Monday - July 13, 2009

The Headline is:  Segregation in schools is fueled by ‘White Flight.’ Look familiar?

Oh, now this is a huge surprise. Aren’t you all surprised too? Ppl of like background and something in common (language too?) wanting to be among their own.
Not to mention a better environment for their offspring. 

Segregation in schools fuelled by ‘white flight’

Warwick Mansell and Polly Curtis The Guardian, Friday 10 July 2009

Schools in parts of England are becoming increasingly segregated, deserted by white parents if they find their children becoming outnumbered by pupils from ethnic minorities, a report by a think tank set up to promote community cohesion has warned.

Councils should consider allocating school places using lotteries in some inner-city areas to tackle a growing phenomenon of “white flight” in the education system, the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) said.

Its study, which focused on 13 local areas including Bolton, Sunderland, Oldham, Hounslow and Bristol, concluded: “Many of the schools and colleges in the areas we have studied are segregated to a greater or lesser extent and the evidence available to us at a local level suggested that this was generally worsening over recent years.

“This reflects in part residential segregation, but it also reflects parental choice, despite the fact that most people we spoke to in focus groups wanted their children to have a mixed education. Parental choice tended to push people to what they saw as the safe option, where children with similar backgrounds went.”

It added: “We heard strong evidence of ‘white flight’ in a number of areas.”

ICoCo was set up in 2005 to research and promote community relations. Nick Johnson, its director of policy and author of the report, said: “‘White flight’ is certainly happening in specific areas of England. In the case of one school in Blackburn, once the number of non-white pupils got above 60%, white parents started saying they did not want their kids being the odd ones out.” Segregation reduced the chance for young people to mix with their peers from different backgrounds, said the report.

Johnson added that councils should consider allocating school places by lottery, a scheme that has been trialled at some schools in Brighton. “If you did that in Blackburn or Bolton or Oldham, it would have a dramatic effect on the schools’ composition ... if you accept the argument that all forms of segregation in education are bad, you do need to do something about it,” he said.

(turns out however that not all forms are bad. Are they? For example, studies have reported that girls do better in all girl schools. You may argue with that I suppose but that’s what’s being claimed. And many interviews with younger girls seem to bear it out. On the other hand, forced integration due to social engineering works against human nature. And I doubt it makes many friends.)

The report found that less popular schools with spare places sometimes admitted large numbers of immigrant pupils in a short time. It cited the case of an unnamed school at which, at the end of 2005, 85% of pupils were white British. Over the next two terms, pupils from 15 to 20 Somali families were admitted.

“Many white parents reacted negatively, arguing that their children were being disadvantaged by large numbers of non-English speakers. By September 2006, 60 white children had been removed from the school ... and the percentage of black and minority ethnic pupils rose to 45%. But many white families stayed,” the report said.

(Right. “many families stayed.” Wanna bet those were the unfortunates that either could not afford to move, or were themselves slaves to the left and PC)

Researchers also found evidence of pupils of different ethnicities not mixing even when they were sharing classes and playgrounds.

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Arranged marriage and honor killings. They just refuse to join the 21st century, or even the 19th.

This is a long but interesting story I just ran across.
It isn’t really anything new to you.  The idea that these people arrange marriages and use threats of death to enforce their dark age mentality is old hat by now.
However, this particular story reads almost like a novel. And it isn’t fiction.

Certain immigrant communities simply refuse to abide by the laws and customs of their host country. And that isn’t going to change.  Of course to be critical of them makes one automatically “racist.” The fact that their own twisted mentality contributes to how others view them is lost among them and the politically correct.
A POX on both I say. 

Just moments ago.

Across the cultural divide: The Muslim woman and older British man whose love survived death threats but was doomed to fail.

By Tom Rawstorne
Last updated at 9:24 AM (UK Time) on 13th July 2009

Before he goes to sleep, Jack Briggs goes through his nightly ritual. First, he checks there is a knife within easy reach beside his bed and a baseball bat beneath it.

It has been the same routine ever since he ran away with his sweetheart, Zena, 17 years ago. She came from a Muslim family and was supposed to wed a cousin in an arranged marriage - not Jack, a white British man ten years her senior.

And so it was that, under threat of death, the couple fled their homes and have been in hiding ever since.

Now, for the first time, the Mail can reveal that the couple, who had battled not just prejudice but violence, have separated after the strain of so many years of clandestine existence finally proved too great. But remarkably, says Jack, that changes nothing. Their lives are still in danger.

‘The threat to me and Zena is still there, and I don’t think it will make a jot of difference when her family finds out that we have split up,’ he says. ‘In their eyes, the damage has been done.

‘It goes back to the whole honour-based culture. We have put a mark - a stain - on their family and it will never go away.

‘They believe it’s passed from generation to generation and the only way they can see how to lift it is through murder. It is terrible, but it is fact.’

For a couple whose extraordinary story has been likened to that of Romeo and Juliet, news that their marriage has broken down will come as a terrible shock to the legion of supporters who have followed their plight over the years.

They met and fell in love in 1992 in Leeds, when Zena was just 21. The British-born daughter of Pakistani immigrants, her father had decreed that she would marry a cousin when she came of age.

But then Jack came along (the couple met by chance when he was visiting his sister, who lived close to Zena) and from that moment on their lives would never be the same again.

