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2005-05-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Glaque Wheting5231 2005-05-07 01:16|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*snort*

*chortle*

Oh, wait.... They're serious? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-05-07 12:22|| 2005-05-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, I certainly hope the State Dept. does the work of defending this suit. I'd hate to have NASA's money wasted on legal fees. It's bad enough when our local greenies loot developers and businesses that way.

OTOP, I'd kind of like to see this taken to a US court and have a legal decision that Astrology is bunk. We have the science already, sure, but a court decision gives cover to police shutting them down as con-men.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-05-07 13:36|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-05-07 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt there will be a defence beyond a diplomatic note explaining to the ~~Soviet~~ Russian government what diplomatic immunity in an embassy is all about.

Astrology is protected by the first Amendment. They're irrational wackos, so it qualifies as religion. It's speech. The press makes money off it. Don't mess with astrology.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-07 14:09|| 2005-05-07 14:09|| Front Page Top

#4 It's 'lawsuits' like this that lead me to believe that one sure fire way to reduce their number is to institute 'loser pays' - the opponent's legal fees, that is.

I'd also like to see an abolition of contingency fees; CPA's, for instance, can't charge on that basis (the AICPA forbids it), but lawyers can.

Haven't given much thought to class-action lawsuits, but a quote from Bill learch, the Class Action King, will always stick out in my mind (paraphrasing a bit): "I love them because I have no clients."

Posted by Raj 2005-05-07 14:14|| 2005-05-07 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 You laugh now, but when the bird-flu-hemmoragic-fever laden Planet X ends its 12,000 year orbit and rams the Earth in December 2012 and brings about the end of time, the melting of the first hundred miles of the Earth's crust, and possibly the start of a higher consciousness for the human race, you'll wish you'd left Tempel 1 alone! The Templars made that comet for a reason!

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-07 14:56|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-05-07 14:56|| Front Page Top

#6 That must be the only sentence ever uttered by Lerach without a profanity.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-05-07 15:17|| 2005-05-07 15:17|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess it's nice in a strange sort of way to see that all the nut cases don't live in the USA. I'm surprised the same folks didn't raise hell over the Titan lander. Maybe we could send them there to see if it disturbed the "chi" of the palce.

Posted by Weird Al 2005-05-07 16:32|| 2005-05-07 16:32|| Front Page Top

#8 If you want to see what some of the off-balance types are saying about the Cassini mission, go to Hoagland's site, where he's talking about the possibility that NASA is covering up the discovery that Iapetus is a giant space station made out of buckeyballs whose geometry gives indications of the lost art of hyperdimensional physics...

There were also ecological types who opposed the launch of Cassini in the first place.

The scariest thing about Hoagland, is that even with all the oddball beliefs, he might STILL have turned out to be a better NASA administrator than some holders of that office. So he believes in pyramids on Mars; at least he really wants to go there.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-07 17:27|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-05-07 17:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I've brought out the big guns - my pink crystals - and surrounded myself with them. All you non-believers prepare yourselves... it's nosebleeds, headaches, and odd facial ticks for the lot of you!

Posted by .Ms Cosmic Vibe 2005-05-07 18:11|| 2005-05-07 18:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey you can't get a court to rule Astrology as a hoax. I won't be able to con fools out of money doing their charts any more!

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-05-07 19:13|| 2005-05-07 19:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I've got three kids yet I'm a Virgo - should I sue?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-07 19:23|| 2005-05-07 19:23|| Front Page Top

#12 My spam trap collects advertisements for Virgos. I think that's how it's spelled.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-05-07 23:14|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-05-07 23:14|| Front Page Top

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