Tuesday - August 11, 2009

Down Under Ex Post Facto?

A TASMANIAN psychologist has been found guilty of professional misconduct for having sex with his own wife.

Michael John Marriott, 58, of Burnie, has appealed against the decision by the Psychologists Registration Board of Tasmania to ban him from practising for six months.

Justice Alan Blow heard in the Supreme Court in Hobart that Mr Marriott married a former patient in 2001, but the pair separated in 2004 and went through what Mr Marriott called a bitter property settlement.

In June 2007 Mr Marriott’s wife, Christine Raeburn, made a complaint against him, which resulted in the professional misconduct finding.

The profession’s code of conduct states no psychologist may engage in a sexual relationship with a former client within two years of their professional relationship ending.

The court heard Ms Raeburn became a client of Mr Marriott’s in 1997.

She had been in a car accident and was making an insurance claim for post traumatic stress disorder.

Mr Marriott’s lawyer, Bill Ayliffe, said there was a hug that turned into a passionate kiss at the end of their last appointment in June 1999.

They formed a relationship and married in March 2001.

The psychologists board’s disciplinary committee held a hearing into Ms Raeburn’s complaint in April last year and Mr Marriott pleaded guilty to professional misconduct.

Mr Ayliffe said his client could not deny he had breached the code because he clearly had sex with his wife within the two-year period.

But Mr Ayliffe said the board should have withdrawn or amended the charges against Mr Marriott once it had realised the code was only devised in 2003 and did not exist at the relevant time.

He said the board should have considered the nature of the couple’s relationship, including whether it involved mutual love and benefit.

The board’s lawyer, Bruce McTaggart, said the professional misconduct finding was based on common law, not the code of conduct.

Justice Blow reserved his decision.

How’s that for an Open Thread starter? The shrink gets suspended for 6 months because he married his patient 23 months after she stopped visiting him for treatment. And the “code” wasn’t written down until 2 years AFTER they were married. But hey, such misconduct goes against common law. Really? The kind that isn’t written down, and is just assumed? I’d like to see that section that gives the 2 year rule. And it was his own wife. It’s not like he fed her roofies and attacked her in his office. Or coerced her in any way, or even came up with some twisted “treatment” that included her having sex with him. He married her. Shouldn’t that make just a bit of difference?

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Not Sporting

THREE Canadians who shelled ducklings on a pond, including firing at them from a vehicle and then posting their stunt on YouTube, were fined $17,305, media reported today.

The three men from Cudworth, Saskatchewan, were identified by police after a flood of tips to the province’s anti-poaching hotline.

They were charged with careless firearms use, allowing game meat to spoil, hunting waterfowl out of season and illegally hunting migratory birds with a rifle. One was also charged with firing a gun from a vehicle.

David Fraser, 30, his brother James, 23, and their brother-in-law Jeremy Rowlands pleaded guilty yesterday in court to 15 counts of violating wildlife protection laws.

“At the time that we did what we did we didn’t know it was a crime,” David Fraser said. “We had no idea that bullets ricocheted off water. And we made every effort at the time to make sure that there was nothing within eye view on the horizon of anywhere that we shot.”

In one scene, one of the three shooters unloads a hail of bullets at an unsuspecting duck, ripping it apart.

They posted the video online “because at the time we thought it was funny”, Fraser was quoted as saying by public broadcaster CBC.

It was viewed by more than 60,000 people, and provoked a national outcry.

I didn’t know that “allowing game meat to spoil” was a crime in Canada, but I don’t blame the authorities for throwing the book at these jerks. And Fraser’s “duh, I didn’t know” statement is a crock. That they videotaped it means they had planned it all ahead of time, and posting the video to YouTube is slimeball behavior. They thought it was funny. Fine the crap out of them.

I have no patience with slob hunters.

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Movin’ On Up, finally

We took all 7 points again tonight in bowling league. We won all 7 last week too, and 5 out of 7 the week before that I think. So my team is slowly floating up from nearly last place into the top ranks.

Tonight we gave the other team 20 in handicap, and one of their guys didn’t show. So 10 off his average for the absentee score. Then we bowled pretty well in games 1 and 2, winning by 60 or more each time. Then, to our amazement, 2 of the 3 people on the other team suddenly had a “family emergency” and they were gone. Huh? Whatever. So that left them just one active bowler, and 2 is the minimum legal lineup in this league. Or “one bowler and a vacancy; a vacancy will count as a valid bowler” - but let’s not go into that nonsense again. We checked with the alley staff, they checked the bylaws, and it was a forfeit. So I explained it properly to everyone: “Your team does not have a legal lineup for this game, so a forfeit situation exists. That means your team has given up the opportunity to win both the game and total wood. Our team still has the opportunity, but to do so we have to bowl at least as well as our team average minus 10 pins per bowler.” And we did. The guy on the other team stayed, and bowled his game anyway. It will count towards his running average, but that’s it.

This was the last week of scheduled bowling. Now we enter into the last 2 weeks, which are position rounds. Which seems a bit silly, given that their are only 8 teams on the league, but that’s how the rules are written. So winning all 7 tonight will move us up, perhaps as high as 3rd place. Which means we’ll play the 4th place team, and depending on how everyone bowls next week, may get us a shot at first place.

It would be nice to win a league, even a dinky one. But it doesn’t matter. Even the prize money is tiny; I think the purse for first is $72 per person or something silly like that. It’s just for fun.

