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Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
blast off
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Date: July 23, 2012 05:59PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died. She was 61.
NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero.
sad what passes as a hero these days
NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero.
sad what passes as a hero these days
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: July 23, 2012 06:05PM
The first American woman in space is a national hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask the Challenger 7.
Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
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Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
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Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
sky watcher
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Date: July 23, 2012 06:26PM
She certainly was someone I looked up to (pun! Albeit not intended).
Reading her obit I see she was also a lesbian. I don't believe I ever read that before. How strange.
Reading her obit I see she was also a lesbian. I don't believe I ever read that before. How strange.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: July 23, 2012 06:31PM
sky watcher Wrote:
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> She certainly was someone I looked up to (pun!
> Albeit not intended).
>
> Reading her obit I see she was also a lesbian. I
> don't believe I ever read that before. How
> strange.
This is a Lesbian?? Shocking!!!!
I was still a kid when she went into space and even back then I figured she was into the ladies.
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> She certainly was someone I looked up to (pun!
> Albeit not intended).
>
> Reading her obit I see she was also a lesbian. I
> don't believe I ever read that before. How
> strange.
This is a Lesbian?? Shocking!!!!
I was still a kid when she went into space and even back then I figured she was into the ladies.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Olde Farte, II
()
Date: July 23, 2012 06:33PM
She just looks like a geek to me.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
OYZ
()
Date: July 23, 2012 06:44PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
Barack Obama is not a hero. He has a Nobel Peace Prize though.
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
Barack Obama is not a hero. He has a Nobel Peace Prize though.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Westboro
()
Date: July 23, 2012 07:01PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
I would not consider someone who willfully goes into space a hero. But any gay or lesbian whom did anything of any significance you would consider them a hero ya gay old dog.
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
I would not consider someone who willfully goes into space a hero. But any gay or lesbian whom did anything of any significance you would consider them a hero ya gay old dog.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
tomahawk
()
Date: July 23, 2012 07:22PM
Hey did you hear? Sally Ride died. I'm sure we can mourn her passing without acting like a bunch of political douches...oh never mind.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Numbers
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:00PM
I think the term "hero" is different things to different people. To me, it means someone who risked their life to save other people. Anything short of that I categorize as a pioneer or an important influence.
To me, musicians and sports stars are NOT heros, but some are highly influential and extremely talented.
Someone who runs out into oncoming traffic to save a kid from being destroyed is a hero.
Sally Ride is highly influential to me, because of how hard and long she had to have worked just to be considered as a space shuttle astronaut. I can't imagine all the shit she endured from assholes along the way. Plus, you need brass balls to do something like that. She definitely deserves a place in history, but she is NOT a hero.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2012 08:01PM by Numbers.
To me, musicians and sports stars are NOT heros, but some are highly influential and extremely talented.
Someone who runs out into oncoming traffic to save a kid from being destroyed is a hero.
Sally Ride is highly influential to me, because of how hard and long she had to have worked just to be considered as a space shuttle astronaut. I can't imagine all the shit she endured from assholes along the way. Plus, you need brass balls to do something like that. She definitely deserves a place in history, but she is NOT a hero.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2012 08:01PM by Numbers.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
pissoff, lib
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:07PM
tomahawk Wrote:
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> Hey did you hear? Sally Ride died. I'm sure we can
> mourn her passing without acting like a bunch of
> political douches...oh never mind.
Sally Ride was a federal employee living off the taxpayer teat. She made a career off the academic system, created basically no jobs, and accomplished very little outside of her government-assigned duties to get a free ride into space. Not to mention she's a bull-dyke who probably supported fags in the military and Obama-supported abortions.
Good RIDEANNCE.
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> Hey did you hear? Sally Ride died. I'm sure we can
> mourn her passing without acting like a bunch of
> political douches...oh never mind.
