MORE random pics......

[Dave L]

[kach22i]

http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html



http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

Shibam is a town in Hadramawt, Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. Shibam is thought to have already come into existence by the 2nd century AD.....................Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper-city in the world" or "Manhattan of the desert", and is the earliest example of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction.

[bell]

ladies and gentlemen.....we are currently at 24,503 posts and 3,922,657 views........

maybe we can get wayne to donate something for the 25,000th post......

so far i've personally given away a keyless entry and a nice giant porsche coffee table book earlier in this thread.....




random....

[Jim Bremner]

[TimT]

Tim wants an R5 bad!!!

[Dynamik]

Not my words...

[techweenie]

from Denmark via Twitter:

[onlycafe]

put a targa top on that thing and you've got the best 928 they never made.
i'll bet money that sniper would be all over one of them.

[techweenie]

Originally Posted by onlycafe

put a targa top on that thing and you've got the best 928 they never made.
i'll bet money that sniper would be all over one of them.

No, I used to own the best 928 ever made (pardon the image repost):

[Racerbvd]

I'm thinking about upgrading and am open to suggestions

[nynor]

upgrade to new cylinders and pistons....

[nynor]

Originally Posted by techweenie

No, I used to own the best 928 ever made (pardon the image repost):

believe it or not, i've seen one of these 928's in a local shop.

[widebody911]

Screwup when installing rings on a 36hp I recently built.

[widebody911]

[targa911S]

that sammich will bring thousands on ebay!

[JeremyD]

[Augustus]

[porsche930dude]

[porsche930dude]

[Laneco]

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.


Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping g ingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater.

The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.'

His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt.. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher..' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one. It was like, 'O K , I lost that round but I'll be back next week'.'

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit.

Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

This is why we have the liberties we do, because we have People like this.