How Newt Gingrich Is Secretly Winning The Most Important Vote Of The 2012 Primary
Gingrich now appears to have picked up the support of shadowy evangelical activist David Lane, a major kingmaker for the Christian Right. Lane, who rarely gives interviews and generally stays out the spotlight, is widely credited with reenergizing the GOP's conservative Christian base after the 2008 election.
Lane was instrumental in convincing Rick Perry get in the race earlier this year, and even helped orchestrate The Response prayer rally, the de facto launch of Perry's campaign. But sources who know Lane say he has been distancing himself from Perry as the Texas Governor slipped in the polls. Now Lane seems to be throwing his weight behind Gingrich.
Lane's support for Gingrich was made clear at a secret meeting of influential Iowa pastors last month, according to sources who attended the event. Sources told Business Insider that Lane basically anointed Gingrich, joining the candidate at the podium after his speech and calling on the pastors to put their hands on Gingrich and pray for a leader that who would be in the position of becoming the next president.
One source who witnessed the prayer described it as the most moment of the two-day conference.
Gingrich counters Romney with $10 bet
Newt Gingrich bets Mitt Romney $10 to give back what he has earned from "bankrupting companies."
At Republican debate, Newt Gingrich rolls on with steady performance
Politico - In a campaign that has been chiefly shaped by debates, Newt Gingrich demonstrated Saturday night why he tops the polls — and why he won’t easily be dethroned. Facing tough questions from his Republican rivals and debate moderators in Des Moines, Gingrich parried blow after blow without losing his cool or showing the much-discussed undisciplined side of his personality.
It was the former House speaker’s first debate as the undisputed frontrunner and not only did he stand up to the fresh scrutiny, he reminded Republican primary voters of his command of the issues, his intellectual dexterity and his self-assured, forceful arguments. When Mitt Romney scolded Gingrich for his provocative claim that Palestinians are an “invented” people, the former Georgia congressman concisely captured why his brand of bombast is playing so well with a roiling GOP electorate.
“I think sometimes it is helpful to have a president of the United States with the courage to tell the truth, just as was Ronald Reagan who went around his entire national security apparatus to call the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’ and who overruled his entire State Department in order to say, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,’’ said Gingrich, calling himself a “Reaganite” and then adding a memorable kicker: “ I will tell the truth, even if it’s at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.”
David Cameron's stance on euro leaves Britain isolated
Daily Record - BRITAIN was left isolated and friendless in Europe last night after David Cameron refused to sign a deal to protect the single currency. His stubborn demands for something in return meant we were the only one of the 27 EU member states not to back a new treaty. There are 3.5million UK jobs that rely on European trade and £9.5billion of Scottish exports - around half - are sent to eurozone countries.
The Prime Minister refused to sign the pact after a 3am bust-up with French president Nicolas Sarkozy - and our dramatic veto of the "do or die" package has thrown our future in the EU into doubt. The Brussels summit saw the PM and Sarkozy embroiled in a heated discussion in front of other EU leaders in the early hours. Sarkozy, who at one point had to be physically restrained during the talks, said Cameron had made "unacceptable" demands. The French president later snubbed him by refusing to shake his hand.
The 17 single-currency countries will push ahead with strict spending rules to stop Greece-style debts bringing the euro crashing down. But Cameron blocked an EU-wide financial transaction tax because it would have damaged our vast banking industry, with the City of London accounting for 10 per cent of the UK's wealth.
German chancellor Angela Merkel, architect of the new treaty, said: "I didn't think David Cameron sat with us at the table. We had to get some sort of agreement and we couldn't make compromises, we had to meet tough rules."
Pope switches on world's largest electronic Christmas tree
The Pope goes hi-tech with tradition by switching on the 800 metre-tall tree using a tablet computer in the Vatican.
White House silently approves bestiality in the military
The Daily Caller - Bestiality isn’t a common subject of White House press briefings. But that changed Monday, when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney granted WorldNetDaily reporter and radio host Lester Kinsolving a question during a press briefing. Kinsolving proceeded to ask about the president’s support for a recent Senate vote that would repeal bans on sodomy and bestiality in the U.S. military.
