I couldn't pass this up

I never blog anymore.

At best I'll pop on to the WoW forums and write a sentence or two making fun of some scrub.
There were two things I couldn't pass up.

This appeared in the DailyMail (UK) Dec 16th 2008

Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago.

They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral.

But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.

The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.
The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.


Thing is, for the last year, they've had everyone and their mom trying to prove the tombs been opened. But as far as all teams have proved: the Musketeers were winking at each other the last time the tomb was opened.

I personally don't believe in time travel. So far tho, this hoax seems solid.



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Words cannot do justice to my anger.


In Dec 2008 Captain Robert Semrau was with his squad in Afghanistan and happened to get caught in a firefight. The Taliban pinning them down was hiding in a tree, and the Canadian Armed Forces couldn't get past without sustaining a chance of a casuality (a secondary gunner was found in the same tree later).

They called in support, and HQ sent an Apache Helicopter.

They squad passed by, and found one gunman dead. The secondary gunner had been hit and the squad thought he was dead upon first contact.
They relieved him of his AK, vest, and ammo.

A few feet after they passed, the man awoke and was screaming in agony.
He had one leg completely shot off, he had a fist sized hole in his lower gut (which seemed to be causing him the most pain), and one of his arms appeared to have been shredded.

The Captain told the men with him "that he couldn't live with himself if he had left a wounded human being and nobody should be made to suffer like that."

So he put 2 rounds in the terrorists face.

When he met back up with his squad he said"anyone would do the same for any other human being in that situation. He is still a human being and should not suffer like that."

When he got home from his tour (8 months ago) the Afghan translator brought him to court for first degree murder.
When that fell through, he was tried for second degree murder.
That has also fallen through, but they sentenced him 5 years in jail for "disgraceful conduct".

Words fail me.
The government is so careful to be seen as bending-over-backwards for everyone that they are leeching humanity away one sip at a time.
Imagine getting 5 years in jail... not "next time let the bastard suffer and die of thirst and agony" ... FIVE YEARS OF JAIL for a mercy coup-de-grace.

I am so disgusted. Deeply and truly sick with the state we have become.
When has kindness, and care about our fellow man become a jail sentence?

That Cpt should have gotten a medal.
I just hope the next time that translator goes out with a squad they find a phone book and a nice quiet place.



.... if you were to give 100 leaders, of the top 100 richest countries in the world, AIDS; how fast do you think we'd find the cure?