Monday - August 11, 2008
Actor Robbie Coltrane pictured on ‘wanted’ poster in place of teenage suspect.
See? Now this kind of dumb thinking is what causes bad language and RCOB.
I found this a few days ago and should have posted it sooner but this does deserve a major MOONBAT AWARD for the authorities who heaven forbid can’t let the citizens know what the gremlin looks like due to his tender age.
This is from NZ which show ya dumb is everywhere.
His screen roles have ranged from a hard drinking criminal psychologist to a failed gangster who dresses up as a nun, but now the actor Robbie Coltrane has found himself the subject of a police “wanted” poster.
By Paul Chapman in Wellington and John Bingham
Last Updated: 1:36AM BST 08 Aug 2008
Copies of the poster have been pushed through letter boxes in central Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South IslandPolice in New Zealand used a photograph of the British star as an unlikely stand-in for a teenage burglar as the country’s laws prevent them using the real criminal’s image because he is a minor.
Although Coltrane is 58 years old, officers decided that he resembled the 16-year-old suspected serial burglar closely enough to use the picture.To avoid confusion they advised the public that Coltrane, who is best known in the country as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, was not in fact a burglar adding: “
“But imagine him aged 16 with lank, greasy hair and you have the picture.”
In what is likely to be seen as an extra insult, the Scottish star - whose real name is Anthony McMillan - is described on the poster as an “English” actor.Copies of the poster have been pushed through letter boxes in central Christchurch, the biggest city in New Zealand’s South Island.
It shows a glum faced Coltrane under the word “wanted” in large type.It explains in smaller letters beneath that Coltrane, who plays criminal psychologist Eddie Fitzgerald in the television series, is not the burglar but did look like him.
It adds that the real criminal lives locally and travels by bicycle to commit his crimes.
“He will break windows to gain entry and ransack property, targeting electronic items, cash and jewelery.”
Police said that, given the legal restrictions on what they could publish and the offender’s known resemblance to a younger Coltrane, frustrated officers came up with the plan.
Sergeant Phil Dean said: “It’s a provocative thing to get people to read our crime prevention information.”
He said of the look-alike burglar: “Our interest is in shutting him down, preventing him from committing any further crime.”
Residents of the area have been largely impressed by the ingenuity of the local police.“I think the leaflet is very, very clever,” one middle-aged man said. “It got around the law and alerted us to what is going on in our neighbourhood.”
Another said: “I am wondering what Robbie Coltrane would look like as a 16-year-old. I’m also wondering how he would get through the window of my house.”
Pat Creasey of the local Neighbourhood Support group, commented: “I think Mr Coltrane would think it was a bit of a hoot. I’m sure he would be fully supportive of it.”
But an elderly woman said she did not know whether the leaflets were a joke.It is not the first time Coltrane has been pictured on a “wanted” poster. In the comedy Nuns on the Run his on screen persona Charlie McManus takes refuge in a convent after police offer a $1 million dollar reward for his capture.
Coltrane, who is on holiday with his family, was unavailable for comment.
His London agent was not amused and refused to comment.
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Permalink • BAD NEWS BEARS. THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!
Pleassseee Mr. Custer, I don’t wanna go!
EDITORIAL IN THE MORNING TELEGRAPH
Monday, August 11, 08
War in Georgia needs to be stopped before it spreads further
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 11/08/2008There is no purpose in deceiving ourselves. The West is in no position, practically or morally, to go to war with Russia. At the same time, we cannot afford to allow Russia unilaterally to redraw its borders, nor to place its heel upon the only oil pipeline in the former USSR outside its control.
In 1918, Balfour declared: “The only thing that interests me in the Caucasus is the railway line which delivers oil from Baku to Batumi. The natives can cut each other to pieces, for all I care.” These days, we have to care about both. Before peaceniks start dusting off their pre-Iraq war “Don’t die for oil” placards, we should remind ourselves that it is the Kremlin, not the West, that is the energy oligarchs’ instrument: their desire for a monopoly is in large part responsible for Russian revanchism in the Caucasus.
This is not to say that the blame is all on one side. Some commentators are portraying the conflict in cartoonish terms, as a plucky little democracy being attacked by an authoritarian neighbour. Things are not so simple. Mikheil Saakashvili is no more a convinced liberal than Vladimir Putin (who, it must by now be clear, is still running Russia).
President Saakashvili came to power in a coup in 2004, securing a Saddam-like score of 96 per cent in a subsequent election. Like Mr Putin - indeed, like almost all autocratic leaders - he knows that a sense of national crisis can boost a regime’s popularity.
This time he miscalculated, believing that he could seize South Ossetia without provoking retaliation. South Ossetia may lie within Georgia’s recognised frontiers, just as Chechnya lies within the Russian federation, but this does not justify, in either case, the deployment of military force against a population that has opted for autonomy.
Georgia, no less than Russia, is (in Lenin’s phrase) “a prison of nations”. In seeking to overwhelm a small ethnic group by force, Mr Saakashvili did precisely what he accuses Russia of doing. But Russia’s response has been opportunistic, belligerent and disproportionate.
With a small war raging, the issue is not who started it but how to stop it. The unilateral Georgian ceasefire announced by a chastened Mr Saakashvili yesterday does not bring matters to a close. What is at stake now is the balance of power in the region.
If the Kremlin can, to all intents and purposes, annex South Ossetia, what, as Denis MacShane asks on this page, is to stop it absorbing other parts of the former Soviet Union with Russian populations? Might Russia not claim the right to act in defence of ethnic Russians in the Baltic states, or demand a land corridor to Kaliningrad, or the secession of the Russophile parts of Ukraine, or formal union with Belarus?
