Wednesday - November 18, 2009

ELL HECK, WHILE i’M WAITING FOR A CALL BACK FROM A ROOFER …. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.

And ppl, this is all for a few worms and a lizard or two.  Hey, I’m not for the wholesale slaughter of the little things but come on ....

Reading a few comments from readers appear to show that most say why not?  One person thinks this is okay since the worm and the lizard were here first.  ??  Not surprising as these folks also believe their overcrowded island is gonna lead the way and save the planet for the gweens. 

Oh what the hell.  Isn’t it sweet of em that they’re eccentric enough to believe all this stuff? Jeesh.

Misery for commuters as two-month operation to rescue slow worms causes massive traffic delays

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:56 AM on 18th November 2009

For motorists stuck in the tailback, the irony is unlikely to raise a smile.

But the reason for their misery on this busy urban dual carriageway is a painstaking operation by council staff in the grass verges. . . to rescue slow worms.

Local traders are equally unamused.

Indeed, there are fears businesses will go under as the road in Bournemouth is reduced to a single lane for nearly seven miles while the rare reptiles are removed.

The resident slow worms and sand lizards are protected under UK and European laws and they need to be found ahead of £ 26million of roadworks that will destroy their habitat.

Retailers have urged the authorities to postpone the work, which is scheduled to take eight weeks, until after Christmas but this has been rejected because the safety of the reptiles is more important.

Business leaders claim shoppers will be put off visiting the town due to the traffic jams.

Tony Brown, chief executive of the Beales department store, said: ‘It’s daft they are doing this at this time of year. The dual carriageway is choc-a-block for miles but the actual stretch they are using is only about 150 yards.

‘They should be doing it in January-which is the slowest economic time of the year.’

Steve Kent, chairman of the Boscombe Traders Association, said shops had seen a ‘horrendous’ drop in trade due to the work.

David Diaz, Dorset County Council’s project manager for the scheme, said the rescue operation had to be done while the reptiles were hibernating.

He added: ‘We are governed by legislation as to how we treat these species of animals. Some of them are protected by European legislation as well.’

The operation has led to drivers on the A338 facing hour-long delays on a daily basis.

Motorist Melanie Adams, 39, said: ‘Is it worth all this misery to thousands of drivers for the sake of a few slow worms? I went as fast as a slow worm this morning and was an hour late for work.

‘It’s typical of this country to put animals before people.’ Another driver going by the name ‘Irate Commuter’ on a local internet forum wrote: ‘If I dressed in a lizard costume, would I get a police escort through the roadworks? Officials who make these decisions are plain daft, because it doesn’t affect their livelihood and income.’

John Wilkinson, from Amphibian and Reptile Conservation in Bournemouth, said: ‘It can obviously be pretty irritating when you get held up. But Dorset has the most important populations of these species in the country.’

Brits call it a “Tail Back” but I’ve been here so damn long now, I forgot the term we use back home.  Tail Back does work of course, but I find it worrying that I can’t remember our own terms for some things.  Oh well, keeps my mind off the leaky roof and the promised rain has not happened. Yet. 

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Posted by peiper     on 11/18/2009 at 09:21 AM   
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Nigerian married his OWN daughter so she would be allowed to stay in Britain

Irksome considering how much (in the hundreds of dollars) it cost me to get a visa when moving here in ‘04.

There should btw, be a law wrote in stone with NO exceptions with regard to foreign names.  They should be anglicized, no ifs or buts. Don’t like it? Go somewhere else.  Here’s a suggestion.  Where you came from.  Go back where folks don’t have to stop and get tongue tied trying to figure out your name.

This man married his OWN daughter so she would be allowed to stay in Britain - and the Home Office knows about it

By Sam Greenhill and Dennis Rice
18th November 2009

A Nigerian Home Office worker ‘married’ his own daughter to get her a British visa, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The extraordinary scam was apparently executed by Jelili Adesanya while ministers turned a blind eye.

Mr Adesanya, 54, has lived here for more than 30 years and holds a British passport, but wanted his daughter, her husband and their four sons to join him from Nigeria.

He faked a wedding ceremony complete with a photograph of the happy ‘couple’ which helped fool immigration officials that his daughter, Karimotu Adenike, was really his wife.

Miss Adenike, who is in her mid-30s, was duly granted permission to live in the UK.

