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calendar   Friday - July 17, 2009

A bit of English history.  The last woman to be beheaded in England was done here.

Just a couple miles down the road in Winchester sits The Eclipse Inn.  From this place in 1685 was carried out the execution of Lady Alice Lise.
The scaffold was above the door in front here.

I took the photo a year or so ago, knowing about the site but at the time not realizing who or what the circumstances were.
btw ... there is some dispute re. her age. Some have it at 72 but the most recent history says 67. Just before her 68th B.day.

Here’s the background.

Lady Alice Lisle
decapitated on Sept. 2, 1685, shortly before her 68th birthday.

Her crime was the sheltering of a clergyman fleeing the rout of Monmouth’s short lived rebellion.  Which was btw a badly botched attempt by Charles II’s bastard son to seize the thrown from his uncle, King James II.

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Poor Lady A. was the wife of the late John Lisle, who was a loyal follower of that vandal Cromwell.  Alright, so I’m opinionated on the topic. Reason being that under Cromwell, there were many beautiful buildings that might be standing yet, but for his orders to destroy them.  They blew up Winchester Castle for example, and used the famous round table, hanging still in the museum here, for target practice.  So as far as I’m concerned, they were dribbling, drooling barbarians all.  No sense of the past, no feelings for history. Vandals. A pox on them.

OK, back to Lady Alice.
Her husband was a commissioner of the high court of Justice for the trial (if you want to call a lynching that) of King Charles I, who I’ll grant ya was no boy scout and perhaps not the very best king of England.  But that’s by the by.
Well, John Lisle was not a signer of the death warrant, but he did help to draw it up.  However, he was very much anti royalist and did send many to their death.

When the restoration came about, he had to flee the country.  Many of his fellow regicides didn’t make it.  I think many got the ax and it caught up to poor John as well, when a Royalist assassin found him in Switzerland.  That ends his story but poor Lady Alice was now in for it because apparently she was in touch, and we really can’t be certain if it was just sympathy for those trying to get away, or if she actually knew about and aided a rebellion. There are two schools of thought on that score.

If you ever have heard of The Bloody Assize, which was the result of the rebellion, I guess depending on what side you were on, she was either it’s deserving victim or else simply a victim.  One of the things that does become clear however, is that in actual fact she was unfairly and unlawfully convicted.

I read the transcript of her trial, and due to the language of that day, that was a trial in itself. I never finished the whole thing.

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM GOOGLE AND OF COURSE IT’S ONLY A SNIPIT.

It would appear that Lady Lisle did not grieve too deeply over her husband’s death. According to Burnett, quoted in the Salisbury Journal, ‘She was not easily reconciled to her husband on account of his association with the regicides.’ After her husband’s death she lived quietly as a widow at Moyles Court and showed some sympathy with the dissenting ministers in their trials and ordeals during Charles II’s reign.

The Presbyterians were disappointed with the Restoration. The Cavalier Parliament preserved the Church of England for which Charles I had died. Moreover, the Clarendon Code persecuted nonconformist ministers, forbidding them from all public office. The Act of Uniformity 1662 authorized a new edition of the prayer book and many Puritan teachers were dismissed from office for refusing to use it. The Conventicle Act was introduced making it a crime to worship anywhere but in a Church of England church. Furthermore, the Five Mile Act stopped nonconformist clergy living within a five mile radius of a town or old parish. The reign of Charles II, far from being merry, was an unhappy time for many sincere Christians like Alicia Lisle.

Charles II was married to Catherine Braganza of Portugal. She did not bear him any children and as a result, James his Catholic brother was due to succeed him. There was support for Charles’s illegitimate son, James, Duke of Monmouth, to become King instead of James. The Duke’s mother, Lucy Walter, had been one of Charles’s mistresses. After the death of Charles in 1685 and the succession of James to the throne, the Duke of Monmouth, who was in Holland, plotted to overthrow James II.

Alicia Lisle spent the first week of July in London during the Monmouth rebellion, but some days later returned to Moyles Court. ‘On 20th July 1685 she received a letter from John Hickes, the dissenting minister, asking her to shelter him.’ Hickes had fled the battle of Sedgemoor seeking refuge from the King’s Army. Unbeknown to Alicia, he was a Monmouth man!

The two fugitives were found after a search of Moyles Court by Penruddock’s soldiers. Hickes was found in the malthouse and Nelthorp in a hole by the chimney in one of the rooms which presumably is the cupboard hole situated in the present staff room at Moyles Court School. Lady Alicia was arrested and conveyed to Winchester for trial before Judge Jeffries. Hickes and Nelthorp were taken to Glastonbury and after trial were hung, drawn and quartered.

On 27 August 1685 she was tried by special commission before Judge Jeffreys at Winchester, on the capital charge of harbouring Hickes, a traitor. No evidence respecting Hickes’s offences was admitted, and in spite of the brutal browbeating by the judge of chief witness, Dunne, no proof was adduced wither that Mrs. Lisle had any ground to suspect Hickes of disloyalty or that she had displayed any sympathy with Monmouth’s insurrection. She made a moderate speech in her own defence. The jury declared themselves reluctant to convict her, but Jeffreys overruled their scruples, and she was ultimately found guilty, and on the morning of the next day (28 Aug) was sentenced to be burnt alive the same afternoon. Pressure was, however, applied to the judge, and a respite till 2 Sept. was ordered. Lady Lisle petitioned James II (31 Aug) to grant her a further reprieve of four days, and to order the substitution of beheading for burning.