“The Family Research Council and CNS News both reported a 93-to-7 U.S. Senate vote to approve a defense authorization bill that, quote, ‘includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, but also repeals the military ban on sex with animals, or bestiality,’” said Kinsolving.
“Does the commander-in-chief approve or disapprove of bestiality in our armed forces?”
“I don’t have any comment on — I don’t have any comment on that,” Carney responded. “Let me go to another question.”
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chided the White House press secretary for his glib dismissal of Kinsolving’s question.
“We were upset to note that you flippantly addressed the recently approved repeal of the military ban on bestiality. With respect, this is no laughing matter,” the letter said.
Mitting Image
"Mitting Image" shows Mitt Romney offering hard hitting, straightforward criticism of flip-floppers.
Newt: "America is Magic...You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
Dec 6, 2011 - At a townhall meeting at the College of Charleston, Newt talks about his optimistic vision for the future for America:
"I would say to every young person here tonight: We will be back, we will rebuild the country we love, and we will say to the planet 'you ain't seen nothing yet'".
"I would say to every young person here tonight: We will be back, we will rebuild the country we love, and we will say to the planet 'you ain't seen nothing yet'".
Is The America We Love A Thing Of the Past? Newt Says No.
ABC News - Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who leads the Republican pack in the Hawkeye State, will release his first television ad Monday. Titled “Is The America We Love A Thing Of the Past? Newt Says No,” the minute-long ad will appear statewide on broadcast and cable with an ad buy of $250,000. It is unknown how long the TV spot will run. Gingrich currently sits atop the Republican field but has yet to promote himself via advertising this campaign cycle, relying instead on media coverage of his speeches and debates.
Newt to CatholicVote: “Human life begins at conception.”
Atlanta, GA - (12/3) – In advance of this evenings forum hosted by Mike Huckabee, Newt 2012 released the following statement today from Newt Gingrich regarding his belief in the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn.
“As I have stated many times throughout the course of my public life, I believe that human life begins at conception. I believe that every unborn life is precious, no matter how conceived. I also believe that we should work for the day when there will be no abortions for any reason, and that every unborn child will be welcomed into life and protected by law.
“That is why I have supported, and will continue to support, pro-life legislation that not only limits, but also reduces, the total number of abortions, with a view to the eventual legal protection of all unborn human life.
“As I have also stated in the past, on day one of my administration, I will sign an executive order reinstating Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy that prevents taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortions overseas. I will also work with Congress to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood so that no taxpayer dollars are being used to fund abortions but rather transfer the money so it is used to promote adoption and other pro-family policies, and to enact legislation that provides greater protections for the unborn.
“In terms of new pro-life legislation, I stated as recently as November 19 at a public form of candidates in Iowa that I support Congress enacting pro-life legislation under the 14th Amendment, including legislation that would define personhood as beginning at conception.
“As I have also made clear in several of my public pronouncements throughout this campaign, I oppose federal funding of any research that destroys a human embryo because we are also dealing here with human life.
“My convictions on human life are longstanding, deeply felt, and irrevocable matters of conscience. I will do all in my power – always – to foster reverence for life.”
Newt Gingrich speaks at Republican Dinner
Dec 2, 2011 - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addresses Polk County Republicans at their annual Victory Dinner.
BMX star Dane Searls dies
Brisbane Times - Popular BMX star Dane Searls has died in hospital after diving from a balcony at a Gold Coast pub on Sunday night. Searls, 23, had been in a coma since Sunday night after he attempted to dive from the first floor of Billy's Beach House into the pool. He missed the pool and landed on the cement, causing critical head and back injuries.
Searls was out celebrating a ride on Friday. Paul Everest, director of Unit clothing which sponsored the popular rider, said Searls had completed a series of four jumps - the first a nine-metre gap, the second a 12-metre gap, the third a 15-metre gap and the last an 18-metre gap, all from a height of two to three storeys to set a world record.
"He has pushed the sport to a whole new level," Mr Everest said on Monday.
"He was doing that on Friday and doing it in style."
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Two separate auroras are seen crossing each other
In this extremely rare photograph taken on Nov. 27, 2011, two separate auroras are seen crossing each other in Alaska, in the United States.
