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Re: GW Bush's acid test on recent trip to Triangle, NC. Too bad it could not match the purple koolaid

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From: copolo
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:12
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Everybody seems to be an expert on George W. Bush,

But no one can us what John "Fuck'um" Kerry has achieived in his life ?

The only thing John "Fuck'um" Kerry did is to married rich ugly women......
A fuckin' GIGOLO.



Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote:

> Somebody wrote:
> >
>
> > PS - since this post relates to Jim Jones and since it was also posted
> > to alt.military (and I don't have a clue why the OP did so), here is
> > a tidbit of interesting info that is not exactly commonly known. Does
> > anybody out there realize that Jim Jones and his followers actually
> > managed to cause a military cargo aircraft to become haunted?
> > It is true... according to USAF flight crew members back in the
> > early1980s, C-141 tail number 50220 is the plane that carried
> > all the dead bodies out of Guiana after Jim Jones' death party.
> > Before that time this aircraft, based at Charleston AFB, SC was
> > a smooth running plane, but afterwards it began to break down
> > so frequently that it almost became legendary. I was a witness to
> > this fact because at the time I worked on Ascension Island, South
> > Atlantic some 6000 odd miles from Charleston where most of our
> > supply aircraft runs originated. The guys at Charleston would work
> > on the plane until they thought they had it fixed, then send it out
> > on the long flight down to Ascension to test it out. More than half
> > of the time, this plane would end up breaking down on Ascension
> > or along the way and would have to go back to Charleston for yet
> > another round of repairs. Most of the time, all of the other 141's
> > ran smoothly and only occasionally had breakdowns, but not this
> > plane. Anytime that one of us was due to go on vacation and saw
> > that plane sitting on the tarmac, somebody would end up saying,
> > "Oh no... your plane is '220... you will never get there on time"!!!
>
> You are aware that no one in the Air Force ever uses the
> term "tarmac" to indicate any portion of the flightline,
> ramp, parking pad, taxiway, runway, or anything else?
>
> Bozo reporters, on the other hand,  evidently love to use the
> word, thinking it sounds as though it were airfield-related
> jargon.
>
> It is possible that there might have been some military
> folks using the term during the early days of World War I.
> That's about the time that the (British-invented) "tarmac"
> (short for "Tar Maccadam") paving method was eclipsed by
> more modern types.  Tarmac was mostly a mixture of tar, coal
> cinders, and ash, providing a very rough-grained but
> reasonably weatherproof surface - more lasting than the
> plain gravel roadways it repaved.
>
> Bottom line: this is NOT a first-hand account... though it
> is widely known that the Jim Jones mortuary flights made the
> aircraft used for purpose STINK for years afterward.
>
> No one who uses the term "tarmac" has ever spent any real time
> on a flightline.
>
> DD - former Msgt, USAF
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