I have been unemployed since Mar. 2009 and have been unable to find a job. What they don’t tell me is my age at 58 is the reason that I do not get hired. Most jobs that I have applied for,( like many Americans) I am over qualified for and still I do not get the job. I should be in Tier IV of unemployment benefits, but because I did not make the cutoff date, I have no more benefits. Capital One Auto Finance just got off the phone with me and stated that they are going to repo the car due to non-payment. Once this happens, then how am I to hunt for a job? I hear that Australia has low unemployment and jobs for anyone that can get there. But unfortunately I don’t have the funds to do that. I am now at the end of my rope (as many of us are) and looking down at a very long drop.

It’s time that the American people are taken care of first. I am a veteran and was all for the war in Afghanistan to stop AL-Qaeda from having training camps. I supported this because the lives that had been taken on 9/11 called for some military action. Like most Americans I raised and flew the Flag to show our unity and pride for this country. One war would be the only one that our military could handle at one time. More than one theater of operation would stretch the military to the limits and close to the breaking point, where we are today. We are now in two wars with no real end in sight for either. To pull our troops out now would be a slap in the face of those that have given the total sacrifice by dying in these wars. It now has been 9 years and how much more in lives and money do we have to pour out?  Do we continue to forget history and what Vietnam taught us? We are reliving the past and should have learned from our mistakes in that operation. We are now stuck between two wars that are costing us dearly in Fathers, Sons, and Daughters that we will never be able to replace. We need to get out, bring our troops back home and safe and use the money we are spending for that to get the United States back on her feet.

The Senate states that we need to cut spending and they have looked high and low, cutting many programs to decrease the deficit. Most of these cuts have been focused on the middle and poor class Americans. They have done everything to find extra money but one, by looking to themselves. We need to tell Congress that they work for us, each and every American and that all useless bills need to end. Bills should stand alone, no added items that someone wants to get passed buried within hundreds of words so that no one would notice. This also includes pork-bellies that are for only one state. Why do we send money overseas to countries that hate us and have stated over and over again, this will never change? They have been fighting each other for hundreds of years and that will never change.

The way to stop the economic downfall, and for this country to get back on its feet, is to have the House and Senate members take a pay cut. We need to limit the number of terms that they can hold office to two terms (we have term limits on the President of two terms, why not the House and Senate)? Once they leave office they should not receive stipend for the rest of their lives (American citizens do not get this, so why should they)? Make them pay for their health insurance as we all have to do now. Maybe they would see what it’s like to live from paycheck to paycheck. These cuts would save the taxpayers of America millions of dollars. They should have to stay in session if there are any unresolved issues or bills, like the unemployment issue that is still hurting many lives.

 President Obama stated we need a change and he is right on that issue. Both the House and Senate need to be changed, all need to be sent home and do whatever they do when they are not in Congress or in Washington! They need to remember and understand that they work for the people, each and every one, and not only to line their pockets from the rich.

Let’s take our country and government back, controlled by the people as is stated in the first lines of the Constitution of The United States “We the People” and not “We the Government”.

Governor Jim Gibbons, the only sitting Governor to ever not be re-nominated to run by his own party, has chosen to target Senate Major Leader Harry Reid as the reason why the state was eliminated for educational federal funding consideration. Gibbons, tiresome even to his own GOP party, refuses to acknowledge that it was his responsibility, along with the State legislation, to ensure the proper requirements were met to be considered in the funding distribution.

Senator Harry Reid, however, has Gibbon’s number. The 18 states chosen for assistance were picked because the governors and government within said states aggressively went after funding to bolster up their educational systems.

Blame falls squarely on the special session of State legislators held in February 2010. The legislation removed 15 words from a statute that allowed student test scores to be banned when evaluating teacher performance. The removal of these mere 15 words, and an apathetic approach and concern for the long-forgotten quality of education in Nevada are clear indicators as to why Nevada was not chosen in the Race to the Top.

It appears, once again, that 51st place is “good enough” for Nevada. May god have mercy on its citizens.

Stories of unsolved murders have long been a subject of great books and movies, most of the time these stories are of killers you probably heard of at school, or on the news or, indeed, other movies or books.  The most famous would be the likes of the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper, both of these killers shared one major thing, neither was ever caught.

