[An Nahar] A Miami police officer is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school.
The Florida Highway Patrol says Officer Fausto Lopez was placed in long-term storage at gunpoint after leading police on a brief high-speed chase.
According to a police report, a trooper spotted a patrol car changing lanes in a dangerous manner earlier this month. The report says the patrol car ignored warnings to pull over and led a brief high-speed chase before stopping near Hollywood.
Miami police front man Delrish Moss told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday that administrative action against Lopez depends on the outcome of the case.
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Hilary values her liberal credentials and is close to Michelle Obama.
Must be that bonding in their "vacationing, in iconic fashion, at Vail, Martha’s Vineyard, and Costa del Sol, the tony haunts of ‘the few at the top’" (ht-VDH) I believe the pejorative is 'limousine liberal'.
(CBS Seattle) -- A Washington man loses his arm from a homemade guillotine. The guillotine unexpectedly dropped on his shoulder Thursday morning at a camp he was living at, severing his arm. "Just one more little adjustment... Hmmm... Can't quite get to it... [CHOP!]"
He left the arm behind after the accident "Pain! Going into shock! My arm? Where'd I leave it?... Can't seem to find it... Guess I'll have to come back and get it later..."
and rushed to Bellingham Urology Specialists. "Do you have an appointment?"
"[Gasp!] My arm...!"
"Sorry. This is a urology clinic. We don't do arms. Try Bellingham Orthopedics Specialists. They'll be able to help you out!"
Evelyn Leuther, Lex's Mom...
who works at the clinic, told CBS Seattle a woman passing by said, "I hope that's a Halloween costume," referring to the man missing his arm at the shoulder. But the gore was real. Seconds later, another woman ran by screaming for someone to call 9-1-1. Doctors and nurses from the office rushed to help. "We're from the urology clinic! We're here to help!"
"Do you have your insurance card with you?"
"It was a sight," she said. No! Reeeeally?
The scene lasted for 10 minutes "Should we put a tourniquet on that?"
"We're urologists, man!"
"Well then, we could stick a Foley catheter in there..."
before an ambulance took him to the hospital two blocks away. "Two blocks? You want us to send an ambo to haul some guy two blocks? Why can't he walk?"
"His arm's chopped off!"
"He wasn't gonna walk on his hands, was he?"
Officers checked a wooded area near the clinic and discovered a camp believed to be the temporary home of the individual. At the camp, officers located the severed arm and a homemade guillotine, which the police then dismantled. "Y'know, Toody, it's be a real good idea to dismantle that thing."
"I cannot disagree, Muldoon. You move the arm and I'll start taking the thing apart!"
"No, you move the arm!"
"I ain't touchin' it!"
The condition of the victim is not known at this time, ... but we can guess it's not happy...
but Bellingham police said in a release he was being transferred to Harborview in Seattle for further treatment.
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Yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody loses an arm.
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Well, there ARE secret merit badges...such as pyromaniac and lockpicking, which I learned at Scout camp. We were supposed to be learning rowing but since the instructor locked his keys in the shack, showed us instead how to pick locks.
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Pyromaniac isn't a badge, it's a basic requirement for scouting. ;-)
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you just know this started with: "here, hold my beer"
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The local reports, on the day this happened said the guy was a transient, so it was a homeless camp he lived in, just for the record.
Question is: Why would a bum build such a thing? agressive panhandling technique?
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually.
Published last week ahead of a major United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, next month, their work was cited around the world as irrefutable evidence that only the most stringent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can save civilisation as we know it
It was cited uncritically by, among others, reporters and commentators from the BBC, The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist and numerous media outlets in America.
The Washington Post said the BEST study had ‘settled the climate change debate’ and showed that anyone who remained a sceptic was committing a ‘cynical fraud’.
But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof MullerÂ’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BESTÂ’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST projectÂ’s four research papers.
Her comments, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, seem certain to ignite a furious academic row. She said this affair had to be compared to the notorious ‘Climategate’ scandal two years ago.
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The lying involved with the warmers seems to be pathological. This sort of denial in the face of evidence makes me think that Rush is right about them, this isn't related to science at all, it's a religion.
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...this isn't related to science at all, it's a religion.
Most successful religions have checks and safeguards built in to prevent the faith from descending into the equivalent of alarmist climate hysteria.
