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The world's largest plane, the An-225.

How big is it? Well, it's wingspan is a few feet short of the length of an American football field, goal-line to goal-line, and it's takeoff weight is -- get this -- over 1.4 million pounds.

Just to put that last stat in perspective, if a full-grown African bull elephant weighed one pound, the An-225 could hold over 1.4 million of them.

Shamelessly filched from Americandigest.org/sidelines, a choice excerpt from John C. Wright's Paterson's Field Guide to the Left:

In their psychological stance, they are sadists. Their rhetoric and the emotional images used to appeal to their base are all images of retaliation, of inflicting pain, and their argument consists of nothing but ad hominem and character assassination. They do not love ideas, like philosophers, they hate people, like misanthropists. This is all the more ironic since they claim to love people.

Even the most kindhearted Leftist I have ever met has this streak of sadism in her: she speaks of Reagan as a devil, and sneers at Palin, and I have never heard her speak a harsh word about anyone else, ever, ever.

In their psychopathology, they are suicidal. In any conflict, they side with whoever or whatever will inflict harm on their true enemy, which includes any father figure or authority figure placed over them. Where man conflicts with the environment, they side against man, and daydream about a world denuded of mankind. Where civilization confronts barbarism, they side with the barbarians, either Soviet or Jihadist.

This is a side effect of a simple strategy they have for achieving an appearance of moral righteousness without the substance: they merely side with the wrong. Why they think this makes them morally superior rather than morally retarded is a topic for another day. Sufficient for now to say this is a recurring theme.

Suicide bomber in Pakistan kills 16 people and wound 30 others in an attack on - wait for it - the local peace committee.

h/t Dyspepsia Generation

They're coming to take Joe away, ha ha!

EBD- "Just to put that last stat in perspective, if a full-grown African bull elephant weighed one pound, the An-225 could hold over 1.4 million of them".

S'cuse me? How does that put it in perspective?

If a cantaloupe weighed one pound, the An-225 could also hold over 1.4 million of them.....I guess...

An-225 General characteristics:
Crew: 6
Length: 84 m (275 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 88.4 m (290 ft 0 in)
Height: 18.1 m (59 ft 5 in)
Wing area: 905 m2 (9,740 sq ft)
Aspect ratio: 8.6
Empty weight: 285,000 kg (628,317 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 640,000 kg (1,410,958 lb)
Fuel capacity: 300000 kg
Cargo hold – volume 1,300m3, length 43.35m, width 6.4m, height 4.4m

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640,000kg -285,000kg - 30,000kg = 325,000kg [870,750 lbs] max cargo wt with full fuel.

Must be biden math...

I don't know about you. Me personally I don't want a dime going to this creepy organization thats become the cheerleader for fascists , along with being cheerleaders for a Muslim Caliphate. .With a World run By sharia Law. The very group who hate Democracy. Allow Women haters to be its arbiters of by Islam. The most hateful ideology on the Planet. Who let Genocidal regimes to be over Democracies.Who at every corner prop up rape, death, mutilation, murder. Who's troops rape children. Canada should get out of this murderous, rotten , evil group who's relevance has long died. Its now a club house for the Worlds human lice.

US ambassador: Internet fee proposal gaining momentum

Kramer said the idea of an international Internet fee is "gaining more interest in the African states and also in the Arab states."

He said the United States delegation to the conference will have to redouble its efforts to convince other countries that the proposal would only stifle innovation and economic growth.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/261863-us-ambassador-warns-internet-fee-proposal-gaining-momentum-abroad

"Must be biden math... "

Nah...arts major. ☺

Where were you 50 years ago this month?

What were you thinking?

Cuban Missile Crisis

I was 22 years old and still on the farm. Watched the news unfold on the black and white TV over the period of about two weeks. Yes, I did worry about how the near term future would unfold, and what to do to survive. I felt I was in a better place for that than many others who lived in the cities.

Fortunately, the worst case scenario did not occur.

Re: My Boyfriend`s Back.

They look like they may have had a lot of fun, behind their boyfriend`s back.

Foobert:

Re: Cuban Missile Crisis.

"Fortunately, the worst case scenario did not occur."

I think the Kennedy Bros. are to be thanked for that.

My Dad subscribed to LIFE magazine. It was interesting to see the American perspective.

