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[insert opposition MP's name here] Says Haitian Tragedy Wouldn't  Have Happened If Harper Hadn't Prorogued Parliament

Dumbest article read today: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/01/13/calgary-lethbridge-police-johns-prostitution.html If they can still enjoy it at that age more power to them.  These old guys are machine !  Leave them alone.

Thread Hi-jack Hmmm, just had a visual of certified Organic field rations.  What a concept.  But then again I remember the RP-4s. If you were lucky enough to get the particular menu, I think it was menu 7, there was a can of the aforementioned Danish bacon.  Only had it once though, we always...

1.  Maybe he was CFR; or 2.  Maybe he was busted while dancing the hatless jig over the course of 4 paragraphs; or 3.  Maybe his proof-reading skills are about as sharp as mine. In any case I compliment you on your powers of observation ZC.

Makes sense to me, the cowboy street gangs trying to wrest control and influence from the wiseguys.  Personally, I'm betting on the latter.

Just outstanding service !  A step back in time to the salad days of air travel before airliners became flying cattlecars.

"expert". a.k.a "consultant" :  someone who tells you what you already know, usually for a fee.

I'm thinking this has just gotta be legit.  I mean if you can't trust Nigeria's National Security Advisor who can you trust?  Ya' figure? 

Putting down rebellions in California, eh?   - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well I guess it's a safe bet that Conrad won't be getting any hacksaw blades hidden inside a Joe Louis cake from Gilles Duceppe any time soon huh?

The animal in the pic looks like a donkey to me, I think mules are taller.  Hope they learn how to distinguish between breeds before Honest Abdul's Premium Used Pack Mules makes donkeys out of the Yanks...

1967:  ExSarge publishes  the opening comparitive commentary in the MSM and is widely acclaimed as a respected humorist. 2010:  ExSarge publishes the opening comparitive commentary in the MSM and is castigated as an insensitive, inappropriately behaving, narrow-minded boor who symbolizes all...

Was it Bazooka Joe brand bubblegum ?

when getting on the bus to come to work this morning the good-natured driver currentlyon my suburban route serenaded me on board with his rendition of Dean Martin's  "It's A Marshmellow World In The Winter".  Bless him !

9 Mar 42 must indeed be the date ending the Commonwealth's first campaign in the theatre as  as Malaya & Singapore had already fallen,  the retreat from Burma was more or less completed: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=59 and effective resistance in the Dutch East Indies campaign, ...

Thanks, makes sense now.  So does 9 March relate to the Burma campaign as Singapore fell in February?

Just curious about an item in the Today In Military History sidebar: Why to 9 Mar 42 if the colony surrendered on Dec. 25/41 and the survivors fought on to survive a POW camp until Aug/Sept//45? 

True enough and exemplifies the stereotypical "wandering Jew".  But it is the culture that is the deteminant of one's ethnic origin so we are really talking about social history.  And it is what one eats that often defines one's ethnicity.  So, I direct you to Claudia Roden's excellent The Book...

Do you know if he performed the surgery himself,  perhaps with his bayonet and the needle and thread in his "housewife" ?