Shuttle Cover-up? (kook alert)

NewsMax ^ | 02/03/03 | John LeBoutillier

[Catspaw]

Not just conspiracy theories, but some nasty, nasty posts. It was an embarassment to be on some of the threads.

[MindBender26]

Electronic meeting. Is encrypted up to Level 7 even over normal phone lines. Then can use phonelines, net, private bird, etc. A 1000 ways. All it is is a Sony laptop with a good netcam. Is all in briefcase aid carries.

[TomB]

Not just conspiracy theories, but some nasty, nasty posts. It was an embarassment to be on some of the threads.

Yep, there was an idiot posting all weekend calling the shuttle astronauts "spam in a can". He seemed pretty proud to be against manned space flight.

[Catspaw]

Oh, I remember that guy! I wanted to slap him.

[MindBender26]

Who was it?

[TomB]

Man of the Right

[aculeus]

Remember, Adrian Chronauer is a real guy. He is now a conservative republican lawyer in DC, now with DOD on POW projects. Great guy. "Goooood Morning, Vietnam" helped pay for law school.

Met him at a Repub fund raiser in Roanoke. He is a very funny speaker but his real job is entertainment law.

[Timesink]

He most likely has a number of sets on at once. One to NASA the others to news sources. All these news sourcew would refer to the accident.

More than one legitimate news source has already reported that Card was simply bored and flipping channels when he came across a public-access channel that was simulcasting NASA TV's coverage of the landing, and he decided to watch. Some conspiracy.

[mabelkitty]

Never doubt Debra Orrin's piece last week on how more American body bags flown home from Iraq is what the Democrats call "election year strategy"

I was please to hear Rush mention it.

[dirtboy]

More than one legitimate news source has already reported that Card was simply bored and flipping channels when he came across a public-access channel that was simulcasting NASA TV's coverage of the landing, and he decided to watch. Some conspiracy.

The overheated plasma of conspiracy theory meets the supercooled reality of male channel-surfing. In this case, the iceman surfeth...

[Timesink]

The single funniest sitcom episode in the history of television.

"OH MY GOD, they're TURKEYS!!! They're hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"

"Les, Les, are you there? Les isn't there..."

[Timesink]

You're right. I think that WKRP turkey drop and the Chuckles the Clown funeral on Mary Tyler Moore are about all that stick forever.

Don't the "The Germans" episode of Fawlty Towers.

[Moosilauke]

Considering the source, "kook alert" is redundant.

[William McKinley]

Actually, I have a different take than everyone whose comments I have read so far.

I think it is a very good point and a possible clue that the administration thought something was up, that Card was watching.

But what I totally disagree with is the idea that if they were concerned that something might go wrong, the public should have known about it before hand, or that the families should have been told. What on earth good could possibly have come from either?

[ThinkingMan]

Was the fact that I was logged on to FR on Saturday morning, watching the Shuttle land (to the detriment of my children's Nintendo Game Cube playing time) incicitive of a known problem?

[CARDINALRULES]

Oh please.... that's like saying I knew because of the dream I had that morning about 45 minutes before it happened and when I gave up trying to go back to sleep and get up and go to our other house to take my shower and found a dead cardinal that our lazy cats killed - the last time they did that was another bad day for me --6-22-02.

Oh yeah the dream --it was about me being in 4th grade --which I was when the Challenger exploded -- I found a $2 bill from 1929 (crash -depression) and the picture was a skull instead of Jefferson - I remember flipping it over but I can't remember the back of the bill.

I rarely remember vivid details about my dreams/nightmares so this has freaked me out.

[Poohbah]

In the conspiracy theorists' world, it proves that you CAUSED the disaster!

[EBUCK]

I watch NASA tv pretty regular. In the days leading up to the accident I had probably watched half an hour of the feed.

I planned on watching that morning but had FIRE business to attend to.

No big deal, a lot of folks tune in to see what they're up up there.

[netmilsmom]

It takes a truly different mind to love "Faulty Towers". I used to watch it all the time and really only remember one where the cook thought that the fish they were serving was bad. They had a shot of a cat puking up a furball after which I literally fell off my bed from laughter and scared the poop out of my parents in the family room below.

[enraged]

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