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   Friday - September 05, 2008

Somali Piracy out of control

Pirates Again!

A maritime official says an Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew has been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.  Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau says the ship was seized late Wednesday, making it the 10th vessel to be hijacked in the pirate-infested waterway since July 20. He says the attack occurred on the same day when a French sailboat was seized in the area. The French ministry said it believed there were only two French nationals aboard the sailboat.

The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, is one of the world’s busiest waterways with some 20,000 ships passing through each year. But it has become notorious for an increasing number of attacks.

Malaysia is dispatching three navy vessels to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant ships following a sharp surge in pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, an official said Friday.

The frigates, carrying an unspecified number of soldiers and several helicopters, will provide security for five ships owned by Malaysian shipping line MISC Berhad, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak was quoted as saying by The Star.

The move came after two MISC tankers were hijacked by armed pirates in the gulf last month, prompting the company earlier this week to ban its ships from the region until additional security measures were in place.

A defense ministry official — who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media — confirmed Najib’s comments.

Two of the navy ships will reach the gulf in the next few days, said the official. A third will leave Malaysia soon. The Gulf of Aden is already patrolled by an international naval force, but the Malaysian vessels will focus on escorting MISC ships.

Soldiers will not launch rescue operations for the two hijacked MISC ships because negotiations were ongoing to release the ships and crew, the official said. No further details were immediately available. MISC officials declined to comment when contacted.
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Pirates seized the Malaysian palm oil tanker, MT Bunga Melati 2, in the gulf between Somalia and Yemen on Aug. 19, resulting in the death of a Filipino sailor. Another MISC tanker, MT Bunga Melati 5, was hijacked 10 days later in the same waterway. It was the eighth ship hijacked in the Gulf of Aden since July 20.

Pirates have reportedly demanded a $3 million ransom for the two ships and 79 crew, including 14 Filipinos, local newspapers said.

The surge in pirate attacks has prompted the U.S. Naval Central Command to establish a security corridor in the gulf patrolled by an international coalition of warships and aircraft.

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Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin have backfired says Brit reporter.  (GO SARAH)

Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin have backfired
by Gerald Warner

Little green apples were not much in evidence in Minneapolis today, in appropriate weather at 18 degrees, though there are some Greens around. As the Republican convention reached its belated crescendo, Sarah Palin was the only game in town.

I have to say, things look different from this end. The relentless assault by the Democrats may have backfired. The latest revelation, solemnly analysed by a liberal commentator on CNN, that Palin’s husband, until eight years ago, supported the Alaskan separatist party, was greeted with open derision in the airport lounge where it was broadcast.

The squalor of the Democrat muck-raking has seriously annoyed a lot of women who do not share many of the candidate’s views but recognise that the points of vulnerability where she has been attacked were precisely those arising from her role as wife and mother.

Pregnant teenage daughter? There is not a hockey mom in America who does not empathise, with the private thought “There but for the grace of God"… So, her son-in-law-to-be was caught fishing for salmon out of season - that is pure Huckleberry Finn.

Some American women are beginning to recognise that the Democrats talk a good game about shattering glass ceilings - provided the beneficiary is a liberal feminist who has bitched her way to the top; but if an average American wife and mother presumes to come out from behind the white picket fence she will be put down with ruthless calculation. Some ladies are getting quite upset about that.

But enough of such frivolity. My current mission in America is to convert the Land of the Free to sliced lemon in gin and tonic. It is a challenge and I shall keep you informed of progress. As for Convention City - I’m outta here. I am taking to the hills - the Rockies to be precise. Since the security wallahs confiscated my razor blades at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam and my shaving cream was similarly seized in Minneapolis, I shall soon be a dead ringer for Rasputin and should fit in inconspicuously in virile Wyoming, whither I am now headed. 

http://tinyurl.com/6mt8ef

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Sarah Palin’s conviction wowed Republicans.  From Simon Heffer in the USA reporting on our Sarah.

Simon Heffer, in the four years I’ve been reading him, is not someone easily impressed and never gushing.

