Thursday - October 09, 2008

Tiny mouse turned the tables on a deadly snake and turned from hunted to hunter.

WELL GIVE THREE CHEERS AND THREE CHEERS MORE ..............

DANGER MOUSE

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Pictured: The moment a tiny mouse turned the tables on a deadly snake and turned from hunted to hunterBy Eddie Wrenn
Last updated at 1:38 PM on 09th October 2008

A plucky little mouse turned the tables on a venomous snake after it was served up as lunch and bit the reptile to death.
The rodent was thrown into the snake’s cage but proceeded to fight for its life.

It went on the offensive and, after an epic half-hour scrap, got the upper hand with the serpent.

Face-off: The snake and mouse stare each other down as battle commences.
Open wide: The mouse served up as lunch makes a counter-attack on the viper, leading to a 30 minute fight to the death.

The snake had been found in a home in Nantoun, Taiwan, and firefighters took it back to the station before deciding to serve it a light lunch. But they weren’t expecting the prey to become the killer.
A spokesman for the station said: ‘It attacked the snake continuously, biting and scratching it. Perhaps the snake used up all its venom.’

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Nebraska parents abandon teens in backfire of newborn drop-off policy .  WhooHoo. news from the USA

I guess most have seen this right?
If not .... what a hoot.  Woody Allen used to joke about his parents hiring kidnappers to remove him.  But that was a gag. I think.
Anyway ... seems these folks are really serious about getting rid of troubling teens.

A scheme in Nebraska intended to allow desperate young mothers to abandon their newborn child without facing prosecution has backfired after a string of parents delivered their troublesome teenagers to the authorities.


By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 8:53PM BST 08 Oct 2008

Seventeen children - many of them in their teens - have been abandoned since a new law in July allowed parents and guardians to leave their children at drop-off points at hospitals.

The rash of older children deposited has left state authorities struggling to cope. In the latest case this week - and the first involving a child from outside the state - a 14-year-old girl from Iowa was dropped off at a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday.

State officials said the person who abandoned her could be prosecuted in the girl’s home state but authorities have so far been unable to do anything about the other cases because of the loose wording of its safe haven law.

Nebraska was the last state to introduce such legislation but it went much further than others. Instead of restricting those who could be abandoned to infants, as is the case elsewhere in the US, Nebraska effectively allowed it to apply to anyone up to the age of 18.

In the most serious case to date, a single father handed over nine of his 10 children - aged between 20 months and 17 - saying that he could no longer cope.

Other parents and guardians have brought in children, citing issues such as violence and disobedience as reasons for their abandonment.

The law stipulates that the child must be left in a state-approved hospital. A mother who tried to offload her 14-year-old son in September was foiled after she mistakenly tried to drop him off at a police station instead.

Dave Heineman, the state’s governor, has now pledged to tighten up the law so that it only applies to infants.

He appealed to fellow Nebraskans to take less drastic measures than abandonment if they were having trouble with children.

While conceding that raising a child can be “challenging at times”, he said: “Abandonment of an older child is potentially very devastating ... Nebraskans believe strongly in parental responsibility. The essential element defining any family is the knowledge that parents provide unconditional love for their children.”

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US intelligence: Afghanistan in ‘downward spiral’ under Hamid Karzai’s government.

There are those here who are saying we (USA) is wrong to believe that the war against the Taliscum can be won.  Who knows? I sure don’t have any sort of great insight into this thing.  I just want us to get it over with. And if that means NUKES, that’s okay with me. Why is our side so afraid to use them?
Look, like it or not and sooner or later, those folks are gonna find a way to get em too.  Isn’t it better we kill em all now, before they get that chance?

I am reminded of an old expression.  Crap or get off the pot.  Well, we need to crap on these life forms before they do it to us. And they surely will in time.

I heard a very interesting program on the BBC last week on the failure (possibly) of us “winning hearts and minds” over there.  It was not I want you to know, an anti American rant. Anyway, some administration spokesman said that we (Americans) invented public relations and now here we are being beaten at our own game by a guy in a cave.