The pair are waiting for her to be granted a permanent right to remain before they undergo a quiet divorce and attempt to bring the rest of her family here.

It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas.

DESPITE BEING TIPPED OFF TWO YEARS AGO, THE HOME OFFICE SEEMS TO HAVE DONE NOTHING TO STOP THE SCAM BY ONE OF THEIR OWN WORKERS.

Until recently, Mr Adesanya was employed as an occupational health nurse for the Home Office, working with immigration officials at Gatwick airport.

A whistleblower sent letters to the High Commission in Lagos and the UK Border Agency including specific details such as names, addresses, passport numbers and even a copy of the wedding photograph.

When there was no response, he sent emails to then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and ministers Vernon Coaker and Phil Woolas on February 1 this year. He heard nothing.

Mr Adesanya, who came to Britain in 1976, flew back to Nigeria on May 29, 2007, and held the bogus wedding ceremony a few days later at a register office in Ikorodu, Lagos.

A source said: ‘They paid people to attend the wedding so that the British High Commission in Lagos would believe it was genuine. The commission then gave Karimotu Adenike a two-year settlement visa in October 2007.

‘On her settlement visa application form, of course, she did not mention that she already had a husband and four children.

‘The date of birth on her Nigerian passport is not her real date of birth.’

Miss Adenike is believed to have aged herself by ten years on her wedding certificate to disguise the age gap with her father.

Although her settlement visa expired last month, she is hoping to be given the right to remain.

PHOTOS HERE

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Girl, 5, ‘sold for sex by her mother’ discovered dead ….. UPDATE

Miserable damn scum. Both of em.  I hope that state has the death penalty.
Saw this and had to stop what I was doing.
What kind of animals, what sort of filthy excuse for human beings do this sort of thing?  She was still a baby for gosh sake.
Damn it this kind of thing rattles the hell out of me.  I am even more pissed off because I can’t personally kill the two of them. They don’t need to live.

I feel the same way towards any lawyer that comes forward to defend them or speak on their behalf.  There are just some things that cry out for retribution.  There are some crimes that go way beyond the need for, “a fair trial.” Anyway, if they have a trial of their ‘peers’ then what sort of a jury would that be?  Twelve pedophiles?

Girl, 5, ‘sold for sex by her mother’ discovered dead at the side of a U.S. road

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 12:17 PM on 18th November 2009

A missing five-year-old girl allegedly sold into prostitution by her mother has been found dead, it was revealed this morning.

Shaniya Davis had been missing since November 10 after she was last seen being carried into a hotel room by a man.

FBI agents and U.S. Marshalls joined the nationwide search for the toddler amid fears she had been sold to a paedophile ring.

An arrest warrant issued for the 25-year-old said she allowed her daughter to be taken ‘with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude.’

Davis, who is pregnant, first reported her daughter missing last Tuesday.

Police were suspicious of her story after reviewing a timeline of the events leading up to her disappearance from a trailer park in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

They later found CCTV footage from a hotel 40 miles from Fayetteville showing the five year old girl being carried into a hotel room by Mario McNeill.

Mario McNeill, 29, was charged with first-degree kidnapping

She had not been seen since and her mother has refused to cooperate with police.

The girl had only been living with Davis for three weeks, according to her father Bradley Lockhart.

He had primary custody of the girl, but had agreed to let her stay with her mother after she found a place to live and held a job for six months.

Lockhart broke down in tears at a press conference last night when he sobbed: ‘Everybody makes it a point not to ignore, to look past a situation where a person, a child, or anybody might be in danger ... so that we don’t have another tragedy like Shaniya.’

He said authorities have given him limited information, but he was to meet with them later.

‘It’s not the result I wanted, it’s not the result any father or family would want for their children,’ he said.

‘But God has a greater calling for all of us.’

Police have not charged anyone with molesting Shaniya, but said the investigation is ongoing.

The man accused of taking her, Mario Andrette McNeill, turned himself in on Friday. Police said he admitted to kidnapping the child and has been charged.

CCTV footage shows Shaniya in the company of McNeill near a hotel on the day she was kidnapped.

According to arrest documents, Davis ‘knowingly provided Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude’ and she ‘permitted an act of prostitution’.

Shaniya’s half-sister, Cheyenne Lockhart, spoke on the U.S. talkshow Nancy Grace on Monday.