I think I’ll put my balls out in the car tomorrow, to toast up in the sun and burn the oil out of them.



I think winter league starts the last Monday of this month. Yikes, where has the summer gone?

Posted by Drew458     on 08/11/2009 at 08:36 PM   
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Injuries included a broken back and eight broken ribs. And that’s just to start. This is beyond sick

I was aware and very disturbed by this story months ago when it was first made public. I wasn’t alone. Disturbed? More then that. Anger, frustration and all sorts of gloomy feelings reading about this poor kid.  How in the freeken world can a mother be party to this? How can any adult do these things to a helpless child?
And why oh why can’t those who commit some particularly horrific crimes be hung immediately.  No wait. Why can’t the same treatment be given them.

I didn’t post this at the time it first came out. It’s just too damn sickening.  But today there’s even more information and graphics and I thought originally I couldn’t hate these sub humans any more. They are disgusting scum of the worst order.

How can people torture a helpless baby of 17 months and live with themselves?
And how does a state now decide that due to the nature of the crime and publicity, the perps will get round the clock protection at the taxpayers expense. FOR LIFE.  Oh yeah. I forgot to mention it.  The mother will be out in a few years.  I am really trying very hard to keep my language clean.  While writing this I think I’ve even made up some new swear words even I never heard.

How does this grab you BMEWS?

At the autopsy they found some of his teeth in his stomach.
One of his abusers already had a record for the rape of a two year old girl.  In fact, he and his brother attacked their grandmother, beat her and locked her in a closet demanding that she rewrite her will leaving whatever she had to them.  She died some months later.  And still… the $£!!"£%$&&* bastards were out walking free. There’s no such fuckin thing as a god damned justice system! Forget about it. It’s a gd myth.

The killers of Baby Peter will be given new identities at taxpayers’ expense and lifetime protection from the threat of exposure after being named publicly for the first time as Tracey Connelly and Steven Barker.

By Caroline Gammell and Martin Beckford

The 17-month-old boy suffered an agonising death in their squalid home after months of abuse. The pair subjected him to an appalling ordeal that left him with 50 injuries, including a broken back.

Connelly, 28, who admitted causing or allowing Baby Peter’s death, could be released from jail in as little as three years.

She has already been placed in solitary accommodation in prison to protect her from fellow prisoners, such is the level of the notoriety she has gained since full details of her son’s treatment were disclosed.

It is almost certain that under human rights laws she will be granted lifelong anonymity once she is freed.

By claiming that she had the right to a life free from vigilante attacks or intrusion by the media, she would be given a new name, moved to a home equipped with panic buttons and provided with round-the-clock police protection for the rest of her life at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £1 million a year.

The same protection may also be given to Barker, 33, who could be free in 12 years.

It can be disclosed today that he is the brother of Jason Owen, 37 — Connelly’s lodger, who was also convicted over Peter’s death. He was the only one of the three accused to be publicly named at the end of their trial last November.

Protection orders are often granted to those who become notorious for crimes they commit against children. These include Mary Bell, who killed two boys when she was 11; Maxine Carr, who provided a false alibi for Ian Huntley after he murdered the Soham schoolgirls; and the schoolboy killers of James Bulger.

Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, was angered by the public cost of protecting Connelly in the future. “She had absolutely no concern for the human rights of Baby P, so it’s a bit much to expect anyone to fall over themselves protecting her rights,” he said.

“It will probably stick in the throat of most taxpayers to stump up cash for her. What she did was hideous and she should face the consequences of that.

“It’s a prime example of how human rights of criminals are put before those of victims — in this case a defenceless baby.”

Claude Knights, the director of Kidscape, a children’s charity, said the killers had “destroyed faith in humanity”.

“I don’t feel society should spend the hundreds and thousands it would cost [to give them new identities],” he said. “I would prefer it to be spent on child protection.”

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We aren’t done yet ... I want you to PLEASE see this version at the Daily Mail and see all the photos. Look at this filth that was allowed to be free and the system that has failed and failed miserably.  How the damn hell could the doctors have missed his injuries for so long?  How could the social services ppl have missed the filth and squalor this kid was in. And btw ... HE WAS NOT ALONE in that home!

This version in The Daily Mail is a very long one and so I’m only posting this excerpt. See the link below for all of it.
I can’t imagine any one of you who won’t come away angry.

Evil mother who stood by as son was tortured… and the neo-Nazi boyfriend who abused him

By Vanessa Allen, Colin Fernandez and Lucy Ballinger
Last updated at 2:06 PM on 11th August 2009

Such was Connelly’s lack of thought for her own child that in the final week of Peter’s life, when eight of his ribs were broken and his spine snapped, leaving him semi-paralysed, she claimed she had not noticed his injuries.

And when paramedics were called to the house on August 3, 2007, to find Peter blue and cold in his blood-spattered cot, they were horrified when his mother kept the ambulance waiting while she searched for her cigarettes.

She was pregnant with Barker’s child - a girl born while she was on remand in Holloway Prison.

Social workers initially asked to leave the baby with her to ‘bond’ but were overruled.

Connelly applied to meet her surviving children during her trial, but has been told she will never see them again.She whined to the trial judge that she cried every day and punished herself for allowing Peter’s abuse, but her jail letters rarely mention her children.

Instead she moaned of missing sex, writing: ‘I’ve been obsessed lately about it. I need sex like a heroin addict needs a fix.’

