Operation Rudolf – small dead animals

Dear Troops stationed in Afghanistan,
Below is my note to the Prime Minister
Below that is today�s news story, in case your foes decide to send you an RPG, IED, or other assorted incendiaries.
Attached above is a picture of my grandfather 7th Regiment Rheinische Ulanen (Grossherzog von Baden) or 7th Rhenish Lancers. He spent 4 years on the Russian front, with no home leave, and lived to tell a few stories. He had the delightful duty on Sunday Feb. 7, 1915 to lead the vanguard on mounted calvary in the balmy conditions of minus 45 C in white out conditions. (2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes) If you wanted to see a frosty Sunday in HELL this would have been it. (Pictures attached above) My grandfather continued on the front in the Battles of Kovno, Vilna and Noroch Lakes, the latter outnumbered by 5 to 1.
So Rudolph bite me!
St. Nicolaas of Myra rules! His short story below:
Perhaps it is time for the true story of Saint Nicolaas:
His parents died when he was a young man, leaving him well off and he determined to devote his inheritance to works of charity. An opportunity soon arose. A citizen of Patara had lost all his money, and had moreover to support three daughters who could not find husbands because of their poverty; so the wretched man was going to give them over to prostitution. This came to the ears of Nicholas, who thereupon took a bag of gold and, under cover of darkness threw it in at the open window of the man’s house. Here was a dowry for the eldest girl and she was soon duly married. At intervals Nicholas did the same for the second and third; at the last time the father was on the watch, recognized his benefactor and overwhelmed him with his gratitude.
Here�s to shaking loose a little gold, to buy some decent equipment.
Oh, and don�t forget the winter parkas!
With kind regards,
Kicking ass on the �Home Front�.
Hans �Huns� Rupprecht
PS. You can pass this per email to Major Eric Liebert, Princess Patricia Light Infantry.
Dear Prime Minister Martin,
Stephen Harper, Leader of the Opposition
Gilles Duceppe, Leader of the Bloc Quebecois
Jack Layton, Leader of the NDP
General Hillier, Chief of Defense Staff, Canadian Armed Forces
Senator Romeo Dallaire
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Micha�lle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D.,
Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada
I could not resist finding this quote from A Man for All Seasons (Robert
Bolt):
More: …The law, Roper, the law. I know what’s legal, not what’s right. And
I’ll stick to what’s legal.
Roper: Then you set man’s law above God’s!
More: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact – I’m not God.
The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain
sailing, I can’t navigate. I’m no voyager. But in the thickets of the law,
oh, there I’m a forester.
Roper: …You’d give the Devil the benefit of law?
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after
the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on
you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? The country’s
planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and if
you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think
you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the
Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
Ms. Karen Redmond, MP has wisely, unlike Roper above, laid down her axe. Let us here no more talk of not observing confidence votes. As this letter hails from British Columbia, I would venture to say that we can find more than thickets of law, as More would have it. We could say, that we have mighty forests of law; of Douglas Fir, Spruce, and the towering Cedars of the rainforest clear all the way to Lebanon!! It appears you must now become a forester, to heal these clear cuts.
Perhaps your donkey from British Columbia can offer a few aphorisms.
As my learned friend David Nuttall, noted criminal lawyer now retired, said to me a long time ago: �Sometimes Hans, the law is just an ass.� It would appear in light of the Gomery Commission report that we have a herd of wild asses.
I was born in Lachine in 1959. Shortly after my birth, whilst my father was resting on the couch a train came past the apartment. My father startled, ran to the window after the rumbling triggered some memories of 500lb bombs dropping a little to close to the railway station they were near during WWII. Like Romeo Dallaire, I gather my father had some post traumatic stress syndrome, for he yelled at the top of his lungs �ALLES RAUS!!!�. Translation: �EVERYBODY OUT!!!�
I hope this will not be the reaction in Quebec during the next election.
My father fought with the Hitler Youth (aged 14-15) integrated into the SS units during WWII. In some senses, if one wanted to follow the allegory above, you can say that we represented the Devil when all the thickets of the law were cut down. The course of the spring Parliamentary session managed to even scandalize someone as hard bitten as my father.
