Wednesday - June 17, 2009
Honor in wartime
Ok, the addition of the painting really adds to the story, but it must have looked something like that anyway. I checked it out, and this seems to be real. Sent in by Doc Jeff.
I believe in the sun when I can’t see it; I believe in God when He is silent.
Look carefully at the B-17 and note how shot up it is - one engine dead, tail, horizontal stabilizer and nose shot up.. It was ready to fall out of the sky. (This is a painting done by an artist from the description of both pilots many years later.) Then realize that there is a German ME-109 fighter flying next to it. Now read the story below. I think you’ll be surprised.....
Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton , England . His B-17 was called ‘Ye Old Pub’ and was in a terrible state, having been hit by flak and fighters. The compass was damaged and they were flying deeper over enemy territory instead of heading home to Kimbolton.
After flying the B-17 over an enemy airfield, a German pilot named Franz Steigler was ordered to take off and shoot down the B-17. When he got near the B-17, he could not believe his eyes. In his words, he ‘had never seen a plane in such a bad state’. The tail and rear section was severely damaged, and the tail gunner wounded. The top gunner was all over the top of the fuselage. The nose was smashed and there were holes everywhere.
Despite having ammunition, Franz flew to the side of the B-17 and looked at Charlie Brown, the pilot. Brown was scared and struggling to control his damaged and blood-stained plane.
Aware that they had no idea where they were going, Franz waved at Charlie to turn 180 degrees. Franz escorted and guided the stricken plane to, and slightly over, the North Sea towards England . He then saluted Charlie Brown and turned away, back to Europe . When Franz landed he told the CO that the plane had been shot down over the sea, and never told the truth to anybody. Charlie Brown and the remains of his crew told all at their briefing, but were ordered never to talk about it.
More than 40 years later, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe pilot who saved the crew. After years of research, Franz was found. He had never talked about the incident, not even at post-war reunions. They met in the USA at a 379th Bomber Group reunion, together with 25 people who are alive now - all because Franz never fired his guns that day.When asked why he didn’t shoot them down, Stigler later said, “I didn’t have the heart to finish those brave men. I flew beside them for a long time. They were trying desperately to get home and I was going to let them do that. I could not have shot at them. It would have been the same as shooting at a man in a parachute.”
Both men died in 2008. THIS WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN THERE WAS HONOR IN BEING A WARRIOR...THEY PROUDLY WORE UNIFORMS, AND THEY DIDN’T HIDE IN AMBUSH INSIDE A MOSQUE, OR BEHIND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NOR DID THEY USE MENTALLY RETARDED WOMEN AS SUICIDE BOMBERS TO TARGET AND KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS...HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED......
This is a true story: http://www.snopes.com/military/charliebrown.asp
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Permalink • Dear Jimma: You Suck
One of those email letters from my inbox, courtesy of CMBlake6. Feel free to copy/paste and forward.
‘The Axis of Idiots’
Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the runner-in-chief.
Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the USS Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11/2001.
John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam . Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our military of terrorizing women and children in Iraq . You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam . You’re a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did to the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win militarily in Iraq . You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John ? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You’re not a Marine, sir. You wouldn’t amount to a good pimple on a real Marine’s butt. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John .
Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot , who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.
Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Ghraib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi’s torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated another beheading for you. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You’re a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we’ll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer. It is inevitable that we, the infidels, will have to defeat the Islamic jihadists. Better to do it now on their turf, than later on ours after they have gained both strength and momentum.
American news media, the New York Times particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one united with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America ‘s ‘AXIS OF IDIOTS.’ Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam . If you want our Soldiers home as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.
Yes, I’m questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I’m also questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within.
Semper Fi,
J. D. Pendry
Sergeant Major, USMC, Retired
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 16, 2009
OH ISN’T THIS JUST FREEKIN GREAT? SOMETHING ELSE TO MAKE THE BLOOD BOIL. EFFIN IDIOTS!
It’s never gonna end. NEVER! The fuckin stupidity and the lunacy and political correctness and all this god damn diversity shit is only gonna get worse and not by the month but more likely by the day.
Damn fuckin lefty libtards. I really want em to all just stop breathing right this very minute.
Take a look. Of course, the only ppl that might be as angry are Brits with brains. The few remaining anyway.
Lyndon, ur gonna love this. NOT! I didn’t see it coming so how smart am I? Not very I guess.
Schoolchildren to be taught about why gipsies are misunderstood
Children could be forced to spend a month at school learning about gipsies and travellers at a cost of thousands of pounds to the taxpayer.
By Daily Telegraph Reporter
Published: 5:45PM BST 16 Jun 2009A “diversity” panel at Sandwell Council in the West Midlands want to introduce a gipsy awareness month, which would be combined with a leaflet drop of “myth busting” facts about traveller communities.
From September 2010 all youngsters will have a month of classes to teach them about how gipsy’s and travellers are misunderstood.
Oh sure. The effin bastards are “misunderstood.” Right. The pickpockets are a myth and the land grabs are a total misunderstanding. Right. And the crime and the trash and the misery and the ruining of green belt land, where they sneak in and pave over land on weekends and holidays, that’s all just a fuckin misunderstanding! The illegal camp sites are a misunderstanding too I suppose.
