Monday - August 25, 2008
Prius Drivers: Big car drivers are ugly
Just in case you weren’t yet 648.2% percent certain that Greenies are also total Elitists ...
Every morning, as Lynn Schmidt walks out of her Long Island, N.Y., home, opens the door to her baby-blue Prius, waves to her grumbling neighbor and pulls out of the driveway, she has every reason to smile. It’s not just the 45 miles per gallon her gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle is getting. And it’s not only that she can go three weeks without a fill-up. It’s also because that through her choice of automobile, Lynn is doing what she considers her share of being ecologically reasonable.
“Everyone should be concerned about the level of emissions,” says Schmidt. “We all need to do our part and make changes for the better.”
She’s not alone. With skyrocketing oil prices, many owners of hybrid vehicles and practitioners of the “green” lifestyle are seeing their eco-friendly choices pay off. But that’s led to some grumblings from late adopters — and charges that the greener-than-thou are guilty of “eco-snobbery.”
The other day, she pulled up next to another Prius — and the two drivers exchanged a knowing smile of eco-camaraderie.
“There can be some smugness on the part of the Prius owners because it’s distinctive,” says Michael Omotoso of the automotive-marketing-data giant J.D. Power and Associates. “It’s ‘Hey, look at me, I’m driving a hybrid!’”
Studies conducted by J.D. Power show that the typical hybrid purchaser is better educated and wealthier than the average car buyer. Furthering the exclusivity is the fact that available hybrids are hard to find.
And how much would you like to bet that at least 80% of the typical hybrid purchasers are lefties?
“I think that we Prius owners need a dating/whatever program, to hook us up with other Prius owners,” says one poster on Priuschat.com. He admits it’s half a joke, but says it “stems from my inability to look at people with gas-burning cars as attractive.”
It’s clear that hybrid buyers want to appear environmentally conscious, observes Aaron Bragman, a Detroit-based research analyst with the Global Insight economic-forecasting company.
“A big component [of hybrid ownership] is the social aspect,” he says, adding that if a consumer just wanted to save money on gas, he or she could buy a new subcompact for $11,000 instead of forking out a minimum of $22,000 for a hybrid.
Peiper sends me newspaper clippings from England. There are always car ads in there. I don’t know how putt-putt the little cars sold over there are, or even really how little they actually are, but the MPG numbers all the Pius owners are so high on actually suck. Quite a number of cars in the UK get 15 - 20 mpg better “extra urban” (ie highway) mileage than this thing does. They also have less of a “carbon footprint” too I think.
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Permalink • Eeewww
Ok, we’ve had sicker stories posted here, but ... OMG, people are effing sick, ya know?
New York City police said Friday a prostitute with only one leg was murdered in Brooklyn after a client hit her on the head and she fell out of her wheelchair, hitting her skull against a wall, the New York Post reported.
Elizabeth Acevedo, 38, was found unconscious in a 13th-floor hallway of the apartment building where she lived in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Acevedo died Friday morning in the Long Island College Hospital after being removed from life support, the Post reported.
She wore a prosthetic leg, but also used a wheelchair after losing her leg in a train accident. The prostitute had 67 previous arrests for prostitution and drug charges
Investigators believe she had been servicing a client in the hallway who then hit her on the head with a heavy object. Police were still looking for a suspect.
At least she didn’t choke to death on her false teeth. Maybe she took them out ahead of time. Eeewww and Double Eeewww!!
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Permalink • Obama won’t lose for being black but for not being American enough. (AWESOME EDITORIAL)
I have been thinking along these lines re. the election excuses the left and especially the anti-American crowd over here will utter if Rama-Lama loses. And no matter the reason, it shouldn’t be the business of outsiders anyway. I think most of us have this take on it. Won’t matter what the truth is. The hate America left at home and here aren’t interested any truth they do not create to fit their agenda.
Obama won’t lose for being black but for not being American enough
By Janet Daley
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 25/08/2008The Left is preparing its excuse in advance for Barack Obama losing the presidential election. All together now, let’s hear it: It’s All About Race. However few Americans there may be who are actually prepared to utter the words, “I wouldn’t vote for a black man”, the truth, it is said, is that racial bigotry is at the heart of Obama’s failure to take a convincing lead.
