Tuesday - November 10, 2009

KEYSTONE KOPS NOW BAN THE USE OF THE TERM, ‘GANG RAPE’ AS BEING TOO “EMOTIVE”

Well what can I add to this?  ??  ???  I’m thinking - I’m thinking. 

It is not a funny subject but it is hard not to make some sort of wise crack about how stupid it appears.  Instead of gang rape they want to use,
‘multi-perpetrator rapes’ instead.
I guess that’s what it is okay but it somehow doesn’t have the force of the other term. Would it make a difference to a jury?  And maybe instead of ivory tower “academic studies” the authorities should have done an in depth study among women and especially victims. Or maybe it makes no difference what they call it.  The guys who do it all need to be given a close shave with a dull razor or a pair of garden shears.

Scotland Yard has instructed officers not to use the phrase ‘gang rape’ to describe such crimes because it is too ‘emotive’ a term.

By Stephen Adams
Published: 7:00AM GMT 10 Nov 2009

Under new guidance, they have been told to refer to sex attacks that involve more than one culprit as ‘multi-perpetrator rapes’ instead.
The move has been criticised by the Plain English campaign as “politically correct nonsense”.
Almost six years ago Sir John Stevens, then the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, ignited a row by objecting to use of the term ‘gang rape’ in an article by The Daily Telegraph, choosing to refer to it as “group rape”.
Now the force has taken the decision that the phrase “multi-perpetrator rape” should be used as the “overarching term”, following academic research.

In his report ‘Multi-Perpetrator Rape and Youth Violence, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Yexley admitted that the “common parlance” for such attacks was “gang rape”. But he argued that did not mean it was the right phrase to use.
He wrote: “‘This is an emotive term – but it is used widely in the public domain.

“There have been instances in the past where the term ‘gang’ has come to mean different things – either groups known to each other, criminal networks or peer groups.”
His report, for the Metropolitan Police Authority, followed academic research into the “cultural context” of gang rape, commissioned by the that showed many instances of ‘gang rape’ did not involve gang members.

He continued: “When examining rapes committed by multiple perpetrators, it should be noted that the number of offenders involved and the methods used by assailants, vary.
“Analysis on such offending is primarily based on victim testimony and any other supporting evidence, so links to ‘gangs’ cannot necessarily be established.”

However, Chrissie Maher founder of the Plain English Campaign, said: “I am disgusted to my very bones and weep for the victims of gang rape.”
She added: “Jargon has been used to hide and confuse all sorts of things, that’s why Plain English Campaign was started. But using jargon clean up crime is the last thing I ever expected to see.

“Ask any victim – rape is an emotive crime – it deserves an emotive term not some sterile, politically correct nonsense.”
Others welcomed the move, saying gang rape had been used for too long as an inaccurate shorthand for a variety of attacks.
Dr Nicole Westmarland of Durham University, former chair of Rape Crisis and an academic expert on the issue, said many ‘gang’ rapes did not involve gangs at all.

But she thought the term ‘gang rape’ was still worth using when gangs were involved.
The police report also highlighted that there number of gang rapes in the capital is growing, that the age profile of victims is getting younger, and that a greater proportion of the victims are black.

There were 93 such crimes reported in 2008-9 compared to 71 in 2003-4. Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of victims are now aged 19 or under, compared to 48 per cent in 1998-9. The proportion of black victims has also doubled over the last decade, from 17 to 34 per cent.
A Metropolitan police spokesman confirmed the report did amount to new guidance.

She said: “Recent academic studies have suggested that the term ‘Multiple Perpetrator Rape’ should be used as the overarching term for offences involving two or more perpetrators.”

TELEGRAPH

A LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE SUBJECT OF RAPE.

100 rapists are let off with a caution: The serious offences that never come to court

By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 10:22 AM on 10th November 2009

More than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution, it was revealed yesterday. The 111 cases included 66 incidents of child rape.

The extent to which police forces have handed cautions to rapists, whose crime carries a maximum sentence of life in jail, was made public as Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced a full-scale review of the system of punishing crime with cautions and on-the-spot fines.

MORE ON THIS HERE

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American muslim says … No Pity for victims at Ft. Hood.

