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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?

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rshow55 - 04:26pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16658 of 16664)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

bluestar23 - 04:18pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16653

Will Showalter state publicly: "The CIA and the NYT have never demonstrated any interest in me." Because that is the truth, so Showalter should be made to say it....

Bluestar - if you and Cantabb work for the NYT - the statement is obviously false. And if you don't work for NYT - or the government - you're sure working hard.

jorian319 - 04:29pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16659 of 16664)

Robert, did it ever occur to you that dissembling your posts might be some people's idea of FUN (vs "hard work")?

rshow55 - 04:31pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16660 of 16664)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

On October 25, Cantabb wrote this:

"And, had you written THAT "short" "well-crafted" letter to him and called him, as you had been planning to do, you would have returned from NYC by now, after a visit to CIA, FBI, Rummy, GW, Rice and the whole gang-- and their stand-ins."

I don't know if he has NYT connections - but he spoke as if he had authority.

rshow55 - 04:31pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16661 of 16664)
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Given the investment in time - there has to be a payoff, I suppose.

cantabb - 04:31pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16662 of 16664)

rshow55 - 04:26pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16658 of 16658)

Bluestar - if you and Cantabb work for the NYT - the statement is obviously false. And if you don't work for NYT - or the government - you're sure working hard.

More of the same paranoia !

The questions were:

Did you work for CIA ? Did you have the relationship with Ike & Casey as you have been claiming --- without evidence.

What do these have thing anything at all to do with posters working or not for NYT -- unless it's your unreconstructed paranoia !

rshow55 - 04:34pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16663 of 16664)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

It isn't "paranoia" for a reader to guess that cantabb and bluestar23 work for the TIMES - it is a very reasonable guess.

And if they are, what they say about me is sometimes pretty serious.

rshow55 - 04:36pm Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16664 of 16664)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Quotes from H.L. Menken http://watchfuleye.com/mencken.html

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

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