Airbus doesn't use the 700 designation for their aircraft, so none of their large jets are "Jumbo Jets", but they are still pretty damn jumbo sized.

What are you talking about? The A380 is the largest commercial passenger plane ever built. The 700 designation is not some universal indicator of plane size, its simply the numbering scheme that Boeing uses for their aircraft, many of which (like the 707 and the 737) are only average in size.

I think the most glaring inconsistency is the number of people that are taken on the individual job and his ability to miraculously fix airplanes with absolutely no tools at all, as if 300 million dollar planes can be opened up with a dollar phillips head. In the story of repo'ing the French guys stuff, he talks about going himself, and then, for whatever reason, theres another guy flying the plane. And then theres an odd photo in the beginning of the story suggesting that he takes a fairly well-organized crew to fly these plans, which means either his stories of flying solo are bull, or that they are much more ho-hum than he describes.

This whole article is ridiculous. It takes a handful of cases where medical therapies or drugs have been found to be useless, and then extrapolates out that the reason why people feel better nonetheless is because of a a placebo effect. But the proof is in the pudding; the handful of cases provided mostly revolve around what are self-described problems such as pain or emotional/psychological distress, things that can wax and wane based on one's own perceptions.

But if you get syphilis, I can assure you that the chancre soar on your genitals isn't going to go away in a mystical feat of mind over matter, nor will HIV/AID's or any number of infectious diseases, nor any number of other diseases whose pathology is well documented, such as diabetes, cancer, or various neurological and degenerative diseases. Sure, giving a cancer patient a sugarpill may lift their spirits, initially, but that is not going to quell the mutation of cells within their body. They may FEEL happier, but that simply means they will die with a smile on their face.

And yes, Rachel Carson is responsible for the deaths of millions of starving Africans.

Actually, most of the European countries, whom owned, colonized, and terrorized the continent of Africa for over a 100 years bear most of the brunt for that one. Or are you suggesting, in all seriousness, that the problems of malaria, which are due mostly to urban consolidation, poorly planned and incredibly dumb water-works projects (which often created the stagnant bodies of water necessary for mass mosquito breeding), as well as congregating everyone into what amounted to concentration camps for work or other control purposes, thus exposing large numbers of people to said stagnant bodies of water. is not the cause of malarias rapid spread amongst an African population that didn't have an epidemic of it until rather recently?

People who claim DDT was the miracle for malaria, are the same people who boasted the Green Revolution as the answer to what ailed food production. And despite the constant trumpeting that the "Green Revolution" saved a "billion lives", no one out there seems to have an especially good answer as to what the hell is supposed to happen after the natural gas runs out. Or how the Green Revolution's abundant supply of food has not managed to trickle down to the impoverished.

Fleiter here, is essentially making an argument you hear repeated on kindergarten playgrounds when a child gets busted for doing something; "Jimmy did it first!". That is neither a responsible nor especially moral position to take.

No doubt fleiter also believes that we invaded Iraq because of some sort of anger with his despotic ways, despite supporting him in the butchering of hundreds of thousands in the Iran-Iraq war. Or ignoring the fact that we trade and do business with any number of tin-helmet despots, especially in the former Soviet satellite states.