Sally Ride was a federal employee living off the taxpayer teat. She made a career off the academic system, created basically no jobs, and accomplished very little outside of her government-assigned duties to get a free ride into space. Not to mention she's a bull-dyke who probably supported fags in the military and Obama-supported abortions.
Good RIDEANNCE.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
blast off
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:14PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
Sorry you have a much lower threshold for the term hero than I do. I am sure I never said Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh were heroes. Its too bad you had to bring politics into it. If you would be so kind to tell he what heroic act she committed other than being the first woman in space?
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> The first American woman in space is a national
> hero. If you don't think she risked her life, ask
> the Challenger 7.
>
>
> Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not a
> hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
Sorry you have a much lower threshold for the term hero than I do. I am sure I never said Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh were heroes. Its too bad you had to bring politics into it. If you would be so kind to tell he what heroic act she committed other than being the first woman in space?
Attachments:
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Westboro
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:22PM
Anyone in the homosexual community the old wash puts on a pedistal. Lesbian astronauts, gay sailors ect...
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Fed Up with Rednecks
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:40PM
Could you mentally challenged homophobic right wing hillbillies please learn to spell? (P.S. That's a rhetorical question.) (P.P.S. In response to your slack jawed 'WTF?', look it up.)
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
MarcusTheSkeptic
()
Date: July 23, 2012 08:56PM
I deplore her. Not only for refusing to be a symbol of hope and courage to lesbians but also for distorting our views of society by her dishonesty.
"It's time women in this country realize that women in this country can do any job they want to," she told USA Today shortly before her first launch." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577545434253032986.html
Thats a blatant lie. Not "women" did that job but a dyke, a lesbian. Someone who in a hugely important part of her life and personality felt and acted DRASTICALLY different from 95% of all those women she claimed to represent here and purposefully concealed it from them and the rest of the public.
I have no problems with people living life anyway they want and hopefully makes them happy. But distorting reality, distorting gender differences by making "women" into role modeles who feel and are vastly different than the majority of people denominated by that word, is a disservice to humanity.
How many of the other female astronauts, engineers and generelly career women who are often given as poster child role modeles especially to our young girls are really lesbians and as such represent a vastly different world of emotions and sentiments than those girls themselves in their overwhelmign majority?
Is the whole picture of women wanting, even NEEDING to compete to strive for careers in usually mostly occupations saught by males perhaps totally wrong? Perhaps its only dykes..lesbian who strive really for that and perhaps a huge majority of hetero sexual women if not goaded into it by dishonest role models and demands by those different than them would be perfectly happy as the classical home maker archetype?
What if we learned that 95% of male nursery and kindergarten teachers were gay? Wouldn't that change the view especially of young (heterosexual) boys about what career paths they should take, what might make them happy or what they feel?
Long it has been argued by some that boys playing with trains and girls with dolls is mostly if not totally a social "training" and has nothing to do with biological foundations. Then if there is some truth to that how much more do such (false) role models influence children in their view what is good and appropriate for them, even what feels right?
"It's time women in this country realize that women in this country can do any job they want to," she told USA Today shortly before her first launch." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577545434253032986.html
Thats a blatant lie. Not "women" did that job but a dyke, a lesbian. Someone who in a hugely important part of her life and personality felt and acted DRASTICALLY different from 95% of all those women she claimed to represent here and purposefully concealed it from them and the rest of the public.
I have no problems with people living life anyway they want and hopefully makes them happy. But distorting reality, distorting gender differences by making "women" into role modeles who feel and are vastly different than the majority of people denominated by that word, is a disservice to humanity.
How many of the other female astronauts, engineers and generelly career women who are often given as poster child role modeles especially to our young girls are really lesbians and as such represent a vastly different world of emotions and sentiments than those girls themselves in their overwhelmign majority?
Is the whole picture of women wanting, even NEEDING to compete to strive for careers in usually mostly occupations saught by males perhaps totally wrong? Perhaps its only dykes..lesbian who strive really for that and perhaps a huge majority of hetero sexual women if not goaded into it by dishonest role models and demands by those different than them would be perfectly happy as the classical home maker archetype?
