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calendar   Saturday - December 24, 2005

More Union Madness

This time it’s in Britain. Again, it is transit workers. What’s up with these people? They pick the busiest time of the year to throw a monkey wrench into the whole holiday season? And for what? The buttheads want a 35-hour work week! The tube workers in London are planning to walk off the job on New Years Eve, which will probably increase the number of drunk drivers on the streets. How freaking stupid can a union get ...

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Drunk-driving could increase if a Tube strike goes ahead on New Year’s Eve, the chairman of London Assembly’s transport committee has warned. Roger Evans also called for a no-strike agreement to keep London Underground (LU) running. Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members voted five to one for strike in a dispute over staffing levels.

The 24-hour walkout by 4,000 staff is set to start at noon. Last minute talks on Friday between RMT officials and Tube chiefs failed to reach a deal through the conciliation service Acas. LU station staff have also voted for another 24-hour walkout starting on 8 January.

But speaking to the BBC, Nigel Holness, LU service director, said there are plans for further talks on Thursday - two days ahead of the proposed industrial action. Speaking to Radio Four’s Today programme, Mr Evans said the strike posed a real danger to Londoners.

“There may be an increase in the amount of drinking and driving,” he said. “There will certainly be an increase in the number of illegal minicabs which are a problem we have in London. It just seems irresponsible for the union to call a strike for New Year’s Eve.”

London mayor Ken Livingstone condemned the RMT for “trying to ruin New Year’s Eve for thousands of Londoners” after the peace talks broke down. The RMT fears LU plans, which include closing ticket offices, could lead to job losses and compromise safety. Last December the RMT agreed a deal which would effectively create a 35-hour week for Tube station staff but RMT’s General Secretary Bob Crow said LU was using the deal to “displace hundreds of safety-critical station staff”.

The deal was something the RMT had campaigned for. LU said there were no plans to cut any jobs on the Tube. Transport for London had already announced the continuous running of the Tube with it being free from 2345 GMT on New Year’s Eve until 0430 GMT on New Year’s Day.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/24/2005 at 07:07 AM   
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Home For Christmas

It’s funny but I have seen only a few MSM outlets covering this story and then in a manner that seems unimportant. Here it is in a nutshell: Secretary Of Defense Donald ("Fists Of Death") Rumsfeld announced that Iraqi security forces are now handling more of the load of protecting their country and as a consequence troop levels of American troops will be reduced by about 7,000. They’re starting to come home ...

December 23, 2005
Release Number: 05-12-70

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SECDEF ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR TROOP REDUCTIONS IN IRAQ

BAGHDAD, Iraq – In a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Minister of the Interior, US Ambassador Khalilzad, and General George Casey, Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Dec. 23 announced the decision to not deploy to Iraq Soldiers assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division as well as Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division.

The 1/1 ID, based out of Fort Riley, Kansas, was originally scheduled to deploy in December to central Iraq to replace the 29th Brigade Combat Team while the Baumholder, Germany, based 2/1 AD was to deploy to Eastern Diyala Province of Iraq in November and replace the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. The 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division will remain in Kuwait to serve as a “call forward force” and be ready to deploy into Iraq if required based on the security conditions in Iraq.

The decision to not deploy both units was based on the cumulative impact of the Iraqi security forces across their areas of responsibility, and the significantly increased capabilities of the ISF, especially at the Iraqi Army battalion level, as demonstrated during their professional performance in support of the Iraqi constitutional referendum in October and the recently completed Iraqi elections. It is through close partnerships in training and operations that allow a reduction in Coalition Forces presence to occur.

To date, there are more than 216,000 trained and equipped Iraqi Security Forces. The decision affects approximately 7,000 U.S. active duty soldiers. An improved security situation in many areas of Iraq and increased capabilities of the ISF will allow Coalition Forces to move increasingly to a supporting role. This is an important step toward the campaign objective of a free and stable Iraq whose security forces are capable of maintaining domestic order and denying Iraq as a safe haven for terrorists.

Commanders will continue to assess security conditions in close consultation with and with the support of the Iraqi government. Additional adjustments to troop levels will be made as conditions deem appropriate.

