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calendar   Tuesday - November 24, 2009

Hillary’s new romance?  She has a crush on who?  Funny Stuff from The Mail

I’m on the late side with a number of things this past week but happy to say am on the mend. Trying to play catch up.

Wanted to get this posted a few days ago, all I can supply due to time and size is a worthwhile link to a very funny item that ran in The Mail this past Saturday.

Cartoon Time ppl.

For those who might wonder who the heck David Miliband is, the answer is below.

Here the lovebirds are and isn’t Shillary cute?  As for Miliband, well, I’ll leave it to LyndonB to give a rundown on this clown.  Not one of L’s favorite ppl.

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When Hilly met Milly: The Mail imagines the political romance of the year

By Daily Mail Reporter

21st November 2009

It began when Hillary Clinton, 62, told Vogue magazine about a ‘big crush’ on David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.
‘He’s vibrant, vital, attractive, smart,’ she gushed. ‘
He’s a really good guy - and he is so young.’

Miliband, a mere 44, sighed: ‘She’s delightful to deal with one-on-one. She’s someone who laughs and can tease...’
Here, in a spirit of fun, we imagine their heartwarming story.

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If you see nothing else today, this will be worth seeing.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/24/2009 at 06:33 AM   
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THE QUESTION: WHAT WAS HITLER’S FIRST NAME?  ANSWER:  HEIL

Too funny to ignore and good for a laff ....

Hitler’s first name was Heil: The most appallingly ignorant but hilarious quiz show answers

Last updated at 9:36 AM on 24th November 2009
SOURCE:  THE DAILY MAIL

The grotesquely wrong answers that some contestants give on quiz programmes would surely make most participants think twice before applying.
Here are a selection of the funniest answers taken from a new book…
quiz answers

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THE ARTS

PRESENTER: Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

CALLER: Leonardo di Caprio.

(2CR FM)
BIOLOGY

PRESENTER: Was the Tyrannosaurus Rex a carnivore or a herbivore?

CONTESTANT: No, it was a dinosaur.

(Are You Smarter Than A Ten-Year-Old?)

ANNE ROBINSON: What type of bear lives in the Arctic?

CONTESTANT (after much thought): Penguin.

(The Weakest Link)
CLASSICS

ANNE ROBINSON: What was the principal language used by the ancient Romans?

CONTESTANT: Greek.

(The Weakest Link)
DOMESTIC SCIENCE

PRESENTER: Emmental and Double Gloucester are both types of what?

CALLER: Banks.

(Breakfast Toaster Quiz, Heart FM)
ENGLISH LITERATURE

JEREMY PAXMAN: Of all Beatrix Potter’s books, which is the only one to feature a human in the title?

ANTONY BEEVOR (author and historian): Peter Rabbit (Celebrity edition of University Challenge)

(BBC Radio 2)

ANNE ROBINSON: What ‘B’ was a pseudonym used by Charles Dickens?

CONTESTANT: Bart Simpson.
FILM STUDIES

STEVE WRIGHT: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth did he play?

CALLER: Jesus.
SPORT

ANNE ROBINSON: The point on a golf club or a tennis racket that gives the best contact is alliteratively known as the what spot?

CONTESTANT: The g-spot.

ANNE ROBINSON: In 1975 the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles title was Arthur who?

CONTESTANT: Askey.

ANNE ROBINSON: Who won the U.S. Open Tennis Championship wearing a black dress modelled on Audrey Hepburn’s in Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

CONTESTANT: Roger Federer.

(All the Weakest Link)
MUSIC

PRESENTER: Name the festival started in 1895 by Sir Henry Wood.

CALLER: Glastonbury.

(TalkSPORT)
GEOGRAPHY

DARREN DAY: What area of Germany is the cake named after, made with chocolate, cream, kirsch and cherries?

CONTESTANT: Belgium?

(Spin Star, ITV1)

PRESENTER: What is the capital of Cuba?

CALLER: Ermmm…

PRESENTER: Take your time.

CALLER: Ermmm…

PRESENTER: Go on, have a guess.

