tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60831672007-02-11T21:35:15.526ZDavidBlogger5001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1159608504668131932006-09-30T09:28:00.000Z2006-09-30T09:28:25.043Z

Sorry guys and guyesses, I'm just way too busy to keep this blog going as well as the regimental website, welfare work and the other things I do outwith teaching. I'll kill this off in a month - apologies. I have very much enjoyed chatting via the comments and other means to people from all over the world. Thank you - if you are ever up this way let me know and the drinks will be on me.

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1159390604782615282006-09-27T20:56:00.000Z2006-09-27T21:01:10.753Z

There are two images I will never forget, and I expect I will think of them often in the days and weeks to come. For in the front row of this parade of horror and depravity, I have watched a fundamentalist Islamic crowd stone two women to death. They were covered head to toe in shockingly white linen – the better to see the bloodstains. Taken into a field and buried up to their waists, they

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1159210194866609302006-09-25T18:49:00.000Z2006-09-25T18:49:55.613Z

A soldiers eyes    To look into a soldiers eyes, the window to their soul Look out from the inside of their mind and see horrors never told You say we are just killers, its not that plain you see Take a walk inside my boots, and see what I have seen Many innocent lives taken, and soldiers there were some Giving their lives freely to get the job done The last cold stare of death, we see in our

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1159005954929250142006-09-23T10:05:00.000Z2006-09-23T10:05:54.946Z

A man walks into the toy store to get a Barbie doll for his daughter. So he asks the assistant, as you would, "How much is Barbie?" "Well," she says, "we have Barbie Goes to the Gym for $19.95, Barbie Goes to the Ball for $19.95, Barbie Goes Shopping for $19.95, Barbie Goes to the Beach for $19.95, Barbie Goes Nightclubbing for $19.95, and Divorced Barbie for $265.00." "Hey, hang on," the guy

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1159005797627559722006-09-23T10:03:00.000Z2006-09-23T10:03:18.003Z

Trying a new blog editor from Microsoft......

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158963410569152622006-09-22T22:16:00.000Z2006-09-22T22:16:50.966Z

At one Army base, the annual trip to the rifle range had been cancelled for the second year in a row, but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One soldier mused, "Does it bother anyone else that the Army doesn't seem to care how well we can shoot, but they are extremely interested in how fast we can run?" Via OZGURU

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158873977029099232006-09-21T21:26:00.000Z2006-09-21T21:26:17.046Z

A Kiwi picture about their Labour Party but hey, our Labour Party is just as bad! Must remember to keep this for next year for the Scottish Parliament elections...

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158873825240216342006-09-21T21:23:00.000Z2006-09-21T21:23:46.200Z

Someone hurry up and make the T shirt !

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158868065741703752006-09-21T19:47:00.000Z2006-09-21T19:58:39.953Z

Phil B kindly sent me this document Long but well worth reading. Headings are shown with an extract for each which sums up the whole problem, I think. 1. The first element is the suicide murder.* What is behind the suicide murders? Money is, money and power and cold-blooded murderous incitement, nothing else. It has nothing to do with true fanatic religious beliefs. No Moslem preacher has ever

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158693580915309102006-09-19T19:19:00.000Z2006-09-19T19:19:42.696Z

The US Military kindly helped one of our former Highlanders tidy up a vandalised British War Cemetery in Baghdad. Thanks guys!

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158679433795857282006-09-19T15:21:00.000Z2006-09-19T15:27:08.590Z

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158612602297739052006-09-18T20:50:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:50:02.336Z

Take note!

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158611827452345352006-09-18T20:35:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:37:07.456Z

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Sir Winston Churchill. Do not annoy the Eagle.....