There was an interview with some old guy over there who said (and honestly believed what he heard) that after 9/11 hundreds of thousands of Americans converted to Islam and that more were doing so every day. And he really did believe that because AlQueda told him so. It was being broadcast on their radio and spoken about in their mosques.

America’s intelligence agencies believe that Afghanistan is in a “downward spiral” and President Hamid Karzai’s government may be incapable of containing the Taliban’s challenge, according to an assessment now being drafted.

By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor
Last Updated: 5:16PM BST 09 Oct 2008

Facing a spreading Taliban insurgency, the White House has begun a comprehensive review of policy towards Afghanistan. A National Intelligence Estimate, representing the considered view of America’s 16 spy agencies, is now being prepared.

Its conclusions are thought to be deeply pessimistic, stressing the systemic weakness of Afghanistan’s central government and the damage caused by the burgeoning narcotics trade, which may account for about half of the country’s entire economy.

This assessment is expected to be completed after next month’s presidential election – and may remain classified. But officials told yesterday’s New York Times that its conclusion was that Afghanistan was in a “downward spiral”.

The assessment stresses two key trends: the increasingly sophisticated nature of the Taliban insurgency and the structural weakness of Mr Karzai’s government. Taliban fighters are now thought to have a permanent presence in 17 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.

As well as conducting a classic insurgency – notably by killing 10 French troops in an ambush outside Kabul in August – they have also branched into urban terrorism against high profile targets. This year, attacks have been launched against the Serena Hotel and the Indian Embassy in the capital, Kabul.

But Mr Karzai’s government, mired in corruption, has little control over large areas of the country. The Afghan National Army (ANA) will have 86,000 troops by next summer and should eventually deploy 134,000 soldiers.

Yet foreign troops still bear the brunt of counter-insurgency efforts. In Iraq, US forces managed to pacify large areas by arming local militias. They may decide to do the same in Afghanistan, despite the danger that this will simply undermine the ANA and further weaken the central government.

Moreover, Afghanistan’s security is inextricably linked with the situation in neighbouring Pakistan. At present, Taliban fighters enjoy a haven in the Tribal Areas on Pakistan’s north-west frontier, where they are able to rearm and regroup before launching cross-border attacks. Pakistan’s lawless enclaves may also host al-Qaeda’s core leadership, possibly including Osama bin Laden.

American officials believe that Pakistan’s authorities have failed to cope with this threat and some elements of their security services, notably the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, may be covertly helping the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

“Unfortunately, what we’ve seen in the last six months is the Taliban getting more organised and to some extent having more co-operation with al-Qaeda,” said a senior US official.

He added that the “dangerous elements are very entrenched” and Pakistan’s security agencies were not fully engaged in the struggle, despite assurances from President Asif Ali Zardari.

“Getting all the people and all the instruments of government to line up in that direction is not as simple as giving a speech,” said the official. “We are not at the point where every instrument of national power in Pakistan is lined up to fight terrorism.”

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Posted by Drew458     on 10/09/2008 at 11:29 AM   
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We’re all socialists now, comrade .

Because this is a very long read, and I’m not sure everyone will want to take the time to read it all here, I’ve cut it off at the link. For those who are interested please use link below.

Financial crisis: We’re all socialists now, comrade

By Simon Heffer
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 09/10/2008

A quarter of a century ago, in the era of the Labour manifesto that was dubbed (by a member of the Labour shadow cabinet) “the longest suicide note in history”, when one wanted to depict the absurdity of the view of the world advanced by Tony Benn and Michael Foot one simply had to say: “They want to nationalise the banks!” People fell about laughing.

Given the socialistic leanings of our Prime Minister, it may well have been a move he undertook calmly and, quite possibly, with a little excitement

Today, it is all considerably less funny. We are all socialists now.

For the Government to take stakes in our leading banks in order to re-capitalise them is not quite the sovietisation of Britain, but it is a pretty good start. Given the instinctively socialistic leanings of our Prime Minister, it may well have been a move he undertook calmly and, quite possibly, with a little excitement.

Perhaps the consequences of his not having socialised our financial system in this way could have been catastrophic - a view taken not just by his closest Cabinet colleagues but also by the main opposition parties. Equally, the consequences of his having done so could be catastrophic, too, because the socialist experiment rarely ends up with people feeling happier, richer and more free until it has ended.