It’s an early and rainy, windy day here outside Winchester (England) and our morning paper arrived quite early.  So did the start of a darn cold and scratchy throat. Just my luck.

So, opening the paper to Heffer’s page here was his review of our Sarah and I knew I had to boot early and share it with BMEWS first thing, cause I think I’m heading back to bed where I belong today. Ug. 

So without further ado .... Heeeeeeerzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Heffer!

Sarah Palin’s conviction wowed Republicans
By Simon Heffer
Last Updated: 4:01pm BST 04/09/2008

Perhaps it was the enormous will on the part of America’s liberal media that Sarah Palin should make a mess of her speech at the convention that willed her so much to succeed. She certainly did.

Sarah Palin demostrated the strength of her convictions.

Mrs Palin has been the target of sexist and class-based sneering since she was picked by John McCain to be his running-mate. This has obscured the fact that she didn’t reach her present public position - of Governor of Alaska - by being a shrinking violet. For a woman to succeed in such a masculine-dominated world as American politics requires her to be a fighter, to be articulate, to be clever and to have the courage of her convictions. All of these qualities were mobilised when she spoke.

Of course her audience was highly sympathetic, which helped: that was not least because there was almost unanimous disgust among them at the way some of America’s left-wing media has sought to make capital of the fact that her unmarried 17-year old daughter is pregnant. The cheer Mrs Palin received when she came on stage showed how far that ploy has backfired.

After that, all she had to do was string her words together competently and she was assured of success. But she did more, and that was what electrified the convention.

When she articulated her beliefs about small government, or about the righteousness of what America is doing in Iraq, there was no doubt she believed every word. It is rare with a politician to be able to conclude that what you see is what you get, but no-one who heard her will be in any doubt of that.

Her convictions helped her to succeed entirely in the other - perhaps most - important role of a vice-presidential nominee. When she attacked Mr Obama for his inexperience and lack of judgment she was not merely going through the motions. Because of the depth of her convictions she is an intensely partisan figure, and this connected her wirelessly with the souls of every Republican in the hall. It was not so much a speech as a blatant act of leadership.

It gave her audience instant confidence in her, and in her ability to attack the enemy. The purpose of the speech was to dispel doubts about her suitability: only a bigot could have had those at the end of her performance.

She does jokes too - her line about the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ("lipstick") was unscripted, and suggests this outsider is going to be a Reaganesque presence in high politics if she becomes vice-president.

But it was all part of a rhetorical tour de force that, unlike other examples of the genre, was not about just creating an atmosphere or perpetrating a confidence trick: it was about showing the world the true Sarah Palin.

She is an astounding politician. In nearly 25 years of being paid to sit through political speeches, I struggle to think of one I have heard that was more immediately successful and that will prove to have been such a moment in history.
http://tinyurl.com/6dtbcn

As mentioned at the top, I’ve been reading this guy for years and haven’t seen him this complimentary. He seems even enthused

PLEASE SEE THE VIDEO INTERVIEW BELOW WITH HEFFER AND BRIT JOURNALIST DISCUSS MRS. PALIN. YOU WILL BE PROUD!!!!!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1463233317/bclid1475274705/bctid1772821101

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   Thursday - September 04, 2008

The Battle Is Joined

I know these are tough times for many of you. You’re worried about… (distraction in the hall, somebody yelling)

Please, please, please. My friends, my dear friends, please. Please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static. (crowd laughs, quick camera shot of security hauling away another protester)

You know, I’m going to talk about it some more. But Americans want us to stop yelling at each other, OK?

These are tough times for many of you. You’re worried about keeping your job or finding a new one, and you’re struggling to put food on the table and stay in your home.

All you’ve ever asked of your government is to stand on your side and not in your way. And that’s what I intend to do: stand on your side and fight for your future.

And I’ve found just the right partner to help me shake up Washington, Governor ...

And something happened. He barely started to mention Sarah Palin and the hall went nuts. Bonkers. Yelling, screaming, stamping. He must have drawn some energy from that, because he was off and running after that.

Governor Sarah Palin of the great state of Alaska.

