Give ProBlogs a try…
A new blog service has been re-launched called www.ProBlogs.com. They are meant to be rather good and the website seems rather professional, easy to use and well done. There are many of us who started out with the god-awful blogger all those years ago. There are sites these days that are made of people who experienced blogging in the early days and are keen to get people involved without all the heart-ache and pain that was around in the beginning. Of course these days I under the wonderful eye of Kathy so I don’t have to worry. I can rather understand why many people gave it up in the early days as it was all a rather bloody nuisance. So why not head off and give ProBlogs a go?
Exclusive interview…with Mel
And he gives it exclusively to the International Jewish Conspiracy of course. Where else?
Oh according to First Post he’s toast.
Comments are off for this postReflections on ole’ boxer?
Last night and Friday night I had the pleasure of spending some time with a friend of a friend who was a former boxer; having hung up his boxing gloves. Unlike many a former boxer he is quite a nice bloke who now does something non-boxing related. The most impressive thing, of course, is that unlike someone like Ali or Tyson he has lost none of his mental faculties. He does however have that dry sense of humour so prevalent outside the West End of London. It does rather remind of the infamous Maine sense of humour. I am going to introduce my beloved Kim and her family to the humour of Tim Sample (and friends) as not did he used to work with a distant relative of mine. His mother knew my Grandmother Dodge rather well. A fact which he told a whole bunch of autograph hunters the last time I saw him live.
“Peace Rally” in London
More like a Jew-hating/pro-Islamist love-fest. If the organisers really cared about the non-Hizbollah supporting Lebanese people would they have really allowed such posters at their demonstration? Its basically a bit of PR incompetence when you look at it objectively.
I wonder if the majority of marchers know what it means to be Hizbollah. Found via Harry of course.
Comments are off for this postDaft quiz for Monday…
The idealistic speechwriter is well-liked by just about everyone. He’s known for his excellent writing, sense of humor, and tendency to be clutzy. Although being younger than the rest of the staff, he’s often treated as so, much to his dismay.
:: Which West Wing character are you? ::
Via: Guido
Dissident Frogman on Reuters…
In the light of their recent behaviour you know it ain’t gonna be kind now don’t you?
Comments are off for this postThe Watchers want you…
There is a new position on the Watchers of the Weasels. Dare you take up the challenge?
Comments are off for this postWarPr0n
Over the last few nights, CBC has been boasting of some new combat footage it’s gotten of the Princess Pats in Afghanistan. It is indeed riveting, but they never show more than 15 or 20 seconds of it. And given that with the CBC, that it’s all about the CBC, where are the feature stories about the intrepid cameraman (or let it be a woman! We’d never hear the end of it!) who put his butt on the line to get these images?
So I wander over to the CBC’s website to see if they’ve put it up there. Nope—not even the stories in which it was used.
Next stop, the DND’s video archives. They have four pages of Afghanistan-related stuff, but none of the videos I’m looking for.
So I try YouTube. Bingo!
They were shot by Army combat photographers, which might explain the CBC’s coyness as to their origin. Some are jarring, like this clip of an ambush:
Or strangely beautiful, like this dawn raid on a Taliban compound:
More here, here, here, here, and here.
Warning: Much noisy thunderstick activity and various other wizbangs. There’s no obvious blood and gore. In fact, I can state that no Canadians (as far as I can see) were harmed in the production of these videos. As for the Taliban, I don’t think they were quite that lucky. You will also find out that soldiers tend to use a certain 4-letter word (the Swiss Army Knife of obscenity, if you will) liberally. Though I’ve heard worse at some hockey games.
Or if you’d like a more leisurely-paced account of the battles in Panjawai province, here’s an email from a Forward Observation Officer:
When the Company Commander asked me what the safety distance for a hellfire was I literally had to go to the reference manual I carry (J Fires Manual) because I had never seen one before and had no idea what it actually could do. I told him the safety distance was 100m. To which he asked how far we were from the compound the laser said 82m. We debated the ballistic strength of the mud wall beside us and in the end he decided to risk it. Nothing like seeing an entire Company in the fetal position pressed up against a mud wall! The hellfire came in and it was the loudest thing I have ever heard.Read more Comments are off for this post