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158611709384563822006-09-18T20:34:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:35:09.386Z

Timocritus the valiant gave His Life in war. This is his grave. War spares the coward, not the brave. —Anacreon

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158611601294698032006-09-18T20:32:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:33:21.296Z

Oooh number 88 in the UK according to the Iain Dale well known blogger and political pundit. Hey! Me is down as non-aligned when me is fully paid up member of Tory party! (But one who voted for Davis and wants Cameron sacked now...the wimp!) Last year I was nominated for the Milblogs competition, this year ...fame beckons - Instapundit the biggest blog of all had better watch out - the British

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158611081871712032006-09-18T20:24:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:24:49.886Z

OK, I don't go to Mass as often as Mum and Dad would like; church is where I am found for funerals and weddings but I go elsewhere - on a sandy beach or up a hill - for the peace and quiet to think about things that need to be thought about. But at the end of the day (aargh! cliche alert!) there are some things that are not worth killing or dying for - religion and the possibility that there may

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158610090505675582006-09-18T20:08:00.000Z2006-09-18T20:08:11.293Z

Muslims react… well violently. Well there’s a shock. Having decided to deliberately take out of context Pope Bendict XVI’s quoting of a Byzantine Emperor, Muslims the world over are having a repeat performance of their violent reaction to Denmark’s exercise of free speech. The Pope is being burned in effigy and various usual suspects are DEMANDING he apologise. Here’s a news flash for you, you

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158093257955780432006-09-12T20:34:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:34:17.956Z

Ode To A Soldier I was that which others did not want to be. I went where others feared to go. And did what others failed to do. I asked nothing from those who gave nothing. And reluctantly accepted the though of eternal loneliness should I fail. I have seen the face of terror, felt the stinging cold of fear. And enjoyed the sweet taste of a moment's love. I have cried, pained and hoped; But

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158093063890075562006-09-12T20:31:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:31:03.890Z

A friend of Mr RM in Africa used to say: "Pas op as jy spiel met 'n lieuw se eiers, kerel" "Be careful when you play with a lion's balls, lad" The imagination boogles.... Remittance Man

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158092954099368572006-09-12T20:29:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:29:14.100Z

Mr Blair, who flew to Jerusalem yesterday, received warm thanks last night from his Israeli counterpart for meeting the families of three Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping two months ago set off the latest flare-up in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Blair is happy to meet the families of kidnapped Israeli soldiers, but not those of dead British soldiers? He and his senior ministers haven't even

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158092790032760162006-09-12T20:26:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:26:30.056Z

The leader of Muslim Imams in Norway, Imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni, has taken time out to answer questions put to him by readers of Norway's Aftenposten newspaper. He also questioned whether the September 11 attacks were actually orchestrated by Muslims, and lent credence to so-called "conspiracy theories" that suggest otherwise. 'there's some good evidence that Bush & Co were behind this [9/

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1158092653891821932006-09-12T20:24:00.000Z2006-09-12T20:24:14.370Z

Time was when this sort of chap was all we had to worry about....sigh.

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1157998242305181022006-09-11T18:09:00.000Z2006-09-11T18:13:29.100Z

So let's see if we've got this straight. After, for example, the U.S. saved Muslims in Kuwait and Bosnia and Kosovo, tried to help in Somalia, and worked hard to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians in 2000, you are saying there is anger about our response after WE were attacked subsequently by your co-religionists owing to their interpretations of their duties under your faith

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1157998094653124012006-09-11T18:07:00.000Z2006-09-11T18:08:14.656Z

Have you forgotten how it felt that day? To see your homeland under fire And her people blown away Have you forgotten when those towers fell? We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden Have you forgotten? Now I've been there with the soldiers Who've gone away to war And you can bet that they remember Just what they're fightin' for Have

Davidtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083167.post-1157997909323595472006-09-11T18:05:00.000Z2006-09-11T18:05:09.746Z

BBC News So David Cameron makes a speech about US/UK relations and the BBC put it down as 'Cameron critical of UK/US policy' on their front page. Tell you what, this Tory ain't voting for the clowns anymore but where do I go? (settle down anonymous in the comments...no need to be rude...). What a twit Cameron is turning out to be - a Blair Mark 2 with LibDem tendencies who says nothing unless

David