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In tonight’s Tips music, from September 1939, Dame Vera Lynn, DBE, sings the stirring and patriotic There’ll Always Be an England, which is followed by a full-hearted choral rendition of God Save The Queen.
Dedicated to our British friends who are continuing to fight the good fight on behalf of their country.
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  3. Re: WWII Footage. Thanks! If you’ve heard the sound of a Rolls Royce V-12 in a Spitfire or Lancaster, you’ll never forget it!

  10. Hopefully Dame Vera Lynn, DBE, is right, but it does appear to be in doubt in the long run. England is being destroyed from within.
    One can buy cds of her music.

  11. Dame Vera Lynn was a favourite of my grandfather’s.
    Talk about an enduring career.
    Still beautiful at 94!

  12. A quebec NDP MP Dany Morin has called for the federal government to appoint a new minister to be in charge of LBGT (wat dat?) lesbians, bi’s….you get it. The need is greatest in Alberta according to Ms. Morin.
    You need any more proof the party is made up of moonbats? Just askin’

  14. ABTrapper, an American version of that group is who was behind the petition for Ernie and Bert on Sesame Street to get married … to each other!

  15. For any Prop/Bomb heads out there…
    (loved it syncho,,,more finds pleas! I had no clue mikey and the boys had this much spare time this summer!I didn’t see this eppisode, Thanks
    syncrodox at August 13, 11:05 PM
    Earnie and the Buff’ers
    let the bomb got est.60’ABLL when in reality Earnie did it a40′
    The RAF soultion for rigid height control as night without radio altimiters was intersecting lights
    he second problem was determining the aircraft’s altitude, as the barometric altimeters then in use lacked sufficient accuracy. Two spotlights were mounted, one under the aircraft’s nose and the other under the fuselage, so that at the correct height their light beams would converge on the surface of the water. The crews practised at the Eyebrook Reservoir, in Leicestershire/Rutland, Abberton Reservoir near Colchester, Derwent Reservoir, and Fleet Lagoon on Chesil Beach. Wallis’ bomb itself was first tested at the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

  18. The Mossie is my all time fave brit fighter/bomber.
    The BOAC story flying two of them on a sched run to Sweden is truly fascinating
    OZ,,, here’s a site on Mossies with a few good clips in it also.
    http://www.squidoo.com/deHavillandMosquito
    Met two pilots that flew them in Europe and the Burma.
    The brit flying in Europe swore by them with a couple of kills on V1’s
    However;
    The brit pilots in tropical countries cringed at them as they would start rotting right after they showed up due to the high humidity. Repairing the wooden airframe was a nightmare as the glue wouldn’t set up properly. According to him serviceability was a nightmare

  19. Peter Jackson of “The Lord of the Rings”fame, is working on a remake of the movie “The Dambusters”. That should be worth the price of Admission.

  21. Jim Prentice, who shared a campfire with *David Suzuki*… at least for a photo op….was contemplating bringing in a cap and trade system when he was federal Minister of the Environment. He apparently bought the program hook line and sinker.
    “That would likely result in ‘significant’ money being transferred from Alberta to other parts of the country, a 2007 report by CIBC World Markets showed.”
    “In November 2010, a little over a year after the meeting took place, Prentice announced that he would be resigning from government to take a job with CIBC.”
    http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110814/prentice-pushed-cap-and-trade-on-alberta-110814/

  23. Prime Crime Globe-Mail vs Crime.
    From the Globe’s laugh-track: “bemusing”.
    “And the tough-on-crime approach in the face of contrary evidence is bemusing international observers.”
    …-
    “13 Aug 2011”
    “Time to Lead”
    “Canada’s youth crime plans bewilder international observers”
    “ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY”
    “From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail”
    “Published Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 7:08PM EDT
    Last updated Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 3:33PM EDT”
    “If Canada follows through on plans to crack down on miscreant youth, it’ll be one of the few jurisdictions in the world heading in that direction.
    And the tough-on-crime approach in the face of contrary evidence is bemusing international observers.
    Judges, criminologists and policy-makers in the United States, Britain and Australia – countries whose systems, for the most part, closely resemble Canada’s – can’t figure out why this country is planning to shift toward a jail-intensive approach. Everyone else seems to be doing the opposite, not for ideological reasons, but because evidence shows it works.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/time-to-lead-archives/canadas-youth-crime-plans-bewilder-international-observers/article2102822/
    …-
    “Crime”
    “David Cameron: It’s time for a zero tolerance approach to street crime”
    “David Cameron today tells the police to take a “zero tolerance” approach to street crime in the wake of the worst rioting to hit mainland Britain in 30 years.”
    “The Prime Minister uses an interview with The Sunday Telegraph to promise a series of tough measures, to be unveiled in the coming months, to fight crime and reclaim the streets from rioters, looters and gangs.
    He pledges to support “zero tolerance” — a tough system of policing first popularised in the US which sees even minor offences prosecuted vigorously to send out the message that no form of law-breaking will be tolerated.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8700243/David-Cameron-on-UK-riots-Its-time-for-a-zero-tolerance-approach-to-street-crime.html