Indeed, on some accounts, the fact of people refusing to utter those words is proof that racism is the main issue in this campaign. So if you say them you’re a bigot, and if you don’t say them, you’re a closet bigot. And on what evidence is this argument, which it is logically impossible to disprove, being based? From what I can see in the published versions, it rests largely on some crass jokes from the shock-jock community, the mumblings of gun-shop customers and a “virulent internet campaign”.
The first two categories are roughly the American equivalents of tabloid headline-writers and taxi drivers. As for the “virulent internet campaign”, the internet is much as it is here: the home of the Green Ink brigade who have got access to the Universe. How would you like it if the mood of Britain were to be judged by the blathering of that small army of dysfunctional men in dressing gowns hunched over laptops spewing out gratuitous hatred at an unappreciative world?
So no, Obama’s failure to close the deal is not “all about race”. Nor will his defeat (as I believe it will be) in the election be evidence of endemic American prejudice. This election will be a little bit about race, a lot more about class and a very great deal about what it means to be identifiably American. The problem that the issue of class in the US presents to British observers (sorry, I must pull rank, as a vestigial American) is that it is very much less explicit and clearly defined than here. The notion of blue collar versus white collar is not strictly comparable to the British working-class and middle-class stratifications, where the distinction denotes a chasm in social attitudes and inherited culture.
In the conventional American political wisdom, it is blue-collar workers who are generally assumed to be among the most aspirational and determinedly upwardly mobile. The blue-collar success story – the child of the manual-worker father who goes on to professional achievement in a learned profession – is the true American dream. This is what Joe Biden is alluding to in his repeated references to having been an “Irish Catholic boy from Scranton, Pennsylvania”, which is the American equivalent of being “from a mining village in the Rhondda Valley”.
Significantly, when Biden plagiarised Neil Kinnock’s rhetoric about being the first in his family to go to university, it was to achieve a different political effect. Kinnock was paying homage to the state for having given educational opportunity to a boy from his background, whereas Biden was making a claim about the quality of his own character. (Which is also what Obama is doing when he makes proud references to his running mate’s rise from humble roots.)
In this important respect, Joe Biden is an answer to a problem about which the Obama campaign is becoming increasingly defensive: its candidate’s failure to offer any life experience with which striving, struggling working-class America can identify. But if Biden may appear to cancel one “negative”, he introduces another: Obama began by presenting himself as the great Outsider. He could bring “change” to Washington just because he was not one of its battle-weary old denizens (such as Hillary Clinton or John McCain). He was going to transcend the old partisan divide and introduce a new era of enlightened cross-party politics. Now he has strapped to his side one of the most entrenched Washington insiders of his generation: a partisan warrior of the old school in whose mouth the word “change” rings pretty hollow. Well, after all, this is politics. You win some, you lose some. But what has been lost here – or at least severely compromised – is precisely the unique selling point of Obama’s idealistic appeal. What is left of his uniqueness is now the awkward part to which I alluded above: the difficulty one has in understanding the sense in which he is identifiably American. This is something that I find difficult to explain to British friends who are accustomed to being able to place people in class terms and therefore find the sense of identity that exists in American life difficult to grasp.
How can these disparate individuals who may themselves be immigrants, or else anything from first to fifth-generation descendants of migrants from virtually every part of the globe, feel that there is any unifying core of nationality that makes them one people? What is it that binds them together in spite of all their manifest differences in personal and ethnic history? The official answer is the Constitution and the political settlement that it represents. But in truth, it is the American experience: the fact of having chosen this nation and this way of life (or being descended from someone who made that choice) as an act of individual will, with all the consequences for personal responsibility and action that that entails.
And that means having had an American childhood with its self-consciously patriotic schooling, which is purpose-made for a revolutionary republic that assimilates wave after wave of newcomers. It means having been immersed throughout adolescence in the popular culture which (to a sometimes risible degree) inculcates optimism and the values of family and community that are so important to displaced people.It is that core of experience – of growing up American – which Obama lacks. His problem is not so much that he is an African-American in the modern political sense of being a black American. It is that he is an African-American in the literal sense of being half African and only half American, who spent much of his boyhood abroad and who borrowed a consciously constructed black American identity from the south side of Chicago.