Anyone over the age of 40 will recall the abiding result of the days when we had a socialist economy in this country: poverty. We had better prepare for some more of that. The state does not have its own money to engage in stock market speculations, such as buying shares in clearing banks. It undertakes this gamble with our money.

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Posted by Drew458     on 10/09/2008 at 11:11 AM   
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Well it’s about time!

New McCain ad out that finally shows some gumption, showing how close Obama is with terrorist Bill Ayers.

Now, you know the left is going to scream and cry. Oh, this is so tawdry! So below the belt! It just shows how desperate the ReThuglicans are to win at any cost!!  That doesn’t make this video any less true. Think about it. How many unrepentant terrorists do you know? How many have you ever hung around with, served on committees with, helped pass around money with? None for me. Ever. And to the best of my knowledge, none of them live anywhere near me either.

This ought to be a campaign ender for Obama. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. And there are a whole lot of dogs in this guy’s past.

MORE: here is a lot of data in an easy to understand picture ... flea tracks everywhere!

Yes, I know Sara made the same posts. Before me too. As did others. She’s doing a great job staying on top of McCain’s ads and all the Obama dirt. I’m slow at it because I’ve just about given up at this point.

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   Wednesday - October 08, 2008

POLICE PROTECT CITIZENS BY ARRESTING CITIZENS WHO CHOP DOWN TREES USED BY THUGS. HUH?

Just another example of (one of many) when a law abiding citizen has had too much.
Guy kills trees,,, guy gets arrested.

Bet the punks are laughing.

Resident who chopped down trees used by yobs to hide from CCTV camera is arrested and charged with criminal damage

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:30 PM on 08th October 2008

A public spirited resident chopped down two trees to stop yobs sheltering behind them - and was promptly arrested by police.

Keith Best, 42, took the law into his own hands because the trees were obscuring the view of a crucial CCTV camera.

He acted because louts and vandals have been making life hell for fed-up families in his street - and they were not being captured red-handed on film. 

Furious Mr Best, who has lived in the street for 20 years, decided enough was enough and cut down the two trees in a bid to stop the trouble.

But he was shocked to be confronted by four police officers at his front door after he’d acted for the good of the neighbourhood in Dagenham, Essex, .

‘I thought they were knocking the door in,’ said Mr Best. ‘I opened it and there were four police officers standing there.

‘I let them in as I had nothing to hide. One of the officers said ‘Did you cut a couple of trees down?’ and I said, ‘yes, I did’.

‘He said, ‘I’m arresting you for criminal damage’ and read me my rights. I near enough fell through the floor.

“They said I could pay an £80 penalty notice or they would take it to court. I said, ‘fair enough, I’ll take it to court’.’

Mr Best said the yobs had turned his once peaceful neighbourhood into a war zone and had assaulted a pensioner and two young people.

‘People don’t feel safe sitting in their own back gardens,’ he said.

‘People have had bottles thrown at their cars, others have had abuse shouted at them.

‘One boy was beaten up and another stabbed. There are a lot of older people who are afraid even to open their doors.’

He said when people phoned the police they were routinely told a response unit would be sent but it never turned up. Complaints to the local council and the Safer Neighbourhood Team had also done little to help, he said.

Mr Best said that about a month before he chopped down the trees which had been obscuring the cameras for three years he phoned Barking and Dagenham Council and asked them to take them down but nothing was done.

He said: ‘The trees are a meeting point for the youths - we get between a dozen and 25 of them.

‘It is where they drink and take drugs - we have actually found used syringes down there. They use it as a toilet and we have even seen them having sex around there.

‘Up until three weeks ago it was pretty much every night.

‘I went out there on September 6 at about 11am, in full view of everyone, I wasn’t hiding anything, and cut them down.

‘The council had done nothing to make things better for us, so the residents had had enough.

‘They couldn’t be bothered to get off their backsides to protect us and our property, or even their own property, so I decided to do something. The residents said, ‘good for you’.’

