Re: NASA competes with Private Enterprise?

Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:On May 10, 9:00 pm, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> Eric Chomko <pne.cho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>
:> :On May 7, 12:02 am, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :>
:> :
:> :But your quote:
:> :
:> :>
:> :> --
:> :> "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
:> :> -- Charles Pinckney
:> :
:> :Yes, you have posted it many times and I hadn't really thought about
:> :it until now.
:> :
:> :My first thought is to cite Patton, or at least George C. Scott
:> :playing Patton. "No dumb son-of-a-bitch won a war dying for his
:> :country. Wars are won by making some other poor son-of-a-bitch die for
:> :his country." (or thereabouts). Anyway, doesn't Pickney's comment
:> :ignore being on the receiving side of tribute? IOW, we sure as hell
:> :would ACCEPT millions in tribute. And we do!
:> :
:>
:> Pinckney understood the difference between 'for' (we are allocating
:> resources to pay) and 'from' (we are receiving as income).
:
:Too bad you missed my point by focusing on Pickney.

Well, it's not my fault you're an inarticulate git.

:I thought you ex-
:Navy guys with nuke experience were supposed to be sharp.

Oh, don't be silly. You don't think.

:Write your
:own tickets and all that. And here you are average as hell.

And yet I seem to do much better than you, so what does that make you?

:No wonder W is one of your heroes.

Where DO you get this silly shit?


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