To say that this election is all about race is to perpetrate a dangerous myth. It would permit Obama’s loss of it to license a fresh wage of infantile anti-Americanism at just the moment when the great democratic nations need, more than ever, to make common cause.
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Permalink • Sunday - August 24, 2008
MIGHT BE OLD TO YOU BUT NOT ME AND ANYWAY, IT IS FUNNY. NEED A BREAK FROM BLOOD AND POLITICS
A blonde teenager, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided
to hire herself out as a ‘handy-woman’ and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the
owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.‘Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch,’ he said, ‘How much
will you charge me?’Delighted, the girl quickly responded, ‘How about $50?’
The man agreed and told her that the paint brushes and everything she would
need was in the garage.The man’s wife, hearing the conversation said to her husband,
‘Does she realize that our porch goes ALL the way around the house?’
He responded, ‘That’s a bit cynical, isn’t it?’The wife replied, ‘You’re right. I guess I’m starting to believe all those
dumb blonde jokes we’ve been getting by e-mail lately.Later that day the blonde came to the door to collect her money.
“You’re finished already?” the startled husband asked.
Yes,” the blonde replied “and I even had paint left over, so I gave it 2 coats.”
Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50 & handed it to her, along with a $10 tip.
“Why thank you” she said “and, by the way, it’s not a Porche, it’s a Lexus.”
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Permalink • STAND BY FOR AMERICA’S LIGHTS TO GO OUT. (NO, IT ISN’T AN ANTI-USA RANT)
This guy is really good. He writes every week on this subject. He lectures about the falshood re. gorebal warming.
I’ve been light on the posting this wkend for which I always feel guilty. Working on something and not even certain if I’ll end up blogging it. Although I think I might.
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 24/08/2008
From The Sunday TelegraphCorrection: things are worse than I thought.
Last week I reported on the dangerous unreality overtaking US energy policy, as television commercials for both presidential candidates focus on the need to build more wind turbines. To highlight its absurdity I said that the 10,000 US turbines already built generate only 4.5 gigawatts (GW) of electricity, little more than one big coal-fired power station.The reality, it turns out, is even worse.
The notional “capacity” of America’s turbines is 19GW, but their actual output, as shown by an Amherst University study, is less than 17 per cent of that - even less than that of a large coal-fired plant.
So the two men vying for the White House are centring their policy on an energy source that currently provides barely 1 per cent of America’s electricity. Some 50 per cent of it comes from coal.
Yet such is the power of the “green” lobby that of 151 new coal-fired power stations proposed last year, 59 were vetoed by state governments, while the rest face court challenges. Whether it is McCain or Obama, stand by for America’s lights to go out.
Now this part of the same column in Sunday Telegraph, shows ya just one tiny example of a country tossing away it’s sovereignty and how it impacts on England. The EU declares and the UK says yes, oh yes. Screw me again! And they do. Crude I guess but it sure does seem that way these days. Here,read it for yourself.
Lords produce waste paper on waste policy
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 24/08/2008There was a time when, if a Lords committee had been asked to investigate a massive policy failure, a scandal which continues to make daily headlines in the press, it might have made some effort to ask why things had gone so horrendously wrong.
But when 12 peers last week reported on the shambles engulfing the way that Britain disposes of its rubbish, the result was 127 pages of such anodyne verbiage that no one ploughing through it would have any idea that we have a national crisis on our hands.
In fact the headlines about the disintegration of Britain’s system of waste disposal - from householders being fined for putting rubbish in the wrong bin to the epidemic of flytipping - reflect only a small part of the disaster.
Even more outrageous is the fact that, wherever one looks at it, our waste handling system is in breakdown, so that, for instance, millions of tons of rubbish supposedly collected for recycling must be shipped out to China or the Third World because we no longer have any way to deal with it.