What if we learned that 95% of male nursery and kindergarten teachers were gay? Wouldn't that change the view especially of young (heterosexual) boys about what career paths they should take, what might make them happy or what they feel?
Long it has been argued by some that boys playing with trains and girls with dolls is mostly if not totally a social "training" and has nothing to do with biological foundations. Then if there is some truth to that how much more do such (false) role models influence children in their view what is good and appropriate for them, even what feels right?
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Ice cream socialist
()
Date: July 23, 2012 09:43PM
Just what I was thinking. Cool that Wilson Pickett sang a tribute song about this heroine kitty licker.
496 Wrote:
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> Ride, Sally ride.
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496 Wrote:
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> Ride, Sally ride.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2012 09:44PM by Ice cream socialist.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Lips
()
Date: July 23, 2012 10:09PM
Death certificate or GTFO.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Maurice
()
Date: July 23, 2012 10:28PM
MarcusTheSkeptic Wrote:
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> I deplore her. Not only for refusing to be a
> symbol of hope and courage to lesbians but also
> for distorting our views of society by her
> dishonesty.
>
> "It's time women in this country realize that
> women in this country can do any job they want
> to," she told USA Today shortly before her first
> launch."
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904434
> 37504577545434253032986.html
>
> Thats a blatant lie. Not "women" did that job but
> a dyke, a lesbian. Someone who in a hugely
> important part of her life and personality felt
> and acted DRASTICALLY different from 95% of all
> those women she claimed to represent here and
> purposefully concealed it from them and the rest
> of the public.
>
> I have no problems with people living life anyway
> they want and hopefully makes them happy. But
> distorting reality, distorting gender differences
> by making "women" into role modeles who feel and
> are vastly different than the majority of people
> denominated by that word, is a disservice to
> humanity.
>
> How many of the other female astronauts, engineers
> and generelly career women who are often given as
> poster child role modeles especially to our young
> girls are really lesbians and as such represent a
> vastly different world of emotions and sentiments
> than those girls themselves in their overwhelmign
> majority?
>
> Is the whole picture of women wanting, even
> NEEDING to compete to strive for careers in
> usually mostly occupations saught by males perhaps
> totally wrong? Perhaps its only dykes..lesbian who
> strive really for that and perhaps a huge majority
> of hetero sexual women if not goaded into it by
> dishonest role models and demands by those
> different than them would be perfectly happy as
> the classical home maker archetype?
>
> What if we learned that 95% of male nursery and
> kindergarten teachers were gay? Wouldn't that
> change the view especially of young (heterosexual)
> boys about what career paths they should take,
> what might make them happy or what they feel?
>
> Long it has been argued by some that boys playing
> with trains and girls with dolls is mostly if not
> totally a social "training" and has nothing to do
> with biological foundations. Then if there is some
> truth to that how much more do such (false) role
> models influence children in their view what is
> good and appropriate for them, even what feels
> right?
Have an Appletini and relax Queenie. For some folks being gay isn't the overriding aspect of their lives like it is yours. She's still a woman even if she was gay. And sorry but, as much as you might want it to be true, 95% of the population isn't gay and most don't really give a damn one way or another about you or anyone else being gay.
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> I deplore her. Not only for refusing to be a
> symbol of hope and courage to lesbians but also
> for distorting our views of society by her
> dishonesty.
>
> "It's time women in this country realize that
> women in this country can do any job they want
> to," she told USA Today shortly before her first
> launch."
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904434
> 37504577545434253032986.html
>
> Thats a blatant lie. Not "women" did that job but
> a dyke, a lesbian. Someone who in a hugely
> important part of her life and personality felt
> and acted DRASTICALLY different from 95% of all
> those women she claimed to represent here and
> purposefully concealed it from them and the rest
> of the public.
