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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

lchic - 01:17pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10528 of 10657)

JawG - five more self off topic postings ... to show your paymaster/mistress ...

lchic - 01:29pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10529 of 10657)

Reviewing past 4 years:

The two parties had showdowns - featuring KenStarr - over irrelevant matters. Note that had Clinton been impeached - the Presidential role/power would have been 'reduced' by Congress.

This did not happen. And it not being so, suits GWalkerB who has more power than 'any'(?) peactime President together with a huge trough - swilling dollars .. much of which will flow into his puppeteer father's 'conflict of interest' Carlyle Group.

So Clinton's defensive brilliance of himself-Presidency has favoured GWalkerB!

wanderer85us - 01:52pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10530 of 10657)
I hear voices, and they don't like the GOP.

idenbade 12/26/01 12:58pm

Gore is head and shoulders above king George in leadership ability, brains, and character.

Gore would have been a responsible leader had the people's vote counted, instead, the USSC handed us an idiot on a platter.

mazza9 - 02:02pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10531 of 10657)
Louis Mazza

Ichic:

Clinton is a rapist. He deserves...well a filet knife and we could feed him a special flavor of prairie oysters.

But then again, what any of this has to do with the topic at hand is questionable. I know that you are showalter and you've been banned. Go Home!

LouMazza

lchic - 02:49pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10532 of 10657)

"what any of this has to do with the topic at hand is questionable 02:02pm Dec 26 The note re Presidency 01:29pm Dec 26, 2001 has much to do with the Power of the President who in turn sets much MD policy .. at the behest of his Father and his ilk.

JawG .. while you post Walter Mitty multi-Moniker 'rubbish' to keep your paymaster happy ... there are genuine posters around ..

"I know that you are showalter and you've been banned. Go Home!"

Pity the NYT doesn't look at it's own 'Staff' posting policy ... if a NYT Staffer dominates this board in a masturbatory rude manner, posting junk .. then of course genuine posters will smell a stinking rat and not post here. Could be a subject of boardroom policy discussion when the paper's owner is in attendance!

good_guy - 03:19pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10533 of 10657)

Idenbade,

Thee art truly a most anti-American troll, or more likely, a simple minded manikin mindlessly parroting the "religious, right-wing, conservative, Republican/Libertarian" Bush administrations agenda; Which is to turn our battered Democratic Republic into a THEOCRACY.

In the dim hope that you can be saved from this mindless, puppet like existence and re-enter the reality of the REAL world, I offer you this 1st of many links in the hope of saving your worthless carcass out of the world of ignorance in which you now dwell.

To begin your journey to intellectual freedom, click HERE

Wishing you luck.

Atheist Bill

PS Please notice that this article was posted June 5th 2001, well before 9/11, AB.

lchic - 07:44pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10534 of 10657)

Found a Christmas message posting elsewhere, on the futility of Nuclear War, seemed appropriate to bring it here for LouMazza :
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The fact of tragedy -- set out day by day in the "A Nation Challenged" section of the New York Times -- is serving a great purpose. Look at the faces, with enough words associated -- they are real -- and too many to comfortably count, or attend to.
In wars, especially with nukes, THOUSANDS of times that many can die --- and with nukes, with controls as they are, and vulnerabilities as they are ... MILLIONS of times more can die.
It helps to "look at" a few thousand.
And then try to count to a few thousand, one at a time - yourself -- with each a GROUP of similar tragedies.
The world could use more perspective like that -- quantitative, at least a little bit, and touched by the humanity of the lives lost and at stake.
(rshowalter - 10:39pm Dec 23, 2001)

lchic - 07:47pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10535 of 10657)

Radio report that: NYT now seems concerned re loss of powers to Admin..
How did NYT stand up over past months wrt it's visionary outlook - was it a fightened mouse - or a democratic organ?
NYT 'killed off' a lot of posters - that seemed to co-incide with their Sept25 postal problem.

lchic - 08:00pm Dec 26, 2001 EST (#10536 of 10657)

NYT isn't meeting reader approval over the long term:

"The New York Times is Bush's toilet paper. And its journalists a bunch of disposable, repetitive stress syndrome-prone typists. Shame on them and ignored be their names! " thefroliker "The Media and the War-- Moderated" 12/26/01 4:30pm

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