Prior to Columbus, American Indians
didn't call themselves "native Americans" either.

I am glad our leadership cares about our future leaders,,,todays children

Make sure your own back yard is clean before you start dissing mine. Remember, the terrorists who caused 9/11 were trained at a flight school in Florida.

The Flydubai FZ981 crash in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, could have followed the pilots' failure to manage the landing after taking control of the system, media reveal citing flight data. The final minutes are said to have been full of arguments and screams of terror.

Now that decoding of the flight data recorders of the crashed Boeing is complete, an unnamed source told Russian daily Kommersant that pilot error is now dominating the investigation as the probable cause. It appears that while trying to gain altitude after an unsuccessful landing attempt in bad weather, one of the pilots pulled the control stick up too much, causing a stall break and an uncontrollable nosedive.

The Interstate Aviation Committee believes that the official results of the decoding will be made public within a week or two. Meanwhile, according to Kommersant's sources, the recorder revealed that flight FZ981 had made two attempts to land in automatic mode, and since a veering squall wind hampered the second attempt, the pilot decided to make a third approach for landing in manual mode. One of the pilots pressed the TOGA (Take off. Go around) button and turned off the autopilot, writes the daily.

Anonymous experts Kommersant talked to believe the pilot did not manage the diving rudder and horizontal stabilizer, which steer the plane in opposite directions - down and up, respectively. When the pilot pulled up, he put both the rudder and stabilizer in a sharp climb mode, somewhat fighter-jet style, plus enacted the TOGA regime's retracted flaps, decreasing ascending force. As a result, the aircraft lost speed and got into the beyond-stall angle of approach. All this led to an uncontrollable dive, the experts believe.

At that moment, the voice recorder is said to have registered a conflict between pilots. The pilot that tried to force the aircraft to gain altitude apparently turned the engines to powerful take-off mode, forcing the aircraft to continue its climb. The other pilot believed the situation was dangerous and apparently did the opposite: he pushed his own control over to bring the Boeing's nose down and prevent the sweeping up, while yelling at his colleague to stop doing it that way.

The pilots' contrary actions caused the controls of the aircraft to 'split': the Boeing 737's onboard computer was receiving mutually-exclusive commands from the two controls, which are usually operated synchronously. This rendered the plane out of control.

When they felt the plummeting sensation, the crew coordinated their actions, but it was already too late. The Boeing 737-800 was roaring at 325kph downwards at an angle of about 45 degrees. It burst into flames upon collision with the ground, killing all 62 people on board. During the last seconds before the collision both pilots were screaming with terror, Kommersant reports.

On March 20, Russia's Investigative Committee named pilot error or technical failure as the prime theories as to the cause of the Flydubai's Boeing 737-800 crash in Rostov-on-Don on March 19.

It is unclear from the recording which pilot was doing what, Kommersant notes. At first the investigators even believed that only one man was speaking the whole time. Now, to identify the voices of the deceased pilots, the expertise of their former colleagues and even relatives may be needed.

I think I remember when this approach really got rolling. It was during a period, I think in the 80's, when certain politicians decided to promote their party and themselves as hyper law-enforcement types. It was part of an overall attack on any and all of the various peoples who opposed any elements of their agenda. It was primarily Republican led, but included any conservative Democrats who wanted to make a name for themselves as well.

The idea of allowing local police who conducted drug busts, to take and resell any and all the assets of anyone they arrested for drug distribution, was a part of the same push.

Essentially, it's the inevitable result of any "righteousness-based" approach to the law. It always sounds great, when your vision is so obscured by emotion, that you imagine that ONLY the people you don't like, will become the targets of the invariably sloppily written laws.

The biggest impediment to change isn't the President. It rarely is. After all, Presidents talk about things like "hope and change" all the time, but if the Congress they face digs in it's heels and refuses to support the President at all, or outright undercuts them, as happened for the last six years, then nothing gets done, or damage gets done.

The point is, no matter how heroic a President Americans tell themselves they elected, if they keep putting obstructionists, political hacks, and or pre-bribed people into the Senate and the House, only more of the same will result.

9/11 was not a terrorist attack. Impossible. It is impossible for a steel reinforced structure to collapse in on itself if there is a fire on the top floors
If bombs were dropped on Saudi Arabia, it would most likely result in a race war. That isnt in anyones best interests.

"Helping muslims" haha
George bush had a personal vendetta against sadam hussain, passed down by his father. Bush claimed that sadam was killing his own people, maybe he was. But who supplied the weapons in order to fight iraq? George bush did. Sadam hossein was excecuted on Eid day, out of all days.
Then bush claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Many years after the invasion no WMDs have been found?!

Instead, bush & his partner in this, Tony blair have multi million pound oil deals in Iraq.

Damn bullies.
Over 100 nations have been attacked by America.

Its not only muslims that oppose this "imperialism" Was Hugo Chavez a muslim? Was Fidel Castro a muslim?
The word terrorist is just a label, depending on who the nemesis is at the time.