England .... you are fucking DOOMED! Too many of your ppl haven’t got the brains god gave a tennis ball. You’ve been giving away your country at a rate not seen since we took land from the Indians in America. You’ve been apologizing for being English and bending over so far backwards to accommodate every turd word, inbred immigrant you have a permanent national backache! You can’t deport known terrorists and even airplane hijackers because your courts are ruled by ppl more concerned over the “uman rights” of foreigners then the well being of the law abiding here who have never broken any laws. You aren’t safe on your streets or even in your homes. Health and Safety has gone so far out of bounds it’ll soon be against the law to walk about without amour like the knights of old. You have barbers who can NOT use razors due to Health and Safety. Your sovereignty is disappearing as Brussels gets fatter and passes more laws only the English seem to abide by. OK, enough. Here the rest of this lunacy. Stupid asses who thought this up ..... okok.
Officials have compiled a 40-page report on why gipsies feel stigmatised and how they could combat that problem in a 23-point programme.
It also suggests the introduction of a specialist liaison officer to stay in touch with the nomadic community and for all school children to celebrate the history of the communities.
“Such celebrations can help ‘myth bust’, make individual communities feel part of the wider community and over all have a very real impact on community cohesion,” it said.
“Therefore the panel believes that in 2010 and subsequent years the council through its Communities Unit should run events in each of the six towns on Gipsy and Traveller History Month.
“Furthermore, these should be organised through consultation with members of the gipsy and traveller communities and if a Gipsy and Traveller liaison officer has been appointed, with their assistance.”
The report, written by the Equality and Diversity Scrutiny Panel, analyses why gipsies are commonly linked to crime and disorder and says that such opinions are untrue.
All the reports recommendations will be discussed by the council later in the summer.
Fiona McEvoy, from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said that gipsy awareness should not be taught to schoolchildren.
“It’s not for local councils to manipulate the school curriculum based on their latest politically correct whims, especially when educational standards are flagging,” she said.
“It is more vital than ever that our children receive a solid grounding in key subjects like maths, English, history and science.
“Schools should be using their taxpayer-funded resources to the optimum affect and that means prioritising some topics over others rather than stretching themselves trying to cater to each demographic within the class.
“It is a costly struggle to try to meet the perceived educational needs of every pupil of every race, religion and heritage and it’s in this way that the likes of the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians are marginalised and ultimately our children lose out.”
Chairman of the panel, councillor Bawa Singh Dhallu, said: “Celebrating the event would help pupils and the community as a whole to better understand the gipsies and travellers they are often unknowingly living alongside.
“It would help those gipsy and traveller pupils feel proud of who they are.”
He added that if the proposals were accepted by the council it would still be up to schools to decide if they would mark the history month, which is celebrated nationally.
Hey, how’s this for an idea.
Why not the fuckin travellers’s offspring be made to learn about English history and customs and traditions and learn just why it’s a nono to steal.
Oh woo-hoo. That’d be like .... discrimination I guess. Proud of who they are? What’s to be proud of? That most of a country can’t stand the sight of you?
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Permalink • Just Missed Me
The Garden State was pelted with a hailstorm on Monday, blanketing the area in the snowy substance in a weather anomaly described by residents as “like a blizzard.”
Proving perhaps once and for all that even God can’t stand Jersey, the storm ripped through Bergen and Passaic counties. Marble sized hail accumulated 3-4 inches in many areas, allowing some residents to even build snowmen. Cars were buried and flash flooding of up to three feet was reported in areas including Wayne and the comically named Ho-Ho-Kus. Residents dusted off snowblowers and shovels to deal with the icy mess, and several homes suffered water damage as basements flooded. Trees and power lines were felled in the freak storm.
New Jersey isn’t alone in what some New Yorkers are calling “the summer that never happened.” Temperatures in the area for June are averaging at about 65 degrees, compared to normal temps of around 70. The area has gotten 5″ of rain, compared to a monthly average of 2″. The region saw rain on 14 out of 15 days so far for June.
Parts of New Jersey were pummeled by a massive hail storm on Monday afternoon, leaving it looking as if a June blizzard blew through with inches of dime-sized pellets piling up.
Washington Township residents were seen on their driveways breaking out the snow shovels and officials sent out bulldozers to act as snow plows to clear the streets after severe thunderstorms pounded the region. Children were seen forming hailballs.
Plowing snow, ice, whatever you want to call it on a street in Washington Township in June. It wasn’t an understatement to say folks in the neighborhood were shocked.
“Never in my lifetime, never,” Karen Yates said.
Neighbors who found themselves shoveling all Monday afternoon, said the hail started coming down fast and furious at around 2:30 p.m. Yates caputred much of storm on video, including the ice river that ran down the middle of her street.
“I grabbed my video camera and then I looked out the front window and it was like a river in my front yard going right down the street,” Yates said.
Added neighbor Jeff Don: “I’ve been here for 33 years and it’s never been this bad.”
A powerful thunderstorm dumped more than 3 inches of hail on Westwood and nearby communities in central and eastern Bergen County Monday afternoon.
Mike Pressler, a battalion chief with the Elmwood Park Fire Department, told The Record of Bergen County he was on the way home from work when his brother called to ask if he could go to Westwood and dig his sister-in-law’s car out of a pile of hail.
Pressler said when he got there the lawns were white, ”like we were in the middle of a blizzard.’’