The reason why this has happened - and why it was ignored by those 12 dutiful little apparatchiks from the House of Lords - is that we have handed over direction of our waste policy to Brussels, which requires us to implement a strategy wholly inappropriate to our needs.
Until recently we still had a waste system as efficient as any in Europe. We had a fast-growing recycling industry, mainly reliant on private enterprise. But we also used much more of our rubbish than other countries for the ultimately beneficial purpose of reclaiming otherwise unproductive land by landfill.
What has thrown all this into chaos has been the imposition of a wholly different EU policy which seeks to eliminate landfilling (originally because some countries, such as Holland and Denmark were running out of land to fill). The EU puts recycling at the top of its priority list, followed by incineration. Only then can what remains be buried.
To conform with the Euro-model, we have therefore been required to discourage landfilling by closing down our rubbish tips and imposing ever higher “landfill taxes”, to build hugely expensive incinerators and to collect far more waste for “recycling” than we can actually recycle.
Instead of all this being admitted, it has become shrouded in propagandist humbug.
We are repeatedly told we are “running out of sites for landfill”, when every year we quarry out 110 million cubic metres of soil and rock, more than the refuse we produce. We are told that incineration is cheaper than landfill, when in fact it can cost as much as £190 a ton, as opposed to a maximum landfill cost of only £62.
To please the EU we claim to be collecting millions of tons of rubbish for recycling which is then either shipped abroad or just landfilled regardless.
We have created a shambles of a system which is failing in every way - so that we still face the prospect of massive fines from Brussels for failing to conform - while the once-friendly relations between binmen and the public are reduced to open war.
And what is the response of those noble lords? They babble on about the need for “waste prevention to be integrated into sustainable business models”. They “welcome the establishment of the Centre of Expertise for Sustainable Procurement”.
They suggest the Government should lower VAT rates to “promote the development of sustainable products”. They don’t even seem to know that VAT rates cannot be lowered without permission from our real government in Brussels - the one which set all this disaster in train in the first place.
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Permalink • Saturday - August 23, 2008
NaNews of the North
Just keeping an eye on what’ going on up Norway ... way. H/T again to the ever resourceful Barents Observer!
Cultural Indicator or worthless study?
Russians drink more (gosh, who’d a thunk it?)
Over the last seven months, alcohol consumption inn Russia increased with 2,5 percent. Of the alcohol consumed, 49,6 percent was hard alcohol, the National Alcohol Association reports.
In the course of the last seven months, a total of 840,7 million litres of pure alcohol (100%) was consumed in the country, the association figures show, RIA Novosti reports.While the consumption of hard alcohols has dropped from 58,4 percent of the total in 2005 to 49,6 percent in 2008, the amount of consumed beer has increased strongly from 29,5 percent to 35,9 percent of consumption.
Also the consumption of wine is increasing. In the first seven months of the year, Russians wine consumption was 6,4 percent of the total, which is up from 5,3 percent in 2005.
If you can read it, the original article is here, translated into mostly English here.
Russia Invested 41 Billion Rubles in Murmansk port
Over the next few years, Russia will invest 41 billion RUB in the development of the Murmansk port and turn it into the country’s new Arctic hub.
In a recent meeting on the development of the Murmansk Transport Hub, regional industrial representatives said 41,4 billion RUB would be invested in the port by year 2020. Of that sum, 2.8 billion RUB will be invested before 2010, Murman.ru reports.
The port will become a northern Russian hub for container shipping, oil reloading and coal and fertilizers terminals.
Meanwhile, the Russian Railways will spend 8 billion RUB by 2010 on the upgrade of railways leading to Murmansk. This will help increase goods turnover of the Murmansk Port from today’s 16,5 million tons (2007) to 62,4 million tons by 2010, the representatives of the Murmansk Transport Hub, the management company responsible for regional infrastructure development, say.
President of the International Transport Academy Aleksandr Kondratev says to Murman.ru that the Murmansk Transport Hub will have major importance for the good transport network in Russia.
