"Hard Landing"

[bachophile]

latest ( i kid you not) voices in the iranian government blaming the US for the crash, because sanctions preventing the Iranian airfoce from stocking parts for old american bell choppers (the bird that went down was an american bell 212, not a russian Mi helicopter)

[jon-nyc]

Cool. It would be awesome if that were true

[Mik]

FAFO writ large.

[George K]

[Copper]

Usually a Moment of Silence is in remembrance, not to honor.

I couldn't tell if which way it was presented to the Council or if they referred to him as the Butcher.

[Mik]

I'd use it to imagine his terror as the copter went down. And smile.

[George K]

[Mik]

Bee-worthy.

[Copper]

lock him up

[George K]

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

Not quite as bad as Eamon de Valera in April 1945, but still....

[jon-nyc]

Jesus

[Mik]

Well, if Jolly's right, Jesus is now showing him all about FAFO.

[Copper]

The prayer was for the people, not the Butcher.

I assume that after Admiral Black left the stage he cursed the Butcher.

[George K]

[bachophile]

lol

[George K]

[George K]

But not an "austere scholar."

‘Hitlers mixed legacy in Germany’

‘Stalins mixed legacy in Russia’

[Renauda]

One less fanatical Islamist cleric in the world is really all that matters..