This was a very localized storm, and it really hammered that small part of the state. Trees down, wires down, flooding, cars damaged by hail, etc. And it’s mostly all melted away already. But it’s just one more part of this stalled weather system that’s turning The Garden State into the Mudhole State. And the weather forecast is for another solid week of rain. Oh joy!
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Permalink • Oh just bloody great. Now we hear from a couple of religious Jews who claim violated rights.
This really does piss me off major big time. Bothers me on a couple of levels.
Just what Jews need today. Or any other freekin day. Not bad enough we have so damn many libtard movements headed by Jews. Not bad enough that so many of these damnable human and civil rights lawyers are ... wanna guess? No. Now we need to hear from a nut job loony tune butt ugly Jew who wants to sue because ... aw hell. Here. Read this crap for yourself and tell me if this isn’t a case of some stupid assed, big mouthed self seeking, trouble maker.
Thing of is as well, I just know with absolute certainty that this just fuels more anti-semitic feelings or at the least, causes some who aren’t to stop and think.
They’ll be thinking oh well. What can you expect? They’re Jews. That’s what those folks do. I’ve heard that all my life so I know it to be true.
Their claim is soooooo phony. If their faith is so strong to begin with, and I seriously doubt that, they should know that even in orthodox Jewry their god forgives things which a religious Jew has no control over. I can’t even assign a moonbat to this because generally speaking there’s a bit of humor even in Moonbat stupid things. But not here, not now. Not this article. This ugly bitch is bad news and an embarrassment not just to Jews who’d never follow this path. She’s an embarrassment to the human race as well. And being ugly makes it worse.
Damn it I HATE people like this! I’m not too articulate when I’m this frustrated> RCOB!
Jewish couple sue neighbours for ‘imprisoning’ them with automatic hallway lightBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:37 PM on 16th June 2009A Jewish couple are suing their neighbours in a block of flats, saying an automatic security light is keeping them prisoner in their home because it forces them to break their Sabbath rules.
Dr Dena Coleman and husband Gordon claim they cannot leave their holiday flat on the Sabbath because when they do they automatically trigger the light in the communal hallway - contravening a religious ban on turning on electrical items from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday because it constitutes ‘creating fire’.
They say their human rights are being breached and are now suing the flats’ management company - their neighbours - for failing to accommodate their religion.
The other 35 owners of the seaside flats are liable to pay court costs if the claim is successful.
Dr Coleman, a 56-year-old headteacher at a Jewish orthodox school in London, has been visiting the £200,000 holiday flat in Bournemouth, Dorset, with her husband for six years.
The management company fitted the motion-sensing lights six months ago in a bid to save energy and money.
The Colemans have offered to pay for an override switch to disable the light sensors during the Sabbath.
But the Embassy Court Management Company - which represents all residents and whose three directors also live in the block - said this would set an ‘unacceptable precedent’.
In a letter sent to occupants of all of the other 35 apartments in the block, the Colemans said: ‘Faced with a situation where we could never again have full use of our flat, we were left with no alternative but to seek legal advice.
‘We consulted solicitors and a caseworker at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and were advised that we had a strong claim.’
The couple said they would drop the case if an override switch was installed and the management company paid their legal costs and compensation.
The argument has sparked controversy between the other residents.
One resident, who did not want to be named, said: ‘It has caused quite a stir here, there have been a lot of arguments.
‘There has been a meeting about it and many of the residents aren’t happy.
‘There’s a feeling that things shouldn’t be changed just to suit people in one flat when everyone else is happy with it.
‘I don’t think the rest of us would think twice about the lights but they’re going to great lengths to get it changed so they must feel very strongly about it.’
The couple say they only moved into the flat in spring 2003 on the understanding that movement sensors would never be installed in communal areas.
They have now issued a county court writ against the management company, saying they have discriminated against them on the grounds of religion.
The claim also accuses the company of breaching their rights under the Equality Act 2006 and Human Rights Act 1998.
In a statement the company said: ‘The directors believe that almost all lessees at Embassy Court support the actions taken by the management company to reduce communal lighting electricity costs, and to reduce repair and maintenance costs by preventing heat damage to light fittings and prolonging their life.
‘The directors further believe that almost all lessees support the installation of movement sensor controls in the hallways and have no personal problems with their installations.
‘Unfortunately correspondence between directors and lessees concerned failed to resolve the dispute.
‘Clearly the lessees [the Colemans] felt so strongly that their rights may have been infringed by the management company that they decided to take legal action. That is their prerogative.
‘A key allegation in this claim is that the movement sensors installed in the hallway discriminate against the claimants, who are orthodox Jews, on the grounds of their religion and belief.
‘The lessees also allege in the claim that when they purchased their flat in the spring of 2003 it was on the basis of assurances from selling agents that that movement sensors would not be installed at Embassy Court.
‘Although other lessees are innocent parties in this legal dispute, in accordance with the lease, the Management Company’s expenses reasonably incurred in these legal proceedings with be recoverable from all lessees in the service charge, to the extent that these expenses are not paid by the other parties to the proceedings.’
The case is due to be heard at Bournemouth County Couty later this year.
Dr Coleman is the headteacher at Yavneh College in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, the author of several books on education.
SOURCE AND DAMN UGLY PHOTO HERE
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Permalink • Grieving son thrown out of cathedral after being mistaken for BNP thug. Not very nice.
Just shows ta go ya. A bunch of tattoos and a bald head do not a thug make.
