Blue Angels plane crashes

JohnT wrote:

I suppose that it depends on your definition of "number one player". To me,
it seems to be a Country which has spectacularly lost its way in the last
few years and which is now living on past glories. And its deficit has now
reached gynormous proportions.


You realize of course that our GDP is also "gynormous" compared to that
of other countries. Here is a link to a comparison based on percentage
of GDP.

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

On 21 Apr, 23:08, Mxsmanic wrote:

See

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blue...ash/index.html



aren't you the little ray of sunshine.

What's it to you anyway? Noone flies in your world, wannabe boi,

Are you a Christina Aguillara fan or something? I almost thought
you were talking about Koi, but then I thought, "What would big
goldfish be doing here?"

JohnT writes:

I suppose that it depends on your definition of "number one player". To me,
it seems to be a Country which has spectacularly lost its way in the last
few years and which is now living on past glories. And its deficit has now
reached gynormous proportions.

True, but there's a lot of inertia, and it's always possible that the next
administration may fix things, although I am not optimistic. Until then, the
USA can only hope that China will continue to buy its debt and not call in any
notes.

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Mike Hunt writes:

So, the news reports about the injured people on the ground were incorrect?

Injuries other than crew and passengers are rare in aviation, too rare to
provide any basis for a ban.

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"john smith" wrote in message
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Do we pilots have a patron saint?

Saint Joseph of Cupertino
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino

I notice we're lumped in there with "people with mental handicap"

The patron saint of air travelers, aviators, people with a mental
handicap, and bad students.

Sounds like my guy alright!

LOL! That's what I was going to say.

"Jim Carter" wrote in message
t...

You're not related to Mike Nifong are you?

If I were the prosecutor in that county I would charge the flight
leader with involuntary manslaughter and take him to trial...

denny

Mxsmanic wrote:
Mike Hunt writes:


So, the news reports about the injured people on the ground were incorrect?


Injuries other than crew and passengers are rare in aviation, too rare to
provide any basis for a ban.


I was responding to your post indicating:

"Why ban something that harms no one except the volunteers who do it? "

Other people do get hurt, and in this case, other people got hurt.

Dave Witmarsh wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:52:36 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Mike Hunt writes:

We don't see pictures of the military deaths in Iraq on the news every
times someone is killed.

Perhaps that is why there have been so many military deaths in Iraq. The
Vietnam War would have continued indefinitely without the media.

No, it wouldn't have...the americans would have fled in the same
cowardly fashion media or no media. Nearly 40 years later the
american military is still trying to clean the brown stains from its
underwear and it still keeps making the same basic mistakes. The usa
will never become a major world player until it learns its place.

"The scum of the Earth" probably isn't very appealing, even for yanks.

Mxsmanic wrote:

Dave Witmarsh writes:

No, it wouldn't have...the americans would have fled in the same
cowardly fashion media or no media.

The only cowardice was in refusing to admit that Vietnam was a mistake for so
long in the first place. A lot of Americans died as a result.

The usa will never become a major world player until it learns
its place.

I'm not sure which USA you have in mind, but the USA I know is already the
number one player on the planet.

Only in their own tiny minds.

Mike Hunt wrote:

JohnT wrote:

I suppose that it depends on your definition of "number one player". To me,
it seems to be a Country which has spectacularly lost its way in the last
few years and which is now living on past glories. And its deficit has now
reached gynormous proportions.


You realize of course that our GDP is also "gynormous" compared to that
of other countries. Here is a link to a comparison based on percentage
of GDP.


You couldn't find one???