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Bill Owen

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Friday, November 13, 2009 07:49 AM

@ Terry

Please don't take that comment the wrong way.

I just meant that Indians were depicted negatively in the movies I watched on TV as a child. Those stereotypes were eliminated when I got older and met actual natives. I only mentioned Titonwan as a kind of positive example of a native person who does NOT fit into the negative movie stereotype.

Clear communication is hard.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 09:05 PM
Original article: Is your pilot drunk?

In Mother Russia, you better worry!

In Russia a real pilot can handle his vodka!

Aeroflot says a drunk pilot is no big deal, and this will really piss Patrick off, apparently he can just push a button and the plane will practically fly itself! Russia is full of win!

Aeroflot says drunk pilot 'no big deal'

By Adrian Blomfield, Moscow Correspondent

Published: 3:24PM GMT 03 Feb 2009

The extraordinary claim followed a mutiny by over 100 passengers at Moscow airport. They demanded that the flight crew of a New York-bound Boeing 767 be replaced after the pilot had appeared on the aircraft's tannoy apparently slurring and stumbling over his words.

Captain Alexander Cheplevsky, who had allegedly celebrated his birthday the previous day according to one Russian newspaper, seemed barely coherent and repeated the words "duration of the flight" three times, passengers were quoted as saying.

But when they raised their concerns with the cabin crew, they were told to "stop making trouble" or get off the aircraft, which was preparing for take off from Moscow's Sheremetevo airport on Dec 28.

As anxiety mounted and passengers refused to take their seats, Aeroflot representatives boarded the aircraft with a message of reassurance.

"It's not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk," one representative said, according to the English-language Moscow Times, which had a reporter on board.

"Really, all he has to do is press a button and the plane flies itself. The worst that could happen is he'll trip over something in the cockpit."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/4448262/Aeroflot-says-drunk-pilot-no-big-deal.html

Thursday, November 12, 2009 06:34 PM

No Calamine o pal o mine, are you?

What? It was a metaphorical "met". Why was that even worth mentioning?

Thursday, November 12, 2009 06:17 PM

@ Pedinska, Wild Indians in the movies

I was going to mention that, but it was a bit OT to my point.

Yeah, I grew up thinking Indians, esp. the "Wild" variety were murderous, drunken, scalping, lying savages. And then I met Titonwan.

That kind of propaganda is all about demonizing the enemy. And Indians, esp. the wild variety, were the enemy for a long time.

Remember during Cold War I? The Russians were stone cold robot killers -- like Ivan in the Rocky pics? And their women were always portrayed as dumpy babushka types, carrying a sack of potatoes? Well, we found out what Russian women really look like didn't we?

The new enemy is the Muslim, the Arab, so of course they are teevee and movie villains now, video games too, check out the new Call of Duty, it opens with Muslim terrorists machine gunning people at an airport in extremely graphic detail.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 05:47 PM

@ Little Brother forgot the link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5326614.stm

The last few paras were from the above BBC story.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 05:45 PM

@ Little Brother, And then the spinning dreidal, having spun, moved on... To Japan?

Did you know that sneaky old dreidal spinner, Jesus, never actually died on the cross, that was just hasbara? Actually he moved on, and died in, wait for it, Japan.

In 1935, Kiyomaro Takeuchi discovered 1900 year old document stored in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, containing evidence, that Jesus (Joshua) born in Bethlehem to virgin Mary is buried in Herai Village in Aomori district of Japan. The document contained also Jesus will, requesting that his brother's tomb

http://www.thiaoouba.com/tomb.htm

To reach the Grave of Christ or Kristo no Hakka as it is known locally, you need to head deep into the northern countryside of Japan, a place of paddy fields and apple orchards.

Halfway up a remote mountain surrounded by a thicket of bamboo lies a mound of bare earth marked with a large wooden cross.

snip...

The story goes that after escaping Jerusalem, Jesus made his way across Russia and Siberia to Aomori in the far north of Japan where he became a rice farmer, married, had a family and died peacefully at the age of 114.

A villager hinted that I might be able to meet one of Jesus' descendents - a Mr Sajiro Sawaguchi, who is now in his 80s.

Now before you choke on your knish, doesn't this story make more sense than the official version?

Nihon ga ichi ban!

Thursday, November 12, 2009 05:24 PM

Ghingis Can

I asked for stats re: your question, "How many murders in New York City do you think are done by nice looking preppy white rich people? Not many.

In response, you link to an article that claims (no source given) that blacks commit 62% of all violent crimes in NYC circa 2004.

Here are the facts. Blacks don't kill any more often than white people. I'm shocked.

Murder and non-negligible homicide

There were 14,180 victims and 16,277 perpetrators of murder and non-negligible homicide reported by law enforcement agencies to the FBI in 2008.[25] The following table presents the racial demographics of murder in the United States for 2008 (with 'other' including Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander American

Whites were offenders 32.8% of the time.

Blacks were offenders 36.5% of the time.

Other: 1.7%

Unknown: 29%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States

Blacks themselves, although only 12% of the pop. represented 47% of murder victims for that period.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 02:50 PM

So now I am an antisemite and a clown

Called that by a goof. Fuck you.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 02:28 PM

@ gator - the goy hater

Did I say conspiracy?

You conceded, almost, my first point, (10,000 anti-arab scenes can't be wrong) so I assume you are not completely irrational.

Do all the Hollywoodstein's sit around a table in chairs made from the skin of Christian babies? No.

Do Hollywood Jews, who understand PR, hasbara, who know what truly massive influence they have over the minds of credulous goyim all over America, engage in an organized conspiracy? No.

What they do have, are a common religion, a common nationality, and common goals. Maligning the enemy, the Arabs, is one of those goals.

Do you hate Muslims/Arabs?

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