In retrospect, the West mishandled relations with Russia in the 1990s. As with Germany after 1918, we went from unconscionable harshness to appeasement, with almost no intermediate stage. Had we been a little less triumphalist at the end of the Cold War, a bruised Russian population might not have responded to the strongman appeal of Mr Putin. Later, we swung too far in the opposite direction. We admitted Russia to the G8, for which neither the size of its economy nor the state of its democracy qualified it. (Can the G8 any longer accommodate such a bellicose member?)
We averted our gaze from the asphyxiation of Chechnya. We made possible the current war when we allowed Russia to breach the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, which limited the number of troops it could station in the Caucasian region. Russia has responded to these concessions by, among other things, harassing British diplomatic staff and refusing to co-operate over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
We cannot expect a UN rendered impotent by Russia’s veto to settle this problem. France’s EU presidency has the ambition to halt the fighting, but not the means. John McCain is making the defence of Georgia a campaign issue. As of old, the issue may yet come down to a face-off between Russia and America.
OH GREAT. JUST WHAT WE NEED.
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Permalink • Sunday - August 10, 2008
Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project .
Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project 2,000 feet below Pacific
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:21 PM on 10th August 2008Hollywood duo Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck portrayed the American desire to avenge the infamous Pearl Harbour bombings playing two US pilots in Michael Bay’s hit 2001 epic.
But, the true devastation of the revenge attacks on Japanese forces in 1944 has been captured in one of the most ambitious underwater projects ever undertaken.
Operation Hailstorm was two years in the making - but on February 17, 1944, American forces blitzed the Chuuk Islands, in the south western region of the Pacific Ocean, sinking 70 Japanese ships, 270 aircraft and killing close to 3,000 people - though the official death toll has never been confirmed.
A Japanese tank on the sunken deck of the the San Francisco Maru TX
A 30-strong team join forces to uncover the truth behind American revenge attacks on Japanese forces
(OH GREAT. WHAT’S THIS? ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY? THEY WANT TO WHAT EXACTLY? “UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND AMERICAN “REVENGE” ATTACKS ON JAPANESE FORCES. THE TRUTH YOU STUPID IDIOT, IS WE WERE AT WAR! LIKE, PPL KILLING EACH OTHER AND SINKING SHIPS AND SOLDIERS GIVING OTHER SOLDIERS BOO-BOOS YOU DUMB S*!#!!!
AM I BEING OVERLY SENSITIVE HERE? WHO THE HELL WRITES THEIR CAPTIONS? THEY MAKE IT SOUND LIKE WE DID SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. GOSH, OUR GUYS SUNK A JAP FLEET. OH HECK. I AM SORRY. I MISSED IT AND IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME ALL THE TIME.
THE PERSON OR PERSONS DOING THIS MAYBE THINK AMERICA SHOULD SIMPLY HAVE ISSUED ‘ASBOS’ TO THE JAPANESE FLEET. WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?)And commissioned by the BBCs Natural History Unit, a 30 strong team of divers, deep sea biologists and under water cameraman explored remotest depths of the Pacific to unravel some of the secrets behind the America’s revenge attacks.
‘We were pushing the boundaries, spending extra long periods as a visitor in an alien element’, presenter-explorer Kate Humble told the Sunday Mirror.
‘I’m not a brave person and I was nervous because every dive has its risks’.
Series producer Dale Templar said: “It was a true voyage of discovery.
‘Most of the sites we explored had never been dived before.
‘The expedition undertook some of the deepest and most dangerous diving ever attempted by a TV crew.
‘But one of the most awe-inspiring sights was the graveyard of the Japanese fleet.
‘There were just so many ghosts down there.’
Pacific Abyss will be shown in three hour-long specials starting next Sunday on BBC1 at 8pm.
yeah well, wife tells me I need to make allowances for the ppl who write this caption stuff. she says they’re young and have little education as they’re only college grads, the victims of the new education here in uk. says I cuss too much. guess so. pisses me off anyway! they could have worded it better without making it appear like we’d committed some war crime. grumble-grumble
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Permalink • Denmark calls off vote on EU opt-outs . (ah huh. they know how ppl will vote so call off the vote.)
Sounds like the UK. Promised a referendum til the politicos discovered how folks actually felt.
And they want NO results that do not match their views.
Denmark’s government has been accused of “running scared” after calling off plans to hold a poll on the country’s British-style opt-outs from key European Union policies because of fears that Danes might follow in Ireland’s footsteps.
(sure they’re scared and have good reason to be. But never mind. If they get their way the will of the ppl won’t matter anyway. And btw .. I understand (and I hope wrongly) that Ireland may vote again on the issue. Hope I got that wrong.)By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, has shelved the vote, scheduled for the autumn, following the EU’s wider political uncertainty after the Irish referendum rejection of the Lisbon Treaty last month.
“We had originally made reservations for an EU debate in the autumn and perhaps a referendum. Due to the Irish referendum, the situation is now so unclear that the plan is no longer current,” he told the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Mr Rasmussen is first waiting for the EU to “sort out the effects of the Irish vote”, a solution that is not expected until late next year.
Denmark was given four EU opt-outs, on security and defence policy, justice and home affairs and the euro, as a sweetener to get the Danes to accept the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, after a first referendum rejection the year before.
The country’s main opposition party, the Social Democrats, led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt the daughter-in-law of Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader and one time European Commissioner, has welcomed the move.
“There is no point in a referendum until you know what happens to the Lisbon Treaty,” said a party spokesman.
Jens-Peter Bonde, president of the pan-European (i) EU Democrats (end i) and a veteran Danish No campaigner in referendums stretching back to Maastricht, accused the government of political cowardice.
“They are running away. They dare not hold a vote because they would lose it,” he said.
“The mood in Denmark is against the EU because of the way it has behaved by pressuring Ireland.”
Mr Bonde is currently holding talks with Declan Ganley and his Irish Libertas group about the possibility of fielding anti-Lisbon Treaty candidates across the EU in European elections next June.
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Permalink • Italians welcome army on streets as anti-gipsy sentiment sweeps country.