And the applause continued, on and on. For her. For him too? I think at that point McCain had to shift gears for a minute, to stop and say more nice things about Palin. But the crowd was eating it up with a spoon, and he didn’t let them go hungry. And then he skillfully got back on track, and not only stole Obama’s thunder, but his lightning and every drop of moisture that false rainmaker could ever wring out of a crocodile.

I’m very proud to have introduced our next vice president to the country, but I can’t wait until I introduce her to Washington. And let me just offer an advance warning to the old, big- spending, do-nothing, me-first, country-second crowd: Change is coming.

And that’s the main theme of the speech. Change is coming. Government: clean it up, shrink it down, cut the cost, make it work. More freedom, more personal responsibility. More choices. America isn’t about the government making decisions (like health care) for you. Make the schools responsible to the parents and the students. Vouchers implied, but he never said the “V” word. He actually sounded like an honest to goodness Conservative. Un. Bee. Leave. Ible. Honor. Duty. Country. Service. Pride. Strength. Unity. Bipartisanship. It was stunning to hear what he was saying. Where has this McCain been hiding for the past year??

And then he really got going, begging for the fight, either with Obarry, or with the bloated pigs in DC, I’m not sure, but who cares, let’s fight them both. Damn, if he’d been half his age and had a sword it would have been Aragorn!

I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people.  I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again; I wasn’t my own man anymore; I was my country’s. I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need.

My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

My friends, if you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you’re disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist ... Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an—an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier, because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.

I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your president. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank him, that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on Earth. And with hard work—with hard word, strong faith, and a little courage, great things are always within our reach.

Fight with me. Fight with me! Fight for what’s right for our country. Fight for the ideals and character of a free people. Fight for our children’s future. Fight for justice and opportunity for all. Stand up to defend our country from its enemies. Stand up for each other, for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America. Stand up, stand up, stand up, and fight! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

transcript as usual available at CNN

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Islam: No Flags.

Saudi Cleric Denounces Birthday Parites

When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Islamic?

Saudi Arabia’s most senior Muslim cleric recently denounced birthday parties as an unwanted foreign influence, but another prominent cleric declared they were ok.

That debate has left al-Masaad with mixed feelings about her low-key celebration last month. She loves birthday parties, she says, because they make her feel that she has “moved from one stage of life to another.”

“But I sometimes feel I’m doing something haram,” she said sheepishly, using the Arabic word for banned.

The Saudi ban on birthdays is in line with the strict interpretation of Islam followed by the conservative Wahhabi sect adhered to in the kingdom. All Christian and even most Muslim feasts are also prohibited because they are considered alien customs the Saudi clerics don’t sanction.

Only the Muslim feasts of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, which concludes the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, are permitted.

Elsewhere in the Muslim world, including in Egypt, Dubai, Lebanon and Iran, people routinely celebrate birthdays, especially for children. Among middle class and affluent families, parties can be elaborate, with cakes, toys, clowns, ponies and many presents. In Egypt, Prophet Muhammad’s birthday is celebrated by handing out special sweets — in the shape of a doll for girls and a horse for boys.

Even in Saudi Arabia, it’s not hard to find Saudis who celebrate birthdays or stores that cater to putting on parties, despite the ban.

What makes the latest controversy notable is that it started when a prominent cleric, Salman al-Audah, said on a popular satellite TV program last month that it was OK to mark birthdays and wedding anniversaries with parties as long as the Arabic word that describes the events — “eid,” meaning feast — is not used.

That prompted a quick denunciation by Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti and top religious authority, Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheik, who said such celebrations have no place in Islam and gave a list of foreign customs he suggested were unacceptable.

“Christians have Mother’s Day, an eid for trees, and an eid for every occasion,” said Al Sheik, who also heads the Presidency for Scientific Research and Religious Edicts, speaking to Al-Madina newspaper. “And on every birthday, candles are lit and food is given out.”

There is no question that the television remarks by al-Audah, who is not employed by the country’s religious establishment, contradicted several fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by senior Saudi clerics over the years.

One such ruling, by the previous mufti, Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, said Muslims should not emulate the West by celebrating birthdays — even that of the Prophet Muhammed, which is marked in most other Middle Eastern countries as a holiday.

