Sorry guys. Another busy and late night for me last night.
Therefore, there is no OC topic, just an open door.
Come on in, put your feet up, and I’ll go make the tea.
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FIRSTICUS!!
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The guest host on am700 today mentioned that CNN is wall to wall with the Malaysian Airliner disappearance and neglecting everything else, like OBAMACARE and the serial violations of the law by the rule changes, the Russian takeover of Crimea, the ever growing deficit, the criminal activity of fast and furious, IRS misbehavior, Benghazi, etc, etc, etc. The airliner thing is just a new shiny thingie to distract from the things going on in this country.
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Wow, did you see how our Dear Leader took down those evil Ruskies and Ukes. I mean he put the hurt on them didn’t he? I don’t know how much more of this Vlad can take before he’s backed into the corner screaming “uncle” and giving away his gas fields to us for free. In fact, I’m considering imposing sanctions of my own against a couple of them just to remind them who is boss.
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This is about the net effect of the so-called sanctions prank that OJugEars and Co have wrought.
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Well, at least I’m up and typing before full-fledged 9 a.m. Morning, y’all.
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Poor Rebekkah, I hope the gubmint hasn’t harmed her.
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Rebekkah is a victim of an overzealous bunch of nanny-state do-gooder libterd nazis.
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Along with the “embrace Obamacare” tactic being pushed by the Riefenstahl Media Wing of the Democrat Party, they’re now pushing a new one: It doesn’t really matter if the Republicans take over the Senate.
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The video embed was freezing up the page with some kind of plug-in glitch. Sorry I had to delete it.
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We need a fat president. Or at least one who rarely thinks and never speaks about how he looks in jeans. And one who doesn’t spend his day testing his wits against a Hollywood stoner or bantering with Ryan Seacrest while a European ally is being pummeled by Russia. And one who would rather spend his time working than working out, even if it means putting on a few pounds. And one who can pitch from the mound and reach home plate. However confined.
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Here is the “B-Sue went looking for Squawk and found him with Rebekah…” link.
Buhwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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No one expects the Warmmonger Inquisition!
If those with a financial or political interest in inaction had funded an organised campaign to discredit the consensus findings of seismology, and for that reason no preparations were made, then many of us would agree that the financiers of the denialist campaign were criminally responsible for the consequences of that campaign. I submit that this is just what is happening with the current, well documented funding of global warming denialism. . .
We have good reason to consider the funding of climate denial to be criminally and morally negligent. The charge of criminal and moral negligence ought to extend to all activities of the climate deniers who receive funding as part of a sustained campaign to undermine the public’s understanding of scientific consensus. -
The question which immediately comes to mind is, “Why would someone with a billion dollars need a life insurance policy at all, let alone one for $201 million?” It’s a good question, especially since insurance is usually purchased by those who wouldn’t have the money to pay for something if a disaster would happen. A person who is rich enough to find himself on the world’s richest people list would certainly not fall into that category.
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The guest host on am700 today mentioned that CNN is wall to wall with the Malaysian Airliner disappearance and neglecting everything else, like OBAMACARE and the serial violations of the law by the rule changes, the Russian takeover of Crimea, the ever growing deficit, the criminal activity of fast and furious, IRS misbehavior, Benghazi, etc, etc, etc. The airliner thing is just a new shiny thingie to distract from the things going on in this country.
The Malaysian airliner may be the most important story of our lifetime.
We have one the largest cargo airplanes in the world, one with an 8000 mile range that has disappeared while on a path that takes it straight to a nation with a fractured government that has had nukes for 30 years and Easter is coming up.
Land that thing at an air cargo facility you control, repaint it, dial in a new transponder freq and substitute it for the the plane that is supposed to run Flight 666 into Rome. Even if there is no nuke on board, crashing it into the middle of St. Peters during Easter Mass and you’ve just become the biggest rag head hero to ever have walked the earth since Mohammed. -
#12 Hamous: What ever happened to this position?
