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Euro-Russian Manned Space Vehicle Planned
drachton writes "BBC News reports that the 'European Space Agency (ESA) is proposing joining forces with Russia to develop a new vehicle for human spaceflight, the Clipper.' The head of the ESA permanent mission in Russia also told BBC that the Clipper 'is meant to service the space station and to go between Earth and an orbit around the Moon with six crew members.'"
With a name like "Clipper," after all...
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Within the compass of this letter, I can do no more than indicate, as concisely as I can, relevant considerations that must be taken into account if we are to discuss Tom DeLay's evil utterances in a rational manner. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. On a television program last night, I heard one of this country's top scientists conclude that, "The world would be a much better place to live if DeLay just stopped trying to confuse, disorient, and disunify." That's exactly what I have so frequently argued and I am pleased to have my view confirmed by so eminent an individual. Cantankerous scapegoatism is the shadow cast on society by his apothegms, and as long as this is so, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
If DeLay continues to sweep his peccadillos under the rug, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. Although there are no formal, external validating criteria for his aberrent claims, I think we can safely say that DeLay periodically puts up a facade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. What is his current objective? As usual, there are multiple objectives:
* to force women to live by restrictive standards not applicable to men,
* to prevent me from getting my work done, and
* to make us less united, less moral, less sensitive, less engaged, and more perversely viperine.
There are some simple truths in this world. First, his diatribes represent explicitly his overly accepting attitude towards lewd ivory-tower academics. Second, he profits from human suffering. And finally, his vituperations amount to what a proverbial metaphor in Sanskrit describes as trying to extinguish a fire by feeding it enough wood to glut its appetite. No joke.
Although the Gospel According to DeLay says that DeLay can change his violent ways, I aver that raising the volume, increasing the stridency, or stressing the emotionalism of an argument does not improve its validity. How much more illumination does that fact need before DeLay can grasp it? Assuming the answer is "a substantial amount", let me point out that I want nothing more -- or less -- than to criticize the obvious incongruities presented by DeLay and his worshippers. To that task I have consecrated my life, and I invite you to do likewise. Sadly, in once sense, he is correct. If we let DeLay resolve a moral failure with an immoral solution, then I will certainly be forced to waver between the alluring promises of a twisted "new morality" and the sound dictation of my own conscience.
Maybe some day, DeLay will finally stop trying to pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm. Don't hold your breath, though. I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that he had the same intellectual honesty. Many people aren't aware of how mudslinging his newsgroup postings are, so let's present a little breakdown. First off, contemptuous insecure-types like DeLay are not born -- they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may be, it seems clear that we cannot and we must not allow ourselves to become infected with the fatal germs of antagonism. But we ought to look at the matter in a broader framework before we draw final conclusions on the subject: We see that DeLay has -- not once, but several times -- been able to make our lives a living hell without anyone stopping him. How long can that go on? As long as his self-deceiving snow jobs are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and take a proactive, rather than a reactive, stance.
There are those who are informed and educated about the evils of insurrectionism, and there are those who are not. DeLay is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that's why he wonders why everyone hates him. Apparently, he never stopped to think that maybe it's because if I were a complete sap,
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