“It’s not permissible to take part in them,” he said. “Birthday parties are an innovation ... and people are in no need of innovations.”

Some Saudis worry the controversy will be used by conservative members of the religious establishment, including the religious police, as a green light to crack down on all celebrations.

Despite the continuous fatwas against them, it’s not hard to find merchandise for celebrating birthdays, anniversaries or even Western holidays like Valentine’s Day. But bringing in the items can be tricky for shop owners.

One store owner said it’s hard to predict when shipments will be waved through and when they will be stopped. A month ago, an order of birthday balloons, hats and banners was confiscated, said the owner who did not want to be identified for fear of social repercussions.

(note to readers outside the USA: we have a chain of amusement parks called Six Flags. They are all over the country, and each one is gigantic. Hundreds of acres of rides and attractions. They had an add campaign this summer, playing on the name Six Flags. The ads featured some mundane scene from daily life, then suddenly this guy pokes his head through the picture and screams at you “One flag! Less fun!” Camera cuts to the amusement park, everyone screaming and having a great time. Back comes the announcer: “Six flags!! More fun!!” How does this relate to islam? Because this article shows one of their big shots trying to take away a small but enjoyable part of family life the world over. Less fun, therefore less flags. Islam sucks.)

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Dirtbag Panderers

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.

Biden’s comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

But his statements represent the Democrats’ strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.

When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would “pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration”, Biden answered in the affirmative.

“We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that’s occurred,” he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.

Members of Congress are “doing the right thing, they’re not making false accusations about anything … they’re collecting data, subpoenaing records, they’re building a file”, Biden said.

“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president—no one is above the law.”

Obama sounded a similar note in April, vowing that if elected, he would ask his attorney general to initiate a prompt review of Bush-era actions to distinguish between possible “genuine crimes” and “really bad policies”.

“[I]f crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” Obama told the Philadelphia Daily News. “You’re also right that I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”

When asked about his comments by Fox news today, Biden said he has no evidence that criminal charges would be warranted and no intention of pursuing action against the current president.

“What is true is the United States Congress is trying to preserve records on questions that relate to whether or not the law has been violated by anyone,” Biden said, adding: “But, you know, there’s been an awful lot of unsavoury stuff that’s gone on. And the mere fact … that it occurred in a previous administration doesn’t mean [a subsequent] Justice Department, if, in fact, there’s evidence, shouldn’t pursue them. “But I have no evidence of any of that. No one’s talking about pursuing President Bush criminally.”

No so fast Joe. That is exactly what you were talking about yesterday. Change we can believe in, or just pure pandering to the ultra-left impeachment crowd? And instant flip-flopping when called on it? Just one of the many qualities Biden would bring to the office of VP.

I’m Joe Biden and I approved this message

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Palin and the Reaction: Out -friggin- Standing!

from Habitation of Justice




via Rachel’sand Fotki




and from Rancino of course

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There are few sights more bloodcurdling than the liberal pack in full cry..

Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment
By Janet Daley
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 04/09/2008

There are few sights more bloodcurdling than the liberal pack in full cry. The viciousness of the attacks on Sarah Palin is a testimony to the degree of panic her appointment has generated in Leftist circles.
Janet Daley: Sarah Palin rocks the hall
It would seem that it is only sexist to trash a woman candidate if she is a Woman Candidate, which is to say a liberal.

Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Sarah Palin terrifies those on the political left.

It took about 20 minutes after John McCain announced her as his running mate for the attack machine to mobilise: woman candidate (bleep, bleep), no previous warning (nee-naw, nee-naw), exterminate, exterminate.

At first, it was pretty tenuous stuff: her husband had once been caught on a drink-drive charge - when he was 22 years old. You don’t say. In blue-collar America, having only one drink-drive offence pretty much qualifies you as a Grade A wimp.

Then the piranhas got hold of a real prize (or so they thought): the 17-year-old daughter of this Christian Evangelical family was pregnant.

Yes, these things happen - and this particular thing happens quite a lot among the working-class American families that Mrs Palin personifies. She and her daughter are being true to their convictions: the girl will have her baby and marry her boyfriend. There will be no abortion or adoption.

