Naturally, it's Salman's fault. He's the scape goat du jour.

Right as if one writer vs. 1400 years of indoctrination is to blame.

I don't believe a word of that article. Then why are there pictures of "Death to Rushdie?"

Man, this is one bad day for Salman. First the usual suspects blame him for the terror attacks, and then his wife decides to file for divorce. Ouch.

Was wondering how long it would take for them to blame him.

Muslims didn't bomb the evil western airport!

But if they did, it's the evil west's fault!

And stop looking at me! STOP IT!

It’s the Islamic trifecta—denial, whining, and veiled threats.

...and the grievance theater is complete.

It’s the Islamic trifecta—denial, whining, and veiled threats.

"The Islamic trifecta" makes me think of the young boys forced to be jockeys in Saudi Arabia. Probably due to Rushdie, also.

(shakes head in disbelief)

4 lawhawk

I was just going to link that story again. When it rains it pours, I guess.

Never would have seen this one coming!

/Need I?

The continuous loop of seething, whining and victimhood.

Moron 1: "We never commit terror attacks!"
Moron 2: "And never in the summer!"
Moron 1: "And we only do it because Rushdie insulted us!"
Moron 2: "And those who point it out are extremists!"

Where did these guys learn rhetoric and logic, The Three Stooges?

"We didn't do it. It's your fault we did it. And if you keep lying that we did it and try to punish some of us, we'll do it again."

OT:

WASHINGTON - A mechanical monster grabs the F-14 fighter jet and chews through one wing and then another, ripping off the Tomcat's appendages before moving onto its guts. Finally, all that's left is a pile of shredded rubble — like the scraps from a Thanksgiving turkey.

The Pentagon is paying a contractor at least $900,000 to destroy old F-14s, a jet affectionately nicknamed "the turkey," rather than sell the spares at the risk of their falling into the wrong hands, including Iran's.

heh.

Britain Muslims are strongly condemning the terrorist attacks, unfortunately there are always charges against the Muslims accusing them of involving in these attacks.

(...)

Farjani also strongly condemned the knighthood conferred on Salman Rushdie, adding this odious behavior could have be a main factor in preparing the ground for the youth to join terrorist groups.

No Al-Sayyad, it's your and the founder of your religion's "odious behavior" that is responsible.

I love how they deny that Muslims could be involved, then in the very next utterance, blame the victim for "making them do it". Islamic Doublethink in action.

This guy is arguing in the alternative.
"We didn't do it,
but if we did we were justified"
If this guy is not a UK citizen they should deport him as an undesirable

In an exclusive interview with Alalam, Al-Sayyed Farjani said while Britain Muslims are strongly condemning the terrorist attacks, unfortunately there are always charges against the Muslims accusing them of involving in these attacks.

What are you saying there? That the charges are unwarranted? Muslims are committing these acts.

And they'll keep on doing it until you put your foot down and stamp out the Islamists in your midst or else the governments of the countries where you live will do it for you - and it wont be pretty for anyone.

I sense a pending seeth.

Oh, YES!

Salman was recruiting bombers, and financing Jeeps, and buying gas canisters, and hiring Islamist teachers, and then carefully making sure the wires were loose...

Yeah, we SAW him, outside Glasgow yesterday...

Oh yeah, he forgot to blame the Jews...

Ahem

That's Sir Salman Rushdie to you!

At least this time it wasn't just some 'disaffected yoots'

#13 Merovign

Where did these guys learn rhetoric and logic, The Three Stooges?

Kos, I think...

Forget the old definitions from physics.

New definition for 1 nanosecond is the interval between a bomb explosion and blaming Rushdie (or any other infidel) for this.

Rage Boy should be making an appearance soon.

But didn't he read the newspaper- Muslims committed these attacks. So the problem is that we found out Muslims did it?

OT

Charles you should be at this conference in Tel Aviv

[Link: www.idc.ac.il...]

#19 jcm

I sense a pending seeth.

Paging Islamic Rage Boy. Paging Islamic Rage Boy.

Fu**ing Deleted.

"... the official said while no group has claimed the responsibility of bombings yet; some extremist parties are trying to accuse the Muslims."

Probably a group of disgruntled neurologists.

Typical of the religion that churns out imams that blame women for being raped.

#19 jcm 7/02/2007 9:49:39 am PDT

I sense a pending seeth.

There's got to be a car swarm brewing somewhere, too!

Hi sharmuta!

Rx

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk:80...]

Islamic logic = wife beater logic

"Bitch made me do it"

Rage Boy should team up with O.J.

OT linkage:

More from the "Don't Question Their Patriotism" department: Independence Day Hypocrisy, by Stephen Lendman. Standard collection of arguments as to how the USA has always been evil. (Now where have I heard THAT kind of thinking before?)

From the "Da Joooz Control Everything" department: A Declaration of Independence from Israel, by Chris Hedges, on Common Dreams, referencing TruthDig.com.

From the "Muslims Are Innocent, So Change Your Foreign Policy Or Else!" department: The spread of terror, by Ain't-I-A-Bungler, for The Grauniad. Tastiest excerpt:

[...] However, is that hatred of our freedoms really the driving motivation behind the terror attacks? Is it nothing to do with some of our actual policies overseas, policies that have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people?

From the Koz Kids, catching up with the news while doing the finest in ostrich imitations: There isn't a war on terror.

No link from Zionist Tentacles Productions, Inc., today, because I'm short on time.

TMBB
They Might Be Buddhists

#15 NJDhockeyfan

AAAHHH! (faints)

You know, Feds, I would take those F-14s off your hands for only $450,000 and guarantee I'd never sell the parts to any malefactors.

(shakes head, cries like a baby, a hungry, angry baby)

Grinding up an F-14 is like grinding up the Mona Lisa - Just Plain Wrong.

the official said while no group has claimed the responsibility of bombings yet; some extremist parties are trying to accuse the Muslims.

Uggg.. I wonder why? perhaps it was the flaming Jihadi yelling "Allah, Allah"..

Gay Men Assaulted in Amsterdam

[Link: www.expatica.com...]

See Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept

#14 Silhouette

Ahhh...if it weren't so serious, I'd laugh longer than the smile you tugged out with your in-a-nutshell example of leftie/Mideastern doublespeak...

39

F-14 is a terrible airplane.

Read "Boyd"

Swing-wing airplanes were a dead end. We were lucky that the soviets copied us when they saw us make them.

Do they have a Seethe-o-Wheel? Give it a spin, see what today's seething excuse is?

/Iraq, Iraq! No- insulting the prophet!

//Hi MrMom

RIP, F-14.

"...that the situation of Muslims in Britain would be deteriorated..."

Blowback works both ways.

Merovign, NJD hockey fan

I say let em have em...hell! We oughta give em the damn F-14s less the weapons platforms !

too big to be a good dogfighter and without the air/air...

can you say "sitting Mahomaduck?"

