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BBC Podcast

Here’s the Podcast of the debate Uncle Jimbo and I had with some fellows from across the pond. Podcast We come in about 25 minutes into the broadcast. I’ll have you know I wasted the whole morning reading Kipling aloud to work on my accent. I guess what really made me angry was when Jimbo […]
TAH on the airwaves

I got a call this morning from the BBC asking for an interview on the New York Times journalist who was rescued by British commandos this morning. So if you’re listening to their World Have Your Say radio program at about 1:30 Eastern Time, I’ll be locked in a debate with a chap from The […]
New York Times reporter rescued

There is news this morning that New York Times reporter, Stephen Farrell, a British-Irish citizen has been rescued by British troops. From the New York Times; Armed gunmen seized Mr. Farrell and his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, four days ago while they were working in a village south of Kunduz. An Afghan journalist who spoke to […]
England; “We did what we was told to do”

Just A Grunt sent us a link to this video of an interview BBC did with Lynndie England. Clearly, the only remorse she has is that she was caught and has become a national pariah. England blames her behavior on her boyfriend, Charles Graner, and her schoolgirl crush on him. She says she did the […]
Woman medevaced from wedding proposal

The Washington Post tells the story of a man who thought proposing marriage to his girlfriend on the Billy Goat Trail here in Montgomery County, Maryland was a romantic idea. Kinda backfired, though. A man took his girlfriend hiking Sunday afternoon on the gorgeous — albeit rocky and rough — Billy Goat Trail, on national […]
AP disregards family’s wishes

This happened late last week; Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard, 21, of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. AP photographer Julie Jacobson was on the scene and snapped a picture or two of LCPL Bernard as his team mates tried […]
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