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It's that shit stuck under my shoe
It's that smell inside the van
It's my bed sheet covered with sand
Sitting through a shitty band
Getting dog shit on my hands
Getting hassled by the man
Waking up to an alarm
Sticking needles in your arm
Picking up trash on a freeway
Feeling depressed everyday
Leaving without making a sound
Picking my dog up at the pound
Living in a tweaker pad
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I don't know if this person is referring to one SeaWorld park or all (I'm assuming it's just one), but the numbers of wild caught orcas vs. captive borns is skewed.
- two wild
- five captive born.
- three wild
- seven captive born.
- six captive born.
But I could be wrong. And perhaps I might be a little bit picky about those numbers.
Well, what's next?
So, sea pens are bad for orcas, because life in a tank is so PERFECT! It's like the moment you put a captive orca into a seapen it'll instantly die. Though I am not into just throwing former captive whales into the ocean and hoping for the best. But the current tank sizes… just, no.
Speaking of which, this person gives out tank dimensions, which is somehow supposed to make everyone think that it is more than enough than some nasty ol' seapen. I mean, the whales can dive to a whopping 36 feet in a SeaWorld tank! Fifteen feet in "the two side pools" as opposed to the depths a wild orca can reach, which is, what, a hundred feet? Two hundred plus, depending on what they're hunting. For a comparison recreational scuba divers usually max out at 98 feet. Even a free diver gets to dive deeper than poor Shamu.
And swim a hundred and eighty feet in a straight line! That's totally better than swimming 100 miles or so a day.
But I guess at SeaWorld the orcas has no use for deep diving or long range swimming as they are fed dead fish from a steel bucket and spend most of their time on the surface. Deep pools, who needs 'em? Not SeaWorld orcas, that's for sure.
Not to mention the sheer number of orcas they cram into these tanks, which results in less space for them to move around in. SeaWorld solves that problem by sending the excess whales to other parks, destroying the mother-calf bond in the process. I think it's their twisted way of showing how much they care, getting rid of surplus animals to make room for the others. How considerate of them.
And let's not forget that captive animals apparently have it so much better than those in the wild, because of all the man-made problems they face.
They'd been surviving well enough until we came along with our pollution, over-fishing, hunting and general fucking up of the planet, and we show we care by destroying tight-knit family groups in the name of conservation and education.
And SeaWorld hasn't captured an orca since 1975? That's only for those in the Pacific Northwest. What about the Icelandic captures? Did you forget about those as well?
A "fancy resort for whales." Well, gee I guess you may be right. So, when is the holiday over for them and when can they go home?
Oh, right, they can't. It's not a "fancy resort" but a prison. I don't think I like to spend the rest of my life in a hotel room being unable to leave it, eating room service food all the time and having to share the space with half a dozen other people. I'd get fucking bored.
regardless of how many they breed or how well taken care of they are these animals should be in the wild. l great greatly appreciate that they nurse them back to health BUT i do not agree with making money off these animals. these animals should be free.
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Disney Princesses in oil, by the phenomenally talented Heather Theurer.
Go forth elven prince of the mountains
He must be a half elf because Elves can't grow beards
Gimli and Legolas's true son.
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If you are serious about winning your fantasy league football championship, stay on top of your fantasy football team throughout the year.
Each week during the NFL fantasy football season, KFFL brings you its Fantasy Football Waiver Wire, which breaks down players to pick up. Be aggressive when picking up fantasy football free agents. Even if you do not need a player, you can tuck him away for depth or block others from adding him to their fantasy football team.
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Novak will replace Nate Kaeding (knee), who's done for the 2011 season. Any Chargers kicker is a solid one to own, even if he has a 63.3 field goal percentage for his career. This offense is high-powered enough to set him up for plenty of opportunities.
Fantasy football free agents: One-week plays
The following fantasy football pickups are for those who need injury or bye week replacements. They are not players you immediately acquire - unless your team is in dire straights. Some have, however, shown some life and should be followed in case they materialize as options beyond their temporary use.
Shaun Suisham, Pittsburgh Steelers (67 percent)
The Seattle Seahawks surrendered four field goal attempts to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1. That was largely due to San Fran's offense struggling more so than Seattle's D playing well, but the Steelers' offense couldn't get on track in Week 1. The loss of right tackle Willie Colon (triceps) may cause more fits in Week 2. Pittsburgh could be in position to give Suisham extra work this week ... hear that, Nate Kaeding owners?
The Oakland Raiders played competently enough against the Denver Broncos to force three field goal tries. The Bills, like the Broncos, will probably have some trouble in the red zone, unless Scott Chandler is for real. Either way, the Raiders' secondary can be abused by the right offense; Buffalo can pass enough to take advantage. Either way, Lindell, already coming off 11 PK points in the opener, should line up for numerous kick opportunities once again.
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December 2013 Update - The Marseilles Lock and Dam complex located on the Illinois Waterway Project at Marseilles, Ill., was completed by the federal government in 1933. The dam spans from the right descending bank to Bells Island. The lock is located further downstream and is accessed by a canal situated between Bells Island and the left descending bank.
The gated dam control structure (dam) and earthen dike structure (earth dike) were damaged during an April 2013 flood event. Five of eight 60-foot wide tainter gates were impacted by seven barges that had broken loose during high flows. Two Tainter gates (2 and 3) on the dam were rendered inoperable, as their common trunnion anchorage on Pier 2 was broken free from the dam. Gates 4, 5 and 6 were also impacted but did not lose their trunnion anchorage and are currently being used to regulate flow. The barges were removed during the period of April 25 to June 17.
The earth dike contains the pool created by the Marseilles Dam and extends approximately one-half mile upstream of the dam along the right descending bank. The City of Marseilles is located behind the earth dike. The land along the earth dike is mostly privately owned but there is a federal easement to maintain it. During the April flood event overtopping of the earth dike caused extensive flooding and significant scour to the dike.
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But the less aggressive, less expensive fertility treatments are worth a try in some women, says Mousa Shamonki, MD, director of in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center. For unexplained infertility, the lower-tech options include those evaluated in the U.K. study and also injections of hormones combined with intrauterine insemination, he says.
For other types of fertility problems -- other than unexplained infertility -- Clomid alone may work, Shamonki says. "Clomid works well for women who aren't ovulating [regularly]," he says, such as women with polycystic ovary syndrome. PCOS is a leading cause of female infertility. Insemination alone may work for couples who have mild male-factor infertility or who have a history of cervical surgery, he says.
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While campaigning in Florida for a Republican House candidate, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told a crowd that his caucus would propose weekly spending cuts should they win the majority in the upcoming mid-terms. Such a promise is welcomed in this day of trillion-dollar budget deficits, but actions speak louder than words and we are seeing signs that this newfound fiscal conservatism may be short lived.
