Talk about a great angle!
Cuties for the Week:
Update: Welcome, R.S. McCain readers!
Popularity: 11%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Daily Cutie |
Olga Kurylenko
Popularity: 2%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Daily Cutie | Tags: cutie, Olga Kurylenko
Say hello to my little friend...
That’s always good news to wake up to.
Canadian fighter jets scrambled to repel Russian bombers that made several attempts to probe Canadian airspace on Wednesday.
QMI Agency has learned that two CF-18s took off from CFB Bagotville to intercept two TU-95 long range bombers about 463 km east of Goose Bay, N.L.
Attempts by Russia to test Canadian airspace have been going on since 2007; military and intelligence analysts tell QMI Agency the frequency has been increasing since then, but one senior official described Wednesday’s event as “not the usual s–t.”
“The response as always was a rapid, effective deterrent,” Defence Minister Peter MacKay told QMI Agency.
“They were in the buffer zone,” said MacKay, stressing that although the planes did not enter Canada’s sovereign airspace, the bombers did come inside the 300 nautical mile zone that Canada claims.
“They did not give us any advance notice,” said MacKay, adding that NORAD fighter jets have intercepted between 12 and 18 Russian bombers per year since 2007. After the CF-18s made contact with the Russians the pilots shadowed them until the bombers turned northeast and headed out of Canadian airspace.
I suppose this should disabuse people of the idea that the Russians are in any way, shape, or form our friends. Though honestly, I don’t understand what they’re playing at by doing this sort of thing.
If we had someone like Stephane Dion — or maybe even Michael Ignatieff — in charge of the government, I could see these excursions being somewhat more profitable for the Ruskies; I’d give decent odds to the possibility that the Canadian Forces would be ordered not to scramble in order to show deference to — and avoid the provocation of — our Russian “allies.” Liberals like to speak in such terms.
But Stephen Harper, squishy conservative though he may be in other areas, isn’t the sort of person to spout such niceties.
Then again, maybe the Russians aren’t testing us as much as they are the United States under Barack Obama. It was always understood that the Russians would have to get through/past Canada to strike at the US, at least before the advent of nuclear missiles; perhaps they were more interested in seeing what kind of response (if any) their incursion against a US ally would generate in and from the US itself?
Update: Welcome, Steynians!
Popularity: 4%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: American Politics - Aviation - Canadian News - Canadian Politics - Military | Tags: Barack Obama, Canada, CF-18, CFB Bagotville, Goose Bay, Michael Ignatieff, NORAD, Peter MacKay, QMI Agency, Russia, Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper, TU-95, United States
There apparently ARE people that are this dumb...
Popularity: 2%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Asteroid overdue - Humour - Just Plain Dumb | Tags: Facebook, hunting, meat
I used to have a pair of socks like that...
Popularity: 3%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Daily Cutie | Tags: cutie
…a misogynistic, violent (and sexually violent), rapacious, and abusive philosophy which is fundamentally incompatible with Western life and moral standards.
On the same hand, it sure makes it easy for a guy to run a brothel out of his mosque.
Important point to take away from this: Islam is a philosophy that is both barbaric to its core and completely alien to Western ways of thinking and moral codes. There really is no possibility of building up any kind of harmony between what passes for Western culture and what passes for Islamic culture; the two systems are in conflict by definition.
Update: Welcome, Steynians!
Popularity: 3%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Islam - Men and Women - Middle Eastern News - Sex | Tags: Islam, morality, Philosophy, rape, Sex
The human rights czars in Minnesota tell us so.
My question: there is at least one all-girls school in Edmonton, more still in all of Alberta and Canada, and yet more again in the United States. How long will it be, does the good reader suppose, before such institutions are similarly outed as sexist violations of human rights?
(Note also that the Press does not abhor the existence of all-girl schools, or of ‘Ladies Nights’.)
Popularity: 2%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: American News - American Politics - Men and Women | Tags: Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, human rights, Minnesota, United States
…but you can see it from there:
Just...ugh...
Have I ever mentioned my disdain for The Bachelorette? If not, then please consider this to be due mention thereof.
Popularity: 2%
Posted by: Saint Angilbert
Posted in: Education - Television | Tags: Facebook, The Bachelorette