Theories abound, Jack the Ripper worked for the Queen killing prostitutes working in Whitechapel who knew of an illegitimate heir to the throne born of a tryst between Prince Albert and an local whore.  Some believe it was Albert himself wielding the knife.  After over 100 years and still no real leads, I have resigned to never knowing, or living under the assumption that the Royal Family knew then, know now and continue to cover it up.

Zodiac… Badass.

While Jack the Ripper is an English tale, Zodiac is American lore.  Credited with starting the old killer messes with the cop’s routine, Zodiac was a west coast killer who would write letters and ciphers demanding they be published in the paper.  Jack the Ripper did it first.  However, a lot of the Ripper letters are regarded as fakes.  Although one or two are thought to be real by true Ripperologists, in particular the From Hell package containing part of a human kidney, the other part ‘Saucy Jack’ ate.

The Zodiac Killer hunted humans, and for a long time was believed to be a man called Arthur Leigh Allen, DNA says otherwise, but again, we will probably never know.  This is the reason we become drawn to these stories, particularly after some time has passed, the mystery.

There is such a mystery in Scotland.  The story of Bible John is one that almost every West Coast Scot knows; it is the story of murder at what is now Scotland’s best Venue, the Barrowlands.

Back in the day the Barrowlands in Glasgow was a dance hall, today it is the only decent large live music venue in the country.  Bible John frequented this “den of iniquity” as he called it, and it is where he found his 3 known victims, all of whom were menstruating, and all were strangled with their own stockings.  He was given the name Bible John after he was heard talking about the bible, and sin, etc. the war cry of the religious maniac.

Much like the Zodiac case, the police in charge of the Bible John case have a prime suspect, but a lack of solid evidence makes it impossible to make an arrest.

Tobin & Bible John

In 2006 the body of Polish student Anjelika Kluk was found under the floor of a church in Paisley, fingers pointed straight at the creepy handyman who blew in to town not long before the grisly discovery.  The name he gave was Pat McLaughlin, his real name was Peter Tobin, a man with a dark past filled with suspicious deaths, child abuse and prison

He was found guilty of the young Polish student’s murder and sentenced to 21 years in prison, once found guilty the Police started digging in his known previous addresses; evidence gathered from these digs linked him to the murders of Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton.  He was charged with these murders and will now die in prison.

It was not long before reporters and the police started putting pieces together and noticed similarities between Tobin’s M.O and that of Bible John.  Not only that but the artists impression of Bible John could easily be a young Tobin, who lived in a house that had access to a back lane where one of Bible Johns victims was discovered.

On the surface Tobin is a fit for Bible John, he certainly shares the same evil tastes.  Naturally, he is not saying much in the way of a confession, but if we have learned anything about serial killers in UK is that they love to bury the evidence where they live, a move I have never fully understood.  Fred and Rose West buried so many bodies in their foundations that I am surprised the house did not collapse.

Jack the Ripper's last known victim.

Serial killers are the rock stars of the criminal world, by that I mean you wouldn’t want to spend time with one.  The actions of these mad men and women are disgusting and tragic, such a disregard for human life is something us regular folks could never comprehend.  Although, in saying that do you think Mary Kelly would think, while up some dirty alley way in Victorian London having sex with a disgusting drunk, that she would not only be remembered over 100 years later, but portrayed in Hollywood movies.  Obviously not, Hollywood movies had not been invented at the time, but you get my drift.  She became famous because someone (possibly Royal) did this to her.

Tobin may only ever admit to three killings, but the advancements in DNA and forensics alongside his known habits, burying bodies and evidence in “secure” places could lead to his downfall very soon.  The police are digging and are sure to find something to tie him to the Bible John killings, if indeed he is the 60′s killer who is also credited with 3 killings.  The exact number of people killed by Tobin and Bible John may never be known.

Copycat killers do not count due to a lack of originality.  Like cover bands.

Henry Hunter WorldNewsVine Scotland

World Cup 2010 is finally over.  The final was played last night, and the third place game the previous night.  In what was probably the worst final of anything I have ever witnessed with the exception of reality TV finals, Spain won, football lost and if anyone is left watching in Brazil 2014 I will be shocked and appalled in equal measure.

