Monday, 6 June 2011
News..........
D-Day, 6 June 1944
Army, Marine Corps clashing over cammies...
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned as a patron of The Jewish National Fund.
A Security Review of the Last 8 Weeks
The Obligatory “Homeowner Forecloses on Bank” Story
Arab newspaper: Why, Arab dictators are worse than the Zionists!
Deeper and deeper into Libya
Universities 'complacent' over Islamic radicals
Indian police storm yoga guru's corruption protest
Scientists 'trap' and study elusive anti-matter
US missile strike kills 6 militants in Pakistan
Why Is a California Teachers Union So Anti-Israel?
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Hot Kate Upton Swimsuit Video
Update from last weekend.
She's lovely: "Kate Upton Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011."
Second Platoon, Battery B, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment soldiers fire two rounds from their High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems at Yakima Training Center in Central Washington State May 24 in support of a fire coordination exercise for an element of 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. ItÂ’s customary in the community of Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, like the HIMAR, to tape new platoon leadersÂ’ patrol caps to the backs of the rockets before a live fire, thereby destroying them and properly welcoming the new second lieutenants to the team. Photo by Sgt. Christopher Gaylord
H/T Marc
The Sunday Best........
Nissan Leaf charges past Volt
Underway « Neptunus Lex
Don't forget! The Circus is in town!
Saving Private Ryan - contrast and compare.
Canucks beat Bruins in OT, take 2-0 series lead
London Apple fans can watch the WWDC keynote and drink beer
Adjö, Sweden
Rule 5 Saturday Night: Penelope Cruz Pirate’s Edition
American drones thought to have killed al-Qaeda's chief military commander
Food chain at risk of being poisoned by terrorist groups
Libya: Britain to step up attacks against Colonel Gaddafi
How Britain's Apaches will turn up the heat on Gaddafi
A sudden rise in the yuan would solve nothing
Yemen's embattled President Saleh accepts offer of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia
How a 13-year-old boy became the face of the Syrian uprising
Dutch peacekeepers remember Mladic, the general who humiliated them
Great Wall of China's strength 'comes from sticky rice'
Is America ready for The Herminator?
Dignity and Democracy: Escaping the Clutches of the Financial Markets
and finally.........
The move to make embedding YouTubes a felony
Fund Raiser for Documentary 'Healing Waters'
Analysis: Aircraft Carriers and Global Preponderance
The British know a thing or two about naval mastery, and the decline of naval power.
Some background and analysis: "Britain and France to Share Aircraft Carriers."
Destroying the Dollar
By Alan Caruba
Something I never thought I would ever see in my former hometown, a wealthy New Jersey suburb of New York City, was a Dollar Store, but one opened recently in a former supermarket. Dollar Stores are giving Wal-Mart, Target, and similar outlets a run for their money and it’s not hard to see why. The local one has just about everything you could need and all for astonishing low prices.
In countless ways people are looking to save money these days. The looming problem, however, is the question of what happens when Americans wake up to learn that even a dollar can no longer buy anything?
“When Faith in U.S. Dollars and U.S. Debt is Dead the Game is over – And that Day is Closer than You May Think” is the cheery title of an article recently posted on EconomicCollapse.com.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Conspicuous Gallantry WoW!
One of the benefits of spreading enlightenment, civilization and totin' the man's burden in a Westphalian nation/state Empire way is all the cool kids that totally cotton to timeless ideals like fun and free choice.
Kinda like Taliban killer Corporal Dipprasad Pun. Keeping the air alive with hot lead when Taliban over ran a British Army Check Point in the Stan, Corporal Pun was determined to kill every last one of them.
Pun fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
Surrounded, the enemy opened fired from all sides and for 15 minutes Pun remained under continuous attack, including from rocket-propelled grenades and AK47 guns.
At one point, unable to shoot, he used his machine gun tripod to knock down a militant who was climbing the walls of the compound.
Two insurgents were still attacking by the time he ran out of ammunition, but he set off a Claymore mine to repel them.
He was awarded Great Britain's Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) by Queen Elizabeth II , which is given in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
"I had so many of them around me that I thought I was definitely going to die so I thought I'd kill as many of them as I could before they killed me"
The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace.
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 votes! The Political Commentator–-A Memorial Day story of unimaginable inspiration!
- Second place 2 votes – The Razor-Occam’s Razor Unnecessary To Cut Short Weiner
- Third Place with 1 2/3 votes – Joshuapundit-The Fruits Of The Obama Doctrine – Poland Distances Itself From The US
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD-Monsters Abroad
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room-Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
- Fourth place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room – You Will Respect My Authoritah!
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Colossus Of Rhodey – The lamenting of the dearth of authentically black politicians
- Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – Simply Jews – Oklahoma Republican vs National Science Foundation
- Sixth place with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – WWII with Chinese Characteristics
Non-Council Winners
- First place with 2 votes! – WarChick.Com - Twice In One Day submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Second place with 1 1/3 votes – Wired/Danger Room – One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manhunt Master Controller submitted by Right Truth
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -Israel News – Dangerous diversions and vainglorious victors submitted by Simply Jews
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -The Diplomat – How to Track China’s Navy Ambitions submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -Newsbusters – D.C. Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites submitted by Bookworm Room
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -Don Surber – So quit acting like paparazzi submitted by The Watcher
- Third place *t* with 1 vote -Victor Davis Hanson – An Honest Obama Campaign submitted by Joshuapundit
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -The Foundry – On the Budget: Ryan 40, Obama Zip, Senate Dems—No Show submitted by The Colossus Of Rhodey
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Iowahawk – Help Me Bring The Weiner Hacker To Justice submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Gulag Bound – Left West, Right West, and Other Matters of Balance submitted by New Zeal
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote -Via Meadia – It’s Official: California Is a Failed State submitted by The Watcher
- Fifth place with 1/3 vote -Big Jounalism/ Dan Riehl – Weiner Tweet Stream Disputes His Version, Raises Questions submitted by Snapped Shot