Some time ago you made the statement:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1079542113644_74951313/
“We have declared all-out war against waste and mismanagement. We will put an end to cronyism,” the prime minister said in French.
“I am going to change the way Ottawa works,” he said. “This is not a slogan, this is reality. We are going to change the way government works. And we will do it come Hell or high water.”
Well we have now had the Asian tsunami, flooding of New Orleans, and high water in Calgary, Alberta (June 2005) and Sherbrooke, Quebec (0ct 17, 2005.) This really has to stop; as HELL cannot be far behind.
�You really have to be a little more precise in what you pray for as you may just get it.�; one spiritual advisor once warned me.
For heavens sake, this HELL thing really has to be stricken from the national agenda; especially since November 11 Remembrance Day is coming. I trust you will be all putting away your political swords, and not show up a day late and several millions of dollars short, like VE-Day 60th celebrations?
VICTORY IN EUROPE
PM, rivals honour veterans
May. 10, 2005. 09:29 AM
Canada’s four feuding federal leaders finally showed up here to honour Canadian veterans and celebrate VE Day � a day late and in obvious damage-control mode. Neither Prime Minister Paul Martin, nor opposition leaders Stephen Harper, Gilles Duceppe or Jack Layton could avoid the fact Ottawa politics is what caused all parties to call their MPs off VE Day celebrations here last week.
It has been said that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. I don�t think we ever want to go anywhere near what my parents and grandparents experienced. My paternal grandfather attached above in a pdf file, of the 7th Rheinische Ulanen (7th Rhenish Lancers) spent most of WWI on the Russian Front.
He also like, Romeo Dallaire, found it very difficult to speak of his experiences. He used to have nightmares to which my grandmother reportedly told my father: �Let him alone, he has another Russian soldier on his lance.�
I will put in one request in respect of Major Eric Liebert, Princess Patricia Light Infantry, to be stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Perhaps you will listen to his request for jeeps/trucks which can withstand/deflect mine blasts properly.
We don�t need anybody coming home in bags, one 500 pounder was enough.
Should any of our august leaders not lay down his political sword for November 11; you realize of course that an imminent invasion is upon you from wilds of Hans Island.
I remain yours sincerely,
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group �True North�
Canuck army getting new carriers
By STEPHEN THORNE
OTTAWA (CP) – The Canadian army is buying 50 light-armoured vehicles from South Africa, and expects delivery early next year so the next deployment of soldiers can use them in Afghanistan, The Canadian Press has learned.
The $120-million purchase has been deemed an “urgent operational requirement,” and will boost the safety of soldiers patrolling the dangerous region where 2,000 fighting troops are to deploy in southern Afghanistan.
In total, Defence is spending $234 million on new equipment for the mission, including new radios, hand-held satellite phones and diesel-powered all-terrain vehicles, senior government sources said Friday.
Delivery is expected in February or early March, coinciding with the start of Canada’s newest mission in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
The military has been using several of the Nyala mine-resistant vehicles initially purchased from South African national police since Canada first sent about 2,000 soldiers to fight the war on terrorism around Kandahar in 2002.
The area is one of the most heavily mined regions of the most heavily mined country in the world. Insurgents have also stepped up roadside and suicide bomb attacks on allied forces in the area in recent months.
Two Canadian soldiers suffered minor wounds when a roadside bomb exploded next to their armoured patrol in Kabul in September. The military has since decided to add reinforcing plates to its existing armoured vehicles.
Four of the seven Canadians who have died in Afghanistan in the last three years were killed by set explosive devices – two by anti-tank mines and one by a suicide bomber.
Billed by its makers – South Africa-based BAE Land Systems – as a “highly adaptable, multi-purpose, four-by-four,” the 11-man vehicles are ballistically reinforced, jeep-like troop carriers.
“This vehicle offers a high degree of protection against vehicle mines and small arms,” says one supplier, Paramount Group.
Earlier this week, the government decided to postpone the combined purchase of $12.1 billion worth of helicopters, transport aircraft and search-rescue planes.
The South African purchase is different because the vehicles are considered essential to the mission the Canadian troops are undertaking – hunting Taliban and al Qaida fighters in the desert and mountains near Kandahar.
The Nyalas are being purchased “off the shelf,” without any special requirements.

