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    Bad Omen over Texas

    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
    Last edited by MosesPresley; February 7, 2003, 17:07.
    "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
    —Orson Welles as Harry Lime
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  • #2
    You sound like those people that used to go hysterical over the passing of a comet.
    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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    • #3
      Not only that, but it fell to pieces over Palestine, TX.

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      • #4
        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.
        "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
        —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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        • #5
          Watch out for those evil eclipses.
          Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
          "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
          He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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          • #6
            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
            Last edited by MosesPresley; February 7, 2003, 17:06.
            "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
            —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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            • #7
              Why are you singling me out?
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #8
                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.
                If you don't like reality, change it! me
                "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
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                • #9
                  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!

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                  • #10
                    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.
                    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                    • #11
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        ...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.
                        What?

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                        • #13
                          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.
                          "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                          —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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                          • #14
                            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.
                            "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                            —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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                            • #15
                              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.

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