The Murmansk Transport Hub was established early 2008. It is headed by Transport Minister Igor Levitin. Stakeholders in the management company are the Murmansk Trade Port, the Russian Railways, Rosneft, Rosmorport and the Murmansk regional administration.
Wow, nearly 400% capacity increase in just 2 years! Guess the reds are betting the farmski on Global Warming keeping the ice away!
The Bear has more than one claw you know.
This week the Russian Ministry of Defence has informed the Norwegian Ministry of Defence that all planned military cooperation between Norway and Russia will be halted. The Norwegian Government hopes that all non-military cooperations will continue as planned.
In a letter to the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Russia informs that as of this date all military cooperation with all member countries in NATO is suspended. State Secretary Espen Barht Eide in the Ministry of Defence, says to newspaper Aftenposten that the Norwegian-Russian relations is worsen even more by this letter.
The Ministry of Defence is now checking which consequences this will have for Norway. There are already planned a lot of visits and joint military exercises between Norway and Russia, which will be affected.
Norwegian Coast Guard has planned a rescue operation exercise together with Russians in Kirkenes on the 9th and 10th of September. Since this is not a military exercise, the ministry believes it will be carried through as planned. There is also planned an oil spill preparation exercise with Norwegian and Russian participant some weeks later, which could be affected.
In the Norwegian Parliament there is an all-party agreement that the Government should always welcome Russian authorities to discussions on the current situation, if they are ready for this.
Is Europe finally waking up?
South Ossetia war spurs defence debate in Scandinavia
Several Norwegian opposition politicians say Russia’s intervention in the South Ossetia crisis shows that the country has Great Power aspirations, which could eventually pose a threat against Norwegian positions in the High North. Also in Sweden, the Caucasus conflict now triggers a domestic defence policy debate.
Leader of the Norwegian Conservative Party, Ms. Erna Solberg, does not believe that a conflict like the one in Georgia could take place between Russian and Norway. She still believes that the South Ossetia events bear clear evidence of Russia’s great power aspirations.
-We can not defend ourselves alone, Norway needs a strong army, she says to newspaper Aftenposten.
Spitsbergen
Ms. Solberg illustrates her increasing fears with Russia’s reported violations of aircraft regulations at Spitsbergen and military training near the Norwegian border.
-It worries me that the Russians are showing disrespect for our right to govern the Spitsbergen archipelago, she says to the newspaper. She also accuses the Norwegian red-green government coalition of failing to nurse relations with the USA.
The Swedish debate
At the same time, a similar debate is unfolding in Sweden. An editorial in newspaper Dagens Nyheter today highlights the need for a revision of Swedish defence policies.
-For Sweden, the issue is now to adjust its defence policy to the hard realities, the editorial reads.
The newspaper writes that the South Ossetia crisis to certain extent resembles the Cold War.
-The perception that Sweden does not have external threats is an ill-informed stance, which although it lacks basis in reality has spread through the Swedish defence debate, the editors write.
The newspaper now calls on the Swedish government to stall cuts in the country’s defence in order to bolster national security.
New Sub Joins Russian Northern Fleet
The diesel-powered submarine ”B-90 Sarov” was today officially handed over to the Russian Northern Fleet. The vessel is built by the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast.
The sub was put on the water in December last year, and has since undergone testing, the Northern Fleet press service reports.The B-90 Sarov is built for testing of new armament and military technology, Rosbaltnord.ru reports.
Present in the ceremony were representatives of the Russian Navy, the construction design firm “Rubin”, the management of the Sevmash yard, as well as representatives of the city of Sarov.
Well, that’s all the cool news from way up yonder. Try and stay warm.
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Permalink • Meanwhile, Down Under
I’ve been busy trying hard to find a job this past week, so I haven’t posted a whole lot. I thought you might enjoy this one. Sure, it’s winter down there, but come on. It’s Australia, where the temps never drop below 130 or something awful like that.
reached Hassans Walls Lookout on Friday on its way to Canberra.
Climate change may be THE hot international issue of the moment but enthusiasm for the cause clearly wanes on a freezing Friday afternoon when the campaign moves to a mountain top where the wind chill factor is below zero.