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Repeal is not in the corporate “R” lexicon. Bonerco-op , about 2 years, ago said with a straight face that the ACA could be fixed with some minor tweaks. Now I am not much of a mathematician but it seems to me that the word “minor” when used in conjunction with a law that is over 1500 pages long does not leave me with much hope that ACA will go away at all. Lipstick on a pig, no? -
The Malaysian airliner may be the most important story of out lifetime.
I never said that it was not important. I said they were neglecting everything else. There are lots of darned important things out there that are potentially just as destructive in the long run as that jet. Like the destruction of the Constitution and serial abuse of power by this administration for example.
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If that airliner has a Pakistani nuke on board, or even a very big dirty bomb, nothing else will be important.
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Gotta love some Dennis Miller!
he chimes in on a “ferocious” and menacing housecat too………..ROFL
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Doug Powers, who writes for Michelle Malkin’s blog has this piece concerning Bite-me’s trip to Poland. . . . .I think he is gonna tell them to relax because BOHICA.
I saw a new name for thevegetable, er – ah; the Vice President: Pepe Bidet. -
JUST my opinion ni más ni menos
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Sarge, compared to how much they hate Israel, I don’t see any evidence that muslims hate Christianity enough to bomb The Vatican. In fact, I think they would think the bomb had been wasted if they had it but didn’t drop it on Israel.
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I don’t see any evidence that muslims hate Christianity enough to bomb The Vatican.
You are kidding right?
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#21 Squawks
Does your opinion include any hypothetical reasons for why the plane would end up in the water? Just general “islamism”? Suicide?
For convenience of anyone thinking back to the Egyptian co-pilot who stalled his plane over the Atlantic… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990
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I think they would think the bomb had been wasted if they had it but didn’t drop it on Israel.
They also know that Israel is a hard target. No way an unidentified aircraft that size is going into Israel, there is the matter of a couple of little toys called “Iron Dome” and IDF air Force they would have to contend with. The Vatican? Not so much.
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Suicide is part of the Muslim religion. Those idiots think they are going to get a bunch of premenstrual virgins as a result of killing themselves and taking a bunch of infidels with them.
I just think the plane is practicing to be a submarine. No more no less, no particular reason based on any reliable bit of evidence. -
The islimists are strategists with a completely different world view than what we have. They know that there are a bunch of those who will nominally call themselves “Christians” who won’t get terribly bent out of shape if Israel gets bombed, again, even if this time it is with a nuke. Those same people will be like the sleeping bear that Japan woke up at Pearl Harbor if the Vatican gets the same treatment. I think they, the islimists, know that if they hit the Vatican there will be no safe harbor anywhere in the world for them.
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Further to the missing plane thingie; the islimists know that now a tremendous amount of attention and resources are being expended in search of that plane. Those same resources are not being expended in search of terrorists and their plans; it is a very potent distraction to hide other activities.
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I doubt there’s going to be much more info coming out on the missing plane.
How the story is being covered has already become the story.
Yawn.
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I think they, the islimists, know that if they hit the Vatican there will be no safe harbor anywhere in the world for them.
Like i said to MHarper
You are kidding right?
Those people do not care. They test and push, prod and poke to see how far they can go.
1. kill 1 Christian
2. kill a bunch of Chrisitians
3. burn a church
and the list goes on.
But they ain’t gonna fly that plane (if it exists) into the Vatican either, but not out of fear of world condemnation. They just ain’t. -
#30: They will no longer enjoy the umbrella of tolerance, even from the leftest of the left. It will be open season on them and they will all perish, this they know. Even the leftest of the left, like Prick Durbin, will understand that this is a religious war and they have to engage or die.
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I really pray that we do not have to find out who is right on this scheme and that the plane is swimming with fishies.
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#23
You are kidding right?
Nope. I see a big difference in muslims living in some craphole killing anyone different from them in their craphole — and bombing The Vatican. Of course I know about burning, killing, persecuting Christians in all those crapholes.
