APRIL 30, 1863The French have not always been cheese eating surrender monkeys...
"The sixty men of the Danjou Captain held until the end their oath; during eleven hours, they resisted to two thousand enemies, three hundreds killed some and wounded as much."
BBC News World EditionI found this on a break from the bathroom...
Cambodian Troops Quarantine Quan'sul
The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days.
After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during ?resurrection.?
Officer on Toilet Accidentally Fires GunI found this one, again from the High Road, and the title was stolen from All-Around-Shooters post in the thread- I could not argue with perfection.
Thu Apr 21, 3:57 PM ET
SAN ANTONIO - This is one story they'll be telling around the San Antonio Police Department for a long time. An off-duty officer was at a San Antonio auto auction house yesterday when nature called, a police spokesman said.
Officer Craig Clancy strolled to the appropriate facility and was lowering his trousers when his pistol fell from his waistband. When Clancy fumbled for the falling firearm, it went off, twice.
One of the bullets nicked a bit of floor tile into the leg of a man who was washing his hands nearby. That man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Police internal affairs is investigating.
Congress should not support SBA 'microloan' programYes, and it is the major reason I never applied for one- in college or business.
"Don't people realize what they are doing when they accept unconstitutional grants, loans and money from the federal government? Since there is no money in the people's treasury, every penny unconstitutionally appropriated is added to the national debt through borrowing by Congress. That $35,000 SBA microloan has to be borrowed from the privately owned "Federal" Reserve Banking System."
Congressional Record, House, Sept. 29, 1941, page 7582, comments by Congressman Wright Patman regarding what he called "an idiotic system" (the Federal Reserve):Everyone has to make their own decisions about what they will and will not do, but when the time comes, and people are asked, the following response, "I did not know." will not be acceptable.
Now take the Panama Canal bonds. They amounted to a little less than $50 million ? $49.5 million. By the time they are paid, the government will have paid $75 million in interest on bonds of less than $50 million. So, the government is paying out $135 million to obtain the use of $50 million.
April 21, 2005, 3:48PMThis is why the government does not want you to have full-auto...
SAN JACINTO DAY
Mexican army's poorer weapons may have cost it Texas
By ALLAN TURNER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
The heroism of Gen. Sam Houston's soldiers at San Jacinto is the stuff of legend. And heroism certainly abounded when the Texas Army, after miles of wearying retreat, rallied 169 years ago today to decimate the overwhelmingly superior army of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the so-called Napoleon of the West.
Historians traditionally attribute Houston's victory, which secured Texas' independence after an 18-minute battle, to timing, geography and luck. Trapped between attacking Texans and a treacherous marsh, Mexican troops ? rudely awakened from their afternoon siesta by a withering rebel fusillade ? had nowhere to go but their deaths.
Now, though, an East Texas high school history teacher, president of a group dedicated to putting copies of important state and national documents in the hands of state schoolchildren, is emphasizing an aspect of the battle that sometimes gets overlooked: technology.
Santa Anna's rout, says James Mitchell of Jasper, was, as much as anything, attributable to simply being outgunned.
Hundreds in Santa Anna's army carried surplus British East India pattern, smoothbore Brown Bess muskets. Although they fired a hefty three-quarter-inch ball, the guns were no match against the more accurate Kentucky rifles carried by many of Houston's troops.
"Authorities say the operator, Virginia Brauer, was not to blame because the animals apparently escaped on their own. Kern County officials say one of the chimps apparently figured out how to reach through a tight space between a chain link fence and a wall, pull out a steel pin and slide a door open."Yes, I think his name was Ceaser- and it is a good thing St. James son shot that "damn dirty ape"...
"There, before the eyes of his astonished family, Sam methodically loaded his musket and both of his famed dueling pistols, put his powder and ball inside his worn and well-traveled military knapsack, strapped his French saber around his waist, squared his grizzled jaw and, as he strode briskly out the door, simply informed his worried family that he was "going to fight the British regulars" and told them to remain safely indoors until he returned.That old glorious bastard did not die though, he lived another eighteen (18) years and when asked if he ever regretted his actions, Sam replied:
Whittemore walked to a secluded position behind a stone wall on Mystic Street, near the corner of what is now Chestnut Street in Arlington, and calmly settled in. Some of the Minutemen pleaded with Whittemore to join them in their safer positions, but he ignored their admonitions. Soon the 47th Regiment of Foot, followed by the main body of British troops, appeared in view. On both sides of Whittemore, Minutemen were shooting at the approaching Redcoats and then sprinting away to where they could reload in safety.
Waiting until the regiment was almost upon him, Whittemore stood up, aimed his musket carefully and fired, killing a British soldier. He then fired both dueling pistols, hitting both of his targets, killing one man outright and mortally wounding another. Not having time to reload his cumbersome weapons, he grabbed his French saber and flailed away at the cursing, enraged Redcoats who now surrounded him. Some of those infuriated soldiers were probably less than one quarter of Sam's 80 years; few, if any, were even half his age.
One Englishman fired his Brown Bess almost point-blank into Whittemore's face, the heavy bullet tearing half his cheek away and knocking him flat on his back. Undaunted, Whittemore attempted to rise and continue the fight, but received no less than 13 bayonet wounds from the vengeful Redcoats. They also mercilessly clubbed his bleeding head and drove their musket butts into his body as they ran by.
When the last Britisher had left the scene and was far enough away for them to come out in safety, the villagers who had seen Whittemore's last stand walked slowly toward the body. To their astonishment, he was still alive and conscious--and still full of fight! Ignoring his wounds, he was feebly trying to load his musket for a parting shot at the retreating regiment.
A door was used as a makeshift stretcher and Whittemore was carried to the nearby Cooper Tavern. Doctor Nathaniel Tufts of Medford stripped away Sam's torn, bloody clothing and was aghast at his many gaping bayonet wounds, the other numerous bruises and lacerations, and his horrible facial injury. According to every medical text Tufts had ever studied and all of his years of experience treating injured people, the old man should have bled to death from internal injuries."
"No! I would take the same chance again!"I wonder how many Sam Whittemore's there are today, because there were none left in the united States in 1993...
Secret FBI Report Highlights Domestic TerrorAnyone else realize what tomorrow is?
Experts Warn of Future Timothy McVeighs
NEW YORK, April 18, 2005 -- A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News, identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations.
The Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups, are cited in the report for hate crimes, fire bombings, threats via mail, as well as robberies and murders. The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 FBI investigations alone, according to the report.
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