Collings Foundation B-17 'Nine-o-Nine' has crashed at Bradley Airport

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Wednesday October 02, 2019 · 8:26 AM PDT

2019/10/02 · 08:26

The B-17 at Nashua NH airport this weekend

The Collings Foundation is a great organization that maintains a small group of historical military aircraft in flying condition, and do air shows nationwide showing off among other things, a B-24 Liberator, a B-25 Mitchell, and a B-17 Flying Fortress. It pains me to report that the B17 has crashed at the end of the runway at Bradley International Airport with much smoke and flames:

Report on NBC News here.

I went with my daughter to my local airport this past weekend to see the small airshow, got to see the Mitchell fly, to do a walkthrough of the Liberator. I wish now I had done the same for the Fort, if not gone up in it myself.

It is unclear how many were on board, how many injuries or any other details as yet. I hope everyone on board survived, that the Fortress lived up to its name of protecting those inside it.

Story is still developing.

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 1:40 PM PDT

2009/04/28 · 13:40

Oy. Where to begin.

(UPDATE - And yes, I know, that's an oxymoron..thanks guys)

I go to Redstate to see generally how the Specter defection is going over, and the front page is this:

Why is Barack Obama So Unpopular?

According to Gallup’s April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama’s current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises...

This is out of a Washington Times editorial, 'Barack's in the Basement'.

Leaving aside that they are comparing Clinton's low points during crises later in Clinton's term to Obama's 100 day mark with crises looming that were not his doing, what to think of these numbers?

Reasonably, I then head over to Gallup, to see what they say about it.

Follow me past the flip...

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Thursday January 01, 2009 · 9:36 AM PST

2009/01/01 · 09:36

First he blocks the transition team, then his wife thinks she can just beg Barack for her husband to retain his job?

Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line "Campaign for Mike" to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition to President-elect Barack Obama "to consider keeping Mike Griffin on as NASA Administrator."

She wrote, "Yes, once again I am embarrassing my husband by reaching out to our friends and 'imposing' on them.... And if this is inappropriate, I'm sorry."

Note: I'm adding this higher up, there is a counterpetition NOT linked in the article, here, which needs to be signed to counter the pro forces, just in case Obama decides this is a good move.

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Should Barack rehire Mike Griffin?

183 votes Vote Now!

Should Barack rehire Mike Griffin?

25 votes

Hell no

143 votes

Pie

6 votes

Sure

3 votes

Hell yes

6 votes

Westboro Baptist protesting... Heath Ledger's funeral?

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 4:34 AM PST

2008/01/24 · 04:34

Good flipping Jesus on a bicycle. These guys are morons.

Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest Heath Ledger's funeral.

Because he portrayed a gay man in Brokeback Mountain.

"You cannot live in defiance of God. He (Ledger) got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it's OK to be gay," said Shirley Phelps in a statement sent out by the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church.

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Westboro Baptist Church

119 votes Vote Now!

Westboro Baptist Church

...needs to be silenced

23 votes

...needs to be ignored

46 votes

...needs to buy a fracking clue

26 votes

...is doing nothing wrong, they have every right to protest whatever they wish, wherever they wish

5 votes

...should be restricted to free-protest-zones

7 votes

Wait, where's your partisan anti-candidate diary?

12 votes

Would you vote for Gore if...

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 10:55 AM PDT

2007/09/05 · 10:55

Hi all..

It's no secret that Gore has great support on this site. Many of us are hoping, praying, that Al Gore will throw his hat into the ring.

A serious question to consider though...what if he either:

Announces that he is joining the race, but as an Independent

Joins the race as a Democrat, a mainstreamer like Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama wins the nomination, and he runs anyway as an Independent

Would you still vote for him? Campaign for him? I'm sure it would be a difficult question for many, especially here...

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Would you consider an independant Gore bid?

260 votes Vote Now!

Would you consider an independant Gore bid?

You guys are all nuts, Al had his chance, he's not running again.

20 votes

No -- I wouldn't vote for Gore no matter what

10 votes

No -- but I'd vote for Gore if nominated by the Democratic convention

75 votes

Yes -- but only if he tried to win the Democratic nomination first

20 votes

Yes -- even if he came out as Independant from the start

22 votes

Yes -- but ONLY if he comes out as an Independant from the start -- no waffling!

5 votes

Al Gore would still be the best Democrat even if not nominated -- hell yes!

