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The Silence Before The Heroism
2008-06-03 13:40:00 Today, President Bush presented the Medal of Honor to the parents of Pfc Ross McGiness. When a grenade was thrown into the hatch of his Humvee, McGiness, who was the gunner, chose not to jump out and save his own life, but to jump down and protect his buddies with his body to save them. He ...
Nightly Ramble: Memorial Day thoughts about heroism
2008-05-22 23:02:00 Single issue Ramble tonight. I want to speak briefly about Memorial day which comes up this weekend. It’s always been a special day for me, because honoring our vets has always held special meaning for me; it’s a lesson my parents instilled very well, indeed. It was brought home to me, as I was recently looking at pictures from a trip we made through the Gettysburg PA area some years ago. It’s a particularly meaningful thing, when you’re standing on that field…. Something that goes well beyond the cold facts and figures about who died from what company, how old they were, or even where they were from. It’s more a feeling you get…. You can sense it… not unlike being at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, or visiting Arlington National Cemetery. I’m told Omaha Beach, and Pearl Harbor and many other sites are the same way. I’ve been at the funerals of firemen and policemen who died in their line of duty, and that was also remar...
By: BitsBlog
Heroism Not Required
2008-04-22 00:33:00 If more people were willing to tilt at windmills, our country would be a better place. I’d like to believe that people have their hearts at the right place, they just don’t think there’s much they can do as one person. I, for one, am guilty of this. We are an optimistic people. As Filipinos, it is ...
Heroism Not Required
2008-04-22 00:33:00 If more people were willing to tilt at windmills, our country would be a better place. I’d like to believe that people have their hearts at the right place, they just don’t think there’s much they can do as one person. I, for one, am guilty of this. We are an optimistic people. As Filipinos, it is ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Mexico honors Irish-American Saint Patrick?s Brigade (San Patricios)
2008-03-17 07:01:00 From behind the bullet-scarred walls of an ancient fortress, the wail of bagpipes and a thundering bass drum echoed through a plaza in the center of Mexico City. Passers-by stopped in their tracks. Children craned for a look as a platoon of Mexican bagpipers marched through the gates in tribute to a strange and divisive chapter ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Brave Rat’s Vain Heroism. Toxoplasma Gondii. Why Rats Do Not Fear Cats?
2008-01-01 12:24:00 The study shows that infected rats of Toxoplasma Gondii are more attracted by cats rather than repelled. Rats’, mice’s that suffer from the parasitic protozoa are down to the smell of cat urine that makes the rodents fear the feline. The overlap causes vain “heroism” from the rodents’ side. At that time rats do not seem sick.According to Ajai Vyas of Stanford University, who led the new study said "brain circuits for many behaviors overlap with the brain circuits responsible for fear.”The study reveals that rats suffering from the affliction have specific brain damage that affects only their fear of cat urine but their instinctive fear of other dangers, their ability to learn to be afraid or their general anxiety remain without any change.The human being also can be infected by Toxoplasma. Study says that around 15 to 20 per cent of Americans are infected with the parasite, according to a study by the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Infection (CDC).Infection has a m...
By: BLOGVASION.COM
Heroism
2007-12-27 09:01:00 Heroism Earning The Purple Heart Is An Act Of Heroism That Is, Unless The Guy Who Earned It Is A Democrat The Republican National Convention in 2004. Read about this here and here SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Heroism", url: "http://leftwingconspiracy.com/-2007/12/27/heroism/" });
World of Warcraft's Secret ( 27 ) - Haste, Heroism, the GCD, and you
2007-12-14 15:27:00 how does one measure the GCD? I tried doing long series of casts with and without heroism, but was unable to get any stable numbers out of them (since lag is crazy on the PTR) And the results I was getting didn't convincingly say whether or not the GCD was being violated. So then I turned to the easiest way to measure the GCD I can think of, to measure the cooldown on your spell buttons.Using my data gathering addon and the function GetSpellCooldown I was able to measure the cooldown active on a given spell. The way the function works is you feed it information identifying the spell, and it returns three values, a timestamp (using the GetTime() format, which is a measurements of seconds) representing the start of the cooldown, a float representing the duration of the cooldown, and a flag for whether or not the cooldown matters (or something like that). Information about the function can be found on WoWWiki (http://www.wowwiki.com/API_Get-SpellCooldown).What I then did, was chose a s...
Stories of Heroism censored by government bureaucrats
2007-12-14 04:16:00 I had always assumed the lack of good stories about heroism of the US Military in the MSM was due to bias, or the fact that few reporters wanted to risk their lives embedded with the troops. Well I was wrong. According to a story in today’s Baltimore Sun, it was the Defense Department’s legal department who ...
