The deceased were working for a private Florida company contracting air freight services to DoD.
soontobe
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Tragic Fatal Plane crash at Bagrum base in Afghanistan caught on camera 04/29/2013. Viewer discretion is advised
by StoneWall inthis is the full crash that wasn't showed on the news.. they referenced it on national news but didn't show whole clip.. if you already have fear of flying etc.
you may not wish to view this.. all 7 aboard died.. hard to believe this guy was in the right spot with his car to capture the whole thing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfvsql38oc.
edited to add: forgot to say his camera date was not set for correct date.
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Investments/Stocks & the Wall St. Casino
by tootired2care inthe stock market has had a big run-up over the last few years.
i believe this is in large part because the federal reserve and treasury dept.
have been pumping it up with fake money--you may disagree.
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@soon - are you doing biotech ETF's or individual companies, and which ones?
I do individual companies. Mostly pre-commercial. I'll PM you a few tickers I think could do well from here on through the end of the year because of upcoming clinical and regulatory events.
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Investments/Stocks & the Wall St. Casino
by tootired2care inthe stock market has had a big run-up over the last few years.
i believe this is in large part because the federal reserve and treasury dept.
have been pumping it up with fake money--you may disagree.
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soontobe
With the market manipulation, who knows? It all comes down to what's next from Benny and the inkJets. For what it's worth, the old adage is "sell in May and go away." Maybe not a bad idea doing that with broad market ETFs, although not necessarily for specific stocks. I've done very well with biotech this year.
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Tragic Fatal Plane crash at Bagrum base in Afghanistan caught on camera 04/29/2013. Viewer discretion is advised
by StoneWall inthis is the full crash that wasn't showed on the news.. they referenced it on national news but didn't show whole clip.. if you already have fear of flying etc.
you may not wish to view this.. all 7 aboard died.. hard to believe this guy was in the right spot with his car to capture the whole thing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfvsql38oc.
edited to add: forgot to say his camera date was not set for correct date.
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I have to salute the pilot for recovering from the onset of a spin and getting it more or less level and nose down again, but it still did not have enough airspeed to fly.
Yeah, it looks like one wing stalled first and the aircraft turned. The pilot was able to correct that, but at such a low airspeed and altitude, he couldn't stay in the air.
I wonder if they were transporting MRAPs. Those 400Fs have nose loading so can be used for vehicles.
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Tragic Fatal Plane crash at Bagrum base in Afghanistan caught on camera 04/29/2013. Viewer discretion is advised
by StoneWall inthis is the full crash that wasn't showed on the news.. they referenced it on national news but didn't show whole clip.. if you already have fear of flying etc.
you may not wish to view this.. all 7 aboard died.. hard to believe this guy was in the right spot with his car to capture the whole thing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfvsql38oc.
edited to add: forgot to say his camera date was not set for correct date.
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soontobe
They take off very steep from Bagram to gain altitude and avoid enemy fire. Looks like they didn't secure cargo well enough, which threw the center of gravity off when the weight shifted back, causing an unrecoverable stall. One of the first things they taught me at aviation school where I was studying for my FAA license was weight and balance. This looks like an extreme example of what can go wrong when it is off. I read somewhere 7 Americans dead. I hope they didn't suffer.
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Kermit Gosnell, MD.
by Glander inhe is accused of performing "abortions" after the birth of live babies.
where does planned parenthood stand on this case?.
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Have we found the one issue where BB is against increased government regulation? If so, color me shocked!
Most Planned Parenthood clinics do not offer abortions after 18 weeks. So one has to wonder - did Planned Parenthood refer women to Gosnell? For instance, Planned Parenthood in West Chester only performs abortions up to 13 weeks but offers to provide "a referral list of health care providers in your area that offer other abortion services."
At this time that is just speculation. What we know as fact, however, is Gosnell was no back-alley rogue abortionist. His clinic was fully licensed and recognized as an abortion facility in the community for decades.