Forward Syrian freedom fighters already looking ahead to constrain jihadists: Secular rebel commanders also revealed that they are working to cut the supply lines of jihadist groups, and limit the influx of foreign fighters to their ranks.
"We watch the borders. If we find supplies entering for [jihadist groups] we will take them," said one secular FSA fighter. "We have also caught 25 foreign fighters trying to cross from Turkey. We gave them to the Turkish intelligence."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9606691/Syria-despatch-rebel-fighters-fear-the-growing-influence-of-their-Bin-Laden-faction.html

Plainzdrifter:

You are dead wrong. As Beschloss and others have ably documented, the crisis was caused by Kennedy putting nukes in Turkey - along the USSRs borders against the advice of many in both state and defense. The USSR responded by attempting to position missles near the USA in Cuba. Thus the crisis.

The crisis was diffused when Kennedy promised to remove the Turkish missles provided he could do it a few moths later when the publics attention was elsewhere. And that is precisely what happened.

It was Kennedy's insecurity and weakness during the bay of pigs that made him overreact and try and act tough in stationing the obsolete missiles in turkey.

(The three greatest failures of Kennedy - a massive failure as president :

Not following through on overthrowing Castro

The Cuban missle crisis

Allowing public sector workers to unionize. )

EBD, I can't think of the appropriate words to describe John C. Wright's essay, other than to say this essay is the most accurate short description of the left that I have ever read.

Thank you!

The mainstream media are openly mourning the long-delayed date in the court of the Almighty of James Coyne, the sire of pseudo-conservative MSM hack Andrew, and uncle of Pierre Trudeau's tart Deborah.

Coyne is best remembered as the governor of the Bank of Canada who devoted his tenure to sabotage of the Canadian economy at the behest of his buddies in the Liberal Party, who wanted John Diefenbaker driven from office at any price. Coyne raised interest rates in the face of a recession, increasing the cost of the borrowing requirements of the Queen (on the advice of her Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker) to the profit of Toronto and Montreal banks, all of whom donated generously to the Liberals, and to inspire discontent against Diefenbaker. Coyne declaimed publicly against badly-needed investment in Canada by American interests (who of course never donated to the Grits).

Coyne's mischief only ended when John Diefenbaker tabled a bill for the express purpose of recalling him, which passed the House of Commons by a large majority. The Grit-controlled Senate defeated the bill, but Coyne got the message and resigned as governor.

Diefenbaker was thus the last major Western leader to take his Queen's and his nation's side against the schemes of bankers. To the delights he enjoys in the house of the Lord will now be added the much delayed torments of the traitor James Coyne.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/10/20121013-141847.html

corection
640,000kg -285,000kg - 30,000kg = 325,000kg [870,750 lbs] max cargo wt with 10% fuel

640,000kg -285,000kg - 300,000kg = 55,000kg [147,360 lbs] max cargo wt with 100% fuel capacity.

Compare with the Herc C-130

Payload: 45,000 lb (20,000 kg)
Length: 97 ft 9 in (29.8 m)
Wingspan: 132 ft 7 in (40.4 m)
Height: 38 ft 3 in (11.6 m)
Wing area: 1,745 ft² (162.1 m²)
Empty weight: 75,800 lb (34,400 kg)
Useful load: 72,000 lb (33,000 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 155,000 lb (70,300 kg)
Powerplant: 4 × Allison T56-A-15 turboprops, 4,590 shp (3,430 kW) each

Performance

Maximum speed: 320 knots (366 mph, 592 km/h) at 20,000 ft (6,060 m)
Cruise speed: 292 kn (336 mph, 540 km/h)
Range: 2,050 nmi (2,360 mi, 3,800 km)
Service ceiling: 33,000 ft (10,060 m) empty; 23,000 ft (7,077 m) with 42,000 pounds (19,090 kilograms) payload ()
Rate of climb: 1,830 ft/min (9.3 m/s)
Takeoff distance: 3,586 ft (1,093 m) at 155,000 lb (70,300 kg) max gross weight; 1,400 ft (427 m) at 80,000 lb (36,300 kg) gross weight

Maximum useable fuel on a C-130 is around 60,000 pounds, fuel density for Jet-A or JP8 is around 6.74 lb/gallon and that's around 8900 gallons. The total fuel load is 45000 internal and 18700 external, = 63700 for a total of 9450 gallons (106% of the useable limit).

