigns, and Republican senators are now moving fast to shuffle contributions to charity. (They might want to consider St. Jude Hospital, which Stanford had supported.)
The Baylor University graduate also once claimed kinship to Leland Stanford, the founder of the private California university, but the school sued in October to stop that nonsense. That lawsuit will probably have to move a little further down on the financier's docket.

Q-n-A # 21: Mr. Obama, Where's the black outrage?

2009-03-29T10:51:00.003-04:00

Where's your Black Pride Obama?
Pepsi is selling White Pepsi' in Japan?
Personally I think Pepsi and the Japanese are laughing their butts off at your dumb ass!
I say, send that other dumb-ass, Hillary Clinton to Japan and make them stop!

Q-n-A # 20: Mr. Obama, When are you going to tell the truth?

2009-03-27T11:14:00.003-04:00

You're proof the American people are ignorant of Islam.
Under Islamic Law, if one or both of your parents are Muslim, you are automatically born a Muslim.
Your father was Muslim, you attended a Muslim School in Indonesia (only Muslims can attend those schools) yet you claim to be a Christian.
Further, anyone who denounces Islam that is a Muslim is given a death sentence by fellow Muslims.
You were never denounced by Islamic leaders so therefore you are a Muslim in disguise, which is allowed under Islamic Law to promote Islam or carry out deeds of ill will against Infidels (non Muslims).
Americans deserve the truth - when are you going to admit your are a Muslim?
Here is something to get you thinking .... Toilet Paper now comes in 2-Ply with the Koran scribbled on it!

Q-n-A # 19: Mr. Obama, What NO McDonald's Award Scenario?

2009-03-23T08:11:00.002-04:00

Gee Mr. President, you have selected such a fine group of assholes for your Cabinet Post and top economic advisers, I am surprised you don't have an 'Employee of the Month Award.'
Maybe you'll start one after reading this!

Q-n-A # 18: Mr. Obama, When are you going to put a sock in Al Sharpton's mouth?

2009-03-21T10:41:00.003-04:00

That's right this asshole is the biggest racist on the planet and a useless shit stirrer.
If you had any guts you lock this ass-clown up for inciting riots and racism, but we know you will never do that, because Michelle wouldn't let you, ha ha ha ha!

Q-n-A # 17: Mr. Obama, When are you going to open the flood gates?

2009-03-19T09:07:00.004-04:00

President Obama, when are you and the rest of the Democrats going to open the flood gates for African immigration, starting with your roots, Kenya?
After all you have all ready allowed millions of uneducated Mexicans into the USA. What's a few more blood suckers for the taxpayer to burden?
This person has all ready signed up, says there a relative of yours.

Q-n-A # 16: Mr. Obama, Did you forget something in Indonesia?

2009-03-16T08:28:00.003-04:00

President Obama the guy in the picture wants to know when you're returning to Indonesia, you know where you studied to be a Muslim, and get you monkey?

Q-n-A # 15: Mr. Obama, Why aren't Our U.S. Troops given the best equpment?

2009-03-11T12:07:00.003-04:00

March 7, 2008, file photo, U.S. soldiers secure the area next to a damaged U.S. mine resistant, ambush protected vehicle (MRAP), after a roadside bomb explosion during an operation in the area of Al-leg, some 40 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. The Army is updating its manual for the electronic battlefield a move aimed at protecting soldiers against roadside bombs and other nontraditional warfare used by increasingly sophisticated insurgents.
Firms defraud government but get new US contracts anyway, Why is that President Obama?

