Congress to Get Our Asses to Mars

The US House of Representatives showed their constituents where their priorities are today by passing legislation supporting manned trips to Mars:

“The House defeated moves to put on hold or pare back the moon-Mars mission, despite many lawmakers’ complaints about insufficient funds for local law enforcement, ocean protection and other domestic priorities.

“‘Sending human beings to Mars is in my judgment at best a luxury that this country cannot afford,’ said Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, referring to a $3.8 billion space exploration price tag next year.”

Of course, Barney Frank is an admitted gaywad, so what the hell does he know? Put a Chippendales on the Red Planet and see how fast he changes his queer tune.

Meanwhile, if you do plan to go to Mars, make sure you don’t have any plans to ease the pain of your terminal illness with medicinal ganja while you’re there:

“A perennial move to stop prosecutions of terminally and other seriously ill patients who use marijuana to ease their suffering, in states that allow it, gained some ground but was still rejected by 259-163.

“Rep. Tom Latham, an Iowa Republican, called marijuana a ‘gateway drug for heroin use.’”

I don’t know if Latham has plans to run for president in 2008, but I’m voting for him either way. Only an American hero can see that the gravest threat to our mighty blessed nation is drug use by dying people. Drugs kill, and if you’re an invalid with a fatal disease, it’s the duty of our government to make sure you die from that disease like God intended, not from drugs!

It happens all the time. First you’re smoking a joint to dull a fraction of the constant excrutiating pain that has you bedridden and praying for death, the next thing you know, you’re letting hookers shoot you up with speedballs at the Chelsea Hotel until you choke to death on your own vomit.

God bless you, Congressman Tom Latham.

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