Begin Humming "Imperial March," Bush Wants Laser Weapon

[originalpckelly]

Yes, that's right Darth Stupidass and Emperor Pacemaker are at it again. Instead of missiles that can't hit the side of a barn, now its a ground based laser, meant to hit "enemy satellites." Of course, there are no armed satellites in orbit of Earth right now, so this is a complete and total freakin' waste of money.

Here is the link the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/washington/03laser.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Chiyo-chichi]

1. This is part of the PNAC agenda.

from Wikipedia PNAC entry, one of their goals is to:

“Control the new ‘international commons’ of space and ‘cyberspace,’ and pave the way for the creation of a new military service—U.S. Space Forces—with the mission of space control.”

[paparush]

17. YEP!

Oh..and a scaled down version of said laser makes a really nice crowd control weapon.

[tridim]

2. I have to assume he wants a "death star" too

So he can blow up all our Rebel bases with his laser.

Hey Congress.. Do NOT give this psycho any more guns. PLEASE!

[originalpckelly]

3. Hey y'all remember this line:

"You Rebel Scum." <-Say it with that weird British accent.

I think that is quite possibly how the other side thinks of us.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. It's called Controlling the High Ground and it..........

has always been part of the agenda.

[More Than A Feeling]

5. The Alan Parsons Project!

FIRE THE LASER!

[Rocknrule]

16. No, he'll call it "Preparation H"

[Rob H.]

6. Coincidentally, this was on The Onion yesterday >>

Be sure to click to enlarge the graphic--it's hilarious.

Excerpt:

NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space
May 3, 2006

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—Officials at the Kennedy Space Center announced Tuesday that they have set Aug. 6 as the date for launching $700 million from the Denarius IV spacecraft, the largest and most expensive mission to date in NASA's unmanned monetary-ejection program.

"This is an exciting opportunity to study the effect of a hard-vacuum, zero-gravity environment on $50 and $100 bills," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, who noted that prior Project Denarius missions only studied space's effect on fives and singles. "Whether the money is immediately incinerated because of hard radiation, or freezes in the near-absolute-zero temperature and shatters into infinitesimal pieces, or drifts aimlessly through the cosmos before being sucked through a black hole into another dimension, it will provide crucial information for our next series of launches, which will consist of even greater sums of money, in larger denominations."

Denarius IV, the fourth in a series of unmanned monetary-dispersal probes, will leave Earth's atmosphere at 36,500 miles per hour—the highest velocity at which money has ever departed the planet.

Full article is here.

Edit: link.

[sam sarrha]

7. this Program was revealed in 1995, Boeing put one in a 747..LINK>>

Boeing has taken a c-130 to install a Lazar into the belly.. apparently a quick build for Iraq or maybe Iran

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/abl.htm

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/aerospace/archives/101262.asp

this story is so Bogus.. you can buy a plastic model of the Boeing Lazar Gunship at your local hobby shop//

i used to work at Boeing.. they had this story in their monthly news break room paper all the time..

[originalpckelly]

8. You might want to fix it...

Its laser not lazar.

[sam sarrha]

9. contact the spell check they changed it..

[sam sarrha]

10. and i really dont give a rats ass about a letter when we face the end of

civilization due to a mentally ill pResident and his meglomaniacal puppet masters

[sam sarrha]

11. I have seen the dictionary, i have heard the voices, but I'm the Speller.!

[originalpckelly]

13. The spell check is probably programmed to let Bob Lazar pass.

That's it don't worry about it. It was probably just a small mistake made when you were really angry at Bush. No big deal.

[blm]

12. But, but, we were told there's "no difference" between Bush and Kerry...uh

except for that one little thing about Kerry being AGAINST making space a war zone and AGAINST another one little thing like tactical nukes and would have cancelled both programs.

[The2ndWheel]

14. Here's the problem

If humanity has the energy required to make space a war zone, it will.

[originalpckelly]

15. (Lone) Star Trek

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship BigOilGuys. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new haircuts, to seek out and destroy all life and civilization, to boldly go where no man has gone before (hopefully single digit approval ratings.)