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Canadian Jets Muster to Protect Super Bowl
National Post ^ | January 26, 2006 | Melissa Leong

Posted on 01/26/2006 12:33:30 PM PST by NorthOf45

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To: NorthOf45
The Canadian planes are needed to prevent an attack from the south! (Take a look at the map if you wonder why!)
21 posted on 01/26/2006 12:49:25 PM PST by StevieB
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To: NorthOf45; COEXERJ145; microgood; liberallarry; cmsgop; shaggy eel; RayChuang88; Larry Lucido; ...

It's a good thing they have jets. I was afraid they'd be using Sopwith Camels.


22 posted on 01/26/2006 12:50:30 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

That would be the Prime Minister. Oh, crap, I hope Martin leaves the bullet behind when he leaves office!!


23 posted on 01/26/2006 12:51:51 PM PST by Argh
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To: GingisK

"I sure do think all of this "response to terrorism" is ill-concieved. Looks mostly like the Propaganda Ministry in high gear for the benefit of chickens."

and just which end of your body do you have your head attached...nevermind, i can guess.


24 posted on 01/26/2006 12:52:00 PM PST by ferri (Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Which means that it's obviously unauthorized.

Trucks don't file flight plans, have transponders, nor show up on FAA radar.

Threat from aircraft is the tip of the iceburg. I guess THEY have you feeling comfortable and well protected.

Me? Well, I've been going about life pretty much the same as before "9/11", just like everyone else aught.

25 posted on 01/26/2006 12:52:40 PM PST by GingisK
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To: ferri
...and just which end of your body do you have your head attached...

You must be one of those who imagines that airport security is well done these days. That is also just the tip of another iceburg.

26 posted on 01/26/2006 12:54:41 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Right Wing Assault

Thanks for resurrecting one of my all-time favorite whacko liberal quotes (and to good effect too)!


27 posted on 01/26/2006 12:56:28 PM PST by bourbon (everything inside screams for second life)
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To: NorthOf45
It's the only way the Jets are going to get to the Superbowl anytime soon...


28 posted on 01/26/2006 12:56:31 PM PST by gridlock (It's not really a circus until Teddy Kennedy steps out of the clown car...)
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To: NorthOf45

Are those Mexican army Humvees protecting us as well?
( At least they get bullets).


29 posted on 01/26/2006 12:56:41 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: GingisK

actually i am one of those that knows that i don't have all the answers so i leave it up to people who have access to way more information than i do.


30 posted on 01/26/2006 12:56:41 PM PST by ferri (Be Politically Incorrect: Support the Constitution!)
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To: NorthOf45
Waaaaay back in the mid-80s I was teaching F/A-18 systems at NAS Cecil Field we had Canadian troops sit through our program in preparation to receive these-

The Canadians I met were a bunch of stand-up guys. Military volunteers tend to be.

31 posted on 01/26/2006 12:57:24 PM PST by Denver Ditdat (Leftist New Year's resolution: force Christians into the closets vacated by gays)
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To: StevieB
What is the first foreign country you get to if you head due south from Detriot?

...Canada

32 posted on 01/26/2006 12:58:41 PM PST by patton (I don't regret the journey, but it is time to get off the train.)
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To: NorthOf45

Amazing, I had no idea that Canada was capable of this.


33 posted on 01/26/2006 1:01:41 PM PST by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: NorthOf45

I hope the Canadians win this one...at least they didn't put up an asinine TFR, which helps show how bloody useless the U.S. ones are. Unless, of course, you're a corporation wanting to keep total control of ad revenues.


34 posted on 01/26/2006 1:01:43 PM PST by Turbopilot (Nothing in the above post is or should be construed as legal research, analysis, or advice.)
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To: GingisK

"Trucks don't file flight plans, have transponders, nor show up on FAA radar."

And there's going to be a s***load of security around the venues. A tanker truck isn't going to be just waved on into the secure perimeter, and you'd have to get extremely close to the stadium to do anything more than make a really loud noise.

The nightmare scenario for me is some jihadis with a couple M120 mortars. They could stay in Canada and lob HE & Willie Pete into Ford Field. A few rounds open up the roof, and the rest land wherever they may.

The casualties from the mortar shells would be minimal--maybe even none at all. The casualties from the panicked stampedes would be much more impressive--and the panic would be shown to over a billion viewers around the world.


35 posted on 01/26/2006 1:03:40 PM PST by BeHoldAPaleHorse (Tagline deleted at request of moderator.)
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To: blau993
>Bet you've never seen a biplane with a jet engine before.

Would you believe... a biplane with TWO jet engines?


37 posted on 01/26/2006 1:11:18 PM PST by orionblamblam (A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
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To: GingisK

"I sure do think all of this "response to terrorism" is ill-concieved. Looks mostly like the Propaganda Ministry in high gear for the benefit of chickens."

I think you've got it. The funniest thing I saw was the SWAT guys walking around NYC with their MP5's as if a screaming horde of muzzies were going to attcack any second. It's just to send a message to the serfs.


38 posted on 01/26/2006 1:20:00 PM PST by dljordan
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ohmigod! Is that a Sovietski aircraft? Pocketa, pocketa pocketa!


39 posted on 01/26/2006 1:22:07 PM PST by dljordan
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To: NorthOf45

I'll check to see if the CAF planes are in Windsor. I'll get some pics if they are and post them.


40 posted on 01/26/2006 1:22:31 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (.)
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