Press release courtesy of US Central Command.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/24/2005 at 06:40 AM   
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For The Troops

The USO is reporting they are having trouble getting Hollywood and music celebrities to tour overseas and entertain the troops during Christmas ....

(UK GUARDIAN)—During world war two American troops away from home for Christmas were entertained by Marlene Dietrich, Bing Crosby and the Marx Brothers. Even in Vietnam Bob Hope was guaranteed to put in an appearance. But soldiers in Iraq are more likely to get a show from a Christian hip-hop group, a country singer you have probably never heard of and two cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys.

Just as the seemingly intractable nature of the war has led to a growing recruitment crisis, so the United Services Organisation, which has been putting on shows for the troops since the second world war, is struggling to get celebrities to sign up for even a short tour of duty.

It is a far cry from the days following the September 11 2001 attacks, when some of the biggest names in show business, from Jennifer Lopez to Brad Pitt, rallied to the cause. “After 9/11 we couldn’t have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go,” Wayne Newton, the Las Vegas crooner who succeeded Bob Hope as head of USO’s talent recruiting effort, told USA Today. “Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.”

Newton said many celebrities have been wary of going because they think it might be seen that they are endorsing the war. “And I say it’s not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.”

But never fear. Congress has heard the call and the troops will have plenty of entertainment this Christmas as five members of the House of Representatives go on tour overseas as a new rock group called The Second Amendments ....

(AZCENTRAL)—They may be politicians, but they’re also a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. An all-congressional band known as the Second Amendments will perform for U.S. troops over the holidays during a trip to the Middle East and Europe.

The bipartisan rock and country band features Reps. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., on guitar and lead vocals; Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., on lead guitar; Dave Weldon, R-Fla., on bass; Jon Porter, R-Nev., on keyboards; and Kenny Hulshof, R-Mo., on drums.

While the name sounds political - the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms - it actually is the second incarnation of an earlier band Peterson formed a few years ago called the Amendments.

“It’s always nice to have a double meaning,” Peterson said. “We are all in favor of the Second Amendment.” The five-city tour is part of an official congressional fact-finding trip between Christmas and New Year’s Eve that will take the band to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Pakistan and Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The group will conduct official business by day and entertain the troops by night, with covers running the gamut from the Beatles and Eagles to George Strait and Toby Keith.

What’s the world coming to when entertainers think they’re politicians and politicians think they’re entertainers? All we need now is for some idiot former first lady to get the bright idea that she should be President.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/24/2005 at 06:20 AM   
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A Simple Request

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Jeff Parker, Florida Today


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/24/2005 at 06:02 AM   
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calendar   Friday - December 23, 2005

Photo Du Jour

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“Red Alert”
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NORAD

NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) is currently tracking a small object hovering above the North Pole. Officials warned the public not to be frightened. Geostationary satellites are tracking this mysterious object. As you can see from this latest satellite image the object is too small to make out but appears to be a tiny sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. Stay tuned ....


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 04:48 PM   
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Missed it by THAT much!

Boy Scout Gets Knife Lodged In Brain

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(KUTV) An incredible and un-suspecting accident leaves a Utah Boy Scout just inches from death when he was stabbed right between his eyes.

Jeff Jaeger spoke to Kevin Coulter and tells 2News how this was a truly freak accident.

While raking leaves for a Boy Scout event, one of the leaders flung a knife from his hand while trying to catch another scout who had tripped.

“It was dark, it was like 8:30 and there was a light and I saw it flash before it hit me,” said Kevin.

The blade landed in between his frontal lobes. It was 2 millimeters away from hitting a major blood vessel in his brain.

Kevin’s doctors told him it was sheer luck where the knife hit.

“That’s the sinuses that it went through and that I guess is where the brain lobe is right there,” said Kevin pointing to an X-Ray.

It was a freak accident in every way. Few people can admit they’ve seen anything like it, a 1 ½ inch blade through someone’s skull.

“That’s the best spot you know, if you’re going to have a knife in your head,” said Kevin.

It amazingly wasn’t as painful as it looks; he says he just felt pressure.

