> I'm all for it, as it will hasten
> the eventual bankruptcy of the Spanish Hapsburg American state. 
> 
>         By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer 
> 
>         WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will announce
> plans next week to send Americans to Mars and establish a permanent
> human presence on the moon 
Obviously, top-secret NASA scans revealed huge oil reserves beneath the Mare Tranquillitatis. First will come the auctioning off of the lunar drilling rights, then the bidding wars for an Earth-to-the-moon pipeline.
-- DRR