Thread : In the news today

[Artemisia]

Dwarf Porn Star Devoured By Badgers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/1 ... 62667.html

Not really, but still....

[Don Alexander]

http://us.cnn.com/2011/US/09/16/nevada. ... ?hpt=hp_t1

Holy crap!

Let's see how this develops.

[yiraheerai]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

[Artemisia]

So far, three officially dead, seventy-five wounded, twenty-five of those critically.

[Don Alexander]

Though I have to say coldly and pragmatically, that's still better than the "mass casualties" in the very first article. Seems the pilot got the plane away from the stands in the last moment

[Iceman]

I heard the radio news just now, and it appears some of the diplomatic sanctions imposed by the USNA on Iceland on cause of the whaling include a rethought of all actions of the arctic council.

I'd like to see the Alaskan inuits exclude whale from their diet.

If this were "Twitter", I'd mark this with #hypocrisy.

[Lord Styphon]

But, yeah... I mentioned their export, because we do not do that... we eat all of what we kill.

o rly?

[Iceman]

Styphon, that's finback, which isn't even hunted nowadays (your quote being an old newsitem), even though there's a quota for... I'm not sure about it, 50 animals. Minke is all we hunt, and (with me not being a specialist) seeing that it sells out in less than a week after each animal is drawn on land, export seems quite unlikely.

Please, don't go into old news... that only leads to thoughts on Nantucket.

[Lord Styphon]

[Iceman]

Sorry, I do not understand you.

[Don Alexander]

I think LS, having been thoroughly defeated, is now pursuing other goals.

[Iceman]

Ah, and here I was trying to determine whether the picture was from Stamford Bridge or Arena AufSchalke.

[Gil Hamilton]

It actually appears that LS is implying that Iceman is shifting goal posts, which means that Iceman has changed his point as LS argued against it.

[Radbaron]

Though I have to say coldly and pragmatically, that's still better than the "mass casualties" in the very first article. Seems the pilot got the plane away from the stands in the last moment

*puts on first responder hat*

The word "casualty" is used by emergency personnel to describe anyone who has been injured or traumatized. "Fatality" is never used in the field, except by a doctor or someone of equivalent and higher rank.

*pilot hat*

From the description of him doing a loop, it sounds like he lost control of the elevator. They will only have video evidence to go by, as with the force of that crash, control connections will not be verifiable.

[Iceman]

Ah, thanks for the explanation, Gil. I wasn't doing that though... just explaining it further.