  25. http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/08/13/chief-justice-supports-criticism-of-kenney/
    “Speaking on the matter for the first time, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin applauded the Canadian Bar Association on Saturday for protesting comments Kenney made last winter, when he said Federal Court judges weren’t toeing the line of the Harper government’s immigration policies”
    I didn’t think it was appropriate for chief justices to wade into political comment–at least while she’s still holding her job.

  26. Ich Bin Ein Blunder.
    Of the liberal-left’s ex-icon, aka JFK.
    “Clearly, there was a causal connection between Kennedy’s horrible 1961 and the Cold War’s most perilous moment — Khrushchev’s 1962 gamble on putting missiles in Cuba.”
    …-
    “JFK’s Berlin blunder”
    “Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down 22 years ago, but the story of how it rose, as told in Frederick Kempe’s book Berlin 1961, compels an unflattering assessment of John Kennedy. His serial blunders that year made it the most incompetent first year of any presidency.
    In a State of the Union address just 10 days after his inauguration, Kennedy seemed exhilarated by hysteria. He said that “in this brief 10-day period” he had been “staggered” by “the harsh enormity” of the “trials” ahead:
    “Each day the crises multiply. Each day their solution grows more difficult. Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger, as … hostile forces grow stronger … Our analyses over the last 10 days make it clear that … the tide of events has been running out.” Lunging for an equivalence with Lincoln, Kennedy said that during his term Americans would learn whether a nation such as ours “can endure.”
    Actually, since Election Day he had learned that the “missile gap” he had accused President Eisenhower of allowing to develop was fictitious.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/08/14/george-f-will-jfks-berlin-blunder/

  30. I love Vera Lynn and the British spirit at the time.
    How many Vets are turning over in their graves for their ultimate sacrifice for the modern day UK?

  32. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    “Sunday saw Wellington’s greatest snowfall for 30 years.”
    …-
    “New Zealand In Grip Of Memorable Icy Blast”
    “The cold winter in New Zealand continues as a new blast of cold weather grips much of the country Sunday. Snow is currently falling in the South Island and in southern parts of the North Island too. Sunday saw Wellington’s greatest snowfall for 30 years.
    July 22 – 25th was previously the coldest snap since 1995, with snowfall causing disruption across the South Island and some parts of the North Island. Today’s snowfall been more widespread, however,”.
    http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/new-zealand-in-grip-of-memorable-icy-blast/31934.html

  33. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    “Sunday saw Wellington’s greatest snowfall for 30 years.”
    …-
    “New Zealand In Grip Of Memorable Icy Blast”
    “The cold winter in New Zealand continues as a new blast of cold weather grips much of the country Sunday. Snow is currently falling in the South Island and in southern parts of the North Island too. Sunday saw Wellington’s greatest snowfall for 30 years.
    July 22 – 25th was previously the coldest snap since 1995, with snowfall causing disruption across the South Island and some parts of the North Island. Today’s snowfall been more widespread, however,”.
    urlm.in/ivqu

