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Click on the title, download, have a Guinness, and sing. THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN, AKA The Fireman Song I am Irish and was proud to serve with other firemen Who gave their lives for us that day, each one of them a friend In remembrance of my brothers who from earthly bonds did pass Osama, step right up and kiss my royal Irish ass They’re the bravest men I’ve known…and I'll miss them everyday I will keep them in my heart so they're never far away In remembrance of my brothers who from earthly bonds did pass Osama, step...

The latest tempest in a teapot in Canada has been Prime Minster Paul Martin's long-delayed decision not to take part in the U.S. project for ballistic missile defense (BMD).Canada will share radar information about any incoming missile with the United States through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), but it will not allow anti-missile interceptors on its soil (not that the U.S. wanted to put them there anyway), nor will it have any part in decisions to launch those weapons.That should have kept everybody happy. The U.S. gets the information it wants, while Canada withholds its formal approval of...

MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the United States are going to sign an intergovernmental agreement on stepping up control over man-portable air defense missile systems (MANPADS), Colonel-General Anatoly Mazurkevich, chief of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry, told the media. According to Colonel-General Mazurkevich, the agreement is planned for signature in Bratislava on February 22, during the meeting of NATO's leaders. "The parties have prepared the document for signing. All relevant procedures have been completed for it to be signed in Bratislava," Colonel-General Mazurkevich said, adding that the document would be...