A Call to Arms Against the Hollow Men - Shouldn't They be Tried asEnemies of the United States?

Who are the Hollow Men? They are the evil people in high places of
the financial industries and government who have colluded the mono-
polies of the energy industries, particularly oil, at the expense
of the American taxpayer. Their "hollowness" is their devotion to
their existential God of Purgatory, who is their own created Savior
against the God of Heaven and Hell, Luciferian, put into practice
by their own armies of liberal trial lawyers, judges, parishoners,
et al., because they will always attempt to wash their hands
of any wrong doing, using things like George Bush's recently planned
visit with the Pope in Vatican city, ending up at the Statue of the
Madonna, with the ultimate in the evil validation of symbolism over
substance, in ultimately avoiding direct conflict in the Call to
Arms,
placing the blame right back on the American taxpayer, or using the
strong arm of the IRS to harm companies "in certain districts" that
don't (or won't) conform to certain boiler-plate legislations, for the
current despicable group of Mandarins we are now calling "Congress"
and "Senate". These are the "stuffed men", the "hollow men".

Any current state-of-the-art proposals that get shot across NASA's
bow, regarding heavier launch requirements, become completely sub-
verted by these people using limited license, the high cost of launch
facilities, and under-powered SSME or Saturn V boosters. These items
will always end up completely excluding the primary purpose of space
exploration, avoiding jobs like SAR mapping, followup mining, and
processing asteroid regolith in space.

The engineering for new R&D regarding propulsion systems is so
tightly integrated into the different agencies of NASA that it
is hard to identify which agency would represent the marketing
arm of a heavy lift campaign: e.g. the "Assistant Director for
Space Propulsion Systems" (under the Science Directorate), the
"Propulsion Laboratory Director" (under the Engineering Director-
ate), the "Propulsion Laboratory Deputy Director" (also under the
Engineering Directorate), the "Propulsion Test Directorate"
(under Stennis Space Center), the "Propulsion Test Directorate
Deputy Director" (also under Stennis Space Center), the "Power
& On-Board Propulsion Tech. Division" (Langley Research Center),
the "Turbomachinery & Propulsion System Division Chief" (Lewis
Research Center), the Space Propulsion Technology Division Chief,
(Aerospace Technology), and the "Manager for Propulsion Technol-
ogy (Office of Space Access and Technology).

No mention was made of any other propulsion system of the 'heavy
lift' variety using nuclear pulse propulsion. In fact, the only
propulsion systems mentioned in the White House Federal
Register are of the ESAS type (Exploration Systems
Architecture Study) which is essentially a repeat of the
Saturn V/SRB's of Ares I, uses an Ares V Cargo Launch
Vehicle (CLV), a two-stage dual SRB for the first stage
and single core liquid propulsion for the second stage.

All of these technologies espoused by NASA & their subsidiaries
are basically repeated and recycled from the Apollo years, yet
the follow-up to these let-down technologies is a "human mission
to the moon by 2020". One might wonder "What ever happened
to the expertise with Apollo?", especially if a similar, reinvented
breed of heavier-lift technology was already in the making.

But the truth is that the national debt has slowed down the growth
of a would-be much more versatile NASA, as well as any private
enterprise that might come the way of NASA's "space initiative".

American

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

The Hollow Men (First stanza, by T. S. Eliot)

"So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled
with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them.
"Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and
worshiped him."

Matthew 28:8-10, NIV

Lack of popular support for more lackluster performances by
NASA is key here. The "substance" of the mission today has
become shrunk by micro-miniaturizations of its "utility".

Examples of "utility" are the tiny Aris rack systems used for
experiments - they are an indication of the mass limits on what
could be some very productive, very enterprising, orbital metal
smelting and refining centers; yet the mass of invalidating legal
minutia continues to promote the liberal trial lawyer's interpre-
tation of environmental abuse, tailor made to destroy any kind
of space initiative legislation, askew with the Mandarin breed of
boilerplate legislation, especially in the districts that would
become involved in a proposed upgrade of the space initiative.

However, just as mentioned, the smaller lift capacity is what
the smaller, marginalized bureaucracy has decided to limit the
"user" to. In other words, mainly because of the U.S. depen-
dency on foreign oil, and because of environmental issues here
at home, the marginalist Mandarins (Congressmen, Legislators,
Senators) who have voted to help fund NASA in the past,
have undoubtedly carried on the tradition of selling themselves
short in space, esp. because of the short-term profits that
transnationalism had to offer them, as well as their their
competitors. As a result, the hand of action shoots the leg in
the foot.

