Friday - July 10, 2009

PAST HEROS ….. WARRIORS BOTH.  ONE BRIT … ONE AUSSIE … RIP

I don’t do these every day or even every week.  I suppose I could do one every day as those old soldiers fade away.
I think they belong in the blog world and as far as I am aware, nobody else is doing it.  They belong to a past generation who have made today possible.
And so I honor them as I can.

This was not a ‘politically correct’ generation.  They can not have been happy to see the mess following generations have made of the world they helped to save.

RIP

Major Roy Vallance, who has died aged 86, commanded a tank in every battle from Normandy to the Baltic and won a Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Published: 6:50PM BST 09 Jul 2009

In the last days of the campaign in Germany, Vallance, then a sergeant serving with the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps (2 F&FY), was patrolling the banks of the River Elbe, north of Winsen, when his troop was attacked by a bazooka patrol of 20 SS.

It was first light and in wooded country. Vallance, as point tank, allowed the SS to infiltrate past him before moving his guns under fire and at close range into a position where they covered all the enemy’s lines of withdrawal. None of the SS got back with any information.

On another occasion, his tank and another were guarding an important road junction on the main line of advance. They were without infantry support and, as darkness fell, a car full of the enemy – armed with bazookas and supported by infantry – approached his position.

Unwilling to reveal his precarious situation, Vallance dismounted from the tank and went forward with a Bren gun.

He set the car ablaze from a range of 10 yards, killing all the occupants and, using the light from the flames, swept the wood with bullets, dispersing the infantry and accounting for three of them.

The citation for his DCM stated that he had been subject to anti-tank and bazooka fire on many occasions but that he had deployed his small force with such cunning that he had never been knocked out and his troop had suffered the fewest casualties in the squadron.

Royston Ivor Vallance, always known as Roy, was born near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on June 8 1922 and educated locally. By the time he was seven, both his parents had died and he had a lonely childhood. Aged 15, he left his foster parents and went to London, where he did any job that he could and attended night school to learn bookbinding.

During the Blitz he worked in a printing factory and served as fire warden. After being called up in March 1942 he was posted to the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, but could not, at first, understand a word that they spoke. In June 1944, while waiting for its invasion orders, 2 F&FY was at Aldershot.

The hours dragged by and nerves were taut. When, for the umpteenth time, Vallance was told to clean his tank, he refused.

He was put on a charge and was under close arrest when he landed on the Normandy beaches with an advance party on D+3. The charge was subsequently dropped.

On July 18 Operation Goodwood, launched to the east of Caen, ran into fierce German resistance. By mid-afternoon, Vallance’s troop was out of ammunition and the barrels of their machine guns were worn out. Hulks of tanks were raided for replenishments. The Yeomanry lost 54 of its 60 tanks. Vallance, with a resourcefulness which became a byword, put out smoke, ran his tanks into the shelter of a railway cutting and so saved most of his.

In the battle of the Falaise Gap, he picked up an enemy uniform and cap. His crew, for a prank, marched him to their squadron leader kitted out as a German officer – but the joke nearly turned sour when Vallance narrowly avoided being shot by a sentry.

2 F&FY fought a series of fierce engagements – including the battle for the liberation of Asten, near Eindhoven – before finishing the war near the Danish border. After the German surrender, Vallance and his fellow survivors celebrated by setting fire to a petrol tanker and galloping around it on horseback, bottles in hand.

After the war he saw active service in Korea with the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars and, in 1951, fought at the battle of the Imjin river.

Following its amalgamation with the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars to form the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars, he became the first RSM and was promoted to quartermaster in 1959.

Vallance served subsequently in BAOR, Aden and Malaya. He was appointed MBE in 1970 and was medically discharged from the Army the next year. He then moved to Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the family seat of Lord St Oswald, as estate factor.

In 1982, after the death of his first wife, he settled in Norfolk, where he enjoyed watching cricket and reading military history.

Roy Vallance died on June 5. He married first, in 1947, Peggy Paling, who predeceased him. He married secondly, in 1990, Audrey Spellar. She too predeceased him, and he is survived by a daughter of his first marriage.

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VC ... That’s THE VICTORIA CROSS my fellow Americans.  They are not given lightly or in any great numbers.

The last surviving Australian VC recipient of the Second World War.

