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Thanks, Fred 😍
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Oliver experienced an event in February 1959 that underscored her later aviation accomplishments. She was a passenger aboard Pan Am Flight 115, a Boeing 707 on a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York City when it dropped from 35,000 to 6,000 feet (10,700 to 1,800 m). It was February 3, 1959, the same day Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash. These events caused her to avoid flying for the next year, even turning down job offers, with the exception of auditioning for BUtterfield 8, if they were so short notice she could only travel by air. She eventually underwent hypnosis to overcome her fear of flying.[10]
In July 1964, local Los Angeles area news anchor Hal Fishman introduced her to personal flying when he took her on an evening flight over Los Angeles in a Cessna 172.[10] The experience motivated her to return the next day to the Santa Monica Airport to begin training for a private pilot certificate. In 1966, while preparing for her own transatlantic flight, she was a passenger in a Piper J-3 Cub when the pilot ran into wires while "show-boating";[10] the airplane flipped and crashed. She and the pilot escaped injury.[11]
In 1967, piloting her own Aero Commander 200, she became the fourth woman to fly a single-engine aircraft solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the second to do it from New York City. Although she was attempting to fly to Moscow, her odyssey ended in Denmark after the government of the Soviet Union denied her permission to enter its air space. She wrote about her aviation exploits and philosophy of life in an autobiography published in 1983.[10]
In 1968, she was contacted by Learjet to see if she was interested in obtaining a type rating on one of their jets with the intent to set record flights for them. She earned the rating and even flew some charters (having by that time acquired a commercial pilot certificate in single- and multiengine land airplanes), but did not fly any record flights in their jets.[10]
In 1970, Oliver co-piloted a Piper Comanche to victory in the 2760-mile transcontinental race known as the "Powder Puff Derby", which resulted in her being named Pilot of the Year. The pilot was Margaret Mead (not the famous anthropologist), an experienced pilot who had flown in several derbies with different co-pilots. In 1972, her training for a glider rating was chronicled for an episode of the television series The American Sportsman and the segment aired in March 1973.[12]
According to the FAA Registry, the glider rating was issued to Oliver on July 21, 1972. It was her last rating. The registry shows her to have earned commercial pilot ratings for airplane single-engine land, airplane multiengine land, instrument airplane, and private privileges for glider. Her last aviation medical examination was in May 1976; therefore, she could not legally pilot any aircraft except gliders after May 1978, marking the end of her piloting of powered aircraft.[13]
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Every time I see a cute blonde I remember the proverb "Appearances are deceiving".
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Not all blondes are dumb. No. Way.
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Not all blondes are dumb. Not what I was referring to. There are far worse blondes than dumb ones.
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Two blondes are on a road trip down south. They see a sign for Pascagoula. They agree they can't figure out how to pronounce it, so they decide to pull over and ask. As it's lunch time, they stop at a drive thru. The blonde who's driving asks "How do you pronounce the name of this place?" Her passenger says "Say it slow so we can figure it out."
The guy at the window says "Burrrrr-gerrrr Kiiiinggggg."
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Told to me by a blonde:
Flip over 5 blonds and you will find 3 brunettes...
[ToloNews] Amid a sharp rise in fighting, Afghan forces have retaken two districts in the north in the last five days. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... other districts continue to fall to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Khan Abad district in Kunduz was retaken on Monday and Chah Ab district in Takhar was retaken last week.
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[KhaamaPress] According to the reports, Khan Abad, a district in northern Kunduz province, and Sayad, another district in northern Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province have fallen under the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... control.
Local officials in Kunduz and Sar-e-Pul provinces confirmed that Taliban fighters have seized Khan Abad district in Kunduz and Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul provinces last night.
The Afghan cops have not yet officially commented on it and neither they have yet disclosed the number of casualties.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson to the Taliban has confirmed they have brought both Khan Abad district of Kunduz and Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul province under their control and have seized military types of equipment and facilities left by the Afghan forces.
This comes as the Taliban has increased its offensive operations throughout the country with more focus on the Northern parts of Afghanistan.
Reports suggest that Marshal Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... , a prominent leader in the north of Afghanistan is fighting with the Taliban fighters in the front line.
Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... chaired a comprehensive security meeting yesterday and have ordered the security institutions to fight back and defend against the Taliban attacks, Presidential Palace reported.