Mr Best has been given 21 days to pay the fine but has decided to make a stand and force the issue to court. He and his neighbours are lobbying their Safer Neighbourhood Team and council for better lighting and fencing and more police patrols at night.

‘I was only trying to make the situation better for those living in the area and for those who use the community hall,’ he said.

His neighbour Julie Reynolds, 37, a child minder and mother of two teenage sons, said the residents backed Mr Best and were disgusted with his treatment.

She said: ‘It is utterly ridiculous. He’s trying to help the council and the neighbours - these youths have been causing chaos.

‘He’s the only one who’s doing anything to help. No one wants to help so he took it into his own hands.

‘Now he’s been arrested and fined, it’s just ludicrous.

‘The kids are getting away with criminal damage, aggravating everybody and causing a nuisance. All Keith has done is cut trees down to make way for the CCTV.

‘He has been punished and the kids are getting away scot free.

‘We call the police and it takes them three or four hours to get here and it’s too late. But they send four officers to arrest Keith.

‘I think he did the right thing and I think the way he has been treated is disgusting.’

Fanshawe Community Hall chair Tracey Benson said the vandals had badly damaged the wall at the back of the building, hacking at it with a scaffolding pole.

She said: “They keep coming back and making it worse. It’s a mess. We’ve had a lot of graffiti as well.”

Other buildings in the area have also been targeted, including an NHS clinic which had water pipes ripped from its walls and a shop where cardboard boxes stored outside were set light.

Mr Best added that since the trees had been cut down there has been no more vandalism or new graffiti on the community hall.

PC Anthony Roll of the Met’s Safer Neighbourhood Team said they would tackle the problems.

He said: ‘We are aware of the campaign. Teams have got on top of the problems in other wards and we are confident we will get on top of the problems in this ward as well.’

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And around we go again

Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.

A Nevada secretary of state’s office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

ACORN investigation spreads to 10 states!

Why does this group even still exist? They should have been shut down ages ago. And every single one of their registration forms thrown out. And they shouldn’t get a dime of public money. And anyone involved with the group, especially those who worked as Community Organizers and Staff Trainers, should be branded a criminal. Because I don’t buy that they aren’t aware of the dirty deeds of their underlings. Hell no. I believe they are fully aware of them, and instructed these people specifically to break the law and falsify voter registrations.

I remember how hard it was for me to register to vote. My goodness, what a task it was. Nobody sent me a form in the mail. Nobody showed up at my house with a van to give me a ride down to registration headquarters. Nobody even told me where the place was. It was awful. Really, it was. I had to dig around in the kitchen to find the phone book. Then I had to look up the number for the local Republican Party. Then I had to make a phone call and ask where I should go to register, and what hours the place was open. Since the location was on the other side of town, I had to decide whether to drive there, walk there, or take my bicycle. Pretty sure I had to take my birth certificate and my SocSec card. When I got there I actually had to speak to one or two people, and I think I even had to fill out some form and sign my name. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I don’t think one cent of public money should be spent on voter registration. I don’t buy into this “historically disenfranchised” nonsense either. Not one bit. If you want to take part in voting, if you want to exercise your civil rights, then you have to make the effort. And every time you move from one home to another you should remember to move your registration as well. It’s the tiniest of social responsibilities. The tiniest. Ok, sure, there might be some folks lying in hospitals, or those fully disabled at home, who have finally decided to become voters. For those folks, there is a form you can fill out and mail in. All it costs you is the price of an envelope and a stamp. Less than a dollar.

These voter registration drives are a crock. All of them. Rife with fraud. All of them. There ought to be a registration cut off date 6 months before Election Day. Get your paperwork in the pipeline by then, or too bad ... no vote for you! ... this time. No exceptions. Six months should allow even the most inept government employees plenty of time to validate your data and issue you a voter ID with your picture on it. Sure, fine, State’s Rights. Ok. Let the states and the counties and the towns do whatever the hell they want for voter registration. But for Federal elections put a rigorous universal law into place, with coordinated cross checking between Social Security, the IRS, your employer, EquiFax, and all the state databases of who was born, who died, and who is a felon.