20 votes

Of course, why are you asking? Go Al!

21 votes

Even if he doesn't run, I'm writing him in. Go Al!

14 votes

Yes, and I'd even campaign for an independant Gore

53 votes

$22 million in missing CDC equipment

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 1:30 PM PDT

2007/07/12 · 13:30

Like this should be a surprise or something, at this point.

Federal investigators will look into the disappearance of $22 million worth of scientific equipment, computers and other items from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sad that my first thought was 'what, only $22 million? That's nothing. Minor league compared to Iraq and Bremer's group. I bet they weren't even loaded onto handilly moved pallets.

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Is this just an attempt at diverting attention away from Constitutional Crisis?

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Is this just an attempt at diverting attention away from Constitutional Crisis?

Diversion

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Just another brick in the (broken, not-to-code, unmortared) wall

15 votes

Pie

0 votes

Another Cindy Sheehan diary??

1 vote

Youtube: Rove in '72 Cronkite piece on Nixon re-election

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Saturday May 05, 2007 · 12:13 AM PDT

2007/05/05 · 00:13

I may have missed it mentioned, but has anyone seen this Dan Rather video piece from a Walter Cronkite broadcast in 1972 that includes a very very young (20ish) Karl Rove helping to campaign for Nixon's re-election?

And there's also a Robert Odell, Jr...I can't find reference to him anywhere, but his name sounds awfully familiar. Perhaps I'm just thinking about Swift Boat's Van Odell?

More (including video) after the fold..

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Was Karl already evil?

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Was Karl already evil?

Yes, he had visions of all those rich college students filling envelopes with money..to line the pockets of his friends

43 votes

No, even he was once young and ideallistic, like Alex P. Keaton

9 votes

Pie

4 votes

I hate Daily Kos

3 votes

Boy, was Karl ever SEXY then! Rawr!

6 votes

SCOTUS: Tobacco fine too large for one smoker

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Tuesday February 20, 2007 · 9:17 AM PST

2007/02/20 · 09:17

So our Supreme Court has decided that big tobacco would be hurt too badly by the $79.4 million punitive damage settlement was too much for the damages to just one smoker.

The 5-4 ruling was a victory for Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA, which contested an Oregon Supreme Court decision upholding the verdict.

In the majority opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, the court said the verdict could not stand because the jury in the case was not instructed that it could punish Philip Morris only for the harm done to the plaintiff, not to other smokers whose cases were not before it.

(flip)

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 5:24 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 05:24

I get out of work typically about 9pm or so, and have XM radio. I used to listen to The Majority Report at that hour, before it moved to mornings (as The Sam Seder Show) with the recent Air America schedule changes. Now at that hour is something called Eco Talk, which I just have not really been able to get into because I felt there wasn't a lot we could push on that front until we changed Congress. We've done that, so it will become more relevant, so we shall see.

Still, I've tended to look for something else to listen to in that slot for my hour's ride home.

Last night, due to recent events we're all buzzing about, I decided instead to see what right-wing talk was saying. It was only one channel difference between Air America and America Right (XM's home for Rush and folks like that) so I decided to give it a listen.

Follow me for the flip. Read More

Could Clinton actually be playing smart?

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Thursday July 20, 2006 · 9:42 AM PDT

2006/07/20 · 09:42

We're all waking up today, wondering what is going on with the Big Dog. Why would Clinton be pledging support to Lieberman?

And yes, I know, this is being diaried all over the place, but that's not my point.

What is? Flip, please... Read More

"Cars" song 'Real Gone': Protest Song under their noses

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Thursday July 06, 2006 · 7:45 PM PDT

2006/07/06 · 19:45

I've seen Cars three times now (I have a five year old and, besides, I love Pixar), but it took my partner (and mom of the five year old) to point out to me that Sheryl Crow's 'Real Gone' is, of all things, a protest song, got in right under the nose of the NASCAR folks. I wonder if Pixar even realizes.

Think I'm crazy? Look for yourself, after the flip.
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Pentagon admits spying on war protestors!! (re-BREAKING?)

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 9:05 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 21:05

Has this been missed? I tried looking for it..if so, I will delete this diary.

MSNBC and NBC News
Updated: 9:27 p.m. ET March 9, 2006
The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department's Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report.

I guess it's official now. We thought it was happening all along, we were sure of it. Who thought they'd admit it? Read More

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