She said that she found it difficult to believe Davis had treated her daughter so poorly.

‘She seemed like the sweetest woman. She didn’t come from much, but ... she had the sweetest voice, she had the sweetest personality, and especially toward me,’ said Ms Lockhart, who shared a father with Shaniya.

‘I would never think that she would do anything like that.’

Their father said Shaniya went to her mother’s home on October 9.

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RIP Sweetheart. This fuckin world isn’t good enough for you.

Posted by peiper     on 11/18/2009 at 07:39 AM   
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My posting might be a bit spotty.  The roof is still there but …

Oh boy .... Another storm coming in and.

A few days ago one of our commenters who obviously has read about the weather here, asked me if we still had a roof.

Well, as a matter of fact we still do.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is ....

WE HAVE A SLOW LEAK over the stairs on the upper landing.  I say slow because it isn’t dripping through yet, but it’s there. It’s very noticeable.

I’ll try and post some but right now I have to try and find someone to come out here.  And if the last experience 5 years ago is anything to go by, it won’t be today.

DRAT!

Cold and very windy at moment. 

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   Tuesday - November 17, 2009

It just isn’t stopping

Background checks on the sale of firearms were up 4.3 percent in October, according to data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A total of 1,233,982 checks were reported for the month, up from 1,183,279 in October 2008.

The 2009 year-to-date total for background checks is 11,403,417, an increase of 18.1 percent over the same time period last year.

FBI background checks are required under federal law for all individuals purchasing either newly manufactured or used firearms from federally licensed retailers.

America continues to purchase more than one million personal firearms per month. This trend started in September of 2008 and it shows no signs of letting up, even with the severe recession we’re in.

For every 4 people buying a gun a couple years ago, now there are 5. Closer to 6 actually.

Ammunition is somewhat less scarce than it was a few months back, new brass is starting to show up, but powder and primers are still hard to come by in most places.






12 million guns purchased in a year in a country of 300 million. 12:300 is 4%. One American citizen in twenty five legally bought a gun this year alone. In addition to the ones we’ve acquired over the last 120 years or so that are still shootable. And all the ones outside the law. Four Score and Seven millions of them. Probably even more.

Molon Labe, mofo!

Posted by Drew458     on 11/17/2009 at 05:08 PM   
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Catch Me While I Faint

Um, how can it be an interview if Fox isn’t a valid news organization? I guess it’s another puff piece, like O’s talks with Vanity Fair





No, this sounds like the real deal!

Hey, I wonder if he’ll bow to Major Garrett too!

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BMEWS International

Hello world, welcome to the blog!






Stop in, look around, sign up for membership using a valid email and then respond to the email we send you, then log in and leave a comment. Or a decent recipe - I’m always looking for something new and tasty.

Brasil, Turkey, Hungary, Ireland, and Jamaica all on at the same time? Peiper, did you put up some post about FOOTBALL or CRICKET or FORMULA ONE ??

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   Monday - November 16, 2009

It says “solutions oriented” on my resume

And that isn’t a lie. It means finding a middle ground to please both sides. It took me about 20 minutes of research to find two steps that can make everybody happy.

On the other hand, fuck the crybaby liberals in Boston. Cry in your lattes, bitches. They ought to be outnumbered about 100,000 to 1, so “democracy” says ... screw you.

(posted at Vilmar’s, Weasel Zippers, etc)

Old Ironsides’ upscale Charlestown neighbors are trying to pull off what British, French and Barbary pirate guns failed to accomplish in more than two centuries - silencing the cannons of the nation’s oldest commissioned naval vessel.

Miffed residents of a posh condo complex have invited the commanding officer of the USS Constitution over for a glass of wine so he can hear for himself that the frigate’s twice-daily cannon blasts - a tradition dating to 1798 - are “more disruptive to the neighborhood than you might have imagined.”

Commanding Officer Timothy Cooper received the most recent complaint two weeks ago from neighbors suggesting naval officers assigned to the historic vessel eliminate the morning and evening blasts on weekends, reduce the size of the gunpowder charge and turn down the volume of the national anthem recording played during the daily flag raising and lowering ceremonies.

“The residential population and congestion of this area has (sic) grown significantly and, it seems to us, that the cannon charge/noise is excessive,” the unidentified resident first wrote in an Aug. 26, 2009, letter obtained by the Herald.

