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calendar   Wednesday - July 08, 2009

Stretching a Buck

If your money doesn’t seem to be going far enough lately, it could be because it has too much company. When the money supply grows and that supply is not matched to the creation of actual wealth, then the value of a given dollar shrinks. And it looks like Obama has the presses at the mint going 24-7.


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So expect inflation to surge. It has to. The only way to get equal value for your product when the value of the cash is diminishing is to charge more.


Prior to the Obama administration, the money supply was still growing, but at a much slower rate:


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Remember how much devaluation we had during the Bush years? That’s nothing compared to what is coming.



Please follow the links for more information, or Google up “percentage change in monetary base”.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/mt/page10.pdf
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=BASE&s[1][transformation]=pc1

and a link to an economics blog ...
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/08/2009 at 09:37 AM   
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UK has paid off their entire national debt, fixed all the roads and bridges. So said Drew yesterday.

Actually, this is Drew’s quote.

Computerized cameras and automatic squealers on your garbage cans! Unreal. I’m so glad the UK has paid off their entire national debt, fixed all the roads and bridges, provided food, clothing, and shelter to all (not just MPs), etc., that they can afford to waste tax money like this.

Now that was in response to a post yesterday with regard to trash bins and spying on same etc.

By chance this morning I found the following uncredited article in our morning paper.  Somethin’ to do with a bridge. Couldn’t resist the post.


AMBULANCES TOO HEAVY TO CROSS SUSPENSION BRIDGE

The Telegraph

Ambulances have been banned from traveling over Clifton suspension bridge because they are too heavy.

Instead, they will have to take a 2.5 mile detour, which will put an extra six minutes on a journey and raised fears that it could put patients at greater risk.

The ban was imposed after the Great Western Ambulance Service introduced a fleet of ambulances that exceeded the bridge’s weight limit.

Staff who operate the bridge, which has a mechanism that weighs approaching vehicles, said they would consider allowing ambulances on a “life or death” call.
But the ambulance service says the bridge has now been struck from their route effecting their fleet of 103 ambulances.


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 07/08/2009 at 02:37 AM   
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Muslims in the news. Again. This time told by judge hey, live here .. obey the rules here.

There’s something else going on here too and it’s perhaps a side issue.

This paragraph appears later in the article below.

Mr Rynja’s publishing company, Gibson Square Books, bought the rights to the novel after Random House dropped plans to publish it, fearing “acts of violence”. The American author had insisted that her book was respectful towards Islam and Mr Rynja said he felt that its publication was part of a liberal democracy.

So I was left wondering if it was Random House, UK that backed down, or was it Random House, USA?  Way it reads to me, looks to be the USA. If that’s true,
that is not a very good sign at all.  Is the religion of piss now dictating what books shall be published in MY country?
And hey folks, we already know there has been a play withdrawn and who knows what else.

What happened here in this story is that a publisher took a book and some muzzies didn’t want it published and so they tried to burn down his house.

One of the group already has a record as having tried to kill his father.  Oh the glory of the criminal system that he was out and walking free. 

“If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules.”
says the judge in case.

Three Islamic fundamentalists were jailed yesterday for an arson attack on a London publisher who planned to print an “offensive” book about the Prophet Muhammad.

From The Times
David Brown

July 8, 2009

The attack on the home of Martin Rynja has been compared to the campaign against the publication of Salmon Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.

The door of Mr Rynja’s home was doused with diesel and set ablaze after it was discovered that he intended to publish Sherry Jones’s novel The Jewel of Medina, about the Prophet and his child bride.

The attack was led by Ali Beheshti, who was photographed three years ago at a London protest with his baby daughter dressed in a pink bonnet bearing the slogan “I love al-Qaeda

Undercover police followed Beheshti and the other attackers for several weeks and saw them monitoring the publisher and trying to avoid detection by changing their clothes.

Beheshti, 41, and Abrar Mirza, 23, admitted conspiracy to commit arson, being reckless as to whether life was endangered. Abbas Taj, 30, was convicted of the same offence at Croydon Crown Court in May.

Mrs Justice Rafferty, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice, sentenced each of them to four and a half years in jail, saying: “If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules.”

The judge described Mr Rynja as “a principled” man who had “exercised critical judgment on a literary work and stood up to be counted, knowing that publishing it put him at risk”.

Beheshti, unemployed, of Ilford; Taj, of Forest Gate; and Mirza, a mobile phone salesman of Walthamstow, all East London, planned to spend the night of the attack last September at the Regent’s Park Mosque as part of Ramadan. But shortly after they arrived at the mosque, they set out with “fire-making equipment” for the publisher’s home in Islington, North London.

Mr Rynja’s publishing company, Gibson Square Books, bought the rights to the novel after Random House dropped plans to publish it, fearing “acts of violence”. The American author had insisted that her book was respectful towards Islam and Mr Rynja said he felt that its publication was part of a liberal democracy.