Iraq: Incredible story of Heroism and Survival
2007-11-01 18:29:00 The Longest Morning… I just read an absolutely gripping story (from beginning to end) from the cover of the latest issue of the American Spectator written by Jeff Emanuel of Redstate. This amazing story is about 4 American paratroopers being ambushed by 40 Al Qaeda on August 26th, 2007 on the heels of General Patraeus’ congressional ...
Overcoming Cynicism and Discovering Your Heroism
2007-10-12 12:07:00 We continue our Desiderata series with a guest post for Carlon Haas of Possess Less Exist More. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. It?s a typical Friday evening at 7:15 p.m. in Tokyo, Japan. A mob of people are waiting at ...
Heroism
2007-09-30 16:58:00 HeroismHeroism is a medieval-themed massively-multiplayer 3D real-time strategy game (now that’s a lot of words!) combining the detail of one on one combat, the tactics of squad combat, and the strategy of winning a land war.Play Heroism Now
Do or die: An Incredible story of heroism and survival
2007-09-23 02:27:00 This is an absolutely incredible story. It will give you chills when you watch this video. Channing Moss was impaled by a live RPG. Channing Moss should be dead. His crew, medical specialists and helicopter pilots “broke protocol” and risked their lives trying to save him. I was jaw-dropped reading this story. This ...
An Old City security guard's heroism in stopping a terrorist
2007-08-13 23:50:00 There was a terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem last Friday. Fortunately, the filth was stopped, and, there's a video here of what happened:For more, here's an INN article about the case.
By: Tel-Chai Nation
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Heroism in Your Kids with a Fire Engine Bed
2007-07-25 14:25:00 A fire engine bed is a very cool design for a kids theme bed. Many kids would love to have a fire engine bed so they can pretend they are the brave firefighter that storms into the blazing home to save the helpless people just in time.
By: Kids Beds Blog
True stories of amazing heroism
2007-07-19 00:00:00 Earlier today a young squirrel was snatched from the jaws of death by a quick thinking friend who thankfully knew CPR. The incident occured shortly after the squirrel began choking on a poorly chewed apricot. When reached for a comment the hero CPR performing squirrel had this to say, "I just never gave up hope man, I thought back on all my CPR classes and just let the training take over. I'm really not a hero, just someone who did the right thing and I'm just glad that he's...
Spike Lee?s Newest Movie Depicting Black Heroism during WWII
2007-07-07 00:49:00 So somebody in hollywood figured that a cool 45 million is a worthy investment into this production spear headed by Spike Lee and based on the novel “Miracle at St. Anna” by James McBride. “The film will spotlight the courage of black soldiers who, despite suffering discrimination back home, offered a contribution that has so ...
By: Nerd with Swag
What is heroism?
2007-07-01 18:12:00 NOTICE TO OUR READERS: The editors will be most grateful for your attention at the end of this feature. Thank you.Photo: Bobby Mueller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (and a true hero), left, argues with a protester as he disrupts a ?John Kerry Lied? rally put on by Vietnam Vets for the Truth, at Upper Senate Park, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Washington. By Gene W. DeVaux ????????????????????Activist and columnist???????????????????? 7/1/07 A Google alert came in this morning. It was related to my KC Indymedia submission from December of 2004 (which follows): People routinely refer to our troops in Iraq as heroes. What is heroism in an unjust war? Charley Gibson of Good Morning America, as so many news people do, referred to our troops in Iraq as heroes. I flinch when I hear that. Can we give blanket praise to all who are fighting in this unjust war? Some have probably performed heroic deeds. Others have committed crimes against the Iraqi people, and h...
Heroism at Virginia Tech
2007-04-18 00:05:00 I know this isn't exactly a sports post, but in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech yesterday, there was this bright spot amid the chaos that I felt like I had to post about. We always talk about great athletes being able to make good decisions in the blink of an eye - and this student did the same with infinitely more pressure on him than any athlete will ever have to face.Seems like with any unthinkable tragedy like this, you always hear at least one story of true heroism come out, and this is no exception.(Via CNN.com)BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Monday's toll inside Virginia Tech's Norris Hall might have included 11 more students had it not been for a long, rectangular table and a quick-thinking senior who used it to deflect the rampage of his fellow classmate.Zach Petkewicz said he didn't recognize the sounds that pierced the door and cinder-block walls of his classroom as gunshots until he heard a scream from the hallway of the engineering building."The girls in my c...
By: Going Deep
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