Meanwhile, in Iran today DinnerJacket is taking Chavez on a tour of his new Aroma Therapy plant. For real.

#39 Merovign

This is probably a big reason:

Investigators also found some sensitive items accidentally slipping into surplus auctions rather than being destroyed as they were supposed to be. In an unusual move when dealing with retired aircraft, the Pentagon is trying to shut off all avenues for Iran's parts purchasers by demolishing the F-14s, then combing through the scraps to make sure nothing useful remains.

Can't trust to gov't to monitor it's own sensitive materials.

You know, I really feel for these people. They keep losing every war they fight. The only people they seem to be effective at killing are unarmed women and children.

I mean, I can see why Islamic Rage Boy is so pissed off. It's not like he has anything else to do.

If he tries to attack Israeli troops or US marines in a straight fight, he's going to get his head blown off and he knows it.

-ron

Ojoe

ok

you take an f-15

i'll take an F-14

we start 100 miles apart

you die...
6 Phoenix missiles will od that.

But are we moving any closer to the rest of the world realising its not just our war?

Charles -

"THE TRIFECTA - ROTFLMAO!"

-S-

"I didn't put a bullet in the furnace and you stop talking about my parents."

Crunching The Terrorism Numbers

There are more f-15s

I blame Jane Austen

50 EC Marm
Aromatherapy?
Where to begin? That photo also needs a caption!

Personally, I'm worried about the potential backlash against doctors. The UK's leaders need to come out with a statement reassuring the populace that most doctors are good citizens and these are only a tiny minority. And police or troops should probably be sent out to guard the hospitals and medical schools.

What, the populace never suspected the terror connection with doctors? Wonder why they always do with religion?

they sound like little kids.

"But mom, Brian made me hit him in the face..."

*no actually Brian's were hurt in this comment*

#48 Iron Fist

Like it, you say...oh, man... ): --reminds me of that scene in Finding Private Ryan...

Reminds me of the old lawyer joke about the guy who claims that his neighbor's goat ate his cabbages. The neighbor's response was:
1) You never had any cabbages.
2) If you had any cabbages they were rotten and worthless anyway.
3) I don't have a goat.
4) If I have a goat he didn't eat your cabbages.
5) If my goat ate your cabbages he was insane at the time.

/sounds about right

53wargammer2005

but without those Phoenix or at close range the f14s are a big grey bullseye!

I say give em to Iran as a gift weaponless and watch the fun!

No guarantees, as a matter of fact, I'd guess only a 33.33333% chance-

But this attractive little feature could trigger big fonts and bright colors next day or two...

Environemnt Canada Global 12Z run tracks it all the way to almost Jamaica in next six days as a strong wave, but doesn't quite develop a tropical cyclone.

#54 lockandload

The nics that LGF operatives are choosing, gives some indication...

Poor Salman! He is responsible for all the problems that befall muslims everywhere in the world.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Asha's family is proclaiming his innocence and appealing to the King of Jordan to get him released. (The doc from that hospital arrested on the highway yesterday.)

That's right. Blame the messanger.

Related:

UK Islamist Leader Anjem Choudary: "Terror Attacks Completely Justified"

Jihadi doctors ID'd

One is named Mohammed.

Whodathunkit?

#66 Ed
That is pretty cool. Where is the location of that currently? I'm a weather nerdette but don't have any experience or anything. Just love the storms and stuff.

#43 Ojoe

F-14 is a terrible airplane.

Read "Boyd"

I didn't mean to turn this into an an F-14 thread, bud Boyd just plain hates the Navy. Boyd may be a genius, but he knows he is and his ego gets in the way of his thought process.

Boyd is of the "small dogfighter" school, the designers of the F-14 are of the "speed is life" school.

I think you need both, personally. We now have an Air Superiority hole in our inventory that we haven't been able to fill. The F-14 also had a large Ground Attack capability that was never really used - massive payload (at least the F-14D).

Besides, at LEAST give me an F-14 airframe - it was the most beautiful plane the government every ordered.

#70 sugiero

Choudary was on CNN night before last in an interview with Amanpour. He came right out and said on international TV that his intentions were to institute full sharia in the UK, to take over the government,etc. and so forth. I was pretty appalled.

Well, it's a shame Dr Harold Shipman knocked himself off in 2004. We could have sent him to Jordan as a token replacement.

FOR year = 700 to 9999
Seethe
Bomb
Behead
Kidnap
Makevideo
Execute sub blamejews
IF demandsmet = FALSE THEN Whine
IF wecontrolworld = TRUE THEN exit for
NEXT

#63 Ma Sands 7/02/2007 10:02:32 am PDT

Like it, you say...oh, man... ): --reminds me of that scene in Finding Private Ryan...

I believe it's Saving Private Ryan

74 Merovign

gotta disagree with ya there, pal. Two other distint planes; one with tons o' payload..F16XL..and for just plane aerobeauty the YF23...(sigh)we'll never see em...

8ºN, 37ºW

# 74 Merovign

Objectors to the F-22 said that it couldn't handle dogfights against older airframes. When tested, the "older airframes" never saw it before they were administratively killed.

Never prepare to fight the last war.

PIMF

DISTINCT!

The Iranian Tomcats are A versions, and have not had parts for them since '79.

The D versions with F110 engines and uprated avionics, acquisition and target systems is a serious airplane.

Global Security says 20 are air worthy, I find that doubtful.

I am getting the sense that to become, or be a Muslim, is like being a turd. You have no control over your life or any direction. Everything else affects you, moves you, forces you to do things.

You flow along in the current with the other turds, helpless in life, driven by fate to be eaten alive by the microbes of other's thoughts or actions. Everything just happens to YOU! So line up Muslims, wait for the cosmic flush that is surely coming.

#15 NJDhockeyfan

I remember seeing a story on 60 minutes about this,

a man managed to purchase all the ah64d parts for pennies on the dollar, including the missle guidance systems and rebuild 3 of them.

He rents them out to hollywood.

He managed to rebuild them part by part with no oversight from the govt whatsoever.

The British have a venerable history of homicidal Docs:

Dr Crippen

Dr Shipman

No plane on the USS Chuck Wagon (CVN-70) crashed more often than the F-14. Interestingly enough, the Viet Nam era single engine A-7E didn't crash much.

The 2 engine S-3A Vikings, soon to be retired, didn't seem to crash either, perhaps because they looked like a 737 with dwarfism disorder.

Referring to the vital role of Muslims in fighting against terrorism and extremism as well as encountering with violence against the innocent people in Britain, the official said while no group has claimed the responsibility of bombings yet; some extremist parties are trying to accuse the Muslims.

It's those undercover Buddhists, I tell ya.

The vital role of Muslims in fighting against terrorism and extremism? Does he mean muslims like Hassan Butt, who are getting death threats for speaking out against extremism?

