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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:14 AM Original message |
Blackwater expands its fleet of airships |
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asjr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. The League of Mercenaries just |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. Whoo hoo |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yeah ... That is one stealthy design .... |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 10:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. That is probably part of the plan... |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Fire a flechette cannister at the middle. Poof. (nt) |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That would still work in their favor |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Wouldn't even need to be that. If close enough a barrage of flaming arrows will do the job. |
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tchunter (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:07 AM Response to Reply #17 |
29. a beehive round? hell, it looks like it could be perforated with a frisbee.. N/T |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #6 |
35. One RPG ought to do the trick. |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Would an RPG even detonate against this? |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Hell if I know. Maybe the gondola? |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. If designed right, you would need a LOT of holes. |
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EvilAL (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
28. It's what they can hide inside the blimp |
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boomerbust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. First mission |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
5. And our media made such a fuzz from the two mercenaries captured by FARC |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Good point. |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
7. Blackwater is a modern day pirate enterprise |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. they're relatively cheap, that's why they buy them................. |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:22 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. They would have to fly pretty low to be shot down by RPGs |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
10. One word: BB-guns |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
11. How long before the Blackwater Group is deployed in all US cities, to "protect" us from |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:20 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I think a better correlation may be the Pinkertons et al... |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Perhaps, but did the Pinkertons engage to fight wars out of the US? |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 06:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. I Believe that The Pinkertons were a private overseas fighting force. |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I think the ultimate goal is to privatize law enforcement |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
16. Let's see. So far we've started privatizing prisons. We have Boy George's private army who |
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Beartracks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
19. Finally... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. So which students at which US college is Blackwater going to murder? |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. and it presents 10x a bigger target! |
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tinrobot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #21 |
30. ...and a 10x slower one, too! |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
23. True facts.... |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
24. Uh-oh... Blackwater Sunday! |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 07:44 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. That was the first thing I thought of! |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. “Our footprint and our cost to the taxpayer is mighty low,” |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
26. Fill that fucker up with hydrogen. |
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not fooled (553 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Oh, the humanity! |
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Carmavore (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 08:19 AM Response to Reply #27 |
33. you mean, huge manatee |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
34. Hermann Goehring would be proud. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
36. "Blackwater CEO... |
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