Sunday, 15 November 2009
The Sunday Best..........
Obama proposes Domestic Economic Summit. Merry Christmas!
'Bowing Before Monarchs and Tyrants: Obama 'Restores' America's World Standing With His Head Down'
Bankers face being stripped of bonuses by State
Afghanistan: bomb disposal hero Olaf Schmid is 'racing certainty' for top gallantry award
British troops in Helmand kill 80 Taliban in 10 days of fighting
Record number of poppies distributed, says Royal British Legion
Man uses remote to control his 'bionic bottom'
Clint Eastwood made Legion of Honour commander in France
Barack Obama forced into another 'war council' as US squabbles over Afghan troops
Hugo Chavez intensifies conflict threat with Colombia
UN food summit 'fails before it begins'
Voters will no longer be told what to do
Al-Qaeda runs jihad from British prisons
RAF plans huge cuts in aircraft and stations
World leaders deal major blow to Cophenhagen climate change deal
Plan for 9/11 trial in New York divides the city
Bombed, blasted and shot yet still the Taliban come
EU set to ignore advice to ban bluefin fishing
Traumatised troops get payout pittance after Afghanistan and Iraq
A Tale of Two Militaries
Green’s Mercury Conundrum
the Clarkypoos bit........
Stop the game, ref. We’re all too cross to play by the rules
Toyota RAV4 SR 2.2 D-4D
and little Jimmy May.....
The Porsche 911 as an artist's muse
The Fortune Teller
In a dark and gloomy room, the fortune teller was startled by what she saw in her crystal ball. She looked up at her customer, sitting across the table. 'There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year.'
Visibly shaken, the woman stared at the psychic's lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself. She simply had to know.
She met the fortune teller's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked:
'Will I get away with it?'
H/T Bill
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A few more one-liners.............
181. 100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?
182. I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’
183. A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a dead body.
184. Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
185. Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
186. What if there were no hypothetical questions?
187. For every action, there is a corresponding over-reaction.
188. I’m a humble person, really. I’m actually much greater than I think I am.
189. Why is it called Alcoholics ANONYMOUS when the first thing you do is stand up and say, ‘My name is Peter and I am an alcoholic’
190. The best way to lie is to tell the truth, carefully edited truth.
191. Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
192. I don’t have a solution, but I do admire the problem.
193. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
194. People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
195. There are two kinds of friends : those who are around when you need them, and those who are around when they need you.
196. Don’t steal. That’s the government’s job.
197. A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
198. They call it “pms” because “mad cow disease” was already taken.
199. IRS: We’ve got what it takes to take what you’ve got.
200. Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.
H/T DML
Saturday, 14 November 2009
WEST-BY-GOD VETERAN
Harold Payne survived the hard, lean years of the Great Depression and combat operations all across the European Theater of Operations; severely wounded and captured in the Battle of the Bulge, as a Prisoner of War he survived illness and near starvation while men died to the left and right of him. Then he came home and did forty years in the coal mines of his beloved "West-By-God-Virginia".
Like we say in the Army: "Harder than woodpecker lips."
Harold Payne FINALLY recieved due recognition for his service & sacrifice in October 2008 - FORTY EIGHT YEARS after the fact! ! !
Talk about a hard life . . . I can't even imagine what this man went through - before, during or the forty years AFTER the great World War II . . .
. . . STORMBRINGER SENDS
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