In March, House Republicans enacted a caucus-wide moratorium on earmarks, specific line items that are inserted into spending bills, obviously an easy position to assert when your party is in the minority. But in recent days, Republicans have showed signs that they are not going to hold themselves to that same standard in the likely event that the take control of the lower chamber. In fact, the Pledge to America, the politically safe document Republicans are campaigning on this year, makes absolutely no mention of earmarks.
While earmarks do not account for a significant amount of the overall budget, they are representative of much of what is wrong in Washington. Earmarks have been, as Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has called them, the "currency of corruption." They have been the downfall of congressmen and lobbyists and the ire of groups like the Club for Growth.
Many of the criticisms leveled at earmarks are valid. They are often not subject to competitive bidding or proper oversight, though in recent years, members of both chambers of Congress have been required to disclose their requests for earmarks on their congressional webpage. Additionally, earmarks are often egregiously wasteful. For example, earmarks tucked away in the yet-to-be-approved budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, include $900,000 to build a beach park in Pascagoula, Mississippi, $1 million for potato research, and $22.5 million for bicycle paths in various towns across the country.
If Republicans are truly serious about cutting the size of government, they should take a strong and consistent stand on the sort wasteful spending that caused them to lose their majority in 2006. If they opt for business as usual, the tea party movement will be waiting for them in 2012.
October 15th, 2010
6:33 am
We need the tea party to start working down to the state and local level. The Republicans in the State of Georgia are some of the worst tax and spend bozo's in the country.
October 15th, 2010
7:26 am
Vote Libertarian for REAL change you can believe in.
October 15th, 2010
8:34 am
Term Limits Term Limits Term Limits. If these career politicians ever held a real job, instead of the politics of business, they may actually come in touch with reality. If they are career politician, their job is campaigning and they could care less what happens in between elections so long as they get votes. That is why we have earmarks and we spend $1 million researching potatos.
October 15th, 2010
9:50 am
There was a political ad last night that was interesting. Bill Owens D-23rd, N.Y. , the ad claimed that he voted to spend 1 million+ to study ants in South Africa. I figure that the ants in the U.S. should be studied. Lets keep ear mark spending in this country.
Like with the stimulus-pork barrel- ear mark spending in a sleepy Montana border check point that sees 3 travelers a day. It will get 15 million under Pres Obama's stimulus plan for upgrade.
Or the ear mark spending that Congress voted for themselves, $350,000 to renovate the House Beauty salon, or 6 million to upgrade the 2 block long Senate subway.
October 15th, 2010
11:04 am
I don't understand what the problem is. Haven't repubtards always used earmarks? Why should these beneficial programs stop now. Making a promise never holds up anyway. So just tell the people any old thing and once we get elected, it is business as usual.
October 15th, 2010
11:52 am
While earmarks do not account for a significant amount of the overall budget, they are representative of much of what is wrong in Washington.
That's nice "conventional wisdom" from the right, but it's not correct.
The "Citizens United" ruling is representative of much of what is wrong in Washington.
October 15th, 2010
12:16 pm
No politician is going to vote to end earmarks. It's how they butter their bread.
October 15th, 2010
12:22 pm
Go to Cynthia Tucker's column from a couple of days ago and watch that video. Not one Republican questioned can tell us one specific spending cut they would make. What's that tell you. Idle talk is all that is coming from the party that got us into this mess to begin with with 8 years of budget busting and the biggest expansion of government in the history of this country.
October 15th, 2010
12:47 pm
Supreme Being, the Constitution provides "term limits" – Congress: 2 years, Senate: 6 years, POTUS: 4 years. how easy is that? it's the fact that the very same people yammering about "term limits" continue to ELECT the same politicians year in and year out.
October 15th, 2010
1:13 pm
We actually do have term limits on the Presidency.
October 15th, 2010
1:43 pm
"…his caucus would propose weekly spending cuts should they win the majority in the upcoming mid-terms."
Note this says "propose" not pass spending cuts. No one is going to seriously cut spending.
paleo-neo-Carlinist at 12:47 is correct. Every single member of the US House of Representatives is out of a job 12/31/2010.
But, there is always a but, all you people will re-elect the vast majority of the House and they will all be employed on 1/1/2011 in the same job they had the day before.
Note: if you keep electing the same people over and over and over things will continue the be the same the same the same.
Is this concept intellectually way over every one's head?
October 15th, 2010
1:59 pm
"If Republicans are truly serious about cutting the size of government"
Does this look serious:
1. Republicans Nixon and Ford increased spending by 43% or 21.5% per term
2. Republican George HW Bush increased spending by 18% in one term
3. Democrat Jimmy Carter increased spending by 13% over one term
4. Republican George W Bush increased spending by 25% or 12.5% per term
5. Republican Ronald Reagan increased spending by a total of 25% or 12.5% per term
6. Democrat Lyndon Johnson increased spending by a total of 24% or 12% per term
7. Democrat Bill Clinton increased spending by a total of 9% or 4.5% per term.
Republicans have been misleading the American Public on fiscal responsiblity for 50 years. Only guy to fix the problem was Clinton and we saw how he got treated…not that I condone his dalliances I just don't think they were or are relevant.
October 15th, 2010
2:39 pm
I'm with Paleo the Lesser: all you people do is get on blogs to complain and spout your contradictions.
October 15th, 2010
3:14 pm
paleo-neo-carlinist the 1st, esquire … quit complaining about people complaining…just another contradiction.
October 15th, 2010
5:15 pm
You can't make a silk parse out of a sow's earmark.
October 15th, 2010
5:26 pm
as the libertarian bumper sticker (and fortune cookie) reads; if we do not change our direction, we will end up exactly where we're headed."
October 15th, 2010
5:53 pm
It is so clear that politicians will say and do anything to get elected and re-elected I truly wonder if anyone in America beleives a word they say.
October 16th, 2010
7:24 am
Typical Republican hypocrite! An dust how many earmarks did Barr get while in Congress?
October 16th, 2010
7:29 am
I've already researched potatoes, I know how to make french fries, boiled, mashed……..etc. Put the money back in the bank.
October 16th, 2010
8:38 am
The Feds spent several times more of our money in 2009 on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than they did on TARP. Where is the accountability?
October 16th, 2010
8:42 am
Hopefully that earmark for researching the potato will yield some good results… I want better french fries from burger king.
October 16th, 2010
8:47 am
Bob Barr is wasted on his own trolls. "Earmarks..Ring". Get it? I know how you feel, Bob Barr. That's the reason you usually only refer to 1984, Soylent Green, and Chicken Little: because the literate exceptionals on this blog love to hear the same fairy tale over and over.
