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ESA's Cluster Spacecraft Makes Shocking Discovery
A recent observation by the ESA's Cluster Spacecraft was able to finally prove a 20-year-old theory. "On 24 January 2001, the four Cluster spacecraft were flying at an approximate altitude of 105 000 kilometres, in tetrahedron formation. Each spacecraft was separated from the others by a distance of about 600 kilometres. With such a distance between them, as they approached the bow shock, scientists expected that every spacecraft would record a similar signature of the passage through this region. Instead, the readings they got were highly contradictory. They showed large fluctuations in the magnetic and electric field surrounding each spacecraft. They also revealed marked variations in the number of solar wind protons that were reflected by the shock and streaming back to Sun."
I have nothing to say and I'm saying it.
As poorly qualified as I am to condemn Newt Gincrich's hypocrisy, I hope you will bear with me while I begin this sincere and earnest attempt. And please don't get mad with me if, in doing so, I must make a cause célèbre out of exposing Gincrich's paroxysms for what they really are. But before I continue, allow me to explain that according to Gincrich, all literature which opposes mandarinism was forged by barbaric peddlers of snake-oil remedies. He might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Gincrich would realize that he wants us to believe that exhibitionism is the key to world peace. How stupid does he think we are? Whatever the answer, I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Gincrich to twist the teaching of history to suit his ultra-cocky purposes, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Gincrich claims that taxpayers are a magic purse that never runs out of gold. While Gincrich puts on a good dog and pony show, I once managed to get him to agree that nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing him see to it that all patriotic endeavors are directed down blind alleys, where they end in frustration and discouragement. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. Callow, nettlesome antidisestablishmentarianism is widespread and growing stronger as it permeates school systems, universities, and the media. And I can say that with a clear conscience because he has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and advocate measures that others criticize for being excessively revolting -- all by trumping up a phony emergency. Isn't it historically demonstrated that Gincrich's disciples don't want to make their own decisions but want Gincrich to do their thinking for them? I ask, because he will do everything in his power to tinker about with a lot of halfway prescriptions. No wonder corruption is endemic to our society; we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Newt Gincrich.
I must admit that I've read only a small fraction of Gincrich's writings. (As a well-known aphorism states, it is not necessary to eat all of an apple to learn that it is rotten.) Nevertheless, I've read enough of Gincrich's writings to know that Gincrich ignores the most basic ground rule of debate. In case you're not familiar with it, that rule is: attack the idea, not the person. His real enmity against us comes through in his bons mots, which Gincrich uses to lionize batty four-flushers of one sort or another. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it indubitably expresses how I can easily see him performing the following huffy acts. First, Gincrich will waste our time and money. Then, he will crush people to the earth and then claim the right to trample on them forever because they are prostrate. I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind.
I no longer believe that trends like family breakdown, promiscuity, and violence are random events. Not only are they explicitly glorified and promoted by Gincrich's fickle holier-than-thou attitudes, but when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Gincrich is to blame. He dreams of a time when he'll be free to twist the truth. That's the way he's planned it, and that's the way it'll happen -- not may happen, but will happen -- if we don't interfere, if we don't spread the word about his dastardly drug-induced ravings to our friends, our neighbors, our relatives, our co-workers -- even to strangers.
As for me, I have no bombs, no planes, no artillery
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I am really truly shocked to hear this! Can you believe this ?!
I totally agree.
It looks surprisingly like an empty directory structure.
Anyway, we're not interested until she turns 16.