Posted on 08/24/2007 7:23:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Let me guess, It was Bush’s fault!
No pole-dancing... ?
Is it just me, or has “tabloid” news taken over the airwaves? Yesterday was Lindsay Lohan, today Lisa the Astronaut.
She wouldn’t have to wear the bracelet in jail.
The fault lies in rubbing two sticks togeather, or rather two sexes. Those troglodites in the military who knew that putting men and women together sometimes leads to complications, may have been somewhat correct. Is their an absolute necessity of having woment in the astronaut training program, or Abu Ghrib for that matter, or is it to make someone feel good (read: liberal-think...using the term very loosely).
Serious tasks, if one can take defense of the nation as a serious task, should not be “complicated” to satisfy the needs of any any particular demographic group.
This Shipman is really overworking this issue — and so is the state of Florida for that matter.
For whatever reason they go orgasmic over taking down an astronaut.
Feel better now?
Excellent post!
This nut does not deserve to be a member of our great military!
I believe the judge should exceed sentencing guidelines and give here at least 84 minutes in jail - then expunge her record.
Welllll, if she’s uncomfortable, by all means, take the thing off.
Yes! There absolutely IS a reason to have women in the astronaut corps. For too long the astronaut corps has been dominated by military types and not enough civilians have been allowed to fly. (Note: NASA’s official policy is that civilians are not allowed on the shuttle, but what do you call teacher turned astronaut Barbara Morgan, or Canadian astronaut Dave Williams? Neither is in the military.) It is true that the requirements to fly the shuttle are mostly amassed by military pilots but there are many talented scientists from which to pull the mission specialists from.
If you read her bio, she is a Navy Pilot. That means that when she joined the corps, before Columbia, she was on track to be a shuttle pilot and then a commander. But she flew (like many other pilots before her) as a mission specialist in order to get her into space before Shuttle goes down for the count. NASA has too many pilots and not enough missions left for them to fly.
“Nowak, a 44-year-old Navy pilot”
She was a Naval Flight Officer (NFO) not a Pilot
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