The reason these things are being done in the U.S. is probably
because most of the technology for developing advanced pro-
pulsion systems can be accomplished at a more reasonable
rate, if it can also get sold to the lowest bidder - a battle be-
tween interested parties to see who can hold out the longest,
but still pay the premium rate in doing so.

Besides, why should NASA have to sift through the increased
competition to rent their services if the competition can be
quickly narrowed down to the companies that can more im-
mediately pay the premium price? Ergo, we have the
space station.

Unfortunately, this means that a short-term profit in space is
more important (for the few investors that can afford it, and
afford to marginalize it as well) than it is for an R&D intensive,
short and long term profit for the many.

Yet that's just a part of the bureaucracy selling itself again
for the quick-fix, and it usually does this before it becomes the
dumbed-down civil servant, the sellout who sells many short, so
the profiteers (under-the-table bureaucrats, rider-crats, and
earmark-crats) negatively impact positive change, and handicap
faithful reminders for those of us who would rather refuse the
"quick fix".

The government therefore gets away with relating to its customers
as a business, and not a public service, when the government's
interest is in short-term profit alone.

American

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it
cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But
the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very
halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents
familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their
arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the
hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of
the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer
resist. A murder is less to fear."

- Cicero Roman Orator and Statesman (106-43 BC)

"American" wrote in message
...
Who are the Hollow Men? They are the evil people in high places of

PLONK

On Jun 19, 1:18*pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
"American" wrote in message

...
Who are the Hollow Men? They are the evil people in high places of

PLONK

Another mouth wide open with nothing to say? What a freakin
drip. Who qualified this asshole to respond here?

Yet just another example of:

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

There's your huckleberry, asshole.

American

On Jun 19, 3:42*pm, wrote:
On Jun 19, 1:18*pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:

"American" wrote in message

....
Who are the Hollow Men? They are the evil people in high places of

PLONK

Another mouth wide open with nothing to say? What a freakin
drip. Who qualified this asshole to respond here?

Yet just another example of:

*We are the hollow men
*We are the stuffed men
*Leaning together
*Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
*Our dried voices, when
*We whisper together
*Are quiet and meaningless
*As wind in dry grass
*Or rats’ feet over broken glass
*In our dry cellar

*Shape without form, shade without colour,
*Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

*Those who have crossed
*With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
*Remember us—if at all—not as lost
*Violent souls, but only
*As the hollow men
*The stuffed men.

There's your huckleberry, asshole.

American

Many assholes today lack the rage, much less the conversa-
tional knowledge to carry on an intelligent conversation about
the real issues - they just *plonk* because they know if some-
thing can't hit them over the head hard enough, it must not
be real anymore. Ah, the ignorance of it all.

One may wonder how many kinds of angel investors that
are left in the land can be made to fit on the head of NASA's
pin, while the Fed's own bureacratic pin keeps poking and
prodding at the privacy and sovereignity of its taxpayers, with
government for sale, in the form of inside-the-beltway riders
and earmarks that act as entitlements - entitlements for sale
every time an election comes to town.

Take for instance H.R. 3773, the FISA Amendments Act of
2008, which would give liberal trial lawyers the ability to
SUE telecommunication companies for simply providing a
user link for terrorists to communicate to/from American
soil internationally. This would permit the house majority
leadership to legislate the criminal prosecution of ANY
telecommunications company, without having the retro-
active immunity clause, as H.R. 3773 did prior to 2008.

True, one cannot legislate from the "bench" - but it sure
does cost a bundle to end up having the case heard in a
Superior Court by the "accused"!

Thus campaign contributions from any voting precinct
across the country that contains a telecommunications
commercial enterprise within its commercial zone, can be
'tagged' for back room deals, giving funds to the Blue Dog
Democrats, if the companies don't want to have their pants
sued off of them

- and get this -

Google has just "washed its hands" with the Federal
Government by leasing property belonging to NASA, which
places private "satellite communications" within reach of
any "legal entity" (read code word: "liberal trial lawyer") that
wishes to investigate any person or group of people who
may have been publishing any form of media online that
rails against the Blue Dog Democrat leadership - some-
thing which has compounded "paving the way" for the
bureaucracy to "litigate politically" with any telecommun-
ications company they so desire, all at the expense of
the American taxpayer!

These people have all colluded to make a business out
of the free time that hard working Americans use to truly
communicate and percolate ideas over the internet, es-
pecially w.r.t. the issues that affect us all - by turning our
nation's representation and public service into a welfare
state scam that oppresses free speech!

All Americans should be apalled at what this legislature
has been privately forcing on the nation under CLOSED
SESSION, which places a majority of these mandarin
Congressional and Senatorial bureaucrats at odds with
the constitution!

American