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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a short documentary on the Ekranoplan KM ¤, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster (which was about 1/3 longer than a Boeing 747), ca. 1965, and on related ground- effect vehicles such as the A-90 Orlyonok (10:59). And, for the record, the magic moment in this video is at 08:47 et seq., featuring a Lun-class Ekranoplan ca. 1987.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Not all Canadians are as in love with our healthcare system as Jack Layton is.
TORedStar has no snark in this report; no critics say; no mention of U-Know-Who.
Amazing. What is going on with TO Star?
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“Tories to end early parole for murderers
Announce plan to repeal criminal code ‘faint hope’ clause, tighten parole eligibility
Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA–The Conservative Government is acting on a longstanding campaign promise to end convicted murderers’ shot at early parole.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/646260
My husband’s uncle died at 23 at the Battle of Ortona and my own father, a few years shy of 20 when he enlisted, saw things, hidden by the Dutch in their basements, that no teenager should ever have seen. It changed him forever.
We owe a great debt to the men and women who gave their lives, some living to tell the tale, for our freedoms, freedoms which, sadly, too many of us take for granted and abuse.
When I see young Canadian students, some new immigrants to Canada, slouching, fidgeting, talking, when the National Anthem is being played, I always tell them to “stand on guard for Canada” and why it’s important.
Posted by: Joe at June 5, 2009 4:13 PM
“I always get a chuckle from the June 6,1944 as being the beginning of the liberation of Europe. I had two uncles that ran across Juneau Beach that day but I also had a father in law who had survived the battle of Ortona prior to the Juneau landing. To the best of my knowledge Italy is a part of Europe. What the landing on June 6 did was open yet another front the Nazis had to fight against.”
I never found it amusing….you are largely correct but the reason was that Stalin wanted it that way……..the western allies as far as possible from Vienna. Despite everything, Stalin (and his advisors) knew that Vienna, not Berlin, was the key to Europe.
If the resources devoted to North-west Europe had been deployed into Italy, Italy would have been over-run, the Lubyana Gap forced and voila…..Vienna and with the Red Army still 1000 miles away.
Churchill knew this and lobbied for it but Roosevelt (as narcisic and naive as BHO) sided with good ol’ unca’ Joe Stalin…….and Eastern Europe became a Soviet dominated, communist, empire for nearly half a century.
Posted by: Joe at June 5, 2009 4:13 PM
The Caspian Sea Monster is viewable at:
42°52’54.7″N, 47°39’23.5″E (Google Earth)
The fuselage measures about 65m long, 5m dia.
That’s a little smaller than a Boeing 747 (71m, 6.5m dia. respectively)