High-end condominium developments have sprung up across from the Charlestown Navy Yard over the past decade, transforming the once hardscrabble waterfront into a toney enclave.

“Over the summer, we have entertained several times, and we have had guests sit up in shock when the cannon goes off,” the resident wrote. “It has also awakened them at 8 a.m. while they are vacationing and then blasted them again at sunset.”

Cooper, a 39-year-old Marshfield native, said he was surprised by the complaint, but he wants to work with the residents. “We’re hoping to find a way where we can be good neighbors and maintain the tradition,” he said.

The legendary, 204-foot-long battleship is equipped to hold 44 cannons, but only two take turns shooting a four-foot blast of gunpowder twice a day, Cooper said.

Hey, the Navy was here first, so bite me.

OTOH, if you read the original article and watch the little video, Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Suzanne Dangler does a walk through of the firing procedure. Inside the old cannon is a cleverly hidden 40mm Saluting Gun. It’s pretty much the breech and barrel stub from an old one barrel Bofors gun welded in under a false cover plate.

When the Constitution fires off it’s twice daily salutes, it fires from the port side out over the wharf. Old Ironsides is berthed pointed out to sea, so shooting over the wharf is firing in the direction of town. Where the whiny condo dwellers live. Firing from the starboard side out over her own small private bay would be quieter, but it wouldn’t be at all photogenic, and the saluting exercise is both a tradition and a photo op for the tourists.

Facts?
The 40mm Saluting Round is a standard issue munition. It’s a cut down Bofors case filled with 200gm propellant. Looks like black powder to me from the flash. The same DODIC B650 round is used on all ships:

40mm Salute fired on the USS Tarawa

The 40mm Saluting munition DODIC B650

Solutions?
The DODIC B650 Munition has a physical twin called the DODIC B550. The B550 is made with only 50gm of propellant. Right now, the B550 munition is only authorized for use at the Marine Barracks in Washington DC and at the Marine Headquarters (FMPAC) at Camp Smith in Hawaii. Both are densely populated areas, yes? Hmmm.

The USS Constitution was also built with bow chasers. This means is has cannon ports that face forward. The bow chasers are the same kind of cannon used in other parts of the ship. These cannon are on wheels. So move a couple around. Using the bow ports would still give the tourists the photo op, but it would point the guns away from land.

Expand the munition authorization, move the cannon. Then everybody is happy. Except me. And Vilmar and Weasel. And any Americans who respect the Navy and it’s traditions. Which ought to be hundreds of millions of us.

I say use a proper full on charge of real black powder in one of the 32 pounders. That’s probably about 10lbs of gun powder. I’m certain that’s much louder than any dinky old salute round, either 200gm or 50gm. Add salutes at dawn and noon. Hell, use the ship as a cuckoo clock, and fire the guns off once an hour, every hour.

Others say replace the blanks with iron cannon balls and have at it. Nice idea, but you’d have to fire over Navy buildings, and those old smoothbores never were that accurate. Not worth the risk to your own stuff, although the odds of hitting a Conservative in Boston are pretty slim.

Oh, and for those who noticed that the old ship is looking kind of stubby: right now the Constitution is undergoing another renovation, which will replace the upper decking and the top part of the masts. Every board cut by hand, every treenail hand hammered, every bit of strapping hand forged. The mid-part of the ship is also being opened up, taking out a length of rail that was put in many years ago and replacing it with original style netting. When the $6 million job is finished late next year, the ship will be as close to original as it’s been in over 100 years. Pity that all the renovations mean that only about 15% of the ship is original, but that’s what you get with wood, iron, and salt water.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/16/2009 at 09:31 PM   
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Proof: Teachers Are Lazy

Did you ever have one of those “Ah ha!!” moments, and perhaps say “Eureka!” out loud?

And you know the story behind eureka. [εὕρηκα] It’s Greek for “I found it!” And you were taught the story in school, whether you got any of the details or not. Some old king (Hiero III, king of Syracuse) way back in the day (265 BC) thought that his crown wasn’t made of pure gold. So he hired Archimedes to prove him right, without melting the thing down for assay. One day Archi was taking a bath, and noticed that the water level in the tub went up when he stuck his leg in. “Eureka!” he cried, and went running off to the palace without even stopping to put on a towel.