Wales manager Gary Speed suicide "Shocker"
The world of football was in SHOCK today after Wales manager Gary Speed was found hanged at his home in Cheshire. The former Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton star, who appeared on BBC's Football Focus show yesterday, was aged 42. Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death, which is thought to be suicide. He leaves his wife Louise and two sons. As news of the tragedy struck, tributes flooded in for the Wales boss who only retired from playing last year, after winning 85 caps and scoring seven goals for his country.
Gary Speed, with his wife Louise
Cheshire Police spokesman: 'At 7.08am today Cheshire Police was informed of a sudden death at an address in Huntingdon, Chester.
'Officers went to the scene where a 42-year-old man was found dead. The next of kin have been informed and have confirmed the identity of the man as Gary Speed.
'There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and the family have requested that they are left to grieve in peace.
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Gingrich Wins Over 8 Year-Old Aspiring Reporter
(ABC News) Gingrich paused the line of about 500 people waiting to have books signed to take Katrina’s questions. He leaned in endearingly, with his hand to his cheek, letting down his usual gruff Speaker of the House guard.
“Have you met a president? If so who was your favorite one?”
“My favorite president is George Washington,” Gingrich said. “I’ve met Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Obama and myself, but I’m not president yet but with your help I might be.”
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor-- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions-- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us--and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
George Washington
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Boasts New Balloons - More Than 50 Balloons Expected
NEW YORK (CNN) The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, as much a holiday tradition as turkey, football and dinner table debates, celebrates its 85th anniversary Thursday with a host of new floats.
Making its return after an 18-year absence will be Sonic the Hedgehog. He will join a 41-foot-tall Julius the monkey; an eagerly-anticipated newcomer, "B," a pointy-toothed, stitched-face creation from filmmaker Tim Burton; and the Aflac Duck Balloonicle -- a balloon on wheels. Rounding out the newbies are Gazer the Elf and Harold the Policeman.
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Gingrich Announces National Security Team
Former CIA director R. James Woolsey and Robert McFarlane, national security adviser to President Reagan, have joined Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign as members of his national security advisory team.
They’re the best known of the 10 men and two women who’ve signed up to advise Gingrich, many of them veterans of the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. In a statement introducing the group Tuesday, he refers to them as “this world class group of experts” on whom he’s relied “throughout my career.”
Tatiana Limanova gives the middle finger
News reporter Tatiana Limanova gives the middle finger during a live news broadcast by REN TV
Portions of Einstein's brain to be displayed
A medical museum in Philadelphia has some pieces of Albert Einstein’s brain on display. Lucy Rorke-Adams donated 46 slides of Einstein’s gray matter Thursday to the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians.
The 82-year-old doctor neuropathologist has worked at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for 47 years. She said she wanted to make sure the slides were safely in a museum. She says Einstein’s brain looks youthful for a man his age. He was 76 when he died in 1955.
A colleague gave her the slides in the mid-1970s. That person got them from the widow of a doctor who helped arrange for the preparation of the brain samples. The bulk of Einstein’s brain is at the University Medical Center at Princeton, where the autopsy was performed.
Ashlie Gough (23) died from an overdose of heroin and cocaine at the Occupy Vancouver encampment
Ashlie Gough (23) died from an overdose of heroin and cocaine at the Occupy Vancouver encampment 23-year-old Victoria woman who died at the Occupy Vancouver protest last weekend. Owen Court, Metro Vancouver regional coroner, said Saturday that the investigation found that a mixture of the two drugs proved fatal.
Art exhibit draws attention to filthy Indian river
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The fetid, sewage-filled Yamuna River is an unlikely setting for a large-scale art installation. But organizers of Project Y are hoping their works will attract art lovers who rarely venture onto its filthy banks and draw attention to the chronic pollution of a river worshiped as holy by Hindus. The public art initiative, with works by four Indian artists and five Germans, aims to raise awareness of the sad state of the Yamuna by linking it with Germany's far cleaner Elbe - where a similar exhibition is being mounted.
"Everyone here knows the river is polluted and dirty, but I want to re-awaken the idea of ecology for it. We want people to come and see what the river is all about for themselves," said Ravi Agarwal, a co-curator of the project.