Hey trolls, I can sound just like Yogi Bear!! "Hey Boo Boo, lets go steal a pickanick basket!"
October 16th, 2010
9:29 am
One thing to remember when comparing gov't expansion numbers, under Bill Clinton the Republicans controlled both the house and senate for the first time in 50 years. So under all those other republican and democrat presidents, the dem's controlled congress. Interesting since the president can only approve or veto the budget and spending bills…
October 16th, 2010
3:56 pm
This year we're seeing record spending on political campaigns. Maybe all these contributions, coming from parts unknown, have no strings attached. We'd like to believe that all the contributions come from concerned citizens worried about run away government. I'd like to believe ice cream wasn't fattening but I don't. The truth is that the more we spend on campaigns, the the more our elected representatives spend on government. The more a drunk drinks the drunker he gets. the more we spend on campaigns the more government we get. Want change you can really believe in. Try term limits and public campaign financing.
October 17th, 2010
6:32 am
[...] Earmark pledges ring hollow | The Barr Code. [...]
October 17th, 2010
7:23 am
When have the Republicans EVER submitted a balanced federal budget? NEVER! Even when hey had control of the White House and both houses of Congress they didn't come close. The Republicans don't cut spending, they shift it from programs designed to help people (Social Security, MEdicare, Pell grants, etc) to programs that help THEIR people (military industrial complex, big corporations, bridges to no where, etc)
October 17th, 2010
7:57 am
"Interesting since the president can only approve or veto the budget and spending bills…"
And as I remember Clinton was the only one in memory to actually veto spending bills. As for the Repugs…the key components of his success were proper tax levels and Pay as You Go, both of which were implemented prior to the change in congressional control. BTW Duhbya's first acts included repealing both measures.
You should also remember that the president is the one that submits the budget to congress…if you do the comparisons you will find that in every case he gets what he wants with very minor changes. To say the president does not drive the budget process is incorrect.
The Repugs were then and later part of problem not part of the solution.
October 17th, 2010
8:56 am
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
I won't argue that we need to keep government free of the private sector, but it is every bit as important that we keep the private sector out of our government. Billions of dollars are spent buying 30 second attack ads. the purpose of these ads is not inspiration or enlightenment, but rather to inspire fear and to draw our attention away from our real problems.Just one example, every since the days of Nixon, We have acknowledged that America needs to be energy independent. President after president have restated our need to free ourselves of our dependence on foreign oil. Nixon stated that we should be independent by 1980. More recently Bush suggested partial independence by 2025. America doesn't need foreign oil. The oil companies need foreign oil. The oil companies care for you the same way a drug pusher cares for A crack addict. They love you you're a valuable customer. They intend to keep you as valuable customers no matter how many sleaze balls they have to elect. A lot of you are correct. America has become a welfare state. What many don't see , is that these days welfare queens wear Brooks Brothers suits. Mark Twain was right, we have the best government money can buy.
October 17th, 2010
10:08 am
Don't worry Georgia/America……………………………
We have faced the enemy, and it's Washington trickling down..
October 17th, 2010
9:08 pm
Republicans' Tax-Cut Proposals Would Double the Budget Deficit
the GOP's deficit-detonating tax-cut proposals make the Democrats with their spending look like pikers. The stimulus bill, remember, cost $787 billion. The tax-cut bill that Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled last week—a combination of making permanent the Bush tax cuts and throwing in a host of other tax credits—has a price tag of around $3.9 trillion. For those keeping score at home, the self-styled party of fiscal responsibility wants to blow a hole in the budget nearly five times larger than the alleged profligacy they have spent the last year or more condemning.


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For Immediate Release:Majority Caucus Louisville Metro CouncilContact: Tony Hyatt 574-4137/526-3622Councilwoman Vicki Aubrey Welch is once again extending an invitation to residents of District 13 to come out for "Coffee with your Councilwoman" on Saturday, November 13th.
"This month I want to hear from everyone who may have what might be called a "wish list" of ideas you would like to see us work on together for the future of the District and South Louisville," says Welch. "I want to focus on what your think is important for our community, so we decided not to have a special guest this month so I and my staff can be available to hear what people have to say."
The November "Coffee with your Councilwoman" will be held at the First String Family Sports Grill and Pub, 5921 New Cut Road just off from the Outer Loop. It begins at 9:00am.
"There is so much going on in Metro Louisville with a new Mayor coming into office, I am sure many people have thoughts on how our city should move forward," says Welch. "I would love to hear about. It's a very informal meeting, so come and have a cup of coffee and just say "hi" if you want to."
To learn more about the November District 13 "Coffee with your Councilwoman" contact Councilwoman Welch's office at 574-1113.
Sponsor:Vicki Aubrey Welch (D) 13


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When I was working on my first novel, I made a daily visit to a Website that promised that anyone (yes, you, too, if only you weren't such a loser!) could write a book in two weeks. I don't remember whether they were selling software, or self-hypnosis or maybe even a book that they themselves had whipped out in a 14 day orgy of caffeine and typing. It didn't matter. Whatever it was, I had no intention of buying it.
And yet, for me, there was an inexplicable magic in their overheated pitch, and every morning before I began to work, I reread it. It became my personal writing ritual. Though I knew it was manipulative, and I didn't believe it, it worked anyway. It didn't matter if I was exhausted or riddled with the doubts that stopped me so many times in the past, I only had to read their page of hype and the tap opened.
Did I finish a novel in two weeks? Nope. Nor did I ever believe I could--though we all know it can be done. (Tish Cohen wrote Town House a novel so good that it was nominated for the prestigious Commonweath Prize in that time period.) But using my magic ritual, I had a draft in 90 days. A record for me.
Unfortunately, by the time I was ready to write my second novel, the Website had disappeared, taking its mysterious voodoo with it. I was crushed. I was also forced to think about what their pep talk had done for me, how it had released energies I never knew I had. Since I never bought the product, I never learned the secret they were selling.
But I learned something about myself. I learned that I could do more than I thought I could, more than I was allowing myself to do. I might not be able to write 20 pages a day; or have the resilience to stare at my laptop for twelve hours at a stretch, but if I tried, if I challenged my self-defined limits, if I set out in the morning with a sense of expanded possibility, I surprised myself almost every time.
Now I designate every Tuesday as "blitz day." Most days I'm happy with my normally slow, but steady pace, but on Tuesday, I get up earlier than usual and give myself my version of the "pitch" in the mirror. (Fortunately, my family already knows I'm crazy.) Then I go to my room and write as if I really could finish a novel in two weeks.


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From high altitudes, the call quality is not very good, and most callers will experience drops. Although calls are not reliable, callers can pick up and hold calls for a little while below a certain altitude, she added."
