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Old 08-20-2014, 09:05 AM
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I watched an Admiral take off in an F-14 at NAS Miramar in 1986 and promptly drop both auxiliary fuel tanks on the runway just as the wheels left the concrete. He came back bellowing that a "stray voltage" had caused the tanks to drop.

There is a cover over the switch that is tied down with soft safety wire. You must pull on the wire hard enough to break it, lift the cover, then throw the toggle to jettison the tanks.

The wire was broken and the cover up when we looked in the cockpit.

The official report? "Malfunctioning electrical circuit."

No matter how big the turd, some peoples chit just does not stink.

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Old 08-20-2014, 09:06 AM
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In reading Assyrian history, (Long before Muhammad), I learned that a common tactic, after raiding a village, was to behead all of the adults and hang their heads from trees, or stick them on pikes at the village gates. The children were commonly doused in oil and burned alive for entertainment.

Looks like nothing anyone has done in the intervening millennia has changed that.

What makes you think we're going to?

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Old 08-20-2014, 09:09 AM
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This group HATES the non psycho islamist world. Want to kill everyone who will not convert to their version of the story. Is slaughtering children, raping women, and massacring entire villages because of religion. Sound like another time in history?

Let's not get involved and let the cancer spread. Don't worry the disease will make its way to the US and kill lots of Americans before you wake up. No one wants war, and no one wants to see military loses on foreign soil but ignorance here has bigger consequences.
Yes another time in history and throughout history. The fact is that this is the belief of the Muslim faith from the beginning of Ala. When the Muslims gained more and more numbers and power they taxed the Jews and killed the Christians. They gave them the option to convert at the time also.

So they are doing what their teachings tell them to for 3000 years.
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:11 AM
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In reading Assyrian history, (Long before Muhammad), I learned that a common tactic, after raiding a village, was to behead all of the adults and hang their heads from trees, or stick them on pikes at the village gates. The children were commonly doused in oil and burned alive for entertainment.

Looks like nothing anyone has done in the intervening millennia has changed that.

What makes you think we're going to?

Dave
Your right Dave. I'll get back in line, make sure I put my blinders back on and drink some pepto to help with the upset stomach.
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:15 AM
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The ignorance is every front page is Ferguson while somewhere right before the comics is islamic state genocide. It took a beheading of an American to make it almost to the forefront.

This is not being "world police" Dave. It's about it not being OK to cut off little kid's heads and putting them on sticks on playgrounds as a warning to infidels. Pretty sure I read that there was regret not stepping in earlier in WW2, what's the difference here?
Funny I was going to equate Dave to the ingnorate people before WWII that did not care about what Hitler was doing.
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:17 AM
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Seems sticking our head in the sand didn't work very well.

Beheading, some might be interested: I read a very old book on famous people in English history years ago. While telling the story of the 'Great White Pasha', the Mullahs finally got to him, and 'they beheaded him, as is their way'. Nothing new.

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Old 08-20-2014, 09:21 AM
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In reading Assyrian history, (Long before Muhammad), I learned that a common tactic, after raiding a village, was to behead all of the adults and hang their heads from trees, or stick them on pikes at the village gates. The children were commonly doused in oil and burned alive for entertainment.

Looks like nothing anyone has done in the intervening millennia has changed that.

What makes you think we're going to?

Dave
By killing the teachers of this belief that it's acceptable,

It sounds like it's acceptable to you Dave
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:23 AM
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Your right Dave. I'll get back in line, make sure I put my blinders back on and drink some pepto to help with the upset stomach.
Yeah and everything is just fine we got Obama in charge so we can sleep at night.
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:26 AM
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Yeah and everything is just fine we got Obama in charge so we can sleep at night.
For sure. He is appalled.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0GJ29E20140819

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History is also not kind to the Christian Conquistadors.
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