Beheshti is a supporter of the convicted cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is fighting extradition to the United States on terrorism charges, and took part in the demonstrations outside the Danish Embassy in London in 2006 over cartoons in overseas magazines. The protesters, who thought the cartoons disrespectful to Muhammad, brandished placards calling for the bombing of the United States and death to Jews and British soldiers in Iraq.

Beheshti, also known as Abu Jihad — meaning holy war — was pictured with his daughter and described her as “the youngest member of al-Qaeda” as protesters waved banners vowing to “Massacre those who insult Islam” and promising “Europe, your 9/11 will come!”

Pictures found on a computer at his home showed Beheshti holding a burning cross at a protest outside the US Embassy in May 2005. Other pictures showed him posing with a gun and a large sword. Beheshti, previously convicted of trying to murder his father, also set fire to his hands with petrol outside the US Embassy during the protest.

His daughter, Farisa, aged 4, is reported to be attending an Islamic school and living with her mother Hannah, a white middle-class British convert.

Andrew Hall, QC, said in mitigation for Beheshti that the arson attack was “an act of protest born of the publication of a book felt by him and other Muslims to be disrespectful, provocative and offensive.

“He wishes me to say now, publicly, that he considers his conduct to have been misguided, disproportionate and counter-productive,” he added.

The Jewel of Medina has yet to be published in Britain.

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These people have no intention of living by the rules of any country they invade. In the case of converts who are native born, they are little more then traitors.

As for the statement; “ he considers his conduct to have been misguided, disproportionate and counter-productive “

Right.  Double speak for .... he’s damn sorry he got caught.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/08/2009 at 02:06 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - July 07, 2009

Drought Relief

Woo hoo, it’s finally raining again here! I thought we’d all have dried up and blown away if the “drought” lasted any longer - it hasn’t rained in 5 days! My gills - which grew in during June when it rained every single day - were feeling pretty parched. Thank goodness for this major thunderstorm that just came up from nowhere and is now dumping on us.

Interesting little story about the weather here from the folks over at AccuWeather.com, the place that makes the widget on my Firefox browser that is forever warning me of Severe Weather Alerts ...

However, the solar cycle may be a routine player in cooler-than-average and warmer-than-average weather patterns. This, combined with more typical, small-scale eruptions of volcanoes could be enough to trigger a noticeable effect on weather patterns.

According to NASA, the sun has been at the minimum part of its cycle since early 2008

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Some studies have shown that when sunspots are present, the area of the sun surrounding the spots is brighter. While the process is much more complex and the effects are probably not instantaneous, a lack of sunspots could translate to slightly less heating of the earth, by the sun.

And here I thought it was this blocked air mass out in the Atlantic that was causing the rain. Heh, that was so 2 weeks ago. Now it’s a shift in the jet stream that is predicted to keep things cool and moist here for a good part of July as well. I know, you know, we all know ... but the above quote is about as close as a weather service is going to come to saying that Global Warming is a) a crock, and b) caused by the sun. I’ll take it.



Current Space Weather:

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The expected solar flare from sunspot 1024 did not occur

Sunspots: 2
Solar wind:
speed: 337.4 km/sec
density: 11.4 protons/cm3

Another balmy day in the solar system

See More Below The Fold

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/07/2009 at 01:37 PM   
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another deliberate misdirection

Much is being made in the media of the murder of retired football star Steve McNair. Yes, it’s an awful thing. But let’s step back from the glare for a moment. This guy, married and a father of 4 children, had his little chippy on the side, this Sahel Kazemi, aged 20 . He paid for her apartment, he bought her a Cadillac Escalade. She thought he was going to divorce his wife and marry her. Same old story. My guess is that she was on the verge of getting dumped, and knew it. The two of them were pulled over for drunk driving just two nights before the murder; obviously one or both of them realized that that incident would open the bag and let the cat out; their secret relationship would not be secret for very much longer. So it was decision time. Isn’t it interesting that she purchased a gun that very same day, just a few hours after the traffic stop? That leads me to wonder whether A) she was in fear for her life; that the disclosure of their illicit relationship would get her killed, or B) she was a psycho, and realized their thang was in trouble, and had that Fatal Attraction “if I can’t have him, then nobody can” attitude.

But let’s cut through the crap, at least the crap surrounding the gun issue. This is not a death that can be blamed on “the gun culture” as New York Daily News sports writer Mike Lupica wrote. If you need a culture to blame this on, blame it on the jock culture or the adultery culture that countenances famous athletes and other rich guys keeping a bit of tail on the side.

Furthermore, CNN and any number of other news reports are bending the facts. The gun Sahel purchased didn’t just come from “somewhere”. It was purchased. Legally. From a private owner. Many of these journalists are bending the truth when they question how Sahel, 20, purchased the pistol when Tennessee law says you have to be 21 to carry a pistol. Um, hello? You need to be 21 to carry the thing, but you only need to be 18 to buy one. Huge difference there. Yes, it’s a bit confusing, since federal law requires that a purchaser be 21 to buy a pistol from a federally licensed dealer. But that same law allows for a personal sale to take place when the buyer is 18.

