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Friday, 19 December 2008
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
Blonde Joke...
A blonde walks into a pharmacy and asks the assistant for some rectum deodorant.
The pharmacist, a little bemused, explains to the woman that, they don't sell rectum deodorant and never have.
Unfazed, the blonde assures the pharmacist that she has been buying the stuff from this store on a regular basis and would like some more.
'I'm sorry,' says the pharmacist, 'We don't have any.'
'But, I always buy it here,' says the blonde.
'Do you have the container that it came in?' asks the pharmacist.
'Yes,' said the blonde , 'I'll go home and get it.'
She returns with the container and hands it to the pharmacist who looks at it and says to her, 'This is just a normal stick of underarm deodorant.'
Annoyed, the blonde snatches the container back and reads
out loud from the container ....
'TO APPLY, PUSH UP BOTTOM’
H/T Rix
Cool......
...expect the MoD to order some.
The ultimate boys' toy: The giant radio-controlled tank that's SO powerful it could pull your car.
H/T Nebraska Bob
Sipsey Street Irregulars ask an Inconvenient Question or Two....
Folks,
I have two impolite questions. Perhaps one of you can answer them.
1. How high does American unemployment have to get before we begin to seriously deport the illegals who compete for jobs and drive wages down?
2. Obama's big-deal "infrastructure plan" is going to mortgage your great-grandchildren's futures to do what exactly? Boost publicly-funded construction projects, right? Been by any construction projects lately? Who do you see? Cheap Mexican labor, right? So, can we more properly call this "Obama's Recovery Plan for Illegals"?
Sorry, folks. I told you they were impolite.
Yours Mike
This could also apply in Britain. Sadly immigrants do all the low paid jobs because the British won't. It is far easier to live on benefits.
News....
Recession? Not in the public sector where state workers are unscathed as cuts ravage jobs market. The Public sector tends to vote Labour so they will be safe. If it bankrupts Britain, Labour won't care.
Police accountability plan scrapped after backlash from from senior officers. The last thing the Police want is to be accountable. They might be forced to go out and catch criminals.
I may scrap the congestion zone altogether, says Boris. Boris being sensible. That's a first.
Army forced to bull JCBs and paint them in camouflage colours to clear warzones. Another MoD f**k up.
Jaguar in line for taxpayer bail-out. What do ministers and their bodyguards drive around in? Expect a sizable donation to the Labour party for this one.
Big cut in Opec oil production fails to stop prices falling to 4½-year low. Time OPEC took a beating.
President Kgalema Motlanthe takes swipe at UK over Robert Mugabe. President Who?
American commandos get UN go-ahead to hunt down Somali pirates. Happy Hunting.
35 Iraqi officials arrested over coup plot: report. Once an Arab.....
8 really, really scary predictions. You think things are bad now. And Britain is in a far worse state than the US.
Russia provides 10 MiG fighter jets to Lebanon for free. Show's how much a Mig is worth if you have to give them away.
You don't get this at Wembley....
Red Star Belgrade's fans light torches during the Serbian First Division match against Mladost Lucani in Belgrade.
H/T Old Dude
The State of Britain by DML.......
Rhys Jones killer's mother 'worked as a prostitute' during murder trial. Why is not a surprise.
Up to 15 travel operators 'expected' to collapse. Along with the rest of the British Economy.
Evening Christmas choir concert cancelled over health and safety fears. I blame greedy lawyers for all this.
Council tells neighbours to pay £43 for leaf collection they do themselves. Someone should tell the council to go f**k themselves.
University student, 22, refused M&S Christmas crackers under Explosives Act. Dangerous things crackers!!!
Muslim cocktail waitress sues club over "sexually revealing" uniform. Let her wear a burqa and then see how many tips she gets.
EU laws stop UK Government from making foreign lorries carry safety mirrors. More crap from Brussels.
Harriet Harman criticised after suggesting pensioners should be grateful to Government. Arrogant bitch.
Church and state could separate in UK, says Archbishop of Canterbury. Bearded Buffoon who is not fit to be an altarboy let alone Archbish.
Pensioners' income from savings £130 lower than when Labour came to power. Poor pensioners. Labour will lose most of the Grey Vote.
Train Snow Plowing........
...and all it takes in Britain is a single leaf on the line to shut down the railways.
H/T Old Dude
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The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
The last truly original Christmas song before the X Factor appeared and wrecked the fun.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Irish Viagra.....
An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his help in reviving her husband’s libido.
‘What about trying Viagra?’ asked the doctor.
‘Not a chance’, she said. ‘He won’t even take an aspirin’.
‘Not a problem’, replied the doctor. ‘Give him an ‘Irish Viagra’. It’s when you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won’t even taste it. Give it a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went’.
It wasn’t a week later that she called the doctor, who directly inquired as to the progress and the poor dear exclaimed, ‘Oh, faith, bejaysus and begorrah! T’was horrid! Just terrible, doctor!’
‘Really? What happened?’ asked the doctor.
‘Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee. The effect was almost immediate. He jumped straight up with a twinkle in his eye and his pants a-bulging fiercely! With one swoop of his arm, he sent the cups and tablecloth flying, ripped me clothes to tatters and made love to me passionately on the tabletop! It was a nightmare, I tell you, an absolute nightmare!’
‘Why so terrible?’ asked the doctor, ‘Do you mean the sex your husband provided wasn’t good’?'
‘Twas the best sex I’ve had in 25 years! But sure as I’m sittin’ here, I’ll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again!’
H/T DML
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WTF!!
Rhys Death: Gang Shows Off Bombs. If they have bombs they are 'terrorists'. Hit them and hit them hard.
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U.S. Navy amphibious assault vehicles head into the well deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 6, 2008. New Orleans is on a certification exercise as part of the Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group preparing for a deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Barke.
H/T Strombringer
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