Climate Scientology does not have these defenses- ergo: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." (Mencken)
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As a witness to both the Guam/Earth-visible 1960's SIRIUS flare = CME event + others, etc. phenomenae since then. I do believe that SUN-CAUSED GWCC is broadly taking place, NOT MAN-MADE GWCC, although this is not to argue that human activities don't affect GWCC.
AFAIK or remember the original SIRIUS Event + followon did only ultra-light damage or no damage to US grids - IMO, IFF THE NASA-JPL + SOLAR, SPACE PERTS ARE GOING TO BE ARGUING "PERMAMENT/INTENSIVE" GLOBAL WARMING + THAT UPCOMING "2012" OR AFTER SOLAR STORMS MAY HEAVILY/SERIOUSLY-DAMAGE-IFF-NOT-DESTROY US-WORLD GRIDS, THEN BY DEFINITION THEY ARE INFERRING SOLAR CMES THAT ARE muh much Much MUCH MUCH M-U-C-H MMMMUUUUCCCHHHH ...@ STRONGER + DESTRUCTIVE THAN SIRIUS OR LATER FLARES.
IOW, FROM EARTH'S = HUMANITY'S VIEW THE SUN MAY [or may not] SEEMINGLY "EXPLODE" in "2012", etc. BUT OUR PERTS ULTIMATELY DON'T KNOW THE REALISTIC MAGNITUDE = HOW STRONG ANY FUTURE CMES WILL BE!?
AFAIK again, most US-only Perts do not believe that the Sun is going into RED GIANT or EARLY RED GIANT phase - however, THE LACK OF OVERT OR PUBLIC US-WORLD CONSENSUS ON THE SCIENTIFC CAUSE(S) OF GWCC, SOLAR ANDOR MAN-MADE, CASTS DOUBT ON THAT ARGUMENT. Ditto for PEAK OIL, FOOD, WATER, ETC. RESOURCES.
Test of "Globalism" + "OWG-NWO", etc. that no American = Amerikan has yet formally voted for in local andor nationwide vote - YEAH, I THINK SO!
* MSM-NET = PERTS' "2012" TECH-DESTROYING SOLAR STORMS = 1960's-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS "QUAKE HEARD/FELT THE WORLD" [Universal Quake]???
* SUN'S "DARK" "TWIN STAR" = PHOEBUS APOLLO + his Sister PHOEBUS CYNTHEIA/CINDY.
Espec iff as per BLOGGERS = iff the US can no longer afford either NASA or SPACE DEFENSE, ETC. + has to rely on OTHER WORLD POWERS FOR SAME.
Iff Apophis is a "Continent-killer", the Moon is a "Planet-Killer".
IFF OUR FUTURE OWG-NWO SCIENCE PERTS CANNOT AGREE ON THE APOPHIS "KEYHOLE", WILL OUR OWG-NWO GOVTS, POLITICIANS DEMAND IN OPTION [error?]THAT APOPHIS BE DE FACTO DESTROYED WID LRBMS, ETC. TO PROTECT THE EARTH, IN THE NAME OF "CERTAINTY"???
[Dawn] The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.
Whatever would we do without experts...
Resettlement is already occurring at the rate of some 10 million people a year, said the report's lead author, Alex de Sherbinin. Climate-related resettlement projects are under way in Vietnam, Mozambique, on the Alaskan coast, the Chinese territory of Inner Mongolia and in the South Pacific.
Alaska? What are the Inuits doing, moving north?
If global temperatures rise, as predicted, by as much as 7.2 degrees F (4 degrees C) this century,
There's no evidence that temperatures will go up that much but telling people that the temperature might go up 1˚C just isn't motivating...
"resettlement would become virtually unavoidable in some regions of the world," the scientists wrote in the journal Science.
Here's hoping Science doesn't want to pick up where Lancet let off...
Warming of this magnitude would have a dramatic impact on water availability, agricultural productivity, ecosystems and sea level -- all of which in turn affect where and how humans can live.
Planning for millions of refugees will be challenging, but it is vastly better than the alternative, de Sherbinin said by telephone from The Earth Institute at Columbia University ...contributed $547,852 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? in New York.
"Are we just going to respond to the next 911 (emergency) call that comes out, or are we going to actually anticipate some of these things and in so doing hopefully avert the 911 call to some extent and maybe save some money in the process?" he said.
With the political class we have today, that's a rhetorical question...
Procedures already in use to resettle victims of such natural disasters as droughts, floods and earthquakes could be used or adapted to prepare for resettlement of climate refugees, the authors said.
In other words, we're covered, except for Pakistain...