Told that their relationship was a stain on the honour of Zena’s family, the couple were forced to go on the run amid a barrage of death threats.

These threats were taken so seriously by the police that they received protection from Special Branch, assumed numerous new identities and moved house no fewer than 30 times.

It is a terrible irony, then, that only when they stopped running did their relationship itself run into problems. Informed three years ago by detectives that there was no longer a ‘credible threat’ against them, Jack and Zena attempted to settle down.

But while Zena embraced the return to relative normality, Jack struggled to cope. A disagreement over a piece of furniture brought that fact into focus.

‘We’d been out and bought a wardrobe and then brought it back to our flat,’ explains 47-year-old Jack.

‘Once we’d got it in, I picked up our bags and dumped them in the bottom of the wardrobe and shut the doors. That’s what we always did, just in case we needed to make a quick getaway.

He is determined that no one else in this country will have to suffer in the same way that he and Zena have had to, warning that the practice of forced marriages and so-called honour killings continues to be a real problem.

Political correctness, he adds, is all that keeps it out of the headlines.

‘People still think this happens only in the back streets of Bradford, Wolverhampton, Leicester, Birmingham and places like that,’ says Jack.

‘It doesn’t - it happens in the sort of leafy suburbs where people will be sitting reading this paper.

‘It touches those who weren’t fortunate to have a good education, as well as those who have degrees. It is out there and it is simply not going to go away on its own.’

Many, no doubt, will find it hard to believe that anyone in 21st-century Britain could be forced to live under such a threat.

Or, indeed, that anyone could be so twisted as to harm someone they supposedly love for simply exercising their freedom or choice in whom they marry.

But the details of Jack and Zena’s life highlight a problem that police admit may have cost hundreds of young women their lives over the years. It should be pointed out that Zena did not come from a troubled, dysfunctional family.

‘But this time Zena stopped me, put her hand on my arm, and said: “No - we unpack the clothes now. This time we’re not going anywhere.”

THE REST OF THE STORY IS HERE

This is a long story as I’ve noted but suggest again that you read the rest as not all of it is posted.  But I do want to add this.

‘I was expecting them to be angry - but nothing like it was,’ says Jack. ‘I spoke to a brother who said, very coldly, very calmly, that when they found us we would end up in several bin liners.

‘He said: “I am selling my cars, my company, and I am going to hire a bounty hunter - you are dead, you are walking corpses.”’

As you see, there really isn’t talking to these sub human cave ppl from another time.

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   Sunday - July 12, 2009

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL CEILING REFLECTED IN MIRROR

Up much later then usual for me and going through some photos I took looking for something for a project I’m putting together. Jeez, that’s a mouthful.
Anyway, I found this and thought it might be of interest.
Inside Winchester Cathedral (some of you may recall the song) there is a mirror mounted on a table that reflects the ceiling above.
So I got this shot but reduced the size for the site.  Hope it shows well on your screens.

The information listed below was taken from the cathedral website.  Of course there’s much more detailed info there if interested. Simply Google Winchester Cathedral. 

A new house is being built next door to us. No where near as impressive as the cathedral of course, but I just can’t help but wonder.  How in the world did those people build this beauty in 1079, or start anyway, without lifts and power tools and all the stuff the guys are using next door. And the stone. I’m blown away by things ancient and enjoy architecture provided it isn’t too modern. There was something about buildings like this ... don’t quite know how to describe it. I’m in awe of them. And the ppl who built and designed them.  I don’t think I really want to know all the exact details of how they did it.  I just accept it as magic of some kind. 

This place used to be within walking distance off this house. Nowadays I have to use the bus. Age is bothersome.

The Building

The foundations of the current Cathedral were laid by Bishop Walkelin in 1079 of stone brought from the Isle of Wight and timber from one of Hampshire’s oak forests. Most of the building has been restored, with only the crypt and transepts surviving. The east end was greatly extended to include the Retrochoir during the 13th century. The Nave was completely remodelled in around 1400 and since then, more minor alterations and the introduction of tombs, chapels and monuments have been a feature of every century.  The cathedral has the largest surviving area of 13th century medieval tiles in the country

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TRYING TO BREAK THE DARK MOOD WITH SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT HERE AND FOUND ….

I think I needed to lighten up a bit and looked for something to share that was funny after the gloom and doom stuff.
I can’t vouch for this being real, although the claim is they all are.  But even if they aren’t, they still amuse and that can’t be wrong.

I found this stuff here.  > http://www.ahajokes.com/dum13.html

Really Stupid People

Police in Wichita, Kansas, arrested a 22-year-old man at an airport hotel after he tried to pass two (counterfeit) $16 bills.

A man in Johannesberg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other’s head.

A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film’s depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film.

The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.

A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the copier with the shredder.

A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few days later accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.

Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message “He’s lying” was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn’t telling the truth. Believing the “lie detector” was working, the suspect confessed.

When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested.

A Los Angeles man who later said he was “tired of walking,” stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

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It just damn well doesn’t stop. Not for a day. Can’t believe I’m even posting this.

This is truly madness folks. I want to do ...  what exactly? I don’t know but it sure as hell bothers the life outta me.

I don’t care to post the entire article but it’s yours to read at the link.

