Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 34

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[Canadian Outrage]

LOL!! Sounds like a party downstairs in my house too!! Mark is whooping and hollering and offering his dad and uncle some “dead crow”!! He said, Dad and Uncle you are both gonna have crow feathers stuck in your teeth!! The goings on are hilarious.

Yes you reminded me of:, (Osgood) = Notsogood, Gadzooks is another name, Flitterberg as I mentioned and Datsyuk = Datsucks!! I have joined forces with Mark. Mark said to David who is of course a die hard Montreal Canadians fan that Montreal are the Canadian Hams. :)

[Darlin']

NASA Spacecraft Makes Historic Landing on Mars

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Phoenix sent back pictures of a flat landscape with few rocks....The probe’s feet sat neatly on the surface, according to this picture

A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed in the Red Planet’s northern polar region on Sunday, where it will begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life.

Less than two hours later, the Phoenix Mars Lander beamed back four dozen black-and-white images including one of its foot sitting on Martian soil amid tiny rocks. Others included the horizon of the arctic plain and ground with polygon patterns similar to what can be found in Earth’s permafrost regions.

“Absolutely beautiful,” said Dan McCleese, a chief scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “It looks like a good place to start digging.”

Cheers swept through mission control when the touchdown signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander was detected after a nailbiting descent. Engineers and scientists hugged and high-fived one another.

“In my dreams it couldn’t have gone as perfectly as it went,” project manager Barry Goldstein said. “It went right down the middle.”

The initial pictures were primarily to give engineers information on the condition of the lander including its power supply and the health of its science instruments. An image showed the lander unfurled its solar panels as planned after the dust settled.

Initial results show Phoenix landed almost level, tilted at a quarter of a degree.

“The hardest part is over. There’s still a lot of drama left,” said Goldstein, who kept up a JPL tradition by passing out bowls of lucky peanuts during the landing.

I thought it was waaaaay kewl that Phoenix landed on Mars just as we were commemorating the sacrifices of our armed forces, sacrifices that provide us with the freedom to keep exploring for good not evil.

[Cardhu]

That is very sad new about Tony Snow - after having his colon removed as a result of cancer the writing was on the wall - three years later he is obviously in a very precarious situation.

May the end come quickly and with as little pain as possible.

[Cardhu]

That is very sad new about Tony Snow - after having his colon removed as a result of cancer the writing was on the wall - three years later he is obviously in a very precarious situation.

May the end come quickly and with as little pain as possible.

[Lakeshark]

Isn't that Georgia's famous red clay?

I always knew pup was from Mars........

[Lakeshark]

Tony’s pretty classy, sorry to hear that.

[Cardhu]

Great post Darlin´ - NASA´s people must be thrilled that the hardest part is over and there has apparently been a successful landing. A quarter of a degree tilt, I cannot even get my photos to be so perfectly aligned.

[Lakeshark]

Tell Mark it's raunchy, ruffled penguin feathers and rancid penguin meat in those teeth of the old guys.........

Go Wings!

[sweetliberty]

Doesn’t Tony Snow have young children?

[Lady Jag]

Finally! They found out where these things come from!

[Darlin']

He has shown strength, courage and great faith during his illness. He is a good man.

[Darlin']

Me, too! :(

[Darlin']

I’m not sure of their ages but yes, he has 2 daughters and a son. He is a devoted family man who cherishes his wife and children.

[Darlin']

".... A quarter of a degree tilt, I cannot even get my photos to be so perfectly aligned."

FOFLOL. Amazing, huh?

[Darlin']

"Finally! They found out where these things come from! "

Uh... I'm guessin that is a pic of a Martian? and not a pink rubber duckie? LOL :)

[Lady Jag]

That's a Martian Popper!

Are you deprived or depraved? Everybody knows about them.

[Darlin']

FOFLOL... Uh, can I get back to you on that one ? Everybody knows? Really?

[Lakeshark]

Scott McClelland?

Is that you?

[Darlin']

FOFLOL Naw, similar bodyshape but thats where the similarity ends. McClellan is colorless and uninteresting... even when he lies.... that little Martian thingie has too much color.

[Darlin']

Speaking of McClellan.....

I’m puzzled over the interest in Scott McClellan’s opportunistic , backstabber-for-sale book. Why would any reasonable person place any credence in the veracity of anything he says? McClellan was only a deputy press secretary to Ari Fleischer during the lead up and beginning months of the Iraq war. The war started in March 2003 but Fleischer didn’t resign until July of that year. IMHO, it seems unlikely that a press secretary would have appropriate security clearance to be a party to high level, war planning discussions and certainly an underling , deputy secretary would not. Still, McClellan says he dutifully passed along the White House talking points at every press briefing. During his three years as press secretary the only times he ever seemed the least bit uncomfortable with his participation in the “Big Mislead” or any other aspect of his job was when he had to respond to questions from the hideous Helen Thomas. He exhibited the same demeanor throughout his time at the podium. Now he says it was all so wrong . What does that mean really? When do we take him at his word? Was he lying then or now? Is he asking us to believe that he is/was a man of integrity pre and post White House but that he conveniently misplaced it for three years so he could go before the MSM and the public daily, look everyone in the eye and lie? His former colleagues at the White House say he never once expressed his concerns that the public was being mislead about anything to any of them. What does that say about him?

His claims seem silly, petty and border on paranoia such as his assertion that Karl Rover and Scooter Libby had a secret strategy meeting about the Plame/CIA leak. FOFLOL A leak that everyone now knows didn’t come from the White House but from the adored Colin Powell and his gossip-loving, boot polisher, Richard Armitage. (Powell and Armitage sat on that information for months on end and let the White House take the heat for something they themselves did.) How on earth could McClellan know what was discussed in a private meeting between two high profile White House staffers or even how frequently they met? He wasn‘t in the room and it is absurd speculation on his part to presume he knows the nature of their discussion .

One can’t help but wonder exactly when and how it was that McClellan came to see the light. Was it before or after he was fired? Perhaps it was when the GOP chose to support popular Texas Governor Rick Perry’s re-election bid instead of McClellan’s mother, Carole Strayhorn, a former Texas state comptroller who ran as an “independent” Republican candidate against the incumbent Perry. Or was it money that spurred his decision to write a scurrilous book about a man who treated him kindly. A man who on McClellan’s last day on the job stood on the White House lawn with him and spoke with affection about their time together. If McClellan’s Johnny-come-lately-to-the-truth conversion is a sincere effort to set the record straight, to right his personal failings, then he ought to donate all the money he makes to some anti-war group. After all, profiting from his deliberate and calculated deceptions would be just as wrong as the behavior he now says he deplores.

Since McClellan is suddenly so fond of the truth, here is a little something for him to ponder. He is at best a prostitute. If he truly believed these things to be wrong at the time, he had an obligation then and there to try to stop it, failing that he should have resigned and informed the public and congress. But, he did not do any of that. Oh, no, back then he simply accepted the perks and privileges of his position and now he is now betraying the confidence, friendship and loyalty of not only his former colleagues but of the President.