The first request was refused; the latter was granted. Mrs. Lisle was accordingly beheaded in the market-place of Winchester on 2 Sept., and her body was given up to her friends for burial at Ellingham. On the scaffold she gave a paper to the sheriffs denying her guilt, and it was printed, with the “Last Words of Colonel Rumbold,” 1685, and in “The Dying Speeches...of several Persons.


The Last speech of Madam LISLE, beheaded at Winchester, September 1685

Gentlemen, Friends and Neighbours,
It may be expected that I should say something at my Death, my Birth and Education being near this Place ; my Parents instructed me in the Fear of God ; and I now die of the reformed Religion ; always being instructed in that Belief that if Popery should return into this Nation, it would be a great Judgement. I die in Expectation of Pardon of my Sins, and Acceptation with the Father, by the imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ : He being the End of the Law for Righteousness to every one that believeth. I thank God, thro’ Christ Jesus, I depart under the Blood of Sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel ; God having made this Chastisement an Ordinance to my Soul. I did as little expect to come to this Place on this occasion, as any person in this Nation ; therefore let all learn not to be high-minded, but fear. The Lord is a Sovereign, and will take what Way he seeth best to glorify himself by his poor Creatures ; I there for humbly desire to submit to his Will, praying of him, that in Patience I may possess my Soul.
The crime was, my entertaining a Non-conformist Minister, who is since sworn to have been in the Duke of Monmouth’s army. I am told, if I had not denied them, it would not have affected me : I have no Excuse but Surprise and Fear ; which I believe my Jury must make use of to excuse their Verdict to the World. I have been told, That the Court ought to be Council for the Prisoner : Instead of Advice, there was Evidence given from thence, which (tho’ it was but Hearsay) might possibly affect my Jury. My Defence was such as might be expected from a weak Woman ; but such as it was, I never heard it repeated again to the Jury.
But I forgive all persons that have wrong’d me ; and I desire that God will do so likewise. I forgive Colonel Penruddock, altho’ he told me, He could have taken those Men, before they came to my House.
As to what I expected for my Conviction, that I gave it under my Hand that I discours’d with Nelthrop ; that could be no Evidence to the Court or Jury, it being after my Conviction and Sentence.
I acknowledge his Majesty’s Favour in revoking my Sentence ; and I pray God he may long reign in Peace, and that the true Religion may flourish under him.
Two things I have omitted to say, which is, That I forgive him that desir’d to be taken from the Grand Jury, and put upon the Petty Jury, that he might be the more nearly concern’d in my Death ; and return humble Thanks to God, and the reverend Clergy, that assisted me in my Imprisonment.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/17/2009 at 06:00 AM   
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NOTES FROM PEIPER’S WORLD PRE WEEKEND.  THE USUAL BIZARRE HAPPENINGS OF SOME NOTE.

SWINE FLU in the news all week.

Swine flu is reported to have caused the deaths of 29 people so far.  Death has doubled in a week say authorities.
652 ppl are now being treated in hospitals and there are 55,000 new cases being diagnosed every week.

Powers that be tell us that sufferers can be diagnosed via the internet.  That’s reassuring. 
Half the kids in the country could be infected during the first wave.

The National Health Service has been told to plan for up to 65,000 deaths.  However ... Health officials are telling people

NOT TO PANIC! 

IN OTHER NEWSY BLURBS THIS WEEK IS THE FOLLOWING FROM COMRADE LEADER OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

This falls into one of those I couldn’t make it up themes.

The head of the party that often refers to itself as conservative, David Cameron, has said that when his party takes power again in the next elections,
they (the Tories) will pass legislation to INCREASE FOREIGN AID to needy countries.  Ithant that thweet?  Like England itself isn’t needy and taxed enough.

In the meantime, Brit soldiers are quite literally dying due to underfunding by the current mal-administration, and poor equipment.

I’M A UNION MAN ... STWIKE - STWIKE - STWIKE

It’s being announced that postal workers are going to strike.  Again.  They warn of possible mail delays lasting a week for some parts of the country and especially London.

For now BMEWS .. that’s all but Stay Tuned.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/17/2009 at 02:50 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - July 16, 2009

And Drew Creates Another Junkie

Me and Doc had a “playdate” today, finally getting a chance to get all that reloading gear squared away and put to use.

Doc had purchased this entire firearms collection from the estate of some elderly gentleman who had suddenly died. He got a whole bunch of rifles, shotguns, and pistols for a few grand. Killer deal. And for an extra $300, here, take all these scopes and all this reloading gear and ammo too.

Part of the haul was a salad bowl full of cast pistol bullets, unlubed. And a nasty dirty grimy Dillon RL550 progressive loading press. He didn’t have much hope for it, figured he’d put it on E-Bay and get rid of it. But I convinced him to give it a try, and that’s what we did today.

It took us an hour or so to take the press fully apart, get everything properly clean, oil it up, and put it back together. This could have been a daunting task, but I’ve owned an RL550B press for 15 years or so now, and the slightly older RL550 model is pretty much the same. So we got it ship shape and properly adjusted, and the thing works as smooth as oiled glass. I have no idea how old this press is. 20 years? 30? Doesn’t matter. Dillon makes a superb product.