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22 mharper42 says:
March 18, 2014 at 10:57 am
Sarge, compared to how much they hate Israel, I don’t see any evidence that muslims hate Christianity enough to bomb The Vatican. In fact, I think they would think the bomb had been wasted if they had it but didn’t drop it on Israel.One of the big problems with a bomb big enough to hit Israel is the number of Muslims that would be killed in the process. Dropping a nuke on Jerusalem is also a problem what with the Dome of the Rock being there. A better proposition for them would be to invade, take over, hen start killing them one by one.
29 Shannon says:
March 18, 2014 at 11:26 am
I doubt there’s going to be much more info coming out on the missing plane.
How the story is being covered has already become the story.
Yawn.
I’m with SQK. With the fishes.The sleeps with the fishes possibility is getting further and further away.
The plane was taken over by someone who knew what they were doing. So far they have it using an on board computer guided turn, dropping below radar through the Straights of Malacca, and reappearing on Thai radar. It was in the air for 71/2 hours with 8 hours of fuel on board.
That thing is sitting in a hangar in Talibanland right now having the seats and other useless equipment pulled out to lighten it up and being repainted in Alibaba Air Cargo Company colors. -
#26
Suicide is part of the Muslim religion.
Again, I think there is a difference between muslim martyrdom crap — even though the martyr dies — and regular suicide. I have no understanding of these nutters, as to whether there is any “reward” for killing hundreds of airplane passengers, along with the suicidal pilot.
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Again, I think there is a difference between muslim martyrdom crap — even though the martyr dies — and regular suicide. I have no understanding of these nutters, as to whether there is any “reward” for killing hundreds of airplane passengers, along with the suicidal pilot.
The passengers are already dead. They have the plane on radar going to 45,000 feet. The crew has the ability to shut off air to the passenger cabin and keep it on in the sealed and locked cockpit. It doesn’t take long at that altitude for people to die. Everybody not in the cockpit would be dead. This has the added effect of extending the fuel capacity slightly .
Right after that, the plane took a sharp turn and descended to 1500 feet, masking itself from radar using the terrain of the islands in the Straights of Malacca. That turn was accomplished by programming the on board computer. Doing it using the stick and rudder has the potential of putting stress on the airframe. -
From the comments section of the link in #34:
5 Stop and think of our amazing satellite and radar capabilities. Many used for early detection of ICBMs. Are we really supposed to believe it is not known exactly where this plane is or went down? Especially if there are verified engine updates that could be triangulated? If we truly don’t know, just what are we spending billions on for defense, what are the capabilities, and what are we focusing on?
This is an excellent question. One could reasonably consider that as soon as anything amiss with any passenger jet was reported all of this technology would be re-purposed to find/track said aircraft. I would not assume the common joe six-pack guy to assume this but it should be a reasonable position for the various govt authoritahs around the globe to cooperate on this sort of thing. They already cooperate on regular air traffic control, don’t they?
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mharper42
Your mistake is that you look at them through the eyes of America with American sensibilities.
Suicide is suicide no matter the motivation. There are plenty of contradictory commands in the Koran when one wants to argue whether they are peaceful or not, BUT there is one contradiction that does not exist. The Koran plainly sates that the absolute surest way to get into wherever it is they go is martyrdom either at the hands of an enemy or by taking ones own life. -
#34 Sarge
It is still speculative at best with no hard and fast evidence. I sit to be corrected but I still think it is in the water. There is way to much misinformation and speculation out there. I would not bet on any scenario right now.That turn was accomplished by programming the on board computer. Doing it using the stick and rudder has the potential of putting stress on the airframe.
Means nothing. No blackbox has been recovered to confirm that assertion.
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Means nothing. No blackbox has been recovered to confirm that assertion.
The ATCs may have been able to determine the autopilot status prior to the transponder being turned off, after that – who knows.
