"This is a new type of war, that's what it is."

Read the entire September 11 FAA transcript Here.


112. 1103 Cleared to engage




Controller: I told them our mission is to protect major centers and we’re goin’ to take you and drag you down to Pittsburgh, and do this, because I got a tanker comin’ now. But, ah, I just want to give them an ROE because it’s gonna’ be auto-ops once he’s down there. So I want to make sure I got clear concise words to him before he leaves. Granted they only got four turrets of guns



[Background] Unknown: If they don’t, ah, if they do not, don’t respond to divert to hand signals and divert procedures and are headed toward a major area then you are cleared to engage.



Controller: Wilco.



Controller: Cobra and Apex, this is Huntress.



Cobra One: Huntress.



Huntress: Okay, there is still a bit of traffic airborne, they’re not all completely down, I imagine it’s all low south of you, if you’ll hold two loops before the tanker gets, ah, Oh, shit, I need a check list.



Cobra One: Cobra Onecopies



Controller: OK, I have ah ROE instructions, are you ready to copy?



Cobra One. Stand by, Huntress.



Cobra One: This is, ah, Cobra One, go ahead.



Controller: Ok the, OK the direction ah protectin’ the major centers, when you’re overhead the major center, be it Pittsburgh in this case, you’re, you have intercept authority on any traffic in the area. And if, if the traffic does not respond to, ah, hand signals, divert procedures, anything like that, and they continue to press in a threatening manner towards the major center, you’re cleared to engage.



Cobra One: Cobra copies.



113. New type of war



Unknown: This is a new type of war, that’s what it is.



114. 0911 National terrorist day



Surveillance Tech 1: Is today like a national terrorist day or something that we missed out on?



Surveillance Tech 2: Actually, ah, this is a day (indistinct) for a long time.



Surveillance Tech 1: September 11th, 2001.

And she channels Nixon: "I am not a whore"

"Like you, I am not for sale" Except through SarahPAC.

TWWWSTLIJ insults Alaskan athletes

"polls (sic) are for strippers and Cross-Country skiers." btw, nice tits.

My thunder, what a whopper

The new bumper sticker

Thanks FOR NOTHING, FBI

VA Secretary Visits Bethel

and Kwigillingok, to honor surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard.
In Bethel, at the City Office, Secretary Shihseki, hosted on his visit to Alaska by Senator Mark Begich held a listening session.
Not a big crowd, in fact the Vets there were outnumbered by VA and Senate staffers, but we certainly had the Secretary's attention.
The local VFW was well represented and questions included how to bring more village Vets into the VA system, especially since, as Buck Bukowski said, if a Veteran ISN'T collecting VA benefits, and they go tot he local hospital for services, then the cost comes off the top of IHS funding for the health provider.
Shinseki agreed and encouraged maximum enrollment in the VA - "Our budget is numbers driven," he pointed out.
I spoke up for Coast Guard LORAN Veterans and Navy guys stationed at Navy Radio Transmitting Facilities who, like Coasties, may have been exposed to dangerous levels of Xray energy from the final amplifier tubes in the transmitters we tended with such loving care. Shinseki promised to "get smart" on the issue.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY
It was pointed out to the Secretary and Senator that since the Alaska National Guard out here is now part of a Texas (yes, THAT Texas) airborne unit, and is being deployed to Afghanistan later this year, that the loss of a humvee full of Yup'ik soldiers could have a devastating effect on a single village.
Shinseki, General Shinseki agreed that while that is the risk of deploying Guard units, also said, "I don't see a solution."
Begich didn't respond.
I wanted to say...wait for it...
END THE WAR!

see her pee'ers nonplussed over tweets

The fanboys and fangirls at the see her pee website are in full damage control trying to calm the passengers of the good ship lollipop as things continue to spin out of control for the woman who was supposed to live in juneau but now owns a mansion in arizona.
Sure, a LOT of Alaskans move to arizona. Nothing new there.
I just hope she invites her nickel and dime supporters (who, as one pundit put it, cut back on the grocery budget to send her more money) to an all you can eat buffet with cactus juice on tap.
She won't. It's gonna cost a max donation to get through the gate.

He Shoots, He Scores

Why?

Petraeus Apologizes for Deaths of 9 Afghan Boys

“As soon as we heard about the attack on the village’s children, all the village men rushed to the mountains to find out what really happened,” said Ashabuddin, a shopkeeper from Manogai, a nearby village, whose nephew Khalid was among those killed.

“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”

A Pilgrims Progress

State Secrets My Ass

Once again the Federal Government invokes State Secrets to cover up incompetency and idiocy, not to mention spending a lot of Our Tax Dollars.

The damage control follies have begun

As a prominent Alaskan blogger expresses her deep disappointment that anyone would even dream of pirating the book she helped write, before it hits the presses, the seeherpee'ers are calling the Frank Bailey tell some stuff manuscript hilarious.
Anyone want to hear how I made her cry one time?

Parse the piss out of this

And don't forget that dear old T(g)odd was a United Steelworkers Shop Steward on the Slope, so he learned head busting and thuggery from the best of the Union Bosses his (ex?) Old Lady so fondly speaks of in her fwitterbook thinger.
Union Brothers and Sisters, indeed.
Notice the plethora of links in an otherwise off-the-cuff post...when did twwwstlij learn HTML?

I always said I wanted a Mutual Fund made up of defense contractors

Apparently some in the Department of Defense agree!
If this story doesn't make you want to puke, I don't know what will.

Stay stupid, America

Your leader Glenn Beck sez: don't Google nothin. If it isn't on my black/white/video board here on Fox, it JUST AIN'T TRUE.

Here's a blog I like

Stonekettle Station

Warmonger Bolton's excremental oozings delight corprophagic CPAC'ers

Bolton certainly served up a "hot plate" for the poo munchers at CPAC.

Meet Todd's wife's personal whore

McCain Bundler, Booted Over Role In FCC-Fined Telecom, Now Staffs Palin

The Truth Is Out There

Todd Palin's Hooker Speaks!

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