This was perhaps the predictably disappointing outcome when the GetUp! climate change lobby group organised an enviro torch relay from Hassans Walls Lookout to Queen Elizabeth Park to focus public attention on the issue.
Ironically, global warming would probably have been welcomed by the handful of hardy souls who turned up to lend their support to the campaign on one of the coldest Lithgow days of this or any other year.
The wind and solar powered torch — created by the designers of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch — was carried to The Walls by two pedal cyclists.
There it was handed over to the small group of supporters who stuck to their task and ignored the big chill while on their way to Elizabeth Park.
The climate change torch continued its journey around Bathurst on Saturday where it was greeted by a big crowd at a schoolboy Rugby Union carnival at St Stanislaus College oval.
After speeches and several laps of the oval it was handed over to a representative from Mudgee to continue through the Central West.
The torch relay was simultaneously launched from several locations around Australia early last week and is scheduled to finish in Canberra on September 21.
No word on whether Al Gore had been in the neighborhood ahead of time, but it’s likely. God has a sense of humor too.
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Permalink • Friday - August 22, 2008
Obama To Announce Tomorrow!!!!!!1111!!!!one!
Who cares?
I just wish the media would STFU about it already. It’s the VP slot for goodness’ sake. It’s not like it matters. And it won’t be the Shrilldabeast. No way.
If you absolutely have to read about it, here you go.
Gak. Lameness. Nothing to see here, move along, get a freakin life already.
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Permalink • MAJOR MOONBAT ALERT HERE. The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces .
YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE ALL THE PIX AT THE LINK BELOW.
Pictured: The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces after getting caught in victim’s bay window
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:56 PM on 22nd August 2008This is the amazing scene of a burglar hanging upside down that greeted home owner Paul Ives when he returned home from work.
Thief John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass and was left hanging upside down for more than an hour, unable to move.
Eventually, he was freed when Mr Ives called police and paramedics who managed to release Pearce’s shoe and hauled him down.
Britain’s worst burglar: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glassPictured: The bungling burglar left dangling by his shoelaces after getting caught in victim’s bay window
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:56 PM on 22nd August 2008This is the amazing scene of a burglar hanging upside down that greeted home owner Paul Ives when he returned home from work.
Thief John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass and was left hanging upside down for more than an hour, unable to move.
Eventually, he was freed when Mr Ives called police and paramedics who managed to release Pearce’s shoe and hauled him down.
Enlarge Britain’s worst burglar: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass
Now the red-faced 32-year-old thief has appeared before Dartford magistrates in Kent where he admitted burglary with intent to steal.
Paul, 44, said: “The man must be the world’s dumbest thief.”
Paul arrived at his terraced house in Dartford to find the burglar hanging in his window. It is believed the laces in one of his trainers may have become caught.
The intruder had a hammer in his hand and at first tried to deny he had been breaking in.
Hanging around: John Pearce had got his foot caught after smashing his way through the glass
He told the householder that he had spotted someone else trying to raid the house and had decided to stop him.
“I was stopping the burglars,” he told Paul.
At this point a small crowd of onlookers gathered and began to mock the intruder
while others took pictures.Paul said: “He was hanging upside down. His body was inside the house and he was stuck in the window with his foot outside.
“The more he struggled, the more he got jammed. When I got home, he still had the hammer in his hand which he had used to smash the main window and get some leverage.
“He was screaming to get him down and we were all saying : ‘I don’t think so.’
“He kept saying: ‘I haven’t done anything. I was stopping the burglars.’”
Mr Ives’ girlfriend, Angela Gloyn, 32, said: “Afterwards we had a right giggle about it.”
Pearce, from Dartford, was remanded in custody by Dartford magistrates.
He will be sentenced on September 5.
MORE PHOTOS HERE => http://tinyurl.com/56d9kp
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A cute little video for today’s parents. Or for those who might accidently become parents, this should also work as some kind of birth control. Because this is going to be your 4 wheeled identity.
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Permalink • Victory for the don who fought dumbing-down. (ARE THINGS TURNING AROUND?)