And the local police are playing that same game:

Police found a semiautomatic pistol beneath Kazemi’s body and determined that she bought it Thursday night, Nashville Metropolitan Police Department Spokesman Don Aaron said Monday. He said he didn’t know whether it was a legal purchase but noted that Kazemi wouldn’t meet the age requirement for a permit to carry a handgun, which is 21.

Complete bullshit misdirection. The cops knew within seconds of running the gun’s serial number if it was legally purchased, who the reported owner was, or if it had been reported stolen. And they know damn well what the minimum purchase age is as well.

So let’s knock off the crap. Yes, this is a tragic situation. But let’s not play politics with it, and let’s not bend the truth. Report the facts. And know the law (especially if you are a police officer): see 18 USC 922 (b)(1), 18 USC 922 (c)(1), 18 USC 922 (x)(2), 18 USC 922(x)(5).

If the gun was purchased from a legitimate private owner then the sale was legal. If the gun was a “street gun”, previously stolen etc., then the purchase was illegal. “didn’t know” is equivocation at worst, or yet another case of an improperly informed “spokesman”.

But when does the unvarnished truth ever get reported when the story involves guns?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/07/2009 at 08:17 AM   
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COMING SOON TO A TRASH BIN NEAR YOU, PUTER CHIPS IN BINS TO SPY ON YOU. OOPS, THEY’RE HERE NOW!

No rush, no hurry folks. Remain in line and wait like good little people and Al Bore’s Brit minions will see to you all.  Step right up, no hurry. Get your spy chip now. Plenty on hand.  Don’t forget to have forms filled in reporting neighbors and friends who violate gween regs.

Dust carts fitted with mini computers to record recycling offences
Binmen have been given miniature computers so they can report households for breaking rubbish disposal rules.

By John Bingham
Published: 7:00AM BST 06 Jul 2009

Southampton City Council has ordered the devices for its fleet of refuse vehicles amid claims that it could be used to spy on residents.

The system enables details dustmen to report misdemeanours such as putting out two bins, leaving the lid ajar or “contaminating” recycling by putting out the wrong type of waste back to council officials instantly.

Wardens, also equipped with mobile computers, can then be summoned to the address to challenge the occupants about their recycling habits.

One local authority boasted that it was able to get a warden to the scene “in minutes”.

Between 15 and 20 councils, many of which have switched to fortnightly collections, already use the “Waste Collector Live” system produced by Bartec, a company based in Barnsley.

The company also markets the controversial computer chips for bins which record how much waste families are throwing out.

Resembling a satellite navigation device, the system guides trucks around their rounds and stores useful information such as which houses have elderly or disabled people requiring assistance.

But it is also fitted with a touch screen on which dustmen are asked to report details such as bin lids which are not properly closed allowing officials to compile data on repeat offenders.

Publicity material for the device, also details how offences such as households with “illegal” second bins can also be reported instantaneously to council call centres.

It is already in use in Daventry, Northants, Nottingham, Rushcliffe, Notts, Walsall, West Mids, and Watford, Herts, among others, according to Bartec.

Southampton City Council insisted that it would not herald a “Big Brother” approach by the council and insisted that it would simply speed up the service to residents.

Doretta Cocks, founder of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collection, said: “I can think of no other reason to bring this in unless they intend to charge residents.

“If it’s not exactly Big Brother already then it has the potential to be.”

Bartec’s website claims that the system has helped turn the process of reporting households which put the wrong type of waste into their recycling boxes into a “positive” experience.

It praises Tamworth Borough Council for a system in which wardens are dispatched instantly to “offer advice and assistance” to offending families.

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One local authority boasted that it was able to get a warden to the scene “in minutes”.
Hmm. Wonder if cops can do that too. ??? Hey, why not? If a garbage warden can get to the scene of the crime in minutes, maybe the cops eventually will too.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/07/2009 at 04:54 AM   
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HAS THE STATE DECIDED IT’S OKAY TO KIDNAP KIDS IF THE STATE DOES THE NAPING?

This article appeared a couple of day ago and seemed so unreasonable to me.  I tried to see it as maybe those in authority looked at the picture, but I confess I failed to see whatever it was they saw.
Maybe they were worried enough about child welfare they decide to err on the side of caution.  I mean, think about it.  If they didn’t and the worse happened. What then?  But no.  It still seems unreasonable and somewhere there’s stupid as well.

Take a look at this.


A couple have lost custody of their children after the father asked for permission to pick them up from inside the school gates.

By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
Published: 9:00PM BST 04 Jul 2009

The man, a business consultant, was concerned that two of his three children – who are all under 13 – might be at risk of abduction because of the family’s connections.

Telling the school that the children were related to European royalty and that his brother was a senior Army officer, the father is said to have asked for permission – which was granted – to pick up his children inside the two schools attended by his eldest children.

However, one of the head teachers went to the police because of her “concerns”.

This led to the parents’ background being investigated and concerns being raised, initially over the father’s mental state and then for the safety of his children.

Lord Monckton, who has investigated the allegations, described the episode as “the worst case of child abduction by social services that I have ever come across”.

