Mike-o posted:

Godholio posted:

What is that from?

ded posted:

Take a leap.

Mike-o posted:

On topic, I thought the first reports were that the Russians snagged the black box and sent it off to Moscow, or was that some bullshit early reporting?

Courthouse posted:

Either it went over the border for some adjustments and then back, but people here are saying tampering isn't that useful. Or some separatist commander figured that's where they should send it and the Russians yelled at him to stop implicating them further.

E: looks like the remains have been loaded on trains and is getting shipped to the Netherlands.

or is is just Netherlands now? I don't want to offend anyone by erroneously calling their country "the" again

Courthouse posted:

Either it went over the border for some adjustments and then back, but people here are saying tampering isn't that useful. Or some separatist commander figured that's where they should send it and the Russians yelled at him to stop implicating them further.

E: looks like the remains have been loaded on trains and is getting shipped to the Netherlands.

or is is just Netherlands now? I don't want to offend anyone by erroneously calling their country "the" again

Asehujiko posted:

No, "The" is fine. If you want to enrage my countrymen, call them "Holland" instead.

MrYenko posted:

Jesus.

You can see the bottom framing of the windscreen and captains window at the top of the fragment. The thing went off in their faces.

Larry Parrish posted:

I kept calling it Holland because we were watching the games on Univision and that's what the browns call it, I guess.

Otto Skorzeny posted:

And the low non-country as well ("Belgium").

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Quick update:

The brits are making GBS threads over the french for still selling a warship to russia, the dutch super-sad about dead folks, the germans are hiding in a closet, pretending they don't exist and the ukrainian parliament had a legit fist fight erupt over some dude ninja-making GBS threads over Ukraine's policies mid-speech.

chemosh6969 posted:

And in the US, U.S. Vice President Biden says Putin has no soul.
http://news.msn.com/world/us-vice-president-biden-says-putin-has-no-soul-new-yorker

The only people getting anything done are the Russkies.

quote:

"I said, 'Mr. Prime Minister, I'm looking into your eyes, and I don't think you have a soul,'" Biden told the magazine. "He looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, 'We understand one another.'"

Joe Biden posted:

"We no longer think in Cold War terms, for several reasons," the vice president told the magazine. "One, no one is our equal. No one is close. Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests."

AAPsel posted:

Italian news has an interview up with commander of the first rebels on the scene. He was told a military transport plane had been shot down and was sent to deal with those who may have jumped out by parachute. Instead he found a 5 year old girl who had just made a mud angel.

PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:

President Diamond Joe would be p. much the best thing

This is still the best Diamond Joe story from the onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-dri,2718/

Obama Africanus posted:

That's the goddamn most reassuring words on national security I've ever heard out of this administration.

Think Joe's gonna run for pres?

Booblord Zagats posted:

The way he man-handled Palin in the 08 election debate and shutdown Paul Ryan in an almost existential way in the 12, it wouldn't surprise me if he somehow ended up the next Bill Clinton in that he's a capable enough leader that knows how to play a character to make people feel more at ease with him than they probably should be

Obama Africanus posted:

That's the goddamn most reassuring words on national security I've ever heard out of this administration.

Think Joe's gonna run for pres?

PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:

President Diamond Joe would be p. much the best thing

This is still the best Diamond Joe story from the onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-dri,2718/

Full Battle Rattle posted:

Also love that 'this fuckin' guy' .gif, but I have no idea where to find it.

Booblord Zagats posted:

The way he man-handled Palin in the 08 election debate and shutdown Paul Ryan in an almost existential way in the 12, it wouldn't surprise me if he somehow ended up the next Bill Clinton in that he's a capable enough leader that knows how to play a character to make people feel more at ease with him than they probably should be

quote:

Shortly after he took office he was having meeting with Karzai and brought up corruption, Karzai of course gets all pissy and asks him to name someone who's corrupt. Joe's all "Well you loving brother for starters", that goes around for a little while until Joe has enough and walks out on him.

quote:

Karzai assured Biden and the other senators that there was no corruption at all and that, in any case, it was not his fault.

The senators gaped in astonishment. After 45 minutes, Biden threw down his napkin and stood up.

"This dinner is over," Biden announced, according to one of the people in the room at the time. And the three senators walked out, long before the appointed time.

quote:

A former Yuma Marine who was later a civilian parachute instructor at Yuma Proving Ground has been charged with three felony offenses for allegedly sexually abusing a 12-year-old female.

According to court records, 54-year-old John Joseph Sixta was arrested by Yuma police July 1 and booked into the Yuma County jail, where he remains on a $1 million bond.

A past battalion sergeant major in the U.S. Marine Corps, Sixta's unit was the basis of the seven-episode HBO miniseries "Generation Kill," in which his character had a recurring role.