H/T Peter Gunn
Friday, 19 December 2008
Light News....
As dole queues grow, 5,000 more migrants are given work visas. Labour's open door policy.
Labour's Families in Britain paper admits married parents
are best for children. Too late the damage has already been done.
Christmas pudding with all the strimmings. A Christmas Pudding Tree.
Taliban blow up lorry of Christmas turkeys for British troops. Now that is going too far. Someone give Santa a B2 and let him drop the Taleban some 'Christmas Cheer'.
South Korea denies plot to kill Kim Jong-Il. You can't kill a corpse.
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USO Tour....
Kid Rock, Kelly Pickler and comedian Lewis Black preforming for service members on a USO tour
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The Worlds Tallest Snowwoman.....'Olympia'.
Created by the residents of Bethel, Maine.
See more here.
H/T Peter Gunn
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Thursday, 18 December 2008
A Real Hero Passed in 2008....
Ed "Too Tall" Freeman
You may or may not have heard about the passing of this great Soldier earlier this year. His actions were portrayed in the recent Mel Gibson movie, "We Were Soldiers." But, even that great movie doesn't do true justice to the extraordinary bravery exhibited in the 1965 Battle of the Ia Drang between the 1 / 7th Air Cav and a regiment of NVA infantry.
"A Soldier is not dead until he is forgotten." Part of our work is to ensure that Americans remember the great Soldiers who made it possible for them, and us, to live our lives as free men and women. Please take a moment to remember this hero again.
'Ed Freeman... A True Hero'
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the Medevac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Med-evac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medevac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medevacs were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back...... 13 more times..... and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died August 20, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....
H/T Shelly
Compulsory viewing for council leaders in the UK....
...ok Spokane gets a tad more snow than us, but they have a plan. In the UK 1/2 inch of snow and England springs to a halt. It is not as if there is a shortage of gritters just a lack of planning.
H/T Mark Scott
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Gorilla brussel sprouts farts cause zoo evacuation.....
Bosses at one of England’s top zoos had to evacuate an area after they gave gorillas brussel sprouts for breakfast.
The traditional Christmas veg made the animals cause such a stink the monkey enclosure at Chessington Zoo had to be cleared of visitors.
Keeper Michael Riozzi said: “We’ve started feeding the gorillas Brussels because they are packed with vitamin C. Unfortunately, an embarrassing side effect is that it can cause bouts of flatulence in humans and animals alike.”
The stunned zookeeper added: ”I don’t think any of us were prepared for a smell that strong.”
H/T DML
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