CALLER: Is it Belgium?

PRESENTER: Er, not quite.

(Sun FM, Sunderland)

DALE WINTON: Alderney and Sark - are they part of the Channel Islands?

CONTESTANT: Ooooh! Is that the English Channel? I don’t know, are there islands in the English Channel? I’ve never heard of any. France - that’s near the English Channel isn’t it?

(In It To Win It, BBC1)

ANNE ROBINSON: Pakistan was part of which other state until it achieved independence in 1947?

CONTESTANT: Bulgaria.

(The Weakest Link)

DAVE LEE TRAVIS: In which European country are there people called Walloons?

CALLER: Wales.

QUIZMASTER: Where is the Sea of Tranquility?

CONTESTANT: Ibiza. (RI:SE, Channel 4)
MATHS

ANNE ROBINSON: What kind of dozen is 13?

CONTESTANT: Half a dozen.

(The Weakest Link)
MEDICINE

STEVE WRIGHT: On what part of the body is a lobotomy performed?

CONTESTANT: The bottom.

(BBC Radio 2)
HISTORY

PRESENTER: What was the date of the Battle of Hastings?

CONTESTANT: Ooooh! Er.... was it 1974?

(Galaxy Radio, Leeds)

ANNE ROBINSON: Which English queen rode a chariot with knives on the wheels?

CONTESTANT (full of confidence): Victoria!

(The Weakest Link)

PRESENTER: Which ancient army was discovered in China in 1974?

CONTESTANT: The Territorial Army.

PRESENTER: What was Hitler’s first name?

CONTESTANT: Heil. (BBC Radio Merseyside)

(Breeze FM)

ANNE ROBINSON: What ‘T’ did British POWs use to escape from Second World War German prison camps?

CONTESTANT: I don’t know. Was it herbal?

(The Weakest Link)
POLITICS

PRESENTER: Who was the Prime Minister before Tony Blair?

CALLER: George Bush.

(Viking FM)

PRESENTER: Name Prince Charles’s younger sister.

CALLER: Is it Camelia?

(The Ugly Phil Breakfast Show, Kerrang! Radio)
RELIGIOUS STUDIES

PRESENTER: What religion was Guy Fawkes?

CALLER: Jewish.

PRESENTER: That’s close enough.

(BRMB)

ANNE ROBINSON: In Roman Catholicism, baptism, confirmation and matrimony are three of the seven what?

CONTESTANT: Deadly sins.

(The Weakest Link)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

ANNE ROBINSON: What man made structure built during the 3rd century BC is often said to be visible from space?

CONTESTANT: The Millennium Dome.

(The Weakest Link)

Presenter: Which prominent Birmingham family had a toposcope constructed in 1923 for the top of Beacon Hill in Lickey Hills?

CALLER: The Osbournes.

(BBC Radio WM)
GENERAL STUDIES

TERRY WOGAN: Which Duke resides at Woburn Abbey?

CONTESTANT: Hazzard. (Wogan’s Perfect Recall, Channel 4)

PRESENTER: According to legend, who shot an apple off the top of his son’s head?

CONTESTANT: Well, straightaway I’m thinking of Isaac Newton.

(Are You Smarter Than A Ten-Year-Old?)

• Taken from Private Eye’s Dumb Britain 2 edited by Marcus Berkmann, published by Private Eye at £4.99.  Pressdram 2009.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/24/2009 at 05:41 AM   
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Yeah, that’ll show ‘em

You’re a Mexican city on the Mexico-US border.
You’re suffering massive violence from drug lords
Your own army can’t restore order.
Who you gonna call?

U.N. Peacekeepers!

Mexico’s business leaders are pleading for the United Nations to send peacekeepers to prevent the border city of Ciudad Juarez from falling into complete chaos. Locked in a deadly war with organized crime, the Mexican Army is unable to protect the safety of its citizens. Will El Paso’s sister city be the first domino to fall in a long line of Mexican cities that are teetering on the edge of lawlessness?

Talk about desperation. Where is Gen. Pershing when you need him?