Would a Federal Voter ID be akin to a National ID card? Yes. That’s exactly what it is. But that’s creeping socialism!! No, sorry, it’s not. We are already way, way past that point. Do you really think that, if you aren’t in hiding somewhere off the grid, a la Ted Kaczynski, that the government can’t find you in under 24 hours? If you have a job they know where you live. If you get welfare they know where you live. The telephone companies cooperate with the government, so if you own a cell phone that has a calling plan they can locate you to within a meter or two in a matter of seconds. The government knows your name, your age, your sex, your race. They know where you live, where you work, what kind of a car you drive. I guarantee you they can access your credit card data, so they know what all your spending habits are. They even now how much money you put in what bank, and how often you hit the cash machine. Use one of those Shopper’s Club cards at your local grocer and the government can easily find out what you eat. They know who provides you with internet service, and it wouldn’t be too much effort for the government to find out all the sites you surf too. All they have to do is look at the logs on the server end of your ISP. The information is already there, and it never goes away. Same goes for your telephone usage. Every call, every number. Stored forever. You barely even have the illusion of privacy anymore. Let’s not kid ourselves. Ten years ago the ACLU did their pizza sketch to scare folks, but the capability was already in place then. It was only a matter of policy that the proper switches weren’t already thrown. No, let me rephrase that. It was only a matter of public policy that the government was willing to admit that the proper switches weren’t already thrown. And more public policy that they would act on the data once that had it.  What was true then is only more true now, especially since we’ve had that Patriot Act thing. So let’s admit reality, not bemoan a level of freedom that hasn’t existed for at least 25 years already anyway, and use the existing system for good for once.

The technology exists so that you, the voter, should be able to walk into any polling place in America on or before Election Day, show your ID, and vote. It doesn’t matter if you are in Pasadena California, the ballot for Oshkosh Wisconsin should come up. You cast your vote, and not only does Oshkosh immediately know it, no other polling place in America will let you vote for that election. Conceptually this is hardly any different from using your Visa card. Just two or three lines of code get added so that you can only use it once per election. That’s it.

Oh, but the system can be hacked! Perhaps it can. And hacking the election system can be made a capital offense too. And we could use some of that whiz-bang encryption that already exists to protect your online credit card shopping. Oh, I lost my card!! Tough shit. Not losing your card is part of being a responsible citizen. However, if you tell us that you lost it, say 30 days before the election, then you can get a new one issued. You’d have to supply all the ID and stuff again though. Come to think of it, you really don’t even need the card do you? Just tell the election worker your SSN. Up comes your picture and they verify that it’s you. Sure, a retinal scan or a thumbprint would be absolute proof, but let’s try to keep that info out of the government’s hands a little longer if we can. But some kind of ID would almost eliminate voter fraud, and would utterly eliminate the “raisin da-tree” for ACORN to exist. And that’s a big step forward.

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Teenage Trotsky is Cabinet’s new adviser on radical Islam.

OH TA BE YOUNG AND STUPID AGAIN INSTEAD OF JUST OLD. YOUTH ALWAYS HAS ALLLLL THE ANSWERS.  NOT MUCH EXPERIENCE IN LIFE BUT WHO NEEDS EXPERIENCE?

Wankers of the underworld unite .... you have nowhere to go but UP yours!

Sad to think this is the very same country that once upon a time (1940), was ready to fight em on the beaches bare handed if necessary.
Now it’s all, oh please. Do be welcome to our country and feel perfectly free to take any part of it that strikes your fancy. 

Take France too btw ... 

Our new national anthem will be, “I SURRENDER DEAR.”

Teenage Trotsky is Cabinet’s new adviser on radical Islam

By Steve Doughty and Chris Brooke
Last updated at 9:05 AM on 08th October 2008

Radicals want to bring down Governments in Leon Trotskys’ name.

A teenage Muslim enlisted to advise ministers on combating extremism is herself a member of a Trotskyist revolutionary party.

Sabiha Iqbal, 18, the privately educated daughter of a civil servant, belongs to the Socialist Workers Party, which is dedicated to the overthrow of parliament, the state and capitalism.

The appointment of the law student from Bradford to the Young Muslim Advisory Group was greeted with incredulity by intelligence experts yesterday.