This sort of thing happens so often here I find myself unable to express myself in words other then that of the most violent nature.
It’s simply beyond me how things have reached this point without the public rising up and forming vigilante groups. And even I can see the danger in that. But what else is there?  The law? The Law?  Really? Where? Punishment? When? How often?
Nuts!

Teacher knifed to death as she walked her dog

By Daily Mail Reporter
updated at 7:37 PM on 12th July 2009

A teacher was stabbed to death by a man who pounced on her as she walked her dog on playing fields.

Sally Garwood was knifed and killed in broad daylight as she took her family’s dog for an afternoon walk in a park in Buckinghamshire yesterday.

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Dollars to donuts the bastard that did it won’t serve long, they’ll say he has a mental problem. We hear that so often after a crime like this. Too often.

Ppl with known problems like this need to be EUTHANIZED and sooner is better then later.  Screw the hand wringers.  Folks who show the first signs of this sort of behavior need to be put down.  And if as in a case like this they’ve stabbed someone to death, then that should be their penalty as well.

Very recently a 16 yr old boy was arrested for raping a young boy.  He has a record of this and yet he was out walking the streets 8 days after his arrest for another attack.  Seems he likes young boys. Authorities are aware of the creep and his record which isn’t a short one.

Surely you’d think if this place doesn’t like the death penalty, then the very least they should do is burn off his willy and see how the little shit likes that.
Oh, they can’t publish his name or show his photo due to his tender years and his “fuckin’ rights.”

Meanwhile ... a child killer/rapist is in jail and is suing the govt. over his right to vote.  That it has gone far enough to attract the attention of the press here show how very bad things are and how screwed up the system is. 

Makes me feel right at home, cause I know things aren’t a hell of a lot better there.

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Too early to write off Sarah Palin. She will be back, says Leonard Doyle of The Telegraph.

Never did care for Letterman and never thought he was funny.  But apparently many think boring is funny so I’m in a minority or he wouldn’t have that job.

This was a long piece and so I didn’t post all of it. The rest is at the link below.

Sarah Palin may have quit as governor of Alaska, but after gauging the mood in Washington, Leonard Doyle says it’s too early to write her off

By Leonard Doyle
Published: 9:30PM BST 11 Jul 2009

Last Tuesday, Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin showed up on a beach in a fisherman’s bib and waders, hoping to clear the air about her decision to quit her job by the end of the month. But instead of providing the answer to whether she intends to launch a “Palin for President” bid for the White House in 2012, she became fodder for David Letterman, the late-night comedian.

“Is it just me, or is anybody else here having naughty thoughts about Sarah Palin in those waders?” he asked, pointing to endlessly looped footage of the telegenic governor clothed in rubber.

A few weeks ago he was advising her to update her “slutty flight-attendant look” and made an outrageous on-air sexual jibe about her daughter, which he later only half-apologised for.

When the jeering died down, it was not immediately clear whether Palin still had her eyes on the White House. Some of the governor’s friends believe her real aim is to develop a lucrative career on the lecture circuit, perhaps with her own TV talk show – indeed Levi Johnston, the estranged father of Palin’s grandchild, claimed last week that he had heard her talk several times of how nice it would be to take advantage
of the lucrative deals currently on offer. But her currency is based on the likelihood that she will declare herself as a presidential candidate some time next year.

And if anyone from small-town America can grow up to become president, surely it is Sarah Palin. She remains by far the most attractive woman in US politics. Even in her grungy, blood-streaked overalls, she cut a compelling figure for the cameras. But why she quit the top job with 18 months still left to serve remains a mystery.

Speaking to the journalist Andrea Mitchell, she said it was because she “loves Alaska”. She then complained bitterly of multiple and frivolous ethics investigations which had effectively paralysed her administration. The governor was also incensed at the growing mockery of her infant, Trig, who has Down’s syndrome.

America’s liberal elite chortled at the explanations. When someone pointed out that she shot her first rabbit on her back porch aged just 10, the media deemed that, at 45, she had shot herself in both feet.

More jeers were to follow every time the governor updated her thoughts on Twitter. In one early morning burst, she wrote: “Couple of thoughts for the day on beautiful bright AK morn: ‘You have to sacrifice to win. That’s my philosophy in six words.’ “

The governor’s BlackBerry produces half a dozen such haikus on any given day.

“Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy,” was how The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd summed up the situation. Vanity Fair magazine, the bible of America’s chattering classes, dissected what it called Governor Palin’s “narcissistic personality disorder”. On the cable news channel MSNBC, someone described Governor Palin as “incompetent”.

But it was Maureen Dowd’s spoof column, headlined “Sarah’s Secret Diary”, that captured the condescension in which so many sophisticates view her. “No one understands me. It’s like I’m speaking some Eskimo dialect or something,” Ms Dowd wrote, channelling Governor Palin’s style. “Andrea Mitchell follows me all the way to Kanakanak Beach and I get a French manicure and set up this huge photo op for her, even though she spooked the salmon.”

The liberal caricature of Governor Palin has previously been that she is a hopelessly erratic leader. Now she was being redefined as a “quitter” who could not stand the heat of political battle, and is therefore unfit for the Presidency.

The media is often a poor predictor of events in the US. It was slow to identify Barack Obama’s chances of winning the Democratic nomination and the Presidency. It completely missed the story of the global economic collapse. And thus predictions about the end of Sarah Palin’s political life seem premature.