And now that Gosnell has been exposed, you would think there is common ground on the action that's needed to make sure these horrors do not happen again. One would think that those performing abortion surgery should be treated just like any other who performs surgery, right?
Not Planned Parenthood.
When Pennsylvaniatook this exact action, Planned Parenthood was up in arms; describing the change as "dangerous," "scary," "unnecessary," and "threatening."
They supposedly think making abortion clinics follow the same rules as everyone else is unnecessary and dangerous. They said abortion clinics were plenty regulated already - even before Gosnell was shut down.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=20774
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Who Referred Women to Dr. Gosnell’s Murder Clinic?
Dr. Gosnell is a multi-millionaire. He was getting lots of business. Credit Ace for asking the question that any good reporter should be asking at this point “Who referred Gosnell such a steady stream of business?”
No doubt some of it was word of mouth, but is it just possible that other clinics in the area who weren’t willing to “help” certain women because they knew it was illegal to do so, might mention Dr. Gosnell as an option.
As it happens, Planned Parenthood has a whole bunch of clinics (marked blue) within a half hour drive of Dr. Gosnell’s Women’s Health Society (marked red). There are also lots of independent abortion clinics (marked green):
View Philidelphia Area Planned Parenthood Clinics in a larger map
Not that Planned Parenthood (or any clinic) would ever, ever do anything illegalor unethical. Yeah, that never happens.
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Kermit Gosnell, MD.
by Glander inhe is accused of performing "abortions" after the birth of live babies.
where does planned parenthood stand on this case?.
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Why Kermit Gosnell hasn’t been on Page One
News outlets have been struggling to explain why until now there’s been so little coverage of the murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of delivering live, screaming children and then beheading them.
The Post and other mainstream news outfits are on the story now, belatedly, so maybe critics like me shouldn’t act like the mother who, when you do call her, spends half the conversation asking why you haven’t called.
But, why wasn’t more written sooner? One colleague viewed Gosnell’s alleged atrocities as a local crime story, though I can’t think of another mass murder, with hundreds of victims, that we ever saw that way. Another said it was just too lurid, though that didn’t keep us from covering Jeffrey Dahmer, or that aspiring cannibal at the NYPD.
Yet another said it’s because the rest of the country doesn’t care about Philadelphia — that one was especially creative, I thought. And a friend argued that any “blackout” boiled down to the usual lack of media interest in the low-income community Gosnell “served.” (While he routinely turned poor, black patients over to assistants who lacked even a high school education, according to court testimony, the white patients he seated separately, and treated himself.)
I say we didn’t write more because the only abortion story most outlets ever cover in the news pages is every single threat or perceived threat to abortion rights. In fact, that is so fixed a view of what constitutes coverage of that issue that it’s genuinely hard, I think, for many journalists to see a story outside that paradigm as news. That’s not so much a conscious decision as a reflex, but the effect is one-sided coverage.
Now, I assign plenty of “rights under threat” stories myself, for She the People, and see them as perfectly valid. But we in the news business do cover the extremism of some who oppose abortion rights — attempts to run after pregnant women with transvaginal probes, for example — far more than we do the extremism of some who favor abortion rights, as per the Planned Parenthood’s Alisa LaPolt Snow, who said recently that when a baby somehow survives an abortion, it’s up to the woman, her family and her doctor to decide that child’s fate.
Two years ago, I wrote about the good doctor Gosnell’s “pro-choice enablers,” for Politics Daily:
“The ultimate non-partisan body – a criminal grand jury – has supplied us with thegraphic, 261-page horror story of Kermit Gosnell, M.D., who stands accused of butchering seven babies – yes, after they were born alive — and fatally doping a refugee from Nepalwith Demerol in a clinic that smelled of cat urine, where the furniture was stained with blood and the doctor kept a collection of severed baby feet. As often as possible, the report says, Gosnell induced labor for women so pregnant that, as he joked on one occasion, the baby was so big he could “walk me to the bus stop.” Then, hundreds of times over the years, he slit their little necks, according to the grand jury report:
[He] regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors. The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels – and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths. Over the years, many people came to know that something was going on here. But no one put a stop to it.
