Sunday, January 6, 2008
Words of a dead soldier
It’s not often you read a blog entry from someone who’s left this world.
This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. And so, like G’Kar, I must say here what I would much prefer to say in person.
Chilling.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
lgf: Teddy Bear Teacher Moved to Secret Location
The latest reminder of the difference between (radical?) Islam and the fringe? elements of other religions. Clearly the differences are exponential.
The Daily Mail has more on the appalling demonstrations from Religion of Peace&#xu2;122 members in Sudan, who poured out of mosques after Friday prayers screaming for the death of teddy bear teacher Gillian Gibbons and brandishing swords and knives: Teddy bear teacher moved to secret location as thousands of Islamic fanatics demand her execution.
A reminder why we’re fighting the wars of today.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Remembering
Remembering you, (Grandfather) Lorne E. Flood, Quartermaster, USS Gambier Bay, on this Remembrance Day.
You won’t be forgotten. Thank you for your sacrifice in WW2 and the Korean War.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Remarkable Man Dies
This man probably helped kill more people in one shot than any other human in history...quite a distinction. On the other hand, he may have helped save that many or more from the brutal Japanese regime. Any way you slice it, though, he played a critical part in human history.
‘I’m not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I’m proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did’
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Public Stoning Tomorrow
It’s important to know your enemy in the war on terror.
The Regime in Iran stoned Jafar Kiani to death last week.
Now, the pit has been prepared for the stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, his lover.
She is the mother of two children.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
How many more?
If this doesn’t make you wonder what on earth our young men with young families are doing over there, I don’t know what will.
Matthew Dawe, 27, reaches for his son, Lucas, 1, at CFB Edmonton in February. Dawe, five other soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed yesterday.
If we’re going to send our country’s future over to help rebuild a nearly irreparable country, can’t we at least give them some decent equipment? Since most seem to be blown up in roadside bombs, why are they not traveling around in something bomb proof, say, perhaps a tank?
If we don’t have the equipment to travel around safely, then perhaps we should find another way to keep the peace over there. The human cost is just not worth it.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Facing the Islamist Menace
A great article on what the West can do with the jihad threat.
Monday, March 26, 2007
lgf: What Would Maggie Do?
I was thinking this very thought...and lgf beat me to the punch.
The mullahs say they’re going to charge 15 captive British sailors with espionage.
What would Margaret Thatcher do?
I’m amazed how scared the civilized world is today to deal effectively with rogue states.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
It’s no wonder
...that the Iraqis are doing whatever it takes to repel the Americans, with this policy.
A story in today’s WaPo reports that temporary “enjoyment marriages” are back in vogue amongs Shiites in Iraq. These marriages essentially allow men to take women as temporary consorts.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Europe, Thy Name Is Cowardice
Got this email the other day; glad to see that it’s true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Hang time
Nothing like a good hanging to end the year.
Boy we’ve come a long way with cell phone technology.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
What We Saw
A powerful eye-witness account home video of the WTC destruction.
via LGF
World according to Eric
Here is Margolis’ take on how things stand 5 years later.
There has been no successful attack on North America since 9/11, but the u.s. and Canada have generated new enemies
Trouble is, he makes a lot of sense. Wonder if that’s why so many disagree with him?
We knew this
More proof that all the totally ridiculous security measures at the airport are smokescreens to avoid the hard work of securing the airports.
It’s an image to keep in mind, next time we’re standing barefoot in the airport, one hand clutching our beltless pants to keep them from falling down.
Even as our toothpaste is being confiscated, our lattes being poured down the drain and our deodorant landing in the garbage bin someone could be tampering with the lunch trays about to be brought aboard the plane.
They should just give every third person a gun that boards a plane: that would be real security.
Monday, September 11, 2006
The man who knew
This guy doesn’t get a lot of mention when it comes to 9-11 and preventing the fateful day.
O’Neill’s story, as drawn from FRONTLINE’s research, reporting, and interviews with O’Neill’s friends and colleagues.
9-11
Mark isn’t sure the federal bureaucracy can see the obvious danger among us.
And, given that free societies tend naturally toward a Katrina mentality of doing nothing until it happens, one morning we will wake up to another day like the “day that changed everything.” Sept. 11 was less “a failure of imagination” than an ability to see that America’s enemies were hiding in plain sight.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Fred is sick of all the conspiracy theories.
Oh help. I am still getting nutcake email from the deranged telling me about various conspiracies involving those wretched buildings in New York. Stop sending them. My hard drive is not an asylum. I don&#xu2;019t know how to email Haldol. Try taking rat poison.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
lgf: British Air Passengers Mutiny
This story gives me hope, especially after watching bits of Flight 93 on A&E last night.
Mutiny on Flight 613. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
If anything, it’s time we adopted some American-style skepticism about our government. We’ll all be safer.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Dearbornistan boyz
Debbie’s doing better connect the dots than the local FBI. Detroit ain’t what it used to be ... but it still appears to be bad.
Kudos to the county mounties of Ohio, too.
Terror plot timeline
A great post via lgf on what led up to yesterday’s arrests.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Lgf: It’s September 10th again
I still think nationalizing airport security may actually have made things worse.
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Torontoistan?
Britain/London has always been ahead of Canada/Toronto in terms of cultural influence. This one is scary.
De-nile isn’t just a river
Our PC police and politicians may not be able to see it, but LGFers can.
We are sooo in danger.
Not too bright
Reading this story about the attack on the TSE tells me these kids don’t keep track of what’s going on. Last I looked, there hasn’t been a trading floor in years. I also doubt that any of the main computers to control the trades are anywhere near King and York, the TSX’s head office.
Also, the building is near impossible to get near to during rush hour, and its shipping area is a devil to get to (it doesn’t actually have its own, making it an even lousier target.)
Friday, May 26, 2006
Grieving Nichola
One of the absolute best articles I’ve ever read on why women should never be on the front lines of a war.
I have been grieving for Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian woman ever to die fighting in battle. For some reason this struck me as more than the death of someone who was clearly a wonderful person and a highly capable soldier…
...That is, for the intuitive knowledge that civilization comes to a grinding halt – we all die – if women, the mothers of us all, die out. So, it seems (again so strongly intuitively) that although it is a noble tragedy for a nation to lose a single life in battle, it is a kind of double tragedy to lose a woman’s life.