GOOD TO SEE ITALIANS TRYING AT LAST TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT EUROPE’S CANKER IN THEIR COUNTRY.
Gypos ppl, do not recognize private property. They have been a curse for generations but under the more liberal passions and rules and attitudes, have been getting away with much over the years. Brits still haven’t come to full terms with the problem here.
Lets hope Italians do NOT BACK DOWN and allow their country to be over run. Bad enough the other folks who represent the ROP.
When soldiers arrived with submachine guns to fight crime last week outside Rome’s Saxa Rubra metro station, residents of the quiet commuter suburb applauded and shouted “bravo”.
By Nick Meo in Rome
Last Updated: 11:28PM BST 09 Aug 2008“It’s great to see the army here,” Luigi Cabras, 60, a civil servant, said with enthusiasm. “There used to be lots of petty stealing, but it’s much better now. And the gipsies who were camped around here have gone, thank God.”
The station is hardly crime-plagued; a littering problem, some pickpocketing, and car park break-ins, all blamed on gipsies from the squalid camp which used to be next to the station until bulldozers moved in a fortnight ago.
But everybody knows why combat veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq have been deployed, the first time the army has been on the streets of Italy since anti-Mafia operations in the 1990s.
Mr Cabras gestured towards a nearby field and shook his head sadly. “Before things change, you have to have a dead body,” he said. What he pointed at was the spot where an admiral’s wife was raped and beaten to death in November, in one of Rome’s most shocking murders for years.
Giovanna Reggiani, 47, a housewife and religious education teacher, was walking back to her car along a badly-lit road when she was attacked by an illegal immigrant from Romania.
The gipsy community around Saxa Rubra claims that the man arrested for the crime, 24-year-old Nicolae Mailat, was not in fact a gipsy, despite his being detained on one of their camps. But the incident has provoked a nationwide backlash against Italy’s 150,000-strong gipsy community, which has seen them portrayed as one of the biggest threats to the Eternal City since the Barbarian invasions.
Gipsies, also known as Roma, have been in Italy for centuries, ever since their ancestors arrived as metalworkers and merchants from India. Many live in houses rather than itinerant camps and have intermarried with Italians, sending their children to school and integrating into society.
But over the past decade, their numbers have almost doubled as poorer, uneducated gipsies arrived from Eastern Europe, some fleeing Balkan wars, others simply in search of a better life, creating additional strains with a host community that has never entirely accepted them.
Unlike many Rome intellectuals, who complain about authoritarianism, Saxa Rubra’s white-collar workers are delighted to see the military fully-armed as they set off for work. Fabio Monaci, 25, who has been giving the soldiers discounts at his sandwich shop, feels much safer. “Crime is a real worry in Italy now,” he said gravely as he poured an espresso. “But it won’t be so bad if we get into a new era of discipline.”
That is exactly what is promised by new prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a Right-wing populist who has just ridden into power for the third time with his ex-fascist and xenophobic Northern League allies on a wave of popular fear about crime.
Sending 3,000 troops to guard railway stations and tourist spots has been Mr Berlusconi’s boldest move yet, and judging from the mood in the suburbs, the soldiers have won the hearts and minds of the commuting classes, even if they have not struck much of a blow against crime. So far one pickpocket has been detained in the nationwide operation – the military has orders to arrest only suspects caught in the act.
British tourists, who are out in force in Rome’s piazzas and trattorias, were a little surprised. “Has there been a coup?” was the bemused response of one pensioner from Scotland.
But after the murder of Mrs Reggiani, most Italians are pleased to see them. The killing was particularly shocking for Romans because their city is considered relatively safe by the standards of other European centres – there is nothing comparable to London’s current knife crime epidemic, for example.
Mr Berlusconi declared a “Roma emergency”, produced a disputed dossier of alleged immigrant muggings, robberies and murders, and promised to dismantle illegal gipsy camps. So far 700 have been identified. Even more controversial in a nation whose Fascist rulers helped the Nazis deport Jews and gipsies during the Second World War, fingerprinting of gipsies has started, despite the European Union saying the programme encourages xenophobia, and a Roman Catholic group describing it as racist.
On the streets of northern Rome such reservations are hard to find. “All our problems come from foreigners getting drunk, smashing windows and stealing,” said Anna Maria Mercure, who at 80 is old enough to remember an earlier era of Italian discipline. “Mussolini had his positive side. The streets were safe in his day.”
Whether they are genuinely more dangerous now is disputed, but even Left-wingers are as concerned as those on the Right and aware that there is no straightforward solution to a difficult and emotive social problem. And whatever the truth of the matter, gipsy encampments up and down the country are the main targets as long-simmering tensions erupt into open hostility.
The residents of the Rome suburb of Centocelle, a pleasant, tree-lined district of modest apartment blocks, finally lost patience last week with the gipsies in a local camp called Casalina 900, a miniature shanty town where rats and naked children run amid piles of half-burnt rubbish. The residents, mainly gipsies who fled the Balkans, have coexisted uncomfortably with their Italian neighbours for more than a decade.
That all came to an end last week when camp residents burnt some old tyres instead of taking them to the dump, creating clouds of acrid black smoke. In the current political climate, it became the catalyst for a near riot, with Centocelle’s residents staging a demonstration in the middle of a major highway.
“I would kill them all,” said Virginia Cristell, a mother in her 40s. “Send them to the country – or send them somewhere. They are dirty and there are lots of problems with burglary and thieving. They make toxic smoke.”
Soon her second wish will come true. Rome’s new Right-wing mayor, Gianni Alemanno, promised the middle-class troublemakers that if they gave up their road protest he would get rid of the camp.
For the inhabitants of Casalino 900, the bulldozers will be another of life’s frequent disasters. Afterwards they will scavenge what possessions they can and move off to some other patch of unoccupied land.