He accused a social worker and a police officer, both female, of plotting together against the couple, who live in the east of England.

Lord Monckton has now reported the two women to the local police force and council for alleged improper conduct.

Lord Monckton claims that on May 18 a social worker approached the father as he arrived, with his wife, to pick up one of their children from school.

The father has told the peer that when he was asked to accompany her, he demanded to see her identification but she refused to show him. He claims he was then hancuffed by two police officers.

His wife was also detained when she went to remonstrate, and their youngest child was taken away screaming, according to the family’s account. Later all three children were taken into care.

The father was then detained under the Mental Health Act, although his wife was released later the same day.

“However, the father’s supporters say that on May 28, he appeared before a mental health tribunal and was given a complete discharge; yet his children remain in care.

The Sunday Telegraph has had no direct contact with the family. It is understood that the social worker and police officer have justified their actions in statements to a family court.

A council spokesman said: “We have no comment to make because the matter is in front of the courts.”

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“the matter is in front of the courts”
I sure as hell hope it’s in the courts. I hope mom and dad sue the crap outta those jerks. But hey. This is what the former Gt. Britain has come to.
Here’s Christopher Booker’s take on the story in an editorial from the Telegraph.

Is the state guilty of child kidnap?
Social workers are still too keen to split up families, says Christopher Booker.

By Christopher Booker
Published: 6:07PM BST 04 Jul 2009

One of the most disturbing features of life in modern Britain has been the extraordinary powers given to social workers to seize children from their parents, too often – when those powers are abused – supported by the police and family courts. What makes this still more alarming is the legal bar on reporting these episodes, supposedly to protect the children, which again too often works to protect the social workers themselves at the expense of the children.

Details of yet another shocking case, which comes to its climax in a county court in eastern England this week, have recently been placed in the House of Lords Library. This follows a comprehensive investigation carried out on behalf of the family by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, who, as a hereditary peer, does not sit in the Lords, but has passed his dossier both to an active life peer and to this column.

Until six weeks ago, Mr and Mrs Jones, as I must call them under reporting restrictions, lived happily with their three young children, two sons and a daughter, aged under 13. Mr Jones, a business consultant, is related to various European royal families and his brother is a senior Army officer seconded to the UN. If he has one weakness, as he admits, it is to refer to these connections, as he did to the heads of the schools attended by his two older children, saying that he was particularly concerned for their security. He asked that he could be allowed to drive into the school grounds when picking up his daughter, because he did not want to leave her waiting, potentially vulnerable, in the road outside.

The headmistress agreed to this, but, concerned about other children’s safety, contacted the local police, who in turn passed on their concerns to social services. The result of this was that, on May 18, when Mr and Mr Jones, accompanied by their younger son, arrived at school to pick up their daughter, they were met by a group of strangers, one as it turned out a female social worker. She asked, without explaining why or who she was, whether he was Mr Jones. When she three times refused to show him any ID, he was seized from behind by two policemen, handcuffed and put under arrest.

He was driven by a policeman to a nearby mental hospital where he was told that, because of “a number of concerns”, he was being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and “sectioned” under S.2 as of “unsound mind”. His wife, it turned out, had been similarly arrested, for loudly protesting at the handcuffing of her husband and the forcible seizing from her arms of her young son. The three children had been taken into care by social services.

Mrs Jones was allowed to return to an empty home that evening. Mr Jones was permitted to attend court two days later, to hear the magistrates grant an interim order for the children to remain in the care of social services. Because he was “sectioned”, he was not allowed to speak. The chief magistrate, it later emerged, was chairman of the trustees of the mental hospital in which he was being detained.

On May 28, Mr Jones appeared before a mental health tribunal which, after hearing all the facts relating to his case, gave him a complete discharge. He returned home to his wife and immediately contacted his MP, a local MEP, lawyers and others he thought might be able to help, one of whom set in train the investigation by Lord Monckton that led to this story appearing here.

Despite the finding of the tribunal, the social workers have remained determined to hold on to the children, with a view to their care being determined in a county court on Wednesday. The voluminous dossier setting out this extraordinary sequence of events not only includes lengthy statements from Mr and Mrs Jones but copies of detailed statements by the social worker and policewoman most closely involved in the case (along with a good deal more circumstantial evidence).

The only reason offered in these documents for the abduction of the children is Mr Jones’s “delusional belief system” that special care should be taken of his children because of their elevated family connections. The only harm done to the children is their very evident unhappiness at being separated from their parents.

It must be hoped that the court this week recognises how grotesquely this tragic case has been blown out of all proportion, and rules that a loving family should immediately be reunited.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/07/2009 at 03:51 AM   
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calendar   Monday - July 06, 2009

perfectly awful

There was a man in England who was considered by all to be the world’s foremost authority on tea. One day he was chatting with a friend of his who had just returned from a trip to Australia . This friend told him that he had heard of a tea brewed in a small town in the Outback named Mercy.


The connoisseur scoffed at him, stating that no tea came out of the Outback, because there was no way to grow it.