>
> I have no problems with people living life anyway
> they want and hopefully makes them happy. But
> distorting reality, distorting gender differences
> by making "women" into role modeles who feel and
> are vastly different than the majority of people
> denominated by that word, is a disservice to
> humanity.
>
> How many of the other female astronauts, engineers
> and generelly career women who are often given as
> poster child role modeles especially to our young
> girls are really lesbians and as such represent a
> vastly different world of emotions and sentiments
> than those girls themselves in their overwhelmign
> majority?
>
> Is the whole picture of women wanting, even
> NEEDING to compete to strive for careers in
> usually mostly occupations saught by males perhaps
> totally wrong? Perhaps its only dykes..lesbian who
> strive really for that and perhaps a huge majority
> of hetero sexual women if not goaded into it by
> dishonest role models and demands by those
> different than them would be perfectly happy as
> the classical home maker archetype?
>
> What if we learned that 95% of male nursery and
> kindergarten teachers were gay? Wouldn't that
> change the view especially of young (heterosexual)
> boys about what career paths they should take,
> what might make them happy or what they feel?
>
> Long it has been argued by some that boys playing
> with trains and girls with dolls is mostly if not
> totally a social "training" and has nothing to do
> with biological foundations. Then if there is some
> truth to that how much more do such (false) role
> models influence children in their view what is
> good and appropriate for them, even what feels
> right?
Have an Appletini and relax Queenie. For some folks being gay isn't the overriding aspect of their lives like it is yours. She's still a woman even if she was gay. And sorry but, as much as you might want it to be true, 95% of the population isn't gay and most don't really give a damn one way or another about you or anyone else being gay.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
not afraid of the gays
()
Date: July 23, 2012 10:44PM
Maurice Wrote:
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> Have an Appletini and relax Queenie. For some
> folks being gay isn't the overriding aspect of
> their lives like it is yours. She's still a woman
> even if she was gay. And sorry but, as much as
> you might want it to be true, 95% of the
> population isn't gay and most don't really give a
> damn one way or another about you or anyone else
> being gay.
her lifestyle is against everything this country is about and it is immoral. the Bible doesn't allow it, God forbids it, and you can never be saved if you follow that kind of disgusting life. The truth is in the Saviour. She might be a nice person but her way if life is not something that should exist here in our country.
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> Have an Appletini and relax Queenie. For some
> folks being gay isn't the overriding aspect of
> their lives like it is yours. She's still a woman
> even if she was gay. And sorry but, as much as
> you might want it to be true, 95% of the
> population isn't gay and most don't really give a
> damn one way or another about you or anyone else
> being gay.
her lifestyle is against everything this country is about and it is immoral. the Bible doesn't allow it, God forbids it, and you can never be saved if you follow that kind of disgusting life. The truth is in the Saviour. She might be a nice person but her way if life is not something that should exist here in our country.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Westboro
()
Date: July 23, 2012 11:09PM
Thats right! Enjoy eternal damnation.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Priapus
()
Date: July 24, 2012 12:31AM
This must be the Westboro/Teaparty Fairfax division. I'm not sure why so many here are so threatened by her. We need more people like her.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Yes, A Hero
()
Date: July 24, 2012 12:57AM
Priapus Wrote:
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> This must be the Westboro/Teaparty Fairfax
> division. I'm not sure why so many here are so
> threatened by her. We need more people like her.
I second that. It's shameful how you morons are carrying on. Her sexual nature isn't important. (And people wonder why she wanted to keep it quiet!) What counts is how she led her life and what she accomplished. I daresay, she accomplished a boat load more than any one of us!
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She was a physicist, writer of five science books for children and president of her own company, which motivates youngsters to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. She was also a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.
She received numerous awards, including the National Space Society's von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame and was awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal twice. She was the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
She was also inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at the California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
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> This must be the Westboro/Teaparty Fairfax
> division. I'm not sure why so many here are so
> threatened by her. We need more people like her.