So we sorted through the old guy’s brass .. he’d been loading the same big batch of cases since 1978. .38 Special brass lasts just about forever, especially if you just load up mild little target ammo. We had a whole bunch of splits to throw out, and the nickel plated stuff was going bad, but we managed to save about 650 brass cases. And all the little plastic ammo boxes of course. So we got to work, out in the garage. For 3 solid hours. I’d lube up some bullets, give them a wipe, pass them over and he’d turn them into ammo. We made 600 rounds; 12 boxes worth. Used up every single one of that bucket of bullets. And now Doc is a reloading junkie. “Can I do my .30-06 on this?” Oh yeah, sure. Plus the shell plate is the same one for your .45 ACP. “What about my .22-250?” Yup, and that’s still the same shell plate. “5.56?” Hell, this thing is awesome with 5.56. And so on. Other than .50 BMG, if it has a primer, the Dillon RL550 can reload it. By the thousands, in a few hours.

We threw some steaks on the grill, had a couple beers, and had dinner with his family ... and he’s still wound up. “I’m not selling that thing. It’s awesome. I have to get my sons into this!” Next he’s going to try his hand at casting, since that pile of gear included a 20lb lead melting furnace, half a dozen ingots of lead alloy, molds, handles, flux ... the whole enchilada. And he was just going to sell it all for a quick buck. Not anymore!

Heh heh heh. Drew did it again!  Another reloading junkie and Dillon fan is born.

I spent a few hours a couple months ago showing my father in law how to make pistol ammo, and told him the same thing I told Doc today: Every box of ammo you make yourself saves you $13 compared to buying it. And 5 days later my FIL found a Dillon on CraigsList and bought it.

A Nation of Riflemen. And Pistolmen. And money savers. One used reloading press at a time. And I got 4 boxes of plinker ammo out of today’s work.

Now I have to go scrub my hands again. And again. I got pretty well lubed, and the goop is hard to wash off. It was worth it.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/16/2009 at 08:25 PM   
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“Am I Weird?”

I’m not a fan of Ted Nugent the musician. The only song he did that I absolutely love is Good Friends and a Bottle of Wine.

Ted Nugent, defender of the 2nd Amendment, is another animal entirely. That’s the Ted Nugent I support.

Best quote from this interview? “I don’t like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.”

Me too, Ted.  good_one

H/T: I Own The World


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 07/16/2009 at 01:37 PM   
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So now it’s really gonna be in my back yard is it?  I promise, no rant from me, No need,

Well, the plague gets closer all the time I guess and it shouldn’t surprise anyone considering how accommodating the PC socialist left is.

I promised no rant, not even bad language and that’s how I’m leaving it.

No link to the article which I had to copy cause as usual some papers are just plain STUPID! When I Googled the headline trying to find it though, I found even better in a way.  The Goog gave me this page which while much is dated, has some interesting links on the subject.  If you’re me of course the stories are maddening but I am not on a rant. Really.  I’m not.

LINKS FOR TRAVELERS AND RIGHTS

This is just a short blurb from a local rag here.


CALL FOR MORE SITES FOR TRAVELLERS

Twenty one extra areas for travellers need to be found in the Winchester district, the city heard last week.

A further 16 areas for travelling showpeople are also likely to be needed, although no sites have yet been earmarked., and the exact figures are still being drawn up.

In areas where possible sites have been named, the proposals have often met with fierce opposition.

“met with fierce opposition” Gosh. I can’t imagine why.
Hey .. that isn’t a rant.  It’s an observation.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/16/2009 at 10:18 AM   
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PLANES, PLANES AND MORE PLANES … If only I were born smart enough to fly em.

H/T to our friend Chris Edwards who actually gave us this VERY good link ... http://www.defenceoftherealm.com/ , which I would recommend highly.
I think it might be of more interests to Brits possibly, but it’s an eye opener and well written.

But what happened while I was there is the usual thing that happens to all of us.  An interesting link caught my eye and so naturally I just had to go there too.
Glad I did and so I guess I have to thank Chris doubly. 
It’s called Day of Glory and there must be over 100 planes at that site. I didn’t count but planes to me are something not to be resisted.

I took flying lessons some 50 or more yrs ago.  Never got the hang of landings.  Shamed to say I just didn’t cut it.

Needless to say, I’ve always regarded pilots as something beyond mere mortals. And navigators as well may I add.
Of course at the top of the heap are the fighter pilots, and not just ours.  And how ‘bout those bomber pilots when hit and nursing back to ground a wrecked and or burning plane.  I just admire those guys. Period.

So then, wandering over to > http://thedaysofglory.blogspot.com/ I found this.

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Oh gosh aren’t they beautiful?  Yes. They Are!  And then I saw this.

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CORSAIRS WITH BRIT MARKINGS. Love this plane. And the Mustang. Good grief, I doubt there’s a single plane I’m not in love with.

And then this.

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HAWKER HURRICANE

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And finally this.  GLADIATOR

If you go to the site there must be another hundred.  I didn’t count em but there sure were a lot.

LOTS MORE PLANES


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/16/2009 at 09:39 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - July 15, 2009

New Ann

Ann restates the obvious about the Sotomayor hearings and the media bullshit associated with “the first Hispanic justice”.