Miss Iqbal herself described the decision to bring her in as a consultant to Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Families Secretary Ed Balls as ‘very odd’.

But Mrs Blears said: ‘If you don’t want to change the world at 17, that’s a shame.’

Miss Iqbal insisted yesterday that she was not an extremist, saying ‘I am Left-wing about some things and Right-wing about others.

‘I agree with the equality ideas of socialism.’

Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, said: ‘Ministers should be picking democratic leaders and people with experience, not people they think will bring in the “yoof” vote.

‘To go for somebody like Miss Iqbal is appalling.’

The student was named among 22 members of Labour’s ‘Young Muslim Advisory Group’, intended to ‘talk to ministers and policymakers first hand about the issues affecting their day-to-day lives.’

The group will get ‘direct access to senior Cabinet ministers’ to help fight discrimination and get jobs for young Muslims. They will also give views on British foreign policy over Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Miss Iqbal’s Trotskyist party campaigns against wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its website declares that ‘on some issues we will find ourselves on the same side as the Islamists against the state’, and that ‘our rule should be, with the Islamists sometimes, with the state never.’

Privately-educated at the £10,500 a year Bradford Grammar School for Girls, Miss Iqbal, now a law student at Bradford University, is the youngest of three daughters from a middle class family living in the city’s Heaton district.

Yesterday she said that despite being a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party she was not an extremist.

‘I am left wing about some things and right wing about others,’ she said. ‘I agree with the equality ideas of socialism. Having a sense of equality is important.’

Asked about the SWP, she said: ‘I appreciate what the party is trying to do.’

Miss Iqbal said her religious beliefs were ‘the most important thing in my life’, and added that she hoped to ‘give a voice for young Muslims’ who felt they were being singled out in society.

A devotee of martial arts and a talented drummer, she lists her interests as hip hop activist, feminist, photographer, writer, film maker and youth mentor.

Born in Germany, she moved to the UK as a two-year-old. Her father runs a jeweller’s shop and her mother is a civil servant.

Her father Pervez Iqbal described his daughter as ‘a very sensible girl who wants to help people.’ He said she was ‘a good Muslim’, adding ‘but not extreme or anything.’

‘She has a very good heart,’ she said.

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Jobless Afghan mother of seven gets £170,000 benefits and lives in £1million council house

Moonbat Award for the govt. if this is all actually true.  Double the prices you see for approx. dollars folks.  Unbelievable.  I sincerely hope that we aren’t this loopy back home in USA.  I have heard of this here already in regard to a muslim hate preacher whose family has a large house, SUVs and benefits etc.
But hey ... the taxpayer has too much spare cash laying around anyway.

How could I not post this item?  It’s just too darn mind numbing to ignore. 
I’ve recently read that some 70 or was it 75 thousand Brits have left their country.  Not surprising either.  In fact, I think it’s more like their country has left them. And stories like this are just part of the whole picture.

‘It’s like winning the lottery’: Jobless Afghan mother of seven gets £170,000 benefits and lives in £1million council house

By Danny Brierley
Last updated at 1:59 PM on 08th October 2008

A family living on benefits in a £1.2 million house in west London told today how they felt they had won the lottery.

Mother-of-seven Toorpakai Saindi gets £170,000 a year in benefits and the council pays the property’s private landlord £12,500 a month to accommodate the family who fled Afghanistan seven years ago.

The house in Acton has seven bedrooms, two reception rooms, a dining room and two kitchens, as well as an extensive back garden.

Mrs Saindi’s son, Jawad, 20, told the London Evening Standard: “If someone gave you a lottery ticket would you leave it? No. You take what you get given.

“It’s not that we wanted this big house - my mum is not happy because she has to clean all of it. The first day we moved in here we got lost because it was so big.”

It is owned by landlord Ajit Panesar, who is being paid double the normal market value of the property.

Mr Panesar said: “I can’t help it if the law says I should get paid that amount of money.”

The Saindis were first housed in a three-bed-room property in Enfield.

Four years later they moved to a five-bedroom house in Ealing and three months ago were placed at their current address which they are entitled to have by law given the size of their family.