And teachers use this little story to teach the basic concepts of mass and volume. End of story.



Except, well, while that thesis is factually sound, the Greeks didn’t have the technology to carry out the experiment to a reliable degree of proof. Given a pot big enough to put an actual crown in, the difference in water level between one made of pure gold and one made of a lesser alloy would have been less than half a millimeter. Barely visible to the naked eye, and well within the margin of error caused by any air bubbles, changes in temperature, evaporation, etc.

The real way Archimedes could have found that the crown wasn’t pure was to balance it against a measure of pure gold, then to put both pans of the balance under water. The pan with the less pure gold in it would rise up.

420 years ago Giambattista della Porta wrote about this, and showed how dipping the scales would do the job. 3 years before that Galileo had written a similar treatise, but he had figured out a way to read the scales to prove exactly what the impurity level was. That method and that knowledge may have been old hat even then.

So the world has known that the Archimedes story is pretty weak for an awfully long time. This is what author Terry Pratchett calls “lies to children”; teaching a highly simplified story to kids that at face value seems to work, so that later on you can teach them the details without their little heads being in danger of popping. Except that the actual real method of proof is pretty simple, and makes for a wonderful demonstration, and expands the kid’s minds to encompass 2 other natural laws that old Archi is credited with discovering. But that takes a bit more effort. And who knows if most kids are ever given the more advanced part of the story anyway. See? Teachers really are lazy.

Read all about it if you want. Here (easy), here (medium), and here (hard).

Ok, the obvious pun here is about “lies in the balance”, so you witty types will have to do better than that in the comments.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/16/2009 at 03:24 PM   
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Yeah, what he said

Does anyone know where I can get a set of leftard blinders? I’ve got to do some welding, and those things block out all the bad rays!

Posted by Drew458     on 11/16/2009 at 03:11 PM   
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Leftists Eager To Pollute The Environment

But it’s for your own good! Really, it is! So let’s plaster the third world with an engineered strain of bacteria. Um, wait, don’t you guys always say how those genetically modified things are Pure Evil? Oh, I get it. This one isn’t for profit. Yet. So that’s Ok. Can’t wait until it starts being sold by the gallon, and then starts mutating out in the field. Watch how fast the song changes then!

Bacteria that glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, according to British scientists.

The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution that forms green patches when sprayed on to ground where mines are buried.

Researchers who created the bacteria at the University of Edinburgh believe the microbes could be dropped from the air on to danger areas.

Within a few hours, they would react to traces of explosives leaking from the devices buried underground.

Each year, between 15,000 and 20,000 people are killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance, according to the charity Handicap International.

Some 87 countries are riddled with minefields, including Somalia, Mozambique, Cambodia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The scientists produced the bugs using a new technique called BioBricking, which manipulates packages of DNA.

Back to the drawing board guys. You picked the wrong color. Make it glow blue instead, then name it after J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Citizenship lessons to teach children respect for worms AND insects too. Don’t step on bugs kids.

So I guess if during the season when they are active, if your kitchen or some other part of the house suddenly experiences an invasion of ants, the thing to do is either politely ask the ants to leave, or else carry them outside.
Or, you could threaten them with an ASBO.  Ants might be smart enough to be frightened by that, but I don’t think spiders would buy it.

I think they’re gonna have to make a special case with regard to boys whose natural inclination might be to step on almost anything that crawls.
But not to worry.  The way things are working out here now, maybe in another generation the engineers will have more boys thinking like girls with regard to crawlies and won’t go near em. 

Citizenship lessons to teach children respect for worms

I love you, Mr Worm: By age seven children will have learnt not to stamp on ‘mini-beasts’

Marie Woolf, Whitehall Editor
The Times

Good citizenship is not just a question of respect for one’s fellow humans, it seems. The government has decreed that children should be taught not to hurt a fly.

New curriculum guidance says citizenship classes should pay due regard to the wellbeing of what it calls “mini-beasts”, including bees, ants and worms.

The classes are part of the “animals and us” section of the primary school citizenship curriculum. It says children can become “active citizens” by learning that “other living things have needs and they have responsibilities to meet them”.

