my bromochloromethane extinguisher on the B-52 had this label: "bcm is classified by the U.S. government as a narcotic agent of moderate intensity, but prolonged effect". just like the government to whisk it outa yer hands.
Jafo knows that i would not offend him in seriousness. his hand isn't getting anywhere near that button, is it?
"that dump of a desert that is the Middle East would be just a sand-box in the world scheme of things" - Jafo did i ever mention that in our nasa satellite photography Oz looks remarkably like a big red sandbox with a beautiful green retainer wall?
"Get rid of idiot religion and a pre-occupation with fossil fuels" -Jafo Strange speakings from the mouth of a confessed petrolhead! We'll start by parking those grand prix gas guzzlers.
i'm not really meaning to single out one side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and bash in the prev post ( yes, i remember Meyer Kahane dancing through the West Bank streets calling the people up in the buildings dogs). i'm only pointing out that this is a very ancient quarrel which has roots starting many hundreds of years ago, not in 1948. long standing feuds like that can be managed, but it takes incredible, sustained effort by both sides.
give Fuzzy L his Brit knee section since we're still intent on humoring him.
while spot reading through an english language Quran given to me by a Saudi officer, i found an interesting passage where the various "false religions" are discoursed on. the first to be discussed was Christianity, and the verdict was not too unkind: gross overvaluing of Jesus the prophet, mixed up on this Trinity thing, but overall not too bad a group. then Buddhism, Hinduism, and other eastern religions were discussed, and the language and judgment began to become quite terse. next animism, pa
a draw beats a loss any day
artefacts => artifacts
jtb - to get a really good answer to that question, it's best to review world history centering around the (re)creation of the state of israel (if you can find a solid, unbiased historian). the allied countries had heard strong rumors about what might be happening to the Jews during the war, but when the allied armies were liberating the concentration camps the shock and horror of what can happen to a people who have no land of their own to be safe in went beyond belief. it was a very emotionall
syria supports terrorist organizations, but they keep such a low profile in the public media that it's very hard to guess what they would or wouldn't do. relative to that point, i asked a saudi arabian air force officer i'd worked with for 3 years to rank his enemies. his list: 1. syria 2. iran 3. israel interesting.
many a night we circled Angkhor Wat in Cambodia waiting on instruction to fire or not fire with our Spectre gunship at the Khmer Rouge forces hiding in the area. Thankfully for now, Angkhor Wat was spared, although it made fighting the war much more difficult at the time. destroying a fabulous millenia-old ruins with our 105mm howitzer would have been a sickening experience.
about a year after the war is over we'll begin to get an idea who is really happy or unhappy in iraq. a lot of what we observe now is temporary posturing tied to temporary situational stressors.
forgive us
been gone several days. the postings have gotten long on words and long on emotion. and i'm feeling short on time.
paxx - can you settle a bet for us? the hypothesis is that hanging a yellow ribbon would probably be in violation of Quebec city ordinance, but it's OK to hang one that's jaune.
let's hope the afters look as good as the befores.
being able to pull computer codes helps, but too often the system which kicks the code is not the source of the problem: Oxygen sensor starts failing and always reads lean ( computer pours more gas into engine => idle RPM drops => computer makes idle speed control motor push throttle and restore RPM => computer checks idle position of Throttle Position Sensor which is now out of tolerance, and a TPS error code is logged when the O2 sensor is kaput. <img src="http://images.stardock.co
hard to translate semi-monosyllabic tonal languages without the intonations. the best i can do is " drunk more mom " if it's "mao makmai", that means "way too drunk". been there.
DavidK - any great attorney will tell you that the real trickery in his craft is not so much in distorting the facts as it is in masterfully controlling which facts the jury is never allowed to see. in every serious "expose" class of book that i've read, the writer tried to show evidences which would hold up under strong scrutiny, and completely neglected a sizable body of contrary evidences which also hold up under scrutiny. caveat emptor. investigators with an agenda see only what they want yo
i guess the Blue Dashboard of Death is coming.
DavidK - thanks for elucidating on that one point. The underlying question actually is kind of interesting. unlike mustard gas, most modern gassing agents degrade with a reasonably short half-life. once they've degraded, can they be spectroscopically linked to a source batch? Don't know the answer to that one.
"Tariq Aziz expressed his dismay that the Americans are accusing them of planning to use chem or bio weapons. He said he's afraid the US is planning to use them and blame Iraq. I wonder, if they do get used, is it possible to tell where they came from?" - DavidK i have erased my intended technical posting in regards to the above, and have only the following to say: " "
my grandfather didn't spend a lot of time telling us about his World War I experiences, but i do know that the ge, err.. enemy hit his unit with poison gas two times ( mustard gas blistering agent). The first time, aprrox. 25% of the soldiers didn't have gas masks because they'd thrown them away somewhere along the line. Panic reigned, several soldiers went crazy and were shot for trying to kill their comrades for their gas masks, and 30% casualties were suffered. When it happened again about 6
that's allowed under President Ford's executive order.
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