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The article seems to be saying that the building of the three gorges dam (which displaced 1.25M people) was caused by global warming and anytime anyone moves (if only across the street by choice) it's due to climate change...
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In western Alaska, several villages are right on the coast, in lowlands only a few feet above sea level. Get a low in the Bering Sea and you have a storm surge and a flood. One example is the village of Kipnuk. Look it up on Google Earth. Not a safe place in the best of times.
We have a place at the 1700 ft level. When Global Warming hits, we will have a nice little beachfront place on a fjord. Every disaster is a new opportunity.
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Awful hot and dry this summer, but when the axis shift happens Texas is going to become the north pole, so I'll be all right.
[Dawn] Three new polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... cases have been detected among children of the internally displaced families of Mehsud tribe in the North Wazoo Agency.
A local health official told Dawn on Friday that all the children, who had tested positive for the crippling disease, were two years of age.
He identified the new cases as Naila, daughter of Dair Khan, resident of Chashma; Irshad, son of Wali Khan, and Yousaf, son of Taza Khan, both residents of Khesore village of Mir Ali tehsil.
Dr Jahandad, a WHO representative, confirmed the three cases and said anti-polio drops were not administered to the children on the parents' refusal. He said the children were suspected of being affected by polio during the recently-concluded immunisation campaign, adding that their stool and blood samples were sent to National Institute of Health, Islamabad for laboratory examination.
He said the tests had confirmed that the three children suffered from polio.
Dr Jahandad also questioned the quality of vaccine, saying it was substandard and unfit for administration.
The new cases have increased the number of polio cases detected in North Waziristan in 2011 to eight.
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Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was born in New York City to Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant family.
[Dawn] The needs of flood-hit Paks are rising as winter approaches, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... reported Friday, warning that funding for humanitarian assistance in the country remains low, with stocks of some relief items severely depleted.
In southern Sindh, stagnant water remains a major environmental and health hazard, and water-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue are on the rise. An outbreak of diarrhoeal illness was reported in a camp in Sanghar district on Thursday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update.
Access to clean drinking water remains critical and the onset of winter in mid-November in most parts of flood-affected areas means that people will require more winterised shelter, OCHA said.
Although receding water levels have allowed some displaced populations to return to their villages, relief needs continue because of poor sanitation in areas where homes, crops and livestock were lost to the floods, it said.
Since the beginning of the latest floods, about 1.8 million people or 50 per cent of those in need have been provided with food, while 700,000 received essential medical services, according to OCHA.
An estimated 375,000 people (76 per cent) have emergency shelter and 870,000 of the affected population (35 per cent) received clean water.
Somebody shouldn't be allowed to play with statistics if he can't get them right.
The rapid response plan launched on 18 September is only 23 per cent funded, with only $80 million of the requested $357 million received so far.
Unless additional resources are made available, UN agencies warn that most relief stocks are likely to run out, according to OCHA.
Pakistain has been severely affected by floods for the second consecutive year, leaving more than five million people in need of safe drinking water, sanitation services, food, shelter materials and other essential support.
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I'm sure Allan will care for the needs of the faithful.
(Xinhua) -- Irish poet Michael D. Higgins has won the country's presidential poll, according to a final count Saturday afternoon.
Higgins secured 1,007,104 ballots while his main rival and independent candidate Sean Gallagher got 628,114. The total poll was 1,771,762.
In Dublin Castle, returning officer Riona Ni Fhlanghaile officially announced that Higgins has been elected Ireland's ninth president.
Ireland has a complex voting system for the presidential elections. In this election, the total poll was 1,771,762. The quota, or the number of votes needed to be elected, is 885,882.
Higgins, a veteran politician of the Labor Party and a minister of culture and the arts in the 1990s, will take over from incumbent President Mary McAleese, who has served the maximum two terms for a total of 14 years.
About 56 percent of 3.1 million eligible voters in the country went to the polls Thursday to elect the country's president from a record number of seven candidates. The race is regarded as one of the most competitive in Ireland's history.
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A poet? Ireland certainly has grand traditions of poetry and whiskey, and I hate to be critical, but just maybe an economist would come in handy about now.
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This guy is vehemently anti-American and embraces every communist tyrant out there. Fortunately, this is a ceremonial role, and he was probably put into it to keep him out of trouble.
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Glenmore---Ireland is a good place. I will be your holiday consultant again. I have maps with annotations of points of hysterical historical interest, which include notations of all the pubs I visited from County Kerry to the south to Malin Head in the north. Pay no heed to the nutcases in Dublin.