Maybe but I won’t hold my breath too long. Maybe for the count of two and a half? I’d like to believe this isn’t merely, A Shot In The Dark.
Victory in unfair dismissal case for the don who fought dumbing-down
Last updated at 11:55 PM on 20th August 2008
A university lecturer who took a stand against dumbing down has won a tribunal claim for unfair dismissal.
Professor Paul Buckland, 61, felt forced to quit his post at Bournemouth University after being asked to grant pass marks to students who had failed.
He had failed 14 of 60 second-year students taking an environmental archaeology degree, but a senior don intervened to claim his marking had been too harsh.When he was told all but three students deserved to be upgraded, Professor Buckland resigned, saying he was not prepared to ‘dumb down the course any further’.
His decision to quit last year provoked a row over academic standards.
He said at the time: ‘If you don’t make a stand somewhere, you might as well start selling the degrees on eBay.’
Yesterday he said he felt ‘vindicated’ by the tribunal’s ruling in his claim for unfair constructive dismissal.
The tribunal said the remarking of exam papers checked by Professor Buckland was an ‘insult to his integrity’.
His union, the university and college union hailed an ‘important victory for everyone who values high standards and probity in our universities’.
The ordeal began last year after 18 students failed his course after scoring low marks in exams. After resits, Professor Buckland judged 14 still to have failed.
But even though the marking had been ratified by a second examiner and endorsed by a formal exam board, senior staff within the School of Conservation Sciences instigated remarking.
Professor Buckland said his marks had been overturned without his involvement.
The tribunal said it found it ‘ extraordinary’ the papers were remarked.
A Bournemouth University spokesman said it was ‘very disappointed with the outcome but is currently studying the detailed judgment’.
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Permalink • SEND US YOUR NEEDY AND GREEDY: IMMIGRANTS GUIDE TO FLEECING ‘SOFT’ BRITAIN.
NO, THE BRIT ON THE STREET DOESN’T LIKE IT. YEAH, PPL COMPLAIN BUT ARE ANSWERED IN PLATITUDES AS THE RIP OFF CONTINUES. AND NOT JUST THE POLES BY ANY MEANS.
Polish immigrants’ guide to fleecing ‘soft’ Britain
It shows how to avoid electricity bills and tax, rent flats for free and con insurance companies.
The scams, published in Polish magazine Przeglad, are revealed by Polish workers already living in Britain.
One man, quoted as a Polish criminal expert, said that cheating the system had became a way of life under decades of Communist rule.
“Once you’ve cheated the Communist government and the Iron Curtain and the Soviet states, running rings around British Gas is child’s play,” he explained.
A worker called Tomek suggested opening electricity and gas accounts with bogus personal details. He said: “How can I pay bills that aren’t addressed to me? The accounting system in England is based on trust, that’s why you can phone and give them data plucked out of thin air.”
Another man recommends renting a house in a made-up name, then immediately stopping rent payments because tenancy laws mean it will be months before they are evicted. In the meantime the property is sublet to dozens of others.
Expensive mobile phones are insured and then reported “stolen”. Once the insurers pay out, the cheats pocket the cash and sell the “stolen” phone back home in Poland for a £100 profit.
Another man tells how he never pays for a television licence, electricity or gas bills - but boasts that he has never been cut off.
“In Poland it would be unheard of - they would have cut everything off long ago,” he said. “And you’d have to be an idiot to register the TV.”
A guide to exploiting “soft” British laws has been published for Poles emigrating to the UK.
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 5:07PM BST 21 Aug 2008
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.45-60 Range Report
Hey, we’re still alive!
Not that there was much real worry about that, but there is always that tiny little concern in the back of your mind the very first time you shoot a new rifle. Especially one built on an antique action not known for it’s excessive strength, and using hand loaded ammunition that came from a computer program that only roughly approximates reality. But we did everything very cautiously, and the program actually did a very nice job of calculating things. Four different loads at four different pressure levels, and all of the predicted results were within 50 feet per second of what the chronograph reported. That’s not bad at all. And we didn’t blow anything up, which is a definite plus. And the gun didn’t mysteriously start shooting up any schools or crowded malls, so I think the media might have been misleading us. Just a little. But we’ll beat that dead horse some other day. Let’s go off into the woods and play with guns, woo hoo!!
