I'll start out all my posts to you with this instead, STAND.
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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the longstanding rule of all military forces is "an officer is RESPONSIBLE for everything that his subordinates do or fail to do" of those under his command.
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every time you (or any other lunatic/bigot/dunce) use that term, i will remind you of that FACT.
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the longstanding rule of all military forces is "an officer is RESPONSIBLE for everything that his subordinates do or fail to do" of those under his command.
Do you then think Confederates Forrest and Quantrill were also responsible and also deserve hanging for the atrocities that were committed by their subordinates?
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or were you more interested in asking DUMB-bunny questions????
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Whether I understood the post or not, I thought it was a good question. Should Sherman be held to a higher standard than Forrest and Quantrill?
I'll start out all my posts to you with this instead, STAND.
WHEN has your "research" EVER been documented????
i lol AT that SILLY post. one assumes from that post that you think lincoln & his merry band of crooks/filth/war criminals are equivalent to Jesus, the Eternal Christ
Come on now, why not tell us what you REALLY think of Lincoln.
fwiw, it's a DUMB question.
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BOTH would do ANYTHING to obtain more POWER and/or MONEY.
NEITHER was "worthy of praise", as men and/or POTUS.
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you'll soon get tired of being the "butt of inside jokes". (hint: you already are that.)
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Amen, bro.!
Not quite ANYTHING. Apparently Lincoln wouldn't go so far as to own other human beings and make money off their labor like Jeff Davis, Robert Lee, or Thomas Jackson. Or to make a fortune buying and selling them like Nathan Forrest.
> FOOL NOTHING ONLY INSULTING
Ah. Your autobiography continues.
face it, he was NOT a "decent fellow". getting assassinated doesn't make him a saint, either (despite the modern attempt by the DIMocRAT left to "canonize" JFK, as "saint john of hyannisport").
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Thanks. I appreciate it.
One only needs to look at Jeff Davis with his 115 slaves producing an annual income of about $45,000 per year to see how wrong Lincoln was. Thomas Jackson peddled a couple of his slaves to buy a house, Lincoln had to work for his. Lee hired out his father-in-laws slaves to get money to repair his house.
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