Monday, 14 April 2008
Killem has been in contact with the Thames Valley Plod concerning their 'treatment' of our war dead......
Original story HERE
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am utterly shocked and disgusted at the treatment of our nation's war dead by the Thames Valley Police as highlighted in yesterday's Mail on Sunday. In case you haven't read the article, a comparison is made between the respect shown to Canadian miltary personnel who have given their lives in battle, and that shown to British military personnel.
In short, the respect shown to our own people stops at the Thames Valley Police Authority's boundary. Is this a fair representation of the facts in the press ? If so have you no sense of propriety?
Unless I receive a suitable explanation from you I shall be seeking out others of similar mind with a view to correcting your disrespectful behaviour.
Yours sincerely,
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To which the reply came....
Thank you for your e-mail.
“It is very important that the sacrifice made by young men and women in our armed forces is properly recognised by the whole community and the police have a part to play in that act of respect.
At the beginning of the action in Iraq and Afghanistan, our service men and women were brought to RAF Brize Norton and were escorted by Thames Valley Police motorcyclists to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford. A year ago this changed to RAF Lyneham and Wiltshire Constabulary took over initial responsibility for escort. Unfortunately, this coincided with the withdrawal of all our motorcycles from the road after the deaths of two police officers and so Thames Valley Police was unable to continue the escort from the Wiltshire border.
We are, however, about to take delivery of a new fleet of motorcycles and they will be operational from the second week of June. Thames Valley Police will then recommence the escort to facilitate movement through traffic.
I apologise on behalf of the Authority for any distress caused by the photographs of military hearses caught in heavy traffic on the congested roads of Oxford”
Yours sincerely
******* ******
Executive Team Leader
Thames Valley Police Authority
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Facilitate movement!!! They are more interested in traffic flow than honouring our dead. Effing assholes.
Nice ones....
Israel snubs Carter and declines security help. Carter has been an effing liability in Global Politics for to long. About time someone gave him the bums rush.
and.......
Steyn: Michelle Obama Like Kim Jong-Il. Except she is more butch and not as pretty.
Target: Bin Laden. Looks like he is losing his support in Pakistan.
H/T Nebraska Bob
Warp 9 Mr Sulu.........just don't hit anything.
Caterham's new Superlight R500 uses a 263bhp 2.0-litre engine to reach 0-60mph in a mere 2.88 seconds and on to a top speed of 150mph.
H/T Kate
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An Amish farmer, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
The Amish farmer shouts:
'Trink das wasser nicht. Die kuhen haben dahin gesheissen.' (Which means: 'Don't drink the water, the cows have crapped in it.')
The kneeling man shouts back:
'I'm a Muslim, I don't understand you. I speak Arabic and English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of Islam, speak in English.'
The Amish farmer says:
'Use two hands, you'll get more.'
H/T Stormbringer
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Murphy's Lesser Known Laws
1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
7. The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.
8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
H/T Shelly
News....
The Oil Connection. What is Hillary's connection to Oil for Fraud?
More than 2m untaxed and uninsured drivers are laughing at the law as prosecution rates more than halve in eight years. Driving without tax and insurance should carry a penalty of £10,000 fine and 6 months in a chain gang.
The drinks are on us: Whitehall's wining and dining bill costs the taxpayer £5m. Greedy pigs. Off to slaughter for the lot of them.
Revealed: The £1.5bn we waste on welfare every year because Britain's benefits system 'is out of date'. Time to end the 'welfare state'. It is a joke. too many people are getting benefits who don't need or deserve them.
Soaring food costs risk 'starvation and unrest'. This century is shaping up to be a real doozy.
Bill Clinton's China links embarrass Hillary. Ho hum.
Moose to roam free again in Scotland. Cool.
Zimbabwe ballot recount triggers rigging fears. No S**t. Mugabe will steal the election and nobody will do a thing to stop him.
Gordon Brown believes Zimbabwe fate must be left to its neighbours. Gordon Brown is a gutless prick, and he won't do a thing to stop Mugabe.
Caught in the crunch – 4,000 estate agents could be forced to close. Oh dear!!!
Electro Kevin has written gone after Thames Valley Plod for the shameful way our wardead are treated.
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When Insults Had Class....part 2
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." Jack E. Leonard
"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
H/Ts Shelly & Killemall
Sunday, 13 April 2008
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Cool or what.......Why doesn't our Army have a Race Car?
Dale Earnhardt Jr., driving the number 88 National Guard Chevy, and Mark Martin, in the number eight Army car, battle for position on the front stretch of Texas Motor Speedway Sunday (April 2008). Photo by Lt. Col. William (Dean) Thurmond,
When Insults Had Class........part 1
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." -
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
H/T Shelly
Royal Navy Field Gun Competition 1993
My US readers may never have heard of this let alone seen it. The Royal Navy....tough as nails. I worked on two Royal Tournaments and never got tired of watching this.
1994 Royal Tournament - Kings Troop RHA...Musical Drive.
My US readers may have not seen anything like this before. And yes they are still going strong. Although they may be needed on the frontlines soon the way things are going.
The Sunday Best.....
Zimbabwe to hold partial recount. Anyone want to guess the winner!
Pictures that should shame us all reveal the shabby way Britain treats its heroes. It is disgusting! Our troops deserve better.
Reshuffle could spell the end of two jobs for Defence Secretary Des Browne. Better still shoot the worthless sack of s***.
Berlusconi set for victory as Italy goes to the polls And I thought he was in jail!!
Outrage over Alan Yentob's £27,000 BBC expenses claim... including a £120 cake. Sack him and get rid of the licence fee.
Victory for Armed Forces Day campaign. About bloody time too. The 21st of October will do fine.
Barack Obama regrets comments about 'bitter' small-town Americans. He isn't going to the White House.
Iraqi neighbours rise up against al-Qa'eda. We are winning.
Terror revolt rocks Gordon Brown. Bye bye bozo.
Pirates can claim UK asylum. Not if we shoot them they can't. The Human Rights Act must go.
Des Browne misled MPs on Nimrod. I still say shoot the bastard.
Army has killed 7,000 Taliban. They need bigger weapons. 70,000 would be a better figure. We will get there.
Robert Mugabe digs in with farm terror campaign. We must send in troops.
Cronies with blood on hands fear arrest if president Robert Mugabe resigns. He will be shot long before he resigns.
More than 200 dead as battle rages in Baghdad. Nice of somebody to notice. Not a mention on the TV news. The MSM are not interested in 'good' news.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an 800mph jet car. Woooooo hooooo!
Biofuels go from saviour to villain. Food or fuel?
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The Rolling Memorial by John Holmgren
Most of you will have already heard of this, but it was new to me.
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H/T Jackie Gedling
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