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US To Launch Military Orbital Spaceplane
An anonymous reader writes "Not only is the US readying its first 100% military spaceplane for a November launch, but it's going to push NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission til 2009: 'The USAF and Boeing will launch the X-38B — the first military orbital space plane if you discount the secret military shuttle — on top of an Atlas V rocket in November. They want to test its flying features in space and during atmospheric reentry. And probably its anti-matter rays and nuclear bays and hyperspace engines too (but of course, they are never going to tell you that). However, there seems to be a conflict with the civilian space program which may push one of the Moon exploration missions to 2009.' Screw the moon. We have to defend ourselves against all those alien extremists from Mars!"
Just saw the X-files movie. No spoilers here but it was just like watching one of the old TV episodes. But longer.
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Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
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Nah, its more really about practicing to cash in on Republican political incompetence. I'm just ramping myself up a bit for the election to build my trash Obama web site. 30% of the people in the country actually like Bush and that's a pretty big market out there that has been utterly abandoned.
It's so obvious that McCain could win if he turns "Bush the third term" into an asset. He should go to every state with miners gone up, every state with farmers and be pointing out that the gravy trends when Obama gets elected because all of those "city people" think they have a right to free food. In fact, you could even do a southern strategy and paint it almost like all of these "invaders" in the city are trying to take your farm and your mine and your refinery away, and send them overseas to their buddies back home. You could so totally paint Democrats as the party of Wall Street by pointing out that under Bush, no one gets Wall Street Bonuses, while farmers get raises, but under Clinton, Wall Street got rich, while farmers foreclosed, and a vote for Obama is a vote for foreclosure and your stuff siezed by these city people.
Even though I am a Republican, the mechanical problem, the actual problem of rebuilding the party from its ashes, is such as huge challenge, it interests me. Besides, let's face it, you really aren't cool unless you are Republican, because everyone loves Democrats. We are the ones that the world hates, and that's the way it should be!
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And the other thing too, that will make it great, is that, Democrats can't genuinely argue against the high prices of commodities because their own green agenda is against so much consumption. That's whole beauty... to go around the country and grab the farmers, miners, the whole middle class of manufacturing and resource extraction, and educate them into Democrats being against them.
Such a stand would probably mean that, Republicans are going to have to change their anti-union tune, and go for a nationalistic tune, and let Democrats become the party of Wall Street. This way, we could let go of the "social issues" that are now harming us more than helping, and focus more on economics versus the environment, and paint Dems as religious nutcakes worshipping the earth.
Politics is such an interesting game.
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I am still disappointed that your brother in law wasn't blasted to smithereens by that IED. **smooches**
So are about 73 members of Al Qaeda in Iraq, may they rest not so much in peace!
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What's it like being an anonymous coward that would never speak like that to my face?