HERE FOR ALL THE PHOTOS AND THE REST OF THE STORY

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Pirates off the UK coast? International hunt launched as cargo ship vanishes into thin air.

C’mon. How does something this big get lost?  A couple of interesting questions and a clever answer.

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 4:58 PM on 11th August 2009

An international search has been launched after a cargo ship seemingly vanished into thin air as it passed through the Straits of Dover.

The Maltese-flagged Arctic Sea and its 13 Russian crewmembers has not been heard from since a last communication with the Dover coast guards on July 28.

The 4,700-tonne ship was carrying a load of timber worth £1.13million from Finland to Algeria.

It failed to arrive at the Algerian port of Bejaia on August 4 as planned. The last communication with it occurred on July 28 during a routine check with the coast guard as it passed through the Straits of Dover on its way to the Baltic Sea, a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said.

The man who spoke with the coastguard gave all the correct information and said nothing to set off alarm bells, the spokesman told the MailOnline.

‘On July 28, the ship literally disappeared - no communication, no data on its location, not from the owners, nor relatives, nor Lloyds,’ reported the Russian maritime journal Sovfracht.

‘This is the first time in modern times that we have ever heard of someone trying to take over a ship in northern European waters,’ the coastguard spokesman said.

Piracy is an increasing problem in international waters, but most attacks have taken place in the seas off the coast of Africa, Somalia in particular.

A Portuguese search plane is understood to have spotted the ship, though officials could not say when. Spanish officials said the ship had not passed through the Straits of Gibraltar.

Mikhail Voitenko, editor-in-chief of the Maritime Bulletin, told the ITAR-Tass agency: ‘It is absolutely impossible to capture the ship with some criminal purposes in European waters.

‘If the ship is not hidden somewhere in Europe currently it may be anywhere within the range of 3,000 to 3,500 miles. So, all communication means are switched off or destroyed aboard the ship and it is going in an unknown direction.’

Now the Russian navy has joined the search for the boat. ITAR-Tass says ships from Russia’s Black Sea fleet will begin searching for the Arctic Sea and its 15 Russian crew members beginning today.

Days earlier, on July 24, masked men who identified themselves as police officers briefly seized the ship in Swedish waters and beat up the crew.

But Swedish authorities said they hadn’t searched any ships.

Russian maritime expert Mikhail Voitenko said the ship’s cargo belonged to Finnish wood products giant Stora Enso Oyj and could be worth up to $1.5 million.

The ship, originally called Okhotsk, was built in 1991, has a Russian crew of 13 and is operated by a firm based in the Russian port of Arkhangelsk, according to data at the end of March.

Some of the earlier quoted reports in the Russian media stated there were 15 crew at the time of the boarding, and that the ship was transporting Finnish timber to Algeria. They also stated the earlier incident was being investigated in Sweden.

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Have I missed something? If the ship was going from Finland to Algeria, why, when it was going through the Dover Straits, was it heading for the Baltic Sea, as the article says? Shouldn’t it have been going the other way towards the Atlantic?

- Roy, Bexhill, E. Sussex, 11/8/2009 18:31

There are also pirates within the UK coast robbing the taxpayer, their leader, Gordon, and his crew have a hideout somewhere in London. Their pirate ship is called the Expenses.

- G Brown, Manchester UK, 11/8/2009 17:34

So this ship was en route from Finland to Algeria, Scandinavia to Africa, but to complete this trip the crew went through the straits of Dover heading for the Baltic, no wonder they have gone missing.

- Martin, peterborough, cambs, 11/8/2009 17:20

Unless it’s been scuttled professionally, you do not lose something that big that easily - not with constant sat-recon going on........ But you CAN disguise it to look like something else. How about looking for a ship which has APPEARED from nowhere, instead......?

- Robert, Worcester UK, 11/8/2009 17:15

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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from Richard Littlejohn. A worthy read.

Littlejohn is one of the very best at what he does, and I have yet to find him mistaken, unfair or wrong. Granted, I’m partial so I might miss something here and there. I might, but I kinda doubt that.
My previous post on this subject will with this editorial, make things even more clear for American readers. You folks at home in the USA have no idea how serious this problem is.  Sure, we have our leaky borders and problems with immigration both legal and otherwise.  But nothing like this. 
I seriously doubt America would have this exact same problem. First, Americans wouldn’t put up with it from the get-go.  I don’t think we’d allow it to become so well entrenched.  But then again, ya never do know for certain. Do we?

Some translations for those who may not be familiar with terms.
A boot sale would be about the same as a flea market.

Tarmac gang:  Often guys will arrive in a truck loaded with asphalt and claim that they have left over from a previous job and will relay driveway cheap.
It’s that alright.

Wigan Council’s consumer watchdogs are warning residents to be on their guard against a gang of unscrupulous workers who are charging elderly and vulnerable people top dollar for rock bottom work.

In the past week alone an 83 year-old Lowton woman has already shelled out more than £300 for sub-standard repair work to her drive.

While neighbours in Whelley have also been stung by the same firm to the tune of hundreds of pounds for pretty shoddy block paving work.

Residents of an Oxfordshire town are being warned about a group of men who are visiting homes and offering to tarmac driveways.

Are you sitting comfortably? Let’s go tarmacking with Teabag, Tess and Toby

By Richard Littlejohn
Last updated at 10:26 AM on 11th August 2009

Are you sitting comfortably, children? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time there was Janet and John, who lived with their mummy and daddy in a neat suburban house. Their harmless adventures helped millions of children to read.