The same government whose attempt to fool Americans into believing that Colin Powell meekly pointing at an Iraqi ice cream truck was their best effort to prove a clear and present danger to our lives worth going to war existed somehow was also able to pull off the most elaborately complex plan in the history of mankind without leaving any solid evidence to prove their misdeeds other than crumbs of facts that college kids with a YouTube video were able to unravel. Probably not.
*based upon tedious fact checking.
NORAD Mission and Structure. NORAD is a binational command established in 1958 between the United States and Canada. Its mission was, and is, to defend the airspace of North America and protect the continent. That mission does not distinguish between internal and external threats; but because NORAD was created to counter the Soviet threat, it came to define its job as defending against external attacks.96
The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the number of NORAD alert sites was reduced from its Cold War high of 26. Some within the Pentagon argued in the 1990s that the alert sites should be eliminated entirely. In an effort to preserve their mission, members of the air defense community advocated the importance of air sovereignty against emerging "asymmetric threats" to the United States: drug smuggling, "non-state and state-sponsored terrorists," and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology.97
NORAD perceived the dominant threat to be from cruise missiles. Other threats were identified during the late 1990s, including terrorists' use of aircraft as weapons. Exercises were conducted to counter this threat, but they were not based on actual intelligence. In most instances, the main concern was the use of such aircraft to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
Prior to 9/11, it was understood that an order to shoot down a commercial aircraft would have to be issued by the National Command Authority (a phrase used to describe the president and secretary of defense). Exercise planners also assumed that the aircraft would originate from outside the United States, allowing time to identify the target and scramble interceptors. The threat of terrorists hijacking commercial airliners within the United States-and using them as guided missiles-was not recognized by NORAD before 9/11.98
Notwithstanding the identification of these emerging threats, by 9/11 there were only seven alert sites left in the United States, each with two fighter aircraft on alert. This led some NORAD commanders to worry that NORAD was not postured adequately to protect the United States.99
In the United States, NORAD is divided into three sectors. On 9/11, all the hijacked aircraft were in NORAD's Northeast Air Defense Sector (also known as NEADS), which is based in Rome, New York. That morning NEADS could call on two alert sites, each with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia.100 Other facilities, not on "alert," would need time to arm the fighters and organize crews.
NEADS reported to the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR) headquarters, in Panama City, Florida, which in turn reported to NORAD headquarters, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Interagency Collaboration. The FAA and NORAD had developed protocols for working together in the event of a hijacking. As they existed on 9/11, the protocols for the FAA to obtain military assistance from NORAD required multiple levels of notification and approval at the highest levels of government.101
FAA guidance to controllers on hijack procedures assumed that the aircraft pilot would notify the controller via radio or by "squawking" a transponder code of "7500"-the universal code for a hijack in progress. Controllers would notify their supervisors, who in turn would inform management all the way up to FAA headquarters in Washington. Headquarters had a hijack coordinator, who was the director of the FAA Office of Civil Aviation Security or his or her designate.102
If a hijack was confirmed, procedures called for the hijack coordinator on duty to contact the Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) and to ask for a military escort aircraft to follow the flight, report anything unusual, and aid search and rescue in the event of an emergency. The NMCC would then seek approval from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to provide military assistance. If approval was given, the orders would be transmitted down NORAD's chain of command.103
The NMCC would keep the FAA hijack coordinator up to date and help the FAA centers coordinate directly with the military. NORAD would receive tracking information for the hijacked aircraft either from joint use radar or from the relevant FAA air traffic control facility. Every attempt would be made to have the hijacked aircraft squawk 7500 to help NORAD track it.104
The protocols did not contemplate an intercept. They assumed the fighter escort would be discreet, "vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft," where it could perform its mission to monitor the aircraft's flight path.105
In sum, the protocols in place on 9/11 for the FAA and NORAD to respond to a hijacking presumed that
the hijacked aircraft would be readily identifiable and would not attempt to disappear;
there would be time to address the problem through the appropriate FAA and NORAD chains of command; and
hijacking would take the traditional form: that is, it would not be a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile.
On the morning of 9/11, the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen.
American Airlines Flight 11 FAA Awareness. Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked. At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight. He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency. Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.106
At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft. The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking. The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a "no radio" aircraft.107
The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11. He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace. Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.108
At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11:
American 11: We have some planes. Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay. We are returning to the airport.
The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words "we have some planes." The next transmission came seconds later:
American 11: Nobody move. Everything will be okay. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet.109
The controller told us that he then knew it was a hijacking. He alerted his supervisor, who assigned another controller to assist him. He redoubled his efforts to ascertain the flight's altitude. Because the controller didn't understand the initial transmission, the manager of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to "pull the tape" of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back.110
Between 8:25 and 8:32, in accordance with the FAA protocol, Boston Center managers started notifying their chain of command that American 11 had been hijacked. At 8:28, Boston Center called the Command Center in Herndon to advise that it believed American 11 had been hijacked and was heading toward New York Center's airspace.
By this time, American 11 had taken a dramatic turn to the south. At 8:32, the Command Center passed word of a possible hijacking to the Operations Center at FAA headquarters. The duty officer replied that security personnel at headquarters had just begun discussing the apparent hijack on a conference call with the New England regional office. FAA headquarters began to follow the hijack protocol but did not contact the NMCC to request a fighter escort.111
The Herndon Command Center immediately established a teleconference between Boston, New York, and Cleveland Centers so that Boston Center could help the others understand what was happening.112
At 8:34, the Boston Center controller received a third transmission from American 11:
American 11: Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves.113
In the succeeding minutes, controllers were attempting to ascertain the altitude of the southbound flight.114
Military Notification and Response. Boston Center did not follow the protocol in seeking military assistance through the prescribed chain of command. In addition to notifications within the FAA, Boston Center took the initiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA's Cape Cod facility. The center also tried to contact a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out. At 8:37:52, Boston Center reached NEADS. This was the first notification received by the military-at any level-that American 11 had been hijacked:115
FAA: Hi. Boston Center TMU [Traffic Management Unit], we have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out.
NEADS: Is this real-world or exercise?
