Hmmmmmmmm...somebody trying to tell him something?
THE US preacher who predicted the world would end last month is recuperating after suffering a mild stroke. Doctors have been monitoring the progress of 89-year-old radio host Harold Camping since he was rushed to hospital from his home in Alameda, California, last week.
Camping's media empire spent millions of dollars - some of it from donations made by followers - publicizing the evangelist's Rapture prediction over the past seven years.
When the apocalypse failed to occur on May 21, Camping was widely mocked and he called it "a very difficult time". He has since insisted that his prediction was overall correct. On May 24 he clarified that a "spiritual" Judgment Day had begun three days earlier, placing the entire world under Christ's judgment, and said the Earth actually would be obliterated on October 21. Maybe he'll leave early to beat the crowd...
I'm glad to see everyone is safe but I am also saddened by the destruction of another artifact of our glorious achievements in WWII.
I watched a documentary about the 8th Air Force in WWI the other night and it struck me how brave those kids were. Geez, they KNEW their chances of survival were almost slim and none going into mid 1944 but they kept going up there and doing their duty.
It is an amazing example of courage and determination throughout an organization.
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Flying war birds is just too dangerous.
Congress should investigate this and pass a law so we all can be safe.
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Oh, dear - my SO will be heartbroken. There are only a couple of dozen flying B-17s still around, and now they're down one. He is working at the Chino Planes of Fame Air museum to get their B-17G, Piccadilly Lilly into the air again.
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Very sad. As a young man I looked up to the sky and saw her roaring overhead. Such a loss to our children that she will not be there for them.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
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That was a sad event, all right. It is great to see them flying, but there will always be an attrition rate, and one will have to make a value judgement as to flying these old proud birds.
IIRC, the loss rate of a B-17 raid was figured about 4%, so making it to 25 missions put you in a position of beating the odds of not getting home. Long boring hours of flying and then hours of terror from enemy fighters, flak, and those nasty unforeseen consequences of war when your action against an enemy brings down one of your own birds. Brave Brave Men.
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Tusk, tusk...
MOSCOW Russia is voicing concern about a U.S. warship now just off its shores in the Black Sea. The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey, which is taking part in annual joint military exercises conducted by NATO and Ukraine, is an integral part of U.S. plans to create a missile shield in Europe, which Russia opposes.
Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Sunday saying Russia "has repeatedly stressed that we will not leave unnoticed any elements of U.S. strategic infrastructure in the immediate vicinity of our borders and will consider any such steps as a threat to our security." Sorta like when Russian ships paid visits to Havana, eh comrade citizen?
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The Black Sea ain't your own personal, private lake anymore Ivan.
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US entered the Black Sea during the cold war with cruisers/big DDG pretty regularly. Just dont ask what those Army troops and "huts" with Antennas were doing on board from time to time.
The Greek Government has hired Foreign Workers to Clean out the Underground Tunnel Leading from the Parliament to the Sea Port of Piraeus in Preparation for an Evacuation of all MPs
I just became aware of this report from Kontra channel here in Greece. Apparently, a tunnel that leads from Lykavitos to the Greek parliament, and from there to the sea port of Piraeus, is being cleaned out by foreign workers in preparation for the possible evacuation of Greek MPs in the event of a storming of parliament ahead of Wednesdays vote on the new memorandum.
The situation here is getting completely out of control. I really dont know how much longer the people will be willing to wait this thing out. The mood here in Athens is one of intense disillusionment with a government that seems increasingly detached from its own people.
This just in. Greece officially pooched in the finance department.
Greece had its credit rating cut three levels by Standard & Poors, which branded the nation with the worlds lowest debt grade and said a restructuring looks increasingly likely.
The move to CCC from B reflects our view that there is a significantly higher likelihood of one or more defaults, S&P said in a statement today. Risks for the implementation of Greeces EU/IMF borrowing program are rising, given Greeces increased financing needs and ongoing internal political disagreements surrounding the policy conditions required.
The downgrade follows Moodys Investors Services decision this month to grade Greece only one level higher and may intensify pressure on European governments to stem the regions sovereign-debt crisis. Credit-default swaps on Greece, Ireland and Portugal surged to records today on concern governments struggles to resolve the turmoil will threaten their ability to pay off their debts.
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Found on the web: Men in impeccable suits on Swiss terraces cannot hide their anxiety. One might even lose it and jump a hotel maid - you never know.
[Dawn] A lawyer beat up a police constable when the latter tried to scan the former with a metal detector at the entrance to Aiwan-i-Adl on Saturday morning.