Now meet Tess the Traveller, her son Toby and their dog Teabag, the new stars of a reading book for three to seven-year-olds being distributed in primary schools across the country.

It’s part of a government initiative aimed at promoting tolerance and understanding towards gipsies and travellers.

Needless to say, Tess, Toby and Teabag lead an airbrushed, romanticised existence. This well-scrubbed trio roam the land, attending traditional gipsy dances, horse fairs and even an eco-camp.

Nowhere is there any mention of Toby’s father. Tess is a strong, capable single mum who can turn her hand to anything, including mending a flat tyre on their caravan.

The ‘diversity’ brigade can’t bring themselves to acknowledge that fathers have any part to play in bringing up children. I’m surprised that they didn’t make Tess a lesbian, who became pregnant by artificial insemination using sperm donated by a transgendered friend.

If they were really striving for authenticity, Tess would be married, probably from the age of 14. Travellers are one of the last bastions of both the nuclear and extended family.

In a nod to accuracy, Tess makes her money at car boot sales, although the stories don’t elaborate on where she gets her merchandise. Car boot sales are notorious for the disposal of stolen property.

Here in the real world, Tess would be claiming welfare benefits while pocketing the cash without declaring it to the taxman.

She would be driving a £50,000 Toyota Landcruiser (running on red agricultural diesel) with a stolen lawn-mower in the boot; living on either an illegal camp site or in a subsidised council house; and running a Tarmacking gang.

Toby wouldn’t look like one of the gang from Scooby Doo. He’d be a snot-nosed scruff begging outside the local pound shop, accompanied by Teabag, a snarling, mangy mutt on a piece of string, rather than a playful contender for Crufts.

Over the past few years, travellers have been transformed into a protected species, their lifestyle subsidised and proselytised.

They are treated as an oppressed ethnic minority, even though the term ‘travelling community’ encompasses everyone from genuine gipsies and Irish tinkers to Roma criminal gangs and assorted hippie throwback layabouts.

One thing they all seem to have in common is a reluctance to travel anywhere - or, at least, in the case of the Irish and Eastern European contingents, to stay put once they’ve arrived in England, where a buffet of benefits is laid before them.

Many live blameless lives of self-sufficiency, in particular law-abiding circus folk, who move from town to town providing innocent pleasure at rip-off prices. Others, though, are a menace to society, earning a living from dubious practice and outright criminality.

I bet the horse fair attended by Tess, Toby and Teabag didn’t have to be stormed by a police armed response unit, as happened recently at a similar gathering in Kenilworth, following reports that revellers were firing guns and shoplifting.

There’s a whole industry dedicated to pandering to the needs of travellers, even though most contribute absolutely nothing to society.

Yesterday, as Irish tinkers demonstrated in Basildon, Essex, against a long-overdue order to evict them from Europe’s largest illegal settlement, it was revealed that £4.7million of Lottery money has been spent helping travellers to subvert the planning laws.

Wherever these camps are established, there is invariably an increase in crime. Even when they do move on, they leave behind scorched earth and piles of rubbish.

Yet the travellers are indulged by the authorities, while law-abiding, taxpaying local householders who voice their complaints are routinely threatened with prosecution for ‘racism’.

As I reported recently, Warwickshire Constabulary even threw a pikeys’ picnic on the lawn of police headquarters in an effort to improve relations with the ‘community’ following the shootout at the Kenilworth horse fair.

Elsewhere, police have been offering free driving lessons to travellers to try to persuade them to take a test, tax and insure their cars, all of which are apparently alien to their ‘culture’.

Mobile benefit offices have been set up at illegal camps to spare them the inconvenience of having to travel in to town to sign on. And the NHS has ordered that gipsies be fast-tracked at GPs’ surgeries.

But our children won’t be reading about any of this in the fantasy world of Tess, Toby and Teabag.

Are you still sitting comfortably?

LITTLEJOHN

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Taxpayer pays gypsies to lean how to beat planning rules,and fund course on assertiveness training.

Here comes that old curtain of red mist dropping over the eyes yet again.

This place really does have to be totally outta their collective minds. Or what passes for it.

I got the following paragraph in an email newsletter which isn’t worth an entire post. But coupled with the traveler/gypo thing, they’re a match.
Gee whiz. A budget black hole.  Wonder why.

Councils hit by £4 billion budget black hole
A new survey by the Local Government Association has revealed that local authorities face a £4billion hole in their budgets due to falls in income from sources such as property sales and interest on cash reserves as a result of the recession. Sir Jeremy Beecham, vice-chairman of the LGA, is quoted: “Town halls are feeling the effect of the recession in exactly the same way as hard pressed home owners and families.

This is only one of two two blood boiling stories that appeared today. Can you people believe how stupid these folks have become?  Is it the air? The water? Were they simply born idiots and so aren’t responsible?  See for yourselves.

How gipsies got £5m of Lottery cash to beat planning rules… and fund course on assertiveness training

By Tim Shipman
Last updated at 1:22 PM on 11th August 2009
Daily Mail

Travellers have claimed almost £5million in government funding to help them get around planning laws.

Money from the Big Lottery Fund, which is supposed to be used to help good causes, has gone on advising gipsy and Roma groups how to set up illegal camps and get services there.

The projects funded from the public purse include a programme to help traveller groups in the East Midlands ‘to better understand and have a meaningful input into planning policies’.

