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Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1345460,00.html[/url]
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As for weapons in space; old news. I clearly remember a supermarket tabloid cover story in the late '90s saying that we had already outfitted the Hubble telescope with missiles and lasers to defend against asteroids. I'm sure it has already been modified to allow it to target earthbound threats such as terrorist encampments, lawless rouge nations, megalomaniacal billionaires with plans for would domination, and the amazing bat-boy.
The thing about what this article is talking about is that the US military considers space superiority something they [b]should[/b] do.
[B]...they arn't quite at the level of supermarket tabloids. If they were, they'd be too busy with the royal family to bother about the US.[/B][/QUOTE]
Actually, I was just making a funny, not impinging on The Guardian's credibility. I'm beginning to wonder if its what I say or how I say it that makes people thing think I have a deep, satirical meaning to my lame jokes. Whatever it is, I want to stop giving that impression, as it makes me appear quite, quite ignorant when combined with whatever the joke was.
I can easily see how that could've been read as a sarcastic indictment, though, even though I didn't mean it. As one of maybe three supermarket tabloid headlines that stuck in my mind, though, I thought it was worth a mention.
[B]Actually, I was just making a funny, not impinging on The Guardian's credibility. I'm beginning to wonder if its what I say or how I say it that makes people thing think I have a deep, satirical meaning to my lame jokes. Whatever it is, I want to stop giving that impression, as it makes me appear quite, quite ignorant when combined with whatever the joke was.
I can easily see how that could've been read as a sarcastic indictment, though, even though I didn't mean it. As one of maybe three supermarket tabloid headlines that stuck in my mind, though, I thought it was worth a mention. [/B][/QUOTE]
How could you ever take such a stand. To believe that your ignorance is non existant is just plain utterly un-understandable. You should really stop playing with our minds this way - to make us try and think that you actually intend humor sometimes...GAH! What is the world coming to?
;) :D
hmmmm...
I think that in heaven, the flags of all nationalities are white... ;)
[B]Yes... The world is going mad isn't it...
hmmmm...
I think that in heaven, the flags of all nationalities are white... ;) [/B][/QUOTE]
You know, that's so well put that I'm going to quote that at people from now on.
[B]Yes... The world is going mad isn't it...
hmmmm...
I think that in heaven, the flags of all nationalities are white... ;) [/B][/QUOTE]
That is so deep, it makes my head hurt.
Did you get it from a bumper sticker? ;)
No not a bumper sticker...
I can actually lay claim to that one as my own. It developed out of a fleeting thought I had just prior to typing it...
Someone ( I think it was Biggles) had remarked in another thread that Bush might come to a point of enlightenment where he thought he was God eventually.
The question popped into my head...
Does anyone in heaven have the American flag on their clothes, and so the answer came from that...
;)
*glances over at the huge burning constitution*
[B]Someone ( I think it was Biggles) had remarked in another thread that Bush might come to a point of enlightenment where he thought he was God eventually.
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Well - that might not be a bad thing. Becuase then he would ascend and leave us alone! :D
[B]im just hoping that one of these days the headlines read "US pulls head out of its ass!"
*glances over at the huge burning constitution* [/B][/QUOTE]
That could just as easily read "UN pulls head out of its ass!" as well... ;)
but yeah... The founding father's must be not only turning in their graves, but break dancing too...
The problem with the constitution, like money, and other things, is that it takes faith to believe that it is what it represents for the system to work.
Soon as someone says that a dollar bill doesn't represent what the face value shows, then the whole currency issue becomes a farce. Same with the constitution. People have to believe that it and the Amendments, are the ultimate authority and arbitrator of our laws in our land (putting aside the revisionist historians who like to think they have a pulse on the minds of people 200+ years ago).
Sidestepping, and ignoring it are just as bad an act as people in a faith taking a verse of scripture out of context for their own agenda.
People of the United States have a RIGHT to bear arms (or arm bears in some circumstances), but what is the government doing?
Restricting ALL weapons, and worse, restricting weapons of the citizens, not the criminals. I won't go so far as to say that the NRA should be the spokeperson of the people, but they do have a point. Guns still don't kill people, people do...
The invasion of privacy is a big problem now too, records existing only in digital form on unsafe networks, the list goes on...
I got carried away here... sorry... :p