Swanky Conservative

A Brit’s eyes have been opened, at least a little bit, to how emasculated the once great British society has become. Ewan McGregor and a friend motorcycled from the northern-most tip of Britain to the southern tip of Africa.
“Our trip opened my eyes to how insane the rules are in Britain — CCTV [...]

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All comment spam is bad. That’s a given. Comment spammers, like email spammers, have their own level of Hell. I gotta hand it to this one, though:
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[…] came across this post - Blatant anti-gun bias at CNN - and thought it was worth [...]

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Ah hell. This sucks: France beat New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup 20 - 18. Ugh. Add on Scotland’s loss to Argentina and my teams aren’t doing well. Time to root for England, now, when they play the Frenchies on the 13th.

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Navy NewsStand has a photo and blurb about prototype changes to the E1-E6 Service Dress Whites and Service Dress Khakis for E7-up. It’s a throwback to WW2 uniforms and I dig it. My dress blues have white piping on the collars and flap. The dress whites should also have a cuff. It looks more refined [...]

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Strategypage has a piece up talking about the new Hyuga-class carriers Japan is building. The lead ship, the Hyuga, is in the same size range as the British Invincibles, which are primarily helicopter carriers.

Japan plans to build at least two Hyuga-class vessels, which can carry up to 11 helicopters, displace 13,500 tons, and are [...]

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The Huffington Post has this Flash video on its site asking us in the West to “Stop the Clash” of civilisations. Apparently the new superpower is Global Popular Opinion, so if we only stop believing a clash of civilsations exists between extremist Islamists and Western Democracies, then we can all get along and work things [...]

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You have to hand it Vladimir Putin, the man’s got big brass ones. The latest to come out of an increasingly assertive Russia is the news that it is claiming a large expanse of the arctic region belongs as its own. The British paper, Daily Mail reports:
Populist newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda - a cheerleader for Putin [...]

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Luckily you can choose your bosses in this world and Colin Bruley, of Jacksonville, Florida, will soon be doing just that thanks to the herd mindset of his former employers. Bruley lived in an apartment complex where he also worked as a leasing agent. He heard a woman scream that she’d been shot. Bruley grabbed [...]

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TBlumer at BizzyBlog highlights an embarrassing journalistic track record for the cable news giant. From 1998 to today there are five instances where CNN has been involved in falsehoods or lies, mostly involving the United States military, and in ways that make the military look bad.
The latest bit is centered on accusations of a CNN [...]

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Three years into blogging and I’m ready for something a little different. Life’s much too rich to crawl deeper into the snarky rut I was finding myself in.
I’m going to change gears. I’ll be back, but with a much more positive outlook on life. I’ll still call ‘em as I see ‘em, but I’m [...]

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THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with [...]

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