Ted Kenna, who died on July 8 aged 90, won the Victoria Cross on May 15 1945 while serving with the 2nd/4th Australian Infantry Battalion in the South West Pacific. He was

Published: 6:06PM BST 08 Jul 2009

Japanese troops had established a defensive line in rugged terrain south of Wewak, New Guinea, and were shelling the Australians from the missionary station at Wirui. After a sharp battle on May 14, the 2nd/4th had captured all but the north-western spur. The only position from which supporting fire could be obtained was continuously swept by heavy machine-gun fire, making it impossible to bring artillery or mortars into action.

On May 15, Private Kenna’s platoon was ordered forward to deal with three enemy machine-gun posts. Kenna moved his support section as close as possible to the bunkers in order to provide covering fire for a flank attack by the rest of the platoon.

Two sections of the platoon attacked, but as soon as the enemy spotted them they were pinned down with heavy automatic fire from a position which had not previously revealed itself. With several of the men already wounded, Kenna endeavoured to bring his gunner to bear on one of the bunkers but was unable to bring down effective fire because of the difficult ground.

On his own initiative and without orders, Kenna stood up in full view of the enemy less than 50 yards away and engaged the bunker, firing his Bren gun from the hip. Fire was returned at once, bullets passing between his arms and his body but somehow missing him. Undeterred, Kenna continued to fire at the enemy until his ammunition was exhausted. He then discarded his Bren gun, called for a rifle and despite intense machine-gun fire killed the enemy gunner with his first round.

When a machine gun opened up on him from a second position, Kenna, who had remained standing, killed the gunner with his next round. The bunker was captured without further loss, the company attack went forward and the enemy position was carried.

The citation declared: “There is no doubt that the success of the company attack would have been seriously endangered and many casualties sustained but for Private Kenna’s magnificent courage and complete disregard for his own safety.” Kenna was invested with the Victoria Cross by the Governor-General of Australia, the Duke of Gloucester, at Government House, Melbourne, on January 6 1947.

Edward Kenna, always known as Ted, was born on July 6 1919 at Hamilton, Victoria, the fourth child of a family of seven. He went to St Mary’s Convent, Hamilton, but left at 14 and worked as a plumber to look after his mother when his father fell ill. He was an accomplished sportsman and a keen cyclist and sportsman.

Kenna served in the Citizen Military Forces before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1940. He served initially in the 23rd/21st Battalion but was posted to the 2nd/4th in 1943. In October 1944 he embarked from Cairns with his unit bound for New Guinea.

In June 1945, three weeks after the attack on the Wirui Mission feature, Kenna was taking part in a similar operation when he was hit in the mouth by an explosive bullet and evacuated. When told he was likely to die he simply exclaimed: “Pigs”. But he recovered and in December 1946 he was discharged.

Kenna returned to work in Hamilton at the Borough hall and then as curator of the Melville Oval. He was presented to the Queen when she visited the newly-restored Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in March 2000; he appeared on a postage stamp in the same year. A portrait of Kenna by Sir William Dargie hangs in the Borough hall.

Ted Kenna married, in 1947, Marje Rushberry, who had nursed him in hospital. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom predeceased him.

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ONE MAN’S ART ……. MODEL CRAFTED ENTIRELY FROM PAPER

Anything nice to look at is and pleasing to the eye is Eye Candy.

An origami artist from Japan, Wataru Ito, has spent four years crafting an incredible model city from paper - but now plans to burn it down.

Published: 10:47AM BST 10 Jul 2009
The Telegraph

Mr Ito, 25, started building his ‘Castle on the Ocean’ when he became bored during his university entrance exams.

Using just a knife and glue, the art student built up an entire cityscape over four years by cutting and folding hundreds of pages of craft paper.

The finished piece is now being displayed for the first time at an exhibition on the artificial island of Umihotaru, near Tokyo.

But incredibly, Wataru, a second year student at Tokyo University of the Arts, plans to set his work on fire when the show is over.

He said: “I’m very happy to display my work at a place where people who don’t have an interest in arts can come and see it.

“Looking back now I sometimes ask myself ‘did I really manage to create this?’

“I am devoted while I am working on my projects but I quickly lose interest when I complete them.

“When the exhibition is over I will burn the castle. I thought I could see it rising up from the ashes if I took a video and played it backwards.”

Wataru, who lives in Tokyo but is originally from Saitama, Japan, started working on the castle while he was studying to become an art student.