Is the F15 fly by wire, or does it use pedals like the F14?

Of course, the "00" F-14 in VF-111, The Fighting Sundowners, in full non-cammo war paint, with a Japanese looking red rising sun on the tail, and a shark mouth up front, was a very sharp looking airplane.

here's an interesting story

[Link: www.amny.com...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Authorities have eased the virtual house arrest imposed on A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist who sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, officials said Monday.

that's just great

#74 Merovign:

Most beautiful plane ever ordered? Hmm, I'm actually somewhat partial to the P-51 Mustang or P-38 Lightning (old school). Of the newer fighters, the F-14 certainly had striking lines. Or the SR-71.

Oh, and I think the folks in Glasgow need to buy this guy a pint.

When it comes to planes, I begin and end at the A-10.

I'm partial to the new F-35

#83 jcm 7/02/2007 10:11:25 am PDT

The Iranian Tomcats are A versions, and have not had parts for them since '79.

The D versions with F110 engines and uprated avionics, acquisition and target systems is a serious airplane.

Global Security says 20 are air worthy, I find that doubtful.

I agree. However, the difference has always been that the US and the Israelis have always had far superior pilots. In fact, I believe you could put IAF pilots in inferior equipment to their opponents (read: Iran) and still come away victorious.

To heck with being blamed for the terrorist attacks, for Rushdie's the real problem is his 4th wife (20 yrs younger than he) wanting a divorce.

Holy Quacomole Batman!

[Link: omg.yahoo.com...]

Oh, and scroll down for some choice comments from his fans.

Not an F-14, a F-4 Phantom, but in the full VF-111 Fighting Sundowners war paint.

Seen on elevator news, on my way back with coffee: Controlled explosions at Glasgow hospital.

Is this new, or is elevator news even slower than I am?

93 Kragar

Great Bird. Side by side during DS! UGLY AS SHIT!

get's the job done though...

OT: The second doctor's identity has been revealed.

Police said one man arrested in Glasgow is Bilal Abdulla.

According to the British General Medical Council's register, a man named Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla was registered in 2004 and trained in Baghdad. Staff at Royal Alexandra Hospital said one suspect was a doctor of Middle Eastern or Iraqi origin who worked there.

84 Jehu

You flow along in the current with the other turds, helpless in life, driven by fate to be eaten alive by the microbes of other's thoughts or actions. Everything just happens to YOU! So line up Muslims, wait for the cosmic flush that is surely coming.

It is the will of allah. Why they never get mad at allah and blame him, I don't know, but they cetainly cling to their islamic fatalism and proclaim it when it suits them.

/insh'allah

Do they NOT get over ANYTHING?

Speaking of Salman Rushdie:

The latest furor over the knighthood so terrified Rushdie's wife that she has asked him for a divorce (probably out of fear for her life:

"Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," Mr Rushdie's spokeswoman Jin Auh said in a statement, Reuters news agency reports.

"He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time."

Yes, that really is his wife, as this photo proves.

The benefits of being famous.

94 Yankee Divison Son

nahh.. the joint fighter program is gonna be a dog. McNamara tried that one fighter for everybody crap during Nam...didn't work then...won't work now! What you end up with is abird that doesn't EXCEL at anything and does everything just soso...

# 94 Y D S

Then you like this news from last week.

#78 ChenZhen

Yes. I've always felt sad for that guy --he apparently persisted all his life after that, looking in the wrong direction for validation of his life...

Britain is hopeless. Check out the many reader's
comments from Britain on the NY Times website, or listen to the BBC coverage.

The main theme is worry and concern over an anti-Muslim backlash- the one that will never come. Ever. Regardless of how much terrorism they do and how egregiously they threaten the native Brits.

OTOH, I think of the reports in the airport of people saying "Let him burn". But I won't be convinced of a turning point until some mob actually lynches the terrorists.

#88 Sharmuta 7/02/2007 10:13:41 am PDT

Referring to the vital role of Muslims in fighting against terrorism and extremism as well as encountering with violence against the innocent people in Britain, the official said while no group has claimed the responsibility of bombings yet; some extremist parties are trying to accuse the Muslims.
It's those undercover Buddhists, I tell ya.

I'm afraid you are sadly mistaken. It's the Amish yoots trying to throw suspicion off themselves. Ruthless bunch they are.

Yes, that really is his wife, as this photo proves.

The benefits of being famous.

GEEZ! ! ! It musta been cold there in that dress...

zombie
She sure is pretty and TALL. And has one helluva a scar on her right arm.

#103 zombie,

That is one nasty scar on her arm on the left.

#80 Ed,
Thanks for the coords.

#98 Dianna

It is a new one, done today. Killgore spoke of it earlier, on the dead thread.

#92 lawhawk

Baggage supervisor, hero, smoker.

Was he standing where he was because of a smoke break?

Smokers outside are our first line of defense!

;-)

And they thought cigarettes were the biggest danger. Try angry jihadist with petrol and a car.

113 Silhouette

Was he standing where he was because of a smoke break?

Smokers outside are our first line of defense!

LMAO!

paxnhymn

Great Bird. Side by side during DS! UGLY AS SHIT!

A well made machine has a beauty all is own.

#108 I thought it was the radical, fundamentalist Anglican Party of God who was to blame. Don't the Amish operate only in the US?

#92 lawhawk

I'm actually somewhat partial to the P-51 Mustang or P-38 Lightning (old school).

You can't have a list of beautiful old school fighters without one of these.

In an exclusive interview with Alalam, Al-Sayyed Farjani said while Britain Muslims are strongly condemning the terrorist attacks, unfortunately there are always charges against the Muslims accusing them of involving in these attacks.

There's damn good reason to beleive they're muslims.
I'm fairly confident that this type of teaching in the mosques of Britian is far more common that the media and mutli-cultural pimps want you to know about.

Charles, are you sure it's not the Muslim Association of Britain but that it's come out garbled in translation?

As for Farjani, I think you need to get some Arabic (or possibly even Farsi) speakers on to this.

It's your fault we hate you.

Of course. Even when BBQ boy was on fire yelling "Allah", neither the Muslims nor Islam was involved.

Got this in an email this morning. There were some of the most moving photos I've ever seen attached. If anyone wants to see, I will be happy to send if you email me at my blog.
---
In Texas we really do pull off the road and stop for funerals...nobody moves until the last car has gone by.