“Oh, it doesn’t come from leaves,” remarked his friend, “they brew it from Koala fur.”


This so intrigued the expert that he booked a flight to Australia the next day. After his arrival, he hired a guide to take him deep into the Outback to the town of Mercy . Once in town, he found the only pub, and ordered a cup of the mysterious beverage.


The cup was placed before him. He spent many moments noting the color, the aroma, and the viscosity. He took a small sip. It was good! He then followed with a big mouthful, and was suddenly gagging and spitting, clutching at his mouth.


“What is this?” he exclaimed, holding up a handful of what appeared to be short, coarse threads.


“Oh, that’s Koala fur,” replied the bartender.


“You mean to tell me that you don’t strain out the fur?” asked the expert, incredulous.


“Of course not,” replied the bartender, “The Koala tea of Mercy is not strained!”


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/06/2009 at 07:34 PM   
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Man left dying in his home as paramedic carried out 16-minute risk assessment outside. elf n safety?

Jeez what a story this is. I can’t make any comments. Words just don’t come to mind.

To think we have a minimum of another year in this place.

By Tom Kelly
Last updated at 4:19 PM on 06th July 2009


Heart attack: Roy Adams died after a paramedic spent 16 minutes on a health and safety check outside his house

A grandfather was left dying in his home while a paramedic waited outside for 16 minutes as he carried out a health and safety assessment.

The family of Roy Adams believe he might have survived if those ‘vital minutes’ had not been squandered.

The 61-year-old police chauffeur, who suffered a suspected heart attack, did finally receive treatment, but died on the way to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties.

Mr Adams telephoned 999 from his home in Morden, south London, complaining of chest problems.

On the advice of the operator, he left both the communal door to the block of flats and the door to his own apartment on the latch to enable the ambulance crew to get in quickly.

But when the rapid response medic arrived six minutes later he decided against going straight into Mr Adams’s home.

It is believed that, because the doors were open, he feared that the flat was being burgled.

Instead the medic carried out an on scene risk assessment and called the police for back up.

After waiting for 16 minutes he went into the property to find Mr Adams - who was alone in the property - dying on the floor unable to breathe.

He was taken to hospital but died before he arrived.

His daughter Catherine Adams, a security worker, said: ‘I keep picturing him in agony on the floor taking his dying breaths as he could hear the paramedic outside.

‘He must have been thinking: “Please, just come in, just come in”.

‘It’s heartbreaking. I can’t understand why the medic waited so long and why he thought carrying out a risk assessment was more important than saving my father.’

Miss Adams went on: ‘What risk did my father pose? It is ludicrous.

‘Why would you stand outside carrying out this risk assessment when you know an old man is inside with a serious medical emergency?’

‘My dad had been instructed to put the doors on the latch by the operator. 

‘Vital minutes were wasted. He might well have survived if the medic had gone in and treated him as soon as he arrived, but now we will never know.

We haven’t been given any explanation from the ambulance service. I find it baffling.

‘We’ve got to get answers. We’ve got to find out. We don’t want any other family to have to go through what we are going through.

‘My dad was a pillar of the community.

‘He spent his life serving others, but when he desperately needed help he was made to wait for heath and safety reasons.

‘The image of him lying there desperate for help as the paramedic waited outside keeps going round and round in my head.

During his 17-years as a police chauffeur, Mr Adams drove Scotland Yard Commanders around London and also had responsibility for taking witnesses to court in major cases.

He also drove police vans during fraud squad raids.

A talented amateur singer, he had appeared at the Albert Hall with the London Welsh Male Voice Choir.

He was devoted to his two daughters and three grandsons, and remained good friends with his ex wife.

His death on June 29 was caused by coronary artery disease.  A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘We were called at 00.14 am to a residential address in Morden.

‘The first member of our staff to arrive at the address carried out a full on-scene risk assessment and requested police assistance due to safety concerns.

‘He then took the decision to enter the property, maintaining telephone contact with our control room.

‘One patient – a man – was taken to hospital.’

‘We are currently looking into the circumstances surrounding the incident.’

The London Ambulance Service said an on scene risk assessment is a ‘mental check list’ which paramedics are required to go through when they arrive at an emergency.

It includes questions like: Does the scene look safe? Are there any obvious risks? Will I require extra help? Will I need a stretcher? Will I need extra equipment? Are there any steps or other obstacles that could cause a problem?  The assessment is not written down.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: ‘We have a duty of care to treat patients but we also have to look after our staff.

‘In this case the medic conducted the on scene risk assessment and had safety concerns and decided to call for back up.’

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Not to worry though. I’m certain someone will issue an apology and say their condolences and heart felt feelings go out to the family. Hoping most likely that the family will accept that BS in place of a law suit.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/06/2009 at 02:26 PM   
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A HELLISH WEEK AND THAT’S NO LIE.  WATER LINE AND RIGHT OF ACCESS AND HEADACHE

Wrote to Drew about this but wasn’t sure if too many would be interested. Had other thoughts and so decided to share this pain in the butt problem which may be on the way to being solved. We hope.