FAA: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.116
NEADS ordered to battle stations the two F-15 alert aircraft at Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, 153 miles away from New York City. The air defense of America began with this call.117
At NEADS, the report of the hijacking was relayed immediately to Battle Commander Colonel Robert Marr. After ordering the Otis fighters to battle stations, Colonel Marr phoned Major General Larry Arnold, commanding general of the First Air Force and NORAD's Continental Region. Marr sought authorization to scramble the Otis fighters. General Arnold later recalled instructing Marr to "go ahead and scramble them, and we'll get authorities later." General Arnold then called NORAD headquarters to report.118
F-15 fighters were scrambled at 8:46 from Otis Air Force Base. But NEADS did not know where to send the alert fighter aircraft, and the officer directing the fighters pressed for more information: "I don't know where I'm scrambling these guys to. I need a direction, a destination." Because the hijackers had turned off the plane's transponder, NEADS personnel spent the next minutes searching their radar scopes for the primary radar return. American 11 struck the North Tower at 8:46. Shortly after 8:50, while NEADS personnel were still trying to locate the flight, word reached them that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.119
Radar data show the Otis fighters were airborne at 8:53. Lacking a target, they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast. To avoid New York area air traffic and uncertain about what to do, the fighters were brought down to military airspace to "hold as needed. "From 9:09 to 9:13, the Otis fighters stayed in this holding pattern.120
In summary, NEADS received notice of the hijacking nine minutes before it struck the North Tower. That nine minutes' notice before impact was the most the military would receive of any of the four hijackings.121
United Airlines Flight 175 FAA Awareness. One of the last transmissions from United Airlines Flight 175 is, in retrospect, chilling. By 8:40, controllers at the FAA's New York Center were seeking information on American 11. At approximately 8:42, shortly after entering New York Center's airspace, the pilot of United 175 broke in with the following transmission:
UAL 175: New York UAL 175 heavy.
FAA: UAL 175 go ahead.
UAL 175:Yeah.We figured we'd wait to go to your center.Ah, we hearda suspicious transmission on our departure out of Boston, ah, with someone, ah, it sounded like someone keyed the mikes and said ah everyone ah stay in your seats.
FAA: Oh, okay. I'll pass that along over here.122
Minutes later, United 175 turned southwest without clearance from air traffic control. At 8:47, seconds after the impact of American 11, United 175's transponder code changed, and then changed again. These changes were not noticed for several minutes, however, because the same New York Center controller was assigned to both American 11 and United 175.The controller knew American 11 was hijacked; he was focused on searching for it after the aircraft disappeared at 8:46.123
At 8:48, while the controller was still trying to locate American 11, a New York Center manager provided the following report on a Command Center teleconference about American 11:
Manager, New York Center: Okay. This is New York Center. We're watching the airplane. I also had conversation with American Airlines, and they've told us that they believe that one of their stewardesses was stabbed and that there are people in the cockpit that have control of the aircraft, and that's all the information they have right now.124
The New York Center controller and manager were unaware that American 11 had already crashed.
At 8:51, the controller noticed the transponder change from United 175 and tried to contact the aircraft. There was no response. Beginning at 8:52, the controller made repeated attempts to reach the crew of United 175. Still no response. The controller checked his radio equipment and contacted another controller at 8:53, saying that "we may have a hijack" and that he could not find the aircraft.125
Another commercial aircraft in the vicinity then radioed in with "reports over the radio of a commuter plane hitting the World Trade Center." The controller spent the next several minutes handing off the other flights on his scope to other controllers and moving aircraft out of the way of the unidentified aircraft (believed to be United 175) as it moved southwest and then turned northeast toward New York City.126
At about 8:55, the controller in charge notified a New York Center manager that she believed United 175 had also been hijacked. The manager tried to notify the regional managers and was told that they were discussing a hijacked aircraft (presumably American 11) and refused to be disturbed. At 8:58, the New York Center controller searching for United 175 told another New York controller "we might have a hijack over here, two of them."127
Between 9:01 and 9:02, a manager from New York Center told the Command Center in Herndon:
Manager, New York Center: We have several situations going on here. It's escalating big, big time. We need to get the military involved with us.. . . We're, we're involved with something else, we have other aircraft that may have a similar situation going on here.128
The "other aircraft" referred to by New York Center was United 175. Evidence indicates that this conversation was the only notice received by either FAA headquarters or the Herndon Command Center prior to the second crash that there had been a second hijacking.
While the Command Center was told about this "other aircraft" at 9:01, New York Center contacted New York terminal approach control and asked for help in locating United 175.
Terminal: I got somebody who keeps coasting but it looks like he's going into one of the small airports down there.
Center: Hold on a second. I'm trying to bring him up here and get you-There he is right there. Hold on.
Terminal: Got him just out of 9,500-9,000 now.
Center: Do you know who he is?
Terminal: We're just, we just we don't know who he is.We're just picking him up now.
Center (at 9:02): Alright. Heads up man, it looks like another one coming in.129
The controllers observed the plane in a rapid descent; the radar data terminated over Lower Manhattan. At 9:03, United 175 crashed into the South Tower.130
Meanwhile, a manager from Boston Center reported that they had deciphered what they had heard in one of the first hijacker transmissions from American 11:
Boston Center: Hey . . . you still there?
New England Region:Yes, I am.
Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that "we have planes." Now, I don't know if it was because it was the accent, or if there's more than one, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna reconfirm that for you, and I'll get back to you real quick. Okay?
New England Region: Appreciate it.
Unidentified Female Voice: They have what?
Boston Center: Planes, as in plural.
Boston Center: It sounds like, we're talking to New York, that there's another one aimed at the World Trade Center.
New England Region: There's another aircraft?
Boston Center: A second one just hit the Trade Center.
New England Region: Okay. Yeah, we gotta get-we gotta alert the military real quick on this.131
Boston Center immediately advised the New England Region that it was going to stop all departures at airports under its control. At 9:05, Boston Center confirmed for both the FAA Command Center and the New England Region that the hijackers aboard American 11 said "we have planes." At the same time, NewYork Center declared "ATC zero"-meaning that aircraft were not permitted to depart from, arrive at, or travel through New York Center's airspace until further notice.132
Within minutes of the second impact, Boston Center instructed its controllers to inform all aircraft in its airspace of the events in New York and to advise aircraft to heighten cockpit security. Boston Center asked the Herndon Command Center to issue a similar cockpit security alert nationwide. We have found no evidence to suggest that the Command Center acted on this request or issued any type of cockpit security alert.133
Military Notification and Response. The first indication that the NORAD air defenders had of the second hijacked aircraft, United 175, came in a phone call from New York Center to NEADS at 9:03.The notice came at about the time the plane was hitting the South Tower.134
By 9:08, the mission crew commander at NEADS learned of the second explosion at the World Trade Center and decided against holding the fighters in military airspace away from Manhattan:
Mission Crew Commander, NEADS: This is what I foresee that we probably need to do. We need to talk to FAA. We need to tell 'em if this stuff is gonna keep on going, we need to take those fighters, put 'em over Manhattan. That's best thing, that's the best play right now. So coordinate with the FAA. Tell 'em if there's more out there, which we don't know, let's get 'em over Manhattan. At least we got some kind of play.135
The FAA cleared the airspace. Radar data show that at 9:13, when the Otis fighters were about 115 miles away from the city, the fighters exited their holding pattern and set a course direct for Manhattan. They arrived at 9:25 and established a combat air patrol (CAP) over the city.136
Because the Otis fighters had expended a great deal of fuel in flying first to military airspace and then to New York, the battle commanders were concerned about refueling. NEADS considered scrambling alert fighters from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to New York, to provide backup. The Langley fighters were placed on battle stations at 9:09.137 NORAD had no indication that any other plane had been hijacked.