What follows is a message from Vicki Pierce about her nephew James' funeral (he was serving our country in Iraq):

"I'm back, it was certainly a quick trip, but I have to also say it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. There is a lot to be said for growing up in a small town in Texas . The service itself was impressive with wonderful flowers and sprays, a portrait of James, his uniform and boots, his awards and ribbons. There was lots of military brass and an eloquent (though inappropriately longwinded) Baptist preacher. There were easily 1000 people at the service, filling the church sanctuary as well as the fellowship hall and spilling out into the parking lot.
However, the most incredible thing was what happened following the service on the way to the cemetery. We went to our cars and drove to the cemetery escorted by at least 10 police cars with lights flashing and some other emergency vehicles, with Texas Rangers handling traffic. Everyone on the road who was not in the procession, pulled over, got out of their cars, and stood silently and respectfully, some put their hands over their hearts.
When we turned off the highway suddenly there were teenage boys along both sides of the street about every 20 feet or so, all holding large American flags on long flag poles, and again wi th their hands on their hearts. We thought at first it was the Boy Scouts or 4H club or something, but it continued .. for two and a half miles. Hundreds of young people, standing silently on the side of the road with flags. At one point we passed an elementary school, and all the children were outside, shoulder to shoulder holding flags kindergartners, handicapped, teachers, staff, everyone. Some held signs of love and support. Then came teenage girls and younger boys, all holding flags. Then adults. Then families. All standing silently on the side of the road. No one spoke, not even the very young children.
The military presence , at least two generals, a fist full of colonels, and representatives from every branch of the service, plus the color guard who attended James, and some who served with him . was very impressive and respectful, but the love and pride from this community who had lost one of their own was the most amazing thing I've ever been privileged to witness.

#116 Prester John 7/02/2007 10:25:26 am PDT

#108 I thought it was the radical, fundamentalist Anglican Party of God who was to blame. Don't the Amish operate only in the US?

They've been secretly emmigrating to other countries (legally? - don't bet on it!) to drive the buggies the locals won't drive.

Rushdie wrote a bad novel 20 years ago (that I'd best cash money that none of the perpetrators have read), and this somehow sets the stage for terrorism in Scotland?

Huh?

#112 Ma Sands

I shall go look. Killian, dead thread.

Thanks.

Poor Salman - one minute you get a glimpse of hope, the next everything's dashed to pieces. Life can be cruel sometimes. And now you've got to deal with 1.5 billion psychos wanting you dead without the consoloation that you get to do the nasty with your hyper-foxy wife.
I realise this'd ruin the trifecta, but my personal favourite, the 'illegal' 'occupation' of Muslim lands, is always a fun excuse for barbarity.

.

It’s the Islamic trifecta—denial, whining, and veiled threats.

QUADRIfecta (!?):
BOMBING, denial, whining, threats.

Here's the explanation for the scar on her arm:

Can a terrible scar suddenly become a thing of beauty?
It depends, discovers Padma Lakshmi, on who's looking at it.

The accident happened on a Sunday afternoon filled with sunshine. I was fourteen years old and on my way back with my parents from a Hindu temple in Malibu. ...(horrific car accident)... I finally passed out. When Iwoke up hours later, I had tubes coming out of several places in my body. My right arm had been shattered and my right hip had been fractured. After surgery, I regained the use of both of them but was left with a long scar on my arm. It was half an inch wide and seven inches long.

#125 Dianna

Sorry for getting your hopes up...it was Killgore Trout, and he did no more than say there had been another one.

Salman will be fine. He's a chick magnet.

120 FrogMarch 7/02/2007 10:26:40 am PDT

It's your fault we hate you.

That is one of the best quotes I've ever re-posted.

The F-35 is a fine replacement for the Harrier. Tomcat? Not so much.

I wonder where all the F-14 hatred came from all the sudden. Must be a bunch of Air Force guys in here. :)

The way I figure it, if they could mount a Phoenix on an F-18, at least that would sort of fill the hole in the Navy's air cover.

When we lost the F-14, we lost the "Simply Empty The Sky Of Enemy Aircraft Before They See You" role.

The most survivable gunfight is the one you're not in. Same goes for dogfights. Just shoot 'em down at 120 NM and forget about 'em.

#57 Lumpy

Not to erode the point too much, but in your "Crunching the numbers" link it claims that 6% of British Muslims endorse terrorism.

I'd like to know the (control) percentage of NON-Muslim British who do as well.

That would be an interesting and potentially useful comparison.

130 Charles

It's the $$$ goggles. Worse than beer goggles on the guys! gets 'em everytime...

#39 Merovign

I hate to see the F-14s go, too. I remember when they were first coming into the Navy's inventory, replacing the F-4s. I would hope there'll still be one flyable F-14 somewhere, for demonstrations.

#128 zombie

I have one, 5" long and a half inch wide...from going through a windshield 30-some years ago...left arm, I'm left-handed...and I'm not typing anymore with only one hand... :)

#130 Charles...

It's the brains, not to mention that artsy thing he has going. He is appealing in a strange way. Charisma.

Sir Salman can look to Rod Stewart for hope. Mr. Stewart, who is, shall we say, not handsome, married but then lost supermodel Rachel Hunter.

Now he's re-married to another model.

And he's what, 84?

#130 Charles

Salman will be fine. He's a chick magnet.

I'm more concerned about Padma.

Well, perhaps "concerned" isn't precisely the word I was thinking of.

:)

I'd go out with Salman if he asked me. Dinner conversation would probally be facinating.

#124 looking closely

I bought the book when it was first published (still have it). I got about ten pages into it when I said, "WTH?", and put it on the shelf. His writing is hard to figure out.

He was considered a literary genius at the time. Whatever.

137The Pulchritudinous Patriot

#130 Charles...

It's the brains, not to mention that artsy thing he has going. He is appealing in a strange way. Charisma.

You can't fake it, and a lack of it can be fatal.

#138 Silhouette

I think he's 96.

/

Kyle: All right, I've had just about enough of this! They told us in school, and on TV, that most people in Pakistan and Afghanistan like America.

Boy in Blue Vest: And you believe it? It is not just the Taliban that hates America. Over a third of the world hates America!

Stan: But why? Why does a third of the world hate us?

Boy in Blue Vest: Because, you don't realize that a third of the world hates you!

Stan:: [considers the argument...] ...That doesn't make sense. You guys are just buttholes!

#103 zombie

But the burning question is, does Padma get half the fatwas in the divorce settlement?

140 TPP
I am always amazed at the diference in general gender outlook. You're talkin about dinner conversation with Sir Rushdie, and all the guys (including myself, and I'm happily married) are checking out Padma on their "sleepability index"...

LOL!

ain't life grand?

#140 Pulchritudinous

I can only echo your sentiment.

Though I'm always sad for people who divorce, particularly when they're public figures.

109 Sponge

High-beams, eh?

OMG it's RAINING AGAIN in the DFW area...Um Ed, can't you do anything about this? A few days off, that's all...

I grew up in the eighties, so to me (and a lot of my friends) the F-14 'Tomcat' was the dog's bollocks. So I'll be sad to see it go. TopGun was an awsome film, and if you disagree then you're a Red.