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Hans Rupprecht says:

November 20, 2005 at 3:48 am

Dear Troops stationed in Afghanistan,
Below is my note to the Prime Minister
Below that is today�s news story, in case your foes decide to send you an RPG, IED, or other assorted incendiaries.
Attached above is a picture of my grandfather 7th Regiment Rheinische Ulanen (Grossherzog von Baden) or 7th Rhenish Lancers. He spent 4 years on the Russian front, with no home leave, and lived to tell a few stories. He had the delightful duty on Sunday Feb. 7, 1915 to lead the vanguard on mounted calvary in the balmy conditions of minus 45 C in white out conditions. (2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes) If you wanted to see a frosty Sunday in HELL this would have been it. (Pictures attached above) My grandfather continued on the front in the Battles of Kovno, Vilna and Noroch Lakes, the latter outnumbered by 5 to 1.
So Rudolph bite me!
St. Nicolaas of Myra rules! His short story below:
Perhaps it is time for the true story of Saint Nicolaas:
His parents died when he was a young man, leaving him well off and he determined to devote his inheritance to works of charity. An opportunity soon arose. A citizen of Patara had lost all his money, and had moreover to support three daughters who could not find husbands because of their poverty; so the wretched man was going to give them over to prostitution. This came to the ears of Nicholas, who thereupon took a bag of gold and, under cover of darkness threw it in at the open window of the man’s house. Here was a dowry for the eldest girl and she was soon duly married. At intervals Nicholas did the same for the second and third; at the last time the father was on the watch, recognized his benefactor and overwhelmed him with his gratitude.
Here�s to shaking loose a little gold, to buy some decent equipment.
Oh, and don�t forget the winter parkas!
With kind regards,
Kicking ass on the �Home Front�.
Hans �Huns� Rupprecht
PS. You can pass this per email to Major Eric Liebert, Princess Patricia Light Infantry.
Dear Prime Minister Martin,
Stephen Harper, Leader of the Opposition
Gilles Duceppe, Leader of the Bloc Quebecois
Jack Layton, Leader of the NDP
General Hillier, Chief of Defense Staff, Canadian Armed Forces
Senator Romeo Dallaire
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Micha�lle Jean, C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D.,
Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada
I could not resist finding this quote from A Man for All Seasons (Robert
Bolt):
More: …The law, Roper, the law. I know what’s legal, not what’s right. And
I’ll stick to what’s legal.
Roper: Then you set man’s law above God’s!
More: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact – I’m not God.
The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain
sailing, I can’t navigate. I’m no voyager. But in the thickets of the law,
oh, there I’m a forester.
Roper: …You’d give the Devil the benefit of law?
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after
the Devil?
Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on
you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? The country’s
planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and if
you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think
you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the
Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
Ms. Karen Redmond, MP has wisely, unlike Roper above, laid down her axe. Let us here no more talk of not observing confidence votes. As this letter hails from British Columbia, I would venture to say that we can find more than thickets of law, as More would have it. We could say, that we have mighty forests of law; of Douglas Fir, Spruce, and the towering Cedars of the rainforest clear all the way to Lebanon!! It appears you must now become a forester, to heal these clear cuts.
Perhaps your donkey from British Columbia can offer a few aphorisms.
As my learned friend David Nuttall, noted criminal lawyer now retired, said to me a long time ago: �Sometimes Hans, the law is just an ass.� It would appear in light of the Gomery Commission report that we have a herd of wild asses.
I was born in Lachine in 1959. Shortly after my birth, whilst my father was resting on the couch a train came past the apartment. My father startled, ran to the window after the rumbling triggered some memories of 500lb bombs dropping a little to close to the railway station they were near during WWII. Like Romeo Dallaire, I gather my father had some post traumatic stress syndrome, for he yelled at the top of his lungs �ALLES RAUS!!!�. Translation: �EVERYBODY OUT!!!�
I hope this will not be the reaction in Quebec during the next election.
My father fought with the Hitler Youth (aged 14-15) integrated into the SS units during WWII. In some senses, if one wanted to follow the allegory above, you can say that we represented the Devil when all the thickets of the law were cut down. The course of the spring Parliamentary session managed to even scandalize someone as hard bitten as my father.
Some time ago you made the statement:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1079542113644_74951313/
“We have declared all-out war against waste and mismanagement. We will put an end to cronyism,” the prime minister said in French.
“I am going to change the way Ottawa works,” he said. “This is not a slogan, this is reality. We are going to change the way government works. And we will do it come Hell or high water.”
Well we have now had the Asian tsunami, flooding of New Orleans, and high water in Calgary, Alberta (June 2005) and Sherbrooke, Quebec (0ct 17, 2005.) This really has to stop; as HELL cannot be far behind.
�You really have to be a little more precise in what you pray for as you may just get it.�; one spiritual advisor once warned me.