American Airlines Flight 77
FAA Awareness. American 77 began deviating from its flight plan at 8:54, with a slight turn toward the south. Two minutes later, it disappeared completely from radar at Indianapolis Center, which was controlling the flight.138
The controller tracking American 77 told us he noticed the aircraft turning to the southwest, and then saw the data disappear. The controller looked for primary radar returns. He searched along the plane's projected flight path and the airspace to the southwest where it had started to turn. No primary targets appeared. He tried the radios, first calling the aircraft directly, then the air-line. Again there was nothing. At this point, the Indianapolis controller had no knowledge of the situation in New York. He did not know that other aircraft had been hijacked. He believed American 77 had experienced serious electrical or mechanical failure, or both, and was gone.139
Shortly after 9:00, Indianapolis Center started notifying other agencies that American 77 was missing and had possibly crashed. At 9:08, Indianapolis Center asked Air Force Search and Rescue at Langley Air Force Base to look for a downed aircraft. The center also contacted the West Virginia State Police and asked whether any reports of a downed aircraft had been received. At 9:09, it reported the loss of contact to the FAA regional center, which passed this information to FAA headquarters at 9:24.140
By 9:20, Indianapolis Center learned that there were other hijacked aircraft, and began to doubt its initial assumption that American 77 had crashed. A discussion of this concern between the manager at Indianapolis and the Command Center in Herndon prompted it to notify some FAA field facilities that American 77 was lost. By 9:21, the Command Center, some FAA field facilities, and American Airlines had started to search for American 77.They feared it had been hijacked. At 9:25, the Command Center advised FAA headquarters of the situation.141
The failure to find a primary radar return for American 77 led us to investigate this issue further. Radar reconstructions performed after 9/11 reveal that FAA radar equipment tracked the flight from the moment its transponder was turned off at 8:56. But for 8 minutes and 13 seconds, between 8:56 and 9:05, this primary radar information on American 77 was not displayed to controllers at Indianapolis Center.142 The reasons are technical, arising from the way the software processed radar information, as well as from poor primary radar coverage where American 77 was flying.
According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known posi-tion. The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading. Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.143
In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around. By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west. Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets. American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C.144
By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center. They knew American 77 was lost. At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes." Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount. A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a "nationwide ground stop." While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.145
The Command Center kept looking for American 77. At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets. At 9:32, they found one. Several of the Dulles controllers "observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed" and notified Reagan National Airport. FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service. The aircraft's identity or type was unknown.146
Reagan National controllers then vectored an unarmed National Guard C130H cargo aircraft, which had just taken off en route to Minnesota, to identify and follow the suspicious aircraft. The C-130H pilot spotted it, identified it as a Boeing 757, attempted to follow its path, and at 9:38, seconds after impact, reported to the control tower: "looks like that aircraft crashed into the Pentagon sir."147
Military Notification and Response. NORAD heard nothing about the search for American 77. Instead, the NEADS air defenders heard renewed reports about a plane that no longer existed: American 11.
At 9:21, NEADS received a report from the FAA:
FAA: Military, Boston Center. I just had a report that American 11 is still in the air, and it's on its way towards-heading towards Washington.
NEADS: Okay. American 11 is still in the air?
FAA: Yes.
NEADS: On its way towards Washington?
FAA: That was another-it was evidently another aircraft that hit the tower. That's the latest report we have.
NEADS: Okay.
FAA: I'm going to try to confirm an ID for you, but I would assume he's somewhere over, uh, either New Jersey or somewhere further south.
NEADS: Okay. So American 11 isn't the hijack at all then, right?
FAA: No, he is a hijack.
NEADS: He-American 11 is a hijack?
FAA: Yes.
NEADS: And he's heading into Washington?
FAA: Yes. This could be a third aircraft.148
The mention of a "third aircraft" was not a reference to American 77.There was confusion at that moment in the FAA. Two planes had struck the World Trade Center, and Boston Center had heard from FAA headquarters in Washington that American 11 was still airborne. We have been unable to identify the source of this mistaken FAA information.
The NEADS technician who took this call from the FAA immediately passed the word to the mission crew commander, who reported to the NEADS battle commander:
Mission Crew Commander, NEADS: Okay, uh, American Airlines is still airborne. Eleven, the first guy, he's heading towards Washington. Okay? I think we need to scramble Langley right now. And I'm gonna take the fighters from Otis, try to chase this guy down if I can find him.149
After consulting with NEADS command, the crew commander issued the order at 9:23:"Okay . . . scramble Langley. Head them towards the Washington area.. . . [I]f they're there then we'll run on them.. . .These guys are smart." That order was processed and transmitted to Langley Air Force Base at 9:24. Radar data show the Langley fighters airborne at 9:30. NEADS decided to keep the Otis fighters over New York. The heading of the Langley fighters was adjusted to send them to the Baltimore area. The mission crew commander explained to us that the purpose was to position the Langley fighters between the reported southbound American 11 and the nation's capital.150
At the suggestion of the Boston Center's military liaison, NEADS contacted the FAA's Washington Center to ask about American 11. In the course of the conversation, a Washington Center manager informed NEADS: "We're looking-we also lost American 77."The time was 9:34.151This was the first notice to the military that American 77 was missing, and it had come by chance. If NEADS had not placed that call, the NEADS air defenders would have received no information whatsoever that the flight was even missing, although the FAA had been searching for it. No one at FAA headquarters ever asked for military assistance with American 77.
