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  1. In my experience the difference between the left and the right concerning bias, is most conservatives will admit FNC is biased, and stick to the less biased shows on it for actual news, well using the more biased stuff for entertainment. Libs either don't know or don't care that what they are watching is biased, and take it all as the word of god, so to speak.
  2. Its kind of a moot point though. Pretty much all the news channels are losing trust, at a rapid rate.
  3. Dear President Obama,

    "My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

    I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

    One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

    So here goes.

    I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.

    I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.
    You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

    ” We’re no longer a Christian nation”
    ” America is arrogant”

    – (Your wife even
    announced to the world,” America is mean-spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our
    war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.)

    I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

    After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

    Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

    I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

    Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

    Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue . You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

    And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts , who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

    One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

    You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
    You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
    And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle…"

    Sincerely,
    Harold B. Estes
  4. Has anyone seen the crash of the 747 in Afghanistan?



    Surreal footage. Everyone on the internet suspects cargo shifting to the tail, causing the nose rise and the plane to stall. Making it literally falling from the sky. The stall is evident from the video, but the rest is pure speculation so far.
  5. Yeah I saw it on a Dutch site this morning, looks awful.
  6. HOLY SHIT
  7. I have also read that planes there climb faster than 'ordinary' due to mountainous area and to avoid any possible gunfire attacks. Am far from an expert, but I think the stalling is visible from the first moment the plane is in view.
  8. Camera angle might be decieving, I have seen planes taking off "like that" because of the angle. Aidan might have a word to say about it too

    A comment in the YT vid:

    "I work at Boeing's charleston facility, and the company made official statements as of 4-30-2013. This is the result of a load breaking loose and shifting the aircraft a CG too far aft causing the nose to pitch up until the airfoil passed critical angle of attack and the 747 fell like a sack of rocks"
  9. They made official statements? That seems quick. I have seen planes taking of as well. But in the video the plane nearly seems vertical. Could be due to the perspective trickery though.

    Anyway the official statement concurs with the rumours then. Some sources even clame the pilots mentioned it

    Originally posted by The"Several observers on the ground reported the National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 had just lifted off and was climbing through approximately 1200 feet when it's nose sharply rose.....According to a listener on frequency the crew reported the aircraft stalled due to a possible load shift."


    But if the pilot says possible load shift, it is interesting to see that Boeing is sure now already.
  10. Creepy that these dash board cams catch everything, few months back also a plane crash:

  11. Holy shit, 2 meters above that and that car would have been completely destroyed.

  12. Yeah, also that wheel that hit the car. Sheer luck that the driver kept the car out of the rail. He probably saw the wheel coming (judging his braking lights)
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