I second that. It's shameful how you morons are carrying on. Her sexual nature isn't important. (And people wonder why she wanted to keep it quiet!) What counts is how she led her life and what she accomplished. I daresay, she accomplished a boat load more than any one of us!
---------
She was a physicist, writer of five science books for children and president of her own company, which motivates youngsters to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. She was also a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.
She received numerous awards, including the National Space Society's von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame and was awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal twice. She was the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
She was also inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at the California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: July 24, 2012 07:18AM
Jesus never said anything about gays.
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Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Priapus
()
Date: July 24, 2012 08:02AM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Jesus never said anything about gays.
How do you know that?
"The Jesus Sayings also follows the sometimes tragic, occasionally comic history of what happened to the message after Jesus, Mary, and their circle of friends were no longer around to care take the movement. It’s a complex story that involves some eighty factions of Jesus followers, homicidal emperor Constantine, his well-travelled mother, and one dubious historian. A hot-blooded Berber intellectual, Augustine, who served as the public voice for the Bishop of Milan, sums up the Roman establishment’s approach:
“There are many true things that are not useful for the vulgar crowd to know; and certain things, which although they are false it is expedient for the people to believe otherwise.”
Augustine of Hippo, City of God"
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> Jesus never said anything about gays.
How do you know that?
"The Jesus Sayings also follows the sometimes tragic, occasionally comic history of what happened to the message after Jesus, Mary, and their circle of friends were no longer around to care take the movement. It’s a complex story that involves some eighty factions of Jesus followers, homicidal emperor Constantine, his well-travelled mother, and one dubious historian. A hot-blooded Berber intellectual, Augustine, who served as the public voice for the Bishop of Milan, sums up the Roman establishment’s approach:
“There are many true things that are not useful for the vulgar crowd to know; and certain things, which although they are false it is expedient for the people to believe otherwise.”
Augustine of Hippo, City of God"
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
ratio1
()
Date: July 24, 2012 09:57AM
blast off Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The first American woman in space is a national
> > hero. If you don't think she risked her life,
> ask
> > the Challenger 7.
> >
> >
> > Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not
> a
> > hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
>
> Sorry you have a much lower threshold for the term
> hero than I do. I am sure I never said Sarah Palin
> or Rush Limbaugh were heroes. Its too bad you had
> to bring politics into it. If you would be so
> kind to tell he what heroic act she committed
> other than being the first woman in space?
Risk of getting killed in a Shuttle about 1-100, much higher than being a soldier, which is about 1-300.
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The first American woman in space is a national
> > hero. If you don't think she risked her life,
> ask
> > the Challenger 7.
> >
> >
> > Sarah Palin is not a hero. Rush Limbaugh is not
> a
> > hero. Sally Ride is a hero.
>
> Sorry you have a much lower threshold for the term
> hero than I do. I am sure I never said Sarah Palin
> or Rush Limbaugh were heroes. Its too bad you had
> to bring politics into it. If you would be so
> kind to tell he what heroic act she committed
> other than being the first woman in space?
Risk of getting killed in a Shuttle about 1-100, much higher than being a soldier, which is about 1-300.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: July 24, 2012 10:08AM
ratio1 Wrote:
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>
> Risk of getting killed in a Shuttle about 1-100,
> much higher than being a soldier, which is about
> 1-300.
Actually, there were 135 shuttle missions and two of them blew up. So the odds are more like 1 in 67. You are correct about soldiers. There have been about 2 million deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan resulting in 6,400 KIA. That comes out to 1 in 312.
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>
> Risk of getting killed in a Shuttle about 1-100,
> much higher than being a soldier, which is about
> 1-300.
Actually, there were 135 shuttle missions and two of them blew up. So the odds are more like 1 in 67. You are correct about soldiers. There have been about 2 million deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan resulting in 6,400 KIA. That comes out to 1 in 312.
