{"id":952,"date":"2009-10-09T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-10-09T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:51:35","slug":"lunar-lunacy-business-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Lunacy, business, and ‘peace’"},"content":{"rendered":"

America deliberately crashed two unmanned NASA spacecraft into the moon to see if they will “kick up some ice,” according to an Associated Press report. \u00a0 We, I’m sure, have spent millions, if not billions, of dollars on this. \u00a0 Meanwhile, scores of people in the Third World die from drinking tainted water every day. \u00a0 Would it not make sense, common sense, to spend some of this NASA money on water purification systems for the people on this planet? \u00a0 The article headline today read: \u00a0 Moonstruck: One Giant Thud for Mankind.<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 It could have also well read: Lunar Lunacy.<\/strong>..<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 I went to a talk today by Dr. Carolyn Woo, who is the Dean of the College of business at the University of Notre Dame. \u00a0 She said these days the boundary between work and family is tremendously blurred. \u00a0 That is even when home, people will spend, say, a bit of time with the kids then retreat to a room to work on the computer, then they’re on the cell phone talking business, then… \u00a0 Many Amish won’t have a phone (even a rotary one) in their home, because they see it as a distraction to focused family time. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today. \u00a0 One of his stances promotes the wholesale, violent killing of unborn babies. \u00a0 ‘Peace’ in the womb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America deliberately crashed two unmanned NASA spacecraft into the moon to see if they will “kick up some ice,” according to an Associated Press report. \u00a0 We, I’m sure, have spent millions, if not billions, of dollars on this. \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}