148 MandyManners 7/02/2007 10:39:21 am PDT

109 Sponge

High-beams, eh?

You can say that, yes...brightly lighting the way for all to see.

150

so I'm red...sue me! Tom Cruise is a certified flake!

A terrorist by any other name still is a Muslim

#140 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Ok, but be careful. I had friend once, who was sitting too close to her boyfriend in a Bronx restaurant, when, ah, old scores were settled...

Salman Rushdie and Britney Spears. Hmmm...

...Farjani also strongly condemned the knighthood conferred on Salman Rushdie, adding this odious behavior could have be a...

SIR Salman Rudhdie!

#142 Sharmuta

Or as Bruce Campbell put it ...

#146 paxnhymn

I am always amazed at the diference in general gender outlook.

So am I, so am I. Then again, good dinner conversation is, to me, as necessary as good foreplay.

#132 Merovign

When we lost the F-14, we lost the "Simply Empty The Sky Of Enemy Aircraft Before They See You" role.

You can't empty the sky from a maintenance hanger,the F-14 flight hours to down time ratio was not good, the F-18 Super Hornet fills the air superiority roll quite nicely at half the cost.

#141 Ward

I've also tried to read "The Satanic Verses" and couldn't get past chapter one. IMO, its just unreadable, and I'm not the only one who's said that.

Not to take away anything from what he's been through, but with due respect, nobody believes Rushdie is a "literary genius".

In fact, by his own admission he's said he had never won any sort of literary award prior to "The Satanic verses. As far as I know, he hasn't written anything lauded since then either.

Not that he doesn't have anything to say (he most certainly does), but objectively, his entire career (unfortunately) was made as a scapegoat for the Khomeinist regime. If it weren't for the death Fatwa, more likely than not, nobody ever would have heard of him or the Satanic Verses.

#145 transient 7/02/2007 10:37:55 am PDT

#103 zombie

But the burning question is, does Padma get half the fatwas in the divorce settlement?

Excellent question! Do they now 'half-kill' both of them?

#130

Supposedly back "in the day" Einstein had groupies...

You know the more I think about this whole event in Scotland, the more I think the Islamists did the very worst possible thing for their cause they could think of. The Scots were sorta sleeping prior to this, and we all know that Wellington wouldn't have defeated the Sultans and Napoleon without the Scots lacing the Brits lines tight with steel.

#161 MrMom

two, two, two fatwas in one!

I'm an aircraft freak, but I've never liked Top Gun. I prefer corny '50s movies like Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart and the homewrecker June Allyson (it was filmed partly at Carswell over in Fort Worth, plus I love the B-36, even if it was a flop) and Bombers B-52 with Karl Malden.

Hey, I did actually read The Satanic Verses! It's not an easy read, or to my normal taste, but people who understand satire (I really don't) say it's funny, and I thought some of the prose was rather lovely.

Though that "layered" kind of writing just makes me long for transparent third-person naration; I admit to wanting the story to move along, and liking movies where things blow up.

I am, I fear, a terribly unsophisticated sort.

I flipped a moped off a 30-foot cliff right before my senior prom and have a really nifty scar where my eyeglass frame broke and dug a trench down to the frontalis plate. An excellent plastic surgeon reworked it so that it feeds along the top of my eyebrow. It's barely noticeable.

164 Ward
Nahh...you just liked Bombers B-52 because Karl Malden' nose looks just like the front of a B-36!

LOL!

Iron Fist 48,

Excellent link. Thank you.

#166 geez Mandy! I hope you wern't doing an Evil Kinevil impresssion on purpose!

PHoto
UK Terror Doc
oh,,.. and that enduring pic of the flame broiled jihader in the same article. Have they ID'd him yet?

#164 Ward Cleaver
Ahh, now the B-36. That was a beauty. As they would say,"It's like sitting on your front porch and flying your house around". Curtis LeMay liked them, too.

This is where free speech should meet an iron pipe. Why on earth do people not rise up and take trash like this out? Someone needs to make an example of people like this.

Sure Tom Cruise is a flake and otherwise generally weird, but he's had his moments whereby he's acted his little heart out and done a damn fine - some might even say brilliant - job. Some people say TopGun was a homosexual allegory. That may be so; I didn't notice because I was too busy watching all of the military hardware and being awestruck by it. But in any case, it served well to drastically increase the US Navy's enrollment.

#167 paxnhymn

Plus, Natalie Wood plays Karl Malden's daughter. She was hot.

Oops, Meant to link this in my last comment

[Link: www.dailyrecord.co.uk...]

Question for any Brits out there. What's the difference between a junior doctor and a doctor?

The good news, is the Beaver Creek near Kadane Corner has dropped to flood stage, so our oil leases are no longer submerged. A small t-storm has formed over the Comanche Red River Casino, which should drift into Texas and may affect Southwest Wichita County.

Raining again near DFW, as noted above.

The boys working on the disposal well near Corpus Christi have broken into sunshine, but the Brownsville radar suggests more rain heading up US-77, almost to Kingsville.

Islam needs to be deported from Western Civiliztion!

In my humble opinion, military aviation peaked with the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny.

169 TPP

I was just cruising along on a fine spring day. I don't remember wrecking the thing but, I do remember all the people screaming at the blood I was covered in from head to toe. Other than the cut, I was eaten up in road rash.

An admission of where the fault really lays.

Hat tip maybe?

[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]

The suspected ringleader of the Al Qaeda car bombers is a brilliant neurologist working for the NHS.

Saudi Mohammed Asha, 26, was arrested with his 27-year-old wife, who was in traditional Muslim dress, on the M6 in Cheshire on Saturday night.

They were expecting a mini halter dress maybe?

#166 MandyManners

Ahhh...I have one of those, too :) --tripped over one of my children and, using my hands to protect him, fell flat on my eye-glassed face...

#180 Mandy...

Wow. I'm so glad you wern't hurt worse. Road rash, huh?

Ouch.

#176 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

As far as I know, it's a matter of seniority. ie: Who has to stay and do all the work and who gets to piss off early for a round of golf.

Poster:“On the occasion of the International Day Against Narcotic Drugs and Illegal Trafficking”

/Controlled demolition of drugs in Iran.

#173 Infidelsalwayswin

I'd let him eat crackers in my bed.

#163 beblebrox 7/02/2007 10:45:58 am PDT

#161 MrMom

two, two, two fatwas in one!

heh. The fatwa, then, is associative. Math nerds?

#176 TPP

Question for any Brits out there. What's the difference between a junior doctor and a doctor?

Doogie Howzer (sp?) vs. Marcus Welby...

The volleyball scene in Top Gun was as close to gay porn as had ever been produced, before 'Bareback Mountain', anywhere.

Did anyone ever notice that 'Days of Thunder' had an almsot identical plot to 'Top Gun", except in race cars?

#185, wishbone...ahhh.