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Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
butchtothecore
()
Date: July 24, 2012 07:58PM
It doesn't surprise me she is a lesbian. Lesbians tend to be smarter and think more like men. Its sort of like lesbians are really straight men trapped in women's bodies.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
not quite yet
()
Date: July 24, 2012 08:01PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Actually, there were 135 shuttle missions and two
> of them blew up. So the odds are more like 1 in
> 67. You are correct about soldiers. There have
> been about 2 million deployments to Iraq and
> Afghanistan resulting in 6,400 KIA. That comes out
> to 1 in 312.
Nice cherry picking. You are counting all soldiers which would include support units and those not even in a combat zone. Try again you fail.
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> Actually, there were 135 shuttle missions and two
> of them blew up. So the odds are more like 1 in
> 67. You are correct about soldiers. There have
> been about 2 million deployments to Iraq and
> Afghanistan resulting in 6,400 KIA. That comes out
> to 1 in 312.
Nice cherry picking. You are counting all soldiers which would include support units and those not even in a combat zone. Try again you fail.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Priapus
()
Date: July 24, 2012 08:03PM
So how to explain Lana Wachowski ( formerly Larry) of the Wachowski Brothers?
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
fail again
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Date: July 24, 2012 08:07PM
WTL its ok to admit you and Obama are wrong. She is not a hero. People like you would apply the word to just about anyone thus cheapening its meaning. I am certain you would apply it to people like Michael Jordan, some AIDS patient, Teddy Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Snooki.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Snooks
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Date: July 24, 2012 11:39PM
Snookie? Ewww.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
yawnee
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Date: July 25, 2012 12:11AM
People most upset about her are probably gay. Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And who cares if closet gays are upset with her being gay?
Re: Sally Ride dead
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WTL is right here
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Date: July 25, 2012 08:15AM
fail again Wrote:
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> WTL its ok to admit you and Obama are wrong. She
> is not a hero. People like you would apply the
> word to just about anyone thus cheapening its
> meaning. I am certain you would apply it to people
> like Michael Jordan, some AIDS patient, Teddy
> Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Snooki.
I don't agree with WTL often, but he is right here, she was a hero. Sure people may have more dangerous jobs that are less glamorous, but climbing in a rocket being shot into space with a decent shot of not coming back for the good of the country qualifies as a hero. You really need to kill that part of your brain that sees the world as either Lib or Con, because life is too short for that BS.
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> WTL its ok to admit you and Obama are wrong. She
> is not a hero. People like you would apply the
> word to just about anyone thus cheapening its
> meaning. I am certain you would apply it to people
> like Michael Jordan, some AIDS patient, Teddy
> Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Snooki.
I don't agree with WTL often, but he is right here, she was a hero. Sure people may have more dangerous jobs that are less glamorous, but climbing in a rocket being shot into space with a decent shot of not coming back for the good of the country qualifies as a hero. You really need to kill that part of your brain that sees the world as either Lib or Con, because life is too short for that BS.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
blast off
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Date: July 25, 2012 08:54AM
No WTL and you just have a lower standard when it comes to applying the word hero. Nothing to do with politics. She is no more a hero than when the word is applied to a certain profession and not a particular act. I would not slap the word hero on just anyone because it cheapens the term.
To put her chances of death or injury at 1 in 67 is misleading due to the small number of actual flights. You would need a larger number before you get a true picture of how dangerous the job really is.
To put her chances of death or injury at 1 in 67 is misleading due to the small number of actual flights. You would need a larger number before you get a true picture of how dangerous the job really is.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
moralmajority2
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Date: July 25, 2012 12:38PM
yawnee Wrote:
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> People most upset about her are probably gay.
> Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And who
> cares if closet gays are upset with her being gay?
Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe homosexuality is right.
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> People most upset about her are probably gay.
> Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And who
> cares if closet gays are upset with her being gay?
Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe homosexuality is right.
