This evening we get to join an elderly British gentleman, David Jason, as he travels around the West Coast of America.
Your most interesting recent tips are definitely appreciated!
Bonus: Awhile back, this video about the massacre (execution) of Canadian soldiers on June 6, 1944 was shared here on SDA. The SS Commander, Kurt Meyer, was later charged with war crimes for this incident. There’s a follow-up video of how other Canadian soldiers, in the days following, sought retribution against this SS Division.
What I didn’t realize until yesterday afternoon, when I added this bonus material, is that during the 75th Anniversary of D-Day (2019), I happened upon a beautiful ceremony in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse when local French townspeople personally thanked members of the Regina Rifle Regiment. For you, dear readers, I’ve uploaded the photos & videos I captured that day.
Last night Colonialista was first off the mark in Reader Tips with more nonesense about Ukraine. His tip involved a Ukrainian headbutting a Russian helmet and that somehow illustrated the shortcomings of Russian equipment. An actual acedemic study of ballistic helmets noted that this helmet, the 6B47, provides “excellent protective performance”. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359836822002694
Oh that’s nice. Did it ever occur to you that helmets submitted for testing might have been of somewhat higher quality than those actually issued to orcs in the field? Maybe just maybe? Hugh?
Here is the actual video: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/wzd8p9/ukrainian_soldiers_stress_test_a_russian_6b47/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Can’t wait for proofs that rubber armor is best reactive tank armor and that iron plates make best bulletproof vests.
My great uncle was one of the POWs killed by the Hitler youth under Kurt Meyer. I heard from a very young age he was shot in the back of the head at close range. Meyer claimed he was just following orders, and got off. He became a business man in Germany. My grandmother exchanged her little brother for several medals, earned in the fighting in France. We believe she threw the medals away. They were a poor substitute.
Thank you for sharing. Sorry about your family’s loss.
Meyer did not “get off”. He was tried and found guilty in a Canadian military court, and sentenced to death. This sentence was commuted to life in prison by a Canadian general. At the link to his name in the SDA post there is a detailed description of the man and history, and of this trial and sentence.
It’s “The Regina Rifle Regiment”; there is no “s” on Rifle. The “Regina Johns” were one of the most effective infantry battalions the Canadian Army generated in WWII. They have a fine record of meeting Meyer and his ilk repeatedly; and prevailing, starting with the clash at Bretteville on 8 and 9 July 1944.
June; not July. Damn Bll Gates and autocorrect.
Thank you for pointing this out. Corrected.
JAB. – if the State of California had released Charles Manson after serving only six years of his life sentence, I would have considered that to be “he got off”. At the very least, he got off early. Likewise, Meyer was released in 1951, six years after his trial. They shipped him out at night, back to Germany where he was released and went on to have a somewhat normal life.
“…killed by the Hitler youth under Kurt Meyer…”
Paul, I am sure you’re aware of it, but just to clarify, Meyer commanded 12 SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend”, this was an elite SS armoured division, not to be confused with Hitler Youth aka “Hitlerjugend” which was a NAZI youth organization that also at the final stages of the war often took arms.
… although some of the youths from organization “Hitlerjugend” ended up being recruited to the division “Hitlerjugend”. So your statement is technically correct in a roundabout way.
Here’s poliviere talking about the Freeland incident:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1563990649200050176
Pretty much a perfect answer. Here’s Andrew Coyne the biggest gasbag on the planets response:
https://mobile.twitter.com/acoyne/status/1564070637148274688
These people are in for a big surprise I think. He’s going to literally fire all these scumbags.
Here is some insight into the Diagolon gaslighting of the moronic media and even dumber Trudeau regime: https://youtu.be/od-YfIjPYU4
And here is an analysis of how Global News has embarrassed themselves: https://youtu.be/TO4TwgDPGDM
Rise of monkeypox worries L.A. sex workers: ‘It feels like we are seen as disposable’
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/rise-monkeypox-worries-sex-workers-120023515.html
Shocking
We should have an explosion of the Pride Pox around here shortly, it was the annual perversion-fest known as Pride Parade yesterday.
Irish farmers forced to cull cow herds of help in the fight to reduce GHGs:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/irish-farmers-cull-cows-meet-climate-targets#:~:text=Donald%20Scully%20gazes%20at%20his,light%20breeze%20ruffles%20the%20stillness.
Let’s get rid of the government and leave the cows. Our political masters have completely lost the plot. The ” fight climate change” policies are pointless and destructive.
Canadian diplomat tries to hide meeting with Rajoub after uproar
The Canadian office of Palestinian Authority deletes tweet about top diplomat’s meeting with Palestinian previously imprisoned on terrorism offenses.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-715715
We are going to drown because of Zombie Ice.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches/ar-AA11exKn?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=7b5f84c3d8bd29079f429c0683250ae8
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
We are all going to die. The scientists just don’t know when.
Phew!
Smells like Brampton’s festering pustule has erupted again.
https://youtu.be/fBQhDl3pGD0
David Jason did the voice of Toad in the Cosgrove Hall TV production of “The Wind In The Willows”.