With full useable fuel the range is around 2400 miles, 2500 with 25000 pounds and around 5200 empty.

3.7 gallons/mile at full load
3.6 gallons/mile with 25,000 pounds
1.7 gallons/mile with no load

As usual when economy is in trouble Muslim leaders accuse Jews of (put your favorite bad thing here). This week leader of Muslim Brotherhood accused Jews of "spreading corruption"
So there is nothing new here, just another confirmation of the same, old, antisemitism.
However what I do not understand is: Why on earth western journalists do not check what they write, but mindlessly repeat false things after someone else.
The article says that "Muslims used to pray toward al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem before praying toward Mecca in Saudi Arabia."
I ask you, how on earth could Muslims in Medina pray towards al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem when there was no mosque in Jerusalem at that time?
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Jewish+group+condemns+Egypts+Muslim+Brotherhood+over+antiSemitic/7386674/story.html

Un-furrow your brow, snagglepuss (11:33), it was *a joke*.

north of 60 your math is wrong in the second half of your post. You correctly stated the fuel load at 300000 kg and then inadvertently lost 270000 kg. in the second part.

With full fuel tanks an AN225 can carry a payload of 124,000lbs and fly approximately 14,000km
With maximum payload, 550,000lbs, the AN225 can make short hops, say Moscow to Paris. Try even that relatively short distance on 30,000kg and you will become a Gimli glider.

OK is this lady serious or playing dumb?

http://www.y94.com/uploads/Y94PlayhouseMoveDeerCrossingSignsFargoNDRadio.mp3

north of 60
sorry I didn't see your correction before I posted
My apologies.

My sister and me used to joke together about how, on February 6, 2006, Stephen Harper became prime minister for life. We've quit joking about that because it's now a bit old, almost seven years on. Regardless, it seems clear to me (and my sister) that "my friend, Steve", as GWB liked to call him, is settling in for the long haul.

Have a look at these two items:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/harper-and-marois-have-first-meeting-and-quebec-premier-calls-it-excellent---174015631.html

and

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Bank+Canada+governor+fought+high+profile+battle+with+Diefenbaker/7386808/story.html

The first is interesting, IMO, because it says everything about Stephen Harper: look who's talking and look who's leaving by the back door. There was a Hitchcock movie once, with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day, called, "The Man Who Knew Too Much". How about a movie called, "The Man Who Knew Everything, But Never Talked Too Much"? Which is also interesting, considering the Hitchcock movie and where Mr. Harper and Mme. Marois met.

The second is interesting, IMO, because of its juxtapositioning of Dief's style with that of "my friend, Steve"'s (both transplanted Ontarians, I would add). John Diefenbaker was an absolute hero to my parents, grandmother and great-grandfather, as I am sure that James Coyne was a hero to Andrew and his sister. RIP, presursor monetarist and Canadian nationalist: you need to know that have a couple of great sons (meaning Andrew and Stephen).

If useable fuel on the AN225 is around 803,770 pounds, at 6.74 lb/gallon, that's around 119,250 gallons.

With a full useable fuel range of around 8,700 miles, carrying 124,000 pounds, that's

9,050 lbs/gallon/mile at full load for the AN225

and

12,160 lbs/gallon/mile at full load for the C130

"Khrushchev thought Kennedy a weak amateur. Following the summit, Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and placed missiles in Cuba, an action that led the world to the brink of nuclear conflict."

http://www.creators.com/opinion/larry-elder/jfk-democrats-role-model.html

Of course if you grew up like I did, seeing Kennedy through Hollywood's eye, he was always a hero. It started with PT 109.

And speaking of Presidents being seen as weak amateurs...

It's even more fun photographing the Mrya up close ...

But: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Zfozy7gGI

Cheers

"Global warming stopped 16 years ago,".

>>> "Not that there has been any coverage in the media, which usually reports climate issues assiduously, since the figures were quietly release online with no accompanying press release – unlike six months ago when they showed a slight warming trend."

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"Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it"

"The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures"

"This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/13/report-global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago/#comments

More cuts to the left-liberal arts.

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"Damien Hirst condemned for killing 9,000 butterflies in Tate show"

"The artist Damien Hirst has come under fire after it emerged that more than 9,000 butterflies died as part of an art work in his latest exhibition."

"Even by Damien Hirst’s standards it was an unusual artwork – two windowless rooms swirling with live butterflies.

