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DrFalomar
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Username: Drfalomar

Post Number: 98
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
On Dec 17 it's likely Bush will announce an initiave for men to return to the moon.

Just how far will he go to find these weapons of mass destruction?
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Kenney
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Username: Kenney

Post Number: 148
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 10:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Is this something you do with a record budget deficit??
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today..FDR..
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cjc
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Username: Cjc

Post Number: 516
Registered: 8-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
sure....after the farm bill, education bill and drug bill that had bipartisan support, calls about the deficit seem hollow on both sides.

So....let's have $70B for pre-pre-pre school for everyone. And it will be free.
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tom
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Post Number: 1605
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 11:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
What do we expect to find there that wasn't there last time? Oh, the Chinese.

Why not something new and exciting, like Mars?
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Kenney
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Username: Kenney

Post Number: 149
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 11:19 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
i miss the good old days of gridlock!!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today..FDR..
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ml1
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Username: Ml1

Post Number: 1394
Registered: 5-2002


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
TO THE MOON!

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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2508
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Just another chapter in space exploration -

Space Chimps
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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 1608
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 12:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
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lumpyhead
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Username: Lumpyhead

Post Number: 557
Registered: 3-2002
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 12:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
When will Bush moon and to whom?
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notehead
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Username: Notehead

Post Number: 770
Registered: 5-2001


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 1:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Talk about an act of desperation... there's nothing the administration won't do to try to distract us from their dishonesty and incompetence.

Don't go away, folks... Rummy is about to announce that Elvis has been sighted at the South Pole (in blue suede snow shoes).
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themp
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Username: Themp

Post Number: 315
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 1:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The president of few press conferences and big press events. This is just propagandistic nonsense.

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ashear
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Username: Ashear

Post Number: 818
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 1:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
This seemed so absurd I thought it had to be a hoax. No such luck it seems http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104800,00.html

Just when you think Bush can't do anything stupider . . .
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cjc
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Username: Cjc

Post Number: 522
Registered: 8-2003
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 2:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
...I know. He gets dumberer and dumberer.
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey

Post Number: 327
Registered: 8-2003


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 2:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
According to the article:

"The return to the moon would be for the purpose of technological advancements in technology, including energy exploration and testing a military rocket engine."

So I guess this means drilling for oil on the moon?
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey

Post Number: 328
Registered: 8-2003


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 2:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
and this just in:
the FoxNews Department of Redundancy Department has coined a new phrase, "technological advances in technology."
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notehead
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Username: Notehead

Post Number: 775
Registered: 5-2001


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 5:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Maybe they're looking for a nice place to hold the next meeting of Cheney's energy task force?
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wharfrat
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Username: Wharfrat

Post Number: 864
Registered: 6-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 8:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
"Why not something new and exciting, like Mars?"

"The return to the moon would be for the purpose of technological advancements in technology, including energy exploration and testing a military rocket engine."

Actually, these two quotes have more in common than one realizes...NASA has been planning a manned mission to Mars for sometime.

There are many problems to overcome. One is the distance. It would take about 6 months to get there.

You would need a pretty big spaceship to carry everything you needed for the trip to and from the red planet.

A rocket large enough to carry all this stuff would require an enormous amount of fuel just to leave Earth's atmosphere.

If energy supplies, or the materials to make rocket fuel can be mined/made from the moons surface, then the moon could be used as a "gas station", on the way to and from Mars.

this leads to the inevitable question...will they check the oil and wash the windows without expecting a tip?

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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2517
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Standing on the moon
I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon
I see the soldiers come and go
There's a metal flag beside me
Someone planted long ago
Old Glory standing stiffly
Crimson, white and indigo
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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 1611
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The return to the moon would be for the purpose of technological advancements in technology...

We can put a man on the moon but we can't write an English sentence.
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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 2525
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 8:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The inimitable Tom Tomorrow saw this coming:

moon

The rest of the cartoon is at this link.
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themp
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Username: Themp

Post Number: 319
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 1:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Let's let the private sector do the space travel. Isn't that how our liberatarian, anti-government age works?
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Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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Username: Noglider

Post Number: 1287
Registered: 1-2003


Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 2:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yes, it seems disengenuous of the president to suggest this, given how his administration is trying to strangle stem cell research.
Tom Reingold
There is nothing

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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey

Post Number: 339
Registered: 8-2003


Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 3:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
someone should tell Dick Cheney you can convert stem cells into crude oil - we'll be doing more exploration than you can shake a stick at.

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