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Things are going down hill in places here as well.There is a spate of war memorials being wrecked for their lead/copper/precious metals.I know times are hard BUT even so some places should be sacred.

Nice pics Stickman.

Is the Dunkards Church still there?

Bill
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Yeah, they reconstructed it. It is just left about 200 feet from the guns where my girls are pictured.
That era black and white post battle photo showing some dead, is right where the guns are. Dunkard Church is the building in that photo.

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"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

I saved a dog today!

Had 2 of my children and 1 grandchild over at the house this Friday.
Was outside on the deck, in the back of my house, looking out at Pearl Harbor.
My son's dog Annie was chasing my black & white cat Neko around the deck.
"Damn you Annie! I'll put the witch's broom on yer ass!" I yelled.
Annie retreated and settled down. Annie is a pent up apartment wild creature,
but not leashed, in my household.
She hates my witch's broom!

During all this barking and yelling in my household,
I saw a little dog, two houses over, peeking over a 4 foot concrete wall barking at our shenanigans!
"Arrf!" I yelled to the dog.
"Arrf! "Arrf! "Arrf! "Arrf!" the dog answered me back.
I pointed my finger at the dog. "Arff!"
Then the poor dog jumped over the concrete wall in attack mode.
Unfortunately for him, he was leashed, about 2 feet too long!
The poor devil jumped over the wall and was hanging over it, leashed and noosed by the collar. kicking his back legs looking for ground
that was 2 feet below.... No barking now. Just choking!!

I have seen a dog hanged to death in a similar fashion before. I did not like looking at it then.

So I jumped over the fence of my next door neighbor's yard,
ran across his yard, (dog was choking and shaking!!)
picked up the choking near dead dog, and tossed him into the (two houses down) dog's space.

Ah! I saved a life today!

I turned around.
My policeman next door neighbor turned around from something he was writing.. outside in his backyard,
"Hi Jeff!"
"Hi Mike. Did you see the hanging dog?"
"What dog? I hear dogs barking night and day. No big deal."
"What are you writing?" I looked over his shoulder.
"Uhmmm.."
"Never mind mind Mike. None of my business. I rescued a dog just now. You would not like your young daughter to see a dead dog hanging on that stone wall, would ye?"

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"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Was sent an offer today to try another not to be named sim as 'open beta tester'. On exploring this (and before signing up for the beta testing non disclosure agreement, which I wouldn't break by offering actual game details here) I learned that in order to test the game, you have to buy 'game packages' ranging in price from 79.99 USD to 20 USD, depending on how many aircraft and in game 'credit' for repairs and upgrades, you wish to purchase.

Now, I guess you can call this open and honest, since there is no compulsion to lay money down, which needless to say, I didn't.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned.

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These are the best interviews I have ever seen, where the super-pompous self-serving Brit TV interviewers are put in their place in unbelievably short order by a powerful man who appears very believable, when it comes to the US justice system ( politically instigated 97% conviction rate, 6-12 times prison population of the rest of the Western World!), his position in society, and what he went thru. And his best friend is Henry Kissinger.

Watch Sky's bleebish Alan Boulton, toward the end of his interview, where he is at a complete loss as to what to say next.
( I have jus seen this live on Sky, prompting this research )

Conrad Black Tells SKY NEWS Adam Boulton "Stop Being A Jackass"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzuWvfNDC_A

Conrad Black Spars With 'Priggish, Gullible Fool' Paxman On BBC TWO's Newsnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI35DMHjy4

Background:
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG is a Canadian-born member of the House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world.
Beginning in 2005, Black was the subject of a highly publicized prosecution in the United States. Black has maintained his innocence since the beginning of the legal saga. Having initially faced 17 charges of misconduct and of defrauding the company he led, Hollinger International, of $60 million, he was convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of justice in a U.S. court in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. On July 19, 2010, Black was granted bail following a unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States in which Black succeeded in having the scope of the honest services fraud statute narrowed. Subsequent to that decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned two of the three remaining mail fraud counts against Black in October 2010. The sole remaining mail fraud count was in the amount of $600,000. of which Black’s share was $285,000.
On June 24, 2011 he was resentenced on the one remaining count of mail fraud and on the one count of obstruction of justice to a prison term of 42 months and a fine of US$125,000. As the 29 months Black had already served were included in this sentence, he returned to prison on September 6, 2011, to serve his remaining term of thirteen months. Black was released on May 4, 2012. As he renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001, Black was granted a one-year temporary resident permit to re-enter Canada upon his release from prison. The permit is valid until May 2013.

