Do You Have Kids or Grandkids read this? sent by Britt

Homer Hickam made an interesting comment on TV this morning. In case you don't know who he is, Homer was a poor West Va. miner's son who worked his way up to being an employee/scientist for NASA. He wrote a book called "Rocket Boy" which was later made into a great movie called "October Sky."

This morning he was interviewed and said this, about the one-shot shoot down of the crippled satellite: "If this country's head was on straight, they would be holding a ticker tape parade for the Crew of the cruiser, USS Lake Erie.

This one rocket firing boosted our National defense 100-fold. North Korea, Iran, China, Russia all know now that we have a safety net that can accurately stop their incoming missiles even if they are out of the earth's atmosphere. Of course, that was the plan all along, and it was a dandy plan. I just hope that the next person in the White House doesn't scrap the system and begin baking cookies for the enemy.

If the wrong person wins they may do just that, and that makes me a little nervous. At any rate, Kudos to the officers and crew of the USS Lake Erie. WELL DONE, BLUE JACKETS!"

Funny, just last week Barack Obama reiterated how when he's President of the US he will stop all missile technology and push for nuclear disarmament. If he were president now, we wouldn't even have been able to shoot that satellite down and show the world that we can protect ourselves and will do so if the need arises.

Obamba doesn't want the rest of the world threatened by the creepy USA. Something to run through your think-0-matic before you vote.

Jack S. Shipley, USN

Well I ran the names trough snopes and came up with nothing. I did hear it reported that Hussein said he would discontinue the missle technology and pursue nuclear disarmament.
Mark