In all, Kevin’s kept a light heart about the whole situation. He got to miss out on a few weeks of school and yes, he walked away with the knife as a souvenir.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 03:50 PM   
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The Grinch

I leave it up to the jury here. What penalty should we impose on this Grinch Teacher? Death by hanging’s too good. Lethal injection too humane. How about drawn and quartered? The wrack? Use your imagination ....

imageimageGrinchy Remark Sends
Kids Home in Tears

LICKDALE, Pa. (LEBANON DAILY NEWS)

Jamey Schaeffer stretched her mouth open wide, showing off a pair of twin gaps in her smile. With a mouthful of fingers, she said she has no interest in two front teeth for Christmas. Instead, she’d like a Barbie doll from Santa Claus — and Santa Claus only. But a substitute music teacher almost came between the 6-year-old and a Christmas Eve spent dancing cheek to cheek with sugar plums.

Theresa Farrisi stood in for Schaeffer’s regular music teacher one day last week. One of her assignments was to read Clement C. Moore’s famous poem, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” to a first-grade class at Lickdale Elementary School. “The poem has great literary value, but it goes against my conscience to teach something which I know to be false to children, who are impressionable,” said Farrisi, 43, of Myerstown. “It’s a story. I taught it as a story. There’s no real person called Santa Claus living at the North Pole.”

Farrisi doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, and she doesn’t think anyone else should, either. She made her feelings clear to the classroom full of 6- and 7-year-olds, some of whom went home crying. Schaeffer got off the school bus later that day, dragging her backpack in the mud, tears in her angry little eyes. “She yelled at me, ‘Why did you lie?’” recalled Jamey’s mother, Elizabeth. “‘Why didn’t you tell me Santa Claus died?’”

Elizabeth Schaeffer said she was appalled by Farrisi’s bluntness. “I had to call the school,” said Schaeffer, a part-time custodial employee for the school district who is on temporary leave after complications from her last child’s birth. “I had to do something.”

Meanwhile, Farrisi, who is well versed on the history of “Santa Claus” — the traditional and literary figure — clarified her comments. “I did not tell the students Santa Claus was dead,” she explained. “I said there was a man named Nickolas of Myrna who died in 343 A.D., upon whom the Santa Claus myth (is based).”

- There’s even more to this Grinch story here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 12:35 PM   
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Short Story

Here in America, we have a tradition. It involves taking young boys, usually fellow playmates or school friends, out on a midnight hunt into the woods for a mythical creature called “snipe”. I participated in such a hunt when I was about eleven years old at the insistence of several of my friends from school who vividly described the creature to me. We all went out into the woods just after dark on a cool Fall evening. I was handed a “croker” sack (don’t ask) and told to climb a tree and the rest of the gang would beat the bushes to drive the creatures to me, whereupon I would jump on one of them and and we’d have our catch to show everyone.

They all then scattered into the woods laughing, and the sound of their thrashing around gradually faded away as deep darkness fell. I sat on my tree limb in almost total silence ... except for an occasional strange noise that scared the bejeebers out of me. The night grew darker and the temperature dropped. I started shivering both from the cold and from fear as the strange noises increased. I bit my lip and determined to stick it out. No one was going to call me “chicken”. No siree.

The night dragged on in intense cold and fear. The tree limb started to hurt my butt and branches started stabbing into my legs. I wanted to cry but I forced myself to hold back the tears. Big boys don’t cry. John Wayne would disapprove. President Eisenhower said we all had to be strong against the Commie threat. I was determined to be brave.

Then the moon came rising up and the strange noises got louder ... and closer. I thought I saw movement in the shadows below me several times each hour as midnight passed and I started sniffling. I tried to convince myself it was just from the cold. Where were my friends? Hadn’t they been able to find any snipe? Would they eventually give up and come back to get me? These woods were strange to me. I had never been in here before. I wasn’t sure if I could even find my way out. I choked down a scream. My supper was trying to come back up. I was afraid I was going to be sick.

