Theo Spark

Monday, 31 March 2008

British soldiers inspect a rocket found at a farm near Garmsir in Afghanistan's Helmand province, which is a major opium producing region. Drug profits are used to fund an active Taliban insurgency in the area.

H/T Mark Scott

A sad story of how the stick people became extinct

H/T Shelly

Special Operations Firefight in Iraq

H/T Mark Scott

Helloooooo

H/T Ted Foster

Daily Chassis.....

....contributions wanted for this feature as I am having probs finding suitable material.

JDAM 500 LBS Bomb Dropped On Almahdy Army Sniper ....

No wonder Al-Sadr has gone back under his rock.

Blog of the Day.....

Liberal Guy. One of our contributors who has started his own blog.

The Monday Art Feature....

H/T Ted Foster

Light News....

Eating one sausage a day raises cancer risk by 20 per cent, warn experts. Oh crap! My butcher makes the best sausages in Norfolk if not Britain and they are all meat ulike the garbage you buy in supermarkets.

MPs 'aim to claim as much as they can', admits ex-minister. MP's should be unpaid. They should do it for 'Love of Country'.

Muslims outnumber Catholics across the world for the first time. Catholics had better start 'making like rabbits'!!

Minister warns Brown: 'You're out of touch'. Soon to be out the door.

Zimbabwe announces first election results. The vote rigging seems to be working well!!

Gagging order for families of servicemen killed in Iraq Hercules crash. The MOD trying to cover it's own ass at the expense of the truth.

Trail of unpaid bills casts doubt on Hillary Clinton's finances. The Clinton's finances have always been 'doubtful'!!

Top Gear - Polar special part 7

Monday Mopsies....

H/T Peter Gunn

A Love Story

Little Bruce and Jenny are only 10 years old, but they know they are in love. One day they decide that they want to get married, so Bruce goes to Jenny's father to ask him for her hand.

Bruce bravely walks up to him and says, "Mr. Smith, me and Jenny are in love and I want to ask you for her hand in marriage."

Thinking that this was just the cutest thing, Mr. Smith replies, "Well Bruce, you are only 10. Where will you two live?"

Without even taking a moment to think about it, Bruce replies, "In Jenny's room. It's bigger than mine and we can both fit there nicely."

Still thinking this is just adorable, Mr. Smith says with a huge grin, "Okay then how will you live? You're not old enough to get a job. You'll need to support Jenny."

Again, Bruce instantly replies, "Our allowance. Jenny makes five bucks a week and I make 10 bucks a week. That's about 60 bucks a month and that should do us just fine."

Mr. Smith is impressed Bruce has put so much thought into this. 'Well Bruce, it seems like you have everything figured out. I just have one more question. What will you do if the two of you should have little ones of your own?"

Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and says, "Well, we've been lucky so far."

Mr. Smith no longer thinks the little shit is adorable.

H/T Don Emslie

I Want To Be Trailer Trash

H/T Ted Foster

Fishing Boat???

H/T Canis 61

Bolivian Marching Powder ....part 1

Pavement Art by Julian Beever....

H/T Shelly

Cannonical Murphy's Laws of Combat...part 2

21. The important things are always simple; the simple are always hard.

22. The easy way is always mined.

23. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.

24. Don't look conspicuous; it draws fire. For this reason, it is not at all uncommon for aircraft carriers to be known as bomb magnets.

25. Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you.

26. If you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in the combat zone.

27. When you have secured the area, make sure the enemy knows it too.

28. Incoming fire has the right of way.

29. No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.

30. No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.

31. If the enemy is within range, so are you.

32. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

33. Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't.

34. Things that must work together, can't be carried to the field that way.

35. Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.

36. Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both.

37. Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.

38. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you won't be able to get out.

39. Tracers work both ways.

40. If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will get more than your fair share of objectives to take.

H/T J M Heinrichs

Sunday, 30 March 2008

Bedtime Totty...

From the Queen's Royal Lancer's Website:

Goodbye to my England, So long my old friend
Your days are numbered, being brought to an end
To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine
But don't say you're English, that's way out of line.

The French and the Germans may call themselves such
May Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch
You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane
But don't say you're English ever again.

At Broadcasting House the word is taboo
In Brussels it’s Scrapped, in Parliament too
Even schools are affected, staff do as they're told
They must not teach children about England of old.

Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw
The pupils do not learn about them anymore
How about Agincourt, Hastings , Arnhem or Mons
When England lost hosts of her very brave sons.

We are not Europeans, how can we be?
Europe is miles away over the sea
We're the English from England, let's all be proud
Stand up and be counted- Shout it out loud.

Let's tell our Government and Brussels too
We're proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue
Fly the flag of Saint George or the Union Jack
Let the world know - we want OUR ENGLAND BACK !!!!

H/T Killemall

Robert Mugabe threat as Zimbabwe opposition claims election victory. Expect him to send troops to crush opposition with Chinese support. We need to get some troops ready to go in.

Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his militiamen off the streets of Basra. And according to the media they were winning. Getting blown away in large numbers obviously doesn't agree with them. They don't like it when they are opposed by real men with real weapons. Never mind the dead are no doubt in the arms of these gals by now.....