Even though the Democrats believe they are unassailable in the face of a leaderless Republican Party, the country’s mood is fickle. There are signs that the tide is already turning against President Obama in some areas as he struggles to end the worst recession since the 1930s. In Iowa, a key bellwether state, his polling numbers are declining sharply.

THE REST OF THIS EDITORIAL HERE

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The Alaska governor’s resignation shows how shallow Republicans have become.  Oh Boy.

Yeah I know.  This is supposed to be a conservative site. But wait. 

Three major papers here have stories on her, all somewhat different slants with this being the harshest by far. I’m betting you haven’t read this article in the states, and I thought BMEWS should post it.  I thought you should see it and then have at it using I hope some logic instead of anger alone.
Truth to tell, I do not want to believe this. Any of it. But Andrew Sullivan seems to have done a bit of research. As a political writer he must scan speeches and attend his fair share of them as well.

I have read this fellow often, and this is the first time I’ve read anything like this by him. 

Is there food for thought here?  Look, I was one of many years ago who really did think Ross Perot was the answer.  I believed in him. I wasn’t alone. And look what happened. 

One thing is true and some of you have pointed it out as well.  The party seems to have a leadership problem these days.  It almost seems to be tossed by waves in the ocean going this way and that with no firm direction. Drew said it better, but you get the drift.

Question for you folks. Ya think there’s any truth to this? Even a little? Cause if there is, where does that leave us?

From The Sunday Times
July 12, 2009
Palin leads the right into a reality TV vortex

Andrew Sullivan

Writing about Sarah Palin always presents a quandary. Does one operate under the usual assumption that this is a rational figure, a serious politician, a rising Republican star . . . or do you acknowledge the copious evidence that she cannot tell the truth, has delusions of grandeur, has no policy record to speak of and quit her job as Alaska governor halfway through her first term because she is, in her own explanation, “not a quitter”? I think that you have to proceed under the assumption that this is a joke of a candidate and a symptom of a political party in the middle of a mental breakdown.

Mind you, I love the idea of Sarah Palin: a brassy, no-nonsense enemy of bloated government and corruption. That was probably John McCain’s rough idea of who she was in the five minutes his staff vetted her, and on the one occasion he’d met her, before offering her a chance to be leader of the free world. The idea of Sarah Palin, though, is sadly not the reality of Sarah Palin.

The reality of Sarah Palin is that politics is a means to her higher goal: celebrity. Every action she takes is designed to make sense . . . if you believe that government is really a version of a reality show. The remote, David Lynch-style location, the family often in trouble with the law, the pregnant teenage daughter and her impossibly handsome redneck boyfriend, the boyfriend’s angry sister, an ornery Alaskan trooper, a few moose and mysterious pregnancies . . . and, well, the mini-series never ends. The best guess I’ve heard of the real reason for her abrupt departure is: “I’m a celebrity . . . get me out of here!”

No one yet understands the real reason for a first-term governor just quitting on Friday, July 3, with no advance notice. If it were planned, why did her husband have to travel 300 miles to be there? Why do it all on a federal holiday before the Fourth of July? As Bubble from Absolutely Fabulous might note: “Who can say?”

A blog reader scanned every single governor of all the states for the past century to find precedents. There are plenty of examples of governors being arrested, being impeached or dying. But only two others in American history have just up and quit: Eliot Spitzer, New York governor, involved in a professional escort service after he had vowed to clean up the state; and Jim McGreevey, whose gay lover blackmailed him. Palin has quit for no apparent reason.

If it were to spend time with her family, it would be understandable, but she insists that’s not the case — and if you’re prepared to run for national office months after giving birth to an infant with Down’s syndrome, it’s a little odd to quit the governorship of a state when you have only a year and a half to go. It doesn’t make sense politically since it implies she could do the same thing at any moment in any future office. Why should anyone vote for someone who could quit for no good reason at any time?

But trying to makes sense of Sarah Palin is a fool’s errand. I spent a lot of time last year trying to figure out how her bizarre pregnancy story could make any sense at all — it doesn’t — and came up with nothing but a suspicion that large parts of it were made up. If you present the facts to Palin spokespeople, they seem offended and regard you as some liberal hater. But the facts reveal she lies all the time about almost everything and so is probably improvising about her reasons for resigning.

I’ve now compiled 32 incontrovertibly untrue statements of fact that she has uttered in the public record and never retracted. They are not the usual political lies — spinning or shading the truth; they are demonstrably, empirically untrue in the public record. Some are trivial: Palin said on television that she asked her daughters to vote on whether she should accept the vice-presidency offer; but that story contradicts details given by Palin herself, who said she accepted the offer on the spot.

Others are more serious: Palin lied when she said the dismissal of Walt Monegan, her public safety commissioner, had nothing to do with his refusal to fire Mike Wooten (her former brother-in-law, who was at war with her family) from his job as a state trooper; in fact, the Branchflower report concluded she repeatedly abused her power when dealing with both men.

Palin lied when she repeatedly claimed to have said, “Thanks, but no thanks,” to the famous “bridge to nowhere”, an expensive, pork-barrel government project; in fact, she openly campaigned for the federal project when running for governor. I could go on. But the truth is, she’s a reality-show star vaulted to national prominence by a Republican party now so devoid of talent and desperate for some kind of support that it gambled on the political equivalent of Susan Boyle. One who couldn’t even sing.

