Our own Chris Moody called around to a few of them, asking if they have any plans to remind the Muslim world how awesome they are and how much we value their friendship, like The Agency Formerly Known As Space has been instructed to do. They were all like LOL WUT:
The federal employees at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing know darn well why they go to work in the morning.
“Our job is to print currency,” the bureau’s spokeswoman Teresa Dean said when asked if her agency had any plans to follow NASA’s example and begin outreach efforts to the Muslim world…
The federal Risk Management Agency was even more blunt.
“Are you sure you want to talk to us?” a spokesman replied when asked the same question. “We deal with cattle.”
Just like it’s NASA’s job to build rocket ships and explore outer space. That is, if they can get around to it.
At the risk of alienating a colleague, Chris Moody is full of hooey. The only reason NASA used to build rocket ships and explore outer space was because Obama hadn’t been elected yet. Everything — their lives, yours, mine, even Chris Moody’s — was just leading up to the moment when Obama put his hand on that Bible as if he believed in any of the stuff inside. Now, the government does whatever he says it does. If it bothers you to pay taxes to fund an agency that no longer performs the function in its very name, why don’t you move back to Russia? Go on, we don’t want you here! This is America! Dissent is the lowest form of hatriotism! Scram!
(Sorry, Chris. Tough love.)