So near the rusting Loha Pul Bridge, where locals wash their clothes, floats a sculpture of the female form below the waist. Its legs trap the Yamuna's bounty: discarded plastic bottles, marigold garlands thrown in the river by worshipers and a pig carcass. Among other installations are Gigi Searia's Fountain of Purification, which pumps water from the river through five levels of a tower before spurting "pure water" from the top. Even that purified water is still brown and putrid.
Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb
Image via WikipediaAFP - The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the "Advanced Hypersonic Weapon," or AHW, glided through the upper atmosphere over the Pacific "at hypersonic speed" before hitting its target on the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands, a Pentagon statement said. Kwajalein is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. The US Army's AHW project is part of the "Prompt Global Strike" program which seeks to give the US military the means to deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within an hour.
Gingrich into First
Fox News: Tea Party Vaults Gingrich into First | The Weekly Standard
The latest Fox News poll shows Newt Gingrich leading the Republican presidential field, edging Mitt Romney. Gingrich now has the support of 23 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, compared with 22 percent for Romney, 15 percent for Herman Cain, 8 percent for Ron Paul, 7 percent for Rick Perry, 6 percent for Michele Bachmann, 3 percent for Jon Huntsman, and 2 percent for Rick Santorum.
Support for Gingrich has almost doubled over the past three weeks. Over that span, Gingrich is up 11 percentage points, Bachmann and Huntsman are up 3 points apiece, Romney is up 2 points, Paul and Santorum are down 1 point apiece, Perry is down 3 points, and Cain is down 9 points. The number of respondents who are either undecided or want someone else has dropped from 17 to 14 percent.
Pentagon Receives Massive Bunker-Busting Bombs, Denies Targeting Iran
"It gives us a far greater capability to reach and destroy an enemy's weapons of mass destruction that are located in well protected underground facilities... to a magnitude far greater than we have now," Pentagon Spokesman Capt. John Kirby said at a briefing Wednesday.
It has been widely reported that Iran has buried it's nuclear weapon production facilities at least 90 meters underground at locations in Natanz and Qom. This new bomb is ideal for addressing that threat.
According to Boeing’s website the MOP includes a GPS navigation system and more than 5,300 pounds of explosives. It measures 20 feet long and is “designed specifically to attack hardened concrete bunkers and tunnel facilities.”
Pentagon Spokesman George Little says the MOP is far more powerful than its predecessor, the BLU-190. Some estimate it’s as much as 10 times more powerful.
Top skier Jamie Pierre (38) was killed in an avalanche at Snowbird resort
A world record-holding professional skier who once famously jumped off a 255-foot (77-metre) cliff died in a weekend avalanche while on a steep slope at a closed resort in the US. Jamie Pierre, 38, was swept over a cliff on Sunday at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in the Wasatch mountains about 30 miles (48 kilometres) south-east of Salt Lake City. Pierre was snowboarding one of Snowbird's steepest slopes with a friend when he was sent cartwheeling over a cliff after he triggered the late afternoon slide, the Utah Avalanche Centre reported. It was the season's first avalanche fatality in the US, authorities said.
"A great person, a little misunderstood at times, but anyone who knew him knows he had a heart of gold," friend Lee Cohen wrote in a Facebook posting. Cohen is a photographer for Powder magazine who lives near Snowbird. More than a foot of fluffy snow had fallen in the mountains over the weekend where snow was already waist-deep, creating what authorities said were dangerous avalanche conditions.
"Early season is our most dangerous time of year - just the opposite of what most people think," Bruce Tremper, director of the Utah Avalanche Centre, said on Monday. "It's not anything you want to mess with."
Snowbird doesn't open for skiing until Saturday and hasn't cleared the mountain of danger. The resort had signs warning against skiing, and Pierre and his ski partner shouldn't have been on the slopes, Unified Police Lieutenant Justin Hoyal said.
"They're trespassing, technically, and it's very dangerous," Lieutenant Hoyal said Monday.
Pierre set off from nearby Alta Ski Area and made his way to neighbouring Snowbird over a series of ridges. The two apparently avoided injury in one slide earlier in the day, officials said.