I think the idea that he could have been asked to leave with no reason given is pretty poor.
Does this perhaps also mean that someone who may indeed be a member of the BNP and who happens to also be religious, and there could be a one. Somewhere.
Does that mean they can not enter a church? I guess so. Or at least not this one.
Just curious. Would anyone have approached a muslim asking what they were doing in a church? Or asked to leave. Oh boy. I can’t imagine that at all. Can you?
Another thing. He had a back pack? Yeah. People are nervous. Folks are looking over their shoulders I suppose. Who can blame them?
An interesting and disturbing story. Another sad sign of the times.
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:40 PM on 16th June 2009A grieving son visiting a cathedral to pray for his dead mother was thrown out and then searched by police after staff wrongly staff wrongly thought his shaved head and tattoos meant he was a member of the BNP.
Phillip Cadwallader, 43, was accosted in Blackburn Catherdal and asked to leave.
The former support worker was then approached by police officers who searched his rucksack, which contained his running kit.
The incident occurred just days after the British National Party won two seats in the European Elections and after the far right party scored major successes in the East Lancashire area, in particular Burnley.
Officials at the 19th century Cathedral feared he was about to disrupt a BBC Radio 4 broadcast about Jewish concentration camp victim Anne Frank.
As the Cathedral offered an apology, Mr Cadwallader said: ‘I am very angry and disgusted at the way the cathedral staff treated me. It was a pretty harsh judgement to make of me.
‘The fact is I am starting to go bald so I have my hair cut short to hide that. It’s nothing to do with my political persuasion.’
Mr Cadwallader, who was dressed in a shirt, trousers and brogues, had stopped at Blackburn Cathedral at 8am on Sunday en route to a track and field race in Accrington.
He was initially told he could sit inside quietly while BBC Radio 4 conducted a live programme on concentration camp victim Anne Frank from inside the cathedral. But then moments later he was told he would have to leave.
Mr Cadwallader added: “When I woke up in the morning and the sun was shining I thought it was such a lovely day that I would go and pay a tribute to my mum before I went running.
“The choir was singing in the background and it was lovely as I lit my candle.
“Then the Dean came and asked me to leave, but he wouldn’t tell me why. The cathedral is a house of God and I think the public should be allowed in, even if there is a recording going on.
“As I was sat on a bench outside waiting for them to finish the radio programme a police officer came up to me and said she would need to check my bag. When they told me why I just couldn’t believe it. I am not a BNP member.
“I was quite disgusted by it all. In fact I was really angry and embarrassed by the whole experience.
“The officers told me that someone had thought I was from the BNP because I was tall and have short hair, like a skinhead.”
His mother Phyllis died four years ago from a blood clot after a patient kicked her in the stomach as she worked as a psychiatric nurse.
Lancashire Police said they had been called to the cathedral because a man was believed to be acting suspiciously.
A police spokesman said: “Officers spoke to Mr Cadwallader and had no concerns. The matter is closed.”
Cathedral officials have offered an apology to Mr Cadwallader and said they had asked him to leave because of previous problems during radio broadcasts from the site.
Canon Chris Chivers said: “The last time we did a radio broadcast it was sabotaged when somebody pulled out wires.
“The BNP are known holocaust deniers and it was suggested to us that the programme would be an easy target for their disruption.
“Unfortunately I can see how the sequence of events occurred.
“The gentleman arrived two minutes before the programme went out live and it aroused suspicions, because he had a back pack with him. Obviously those suspicions were unfounded.”
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Permalink • School bananas ban ‘over the top. Ain’t this god-awful silly. England is SillyLand. Think not? Read
Now this is really over the top in Moonbat thinking. I find however that it’s typical for how they approach things here.
Some many years ago for example, a few people had problems with Halcion, someone may have even overdosed. So what’s their solution?
Easy. Ban Halcion. Never mind that a kazillion other ppl had taken it with no ill effects. Let one get sick and the boom gets lowered.
There are some doctors in the USA that don’t like Halcion and give Ambien instead. Of course, that drug is (or was five yrs ago) VERY expensive. But it didn’t mean you could never get the other, which was cheap and worked. Anyway, this is how they do things here and it really is stupid.
With regard to this article, apparently a teacher had an allergy to bananas. Does that mean just being in the same room was enough to cause a problem? Was one of the kids trying to poison the teacher? This just seemed so darn silly I thought it deserved some space here.
A council leader has said a banana ban enforced at a primary school for two years was “over the top”.
Children at Stoke Damerel Primary School, in Plymouth, have been unable to include the popular snack in their packed lunches since 2007, as one of its staff members has a life-threatening allergy to them.But after only just learning of the banana boycott, Vivien Pengelly, leader of Plymouth City Council, said she would ask officers to investigate.
Councillor Pengelly said: “This is the first I have heard about this and it does sound a bit over the top to me.“It’s my experience as a headteacher that when there are allergies in a school we encourage children to manage the risk around them. I shall be asking officers to look at this particular case again to see whether anything else might be done.”
A spokeswoman for Plymouth City Council said it could not reveal the identity of the staff member involved, due to medical confidentiality.
She said: “A member of the school community has a severe life-threatening allergy to bananas and on the advice of the council, the school has asked pupils not to bring them in.“These are very unusual circumstances but the school community has been supportive and understanding over the last two years.”
