Thursday, 3 September 2009
News........
Ted Kennedy's Immigration Legacy -- and why did he do it?
If the Los Angeles Times Covered Fires the Way It Covered Obama's Economy...
Sentenced to death on the NHS.
Abkhazia threatens Georgian ships as possibility of Black Sea naval skirmish rises.
China prepares to show off nuclear missiles.
Fears of Taliban collusion with Afghan government.
Gordon Brown’s $1 trillion global rescue package unravels.
The Army is making the same old mistakes in Afghanistan, say soldiers.
Giant discovery in Gulf of Mexico pushes value of BP above £100bn.
Activists Mike Campbell and Ben Freeth’s farms ‘set alight by henchmen’.
Japan's new First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama: 'I went to Venus in a UFO'.
Wounded medic Sally Clarke stayed to treat injured soldiers in Afghan ambush
How Micro$oft solves problems
It was decided by Microsoft during a brilliant brainstorming session that military service would improve the skills and discipline of their finest technician.
So off to boot camp he went.
At the rifle range, he was given some instruction, a rifle and bullets.
He fired several shots at the target.
The report came from the target area that all attempts had completely missed the target.
The Microsoft tech looked at his rifle and then at the target again.
“Hmmm,” he thought, “I’ll get to the bottom of this in no time.”
He looked at the rifle again, and then at the target again.
He pointed his still loaded rifle at the ground in front of him and fired.
A cloud of dust kicked up, and a little dimple was left there in the dust.
“Yep, it’s working,” he concluded.
The technician yelled out to the others at the target end, “The rifle is in working order, and the bullet seems to be leaving this end just fine. The trouble must be at your end!”
H/T DML
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Judge not, lest ye be judged..............
An elephant asked a camel, "Why are your breasts on your back?"
'Well," said the camel, "I think that's an inappropriate question from
somebody whose dick is on his face."
H/T Shelly
SGT WILLIAM J. CAHIR, USMC, KIA
ARLINGTON, Va. — Marine Sgt. William J. Cahir, a former news reporter and congressional candidate, was laid to rest with full military honors Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Cahir, 40, died Aug. 13 of an enemy gunshot wound while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. - Associated Press, August 31, 2009
I did not know Sgt Cahir but I respect him. When I joined the US Army at age 23, I was considered the Old Man in my platoon. When I retired at the age of 49 I was considered a living fossil. I have nothing but respect for a man who signs up during wartime, at the age of 35. -Sean Linnane
For a lot of the younger Marines, Sergeant Cahir’s enlistment was the confirmation that they sought and needed — especially as they were about to go to war. Confirmation that their decision to enlist was a smart and wise decision. Confirmation that there was nobility and wisdom in that decision. Confirmation that even older, better educated, and more professionally accomplished men and women join the Marine Corps and serve in the Marines’ enlisted ranks.
Sergeant Cahir remained with the CAG for three full deployments.
His first two deployments were to Iraq, where Sergeant Cahir earned the Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and the Navy Meritorious Commendation Medal, among other awards. 
This civic-minded Marine (there is no other kind of Marine really) left his job as a journalist in 2008 to run for Congress in his hometown in Pennsylvania’s 5th District. Cahir narrowly lost the Democratic Party primary, but captured 35% of the vote in a seat that was ultimately won by the Republican Party candidate, Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson. 
He was a United States Marine, killed in action defending Freedom and our American way of life. Honor him.
- STORMBRINGER SENDS
Prescience.........
'When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.' – Ayn Rand
H/T Paul B
"BAIL 'EM OUT!!! ????
Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now, we are trusting the economy of our country, our banking system, our auto industry and possibly our health plans to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey?!"
"What are we thinking?"
H/T DML
Famous Tory Quotes............
William Pitt the Younger
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
Andrew Bonar Law
"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom."
Sir Winston Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
"Trying to tax a nation into prosperity is like standing in a bucket and trying to lift yourself by the handles."
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
"This is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
"A Labour Government is a government of the duds, by the duds and for the duds."
Harold Macmillan
"Events, dear boy, events!"
Sir Edward Heath
"We may be a small island, but we are not a small people."
Margaret Thatcher
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
"You turn if you want to. The lady is not for turning."
"If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity."
Sir John Major
"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."
H/T DML
News.....
Growing Poverty and Despair in America.
F**k You Very Much, Mistah Commander in Chief. Sir.
IDF Weapon X-Hawk.
Tintin 'to be sued' for Congo book.
Soldiers need £6,000 pay rise, say Liberal Democrats.
Afghanistan: Taliban hit by fall in opium crop production.
Vladimir Putin condemns appeasement of Hitler on 70th anniversary of WW2 outbreak.
Barack Obama praises US Muslims at Ramadan dinner.
Canada accused of racism over granting of refugee status to white South African.
Samoa prepares to drive on the left.
The world's 5 most over-rated tourist sites.
Terror suspect Ahmad Vahidi set to become Ahmadinejad's Defence Minister.
Farm owned by Ben Freeth, critic of Robert Mugabe, destroyed in fire.
Gaddafi and Brown to meet at UN Security Council summit in New York.
and finally.....
Fall Weiß Tag. from Great Satan's Girlfriend
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