"With the partner watching, the victim dropped into the slope, immediately triggering the slide," the Utah Avalanche Centre said in a preliminary report posted on its website. "He was carried hundreds of feet through steep rocky terrain and reportedly went over a small cliff band and came to a stop only partially buried."
Early season in Utah always brings skiers who can't wait to hit the slopes. And because many of Utah's ski areas sit on national forest land, they can't legally keep people from venturing out even before they open. However, Snowbird owns much of the land on its resort and is allowed by the US Forest Service to ban early skiers. Still, few skiers are ticketed or thrown off the slopes, Lieutenant Hoyal said.
Pierre appeared in numerous ski films and had a legion of sponsors. He was best known for a terrifying 2006 jump off the backside of Wyoming's Grand Targhee Resort. It was a dizzying fall from higher than the Golden Gate Bridge, and garnered him a world record. Pierre landed on his head in 12 feet (3.6 metres) of soft snow but escaped injury and promptly vowed he'd never try that again. He also had many other notable cliff jumps, including a 165-foot (50-metre) jump off Alta's signature Wolverine Cirque.
Pierre is survived by his wife, Aimee, and two children.
"Our deepest condolences go out to Jamie's family and friends," Snowbird spokeswoman Emily Moench said. "He was a local legend, and he will be dearly missed by the community."
"A great person, a little misunderstood at times, but anyone who knew him knows he had a heart of gold," friend Lee Cohen wrote in a Facebook posting. Cohen is a photographer for Powder magazine who lives near Snowbird. More than a foot of fluffy snow had fallen in the mountains over the weekend where snow was already waist-deep, creating what authorities said were dangerous avalanche conditions.
"Early season is our most dangerous time of year - just the opposite of what most people think," Bruce Tremper, director of the Utah Avalanche Centre, said on Monday. "It's not anything you want to mess with."
Snowbird doesn't open for skiing until Saturday and hasn't cleared the mountain of danger. The resort had signs warning against skiing, and Pierre and his ski partner shouldn't have been on the slopes, Unified Police Lieutenant Justin Hoyal said.
"They're trespassing, technically, and it's very dangerous," Lieutenant Hoyal said Monday.
Pierre set off from nearby Alta Ski Area and made his way to neighbouring Snowbird over a series of ridges. The two apparently avoided injury in one slide earlier in the day, officials said.
"With the partner watching, the victim dropped into the slope, immediately triggering the slide," the Utah Avalanche Centre said in a preliminary report posted on its website. "He was carried hundreds of feet through steep rocky terrain and reportedly went over a small cliff band and came to a stop only partially buried."
Early season in Utah always brings skiers who can't wait to hit the slopes. And because many of Utah's ski areas sit on national forest land, they can't legally keep people from venturing out even before they open. However, Snowbird owns much of the land on its resort and is allowed by the US Forest Service to ban early skiers. Still, few skiers are ticketed or thrown off the slopes, Lieutenant Hoyal said.
Pierre appeared in numerous ski films and had a legion of sponsors. He was best known for a terrifying 2006 jump off the backside of Wyoming's Grand Targhee Resort. It was a dizzying fall from higher than the Golden Gate Bridge, and garnered him a world record. Pierre landed on his head in 12 feet (3.6 metres) of soft snow but escaped injury and promptly vowed he'd never try that again. He also had many other notable cliff jumps, including a 165-foot (50-metre) jump off Alta's signature Wolverine Cirque.
Pierre is survived by his wife, Aimee, and two children.
"Our deepest condolences go out to Jamie's family and friends," Snowbird spokeswoman Emily Moench said. "He was a local legend, and he will be dearly missed by the community."
Newt Gingrich Visits Iowa
“[Gingrich]’s been a college professor, an author and a politician,” John Meyer, co-chair of the Greene County GOP, says before adding, almost off-handedly: “And he’s the leading candidate for the Republican party’s nomination for president.”
The audience greets this with cheers and a standing ovation. Even the usually unflappable Gingrich seems a bit surprised by the assertion—leading candidate for president? The former speaker of the House quickly regains his composure. The look of disbelief morphs into a smile as he approaches the podium.