Planning help: Gipsies are getting advice on building sites such as this one in Warwickshire

The money paid for a project worker to ‘organise seminars and forum meetings’ at which travellers were able to ‘engage with the planners and policy makers’.

Gipsies elsewhere in the country received advice on how to claim accommodation and benefits, and were given media training to win over residents in rural areas.

And those who find travelling groups intimidating will be astonished to learn those in one London borough were even given assertiveness training. In total, £4.7million has been handed out by the Big Lottery Fund to 26 pro-traveller causes since 2004.

The Tories seized on details of the funding as new evidence that Labour has been covertly pursuing a policy of expanding the number of traveller sites throughout the UK - often against the wishes of the local population.

The Mail revealed earlier this year that the rate at which new traveller and gipsy sites are being set up has doubled over the past two years.
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Tory local government spokesman Bob Neill said: ‘This is just another sign of how the Labour Government snubs hard-working families who play by the rules and pay their taxes.’

‘By contrast, many travellers are being given special treatment. Town halls are being bullied into using compulsory purchase powers to seize land. Vital planning rules, like Green Belt protection, are being ripped up.

‘The British people have an inherent sense of fair play, and this different treatment isn’t right or fair.’

Parliamentary answers provided by culture minister Barbara Follett show that even apparently legitimate projects to help traveller children, such as a Hertfordshire play bus, meant public money was spent on ‘unauthorised sites’.

It was also revealed a Gipsy and Traveller Support Project in East Sussex received taxpayers’ money to help ensure ‘they are fully represented in community action planning processes’.

The Ormiston Children and Families Trust Advocacy service got funding to help gipsy communities ‘understand, access and benefit from the services to which they are entitled’, including advocacy on planning applications and appeals.

The growing pace of approvals of sites follows instructions sent out by John Prescott in 2006 that force councils into using compulsory purchase powers to meet new regional targets for traveller camps.

In March it emerged that thousands of protesters against one new site in Bedfordshire were ignored by council officials on the grounds that they were ‘racist’.

A spokesman said: ‘The Big Lottery Fund does not exclude any minority groups from applying for funding.

‘From June 2004 to February 2009, Big has made awards totalling £4.76million to initiatives that have benefited gipsies and travellers. This is equivalent to 0.2 per cent of the fund’s good cause funding.

‘Recent research has shown that only an estimated 20 per cent of 11 to 16-year-olds from the gipsy and traveller population attend secondary school and 68 per cent had experienced racism or prejudice because they were a traveller.’

MAIL

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   Monday - August 10, 2009

Me so ronery? Me so Jealous!!

South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said South Korea and Russia, a co-builder of the rocket, set the new launch date after talks.

“Both sides have set August 11 for blast-off,” Kim Hong-Gab, a spokesman for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute affiliated with the ministry, told AFP.

He added weather conditions on the day would be “a decisive factor” to determine if the launch would go ahead as scheduled.

The previously-scheduled launch for around July 30 was postponed—for a third time—as Russians who had built the first stage of the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 called for more time for testing.

Blast-off had already been delayed from late 2008 to late June this year after China’s Sichuan earthquake last year caused problems securing key parts.

South Korea plans to put a satellite weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds) into a low earth orbit with the planned launch from the newly-built Naro Space Centre in Goheung, 475 kilometres (300 miles) south of Seoul.

South Korea is eager to join Asia’s space race. In November 2007 it announced a plan to launch a lunar orbiter by 2020 and send a probe to the moon five years after that.

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Summer In Paris

Well, I survived the day. We are actually having an actual bit of August summer here. It touched the low 90s this afternoon, and tomorrow will be more of the same. I think this may be the first time the mercury has gone that high all year, though I think we had a couple of errantly hot days in early April.

Anyway, while it may be hot here, things are definitely hotter in Fwance. Hotter, as in

Restive youths burn cars in new suburban unrest

BAGNOLET, France – Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after fullblown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.

The local prefecture, the administrative center for the region, said the situation was under control despite the scattered torchings.

An Associated Press Television News crew saw at least five torched cars and a burned-out tourist bus near a housing project. Groups of youths set street fires, sometimes fueling them with garbage cans or a mattress in one case and hurled stones and other objects at police.

Authorities had sent teams of riot police into the Bagnolet suburb just east of Paris after a night of violence following the Sunday night death of an 18-year-old pizza deliverer fleeing police on his motorcycle.

Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux had called for calm, signaling fears that unrest by angry suburban youth could worsen. Hortefeux ordered an internal police investigation into the death.

A helicopter beamed a spotlight into the area early Tuesday as bands of youth set fires and taunted police in a cat-and-mouse game typical of suburban unrest in France. The prefecture said some people were detained but provided no number.

A night earlier, some 40 people hurled Molotov cocktails at police and firefighters, torched dozens of cars and one person fired a handgun during a rampage hours after the death of the young man.

About 40 vans of riot police were seen parked outside the housing project Monday night.

One person fired at police with a handgun in the rioting in a housing project in Bagnolet, on Paris’ eastern edge, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said in a statement. No injuries were reported.

The latest eruption of tensions in France’s suburbs broke out after an 18-year-old riding his motorcycle through the project tried to flee a document check by police, according to a police official.