[IsraelTimes] Islamist movement activists convicted in trial relating to 2013 mass killing by security forces at pro-Morsi Islamist sit-in.
An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s for 12 Moslem Brüderbund members, including two big shots of the outlawed Islamist movement, a judicial official said.
The court of cassation also reduced sentences for 31 other Brotherhood members, in the trial relating to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, to life in prison, the official told AFP.
Those condemned to death were convicted of "arming criminal gangs which attacked residents and resisted coppers as well as possessing firearms and ammunition... and bomb-making material," the court said in its ruling. "But, but, yer Honor! We're Islamists. Those are religious relics!"
Other charges include "killing coppers... resisting authorities... and occupation and destruction of public property," it added.
The rulings are final and cannot be appealed, the judicial source said.
They’re knocking them down like ninepins.
Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, head of the political wing of the Moslem Brüderbund, held power for a year before being ousted by the military in 2013.
Egyptian authorities outlawed the Islamist group in 2013 and have overseen a wide-ranging crackdown that has placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! thousands of its supporters.
The original case, dating back to 2013, had over 600 defendants and is locally known as the "Rabaa clearing case."
Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in eastern Cairo was the site of a massive Islamist sit-in calling for the return of Morsi after his ouster.
Security forces raided and killed hundreds of people in a single day in August 2013, a few weeks after Morsi’s overthrow.
In 2018, an Egyptian court sentenced 75 of them to death and the rest to varying jail sentences, including 10 years for Morsi’s son Osama.
Human rights groups have dubbed it the deadliest incident in modern Egyptian history.
Authorities said at the time that Moslem Brüderbund members were armed and the forced dispersal was a vital counter-terrorism measure.
[AlAhram] Fishermen who found the bodies told AFP that they were floating in the waters of Ras al-Ara in the southern province of Lahij
The bodies of 25 migrants colonists were recovered off Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... on Monday after the boat that was carrying them capsized with up to 200 people on board, a provincial official told AFP.
Fishermen who found the bodies told AFP that they were floating in the waters of Ras al-Ara in the southern province of Lahij, an area so rife with human trafficking that local people call it the "Gate of Hell".
"The boat overturned two days ago and was carrying between 160 and 200 people," said Jalil Ahmed Ali from the Lahij provincial authority, citing information given by Yemeni smugglers. The fate of the other people on board was unclear.
The UN's International Organization for Migration confirmed to AFP that a boat sank in the area but said it was still trying to establish the details of the incident.
Despite the grinding war in impoverished Yemen, migrants colonists continue to travel there in the hopes of finding work in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and other neighbouring oil-rich states whose economies depend on millions of foreign labourers.
The fishermen said the victims, found in the Bab al-Mandab strait that separates Djibouti from Yemen, appeared to be of African origin.
"We found 25 bodies of Africans who drowned when a boat carrying dozens of them sank off the Yemeni shores," said one of the fishermen.
"We saw the bodies floating in the water 10 miles from the shores of Ras al-Ara," added another.
Moslem colonists Migrants often find themselves stranded in Yemen, which is mired in the world's worst humanitarian crisis after six years of conflict.
The beaches of Ras al-Ara are among the areas most targeted by smugglers.
Earlier this month, local people appealed to Yemen's internationally recognised government to intervene, saying the area had become a free-for-all for human traffickers without any action from the authorities.
In recent months, dozens of migrants colonists have died in the Bab al-Mandab strait, a major route for international trade but also for human trafficking.
In April, at least 42 migrants colonists died off Djibouti after the capsize of their boat which had left from Yemen, according to an IOM report. They were likely among those who try to return home after finding themselves stranded or detained.
The IOM reported this month that 5,100 immigrants colonists arrived in Yemen so far this year, while 35,000 travelled in 2020 and 127,000 in 2019 before the outbreak of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... which suppressed demand for labour in the Gulf states.
The UN agency often sends migrants colonists back to their home countries from Yemen. But it said in April that more than 32,000 migrants colonists, mostly from Æthiopia, were still stranded in the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country.
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Reporting from Marietta, don't give a fuck. Let them kill each other.
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/\ They don't have Planned Parenthood. Alternative population control measures are obviously in play. Yes, the same measures employed for thousands of years.
#Iraq | Various areas across the northern Iraqi #Kurdistan region have witnessed an escalation in #Turkey’s ongoing strikes against alleged targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (#PKK) group.https://t.co/OFkjr2NTyB
— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) June 14, 2021
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— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) June 14, 2021
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How bout a base here in America named Common Sense that continuously bombards the Pentagon and Langley with deadly gamma rays?
