The space shuttle: The Folly of Our Age

At 7:01 AM +0000 7/30/07, Chris Smyth wrote:
> Today that piece of government
>extravagance is the great state of Alaska.

...and it's still, on the balance, stealing taxpayer's money.

:-)

Someone joked that if they ever made a bronze statue of the modern Alaskan
it would be a guy in dirty insulated Carhartts and a backwards gimmie hat,
looking at you with his hand out.

The solution, of course, is to sell all that "public" land and let people
get on with developing the place, but that'll never happen.

Which is why I like asteroids. :-) Let's seem 'em call *that* an "ecosystem".

Cheers,
RAH
Former Alaskan, still a Republican, and who notes that *both* Alaskan
senators *and* it's only congressman are currently under investigation for
"earmark"-based bribery of various sorts.
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