The Real Story President Obama is hiding from American taxpayers:
WASHINGTON DC – Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report.
Payments went to a company whose president tried to sell nuclear bomb parts to North Korea, a company that jeopardized lives on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, and a seller of body armor that the Air Force said was defective.
The companies were on a government database of 70,000 individuals and businesses suspended or barred by various U.S. agencies from receiving government contract work.
The Government Accountability Office blamed some of the mistakes on faulty computer searches by officials who left out commas or periods. But it also said the search engine for the database often failed to identify any of the entries on the exclusion list.
A hypothetical suspended company named XYZ Corp., Inc. with a comma would escape detection if one searched for XYZ Corp. Inc. without the comma the report said.
The investigators found a staggering list of offenses by companies awarded new contracts. They included use of fictitious Social Security numbers, massive tax fraud, delivery of faulty parts for the military, false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, use of insider information to bid on federal contracts, and Medicare fraud.
Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked in a hearing Thursday, "What is the point of having suspension and debarment regulations if our own agencies disregard them?"
Most contracts were awarded to excluded companies by mistake. However, the Army deliberately continued a contract with a German company, Optronic GmbH, whose president was convicted in Germany for attempting to illegally ship dual aluminum tubes to North Korea. The equipment can be used in the development of nuclear bombs.
The Army paid the company $31 million under the contract, including $4 million after it was placed on the exclusion list. The firm supplied civilians for training exercises for 7,000 U.S. troops prior to their deployment to Iraq.
In ruling that the company should not receive new contracts, the Army stated in July 2005 that the gravity of the conduct was clear, given that 37,000 U.S. forces were stationed on South Korean soil.
An Army official, in an interview, said the payments continued because the convicted president was removed from the company and the firm did an excellent job in its crucial role in the training exercises.
Edward Harrington, deputy assistant secretary for procurement, said stopping the contract early would have jeopardized the two brigades that needed the civilians in their battlefield exercises.
Other examples cited by the GAO, Congress' investigative arm:
_The Navy suspended Tecnico Corp. of Chesapeake, Va., in April 2006, after discovering the company was using faulty fasteners on steam pipes on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy. A rupture could have caused lethal burns.
A Tecnico Corp. vice president, Richard Freeman, declined to comment.
_GAO officials, in their own test, purchased body armor worth more than $3,000 from Pinnacle Armor of Fresno, Calif. The company was placed on the exclusion list in September 2007 by the Air Force, which concluded that the firm represented its body armor was tested and effective, when the equipment actually failed to meet requirements.
Several attempts to reach the company were unsuccessful because the company mailbox was full.
Steven Industries of Bayonne, N.J., was banned in May 2007 after the GAO said it conspired to defraud the government by placing false labels on chemicals.
Bill Rubenstein, president of Steven Industries, said the payments from the government after the company was barred were for contracts that existed at the time.
Gregory Kutz, the GAO official who presented the findings, said the payments were for new orders under existing contracts and should not have been approved under the exclusion.
Chemco Industries, a cleaning supply company, was suspended in March 2007 three years after its conviction for illegally discharging chemicals into the St. Louis sewer system. Officials in the Veterans Affairs Department never checked the exclusion list and ordered new cleaning supplies.
Company owner Kamal Yadav said the firm didn't receive new business during its ban. The government "started buying again after we got reinstated," he said.
The GAO disputed that, saying the company was suspended March 7, 2007, and the new order was placed by the VA on Aug. 8, 2007.
It should be noted that many of these companies donated campaign funds to elect Obama.

Q-n-A # 14: Mr. Obama, About Healthcare in America, please get a reality check?

2009-03-06T08:23:00.003-05:00

When are politicians going to level with the American taxpayer?
You want national heathcare for all Americans because you claim 47 million Americans don't have healthcare.
The facts show otherwise...
The average American with healthcare and their employer pay about $16,000 per year, of this $922 go to covering cost for uninsured at ER rooms that eventually are passed on to heathcare providers in higher cost.
Of those so-called 47 million, over half are illegal aliens.
So try closing the borders, kicking out those who don't belong here that are ruining and bankrupting our country.
Next, the average doctor pays $50,000 per year in medical malpractice insurance. Since you are lawyer you wont grasp this, but try getting rid of these ambulance chasing asshole lawyers that sue doctors, hospitals, and drug companies for every little thing!
So now that the facts are out, what are you gonna do about it?

Q-n-A # 13: Mr. Obama, Why Aren't Inestments Secured Like Bank Deposits?

2009-02-27T07:21:00.002-05:00

Why the hell doesn't the government create a Federal Investment Insurance Corporation, like we have with bank deposits through the FDIC?
This doesn't mean protecting people from market ups and downs or bad decisions by investors. I am referring to money by legitimate investors that is defrauded from companies like Enron or individuals like Bernard Madoff?
Tell us President Obama, where is the security for the everyday average American investor?

Q-n-A # 12: Mr. Obama, The People Demand an Explanation!