Comfort: The spacious West London home which Mrs Saindi occupies with her seven children at the taxpayer’s expense.

Jawad, who is planning to study at the private Regents Park Business School, said the family had left Afghanistan because of the civil unrest.

He added: “It was a big choice to go to another country and we came here for the education for the little ones. It was great in Afghanistan, every house over there is enormous - this place would be as big as something we would give chickens but we are just grateful for what we can get.”

Jawad, who lives at home with his mother, three sisters and three brothers, said he could not believe how much the landlord was being paid by the council. Their father is separated from Mrs Saindi.

Ealing council, who housed the family, blamed the Government saying it set the rates for the property. However, Whitehall officials insisted the council could have put the family in a cheaper home.

Mrs Saindi approached Ealing council, which had a legal obligation to find her a seven-bedroom property, in July after being made homeless. It is understood the council did not have a suitable house available so turned to the private sector.

But the move has angered neighbours and campaigners who say vast sums of taxpayers’ money are being wasted in housing benefit, and claim a more suitable property could have been found.

Mark Walllace, campaign director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “The system has gone seriously wrong when one family is costing taxpayers so much. This family could be helped without the need for such a huge bill.”

Mrs Saindi, whose children are aged from eight to 22, said: “I always thought the housing benefit was a lot, but I’m told this is what it is for homes like this here. It’s a lot of money but the council pay it. This is their problem. I don’t know why they pay so much.”

Mr Panesar says he checked the price with the Rent Service, part of the Department of Work and Pensions, which agreed the rate was acceptable. It is believed the figure is so high because the Rent Service grouped Acton with wealthy Westminster during boundary changes in April.

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Posted by Drew458     on 10/08/2008 at 09:17 AM   
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Short Musings on another dull debate

McCain wants the government to pony up another $300 billion to buy up your high interest mortgage, then to reissue you a new mortgage at a lower rate.

It’s over folks. The Great Experiment In Democracy. Done. Kaput. The government will now be in control of the credit industry. All property will belong to the government; either held as collateral until you pay off the mortgage, owned outright as they already do for so many millions of acres out west, or taken back whenever they feel like it thanks to SCOTUS’s idiotic Kelo decision. If this isn’t outright Communism, it’s so close that it’s only missing the red flag.



Obama came right out and said that he feels health care (aka, health insurance) is a right. A RIGHT.

Horry Clap!! No denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, all policies somehow made “affordable” (which can only mean I’m going to be paying for a slice of yours if I earn more), penalties for employers if they don’t insure their employees, etc. So I guess the government is going to take over the health insurance industry as well as the credit industry. Why stop there? Why have Fed-Co become the one and only car insurance broker, with a one-plan fits all package? Why should you get ten times the cost coverage for your Porsche than I have for my Saturn? That’s not fair!, plus having a Porsche means you’re rich, so you ought to be penalized for that aspect too.



One or both of these candidates are in favor of putting caps on executive compensation. So one of the core concepts of the Free Market is on it’s death bed as well. Mediocrity, here we come.



Obama spent lots of time blaming Bush and McCain for the economy because it wasn’t regulated enough. And McCain ate that right up with a spoon because he agrees. WRONG!!! The whole idea of a FREE Market is that it is free: unregulated. As much as possible. Neither one of these guys wants to even mention the regulations that forced this whole mess to happen. If lending agencies weren’t forced to make suicidal loans to poor people in the first place (or have gone on a mad PC driven “equality” spree like Fannie and Freddie) none of this merde would have happened in the first place. Think of a bank. Think of a banker. What’s the image in your mind ... something like the Uncle Moneybags character from the Monopoly game? Do you really REALLY think this fellow is going to hand out unsecured high risk loans if he isn’t forced to? Hell no. Bankers are by nature arch Conservatives. Otherwise they’re out of business. Put your tuppence in the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank ... otherwise you’ll only get fat birds! - that’s the image of a proper banker we all learned as very small children.