Tournament villains Uruguay and Germany contested the 3rd place game.  Sadly, neither of these teams got to the final, had they done so it would have been a vaguely entertaining final, but they did not, and it was not.  Germany took the lead early before finding themselves down 2-1 midway through the second half.  Uruguay’s lead lasted an epic 5 minutes before Germany equalised and then scored a last gasp winner and placed in yet another World Cup final.  The best team in this tournament by a long shot, and had they met the eventual winners Spain, the young Germany would have eaten them alive.

As bitter sweet as winning 3rd place is, I’m sure Germany will take a lot of good points from this tournament, proving that it is possible to play great attacking football even if the rules set in place by FIFA are completely detrimental to the sport.  A pointless game, deciding who is the second loser of the tournament, but at least the two teams played with the intention of scoring goals.

The final was not great; it was not as bad as, say, the Japan v Paraguay game, that could be the worst game in world cup history…  Spain v Holland at least has some of the best players in the world, Spain in particular…  It is a shame that they are utterly detestable.

The highlights reel of this final will be made up pretty exclusively of violent attacks as the Dutch team figured out the best way to deal with a superior passing side, they simply kicked the Spaniards off the park…  This is a good strategy as long as you remember to score goals, but when one of your top scorers is thinking more about taking a dive; your chances of scoring drastically diminish.

Robben, the Netherlands one footed right-winger had various chances to score, but for the Spanish goalkeeper/captain Casillas, and Robben’s own desire to fall over in the box.  It must be frustrating for a player like Arjen Robben, he only has one move, and the Spanish defence knew all about it.  Late on he did have the beating of Puyol who could do nothing but pull Robben back.  Had Robben gone down he would have won a freekick, but he was not ready to take a fall until he was in the box…  It did not work.

The English official in charge of the final has come under fire for his apparent reluctance to issue any red cards, it got more and more ridiculous.  When De Jong decided to introduce his foot to the chest of Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso, he was allowed to stay on the pitch.  Granted, this was the worst foul not to see red, but it was not just with discipline that Howard Webb got wrong; he deprived Holland of a blatant corner kick in the dying minutes, just before Spain found their goal through Iniesta.

Obviously Dutch players have voiced their opinions on the English ref and his assistants, Robben being one of the most vocal.  Had Robben held his nerve and done what he gets payed handsomely to do, and just lift the ball over and already grounded keeper then he wouldn’t be moaning.

“He has robbed us” was what Dutch star Sneijder had to say…  He was talking about the ref, not Robben, who really lost the game for Netherlands.

In the end Spain deserved to win, the way they play might not be even remotely interesting, but they ran rings round Holland, who were no more impressive than a pub league side that is only good at hitting people…  This will continue to trend as the new rules which prohibit tackling turn the game into a non-contact game of cat and mouse, pass pass pass pass pass pass passsssszzzzzzzzz!!

This style of play obviously works, as Spain are now European and world champions…  That doesn’t mean you have to like them.  They notched up quite a few results that you would be forgiven for thinking was binary code, and didn’t set the tournament on fire as they were expected to do.

We can let the viewers decide, are we excited about another world cup if we know that it will be played the way this one was…  Players not taking chances in front of goal in fear of being caught on the break, no big tackles in fear of being carded, grown men rolling about on the floor as if they are engulfed in flames because someone stood on their toes…  It is not for me.  I watched the whole tournament and I feel cheated.

Changes to the fundamental rules of football have drastically changed the game…  Some for the good, like making it against the rules for a keeper to pick up a pass from his own player in order to waste less time, or clamping down on tackling from behind, an act that has deprived us of some great talent who have seen their career end too soon.

What is utterly ridiculous and completely detrimental to the sport is when referees blow their whistle and issue a card because player A has tackled player B from the front, but with “excessive force”, going through the ball and hitting the player is now against the rules…  What is to happen to the last gasp match saving tackle?  It will be outlawed along with spitting, swearing, and scratching your arse because it might rub off on kids who play in leagues all over the world, and we do not want that…  We, apparently, want our young generations of budding stars to look, play and wear dumb colourful boots like Christiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese Man-Woman…  Not crazy tackling, foul mouthed psychopaths with dubbin and blood on their boots.

Maybe an Armani jock strap would have been useful.