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 11/24/2009 at 02:41 AM   
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calendar   Monday - November 23, 2009

A night full of surprises

Bowling hasn’t been going so great for me this season. I found my average dropping every week, and my ability to get the ball to do what I wanted getting worse and worse. Cleaning the balls, going over them with a scrubby pad, soaking them in warm water and detergent ... none of that made a difference.

I finally threw in the towel and had the pro shop guy at the alley give them a bake and a resurfacing. Baking is the name of the process where the ball spends an hour or so in a machine called a Rejuvinator, where a small area on the ball is hit with a hot air jet, and then the ball is rotated over an oil absorbing pad from 3M. Modern balls absorb quite a lot of oil, and heat is about the only way you can get the oil out. But it’s a very precise kind of heating; just dipping the ball into boiling water or putting in your own oven is a sure-fire way to make it crack in half. Been there, killed 2 balls already. Not going there again.

Resurfacing is just that. The pro shop has a machine, much like a potter’s wheel, that has the torque to spin the ball around real quick while someone bears down on it with a sanding block. A good resurfacer can sand down a ball in a couple minutes, then sand it back to whatever finish you want, from dull to ultra-shiny.

So a bake and resurface pretty much brings the ball back to like-new condition, and it’s usually good for about a third to half a season of play. Both my balls were turning into duds, so I had it done.

And it works.

I started this season with a 173 book average, and after 12 weeks I’m down to a 162. I threw pretty well the first 2 weeks, which spiked my numbers up to the 195 range. Then the whole thing turned to poop. [ book averages are good only for the first week in this league. Good idea or bad, that’s how it is. ] Tonight I threw a 650 series, almost. 644 or something like that. 203, 248, 193 I think it was. And we won all 7 points handily. Or maybe it was as one of the semi-pro guys on the league said, that the oil pattern was much better tonight. He surmised that the alley had cleaned out their lane cleaning machine. Ok, my team noticed that the back ends were pretty snappy, but there was significant oil out past the 10 board. It seemed to go all the way out to the 5 or 4 board about halfway down the lane. That’s not what I’d call “much better”, especially if you’re an Out & Back kind of roller ( vs a Down & In kind ). No, for once I think our team was operating on at least 3 1/2 cylinders, instead of our usual 1 1/2. So we had a great night, and had a lot of fun with the folks on the other team. That’s what we’re there for anyway. Sure, it was great doing a bit of ass kicking, especially against a team where the match up was just about scratch. 2 pins handicap. And they weren’t bowling poorly tonight either. We were just bowling better. That’s a nice thing to experience. I just hope we can do it again next week.

You know what sucks about throwing an ‘almost 650’? Realizing that doing that means ... with a bit more practice, a lot of control, and a little bit of luck ... maybe I can throw a 700 series. I’ve never done that. Never. Not yet.

Hope springs eternal!

So that was my nice surprise for the night. The two posts under this one were my not so nice surprise. I’ve got to think about this a bit, but I’m liking it less by the minute.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 11/23/2009 at 11:36 PM   
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A Fire’s Aftermath…

Hey Drew, I told you I’d be posting some stuff from my friend LtCol Christopher. I just didn’t know my first such post would be from an email he sent.

South Los Angeles, a 4 plex was destroyed by a fire.

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A Nigerian family of six con artists lived on the first floor, and all six died in the fire.

An Islamic group of seven welfare cheats, all illegally in the country from Kenya ,
lived on the second floor, and they, too, all perished in the fire.

6 LA, Hispanic, Gang Banger, ex-cons, lived on the 3rd floor and they too, died.

A lone, white couple lived on the top floor. The couple survived the fire.

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Jesse Jackson, John Burris and Al Sharpton were furious. They flew into LA, met with the fire chief, on camera. They loudly demanded to know why the Blacks, Black Muslims and Hispanics all died in the fire and only the white couple survived..?

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The fire chief said, “They were at work.”

Does this meet the Warner Bros criteria?

They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society.

If so, are they wrong? Then? Now?

You decide.