But the spokeswoman added the individual involved would be leaving the school in September - when bananas will be welcomed back to the facility.She went on: “We cannot comment on specific individuals because of medical confidentiality. Most people know that individuals can have allergic reactions to substances, with nut allergies being particularly well-known.”
medical confidentiality? FOR BANANAS?
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Permalink • Monday - June 15, 2009
Got Moat?
No, I’m not having an extra security system installed here at Castle Drew. It’s just another chapter in the never ending condo association saga of Where Does The Water Go? They built this entire village as quickly and cheaply as possible. Water lines run through the dirt and under the slab foundations. Over the years the buildings settle a bit, and leaks begin. With nearly 400 units in this condo village, those leaks add up to something like a half million gallons a month. Wasted water.
So they send the guys around with the leak testers, and the pipe sniffers, and all that do-dah. And every couple of months somebody’s unit springs a leak and they have to get their garage floor dug up, or their pipes rerouted through the ceiling space, or whatever. This time, for our building, it was deteremined that the leak was out in the street. So they came and dug it up. And today I’ve got a 6 foot wide, 6 foot deep, 80 foot long open trench across the front of my whole building. With a plank bridge across the gap.
It’s a moat. All it needs is a few hundred thousand gallons of water ... and it’s looking like rain. Again. It’s rained 11 of the past 13 days.
Naturally no one can use their garages right now. I’m just hoping like mad that they actually keep working on this issue. The last time we had a project, it was the siding. Ours was the first building to have the siding torn away, but one of the last buildings to get it all done. They stopped work on our building to go and work on all the other buildings. Duh, much?
I don’t care about putting my car in the garage. The Drewmobile lives outside (it’s the red Saturn SC2 in the top picture); plastic cars don’t rust. But my reloading stuff is in the garage, and I want to make more ammo.
That’s my reaction to politics - go load some ammo. It helps clear my mind. I did get quite a bit of dry fire practice in this afternoon, while Teh One was going on about how he’s going to nationalize repair the health care system. So, yeah, I want to “refresh” some empties.
[ Plus I might be able to swing a bit of a deal and get some free bullets. I’ll get back to you on that in a couple days. ]
If you think this is a mess, you should see what’s going on next door to Peiper. I gather his neighbors were zoned for a cottage but instead built a castle. But I’ll let him post on that.
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Permalink • Pablo Picasso family reignites ‘wicked stepmother’ feud. Ah the bizarre world of art. Ar
Yeah I guess it technically is that.
I always thought Picasso was a bit weird and can’t quite grasp what makes him “a great artist.” As opposed to a painter. Whatever ..
Apparently he wasn’t alone among his family and others close by who were bizarre. And imagine drinking bleach to commit suicide.
By, Matthew Campbell
The Sunday TimesThe tragic legacy of one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art will be highlighted this week in a Paris court where Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter is defending the name of her brother, who killed himself by drinking bleach.
Marina Picasso is suing Pepita Dupont, an author, for claiming that her brother Pablito once tried to burgle his grandfather’s home under the influence of drugs. The case is the fourth by Picasso relatives against Dupont and the latest episode in decades of feuds and legal wrangling over the painter’s legacy.
Dupont’s The Truth About Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso challenges the “wicked stepmother” image that has clung to Jacqueline, the painter’s last wife, since she prevented Picasso’s children and grandchildren from attending his funeral in 1973.
Pablito drank a bottle of bleach the next day and had an agonising death. Marina, whose own book about Picasso portrayed the artist as a monster “who had to destroy everything that got in the way of his creation”, blames Jacqueline for the death. Dupont said: “It’s very sad that he killed himself, but Pablito’s depression was not just because he could not see his grandfather.”
Pablito was not the only victim among the heirs of the artist: Jacqueline, who shared the last 20 years of Picasso’s life, shot herself in the head in 1986; Marie-Thérèse Walter, one of his muses from the 1920s, hanged herself in 1977.
Marina, 58, spent 14 years in psychoanalysis, marked by uncontrollable tears and fainting fits. She fell out with other heirs of the artist, accusing them of greed and “bad taste” in selling the family name to Citroën for its people carrier.
Contrary to the stepchildren’s account of Jacqueline “kidnapping” a frail Picasso to keep him away from them, Dupont claims she loved them as her own. Relations soured only when Claude and Paloma, Picasso’s children by Françoise Gilot, whom he never married, took him to court to be recognised as legitimate heirs.
“She was simply following Picasso’s instructions when she ordered them not to come to the funeral,” said Dupont.
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B-2 Gets The Biggest Bomb Of All
June 12, 2009: After three years of effort, the U.S. Air Force has developed a new bomb rack for the B-2 bomber, so it can drop the new, 13.6 (30,000 pound) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). Six years ago, MOP replaced the proposed nuclear bomb penetrator. MOP can be carried by a B-52, but a B-2 is more likely to get through an intact, modern, air defense system. The MOP is finally entering production, and a number (not announced) will be stockpiled.The MOP is 20.5 feet long, with a 31.5-inch (80 cm) diameter. The MOP contains 2.4 tons of explosives. This is more than 10 times the explosive power of, the BLU-109 (2,000 pound bomb). The MOP can penetrate about 65 meters before exploding.