The camp has been sealed off by police, but The Sunday Telegraph found a hole in the fence. Inside we found dislike of Italy and fear of the future. But the teenage mothers suckling infants have grown up in Rome and most speak only Italian. One camp resident, Najo Adzovic, 37, said he had deserted the Federal Yugoslav Army and fled to Italy when he was ordered to slaughter 15 Muslims during the Balkan wars. “I don’t like the police outside our camp or the military presence on our streets,” he said. “There is some petty crime committed by gipsies because our people are poor, but we are not all criminals.”
The fingerprint policy that has them so worried – and fearful that the Government is trying to drive them out of Italy – has been drawn up by the junior party in Mr Berlusconi’s coalition, Alleanza Nationale. Until it reinvented itself in the 1990s, it was a neo-fascist party.
Marco Marsilio, a member of Italy’s lower house of parliament, is an amiable young politician who made an articulate case for fingerprinting. He said it was to help protect gipsy children who he insisted were bought and sold as beggars; critics claim he is nothing but a myth peddler.
“The Leftists aren’t able to understand this fear of crime because they have an ideological prejudice against law and order,” said Mr Marsilio. His colleague, Alessandro Cochi, laughed off a 1930s-style propaganda poster in his office of a wild-eyed man giving a stiff-arm salute; he was not a fascist, he said, nor was Italy suffering a fascist wave.
That, however, is not the view of Goffredo Bezzecchi, 69, an Italian gipsy who came close to death after Italian Fascists tried to send his family to the death camps. They escaped before they could be deported. Mr Bezzecchi, who was fingerprinted at his home near Milan last month, feels history is at risk of repeating itself. “These things were done in the Fascist days when gipsies were killed or sent to concentration camps,” he said. “The politicians should remember that we are human, not garbage.”
(oh yeah? Prove it then. Start acting human. Quit trashing public places. Stop moving in on public squares or vacant property on weekends when
authorities can’t do anything while you dig septic tanks and install electric etc. and immediately inroll your offspring in schools thus making it next to
impossible to remove your sorry asses while owners and towns try and get court orders. Italians should shoot the lot.)
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Permalink • MUGGINGS BY CHILDREN DOUBLE AS MEAN STREETS GET MEANER
Steep rise in violent crime by children
The number of muggings committed by children has doubled, according to new crime figures.
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
Last Updated: 2:16PM BST 09 Aug 2008Government data showed that one in eight violent crimes, more than a quarter of a million, were committed by school-age offenders in the year to April.
Muggings committed by under-16s, including robberies and snatch thefts, doubled in one year to 55,000. Children also committed more than 70,000 offences of stranger violence, a 17 per cent increase on the previous year, according to the British Crime Survey.
In the survey, which is the Government’s own preferred measure of crime, victims are asked whether their attacker appeared to be “of school age or under”.
The figures come amid rising concern over the epidemic of knife crime commited by teenagers and after police warned yesterday of a huge rise in violence by women.
An average of 240 women a day are arrested for violent offences in England and Wales, often when drunk, and many were joining street gangs putting new pressure on resources, police chiefs said.
Although the crime figures for 2007/8 published last month showed an overall fall in crime, including violent crime, closer analysis has revealed the jump in youth violence. Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, who uncovered the true picture, said: “This is a shocking indictment of Labour’s failure. As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future?”
Gordon Brown called on communities across Britain to rally against knife crime. The Prime Minister said it was “the biggest problem at the moment” in some cities.
But he said the Government alone could not tackle it and the community also had a role to play in changing the culture to make carrying knives unacceptable.
Speaking at the opening day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Prime Minister said: “Young people are thinking it’s acceptable, fashionable, necessary for them to protect themselves, to carry a knife.
“Just like we made guns unacceptable, we should make knives unacceptable.
(What kinda fool is this? The latest two killings didn’t even involve knives. One was done with a screwdriver, and in another killing, some poor guy was beaten to death while out walking his dog. NO. It isn’t the damn weapon(s) fool. What needs to be made TOTALLY unacceptable and no excuses or lawyers tricks, are the slap on wrist oh they’re “youths” kind of thinking. What needs to be unacceptable is the lack of fear of the law among the worthless sub culture in total control of the streets. What needs to be totally and absolutely UNACCEPTABLE is LIBERALISM in dealing with the kinds of out of control crime seen here over the years.)“You need not just young people but parents and other people to say that knives in Britain, like guns, like bullying, like racism, all these things are unacceptable.
“There are certain boundaries in a decent society you don’t cross and these boundaries are cultural, because in America it is acceptable for many people to carry guns, it’s not in Britain. I think in Britain we’ve got to make it as unacceptable to carry knives.
“I think most decent people in our country would want to do that and I think what you will see over the next few months is this sort of campaign, which is led not just by Government but people in the country to say ‘get knives off our streets - it’s completely unacceptable’.”
The warning on violent women came from Paul McKeever, the chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents rank-and-file officers.
He said: “Clearly there is an increase in the number of women who use violence in their everyday life and when they are out drinking on the streets around the country. It’s a new phenomenon and it does stretch the resources of the police service.”
IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING JUST WHAT HAPPENED TO WIND ME UP ON A TOPIC I DIDN’T WANNA POST, IT’S BEEN BUILDING AS I READ THIS STUFF.
AND REALLY PPL, THERE ISN’T ANY WAY TO AVOID IT. IMPOTENT ANGER I GUESS. CAN YOU READ THIS CRAP AND NOT WONDER OR GET A BIT PO’d?
Now serial criminals could be let off with caution after caution
By James SlackUnder the Home Office guidance, anyone caught committing the same ‘trivial’ offence again can be let off with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist - providing two years have passed.
It means a thief could receive up to five cautions in ten years without ever having to face a court appearance.
THEN THERE’S THIS OF COURSE. HEY ... THIS’LL STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEARTS OF THE GREMLINS. SURE IT WILL.
