That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. There is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. I could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. I knew the size of it. I knew how big it was. At the time, i could see the whole earth and suddenly tha
And checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. And the only additional thing was going to be the landing. Apollo 10 went through the descent, didnt land. Came back up, aborted. Then rendezvoused. Well, were gonna do the whole thing. And so ive got to give Mission Control credit during this descent. And all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. Mission control actually saved the day on just about every mission. Those 1201, 1202 warnings that could have aborted . Not really. We thought so. I thought so. This was abort. Oh no, computers frozen up or something, so it was a computer overload alarm that i didnt recognize. But the gnn guys did. And they said were going, that alarm. The apollo computer had a set compute cycle. And it cued up the jobs. And if it had too much to do in that milliseconds or whatever it was, it just dropped off the last jobs, told you it was overloaded, and it flipped back to t
Johnson wrote lectures for him for free. What he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. He just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. Many of his effort is hims contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. One is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. It was an impressive struggle. That is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. The people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. If you see this dr. Seuss book it is about the external climb to success. The eulogy virtues is not about an external struggle, but the internal struggle about the things you fear about yourself. Johnson took all the things he feared about himself, his sloth, his envy, and he wrote about them headon and named them and grab them and they went away. Whether it is lover suffering or self defeat, it is that same shape that is falling down and coming up. I think the people who have characte
A spiritual advisor of the 9 11 bombers. This is not some extraneous person. This is someone who is a major in the militarys communicating by email within. Despite all of our surveillance capabilities, we failed to prevent that horrific that claimed the lives of 14 innocents. In your judgment, what could we have done better to prevent that . To be honest, i will answer that question to senator graham. The that may suggest more broadly on both of these that it would be a far better allocation of resources in the nsa and our efforts to prevent terrorism generally as much by resources were big to targeting those who we have reason to know are dangerous. We have reasons to know the islamic terrorist and have less resources were devoted to broderick intersection and her valence of lawabiding citizens. It is to me for some time that the priorities have been backwards and we had to be targeting the bad guys than protect innocents from terrorist attacks and at the same time respecting the Cons
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators looking to vote or to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 54, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. Pursuant to the provisions of s. Res. 15 of the 113th congress, there will now be up to eight hours of postcloture consideration of the nomination, equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid it is hard to believe that tomorrow will be the anniversary of the deaths of 20 little boys and girls in newtown, connecticut. Not only those little boys and girls, but six educators whose lives were taken by an unspeakable tragedy at sandy hook, elementary school. The names allison, aviel, charlotte, daniel, olivia, josephini, anna, dylan, madeline, katherine, james, chase, jesse, grace, noah, jack, emily, carol, jessica and benjamin. These little boys and girls were 6 and 7 years old. They were murdered. Although their years were few, their lives have touched and will con