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[noorman]

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It 's not the same as not paying the pirates for the release of hostages, but it 's close because you let them get off Scott-free for fear of harming the captured ...

They know they can get away with it (in an encounter with the British anyway); they would fare otherwise if they tried the same with French or US Marine Forces !


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[SteveW]

Like I said many times before - our new defense policy is right on track with that of Jimmy Carter.

Given that it takes ~15 years to develop and field one of these weapons systems - all the Chinese need do is make a few more than we have.

Translation: Somewhere around 2020 the United States will take second place to China in the world of tactical aircraft.

Be sure to thank Mr. Obama and his genius secretary of defense Mr. Bill Gates for this blunder.

"Like Brookes, Fisher believes China is realistically aiming at the F-22’s technology level. “One has to assume that the People’s Liberation Army is confident in its projections, as it almost never makes such comments about future military programs, especially one that has been as closely held as its next-generation fighter.

“As such, one has to be asking very hard questions: How did the U.S. intelligence community get this one wrong? And inasmuch as no one expects the F-35 to replace the F-22 in the air superiority role, is it time to acknowledge that F-22 production termination is premature and that a much higher number is needed to sustain deterrence in Asia?”

In his July 16 speech, Gates said that even in 2025 China would have but a handful of fifth-generation aircraft."

[AeroSim]

Like I said many times before - our new defense policy is right on track with that of Jimmy Carter.

Given that it takes ~15 years to develop and field one of these weapons systems - all the Chinese need do is make a few more than we have.

Translation: Somewhere around 2020 the United States will take second place to China in the world of tactical aircraft.

Be sure to thank Mr. Obama and his genius secretary of defense Mr. Bill Gates for this blunder.
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I saw that when it hit the wires and had to bite my tongue.

IMO- They've given them the technology and they may have more mass produced even before the schedule suggested by the article.

Who is "they"- basically the same government and businesses that brought you all the outsourced jobs and sent ballistic the trade deficit. Right now, what the Chinese don't have they can likely bribe/extort for and I fear that our system is so infiltrated and compromised that they could problably post Obama's sex life on YouTube.

[noorman]

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Be sure to thank Mr. Obama and his genius secretary of defense Mr. Bill Gates for this blunder.
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the new/current Secretary of Defense is Robert Gates ...


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[SteveW]

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the new/current Secretary of Defense is Robert Gates ...


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Bill Robert whatever dude.....Gates are Gates - they all look alike anyway!

[Enmore]

Jeez. True horror...

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear': Man trapped in 23-year 'coma' reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious

By Allan Hall


A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time.

Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no sound.

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state.

'I dreamed myself away,' he added, tapping his tale out with the aid of a computer.

Doctors used a range of coma tests before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was 'extinct'.

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

Mr Houben described the moment as 'my second birth'. Therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages on a computer screen.

Mr Houben said: 'All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...#ixzz0XhCM8CKM

[Enmore]

Un-•••••••-believable.

How pathetic the once proud and mighty Royal Navy has become in recent years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8359575.stm

War reporter and author Max Hastings says the same thing, much more eloquently than me:

On February 16, 1940, the destroyer Cossack, acting on Churchill's personal orders, steamed headlong into neutral Norwegian territorial waters in defiance of international law, boarded the German freighter Altmark and freed 299 captive British merchant seamen.

Legend held that the first the prisoners knew of their deliverance was a shout down a hatchway from a sailor on deck: 'The Navy's here!' The episode passed into folklore, exemplifying the Royal Navy's centuries-old tradition of triumphant boldness.

On October 28, 2009, the armed Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Knight met Somali pirates transferring the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler from their yacht Lynn Rival to a hijacked Singaporean container vessel.

When warning shots from Wave Knight failed to deter the pirates, its 100-strong crew stood by and did . . . absolutely nothing.
We know of this sorry incident only because a British sailor leaked the truth. The Ministry of Defence's original statement declared, evasively and deceitfully, that Wave Knight had encountered the yacht unmanned. Nothing was said about the British ship witnessing the hostages' removal.

Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord, has since asserted apologetically: 'The security of the Chandlers was the most important thing.'
The Wave Knight and its crew 'did the best they could'. Yet it is a reliable principle, that when officials lie about the course of events, as at first they did in this case, there is something to be ashamed of.

The outcome is that the British couple today languish at a pirate lair ashore, where a £4million ransom is demanded for their release. It seems a long, sorry voyage from the glories of the Cossack's Norwegian adventure to humiliation in the Indian Ocean.

Maybe the wind was blowing the wrong way as well, and the ship's cat was off its food. But the upshot was wretchedly unheroic, a million miles remote from the Royal Navy's historic tradition. Nobody made the smallest show of being bold or brave in the face of dramatic wrongdoing.

Whatever excuses and explanations are offered, it is hard to escape a conclusion that the Navy - in contrast to the British Army - no longer performs like a fighting service.

I am reliably told that a contributory factor to some of the rotten decisions made during the 2007 Gulf saga [When the Iranians kidnapped a boarding party of marines & sailors] was that critical moments occurred out of hours, at night and the weekend. Some senior naval officers, working a peacetime routine in Britain, were not paying attention.

Their mindset is no longer that of Nelson - 'Engage the Enemy More Closely' - but of Health & Safety. No one should climb a ladder without a man at the bottom to hold it.

Many of us would say that if naval ships deployed in the Indian Ocean to combat piracy cannot find ways to protect British civilians in plain sight, they should come home and abandon the charade.

Of course, comparisons with the 1940 boarding of the Altmark are fanciful. We are not at war, and as a result there are vastly greater constraints on risktaking. But it remains a tragic humiliation for a once-proud service, to show itself impotent before a rabble of pirates.

If the Royal Navy cannot act more effectively to defend British interests and citizens on the high seas, then it becomes hard to see what it exists for.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...#ixzz0XlxohANq

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TV Presenter On Death Row For Witchcraft

November 24, 2009

Dominic Waghorn, Middle East correspondent


A man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft because he makes predictions on television.

Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year.

A court in the city condemned him as a witch on November 9.

The only evidence presented in court was reportedly the claim he appeared regularly on Lebanese satellite issuing general advice on life and making predictions about the future.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...15466364?f=rss

Mind you, it reminds me of this sketch:

[AeroSim]

Tennis Mr. Bond?



Yeah- it's on the upper left (below). This is the Burj al Arab Hotel in Dubai



With ideas like this, does anyone wonder where their investors might have went?

(Hint: She may know...)

[noorman]

Tennis Mr. Bond?




With ideas like this, does anyone wonder where their investors might have went?

(Hint: She may know...)

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Yes, I heard they are in a pickle with their repayments ...

It 's easy to spend, easier when it 's someone elses, but paying it back is the more difficult of these transactions


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[Enmore]

Lots of people have just driven to the airport, abandoned the car and got the first plane out.

If a cheque bounces over there, they throw you in prison straight away. No kidding.

[noorman]

Lots of people have just driven to the airport, abandoned the car and got the first plane out.

If a cheque bounces over there, they throw you in prison straight away. No kidding.

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Like rats fleeing the sinking ship


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[Frank1946]

Movement under way in California to ban divorce

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D9CA3KB81.html

[Fluff n Stuff]

Movement under way in California to ban divorce

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D9CA3KB81.html

That's funny... and IF he can get all the 'Gay Marriage Rights' folks to vote for it, there would be enough people in the Christian community to push it over the top and get the law passed.

...until the folks who support Gay Marriage Rights realized that it would apply to Gay Marriages, too. Not sure how strong the support will stay 'nStuff.

[Dutchcedar]

Save your arse.

A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her arse.