Go easier on inmates, prison told (and try using their first names)
By JAMES SLACK
A prison has been told by inspectors that it is being too hard on its inmates. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons said convicts should be called by their first names.
These last two stories both at the same link with several more to cause blood to boil.
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Permalink • ENGLAND’S MEAN STREETS.
Gee, heartwarming to understand the negra was “under supervision” at the time he murdered the kid.
With a record that goes back to the time he was 12, why wasn’t he taken out and shot at 13? Not a chance in a million he or his pals will ever be any different.
Will the next victim please step forward. Oh, and we mustn’t refer to the killers as thick lipped niggers because that’d be racist. Come on, see the video and look at the faces and tell me they’re not apes, at best.
I think I’m wound up again. It never ends, does it?
Teenager who murdered schoolboy Martin Dinnegan was under supervision
A teenager with a history of violent crime has been jailed for life for murdering a talented schoolboy while under supervision for an earlier attack.
By John Bingham
Last Updated: 3:24AM BST 09 Aug 2008Joseph Chin, 16, who has a criminal record dating back to when he was 12, was part of the gang which chased 14-year-old Martin Dinnegan down a street on bicycles and mopeds before stabbing him to death in broad daylight last year.
Chin, who can be named for the first time after a court order was lifted, was found guilty at the Old Bailey last month of the killing which came just an hour after two groups of youths exchanged “dirty looks”.
He was himself stabbed twice during a series of flare-ups between the groups. But, ordering him to serve a minimum of 12 years in jail, the Common Serjeant of London, Judge Brian Barker QC told him he was responsible for a “vengeful attack out of all proportion to what may have gone on before”.
Kevron Williams, 17, who was convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm over the same attack, was given four years in youth detention.
Martin, who had just earned a place on an engineering course, was stabbed four times in the back near his home in Holloway, north London, on June 26 last year.
A pupil at St Aloysius College, a popular catholic boys’ school in nearby Archway, he was on a bus when looks were exchanged with a rival group on bicycles sparking a series of confrontations.
Fleeing a subsequent fight he found himself chased along the street by youths on bicycles and mopeds.
Williams was first to catch up with him, punching him to the ground and stabbing him with a screwdriver.The jury heard how Chin then arrived on a BMX bicycle, knocking him back to the ground and pinning him down before stabbing him to death.
Tom Morgan, a witness who lived in the area, told the court now he saw Martin running past him, looking pale, pleading: “Please help me.”
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC said Martin’s death illustrated the “growing scourge of urban posturing” among the youths of Britain.
“It was the equivalent of being hunted in a pack,” he said. “Dirty looks turned to death in an hour.”
The judge disclosed in his sentencing how Chin, of Finsbury Park, north London, had a criminal history dating back to January 2004 when he was caught carrying a snooker ball in a sock.
The following April he threatened a man with a hollow bar and was given a warning for affray.
In September 2006 he was given a 12-month supervision order after kicking a shopkeeper unconscious when challenged for stealing some food from outside the store.
The order was still in force when he carried out the murder the following June. Because of his age he was being supervised by his local authority Islington Council’s Youth Offending Team rather than the Probation Service.
“This was a deliberate attack requiring a long chase with revenge in mind,” the judge told Chin.
“This was really arrogant group violence and the result is totally unacceptable.
“It was an attack carried out without any regard to the standards and rules that we live by and no thought for the victim, his friends and his family.”
In a statement read to the court Martin’s mother Lorraine Dinnegan said “Life will never be the same, a piece of our heart has been taken.”
She also disclosed that shortly after her son’s death she found a religious studies essay about the parable of the Good Samaritan in which he wrote about being chased by a group and left for dead by the side of a road.
Youths given a supervision order by the courts must have regular appointments a member of the council Youth Offending Team to discuss causes of their criminal behaviour and work out an individual supervision plan designed to prevent a repeat.
They must also notifying them of any changes of address and could face criminal charges for failing to attend regular sessions.
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Permalink • US Election 2008: The joke is finally on Barack Obama. (America. Can it be true at last?)
As reported in London paper.
Does this mean it’s now okay to tell jokes about this guy and NOT be a *gasp* racist?
Have you heard the one about the presidential candidate who was once so popular that comedians were frightened to make jokes about him?
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 9:04PM BST 09 Aug 2008Barack Obama in London during his tour of Europe. Voters are tiring of the wall to wall coverage of his grand pronouncements Photo: GETTY IMAGES
The punchline is this: the more seriously he took himself, the more Barack Obama has become a laughing matter.Only a month ago American comedians and satirists were complaining that they found it hard to get people to laugh at the first black presidential nominee. A New Yorker cover cartoon showing him as a Muslim extremist was roundly denounced.
But growing Obama fatigue among voters after his pseudo-presidential visit to Europe and the Middle East has unleashed a wave of satirical fire, mocking Mr Obama for his apparent belief that he has the election in the bag.
Last month Jon Stewart, host of the satirical news programme The Daily Show, had to tell his audience that they were allowed to laugh at Mr Obama after a joke fell flat.
But Mr Stewart made comedic hay during the Illinois Senator’s international trip, mocking his progress through the Holy Land, where he said the candidate stopped “in Bethlehem to see the manger where he was born.”
Late night comic Jimmy Kimmel also cracked a joke at Mr Obama’s expense: “They really love Barack Obama in Germany. He’s like a rock star over there. Impressive until you realise that David Hasselhoff is also like a rock star over there.”
The jokes are important because they increasingly draw on evidence that voters are tiring of Mr Obama’s elevated opinion of himself, the wall to wall coverage of his pronouncements, and the feeling that he should concentrate on voters back home.
A writer with one of the leading comedy shows in the US, who preferred not to be named because of continuing sensitivities about how far comedians should go from some network executives, said: “We had a hard time convincing people that Obama is funny for a long time. Our audiences seemed unsure whether to laugh at him. The first black president is not a gag. But that’s changing because he’s doing more stuff that’s easy to mock and people are more familiar with him.”