Was Building 7 terrorism?
Was nanothermite terrorism?
Diego Garcia was terrorism,
I am conscious the Contras was terrorism,
Phosphorous that burns hands – that is terrorism,
Irgun and Stern Gang that was terrorism,
What they did in Hiroshima was terrorism,
What they did in Fallujah was terrorism,
Mandela ANC – that was terrorism,
Jerry Adams IRA – that was terrorism,
Eric Prince black water – it was terrorism,
Oklahoma, McVeigh – that was terrorism

in the modern world, money is power

when I speak equality in this context, I am speaking about giving others 'equal' power, via 'equal' opportunity to share 'equally' in the financial pie that leads to power


I dont know if there is no other country with more equality,, but it is my observation that THIS country has far too many that are opposed to it in favor of retaining or regaining their previous inherent 'status' and power

Enlighten me on these so called "flaws" ... I haven't seen any solid facts as of yet.
Many of these so called "terrorists" were once innocent civilians, whose family members were killed. Bombs were dropped on theirMothers, sisters, children while they slept at night. They struggled and strived while this continued... All of a sudden, they have nothing to lose. They want justice at any cost. They are desperate. Nobody would voluntarily strap themselves to a scuicide vest for no reason? It is a natural human instinct, a code of survival to protect ourselves. ISIS and other militant groups are wrong theres no doubt about it... But they are desperate. Put yourself in their shoes? What would you do in this situation? I for one would fight and protect my loved ones from oppression.

The "terrorists" are not the problem. They are the symptom of a much larger problem. The problem being oppression from the west.

I believe it was you Moe, who posted once..

That Obama will publicly declare himself, before he leaves office, so that he can be remembered in history as 'The first Muslim President'

It sure looks that way.

See I would say that we are all naturally corrupt to some degree but its the amount that concerns me. Like at work for me if something has become damaged goods I might be inclined to have a nibble before it ends up in the bin but this is something entirely different. I may be "stealing" something that was waste and no use to anyone but the sheer amount of money is this world that goes through sticky fingers makes it hard for everyone else to scrimp by and turns increasing numbers to acts of violence/theft etc to get by but so long as the real criminals can have their free boat trip round the Mediterranean, who cares, its not like it was going to waste but bothered, everyone else is footing the bill. So someone gets 300k a week to play football. They should get taxed about 290k of that to be put to use in the country to move us forward, use it for good rather than build up someones bank balance for someone that gets everything for free now he's rich. If taxed by that much because come on 10k a week is still a hefty wage, he alone would be able to pay for our towns original quote for refurb of £140m in just over 9 years. So all players combined and we could have a town refurb every year or at least I might let another town have one as well, gosh the moneys there let everyone have a refurb.

really? I hear this repeated often that our country is so divided,,, as if its a new thing.

I don't find it anymore divisive than ever, I believe instead that there is more social media shining a light on the divisiveness and showing it to the world,, dispelling the 'united' states image.

thinking about it

native Americans probably felt plenty divided,, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power

then, slaves and indentured probably felt plenty divided, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power

then, negros probably felt plenty divided, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power


then, those who felt community should take care of community and labeled 'socialist' felt plenty divided, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power


then we had those of Russian descent or 'communists', who felt plenty divided , but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power


then Mexican immigrants probably felt plenty divided, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power



now, its muslim americans who get to feel divided, but their segregated status and struggles allowed others privileges of a superior standing/power





difference, in my observation , is that in the past America was able to budge just a little for ONE group at a time,,, groups took turns with their struggles and social platforms,,, but with the introduction of the first minority president, different groups all felt emblazoned ,, and no longer held to the one at a time rule


suddenly, in the space of a few years, homosexuals, blacks, immigrants, and muslims all started pushing back,, and it was just too much to handle


all those who had an inherited/entitled superior standing, began to feel that standing was being threatened,, of course if all these other people are able to take a few steps closer than what happens to the superiority that has always been the foundation?

its not so much the divisiveness that I believe to be a tipping point here in America, as mush as actual 'equality' and how it impacts those who have relied on divisiveness to be superior

Well, it's all over CNN, YouTube and all media. Was willing to overlook alot of things to make a change in Washington DC. Now Da Donald is pretending not to know who David Duke is, (Grand Wizard Leader of KKK). They were supporting each other when running for president under the Republican reform ticket.

When asked to renounce David Duke, Trump stated that he did not know who he was. What do you think?

Here's a link, where it can be seen that Presidents do NOT often attend such funerals:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/02/19/conservatives-defy-history-with-derision-at-oba/208693

so, the whining of those who hate Obama, should also be hurled at Eisenhower, and Bush and Cheney, who also failed to attend Justice funerals.

Hope those who are fussing here, will show that they have SOME consistency and honor, by either attacking EVERY president who didn't go, or admit that they are playing politics with a man's death.

Which is TRULY shameful.