Hey Mikado! You been a bad boy? Ha! Just wanted to know that you will not lose communications with anyone actually. We have your number! <g> Seems you and I can get into a mess by just speaking our minds! I just left a message for the Assistant Administrator on this forum. Its probably the last that...

Everybody, Well, I'd be sick too if I were Linda. Thank you Andrew for relieving some of my concern. But that doesn't change my remark about the possibility of a "broken heart" Just look where she is. At the hands of a " friend" She entered into an agreement with Paul and then sp...

I hope that you are right Mikado but I have to say that I am worried. You know better than most too what stress can do. I wrote this to Jim Zimmer. He had sent me a letter in January sort of calling me on the carpet for the message I posted berating Paul after that " Epic Fail" thingy.I un...

Kevin, I wish I had the knights that Linda has! I am not that much of a gentleman though and now that I finally have gotten in I have a couple of things to say. Paul, did you know that your "EPIC FAIL" blog is the talk of some Washington circles already? I learned about it while at a cockt...

Rose, Looking forward to meeting someday! I really liked this from your last link "This admiral was unnamed and is not part of the official chain of military command for Source A, but is his superior in covert operations that have need-to-know security status. Thus it's important to emphasize t...

HAhahahaha I can see it now. Opening on Broadway! "Defying Gravity" by Schatzkin and Buffett. That would turn Sorkins ship into the wind!!! I am laughing but not. Paul!!! Buffett is part of all of this from the very first or Morgan would not have introduced himself to you as Norman Paperma...

Linda, Is this what you mean? Spooked here, have to tell you. http://www.buffettnews.com/resources/discography/?album=30 And I will let some of the rest of you do an internal search using the words Lucky Tree and Buffett. Notice the dates. Notice what was being said. What was it you said Linda, &quo...

Somebody asked ( I think on another thread) Where were the Ladies in this last discussion. Sitting it out. Maybe its just me but I usually have better things to amuse myself with a bunch of handsome men than to get into a pissing contest. They are the only ones that can pee in a swinging bottle anyw...

FRED. excellent! Trickfox and you said something wonderful too! I think maybe I'm putting the cart in front of the horse by inviting new members in from the outside. Perhaps I should avoid doing that. I think maybe this forum is suppose to "attract" it's own "very special members"...

After being rescued when found wandering down a long dusty trail ... my long little hound nose clogged with things I didn't understand , I was given this ride by a guy in a baseball cap and driving a red truck. So after sticking my nose out in the fresh air for awhile I have found this little trail....

OK, I am reading. But damned if I know what this is really all about. Oh! Paul~ You are there! YES. I agree with you. I am like silly little hound who THOUGHT that she was on a trail, got lost in my own nose, woke up somewhere down the trail and discovered talk about space treaties and stuff like th...

Trickfox, Was it that same Curtis LeMay who quipped that RAND meant Research and No Development? I have heard that somewhere and laughed but can't remember who to credit for it. I didn't get the impression that Whitehall Rand had anything at all to do with Is this the Whitehall Rand company that was...

I am sorry if I touched a raw nerve there Mikado. Translation? I don't even know what language that is. Or are you mad at me now? I know what you mean about those corner nametags. I didn't pick mine either but I really don't mind it that much and I don't think that you should mind yours either. You ...

Linda, As always thank you so much for that glimpse into something so sad I can barely stand it. So Joseph never did understand that it wasn't simply " family money" that his father was spending all of this time? So he probably felt that his father was just " skating" on the mone...

Amalie, Your observation: Thus we have a situation where a space application will be supported by US agencies if it has a military or defense application because money is available for that purpose , but if a space application has a non-invasive and developmental application for civil society requir...