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[Daily Cardinal] City officials temporarily denied Occupy Madison a new street use permit Wednesday after protesters violated public health and safety conditions and failed to follow the correct processes to renew or amend a permit.
The permit, which expired Wednesday at noon, required Occupy Madison protesters to relocate from their current space at 30 West Mifflin Street, also called 30 on the Square.
A neighboring hotel's staff alleged voiced concerns about having to recently escort hotel employees to and from bus stops late at night due to inappropriate behavior, such as public masturbation, from street protesters. "Herbert?"
"Yes, Margaret?"
"That man... He's stretching his baloney!"
"Is he, by Gad?"
In addition, officials agreed further occupation should not be allowed to continue without restrooms on site to avoid further public health violations. "If yer gonna play with yer pee-pees, play with 'em in private!"
"Yeah! That's disgusting!"
"You can't be affecting the safety and health of other people around you," Madison Fire Prevention Officer Jerry McMullen said. "Who's gonna wipe up that mess? Did you wipe up the mess? No, you didn't wipe up the mess!"
"Ain't you never heard of tissues?"
"With the public health violations and the complaints I've heard, I don't believe it meets the spirit of the ordinance to a street use permit." "We're the police department, not your mothers!"
Occupy Madison representative and street use permit holder Paul Streeter said he hopes to use the 30 on the Square space again as soon as possible after Freakfest.
"[The protest] is indeed a work in progress," Streeter said. "We will continue to address issues as they come up." "And we'll cancel any further baloney stretching contests!"
Madison's Parks Division requested a written form stating the dates and location where members wish to occupy.
"You can tell us what your proposals are, but we have no idea what you are doing, how you are doing it or what your safety and security plan is," McCullen said. "We have nothing in writing to back it up, and we usually require that all events have [written plans]."
Occupy Madison is relocating onto Olin Terrace until Monday when Freak Fest is over, and they can request a new permit for 30 on the Square.
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Can we relocate them to oh......say, Somalia?
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Nothing that a Hotsy with soap and a fire hose won't clean up. Careful---nothing toxic down the storm drains or EPA fine.
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Good thing I wasn't the one:
"he was hung like an elevator button"
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The protesters are now camped in a parking lot behind an abandoned auto dealership. The residents in the neighborhood surrounding it are none too pleased as they've already trashed the lot and surroundings.
No porta-johns, either as the city won't allow due to an existing ordinance.
This is Madison, however, and I'm sure the laws will be rapidly changed to support these 'heroes'.
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Must be the protesters are getting a little bored with Marxism in their idle time.
A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. The father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for a successor.
The basis of shastar vidya, the "science of weapons" is a five-step movement: advance on the opponent, hit his flank, deflect incoming blows, take a commanding position and strike.
It was developed by Sikhs in the 17th Century as the young religion came under attack from hostile Muslim and Hindu neighbours, and has been known to a dwindling band since the British forced Sikhs to give up arms in the 19th Century.
Nidar Singh, a 44-year-old former food packer from Wolverhampton, is now thought to be the only remaining master. He has many students, but shastar vidya takes years to learn and a commitment in time and energy that doesn't suit modern lifestyles.
"I've travelled all over India and I have spoken to many elders, this is basically a last-ditch attempt to flush someone out because if I die with it, it is all gone."
[Dawn] The Pakistain Mohammedan League-N threw down the gauntlet to President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Friday: tender resignation or face the lynch mob. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took acerbity and fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... rhetoric to its limits in his denunciation of the president, winning thunderous ovation from a charged crowd.
Mr Shahbaz laced his speech with all ingredients needed for firing up a public meeting: accusations of sleaze, insults, poetry and talk of the gallows.
The chief minister's explicit message to President Zardari was: "Resign and return looted national wealth. Otherwise, my comrades will hang you upside down at Bhati Chowk."
To old-timers, the last threat brought back memories of Air Marshal Asghar Khan's warning to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... in 1977 of hanging him from the Attock bridge.
"Notice how they are cursing you. Surrender to the court of people, otherwise they will teach you a lesson," he told the president.
He led a chorus of 'go Zardari, go' and said parliament would hold the president accountable.
"In that case you will not find any place to hide," he warned the president. Failing that, the Punjab chief minister predicted a popular countrywide uprising against Mr Zardari.
He said Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had earlier "tolerated Mr Zardari for the sake of democracy".