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#36 Sarge, my #8 On Saturday;
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March 15, 2014 at 9:58 amProlly well out of range of service.
That is true for the most part, but they do think that the aircraft flew back over Malaysia where there were cell phone towers. I’ve been watching this and I HAVE NO CLUE as to what happened, but could it be that the pilots donned oxygen masks, at altitude then turned off the bleed air from the engines and suffocated the passengers? They could have turned it back on after a few minutes and went about their way.
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The Koran plainly sates that the absolute surest way to get into wherever it is they go is martyrdom either at the hands of an enemy or by taking ones own life.
So I guess if they were pious enough they would blow up Mecca themselves, during that annual event when they all go there if they can?
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I don’t see any evidence that muslims hate Christianity enough to bomb The Vatican.
One of them damn near killed the Pope.
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Dee plane is at the bottom of the big blue sea.
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Posted without comment; This Is The Most Plausible Theory For The Plane’s Disappearance We’ve Heard Yet …
This theory fits the facts.
And it’s one of the most plausible yet:
Shortly after takeoff, as Malaysia 370 was flying out over the ocean, just after the co-pilot gave his final “Good night” sign-off to Malaysia air traffic control, smoke began filling the cockpit, perhaps from a tire on the front landing gear that had ignited on takeoff.
The captain immediately did exactly what he had been trained to do: turn the plane toward the closest airport so he could land.
The closest appropriate airport was called Pulau Langkawi. It had a massive 13,000-foot runway. The captain programmed the destination into the flight computer. The autopilot turned the plane west and put it on a course right for the runway (the same heading the plane turned to).
The captain and co-pilot tried to find the source of the smoke and fire. They switched off electrical “busses” to try to isolate it, in the process turning off systems like the transponder and ACARs automated update system (but not, presumably, the autopilot, which was flying the plane). They did not issue a distress call, because in a midair emergency your priorities are “aviate, navigate, communicate” — in that order. But smoke soon filled the cockpit and overwhelmed them (a tire fire could do this). The pilots passed out or died.
Smoke filled the cabin and overwhelmed and distracted the passengers and cabin crew … or the cockpit door was locked and/or the cockpit was filled with smoke, so no one could enter the cockpit to try to figure out where the plane was, how the pilots were, or how the plane might be successfully landed. (This would be a complicated task, even if one knew the pilots were unconscious and had access to the cockpit, especially if most of the plane’s electrical systems were switched off or damaged).
With no one awake to instruct the autopilot to land, the plane kept flying on its last programmed course … right over Pulau Langkawi and out over the Indian Ocean. The engine-update system kept “pinging” the satellite. Eventually, six or seven hours after the incident, the plane ran out of fuel and crashed.
This theory fits the facts. It makes sense. It explains the manual course change as well as the “pings” that a satellite kept hearing from the plane. It requires no fantastically brilliant pre-planning or execution or motives. -
#47 SD,
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So I guess if they were pious enough they would blow up Mecca themselves, during that annual event when they all go there if they can?
Why would they do that? Martyrdom involves taking out their enemy.
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Definitely the most plausible explanation I’ve seen thus far.
More plausible than my Elvis theory?
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SD and Dooood
And that is why I went with plane in water. Sometimes, most times the simplest explanation is the best. BTW CNN jumped the shark when they devoted precious broadcast time to the supernatural as a plausible explanation. -
Means nothing. No blackbox has been recovered to confirm that assertion.
This theory fits the facts. It makes sense. It explains the manual course change as well as the “pings” that a satellite kept hearing from the plane. It requires no fantastically brilliant pre-planning or execution or motives.
Sounds like a voice of reason to me. Definitely the most plausible explanation I’ve seen thus far.
Ahem.
Made before all facts were know, and no need for black boxesFlight 370’s Flight Management System reported its status to the Acars, which in turn transmitted information back to a maintenance base, according to an American official. This shows that the reprogramming happened before the Acars stopped working. The Acars ceased to function about the same time that oral radio contact was lost and the airplane’s transponder also stopped, fueling suspicions that foul play was involved in the plane’s disappearance.