Here in the US we call them interns.

183 Ma Sands

Well, at least you didn't smoosh the wee one.

#176 The Pulchritudinous Patriot
What's the difference between a junior doctor and a doctor?

I think a "junior doctor" is what we in the US would call an "intern."

A doctor in training.

190 Ed

Yeah I did, and just lookin at Randy Quaid's goofy ass makes me laugh!

Who knew brilliant neurologists would be so clueless on assembling car bombs?

Is my gaydar malfunctioning, or am I just obtuse? How was Top Gun a homosexual allegory?

#180 MM

Didn't you say yesterday that you were in a car that wrecked at 120 mph, also?

/if so, remind me not to ride with you... ;)

184 TPP

I'll never forget waking up after dermabrasion scared that a fly would get in the hospital room and lay eggs in my raw-meat face.

#182 NoSubmission

In a word, yes? Maybe under the swathings?

#195, Ed. I hope you just forgot the sarc tag. Some of the stupidest people I know are doctors.

They're great doctors and I'd let them treat me..I would never let them near say, my checkbook or my kitchen.

196 TPP

Remember the scene where Cruise is riding that crotch rocket?

#195 Ed Mahmoud's Sock Puppet

They were accustomed to working in Government Hospitals.

'Did anyone ever notice that 'Days of Thunder' had an almsot identical plot to 'Top Gun", except in race cars?'

Yeah, I think that was the whole idea.

'I'd let him eat crackers in my bed.'

Yeah, me too. I'm not gay or anything, but face it - how often do you get to say a movie star ate crackers in your bed?

Scientology is Gay- Very Gay!

Since the thread has veered way off topic, figured I’d throw this out there. The good old ‘prayer in school’ debate has reached San Diego, now with a Religion Of Peace ™ twist.

Muslim prayers in school debated
S.D. elementary at center of dispute
By Helen Gao

A San Diego public school has become part of a national debate over religion in schools ever since a substitute teacher publicly condemned an Arabic language program that gives Muslim students time for prayer during school hours.
Carver Elementary in Oak Park added Arabic to its curriculum in September when it suddenly absorbed more than 100 students from a defunct charter school that had served mostly Somali Muslims.
After subbing at Carver, the teacher claimed that religious indoctrination was taking place and said that a school aide had led Muslim students in prayer.
An investigation by the San Diego Unified School District failed to substantiate the allegations. But critics continue to assail Carver for providing a 15-minute break in the classroom each afternoon to accommodate Muslim students who wish to pray. (Those who don't pray can read or write during that non-instructional time.)
Some say the arrangement at Carver constitutes special treatment for a specific religion that is not extended to other faiths. Others believe it crosses the line into endorsement of religion.
Supporters of Carver say such an accommodation is legal, if not mandatory, under the law. They note the district and others have been sued for not accommodating religious needs on the same level as non-religious needs, such as a medical appointment.
Islam requires its adherents to pray at prescribed times, one of which falls during the school day.
While some parents say they care more about their children's education than a debate about religious freedom, the allegations – made at a school board meeting in April – have made Carver the subject of heated discussions on conservative talk radio. District officials have been besieged by letters and phone calls, some laced with invective.
The issue has drawn the attention of national groups concerned about civil rights and religious liberty. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Anti-Defamation League, American Civil Liberties Union and the Pacific Justice Institute are some of the groups monitoring developments in California's second-largest school district.
Among the critics is Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel with the nonprofit, Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center devoted to “defending the religious freedom of Christians.”
He said he's “against double standards being used,” such as when there is a specific period for Muslim students to pray and not a similar arrangement for Christians.
Carver's supporters noted that Christianity and other religions, unlike Islam, do not require their followers to pray at specific times that fall within school hours, when children by law must be in school. Amid the controversy, the district is studying alternatives to the break to accommodate student prayer
Capitalizing on what it considers a precedent-setting opportunity created by the Carver situation, the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute has offered to help craft a districtwide “Daily Prayer Time Policy.”
In a letter, the religious-rights organization urged the district to broaden its accommodations to Christians and Jews by setting aside separate classrooms for daily prayer and to permit rabbis, priests and other religious figures to lead children in worship on campuses.
A lawyer representing the district said those ideas would violate the Constitution's prohibition against government establishment of religion.
The uproar over Carver comes as schools across the country grapple with how to accommodate growing Muslim populations. In recent weeks, the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus has been divided over using student fees to install foot-washing stations on campus to make it easier for Muslim students to cleanse themselves before prayer.

197 ctp

LOL! I wasn't driving that car. I'm a very defensive driver. (Well, I can be offensive with my middle finger.)

#164 Ward Cleaver

I've got a history of the Strategic Air Command at home, it was self published by a retired Boeing engineer. It goes through chronologically SAC it's planes and missions. Not exiting but very informative. It was only available at the Boeing store and the Seattle Museum of Flight and is now out of print and I can't find it on the web.

When I get home I send you the info on the book, but a must have you if you've like me.

Last seek or so we had a B-17, B-24 and B-25 hanging around Seattle the -17 flew right over my house at about 1500 feet, you could here it coming, nothing sounds like 4 big radials in sync. I start yelling grabbing the boys to run outside and my wife is thinking I completely lost my mind.

#192 MandyManners

Yeah. :)

One of my daughters, more recently, having been learning to ride a motorcycle, decided to enter a race...when the starter signal went off, she did it all wrong, and popped a wheelie and slid sideways with the cycle for quite a piece...lost her big toenails, and did get that road rash...

Didn't deter her from wanting to keep riding, though... ):

:)

Heres the link.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070702- 9999-1n2prayer.html

Is my gaydar malfunctioning, or am I just obtuse? How was Top Gun a homosexual allegory?

Now I'll have to visit ask.com and put in 'volleyball" and "top gun" and maybe "gay", and hope nothing too disgusting comes back...

#203 Infidelsalwayswin

(Don't tell anyone but I'd also let George Clooney eat crackers in my bed. Moonbat or not, he's hot.)

#206 MM

Sounds like you weren't driving the moped, either! (ba-dum-dum)... ;)

Sounds like this was written by those drunken, lying old hacks from Private Eye magazine, Phil Space and Lunchtime O'Booze :)

[Link: www.private-eye.co.uk...]

Who the heck is that being on topic!?
(wildly looks around with great paranoia)

From Daily Kos: diary "Lieberman", where Joe Lieberman is castigated for heresy. In the "Mainstreaming of Jew-Hatred on the Western Left" department, here are some excerpts:

Why is everyone afraid to say the obvious? (2+ / 0-)

Joe is very religious and arguably cares more about Israel than the US. I think it's really that simple.

[...]

by OCdem on Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 02:02:25 PM PDT

[...]

Joe is talking about the Dem candidates beholden (9+ / 0-)

to the "left".