My thanks to LyndonB for this .... I don’t often get to boot this early or check my inbox but did today.
This is audio only and is only one minute.  But it shows a mindset among these life forms.

Lyndon had this to say, and he speaks for me so I’ll not add anything.

I came across this on a site called Biased BBC

The enemy within.......

I know this may sound a bit off the wall but in the not too distant future, certainly sooner in Britain than the US we are going to be in open war with these people and their barbaric death cult. There has been hardly any mention of the victims of this mad mullah atrocity just bleating about a backlash against all the “peace loving” muslimes. It makes me sick. One of my friends has a son who is based at Fort Hood. Fortunately he was visiting family at the time, but it brings it home to you when it’s people you know that may be involved. I seriously think we will have to have a voluntary repatriation system for these people before it’s too late.

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Tired of reading how 1984 is here? Well, State to ‘spy’ on every phone call, email and web search

Picked up the morning paper from the floor today and the front page headline caught me cold. Kinda like being slapped in the face by a wet fish.
If not that then something close to it.  I think this is scary and if passed will cause many to become a wee bit paranoid.  Not the bad guys cos their moto is always, What? Me worry?

I don’t think I have to worry about where I’ve been on line but the idea of snoopers just isn’t comfortable. And as for emails. Well, and I only just thought of this now.  I suppose I could end up on some radar somewhere due to things I’ve written to friends on various topics. I am NOT as you folks know, a pc person at all.  But given the world we live in today, which is not at all a world I like and I doubt you do either, I suppose things I write in emails might raise some concerns in some ppl.  Why hell, I’ve even had some BMEWSers come down on me like a ton of bricks so I can imagine what the authorities might think.

Oh well, at my age ....  What? Me Worry?  (hmmm maybe I shouldn’t have said that last one)

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.

By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Published: 7:00AM GMT 10 Nov 2009

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.

Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of surveillance in Britain, 653 public bodies will be given access to the information, including police, local councils, the Financial Services Authority, the ambulance service, fire authorities and even prison governors.

They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to obtain the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.

Ministers had originally wanted to store the information on a single government-run database, but chose not to because of privacy concerns.

However the Government announced yesterday it was pressing ahead with privately held “Big Brother” databases that opposition leaders said amounted to “state-spying” and a form of “covert surveillance” on the public.

It is doing so despite its own consultation showing that it has little public support.

The Home Office admitted that only one third of respondents to its six-month consultation on the issue supported its proposals, with 50 per cent fearing that the scheme lacked sufficient safeguards to protect the highly personal data from abuse.

The new law will increase the amount of personal data that can be obtained by officials through the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which is supposed to be used for fighting terrorism.

Although most private firms already hold details of every customer’s private calls and emails for their own business purposes, most only do so on an ad hoc basis and only for a period of several months.

The new rules, known as the Intercept Modernisation Programme, will not only force communications companies to keep their records for longer, but to expand the type of data they keep to include details of every website their customers visit, effectively registering every online click.

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The powers that be tell us that,

authorities will not be able to view the contents of these emails or phone calls, they can see the internet addresses, dates, times and identify recipients of calls. 

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   Monday - November 09, 2009

UNCLE JAY AND THE LATEST NEWS ………..

HOW ‘BOUT DEM BUMS?  LOL.  I see Brooklyn here.  Kinda miss the old Dodgers before LA. Hell, Miss the old Dodgers in LA too. When Steve Garvey played with em.

Enough of that.

Here’s a very good Uncle Jay I thought you’d enjoy.

Cheers All

Posted by peiper     on 11/09/2009 at 09:32 AM   
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We were fools to think the fall of the Berlin Wall had killed off the far Left.

She’s wrong about “they’re back.”
Because the SOBs never left us.  And haven’t some of us been bitching about the enemy screwing us from within for a long time?

I have wondered for a long time, just how it was possible for the left to be so well organized, that they have managed to bring us to this place we now find ourselves in.  Well, I think Melanie Phillips has answered my question.

I have posted her entire editorial here, rather then only part of it .  She really has nailed it.
Now where do we go from here?

I HOPE YOU WILL READ ALL OF THIS!