Then I heard something that sounded like a large animal thrashing through the underbrush below me. I pulled my legs up and tried to blend in with the tree. I had visions of tigers, bears, panthers, even wolves (in spite of the fact that such animals didn’t exist in the woods around Panama City, Florida during the 1950’s). The thrashing got closer. I started trembling and shaking. Finally, just as I was about to pee in my pants a figure burst through the bushes into the clearing below me. I closed my eyes in dread fear and clutched the tree with all my might. Then I heard ....

“Allan?”

I slowly opened my eyes to see my father standing there right below me, with a flashlight in one hand and the familiar Camel unfiltered cigarette dangling from his lips. Lips that formed a familiar crooked smile. I leapt from the tree in a single bound and raced to Dad. I burst out crying at that point in a literal flood. Dad wrapped me up in a big bear hug and held on while I slowly babbled and cried myself down. He sat me down on the ground and we both squatted there in the middle of that dangerous jungle full of primeval beasts. Dad puffing away and me just trying my best to get under control. Dad didn’t say a word until I was back to normal (at least as normal as an eleven year old boy can get).

“You ‘bout ready to git on home?”, he asked quietly.

“Yes sir”, I replied in a voice that sounded strange to me.

“Okey-dokey. Let’s get goin’. Your mom’s worried.”, the slow drawl and reassuring words from Dad cleared the last fears away.

We got up and started walking home. I was no longer afraid and marched through the brambles and bushes fearlessly. I thought at the time it was because of just knowing the ol’ man was there but then I asked him the question that would later mark the first step in building my character. I knew Dad had grown up in the woods of the South hunting and later fought in World War II and the Korean War. I figured he had been around enough to know ...

“Dad, have you ever caught a snipe?”, I asked.

“Nope”, he replied with an odd grin on his face, “damned things don’t exist, son, but I think you done seen the elephant, haven’t you?”

I started to tell Dad that there were no elephants in our woods but I knew better than to argue with the ol’ man. I finally figured out what he meant about seven years later while reading a book on the Civil War. I’m still looking for those rat-bastards who left me out there ...

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 11:17 AM   
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Seasons Greetings From Skipper’s Elves

You may not know this but, like Santa, the Skipper has his “elves” too who help him keep a tight ship here. They would like to send you this Special Christmas Card and wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa .... and a Happy New Year.

P.S. Most definitely NSFW!!


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 06:11 AM   
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The Tancredo Solution

US Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is doing his best to stop the flow of illegal aliens into this country. The problem is that no one is listening, including the government which refuses to enforce laws already on the books. There’s also the problem of the companies who turn a blind eye to Jose’s fake ID. There’s plenty of blame to go around but no one seems interested in doing anything about it.

Maybe it’s time to start sending e-mails to all your Congress-critters and the White House. If the Republicans in Congress and the Bush administration don’t get off their collective rear ends and do something soon, look for the Donks to make a serious issue out of this in the 2006 elections. I can almost hear them now screaming about “the poor, downtrodden, forgotten members of American society who are losing jobs to illegal invaders under the Nasty-Bushitler-Administration”. Just wait ....

Hiring-rules Enforcement Nonexistent
In Denver, it’s been three years since any fine was
imposed for failure to verify workers’ immigration status.

(DENVER POST)

While Congress wrestles with new legislation to crack down on employers who hire illegal-immigrant workers, enforcement of an existing prohibition has all but ceased. Not a single employer in the Denver area has been fined for three years, records show, and federal authorities have targeted only a handful of employers nationwide.

This week, experts on all sides of the intensifying national immigration debate agreed: Work- site enforcement will be crucial in efforts to deal effectively with growing numbers of illegal foreign-born workers. “If I could do one thing in the area of immigration reform, it would be to stop employers from providing the magnet. Then we’d have much of this problem solved,” said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., leader of the House Immigration Reform Caucus.

A 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that Tancredo and a majority of fellow lawmakers demand, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, “is a symbol as much as it is a practical obstacle ...,” Tancredo said. “I certainly believe we should have that symbol, but the real key is work-site enforcement.”

- Much more on this story here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 05:55 AM   
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Paper Or Plastic?