Every time a Democrat senator has talked during the Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor this week, I felt lousy about my country. Not for the usual reasons when a Democrat talks, but because Democrats revel in telling us what a racist country this is.

Interestingly, the Democrats’ examples of ethnic prejudice did not include Clarence Thomas, whose nomination hearings began with the Democrats saying, “You may now uncuff the defendant.”

Their examples did not include Miguel Estrada, the brilliant Harvard-educated lawyer who was blocked from an appellate court judgeship by Senate Democrats expressly on the grounds that he is a Hispanic—as stated in Democratic staff memos that became public.

Yeah, no kidding. And Robert Bork too, one of the greatest legal minds alive. Asshats.

Do you think the GOP will ever take off the white gloves and brak heads the way these brownshirts do? I’ve been waiting most of my life, and I ain’t seen it happen yet.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/15/2009 at 10:12 PM   
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TWENTY TWO WEEKS AND COUNTING

My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.”

- Barack Obama




subtitle: Does the shoe fit better now that it’s on the other foot?





George W. Bush was president for eight years, some say eight long years.... so if you believe they were long years, and you’re one of those who believe he got dumber and dumber the longer he remained in office, how do you feel about the following?

Had George W. Bush made a clumsy joke at the expense of the Special Olympics (viz., helping the intellectually handicapped), would you have dismissed it as a non-issue?

If George W. Bush had given an iPod to the Queen of England containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought “how cute?”

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and referred to “the Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as the understandable slip of a Harvard law grad?

If George W. Bush had appointed people to high places whose flawed character impaired them to the extent that they had difficulty remembering to file, much less pay, their income taxes, would you have dismissed this as minor cock-up that will all work out for the betterment of the nation?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had taken a cue from Hugo Chavez and politically dragooned a Republican Congress to allocate 5.6 billion dollars for the creation of a civilian volunteer security force as strong and well equipped as the regular Army, mandating that this quasi-military force fall under his personal command and control, would you have been concerned?

If George W. Bush had proposed doubling the size of the national debt, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed doubling the national debt again over the next 10 years, would you have dismissed it with a “tsk, tsk”?

If George W. Bush pushed the passage of a $785 billion stimulus bill and promised transparent tracking to reveal precisely how monies from the bill would be spent, then postponed oversight until 2010, would you approve or would you think something was “fishy”?

If Bush had promised 48 hour advance posting of the same bill on the internet but only released it to the public two hours before congressional approval, wouldn’t you have questioned his ethics?

If Bush’s White House Staff had spent over $300,000 flying Air Force One low over New York (for a publicity photo fly-by) scaring the hell out of the city’s residents, wouldn’t you have expected Bush to make the pictures public? Would you have approved? Obama won’t give them up, yet he saw fit to release the secret “torture memos”.

If George W. Bush had been “addicted” to using a TelePrompter, and seldom gave a speech without having one, would you have approved? Would you think he was intelligent?

If George W. Bush had pre-approved/pre-picked the list of reporters allowed to ask questions at his press conferences and refused to call on the correspondent from MSNBC (FOX with Obama), would you have approved? Is that a fair and balanced news conference?

If George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had given hundreds of millions of dollars to a group (the right-wing equivalent of ACORN) after its members had been convicted of voter registration fraud, would you approve of them to doing the 2010 Census, which will determine congressional districts for 10 years? Will you trust ACORN in 2010?

Would you have approved of George W. Bush moving the census from the Department of Commerce into the White House and putting his Chief of Staff in control of the counting?

In the aftermath of 9-11, if you knew George W. Bush prohibited the CIA from water boarding Islamic extremists who possessed information we needed to prevent attacks that could potentially killed millions of Americans, would you have approved?

Oddly enough, Barack Obama has committed all these faux pas in just 22 weeks—so brace yourself, sit back and enjoy, we still have approximately three years and eight months remaining for more surprises.  Or probably seven years plus, because with the help of the press, we continue to look the other way and don’t see where we are headed!





another great find from Carol!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/15/2009 at 09:56 PM   
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A Soldier’s Take on Michael Jackson

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This is written by a young soldier serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.  Thought you might find his take on the Michael Jackson news interesting and he’s right.

Okay, I need to rant.

- Carole




I was just watching the news, and I caught part of a report on Michael Jackson.  As we all know, Jackson died the other day.  He was an entertainer who performed for decades.  He made millions, he spent millions, and he did a lot of things that make him a villain to many people.  I understand that his death would affect a lot of people, and I respect those people who mourn his death, but that isn’t the point of my rant.

Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their minds with grief.  When a man dies whose only contribution to the country was to ENTERTAIN people, the American people find the need to flock to a memorial in Hollywood, and even Congress sees the need to hold a “moment of silence” for his passing?

Am I missing something here?  ONE man dies, and all of a sudden he’s a freaking martyr because he entertained us for a few decades?  What about all those SOLDIERS who have died to give us freedom?  All those Soldiers who, knowing that they would be asked to fight in a war, still raised their hands and swore to defend the Constitution and the United States of America. Where is their moment of silence?  Where are the people flocking to their graves or memorials and mourning over them because they made the ultimate sacrifice?  Why is it when a Soldier dies, there are more people saying “good riddance,” and “thank God for IEDs?” When did this country become so calloused to the sacrifice of GOOD MEN and WOMEN, that they can arbitrarily blow off their deaths, and instead, throw themselves into mourning for a “Pop Icon?”

