Russian military jet crash likely due to a little birdy

Moscow -- A Russian fighter jet crashed off the coast of Syria, killing both pilots, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The jet did not come under enemy fire and it is believed, the cause was possibly due to a bird getting sucked into the intake, which would probably fracture off a turbine blade and that would cause a chain-reaction with the turbine blades behind the first set.

The Su-30 crashed shortly after takeoff, which supports the bird theory. The unfortunate incident occurred at the Russian air base at Hemeimeem in Syria where the Russians have been supporting the chin-challenged Syrian dictator, President [for life] Bashar Assad, since 2015.

Two months ago, a Russian military cargo plane carrying 39 people crashed at Hemeimeem, killing all passengers. The Russians blamed the crash on a technical error, insisting the plane wasn't shot down. [They would rather the public think their aircraft maintenance personnel are incompetent than to think the rebels were good shots.]

Russia leases the Hemeimeem military base in Syria and my source, Vinny Boombots, believes they got a "good deal" on the lease.



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Parking and Other Problems

seagull parking
Originally uploaded by Rob Hoey

Imagine someone gives you a hundred good choices, say a hundred pieces of fantastic candy, all good, but all slightly different, and you can only have one piece. Or imagine you're a bachelor who is stranded on a deserted tropical island for years and suddenly a hundred beautiful people of the opposite sex (or same sex if you swing that way) arrive, and you can choose only one of them to satisfy your sexual needs that had gone unfulfilled for that entire year. Or say you go to Walmart to pick up some Elmer's Glue and when you get there you must choose between a hundred different parking spaces, all similar, but all having a slightly different advantage; what do you do?

This is precisely what Canada is like. There are so many choices and all of them are good ones. The pace is leisurely, and nobody seems to get annoyed at drivers stopping at red lights when they probably could have "made it" in time. Nobody minds being on the short line in the market and finding the long line is moving quicker and you would have been out the door faster.

Just look at all those parking places by the seagull and note the look of confusion on the gull's face--he wasn't sure where to park either.