We were fools to think the fall of the Berlin Wall had killed off the far Left.

They’re back - and attacking us from within

By Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail
Monday Nov 9 2009

Twenty years ago today, supporters of freedom and human rights cheered and wept for joy as the Berlin Wall was torn down by jubilant young Germans.

To so many, that heady day seemed to herald the emergence of a better world. The spectre of communism had finally been laid to rest. Liberty had triumphed over tyranny.

The end of the Cold War even led some to proclaim that this was ‘the end of history’ - which was to say that liberal democracy was now the dominant and unchallengeable force in the world.
East German border guards looking through a hole in the Berlin wall

The collapse of communism was actually a slow-burning process. Its moral and political bankruptcy became obvious decades before that glorious Berlin day in November 1989

However, the 9/11 attacks on America tragically proved this to be absurdly over-optimistic. The eruption of radical Islamism revealed that, while the West may have been rid of one enemy in the Soviet Union, another deadly foe had risen to take its place. So much is, sadly, all too evident.

But what is perhaps less obvious is that communism did not just vanish in a puff of historical smoke. The Soviet Union was defeated and fell apart, for sure. But the communist ideology that fuelled it did not so much disintegrate as reconstitute itself into another, even more deadly form as the active enemy of western freedom.

SUBVERSIVE

Soviet Communism was a belief system whose goal was to overturn the structures of society through the control of economic and political life. This mutated into a post-communist ideology of the Left, whose no-less ambitious aim was to overturn western society through a subversive transformation of its culture.

To grasp the extent to which this has in fact taken place, we have to go back in time to well before the moment the Berlin Wall fell. The collapse of communism was actually a slow-burning process. Its moral and political bankruptcy became obvious decades before that glorious Berlin day in November 1989.

For many communist fellow travellers, the scales fell from their eyes when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956. Others, over the years, lost faith not just in communism but in its less radical sister, socialism, as their core tenet of ‘equality’ proved itself in a myriad different ways to be the enemy of freedom and justice, with market forces appearing to carry the torch of liberty instead.

But as communism slowly crumbled, those on the far-Left who remained hostile towards western civilisation found another way to realise their goal of bringing it down.

This was what might be called ‘cultural Marxism’. It was based on the understanding that what holds a society together are the pillars of its culture: the structures and institutions of education, family, law, media and religion. Transform the principles that these embody and you can thus destroy the society they have shaped.

This key insight was developed in particular by an Italian Marxist philosopher called Antonio Gramsci. His thinking was taken up by Sixties radicals - who are, of course, the generation that holds power in the West today.

Gramsci understood that the working class would never rise up to seize the levers of ‘production, distribution and exchange’ as communism had prophesied. Economics was not the path to revolution.

He believed instead that society could be overthrown if the values underpinning it could be turned into their antithesis: if its core principles were replaced by those of groups who were considered to be outsiders or who actively transgressed the moral codes of that society.

So he advocated a ‘long march through the institutions’ to capture the citadels of the culture and turn them into a collective fifth column, undermining from within and turning all the core values of society upside-down and inside-out.

THIS STRATEGY HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT TO THE LETTER

The nuclear family has been widely shattered. Illegitimacy was transformed from a stigma into a ‘right’. The tragic disadvantage of fatherlessness was redefined as a neutrally-viewed ‘lifestyle choice’.

Education was wrecked, with its core tenet of transmitting a culture to successive generations replaced by the idea that what children already knew was of superior value to anything the adult world might foist upon them.

The outcome of this ‘child-centred’ approach has been widespread illiteracy and ignorance and an eroded capacity for independent thought.

MISDEEDS

Law and order were similarly undermined, with criminals deemed to be beyond punishment since they were ‘victims’ of society and with illegal drugtaking tacitly encouraged by a campaign to denigrate anti-drugs laws.

The ‘rights’ agenda - commonly known as ‘political correctness’ - turned morality inside out by excusing any misdeeds by self-designated ‘victim’ groups on the grounds that such ‘victims’ could never be held responsible for what they did.

Feminism, anti-racism and gay rights thus turned men, white people and Christians into the enemies of decency who were forced to jump through hoops to prove their virtue.