“That’s the first time anybody, anywhere has introduced me as the leading candidate,” Gingrich says to laughter.
This frontrunner designation is tenuous—perhaps misleading—since there’s only one poll, a new one from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, that shows Gingrich ahead of his Republican rivals in the national primary. According to an average of recent polls, Gingrich is actually in third place, five points behind Mitt Romney, who has now regained his lead over Herman Cain.
Yet it would be understandable if Gingrich were to revel in his resurgence in the polls. As he points out, his campaign was pronounced over nearly as soon as it had begun.
“Remember that in June and July, my campaign was dead,” Gingrich says. “Every TV commentator said I was dead. One guy said I was actually like the Bruce Willis character in The Sixth Sense. I was the only guy in the room that didn’t know I was dead.”
Army rolls out new Apache Block III aircraft
The Apache Block III is the next evolution of the Army's premier attack helicopter and is the only rotorcraft with the ability to operate at 6,000 feet and 95 degrees at an out-of-ground effect hover with a full mission payload. The new Apaches will be stronger, faster and less constrained in extreme combat conditions.
Besides the increase in top speed, it will turn faster and tighter, making it almost impossible for the enemy to hide. It will have a combat speed of approximately 164 knots, about 20 knots faster than those currently in service. The Block III aircraft brings back the performance of the early model and adds significant capabilities for today's fight. Some of the key upgrades to the Apache Block III include a more powerful engine and drive train, and composite rotor blades that provide more lift and will allow the aircraft to fly over any mountain in austere places like Afghanistan.
"The Block III brings back the power margins that crews had at roughly 3,000 or 4,000 pounds lighter gross weight than the Block II model," said Lt. Col. Dan Bailey, Apache Block III Product Manager. The aircraft had become heavier over the years when the Army added upgrades to the subsystems, making the pilot power margins more limited.
"Now we'll be able to go to all those places where the enemy tends to hide from us," said Bailey.
Besides the increase in top speed, it will turn faster and tighter, making it almost impossible for the enemy to hide. It will have a combat speed of approximately 164 knots, about 20 knots faster than those currently in service. The Block III aircraft brings back the performance of the early model and adds significant capabilities for today's fight. Some of the key upgrades to the Apache Block III include a more powerful engine and drive train, and composite rotor blades that provide more lift and will allow the aircraft to fly over any mountain in austere places like Afghanistan.
"The Block III brings back the power margins that crews had at roughly 3,000 or 4,000 pounds lighter gross weight than the Block II model," said Lt. Col. Dan Bailey, Apache Block III Product Manager. The aircraft had become heavier over the years when the Army added upgrades to the subsystems, making the pilot power margins more limited.
"Now we'll be able to go to all those places where the enemy tends to hide from us," said Bailey.
Confronting The Gaystapo
Having forcibly – and understandably – rectified the Versailles-type injustices and humiliations foisted on the homosexual community, the UK’s victorious Gaystapo are now on a roll. Their gay-rights storm troopers take no prisoners as they annex our wider culture, and hotel owners (here) and (here), registrars (here), magistrates (here), doctors (here), counsellors (here) and (here), foster parents (here), grandparents (here), adoption agencies (here) and traditional street preachers (here) and (here) find themselves crushed under the pink jack-boot.
Thanks especially to the green light from a permissive New Labour government, the gay Wehrmacht is on its long march through the institutions and has already occupied the Sudetenland social uplands of the Home Office (here), the educational establishment (here), the politically-correct police (here), and the Guardianista management of the BBC (here). Following a plethora of equalities legislation, homosexuals are now protected and privileged by sexual orientation regulations and have achieved legal equality by way of civil partnerships.
But it’s only 1938 and Nazi expansionist ambitions are far from sated. Flattered by appeasers and feted by the political class, the Oberkommandos from Stonewall and OutRage! have expansive goals for cultural hegemony and have long wanted to march on the next territory. They want to hijack a word and capture our culture at its deepest level. They want to reconfigure relationships, eliminate the traditional family and hence eradicate stable upbringing for our children. They want SSM – same-sex “marriage”.
