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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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bbbuck - 03:12pm Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4349 of 4354)
Trivia Question What was Sonia Darrin referring to when she asked ..'What do those look like, grapefruit?'

That's beautiful. Posting gibberish day after day will get you noticed.
And the probabilities of taunting the poster with 'I think he's crazy' are probably 25%.
But thanks for that thread whats your moniker over there?
Or do you want me to have my 'boys' find out?

rshow55 - 05:03pm Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4350 of 4354)
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.

In Oliver Twist , by Charles Dickens, there's a great scene. The scene is effectively done in the movie " Oliver ." Oliver Twist, like all the kids in the orphanage, is hungry. The food isn't any good, but it also isn't enough.

Oliver Twist, terrified, stands up and asks for more.

It is the unthinkable, intolerable sin.

Sometimes, it seems to me like I've been going through scenes where "Robert Showalter asks to be checked" - - and the emotional reactions aren't very different from the ones Oliver encountered.

Is checking unthinkable?

It is, at the least, hard to get.

Just a simple statement in writing from the CIA can be hard to get.

Can this be what the founding fathers had in mind? Are these the patterns we celebrate on the 4th of July? rshow55 7/4/02 12:06pm

Links to CIA and my security problems, this thread: 3774-3779 rshow55 8/17/02 5:58pm

3843 rshow55 8/20/02 8:30pm . . . Pity Bill Casey died under such awkward circumstances - so very few days before he was to testify about Iran-Contra. There are things that need to be checked - - and things the whole world has in interest in getting checked.

Friedman is right that the respectable values of the United States are winning. We shouldn't besmirch those values. We're asking for better behavior from the Islamic culture - and owe them, and ourselves, honest behavior ourselves.

mazza9 - 09:06pm Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4351 of 4354)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

I don't hear anyone standing up and saying, "More bvllsheet Robert!", (lchic doesn't count)

bbbuck - 11:00pm Sep 16, 2002 EST (# 4352 of 4354)
Trivia Question What was Sonia Darrin referring to when she asked ..'What do those look like, grapefruit?'

The link provided by looneychic had talk of rshowalter on the guardian, and it was funny as heck. I've signed up to tauntpost but so far I'm in a provisional state(whatever the heck that means). Will keep forum advised. I say we try to get this forum back on topic.
uhhhh, I say we should have fewer missiles.
I have spoken posted, please don't check me.
Though taunting these clowns is fun.

lchic - 05:21am Sep 17, 2002 EST (# 4353 of 4354)

ENDGAMES

The USA has bombed 21 countries over past decades ... yet there doesn't seem to have been an endgame.

Bombs dropped
Mines laid
The US retreats
Often sustaining
unwanted regimes

What credits can the US claim for having improved the lot of the peoples caught-up in war.

Seems the USA banters the term Empire - with little concept of 'responsibility' regarding world citizens.

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lchic - 06:02am Sep 17, 2002 EST (# 4354 of 4354)

Who 'runs' America

This guy says 'The Church' http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,793585,00.html

Isreal calls the shots while only 3% of USA population are 'active' Jews.

Ethics a 'new' concept http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/ethics/index.html

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