It’s a giant GPS guided exploding drill bit. Ok, sure, the G-43 MOAB is physically larger at 30 feet long and 40 1/2” in diameter, but the MOP weighs 4 tons more. The whole bomb is made out of extra dense super hardened metal, so that it can go through almost anything. Including 60 feet of reinforced concrete.
More than 24,000 pounds of the bomb’s weight is solid metal, most likely including a high-hardness, dense tip (likely made from a tungsten alloy). It carries a 5,300 pound explosive charge. The bomb is unpowered but will have a supersonic terminal velocity, and it is expected to penetrate as much as 200 feet underground.
The bomb’s sizable wings and lattice tails (which provide high control authority and fold neatly for carriage) suggest that it will have a reasonable standoff range and agility - allowing it to change its course and present a less predictable target for defense systems. Control authority also permits precise adjustment of impact angle.
Unlike the MOAB, however, this project’s goal is a GPS-guided, penetrating weapon that can be carried aboard B-52 Stratofortress or B-2 Spirit bombers to defeat “a specialized set of hard and deeply buried targets” like bunkers and tunnel facilities. Some graphics show expectations of over 60 feet of concrete destroyed, and a USAF article stated that the bomb was meant to penetrate 200 feet underground before exploding. The B-2 will be able to carry 2 MOPs: one in each bay, mounted to the existing forward and aft mounting hardware.
So ... if you a paleoswinian tunnel rat, or one of Ahmadinnerjacket’s Nuclear Nutbars, dig as deep as you want. If one of these isn’t enough to blow out your gopher tunnel, don’t worry. The Air Force can put another one on target, right through the same hole.
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Permalink • New gween plan for recycling. Bigger fine for those who don’t, then for those who shoplift.
New gween plan for recycling. Bigger fine for those who don’t, then for those who shoplift.
Hey ... this is the UK and, logic rules?
Just how many containers will households have to keep track of and store?
Here’s what’ll happen I predict. More people who have the room in their back gardens (and some who don’t) will be making greater use of bonfires. Which btw is legal here. Can be a bother too when the wind gets in the right (wrong from your pov if you’re in the path) direction and the fumes come indoors. It’s happened to us here more then once. I think more folks will be doing that. Then too I think the idiots who already do, will flytip to a greater degree.
That is, dumping rubbish on the roadsides or in out of the way but still public places.
Recycle your waste or face a £100 fine, says Government
By Steve DoughtyEvery household will be forced to recycle their rubbish under new Government plans.
Those who fail to comply are likely to face £100 on-the-spot fines - rising to £1,000 for persistently flouting the law.
Under the scheme, everyone will have to keep a kitchen slopbucket to hold their food waste and scraps.
Glass, cans, wood and paper will be banned from wheelie bins to force people to separate them in recycling boxes.
The idea of councils charging bin taxes was killed off earlier this year by then Waste Minister Jane Kennedy.
But within hours of her resignation from Government yesterday, Environment Minister Hilary Benn announced a consultation on compulsory recycling.
He said: ‘It’s time for a new war on waste.’The scheme follows four years of controversy over fortnightly collections, bin taxes and other Government efforts to enforce recycling and reduce the amount of refuse sent to landfill sites.
Under the system, food waste will have to be kept in a caddie in the home until collection by binmen.
Ideally this should be weekly, but many cash-strapped councils will only commit to fortnightly collections.Once collected by binmen, the waste will be taken to central ‘anaerobic digestion’ plants and used to generate energy.
The process, however, has never been used profitably in past years.Mr Benn said: ‘Take food, glass, aluminium or wood - why would you want to put any of them into landfill when they can be recycled, or used to make energy? What sort of a society would throw away aluminium cans worth £500 a ton when producers are crying out for the raw material?’
A consultation paper on compulsory recycling will be published this year, followed by a detailed consultation next year.Compulsory recycling has been tried out in four London boroughs. The schemes, which require householders to put certain materials in specified bins, apply only to those living in houses, not flat dwellers.
In one borough, householders failing to comply face £100 on-the-spot fines. This compares with £80 fines for shoplifters who steal goods worth under £200.
In other areas, fines of up to £1,000 are imposed by courts on those who persist in breaking the rules. Doretta Cocks, of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections, said: ‘They just are not getting the message.
‘Who is going to police this system? It means bigger and bigger rubbish-police forces. ‘How else are they going to work out if someone has put vegetable peelings in their wheelie bin? ‘Taxpayers and council tax payers will be footing the bill. It’s ridiculous.’
(of course it’s ridiculous. it’s labour, int it?)
Tory communities spokesman Caroline Spelman said: ‘More needs to be done to increase recycling.
‘But Labour ministers’ heavyhanded approach is all about forcing councils to cut rubbish collections, sneak in bin taxes and hit families with unfair fines.’
‘Under the Government’s plans, a convicted shoplifter will receive a smaller fine than a family home for making a minor mistake in putting out their household rubbish.
‘Hard-pressed council taxpayers deserve much better than that.’
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Permalink • Conned homeowners out of thousands by squatting in properties they had no intention of buying
Hey, just for a moment forget (you already have) about travellers and their grab of property.
I never did rant on squatters as often, probably because they aren’t in the news as often.
Anyway ... here’s a couple who ran a con and squatted on expensive property. Big Deal? Well yeah because this is the UK and in the UK ....
it takes a very long time (try 12 months) to remove squatters from property that they haven’t any right to.
Must make certain that rights are observed ya know. No silly, not the victims.