My own bet is that there is another scandal out there that would have forced her resignation if she hadn’t pre-empted it. Yet as plausible is the simple notion uttered by the only person in the melodrama who seems halfway sane: Levi Johnston, the teenage father of Palin’s grandson: “I think the big deal was the book. That was millions of dollars.” With a multi-million-dollar book deal, Palin can now become the darling of the right-wing media in America without the tedious duties of actually, you know, governing something. If the book contains scandals we have not yet learnt about, it could be explosively big in the mainstream; if it’s a hagiography, it could sell well with an adoring religious base.

And this helps explain the broader problem with American conservatism right now. It is less a movement than an industry. From Fox News to talk radio to conservative publishing houses, it has created an alternate and lucrative media reality that is worth a fortune to those able to exploit it. Alas, these alternative media thrive on paranoia, hatred of liberal elites and growing extremist rhetoric made worse by a hermetically sealed echo chamber of true believers. Anyone criticised by the left or even by the establishment right is a martyr in this world. In America, martyrdom sells. And Palin is a product worth lots of money.

She wants some of it; and she has no actual interest in governing America (even though she’d love the title of president). She referred to giving up her “title” as governor, not her “office”. In this, she is the ultimate Republican of this degenerate moment: all culture war, no policy; all identity politics, no engagement with practical answers to difficult public problems; and all hysterical opposition to Barack Obama, no actual alternatives offered.

Since even epic scandals heighten celebrity rather than diminish it, Palin’s future is secure. Her party’s? Getting bleaker by the day.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com

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Muslim who justified killing British troops back at Treasury. Naturally. It’s one of his many rights

While on my way to post another story I found this at the Telegraph and HAD to post it.
I can’t make up my mind if this is a moonbat thing which in a sense of course it is.  Or maybe there’s something not being reported and more to come.
Hmm. kay. I’ll give it one for now but it isn’t funny.

btw ... If anyone understand this, please explain it to me. Or maybe not as the answer might make me crazy.

A personal side note > Turtler.  See why I’m swimming off the deep end?  Look at this.  Aaaagggggggg!

Azad Ali, a Muslim civil servant suspended after comments appeared on his personal website justifying the killing of British troops in Iraq, has returned to work at the Treasury.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Published: 4:32PM BST 12 Jul 2009

Ali, an IT worker and president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, was suspended on full pay for six months following comments on his blog.

In one post Mr Ali said he found ‘much truth’ in an interview with an Islamic militant who said: “If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier’s uniform inside Iraq I would kill him because that is my obligation.

“If I found the same soldier in Jordan I wouldn’t touch him. In Iraq he is a fighter and an occupier, here he is not. I respect this as the main instruction in my religion for jihad.”

He also criticised the British Government for failing to condemn the “Zionist terrorist state of Israel” during the Gaza crisis and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, for condemning Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar after he said Jewish children were “legitimate targets”.

Mr Ali also mocked the official representatives of moderate British “Muslims” who support the Government, calling them “self-serving vultures, feeding on the dead flesh of the Palestinians”.

The Civil Service Islamic Society’s official website declares that it is bound by strict rules which say Whitehall special interest groups must be “non-partisan and non-political” and act with “honesty, impartiality and integrity”.

But the comments came on his personal blog, which highlighted his civil service role and provided a link to the Whitehall website.

Sir Gus O’Donnell, Britain’s most senior civil servant and patron of the Civil Service Islamic Society, ordered that Mr Ali be suspended while an investigation was carried out amid concerns that Mr Ali may have breached the Whitehall code of practice that restricts civil servants from political activities.

The investigation has now finished and Mr Ali has returned to his job.

A Treasury spokesman said: “Azad Ali is back at work. The Treasury has dealt with the matter in accordance with our disciplinary procedures. We will not comment on individual cases.”

Mr Ali refused to comment.

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Doesn’t take a genius IQ to read between his lines.  And the Brits trust this guy?

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   Saturday - July 11, 2009

Oh Shut Up

I was going to put up a little post mentioning how it’s raining again here, but with lots of thunder and lightning. A real ‘Hudson Valley Rumbler’. I grew up in the lower Hudson River Valley, and the area is pretty notorious for big thunder. Always has been - remember Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and the sound of the old Dutchmen bowling for ninepins? Same locale. And that’s the kind of storm we’re having here tonight. What the heck, we had 4 days without rain I think.

But just to check on the world, I pulled up FoxNews, and saw this story ... and realized I haven’t put an actual moonbat post up in quite a while. I think this one qualifies. She’s just a little moonbat, still in training.

Texting Teen Falls Down Open NYC Manhole

A New York City teenager says she was text messaging while walking down the street — and the next second she was down a manhole.

Alexa Longueira was walking down a Staten Island block and was getting ready to text message when she fell into an open sewer manhole, MyFOX NY reports.

Longueira suffered mild cuts and bruises and is expected to recover.

The teen’s mother says workers told her they left the manhole open and unattended for just seconds while they went to fetch some cones from their truck.

The Department of Environmental Protection says it is investigating.