This Through The Looking Glass mindset rests on the belief that the world is divided into the powerful (who are responsible for all bad things) and the oppressed (who are responsible for none of them).

This is a Marxist doctrine. But the extent to which such Marxist thinking has been taken up unwittingly even by the Establishment was illustrated by the astounding observation made in 2005 by the then senior law lord, Lord Bingham, that human rights law was all about protecting ‘oppressed’ minorities from the majority.

None of this is to say there has been a giant, organised conspiracy to undermine Britain in this way. Admittedly, some Left-wingers did so conspire, but many others bought into these ideas for different reasons.

Of particular importance was the demoralisation of the British ruling class by the loss of Empire and the indebtedness of Britain to America at the end of World War II - a profound loss of cultural nerve that made the Establishment vulnerable to any ideas, however outlandish, that promised to bring about the New Jerusalem.

These ideas gained general traction within the intelligentsia, the universities and the media - which is why the BBC is so institutionally skewed towards political correctness.

TOTALITARIAN

However, the terrifying fact is that they form a totalitarian mindset that replicates the way communist societies clamped down on any other than permitted views. Thus the intolerance - or even arrest - of Christians opposed to gay adoption and civil union, or the vilification as ‘racists’ of those opposed to mass immigration.

This mindset also led to the belief that a sense of nationhood was the cause of all the ills in the world, precisely because western nations embodied western values. So transnational institutions or doctrines such as the EU, UN, international law or human rights law came to trump national laws and values.

But the truth is that to be hostile to the western nation is to be hostile to democracy. And indeed, with the development of the EU superstate we can see that the victory over one anti-democratic regime within Europe - the Soviet Union - has been followed by surrender to another.

For the republic of Euroland puts loyalty to itself higher than that to individual nations and their values. It refused to commit itself in its constitution to uphold Christianity, the foundation of western morality.

Instead, it is committed to moral and cultural relativism, which sets group against group and guarantees supreme and antidemocratic power to the bureaucrats setting the rules of ‘diversity’ and outlawing all dissent from permitted attitudes.

When the Berlin Wall fell, we told ourselves that this was the end of ideology. We could not have been more wrong.

The Iron Curtain came down only to be replaced by a rainbow-hued knuckle-duster, as our cultural commissars pulverise all forbidden attitudes in order to reshape western society into a post-democratic, post-Christian, post-moral universe. Lenin would have smiled.

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 11/09/2009 at 06:25 AM   
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Rare Edison Electric Pen to be sold …… 1st invention in the world to use an electric motor.

That’s what it says in the morning paper.
Did you folks already know about this invention?  WOW ... What a mind Edison had. There’s a better illustration in the hard copy but the Telegraph didn’t put it on line. Darn.  So I went looking and found a few photos.

There’s an illustration here that shows two jars ...  but the hard copy shows one jar that looks like a mason jar with a motor inside.

From The Telegraph

One of the few remaining Edison Electric Pens that was the first invention to have an electric motor is to be sold.

In 1875 Thomas Edison launched the pen to allow multiple copies to be made from the same handwritten manuscript - although the typewriter soon made it redundant.

The machine for sale that belonged to a collector is in full working order and comes with the associated Edison Mimeograph Duplicator.

The pen’s stylus would make 50 punctures per minute, perforating the paper with thousands of tiny holes.

This paper would then be placed into the duplicator and ink would be spread over it, creating as many copies as was desired.

Run off a wet-all battery in a glass jar, the pen was initially a hit, being sold all over the world.

At the time it was boasted that up to 15,000 copies could be made from the same stencil, with up to 15 possible in every minute.

Sales literature at the time from the US stated: “The apparatus is used by the United States, City and State Governments, Railroad, Steamboat and Express Companies, Lawyers, Architects, Engineers, Accountants, Printers and Business Firms in every department of trade.”

It added: “It is especially valuable for the cheap and rapid production of all matter requiring duplication...”

Originally the whole system could be purchased for 40 dollars, and there were different sized duplicators.

Uwe Breker, who runs an auction house in Cologne in Germany, expects to raise nearly £10,000 from the sale.

He said: “The Edison Electric Pen still works today, but you can use a modern 4.5 volt battery to power it.

