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Well considering that the most successful probes to Mars have been American, and Europe has not even launched one of its own astronauts into space onboard one of its own rockets, (they've always hitched a ride with someone else) then why would NASA want to start up a European style Democracy run by a Secretary or Prime Minister? Russia, if they want, can have Venus, the most successful probes to that planet have been Russian, Europe can get Titan if they want, the only probe to touch down in its surface was European. If I were a betting man, I would say Mars is going to be an American planet with an American form of government, it will take lots of immigrants of course, as that too is an American tradition. Europe is a rich continent, yet they can't quite manage to defend themselves against a second rate power like Russia, they need America's help, when are they going to stand on their own two feet? (That is the question Trump is asking most of all) Why would Martian colonists want a leader they call Prime Minister, that they do not elect directly, that they have to vote for someone else and trust that other person to vote for the Prime Minister they want? That seems like a very round-about form of representation, and the Parliamentarian system lacks balance of power between the Legislative Branch and the executive branch, one of the most famous failures of the parliamentary system was the rise to power of Hitler through parliamentarian maneuvers. Hitler as you know did not receive the majority of the vote, but it was through parliamentarian maneuvering that he became chancellor of Germany, and the lack of balance of power between the legislative branch and the executive branch, both being one and the same, allowed Hitler to rise to become Fuhrer of the Third Reich. Lots of Europeans like to berate American power, but the only Europeans that seem to want to make the sacrifices necessary to become a truly great power are the Russians! Europeans seem to be content to let someone else defend them, let some other country do the heavy lifting for their security. Mars is named after the Roman god of War, I think that signifies something. Mars was a well respected deity in the Roman Pantheon, unlike its Greek counterpart, Mars was not about the chaos of war, but more about the successful prosecution of a war. Much of the success attributed to the Romans was due to their successes on the battlefield. I think Mars deserves a Senate, not a parliament, a President and not a secretary.

How do you know it wouldn't have happened anyway, absent Man? We know that 18,000 years ago, Ice sheets covered all of Canada, right down to the future site of the Great Lakes, The Hudson Valley was formed by glaciers, as was Long Island and Manhattan. There has already been quite a bit of Global warming already, most of that global warming occurred before there was a steam engine, before the first civilization arose on the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Before Egypt built its first pyramids, most of that global warming had already occurred, it probably still is occurring today, the Ice Age is not completely over! If the Ice Age is going to end anyway, of what use would cutting our carbon emissions serve? Even if we cut it, the ice sheets might still retreat, as they were already retreating for thousands of years before the first civilization, before the internal combustion engine. You think we can actually stop the ice sheets from retreating when they've been retreating for 18,000 years? In due course those ice sheets may expand again and we'll have another Ice Age. Do you maintain that would be a good thing?

Here's my Mars flag. Its more complicated than the Martian tri-color, though it uses the colors red, blue, and green, it has 20 red and green stripes, one for ever state on Mars, a Mars planetary symbol on the blue field, and 20 red stars, one for each state, I've added 2 more to the original 18, one for Phobos and Deimos.

Are you sure that a higher education isn't simply being used as a selection criterion and for no other purpose? Do you want to have a bunch of professors, engineers, and mathematicians shoveling dirt? I think a lot of people would be underemployed if we send the smartest and brightest to Mars, so they can then shovel dirt and do needed menial labor and routine maintenance of all the equipment keeping them alive. You know sending people to Mars is expensive, so would you send Elon Musk, as he is a smart guy? Should be he on Earth building new rockets and running his company or on Mars shoveling dirt? Imagine sending a talented engineer and inventor to Mars and him getting all frustrated because he can't fabricate the stuff he wants to build his latest invention. Imagine an astrophysicist that wants to publish a paper for an astronomical journal, but instead he has to do routine maintenance around the base because he is the only one around who can do it. Do you see the problem here?

I don't care what he does with his salary, what he does with the President's salary is no why I voted for him as President. Trump truly does not need it. I'll take his word for it, the issue isn't really important to me. Would you like him to give you a car? His monthly salary could buy you one new car a month!

I don't think Chimpanzees and Bonobos would be very happy on Mars, they are tropical animals, and Mars is a cold place!

On the other hand we could set up a penal colony in the upper atmosphere of Venus, all the criminals could go there. We could keep them alive indefinitely by sending more and more supplies.

