Posted on 06/14/2006 5:58:12 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Confederate flags flown aboard the international space station — and seemingly signed by a NASA astronaut — showed up last week on the online auction site eBay.
The original eBay listing indicated that the 4-by-6-inch flags were brought aboard the space station by Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov in 2004, and an accompanying photo showed a sample flag that seemed to bear Sharipov’s signature as well as that of Leroy Chiao, his NASA colleague on the station. Yet another photo showed several of the rebel flags floating in a space station module.
The item was pulled from the auction on Monday by the seller, Alex Panchenko of USSR-Russian Air-Space Collectibles Inc. in Los Angeles — and on Tuesday, Panchenko told MSNBC.com that he removed the items from sale because he had concluded the flag and the authentication documents were forgeries.
However, Robert Pearlman, editor and founder of CollectSpace, said he believes the flags are authentic.
“The picture taken of the flags aboard the station says a lot,” he said. “It would be difficult to fake, given the style and I couldn't see the motivation to do so.” The “onboard-the-ISS” stamp, added Pearlman, is not known to have been counterfeited anywhere."
The disappearance of the flags followed a round of criticism over the weekend from former space scientist Keith Cowing, publisher of NASA Watch, an independent Web log. He cited the Confederate flags as an example of “bad judgment on the ISS.”
“You'd think that someone on the U.S. side of the ISS program would have expressed some concern about flying a symbol on the ISS that many Americans associate with slavery,” Cowing wrote.
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No, no, no, no, no. A truce is fine, but I am not the one who has the problem of believing this, that, and the other. And for you to even think, I'm a couple cards short of a full deck so as to play the dog chasing the rabbit game, you're in for a big surprise! I ain't takin' nuthin to your court, BUDDY! But, as I said, a truce is fine...
Furthermore, go back to the movies and eat some popcorn, because I do not believe that The Kennedy brothers are sittin' at the right hand of God-so get over it!!!!!
Okay, thanks...
And, cut the madam business. I am not a Madam, never have been, and never will be. So, watch your mouth...
Funny tagline!
that deserves another rebel yell, but we wouldn't want to scare the DYs too badly. (during the "late unpleasantness", numerous union units deserted their posts when they heard it. one presumes they had URGENT business to attend to elsewhere.)
free dixie,sw
fwiw, Will Wallace was a "good 'ole rebel" too.
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Get your mind out of the gutter, lady. That's not what I meant and I suspect you know it.
Judging from your posts on what you've read of their crap to date one would think they took over from Him.
You're too funny!
So much for your version of a truce. Au revoir...
despite the FACT that he's the DAMNyankee Minister of Propaganda, he usually has a quite a bit more class than that.
i cannot truthfully say the same for the rest of the members of the coven.
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Well, all I can say is, he's a classless, pea-brain. I have neither the time nor the patience for the likes of them. Just goes to show that honesty brings out honesty, even if it is mean-spirited...
as i said, i don't know what his problem is this week. he's usually got a lot of class for a DY.
free dixie,sw
Ah, the pot calling the kettle black. IMHO, of course.
Yes. I had previously been informed that he is perhaps the only one of the lot, with a functioning brain. But, his moodiness is no excuse for mean-spirited behavior. Taking a few classes in maturity and self-discipline will remedy the ills...
Open minds evaluate evidence. Share some.
You have a nice one as well, ma'am.
I believe you doth protest to much. I also don't see how your correct assertion that writers have a responsibility to truth and evidence squares with your other assertion that asking for such evidence is in itself a hostile act.
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