The man, who worked as a pizza deliverer, lost control of the vehicle and hit a barrier, and died en route to the hospital, the official said. The official was not authorised to be publicly named because of police policy.
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Tensions between young people and police have long simmered in housing projects in France’s suburbs, feeding on poverty, unemployment and anger over discrimination against minorities. The suburbs erupted in 2005 in riots, largely by young Arab and black men of immigrant backgrounds, after two teens were electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police.

The angry crowd, mostly youths, smashed windows of a high school and store in Bagnolet, an Interior Ministry statement said.
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France’s suburban low-income districts have a long history of violent clashes between police and residents, who have long bemoaned poverty, unemployment and discrimination against minorities.

The scenario — the death of a youth with police directly or indirectly involved — mirrors other incidents that have triggered unrest. Tensions between young people and police have long simmered in housing projects in France’s suburbs, feeding on poverty, unemployment and anger over discrimination against minorities.

The suburbs erupted in 2005 in riots, largely by young Arab and black men of immigrant backgrounds, after two teens were electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police. The riots spread nationwide.

Violence broke out in November 2007 in Villiers-le-Bel, north of Paris, after two teenage boys were killed in a motorbike crash with a police car. Police and local officials said it was an accident, but many residents were unconvinced.

French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux called for calm on Monday after Yacou Sanago, an 18-year-old boy, died when he hit a metal barrier when trying to flee a police cordon on the outskirts of Paris the night before. Reports said that youths armed with metal bars went to the spot where the young man died.
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Sanago was a pizza delivery driver. His death heightened tensions in the Bagnolet neighbourhood outside Paris overnight. The Interior Ministry said that youths set fire to a number of cars and garbage cans and broke windows of a few businesses and a bus shelter.

Bagnolet mayor Marc Everbecq said that a speed-loving youth was having fun racing around yesterday afternoon on his motorcycle.

“Locals got together and put pressure on the police to demand that they intervene, the police intervened, and demanded that the youth stop,” Everbecq told France Info radio station.

I guess Paris Burning is no longer a news story. It seems to happen just about every year now. Spain has the Running of the Bulls, Fwance has the Burning of the Cars.

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OH LOOK THERE … A NAZI CAR.  BNP opposition never stops even when the claim is false.

I was planning on closing for the night. Been a very long day. But then I caught this story and just had to post it as an example of the kind of BS we find so often.

The fellow in question is a member of the BNP.  Considered to be a far right and Lyndon might even call a fascist party.  I’m not questioning any of that.
But look how far the opposition is willing to go in their efforts to stifle this group.  Or make a case against one of their leaders where there is no case at all.

Attack em on their platform. Show others where and why they’re wrong.  Make public in print factual statements of the BNP if you want to show them up.
But this sort of invention of an issue is so bogus it defies description.  And it’s so typical of so called liberal critics. 

The license plate on the car this guy bought a few years ago came with the car. It is not a vanity plate.  Ah but .... an opposition councilor happened to see the plate and naturally screamed .. N A Z I !

That’s what gets me.  Where?  Where does this plate say Nazi?  Even the newspaper headline is very misleading.

Misleading ?  It’s BOGUS!

The BNP councillor who drives a car with ‘Nazi’ number plate

A senior British National Party member has infuriated his opponents by driving in a car with a number plate that resembles the word ‘Nazi’.

BNP councillor Julian Leppert arrives at meetings in his black Ford Focus with a registration NA51 ZCY.

But the rising star of the far-right wing party insists he had no idea the number plate looked like ‘Nazi’.

Cr Leppert insisted that it was not a personalised number plate.  ‘I needed to buy a car in a hurry a couple of years ago and found one for sale online.

‘The number plate was blacked out so it wasn’t until I arrived to pay that I saw it.’ Julian Leppert joined the BNP in 2003 and won a seat on Redbridge Council

He said had he known, he ‘probably would never have bought it’.

‘I am planning to sell the car now as the other councillors seem to want to make a political point. I find that pretty cheap,’ Cr Leppert told the Daily Mirror.

But opposition councillor Veronica Cole was not impressed.

‘When I first saw the number plate on his car I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is sickening and appalling,’ she told the newspaper.

Now I don’t know about you folks out there but as far as I’m concerned, I can see thru this slag Cr. Cole like a window.  She’s was looking for something and she thought she found it.  An issue.  I don’t believe she thinks it’s “sickening” or “appalling.” I think she thinks she’s discovered a club with which to batter a BNP leader. Period. 

The 42-year-old postman from Loughton, Essex, joined the BNP in 2003. He was later elected to represent Hainault ward on Redbridge Council.

In 2004 he stood as the party’s London Mayoral candidate against Ken Livingstone.

He said in a speech: ‘I don’t care about being called names or being called politically incorrect. I have to stand up and tell the truth because my country is at stake.’

When BNP leader Nick Griffin was attacked by anti-fascists throwing eggs during his visit to London in June, the loyal Mr Leppert stepped in to shield him.

Here’s what one commenter has had to say with regard to that number plate. It’s quite instructive.

N = North
A = Newcastle
51 = Year 2001

So, a large number of cars registered in newcastle in 2001, will have the prefix NA51 and most people wouldn’t have made the connection to the word Nazi. Opposition councillor Veronica Cole is an idiot.

I am not a BNP supporter.

- Matt, Sussex, 10/8/2009 11:34

If the opposition to this party can’t do better then this, if they can’t do better then throwing eggs at an elected (legally) official, and if they can’t find a better way then shouting down their opposition and not allowing them the free speech they claim for themselves, then the BNP in the end will prosper.