And, unbelievably, the Conservative prime minister, betraying many centuries of Christian marriage in his green and pleasant land and naively revelling in his Munich moment, makes virtue out of vice, holds a piece of paper aloft and declares triumphantly to the Tory party conference, “It’s Gay Marriage in our time”.
Someone once said, “There is a time for silence and a time to speak… a time for peace and a time for war”, and SSM could be the invasion of Poland, the catalyst for war and a cultural fight-back. Catholic bishops are incendiary, evangelicals are appalled and even the dear old Church of England seems to think SSM is a step too far – “The Church’s view remains of marriage as the life-long union between a man and a woman,” said an Anglican spokesperson (here).
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. For years Winston Churchill was a lone voice against the burgeoning darkness of Nazi ideology and intolerance. In the wilderness and with few public friends, he was marginalised and dismissed as belligerent and a war-monger. He was scorned as a political has-been, out of touch with the then-modern mainstream.
But he saw clearly the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Nazis and their intended assault on our civilization, our values, our way of life. To the fury of the Nazi leadership in Berlin he exposed the sinister truth, gave a trumpet-call for resistance and rearmament, and in due course galvanised the nation for an epochal battle against the fascist menace.
Our civilisation, our values, our way of life – indeed the national character – are inevitably formed from the values of the Christian faith, as over a thousand years and more ‘Christianity’ and ‘Englishness’ have become fully entwined and fused. So erase Christianity and you erode Englishness and the nation loses its identity and self-confidence. In recent decades gay militants have been in the van of the secularist and new atheist assault on Christianity, and as a consequence our culture has corroded and debased and national confusion and self-doubt has grown.
Christian believers have been a lone voice against the resulting sexualisation, narcissism, hedonism, selfishness and materialism. Marginalised and dismissed as bigoted and homophobic, Christians are now despised as has-been and out of touch with the cool cosmopolitan mainstream.
But the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Gaystapo have been exposed recently by their plans to annex and redefine ‘marriage’. They already have achieved equal rights through civil partnerships, so to covet the word and undermine a foundation-stone of our civilisation – and nurturing place for our children – betrays other more ominous intentions. They want to change our language, manipulate our culture and thereby impose their world-view on us all. Cultural domination is their aim and fascist-type intolerance (here) of politically-incorrect dissent (here) is their weapon. The eradication of marriage as “the life-long union between a man and a woman” is a huge next step along their way.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man or woman. Who will stand up and publicly confront this new domination and intolerance? In 1938 it was perfectly reasonable to like the German people but hate Nazi ambitions and ideology. Today it is perfectly reasonable to warmly engage with your gay neighbours while at the same time forcefully confronting the vaulting ambitions of gay leaders and their atheist and humanist fellow-travellers.
There is a season and a time for everything under the sun. For Christians, the season of appeasement, fear and cowering in the corner is over. “Whom shall I send,” said the Lord, “and who will go for us?”
Now is the time for people of courage to rise up and defend marriage, our children and the very foundations of our civilisation. The only right response? “Here I am, send me.”
Thanks especially to the green light from a permissive New Labour government, the gay Wehrmacht is on its long march through the institutions and has already occupied the Sudetenland social uplands of the Home Office (here), the educational establishment (here), the politically-correct police (here), and the Guardianista management of the BBC (here). Following a plethora of equalities legislation, homosexuals are now protected and privileged by sexual orientation regulations and have achieved legal equality by way of civil partnerships.
But it’s only 1938 and Nazi expansionist ambitions are far from sated. Flattered by appeasers and feted by the political class, the Oberkommandos from Stonewall and OutRage! have expansive goals for cultural hegemony and have long wanted to march on the next territory. They want to hijack a word and capture our culture at its deepest level. They want to reconfigure relationships, eliminate the traditional family and hence eradicate stable upbringing for our children. They want SSM – same-sex “marriage”.
And, unbelievably, the Conservative prime minister, betraying many centuries of Christian marriage in his green and pleasant land and naively revelling in his Munich moment, makes virtue out of vice, holds a piece of paper aloft and declares triumphantly to the Tory party conference, “It’s Gay Marriage in our time”.