  34. AGW = FAIL.
    >>> “wider efforts during the last 30 years to ameliorate the threat of global climate change are not working.”
    “Multiple negotiations sponsored by the United Nation’s have been unsuccessful.”
    It’s your fault PM Harper.
    See PM’s AGW Rap Sheet below.
    …
    “Local Communities and Carbon Dioxide Emissions”
    “Responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is falling to cities, municipalities and regional districts because wider efforts during the last 30 years to ameliorate the threat of global climate change are not working. Multiple negotiations sponsored by the United Nation’s have been unsuccessful. Developing nations such as China, India and Brazil are determined to follow the destructive example of industrialized countries which, in turn, are reluctant to risk economic advantage by reducing their emissions.
    Canada, under the Harper government, is so disconnected from climate science that it seems to live in parallel and separate universe, one that systematically obstructs reduction efforts, assiduously suppresses climate change discussions, silences climatologists, shrinks relevant federal research programs, pushes for greater oil and gas production, and abets coal exports. BC’s government is only marginally better.”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Local+Communities+Carbon+Dioxide+Emissions/5245055/story.html

  35. “bemusing international observers.”
    …-
    “Three charged in Barrie mini-putt death”
    “Three teens have been arrested for murder in the death of a Collingwood, Ont., man, who was stabbed in the neck with a broken golf club at a south end mini-putt Saturday evening.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/14/18551661.html
    …-
    “Time to Lead”
    “Canada’s youth crime plans bewilder international observers”
    “If Canada follows through on plans to crack down on miscreant youth, it’ll be one of the few jurisdictions in the world heading in that direction.
    And the tough-on-crime approach in the face of contrary evidence is bemusing international observers.
    Judges, criminologists and policy-makers in the United States, Britain and Australia – countries whose systems, for the most part, closely resemble Canada’s – can’t figure out why this country is planning to shift toward a jail-intensive approach. Everyone else seems to be doing the opposite, not for ideological reasons, but because evidence shows it works.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/time-to-lead-archives/canadas-youth-crime-plans-bewilder-international-observers/article2102822/

  36. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Soros Diktat.
    Ein Soros of National Socialism/fascism speaks:
    >>> “Berlin must dictate to Europe the solution to the currency crisis.”
    Soros Uber Alles.
    …-
    “SPIEGEL Interview with George Soros”
    “‘You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'”
    In a SPIEGEL interview, billionaire investor George Soros criticizes Germany’s lack of leadership in the euro zone, arguing that Berlin must dictate to Europe the solution to the currency crisis. He also argues in favor of the creation of euro bonds as a way out of the turbulence. more…”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/

  37. Gore Bull****: Now extinct.
    Gore Bull: “Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bull****! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bull****! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bull****!”
    More Gore Bull****:
    ““It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the god**** word ‘climate.’””
    “Between embarrassing blunders and scientific scandals among the leading climatologists, the global warming movement is evaporating, and with it Gore’s dreams of untold wealth.”
    …-
    “UNHINGED Al Gore’s tantrum unbecoming of stature”
    “Al Gore has good reason to be so angry. But it’s not the reason you might think.
    At the Aspen Institute last week, the former vice president, behaving like anything but, unleashed an obscenity laced tirade against those who aren’t buying what he’s selling: global warming. The number of scientists moving into the skeptic ranks regarding manmade climate change is growing.
    “They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bull****! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bull****! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bull****!”
    Sounds like someone’s losing an argument.
    He complained, “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate, even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened.”
    Gore doesn’t live like the very existence of our civilization is threatened. With his many mansions, his fleet of vehicles and his travels aboard private jets, he leaves the carbon footprint of a small city. Yet he claims to live a “carbon-neutral” lifestyle because he pays poor people in Third World countries to plant trees. That’s a luxury reserved for the wealthy, like Gore, with guilty consciences to pacify over their conspicuous consumption.
    He’s not alone. Every global climate summit has been an orgy of excess that exposed the hypocrisy of all those hoping to cash in on global warming panic.
    Civilization is not threatened, but Gore’s fortune may be. He is heavily invested in green technology and carbon trading. But the green market is just not performing. So he’s beginning to sound deranged.”
    http://www.paducahsun.com/view/full_story_free/15089976/article-UNHINGED—Al-Gore%E2%80%99s-tantrum—unbecoming-of-stature?instance=home_viewed

  39. rita @ 10:44 a.m.: “I didn’t think it was appropriate for chief justices to wade into political comment–at least while she’s still holding her job.”
    They’re not supposed to, but they do it all the time anyway. Many judgments of the Supreme Court make comments about social programs, for example, written by former judges like Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dube. They’ve also upheld mandatory retirement based more on economic considerations (and incorrect ones too) than what they perceive to be rights.

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