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Thank you for your defense.

I will not stand for bigotry or racism. Not here, not anywhere.

I will not give the left the ammunition to call republicans racists, yet some posters think that their vile words are 'diversity in language'.

Our Secretary of Engery is a 'raghead' and a very good friend of mine. How about Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice? What terms do you use for them? Heck, I am a dirty Irishwoman. I am sure you have some real butes for the Italians, Greek, Chinese, Japenese.... The list goes on and on.

Needless to say if we don't stick up for what's right, the morons and bullies will win. It's not PC police, it's common courtesy and respect.

Its looking like this crash was indeed a weight and balance issue; the Center of Gravity had to be beyond the limits or the stabilizer had to be totally out of whack.

If the CG was slightly abaft of the allowable range, I would not expect this incident to have begun quite so promptly after climbing out of ground effect. Either the CG was well beyond its aftmost limit or it is a stabilizer that was set incorrectly and not caught during the checklists. Still, an improperly set stabilizer should have been detected when the nose kept climbing and control column inputs being transmitted to the control surfaces proved insufficient.

But on a passenger plane what could make this CG be so far to the rear of the allowable range? Somebody carrying lead in a carry-on bag? Weight Watchers decided to hold a meeting at the rear of the aircraft and all passengers there exceeded the 'average' weight used in calculations?
Too much fuel added by the fuel truck?