The Palin family will offer them love, compassion and support. What’s your problem? Christianity (even of the Evangelical sort) does not expect human beings to be faultless: it demands only that they make amends for their transgressions and accept responsibility for them.

The Evangelical churches have made it their particular mission in recent years to support teenage mothers and urge their families to stand by them. So where is the shame in this situation?

Now those who are not of the Palins’ religious persuasion may well feel that it is wrong to allow a 17-year-old to marry and start a family. If one of my daughters had become pregnant at the age of 17, would I have advised her to have the baby and marry the father? No, I would not.

Do I respect the decision of another mother and daughter to make that choice based on their own values? Yes, I do. And that - as far as I am concerned - is what it means to be a “liberal”. Which brings us to the subject of those hokey old redneck values that the Guardian and the blogosphere find so amusing (or pernicious, depending on their degree of dedication).

I personally am, and always have been, fervently pro-choice on abortion. I do not consider this to be the only sanctified Woman’s point of view because I am aware that huge numbers of women disagree with me.

Whenever I touch on the subject, they write in and tell me so, often in eloquent and passionate terms. But according to the official feminist sisterhood (which was taken over by the totalitarian Marxist tendency long ago) you can represent the views of Women only if you accept the tenets of their ideology. Ergo, Mrs Palin is not a Woman Candidate.

She is a renegade, the gender equivalent of an Uncle Tom. In the US, her position is particularly incendiary because it is part of the culture war between metropolitan liberals and provincial America: that vast fly-over country where people (or “folks”, as they call themselves) still live by the standards the Palin family embodies. Life is about hard work and hard play.

They hunt with guns from childhood. They talk about sin (and redemption) in ways that embarrass the urban elite, and they regard patriotism as a fundamental part of their moral code. (It is the liberals’ ambivalence about patriotism that they detest most.)

Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was dismissed as a “grocer’s daughter” by people who called themselves egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim to represent “ordinary people”.

What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most (and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic decencies, the “small-town values”, of family, marital fidelity, and personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do not manage to uphold them.

Middle America - of which Alaska is spiritually, if not geographically, a part - builds its life around those ideals and regards commonplace moral lapses as part of the eternal struggle to be good.

The life of small-town USA is based on the principles of those Protestant colonial settlers who founded the nation: hard work, self-improvement, personal faith and family devotion. Mrs Palin speaks to and for them in a way that patronising “liberal” elitists find infuriating.

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Muslim terrorists and criminals have been given £25,000 worth of lunch boxes.

Have the Brits lost their minds?  Well no. At least man person in the street hasn’t.  But there’s not much the average ratepayer can do about it.  Complain?  Who’ll listen who cares?  They’re closing post offices all over the country, some services are being cut back, powers that be complain about lack of funds for this and that program but ... they find approx. $50,000 for scum.  BTW ... why do they have to be fed anyway?  BAH!  This is crazy!

Prisoner bosses spend £25,000 on lunchboxes for Ramadan
Muslim terrorists and criminals have been given £25,000 worth of lunch boxes to keep their meals warm during Ramadan.
By Chris Irvine
Last Updated: 12:05PM BST 04 Sep 2008

The bright yellow metal containers were issued to nearly 250 inmates in London’s Belmarsh Prison, which is home to a number of convicted and suspected terrorists, including Abu Hamza, serving seven years for incitement to murder and racial hatred.

The boxes allow prisoners to keep meals warm until darkness when they are allowed to break their fasting period during Ramadan, which started on Monday.

Prison officers at Belmarsh have criticised the move, fearing the 18in long containers, which resemble a tool box, could be used as a weapon.

One prison source told The Sun: “It’s madness to allow dangerous prisoners to have a metal box with handles. These are not petty criminals - these are hardened terrorists.

“In the past they have been given the opportunity to have a container like a small cool box but these things are just a lavish upgrade.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “The purpose of prison is to deprive offenders of their liberty as a punishment for crimes committed against society. It is not there to restrict religious beliefs and practice.