Obama dragged out his “tax cuts for 95% of the people” meme again. Great idea, and it can work ... IF you cut government spending by around 75%. The government already loses money. It’s called Deficit Spending. That kind of behavior gets you and me arrested - it’s called passing a bad check - but it’s Ok for the feds. They’ll just borrow some more money from China or Saudi Arabia. What the hell, they’ve got all our money already, so they can afford to give us a little back. With interest of course. Cutting taxes for 95% of us? Utter bullshit. Total campaign season nonsense.



I fear for America. In “classic” terms - say, the worldview from a mid-60s perspective, McCain is a leftist Democrat, and Obama is somewhere to the left of Mussolini. Be afraid.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/08/2008 at 08:57 AM   
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   Tuesday - October 07, 2008

Ultimate Squeegee Project, Day 5

And now we are done. I finished off the last of the windows by early this afternoon. I left the half-moon transom window over the wrought iron balcony for last. Had to maneuver a small ladder in there at an angle, but I managed to do it without falling over backwards, splat. Which I appreciate! Spent the latter half of the afternoon restoring the lamps that hang beside the doors. Big old pieces of iron and glass, with an age of goo grit and grime inside. You know what makes a superb glass cleaner when you really have to cut through the built up crap? Brake cleaner. Just spray it on, rub it around with a paper towel, and let it evaporate. Then go over it with the Windex. Bada-bing, clean glass. Even removes roasted bugs!

So I’m hoping this job will lead to others. The very fussy paint crew boss likes my work, and says he will promote me to his customers. And I hope I’m developing an “in” with the truly posh set up there ... because the place I just spent a week working on is just about a “starter mansion” in that neighborhood.  So I’m putting together an advertisement for that area. Not sure what I should say ... “Speaks English. Arrives on time every day, happy, clean, and sober. Does really good work at a decent pace. “ That might do it. I’ve got to figure it out, but I gather at least half of the contractors and “Rent a Dad” guys are undependable bums who take the money and run. I always figured they were the exception, but homeowners are telling me they’re more the rule.

Ok, so to the bank, send a slice to the gov., sit down and watch the next Big Debate. Hope somebody gives McCain some uppers so he has a little bit of bounce and energy.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/07/2008 at 08:18 PM   
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ELECTION YEAR RAG ……..  STEVE GOODMAN

This might possibly be my only post today ....

I used to play Steve Goodman in my DJ years ....
Imagine getting paid to play this kind of thing.  LOVED it while it lasted.  And this is so spot on.

Goodman was a great talent and sadly died age 36 of Leukemia.  What an unfair loss.  The MIL is 93 and worthless and useless and keeps breathing day after day.  A talent like Steve Goodman dies at 36.  ???  Well anyway ... I hope you folks enjoy this.  I’m sure you’ll let me know if ya don’t.

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Apologies to Dr. Suess

Uncle Sam and Congress-man

That Uncle Sam!
That Congress-man!
We do not like your bailout plan!
We do not like your taxing plan!

Should we pay so stocks don’t tank?
Should we pay for Barney Frank?

We should not pay so stocks won’t tank.
We should not pay for greedy banks.
We do not like your bailout plan,
We should not pay it, Congress-man.

Mr. Paulson made a call
For a plan to soak us all.

Could you, would you Mr. Bush,
Could you, would you push, push, push?

We should not pay you, Mr. Bush,
So Mae won’t fall upon her tush.

We should not pay you, AIG,
Though you ask on bended knee.
We should not pay you, Freddie Mac,
Just to lighten up your pack.
We should not pay for any bank,
Even one that’s in the tank.

We should not pay for umpteen years
Just because the market fears.
We do not like your bailout plan.
We do not like it, Uncle Sam.

We should not pay you, Mr. Raines,
You, the source of all our pains.
Franklin Raines don’t give a hoot,
He got a golden parachute.

This bailout plan sure is working well. The Dow closed under 10,000 yesterday. Thanks Congress.

Posted by Christopher     on 10/07/2008 at 07:24 AM   
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   Monday - October 06, 2008

Politicians Are Universal !

Another bit sent to me ... so go ahead and say it was on your blog first. I don’t really care.

On August 19th 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of Australia split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil.  Senator Collins, a member of the Australian Parliament, appeared on a TV news program to reassure the Australian public. 

Once a politician, always a politician.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/06/2008 at 09:44 PM   
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