After failing a university entrance exam three times he focused on this project, which became so large he had to sleep under a table in his tiny flat.

The city’s centrepiece is a castle which is loosely based upon El Temple de la Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain, .

The central tower is surrounded by a cathedral, school, theme park, factory and airport and comes complete with electrical lights and a moving train.

Incredibly, the entire piece - which measures 2.4m by 1.8m and is 1m high - has been crafted using only paper, which Wataru stuck together using craft glue, an art knife and holepuncher.

SOURCE

I guess we will have to look forward to the video burning. Shame really. Seems these folks really excel at this sort of thing. Japanese,Chinese etc.

   Thursday - July 09, 2009

Blog Stats

A big thank you to our loyal readers

Quite some time ago I put in some number crunching widgets, and every once in a great while I look at them. Every so often we have a big spike in visitors, but usually BMEWS chugs along at a little under 1000 hits per day. And that is very steady, day in, day out, year after year.

Maybe if I followed the rules I’d get more hits. Meh. I follow some of them, some of the time. And I really suck at linkwhoring. And the trackback thingy - which I use all the time, thank you - doesn’t work. It probably expired 3 years ago or something. I can’t be bothered to fix it. I do get some great emails, and sometimes they have some great graphics, links, or story ideas. Except for the ones in Chinese or Italian. How I get those, I’ll never know.

BMEWS averages about 180,000 visits per year. Not exactly earth shattering, but pretty good considering everything.

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Do we have enough visitors to make any money from the ads? Hell no. Not a dime. [um, cuz you don’t have any ads, brainfart] Ok, we’ve earned about 47¢ over the course of 4 years. Really. And BMEWS Gear? I’m pretty sure I own the one and only “Batty" coffee mug ever printed up by Cafe Press. Which holds several hundred rounds of .22 at the ready! And they come in Regular Bat too, plus hats! But that’s Ok. This isn’t a for-profit blog. It’s more of an anchor bloody albatross around my neck labor of love! We don’t make ends meet, ever. So what? This is my forum, shared with a few good digital friends. Our own electronic soap box where we can scream, rant, rage, and post awful puns. And silly stuff. And prime eye candy. What else are blogs for? What, you want math lessons? Fah!

World’s Shortest Horror Movie

Outstanding.

It really is a short film.

How short is it?

It’s so short that the blond never needs to run away, then trip and fall and get chainsawed.
It’s so short that the black guy never even gets a chance to go down to the dark basement alone.

EMBEDDED PLAYER REMOVED
because the damn thing is annoying

If the movie doesn’t play, just right click and ‘save as’ instead.

Sent to me by my brother in law the cop. Ok, officer with the county Sheriff’s Department assigned to ... never mind. He’s a cop.




Open discussion! Yeah, it was done by a Brit, obviously. One with no idea what an American address looks like. [OK, my error. This is what an address in Salt Lake City Utah can actually look like. Nearly every road in the city has a number instead of a name, and everything west or east of Main Street is “W -” or “E -”, and everything north or south of the temple is “- N” or “- S”. But I don’t think there is actually a 4517 street, whether N, W, E, or W.] But I applaud him for his “cowboy” idea about what we have under the bed here - her toy is a major federal offense in at least 4 ways, plus being beyond illegal in New Jersey.

Sarah the Covergirl

Palin Ready To Run Again






Semi-former Governor gets interview and cover of latest issue of Runner’s World.

Read all about it here. I like the part where she laughs at McStain, who’s favorite athletic activity is wading.


A little quote from the interview there. Is this a freudian slip of some kind that we can read loads into?

Q Have you run with other famous people or politicians?
A I have not because I usually sneak out to go running, or if someone offers I usually shoot straight with them and say, ”I gotta go run by myself, I’m sorry.”

Thank you for your sacrifice

Stoaty the Weasel over at the weasel blog in England, somewhere near Peiper’s house, but with sheep and strawberries, makes a nearly ultimate sacrifice for her readers: she listened, actually listened, to more than a full half hour of ManBearPig Al Gore’s climate speech given at Oxford. And then she sums the whole entire thing up in just a few words:

And it wasn’t easy. Not at all ...

