[Lauratealeaf]

There will be numerous whispers and innuendo that get churned up into controversies. The goal is to confuse the voters, and make them doubt Bush's abilities.

This is true and I think the reason this thread was posted.

[bvw]

Is this the future of FR? Toe the line institutionalized feel-good incompetence, like NASA? It is the choice of all you all and your FRiends.

In fact, said John Logsdon, a board member [of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board] and George Washington University expert on space policy, "human spaceflight had become a place where dissent was not welcome."

(Source: Freeper Snopercod, quoting a Washington Post article. See reply 4014 on the "Observation on TPS damage on Orbiter" thread.)

It is the YOUR choice.