"Scratching for Water on the Moon"

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Originally posted by OnyxCougar
I disagree. But then, I'm still trying to get off the force-fed media nipple. It's a slow process, but accelarated by Cellarites....

It's not a media problem. It is which media is being consulted for information. If using tabloids or the local (TV) gossip, then you have not viable media sources. A major difference between 1990 Kuwait and 2003 Iraq is obvious if your media sources are responsible. The former clearly and roundly met the defintion of a smoking gun - which is why virtually the entire world supported a liberation of Kuwait. The latter meets the defintion of an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. It was conducted in direct opposition to most every world nation because it was justified only by lies - and no smoking gun. Responsible media sources make this difference obvious.

Go back one year to my strongly worded opposition to the latter invasion of Iraq AND to 1990 Cellar where I was appauled how people like Cheney opposed the liberation of Kuwait (thank you Margerat Thatcher for opposing neanderthal conservatives, for enpowered smarter people in the George Sr administration such as Scowcroft, and for putting a backbone into George Sr. Again if using responsible media, then this last sentence makes complete sense).

IOW to understand what has happened in NASA, well, did you read the Columbia murder investigation in www.caib.us ? If I remember, chapters 5 and 6 were 'must reads' for one using responsible media sources. Did you read the interrum resport on the Aug blackout - where First Energy was cited again and again for creating the blackout? The devil is in the details (but then you know First Energy is a problem because all top management are MBAs and lawyers - not a technical person anywhere in management or the Board of Directors. Again, a fact if your media sources are reporting properly.)

Cited in previous posts were opposition to the Iraq invasion based on information now known to have been quite accurate, the misappropriation of funds resulting in ISS and no super collider, and even an example of whether news source are viable. This latter example currently posted in the Internet discussion group on an obsolete technology called Blue Tooth verses a promising future technology called mesh networks. If your media sources have not reported on mesh networks today (and of Wireless hot spots over one year ago), then your problem is not mainstream media. Your problem would be listening to Rush Limbaugh type news reporters. How often do you watch a Ted Koppel town meeting?