At 9:36, the FAA's Boston Center called NEADS and relayed the discovery about an unidentified aircraft closing in on Washington: "Latest report. Aircraft VFR [visual flight rules] six miles southeast of the White House. . . . Six, southwest. Six, southwest of the White House, deviating away." This startling news prompted the mission crew commander at NEADS to take immediate control of the airspace to clear a flight path for the Langley fighters: "Okay, we're going to turn it . . . crank it up. . . . Run them to the White House." He then discovered, to his surprise, that the Langley fighters were not headed north toward the Baltimore area as instructed, but east over the ocean. "I don't care how many windows you break," he said. "Damn it.. . . Okay. Push them back."152
The Langley fighters were heading east, not north, for three reasons. First, unlike a normal scramble order, this order did not include a distance to the target or the target's location. Second, a "generic" flight plan-prepared to get the aircraft airborne and out of local airspace quickly-incorrectly led the Langley fighters to believe they were ordered to fly due east (090) for 60 miles. Third, the lead pilot and local FAA controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go "090 for 60" superseded the original scramble order.153
After the 9:36 call to NEADS about the unidentified aircraft a few miles from the White House, the Langley fighters were ordered to Washington, D.C. Controllers at NEADS located an unknown primary radar track, but "it kind of faded" over Washington. The time was 9:38.The Pentagon had been struck by American 77 at 9:37:46.The Langley fighters were about 150 miles away.154
Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft. It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all. After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport. Remembering the "we have some planes" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked. Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack. NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too. During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft. The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.155
NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it. The flight never turned off its transponder. NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.156 But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
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FAA Awareness. At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller. This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.157
Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard "a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin."158
The controller responded, seconds later: "Somebody call Cleveland? "This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming. The Cleveland Center controllers began to try to identify the possible source of the transmissions, and noticed that United 93 had descended some 700 feet. The controller attempted again to raise United 93 several times, with no response. At 9:30, the controller began to poll the other flights on his frequency to determine if they had heard the screaming; several said they had.159
At 9:32, a third radio transmission came over the frequency: "Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board." The controller understood, but chose to respond: "Calling Cleveland Center, you're unreadable. Say again, slowly." He notified his supervisor, who passed the notice up the chain of command. By 9:34, word of the hijacking had reached FAA headquarters.160
FAA headquarters had by this time established an open line of communication with the Command Center at Herndon and instructed it to poll all its centers about suspect aircraft. The Command Center executed the request and, a minute later, Cleveland Center reported that "United 93 may have a bomb on board. "At 9:34, the Command Center relayed the information concerning United 93 to FAA headquarters. At approximately 9:36, Cleveland advised the Command Center that it was still tracking United 93 and specifically inquired whether someone had requested the military to launch fighter aircraft to intercept the aircraft. Cleveland even told the Command Center it was prepared to contact a nearby military base to make the request. The Command Center told Cleveland that FAA personnel well above them in the chain of command had to make the decision to seek military assistance and were working on the issue.161
Between 9:34 and 9:38, the Cleveland controller observed United 93 climbing to 40,700 feet and immediately moved several aircraft out its way. The controller continued to try to contact United 93, and asked whether the pilot could confirm that he had been hijacked.162 There was no response.
Then, at 9:39, a fourth radio transmission was heard from United 93:
Ziad Jarrah: Uh, this is the captain. Would like you all to remain seated. There is a bomb on board and are going back to the airport, and to have our demands [unintelligible]. Please remain quiet.
The controller responded: "United 93, understand you have a bomb on board. Go ahead." The flight did not respond.163
From 9:34 to 10:08, a Command Center facility manager provided frequent updates to Acting Deputy Administrator Monte Belger and other executives at FAA headquarters as United 93 headed toward Washington, D.C. At 9:41, Cleveland Center lost United 93's transponder signal. The controller located it on primary radar, matched its position with visual sightings from other aircraft, and tracked the flight as it turned east, then south.164
At 9:42, the Command Center learned from news reports that a plane had struck the Pentagon. The Command Center's national operations manager, Ben Sliney, ordered all FAA facilities to instruct all aircraft to land at the nearest airport. This was an unprecedented order. The air traffic control system handled it with great skill, as about 4,500 commercial and general aviation aircraft soon landed without incident.165
At 9:46 the Command Center updated FAA headquarters that United 93 was now "twenty-nine minutes out of Washington, D.C."
At 9:49, 13 minutes after Cleveland Center had asked about getting military help, the Command Center suggested that someone at headquarters should decide whether to request military assistance:
FAA Headquarters: They're pulling Jeff away to go talk about United 93.
Command Center: Uh, do we want to think, uh, about scrambling aircraft?
FAA Headquarters: Oh, God, I don't know.
Command Center: Uh, that's a decision somebody's gonna have to make probably in the next ten minutes.
FAA Headquarters: Uh, ya know everybody just left the room.166
At 9:53, FAA headquarters informed the Command Center that the deputy director for air traffic services was talking to Monte Belger about scrambling aircraft. Then the Command Center informed headquarters that controllers had lost track of United 93 over the Pittsburgh area. Within seconds, the Command Center received a visual report from another aircraft, and informed headquarters that the aircraft was 20 miles northwest of Johnstown. United 93 was spotted by another aircraft, and, at 10:01, the Command Center advised FAA headquarters that one of the aircraft had seen United 93 "waving his wings." The aircraft had witnessed the hijackers' efforts to defeat the passengers' counterattack.167
United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03:11, 125 miles from Washington, D.C. The precise crash time has been the subject of some dispute. The 10:03:11 impact time is supported by previous National Transportation Safety Board analysis and by evidence from the Commission staff's analysis of radar, the flight data recorder, the cockpit voice recorder, infrared satellite data, and air traffic control transmissions.168
conspiracy theorists try to drag everything back to the level of common sense
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I'm sorry, wait, did you see what the explanation was?
Are you fucking kidding me? You're telling me the country was under attack by commercial airplanes and they accidentally ordered ALL the fucking fighter jets to flying due east across the fucking ocean for 60 minutes? And NOBODY caught this while they were, oh I dunno, tracking the plane headed for D.C.? Srsly?The Langley fighters were heading east, not north, for three reasons. First, unlike a normal scramble order, this order did not include a distance to the target or the target's location. Second, a "generic" flight plan-prepared to get the aircraft airborne and out of local airspace quickly-incorrectly led the Langley fighters to believe they were ordered to fly due east (090) for 60 miles. Third, the lead pilot and local FAA controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go "090 for 60" superseded the original scramble order.153
After the 9:36 call to NEADS about the unidentified aircraft a few miles from the White House, the Langley fighters were ordered to Washington, D.C. Controllers at NEADS located an unknown primary radar track, but "it kind of faded" over Washington. The time was 9:38.The Pentagon had been struck by American 77 at 9:37:46. The Langley fighters were about 150 miles away.
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theres no way it was rigged to explode either-it was a matter of how hot those fires got and how much jet fuel was burning.
in the fields where they took the remnants of the fallen towers theres I-beams that are bent so clean-they completely folded without any cracks.
So we have thousands of out of work Iraqi ex soldiers pissed off because their country is in total chaos and they're not allowed to help so when the extremists show up to set up shop and offer these pissed off ex soldiers a chance to "get their country back" what do you think they do?
You can thank ole Donny Rumsfeld for that one and 9/11 for carelessness.
this is terrible. why? why was this terrible thread made? silly politics
this is all retarded.
Dude! I totally heard we didn't even land on the moon!