2009-02-25T11:52:00.003-05:00

Marine One Under Fire for excessive spending....
Why the hell are you spending so much money on your Helicopter?

More on this ....
President Obama has talked tough about the need to shed wasteful spending. But will he practice what he preaches? His one-time rival, Sen. John McCain, brought up a pricey presidential project that seems a bit unnecessary — a fleet of 28 new Marine One helicopters that will cost taxpayers around $11.2 billion.
At a recent summit to cut the federal deficit, Sen. McCain suggested that if President Obama wants to help the economy, perhaps he should consider canceling his order. Obama replied that he's already looking into it. Obama then joked that perhaps he's been unknowingly deprived all his life, but his current Marine One chopper seems just fine to him. CNN is reporting that the new helicopters, which were originally ordered by President George W. Bush, are now on hold (though not officially cancelled...yet).
Naturally, all this talk of gazillion-dollar equipment has people searching. Folks are desperate to know more about the fancy helicopters, what they can do, and why they cost such an exorbitant sum of cash. Queries immediately surged on "marine one photos" and "why is it called marine one." Regarding the second inquiry: It's called Marine One only when the president is aboard.
As for why the president needs 28 of them apparently, it's a safety precaution. When flying in Marine One, identical choppers travel next to the president's ride. Trickery throws off the bad guys.
But why in the world do these contraptions cost $400 million each? After all, isn't a helicopter just a helicopter? Apparently not. The Washington Post explains that the proposed fleet would be outfitted with "cutting-edge communications equipment, antimissile defenses and hardened hulls." Oh, and a kitchen. You can't forget that.

Q-n-A # 11: Mr. Obama, What are you going to do about North Korea?

2009-02-24T12:20:00.003-05:00

The North Koreans all ready have the 'Bomb' - that's the Nuclear Bomb to you dumb asses that don't know what it is.
Now they have a rocket capable of delivering that warhead to the western part of the United States.
So Mr. President, why don't you stop being like your gutless predecessors and nuke them first?

Q-n-A # 10: Mr. Obama, WTF ?????

2009-02-23T09:01:00.004-05:00

I think you been feeding too damn many bananas to those monkeys you call economic advisers.
Who the hell is gonna pay for all this out of control spending, and just when are you gonna break the news that you LIED to the voters, and start raising taxes?

Q-n-A # 9: Mr. Obama, Where can I get one?

2009-02-21T07:34:00.003-05:00

I'd like a piece of America's History so where can I buy one of these stuffed Obama animals?

Q-n-A # 8: Mr. Obama, It's obvious you have never heard of Market Correction, now isn't that true?

2009-02-20T09:22:00.002-05:00

The housing crisis will pass. But you are making a mess of things that generations to come will have to pay for, if we even survive as a nation.
The housing bubble caused one thing positive, that most overlook. It has again, made housing prices affordable. So why many are losing their homes, and probably shouldn't have gotten a mortgage in the first place, the cost of a home which was clearly out of site for most, is now down to a realistic and affordable investment.

Q-n-A # 7: Mr. Obama, What the hells the story with your U.S. Senate Seat Replacement?

2009-02-19T10:21:00.001-05:00

Corruption, greed, payoffs, old politics as usual ... where's the change, President Obama?

Q-n-A # 6: Mr. Obama, America wants to know, who you really are?

2009-02-18T12:04:00.002-05:00

So, Mr. President, you just can't find your roots!

Q-n-A # 5: Mr. Obama, Where's the change in Washington you promised America?

2009-02-17T08:52:00.001-05:00

Q-n-A # 4: Mr. Obama, Why did we spend $10 Million Dollars on Your Protection for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration?

2009-02-16T11:10:00.002-05:00

Mr. President, please close the borders, hunt down and kill ALL the terrorist and drug gangs.
Do you think you can take your head out of your LIBERAL ass long enough to get it done?
Because I don't think so!

Q-n-A # 3: Mr. Obama, What's up with the D.o.D. and their unfair hiring practices ?

