the watchtower society owns an airplane ... and it had an incident which was filed with teh faa / ntsb.. .
on june 12, 1995, at 1530 alaska daylight time, a wheel equipped cessna 402b airplane, n710ws, registered to and operated by the watchtower bible organization and tract society, collapsed its nose gear while taxiing back after landing.
the business flight, operating under 14 cfr part 91, departed good news, alaska, and the destination was tuntutuliak, alaska.
Juneau, the state capital, is not excessible by road. Airplane and boat are the only way to reach that city. If you have ever been to Alaska, you would see that there are a lot of small airplanes. In fact, there is a row of houses which back onto the railway in Anchorage that has a runway along the back, and every house has an airplane. I saw this in May when my wife and I were there.
Unfortunately, there is no breaking story here. It is a necessary form of transportation in Alaska.
Stan
i thought id give you an update re whats going on.
my qing the wts of recent has been very hard on my wife.
if i could, i would change my timing of doing so, but its just the way it has happened.
Babbling from both of the WTS chimps.
That pretty much says it all.
My friend's mother underwent a similar situation. She was hospitalized for mental illness, and when the chimps came to visit her, they suggested that she do more reading of WT literature. Now it just so happens that her delusions were all of a religious nature, so how exactly would feeding on more of this BS help her? May as well perscribe Crown Royal to an alcoholic to help him cure his disease.
To make a long story short, her son (my friend) helped her to see the error of the WT and she is now free and healthy.
I wish the same for your wife, Winston, however it is achieved.
Stan
well the day he and his best buds have been waiting for is here.
they are in dallas going to their first huge concert ,,,,,, i am not sure all the bands that are playing , but it is going to be a once in a lifetime thing.......so i let him go.. i am a little nervous about it , but i am so happy that he is living the life that i never could.
i pray and hope they make it home safe and sound,,,,,,,i know i have to let him go little by little, usually i would say , not safe,,,,and say no.
I want to see Metallica too, but I don't think they'll bother touring Tasmania. Maybe when they are much older.
Can you picture James still rocking at 65 years old? That would be something to see!
By the way, James turned 40 today. (If you don't know who James is, then you aren't really a Metallica fan.) The only reason I know his birthday is because he is one day older than me.
Stan
i'm not talking about uncle saddam.
i'm talking about the alleged terrorist mastermind, who allegedly fired the first shot, so to speak, and took 3000 lives in new york.
cowboy george had this master terrorist dead in his sites.
Osama Bin Laden should be put in charge of Iraq. If he was capable of organizing the 9/11 attacks from a cave in the middle of nowhere, he would make a great leader! Imagine what he could do with Iraq! Find him a cave to be his headquarters, and he could run Iraq by communicating his desires on grainy, bearly audible videotapes which he could leave lying around for someone to find and attempt to translate.
Stan
a 5 year old boy was killed today by israeli machine gun fire which also injured his two sisters.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=6528
for more than 50 years this has been going on with full american support.
Let me consistent if the US wants to bring all the Saddam's and bin Laden's in this world to justice they should also treat the Ariel Sharon's the same way.
Ya, right. The United States of Israel will never treat their real president that way. The best we can hope for is that the puppet Bush regime will be defeated in the next election.
Maybe, just maybe, the next American president will not have his strings pulled by Israel. I'm not holding my breath, however!
Stan
the tour is just over 1/2 way, and he is only 21 seconds ahead.
tomorrow is the individual time trial.
i think that will be the determining factor.
"Will Lance make it number 5 this year?"
Looks like it with just minutes to go. What a great tour this year.
Way to go Lance!!!
Anyone going to see the race in Hamilton Ont. this October? My brother-in-law lives right on the course, so we will probably stay with him that weekend.
Stan
we all know that witnesses go door to door in order to give bible studies.
but since their message is so important to them, why don't they use all the available methods in order to reach out to the most people possible.
we live in an era of telecommunications, wireless phones, internet, and so on.
The money only flows in one direction.
Stan
hey all, i finally put up "beware of the voice of strangers" for downloading.
i had quite a bit of trouble putting it on the net (it's over 7 megs).
if not, i'll try and fix it on the weekend.. this is the district convention part on apostates.
Why would I want to listen to that nonsense? Not having to be subjected to that garbage is part of the benefits of not being a JW anymore.
I don't understand the point of downloading and listening to assembly talks.
Stan
my *personal* opinion is that they should because the people of iraq will probably require some proof.
i don't have any interest in seeing the photos but i believe that their photos will spread throughout the internet and the news media and curiosity will eventually cause me to peek at the photos.
don't know why i would have interest in seeing a couple of lifeless bodies though.
Thanks for clarifying that, Yeru. That makes way more sense. The way it was portrayed in the news made it seem like it was a constant fire-fight. That didn't make sense to me.
Stan
my *personal* opinion is that they should because the people of iraq will probably require some proof.
i don't have any interest in seeing the photos but i believe that their photos will spread throughout the internet and the news media and curiosity will eventually cause me to peek at the photos.
don't know why i would have interest in seeing a couple of lifeless bodies though.
Do I understand correctly that it took 200 Americans 6 hours of intense fighting to kill 3 men and a boy? Or was if only 4 hours?
I only bring this up because of a news report I heard on a US media TV station (I don't remember which) where the reporter was going on about how this proves the professionalism and the efficiency of the US forces in Iraq.
Stan
