Air Force One Flyover Photo on the Way
WASHINGTON - The White House will make public a photo this week from its ill-conceived Air Force One flyover around lower Manhattan, as well as the findings of an internal review into the incident.
"The report, I believe, will be concluded at some point this week. We'll release its findings and release a photo," said spokesman Robert Gibbs.
The photo shoot staged by a jet from the Air Force One fleet and an F16 fighter plane flying low near the Statue of Liberty cost taxpayers $328,835, according to a Pentagon estimate, and frightened witnesses into thinking they were watching another 9/11 attack.
The White House Military Office wanted the picture of the President's plane for promotional purposes. The director of that office, Louis Caldera, has taken responsibility for the incident and apologized.
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Air Force One Flyover Photo on the Way
TO:
Mr. David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
Dear Sir:
While congratulating you about your inspiring "THE AUDACITY TO WIN" 's story, allow me to submit to you an extract from a book concerning a scientific taboo - the energy of "BLACK HOLE" and THE DARK MATTER" in the Universe - in the Space and "abroad" - a Book that I intend to publish in the next future.
May "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGTH" be in your hands a resounding victory for the energy of the "BLACK HOLE" and the "DARK MATTER", triumphantly steering the human ship toward the 21st century.
Lucien BONNET
http://www.contact-canadahati.ca
A NASA spacecraft designed by Dulles-based Orbital Sciences last week began a 3 billion-mile journey through the solar system toward an eventual rendezvous with two asteroids. See the company's statement.
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IN THE DEPTH OF THE UNKNOWN,
THERE ARE NECESSARY CONQUESTS
The well-known NASA scientist and author of popular scientific works, Professor Carl Sagan, together with his wife Linda, among other people, wrote the famous Space Message engraved on Pioneer 10 and meant for possible extraterrestrial civilizations which might be discovered -- who knows? -- somewhere in our Galaxy. Professor Sagan is a master of the art of using humor, and he is fond of allegories. That is why Lucien Bonnet wrote to him in the form of a parable on April 10, 1978.
Montreal, April 10, 1978
Dear Dr. Sagan:
It sometimes happens that a dreambecomes a reality. That's the case today. Through Mr. Emil P. Ericksen, Economic Officer of the Consulate General of the United States of America in Montreal, I amin communication with the American scientist whose works and research I most admire.
I would like to address a simple message to Professor Carl Sagan and his wife, who feel, as the year 2000 approaches, that the time is ripe to make our presence known by sending signals to other possible intelligent beings in the Universe. The message, which is the result of my patient research, I formulate as follows:
On the cosmic scale, as on the terrestrial scale, blackness is an integral part of color and light processes.
My purpose is to inform you of this particular subject and the reasons that have led me to carry out my research, in the context of the problems of the very small country, whose history is as tortured as its geography, where I was born and grew up: Haiti, whose name means "land of mountains". This country has been faced for years with the difficulties inherent to any collectivity confronted with a problem of identity. In Canada, where I live and to which I have become acclimatized, this subject still motivates my research, propels my efforts and explains the audacity of my words. In the particular context of a centuries-old conflict, where personal interest and racial origins confront each other, it is essential that we get to the bottom of things. At this point, it would be as well to point out that branch of e
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