Income tax is actually fairer than sales tax. When you run a business, your sales amount isn't your income. you income is your profit margin. Now when your competitors lower their prices, you have to lower your to compete with them, your profit margin goes down so you can hold onto your profit share, but your sales tax stays the same! What happens if your sales tax exceeds your profit margin on the sales you make? Your business goes out of business, it is no longer around to tax next year because the government put it out of business this year, this is what happened to a business I used to own. If it was a tax on my company's profits, I would have stayed in business, but it was a tax on my sales instead, so I'm out of business! Consequently I have paid no business taxes ever since!

I learned my typing from using the internet, in the age of typewriters, I took a typing class in school, but I only really learned how to type when the internet really took off.

1. Accusing his predecessor, President Barack Obama, of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower in the run-up to the election.
Obviously Trump is an old fashioned kind of guy, basically what he means is the CIA was hacking into his computer systems and turning his devices into listening and recording devices, cell phones and the like, and they were doing that with the Russian Ambassador as well, and if anyone talks with the Russian Ambassador, they are accused of all sorts of evil things. You know the Soviets used to arrest their own citizens for talking to an American, as it was automatically assumed they were being disloyal to the Soviet Union if they did so without permission. Trump is doing precisely the same as they're doing to him, presuming someone guilty until proven innocent. The fact that someone talked to the Russian Ambassador is not an impeachable offense, the rest is unproven speculation by an overactive left wing media mind!

2. Using the U.S.’s relationship with foreign governments to personally profit, through his Trump International Hotel chain.
What's the alternative? A Russian Ambassador checks into the Trump Hotel, and the hotel employee at the desk says, "Sorry we can't help you, our employer is running for President so we need to discriminate against all Russians looking for a hotel room!" Considering that it was a Democrat that gave the Russians the secret of the atomic bomb, it was a democrat that allowed the Russians to hold onto Eastern Europe after World War II. Harry S. Truman could have driven the Soviets out of Europe and he did not! It was the Democrats who got us involved in the Vietnam War and then undermined support of that war after Nixon became President! It was the Democrats who cut our military during the Cold War in the 1970s and allowed the Soviets to achieve numerical superiority in both missiles and conventional forces! The Soviets had at best and economy only half the size of the United States, so this was a deliberate decision! We could have matched the Soviets gun for gun, bullet for bullet, soldier for soldier if we wanted to, but it was he Democrats who neglected out military during that time, so they should be the last ones playing the role of Senator Joseph McCarthy vs Donald Trump!

3. Violating the First Amendment (and its protection of religious freedom) through his Muslim travel ban.
It was not a Muslim Travel Ban, it was a ban against immigration from Seven countries, Jimmy Carter enacted a similar ban against Iranian citizens. German and Japanese citizens weren't allowed to immigrate to the United States during World War II. The First Amendment does not guarantee a foreign citizen's right to immigrate to the United States, that is not an expression of free speech  or freedom of religion. If a particular religion declares war on us, we don't have to allow them to come to the United States in order to kill American citizens either.

4. Violating the First Amendment by labeling the press “the enemy of the American people” and curbing freedom of press.
Trump did no such thing. Just calling the press "the enemy of the American people" is Donald Trump exercising his First Amendment rights to say what he wants, he hasn't arrested anyone for saying what they want. The President is under no obligation to talk to any reporters he doesn't like, they are not being arrested for their false reporting, but the President doesn't have to give them access to the White House either! There are many news media, and they all can't fit into the press conference room. Trump has no room for false reporting and fake news by people trying to libel and smear him.

5. Violating Article III Section 3 of the Constitution (“treason”) — there is growing evidence that he may have colluded with Russia to win the election.
There is no evidence only innuendo and false reporting.

More to come I am sure....as DON’T ASK About Russia! Reporter MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell THROWN OUT of State Dept. is censorship.
No censorship is shutting MSNBC down, not throwing one of its reporters out of the State Department! MSNBC has the right to report what it wants, but Trump is under no obligation to give them access to the White House, it is a two-way street!

But it makes you look intelligent if you use them! Anyone who doesn't know them will just nod their head to look thoughtful and polite.

Some applications like the fission powered car are not practical, because this requires distributed small nuclear reactors instead of one large centralized one! the possibility of producing nuclear weapons from the fuel limits the potential of atomic fission to that which the government would allow. Government is forced to partner to electric utilities in order to safeguard the weapons grade fissionables that are produced by the nuclear reactor. Solar panels don't have this problem.