H/T LtCol Christopher


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 11/23/2009 at 10:03 PM   
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A reply to Argentium G. Tiger and Drew

This came up in my previous post Et Tu? Warner Bros?

Tiger, as far as I know, you have the right to do whatever you want to a DVD that you purchase, as long as you aren’t selling (or even giving away, perhaps) the end product that you have created. Sounds like you’re making a backup copy of the data with some extra editing. I don’t see a problem

So says Drew. Frankly, I agree with him. But is it legal? Here’s the FBI Anti-Piracy Warning:

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Please note the phrase ‘infringement without monetary gain’.

Granted, the likelihood of you getting caught making ‘backup copies’ of dvds that you own is low. However, the dvd in question is a rental from Netflix. I do not own it. So it would be most inappropriate for me to do anything resembling what Tiger suggested.

Personally, as for Tiger mentioning what software he uses, I’d have said nyet. Those who want to skirt copyright laws should do what I and presumably Tiger have done: your own research. Quietly and privately.

BTW, none of Tiger’s software work for Macs. grin

Greyjohn: ‘Sufferin’ Succotash’ was the trademark of Snagglepuss, a Hanna-Barbera character, not a Warner Bros/Looney Tunes character. Last time I rented a Hanna-Barbera cartoon dvd (Snagglepus, Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, etc) it was interesting for a completely different reason:

The Hanna-Barbera cartoons included the commercials. Yogi Bear was extolling the virtues of Post Honey Comb cereal, among other things.


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 11/23/2009 at 08:37 PM   
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We’re 98! We’re 98!

Actually, I’m happy BMEWS made the list at all.

Click on over to Bombs and Dollars.

As a resource to my readers and others who are interested in exploring new blogs, I have assembled my personal list of my favorite conservative blogs. I took a lot of factors into consideration, including: influence, entertainment value, information-value, frequency and regularity of updates, and personal interest.

These are my own rankings of blogs that I follow, and I know I missed some, so I apologize for those I missed, but I did the best I could. Enjoy:

H/T Linkiest.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled BMEWSment.


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 11/23/2009 at 06:37 PM   
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Police rescue 15 gypsy children trafficked from a Romanian village to commit crime in Britain.

Yeah. What they said. Rescue. OK, Maybe so but authorities damn well know these ppl are known to raise and train children to do these things. They have been doing so for a few hundred years. Especially pick pockets.  This is not new.  It’s doubtful force is involved since they are raised in that culture.

Maybe that headline should read Police STOP 15 Gypo children.


Police rescue 15 gypsy children trafficked from a Romanian village to commit crime on Britain’s streets

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 12:06 PM on 23rd November 2009

Fifteen children were found at three homes today by police investigating an alleged child trafficking ring.
Police raided the addresses in Manchester following intelligence that youngsters were being moved out of a Romanian village into the UK.

Four women and two men, aged between 23 and 32, were being questioned by detectives after officers executed warrants in Gorton and Longsight.
The children, who were said to have been forced into committing low-level crimes, were now in the care of Manchester City Council’s children services, police said.

There is a large Roma community in the Gorton and Longsight areas of the city, estimated to be around 1,000 people.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: ‘Working with Manchester City Council, the aim of the operation was to identify and safeguard any children who may have been trafficked into Greater Manchester by Roma organised crime groups for exploitation and financial gain.

‘Operation Epee was also targeted at disrupting any organised crime groups at the heart of this exploitation.

‘Intelligence gathered from a number of sources, including the Metropolitan Police, the UK Borders Agency and the Romanian National Police, suggested that children were being trafficked out of the small Romanian village of Tandarei into the Greater Manchester area.

‘The intelligence indicated the trafficked children are at risk of being subject to cruelty by neglect and being forced to commit low-level crimes such as cashpoint distraction burglaries, pick- pocketing and begging.

I only posted part of the article.  THE REST IS HERE


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/23/2009 at 07:18 AM   
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Amazing aerial images taken by daring Allied pilots on secret missions during WW 2

These are only two of MANY aerial photos and text available HERE

See that link for some truly amazing photos.