Too familiar, some say. A poll last week by Pew research found 48 percent of those questioned said they had been hearing too much about the Democratic presidential candidate recently, nearly double the figure for his Republican rival John McCain.
Mr Obama has provided rich fodder for comedians looking to prick his pomposity, predicting that people would look back at his nomination as the moment “when the rise of the oceans began to slow”.
He also told Congressmen that his campaign was “the moment . . . that the world is waiting for”.
The attitude was summed up by Dana Milbank, the Washington Post’s resident political humourist, who declared: “Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.”
Mr Letterman listed top ten signs that Barack Obama is overconfident, which included “Offered Bush 20 bucks for the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner” and “Having head measured for Mount Rushmore.”
Mr Obama is also under fire for moving politically towards the centre ground, moderating positions he had once boasted were evidence of his unique appeal.
Jay Leno, of the long-running Tonight Show, said: “Barack Obama now says he’s open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind.”BEST OBAMA JOKES
Craig Ferguson: “Barack Obama was in Germany” today, and “he did this speech and 100,000 people showed up. There were so many Germans shouting and screaming that France...surrendered just in case.”Jimmy Kimmel: “They really love Barack Obama in Germany. He’s like a rock star over there. Impressive until you realize that David Hasselhoff is also like a rock star over there.”
David Letterman: Signs Barack Obama Is Overconfident.
Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to ‘Oklabama.’
Offered Bush 20 bucks for the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner.Asked guy at Staples, ‘Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?’
Having head measured for Mount Rushmore.Offered McCain a job in gift shop at Obama Presidential Library.
Jay Leno: “Of course, Obama’s supporters got him his usual birthday gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”Jay Leno: “Obama’s people are trying to portray McCain as cranky, and McCain is trying to portray Obama as arrogant, you see. And when Obama was asked what he thought about being called arrogant, well, he said he was ‘above having to answer that question.’”
Jay Leno: “See Barack Obama on the news? He’s becoming a workout fanatic. He’s at the gym, like, twice a day, sometimes three times a day at the gym, yeah, according to his staff. Well, he has to stay in shape to do those flip-flops.”
Jay Leno: “Barack Obama back from his big European tour. Did you see him in Europe? People were cheering him, holding up signs, blowing him kisses. And that was just the American media covering the story.”
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Permalink • Saturday - August 09, 2008
Olympic Miracle #1
Don’t expect much blogging on the Olympics from me. I’ve got a very jaundiced view of everything that has to do with communist China. And I am bothered by many things about the Olympics, from the inclusion of activities that have to be scored subjectively by a team of biased judges, to allowing highly paid professional athletes to compete, to the petty politics of the IOC. However ... there is an Olympic sport that gets almost no television coverage because it can’t be seen on TV. It is one of the sports that is entirely amateur. It has been a sport in the modern Olympics since they began. And Americans generally suck at it. Big Time. But not this time ...
BEIJING — Mariel Zagunis stood proudly atop the podium, the first American to do so at these Olympics. A former president was in the front row — and three red, white and blue flags were rising to the rafters.
“It was a dream come true,” Zagunis said.
Zagunis won the first U.S. gold medal of the Beijing Games, leading an American sweep Saturday in women’s saber fencing. Zagunis took the gold with a 15-8 victory over Sada Jacobson, who won the silver. Becca Ward took the bronze.
Before the fencing medals were awarded, the Americans had been shut out of Olympic medals, trailing the likes of Cuba, North Korea, Taiwan and Uzbekistan in the overall standings. Then the saber trio went to work, moving the U.S. to the top of the table with three medals. And to make the night even more memorable, former President George H.W. Bush was in the front row for the medal ceremony, just to the side of where the three flags were lifted.
“It was amazing. It was emotional. It was such a dramatic moment,” Bush said. “To win all three was simply magnificent.”
You can thank that Title IX stuff for this. As recently as 15 years ago women were not allowed to compete in this fencing discipline. This was a man’s sport ... with good reason. Getting hit with a 30” long steel whip moving at a hundred or so mph can hurt like hell. Getting a hit that wraps the blade behind your head can knock you cold. Been there, done that ... I lived for fencing all through college. Saber moves so fast you can’t see the blades even from a couple feet away. Which is why it gets such poor TV coverage. There’s really nothing to see. You have to be right on the edge of the strip to see the sparks flying.
Zagunis was also saber champion in 2004, when she became the first American in a century to win a fencing gold. Now, the U.S. is a legitimate powerhouse — in women’s saber at least. These same three women are seeded No. 1 for the team competition on Thursday.
See? Told you we haven’t been very good at this since ... forever. This article’s title is rather optimistic too. These young ladies will probably medal in the team event, but I’d be amazed if any of our men fencers got any prizes. Not that I’ve been following them ... it’s just that the europeans are just so damn good and always have been.
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Permalink • Damn You Firefox: haha! I win!!
I just installed the latest (and first I think) update to Firefox. It’s a “security” update. Yeah right. Like every other software update out there, I expected it to retain my settings and preferences. Nope.
It went an changed all my about:config settings, and all the other changes I’ve put in place. So now I’m back to the thing opening with two tabs, one for Welcome To Firefox! and the other my homepage. And I’m back to having the useless Google Search bar. And I’ve lost the extra buttons I put into the menu bar. And I’ve got that damn Most Visited thing back. And it’s reactivated that really @#$%^%&^% annoying Address Bar auto-fill thing again.
So I have to go look it all up again, hunt down all the bits and pieces, and make the changes all over again. Once bitten, twice shy: next time they have an update I’ll make copies of the key setting files first. Rotten bastards.