There is a lack of role models, decent ones anyway, when I was a kid footballers were photographed grabbing other player’s balls as a stamp of authority, now they are photographed showing off their balls in Armani drawers…  I realise it is cliche and tired to complain about the amount of money in football, but the problem is that with that amount of money in the game there is a level of expectation, this may be a Scottish thing as we like to get the most from our money, but when the big players who get payed the big money don’t entertain me, I get angry.  All they have to do is run around a big grass pitch, show some skill, score some goals, throw in some tackles…  This seems like too much work for some, usually the ones with the fattest wallets.  It isn’t like we expect them to perform brain surgery, or even string a sentence together.

The World Cup was brought to you by: McDonalds, Mars bars, Bud and Coke…  The big players earn over £100,000 per week playing domestic football, they are paid millions to advertise the big products, and if you want the latest Nike boots that are so light you can’t feel them, and so colourful that you can’t polish them on a Sunday morning before the game you will have to part with over £100…  The replica shirts cost £40 and adding a name cost extra…  And to think the England fans had the cheek to boo poor old Wayne Rooney for playing like a brat… a fat, useless, overpaid, under-performing, self absorbed, balding brat…

Capitalism is awesome.

Washington, D.C. (Jun 28) – H.R. 4213 American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act is a bill that would help American families get by during the Greatest Recession in American history, a bill designed to put American workers back to work, and provide for an unemployment extension.

The current version of the bill blocked via filibuster by the Republican Party is designed to cut taxes for businesses, facilitate small business loans, and increase investments in highways and other infrastructure projects. The bill also would extend unemployment extensions under the current EUC program while providing housing assistance to individuals that have lost their jobs providing a roof over themselves and families.

To date, nearly a million American’s have lost any form of assistance via unemployment insurance programs due to the Republican Party reneging on their original March 2010 agreement, then titled H.R. 4213 Tax Extenders Bill, when Republicans ran a filibuster against the original bill passed by the House in December 2009. The original bill was to be fully offset and paid for utilizing recaptured TARP monies. This was unacceptable for unknown reasons to Senate Republicans hence, the creation of the existing bill to which, Senate Republicans stated they would completely endorse.

The current revision of H.R. 4213 was trimmed back by nearly 50 percent, by cutting the health care benefits regarding COBRA, removing the additional $25 per week increase in unemployment benefits, along with drastic reductions in Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare. The price tag of the original H.R. 4213, nearly $200 billion dollars. Currently the bill carries a price tag closer to $118 billion with over 70 percent of the bill being paid for with offsets.

American families are now facing a crisis never witnessed in current times, homelessness, lack of medical care, and children simply going hungry.

Senate Republicans still refuse to allow for what little assistance unemployment or unemployment extension have to offer to those that lost their jobs due to fiscal mismanagement, and failed economic policies created within the past administration. Senate Republicans have proven once again, if given the choice, supporting their rich campaign donors with trillion dollar bailouts, or keeping a roof over the heads of American families, American’s lose out.

Rumors are abundant regarding one final Senate move to end the Republican filibuster, Constitutional Action known as the “Nuclear Clause” an option threatened by Senate Republican Frist in 2005. This clause is a procedural ruling once invoked states that the will of the majority will be effective. Senate Finance Committee members need to go back to the bill, have the bill rescinded and laid back on the floor as the original House bill was written in 2009, that is utilizing recaptured TARP monies, and then enact the Nuclear Option and get American breadwinners back to work, and allow American families a fighting chance to return to a normal life.

When the Senate reconvenes this afternoon, prior to the extended Fourth of July recess, the plan is to take up a Small Business bill. One would only hope that by Wednesday of this week in celebration of the nation’s Declaration of Independence, the Senate Leadership enacts the Nuclear Option as described above sending the original bill introduced and passed by the House, back in December 2009 to President Obama’s desk for signature. This would truly be America’s Independence Day, the promise of fair representation and taxation to which the Republican Party completely refutes.

God Bless America!

Washington, D.C. (Jun 24) – The Senate vote on cloture on H.R. 4213 Jobs Extenders and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 has failed.

Prior to the vote Senator Snowe (R-ME) after a long-winded speech to defend herself against an article in today’s NY Times, the Senator emphatically stated she was voting against cloture. It would appear that once again, the GOP robots have lined up to vote against their own bill.

