The Demise of Model Rocketry?

Mark Lytle writes "Due to restrictions imposed by the rather broad Homeland Security Act, the hobby I suspect many Slashdotters, being technology buffs, grew up with, the Estes Model Rocket is now firmly on the endangered species list. The little cardboard rockets I learned science with in high school are evidently suspected of being potential weapons of mass destruction. Go figure. Perhaps by getting involved, we can stop this sillyness... Anyway, i hope so...."

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[baldass_newbie]

the USA is now, and always has been the root cause of Irish terrorism, just as it caused the Gulf War, created Israel and is trying to destroy Venezuelan democracy now

Some points:

• British occupation of Ireland has been 'the root cause of Irish terrorism'. It's been going on since before the US was even a country.
• Iraq's invasion of a sovereign nation, Kuwait, was the cause of the Gulf War. Did you guys stand aside while Argentina seized the Falkland Islands?
• Israel was not created by the US, but by the UN. In fact, the effort was spearheaded by the British, in spite of the Sykes-Picot agreement.
• Venezuelan democracy has been devastated by Hugo Chavez, an anti-American Socialist. When he was ignoring recall requests and the people's calls for elections, the US started to step in and got outrageous flak for it. Now the US is staying out of it and Hugo's death squads are working wonders, like they do for his buddy Fidel Castro.

So get your head out of your ass, and stuff your anti-American sentiment where the sun don't shine.
Fitting sentiment since the sun now daily sets on your so-called 'Empire' that we're still cleaning up after (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle-East).
Fucktard.