I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They need to PUBLICLY recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE, those that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them.  But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so many willing to make that sacrifice.  After all, we will never make millions of dollars.  We will never star in movies, or write hit songs that the world will listen too.  We only shed our blood, sweat and tears so that people can enjoy what they have.

Sorry if I have offended, but I needed to say it.  Remember these five words the next time you think of someone who is serving in the military; “So that others may live...”

Isaac

P.S.-"So that other’s may live...” was also the creed of the Air Rescue & Recovery Service during Vietnam & is still is.



You guy that right soldier. Amen.

I was hoping that FINALLY we were done with the MJ overload. But no. Now it’s round table discussions on “When Michael’s life went bad” with the current lead being the Pepsi commercial where his hair caught on fire. I’ll buy that. I think he was even still black at that point. But puh-lease! Find something else already. Something other than the endless parade of toothless, drooling, senile old flatulators in love with their own voices elected leaders of our wonderful government flapping their gums by the hour passing wind and saying nothing asking in-depth, erudite and tightly focused questions of that sanctimonious, oleaginous, half deflated buck toothed beach ball pinnacle of the legal profession, Sonya “W.L.” Sotomayor.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/15/2009 at 09:41 PM   
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And it’s not even illegal

A Con for the Faithful




Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA

The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World



You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved.  But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind?  Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.

We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here on Earth after you’ve received your reward.  Our network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step up to Jesus.

We are currently active in 20 states and growing.  Our representatives have been screened to ensure that they are atheists, animal lovers, are moral / ethical with no criminal background, have the ability and desire to rescue your pet and the means to retrieve them and ensure their care for your pet’s natural life. 

We currently cover the following states: Maine,New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana ... and growing.

Our service is plain and simple; our fee structure is reasonable.  For $110.00 we will guarantee that should the Rapture occur within ten (10) years of receipt of payment, one pet per residence will be saved.  Each additional pet at your residence will be saved for an additional $15.00 fee.  A small price to pay for your peace of mind and the health and safety of your four legged friends.

Unfortunately at this time we are not equipped to accommodate all species and must limit our services to dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and small caged mammals.




Outwardly, this sounds like a nice idea. After all, people love their pets, and they worry. And it’s not at all hard to watch the news or even look out the window sometimes and start thinking that the End Times are coming soon. And even if you believe that pets have souls, it’s pretty hard to know if they’ve seen the light. So a service like this seems ideal.

But when you think it through, you’ll realize it’s a con. And if you look into it, and read the “fine print” it all becomes clear.

* Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA (EE-BP) is not liable, and no refunds will be made, in the event of the loss, death, sale, or transfer of a subscriber’s pet(s) prior to the Rapture and during the coverage period of the contract.
* Service period commences with receipt of payment. Service contract expires ten (10) years from date of receipt of payment.
* Change in address of the original owner/subscriber residence will be honored upon notification via email to EE-BP as long as the new address is within EE-BP’s existing service area.  No refunds will be made for address changes outside of EE-BP’s service area during the contract period.  Our service covers only one (1) rescue address per contract and fee.
* In the event of the death of the subscribing pet owner prior to the Rapture the contract will remain in effect. EE-BP will continue to honor the contract for the remainder of the contract period.  We do not adopt / rescue animals except as a result of the Rapture occurance.
* If subscriber loses his/her faith and/or the Rapture occurs and subscriber is not Raptured (aka is “left behind") EE-BP disclaims any liability; no refund will be tendered. 
* Should a relative residing within the rescue location not be Raptured and opts to retain the pet(s), EE-BP will not take posession of the pet(s).  No refund will be tendered.
* EE-BP neither makes or implies any other warranties or claims of any other services or products except as described in this website. EE-BP is not associated with any other animal/pet rescue service, foundation or entity.
* All sales are final. 

... et cetera ...

So don’t be conned. Even if this is entirely legal, it’s still a con, as you have absolutely no way of verifying that the pets will be taken care of.

This is kind of funny in a “dayum, y’all got some nerve!” kind of way. And it reminds me of the graphic joke about the dueling billboards, one at the Catholic Church, one at the Protestant Church, on whether pets have souls. And, of course, the one about the Lutheran German Shepard that turned out to not be a Lutheran.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/15/2009 at 09:22 PM   
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A White House Dinner Parable

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Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a
respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics.
There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind.
I live in a free country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My
wealth was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.

I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the President in a yellow dining room.
We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the
china. Uniformed staff served our dinner.

The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off
my plate, and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen.

“Sorry about that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”

“I don’t appreciate...” I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes across from me, I felt
immediately guilty and petty. It was just a dinner roll. “Of course,” I concluded, and reached for my
glass. Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away and swallowed the
wine in a single gulp.

“And his brother Eric is very thirsty.” said the President.

I didn’t say anything. The President is testing my compassion, I thought. I will play along. I don’t
want to seem unkind.

My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite.

“Eric’s children are also quite hungry.”

With a lurch, I crashed to the floor. My chair had been pulled out from under me. I stood, brushing
myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the room.

“And their grandmother can’t stand for long.”

I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool.

