Posted on 02/15/2013 11:00:09 AM PST by dragnet2
"children like you"?
The fictional story was just another example of the myriad liberal attacks on anti-communists -- the book / movie aside, liberals, et al felt that we had to be nice to the U.S.S.R. lest we play into the hands of Soviet hard-liners, there would be war and it would be our fault.
As for the story line.. yes, I would have been against what the fictional president did and instead have him confront the Soviets with their half of MAD.
Personally I did not believe the Soviets had the capabilities to respond in kind. That is why the so called "Cuban missile crisis" did not worry me one whit.
Pretty impressive huh?
It must have blown them away when they found out what caused it.
... and their farts don’t smell.
However, the point I was (poorly) trying to make was that Astronomers report what they see. It is the media and government who control what the public is made aware of.
In addition, the media no longer controls everything ya read like the old school newspapers and TV news, which were and are totally manipulated, censored and controlled...It's why they hate the Internet so bad.
BTW, this event did not need to be embellished, censored or exaggerated etc, as it was spectacular all by itself. Besides, it was totally outside government control as it was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who immediately put it out on the Internet...
Well.... I can certainly agree with that.
Throw a ping-pong ball at a speeding cement truck?
That's an OLD picture that shows a MISSILE chasing down something.
The meteor did NOT have that kind of picture.
And SPINS it during the awaring process, too!
LOL! Thanks. I have since looked at other pictures, but most have been of the meteor shower that was caused by the meteor, in England and Europe.
Sorry; we thought this was the white sand beaches of Cancun.
Beam us up; Scruffy!
Checkout time 53:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeW30vLwds
I just checked with GoogleTranslate and Chelyabinsk in English means: Grover’s Mill.
bttt
Good-bye Jim
by James Whitcomb Riley
Old man never had much to say-
Ceptin to Jim,-
And Jim was the wildest boy he had-
And the old man jes wrapped up in him!
Never heerd him speak but once
Er twice in my life, and first time was
When the army broke out, and Jim he went,
The old man backin him, fer three months;
After the cold war ended we finally found out that our government was lying and the Soviets were about as militarily powerful as a de-clawed kitten. But hey, it’s OK if the government lies to us so long as the military-industrial complex gets their paychecks right?
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