Some interesting things to post and will, but no energy for a lot again today.  Bah. Cold rebound, feel better but just washed out.
Got a call from someone with an accent you could cut with a knife, call center in Scotland, confirming that someone will call and an ins. adjuster will call to let us know when they can visit our house re. the still leaky roof but they don’t know when that call will be. Today? Tomoro? Wed? In my lifetime?
Meanwhile, hard driving rain yesterday, last night, and again today.

From Colditz to D-Day:

Amazing aerial images taken by daring Allied pilots on secret missions during World War II

By David Wilkes
Last updated at 9:53 AM on 23rd November 2009

The detail is astonishing. At first it looks like just another castle surrounded by tiny houses and neat fields. But zooming in on the courtyard one can see figures milling around.

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They are in fact Allied officers being held in the notorious German PoW camp of Colditz and the photograph is one from an archive of aerial photographs taken by airmen - sometimes flying as low as 50ft - during secret reconnaissance missions in World War II.
Until now the pictures have been kept behind closed doors. But they are revealed to the public for the first time today via the internet amid a painstaking cataloguing process.

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In another image, precise as a hole punch through a sheet of paper, craters surround a Nazi doodlebug factory in an extraordinary photograph showing the devastation wreaked by an Allied bombing raid.

The date is September 2, 1944 and the place Peenemunde, a village on the Baltic, where the terrifying weapons Adolf Hitler hoped would win the war for Germany were designed and tested.
Others in the collection convey the human suffering experienced amid the fighting, including rare shots of a Nazi slave labour camp and of the landings on D-Day.

Alan Williams, manager of the National Collection of Aerial Photography which houses the photos, said: ‘The archive literally shows the world at war.’
Long before the days of Google Earth, the highly skilled airmen who took them flew alone, by day and night, in unarmed Spitfires relying on their wits as they risked their lives to capture the images on their plane-mounted cameras

Sometimes their planes were painted pink, as the unusual colour proved very good at hiding the aircraft against a background of low cloud. For high altitude missions, the planes were painted a dark shade of blue.

But often they still found themselves targeted by anti-aircraft missiles. Hundreds of them never returned home.
Those that did brought with them photos vital to the war effort.

Expert photographic interpreters studied the pictures using optical instruments such as stereoscopes to view them in 3D to build up detailed information for intelligence reports and models used in military planning for operations such as the D-Day landings.

The ‘detective’ teams, who were headquartered in a stately home in Buckinghamshire at RAF Medmenham - MI4’s Allied Central Interpretation Unit - included Oxbridge academics, geographers and archaeologists.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/23/2009 at 06:34 AM   
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TRAVELLERS ON THE MARCH AGAIN (in a manner of speaking) WITH NO WAY TO STOP THE CANCER

The European cancer marches on, as the “local authority seeks legal action.” Uh huh. Right. And we know where that leads. Don’t we? Sure we do.
And so do the Gypos/Travellers/Hobos or whatever other name you care to use. This is old and tiresome stuff to them.
There is ONE way to stop it all but I guess genocide is out of favor these days.

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Travellers are trying to drive us off our land:
Horse lover tells of threats after her field is surrounded

By Liz Hull
Last updated at 8:15 AM on 23rd November 2009


Mrs Bowling has faced threats from the travellers since they moved in next to her plot. To Louise Bowling, it was the fulfilment of a life-long dream.

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Photo: Jeff Morris

Having bought some land, surrounded by beautiful countryside, she now had space to rear her beloved horses.

But. just a few months after purchasing the 1.1 acre plot, Mrs Bowling’s dream is in tatters.

Earlier this month, the land surrounding her stables was sold to travellers who arrived under cover of darkness, poured 200 tons of concrete over the hillside and brought in their caravans and trucks.

They have since laid siege to Mrs Bowling’s plot, threatening to rape her, burn down her home and kill the animals unless she sells them her land at a knockdown price.

Last night, Mrs Bowling, 31, a part-time receptionist, said: ‘It’s been terrible. When the caravans and trucks rolled on with the concrete, it was the end of our world.

