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If the mods feel this should be in another place, please feel free to move. Shared with the usual caveats: From the Toronto Sun website: "The City of Toronto is looking to designate the DVP as the “Route of Heroes.” The Toronto Sun's Joe Warmington and Rob Granatstein have a problem with the...

WASHINGTON — The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/world/asia/16intel.html?hp More on...

My individual axe to grind concerns the advertisers that use Christmas carols or hymns to promote their products.  You know what I'm talking about, the companies that turn "Jingle Bells" into: "Buy our stuff, buy our stuff, we are really cheap... Ad nauseum... So far, the most egregious...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080129.wukplot0129/BNStory/International/home Briton admits planning to behead Muslim soldier Reuters January 29, 2008 at 6:35 AM EST LEICESTER, ENGLAND — A man has pleaded guilty to a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier, a...

I know what QR&O's say, but the wearer in these pics claims that it's okay since he's been out (res) for 15 yrs. Party was a company lunch function, contest for best costume, etc.

The wife called work Tuesday to tell me that someone, who hardly deserves the designation of â Å“thiefâ ?, tried to steal my old car.  I had just bought a new car last week because the old one, a '94 RustSunbird died with a cracked block.  It was sitting in the parking lot of my apartment...

Well, here's absolute proof that the end of civilization as we know it is at hand. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05048/458932.stm WB seeks revitalized cartoon franchise with new look for Bugs Bunny and friends Thursday, February 17, 2005 By Brooks Barnes, The Wall Street Journal Talk about...

It's not just green duct tape. That most useful of adhesives, comes in any width that you can tear it into.   Survives in almost any environment.   Worth its weight in gold.   Almost everybody I knew had at least a half a roll stashed somewhere.   I've seen it hold together nearly everything...

If any moderators think this belongs in the equipment forum, I appologize and please move accordingly. With all the debate now raging in the news concerning the vehicles used for patrols, I was wondering what the troops thought. F'rinstance, my first impression of the Iltis in '85 was, â...

Several years ago during Gulf War 1.0 in Guns and Ammo magazine, Col. Jeff Cooper wrote something like: We (he always used the royal â Å“weâ ?) note with some concern that our soldiers have been told to bring shoe polish and boot brushes with them to the Gulf, but NOT their personal sidearms...