Posted on 12/31/2003 7:01:01 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
"More likely, an EMP strike would disable delicate electronic systems, leaving electrical systems intact," the engineer wrote. "After being struck by an EMP, the aircraft would likely function more or less normally, but without any control systems, instruments, or radios. This would account for the assertion that the Wellstone plane's engines were still running when the plane hit the ground."
If EMP's allow the plane to function more or less normally, but without control systems, and TWA Flight 800 was struck by EMPs, then why did TWA Flight 800 explode in the sky rahter than crash into the sea with its engines running?
"More likely, an EMP strike would disable delicate electronic systems, leaving electrical systems intact," the engineer wrote. "After being struck by an EMP, the aircraft would likely function more or less normally, but without any control systems, instruments, or radios. This would account for the assertion that the Wellstone plane's engines were still running when the plane hit the ground."
If EMP's allow the plane to function more or less normally, but without control systems, and TWA Flight 800 was struck by EMPs, then why did TWA Flight 800 explode in the sky rahter than crash into the sea with its engines running?
I just hate it when the liberal’s uncover our secret plans.
Nahhhh they only know about our Electromagnetic pulse drive. The don't know anything about our blue bonnet stinger and and the alpha flux hyper-lock.
Shut up –remember Loose lips sink ships .
Well, no. The race was fairly tight at that point and there was no clear hint as to the outcome. And as for the vote to go to war, it was pretty clear cut that Bush was going to get it from the Senate.
I've always maintained that if Bush was going to have a 'rat senator offed, he'd have done in one in a state with a Republican governor and who wasn't up for re-election right away. A perfect candidate would have been one of the pompous gasbags from Taxachusetts, or the a-holes from New York and Florida. Wellstone's temp replacement was appointed by Ventura (Deformed Party) and only served a couple of weeks anyway.
What about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who was killed during a close Senate race when his small plane crashed right before the 2000 election?
Ashcroft was just starting to pull ahead of him when Carnahan's plane went down. If he hadn't died, Ashcroft likely would have been re-elected, and this country would have been spared the Widder Carnahan's 2 loooong years in the Senate.
What about John F. Kennedy Jr., who had intelligence, political ambitions, charisma, and the name, dying in a 1999 plane crash?
Oh, *that* was Hillary's doing. < /snicker>
The list of high-profile Democratic politicians killed in plane crashes goes on - Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in 1996, Rep. Mickey Leland of Texas in 1989, Rep. Jerry Litton of Missouri in 1976 [who was also involved in a hard-fought election at the time], House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska in 1972.
Perhaps 'rats should start taking Amtrak and Greyhound more often...
There was no love lost between the Bush clan and Wellstone. In 1990, as Wellstone challenged the Persian Gulf War preparations, Bush Sr. even referred to Wellstone as a "chicken shit."
Yes, and? The sky is blue, but we don't need that spelled out for us, do we?
When Wellstone first met Bush Jr. in 2001, the latter disrespectfully called him "Pablo."
Considering that Bush gives nicknames to people he likes, I don't see what's so disrespectful. Now, calling him a sawed-off leftist weinie would have been disrespectful. Oh, and speaking of disrespectful (not to mention ignorant), the two Presidents Bush are NOT Sr. and Jr. They do not have identical names and the "Jr." that they keep trying to hang on GWB is just a way to demean, belittle and disrespect the man.
As The Nation said in May 2002, getting rid of Wellstone was a passion for Bush, Karl Rove, and Cheney. "There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide told The Nation. "This one is political and personal for them."
Oh, I doubt that *very* much. Sure, Bush wanted to defeat him, but he wasn't exactly a high priority. Why would some leftist ex-professor with no prayer of national aspirations be a threat to Bush?
No senator had a more consistent record of voting against Bush administration proposals in 2001. Wellstone voted against the Homeland Security Act and many of Bush's judicial nominees. He pushed for stronger environmental programs, for genuine measures to counter corporate fraud, and for investigations into Sept. 11 and $350 million that was missing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Not true -- most of the 'rats have the same (or very similar) voting record. But the rabid left has never let truth and facts get in the way of their regularly scheduled hissy fits.
BTW, you are wrong about the blue bonnet stinger and and the alpha flux hyper-lock, Klinton already sold that to the Chinese in 1996.
Oh boy, you know right where it's going as soon as you read that, and in the first sentence, no less! I want the tinfoil wholesaler's concession in this guy's neighborhood!
I was at my sister-in-law's farm in Northern Wisconsin when we heard of Wellstone's death. Except for the bizarro "death ray" type stuff, her immediate reaction was the same: George W put a hit out on Wellstone. She also did everything but come right out and accuse my wife and I of crying crocodile tears over him. We were both genuinely saddened at his death, so young and not a bad guy as libs go. She just couldn't believe that we would be sad that the Dems lost a Senator. Of course, she also thinks we hate gay people, so, consider the source.
We didn't make it up to the farm this October...
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
PS: I always thought that the Bush Administration had teleported the pilot into the 8th dimension, and then returned him to the craft an instance before it crashed. This way, no one would know.
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