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06/15/2021 10:05 Comments ||
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Obviously the work of white supremacists.
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are those woke amerikan military peeps who just got their rainbow digital bdus on and rainbow pink fuzzy combat boots on and are all pushing and shoving in the mess hall for their first chai tea spritzer of the day mixed with baby yak spittle frothed with first teat sucklings of the day?
— Alghadeer English (@alghadeertv_eng) June 14, 2021
Multiple hideouts used by the insurgents were also destroyed while dozens of suspected IS members were arrested by the counter-terrorism service, Spokesperson Sabah al-Numan told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA).
He said the operations will continue to hunt down the remaining IS militants across the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Suspects, in their 20s, face charges for attack that left serviceman badly hurt; meanwhile, reports say there are growing indications killing of Jewish man in Lod was nationalistic.
Police on Monday said they had arrested six suspects accused of beating an IDF soldier in uniform and causing him serious injuries during a mob attack in the coastal city of Jaffa.
The arrests took place last month, but had been under a gag order.
"A serious indictment will be filed along with a request to hold them until the end of proceedings," police said in a statement.
Police said that a joint undercover operation with the Shin Bet security service was carried out in May against the suspects, all residents of Jaffa in their twenties. The suspects’ remand was repeatedly extended at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court during the investigation.
The 19-year-old soldier, Leon Shranin, is still undergoing rehabilitation treatment at the Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, police said.
On May 13, Shranin was left at death's door after being beaten, suffering a skull fracture and a cerebral hemorrhage, Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv said at the time.
Shranin later told Channel 12 News he had been heading to his grandfather’s home in Bat Yam, a nearby city.
"There shouldn’t be festivities, it’s unnecessary, it’s nonsense," Shranin told the network.
Shranin was able to drive himself to the hospital after he had been attacked.
The attack on Shranin came during a period of unrest that saw the worse violence between the Jewish and Arab communities in decades.
Also on Monday the Haaretz daily reported that there are growing indications that last month’s killing of Yigal Yehoshua in Lod in Jewish-Arab violence was committed by an Arab mob with a nationalistic motive.
The newspaper cited unnamed law enforcement officials saying there had been several significant developments over the past two weeks in the police investigation into the incident.
The sources added, however, that the murder charge was difficult to prove at this point.
In May, amid intense fighting with Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and tensions in Jerusalem, Israel’s ethnically mixed Jewish and Arab communities erupted in mob violence, turning cities into veritable war zones, with police failing to contain the most serious internal unrest to grip the country in years.
In the weeks after the violence simmered down police followed up with a major operation to apprehend suspects for involvement in the violence and that has led to the arrest of over 1,550 people, the majority Arab Israelis. Over 150 indictments have been filed.
The Arab News article contains the following IDF tweet. Truly we live in an age of miracles!
IDF troops & the Israeli Police just thwarted a weapon smuggling attempt along the Jordanian border in the Arava area. Our troops confiscated weapons & apprehended a number of suspects.
An IDF reservist and a suspect were moderately injured & were evacuated to a hospital.
[NPASYRIA] On Monday, the de-escalation zones in the Idlib, Lattakia and Hama regions in northwest Syria, witnessed a renewed exchange of bombing between Ottoman Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups and Syrian government forces.
The government forces bombed the town of al-Bara, Balyon, al-Fatira, Kafr Oweid and Sufuhn in Zawiya Mountain, south of Idlib with missiles and heavy artillery shells, military sources told North Press.
The bombardment coincided with intensive flight of Russian drones and warplanes over Idlib and the countryside of Hama, Aleppo and Lattakia, the sources added.
In return, the al-Fath al-Mubin Operations Room bombed the sites of the government forces in the city of Kafr Nubul, the towns of Hazarin and Ma’arat Hurmah and the village of al-Dara al-Kabira south of Idlib with rockets and heavy artillery shells.
The sources pointed out that al-Fath al-Mubin Operations Room also shelled the government forces’ gatherings in Jurin Camp, west of Hama and the town of Salma in the countryside of Lattakia with heavy artillery shells.
The regions of northwest Syria has witnessed an unprecedented military escalation and mutual shelling between the gangs and the government forces, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, including civilians
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