2009-02-14T18:14:00.005-05:00

President Obama, America wants to know what's up with the Department of Defense and their idiotic unfair hiring practices?
U.S. Military Bases around the country are being guarded by outsourcing security for these bases. It's bad enough we are placing the security of these bases in third party hands instead of the traditional military police, but most of the 'Positions' hired by these so-called contractors are not even Military Vets.
WTF - Our Veterans (Vets) go fight for our country and when they return can't even get a job that they are clearly better suited and qualified for than some civilian !!!!
Can YOU Mr. Obama explain this?

So, President Obama, will this be your broken promise to our Vets, remember, the one you made campaigning that said our Veterans need to be cared for?

Q-n-A # 2: Mr. Obama, are you aware of the seriousness of space debris?

2009-02-13T10:59:00.005-05:00

The recent space crash debris will orbit the Earth for next 10,000 years.
MOSCOW Russia – Debris from this week's satellite collision could circle Earth for up to 10,000 years, threatening many other satellites in an already-crowded area, Russia's Mission Control chief said Friday.
Vladimir Solovyov said Tuesday's smashup of a derelict Russian military satellite and a working U.S. Iridium commercial satellite occurred some 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth the busiest part of near-Earth space.
"800 kilometers is a very popular orbit which is used by Earth-tracking and communications satellites," Solovyov told reporters. "The clouds of debris pose a serious danger to them."
Solovyov told reporters even tiny fragments could pose a serious threat to spacecraft made of light alloys because both travel at such a high speed.
Most fragments are concentrated near the collision course, but Maj.-Gen. Alexander Yakushin, chief of staff of the Russian military Space Forces, said some debris was thrown into other orbits, ranging from 300 to 800 miles (500-1,300 kilometers) above Earth.
The U.S. military already tracks 18,000 objects in orbit, but no one has any idea yet exactly how many extra pieces of space junk were generated by the collision or how big they might be. Space experts say the collision created hundreds of fragments, maybe thousands, if tiny pieces are included.
Meanwhile, there's no global air traffic control system that tracks the position of all satellites.
The U.S. military only monitors certain threats in space because it lacks the resources to do everything, said Maj. Regina Winchester, spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the military Space Surveillance Network.
"With the amount of spacecraft and debris in orbit, the probability of collisions is going up more rapidly," said John Higginbotham, chief executive of Integral Systems Inc., a Lanham, Maryland-based company that runs ground support systems for satellites.
Tuesday's collision was the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft, NASA officials said. The Iridium craft weighed 1,235 pounds (560 kilograms), and the Russian craft nearly a ton.
Both NASA and Russia's Roscosmos agencies said, however, there was little risk to the international space station and its three crew members. The station orbits about 230 miles (370 kilometers) above Earth, far below the collision point.
Russian Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin noted the station's orbit has been adjusted in the past to dodge space debris, with Russian and U.S. space officials working together to perform such maneuvers.
Meanwhile, an unmanned Russian cargo ship docked smoothly Friday at the international space station delivering supplies for its three-member crew.
Lyndin said the Progress M-66 spacecraft delivered about 2.5 metric tons (2.75 tons) of water, food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies as well as a second new Russian-made, computerized space suit for space walks.
American astronauts Michael Fincke and Sandra Magnus are aboard the station along with Russian Yuri Lonchakov. The crew size will be doubled to six members later this year.
Picture shows actual space debris orbiting our planet....

Iridium satellites follow near-polar orbits at an altitude of 780 km. The network consists of 66 active satellites that fly in formation in six orbital planes. The planes are evenly spaced around the planet, each with 11 satellites that are equidistant from each other in the same orbital plane. In 2007, the company said it received about 400 notices per week that an object was coming within 5 km of one of its satellites, but the uncertainty in such calculations is large.

