Oh boy ... someone else watched Transformers 3

Appears that a certain presidential candidate is channeling is inner Optimus Prime. Don't get me wrong, I loved Transformers 3, but I'm not sure the movie should prompt a moon base. Here's a quick story on what a certain presidential candidate promised:

"Promising The Moon of the Day: On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term. “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation. “We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars. The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted. Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation."

So should we be more concerned that he wants to have a "moon base" or the thought got a standing ovation. Makes me think of three things:

1. Gingrich is crazy
2. People in Florida are old and insane -- anyone seen Logan's Run? Can we bring that theory back? Your old, off the planet! 
3. Reminded me of the greatest skit of all time -- UNITED STATES OF SPACE ... RED ROCKS!