“DEP is conducting a full investigation of what happened during a manhole incident on Victory Boulevard where workers were flushing a high-pressure sewer on Wednesday evening,” said Mercedes Padilla, of the DEP. “We regret that this happened and wish the young woman a speedy recovery.”

Alexa’s mom says it doesn’t matter that her daughter was text-messaging, the manhole should not have been left open.

The Longueira family says they plan on filing a lawsuit.

Yup, you walk down the street - not on the sidewalk, but out in the street - totally focused on your cellphone, not looking where you’re going, and fall in a hole. And it’s somebody else’s fault, so sue.

Personal responsibility? Situational awareness? A quarter microgram of common sense? These things are unknown in moonbat land. Big government’s job is to protect you 24 - 7, every day of your life. And you get loads of free money from the Infinite Money Tree when they don’t.

Please, please, please let me be on the jury. I really need the laughs.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/11/2009 at 09:28 PM   
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YOU CAN FIND THE WEIRDEST STUFF ON THE NET. DID YOU KNOW THAT PEPSI IS A ZIONIST PLOT?

Yeah well, neither did I.  I can’t believe anyone can possibly really,really believe this stuff. But then why not?  There are so many really,really stupid ppl about, the mind boggles.

Perhaps some of you already knew about this. ?  I just caught the link to this Israeli news site almost by accident.
It’s either good for a laff or two, or tears.  A good head shake anyway.

Muslim Cleric: Pepsi is “Zionist Plot”

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Extremist Moslems have not dropped their allegations that Pepsi Cola is essentially the code name for a Zionist plot.

MEMRI has released an English transcript of an address given by a Muslim religious leader in Egypt this past February, in which he explains that PEPSI is actually an acronym for “Pay Every Penny to Save Israel.”

In addition, a member of the Hamas terrorist organization’s parliament in Gaza made similar accusations against Pepsi last year. Speaking with official Hamas TV station Al-Aqsa TV on April 23, 2008, Hamas MP Salem Salamah said, “There are companies established by the colonialists and occupiers - large companies with branches all over the world, like Pepsi, Pepsi Cola. This is a well-known company. Pepsi is an acronym. P-E-P-S-I - Pay Every Pence to Save Israel. Pay every pence - pence is one-hundredth of a dollar – to save Israel. Pay every pence to save Israel…”

Al-Aqsa TV promotes terrorist activity and incites hatred of Jews and Israelis, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

More recently, this past February, Egyptian cleric Hazem Abu Ismail made a similar accusation. Speaking on Al Nas TV – a Muslim religious channel in Egypt that provides Islamic programming for Muslim Muftis – Abu Ismail all but called for a Muslim boycott of Pepsi because it stands for ‘Pay Every Penny Saving Israel.’ Abu Ismail said a penny is “one-thousandth of a dollar.”

Specifically, Hazem Abu Ismail said as follows (transcript provided by MEMRI, the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, at http://www.memri.org):

Do you know what the word “Pepsi” means? Pepsi as in P-E-P-S-I. The first P stands for “Pay.” E stands for “Every.” The third letter stands for “Penny.” A penny means any small coin you receive and don’t know what to do with. Pay it to “Saving” I - “Israel.” In other words, pay every small coin you receive in order to save Israel. They don’t want money from you - they want your small change, your pennies. If I’m not mistaken, in American economics, a penny is one-thousandth of the dollar. It’s not even worth a piaster. It’s only a millime. At least I think it’s worth a millime, not even a piaster.

They say: “Donate the small change you don’t need, but give it to the right cause. If you collect small change, you can buy this drink.” They took the first letter of each word - “Pay Every Penny Saving Israel” - and they formed the word “Pepsi.” When you pay [to buy Pepsi], you are saving Israel. I am not talking about Pepsi, but about Coca Cola and all of them. I don’t want to specify the products. See for yourselves. You are Muslims. You can tell me. I don’t know. My little son knows more about the boycott than me. When we go shopping, he says to me: “Buy this, don’t buy that.” He knows them by heart. He has become an expert in this.

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

THE JEWS ARE PLOTTING DEATH BY FIZZ? 

ROTFLMAO!

Posted by peiper     on 07/11/2009 at 10:13 AM   
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   Friday - July 10, 2009

Huh?

Illinois Democrat Jan Shakowsky, the chairwoman of the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on oversight, is pressing for an immediate committee investigation of the classified program, which has not been described publicly.


Well, um, no kidding? Isn’t that why it’s called “secret” and “classified”?

CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a “very serious” covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday.

Schakowsky is pressing for an immediate committee investigation of the classified program, which has not been described publicly. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has said he is considering an investigation.

“The program is a very, very serious program and certainly deserved a serious debate at the time and through the years,” Schakowsky told The Associated Press in an interview. “But now it’s over.”

Democrats revealed late Tuesday that CIA Director Leon Panetta had informed members of the House Intelligence Committee on June 24 that the spy agency had been withholding important information about a secret intelligence program begun after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Schakowsky described Panetta as “stunned” that he had not been informed of the program until nearly five months into his tenure as director.

Oh, I get it. Eight years. Uh huh, right. This is going to be another “BLAME BUSH” distraction, so we won’t notice what crap Obama is up to for the next couple weeks. Like making a treaty with Russia, all by himself, without Congressional approval. Which is, of course, utterly unconstitutional.