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Funny how things work out. For example:  Only yesterday Drew made the following comment ….

“I gather the Brits need tremendous sexual stimulus just to make it through the news. And I have noticed, over time, that they seem to have some rather different standards than we do over here.” Drew

This morning my eyes fell on this article.  It’s funny, I guess.  Um ,,, maybe not if you’re a Brit.

I’m gonna file this under humor anyway. 

Brits too lazy to have sex, let alone run for a bus

By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 10:08 AM on 10th August 2009

We’re too tired to play with our children, balk at the idea of climbing two flights of stairs and regularly choose sleep over sex, according to a report which lays bare the full extent of ‘couch potato Britain’.

A third of Britons are so lazy that they wouldn’t run to catch a bus, it is claimed.

And almost two out of three are so unfit they won’t countenance walking up two flights of stairs and will opt to take the lift instead.

Once at home, one in six say that if the remote control was broken, they would prefer to watch a TV programme they didn’t like rather than get up to change the channel, according to a study.

The poll, carried out on behalf of private healthcare chain Nuffield Health, also found that lazy lifestyles are having a devastating effect on our sex lives.

Three-quarters of couples surveyed admitted to having trouble mustering enough energy at the end of the day for a night of passion with their partner.

More than half (58 per cent) of those blamed their barren sex lives on a lack of fitness.

Children are also suffering, with two-thirds of parents questioned owning up to regularly being too tired to play with their youngsters.

The study of 2,000 adults concludes that it is no wonder one in six children are classified as obese before they even start school.

Even the health of our pets is at risk. Despite our reputation as a nation of dog-lovers, half of the owners questioned saying they often can’t be bothered to take their dog for a walk. Sarah Dauncey, medical director at Nuffield Health, urged Britons to get off their sofas and shape-up.

She said: ‘Ready-meals, remote controls and even internet shopping are all contributing to a dangerously lazy and idle Britain.

‘People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends, and evidently their pets, too. If we don’t start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.’

A sedentary lifestyle raises the risk of a host of health problems, including heart disease, obesity, joint problems, some cancers and type 2 diabetes.

Dr Dauncey said: ‘There are two million Britons with mature-onset diabetes, many because of their lifestyle and lack of exercise.

‘But it is a vicious circle. Sometimes because you are unfit you feel tired and so you don’t exercise and you become more unfit and lethargic.

‘No one is saying that everyone has to run a marathon. You can set aside 25 to 30 minutes three or four times week to do simple things such as walking, cycling or running. It doesn’t have to take hours and hours.

‘If you have tried and failed before, a fitness centre might provide the motivation you need.’

The survey revealed Glasgow to be Britain’s most slothful city, with 75 per cent of people admitting they don’t get enough exercise, followed by Birmingham and Southampton in joint second place with 67 per cent admitting their laziness. Bristol came in third, with London, Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich, Manchester and Cardiff making up the rest of the top 10.

A previous study by the healthcare chain found that one in 12 British adults is so overweight that they could qualify for obesity surgery.

Doctors blamed chubby celebrities for adding to the obesity crisis by showing that it is possible to be fat and famous.

SOURCE

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A million flee as typhoon approaches China .

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Almost a million people have been evacuated from southeastern China as authorities prepare for the arrival of Typhoon Morakot.


By Peter Foster in Beijing

The typhoon has already dumped 100 inches of rain on Taiwan in just 24 hours this weekend.

Local authorities in the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian sent out more than eight million text messages and recalled nearly 50,000 fishing boats to harbour on Sunday bs the storm tracked slowly northwards towards mainland China.

Morakot, which claimed 21 lives when it hit the Philipines on Friday, is the first major storm to hit Taiwan during this year’s typhoon season which runs from July to September.

By Sunday morning Taiwanese authorities said 29 people were missing, with one confirmed death in the worst flooding for 50 years.

In the most serious incident, 16 people were listed as missing by Taiwan’s Disaster Relief Centre after a their makeshift home was washed away in a flash flood. Elsewhere two policemen were swept away as they tried to help stranded villagers.

In China weather stations issued a “red alert” - the highest possible - in anticipation of Morakot’s arrival which is expected to bring winds in excess of 70mph.

The combination of high tides and the strong winds were predicted to create waves of up to 30ft along an exposed section of China’s east coast, leaving many rural fishing communities especially vulnerable to the storm.

In Zhejiang province, where 490,000 were evacuated, some villages were already becoming cut off by rising waters, with official riding bicycles to distribute drinking water and instant noodles to affected households, according to Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency.

Nearly 40 domestic flights were cancelled in the eastern city of Wenzhou and several major motorways were closed as a preventative measure before the storm made landfall on Sunday evening.

Early reports said that parts of Fujian, where 480,000 were evacuated, had already reported 12 inches of rain from early Saturday until Sunday morning, Xinhua added.

SOURCE

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Town mayor drafts in ‘experts’ in bid to axe political correctness aimed at minorities and women.

And about darn time someone did. Lets hope it’s catching.
Unless someone takes the mayor to court over this.  Hey ... ya never know.

It would be great to read about American towns doing likewise.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:55 PM on 10th August 2009

A town’s mayor has brought in “experts” to root out political correctness in his council targeting groups aimed at ethnic minorities and women.

Doncaster’s elected mayor Peter Davies has drafted in Laura and John Midgley, from the Campaign Against Political Correctness, to see what can be ditched.

