[Pokey78]

[Poohbah]

Has John LeBoutillier been right about anything lately?

[Catspaw]

Les Nessman doing his black helicopter routine comes to mind....

[norraad]

That much extra foil on the 20 year old flying bread trucks wing might have avoided all this.

[Corin Stormhands]

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.

Obviously this author does not understand the concept of "500 channels, and nothing on..."

[dirtboy]

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.

I was wondering what a**hole would be the first to make a conspiracy theory out of this. I should have figured it would be LeButtHead.

[TomB]

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.

No John, you blithering idiot, all it means is that there are some people (present company included) that are fascinated by spaceflight and doesn't miss a chance to watch it.

And NewsMax continues on it's decline into obscurity.

[r9etb]

John LeBoutillier and NewsMax -- doesn't get any better than that unless Pat Buchanan and Hackworth chime in, too.

Perhaps Mr. Card is simply interested in Shuttle missions? Or maybe, just maybe, he was working on some sort of congratulatory call to the crew, and perhaps a message of congratulations to Ariel Sharon on the successful mission of the first Israeli astronaut.

Crap like this is why NewsMax filed as a swear word in my dictionary.

[VRWCmember]

This idiot probably thought "Capricorn One" was a documentary rather than a poorly made movie.

[OldFriend]

Consider the source and hope he gets treatment soon.

[philosofy123]

Where do you get such handy picture? Very funny.

[ImphClinton]

Big Kook alert.

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.

On a more serious note though. the last mission (night launch) had more tile damage than normal. They were looking forward to the better pictures this time.

Enviro-whackos forced NASA to stop using freon to make the foam that fell off. Guess seven lives are less important than the enviroment. Hopefully they will go back to freon and avoid problems in the future.

[Willie Green]

We'll never get to the bottom of this until we find out who hired Craig Livingstone and how he managed to get NASA clearance.

[Phantom Lord]

The loonies at DU think that NASA and President Bush knew right after the launch that the shuttle was doomed. That along with many other comments and threads over there will make you wonder where these people came from. A large portion of them actually believe that President Bush knew the shuttle was doomed and purposfully let it explode on return for the expresss purpose of using the tragity to up his popularity and to distract the nation from Iraq.

In fact, minutes after the Shuttle tragedy they had threads over there talking about how horrible it was. But not because of the tragedy of the loss, but because Bush would be able to have a Reaganesque moment and use the tragedy go boost his popularity. Some even think it was planned for this purpose!

They truly are sickos over there who need serious mental health evaluations and treatment.

[My2Cents]

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.

Please....Andy Card's watching NASA TV on an early Saturday morning at Camp David makes about as much sense as me watching NASA TV while I was on a business trip to Eureka, CA, back in October (an early morning broadcast then, too). It was the first time I'd seen NASA TV on a cable service, and I watched the return of the shuttle live. The fact is, I'm a space program nut, and gravitate toward that kind of information. On my return home, I wrote my cable provider and requested that they look into providing NASA TV to their customers.....Not everything that is weird to some is necessarily weird to others.

[Revolting cat!]

(kook alert)

Kook alert? And what about this?

[MindBender26]

Author only demonstrates his own paranoia and lack of understanding of government operations.

WH, DOD, OPM, CIA, FAA, and many others routinely monitor all news, (regular nets, all 11 CNN feeds, FNC, MSNBC, Weather Channel, Bloomberg, BBC, Sky News, NHK, and many other 24/7 news feeds. They also monitor special feed channels, such as NASA Select, Limbaugh on radio, the network regional feeds, etc.

#1. It is a good pulse on the country and world,

#2. POTUS/CINC needs to know about anything important ASAP. Feeds are often best to find out.

This was entirely routine, and author knew it, or should have known it.

[Chuzzlewit]

Just waiting for the Newsweek headline : "Bush Knew!"...

[Billthedrill]

It's all coming together now - Bush, the shuttle, Phil Spector, and THIS STORY. It's all part of a pattern. What did they know and when did they know it?

[Anticommie]

NASA has a wonderful safety record over 40 years of manned space flight.

One shuttle destroyed in 62 flights 'wonderful safety record' ??? 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.
and I don't buy a crap that 2 fatalities in 20+ years is a "good safety record" with only about 5, 6 launches a year. It is still 1 fatality in 62, no matter if it is in one day, one month, year or decade it is STILL ONE in Sixty TWO.

[RGSpincich]

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.

Totally agree with this author. Card missed an opportunity to see inside the inner walls of an Iraqi presidential palace as Scooby and Scrappy chased ghosts in Baghdad.