Visitors to the exhibit at the Tate Modern in London observed the insects close-up as they flew, rested, and fed on bowls of fruit.

But whilst the work, In and Out of Love, was praised by many art critics when it featured in the gallery’s Hirst retrospective earlier this year, it has now landed the artist in a row with the RSPCA.

Figures obtained from the Tate reveal that more than 9,000 butterflies died during the 23 weeks that the exhibition was open.

Each week it was replenished with approximately 400 live butterflies to replace those that died – some of them trodden underfoot, others injured when they landed on visitors’ clothing and were brushed off."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9606498/Damien-Hirst-condemned-for-killing-9000-butterflies-in-Tate-show.html

MSM's Truth or Consequences: Nuke the Journos.

"Damage: Global warming has been caused in part by
the CO2 emitted by fossil fuels.

This image shows smoke billowing out of a power station"

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/13/article-2217286-0069FE7100000258-900_634x821.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz29E78OR9H

1989.....Lancaster Air base(Namao),the Mir used just under 10,000 feet for take off on it's way back to Ukraine.When you sit in the cockpit of the Anatov,and look DOWN at a Starlifter taxing by you,you are in one massive aircraft.Been there,done that.One of the perks of being an engineer and swapping with a fellow Uke engineer.Six stories from ground to pilot's seat.The Mir generates 15,000 HP for takeoff,the same as the shuttle.Ceiling of 42,000 feet,at 450 kts.Oh,it can carry 3 tons of cargo(4 Huey choppers)

Posted by: maz2 at October 14, 2012 4:39 AM

Some climate scientists, such as Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, last week dismissed the significance of the plateau, saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions.

Ha.

I thought Phil had been jailed for 15-16 years.

The ANN-225 sounds like an amazing aircraft, however, the important question here is could it take off if it sat on a giant conveyer belt that moved in the opposite direction and at the exact same speed of the plane's wheels?

OK is this lady serious or playing dumb?
http://www.y94.com/uploads/Y94PlayhouseMoveDeerCrossingSignsFargoNDRadio.mp3
Posted by: Gus at October 14, 2012 1:59 AM

Re: lady complaining about deer signs and too many deer crossings.

Someone sent me this a few days ago.
I heard a similar story 4-5 years back.
Clearly a joke. And quite possibly a put up by the talk show itself.

I often warn folks here to not take those obligatory UNBELIEVABLY STUPID PEOPLE calls to talk shows as necessarily genuine.

"Liberalism, Manic & Depressive"

"In the first presidential debate of 2012, we saw, up close and personal, what Harvey Mansfield called in last week’s issue the ennui of Barack Obama. Obama’s ennui is related to his dislike for the real challenges of governing. More fundamentally, his ennui reflects his declinism. What’s exciting about governing for the next four years if it’s just going to involve managing austerity at home and decline abroad? It’s a depressing prospect.

Obama is depressed because today’s liberalism is depressing. Obama is world-weary because modern liberalism is world-weary. Hope and change was just campaign talk. The real existing liberal president lives in an atmosphere of reduced hope and hostility to needed change. As Mansfield puts it, “Obama’s air of ennui in the debate arises not just from his personal character of cool but more from his thoughts about the future. He sees America in decline. He does not say it, but he sees it, and it determines his politics as well as his demeanor.”

In the vice presidential debate Thursday, we saw, up close and personal (too up close and personal), what we might charitably call the excitability of Joe Biden. If Obama is cool, Biden is hyper-caffeinated. But Obama’s ennui and Biden’s excitability are flip sides of the same liberal coin."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/liberalism-manic-depressive_654407.html

Of course if you grew up like I did, seeing Kennedy through Hollywood's eye, he was always a hero. It started with PT 109.
Posted by: Cal at October 14, 2012 3:38 AM

Ah, yes, and he "wrote" Profiles in Courage jest (sic) like Obama "wrote" Dreams From My Father".

Syd,

No it would not. It needs laminar air flow over the wings .....so while the wheels would spin on the conveyer belt at 200 knots it would not matter. Airflow is key to flight!!!!

Lol just sayin

This is the most popular song in Britain today, unless you're not British of course.

Http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=wq_lhlIn1e0

Hildabeast vs O'narcissist.

