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Polish President Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash

Just read about it. It's really sad... even people who didn't like him seem to be in mourning. I don't know much about Polish politics so I really can't do anything other than say "That's upsetting".

Apparently they were using 20 year old Soviet planes to travel and the pilot ignored some advice about travelling in fog. Whoops?
 
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I would say I'm very sad about Kaczynski's death, but lying is wrong.

It's terrible about his wife and all, but Lech himself has none of my sympathy, and neither does his bullshit party. His twin's still alive I think so they'll barely notice the difference.
 
Vladimir Putin's LJ said:
I would say I'm very sad about Kaczynski's death, but lying is wrong.

It's terrible about his wife and all, but Lech himself has none of my sympathy, and neither does his bullshit party. His twin's still alive I think so they'll barely notice the difference.
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I might've misread the article, but isn't his twin in the opposition party? :o
 
goldenquagsire said:
I might've misread the article, but isn't his twin in the opposition party? :o
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Nope, the current leader of the Law & Justice party is indeed Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of Lech. He was actually PM while his bro was president (nepotism? what nepotism).

Haha, it'd be really cool and confusing if he were leader of the opposition though :B
 
in my incredibly sleep-deprived state I misread the title as "John Krasinski dies" and I was sad because JK is hot in a cool adorable nerd hot kind of way :(
 
Hey, everyone! Let's stuff 90 important members of the Polish government into the same plane! It's not like the plane could crash or anything!

Who the hell thought that would be a good idea?
 
Kammington said:
Hey, everyone! Let's stuff 90 important members of the Polish government into the same plane! It's not like the plane could crash or anything!

Who the hell thought that would be a good idea?
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I think using a 20-year-old Soviet plane was an even worse idea.
 
Especially since they were flying in bad weather with a Polish President who has the annoying tendency to tell pilots to land at random.
 
If the volcanic ash came a few days earlier, ironically they would never have taken off and crashed.
 
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I think everyone should declare war on Iceland for being such a loner.
 
Haha, after the news said that UK airspace could be closed for months, my parents (who have a holiday booked in two weeks) told me to "tell your mate in Reykjavik to put a plug or something in that bloody volcano!". They're *this* close to declaring war on Icleand themselves.
 
Butterfree is already arranging for our deaths in a mysterious plane crash.
 
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Dannichu said:
Haha, after the news said that UK airspace could be closed for months, my parents (who have a holiday booked in two weeks) told me to "tell your mate in Reykjavik to put a plug or something in that bloody volcano!". They're *this* close to declaring war on Icleand themselves.
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My dad's been out of the UK for five weeks and is stuck in Paris. Alone in the country :<

Anyway, when I first heard this story, I did what I think everyone else did; at first I was all like "awww, that's sad." Then when I hear that basically their ENTIRE GOVERNMENT was on the same plane, I giggle a little bit. I mean, that's new levels of stupid to pack all your important people into one plane.
 
To be fair, lots of the senior officials including the President, all travel together on Air Force One. Granted, OF1 has marginally better defense systems than whatever the Polish President was flying in, but it's also way more of a target.

There was a West Wing plotline where all the important people in The White House went to a big ceremony of some kind and they left behind the Secretary of Agriculture, just in case someone blew up the ceremony. It wasn't, but apparently they do think of these things.
 
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There was a West Wing plotline where all the important people in The White House went to a big ceremony of some kind and they left behind the Secretary of Agriculture, just in case someone blew up the ceremony. It wasn't, but apparently they do think of these things.
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All the important people went to the ceremony... and they left the Secretary of Agriculture behind in case someone blew the ceremony with all the important people in it? XD
 
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