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To: lawgirl
The whole world mourned with us last time.

This time, the media is going to make sure we know we have fewer friends and more enemies who gloat.
32 posted on 02/01/2003 8:00:59 AM PST by ChemistCat (We should have had newer, safer, better, more efficient ships by now, damn it.)
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To: ChemistCat
This time, the media is going to make sure we know we have fewer friends and more enemies who gloat.

No, the elite media will "tastefully" avoid showing us the celebrations going on in the savage parts of the world. Three guesses what religion they will have in common.

It will be up to us to call attention to this psychotic jubiliation, and remind everyone that this is just another reason why we have to visit some high-yield justice upon them.

We also need to invite some of the real "space buffs" to FR to explain the sclerotic nature of NASA, where federal bureaucrats can "study" something for decades, and not come up with any replacement for the chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire Shuttle, except for asking for another billion dollars for a new study. There have already been three replacements for the Shuttle planned and dropped over the last 20 years.

Maybe the plans weren't any good, but NASA's other mission, to keep private enterprise and civilians out of space, has been blindingly successful. After this disaster, they will fight even harder to make sure that only federal employees fly only federal property into space. If that means it takes us 100 years to go back to the moon, so be it, according to their mentality. After all, it's a "small price to pay" to guarantee employment of generations of bureaucrats and staffers.

Please excuse the rant, but this is all the anger I can muster right now. I have to now go back to my crying.

63 posted on 02/01/2003 9:01:05 AM PST by 300winmag
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