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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What he got was thanks of Congress (twice), command of victorious armies, commander in chief of the Army, a respected retirement, and various other honors. Life bites sometimes, doesn't it.
And at that Lincoln's views towards other races and other religions was far and away better than those of Lee, Jackson, Davis, etc., etc. Don't you just hate it when I remind you of that?
And why one day they'll be the crown jewel of the Azatlan you keep claiming is coming?
John Brown?
> Yes there were bad things in confederate culture, but also there were many good things: tenacity, loyalty, chivalry, respect for the enemy, innovation in strategy, I could go on.
There were many good things in a LOT of fundamentally flawed cultures, but the fact that these cultures had good points doesn't mean we celebrate them. he Soviets built spiffy rockets, and effectively won the space race. Does that mean that Stalin is just neato-keen?
> Without the south our military would not be what it is today, full of many highly dedicated and loyal southerners.
That's nice. It's also irrelevant.
> one of their objectives was to target and kill CSA officers
Good for them. What the hell are officers? Special? Are their lives sacred while those of the grunts not? If the battle can be won by taking out a dozen officers, that's preferable to taking out a hundred foot soldiers.
> they did not specifically target Union officers.
As memory serves, at least one Southron sharpshooter tried to take out Lincoln during the war.
> Southern honor and chivalry
Slavery.
> what sherman deserved was a rope
To string up the CSA officers as traitors? Good idea.
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> SILLY, DUMB-bunny post
Scintillating as always.
post less DAMNyankee apologist NONSENSE & you won't replace "m.eSPINola" as the class clown & become a "target of opportunity" for ridicule.
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you will recall that we hanged several of NAZI & Japanese leaders after WW2 for precisely the same conduct that sherman "got away with" in this life.
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You're a strange little man.
How much does it hurt that a couple of drunks from the North completely spanked your genius generals?
Two of those Illinois farmboys were my great-great-great grandfathers.
> you will recall that we hanged several of NAZI & Japanese leaders after WW2 for precisely the same conduct that sherman "got away with" in this life.
I would recall it if I grew up in Bizarro World. But as the facts show, Sherman was a true gentleman, up against traitorous barbarians from the south (those geniuses you call "generals") who viewed their fellow man as cattle.
Sherman forever!
Is it? In your dreams perhaps.
as i said before, are you trying to replace "m/eSPINola" as the class clown of FR & a "target of opportunity" for ridicule???
fwiw, i'm chuckling at your childish responses, as i post this. the "DY team" has procured another "real winner" in you. i'm sure N-S, the unionist team captain, is "just thrilled". (lol.)
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