UPDATE - solutions found
You can get rid of the Google Search bar by going to Tools, then Toolbars, then Customize. A gray box appears with a bunch of icons in it. Reach up to the Google Search thingy with you mouse, and drag it into the gray box and let go. Ta da, it’s gone. You can get rid of the Most Recently Visited button or the Bookmarks Toolbar button the same way. I added the New Tab to the right of my homepage icon just by dragging and dropping.
You can get rid of that extra toolbar line up top by right clicking it. It’s called the Bookmarks Toolbar and you just uncheck the thing. Bye bye.
You can disable the address bar’s highly annoying AutoComplete feature this way:
Go into Windows Explorer and run down the directory tree until you find C: \Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile. In the profile directory create another directory called chrome. Go to the chrome directory. Create a file there named UserChrome.css. Follow the instructions located at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox, which are to add this text to the file:
/* Remove autocomplete dropdown */
#PopupAutoComplete > .autocomplete-tree { display: none !important; }
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker { display: none !important; }
and then save and close the file. Next follow the instructions for modifying about:config , located at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talk:Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox:
Set all of the following values to 0 (zero) in about:config
* browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
* browser.urlbar.matchBehavior
* places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus
* places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus
* places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus
If you haven’t used about: config, you just type about:config in Firefox’s address bar and hit Enter. This brings up a big list of the settings. Scroll down until you find the names listed here, then right click on that item. A little pop-up appears ... select either the Modify or Toggle choices. Set the value to 0, click Ok. When you’re all done just close the tab. It’s self-saving.
By this point you will have opened and closed Firefox a whole mess of times. Are you still seeing the Welcome To Firefox screen as your first tab? Or, if you have done the update, are you still seeing the Update Complete screen as the first tab? If you are, does it bug the piss out of you? You will NOT find a way to disable this in any of the settings. It’s what is called an “in-product” page. Which means the program is programmed to go there. So, find a disgruntled programmer to find a fix. That’s me.
This is how to kill that one forever IF you have done the update. If you haven’t done it yet, read on. it’s a similar solution:
In the (windows XP) directory C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref there is a file called firefox-branding.js . Go there, find the file. Now just to be safe, copy that file to firefox-branding.js.original.txt
Next, edit the firefox-branding.js file (any editor will do. Wordpad works great): comment out the first 2 lines that read
pref("startup.homepage_override_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");
so that they now read
// pref("startup.homepage_override_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/whatsnew/");
// pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url”,"http://%LOCALE%.www.mozilla.com/%LOCALE%/%APP%/%VERSION%/firstrun/");
save the file. Restart Firefox. No more Welcome! or Update Complete! tab. All you should see is your homepage. (this is a BMEWS exclusive tip. I searched; it ain’t out there anywhere. So I figured it out myself. Unless Firefox chose exactly that moment to stop showing these screens? They were in some other file in the pre-update version. I forgot where. Go hunt it down; it’s at or near the top of the file. Look for the en-us string followed shortly thereafter by the \welcome string [in other words, it’s a partial match for the URL that this annoying tab opens]) It could be in a .pref file, it could be in a .js file, it could be in a .ini file. But it’s only in 1 file, so you have to go on a treasure hunt.
Of course, if this blows up, (it shouldn’t) go back and remove the “//” comment symbols from those two lines. Also, if you start getting Java Console errors, you can take out the UserChrome.css lines you put in ... AutoComplete will run in the background, and just won’t show you any results. That’s a little wasteful, but it is a lot less annoying.
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None of these tweaks has caused me a problem so far.
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Permalink • Georgia Declares War !! (almost)
not our Georgia, the other one.
TBLISI, Georgia (CNN)—Georgia’s parliament Saturday approved a request by President Mikhail Saakashvili’s to impose a “state of war,” as the conflict between Georgia and Russia escalated, Georgian officials said.
Saakashvili accused Russia of launching an unprovoked full-scale military attack against his country, including targeting civilian homes, while Russian officials insist their troops were protecting people from Georgia’s attacks on South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region that borders Russia.
Russia’s Interfax news agency said the death toll was at least 2,000 killed in the capital of South Ossetia and claimed the city has been destroyed.
Separatist-backed South Ossetian sources reported that about 1,600 people have died and 90 have been wounded in provincial capital Tskhinvali since Russian forces entered the territory Thursday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived Saturday in Vladikavkaz, near Russia’s border with Georgia, Russia’s Interfax reported. Meanwhile, President George Bush, speaking from Beijing, called for an immediate halt to the violence, a stand-down by all troops, and an end to the Russian bombings.
The Georgian “state of war” order is not a formal declaration of war, and stops short of declaring martial law, according to Georgian officials who described it to CNN.
It gives Saakashvili powers he would not ordinarily have, such as issuing curfews, restricting the movement of people, or limiting commercial activities, those officials said.
It places the government on a 24-hour alert, said Georgian National Security Council Secretary Alexander Lomaia during a conference call with reporters.
Saakashvili asked Western leaders to pressure Russia to agree to an immediate cease-fire, which he said his country would willingly observe first.
“We are dealing with absolutely criminal and crazy acts of irresponsible and reckless decision makers, which is on the ground producing dramatic and tragic consequences,” Saakashvili said Saturday afternoon.
Great. Thousands of Russians invading. Thousands dead. Cities being bombed into rubble. Here we go again. My cynical side’s first reaction to this is ... where are the jihadis in all of this? Because you know that they’re there. Probably in the “semi-autonomous” “breakaway province” of Ossetia, encouraged their cousins across the border in Russia to break away too.
McCain tells the commies to get the hell out. Obama wants everyone to hold hands and sing Kumbayah. The UN is useless as always of course.
Georgia is a US military ally. They are fighting with us in Iraq. I’ve read that we had 1000 US Marines in Georgia last month.
I don’t know this part of the world and I don’t know what the situation there is and I don’t know the history of the area at all. But I’m sure I’ll soon be as expert as anyone else if this keeps going for another week. Assuming of course that Russia doesn’t take over the entire country in a week. To protect it’s gas pipeline you know. Yeah, that’s a great reason to start a war. Oh Canada, how’s our pipeline doing up there in your country? Just kidding.