Obviously, I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game. I reached for my coat, to
find that it had been taken. I turned back to the President.

“Their grandfather doesn’t like the cold.”

I wanted to shout-- that was my coat! But again, I looked at the placid smiling face of my host and
decided I was being a poor sport. I spread my hands helplessly and chuckled. Then I felt my hip pocket
and realized my wallet was gone. I excused myself and walked to a phone on an elegant side table. I
learned that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts emptied, my retirement and equity
portfolios had vanished, and my wife had been thrown out of our home. Apparently, the waiters and their
families were moving in. The President hadn’t moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I
lowered the phone into its cradle and turned to face him.

“Andrew’s whole family has made bad financial decisions. They haven’t planned for retirement, and they
need a house. They recently defaulted on a subprime mortgage. I told them they could have your home.
They need it more than you do.”

My hands were shaking. I felt faint. I stumbled back to the table and knelt on the floor. The President
cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak and drank his wine. I lowered my eyes and stared at the small
grey circles on the tablecloth that were water drops.

“By the way,” He added, “I have just signed an Executive Order nationalizing your factories. I’m firing
you as head of your business. I’ll be operating the firm now for the benefit of all mankind. There’s a
whole bunch of Erics and Andrews out there and they can’t come to you for jobs groveling like beggars.”

I looked up. The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which had been his creme brulee. He
drained the last drops of his wine. As the table was cleared, he lit a cigarette and leaned back in his
chair. He stared at me. I clung to the edge of the table as if it were a ledge and I were a man hanging
over an abyss. I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived. The life I had earned with a
lifetime of work, risk and struggle. Why was I punished? How had I allowed it to be taken? What game had
I played and lost? I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise that there was no game board
between us.

What had I done wrong?

As if answering the unspoken thought, the President suddenly cocked his head, locked his empty eyes to
mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling wryly as he folded his hands.

“You should have stopped me at the dinner roll,” he said.



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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/15/2009 at 09:20 PM   
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THE NEW RIGHT, ER, LEFT .  Steyn on Britain and Europe

Wish I had the talent/brains to write like this guy. Oh well, thankfully I can read and so here with no comments cause I don’t need to make em,
is the truth, the whole truth and nuthin’ but .... from Mark Steyn.

THE NEW RIGHT, ER, LEFT
Steyn on Britain and Europe

Are you getting just a teensy bit tired of the ol’ “Whither The Right?” navel-gazing? Even with our good friends at The New York Times, The Washington Post et al so eager to offer helpful advice, there’s a limit to how much pondering of conservatism’s future a chap can take. So how about, just for a change, “Whither the left?”

Exhibit A: The European parliamentary elections. The Continent’s economy has taken a far bigger clobbering than America’s: Capitalism is dead, declared Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. In France, President Sarkozy agrees, while being careful to identify the deceased as “Anglo-American capitalism”. And woe betide any Continental foolish enough to have got into bed with it: In Spain, the unemployment rate is 17 per cent and rising.

In theory, this ought to be boom time for lefties. As their jobs, homes and savings vanish, the downtrodden masses should be stampeding back to the embrace of the Big Government nanny’s apron strings. Instead, the Euro-left got hammered at the polls, the center-right survived, and a significant chunk of the electorate switched to the “far right” – the various neo-nationalist and quasi-fascist parties cleaning up everywhere from Northern England to the Balkans. My favorite of these new and mostly unlovely groupings is Bulgaria’s Attack party, mainly because of its name. I would suggest the Republican Party adopt it, but no doubt within a month or two the latest Bush scion would be claiming to stand for a Compassionate Attack movement, and governors of coastal states would be declaring themselves fiscally attacking but socially surrendering, and the whole brand would go to hell.

Perhaps it’s just as well. On closer inspection, Europe’s “far right” doesn’t seem to go very far at all. The British National Party’s parliamentary victories are a very belated breakthrough for Fascism, for which in Britain there were few takers back in the Thirties. So what do they stand for? Well, they won’t accept blacks or Asians as members. Typical right-wing racists, eh? Also, they want protectionist laws limiting the import of foreign goods. And they favor giving workers shares in their bosses’ companies. And they want to nationalize the public utilities, railroad companies and so forth. Economic protectionism. Worker cooperatives. State ownership. Boy, these right-wing nuts with their crazy ideas on free market capitalism.

If the British elections are beginning to sound like the dinner-theatre production of Jonah Goldberg’s book, you’re right – if by dinner you had in mind tripe, pork scratchings and mushy peas washed down with 14 pints of brown ale and a knife fight. Economically, the BNP is the Labour Party before the Blairite metrosexual makeover, and its voting base comes all but entirely from the old white working-class abandoned by “New Labour” in its pursuit of more fashionable identity groups.

Of course, economic protectionism is not its principal appeal. But yoke economic protectionism to cultural protectionism, and you’ve got an electorally viable combination. These are bad times, but they’re not just bad economically. According to a YouGov poll, the average BNP voter is a manual worker with an annual household income of 27,000 pounds – or about 2,000 pounds less than the national median. Two thousand quid isn’t to be sniffed at, but it doesn’t explain why these voters were willing to take a flyer on an openly racist party universally reviled by the media and political class and banished from public discourse.