Some background.

Our house, the one with the red X was built in the 1920’s.  I think about 23 or 4.  It’s called a dormer bungalow and there were three left on this street of about 9 houses. The bungalows were built by the same builder and so naturally were mostly pretty much the same inside and out.

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When they were constructed, all three had their water tied together.  Which meant that if the water supply had to be cut off at one house, all three had it turned off.  It does get a bit confusing so I’ll leave that part of it there.  Except to say that till now, that had never been a problem. The downside though was that the cut off should you have a flood, and we did in 2005, was in front and at the far side of the house next door.  Not at the front of our house. Also, back in those days there weren’t any water meters.

A dentist and family bought that house in the foreground. It’s name is Avalon. The house, not the dentist.  His name is Steve.
Steve paid £470,000.00 (almost one million in American dollars at that time about two years ago, when the dollar/pound ratio was $2 to the £1.00)
The house, being very old and unsuitable for a large and young family, was demolished in April.  A sad sight for us next door.

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Once the house was sold a notice of demolition intent was posted outside on the gate.  I had not yet met the buyers, but seeing that notice and knowing they had been by the place once or 2wice, I wrote out a note letting them know we had spare key to the place.  I also posted a message in large print informing them about the water supply.  Later on, I met Steve and reminded him about the water.  Time passed, lots of time. In fact, about two years as plan after plan apparently was turned down by the planning council to build his dream house.  After awhile he hired another architect and things then moved on from there.

On meeting his architect, who brought the plans to the two houses affected by this new one, I told the architect about the water supply. “ Oh really “ says he.
I’d no idea. I’m glad you told me.  Well hell, I told YOUR CLIENT! I even put it in writing.  Between you and I BMEWS, I think the old fox did know.
So anyway, he promised to see to things and he did.  The old house came down and in the process while using their digger, they dug up our line which broke.
They fixed it the next day and as I write it is still above ground and in a safe area (fingers crossed) awaiting developments.
And here’s when and where things got tricky.

We received this letter from the architect last week.

Whilst on site today I was shown a section of pipe from the water supply that serves your house and Avalon.  We are installing a new supply to AVALON as the existing supply is in such a poor condition, rusting galvanised iron laid down only one foot below the ground level- it should be two foot six inches below, With the new supply in place we will cap off the junction with the pipe currently serving both properties.

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Repair or relaying the supply is not a practical solution as it passes through the roots of a tree, a tree that was probably not there when the pipe was laid some 60-70 years ago.  I suggest that you speak to Southern Water with a view to getting a new supply. 


The red arrow you see shows the approx. line where our water supply runs across their property. It continues for several feet on their side of that far hedge before running into our house on our side of that hedge.

OK.  So we called Southern Water.

We were informed that FIRST, we need to get an application costing £269 (that’s damn near $300) and then they send someone to survey and then WE have to find the people or a qualified plumber to put things in place and that cost can be £1000 and that’s a starting figure. The water company contracts out ppl and all they do is come out and install a water meter, which this house never had. And all because our line runs under the property next door. What a nerve wracking mess we had a week to think about.

Everything much confused and up in the air but the bottom line is that if we can’t somehow get the new owners to pay the bill then we’re in the dog house for lots. We see it running to £2000 minimum and especially as we have tree/roots thing here too.

Now here’s a REAL catch 22 for ya. If we leave the old pipe in place, after all, till now there hasn’t been any problems since the late old lady bought this place in 1964, if we leave it and there is a leak, we would need to get the permission of the new owner next door to rip up his front yard and or driveway. Like he’d say sure thing.
BUT ... legally he can not “deny us access to water.” BUT ... our ins. ppl say they can’t cover repair unless he gave permission. So where would that leave us?

A lucky break but we still have to see where it’ll lead.

Someone tipped me off that I should call Southern Water back and tell them there’s a “New Build” next door, and we needed to see an inspector soonest.
We were given todays date and sweated a week till early today.

The inspector informs us that in no way are we responsible financially unless we ourselves undertake to actually move the pipe to a new setting, that is take on a new connection from the main across the street directly to the installation the new guys are putting in.
He says we have two options.  WE CAN LEAVE THE OLD LINE IN PLACE except of course the part now exposed would have to be buried. By them. And just leave it there.  That pipe has never been a problem, and even though it wasn’t far below ground, it never even froze in winters past.  The inspector said that
we could suggest to the new owner that should the pipe actually give way, it will of course flood under his property, undermining his yard or driveway. So it’s doubtful he’d refuse permission to do a repair even if it meant digging up his property.
The other option is to get a quote and offer to pay for a small section of new pipe that runs under where the driveway will be.  He thinks the new folks or builder could easily cover that since the builder is gonna have that equipment on site anyway. And the cost should not be much. But we are not obligated to do that. He quoted a couple of regulations and some law, all of which is in our favor.  He also spoke to the architect and the site supervisor telling them the same.
Also, he thinks the architect was blowing smoke at us with regard to the tree roots and all that as he says they work through and around that all the time.
What the architect is trying to do is keep his clients cost down at our expense.  I was further informed that the guy bought an old house with whatever problems come with that.  The water supply to our place was in place long before he bought the property and so it isn’t our fault they dug it up or that the houses were tied together.

