And to answer your original question, there are 21 airfields in Syria, 15 under Assad control from what I can see.

And she enlisted the help of a religious fundamentalist who trained illiterate farmers from a mountain base to conduct guerrilla warfare, ultimately resulting in an attack on a large building complex using planes.

I’ll add to that. IMO, WWI is Great Britain’s fault. They could have stopped the course of events several times and chose not to. Germany was the primary driver of the causes of the war, but Britain could have helped avoid it.

I stood where he got shot. Just a street in Downtown Sarajevo in the Former Yugoslavia, Ottoman Empire, now Bosnia-Hezegovina. Nice plaque nearby.

No, not at all. The biggest barrier to orbit is cost. A reusable spacecraft has distinct cost advantages over a disposable one. Cost to orbit on a Falcon is significantly less than most of its competition, and that cost will drop as the Falcon enters the reusable stage of development. The actual cost to orbit on a…

Considering the top rocket technology in the world is Russian & is currently being used by every union including the US as the standard Russia is right, without Russia the US rocketry program would be decades behind at this point & still be using outdated technolgy.

name of the greatest boxer alive and not put two and two together?

Thanks for posting this. I always thought it was a bit weird how Jack Donaghy shilled for GE on 30 Rock as a running gag, but this makes it all clear now.

please tell me which media outlet was critical of Bush pushing of the Iraq war while the UN and Hans Blix were urging caution?

Like, I’m still pissed at the UK, but then I see shit like this, and I have a tiny bit of sympathy.

In any case, how does one sit, lean on things in such a contraption?

Save lives by killing others while not losing ours, warring to win the peace, peace through strength and all that...

This car really looks like a yellow beetle is stuck on its back

Buy 4runner, borrow the Odyssey from the library.

Remember all those “Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey” jokes made 2003ish? Remember how US military power trampled all over civil rights afterwards too? How multiple countries found out their governments were strong armed (or bribed) into hosting CIA black sites, or had munitions that were illegal everywhere but America…

Germany still has love for Volkswagen

It’s weird to feel alone in saying that punching people is wrong, always.

Let us not descend into base celebrations of violence for that is what the odious fuckwangles want.

Some reasons not to present any evidence:

It’s funny how this kind of news (especially on Christmas) would usually get a universal outpouring of sympathetic, concerned messages and good will.