And the US & or UK hav'nt put any of their bankers in jail whatsoever - but put a newspaper tycoon in - that's enough food for my thought

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"There is nothing so exhillarating than to be shot at without result"- Boer War 1900 - " Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. However, I am fond of pigs as pigs treat us as equals". W.L.S.C.

Innocent victims rarely spirit away boxes of documents
in the middle of the night in defiance of a court order...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpLNDjXAJo

(I'm not much of a fan of Kissinger, either...)

I also dislike Kissinger ( tribute song - listen to the words "Dr Kiss-Kiss , you put an evil spell on me..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqU5JHyOds )

He tricked Rhodesia into surrendering to the communists. They were meant to stop shooting, and instead doubled their infiltration and promptly shot down two civillian Viscount airliners and then blamed the Rhodesian govt for shooting their own aircraft full of women and children for the propaganda purpose against Mugabe ..... Kisssinger countenanced these lies, and even the Rhodesian Jews hated him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 537969.stm

What court order?
However I agree that in the UK the such removal of boxes would never have resulted in a conviction, especially as Conrad Black was removing items as he was evicted from the premesis, and they were not under a notice of seal ???? this was not noted whatsoever on the Al-Jareera news clip - shows how sleaze ball the media can be : such was the US detemination for a conviction they took no notice of this whatsoever?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black
Seth Lipsky, in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal that ran on June 28, 2011, called the verdict against Black "head-scratching," noting that Black was found not guilty of the most serious charges brought against him and "the jury convicted him of a count of obstruction, for obeying an eviction notice by Hollinger to remove from his former office in Toronto boxes of papers and personal effects that he hadn't been informed were under seal. Prosecutors claimed that, out of 13 boxes, a single document was relevant to the investigation. It was a copy of a non-compete agreement that Black had previously turned over to the investigators."

A really cock-eyed state system:
In South Africa they ususally attach (remove) everything including all PC's laptops, firearms, furniture, safes and vehicles ( which is in fact what the fraudster wants to happen, and so do the greedy police even if items are not on the list ) as when the court gets down to the evidence say about two years later, the police have ususally lost all the papers and have no record of anything else as it has all been completely stolen months before and the the records altered: the charges are then withdrawn due to lack of evidence, funiture, vehicles etc, and the fraudster then claims on insurance for replacement.

ie: a total of 12,000 guns were stolen from South African Police gun safes last year
http://ahbotha.blogspot.com/2012/09/hun ... ssing.html


Thank God for cloud storage - I think we gonna see a lot of State Pig-squealing soon about that too.

AND STILL, NO BANKERS IN THE WEST, HAVE BEEN SENT TO JAIL FOR DESTRYING THE WORLD AS WE KNEW IT - this tells me something about preferential treatment by states who have vested interests?

On a lighter note:
http://harinair.wordpress.com/2009/08/0 ... -zimbabwe/

and an air combat note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ftw4bQq6g

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Wow, if the wikipedia entry is true, as it appears, then the media here
in Canada really did a number on Mr Black - I just picked the Al-J video
cuz it was easiest to find on youtube - the same content was presented
by all the Canadian media at the time, with lots of dark suggestions of
mischief. Of course there was a huge amount of that - what is it - schadenfreude
(ah the spellchecker pulls it out!) here when he went down, as he has always
been a pompous and arrogant right wing snob with disdain for just about
everybody, and a "philosophy" about as subtle and sophisticated as Ayn Rand's.
I would expect that if Murdoch's press hadn't been so gleeful at his downfall,
he and Rupert would see eye to eye on most everything.

Re the Zimbabwean bus driver, it of course reminds one of the Michael Keaton
movie "Dream Team": - "Ah, it's a great day to be young and insane"

Ha Ha...... better than "old..... and insane!"
Can you imagine trying to convince the nut-house keepers that you're not insane and jus got a lift in a bus.... Ha-ha-ha-ha
I am sure the bald guy in Dream Team played Uncle Festus in the Adams Family? - he's helava funny.
Have you ever seen "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Nicholson would have hi-jacked the bus.

