One GOPer's Proposal To Save The World: '1,000 Lasers' -WV Raese

[RamboLiberal]

West Virginia's Republican nominee for Senate, John Raese, has a plan. And that plan is to put 1,000 lasers in orbit to save us all.

Not 999. Not 1,001. 1,000 frickin' lasers.

"If there is a rogue missile aimed at our country, we have 33 minutes to figure out what we're going to do," Raese said told the crowd at a recent campaign stop, according to NBC's Shawna Thomas and Carrie Dann. "We are sitting with the only technology in the world that works and it's laser technology. We need 1,000 laser systems put in the sky and we need it right now. That is paramount importance."

The cost of such a program? A cool "$20 billion," according to Raese.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/one-gopers-proposal-to-save-the-world-1000-lasers.php?ref=fpblg

[doc03]

1. Only $20 billion but but what about the deficit? n/t

[rucky]

2. We'll be able to remove unwanted hair and correct vision.

from space.

[tularetom]

3. Once again life imitates art

Sharks with frickin laser beams

[tanyev]

4. Yeah, but what do you do if the rogue missile is launched on the very same day

the military is using the laser system for some elaborate war games?

[Tanuki]

5. Trying to give new meaning to "a thousand points of light"? n/t

[Fumesucker]

6. So I guess these will be known as "Death Raese"?