Once again, the Republican Party is more concerned about protecting tax shelters for the rich over support for America’s working class.

The minority party is once again calling on the Senate to re-write their own bill, H.R. 4213 and offset any emergency spending with Stimulus funds that are unavailable for use. This is one loud and clear message being sent by the GOP, “We do not want to directly help the over 24 million unemployed or underemployed Americans.”

The unemployed can soon expect to see an increase in their COBRA payments as well. The direct consequence will be millions of men, women, and children going without healthcare as well as, food, shelter, and a chance of stability in their lives.

Exactly what is it the Republican Party wants Americans unemployed to do is the question. It is obvious that the big money bankrolls sponsoring their seats in the Senate have more influence over their decisions then common sense and decency.

With nearly 1 million Americans having already exhausted their standard weeks and extended unemployment compensation benefits, with millions more to follow in less than a week, a national emergency needs to be declared by President Obama to at least get FEMA camps set-up to handle the flood of homeless American families.

These families will still need food, medical care, and shelter as much as any other homeless human being on this planet that the United States so quickly dishes out materials and cash to provide for those suffering.

It is once again a sad day for America; the Republican Party has once again proven that only the wealthy in the United States needs to be taken care in the form of tax breaks and credits. As more and more American’s go without, credit ratings will decline, mortgages will foreclose, and credit cards and medical payments go unpaid. This decision by the Republican Party has just caused more damage than any single action ever taken by any foreign or domestic enemy in the history of the United States of America.

God bless and help America’s unemployed and underemployed, for the Republican Party has just condemned them to a life undeserving of any.

WNV Update 7:13 p.m.

- Senator Levin (D-MI) just stated on the Senate floor that the Democratic Leadership is NOT giving up it’s fight for the unemployed… No word on a way around the GOP filibuster was announced…

Kyrgyzstan refugees return - Courtesy of UN News

New York, NY (June 23) – United Nations officials have announced that despite ongoing security concerns, thousands of civilians displaced during recent ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan are beginning to receive vital aid.

United Nations spokesperson Elizabeth Byrs of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a statement in Geneva that the security situation is not under control in southern Kyrgyzstan to include the city of Osh.

Government troops have attempted to clear barricades on the streets of Osh and are being met with heavy resistance. Spokesperson Byrs stated, “That the tense situation is hampering the delivery of humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons (IDPs), which number about 300,000 in Kyrgyzstan.”

All toll approximately 100,000 civilians have fled the area seeking safe haven in neighboring Uzbekistan. Aid agencies have assisting the Uzbekistan government in handing out relief items.

Adrian Edwards, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters, “The Uzbek authorities have themselves been handing out UNHCR relief items, and our own emergency team has been on the ground in the Andijan area since Friday visiting sites and doing assessments.”

The security situation is also preventing members from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from carrying out essential goals of their mission. In the past, UNICEF has provided measles, and rubella vaccinations in the region.

Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe had this to say about the ongoing crisis, “WHO and health partners stress the urgency of providing the necessary health care and support to the communities affected by violence.”

The director added, “People affected by the violence must be able to receive health services – in particular those who have been wounded in gunfire, those who have suffered from sexual and gender-based violence, those suffering from chronic diseases, and children who need vaccination against polio.”

 source: UNited Nations Press Release

By Eromo Egbejule, Nigeria

A prominent Nigerian traditional ruler, Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina the Deji of Akureland, on Sunday evening physically assaulted one of his wives in a chaotic situation fight in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The Oba and his latest wife, Remi Adesina, descended on Olori Bolanle Adesina and wounded her severally.

The incident was said to have happened around 5.30pm on Sunday when the the Oba and Remi, stormed the residence of the second wife located on 141, Hospital Road Akure, in an SUV and Toyota starlet.

The younger brother of Olori Bolanle and some passers-by descended on the Nissan Pathfinder brought to the scene by Oba Adesina. The vehicle, which was marked “Deji of Akure”, was seriously damaged by irate youth, who vowed to deal with him.

In trying, to escape being beaten up by the people of the neighbourhood, the Oba fell into the drainage along the road and his cap allegedly fell off his head. It took the quick intervention of police officers from the state command to save him from being lynched by the irate mob.

Reasons for the traditional ruler’s violent action are still sketchy currently.