Wikipedia also has a problem in the absolute truth, and Mr Black could have numerous "correctors" on his payroll, altering other's adjustments back to a single story line ( of his innocence ) to advance the majority vote system of Wiki, notably when references are a little tricky. I must say tho, one can't argue with the Wall Street Journal as a reference, and yes, possibly even Canada had a co-ordinated agenda against Black, which is why all Canadians may not know the full truth?

I found this out some years ago on Durban's new King Shaka Airport on Wiki just prior to the SWC, when on a daily basis I adjusted the input comment with references to what I bevieved the truth to be, to have it immediately changed back to what it was - it could only have been provincial goverment agents who were changin the story back to exactly what it was, whguich was to suit govenment proaganda - I eventually gave up.

You cnat believe what went on with this airport, right doen to the art sculptures, in terms of politics.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/ ... d-20100602
The powers that be, I believe want the statue to reflect SHaka's absolute pathologiocal violence as a leader - they have a point - see as "Making of the Spear -the I-Kla"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J84iqdBXZnA
Absolutely nothing has happend in 2 yrs about bringing King Shaka back to the airport, with or without his shield and spear.
also see art & politics -
http://www.iolproperty.co.za/roller/new ... court_snub
However, there is one Wiki article that has tens of thousands of citizens altering back the storyline from that of the govenment, about a piece of art... imagine banning or putting an age restriction on the staue of David?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spear_(painting)
you may have to copy and paste the above http address as the last return bracket wont register in orange and prevents the link ( possible SA gov interference?)

Local newspaper cartoons which have attracted serious civil claims, and attempted criminal inditements
If this ocurred in Zimbabwe, the cartoonist and editor would have jus disappeared without trace very shortly after

The President and Lady Justice after his rape case was ( it now appears illegally ) withdrawn by the prosecuting authorities so he could become the president.

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I have a nasty habit of listening to National PUBLIC Radio,
which the US Republicans consider to be a red commie radio station.
If Mitt the Twit Dumney wins, on day one, after his inauguration, he will kill this one and only radio station that is free from korporate nazi influence!
Republicans have always feared the Truth.
It might get out to the working low class scum regular people! And if they learn the truth, they may come out of their little rat holes and vote!!

Ahh.. anyway, I found this interesting:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... -landslide

Only the Pakis would vote for a right wing religious freak!
I guess Obama got a little bit heavy handed sending so many of them Hellfire drones over Paki airspace hunting & killing terrorists,
and sent Seal Team Six into Pakistan to put a bullet into bin Laden's head, without permission!

Aloha!

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Would there be a problem in the US, if say Romney was artistically painted by say the likes of Warhol, in a famous stance of say Superman or the Joker ( to avoid the direct Nazi senario ) with his gentials showing - indicating for instance the "rape of a nation and the poor", and the painting was displayed in say the famous Henry Art Gallery, Seattle?

Next question - would anyone buy it?

Also see how the US bailout is creating massive business in communist China
There's not going to be enough employed Americans to buy American goods, made in China? Self implosion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

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"There is nothing so exhillarating than to be shot at without result"- Boer War 1900 - " Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. However, I am fond of pigs as pigs treat us as equals". W.L.S.C.

I dunno about the US, but this year, we got this portrait
of the PM (who is notorious for support of tarsands, and
suppression of govt scientists' contact with the press).

http://blogs.canoe.ca/davidakin/arts-an ... en-harper/

Ha Ha - brilliant/

Had to look up what a" tarsand" is. We got fracking on the go this side.

Should have painted his hands dripping with tar-oil, and splotches near his crotch as if he had been 'manus turbare' over the sucess of tarsand, like a primate getting exited over free food ! ( the Vervet males, when stealing fruit from my kitchen, tend to have erections they get so excited - they a real pest around here and you notta 'lowed to shoot them like in the 'ole days an I got plenty ammo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_h41Nih6g0


Chek out this p'rno act that baboons have learnt to do to get free food:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loVhvZWpTwM

Baboons have also learnt to open car doors and steal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m92tnZ15Jwg

Jus LIKE POLITICIANS !

But we nottalowed to call our politicians stealing monkeys as it is deemed racist. I wonder why the introspection.

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"There is nothing so exhillarating than to be shot at without result"- Boer War 1900 - " Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. However, I am fond of pigs as pigs treat us as equals". W.L.S.C.