‘We saved up to buy the land - my husband went to war to pay for it - and it was going to be our nest egg for the future. It was an idyllic place for me to come and see the horses and enjoy the countryside.

‘The travellers want us to sell them our share, but when we said it was not for sale they started threatening us. They said they would burn our house and the stables down and kill the horses.

‘One of the men even threatened to rape me, it was disgusting. I’ve been so upset, I’ve not been eating or sleeping since they arrived.’

Mrs Bowling bought the land in Hardhorn, near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, from owner Vincent Peake for £17,500, 14 months ago.

It was the middle plot of six lots, totalling eight acres, all designated as being for keeping horses on.
Mrs Bowling and her husband, Martin, 35, a former supplier with the RAF who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, spent a further £8,500 building stables and fertilising and fencing off the plot.

The couple, who have no children, moved their two horses into the stables and for more than a year enjoyed tending the plot and their animals. But, on November 3, Mrs Bowling was told the remaining five plots had been sold to a group of Irish travellers for £85,000.

On the evening of Friday, November 6, around 20 caravans and trucks rolled on to the site and, over 72 hours, tipped 200 tons of hardcore on to the land.

Officers from the local council arrived the day after and tried to issue a ‘stop notice’ to force the travellers to stop working on the site, but, they ignored it. The local authority are now seeking legal action against the travellers.

Police were also called but said they were powerless to help because no crime had been committed. Fearful her two horses would be harmed, Mrs Bowling, of Blackpool, moved them to other stables nearby.

She said they later offered to sell the travellers the land but were only offered £18,000, including the stables.

One of the travellers, Pat Collins, denied breaking the law and said they had applied for planning permission for their caravans. ‘We have put in for planning permission retrospectively and are waiting for it to come back,’ he said.

‘We have to have homes for our kids. We’ve saved our life savings for this land, we own it and have a right to be here.’

Mr Peake, a retired electrical engineer, claimed he did not mean to sell the land to travellers. An individual in Yorkshire acted on the travellers’ behalf and sold the land to them behind his back, he added.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/23/2009 at 05:37 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - November 22, 2009

Et tu? Warner Bros?

Just how far is political correctness going to go? Now it’s infesting the Looney Tunes gang!

I found that Netflix has the ‘Golden Age of Looney Tunes’ on dvd. The cartoons I grew up watching on Saturday mornings: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, well, you get the picture. Good, clean, violent, fun stuff suitable for children from the 1940s on…

…until now apparently.

I settled down last night to watch the latest dvd, Looney Tunes Vol 4 Disc 1. Here’s what I was forced to watch—Forced! Mind you. I couldn’t fast-forward past it.

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The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today’s society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.

Now, this opens up a huge can of cats. (What? You think putting worms back in the can is hard? Try putting cats back in the can. They bite, claw, and scratch. And run faster than worms.)

There’s no mention of what ethnic or racial prejudices are depicted. No mention of which were ‘wrong then and are wrong now?’ No mention of who decided they were wrong? Or why?

I believe this opening statement is placed so as to sensitize the viewer to be offended. Or feel guilty.

By the Three Kennedys! They attack not just any children’s cartoons, WB attacks their own children’s cartoons.

Meanwhile, I’m still watching the dvd. I’ve yet to be offended.

Imagine, I go to the bookstore and buy a copy of, say, Huckleberry Finn. Actually, I have a copy of Huckleberry Finn. No such warnings appear in it.

And, imagine if such a statement were included in the preface of each copy of the Koran published in these United States? Would there be an uproar?


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 11/22/2009 at 05:18 PM   
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THE LUCKIEST SOLDIER ALIVE ….. MUST READ AND SEE …

Boy, do I feel like a wuss complaining about my insignificant little nothing cold .....

The Lt. mistakingly says Nov. 26 in the video.  But the actual date is Oct. 26.

British Army officer, Lieutenant Paddy Rice, has been described as “the luckiest soldier in Afghanistan” after surviving being shot by a Taliban sniper.