"But our restraint was taken as a weakness. Now Nawaz Sharif and all his party men have decided to get rid of the president," he said.
According to the original PML-N plan, the procession was to be taken out from Nasser Bagh and terminated at Bhati Chowk.
But the participants concentrated on the chowk where Mr Sharif was to make his speech.
Extraordinary security arrangements were made on the occasion.
Mounted police patrolled streets leading to the venue and plainclothesmen threw a ring of security around the dais. Sniffer dogs and security gates were used to screen people.
Entrance from alleys and streets was blocked with razor-edged barbed wires.
The solid waste department of the city district government kept roads neat and clean.
Police officers said the entire Lahore police, traffic wardens and reserves in uniform or plainclothes had been deployed at the meeting for security.
The opposition alleged the rally participants included government servants of various departments like those of the city district government.
But some other sources said that a majority of participants had been brought here by PML-N politicians from other towns across Punjab.
The PML-N described the meeting as a great success.
The party spokesperson, Pervaiz Rashid, said the attendance was overwhelming and the participants were PML-N workers from Lahore.
He said that it was not possible to force the government servants to attend the rally in the presence of a closely watching media.
Mr Rashid said the participants were motivated by local MNAs and MPAs to attend the rally."They have been preparing for this for the last 10 days," he remarked.
The PML-N activists carried party flags, banners and placards.
They raised slogans against the president accusing him of being involved in corruption and economic mismanagement.
Igniting their emotions, Mr Shahbaz used aggressive language against Mr Zardari and called him 'Ali Baba' and his colleagues as 'forty thieves' whom people would throw out.
"You have proved today that people in the country will not allow these intruders to rob the vote bank of Nawaz Sharif," he said.
He alleged the president had no empathy for the country or its people and was interested only in corruption.
Mr Shahbaz vowed that the war which had started from Lahore would end only after overthrowing Mr Zardari and laying the "foundations of a new Pakistain".
"We will rid the country of Zardari and his corrupt team in the way our elders had broken free from the clutches of Hindus in 1947," he said.
He recounted the steps taken by Nawaz Sharif as prime minister, and his own present Punjab government for 'the welfare of people' and accused the President of abandoning the nation in every hour of trial.
"Mr Zardari wrote a letter of appreciation when the airspace of Pakistain was violated on May 2, proving that he could be anything but president of the country," Mr Shahbaz said.
He also held the president and his team responsible for "the deterioration in PIA, Railways and Steel Mills," and for loadshedding.
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Airships are terribly frustrating. There are a huge number of advanced models that exist on the drawing board, but the only airships that are ever built use Sopwith Camel-era design and technology.
It is even worse that trying to float a new warship, in which every damn senior officer wants some change just so he can claim that it is "his change", most of which are demanded *after* the design is under construction. The USN is utterly incapable of saying "No!" to such people, so it can have a good design, on time and on budget.
When a new airship design comes down the line, it is so overloaded with bells & whistles that were it to be built, it could barely fly. This leads to a "the hell with it!" attitude, "let's just use the old design".
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Remember the Goodyear Airships.I do. They look great on a calm windless day. I saw one forced to the ground on a windy day. Going into the wind takes forever. It had several bounces on the farmland field when I saw it. Tether line dangling from the nose about two hundred yards long. Pass the Dramamine please.
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"Airship" infers US Air Force = future "US Aerospace Force", NOT "Navy" = ships.
The Russkies know the score, + prob safe to say also RISING CHINA + IRAN, as ITO advanced-design dirigibles can play vital or decisive roles in "defensive" US GMD-TMD as well as "offensive" PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE + ORBIT/SPACESTRIKE, etc - THEY WANT'EM EITHER PERMAMENTLY BANNED, OR ELSE FOR THE US TO GIVE DEEP ACCESS TO THE TECHNOLOGY = WAR MANAGEMENT/RESPONSE SYSTEMS.
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A Miami police officer is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school.
(CBS Seattle) -- A Washington man loses his arm from a homemade guillotine. The guillotine unexpectedly dropped on his shoulder Thursday morning at a camp he was living at, severing his arm.
The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday.
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The needs of flood-hit Paks are rising as winter approaches, the 
(Xinhua) -- Irish poet Michael D. Higgins has won the country's presidential poll, according to a final count Saturday afternoon.
[Daily Cardinal] City officials temporarily denied Occupy Madison a new street use permit Wednesday after protesters violated public health and safety conditions and failed to follow the correct processes to renew or amend a permit.
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