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"Hillary Clinton reveals what REALLY led to Benghazi massacre - and demolishes White House claim it was triggered by anti-Islam film

Announcement of State Department dissent from rest of Obama administration could help protect Clinton during 2016 presidential run
Obama administration originally said assault stemmed from protests against anti-Islam video but then backtracked saying terrorists responsible
Officials tell how ambassador Chris Stevens was trapped in safe-room as assailants burnt the compound down
AK-47s, grenade attacks, and a smoke-filled safe-room - chilling account of the death of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens revealed
Ambassador's whereabouts after attack not known until officials rang his cell phone - and found doctors trying unsuccessfully to save his life in hospital
Most serious attack on U.S. diplomatic compound since al-Qaeda bombed the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 14 years ago"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215431/Death-U-S-ambassador-Chris-Stevens-revealed-AK-47s-grenade-attacks-smoke-filled-safe-room.html?ITO=1490

brits!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=wq_lhlIn1e0

May, 2008 = Crash.

"The commodity crashed from $475 in 2008".

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"Solar Silicon to Bottom as China Halts Factory Expansion"

"Polysilicon, the raw material used by the $38 billion a year solar industry, is forecast to bottom near a record low next year after the leading manufacturers in China and South Korea halted factory expansions.

The spot price will fall 6 percent to about $18.20 a kilogram by mid-2013 and then is likely to stabilize, according to the median estimate of five analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The commodity crashed from $475 in 2008 and is down 27 percent this year to $19.36 on Oct. 1, the lowest in at least a decade."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/solar-silicon-to-bottom-as-china-halts-factory-expansion.html

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"Timminco: How Eric Sprott got solar burn"

"They came to see the breakthrough.

That is, after all, what the company called it: a “breakthrough.”

What did it look like? How did it work, exactly? Did it even really exist?

They hoped the answers would be found in Bécancour, Quebec, a weary industrial town–home to Quebec’s only nuclear-power reactor–that sits kitty-corner across the St. Lawrence from Trois-Rivières."

"It was May, 2008."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/timminco-how-eric-sprott-got-solar-burn/article4502829/

new, you're a misunderstanderer of Islam. "Jihad" means inner struggle. Nothing to do with war. Didn't you get the memo? And Muslims aren't racist, so that little rant you directed at Osumashi @the 6:38 thread yesterday can't have happened either.

"do not give muslim motive to start war with nonmuslim"

You're getting increasingly threatening, you know that?

Re. lefty psychology - one thing that always gets me about them is that consequences never seem to matter. I don't just mean that they're bad at prediction; they genuinely don't seem to care if a course of action will have an absolutely demonstrable horrible outcome. The only thing that matters is that they had good intentions and therefore get to feel a warm glow of moral smugness. It's pretty depraved actually. Strikes me as a form of narcissism.

NYSlimes is speechless.

O's collapse is near.

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"The Mystery of Benghazi

New York Times ^ | October 13, 2012 | By ROSS DOUTHAT"

"TWENTY-FOUR hours after the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and our ambassador murdered, the tragedy seemed more likely to help President Obama’s re-election campaign than to damage it.

The White House already enjoyed more public credibility on foreign policy than on almost any other issue. When Mitt Romney reacted to the attack with a partisan broadside, portraying a news release sent out by the Cairo embassy before any violence began as a White House apology to the attackers, the president’s path forward seemed clear. He would be disciplined and careful, show anger and steel but also coolness under pressure, and let the rally-round-the-flag effect do its natural work.

What happened instead was very strange."

(Rest is behind firewall.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944818/posts

Paul in Calgary,

Would not the engines' jet propulsion move the plane forward, regardless of the relationship of the wheels to the conveyer belt?

And I quote: "OSUMASHI KINYOBE you talk dirty about Iranian and Muslim like black dog in your website with eye glass and you must one of chinees athesim talk sh... about your small eye chinees funny look need glass to hide it who the f you are to say who is in who is out \you back to china or korea or other oriental dirty spy chineese..."

You're a real piece of work, you know that?

"Jihad usually used for holly war" - nonesense. I am assured that the very concept does not exist in Islam.

p.s. black dogs are the coolest dogs of all.

I am not a regular follower of this blog are the two posters ii and ok for real? Or are they lefty trolls pretending to be illiterate sons of the prophet?

@ confused
ii, OK and new are all the same. Not pretending.