By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Nad e’Ali, Afghanistan
Published: 6:30AM GMT 22 Nov 2009

Lieutenant Paddy Rice of the 1st battalion Grenadier Guards was wounded in the back and neck while on duty in central Helmand.

The bullet struck the officer just beneath his left shoulder blade, then travelled inside his back and up to his neck, where it left his body, passed his right ear before blasting a hole through his helmet.

After being injured, Lt Rice, who was serving with the battalion’s Inkerman Company, was flown by a Medical Emergency Response Team Chinook helicopter from his base to Camp Bastion, where his wounds were cleaned and left open for three days before being stitched under general anaesthetic.

The 25-year-old Guard’s Officer was offered the chance of recuperating from his wound in the UK but refused and is now back serving with his platoon on the front line in the Nad e’Ali area of central Helmand.

The drama unfolded on the afternoon of October 26th, while Lt Rice was on the roof of British base known as Compound 23 in the Chah-e’Anjir area of central Helmand.

The soldier was dressed in his body armour and helmet and was in a kneeling position when he was spotted by a Taliban fighter who opened fire through a “murder hole” – in a mud wall.

He said: “I climbed on to the roof of the Compound 23, where my soldiers and I were based, and was trying to move a radio into a sangar (defensive bunker). It was an exposed position so I was wearing my body armour and helmet. I then felt a thump in the back of my back, as though I had been kicked, and I knew immediately I had been shot.”

The bullet passed through his body, slicing open Lt Rice’s back and leaving an eight inch long gash running diagonally from his shoulder blade to an area just beneath his skull.

He continued: “I put my hand up to the back of my head and I could see blood and I think I said something to my platoon sergeant, Gert Botha, such as “I’ve been shot”.

“I was helped down from the roof and I radioed company headquarters, gave contact report (a message informing others that there has been an enemy attack), and said “there is one casualty and it’s me – I’ve been shot”. I wasn’t panicking I had considered how I might react if I was shot or injured but because everything seemed to be functioning normally I think I realised I would be OK.

“I know that I was very lucky to escape with what is actually a flesh wound, albeit a nasty one. If I had been looking up the bullet would have hit the back of my head and that would have been a different story.”

Compound 23 is one of several locations which surround Patrol Base Shahzad, the main British base in Chah-e’Anjir. The base and the satellite locations provide a security bubble around the district centre, which allows Afghans to trade in the bazaar and children to go to school without fear of intimidation by the Taliban.

But while the Afghans can carry on with their lives without interference, the British compounds are being attacked virtually every day by insurgents.

On arriving at the base where Lt Rice had been shot, medics were surprised at the calmness shown by the officer, who was sitting down smoking a cigarette when they arrived at his base.

An hour after being shot, Lt Rice was able to contact his father and give him the news. He continued: “It was quite a surreal telephone call. But it was far better that I told him that I had been shot in the neck and was OK rather than someone else.”

Lt Rice was flown back to Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, where he was given further medical treatment and three days after being injured, he received 29 stitches.

The officer also called his girlfriend in Clapham, south west London, who was shopping in a supermarket when he broke the news.

Lt Rice added: “She was a bit upset and startled to hear me saying that I had been shot while she was buying her supper but after I reassured her that I was fine she relaxed a bit. She knows that this is the job I want to do, she has known that since we met – she is very understanding.”

Captain James Swanston, the second-in-command of Inkerman Company, Grenadier Guards, who was in charge of the operations room at the time of the attack said that if the bullet had been a millimetre either side of where it struck Lt Rice would have either been killed or seriously injured.

He said: “When you hear that someone has been shot you expect the worst. But when the medics arrived, Paddy was sitting down smoking a cigarette. He showed great calmness.”


IN HIS OWN WORDS


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/22/2009 at 04:45 AM   
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SO DAMN FUNNY YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP ….

Can’t seem to entirely shake off this damn cold.  Only managed one post yesterday and back to bed.  Seems just when I think I’m over it, I find I’m not.  So posting may be light again for me today.  Will try tho.

