Bush made himself look like an ass again today, although I had to restrain my hecking in respect of my co-workers. So Bush plans to reallocate 11 billion of the 15 billion dollar budget for his "vision" plus another 1 billion dollars spread over the next five years in additionally funding. So basically, he's just full of hot fuckin' air. I don't know if he's ever heard of the adage "put your money where your mouth is." He's going to cut existing programs in NASA to try and implement some crock of shit plan he has, and in the end, it'll amount to nothing. Hell, the two rovers going to mars costs almost a billion dollars ($800M actually), and he expects the same amount of money to be able to put people on the moon, much less Mars? Yeah, right.

During his speech today, I couldn't help but remember in Austin Powers where Dr. Evil dramatically reveals the amount he wants for ransom.

Bush: "One BILLION dollars...[zoom in to his face as he's inhaling with his pinky over his puckered lips]"

So while NASA revels in the increase in its budget from 15 to 15.2 billion next, the military is still getting ~400 billion. Maybe he could spare a few billion from the yearly military budget for a good cause. You know, something that doesn't involve killing innocent people simply because of where they live.

Oh, V.P. Cheney visited JPL today for some facetime in hopes of re-election. I mostly stayed in my office though as security was really tight and there were doing random checks of people (i.e. wand and stuff). I wasn't going to have my privacy rights violated for a Dick.