England has (or had) a three-party system: Labour, Liberals, Tories. But on any number of issues – the European Union, immigration, crime, the remorseless one-way multiculturalism under which what were homogenous white working-class communities 40 years ago Islamize ever more rapidly with each passing day – on all these issues, the big three parties plus the BBC and the rest of the elites are in complete agreement: We don’t want to talk about it. Since the election, the grand panjandrums of the Palace of Westminster have been competing to out-Lady Bracknell each other in professing how “horrified” they are by the BNP’s success. Such protestations are invariably accompanied by ostentatious recital of their own multiculti bona fides, nicely parodied by Ed West in The Daily Telegraph: “I was just saying how awful the BNP were to my Polish cleaner yesterday. She agreed, as did my Chinese nanny, Wen or Yen, or whatever her name is. My Brazilian catamite wasn’t that bothered.”

If 15 per cent of the US electorate had voted for the American Fatherland Front or some such, you’d never hear the end of it from Le Monde and The Guardian and all the rest. But the Euro-elites have adjusted to the knuckledraggers’ lese-majeste, and are already congratulating themselves on holding the “far right”’s vote down to the low double-digits. It won’t be that low next time, but they’ll adjust to that, too. You can’t blame ‘em: It’s easier to do that than re-thinking your entire worldview, never mind trying to figure out anything you could actually do about these issues.

I doubt the new kids on the block will be able to do anything, either.  But, for a while, there will be votes in impotent rage, and the economic-&-cultural protectionism twofer will eat deep into the mainstream left’s base. They in turn will not change – for, in Britain and elsewhere, they have determined to celebrate diversity even unto societal death.

MARK STEYN


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POSSIBLE EYE CANDY WITH A STORY. HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW MANY FOREIGN NAMES ARE SUING?

Yeah, no kidding. 
Seems like a spate of suits and mostly from ppl whose names we can neither spell or pronounce.
So let me introduce you to Amitjo Kajla who is the latest in the line waiting to screw the state and by that of course I mean the taxpayer.

OH WAIT ... Before I forget ......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PIXIE!

Woman prison officer ‘forced from job for being too sexy’ demands payout

By Andy Dolan
Last updated at 6:05 PM on 15th July 2009

A prison officer who claims she was hounded out of her job after repeated criticism for being too sexy and ‘glammed up’ is demanding compensation from Jack Straw at an employment tribunal.

Petite Amitjo Kajla told the hearing how colleagues complained that she wore too much make up and that her clothing was more revealing than the standard issue uniform.

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One young inmate told her ‘Miss, you look sexy’, prompting colleagues to warn the 22-year-old that her glamorous appearance left her at risk of being dragged into a cell by prisoners.

Another inmate was overheard telling Miss Kajla: ‘I wouldn’t mind taking you back to a cell’, the tribunal heard today.

Miss Kajla, whose uniform had to be specially adapted to fit her tiny size four frame, was also allegedly bullied by a fellow prison officer over her size and age.

Miss Kajla said she was called a ‘stupid little girl’ by a senior colleague for putting her security at risk by sitting with prisoners during their ‘free association’ period.

She said she was also mocked by staff at Brinsford Young Offenders’ Institution, in Featherstone, Staffordshire, for carrying a handbag and reprimanded for waving and saying ‘hello’ to inmates.

The remarks, often made in front of inmates and other staff, made her feel harassed and humiliated, she told the tribunal.

Miss Kajla said: ‘I couldn¹t sleep at night because of the bullying and harassment.

‘I lost weight and decided I couldn¹t take it any longer and resigned.’


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Miss Kajla is claiming compensation for constructive unfair dismissal. The respondents are listed as being the ‘Secretary of State for Justice and others’, understood to include another prison officer, Lee Hastings.

Miss Kajla claims she was effectively sacked by the prison service in April last year, ten moths after moving to HMP Brinsford after a trouble-free spell at Shrewsbury prison.

The Birmingham tribunal has already heard that shortly after she started at Brinsford, one of the governors reprimanded her for wearing heavy make-up, bangles and a nose stud.

Despite writing in her diary ‘Make-up is me, I don¹t want to change me’, she went out and bought lighter shades of lipstick and other make-up to comply with the rules.

Adam Farrer, for the prison service, suggested that going to work ‘glammed up’ was not appropriate and that she was seen by inmates as a ‘soft touch’.

But Miss Kajla replied that she had been taught to take a pride in her appearance. She said the ‘juvenile’ inmate who made the comment about her being sexy was ‘just testing the water to see how I would react’.

Responding to criticism of her informality with inmates, she said: ‘I was always friendly but never a friend.’

Today the tribunal heard how Miss Kajla, from Wolverhampton, West Midlands, would often sit with groups of prisoners on her own.

Giving evidence, Mr Hastings told the tribunal panel this showed a ‘lack of personal safety.’

It was suggested that Miss Kajla dressed provocatively on the prison site, in view of prisoners in their cells.

Mr Hastings said she had been ‘conditioned’ by inmates, and that he understood her personal address was ‘common knowledge amongst the inmates.’

He added: ‘Entering the prison service, it’s a difficult environment, but you would hope it would trigger self-security, self-preservation and awareness where you’ve got a group of potentially volatile individuals crowding you.

‘It’s quite clearly explained in your training the importance of security within the prison service.

‘She showed lack of her own personal safety by being crowded by other inmates and left isolated.’

