The connection between NASA and the military is overdue.  We are informed
(first time) that the orbiter is a Military (not civilian) vehicle.

At 05:07 PM 2/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
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>Can The Worst Bring Out The Best?
>
>by Frank Scott
>
>" He is the worst president in all of American history." Helen Thomas
>
>
>Removing the historic burden of incompetence from the shoulders of
>Reagan, Clinton and others, the outspoken woman says  what most
>spineless men of the press cannot bring themselves to utter. She
>represents the best in American media, and contrasts with the worst,
>which repeat lies, avoid truth and act as lap dogs for leadership .
>
>The tragedy of lives lost in war research disguised as space flight
>briefly removed from consciousness the  lives lost every day through
>wars, traffic accidents and other forms of violence. But however
>sincere,  choreographed mass grief cannot last long , given daily
>bulletins that contradict the regime's program of idiotic immorality and
>bloody disrespect towards Iraq, Palestine and ultimately, the  world.
>
>The proposed link between Saddam and Osama is  ridiculous , swallowed
>only by the  gullible or bigoted. The unmistakable connection is
>between Tony Blair's lips and America's butt. The  British toady is the
>ultimate shame of the old mother country, crawling before the bogus
>administration of the former colonies.
>
>Having previously groveled before Clinton, Blair now snivels before
>Bush, revealing Britain's New Labor  as twin to the New Democrats of the
>USA. Both represent old Republican values with new packaging and product
>branding. These  soft-core submissives front for hard-core  dominators,
>behind phony grins and pious rhetoric that mask the reality of bloody
>empire.
>
>The political liturgy of  USrael and its flunkies  has as much divine
>content as that of the  demons from Terrorist Central. Both groups claim
>direct connections to deity, with  humanity left wondering which
>loonies  pose the greater threat. Most of the world fears the U.S.
>colossus and its israeli satellite, though you'd never learn that from
>major US media. The most powerful nation on earth seems to be threatened
>by one of the weakest , and this while it brags about how much damage it
>will cause if not obeyed. The planned iraqi slaughter is merely a
>prelude to USrael exercising more total control over middle east oil ,
>and water. Do we have a prayer?
>
>We might as well be invested in the supernatural , given our mortgaging
>of the future to expenditures for waste, murder and stupidity. At the
>beginning of the 1980s, the total of all consumer, business and
>government debt was about 4 trillion dollars. Near the end of 2002, that
>figure had escalated to over 30 trillion. During the same period, our
>prison population  grew from 1.8  to 6.4 million. And those prisoners
>were not composed of the corporate thieves who were briefly part of our
>national story, before 911.
>
>Who owes that massive and socially murderous debt, and why was it
>incurred? The government portion has been squandered on war and other
>forms of immoral waste, while  business and consumer loans have enabled
>most of us to live in a style we cannot afford, purchasing things we
>don't need, and for which we should never have to pay. But we are part
>of a majority which somehow owes interest to an unprincipled minority of
>loan sharks.  They own most of that debt, and employ government to
>insure that they get payment.
>
>That minority group  receives ever more "affirmative action", widening
>and deepening the gap between it and the majority , as its taxes are
>lowered while theirs increase. That's what it pays its employees in
>government to assure; that it remains on top, reaping  profits while the
>majority carries the loss, in material debt and mental depression.
>Meanwhile, we are warned about their problems, which become ours. Like,
>their foreign policy of terror, which becomes our domestic threat of
>terror.
>
>White America's favorite black man recently informed the world that Iraq
>menaces everyone, according to plagiarized British term papers and
>fictionalized israeli spy reports. He showed aerial photos revealing 18
>refrigerated trucks which serve a dual purpose . They could either be
>deadly bio-weapons labs , or deliver deadly fruits and vegetables . And,
>most frighteningly , they might be driven by Iraqi teamsters. The taped
>conversations between iraqi military personnel as evidence of dangerous
>subterfuge - possibly recorded in American studios -  left fortunate
>people laughing, and unfortunate people fearing nerve gas attack . It's
>more likely that we'll suffer brain death from toxic poisons seeping
>into our minds, all emanating from our government and media.
>
>The last administration downsized government, ravaging democracy in the
>process. Clinton, beloved by many with stars in their eyes and sawdust
>in their heads, never received a majority vote in his two terms. But
>this more dreadful minority regime, which received less than 25% of the
>electorate's vote and lost the election , is downsizing consciousness,
>sanity and civli liberties, even faster. Many Americans believe "Saddam
>bin Milosevic" is coming to get them in their beds, that iraq was
>responsible for 911, that TV wrestling is reality , and that the economy
>is fine, except for the economy. While they are distracted by
>color-coded terror alerts - yellow and orange for common folk, mocha and
>espresso for the  upscale  - their freedoms are being stolen by cowardly
>thieves disguised as brave patriots.
>
>But there is a growing global  movement to upsize democracy, evidenced
>by millions the world over who  joined hundreds of thousands in the USA
>to demonstrate against this  planned slaughter, euphemised as war. There
>has never been such a massive outpouring for peace , however varied the
>motivation of its supporters. There may even be a decent candidate or
>two among the awful bunch of Democrats proposed for the next election.
>The worst is far from over, but the best is yet to come. The world has
>begun treating Bush and his minority America with the contempt it
>deserves. Now, the majority Americans are beginning a move to take
>democratic control of their nation. They - we - need to hurry.
>
>
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