It was a fun time. Doc F. had not loaded any ammunition in a long long time, so I had to show him the ropes all over again. And with the both of us working at just one reloading press, we might have made some minor errors. But I don’t think we did, and all the ammo we built fired off just fine. We didn’t get any spectacular groups on the targets, but today was more of a “let’s see if we can do this and not blow the damn thing up” kind of field trip. We’ll work on building accurate powerful loads later.
The very lightest load was one known to be safe in both the original 130 year old rifles and any of the new reproductions. Back in 1876 this rifle fired black powder cartridges, but this was a load using smokeless powder. A mere 25 grains of IMR 4198 pushed a cast lead 300 grain bullet to 1250 feet per second, just a little slower than what the original guns could manage. This is a wiener load; popgun stuff. But that’s where you start out, with the lightweight no-risk stuff. Still, this is about equal to what a modern .44 magnum can do. Even this load is more than enough to kill medium deer out to about 150 yards. If you can hit them that is; the bullet is moving so slow that it’s trajectory is better measured in feet rather than inches. It’s a big lead rock and it drops like one too.
The next batch of ammo used 43 grains of IMR 3031. 3031 is a slower burning gun powder than 4198, and in this cartridge that means you can use more powder and get more velocity, but at only slightly higher pressures. This is not true for any cartridge! Every one is different, and there are no “general rules”. Follow what the load manuals say, and do everything with lots of caution. Ok, given that caveat, I’ll mention that this load pushed the same 300gr bullet more than 300fps faster, to around 1575 feet per second. But recoil was still really really mild, since the rifle weighs nearly 11 pounds. So we bettered original performance easily, and we’ve just begun. This is still a very low pressure loading, and ought to be safe in original rifles in good condition.
The third load used 35 grains of IMR 4198 and got us into the low 1700s for velocity. But there was quite a lot of variation between shots, what reloading folks call “extreme spread”. While a mere 5 rounds isn’t enough to make a perfect judgment, I’d say IMR 4198 is not the right powder to use for this cartridge in this rifle with this bullet. Pressures for this round were still fairly low, about what would be maximum for an original Colt SAA .45 “peacemaker” pistol. Not that any pistol was ever chambered for the .45-60; I’m just mentioning an equivalent known pressure level for another old black powder using gun. This is probably about as hot as you’d want to go in any original .45-60 rifle, and that’s Ok. An extra 400 feet per second worth of velocity is a significant amount. This load is enough for close range shots at elk, large bears, or even buffalo. And it’s more than ample for any deer that ever was. In the big 1876 rifle the recoil here is still mild, but creeping into the “you know when it goes off” realm.
The fourth and final load used 43 grains of XMR 2015. Calculated pressures were about the same as the third load, though velocities were a bit higher at 1750fps. But the extreme spread was quite low, only 25fps. Recoil is about the same as the third load. This one is worth looking into. With a bit of tuning we should be able to make it quite accurate, and possibly get another 100fps with another few grains of powder. We were very happy with this one. Now I just have to run over to Pennsylvania and get another jug of this gun powder. I used up my last dregs of it making these rounds. Cool, not only do I develop a good load right off the bat, I have another excuse to go to the gunpowder store!
After that we were out of .45-60 ammunition, so I got out the .356. Remember that free ammo I got the other week? This is what happens about a millisecond afer you pull the trigger:
Hey, since he gave me the ammo, I figured it was only fair if he got to shoot some of it off and share the “adventure”. The recoil pad I put on makes a helluva difference, but after 5 or 6 shots he’d had enough. Me too. We went through a box and a half of those bullets, then put the gun away. It’s fun, it’s really accurate, but the thing still has a pretty ferocious bite.
And that was it for the day. Now I’ve got to go out to the garage and clean guns and have lunch. But not at the same time. 
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The Only Obama Poster You Need
via Doug Ross Journal. Nice work Doug!
I know the answer ... he’s a commie. Or close enough to one not to make any real difference.
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