What about his alliance to the Israeli lobby, and also Big Pharma? And how was the last Bushie kiss?

[...]

by Phil S 33 on Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 11:05:38 AM PDT

[...]

Iran must be destroyed (0 / 0)

Iran's president has said bad things about Israel, therefore Iran must be destroyed. I'm convinced that one of the main reasons Saddam had to be removed was that he dared to launch missiles at Israel during the first Iraq war.

To Lieberman and the rest of the Israel lobby (which includes evangelical nutballs like W who have all too much influence on our foreign policy), it's quite simple. All enemies of Israel must be destroyed. God demands it. Therefore lying to the American public is OK, as it's all part of God's plan.

by Scottsdale Jack on Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 02:06:28 PM PDT

[...]

Lieberman is an AIPAC shill (0 / 0)

Lieberman formerly a Democrat and now an Independent representing the state of Israel in the US Senate should be recalled by the voters he is failing to represent. He is now calling for more surveillance camreras to be used in the US. He is a danger to liberty here and a force against peace in the world. Like it or not the rising star on the American political scene is Ron Paul. He is a major threat to the MSM and the PTB's. His message of peace and prosperity is trumping the rest of the field's message of never ending war and poverty. The only two Dem candidates not already bought and paid for by AIPAC are Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.

by Sonoftherepublic on Mon Jul 02, 2007 at 05:06:29 AM PDT

That's all I've found so far.

TMBB
They Might Be Buddhists

Salman Rushdie is a Buddhist conspiracy

208 Ma Sands

Good for her. To this day I won't go near even a bicycle.

Jeez -

I take a bunch of boy scouts to Catalina Island for a week and WTF?

Islamic supremacists on the march while claiming that every criticism is a provocation.

At some point it will have to escalate into the "big war" when the gloves can come off.

But not today. And certainly not in the UK.

''the official said while no group has claimed the responsibility of bombings yet; some extremist parties are trying to accuse the Muslims.''

I'm tired of waiting for groups to ''claim responsibility'' for their terrorist activities. I want them to start ''accepting the blame'' for the horrible deeds they have done, and for swift and sure retaliation by a government, anywhere and at any time!

#207 JCM

Back in the late 70s, we were fishing on the local doc at dusk when a low-flying twin-engine bomber looking thing flew over us really low without lights... Next day we read they'd a B-25 with about 1 million qualuudes on it at the local airport...

Is Top Gun's Volleyball scene even more gay with super-heroes?

The volleyball scene. Completely gratuitous, doing nothing at all to further the plot. Several minutes of Maverick (Tom Cruise), Iceman (Val Kilmer), Goose (Anthony Edwards) and Slider (Rick Rossovich) playing sand volleyball while Kenny Loggins sings about playing with the boys. It's kind of gay. And very hot.

Yeah, me too. I'm not gay or anything, but face it - how often do you get to say a movie star ate crackers in your bed?

Don't stop there. You could take pictures of the event, claim Tom Cruise was drunk and hitting on you, and then sell those pictures as proof that Cruise is stricken with "teh gay". The National Enquirer and Star would pay big money for that kind of juicy stuff.

OT
I've decided to take some Krav Maga classes.

212 ctp

I had absolutely no business being on that moped. I didn't know how to ride it (I think I hit the wrong brake which sent me crashing into the mailboxes and flying past them over the cliff) and I wasn't wearing a helmet.

My parents had the thing repaired and the boy who's moped it was ended up getting into a very, very serious confrontation with a truck WHILE HE HAD A PASSENGER ON THE BACK OF THE MOPED. Those two kept orthopedic surgeons and plastic surgeons busy for a long time.

Whining...
Seething...
Salmon...
The Fwench response...

To finish off the thread:Top Gun Volleyball

#205 YourTaxDollarsAtWork

A lawyer representing the district said those ideas would violate the Constitution's prohibition against government establishment of religion.

In recent weeks, the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus has been divided over using student fees to install foot-washing stations on campus to make it easier for Muslim students to cleanse themselves before prayer.

AAARRRGGG.

#225 MM

You're making me want to retire my motorcycles!

/not really

#224 Iron Fist

A new poll? Where? Where?

/rompaul and lgf polls go together like tads and poles

TMBB
They Might Be Buddhists

157 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

LOL! Love the painting.

229 ctp

I'm sure you know what you're doing.

#171 Pullus Iulius

And the sound, of six pusher props (plus four jets on takeoff, on later models)? Unmistakable.

I got to crawl around inside the one (the last B-36 built) that used to sit at the old, closed, Great Southwest Airport (Amon Carter Field) in Fort Worth, back in the '70s. That plane was being restored to be put on display at the Lockheed Martin (ex-General Dynamics Convair) plant. Sadly, Fort Worth couldn't hold onto her, so now she's at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.

When will these children-aka Muslim leaders-accept blame for the disturbed within their community! Really, odds are that something will be the fault of a Muslim, with no one else to blame. I am reminded of that sorry Korean who went on the rampage. MSM had coverage of grieving Koreans, sorry that a countryman could have done something so horrific.
Still waiting for a similar reaction from the Muslim community or an Arab country.

#216 humanity
Salman Rushdie is a Buddhist conspiracy

Reminds me of that ancient joke:
Did you hear the one about Rushdies' next book?
'Bhudda you big fat fuck'

(I do not condone this joke in any way, shape or form)

The volleyball scene. Completely gratuitous, doing nothing at all to further the plot. Several minutes of Maverick (Tom Cruise), Iceman (Val Kilmer), Goose (Anthony Edwards) and Slider (Rick Rossovich) playing sand volleyball while Kenny Loggins sings about playing with the boys. It's kind of gay. And very hot.

If Ice, Slider, Goose, and Maverick had been munching on sausages and rubbing each other down with oil, you'd have a stronger case. Top Gun was pretty much gratuitous all the way around. Not much of a discernible plot to be found anywhere in that movie. Just lots of loud noises and cool cinematography.

Ok Tom Cruise may be an imbecile, but A Few Good Men was a very good movie.

favorite line "why do you like them so much?"

"because they sit on a wall and tell you nothing is going to hurt you, not tonight, not on my watch"

If terrorism is a natural consequence of foreign policy and the internal policy of knighting whom you want and drawing cartoons about what you want, why isn't anti-Muslim backlash, which I don't condone, an understandable consequence of terrorist attacks?

message to jihadist
tzal will screw you insh'allah

christheprofessor
Mandy Manners

How ya'll doing today?

I keep telling my boys to tell mama that I really need a bike. It doesn't work. And the snowmobile is really no use in Georgia.

Mandy -- how's The Kid today?

#48 iron fist, thank you so much for that link to the article abt. marcus luttrell. what a wonderful young man, i heard him interviewed last wk, on wabc radio. it was rivieting. he was so humble, honest and down to earth. he spoke haltingly and i hung on his every word. i'm buying his book, "lone survivor". he's a guy who should be honored.