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: July 25, 2012 12:42PM
blast off Wrote:
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> No WTL and you just have a lower standard when it
> comes to applying the word hero. Nothing to do
> with politics. She is no more a hero than when the
> word is applied to a certain profession and not a
> particular act. I would not slap the word hero on
> just anyone because it cheapens the term.
>
> To put her chances of death or injury at 1 in 67
> is misleading due to the small number of actual
> flights. You would need a larger number before you
> get a true picture of how dangerous the job really
> is.
So you are saying Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong are not heroes, then? Even though they have been called heroes by Nixon and Reagan?
As for the chances of death or injury, an astronaut is riding a controlled explosion into space. If there were more launches, I guarantee that ratio would drop to 1 and 50 or even further down.
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> No WTL and you just have a lower standard when it
> comes to applying the word hero. Nothing to do
> with politics. She is no more a hero than when the
> word is applied to a certain profession and not a
> particular act. I would not slap the word hero on
> just anyone because it cheapens the term.
>
> To put her chances of death or injury at 1 in 67
> is misleading due to the small number of actual
> flights. You would need a larger number before you
> get a true picture of how dangerous the job really
> is.
So you are saying Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong are not heroes, then? Even though they have been called heroes by Nixon and Reagan?
As for the chances of death or injury, an astronaut is riding a controlled explosion into space. If there were more launches, I guarantee that ratio would drop to 1 and 50 or even further down.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: July 25, 2012 12:43PM
moralmajority2 Wrote:
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> yawnee Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > People most upset about her are probably gay.
> > Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And
> who
> > cares if closet gays are upset with her being
> gay?
>
>
> Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe
> homosexuality is right.
And they would be wrong. We don't throw people in jail for being gay.
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> yawnee Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > People most upset about her are probably gay.
> > Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And
> who
> > cares if closet gays are upset with her being
> gay?
>
>
> Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe
> homosexuality is right.
And they would be wrong. We don't throw people in jail for being gay.
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Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
Vexxxed
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Date: July 25, 2012 01:44PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> moralmajority2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > yawnee Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > People most upset about her are probably gay.
>
> > > Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And
> > who
> > > cares if closet gays are upset with her being
> > gay?
> >
> >
> > Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe
> > homosexuality is right.
>
>
> And they would be wrong. We don't throw people in
> jail for being gay.
So "they" said you could speak for everyone?
Who the fuck was talking about throwing gays in jail?
Does it hurt when you pull this stuff out of your ass?
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> moralmajority2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > yawnee Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > People most upset about her are probably gay.
>
> > > Just ignore. Who cares if Ride is gay? And
> > who
> > > cares if closet gays are upset with her being
> > gay?
> >
> >
> > Not necessarily. Some people just don't believe
> > homosexuality is right.
>
>
> And they would be wrong. We don't throw people in
> jail for being gay.
So "they" said you could speak for everyone?
Who the fuck was talking about throwing gays in jail?
Does it hurt when you pull this stuff out of your ass?
Re: Sally Ride dead
Posted by:
blast off
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Date: July 25, 2012 02:09PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> So you are saying Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong
> are not heroes, then? Even though they have been
> called heroes by Nixon and Reagan?
Nope not heroes. We obviously have different ideas on what a hero is. Astronauts get into a rocket ship and they know the risks. A soldier running into machine gun fire to stop an enemy attack and save his buddies is a hero. They suspect the outcome for them will be certain death. With astronauts death is not expected it only figures in the equation. I believe the word hero has been applied in so many instances that today it is almost meaningless.
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> So you are saying Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong
> are not heroes, then? Even though they have been
> called heroes by Nixon and Reagan?
Nope not heroes. We obviously have different ideas on what a hero is. Astronauts get into a rocket ship and they know the risks. A soldier running into machine gun fire to stop an enemy attack and save his buddies is a hero. They suspect the outcome for them will be certain death. With astronauts death is not expected it only figures in the equation. I believe the word hero has been applied in so many instances that today it is almost meaningless.