Witnesses said Advocate Fahad Rathore walked through a security gate installed at the entrance to Aiwan-i-Adl and constable Noor Muhammad came forward to scan him. Rathore took body search as an offence and attacked the policeman.
Other coppers deployed at the entrance did not dare stop the infuriated lawyer. Some senior lawyers intervened and rescued the policeman.
The matter was brought to the notice of Lahore Bar Association representatives who called both the lawyer and the coppers to the bar room.
LBA Vice-President Chaudhry Arif tried to resolve the matter, but the constable refused to forgive the lawyer.
The constable later left the bar room in anger and told his colleagues that he could not perform his duties in such humiliating conditions. He put off his uniform and decided to get a case registered against the lawyer.
Bar representatives made another attempt to reconcile the two and finally succeeded.
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This story is very curious to me. This area of the world must have something of a caste system still in place. This issue was resolved or was it?. I suspect the "copper" compromised to keep his job.
The vast majority of British motorists will be outlaws in their own land under controversial new EU plans to ban petrol and diesel powered cars from cities. But critics said the latest Brussels blueprint to force people into 'green' cars, slash dependence on oil and tackle climate change, was bamboozling drivers and taking the European Union into "the realms of fantasy". I guess I'd fit in the "critic" category.
The European Commission says its plan to drive out 'conventionally fuelled' petrol and diesel cars within 40 years and replace them with 'clean' alternatives such as electric or hydrogen powered vehicles is necessary to save the planet. It is vital to cut pollution and stop global warming which scientists blame on carbon dioxide (CO2) - the so-called 'greenhouse gas' emitted from car exhausts.
The Commission is calling for a 50 per cent shift away from conventionally fuelled cars in urban areas by 2030, phasing them out altogether in cities by 2050. Unicorns, anyone?
Brussels says the aim is also to achieve "essentially CO2-free movement of goods in major urban centres by 2030".
Setting out another major goal, it adds that by 2050 Europe should "move close to zero fatalities in road transport", with an interim target of halving all road casualties by 2020. The best way to do that would be to take half the cars off the road. Waitaminute...I think I'm on to something here!
EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas defended the green policy drive: 'The widely held belief that you need to cut mobility to fight climate change is simply not true'
Coupled with proposals and targets covering road, rail and air travel, the Commission says its transformation of the European transport system can increase mobility and cut congestion and emissions. Nobody will have to give up anything! I'm hoping for that change!
But motoring groups said it smacked of yet another assault on the motorist by authorities using 'green' measures as a smokescreen for more taxes and charges noting:'Drivers don't know whether they're coming or going with environmental measures'. They also noted wryly that with soaring oil and pump prices and fuel taxes, motorists face being priced off the road anyway.
And Christopher Monckton, transport spokesman for the UK Independence Party' said: "The proposals suggested by Commission take us into the realms of fantasy. They want to ban cars from cities, they want to force everybody onto rail and canals, it is if they have been taken over by the shade of the Victorian engineers. They may as well call for an end to wars and large subsidised chocolate cakes for pre-school infants as to make these impossible self aggrandising statements". So not everyone in the UK has gone 'round the bend.
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Aren't these the guys shutting down all their nuclear plants effectively in favor of Russian natural gas?
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The mass of the Earth is about 5.9 sextillion tons. Yet some people believe that if every person in China stood on a chair, and jumped off the chair at exactly the same time, it would knock the Earth out of orbit.
By volume, Carbon Dioxide is 0.039% of the Earth's atmosphere. Only 2.75% of *that* Carbon Dioxide is man made. All the rest of Carbon Dioxide is both generated naturally and sequestered naturally in a balanced cycle.
Yet some people believe that if humans increase their production of a fraction of a trace gas, Al Gore's ego will knock the Earth out of its orbit.
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I'm just wondering how much farther Americans are willing to let this police state go before something really bad happens.
And I mean besides the wrong house raids and the innocent shootings. More like a small firefight between men that are sick of the police brutality and the SWAT forces.
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This wouldn't worry me if I thought they would use this new breathing room to go after the worst, most violent offenders.
But they wont, they'll be using their new surveillance and search powers to bust college kids for smoking pot at a party or sending the SWAT team to another student loan defaulter's house.
In short, I don't believe for a second that they will quit picking the low lying fruit of minor offenders, both profitable in fines and easy to do
for idiots with a badge.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The vast majority of British motorists will be outlaws in their own land under controversial new EU plans to ban petrol and diesel powered cars from cities. But critics said the latest Brussels blueprint to force people into 'green' cars, slash dependence on oil and tackle climate change, was bamboozling drivers and taking the European Union into "the realms of fantasy". 