What really happened -
Two satellites smashed into each other on Tuesday, creating a mess of space debris that is still being counted.
The collision, which involved an Iridium communication satellite and a defunct Russian satellite, is the first to occur between two intact spacecraft but experts say it is unlikely to be the last.
How did this happen? New Scientist takes a closer look at whether the collision could have been avoided.
Is anyone keeping an eye on everything that's up there?
The most comprehensive catalogue of space objects is maintained by the Pentagon, which uses optical telescopes and radar to track more than 18,000 objects measuring 10 centimetres across or more. The US Air Force compiles data on the orbits of these objects. A large fraction of the information is made publicly available on the website space-track.org.
Does the US government calculate the risk of collision for every spacecraft?
No. The military regularly calculates the risk of collision for priority spacecraft, including military satellites, the International Space Station, and the space shuttle, when it is in orbit, warning operators if there is a risk of a close encounter.
But not all satellites are given that treatment. "There just isn't the manpower or computer capabilities to do that at this point," says Andy Roake, a spokesperson for Air Force Space Command.
Why is it so hard to calculate whether two objects will collide?
If every object orbiting the Earth stayed on a simple path, multiple observations of an object would yield precise estimates of its orbit and position. But orbits change.
Unexpected glitches - such as accidental releases of fuel - can shift a satellite's orbit.
But so can the drag from Earth's atmosphere, as well as gravitational tugs from the Sun, Moon, and Earth, which is somewhat squashed in shape. The military uses models of these environmental perturbations to help refine its estimates of satellite orbits.
How well can the military estimate satellites' orbits?
That's not clear, as the Pentagon may not release its best estimates of satellite orbits.
But space analysts say the data the Pentagon does make publicly available is not precise enough to accurately estimate the probability that two objects might collide.
Tuesday's smashup is a case in point. Using a collision prediction program to perform a retroactive analysis of the satellites' orbits, aerospace analyst T S Kelso found that the Pentagon's public data showed that the two satellites would have missed each other by 584 metres.
But he says the uncertainty in that distance could be several kilometers. "There's no reason looking at the data that was available [to think the Russian satellite] was an immediate threat," says Kelso, who has been working with Iridium to assess the risk that the debris could collide with other satellites in the firm's fleet (see image above right).
Could Iridium have predicted a collision?
Since Iridium likely communicated directly with its now-destroyed spacecraft, chances are the firm had a more precise measure of its position and orbit than could be determined by radar or telescopes.
Still, uncertainties in the orbit of the Russian satellite might have made it difficult for the firm to assess the probability of a collision. "It's like driving a car with a GPS unit and the windows blacked out. You know where you are, but you have no idea where the other cars are," says Brian Weeden, a technical consultant for the Secure World Foundation in Superior, Colorado.
Indeed, according to Reuters, John Campbell, Iridium's executive vice president for government programs, said at a forum in June 2007: "Even if we had a report of an impending direct collision, the error would be such that we might manoeuvre into a collision as well as move away from one."
At the time, Campbell said that Iridium was receiving an average of 400 reports per week of objects coming within 5 km of one of their satellites. The reports were issued by the US Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center. "The ability actually to do anything with all the information is pretty limited," he said at the time, putting the risk of a collision from the close approaches at "about 1 in 50 million."
But an Iridium spokesperson told Reuters that the company did not get a warning before Tuesday's collision: "If the organizations that monitor space had that information available, we are confident they would have shared it with us."

Watch the You-tube Video (debris from satellite collision, sorry this video has no sound)

Q-n-A # 1: Mr. Obama, Where are the Missing Afghan Weapons

2009-02-12T20:51:00.003-05:00

Thousands of U.S. guns sent to Afghans are missing.
More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan's government are missing, according to a government report released Today.

Full Story:
The U.S. military failed to "maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons -- or about 36 percent -- of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008," a U.S. Government Accountability Office report states.
"Accountability lapses occurred throughout the supply chain," it says.
The Defense Department spent roughly $120 million during that period to acquire a range of small arms and light weapons for the Afghan National Security Forces, including rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The military also failed to properly account for an additional 135,000 weapons it obtained for the Afghan forces from 21 other countries.
"What if we had to tell families [of U.S. soldiers] not only why we are in Afghanistan but why their son or daughter died at the hands of an insurgent using a weapon purchased by the United States taxpayers? But that's what we risk if we were to have tens of thousands of weapons we provided washing around Afghanistan, off the books," Rep. John Tierney, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, said at the start of a congressional hearing on the report.
The military is unable to provide serial numbers for 46,000 of the missing 87,000 weapons, the report concludes. No records have been maintained for the location or disposition for the other 41,000 weapons.

The American People Want to Know -
So, Mr. Obama, as Commander in Chief and the person responsible for spending our taxpayer hard earned dollars on a this war, where are the Missing Guns, and what are you going to do about it?

This Blog will ask President Obama Questions

2009-02-08T15:13:00.000-05:00

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