I know stoner bullshit when I step in it: this is the voice of a dumb guy who hangs around science nerds long enough to pick up a few phrases to impress his fellow dumb guys. Here, have some:

We have to connect the soils with the trees and the vegetation and the energy sources the built environment and the human system including population. Population is a success story. It’s a success story in slow motion. But we are bending the curve and the old models of what people once thought worked to stabilize population have thankfully been discarded in favor of a model that works. It’s a common system that shifts from one equilibrium to another.

Well done, that weasel.



For those really bold few, or those other death defying thrill seekers, here is the link to ManBearPig. He’s really serial!

Crivens, Crowder!

It’s just a tiny video this week. More of an ad than anything really. He’s promising a great big 20 minute job on Monday, all about healthcare in Canadialand. So tune in then, and we’ll see what’s up.

Cap & Trade is now more worthlesser

And it’s even more worthless when it’s just us dumbass whiteboy countries doing all the scrimping and saving. No shit Sherlock, China, India, and the whole damn Turd World ain’t gonna play. And let’s face it ... it would require a united one-world government to enforce, with tens of millions of enforcers constantly on the prowl ready for Rapid Response™. It simply can’t be done, even if it’s a good idea ... and it’s not.

Thank God some of those cockweasels in government are finally figuring out what us regular folks have known for ages already.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) presented the chart to both Jackson and Secretary Chu, which shows that meaningful emissions reductions cannot occur without aggressive action by China, India, and other developing countries. “I am encouraged that Administrator Jackson agrees that unilateral action by the U.S. will be all cost for no climate gain,” Sen. Inhofe said. “With China and India recently issuing statements of defiant opposition to mandatory emissions controls, acting alone through the job-killing Waxman-Markey bill would impose severe economic burdens on American consumers, businesses, and families, all without any impact on climate.”

So will this be enough to kill this hairbrained idiocy? I hope so. Then we can all go out and celebrate by ... beating up a hippie or two and having a big ol’ barbecue.

This is the digital chart the US government published. It is almost unreadable due to crappy quality

“I am encouraged that Administrator Jackson agrees that unilateral action by the U.S. will be all cost for no climate gain,” Sen. Inhofe said.  “With China and India recently issuing statements of defiant opposition to mandatory emissions controls, acting alone through the job-killing Waxman-Markey bill would impose severe economic burdens on American consumers, businesses, and families, all without any impact on climate.”

But we still have knot-headed Truthers Warmers out there ... who just can’t figure things out. So I’ll tell them again:

Even if the entire USA shut down everything right this second, and we all held our breath forever ... as long as the whole rest of the world continues to burn things and to breathe, there’s going to be more CO₂ put into the atmosphere. Not to mention what we get from the random volcano going boom and stuff like that. Cutting our emissions to ZERO only slows the growth. It does not stop it or reverse it. And the whole Carbon Credits thing is just a shell game. Paying somebody else for your “right” to pollute is nonsense, just as it’s nonsense to sanctimoniously offshore all your production so you can claim eco-holiness. That other country is now burning shit to make your stuff instead of you. Just as much, probably more, given their lower technology level. Cap & Trade: It. Just. Does. Not. Work.

Here’s the link. Michelle Malkin has it too.

Toldja, toldja, toldja, toldja. I want to hammer nails into my Clue Bat .... because, Meanwhile, At the G8:

President Obama and other leaders backed historic new targets for tackling global warming last night in an agreement designed to pave the way for a world deal in the autumn.

For the first time, America and the other seven richest economies agreed to the goal of keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2C (3.6F).

They also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 as they strove for a worldwide deal at Copenhagen in December.

The moves were designed to put the squeeze on the world’s developing nations, most of whose leaders will join the G8 for a debate chaired by President Obama today.

The agreement marks a significant step in efforts to limit greenhouse gases, which are blamed for the world’s rising temperature. [Drew: temps are actually falling. See yesterday’s post. But why should this bunch ever do a Reality Check?] The G8 previously had not been able to agree on that temperature limit as a political goal.

See? Knot heads. As if these few think they have the power to cool the world. Who are they, King Canute*?

(* = yes, this is where you remember the Obama campaign spiel about this being the moment the oceans started to fall. He really is that arrogant!)

   Wednesday - July 08, 2009

Another case of anti-gun, anti-Christian profiling?

Shreveport LA

If the back window of your truck looks something like this:

You too might get pulled over by the cops, taken out of the vehicle, and have your (legally carried in the vehicle) guns confiscated before the cop even asks you your name!

Profiling at it’s worst ... and the Cedric Glover, mayor of the city of Shreveport Louisiana is perfectly fine with it.

