Patrick Havens on November 9th, 2009

I have run across many full things and stories in my life.  But this is one which I hope is real, just because it’d make it finnier.  Plus, I could very well see it occurring.   I wasn’t involved, I just happened to see this scraped and thought you may enjoy it. There’s the guy Jeff [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 8th, 2008

Well today’s supposed to be a lucky day.  The Chinese thought the day lucky enough to have the Olympics start this morning at 8:08 on 8-8-8, which means by now they are recovering (don’t forget the time difference) from the opening ceremony now.  If you want to catch up on what’s going on you can [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 18th, 2008

During war time government resources get directed at problems with amazing results.  Below is a case in point. Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI The wax is still melted on to the chalk pillar which served as an Easter Sunday altar for the men of the [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 14th, 2008

I read an interesting article about how even though the islands themselves are worthless (Radiation extremely strong in the coconuts growing there and such)… the coral around the Bikini Atoll actually is regrowing at a great rate. What does a coral reef look like 50 years after being nuked? Not so bad, it seems. Coconuts [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 5th, 2008

The French are famous for surrendering. Whether they give up in battle, or just in politics. They have gathered the reputation for this. Even though Napoleon had some great victories, and did his best to take over the world. Real Life Comics did a great job expressing this view.

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Patrick Havens on January 7th, 2008

When one thinks of a blog now-a-days generally one thinks of news or entertaining articles. But they were started as sort of an online diary. Well I just ran across a blog of a more classic sort. The relative of a English Soldier in the trenches of WWI has taken his grandfather’s letters and started [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 28th, 2007

During Vietnam is wsa common for troops to see prop driven planes coming in to either mark for jets or to be the actual support. They just found jets flew too fast for a lot of missions. Well in Iraq the “private security” seem to be the first to realize it’ll be good to have [...]

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NOTE: This video is uncensored footage that is rated for adults. It is graphic in nature and blah blah blah, you’ve been warned. I’ve been commenting about North Korea and how its still a actively hostile war zone. It seems that even though they are in Truce Talks (for over 50 years now), they like [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 12th, 2007

Thieves have stolen nearly $300 million from a bank in Baghdad, police and a bank official said Thursday, in what is probably one of the biggest thefts in Iraq since the 2003 war to topple Saddam Hussein.Police said the thieves were three guards who worked at the private Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad’s Karrada [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 3rd, 2007

Sick and cruel: A 4-year-old Iraqi youngster cries as older boys play “execution” in Baghdad, where almost constant violence has warped the games children create for themselves. Another popular pastime is “militias vs. police.” [SF Gate] This brings many words to mind, and most not good. Kids quite often show the true environment they are [...]

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