The turn was programmed into the computer before any comm systems shut down.
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SquackExasperatingSterWhy would they do that? Martyrdom involves taking out their enemy.
When you were the one who said:
martyrdom either at the hands of an enemy or by taking ones own life.
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#50 Hamous
More plausible than my Elvis theory?
Personally I think that your Elvis/Bruce Lee theory has some merit, it’s just that if I agree too much the others, (and you know who you are) will accuse me of having a “Tin Foil Hat”. 😉
So, do you have connections with anyone that’s going to the Bohemian Grove for the get-away week? Maybe we’ll find out. -
I’m so glad to see the instruction NOT to put a “job objective” on a resume. This is the first time I’ve seen this in print, and I heartily agree.
Either design your resume for the job, or create a good “generic” resume with a properly worded cover letter. I also like the “references available upon request”. Either include them as a separate page, be prepared to provide them over the phone, or bring them with you at the interview. Anyone can slap a job objective on their resume without it meaning a darn thing, except that some ill-informed “career counselor” thought it was a good idea. Most of them mean absolutely nothing, anyway. I’ve seen so many “To find a job where I can grow my skills and/or contribute to the company and/or…” I mean, really? Who doesn’t? You’ve just wasted a precious second of my eye scan time telling me you can bullwiss with the rest of them, not the best of them.
The rest of the suggestions are also excellent. As someone who used to see hundreds of resumes daily, I can tell you – cute may get your resume noticed, but not selected. I don’t give a flying flip about your job preferences – I just want to see if you are qualified for the job. And pictures really, really don’t help. Trust me. When I got the nude man in the peacock wicker chair – it got file 13’d real fast. And the cute little “cheerleader smile” photo didn’t really help you out, nor did the purple paper.
When I had to scan resumes for A Major Local Airline, I had to look at so many that I didn’t have time for cute or unique. I had roughly 5-7 seconds to look at a resume and put it into one of several boxes for further review or permanent filing in the reject cabinet. Anything that didn’t go directly to a job opening was a waste of my time. If you wasted my time, you didn’t get a second chance to waste it scheduling an interview, either. -
More plausible than my Elvis theory?
I’m going with the little dude from Fantasy Island theory. That there is one suave little feller.
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OK going back to my #41/#8 on Saturday, we were bombarded with SOO much information, good, bad, & ridiculous, all week that I was slow to come to a conclusion, still am, one thing I’ll not do is think that I have the answer or even a clue, I’ll have to wait and see and that make take a long time.
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That there is one suave little feller.
Yup. I’m thinking that lava-lava wrap is destined to replace the speedo in the 21st century.
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I’m going with the little dude from Fantasy Island theory. That there is one suave little feller.
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Sarge
And it still means nothing. A turn was made. We do not know why. At this point in time assigning reason for anything is pure conjecture. I do not doubt any POSSIBILITIES, I am just not real high on the suggested probabilities. The indicators all point to dubious conjecture at best.
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Ahem.
From the same article:Normal procedure is to key in a five-letter code — gibberish to nonaviators — that is the name of a waypoint. A normal flight plan consists of a series of such waypoints, ending in the destination airport. For an ordinary flight, waypoints can be entered manually or uploaded into the F.M.S. by the airline.
It wasn’t just a turn. It was telling the airplane to go someplace else, this involved a turn.
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Mconfused42
When you were the one who said:
martyrdom either at the hands of an enemy or by taking ones own life.or by taking ones own life in the course of killing there enemies.
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Lets say your car has the same system.
You start out on a journey to Dallas. You program in these waypoints:
Conroe, Huntsville, Centerville, Corsicana, then Dallas.