#241 lucius

Well, thanks, and you? Might be of use in Dahlonega...

#243 Christtheprofessor - Dahlonega! What a great little place in GA. Most people don't even know where its at, surprised to see someone refer to it...

Sorry, I dropped off there for a moment. I just got an email announcing that I received a HUGE pay raise. This after getting a HUGE payraise earlier this year.

I'm shocked.

...

and feeling very, very giddy!

My company also considers me a role model, per the email. Flattering.

Patriot - Congrats

Thanks apache! So were you, or are you really a gunner?

#245 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The zionist overlords pay well for work well done ;-) I got a raise a couple of weeks ago out of the blue.

#244 apachegunner

Yup. I was visiting a friend there about 7 or 8 years ago, and it was so cold (nasty storm had just passed through) and icy that we saw people climbing walls of sheer ice... Very cool!

#245 TPP

Congrats!

Years ago had a student who had been a cheerleader in Dohlanega. And trust me, she looked the part.

Not enough snow there for the old sled. Used to run it in MamaWinger's neck of the woods.

#248 jcm...

It was a pleasant surprise on a rainy day.

All hail the zionist overlords!;)

apache longbow (CPG), Patriot

#252 apache...

Coool!

@ 228 TimeQuake

The day MY TAX DOLLARS go towards paying for foot washing stations here in SD is the day I head to the bell tower...

OBTW for apachegunner, from BLACK FIVE

Apache pilots evacuate critically-wounded Soldier, kill several extremists in Ramadi firefight
Staff Sgt. Lorin T. Smith
36th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs Office

LSA ANACONDA, Iraq – Apache pilots from Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 36th Combat Aviation Brigade and Company A, 2nd Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, engaged extremists and saved a critically-wounded Soldier’s life during a firefight in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on June 30, 2007.

Two attack weapons teams (with two AH-64 helicopters making up a team) flew to Ramadi in support of Coalition Forces in search of insurgents and weapons caches.

The teams reached Ramadi and received notice that Coalition Forces were taking heavy small arms fire. To maximize the helicopters’ time over a potential target, one team immediately went to the Ramadi forward arming and refueling point and the other attack weapons team flew into the fight.

They engaged extremists with 30 millimeter cannon fire neutralizing them. The team then supported other Coalition Forces engaging extremists using two tractor trailers as cover. The crew took small arms fire and multiple enemy rounds to their aircraft.

Despite the small arms fire, the attack weapons team destroyed the tractor trailers, causing secondary explosions, indicating to the crew that the trailers were possibly used as vehicle-born improvised explosive devices.

The crew stayed on station with the Coalition Forces until fuel levels became low, and returned to the FARP to refuel. Due to battle damage sustained, the Apache team performed a battle handoff to the second attack weapons team and flew back to LSA Anaconda.

The second team entered the engagement area in Ramadi. Coalition Forces were still taking heavy enemy fire. The attack weapons team shot hundreds of cannon rounds and rockets, expending their ammunition. As the team returned to the FARP to rearm and refuel, the ground forces commander informed the crews that he was coordinating a medical evacuation of wounded Soldiers including one critically-wounded.

Approximately 40 minutes later, after rearming and refueling, the team went back to the area and learned that the MEDEVAC aircraft had not arrived. Due to the critically-wounded Soldier and despite continued enemy activity, the Company B aviators landed and extracted the critically-wounded casualty with the Apache helicopter. While the Company A crew provided overhead security, the Company B crew landed within two kilometers of the enemy position.

Upon landing, the co-pilot/gunner helped load the injured Soldier into the front seat without further injury. Despite the heavy small arms fire and surface-to-air fire events in the area, the co-pilot/gunner strapped himself onto the left side of the aircraft and hunkered down on the wing. The pilot flew to Camp Ar Ramadi medical pad, where emergency medical personnel provided treatment. The team went back to the fight and continued to provide support for Coalition Forces. Upon neutralizing the extremists, the crew returned to LSA Anaconda.

Due to the extent of the battle damage, one extremist was confirmed killed in action, but multiple extremists were killed in conjunction with ground forces. The wounded Soldier has been transferred to LSA Anaconda and is in stable condition.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Allen Crist and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Kevin Purtee, Company B, 1st Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, checks on the medical condition of Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine, Company C, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor, after an unusual Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on June 30, 2007. (U.S. Army photos by Maj. Gregory T. O’Connor)

#255 YourTaxDollarsAtWork

Sounds to me like a DSC or at least a Silver Star.

#254 YourTaxDollarsAtWork

And I'll be at the clock tower.

AAARRRGGG! Unfriggingbelievable.

@ 256 jcm

I'd love to see both the pilot and the gunner walk away with the DCM, and if this story gets any press, they probably will. The Army will probably settle for a Bronze Star for the gunner and and commendation for the pilot in the mean time.

Correction, should be DSM

I'd lay the blame before Dhimmi Carter's feet as well as those of the carpetbagging Beverly Hillbillies and al-Goracle.

It is also India's fault because salman was born in Mumbai!

if being offended at something justifies bombing, then we should get no complaints out of this guy if ever Israel gets offended and bombs Iran, it's poison dwarf leader and offensive holocaust cartoon exhibition.

game on

#124 looking closely 7/02/2007 10:28:08 am PDT
Rushdie wrote a bad novel 20 years ago (that I'd best cash money that none of the perpetrators have read), and this somehow sets the stage for terrorism in Scotland?
Huh?

The funny thing is not many among even his supporters have ever seen, let alone read, the book!

It was banned in the country of his and my birth!

Yes, I totally agree with this gentleman.

I could have sworn I spotted Rushdie driving that 4x4 into the terminal at Glasgow airport, only hours after he had left a car full of lethal explosives outside a nightclub in London.

It was him, wasn't it?

You know that when jihadis attack, their Islamist apologists will say that it's the kafir's fault.

It's what they do. Jihadis attack kafirs; their Islamist apologists (directing their remarks to the gullible in the free world) blame the kafir.

My prediction is Salman Rushdie and Nicole Kidman.

I've heard reports that the HUGE ONE, aka rosie, is considering going to iran. HOMOsexuals are not looked upon favorably by islam.

Now what would the muslims in iran do with a fat dyke?

1. stone her?

2. use her to fill a gap in a dam?

Would that be known as a dam dyke or a damn dyke?

228 TimeQuake 7/02/2007 11:08:51 am PDT

What would happen if non-muslim students banded together to "use" the foot wash facilities just prior to the muslims' "prayers"?

1. The university would come down hard on those students.

2. The anti-Christian lawyers union would file suit against those students for "infringing on the rights" of the muslim students.

Lonesome

Despite the ban, the iranis would probably just harpoon her, like any other whale.

Religion of Denial.