There is zero mystery how Deadspin got ahold of this. That’s the problem with the benefit of the doubt, it runs out eventually. Any story that does not involve Roger Goddell in drag walking through the front door of Gawker Inc with a manila envelope stuffed in his brassier holds even less water than the “tripped over…

See, here Hardy is confabulating “innocent until proven guilty” with “legal as long as you don’t get caught.”

Yeah we were supposed to get a high speed dedicated rescue tug a couple of years back, nothing ever came of it. I hope we don’t ever have a spill in Puget Sound, some of those silting up nooks and crannies will hold an oil spill forever.

There was a legend about a guy in Olympia who built a HERF gun and used it to zap an OPD cruiser in the taco bell drivethrough.

Hmm. I’ve merely watched a documentary or two, footage of the troops has them blaming the inability to break out of the beachhead (and even then, to do so by marching uphill into fixed defenses like an uphill Charge of the Light Brigade minus the horses) on critical material losses from sunk shipping. The putting…

That is some smalltime pro wrestling bullshit. What a punk.

Been reading a bit about the falklands conflict. The brits were totally boned after their AOE ship was excocetted by land-based aircraft. Such a helpless fat high priority target, I bet heads rolled after that.

I am from the crowd that hung out late night at denny’s (shari’s, cattin’s, beth’s) and I think steampunk is derivative and lame.

Ah. Fortunately (or not, depending on your political leanings) we do not sport a Right to Throw Bombs in this country. How we can even breathe with the iron boot of totalitarianism on our throats like this is beyond me.

I don’t have a problem with you saying that.

Ok so me and Zechs Marquis here, basically. I own several swords, ranging from very real to very silly, and have practice/mock copies of maybe a dozen other melee weapons, add another dozen of so for the kids. We also have bows and crossbows and pistol crossbows and throwing weapons, sectional staves and nunchucks,…

You know what? This might have been the teeniest, tiniest bit cool, if only an entity other than Hilary Clinton’s own twitter account had outed it.

I didn’t see where it said the tail detatched “early on”. In the KGB RT vid it appears isolated, yes,but we don’t have an idication of how far from the fuselage wreckage it was or that it was believed to have happened prior to the general breakup and impact. Where did you read that?

I have no training, but common sense would seem to indicate the tail fracture we’re seeing happened when it impacted the ground.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say it was NOT a bomb in the luggage compartment.

Btw this is what Egypt looks like. There are a few areas of true saharan “Lawrence of Arabia sand”, the area around Giza (by the pyramids) being one, but most of it looks like this: mars by way of arizona.

Curious you should mention the above, but not that the opening Brit strike of the Falklands conflict was in fact a Vulcan flying “the longest bomber mission ever”, a record that still stands today (that we know of). One Vulcan and 13 Victor tankers left England, refueling eachother as they went, halfway across the…

If this soundtrack does not win awards I am going to run circles around people while shooting them and drinking johnny walker.

I don’t think it works that way. It’s not on stanchions like an oil rig, it’s a shallow patch of seafloor with an island artificially accreted on top.

I think the idea is to “annex” the south china sea to their own territorial waters, more than it is a way to throw a few cheap carriers into a setpiece battle vs a US carrier group. There’s oil down there. Vietnam and the Phillipines are militarily too weak to fight off decades-long harassment by the Chinese Coast…