Female Emirati fighter pilot, coming to bomb ISIS

[BillyVance 35]

http://news.msn.com/world/uaes-1st-female-fighter-pilot-carried-out-strikes

This is awesome.

FUCK ISIS, even better that a woman is bombing the shit out of them.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[ryoder 1,590]

And a couple of Faux New's talking heads promptly made asses of themselves:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/26/fox-news-host-takes-heat-for-boobs-on-the-ground-joke-about-female-fighter-pilot/

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[BIGUN 1,488]

This is stupid.

This ain't "Social Media;" it's a fuckin war.

She now probably has a bounty on her head.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[RonD1120 62]

C'mon, in all fairness, "The Five" on Fox News makes jokes about current topics and events all the time. It is what they do.

I heard on the radio that the Major Mariam al-Mansouri family has disowned her.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[Andy9o8 2]

I Googled it. The "disowned" meme is making the usual recirculation thing in the right wing blogospere and talk radio, but nowhere else that I saw. That subjects its credibility to scrutiny.
Do you have a mainstream source?

[RonD1120 62]

No, just talk radio. It is a comment in line with the Faux News posts.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[Andy9o8 2]

Then unless it's credibly corroborated, it has no more presumption of credibility than, say, a Ferguson police officer's "broken eye socket" that really wasn't. You know, just for example.

[RonD1120 62]

I call it conversation.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[Andy9o8 2]

RonD1120

I call it conversation.

I call it making shit up and spreading it.
Sad when that's what one needs to do to have a conversation.

[RonD1120 62]

I did not make it up. I heard stated on the radio. That is all I said. SIUCC, this ain't no courtroom.

Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

[Andy9o8 2]

RonD1120

I did not make it up. I heard stated on the radio. That is all I said. SIUCC, this ain't no courtroom.

I didn't say you're the one who made it up. Those who make the shit up count on a network of enablers and willing participants to spread the shit with the coy implication of truthiness.

[ryoder 1,590]

She has been disowned by her family:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771731/Family-UAE-s-female-fighter-pilot-spearheaded-attacks-against-ISIS-publicly-disown-taking-brutal-international-aggression-against-Syria.html

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Andy9o8 2]

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She has been disowned by her family:

Has she? OK, let's review this:

1. The Daily Mail is a sensationalist-diet UK tabloid which has a sorry reputation for credibility, roughly equivalent to the New York Post. Take today's edition, for example. Go to the main site, then click on the tab labeled News. Featured prominently on the front page of the News tab is a story about a double-headed turtle named "Frank and Stein".

2. I've just re-Googled the "story". Aside from the Mail story, no other news outlet outside of the right wing blogosphere has mentioned it. Not one - so far.

3. And even in the article itself:

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"an anonymous statement claiming to be from her family"

"It's not clear whether the views expressed in the statement represent those of the entire family or indeed if it is genuine."

...which itself likely answers point #2 - why haven't any reputable news outlets picked this up? Simple - because it's completely un-authenticated, which is basically Rule #1 in Journalism 101.

So... really?

[champu 1]

I don't think anyone doing quite that much fawning over ISIL and the brand of Islam they espouse would have let one of their daughters near a flight suit in the first place, regardless of who she was fighting.

The last statement in the letter is also a no-true-Scotsman fallacy.