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		<title>Shuttle mission to turn Hubble Telescope into giant death ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched yesterday, allegedly on a repair mission to extend the life of the Hubble Telescope.  However, sources reveal that the mission actually intends radical modifications to the telescope, changing it into a powerful weapon in the fight against illegal immigration.]]></description>
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<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched yesterday, allegedly on a repair mission to extend the life of the Hubble Telescope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, sources reveal that the mission actually intends radical modifications to the telescope, changing it into a powerful weapon in the fight against illegal immigration.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">According to sources within NASA, Hubble has outlived its usefulness as a telescope over the past two decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other, more modern telescopes will continue astronomy research, but Hubble will turn its gaze away from the heavens and instead look upon Earth in its new mission safeguarding the freedoms of peace loving Americans. The Astronauts will allegedly claim a catastrophic failure of this weeks repair mission, while secretly reconfiguring the telescope to function as a powerful death ray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">In this configuration, the death ray will apparently collect space particles from unknown sources, convert them into a giant red beam which looks suspiciously light-like, and direct that beam toward earth-based targets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This giant ray gun has the ability to destroy targets of various sizes, including people, buildings, crops and vehicles, but for reasons yet unknown it cannot destroy Frito’s™ corn chips or Wilford Brimley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Highly classified documents show that unlike most bad science fiction, the ray does not vaporize its target.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, it reduces targets into what the Air Force has dubbed “Hubble Rubble.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">A collaborating source close to people who know high-level officials within the Immigration and Naturalization Service hinted that the Air Force/NASA would cede control of the Hubble Death Ray™ to INS to eradicate the flow of illegal aliens entering the country through our southwest border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hubble could patrol the entire border from 350 miles out in space, and heat signatures of anyone crossing the border would be treated as probable cause for their permanent removal from, or addition to, US soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked about due process for these people, the INS official allegedly laughed and indicated that he didn’t care because “illegal aliens can’t afford lawyers.”</span></p>
<div id="attachment_1403" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 503px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1403" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hubblecutawaysmall1.jpg" alt="Super-secret Plans for the new Hubble Death Ray™" width="493" height="481" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Super-secret Plans for the new Hubble Death Ray™</p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">An Air Force General who opposed the project indicated that the Bush Administration originally conceived the idea and sanctioned the Space Shuttle reconfiguration mission in late 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repeated delays after the 2004 elections pushed the project back several times, until the shuttle finally launched yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allegedly, after the change of power in Election 2008, high-level Air Force officials, working in conjunction with the INS, chose to continue in an unsanctioned capacity rather than briefing President Obama about the redesigned telescope, largely due to the belief that the President is too much of a pantywaist to ever go along with such a scheme.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Hubble, which has been producing appealing images since 1991, is expected to smash those durn forn’rs on our southern border into little itty bitty pieces for the next 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its current functions as a telescope will be replaced by the James Webb Telescope, tentatively scheduled for launch in 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It too, will someday be reconfigured into a giant death-dealing weapon, possibly as soon as 2014.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">David Leckrone, the NASA Senior Engineer in charge of the Hubble Program, denied the report, stating “the Hubble Telescope would continue to function as always. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, people,” he continued, “It’s not a ray gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s still just a really expensive point-and-shoot camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s still just going to take pretty pictures of random space stuff in an attempt to drive internet traffic to www.nationalgeographic.com.”</span></p>
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		<title>PETA decries Shuttle Discovery &#8216;bat cookout&#8217;, NASA unfazed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Canaveral, FL &#8211; Throngs of animal rights activists descended on NASA headquarters Wednesday in a vehement protest against the &#8216;murder&#8217; of a free tailed bat during Sunday&#8217;s space shuttle Discovery launch. The outrage stems from NASA&#8217;s failure to delay the launch despite the bat&#8217;s presence on one of the shuttle&#8217;s external fuel tanks. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cape Canaveral, FL &#8211; Throngs of animal rights activists descended on NASA headquarters Wednesday in a vehement protest against the &#8216;murder&#8217; of a free tailed bat during Sunday&#8217;s space shuttle Discovery launch.</p>
<p>The outrage stems from NASA&#8217;s failure to delay the launch despite the bat&#8217;s presence on one of the shuttle&#8217;s external fuel tanks.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard of people setting up barbecues, you know, and camping out for the space ship launchings and the like. But a bat? Using that blast furnace of a gas gobbler to cook it? Appalling!&#8221; said Nattering Poe, self-proclaimed &#8216;spokestestor&#8217; for PETA, the protest&#8217;s organizer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Might as well call it &#8216;Eastern Sizzler&#8217;, I mean, come on!&#8221;</p>
<p>Yuck Combover, a witness to the launch had a different take on things.</p>
<p>&#8220;Awesome!&#8221; bellowed Combover, an FSU student and rabid launch fan, &#8220;It was like &#8216;Batman Ends&#8217;, get it? &#8216;The Dark Meat Knight&#8217;, right?&#8221;</p>
<p>He then burst out into uncontrollable laughter and was swiftly struck in the face by a protest sign that read &#8216;Bats are People Too.&#8217;</p>
<div id="attachment_990" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-990" src="http://wineandexcrement.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/space-shuttle-launch-150x150.jpg" alt="Triumph of Man or Critter Cooker? You Decide." width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Triumph of man or critter cooker? You decide.</p></div>
<p>NASA&#8217;s response?</p>
<p>&#8220;The animal did not pose any threat to the crew or the mission,&#8221; said Clipboard Buttons, Terrestrial Beast Chief for NASA. &#8220;Everything was a go&#8230;and it went.&#8221;</p>
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