This story is making the rounds, so read the story at the source, with the videos, press coverage etc. Then make up your mind.

Don’t forget that there has been trouble with that police department before too (links at end of the post).

But do get a load of Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover - looks like we’ve got another little dictator brewing; his cops “have a power that ... the President of these Unites States does not have” - the power to suspend your rights, on the spot, because they feel like it.

I’d say either Glover and the top cops in that town need to go, right the hell now. This can not stand. But it will. And this is only the tip of the iceberg, really. Just the tip.
The camps are coming, people. It’s only a matter of time. And not a long time either. 2 years, tops.




Oh look ... I’m being Fair and Balanced: Mayor Glover responds. He may have a point, or maybe two points, but he’s still an arrogant jerkwad.

Shake the tree, and the nuts fall out

GreenPeace defaces Mount Rushmore

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and . . . Barack Obama?

Patriotic tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Wednesday found a fifth face displayed—and not as a compliment—next to the giant stone carvings of four legendary presidents.

A group of environmental activists connected with Greenpeace unfurled an enormous banner showing President Obama’s face and calling for an end to global warming.

The 65-foot by 35-foot banner — which read “America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming” — was hung to the immediate right of Lincoln at about 10 a.m. local time, said Patty Rooney, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service’s Midwest Regional Office.

She said an undetermined number of people were taken into custody following the incident.

Daniel Kessler, a spokesman for Greenpeace, said 11 people were detained, but it was not clear how many of them were Greenpeace employees.

No injuries were reported.

“This monument celebrates leaders who rose to the great challenges of our past,” Greepeace USA Deputy Campaign Director Carroll Muffett said in a press release. “Global warming is the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced and it is the defining test of leadership for this generation. It’s an open question whether President Obama will pass this test.”
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“Doing what it takes to solve global warming demands real political courage,” Muffett continued. “If President Obama intends to earn a place among this country’s true leaders, he needs to show that courage, and base his actions on the scientific reality rather than political convenience.”

Oh good grief. So when Ozipperhead signs this economy bankrupting nonsense Cap & Traitor Climate Change bill, the greenies will make him their hero. And you know what comes after that, right? I can just about guarantee it too ...

linky love

I still hate you, Sarah Palin, a combat primer from the Left.



Stars and Stripes just as racist as the Stars and Bars? VDARE makes the case



Via the Weasel’s post Seven reasons a layman can be sure global warming is complete bullshit, a link to another post that shows that the earth is actually getting colder; a whole .74°F in the past 3 years alone. With links to other blogs that use graphics! Made from actual data!! Like this one:




After watching the great success the UK has had in eliminating violent crime by banning guns, the Irish are now following suit. Not that guns were ever easy to get legally in Ireland to begin with, but now they’ll be nearly impossible. Hey, this is the same country that outlawed condoms too.

The President, Mary McAleese is expected to sign the Criminal Justice Miscellaneous Bill into law this week after the Dail passed the final stages of what has become known as the handgun bill. The new law which severely limits the licensing of handguns was initiated when Deputy John Deasy repeatedly raised the issue of handguns in the Dail.

Responses to a series of Dail questions over a number of months asked by Deputy Deasy revealed that the number of handguns legally licensed had increased six-fold in the last four years. In 2004 no handguns were legally held and licensed. At the start of 2009 that number had risen to approximately 1,800 handgun licenses. He said, “I’ll never forget the first time I read those figures out on the Dail floor. The reaction was one of total disbelief. It proved nobody was aware of what had occurred.”

Deasy maintains it was a situation that was never intended to happen. He said, “A number of High Court cases were taken against the Gardai by handgun owners, one of them against the Garda Superintendent in Waterford. The ruling in the Waterford case went against the Gardai, and along with similar decisions it had the effect of liberalising the licensing of handguns throughout the country.”

The bill which passed the Dail last week completely restricts handgun ownership apart from those handguns used for participating in top class target shooting competitions such as the Olympics. It is also intended that all those existing license holders will have to reapply to keep their handguns. From now on the ultimate discretion over licensing will lie with the Garda Commissioner and anyone who maintains their license will be required to become a member of a registered target shooting club. The legislation strictly prohibits practical shooting or combat simulation shooting.

So you see, with almost 2000 legal pistols in the entire country, their government had to do something quick! Um, Garda is the Po-leeze over there I think.