By Eromo Egbejule, Nigeria

Serving Irish Bishop and Archbishop of Benin City, Richard Burke, yesterday resigned over child sexual abuse he allegedly committed while serving as a priest in the Warri Diocese. This further compounds the tide of sexual scandals that the Catholic Church worldwide has been experiencing in recent times.

According to the Irish Catholic website, the Pope has accepted the resignation of the Tipperary-born Archbishop, on Monday, saying, “the reason for his resignation was his failure to observe his vow of celibacy.”

WorldNewsVine learnt that the erstwhile priest had initially relegated his office as Archbishop of Benin by stepping down in early 2009, after an allegation of child sexual abuse, which he denied. The victim had been one Dolores Atwood, (a woman) who claimed Mr. Burke sexually abused her when she was 14 years old, while the Archbishop was serving as a priest in the Warri Diocese of the church.

In his resignation statement addressed to the Pope and made available to WorldNewsVine, Mr. Burke apologized for the “pain and hurt” he has caused Mrs. Atwood, who is now based in Canada, and her family, stating, “she and I had a caring relationship that began in the latter part of 1989, when she was 21 and I was 40. I was posted back to Ireland in March 1990, and returned to Nigeria in April 1996.”

He further described the sexual escapades with the woman as against the Catholic’s celibacy doctrine, stating, “In the last 20 years, Mrs. Atwood and I met on seven occasions. On three of those occasions, our relationship was again expressed sexually. This was entirely inappropriate behaviour and it is something for which I am truly sorry,” he expressed in the statement to the Vatican.

It remains to be seen how Nigerian Catholics and Christendom in general will react to the situation that is fast becoming a trend in the Catholic Church.

With the world heading straight down the toilet in a swirling cesspool of religion driven idiocy, it is a relief to see that some people are still planning the advancement of the human race.  As opposed to its continuing destruction.

Starting on the June 3 in Moscow a six-man crew will embark on a simulated 520 day round trip to Mars and back.  In what sounds like the opening to a joke, three Russians, one Chinese, one French, and one Italian will live in a warehouse, which has been designed to replicate the ship and a section of the red planet.

The Cosmonauts will spend 8 hours a day maintaining the ship as it travels across our solar system in an attempt to understand the effects on the men and the equipment before any plans to send a manned ship are formed.  Most significantly, the experiment is designed to monitor the psychological effects on the crew.

The men will be completely cut off from the world outside, except from radio contact that they will have with the people running the experiment, which will be subject to a 20 minute delay which would occur if the ship was actually travelling through space.  There will be no natural light and all the air will be recycled.  The cramped and uncomfortable crew will be filmed all day every day by cameras in every section of the “ship”.

While the experiment does have a very real chance of going sour, at least they will catch it on film, and therefore we might get to see it one day. That is reality TV that I would gladly tune into.

Mars in Moscow

To give up such a big chunk of your life to pretend to go to space may seem insane to some people, the same could be said for fighting in unjust wars based on prejudice, fear and racism, at least from an experiment like this the human race will actually benefit for once…  To think a trip like that could be funded for less than we have spent on killing other human beings over the last 8 years is quite the mind melter.

There is an argument that because deep down the crew know they are in a hanger in the outskirts of Moscow  they will not experience the same feelings as they would in real space travel, which is a fairly obvious argument, and also quite a dumb one… 

Given that, the men have already taken part in a 105-day version of the experiment I am sure they will act accordingly…  However, maybe the people in charge should have told them that since the 105 day trip went so well that they are just going ahead with the Mars trip…  Then just shook the mock ship for the first few weeks, making the crew think they were in space for real.  At least for a few days the men could experience the terror one must feel when sitting on a launch bad with a rocket load of highly explosive fuel between their legs…  That would make things interesting.

Not that I am saying this is in any way uninteresting, this is by far the most incredible bit of news I have heard lately, and I for one am pant wettingly excited about the prospect of a manned trip to mars…  Maybe we will meet some aliens and we can introduce them to the religious people who think that they are so right in their choice of a God that they will kill anyone who doesn’t believe what they do.

Despite the fact, they will not be leaving this planet.  For their dedication to the bringing closer the possibility of future exploration of Mars and the rest of the infinite space out there, I salute you.