Called the architect today to see what might be worked out but never got a call back.

Stay Tuned.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/06/2009 at 11:07 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - July 05, 2009

Councillor defends his violent sons. Not one word in the msm here. Nothing. But if they were white?

White and on the right and we’d never hear the end of it. And you know damn well that’s true.

Get a load of the dad and comments re. how sorry and how they’ll never do it again. Yeah, we believe that. Scum!

Had it been a carload of white punks therE would be investigations up the wazoo and forever.  People in office would be falling all over themselves to make nice and apologize to that community.

HT/LyndonB for bringing this to our attention.  We get papers here every day and several different ones every Sat. and Sun. I never saw this one.


Councillor defends his violent sons

Vanessa Cornall

TWO sons who helped get their father elected into County Hall have pleaded guilty to knocking out the front teeth of a teenage girl.

Waqar Mohammed Younis, 20, and his brother Khawar Younis, 17, both of Nuttall Street, Accrington, appeared at Burnley Crown Court last Tuesday charged with occasioning actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm with intent.

The pair, whose father is newly-elected Lancashire County Councillor Mohammed Younis, who defeated Doreen Pollitt by a margin of only 22 votes for the seat of Accrington North, were due to go to trial until they pleaded guilty to ABH and a lesser charge of GBH without intent.

Victim Lianne Clayton, 18, of Lime Road, Accrington, has spoken out about the attack which left her without two upper front teeth and James Ryder, also 18, her boyfriend, with deep cuts and bruises and needing a CT Scan.

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Child care apprentice Lianne said: “This was easily the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I still don’t know why they picked on us. I think we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“Me and James were walking down the street, when a red jeep pulled up next to us and eight lads jumped out. The next thing I knew they were circling us and hitting James.

“I tried to pull them off him, but then I just remember being pushed back and being punched in the face, I think I was knocked out because when I woke up I was on the floor.”

The incident happened on 24 November last year.

Lianne, now has to wear a plate covering the gap left by her missing teeth, hopes to be fitted with permanent screw in replacements in July which will take six months to heal and set.

She said: “Wearing this plate is a nightmare. I hate eating in front of people at work because the plate falls out and looks horrible. I get really self-conscious and down about the mess it has left me in.

“I am relieved they have pleaded guilty and that I don’t have to give evidence in court. Even seeing them in the waiting room with my family around, left me in tears and fearful.

“Every time I see a red car I freeze. I saw them earlier this month canvassing for their dad who has just been elected and I literally turned round and ran home.

“They shouldn’t be allowed to help with an election when they can be so violent. They have never apologised.”

County Councillor Younis, a Tory councillor, won his seat after one of the borough’s closest margins, which saw the votes having to be counted twice.

He said: “This is a very regrettable incident. It was out of character for my sons. They are both very sorry about the whole incident and they will never behave like this in the future.

“I am very proud of my sons and they are now moving on with their lives, education and future.”

The Younis brothers will now reappear on Monday 27 July to be sentenced.

Recorder Geoffrey Lowe told the pair: “This case is adjourned for pre-sentence reports so that the court can learn more about you before sentencing. I must make you aware that a custodial sentence is clearly an option. You have pleaded guilty to serious crimes.”

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/05/2009 at 02:08 PM   
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IS THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY BEING LED INTO A SWAMP? HITCHENS OF THE MAIL THINKS SO.

On Friday I posted a story about the deviant pride parade and how David Cameron, the head of what passes for the conservative party here, made an apology for something 20 years ago concerning homosexual rights.  ?  Or as Drew correctly pointed out, extra special rights.

Well ... along came Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, and he said that he was very proud of the gains and legislation with regard to queer rights.  He wished those who were taking part in (yesterday’s) odd-person parade well, but said he couldn’t attend due to security concerns. I’m pretty sure he said that.
Oh but ...  his wife would attend and march in his sted. 

At the time I thought, what’s with these two guys?  Are they one upping each other? I guess.  It’s the pink vote, dummy. 

Well, I didn’t post that one Friday because I’d already done a couple things on that subject and was afraid I’d overdue it.

Saturday just wasn’t my day and I left off posting anything and felt guilty for it.  Being the weekend when we get so many papers I figured there’d be lots to share today and oh boy. 

Going through The Telegraph I came upon this cartoon and and a very good editorial by Peter Hitchens on the subject in The Sunday Mail.

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Just to ID for those who don’t know.  That’s supposed to be Brown on the left in red and Cameron on the right.

And then ... good grief Charlie Brown ....  or as WC Fields might have said. “Godfrey Daniels!” This story appeared in the Mail and again I was going to ignore it.  But .... how can this one be ignored?

