The Return of Apollo?

hpulley writes "Bell bottoms are back, the Stones are still touring and Time has a piece on how NASA's _new_ space vehicle may actually be the return of a very old friend, a highly modified and modernized version of the Apollo Space Capsule. Manned spacecraft might actually leave low earth orbit again! Initially they'd fly with Delta and Atlas but more powerful boosters could be developed. We could go to the Moon again, and perhaps to Mars but I'm getting ahead of myself. Does that mean the last 30 years of space flight have been for naught? Expensive steps backward?"

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Now that boomer females are too old to fuck...

[Baldrson]

We'll probably see some progress.

The problem with allowing a frontier to open up is the young females don't congregate in the urban centers as much as they usually do. This causes some degree of discomfort to those with power.

When the boomer females were coming of age it was a very dangerous time to allow the pioneer culture that settled the American frontier any breathing room. I mean just think of all that pussy that got fucked int he discos of the 1970s and the corporate middle management offices of the 1980s that would have gone and inbred with Norwegian bachelor farmers and the like.

Why, it would have been a crime against humanity!

Re:Removing George W Bush from office

[willtsmith]

Actually, he's pretty close to keeping his ilk in charge FOREVER. They're putting electronic voting machines in place that completely wash away any trace of a physical voting record. The machines are made by big time conservative backers and giant holes have already been noted in the security and accuracy of their machines.

The other great scam that they're enacting is Florida style "voter cleansing". In this case, cleansing is mostly bleaching color out of the skin of the voter roles. In the 2000 election, Florida "mistakenly" cleansed 57,700 voters from the voter roles under the pretense that they were "felons". The contractor, DBT Online, was paid 2.3 million (selected over a $5,700 bid) to cross-check records with thousands of public databases. In addition they were supposed to verify their results by making phone calls.

DBT Online was subsequently ordered by Florida officials NOT to do the checks. They also ordered DBT Online (in return for their $2.3 million dollar high-ball bid) to produce partial matches and transposed names.

Our democracy is silently slipping into tyranny. Time to fight back!!!!