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White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars
Veeoh writes "FTA: It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more 'provocative' than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the Mars regolith on Thursday."
Bush 'quick, nuke them, so we can keep our oil rights there."
~DF
Why would Bush bother to listen to somebody talk about life on Mars when there's clearly no mention of it in Genesis?
to do what? invade to liberate the oil fields there from those muslim terrorists of mars?
or could it be that mars is holding large quantities of biological weapons, ready to be unleashed on usa?
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
I knew it! WMD = Weapons of Martian Design. Countdown to US-led invasion of Mars in 10, 9, 8...
Bush has been described by Republicans as one of the worst presidents of history. I protested against certain Clinton policies, but Bush's exercise of "executive privilege" to make himself completely unaccountable, the hyper-politicization of the Justice department, the squandering of international goodwill, the profound anti-intellectualism, and so on.
Bush isn't even the past yet.
I'm more than willing to go Godwin on you. Don't make me go Godwin. Unlike Carter or Reagan or Clinton or Bush I, I think GW Bush should stand as an exemplar of a bad presidency, to serve as a warning to the rest of us for years to come.
Bush: "We will tell the public that Martian beings are terrorizers and weapons of mass destruction possessers."
Hey - at least if Bush said that, you can guarantee that we'd have 'boots on the ground', on Mars, as quick as he can get them there. Bush: "We MUST liberate the planet Mars from the oppressive leadership of those pesky terrorist microbes!"
And it's damn odd that scientific results have to be 'discussed' with him before they're released.
They wanted to make sure that he'd support funding for the study of life on Mars. Unfortunately, he's decided to give all the research grants to Liberty University so that they can figure out the day of genesis on which god created Martian life.
GW Bush should stand as an exemplar of a bad presidency, to serve as a warning to the rest of us for years to come.
Unless he finishes his term and retires in peace and comfort, then he is a template for how a President can act like a dictator and get away with it.
We are all just people.
prefer to represent lobbyists and monied interests occurred first
Lobbyists that represent and monied interests that are, well, citizens entitled to petition government just the same as you. The elected are their servants as well. It is beyond hubris why people like you believe that your voice is more important than the voice of a "monied interest", which has more to lose from overweening government power than you do, more likely than not.
You have an easy alternative. Start a PAC and represent the opinion of people like yourself. Write your representatives. Run for office. There are 300 million of us in the US. Nobody ever guaranteed that anybody would listen to you.
"The 08-08-08 is the day to send our best wishes that this information may find its way out to the street. For good."
Oh noez! Random strings of made-up numbers that converge to resemble one another! Dumb fuck.