Ignorant and stupid to the bitter end. If this cretin had any respect for the planet at all he would have used a recyclable paper bag instead of plastic. But then again, you have to kill trees to make paper bags. It’s tough being an envirowhacko these days with all these decisions ....

Ecoterror Suspect Commits Suicide in Jail
December 22, 2005, 7:33 PM EST
PHOENIX (AP)

An Arizona bookstore owner charged in the firebombing of a government wildlife lab in Washington committed suicide in his jail cell Thursday, officials said. William C. Rodgers, 40, of Prescott, Ariz., suffocated after placing a plastic bag over his head while in a one-person cell in Flagstaff, the Coconino County medical examiner said.

Rodgers was one of six people arrested earlier this month in connection with ecoterror attacks in Oregon and Washington in recent years. He was accused of setting fire to the Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services facility in Olympia, Wash., in 1998.

Federal court documents last week said Rodgers had been linked to a meeting of Earth Liberation Front members in western Colorado where the firebombing of a Colorado ski resort, one of the costliest ecoterror crimes in the U.S., was planned.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 05:26 AM   
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Be Careful What You Wish For …

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John Trever, The Albuquerque (NM) Journal


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/23/2005 at 05:20 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 22, 2005

A Long Time Ago …

A long time ago in a coutry far away,
Christmas was a time for fun and joy.
For a brief moment in time each year,
Everyone became a kid again,
And God was pleased.


Peace.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/22/2005 at 07:04 PM   
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NYC Transit Strike: The Naked City

This is the Naked City. There are seven million stories in the naked city. Our story tonight is only one of them and concerns a one-legged man and an evil, despicable, hateful, mean-spirited, greedy, shameless, criminal ... transit union. So grab your crutches and let’s hop into this story ...

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‘IT’S NOT THE WAY I WANT TO GET TO WORK’

December 22, 2005
(NEW YORK POST)

Jim Meek has only one leg. But he has a wife and a son to support, so he walked three miles to work yesterday. Using crutches, the determined 52-year-old TV engineer trudged over the Brooklyn Bridge from his home in Park Slope to a free-lance job at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue. “The cold wasn’t pleasant,” he said. He downplayed his torturous trek by saying he wore “long underwear and good winter clothes” to keep warm.

“I’m comfortable walking — I’m used to it,” said the native Midwesterner, who walked across the bridge for the first time yesterday. “I do it to keep myself in shape. But it’s not the way I want to get to work.” Meek, who lost his left leg in an electrical accident 30 years ago, said he usually takes the F train. Although he’s not the type to complain about his handicap, he was happy to gripe about the transit union’s decision.

“What’s the point of this strike?” Meek asked. “Elderly people can’t get home care. Their nurses can’t get to them. Meek, who took two hours to get to work yesterday, said he’s also disturbed by the union’s insistence that workers be permitted to retire at 55. The strapping 53-year-old said that would mean he’d be close to retirement — and he’d never consider throwing in the towel so young. Another commuter, Jason Gibbs of The Bronx, griped about his “horrendous” 6 hour and 15 minute trek to work in Jamaica, Queens.

The 29-year-old social worker left his home on Gun Hill Road in The Bronx at 5:45 a.m., met a friend and shared a cab to the Metro North station at 125th Street in Harlem. After catching a train to Grand Central Terminal, he took PATH trains to the World Trade Center. Then he walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and took the Long Island Rail Road to Jamaica ($4), where he caught a Green Line bus ($2) to his office.

“It was a real headache,” he said. Ginger Ware spent hours in traffic — atop a tour bus with 20 relatives, all of them from hurricane-ravaged Biloxi, Miss. “We had traffic problems from Hurricane Katrina, but nothing like this,” she said. “It’s a circus here.” Ware, 48, said she and her family “came to New York to get away from the mess at home. We had seen as much devastation as we could stand.”

But after sightseeing in Chinatown, they boarded a tour bus heading back to Midtown and spent two hours stuck in traffic. “And then one of the children had to go to the bathroom,” she said. “It’s been an unbelievable journey — it would be a wonderful experience, if not for the strike,” she said.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/22/2005 at 02:03 PM   
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