This was in the paper a few days ago. It’s one of those things you might see in a wacky slap stick comedy with the Marx Bros. or Abbot and Costello.
Well, you get he idea. I read it 2wice and can only think, that must have been one hell of a well camouflaged setting.

HE ATE WHAT?

Richard Kay
The Mail

After declaring her love for The X Factor, China’s ambassador Madam Fu Ying returned to more conventional diplomacy with a pitch to Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague to visit her homeland.

‘I hope you will be a friend to China like the other former Tory leader Edward Heath, who visited China 27 times in 26 years after standing down as leader,’ she told him at a Commons reception. A fellow MP whispers: ‘Mr Hague turned a bright shade of beetroot, and mentioned he was looking forward to going to China in four weeks’ time.

‘Let’s hope it’s more of a success than his trip to Japan, where he ate an exotic-looking dish, not realising it was the flower arrangement.’

SOURCE


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/22/2009 at 03:29 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - November 21, 2009

WEEKEND WOMEN ….

Bet few if any of you know who this famous lady was.  Some might, I didn’t.  This pose was done because she was playing the role of one of the silent screens first sex symbols. Perhaps the first screen vamp. A nice quiet Jewish girl born Theodosia Burr Goodman, who became THEDA BERA.
But poor Miss Bera at her best would never match the glory that sometimes was ....


MARILYN MONROE

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Here’s the actress being played by Marilyn, long, long before the screen had a voice and some real acting talent.

THEDA BERA

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That Dear Viewers ..... was very serious ‘eye candy’ once upon a more innocent time. Although come to think of it, it got a bit more innocent AFTER this period, with censorship following the Fatty Arbuckle scandal of 1921. 

HAT TIP in HUGE way to BMEWS member RICKD94.
I was having what the Brits would call, “a spot of bother” in trying to locate certain ancient photos. Rick came to the rescue with a link where I found this absolute awesome beauty from the past.  In fact, his link sent me to other links where found a wealth of material for future use.  He also provided me with the information needed to make searches faster. So my thanks publicly to Rickd94.

Her name was SHELIA HAYES, the photo dates to 1913.  She was a well known actress of her time.

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In the same period, EVELYN LAYE, 1917

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One of my favorites from more modern times is ANGIE DICKINSON. Always did love this woman and thought she was gorgeous.

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Last week I think I mentioned that it was hard finding what we might call pin ups past a certain age. Like say, 50. Hey, it’s true and maybe sad but age sucks and we all worship youth when we mostly looked our best.  Some still look good with plastic surgery but that can be overdone and it always shows.  I really wasn’t looking for this and found her in a news story.  She’s a former model, was in Vogue although that means nothing to me.  But this lady is 57 and while no raving beauty, she still looks darn good to me.  She says she’s been a a diet all of her life.  Women do that sort of thing, don’t they.  I can see no reason why this lady shouldn’t be included here.  But she is a bit on the thin side, don’t ya think?

MARIE HELVIN age 57.

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This lady was actress JEAN AKERMAN, and I haven’t found the date of this photo. Pretty old though.

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There has NEVER been a time when I wasn’t in love with ANN MARGARET. Yeah. Me and a zillion other males who believe women are actually creatures of magic and wonder. Like, we wonder what they’re really thinking and exactly what was it we did or said that got em angry cos we haven’t a clue.

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I have no idea who this wondrous woman was ..... I have no name and only a date of 1880.  WOW.
Look at her waist.  That could not have been very comfortable and I have read that women in those times had trouble breathing.  Which gave rise to fainting which gave us the idea that women were somehow the more delicate gender subject to “the vapors.” No wonder with dress styles like this.
But they did look nice.  Going back even before this date, in the Georgian era, which btw was a very licentious age, ladies attending a ball in days before bras, wore muslin dresses which ended just below the breast and then pushed up their breasts. The style was called The Empire Line.  The top part of their gown was then made damp with water so that there was a see through appearance. This custom was worn even at garden parties, not just court balls.  There was also a high rate of illness among them.

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QUICK PREVIEW NEXT WEEK ....

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