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Here's another quote:

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther." --Werner von Braun

My great uncle Bob still lives, worked with him, & had stories last reunion I went to. Cool guy, my great uncle Bob. We call him "The Rocket Man."

Best, James Arthur

(That's him, far right, pg. 5:

Absolutely!

Here's detailed instructions for an experiment anybody can do:

Try it, you might like it!

Cheers! Rich

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:05:25 GMT, "Homer J Simpson" Gave us:

So, in your case we should assume it was childhood encephalitis?

Homer, you are just jealous because the US does everything bigger and better than anyone else

martin

Better or weirder?

Yesterday the House passed legislation taking pensions away from members convicted of bribery and corruption. But the new law isn't retroactive. So former members already convicted, like Cunningham, will keep their pensions, all at taxpayers' expense, of course. "He could start out with an annual retirement of $64,000 that would grow with the cost of living each year," says Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union And Congressman Cunningham is not alone. Some 15 other disgraced former members of Congress are also collecting these pensions. Convicted Illinois representative Dan Rotstenkowski still draws over 100 thousand dollars a year. But current members facing criminal investigation, including Tom Delay, won't be so lucky if they end up convicted.

Yes therein lies the UN's greatest weakness; it has no troops of it's own but must rely on the actual troops provided by member nations which has always been substantially less that what is promised which is always less than necessary for effective action.

I've more or less given up on trying to follow political corruption, anywhere. I now assume that in all political systems there is substantial corruption.

The death penalty for political corruption, would sharpen political ethics.

martin

And provide great entertainment for all indeed. Who cares if some mentally defective, poverty stricken sad sack is executed? But we'd pay to see Tom DeLay and his cronies sent home to Jeezus.

Its design is fundamentally an anachronism waiting to happen. Imagine if the UN had been created when the League of Nations was created. WWI allies Japan and Italy would have been permanemt members of the security council, and would have had veto power going into WWII.

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:41:46 -0800, John Larkin wrote in Msg.

When the US snatched WvB away before he could be put on trial in Nuremberg I'm sure they felt a pang of regret for having abolished slavery, seeing the lucky hand he had had with forced labor.

robert.