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[internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org (David R. Matusiak)]

i think this Sue chick is right on spot.  we could have some seriously 
paranoid babies and maybe a ranch way out in the middle of nowhere.  
shoot - we could make our own electricity and kill our own food.  i'd 
better email her before some other freakin' whackpot takes my dame...

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 10:35  PM, K. Jo Garner wrote:

> re: Columbia explosion.
>
> found on alt.music.chapel-hill... take as you will:
>
> From: dragonfly_777 AT hotmail.com (Sue S.)
> [1] Re: Space shuttle irony check
> Date: Sun Feb 02 20:12:34 EST 2003
>
> Other observations:
>
> * The Columbia accident occurred on Feb. 1. In the Celtic tradition,
> this is Imbolc, a fire festival. On this day the Celts honored Brigit,
> the goddess of fire. Brigit was invoked as the "Bright Arrow" and
> "Sudden Flame."
>
> * The Christian Church turned Imbolc into Candlemas, a celebration of
> Mary's visit to the Temple in Jerusalem for a ritualistic purification
> after the birth of Jesus. A story tells of Simeon, a holy man living
> in Jerusalem, who, when Mary entered the Temple, greeted her and the
> child Jesus, and blessed the child as "a light to lighten the
> gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel."
>
> * Palestine, Texas was founded by a group of settlers who hoped to
> build a "New Jerusalem."
>
> * Debris from the shuttle also fell on Nacogdoches, the oldest town in
> Texas and the place where the state's first producing oil well was
> drilled in 1861.
>
> * One piece of tile from the shuttle fell within 75 miles of President
> Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
>
> * "Columbia" is an alias for the United States.
>
> -- Sue