Warrants? We doan nee no steenkin warrants! ATF goes door to door in Houston looking for guns. Not to limit local crime, but to staunch the gun flow into Mexico. That’s more important. Be very careful if you follow the link. The bias in the story is so heavy it will drip off your monitor and could burn you.

Williams on Reparations

Outstanding. Not only is the essay a concise bit of wonderful, the first few dozen comments are pure genius. Read, read, read! If “they” haven’t yet revoked Williams Race Card, taken away his government cheese, and reclassified him as a white guy, then this essay will do it.

Senate Slavery Apology
by Walter E. Williams

It goes without saying that slavery was a gross violation of human rights. Justice would demand that all the perpetrators—that includes slave owners, and African and Arab slave sellers—make compensatory reparation payments to victims. Since slaves, slave owners and slave sellers are no longer with us, such compensation is beyond our reach and a matter to be settled in the world beyond.

Absent from the reparations debate is: Who pays? Don’t say the government because the government doesn’t have any money that it doesn’t first take from some American. So which Americans owe black people what? Reparations advocates don’t want that question asked but let’s you and I.

On black people’s side of the ledger, thorny issues also arise. Some blacks purchased other blacks as a means to free family members. But other blacks owned slaves for the same reason whites owned slaves—to work farms or plantations. Are descendants of these blacks eligible and deserving of reparations? There is no way that Europeans could have captured millions of Africans. They had African and Arab help. Should Congress haul representatives of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Muslim states before them and demand they compensate American blacks because of their ancestors’ involvement in capturing and selling slaves?

Reparations advocates make the foolish unchallenged pronouncement that United States became rich on the backs of free black labor. That’s utter nonsense. Slavery has never had a very good record of producing wealth. Think about it. Slavery was all over the South. Buying into the reparations nonsense, you’d have to conclude that the antebellum South was rich and the slave-starved North was poor. The truth of the matter is just the opposite.

The comments are ... superb!

I THINK THIS IS AN EMBARRASSING PHOTO. IT’S EMBARRASSING TO AMERICA. NOT OBAMA.

I can’t imagine anyone here at BMEWS, at least among our regulars, who’d disagree.

Was this photo published back home in USA?

That’s the Russian president, Medvedev, who looks oh so interested in shaking the presidential hand.

Alright. Many (most?) conservatives and some so conserv. they are off the scale, do not like Obama. Ooh, what an understatement.
I bet ya even he’s embarrassed. How could he not be?  Never mind for a moment we don’t care for him.  And that’s pretty mild.
He is the president (for now), and he represents our flag and country.  We may not glory in that large fact but it is so and will be until the next election.

So then, seeing this photo I couldn’t help but think .....  The bow to the Saudi Prince and now this almost fawning shot. Which gave way to another thought.

Was Mr. Medvedev thinking ....

“THIS IS NOT MY NEW BEST FRIEND”

this photo has been reduced by much for space but imagine it covering most of an entire front page in a newspaper.  IMPACT! 

Chinese fireman stops man from dropping daughter from window in dramatic rescue.

Just booted again and found this. WOW.
A crowd tried attacking the slug. Good.
Hey, I approve of the way the Chinese do things. Or should I say their attitude. ok, I approve both cept I wish they’d have let the creep jump. And what is it with those who want to kill themselves but also feel like they must take an innocent child with them. What’s with that?

A Chinese fireman crawled along the eighth-floor ledge of a building to stop a man from dropping his two-year-old daughter out of a window.

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 12:09PM BST 08 Jul 2009

Hu Binjun, a 34-year-old unemployed man in the central Chinese city of Chengdu in Sichuan province, spent three hours threatening to commit suicide and dangling his daughter out of an apartment building by her legs.

Mr Hu’s wife told Chinese reporters that the couple had argued in the early hours of the morning and that he had been taking drugs.

Several attempts to coax Mr Hu into putting the girl down failed, until Chen Long, a 22-year-old fireman dressed in army uniform, dropped down from a window on the floor above and grabbed the child away from her parent.

As Mr Chen intervened, Mr Hu tried again to snatch the girl back, eventually falling back into his apartment.

He was arrested by the police after the incident on Tuesday, but subsequently attacked by a crowd of onlookers for threatening the life of the girl.

His daughter, who has not been named, suffered bruising on her arms and legs, but no serious injury.

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