Among the groups they have already identified as too politically correct are an ethnic minorities welfare rights service and a racial multi-agency partnership.

They will also be looking to see if Doncaster Council bans the use of any specific words by staff. ‘Some councils ban staff from addressing people as “love”, a ban which I believe to be patronising,’ said Mr Davies. ‘Another council had banned the word “ladies”, preventing people starting speeches with “ladies and gentlemen“‘.

The mayor rejected any suggestion the move to bring in the campaigners was “racist.” I have brought them in for advice on rooting out political correctness.

Mr Midgley said it was the first time the organisation had been asked by an authority to come and give advice, although they had been asked for advice from concerned councillors in the past.

He said: ‘What we’ve got in Mr Davies is a mayor who has been elected on a promise to reduce and, where possible, eliminate political correctness in Doncaster. The people of Doncaster are crying out for this just as people are throughout the country.

‘We’ve got plenty of examples where expensive political correctness takes place in Doncaster, like the ethnic minority welfare rights service. At the end of the day, people of all backgrounds may have an entitlement to things like council tax benefit or housing and there is no need to have one separate unit for one group in particular.’

He has also raised the borough’s Racial Multiagency Partnership as an example of political correctness that they feel could be removed and will also be looking at groups aimed only at women.

The council describes it as a partnership of core agencies, which provide a coordinated response to racist incidents. It was formed in January 2005 in response to Home Office guidance. Added Mr Midgley: “ People should call the police rather than go to a separate agency.”

He said: ‘They are experts on the subject, and political correctness is a complete drain on public expenditure. It is completely unnecessary, and it is universally unpopular.

‘I would not invite anyone to come and advise me that I thought would be racist. At the moment I haven’t decided what specific actions to take.

‘All my policies are aimed at cohesion, not division, and it is political correctness that leads to division and ghettos. My policies will lead to harmony.’

Mr and Mrs Midgley are not being paid for their advice.

DAILY MAIL

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   Sunday - August 09, 2009

NJ Governor Corzine is a fool

Late June, the story that got no press whatsoever:

Friday, June 26, 2009
One-Gun-A-Month Heads to Governor’s Desk

In the wee hours of Friday morning, June 26, Governor Corzine and his anti-gun cohorts in the New Jersey State Senate vote 21 to 15 to pass S1774, a bill that will arbitrarily ration the sale of handguns to one per month. 

Earlier this year, S1774 was pulled from the Senate floor when the sponsor was unable to garner the necessary 21 votes for passage.  This time, taking orders from Governor Corzine, Senator Fred Madden who previously voted “no” and committed to hold firm in that position, switched his vote at the last minute and voted “yes” to ration the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms.

As passed, this bill will prohibit an individual from purchasing more than one handgun within a 30-day period.  The bill now moves to Governor Corzine’s desk for his consideration. 

The only “good” news is that not a single Republican voted for this ladel full of diarrhea. But the Dems have them outnumbered here, by far. So time goes by, the few that knew about the vote have a chance to cool off, maybe even to move out of this idiot state ... and this past Friday ...

New Jersey will become the fourth state in the nation to limit handgun purchases to one every month. Gov. Corzine signed the controversial measure into law yesterday.

Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer joined Corzine and called on Pennsylvania to become No. 5. The law, which is aimed at slowing gun trafficking, would make life safer in New Jersey and neighboring states by fighting trafficking, he said.

“I just hope Pennsylvanians would make it safer for us by passing this bill,” Palmer said at a ceremony outside Trenton City Hall.

The law aims to impede “straw purchasers” - people who have clean records and buy guns legally, then pass them to criminals. The law will take effect in early January but could see some changes before then. A task force is reviewing its potential impact and will make recommendations this fall.

They could call me, or any other citizen actually in touch with Planet Earth. It ain’t gonna make a tinkly-wink of difference. Nada thing. And they’ll go right back to blaming everything on Pennsylvania, and putting the squeeze on from our side of the Delaware River. Let’s hope PA is still part of America, and stops listening. Well, the ghetto turd government in Philly loves the idea, and will probably pass it as a new law all on their own again, like they do with every idiotic gun law they come across every year anyway, causing the PA State Supreme Court to tell them to take a flying fuck at the moon, AGAIN. They don’t quit with the shit. Ever.

There may be a bit of a loophole. “Collectors” are exempt, and an amendment may be written to exempt “competitive shooters”. Guess I’ll have to become both. Then I’ll have to get enough income together to even afford more than one a month. Hell, one a YEAR is more than I can actually afford. Good thing I already have a bunch.

At least the newspaper had the decency to print one dissenting opinon, and it’s a good one:

Critics say the law would impinge on the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens in New Jersey, which already has some of the most strict gun laws in the nation.

“Trying to reduce gun crime by rationing guns to law-abiding citizens is as absurd as trying to reduce drunk driving by rationing cars to non-drinkers”, Scott Bach, president of the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, wrote in an e-mail.

Efforts to enact a similar law in Pennsylvania have failed, and Philadelphia saw its one-handgun-a-month ordinance struck down in court.

New Jersey sucks. Jon “seatbelts” Corzine is an elistist left wing idiot. The average clod citizen in NJ is a drooling moron.

Tomorrow night we’re going over to listen to listen to Steve Lonegan rail about Cap & Trade. Not that it will make a difference. Our country will get strapped with that bullshit too. But it will be nice to listen to a politician speak for more than 10 minutes without having the urge to throttle him. 

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