The squatters rights.
Of course I much doubt we have this sort of thing in the USA cos in the USA, we have means of discouraging this sort behavior.
Couple conned homeowners out of thousands by squatting in properties they had no intention of buyingBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:36 PM on 15th June 2009A couple who posed as affluent house buyers to con sellers into renting their homes before squatting in the property were facing prison today.
Richard Jerome, 62, and his wife Hazel, 64, pretended to live a luxury lifestyle with homes in Jamaica and Barbados, a court was told.
They made cash offers on properties with vacant possession before asking to rent the property while waiting for the sale to go through because they had already moved out of their previous home.
But the couple did not pay rent or utility bills and had no intention of ever buying the properties, the jury was told.
They repeated the scam on two different properties with a combined total value of over £800,000 and squatted in them for a total of 18 months.
The elaborate scam left their victims - including a top criminal barrister - unable to sell their homes until the couple had been evicted following lengthy court proceedings.
One victim, Janet Jarvis, of Milton Keynes, Beds., and another of Mrs Jerome’s former colleagues at a primary school where they both worked, died of cancer before the trial took place.
The con artists were finally arrested for driving a stolen car after it was spotted by police operating an automatic number plate recognition camera in January 2008.
A police detective, who first came across Mr Jerome 30 years earlier in an earlier case, then unearthed their web of deceit.
Today, the husband and wife, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud at Huntingdon Crown Court in Cambridgeshire.
Mr Jerome pleaded guilty to an additional charge of fraud and a charge of obtaining money by deception.
Speaking outside court investigating officer Detective Sergeant John Baston, of Thames Valley Police said the couple gained trust before making an offer ‘too good to be true’.
He said: ‘Mr Jerome posed as a hotshot international businessman with all the trappings of wealth.
‘He was always polite, helpful and charming. And she was a school teacher.
‘When they had gained trust they claimed they need a short term let and said it made sense to rent the house they were to buy.
‘But they had no money and did not pay a penny. The sellers had to haul them through the county courts - a process that took months in each instance and caused great distress.’
Det Sgt Baston said the couple’s property scam began in March 2006 when they made a cash offer on Nick and Janet Jarvis’s £250,000 home in Bradville, Milton Keynes, Bucks.
Mrs Jerome worked as a primary school teacher on a salary of £35,000 with Mrs Jarvis at Willen Combined School, in Milton Keynes.
The Jeromes then claimed their previous purchase had fallen through because the seller had died of a heart attack and offered to rent the Jarvis’s property until the sale completed.
It took 12 months for the Jeromes to be evicted through the County Court.The Jeromes repeated the scam on John and Marion Smullem QC putting in a cash offer on their £555,000 detached thatched home in Stoke Hammond, near Milton Keynes, Bucks.
They moved into the house on a short term let in March 2007 and were finally evicted in September of that year after failing to pay rent and refusing to leave.
Criminal barrister Mrs Marion Smullem QC, said her husband John died of cancer while waiting for the trial in April this year.
She said: ‘This couple gave no thought to their victims. John was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died during proceedings.
‘Mrs Jarvis died whilst the Jeromes still lived in her house. And further to that she had known Mrs Jerome for 10 years. It’s a terrible betrayal.
‘The additional stress has caused both our families is enormous. The Jeromes were confidence tricksters, and the trick was made even more real by the fact Mrs Jerome was a primary school teacher.
‘I have dealt with criminals each working day of my professional life, but I was completely fooled. We were completely taken in by them.’
Det Sgt Baston said the deceit has cost Mrs Smullen £167,000 including a £55,000 deposit which was never paid, £8,400 rent, loss of value in the home which eventually sold for £475,000 plus legal costs.
It cost Mr Jarvis, 54, and his wife lost in the region £8,000 - £4,000 of which he has clawed back through the courts.
A confiscation order is set to be made after sentencing but Det Sgt Baston said the Jeromes did not own property and had nothing but a string of debts.
He said that according to the Inland Revenue, Mr Jerome had not worked for the last six years.
Judge Sean Enright granted them both bail and adjourned sentencing to July 14.
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Permalink • Muslim waitress wins £3,000 compensation for wearing ‘indecent’ dress, shows more on facebook
Gee, if any woman belongs in a burka this slag sure does. Use the link to see her ugly photo. (Well I think she’s ugly. Opinions may differ.)
So, what’s a good muslim lady doing working in a bar anyway? And don’t women get hit on all the time in this sort of environment? How come her male master allowed her out?
What a scam. And NOT cos she’s muslim. Or so she claims. Just plain dishonest and got away with it. For now anyway.
Revealed: Risqué Facebook picture of Muslim waitress who won £3,000 compensation for wearing ‘indecent’ dress
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 3:30 PM on 15th June 2009A Muslim cocktail waitress who won £3,000 for sexual harassment after refusing to wear an ‘indecent’ dress for work has posted pictures of herself wearing a low-cut top on the internet.
Fata Lemes, 33, told a tribunal that she was ‘not used to wearing sexually attractive clothes’ and that the bright red dress made her feel ‘she might as well be naked.’
But today she appeared to contradict herself by posting pictures of herself on the social networking website Facebook, in which she is wearing a revealing top.
The tribunal concluded the Bosnian Muslim ‘holds views about modesty and decency which some might think unusual in Britain in the 21st century’ but rejected her claim that the dress, which she was asked to wear at the Rocket bar in London’s Mayfair was ‘sexually revealing and indecent.’