And the kicker? This nightmare facility had not been inspected in 17 years – other than by someone from the National Abortion Federation, whom he actually invited there. For whatever reason, Gosnell applied for NAF membership two days after the death of the 41-year-old Nepalese woman, Karnamaya Mongar. Even on a day when the place had been scrubbed and spiffed up for the visit, the NAF investigator found it disgusting and rejected Gosnell’s application for membership. But despite noting many outright illegalities, including a padlocked emergency exit in a part of the clinic where women were left alone overnight, the grand jury report notes that the NAF inspector did not report any of these violations to authorities.”
My point, then and now, is that I am a big fan of regulation; wasn’t it the loosening of regs in the financial world that led to the meltdown of ’08 and in the oil industry to the BP spill of ’10? Those who normally agree with me about the need for oversight, though, make an exception when it comes to the abortion industry, which they feel should be self-regulating even when what that gets us is the likes of Kermit Gosnell.
The counter-argument, then and now, is that it’s the restriction of abortion rights that creates such shady operators, though there are other clinics in Philadelphia — and if his practice was restricted in any way over the years, I can’t see how.
Which “side” was Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Gosnell? Well, there’s no mystery about where Gosnell could have gotten the idea that his youngest victims weren’t human, or entitled to any protection under the law. There aren’t just two sides, though, but a whole continuum of points of view, from those who see several cells as a legal person to those who insist that even a baby who could walk Kermit Gosnell to the bus stop is only a person if his mom says so.
Gosnell himself seemed confused, when he was charged with so many counts of murder, as to how that could be. Because even at that point, he didn’t appear to see the children he’s accused of beheading as people.
Planned Parenthood’s Snow was similarly obtuse, either willfully or out of habit, in testifying against a Florida bill that would have required medical care for babies who survive abortions. “If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion,” she was asked, “what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”
Her answer was a familiar one: “We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family and the physician.”
Though it pains me to say so, that’s the same stand Barack Obama effectively took when he voted against a similar Illinois bill — even after the addition of a “neutrality clause” spelling out that the bill would have no bearing on the legal status of the (you say fetus, I say unborn child) at any point prior to delivery, and thus could not be used to outlaw abortion.
Recently, MSNBC host Melissa Harris mocked those who see a fertilized egg as a fully human person: “I get,” she said, “that that’s a particular kind of faith claim that’s not associated with science.”
But I wish she and those who agree with her also got this: To insist that a baby born at 30 weeks, as one of Gosnell’s victims was, only qualifies as a person if his mom decides to keep him is also “a particular kind of faith claim that’s not associated with science.”
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Kermit Gosnell, MD.
by Glander inhe is accused of performing "abortions" after the birth of live babies.
where does planned parenthood stand on this case?.
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Gosnell is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Much of the media has been trying to bury this gruesome piece of news.
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The Governing Body scenario is nearly identical to that in 1977 - no power
by Dogpatch inthe watchtower perposely keeps its leaders "cordoned off" for a reason.
the ones really in charge want to be invisible and have been in control since knorr's day, and still think like him.
the gb want like hell to be visible and powerful.
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Randy is one awesome dude.
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For those who still believe that Christianity is the only truth
by sosoconfused inplease help me to understand how you address this.. from the creation of adam to the birth of noah was about 900 to 1000 years.
during this period literally only a handful of people worshipped the true god.
then came the flood - at which point there were only 8 faithful people the world over.. .
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soontobe
What are your thoughts
My thought is that the great majority of Christians do not believe the scenario you've sketched out in your OP (most Christians are not Bible literalists/fundamentalists). Since the vast majority of Christians do not believe that, it is only a challenge for the minority that do.