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I do not doubt that……. a course change was made. From that point everything else becomes conjecture. It is a huge leap to declare that the airplane landed anywhere. It is a huge leap for me to declare that the plane is anywhere else but in the sea. Besides metal don’t melt. 🙂 -
Not just a course change—an entire change of route. This is inconsistent with a turn towards the closest airport.
This airplane made the equivalent of making your car on the way to Dallas make a U Turn 5 miles north of Conroe on I45 to head south to Hwy 105 and going east. -
Loooooose change!!!!!!
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Its one of several possibilities, but ALL of the reports now are saying that the changes in course and altitude were deliberate. Reprogramming the computer without any reports from the system regarding fire or malfunction is inconsistent with it being in response to an emergency—and in an emergency they would have shut down the auto-pilot entirely and gone to manual control.
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Here’s a new word for what ails us: Cronystocracy.
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/03/is-the-american-dream-dead-has-the-cronystocracy-screwed-things-up-for-everyone-else/ -
Find the sniper.
I thought I had five of ’em. Turns out, I only found two.
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I don’t see any snipers inside the red circles.
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The images are very low resolution, making it difficult to find anything.
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OK so how put up “Da Plane Da Plane”?
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#60 #70 & #71 Since I couldn’t see most of them in the little red circles, I call B$ on that.
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#68 That is a great article and so true.
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We don’t rent pigs.
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Shannon? Are you wishing you could rent a pig? Are you refusing to rent out the pigs you already have?
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#77 I consider myself lucky, not only have I NOT seen that movie, I’ve never even heard of it. 😉
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#78 Super Dave
When you are a million miles away form home, no transportation, have just a few bucks between payday and this is what is showing at the base theater…… well ya go and see it. Boredom will do that to ya. 🙂 -
As some of erstwhile commenters have enjoyed the front gate luxuries of Ft. Sill during their tours of service, I was not afforded those options.
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Airport (1970) was the first disaster film and spawned three sequels.
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When you are a million miles away form home, no transportation, have just a few bucks between payday and this is what is showing at the base theater…… well ya go and see it. Boredom will do that to ya.
That’s how I ended up seeing this movie at the theater just inside the Main Gate at Fort Dix.
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70 mharper42 says:
March 18, 2014 at 3:03 pm
I don’t see any snipers inside the red circles.Ohhhh, I just figured it out! It’s actually a SNIPE HUNT, right?
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I made this mistake here once…
just inside the Main Gate at Fort Dix.
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I don’t thi k you can say dix here.
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I thi k my “n” key went bad, no wait there it is.
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I thin k your thi ker went bad, Timbo.
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Hey Sarge
Limbaugh had an interesting call that makes my point about the misinfo that surrounds the Malay flight. Hopefully this linkie workies -
Regarding Ron Paul:
Paul may be right that we have no business doing anything about this, and I am willing to listen to the Paulite arguments that the U.S. Constitution “does not allow the U.S. government to overthrow governments overseas or send a billion dollars to bail out Ukraine and its international creditors.” But if that’s the argument, stick to that argument. Say “what Russia is doing is wrong, but the U.S. can’t correct every wrong in the world.” Don’t tell us how Russia’s annexation of Crimea is the inevitable result of “self-determination.” That’s just foolish.
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BTW CNN jumped the shark when they devoted precious broadcast time to the supernatural as a plausible explanation.
I go with super duper advanced space ship from planet Bob beaming the plane up and warping out of all known existence.
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Even if there is no nuke on board
And if there were I would *hope* it would be detected and shot down.
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Aw c’mon TT, it was a SNIPE HUNT, wasn’t it?
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Let’s roll, people.
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Good morning Hamsters. Gorgeous full Moon and clear at 6, 59 as the cold (?) front comes through. Several lovely days ahead, just in time for Spring to arrive tomorrow.
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Wow, I’m up early — for me, these days — but no thread to jump on. I wouldn’t be first anyway. Adee, that nearly-full moon was the first thing I saw!
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Wednesday O C thread up.
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