H/T JBonz
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Stormbringer on the Pirates.....
ANALYSIS - ANTI-PIRATEs OPERATIONAL SCUTTLEBUTT
I have been asked to provide analysis on the following story that's been making it's rounds on the Internet, of Obama's decision making with the hostages . . . (Italics mine - STORMBRINGER)
"Internet Scuttlebutt has this report originating from a Marine that 'lives just outside Coronado where the Seals train . . . he uses the Coronado Officers’ club' . . . - the events stated in this report jive with what I was told via other sources . . . OK this guy is in San Diego and the SEALs who pulled off the opn were DEVGRU SEALs from Little Creek - that does not shake the credibility of this report; we live in the Information Age, people. Telephones and emails and secure briefings happen. Get used to it.
I'm going out on a limb here saying I buy the general themes expressed here and I'll tell you why: A) I did two tours in in-extremis units (if you never heard that term I'm not going to explain it) - this anecdote expresses the doctrinally correct sequence of events for how this sort of thing is supposed to play out . . . the National Command Authority states broad guidance regarding Rules of Engagement and the criteria to engage, the ranking man at the situation puts his assets into place and makes the call regarding when to engage the shooters . . . .
Having spoken to some SEAL pals yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, I got the following:
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Music: American Dream by The Corrigan Brothers.
From their brilliant new album 'An Irishman Invented Rock and Roll' which is due for release shortly.
PSALM 2008-2012
FIRST BOOK OF DEMOCRAT:
OBAMA IS MY SHEPHERD,
I SHALL NOT WANT.
HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL FACTORIES.
HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
HE GUIDETH ME IN THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGHT THE VALLEY OF THE BREAD LINE,
I SHALL NOT GO HUNGRY.
OBAMA HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES,
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME,
SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE.
THE DEMOCRATS AND I WILL LIVE FOREVER
IN A RENTED HOME.
BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN,
I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG AND OBAMA A TREE.
H/T DML
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Kids on Beer......
A handful of 7 year old children were asked ‘What they thought of beer’.
‘I think beer must be good. My dad says the more beer he drinks the prettier my mom gets.’ Tim, 7 years old
‘Beer makes my dad sleepy and we get to watch what we want on television when he is asleep, so beer is nice.‘ Mellanie, 7 years old
‘My Mom and Dad both like beer. My Mom gets funny when she drinks it and takes her top off at parties, but Dad doesn’t think this is very funny.’ Grady, 7 years old
”My Mom and Dad talk funny when they drink beer and the more they drink the more they give kisses to each other, which is a good thing.’ Toby, 7 years old
‘My Dad gets funny on beer. He is funny. He also wets his pants sometimes, so he shouldn’t have too much.' Sarah, 7 years old
‘My Dad loves beer. The more he drinks, the better he dances. One time he danced right into the pool.’ Lilly, 7 years old
‘I don’t like beer very much. Every time Dad drinks it, he burns the sausages on the barbecue and they taste disgusting.’ Ethan, 7 years old
‘I give Dad’s beer to the dog and he goes to sleep.’ Shirley, 7 years old
‘My Mom drinks beer and she says silly things and picks on my father. Whenever she drinks beer she yells at Dad and tells him to go bury his bone down the street again, but that doesn’t make any sense.’ Jack, 7 years
H/T
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Bedtime Totty.....
Good news: Tommorrow is the last day of planting spuds so full service should be restored on Thursday.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
British Banks To Write Off Another £137bn. Anyone want to bet the written off debt will be in Labour strongholds and marginal seats. This makes me sick. A whole bunch of people who should never have given credit are going to have their debts written off and the hard working people of Britain (yes there are a few) will be punished by higher taxes.
Quick Question for Uk readers.......if we still have any
Can I stick a Vodaphone simcard into an Orange mobile phone without wrecking things?
Clarification.................
"Wait a minute now, I didn't authorize ATTACKS on the Pirates, I authorized A TAX on the pirates"
H/T Shelly
Oooops.....
Treasury: Caught Lying Again. Things are going tits up. Total socio-economic meltdown is becoming a possibility.
H/T Bob C
F**k Me Game of the Day.....
It gets a little tricky as the game progresses.
The site instructions are in Japanese, so read below!
1. Touch 'start'
2. Wait for 3, 2, 1.
3. Memorize the position of the numbers on the screen, and then click the circle where it was from the smallest number to the biggest number.
4. At the end of game, the computer will tell you the age of your brain.
Pete H reckons he made 54. I had a long lunch so got to 2!!
PLAY HERE
I blame the Chinese.....
Hackers break into jet fighter weapons project. Someone had better get some bigger firewalls. The Chinese are becoming a serious problem.
H/T DML
Light News...
MPs award themselves a three-month summer holiday - that's one week longer than last year. Boot the lot out.
Russian journalist blasts 'Big Brother Britain' and compares it to life in the old Soviet Union. Socialist are control freaks and always have been.
A-road speed limits to be reduced to 50mph. Speed doesn't kill. Bad driving does.
Rural Britain to miss out on super-fast broadband. Oh crap!
Britain and EU diplomats walk out as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls Israel 'racist'. Why were they there in the first place?
Barack Obama visits CIA to calm uproar over release of secret memos. Not sure pissing off the CIA is a good idea.
Tamil protesters block Parliament's entrance and roads around Westminster. Why haven't they been moved on. If it were farmers the riot police would have gone in batons swinging.
Jacob Zuma vows to spread the 'rewards of liberation' in South Africa. A la Mugabe.