Balls bans children’s ‘gay’ jibes as government cracks down on sexual bullying
By Brendan Carlin Last updated at 8:02 AM on 05th July 2009

A fresh move to ban children from using the word ‘gay’ as an insult was made by Schools Secretary Ed Balls last night.

He said insults based on sexuality should be taken ‘as seriously as racism’. His department is now set to publish new guidance to crack down on ‘sexist and sexual’ bullying.

But Tory MP Philip Davies condemned Mr Balls for producing ‘more politically-correct nonsense’.

THE REST OF THE ARTICLE IS HERE

Then there is this from Peter Hitchens.
Keep in mind, the Tories are conservatives.  Labour is the politically correct left.  The two might well be interchangeable on many issues.  Like sexually deviant behavior. Both are in favor of it and will defend to the death their agenda and the right to the use of the word Gay. Oh yeah. And extra special rights.

Dave, leader of the ‘Heather has two Mommies’ Party...

Let’s think of all the things the Conservative Party might want to apologise for.

Privatising the railways, joining the Common Market, loading the police with paperwork, devastating the Armed Forces with cuts, introducing the GCSE, flattening half of British industry by accident in the early Eighties, failing to oppose the Iraq War, sacking the brave miners of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire who defied Arthur Scargill’s bullying mobs...I could go on. 

But no. What it has said sorry for is something called ‘Section 28’, which stopped local authorities from promoting homosexuality in schools.

David Cameron journeyed specially to a ‘Gay Pride’ event to kowtow to the sexual revolution and simper: ‘We got it wrong. It was an emotional issue. I hope you can forgive us.’

Forgive them for what? Section 28 resulted from a fuss over the appearance of books aimed at children, intended to spread the view that single-sex couples could bring upchildren without any disadvantage to those children.

I still remember the titles: ‘Jenny Lives With Eric And Martin’ and ‘Heather Has Two Mommies’.

Less than 25 years ago, only revolutionaries such as Ken Livingstone endorsed this sort of thing.

Mainstream politicians and newspapers alike were as doubtful about it as most people still are in their private thoughts.

Nowadays, opinion formers and MPs have been scared into conformity, and the unhappy majority have learned to keep quiet about their concerns, for fear of the Thought Police.

This supposedly wicked law was little more than an expression of opinion by Parliament.

Nobody was ever prosecuted under its provisions. Try as they may, the homosexual liberation movement have never produced evidence of any martyrdoms resulting from it.

What they still hate about it is that it was the last stand of those in British politics who were not cowed into silence or acquiescence by the sexual revolution.

They want to make sure that the victory of self-indulgence – which is what this is really all about – is irreversible.

That way, there is no chance that the stable married family, or the society it supported, can ever come back.

And guess who is helping them? Why, the party that is supposed to stand for conservatism.

How far into the swamp will the Tories allow Mr Cameron to lead them before they realise what he is?

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calendar   Saturday - July 04, 2009

The Americans Who Risked Everything

Hello, and happy Independence Day to all you BMEWSd out there.

While casting about for something to post in honor of what could arguably be the last ‘Independence Day’ celebration under the Obammunista regime (seriously, we need regime change in the US of A NOW!), the best that I could find was this speech from Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr.

That’s right, this is father of the Rush we all know and love; or love to hate if you’re a liberal.

Face it, only liberals can engage in ‘hate’ speech or ‘racist’ speech. Conservatives don’t acknowledge the premise.

In these times, I pray I may live up to the examples of patriotism listed here…

See More Below The Fold

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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 07/04/2009 at 02:56 PM   
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Happy Birthday to US


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Land of the Free, because of the Brave

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We will be think of these brave men as we enjoy the Independence Day weekend.
Be sure to mention them in your prayers, and as you say grace over your Fourth of July cookout meal.



Please link to Sean Linnane’s blog Stormbringer for several great photo essays on Independence Day and our Marines’ surge in Afghanistan. The above photo and caption are from there.

A pretty darn good read on the British forces over there can be found here.

And a reminder of what happened to those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence can can be found here. I think I’m gonna hafta blogroll this guy.



Make the most out of today, and spend some time thinking about the freedoms you have, the freedoms you’ve lost “for your own good”, and the freedoms you’re about to loose.

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This is where your nation stands on freedom today, like it or not:

The Obama administration said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that forced President Manuel Zelaya into exile. The U.S. withheld stronger action in hopes of negotiating a peaceful return of the country’s elected leader.

The Organization of American States, meeting in Washington, gave Honduran coup leaders three days to restore Zelaya to power - under threat of suspending Honduras’s OAS membership. Afterward, several officials said the administration is still reviewing the possibility of cutting off U.S. aid.

Excert from the Honduras Constitution:
Article 239 — No citizen that has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President. Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.


[There it is, in plain English. Or Spanish. Try to change the term limits law and you are instantly fired. Badda Frickin Bing, buh-bye.]

The President of the United States is supporting a would-be dictator and castigating a free people who followed their laws to the letter to dispose of him. He is calling the lawful expulsion of a despot a military coup. And the media is 101% in bed with him. Pardon me, but I think I have to go find my watering can.

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