Well the Japs invaded or attacked
pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 and they have now after an extensive world
tour arrived in PE on 5/4/2013.................”WTF are you on about” i can hear you say, well it
means it’s getting nippy here in the mornings and on Tuesday morning in
particular that it was “Japanese” ................”A LITTLE NIPPY’ for those that don’t know Nip was the derogative
name given to Japanese people in the 2nd world war and stems from
the word Nippon literally translated as “the state of the nation”.
News from Clarens “and I don’t
get much these days” is that a local
that arrived a couple of years ago is prone to gender violence and likes to
beat the shit out of people, especially women. Seems that this idiot/clown/asshole
is now not wanted in the village and a groundswell of “let’s get the twat out
of town” is starting, so hopefully they
will achieve their goal. Good riddance to bad rubbish is all I can say.
Got a book on ACDC for my birthday and its “Frikken aesome” I
have always loved the group but never gone into their history and I have found
reading the book very informative, things like how songs came about, how they
struggled to get into the business, how close they where as a family and that
Angus Young who always looks like he is on “something” was not into alcohol or
stronger substances. As one of their songs on the “High Voltage” album says “It’s
a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll”. The group also has a South
African influence with SA born “Mutt Lange” having produced a few of their
albums and perhaps being the one man that assisted in getting their sound to a
level that the Americans would buy. I have their first 11 albums (yes vinyl albums) and a
number of CD’s. The first ACDC album I bought was ‘Back in Black” released after lead
singer Bon Scott had died of alcohol poisoning. Its seen as the definitive Heavy rock album and has sold
over 40 million copies since its release in 1980/81. The only album that has
sold more copies is “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.
The South African soldiers (paratroopers) who were
attacked by the CAR rebels, and initially they
were seen to be kak and had their asses
kicked but new info shows that they did in fact do themselves as well as SA
proud. (received the following info via e-mail).
“From
just after 16h00 on Friday 22 March until about 21h00 o’clock on Sunday 24
March 200 South African soldiers fought a series of running battles outside
Bangui in the Central African Republic against 3 000 or more well-armed
opponents. And did so while the CAR Army (FACA) evaporated around them and the
Peacekeeping Forces of the Central African Standby Brigade disappeared from the
scene. That series of running battles cost 13 killed and 27 wounded, but the
Force retained its cohesion and was able to fall back from two separate
engagement areas to its Base and to hold it until their attackers gave up
trying to overrun them and proposed a ceasefire and disengagement. By then the
Rebels had suffered as many as 500 casualties, Based on estimates by Officers
with considerable operational experience and estimated by a number of NGOs in
the country.
In the
process the soldiers fired off more than 12 000 rounds of 12.7 mm machine gun
ammunition, 288 rockets from 107 mm Rocket Launchers and 800 bombs from 81 mm
mortars, and thousands of rounds from 7.62 mm machine guns and 5.56 mm rifles.
To put that in perspective: The British Army’s 3rd Parachute Battalion Battle Group
of 1200 soldiers lost 15 killed and 46 wounded, and fired 479 000 rounds
of ammunition over six months in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in 2006,
all the while supported by light tanks, artillery, attack helicopters,
Hercules gunships and fighters. And that is still today regarded as a
hard-fought deployment.
This was
one of the hardest-fought actions that the SA Army has experienced, and the
soldiers fought well, even outstandingly. That is not only reflected in the
fact that this small unit retained cohesion to the end of the action, but also
in the casualties that it inflicted on its opponents: Such casualties that it
was Seleka who proposed a ceasefire and disengagement. Their valour was
underlined by the French Force at Bangui Airport when it held a formal Parade
to bid farewell to those who died. South Africa has since withdrawn the bulk of
its small in the Central African Republic following the fall of the CAR
Government. The SA government had wanted to relieve the troops and deploy a
stronger Force to stabilise the situation pending a decision by the African
Union, but the French Government – whose troops control the only viable Airport
– would not permit deployment of new Combat Forces lest it draw an attack on
the Airport or on French citizens in Bangui.
Information
from Uganda suggests that South Africa is, instead, deploying some Force
elements there and perhaps also to the DRC, to provide early action capability
should Seleka endanger the remaining South African troops in the country,
or should the AU decide on a military intervention. There is no such
thing as military operations on the cheap: What is saved in cash will be paid
for in blood”.
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| This is how much the draw meant to the Kings |
Super Rugby this weekend had many
ex-Lions (bitter and twisted) supporters as well as a number of other assholes
had said the kings would get their first hiding at the hand of the Brumbies this
weekend, well not only did they not get a hiding they drew 28 all with the top
team of the Super 15, not only that they put in 4 tries against them (no other
team has done that this season). What a game, next week Rebels then they are
back home to play the Bulls here in PE on the 20th. The Sharks
season was back on track with a 21/17 win against the Crusaders and the
Cheetahs season just gets better with a 5th straight win as they
narrowly beat the Stormers 26/24. The Bulls had a bye this weekend.
The Queen Mary 2 arrives in PE
tomorrow, hopefully will be able to sneak away and get a photo.
Next week the Iron man hits PE a
large number of super fit men and women who do a 3.8 km swim, 180 km cycle ride
and a 42 km run, I have tried to train but never seem to have enough time on my
hands so what I did was combine the 3 disciplines so that as I come back from
work I can get triple amount the training, I have also watched Iron man videos
this last week to ensure that I am suitably psyched up for the event.
Well that’s it for this week
CIAO
SPAD
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