Posted on 03/22/2014 12:45:01 PM PDT by servo1969
ah, you would be talking about Shia muslims, Iranian, not Pakistanis ... I believe most of the Muslims in Baluchistan are Sunni and other, not Shia
Iran also has need of Chinese cooperation in its weapons programs, has had Chinese aircraft radars and missiles for a long long time and I believe that is the Iran Rev Guard, the radicals, that handle the Chinese weapons (Silkworms and the like) - China also probably plays a role (or could) in the Iran-NK nuclear cooperation
so seems Iran unlikely to jeopardize relations with China by seizing a planeload of Chinese families and involving them in a jihad attack- and Israel is unlikely to be taken by surprise by a rogue Boeing 777 with its avionics pinging Boeing as to its identity
I would be surprised if this was not a suicide mission flown by the pilot, ending in the IO where recovery may never occur
Dead, buried, and moldering for some while now. When you play ninepins up the mountains with Hendrick Hudson’s crew you will lose some time. Glad to have you back...
McInerny was one of the brightest rank officers in the Air Force, and “wunderkind”, was a pilot and was a well respected leader. Had the honor of knowing him. I always listen to what he has to say based on his credentials.
I don’t like mixing tenses, either:
“a website”...”their”
maybe “its” would be better
What on earth are you talking about?
ah, you would be talking about Shia muslims, Iranian, not Pakistanis ... I believe most of the Muslims in Baluchistan are Sunni and other, not Shia
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Okay, I stand corrected. Not the first time I have spouted off without knowing all of the facts.
Still no reason I can’t mourn it....
BTW, I didn’t get the long beard like Rip, as I am a woman.
If true, what happens to the passengers? If they’re set free, then Pak lets every one they have the plane. Would they be held captive and for how long? Are they released after the plane has served its purpose? I don’t see how it turns out well for the passengers.
Thank you.
My thought is if they are alive there is some hope. If they are dead there is no hope.
a website...their
maybe its would be better
The distinction is whether "website" is being used as a count noun or as a mass noun. I treated it as a count noun, though most, I acknowledge, would treat it as a mass noun.
In either case, however, "website" and "their" are not verbs, and therefore do not have tenses.
p.s. I had to look all that up, so perhaps I was just lucky.
Thank you for those reassuring words!
>There is no penalty for being an idiot in America.<
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That’s why all American politicians are so eager to take responsibility for their mistakes.
Gives them an air of nobleness as they know full well that there are no consequences to any of their blunders.
Well, I guess since we were talking about a singular entry for correction, I guess I wrongly assumed that when you said “a” you were referring to one singular website, and not a subcategory of nouns that would of course make your corrections faultless, while still sounding silly.
If their is correct, then I guess my personal preference would be not to add the “a” to a “count” noun.
My bad.
Okay, that does it. I was wrong.
And this is news today?
We’ve known this for quite a while now.
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>> “I smell Obama all over this crap” <<
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No, Obama’s crap is the nonsense about it being ditched in the Indian ocean.
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A clown is a clown
>> “I think if nothing is found in the Southern Indian Ocean they should start looking in Pakistan” <<
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The looking and finding has already been done.
It isn’t done with human eyes, but with digital cameras, searching for a specific pattern from orbit. This technology has been with us since the early ‘90s.
The nonsense in the ocean is just a smoke screen.
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>> “If its there...but we don’t know exactly where yet.” <<
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Hard to believe that they don’t know.
Digital satellite images of air traffic can be scanned in just a few hours with the computers that are available now.
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