Isn’t this getting tiring? Yes, the CIA has some black ops. Stuff they don’t print on the front page of The New York Times tell Congress about. Gee, I wonder why? Is it because the CIA is tricksy and evil, or is it because they’ve learned not to trust the braying jackasses in power not to leak and interfere? Now, there’s food for thought - if the Legislature doesn’t trust the CIA, and the CIA doesn’t trust the Legislature, then why should We The People trust either of them?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/10/2009 at 02:43 PM   
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Ollie speaks out on Honduras!

· Friday, 3 July 2009

WASHINGTON—It took the Obama administration eight days to figure out whether Iranians being gunned down for protesting a fraudulent election and demanding basic civil liberties deserved to be acknowledged by the president of the United States . It took the O-Team less than eight hours to side with Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega over the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.

As we now have come to expect, Mr. Obama got it wrong again, but this time, nobody noticed. The U.S. news media, preoccupied with the sudden demise of Michael Jackson, ignored the event in Central America . For those who care about things more important than the passing of a “pop music legend,” here’s the rest of the story:

Manuel Zelaya, a wealthy rancher and agribusiness executive and a self-described “poor farmer,” won a four-year term as Honduran president in November 2005, with 49.8 percent of the vote. Article 374 of the Honduran Constitution bars the nation’s chief executive from serving consecutive terms. Apparently, one term wasn’t enough for Zelaya, a protégé of Venezuela ‘s strongman, Hugo Chavez, and Nicaragua ‘s phobic anti-American leader, Daniel Ortega.

Late last year, as the Honduran economy tanked and unemployment grew to nearly 28 percent, Zelaya forced Elvin Santos, the country’s elected vice president, to resign and began holding conversations with Chavez and Ortega on how to hold on to power. In lengthy Chavez-like populist speeches, he denounced the U.S. and wealthy landowners and linked himself with leftists in the Honduran labor movement. On March 23, he issued an executive decree directing a national referendum on a Venezuela-style constituent assembly to rewrite the country’s constitution in time for presidential and legislative elections in November. The Obama-Clinton State Department was mute about all of this.

Unfortunately for Zelaya’s aspirations, the Honduran Constitution requires that amendments be passed by a two-thirds vote of the country’s unicameral Congress during two consecutive sessions. By late May, the Honduran Congress, the Honduran Supreme Court, the commissioner for human rights, and the Honduran electoral tribunal all had overwhelmingly declared the referendum unconstitutional. Zelaya ignored the people’s representatives, had ballots printed in Venezuela , and announced that the vote would take place June 28. Again, the O-Team was silent.

In keeping with the rule of law, Honduran Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi took the case to court. The Honduran Supreme Court ruled the referendum to be illegal and ordered the ballots to be confiscated. Late on June 23, Zelaya countermanded the court order and directed the army to distribute the ballots. Gen. Romeo Vasquez, the chief of staff of the Honduran military, sought legal opinions and decided not to distribute them. The following day, Zelaya accepted the resignation of the minister of defense, Edmundo Orellana, and fired Vasquez.

The Honduran Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Vasquez firing illegal and reinstated him June 25. That prompted Zelaya and a group of supporters to seize the ballots and issue another executive decree, which directed government officials to set up 15,000 polling stations at schools and community buildings across the country. In response to a request from Attorney General Rubi, the Honduran Congress—controlled by Zelaya’s own Liberal Party—opened an investigation into the president’s mental stability and fitness to govern. Zelaya replied with a two-hour broadcast harangue, in which he claimed: “Congress cannot investigate me, much less remove me or stage a technical coup against me, because I am honest. I’m a free president, and nobody scares me.”

On Sunday, just hours before the referendum was to begin, the Honduran army, acting on a warrant issued by the Honduran Supreme Court, arrested Zelaya and sent him, in his pajamas, into exile in Costa Rica . The Honduran Congress affirmed Zelaya’s departure and, in accord with the constitution, named Roberto Micheletti, who had been president of the Congress, as interim president of the country.

It has been downhill from there. Chavez, Ortega, Castro and Bolivia ‘s Evo Morales immediately condemned the “coup” and demanded that Zelaya be restored to power. Chavez went so far as to threaten military action. When asked about these events Sunday, the O-Team punted the issue to the Organization of American States, calling for “all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.” Now there’s a powerful statement of support for a constitutional process and the institutions of democracy. Meanwhile, the Clinton State Department is said to be looking at cutting off aid to the impoverished country.

The O-Team doesn’t seem to grasp that simply holding an election does not guarantee a democracy. Adolf Hitler was elected. Hugo Chavez was elected. The Castro brothers were “elected.” When potentates decide that the rule of law does not matter, that constitutional restrictions on power can be overcome by executive fiat, the people inevitably suffer. It’s a point to remember as we celebrate our own nation’s 233rd Independence Day.

sent in by Carol. Thank you! I was slow getting through the email this week, so it’s going up a tad late. But the situation there is still ongoing, even though you’re not hearing much about it in the news.

Hey, you want some irony with that? Here’s a link to the WaPo, who is complaining that the story is only being given one sided coverage and that there is media bias afoot!

And Obama is still backing Zelaya, now with the added support of Brazil’s da Silva.

Also ... Oh my heavens! Honduran diplomat in hot water for referring to Teh One as a lawn jockey. Almost. “el negrito”; the little black guy. Cracks me up, but yo, esse, respect the office.