For heavens sake, this HELL thing really has to be stricken from the national agenda; especially since November 11 Remembrance Day is coming. I trust you will be all putting away your political swords, and not show up a day late and several millions of dollars short, like VE-Day 60th celebrations?
VICTORY IN EUROPE
PM, rivals honour veterans
May. 10, 2005. 09:29 AM
Canada’s four feuding federal leaders finally showed up here to honour Canadian veterans and celebrate VE Day � a day late and in obvious damage-control mode. Neither Prime Minister Paul Martin, nor opposition leaders Stephen Harper, Gilles Duceppe or Jack Layton could avoid the fact Ottawa politics is what caused all parties to call their MPs off VE Day celebrations here last week.
It has been said that those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. I don�t think we ever want to go anywhere near what my parents and grandparents experienced. My paternal grandfather attached above in a pdf file, of the 7th Rheinische Ulanen (7th Rhenish Lancers) spent most of WWI on the Russian Front.
He also like, Romeo Dallaire, found it very difficult to speak of his experiences. He used to have nightmares to which my grandmother reportedly told my father: �Let him alone, he has another Russian soldier on his lance.�
I will put in one request in respect of Major Eric Liebert, Princess Patricia Light Infantry, to be stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Perhaps you will listen to his request for jeeps/trucks which can withstand/deflect mine blasts properly.
We don�t need anybody coming home in bags, one 500 pounder was enough.
Should any of our august leaders not lay down his political sword for November 11; you realize of course that an imminent invasion is upon you from wilds of Hans Island.
I remain yours sincerely,
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group �True North�
Canuck army getting new carriers
By STEPHEN THORNE
OTTAWA (CP) – The Canadian army is buying 50 light-armoured vehicles from South Africa, and expects delivery early next year so the next deployment of soldiers can use them in Afghanistan, The Canadian Press has learned.
The $120-million purchase has been deemed an “urgent operational requirement,” and will boost the safety of soldiers patrolling the dangerous region where 2,000 fighting troops are to deploy in southern Afghanistan.
In total, Defence is spending $234 million on new equipment for the mission, including new radios, hand-held satellite phones and diesel-powered all-terrain vehicles, senior government sources said Friday.
Delivery is expected in February or early March, coinciding with the start of Canada’s newest mission in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
The military has been using several of the Nyala mine-resistant vehicles initially purchased from South African national police since Canada first sent about 2,000 soldiers to fight the war on terrorism around Kandahar in 2002.
The area is one of the most heavily mined regions of the most heavily mined country in the world. Insurgents have also stepped up roadside and suicide bomb attacks on allied forces in the area in recent months.
Two Canadian soldiers suffered minor wounds when a roadside bomb exploded next to their armoured patrol in Kabul in September. The military has since decided to add reinforcing plates to its existing armoured vehicles.
Four of the seven Canadians who have died in Afghanistan in the last three years were killed by set explosive devices – two by anti-tank mines and one by a suicide bomber.
Billed by its makers – South Africa-based BAE Land Systems – as a “highly adaptable, multi-purpose, four-by-four,” the 11-man vehicles are ballistically reinforced, jeep-like troop carriers.
“This vehicle offers a high degree of protection against vehicle mines and small arms,” says one supplier, Paramount Group.
Earlier this week, the government decided to postpone the combined purchase of $12.1 billion worth of helicopters, transport aircraft and search-rescue planes.
The South African purchase is different because the vehicles are considered essential to the mission the Canadian troops are undertaking – hunting Taliban and al Qaida fighters in the desert and mountains near Kandahar.
The Nyalas are being purchased “off the shelf,” without any special requirements.
What I'm Blogging says:

November 20, 2005 at 8:35 am

Operation Rudolph

The government tells us that 2005 is the Year of the Veteran, and that we should remember with honour, those who served this country and gave the ultimate sacrifice for us. The Government is absolutely right on this point. But as we remember, cherish,…
doug quinney says:

November 20, 2005 at 10:13 pm

dear kate: it is terrible how our vets present and past get treated. the left has control and anyone who is in a uniform present or past is treated as part of the world problems not as part of the solution. our local legion (Elrose branch ) is closing because there is not enough money to pay the power and heat in the old hall (a very small building). our NDP in red square Regina charges the legion commercial rates on everything because they sell might sell a 100.00 rent fee for a stag party or a bingo twice a year. there aren’t many of the old vets left in our area but it would sure be nice if there was a place for them to gather in their last days. the devotion of these men and women
to their country and the world must not be forgotten. if it were not for them we might very well be in jack boots doing the goose step . in true NDP fashion when it comes to rural issues or issues that take back bone they always work on the doctrine of NO VOTES NO NEED .as you say kate… tommy douglas NOT DEAD ENOUGH.
sorry about my typing
stubby

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