UPDATE: a little background info on South Ossetia. “It’s basically 75,000 people living on rocks”. South Ossetia is separated from North Ossetia by the Caucus Mountains, which are several kilometers tall. There is one road that connects North and South, and it is often closed due to weather. When it snows (and it always snows) there is no way into or out of South Ossetia. Great place to live it seems. Not.
The fighting continues. 2 Russian jets shot down. Military air bases in city of Tibilisi bombed.
Almost live-blogging the war from inside.
Notes for the globally challenged: Georgia sits between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is northeast of Turkey. Turkey is north of Syria. Georgia is north of Armenia and northwest of Azerbaijan. Those two countries are north of the northwest corner of Iran. North of Georgia is Russia, and the Ossetia area is along the border between them. To the east of the Caspian Sea lie “the -stans”. Georgia isn’t the end of the earth, but you can almost see the borders from there.
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Permalink • A fun little gun project
I got all that free ammo last week. Nice. In trade, I’m helping the guy create some ammo. He just picked up a brand new rifle, an Uberti 1876 in .45-60. It’s gorgeous. And it’s huge! The rifle is nearly 4 feet long and weighs almost 11 pounds. It’s the kind of cowboy gun that you need a horse to carry it around for you. Uberti makes some very nice reproduction firearms. They are expensive, but they’re better than the original ones ever were.
This rifle is chambered for the long forgotten .45-60 cartridge. Factory ammunition is very hard to come by and quite expensive. $4 a shot!! Even the brass cases are expensive, and as far as I can tell there is only one manufacturer. But the good news is that the cases can be made from standard .45-70 brass. They need to be trimmed nearly a quarter of an inch, which is a lot of cranking on the case trimmer. And the rims need to be thinned a few thousandths of an inch for proper headspacing, which requires some careful work with a file and a bit of problem solving to build something like a lathe to do the job.
And then the real fun begins: this is a black powder round, but he doesn’t want to deal with the black powder mess. So I’ll have to develop some smokeless powder loads. And it would be good if they performed a bit better than the measly 1300fps the original rounds managed ... and that’s the challenge. An industry group called SAAMI exists that sets the pressure standards for just about all the cartridges out there. But not all of them. There is no pressure spec for this old round, so it’s going to take some research. The good news is that the Uberti is built to close tolerances from the best modern steels, so it should be quite a bit stronger than the original rifles. And the rumor is that it has been proof tested to 2500 bar (33,000psi) for sale in Germany. Not that it would be smart to use all of that strength; it’s best to think of it as a safety margin. But the rifle should be able to handle 22,000 psi loads forever. For the non gun nuts, 22,000psi is quite low pressure, about average for most mild pistol cartridges and well below any modern rifle cartridge. It’s barely half the pressure that a .30-30 can generate. But better to be safe than sorry, and the 1876 is built with an internal mechanism called a toggle link, which has caused people to worry for more than 130 years.
So I’ll start low with a couple of the popgun level smokeless loads I’ve been able to find. And that’s a relative “popgun”; a 300 grain bullet at 1350 feet per second generates more power than a .44 magnum. After that we’ll take things one careful small step at a time, and stop when we find a reasonable velocity that is accurate. I’m confident I can develop something on the power level of a .454 Casull, which would make this an effective rifle out to 200 yards for hunting deer or smaller bears.
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Permalink • A taste of home for those who can escape
It looks like all our posts on and from the UK have caught the attention of some online shops. I’m getting very polite emails - “please consider exchanging links with our web site, for our mutual benefit” - from a number of American companies that specialize in British products. They all have a variety of merchandise, though a large part of it is candy and food. So if you’re from Over There and you somehow wind up Over Here, be at ease. Just a few clicks of the old mouse and you can still get your Frazzles bacon flavored crisps, your Digestives, your Walker’s Christmas Pudding, and all the John West kippers you can handle. Tea by Barry’s, PG Tips, Lyons, Taylors, etc. And the full line of Radox bath products. Can’t leave the Fairy Soap behind you know! Naturally they also carry a variety of meat pies, bangers, Danish bacon, ginger beer, shandy, and barley water. You can find all of their Indian products at much lower prices at any Indian market here, along with most of the tea brands.
After all, this is America, and we’ll sell anything to anyone. It’s what we do, and we learned it from you.
Reading these sites is making me hungry. Are these good brands? I don’t know. But I’m tempted to order a little here and there, just to see.
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Permalink • Friday - August 08, 2008
Too much crab!
Norwegian fishery authorities have extended the zone of free catch of the king crab in a bid to stagger the rapid spreading of the animal in the country’s northern waters.
The king crab, also known as the Kamchatka crab, is not only gourmet food and a curious creature in the Barents Sea and the Bering Sea. It is also the subject of major concern to ecologists, the fish industry and fishery authorities seeing it as a threat to the local eco-system.
Now, Norwegian authorities are taking new measures to restrict the spreading of the crab in its northern waters. According to a press release from the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, unrestricted free catch of the crab is extended to parts of the Porsanger Fjord and areas east of the 26 longitude. From before, there is free catch on the crab to the west of the 26 longitude.
The king crab was introduced artificially in the Barents Sea during the 1960s when. The first animals were planted in the Murmansk Fjord to provide new catch for Soviet fishermen. Since its introduction it has spread west along the Norwegian coast and also towards the island group of Svalbard. Environmentalists and some local fishermen fear the crab because it eats everything it comes across and is spreading very rapidly.
King crab is in such demand that the catching of it has become some kind of reality television show. Up in Norway it’s a pest. They can’t get rid of them. Catch some more, please. Permits? You don’t need no steenkin permits!
Another great little news bit from the Barents Observer. Good stories, not so good English. But hey, their English is about ten million times better than my Finnish and Russian!
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