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cuddihy · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 106

Not specific enough to excite anyone, but as one who deals with DOD budgets, wanted to point out --since the election we have all been sitting on our hands with regard to funding. I think the Joint Chiefs were planning to sit on all the money until February if they could. The purpose was to allow FY09 funding to cushion the expected hammer of a 25% across-the-board cut in the DOD that some of the nuttier members of Congress were proposing.
Well, as it turns out it Obama may not be nearly as stupid as Carter. He's apparently keeping Gates and putting Clinton as SecState. These are rational people. These are signals are that no insanely stupid instant draw-down is going to screw us, so over the next few months you will see the contracts starting to trickle out.

The priorities are going to change, but at the normal human pace that doesn't blow things up. So stay hopeful. You may see a decision on Polywell from the Navy in the next month.
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MSimon · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

Yes. I was encouraged by those moves.

Hillary's husband Bill signed the Regime Change Iraq bill. So she has skin in the game. And Gates is not a lightening rod the way Rumsfield was.

I am rather more hopeful about his administration than I was during the election.

He had many different stories on every question and every one thought he was lying to the others for votes. Now we will find out who he was lying to.
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Roger · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 635 Location: Metro NY

I've been trying to tell you guys this for months.

sigh
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MSimon · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:35 am Post subject:

drmike · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 823

Speaking of Obama, you can post a note on one of his web sites and suggest he look into fusion and polywell here: Obama Energy Page. The more votes something gets, the more likely it might be looked at.

Jeff Peachman · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 69

This reminds me of how a whole bunch of space exploration supporters spammed the voting page used for the CNN-YouTube Presidential debates during the primaries. The whole thing was organized by a space activist from Boeing.

IIRC, space exploration topics were voted as about half of the top ten issues, but they only asked one question about it and the candidates gave responses that no one was very impressed with.
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rj40 · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 181 Location: Southern USA

cuddihy sez:

"The priorities are going to change, but at the normal human pace that doesn't blow things up. So stay hopeful. You may see a decision on Polywell from the Navy in the next month."

Why in the next month? That seems rather specific. What have you heard cud-meister? What aren't you telling us?
Surprised

Maui · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 107 Location: Madison, WI

Helius · Joined: 21 Oct 2007 Posts: 400 Location: Syracuse, New York

Amazing! They might actually do research and fix some infrastructure with the stimulus package this time around instead of buying votes....

Does this mean I'm.... not gonna get another handout this time around? Rolling Eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJduPtCvSM

MSimon · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject:

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