“HMP Belmarsh provide flasks for the Ramadan fast which allows Muslim prisoners to keep food warm for the Iftar (evening meal). They are re-usable and will be used for years to come. Flasks are the most cost effective way of meeting this requirement without disruption to the running of the prison.”

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11 year old Brit citizen and mom trapped in Russia.  From Russia with love?

what sort of creep uses a kid to get even with an ex wife?  Lower then whale poo. I know ppl do this sort of thing a lot and I think it’s despicable. He cares nothing for the child or what angst she must feel.  Mom may have made a mistake re. the passport. But that shouldn’t be used as a club to legally batter her and her daughter.  I’ve heard the expression, it takes all kinds. The question is, Why?

HAMPSHIRE CHRONICLE
by Laura Downton

AN 11-year-old schoolgirl from Kings Worthy is currently “trapped” in Russia after her father made a legal order to stop her from returning home.

Victoria Osborne, a former Kings Worthy Primary School pupil, who speaks little Russian, went on holiday with her mother, Tatiana, to visit her grandmother in Saratov during the summer break.

(Kings Worthy is a village about 2 miles from us.  So far it’s a local story. )

She was due to return to her Ilex Close home last Thursday, and start a new phase of her life at secondary school.

But when she arrived at the airport in Moscow, she was stopped from taking the flight by Russian authorities, according to her stepfather, Dr Patrick Osborne.

Without any warning her biological father, Yuri Gladkikh - who Dr Osborne said has played no part in her life for eight years - imposed a restriction that banned her from leaving the country for the next seven years.

Her devastated mother was told she was free to go, but had to leave her daughter behind. She refused, and remains in Russia too.

Now Dr Osborne is fighting to bring the pair home.

The situation has arisen because the law in Russia allows divorced parents to block the movements of their children out of the country at any time until they are 18.

Although Victoria, known by friends as Vicka’, and Tatiana, are British citizens, they entered Russia on their Russian passports, and are therefore subject to Russian law.

Tatiana, who is ironically undertaking research at Birmingham University to improve cultural understanding between Britain and Russia, said: “Had we known about the imposition of this restriction we would never have gone to Russia this summer.”

The mother and daughter have returned to Saratov to stay with Victoria’s grandmother while they try to resolve the situation. The only way they can return home is if Mr Gladkikh withdraws the restriction keeping her there, or if it is overturned by a court.

Dr Osborne says he is desperately trying to co-ordinate negotiations with the man to let Victoria go.

He said: “It won’t be easy, but we are determined to help Vicka through this and to get our family back together.

“She’s increasingly distressed and it’s going to get harder and harder the longer it goes on for her.

“It is unbelievable that any parent, however far-removed from daily upbringing, would deny his child the right to a good education, access to her home, and friends.”

The 52-year-old said he and Victoria have been like any “normal father and daughter” since he married Tatiana five years ago.

Tatiana, 34, separated from Victoria’s father about eight years ago.

Dr Osborne added: “Initially it was just the overall worry that you don’t know what’s going on - it’s a feeling of not being able to help your family.

“Now I know they’re physically safe and healthy, so it’s the long-term things that worry me.

“It’s very difficult being away from Tatiana. At a time like this the person that could best comfort you is your wife, but she’s not here. My friends and family have been brilliant with their support though.

“The law exists probably for good reason so parents can see their children, but it can be abused, and I think that’s what we have now.”

Vicka, who has been wholly educated in Britain, was due to start at The Westgate School today (Thursday) after excelling in her SATS exams earlier this year.

Dr Osborne is hoping the school will send work via e-mail so that she can still be educated over the Internet.

Dr Osborne said Vicka told him on the phone: “All I want to do is be back with my friends and go to school.

“I cannot speak Russian well enough to go to school here, and they do different stuff from us.”

Vicka’s former headteacher at Kings Worthy Primary School, Stash Kozlowski, said it would be an “absolute shame” if the schoolgirl could not return to her education in the UK.

He added: “She’s a lovely girl, hardworking, mature and she had lots of friends. She settled in well, I’m shocked.”