By the age of seven pupils should have learnt that “humans have a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of animals, including mini-beasts” and will have been told rules for “behaviour in areas where animals live”: for example, “not stamping on insects”.
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The model lessons, which are not compulsory for schools, have been drawn up by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Children are also taught that it is against the law to leave dogs in cars on a hot day or to disturb fledglings in nests.

Rhiannon Pursall, a beetle expert at the Royal Entomological Society, welcomed the move. “A lot of children do not recognise insects as animals. They stamp on ants and torture spiders, but they wouldn’t kill a cat or a dog,” she said.

“The younger that children can learn about caring for insects the better. If they can grasp the idea that insects are just as important as animals, that would be fantastic.”

Andrew Rosindell, the Conservative animal welfare spokesman, said it was important that schools had a sense of proportion. “All creatures great and small have their place in the world, but I hope children learn that swatting a mosquito is not as serious as inflicting pain on a puppy,” he said.

A spokesman for the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency, which drew up the guidelines, said insects were included because it was “important that young people develop an awareness of the responsibilities that flow from human relationships with the natural world”.

It added: “The loss of individual organisms, however small, may have unforeseen consequences for a whole habitat.”

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Posted by peiper     on 11/16/2009 at 01:02 PM   
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Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes .

Well so much for that silly man and his castle thingy.
Today England ... Tomorrow, who knows.

Health and safety snoops to enter family homes

From The Sunday Times
November 15, 2009

Robert Watts

Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.

New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.

Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.

The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.

Until now, councils have made only a limited number of home inspections to check on building work and in extreme cases where the state of a house is thought to pose a serious risk to public health.

Nice also recommends the creation of a new government database to allow GPs, midwives and other officials who visit homes to log health and safety concerns they spot.

The guidance aims to “encourage all practitioners who visit families and carers with children and young people aged under 15 to provide home safety advice and, where necessary, conduct a home risk assessment”. It continues: “If possible, they should supply and install home safety equipment.”

The proposals have been put out to consultation and, if approved, will be implemented next year.

Matthew Elliott, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It is a huge intervention into family life which will be counter-productive.

“Good parents will feel the intrusion of the state in their homes and bad parents will now have someone else to blame if they don’t bring up their children in a sensible, safe environment.”

About 100,000 children are admitted to hospital each year for home injuries at a cost of £146m.

SOURCE, SUNDAY TIMES

Posted by peiper     on 11/16/2009 at 12:53 PM   
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Ain’t That The Truth

I found this image by following a link from one of the comments at Moonbattery on their 2nd post about the really thin AP story about “errors” in Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue. A book that’s been on the best seller lists for 50 days and it hasn’t even been released yet! Plus it already has a possibly-copyright-infringing counter book called Going Rouge out there already. She Who Must Be Destroyed At Any Cost!!!!11! Total pants shitting hysteria IMO.

Yeah, I saw the AP story when it came out. Palin writes a 432 page book, and some news agency sicks 11 fact checkers on the thing to attempt a debunking. ELEVEN. And they come up with a whole 6 “errors”, several of which are really, really, really thin ...

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking “only” for reasonably priced rooms and not “often” going for the “high-end, robe-and-slippers” hotels.

THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) .

PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations and turned back large checks if her campaign perceived a conflict of interest.

THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis. The maximum that individual donors could give was $1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.

Of the rest, about $76,000 came from Republican Party committees.

... another idiot bit of “news” from the biased MSM. So typical that it’s boring to the point of “why even bother”. But Moonbattery did bother, and NRO, and Breitbart, and quite a number of other VRWC blogs, so I guess I missed the boat. I figured you guys all saw the stupid thing anyway and dismissed it as the crap it was.

No, my post here is that Moonbattery’s post generated a swarm of comments - more than 100; a regular troll fest, which quickly devolved into name calling, handle jacking, assertions of homosexuality, and the usual poop flinging monkey tantrum that results when anything about Sarah Palin is published. Amazingly, there were no comments about Nazis. And their 2nd post, appropriately titled More Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome” is quickly travelling down the same path. Which just proves the point, yet again. Sarah Palin makes the left’s heads explode. She sets their hair on fire. Mwahahahaa, the women is a goddess for that.



Hmmm ... I wrote a post about a post written about a post written about a news article written about a book that doesn’t yet exist in the marketplace. Is that meta-meta-meta-meta-blogging? If anyone blogs about my post, we’ll be up at the quantum level!

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