08-02-2003 00:33									#1
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I can't take credit for this observation, but I thought it was worth sharing.

The president announces that war is "weeks, not months" away, and a short time afterwards the space shuttle Columbia disentegrates over his home state of Texas with some pieces falling near Palestine, TX. Did anyone else notice the symbolic irony? Or is this just silly superstitious fear?

Supposedly Roman generals would call off battles if they tripped over their doorstep. The Columbia disaster is a little bigger than simply tripping over your own doorstep.

"...and the seven knights, riding a chariot of fire
streaked across a sky, empty of the two towers
messengers of doom, gloom and disaster
for the credulous fools who won't question their leader"

Richelieu

edited: thanks to Richelieu for the poetic interlude

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	08-02-2003 00:34									#2
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You sound like those people that used to go hysterical over the passing of a comet.

	08-02-2003 00:35									#3
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Not only that, but it fell to pieces over Palestine, TX.

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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc You sound like those people that used to go hysterical over the passing of a comet.

I am an amateur astronomer. I like comets. Obviously, and no surprise, you are in the No camp.

	08-02-2003 00:39									#5
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Watch out for those evil eclipses.

	08-02-2003 00:42									#6
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SlowwHand & JohnT

Make fun if you like. This wasn't intended to be a serious thread, but we will have to wait and see.


edited: I didn't see JohnT's rolly-eyes the first time

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	08-02-2003 00:44									#7
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Why are you singling me out?

	08-02-2003 00:47									#8
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Curious: the Mad Monk was the first to make this statement, right in the original Columbia thread.

If we were Romans, the war would be off: of course, if we were Romans we would also give the Iraqis a chance for citizenship after the war went ahead.

	08-02-2003 00:47									#9
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The unemployment rate has also fallen this week, as the DJIA is falling today. My daughter tripped and fell to the floor yesterday. All this falling in the same week as the shuttle, cannot be mere coincidence!

	08-02-2003 00:51									#10
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quote: Originally posted by GePap If we were Romans, the war would be off: of course, if we were Romans we would also give the Iraqis a chance for citizenship after the war went ahead.

If we were Romans, troops wouldn't be massing at the border of Iraq but at Canada and Mexico. But I digress. I already have a thread on that topic.

	08-02-2003 00:55									#11
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc If we were Romans, troops wouldn't be massing at the border of Iraq but at Canada and Mexico. But I digress. I already have a thread on that topic.

Its still a great line. Instead, being Americans and not Romans we are standing around like cows while Mexico invades. Hispanics are now the largest minority in this country. It's only a matter of time till we fall.

	08-02-2003 00:58									#12
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...and the seven knights, riding a chariot of fire
streaked across a sky, empty of the two towers
messengers of doom, gloom and disaster
for the credulous fools who won't question their leader


There you go. They'll be talking about me in 500 years.

	08-02-2003 01:00									#13
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Dino,

Why do you want to invade Mexico? Do we have a pinata shortage? What the hell is in Canada? Moose?*






*This in no way meant to offend our friends and neighbors to the north and south.

	08-02-2003 01:02									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Richelieu ...and the seven knights, riding a chariot of fire streaked across a sky, empty of the two towers messengers of doom, gloom and disaster for the credulous fools who won't question their leader There you go. They'll be talking about me in 500 years.

Thank you, my original post lacked panache.

	08-02-2003 01:04									#15
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Being a soothesayer I can interpret that omen. It simply means that in the upcoming war for every six Americans killed in Iraq one Israeli will be killed by Hussein funded Palestinian terrorists.

Surely you remember that Saddam pays bounties to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Expect a rash of that during the invasion.

The symbolism in the space orbiter is simply a foretelling of the widespread devestation that will be the result of American airpower and the part about Texas simply points to the great leader Bush.

I don't see how this omen portrays ill for America, just the reverse. The fact that America has done such great things in space with so few casulties points almost certainly that we will suffer few losses in a much smaller endeavor, the removal of Saddam.

So, you can tell George that this sage gives a big thumbs up.

	08-02-2003 01:06									#16
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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley Why do you want to invade Mexico? Do we have a pinata shortage? What the hell is in Canada? Moose?*

Go to my oil war thread if you want to discuss my desire to invade Canada.

	08-02-2003 01:06									#17
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jimmytrick,

Now that is some serious spin. Do you work in Washington DC?

	08-02-2003 01:10									#18
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc If we were Romans, troops wouldn't be massing at the border of Iraq but at Canada and Mexico. But I digress. I already have a thread on that topic.

Your not the Romans, yer the barbarians.
We're the ones who had a world spanning empire.
Your more like the Germanic tribes between the
Rhine and the Elbe, once were part of the the empire
but were too uncivilized to absorb it's civilization.

	08-02-2003 01:10									#19
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Talk about reading the Chicken guts wrong!

Don't worry Jimmytrick: dem damn Mejicans will have killed you in your sleep long before they spoil this fine country of ya'lls.

	08-02-2003 01:11									#20
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Nice retort!

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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley jimmytrick, Now that is some serious spin. Do you work in Washington DC?

No, when Condi needs something to sooth Bush I just fax it in.

	08-02-2003 01:19									#23
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quote: Originally posted by GePap Talk about reading the Chicken guts wrong! Don't worry Jimmytrick: dem damn Mejicans will have killed you in your sleep long before they spoil this fine country of ya'lls.

But I don't sleep with Mejican women. And I don't see how any will ever show up at my house. They seem to only frequent homes with 17 residents and no storm doors.

	08-02-2003 01:36									#24
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Just because Jimmytrick is an Anglophile, doesn't mean he should be ostracized, does it?

	08-02-2003 01:40									#25
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It's "y'all", not "ya'll".

If anyone wants to act ignorant, act ignorant; but spell it correctly.

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	08-02-2003 02:10									#26
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Added Richelieu's poem to first post. Addition to first response to SlowwHand.

Thread all cleaned up and ready to die, unless there are more senseless threadjacks on the subject of "mejicans".

	08-02-2003 02:11									#27
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Not many good things come from Texas... it's the anus of America. Home of Enron, SBC Communications (the anti-christ company), Dubya, and many of the people I see on Cops ... But Texas isn't all bad. I'm sure there are four, maybe five, good people there.

	08-02-2003 02:18									#28
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Why don't you tear ass, Sava?
It's a big world. We'll struggle along without you.

	08-02-2003 02:22									#29
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My grandparents live in Texas.

	08-02-2003 02:24									#30
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Moses, like I said, not all Texans are bad. Texas just has a higher percentage of them .

Sloww: go shoot some cans off a fence, mkay...