Speeders.......
A Senior citizen drove his brand new BMW Z4 convertible out of the car salesroom. Taking off down the motorway, he floored it to 160Kmh; enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
"Amazing!" he thought as he flew down the N1, enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal even more. Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a police car behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring.
"I can get away from him - no problem!" thought the elderly nutcase as he floored it to 180Kmh, then 220, then 240Kmh. Suddenly, he thought, "What On earth am I doing? I'm too old for this nonsense!"
So he pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the police car to catch up with him..
Pulling in behind him, the police officer walked up to the driver's side of the BMW, looked at his watch and said, "Sir, my shift ends in 10 minutes.
Today is Friday and I'm taking off for the weekend. If you can give me a reason why you were speeding that I've never heard before, I'll let you go."
The man, looked very seriously at the policeman, and replied, "Years ago, my wife ran off with a policeman. I thought you were bringing her back."
"Have a good day, Sir," said the policeman.
H/T M Kohl
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Did you hear about the 83 year old woman who talked herself out of a speeding ticket by telling the young officer that she had to get there before she forgot where she was going?
Makes perfectly good sense to me....
H/T Shelly
A Parent's Worst Nightmare!
A father entered his daughter’s bedroom and saw a letter on the bed. With the worst premonition he read it with trembling hands.
Dear Mum and Dad,
It is with great regret and sorrow that I’m telling you that I’ve eloped with my new boyfriend. I’ve found real love and he is so nice, especially with all his piercings, scars, tattoos, and his big motorcycle. But it is not only that, I’m pregnant and Ahmed said that we will be very happy in his trailer in the woods. He wants to have many more children with me and that is one of my dreams.
I’ve learned that marijuana doesn’t hurt anyone and we’ll be growing it for us and his friends. They’re the ones providing us with all the cocaine and ecstasy we could ever want.
In the meantime, we’ll pray for science to find the AIDS cure so Ahmed gets better. He deserves it. Don’t worry about money, Ahmed has arranged for me to be in films that his friends Leroy and Jamal make in their basement.
Apparently I can earn $50 a scene and I get a $50 bonus if there are more than three men in the scene, and an extra $100 if they use a horse. Don’t worry Mum, now I’m 15 years old I know how to take care of myself.
Someday I’ll visit you and Dad so that you can meet your grandchildren.
Your loving daughter, Aimee
P.S. Dad, it’s not true, I’m at a neighbours house. I just wanted to show you that there are worse things in life than denting the car. Sorry about your BMW.
H/T DML
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Being a Grandparent...........
1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, 'But Gramma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!'
I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye!!
2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, '62.'
He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, 'Did you start at 1?'
3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, 'Who was THAT?'
4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: 'We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods.'
The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, 'I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!'
5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, 'Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?'
I mentally polished my halo and I said, 'No, how are we alike?'
'You're both old,' he replied.
6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story. 'What's it about?' he asked.
'I don't know,' she replied, 'I can't read.
7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colours yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what colour it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying, 'Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!'
8. When my grandson Melvin and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, 'It's no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights.'
9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, 'I'm not sure.'
'Look in your underwear, Grandpa,' he advised. 'Mine says I'm four to six.'
10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, 'Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today.'
The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. 'That's interesting,' she said, 'how do you make babies?'
''It's simple,' replied the girl. 'You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'.'
11. Children's Logic: 'Give me a sentence about a public servant,' said a teacher.
The small boy wrote: 'The fireman came down the ladder pregnant.'
The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. 'Don't you know what pregnant means?' she asked.
'Sure,' said the young boy confidently. 'It means carrying a child.'
12. A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties. 'They use him to keep crowds back,' said one child.
'No,' said another, 'He's just for good luck.'
A third child brought the argument to a close. 'They use the dogs,' she said firmly, 'to find the fire hydrants!
H/T DML
This could apply to Norfolk......
1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Turn your cap straight, your head isn’t crooked.
3. Let’s get this straight; it’s called a ‘dirt road.’ I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
4. They are cattle. They’re live steaks. That’s why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? Hwy 7 & 401 goes east and west, Hwy 15 & 416 goes north and south. Pick one.
5. So you have a $60,000 car. We’re impressed. We have $150,000 combines and hay balers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
6. So every person in rural Ontario waves. It’s called ‘being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.
8. Yeah, we eat meat and potatoes. You really want sushi & caviar? It’s available at the corner bait shop.
9. The ‘Opener’ refers to the first day of deer hunting season. It’s a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.
11. There’s little for ‘vegetarians’ on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef’s Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.
12. When we set a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
13. You bring ‘coke’ into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.
14. You bring ‘Mary Jane’ into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
15. Ontario Hockey League and Minor Hockey is as important here as the Maple Leafs and Montreal Habs, and more fun to watch.
16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don’t hit the water hazards — it spooks the fish.
17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Universities and Community Colleges. They come out of there with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for the holidays.
18. We have a whole ton of folks in the Armed Forces. So don’t mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.
19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap isn’t music, anyway. We don’t want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. (Refer back to #1).
20. TWO inches of snow & ice isn’t a blizzard - it’s a vacation. Drive in it like you have some sense, and DON’T take all our bread, milk, and bleach from the grocery stores. This isn’t Alaska, worst case you may have to live a whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow blades and tractors with snow blowers will have you out the next day.
Borrowed from Mitchieville
H/T JMH
Monday, 20 April 2009
Interactive British Army 'Game'......
Start Thinking Soldier.
Hopefully this will work outside the UK.
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