I pray that Honduras can solve their situation peaceably. But I know several thugs and commies down thataway are helping to stir the pot as hard as they can. Several from up thisaway too.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/10/2009 at 02:01 PM   
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Chinese authorities ban Uighurs from mosques .

They don’t claim to be a democracy and sometimes their way works best for them. So who are we to insist they change?
In this case, the only fault I can find with Chinese reaction is that the police did give in to 1,000 muzzies who “refused to disperse.” Now see that was a mistake.
A thousand. How hard would it have been to eliminate ALL of em? Now that this group sees a slight weakness (if that’s what it was) what’s their next demand going to be?  Reparations? 

Finish the job China, while you can.

Chinese authorities banned Muslims from gathering at mosques for Friday prayers in Urumqi in a bid to prevent any further ethnic violence in the Xinjiang region.

By David Eimer in Urumqi and Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 11:53AM BST 10 Jul 2009

However, Chinese police eventually agreed to open up at least two major downtown mosques after crowds of up to a thousand Uighurs refused to disperse without being allowed to pray.

The 200 or so mosques in the far Western city had been ordered to close their door to worshippers in the wake of race riots between local Uighur Muslims and the majority Han Chinese that have claimed at least 156 lives.

Friday prayers are a focal point of the week for Urumqi’s Uighur Muslims and the Chinese authorities imposed the ban in an attempt to deter any large emotional gatherings after a week of tension and violence.

Security teams circulated through the city’s Muslim quarters and told worshippers to stay away from mosques this week and to worship next week instead.

“For the sake of public safety all of the mosques have told people that there will be no Friday prayers and that people should stay at home today and pray,” said a government official at the Yang Hang mosque, the biggest mosque in the city with a capacity of around 3,000. A notice was pasted outside cancelling the prayers.

However, as midday approached, a small crowd of around 100 worshippers gathered outside the mosque and a further 50 to 100 people made their way into the inner courtyard. “It’s not necessary to close it because everyone who enters the mosque is a Muslim. It will be safe,” said one female worshipper.

The crowd ignored demands from the Chinese police to disperse and demanded the right to prayer. As tensions rose, the news of a dispute outside the mosque drew a crowd of around 1,000. Eventually, the authorities relented and an abbreviated prayer ceremony, with no sermon, was permitted.

Riot police and security forces stood ready nearby, but after the prayers, the crowds dispersed without any incident. Uighurs generally practice a moderate form of Sunni Islam that was prevalent in Central Asia under Soviet rule, although more militant and austere forms of Islam have made inroads in recent decades.

A similar scene played out in front of the White mosque, one of the most popular places to worship in the mainly Uighur neighborhood of Er Dao Qiao. A Uighur policeman guarding the mosque said the authorities had backed down from a ban and “decided to open the mosque because so many people had gathered. We did not want an incident”.

However, the majority of the city’s mosques remained shut. One Uighur man, who declined to give his name out of fear for his safety, was sitting outside the Kungui mosque. “If I have to pray at home, then I will. But don’t ask me my mood right now.”

The last time that Friday prayers were banned in China was in 2003, during an outbreak of SARS, the respiratory disease. However, Uighurs in Xinjiang are subject to a number of restrictions on worship, including a ban on anyone under 18 attending a mosque. The government also controls the appointment of imams.

Meanwhile, thousands of fearful people poured into bus and train stations yesterday (fri) in a mass exodus from the city. Officials said they had put on extra bus services out of the capital, but demand far outstripped seats and scalpers were charging up to five times the normal face price for tickets.

“It is just too risky to stay here. We are scared of the violence,” said Xu Qiugen, 23, a construction worker from central China who had been living in Urumqi for five years and was trying to buy a bus ticket out with his wife.

It came as the state media reported that families of “innocent” people killed in the unrest will each receive 200,000 yuan (£18,000) in compensation. Urumqi’s government will also provide 10,000 yuan (£902) towards each funeral.

The situation in Urumqi is now significantly calmer and the security forces which had flooded the city, some of whom had been sent to reinforce Urumqi from cities as far away as Shanghai, took pains to keep a low profile. In Kashgar, the second-largest Uighur city, foreigners have been asked to leave for their own safety.

The violence began on Sunday when Uighurs clashed with police while protesting deaths of Uighur factory workers in a brawl in another part of the country. The crowd then scattered throughout Urumqi, attacking Han Chinese, burning cars and smashing windows. Riot police tried to restore order, and officials said 156 people were killed and more than 1,100 were injured.

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 07/10/2009 at 10:10 AM   
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NO STORY BUT 23 PHOTOS AT THE LINK.  DO NOT PLAY SILLY GAMES WITH CHINESE!

Chinese soldiers sent to rioting city to quell mudslimes acting up.
Notice please these guys are carrying CROSSBOWS!

In other photos soldiers have fixed bayonets.
Now that’s what I call mob control.

PHOTO GALLERY

Oh yeah ... unrelated and on another topic altogether. The planet and carbon footprint yadda,yadda.

Both China and India have said they are not going to worry about carbon emissions at the risk of their economies.
Hey Al Bore .... Stick that where the sun don’t shine! 

Posted by peiper     on 07/10/2009 at 09:47 AM   
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