I do believe it was a "team effort" eh? If the UK and Canada were knocked out in 1941? Stalin wouldn't have had a chance to stop the Nazis. They lost 4:1 troops in Barbarossa as it was, with half the German army engaged elsewhere...
They were "world class" when we bought them, and continue to be front-line machines all over the world too.
Canada's air force is known for keeping ancient birds in service: we were the last nation to retire the F-101 VooDoo for just one example.
Legal Insurrection has the clip of him saying the quiet part out loud. It isn't the first time he's said this, it won't be the last.
No, I call them that, he said ISIS-K :/
I think it's more accurate, unless you label each cell by their region? As a whole they view the entire world as belonging to Islam, once the Final Prophet appears and conquers the entire world as foretold in scripture :x
The Rocky Mountains are far from "level". It took 3 days I think? And it gets plenty cold at night, even in summer.
It seemed 'over the top' but he didn't dwell on it, just made the points of recruits dying and MI never leaves a man behind.
Cologne was one of the cities with mass rapes a few New Years ago, right? Gangs of "youths" speaking Arabic raping women in public has nothing to do with Islam though! That's racist to even think it!
Next year was the "No Rape Bracelets" and other SJW insanity...
"Only for criminal investigations"
Like dissent against the government?
The minister stressed though that "once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme."
Oh I'm so assured! The government will give up this weapon once Covid-19.84 is overcome! Hint: It is never going to end. Every new strain will require further lockdowns and harsher restrictions, even if they are less lethal than the common Flu (Delta is about half!).
Dear Lord, it's the seeding of the Einsatzgruppen, right there in the open!
Why on Earth do the "Capitol Police" need nation-wide "offices" to do what? The same job at least 4 other enforcement agencies already do?
I love the irony of it all: Biden needed 25,000 troops to defend his inauguration, but none to evacuate civilians from Afghanistan. Telling, yes? How his "mind" and "morality" operates?
A very interesting part of the Bible! Most battles back then were "who has the most, wins" but there were times when quality outmatched superiors numbers, for sure.
Remains true to this day as well.
I linked the Battle of Kapyong above, a small but very important part of the Korean War.
We (Canada) are actively starting an apartheid system: those who have their "Vax Cards" and those untermensch who do not. If that's not Fascism I'm not sure what is.
You have HIV? Walk around freely! No worries at all! In California you can have sex and not even tell your partner about it!
You don't have a government-ordered medical treatment? Locked in your house, soldiers patrolling the streets looking for dissenters. It's Germany 1938 in Canada, Australia and New Zealand! Next they'll come for the "fatties" and no one will defend their rights...
it seemed like they shrugged off training deaths like it was common and nothing, particularly the part about what I presume is the survival training. Could not such a technologically advanced society monitor this and not let the failures die but retrieve them and give a medical discharge?
They do take it seriously, but accept that it's part of the package: push the men (no girls in MI in this novel!) as hard as possible. Doing that involves risks, including deaths.
Heinlein wrote this in the late 50's, so even for Sci-Fi the things we have now (GPS, heartrate & health monitors) were far fetched. They were in the battle suits of course!
I found that part odd as well. The Canadian wilderness is no place to dump a pile of recruits for what, 3-4 days without any equipment at all? It doesn't say the duration, but that they were buck-naked and had to travel 40 miles.
Johnnie killed rabbits with flaked rocks? The guy's a murder machine! (They had some training in that area, of course)
I washed out of boot camp, it was a lot like that only far harder in the novel, of course. 1 bullet every 500 rounds? Insane risks! Drop and freeze? Necessary but brutal. My Sergeant was a little like Zim, a combat veteran (The Battle of Kapyong among others, PPCLI Canadian Light Infantry - an Elite unit to say the least) and our Captain was a little like Frankel: confident and competent, a friendly fellow.
The best part was the "overheard" conversation between Zim and the Captain, of course. It covers a lot of ground (exposition actually) in a very believable way.
Soldier! Shut and soldier!
Lolz!
The timing of the letters arriving was a little... TOO convenient, I think. They showed up and said the right things at the right time, eh? The flashback was highly informative too.
Heinlein slips a quote from Lincoln into Chapter 7, I love the Thomas Paine quotation in this section: true words!
She used her own credit card to buy the muzzle. She at least made a new account to do so, lolz! And a "throw-away phone" or something untraceable.
I'm shocked she didn't list the purchase as a business expense, but it was after she'd been fired, iirc.
She might be dumb enough to claim her Amex account was hacked, and that this one purchase was the only one made. That would be gigatons of dumbness...
The CDC recently (I read about it, not read the report itself) claimed masks work and cited 15 studies. Not one was a proper control group study! Zero!
Real studies, from Europe, say masks may barely work, but cause more harm than good with other medical issues being higher in the mask-using group.
Masks for children under 10? VERY BAD says the studies on those. Kids aren't big enough to breath with those things on, period. It's a sick world where people are told to put masks on their 5 year old...
One rule for leftist-liberals, another rule for everyone else!
It's funny how Unions may be the only groups with the power to stand up against the government, especially in Canada.
"Journalism" died a couple of years ago when the Feds started giving them $$$ handouts as long as they followed the rules. Those rules include (I'm not joking) not making sitting MPs (Members of Parliament) uncomfortable. Well, not Liberal MPs at least, it's always open season on the Conservatives :p