We monitor and patrol the air space over other countries. You can't tell me that if they have heard hijackers have taken two airplanes confirmed to have been used as terrorist weapons in attacks against two highly populated national monuments (monuments to capitalism, America's true religion) and that two-plus other airliners have diverted from course and discontinued radio contact and are suspected of being hijacked--ONE OF WHICH MIGHT BE HEADED TOWARDS D.C.--that there is a fucking chance the proper air force protocol response is for those jets to all take off and fly straight east over the fucking ocean to leave D.C. completely unprotected.
I think what the long narrative I posted shows is that it took a very long time for people in charge to even understand we were "under attack by commercial airplanes". NORAD learned about the Pentagon strike on the news. It was a scenario the FAA and the defense dept didn't anticipate, didn't plan for, and hence didn't train anyone for. Read the excerpt closely and you'll even see that the FAA (Boston Unit) called an AF base that was closed. Significant clusterfuck. But by the time of the last fight, UA 93, some people had figured it out and so it suffered a "passenger counterattack" and "crashed". (or, it was shot down).
^this is true.
(i cant believe i typed that)
I dunno, I guess it's become hard by this point to think of our military or government emergency systems as being remotely efficient. But I just remember how my grandfather used to talk about all the scenarios and actions they had in place--had already had in place for several years--specifically just to deal with dozens of different scenarios in response to the threat of nuclear attack. How depending on the variaton of attack methods they had a given set of priorities and responses to each possible inbound attack and on and on... and it just feels incredibly hard for me to believe that ANY of these scenarios dictate for the protective air force squadron to fly ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING MILES OFF-SHORE away from the crucial national security targets they were scrambled to protect.
No matter what else you want to argue, by the point those fighters are scrambled their job was to patrol air space. They knew something was suspect, they weren't sure which planes were legitimate threats yet and which weren't. But weren't fucking none of them hanging out 150 FUCKING MILES over the Atlantic.
Look, I think almost all the conspiracy theorists are fags too. I really do. It's so silly. But when something sounds just too dubious for my brain to possibly tolerate having to reconcile... I can't. I just can't.
My mind, in all honestly, will not allow me to accept this. It would be more retarded than anything I could fathom if this were the truth.
I'm still not understanding what happened to the Israeli spies that were connected to 9-11, rounded up, and deported a week or so after. Fox News, of all people, reported on the story then it suddenly disappeared off their website.
it goes on and on..............
Last edited by Wheres the beef?; 03-16-2009 at 09:10 PM.
The thing is that they didn't seriously expect this kind of attack, these systems were developed during the Cold War when we had the kind protections in place that your grandfather was talking about. Since the wall fell we became more and more complacent in protecting ourselves, and still believed that any attack would come from outside the US. According to the report almost all of the drills and theories involved planes from abroad being highjacked and then taken into the US. that is why they might have had the 90 for 60 order on the books. It really was a clusterfuck and the military just wasn't ready for that type of attack. You are right it is fucking stupid, but that doesn't make it anyless true.
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Did anyone see the Hulk movie. I thought I'd have a popcorn/movie night with the little guy soon.
Is it youngster appropriate, or will it cause nightmares? (5 years old in September.)
(I also have a Looney Tunes The Movie backup plan. )
Did anyone see the Hulk movie. I thought I'd have a popcorn/movie night with the little guy soon.
Is it youngster appropriate, or will it cause nightmares? (5 years old in September.)
(I also have a Looney Tunes The Movie backup plan. )
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I saw it last year and didn't care for it. My then 7 year old son watched it and didn't have nightmares, but it just isn't very good IMO.
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Did your son like it?
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TC, there's nothing wrong with watching that movie just for Eric Bana. IMO.
I doubt TG would enjoy that
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I think he was bored by it. He loves Spiderman and Batman, and watches them constantly, and he liked Fantastic Four, but he's never asked to even see The Hulk again.Originally Posted by TeamCasey
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Samuel got a copy after we went to the theaters. I've seen that movie toooo blankety-blank many times!Originally Posted by TeamCasey
But Sam likes it. It's been on regular cable numerous times in the last couple of months.
It's OK. I thought the computer animation meshed well; but the plot/storyline was weak and very lacking. The Hulk doesn't make his first appearance till almost halfway thru the movie (not good with kids). They could have done alot better job IMO. They Hollywoodized what could have been a good movie IMO.
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TC, I'd avoid The Hulk if you're talking about watching it with someone that young.
First, to say that it starts slowly is an understatement. The background and origin of The Hulk is pretty darn convoluted in this film (and nothing like the comic). He's either going to get bored or you're going to have to tell him what's going on (that his father was an abusive nutcase who ended up killing his mother). Don't get me wrong- Eric Bana is really good and the CGI wasn't bad at all. But the plot is so messed up that even I (a HUGE comic book fan) ended up disappointed with the result.
Second, you'll run into Hulk fighting nasty hulk-like dogs. That fight, while action packed, is also REALLY violent.
I'd either go with your backup plan or, if he likes superheroes, try something like Mystery Men (Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria- 1999, PG-13). That's a pretty funny take on superheroes (Stiller is "Mr. Furious" whose superpower is just that he gets really mad. Azaria throws kitchen utensils. One guy is invisible, but only when no one is looking.). And there's a good deal of action. Or, if he hasn't seen The Incredibles, rent it immediately.
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Take him to see that new super hero movie with Kurt Russell. I hear it's pretty good.
Or maybe the Incredibles?
"panic" only comes from having real expectations
We have the Incredibles. We watched that and had a peanut butter and jelly picnic on a rainy day. I have Looney Tunes .... which I'm looking forward to, and I KNOW he'll like. I also have Elf, even though it's a Christmas movie.
I think I'll screen The Hulk. He was kind of bored with Spiderman, even though he loves the figurines and cars.
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My wife and I took our 8 year old son to see "Sky High" (the Kurt Russell movie GAC mentioned) last week. It's a decent movie for that age group. It is clean, has some laughs, and a good message.Originally Posted by GAC
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The Hulk was one of the most boring superhero movies I've seen.
My wife and I watched it, and decided not to let the kids watch it. It's a bad movie, and the part of the kid seeing his mom murdered was pretty disturbing. (I wouldn't want my kids to see it, although there is worse out there).
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Man, you should be a movie reviewer. You nailed it. If I had only known that about a year ago, it would've saved me from the 2 hours of boredomOriginally Posted by RFS62
Thank you Walt and Bob for going for it in 2010-2014!
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I heart succinctness.Originally Posted by RFS62
Was cute tonight. TB was getting excited about her birthday Scout seats game. She was planning batting practice and hall of fame and the whole nine yards. TM said, "We can't leave TC with TM all day!"
I told them to leave as early as they wanted .... go out, have lunch, pick up some sailors ...... yada, yada, yada. They NEVER have an adult day. Go for it!
I think boy and I will fish, picnic and have an evening slumber party movie fest.
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