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Iranian plane Crash Kills 189
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| July 15, 2009
Posted on 07/15/2009 8:26:40 AM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog
I wonder if it was full of rebellious anti-government yutes.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:27:58 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
To: meandog
Was there anyone important on the plane that the Iranian regime felt "needed killing"? Maybe one of the mullahs from Qom who were questioning the authority of the supreme leader in Tehran?
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:28:56 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
To: meandog
Blaming the jooooos / Great Satan in 4....3....2...
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:28:57 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
I heard about this crash on the BBC radio news as I was driving to work today. They attributed the crash to the US embargo against Iran.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:33:52 AM PDT
by
Parmenio
To: meandog
Killed 189 out of the 168 people on board? (Were 21 people killed on the ground.)
(flame suit on!)
If we learned anything from the past few weeks, it's that the vast majority of Iranians want many of the same things we do. I don't think there is one case, ever, of a war starting between two democratically governed countries. In any case, it's rare.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:34:32 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Of course, I wasn’t surprised about this. In the view of the BBC, America is to blame for most, if not all of the evils in the world.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:35:14 AM PDT
by
Parmenio
To: Parmenio
I heard it was Reagan’s fault...tax cuts ya’ know.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Admin Moderator
Killed 189 out of the 168 people on board? (Were 21 people killed on the ground.) ooops...Keith Olbermann fact checker misfires again...Admin please chance number to 168,
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:36:33 AM PDT
by
meandog
(Doh!)
To: Parmenio
“They attributed the crash to the US embargo against Iran.”
I didn’t know we had embargoed “lift.”
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:43:10 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: Parmenio
They attributed the crash to the US embargo against Iran. Uhhhh. Another story states that it was a Russian-built plane. I suppose the Russians have been following this embargo to the letter.
Yeah, right.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:44:25 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Parmenio
I heard about this crash on the BBC radio news as I was driving to work today. They attributed the crash to the US embargo against Iran.
That's what I've been hearing too...but this was a RUSSIAN-MADE PLANE...
But that's the media for you...never let the facts get in the way of a good story...
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:45:26 AM PDT
by
Zeppelin
(Where have you gone, Joe McCarthy, oh? A nation turns illiberel eyes to you...oo oo oo...)
To: Sig Sauer P220
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
To: Parmenio
The plane, a Russian-built Tupolev 154M jet from the 1980s, is an aging aircraft that is no longer allowed to fly over most western European airspace because of noise regulations.
Unconfirmed reports said the Russian pilot of the plane may have been attempting an emergency landing after facing engine problems, shortly after takeoff.
Iranian TV showed a large crater and indicated the plane was probably traveling at high speed when it crashed.
Iran has suffered from a rash of plane crashes in recent years, due to an aging fleet of passenger jets, many of which are leased from Russia. Economic sanctions have also prevented Iran from purchasing spare parts for many of its older Boeing and Airbus jets.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:45:49 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: Sig Sauer P220
>>I wonder if it was full of rebellious anti-government yutes.<<
Yute? What's a yute?
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:51:00 AM PDT
by
RobRoy
(This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
To: PLMerite
I didn’t know we had embargoed “lift.” It's even broader, we embargoed Bernoulli's principle in toto, Hook's Law and the second law of thermodynamics. Gravity, however, is still widely available in Iran.
It's like the Caliph said, we should burn all books but the holy quran. If they agree with the quran, they are superfluous, if they disagree, they are heretical.
What did Mo have to say about airframe and power plant maintenance, anyway?
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:53:21 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: Sig Sauer P220
Apparently, it was full of Christians.
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Going to Yerevan, that would be my guess too. It’s probable that most of the passengers were Armenian.
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posted on
07/15/2009 9:01:06 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Thanks for this info. So the BBC news reader was injecting his completely uninformed and biased opinion into his report. Typical.
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posted on
07/15/2009 9:03:28 AM PDT
by
Parmenio
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
re: Gravity, however, is still widely available in Iran
But you need an adapter to get the full advantage of it. Sans the adapter it’s nearly impossible to predict how it will behave.
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posted on
07/15/2009 9:28:33 AM PDT
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
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