Shuttle Cover-up? (kook alert)

NewsMax ^ | 02/03/03 | John LeBoutillier

[Catspaw]

Ah, Newsmax says "whoopsie!"

[Luis Gonzalez]

"And NewsMax continues on it's decline into obscurity."

I don't recall them ever actually having risen above it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

It also didn't take very long for Tourist Guy to show up on a shuttle picture.

We are up to our conservative necks in a**holes.

[Howlin]

Oh, me too!

[Howlin]

The fact that the White House chief of staff is even watching the landing of a space shuttle on a Saturday morning - while at Camp David in the middle of the Iraq crisis - raises a big red flag.

Holy crap!

[ThinkingMan]

I do believe that it is time for me to turn myself in. It has been nice conversing with you all.

[Howlin]

Let me get this straight, NewsMax APPROVED and published an article with

The fact that the White House chief of staff is even watching the landing of a space shuttle on a Saturday morning - while at Camp David in the middle of the Iraq crisis - raises a big red flag.

in it and NOW they are trying to save face?

They APPROVED of that hogwash???????

[Howlin]

So, you were in on it, too?????

Citizen's arrest!

[strela]

Oh, this is very believable compared to some of the kookburger stuff being bandied about in the sci.space.shuttle Usenet newsgroup these days. The best I've seen so far is the claim that the US government shot down the orbiter using a HAARP weapon based in Alaska as a test for the Iraq war.

There's also the usual Kook Kontingent in alt.astrology who are claiming to have foreseen the tragedy in their tarot cards/runes/vegetable soup. Although none came forward until after it happened to make their claim, they all seem to claim that they were not allowed to due to government death threats.

Usenet is a laff-a-minute.

[iconoclast]

How silly.

Coverups are unnecessary where the gubmint is involved.

[Momaw Nadon]

Calling George Noory!

[ThinkingMan]

SHHHHHHHHH it is such a deep secret that I didn't even know I was involved until PoohBah told me so!

[Brett66]

This isn't even a very good conspiracy theory. A better one would have been that terrorists sabotaged the space shuttle and they're trying to cover it up. A second-rate tinfoil attempt at best.

[TBall]

I figure they knew there was a problem and lets say they even put the odds at 1 in 10 that it could turn catastrophic. What good would it do to disclose this information?

[ThinkingMan]

You know- now that I think about it, you may have had something to do with it to. Didn't you post on the "communications are down" thread as well?

[Howlin]

No, I wasn't there.....you'll have to take the full blame.....LOL.

I didn't know about it until another Freeper called me from South Carolina and woke me up!

Turn yourself in.

[ThinkingMan]

Dang- Well, if I am not on for a few days, don the tinfoil and call the x-files guy.

[DugwayDuke]

"Ha Ha Haaaa, if commercial aviation had ten time better safety record there still would be no more jets to take to the skies, lets see, one airlainer down every 620 flights, boening couldn't build them fast enough."

You can't compare safety records for rockets and airliners. Getting into orbit is a bit more complicated than flying to Dallas in a 767.

[Howlin]

Just let us know where to send the bail money.

[Cultural Jihad]

He's just counting on the "stoopids" to jump on his scandal bandwagon.

Huh! We know that trick: deflect and insult at the same time. What part did you play in this conspiratorial coverup, hmmm? You have to be getting some kind of monetary gain from something if you are as innocent of wrong-doing as you allege you are. Can't have the sheeple thinking that the wool is being pulled over its collective eyes, and hence your unfounded attack on the journalistic integrity of the writer! We got your number, pal!

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