Stephen Roberts, representing Miss Kajla, told Mr Hastings during cross-examination that he had ‘bullied and intimidated’ Miss Kajla because she was ‘pretty’ and ‘small’, claims Mr Hastings denied.

The prison officer said he had simply been concerned that ‘repeated actions were breaching security issues within the prison service’.

He added: ‘The young offenders are without doubt the most spontaneous, volatile and violent ones.’

DAILY MAIL


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In keeping with the Health Care theme: Elderly face £20,000 bill for social care. That’s about

OK Lyndon, explain this for me too. I think I’m reading it correctly but sometimes you know, things do get lost in translation.

Both Drew and Vilmar have had really awful things to say about national health. And for that matter so has everyone posting comments here at BMEWS.
But hey ... IT’S ALL FREE. Right?  What’s to complain about?  free-free-free.  And all of it with the compliments of the taxpayer. Well, those who do.
Ah ... hang on.  I think I just caught the fly in the ointment.

What a mess .......  Meanwhile, here in the UK ....

Elderly people in England could be required to pay up to £20,000 to guarantee basic social care and support if they need it at the end of their lives, under Government proposals released today.


The compulsory insurance scheme
is one of three options for funding a new National Care Service, designed to end the current “cruel lottery” under which some elderly people have to sell their homes and use up most of their savings to pay for care, while others pay nothing.

Launching a consultation on the future of social care with a statement in the House of Commons today, Health Secretary Andy Burnham said he wanted to create a system which was “fair, simple and affordable” to all.

He has already ruled out full state funding from general taxation, on the grounds it would place too great a burden on people of working age, and retaining the “pay for yourself” system, which is unfair to those who need years of care for conditions like Alzheimer’s.

And he today called on the public to give their views on three possible solutions:

A “partnership” approach, under which the state would pay around a quarter to a third of the cost of basic social care and support, leaving individuals to find the remainder;

A voluntary insurance scheme, under which the state would pay the same proportion, but would also make it easier for individuals to take out insurance - at an estimated cost of around £20,000 to £25,000 at today’s prices - to cover the rest;

Compulsory insurance for all, costing around £17,000 to £20,000 at today’s prices and providing free care for all who need it.

The National Care Service would offer assistance with needs like dressing, washing and moving around at home, but individuals who need to go into residential care would continue to pay the cost of accommodation and food themselves, whether they had taken out insurance or not.

However, new national arrangements would allow for bed and board costs to be deferred and paid as a lump sum after the individual’s death.

The Department of Health is also consulting on whether insurance costs should be deferred until after death, paid in instalments or handed over in a single lump sum when an individual reaches retirement age.

Under all three options, those with little or no savings or assets would continue to receive free care.

THERE’S MORE HERE

When the late MIL became too ill to care for herself, the wife and I moved here to help and at first were sort of like baby sitters. She (mil) for part of the first year (2004) was still able to make it to the kitchen to get her own tea and toast and cereal, which was her staple every morning.  She dressed herself and was able to use the loo on her own.  Then later on she had a fall, and it was all downhill from there.  That’s when we became real Care Givers as it’s called here.
At some point in the second year she finally became bedridden full time, and there wasn’t a way in the world the wife could cope alone and especially changing diapers. 
So ... the wife had to spend down a good part of her mother’s savings before she became eligible for (FREE) care in home. Prior to that, the old lady (unknown to her) was paying for care workers to come in and bathe her once a day but at first that was all that was needed. At first, it was just one care person with the wife helping out. Or maybe the other way round.  But later on after another fall and then a near fall when she misjudged distance and missed sitting properly on her portable potty in her room, she decided she was too frightened to ever again attempt to get out of bed. Period!  And the old bag didn’t, right to the end.
So it became necessary to have two care givers come in and eventually they had to come here twice a day.  Once in the morning and once in late afternoon
for diaper changes.  Somehow my wife worked out doing the other changes.  Usually at bedtime but sometimes it was necessary to do an extra one as well.

As time went on she got worse which is what necessitated two people to move her around changing the diapers and bathing her. 

The tole on the wife’s own health wasn’t fun to watch and what it did to her back was pretty bad too.  I recall once telling Drew and Wardmom that I thought the wife was committing suicide by mother, and I never altered that view.

But a care home was out of the question, even if the wife wanted it.  There just was not the money for it.  Having shared all this I should mention also that her mother had paid into the system for most of her working life.  I say most because national health didn’t arrive here till after WW2.

When the old dear (but not to me) needed a hearing aid, national health paid for it. The thing I thought was rather over the top was that national health also paid for the batteries in the thing.  ??  National health even paid for her aspirin. 

I’ll have to be honest with you.  While I haven’t been a fan of socialized medicine, and still not as it’s run, it was a big help to her mother and by extension to us as well, as we were already spending some of our own savings to prop things up here. 

OK, that’s it except for this little tag.
If we ever make it back to the states we are looking at a potential health ins. problem.  At my age, and the wife is in her 60’s with a birthday in five days thus adding another year, we don’t think we’ll be able to get ins. worthy of the name back home.  And can ya blame the Ins.companies for that?  I don’t.
So we are on our own.  Scary when ya get to a certain age.  That age being mine and the wife.  And I think you guys know the cost of being ill even with ins.


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