However it accepted that Miss Lemes genuinely believed that the short, low-cut dress was ‘disgusting’ and made her look ‘like a prostitute’.
Her bosses should have made allowance for her feelings and their insistence that she wear the dress amounted to sexual harassment, the tribunal ruled.
The panel at Central London Employment Tribunal found that Miss Lemes overstated her trauma at being asked to wear the sleeveless dress that was open at the back.
It also rejected Miss Lemes’ claim that she was left with no choice but to walk out of her job after just eight days.
It branded her compensation claim of £20,000 including £17,500 for hurt feelings as ‘manifestly absurd’.
But it awarded her £2,919.95 for hurt feelings and loss of earnings..
In its judgment, the panel ruled that restaurant group Spring & Greene, which owns the Rocket chain, must ‘take their victim as they find her’.
It said of the dress: ‘It is eye-catching, not only because of its colour but also because of its cut and lines. It is clearly a garment for a girl or young woman. It is intended to, and does, show the curves of the body.
‘It seeks to make the wearer attractive. It might be seen as a party dress or something to wear at an informal celebration.’
But the panel ruled that wearing the dress could not amount to ‘conduct of a sexual nature’.
It added: ‘We would see the matter otherwise if we considered the dress genuinely indecent or if the wearing of it was, or could reasonably be seen as, tantamount to signalling availability for sexual favours.
‘But the facts do not put this case into that category. We appreciate that Miss Lemes takes a different view.’
Miss Lemes claimed she was pestered for sex by customers at the bar shortly after starting work in May last year.
She also alleged that bosses ran Rocket ‘like a sex club’ and that clients treated waitresses like prostitutes.
The panel ruled: ‘Her perception was that wearing the dress would make her feel as if she was on show, as if she was being presented as one of the attractions which the Rocket Bar was offering its customers.
‘In our view that perception was legitimate and not unreasonable. In our judgment, the effect of requiring her to wear the dress was to violate her dignity.
‘We further consider that it created for her an environment which was degrading, humiliating and offensive.’
But the tribunal rejected Miss Lemes’ claim of constructive dismissal. It ruled: ‘It seems to us that the proper interpretation of events is that the employment ended by mutual consent once it became clear that there was no prospect of the differences over the dress being resolved.
‘Miss Lemes holds views about modesty and decency which some might think unusual in Britain in the 21st century but this implies no criticism of her. In any event, the bar discriminated against her and they must take their victim as they find her.’
Giving evidence, Miss Lemes, of Camden, north-west London, told the tribunal she had worked as a waitress for 14 years and was experienced in silver service.
She took the job at Rocket, earning £5.52 an hour plus a share of service charge and tips, to supplement her income as a photographer.
Miss Lemes said that on only her second shift two guests told her they were looking for a blonde ‘for one or more nights’.
She said: ‘On my second shift, I was approached by two guests explaining that they were looking for a blonde Scandinavian or Swedish girl for one or more nights.
‘It was obvious that they thought that I was Scandinavian. I politely refused the offer.
‘I was offended by that offer. I considered the company must be indicating to guests that the bar was the type of bar where they could make sexual offers to staff.’
She initially wore a loose-fitting black linen shirt and trousers but a week into the job, she was given the new outfit, which she considered ‘physically revealing and openly sexual’.
She said: ‘Waitresses told me, looking worried, that the company had brought dresses for us to wear that they thought I would not like.
‘It was a bright red dress that was clinging and revealing of the body. It was clearly designed to be attractive to men sexually.
‘It was indecent. If you put this dress on, you might as well be naked. Everything finishes in the middle at the chest. It is open at the front and back. I did not want men looking at my body.
‘I was particularly concerned that clients, who already had made sexual proposals while I was wearing loose black clothing, would regard me as a sexual object or a prostitute.’
At the tribunal, the restaurant group produced photos of another waitress, Amanda Bjursten, wearing the dress in the bar and she modelled it at the tribunal hearing.
Ms Bjursten, from Sweden, said she was ‘completely comfortable’ wearing the dress.
The bar’s manager Luca Scanu denied the dress was designed to boost custom and tips from male clients by being ‘sexually inviting’.
Miss Lemes’ lawyer Joe Sykes asked the restaurant’s general manager Danila Bodei: ‘The reason for choosing the colour red was to indicate that the waitresses were sexually available, wasn’t it?’
She replied: ‘No, it was just the colour to match the bar.’
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Rep. Pete Stark, a leading congressional author of health reform legislation, called Thursday for a 2 percent income tax surcharge to pay for the health insurance program he predicted Congress and President Obama would enact later this year.
“If you wanted me to bet how would I pay for this, I would tell you not to bet against a surtax,” the Fremont Democrat said. “None of us like to talk about that.”
Stark predicted that when it comes down to paying for health care reform, “it’ll be, ‘Swallow hard, take the tough vote.’ “
Stark, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s health panel and a member of his party’s liberal wing, argued against paying for health care by taxing employees for employer-paid health coverage, or by ending the income tax deductions that employers now take for the cost of providing health insurance to their employees.
Yeah right. Surcharge. Surtax. Same difference. It’s still a tax increase, just what we all need in the middle of an ongoing and worsening recession. Thanks for nothing. Liars.
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