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EJ looks like EJ. Overthrow, check, knock down passes, check and check

You had to go there. :P

Everyone looks better with time.

That there is, I say that there is a fleecing pulled off in Montreal. I bet there are a lot of NHLers that want a new contract this morning.

I think like many probably on here, I am the product of legal immigration. My grand parents (all four of them) legally emigrated to this country back in the 20s, They found it extremely tough and unwelcoming. They were from Ireland and Poland. Yet they persevered. They found jobs, learned the language, settled into communities where they found their own kind (to help with assimilation), and naturalized. When it is done right, it works. It is not easy, But it works. To those advocating expanding the green card program, that resonates with me. To those advocating militarizing the border, that doesn't. To those blaming the President, I would say Amen as long as you include both the House and Senate too. To those advocating sending children back, I can't get behind that. Here in Maryland, the Governor (President wannabe) working with Catholic Charities is opening up group homes. That seems like the right response. Getting the flow of children to stop is anybody's guess on how to do it though.

I don't know, that is a pretty high bar as the worst decision.

Truly, truly one of THE worst bills EVER passed. This should not be the poster child for anything. and it's here http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/special-hospital-unit-readies-ebola-patient-n169951

This is priceless.

1.3B.. Egad.. Terry does remember that his kids were infants the last time this team was even remotely fun to watch? If Buffalo sells for 1.3B, then the Cowboys must be worth double that.

That has to make every current owner of an NFL franchise giddy.

The world is overdue for a real pandemic. This ain't it. It takes too long to incubate and its spread can be controlled. The human being is not a good host. The cultural aspects of West Africa are the real culprits in the current outbreak. What is really fascinating is that the doctors, who are taking the requisite protections are getting ill.

I wonder what would be different if that plane was loaded with 200 Germans?

I keep waiting for the inevitable training camp injury that puts the season in peril. Like a Watkins turf toe kind of thing... Seems like every year the Bills come out of camp banged up. I suppose the Kiko injury might be it, but that one was pre-camp.

So I've been digging around some more. I can't attest to the veracity of this piece I cite, but this makes more sense to me. Bottom line up front: The SA-11 can be used in stand alone mode. When not part of a system of systems, it loses key discerning transponder information that allows it see the difference in aircraft. So a plane is a plane. This article says "flaw", but it is obviously a feature to get down linked data to get further discrimination data. From the Business Insider.com " This Flaw In The Buk Missile System Makes It Really Easy To Accidentally Shoot Down A Passenger Jet The system cannot tell the difference between civilian and military-type aircraft based on their transponder signatures alone. In order to tell the difference between targets, it would need to be interfaced with other weapons systems that can work off of additional information. Being a Soviet design, the user interface is fairly simple, says Michael Pietrucha, a former F-4G and F-15E electronic warfare officer and expert on air defenses. Pietrucha says he trained with German forces operating a similar Russian-built system during the 1990s. Pietrucha says that the Buk variant operated by the rebels might have been especially unable to distinguish between civilian and military air traffic because of a quirk related to aircraft transponders. The transponder is a device that broadcasts an aircraft’s identity when a radar "interrogates" it for information. Military and civilian aircraft often use the same transponder modes and therefore that signal is not used as a "discriminator" for a military targeting system, Pietrucha says. The system has to be tied into the national air traffic control system to use that information effectively. So the Buk can pick up the signal of an aircraft. But if it's operating in standalone mode, it can't tell whether that aircraft is a military target, or a jetliner with nearly 300 people onboard."

And now Derek Roy too

They were on it too quick in this case. Biden was telling the world almost immediately. We know what happened. We just don't know defacto who pulled the trigger.

The curious thing is that particular system should tell the difference between a civilian airliner and other. How they shot it down will be an interesting story.

The only thing I am surprised by is how low they were flying. 32K is pretty low for a flight that was going that far. They should have been up in the high 30s. That would not have stopped this, but it is still surprising to me that you would fly that low over a disputed region.

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We know.. We saw it launched, we tracked it, we have satellites, we have telephone intercepts.. We've got video of them driving them back across the Russian border. This is an area of the world we are watching very closely.

Might be the post of the year for me. We should have our own Espy or Edward R Murrow awards

NBC went further to say Russia was responsible for shooting it down because their soldiers are/were training the unit that was responsible and they may have fired it themselves or given the order to fire on the plane.

I don't think any of the reasons you cite matters in their Presidential aspirations demise. I do think the GOP has lost the momentum because they are ignoring two very large voter blocks, women and Hispanics. They can't and won't compete until they run on an agenda and candidate that appeals to those groups.

I anticipated that Obama was green on foreign policy. I gave him the benefit of the doubt in his first term. What strikes me though is he has not grown into the job and is not a world leader. He is a shrinking violet always letting others set the agenda. And what's worse he has John Kerry at State. The same JK this country rejected as a Presidential candidate. One who lost to George Bush. Is it any surprise our foreign policy is such a mess?

All those what's your name, personality, color, GOT character, etc, websites that are swamping my Facebook feed.