NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom.
Savor those cosmic postcards while you can. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration decreed an early death yesterday to one of its flagship missions and most celebrated successes,
the Hubble Space Telescope. Wasting not only the big eye in the sky but also $200 million worth of instruments that had been built to be added in the later shuttle mission will be left on the ground.
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A
proposal to develop a hotel and more than 100 multimillion-dollar homes at
Dana Point Headlands, one of the last large undeveloped oceanfront parcels in Southern California, was approved last night by the state Coastal Commission.
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The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
Meanwhile, back at our Nations Capital, President Bush wants to give them all amnesty....
Go figure... Guess he wants to be Joe Davis when he grows up....
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A BILLION or 1,000,000,000
The next time you hear a politician use the words "billion" casually, think
about whether you want that politician
spending your tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but lets put that figure into perspective:
A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate Washington is spending it.
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U.S. planned Iraq war pre-Sept. 11
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill contends the United States began laying the groundwork for an invasion of Iraq just days after
President Bush took office in January 2001 - more than two years before the start of the U.S.-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein.
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Hatreds never cease by hatred in this world; by love alone they cease.
This is an ancient law.
-Buddha
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