Dr Osborne has not yet taken the matter to the Russian Embassy in the UK, but he is in contact with the British Embassy in Russia, who he said are powerless as Vicka is in Russia under a Russian passport and therefore under Russian law.

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Posted by Drew458     on 09/04/2008 at 11:50 AM   
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“The most impressive statue depends on its ankles to support it.” Blake6 has the last word.

I had intended my first post of the day would be the story of an 11 year old local girl who is trapped in Russia at the moment. An interesting story I will get to.  But having seen Drew’s post on what’s happened back home in the states, my story can wait awhile.  I’m worked up in fact damn angry as I know some of you are.

Saying I’m appalled by what I have seen in Drew’s recent post with regard to the attack on the buses would be an understatement.  Shocked I guess but I shouldn’t be shocked at all, should I?  That’s how our enemies conduct themselves.  It’s never been any different that I’m aware of.  This however might be the first time lives have been put in danger.  Unless I missed something elsewhere.

I’ve always found it interesting that the left will never have an honest debate or even a civilized conversation on our differences of how America ought to be.  No. Instead they shout you down, insult you and never shut up long enough for an opposing thought to share the air.  Then it occurred to me, the left doesn’t want dialog on how America ought to be.  The left wants America dead.

I had read about these attacks in the newspapers of course, but seeing the videos and the comments of American street terrorists in action really brought things home to me.  How has it come to this pass?  How’d we let it get this far without hitting back and hitting hard.  I believe many of you know me well enough by now to understand exactly what I mean when I say hit back.  Why have we allowed traitors to thrive in our midst and melt the glue that has held us together, with all our warts, through thick and thin for so long?

I have long been aware and I dare say you have as well, of the treason of the left.  I think however speaking only for myself, I somehow, somewhere lost the thread to the extent of that treason.

Islam alone is not the enemy. No. It’s us. It’s the enemy within.  It’s the dupes of the left and the subject I’m always always banging on about. Our fifth filth column.  You don’t have to be told who they are.  You know damn well who.  Dupes might possibly be re-educated as there’s hope for some.  But the leadership of the left has, no must be dealt with.  Quietly, ever so silently, but dealt with and eliminated.  It can’t happen overnight but it is doable. 

There are organization both in America and abroad whose aim is the death of our country. Nothing less.
They can hide behind pretty words and the constitution and legalese but, they want America gone as we have known her. 

In the comments section of Drew’s excellent posting on the subject, cmblake6 put it all into fewer and better words.  Where I’m angry and frustrated and tend to get a bit wordy, Blake6 covers it with absolute cold logic.
So he has the final word on my posting.

“Where we have tried to keep ourselves above the sort of depravity/insanity the other side indulges in, they have been gnawing away at our ankles. And the most impressive statue depends on its ankles to support it. We try to show the light on the hill, they put on a blindfold. We’ve got to tear that blindfold off, even if it means going in to their sphere to get to it.”

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Posted by Drew458     on 09/04/2008 at 11:10 AM   
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   Wednesday - September 03, 2008

yeah, what they said

“This is the blade by which politics turns to bloodshed.”



I am utterly disgusted with the MSM. And the violent lunatics on the left, both the ones that blog and the ones that violently protest while also attempting to murder children.

So is Mischa.

So is Ace. And with mighty good reason.

Bitch slap the next journalist you meet, just on general principles. There aren’t enough horse whips in the world to dole out the floggings deserved.

Also worth a quick read is First Things First, from whom I snagged the header, who dares to look into the madness that is The Daily Kos, and comes away with the core mindset there from the comments:

Are you telling me you would not destroy the love a family holds for one another, even if it meant letting someone who would destroy the constitution become president?

None of use would use these tactics in a perfect world. It is not a perfect world. It is a fallen world. We have to judge costs and benefits, not moral absolutes. I know this is the way to fanaticism and destruction—believe me I do. But, when we face opponents such as the ones we face . . . what else is there for us to do?

What choice do we have? When faced with monsters, we have to be monstrous ourselves.

These people are batshit insane. Lock them up, throw away the key, then drown them.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/03/2008 at 03:44 PM   
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