Someone once said, “There is a time for silence and a time to speak… a time for peace and a time for war”, and SSM could be the invasion of Poland, the catalyst for war and a cultural fight-back. Catholic bishops are incendiary, evangelicals are appalled and even the dear old Church of England seems to think SSM is a step too far – “The Church’s view remains of marriage as the life-long union between a man and a woman,” said an Anglican spokesperson (here).
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. For years Winston Churchill was a lone voice against the burgeoning darkness of Nazi ideology and intolerance. In the wilderness and with few public friends, he was marginalised and dismissed as belligerent and a war-monger. He was scorned as a political has-been, out of touch with the then-modern mainstream.
But he saw clearly the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Nazis and their intended assault on our civilization, our values, our way of life. To the fury of the Nazi leadership in Berlin he exposed the sinister truth, gave a trumpet-call for resistance and rearmament, and in due course galvanised the nation for an epochal battle against the fascist menace.
Our civilisation, our values, our way of life – indeed the national character – are inevitably formed from the values of the Christian faith, as over a thousand years and more ‘Christianity’ and ‘Englishness’ have become fully entwined and fused. So erase Christianity and you erode Englishness and the nation loses its identity and self-confidence. In recent decades gay militants have been in the van of the secularist and new atheist assault on Christianity, and as a consequence our culture has corroded and debased and national confusion and self-doubt has grown.
Christian believers have been a lone voice against the resulting sexualisation, narcissism, hedonism, selfishness and materialism. Marginalised and dismissed as bigoted and homophobic, Christians are now despised as has-been and out of touch with the cool cosmopolitan mainstream.
But the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Gaystapo have been exposed recently by their plans to annex and redefine ‘marriage’. They already have achieved equal rights through civil partnerships, so to covet the word and undermine a foundation-stone of our civilisation – and nurturing place for our children – betrays other more ominous intentions. They want to change our language, manipulate our culture and thereby impose their world-view on us all. Cultural domination is their aim and fascist-type intolerance (here) of politically-incorrect dissent (here) is their weapon. The eradication of marriage as “the life-long union between a man and a woman” is a huge next step along their way.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man or woman. Who will stand up and publicly confront this new domination and intolerance? In 1938 it was perfectly reasonable to like the German people but hate Nazi ambitions and ideology. Today it is perfectly reasonable to warmly engage with your gay neighbours while at the same time forcefully confronting the vaulting ambitions of gay leaders and their atheist and humanist fellow-travellers.
There is a season and a time for everything under the sun. For Christians, the season of appeasement, fear and cowering in the corner is over. “Whom shall I send,” said the Lord, “and who will go for us?”
Now is the time for people of courage to rise up and defend marriage, our children and the very foundations of our civilisation. The only right response? “Here I am, send me.”
11/11/11 Veterans Day
Today is Nov. 11, 2011, or 11/11/11, a turn of the calendar that won't come again for 100 years.
Veterans Day started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Actually, the holiday was first called Armistice Day, declared to mark the end of World War I hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, 1918 .Congress gave it that name in 1926, though it didn’t become a national holiday for a dozen more years.
In 1954, the holiday became known as Veterans Day when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation making it so in order to honor veterans of all U.S. wars.
Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday in October in 1968 by Congress, but that was reversed in 1978 when it became obvious that Americans wanted the holiday celebrated Nov. 11.
Veterans Day is often confused with Memorial Day because they are similar in intent, but not identical. Memorial Day honors America’s war dead, while Veterans Day honors all American veterans, living and dead, and has a special emphasis on thanking living veterans for their service to the country.
Veterans Day started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Actually, the holiday was first called Armistice Day, declared to mark the end of World War I hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, 1918 .Congress gave it that name in 1926, though it didn’t become a national holiday for a dozen more years.
In 1954, the holiday became known as Veterans Day when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation making it so in order to honor veterans of all U.S. wars.
Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday in October in 1968 by Congress, but that was reversed in 1978 when it became obvious that Americans wanted the holiday celebrated Nov. 11.
Veterans Day is often confused with Memorial Day because they are similar in intent, but not identical. Memorial Day honors America’s war dead, while Veterans Day honors all American veterans, living and dead, and has a special emphasis on thanking living veterans for their service to the country.
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