“There are only thought to be about two dozen of these in the world and most are in museums so it is very rare for one to come on the open market.

“The electric pen was the very first item to be driven by an electric motor and is one of the earliest items of Edisonianan available to collectors.

“On August 8, 1876, Edison was granted U.S. patent number 180857 for his new invention.

“It sold well all over the world but the development of the typewriter reduced demand for it considerably.”

The is to be sold at Breker auctions on November 21.

Edison’s Electric Pen
1875: the beginning of office copying technology
by Bill Burns
Edison’s electric pen was the first electric motor driven appliance produced and sold in the United States, developed as an offshoot of Edison’s telegraphy research.

Edison and Batchelor noticed that as the stylus of their printing telegraph punctured the paper, the chemical solution left a mark underneath. This led them to conceive of using a perforated sheet of paper as a stencil for making multiple copies, and to develop the electric pen as a perforating device. US patent 180,857 for “autographic printing” was issued to Edison on 8 August 1876.

The electric pen was sold as part of a complete duplicating outfit, which included the pen, a cast-iron holder with a wooden insert, a wet-cell battery on a cast-iron stand, and a cast-iron flatbed duplicating press with ink roller. All the cast-iron parts were black japanned, with gold striping or decoration.

The hand-held electric pen was powered by the wet-cell battery, which was wired to an electric motor mounted on top of a pen-like shaft. The motor drove a reciprocating needle which, according to the manual, could make 50 punctures per second, or 3,000 per minute. The user was instructed to place the stencil on firm blotting paper on a flat surface, then use the pen to write or draw naturally to form words and designs as a series of minute perforations in the stencil.

Later duplicating processes used a wax stencil, but the instruction manuals for Edison’s Electric(al) Pen and Duplicating Press variously call for a stencil of “common writing paper” (in Charles Batchelor’s manual), and “Crane’s Bank Folio” paper (in George Bliss’ later manual). Once the stencil was prepared it was placed in the flatbed duplicating press with a blank sheet of paper below. An inked roller was passed over the stencil, leaving an impression of the image on the paper. Edison boasted that over 5,000 copies could be made from one stencil.

The electric pen proved ultimately unsuccessful, other simpler methods (and eventually the typewriter) succeeding it for cutting stencils. But Edison’s duplicating technology was licensed to A.B. Dick, who sold it as “Edison’s Mimeograph” with considerable success. The company is still in business today as an office products and equipment manufacturer.

http://electricpen.org/

All photos come from electricpen.org

Posted by peiper     on 11/09/2009 at 05:20 AM   
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Fort Hood shooting: FBI to investigate reports gunman said non-Muslims should be beheaded

Except for the act itself, almost nothing has sickened me more then seeing this bastard’s photo in our morning paper today, wearing the uniform of the US Army.
When I first heard about this and heard the muzzie name, like all of you I wasn’t much surprised.  And this scum was born in the USA. Doesn’t matter does it? 

Kudos to the lady cop who brought him down of course and NO criticism of her intended. NONE!
But I have to ask those of you who know more about weapons then I do, which is all of you I believe, how was it possible to shoot this bastard four times and not kill him?  Are police in Texas issued pea shooters for sidearms?

Another question.  If these statements are true, and I guess we have to believe they are else where did they come from; what was our internal security doing?  The cops?  Homeland Security?  Someone. Anyone.  If a flag was raised, why was this creep still wearing our uniform and allowed access to our base and access to weapons?

The FBI will investigate a report that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, told colleagues that non-Muslims should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.


By Nick Allen in Fort Hood
Published: 7:30AM GMT 09 Nov 2009
Fort Hood shooting: FBI to investigate reports gunman said non-Muslims should be beheaded
Maj Hasan, armed with two handguns including a semi-automatic pistol, walked into a processing centre for soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he killed 13 and injured more than 30. Photo: GETTY

He is also said to have told other doctors at one of America’s top military hospitals that non-believers were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire.

The comments are said to have come during an hour-long talk Maj Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.

Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given a presentation focusing on an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Maj Hasan appeared to agree with.

It is the latest in a series of “red flags” about Maj Hasan’s state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, America’s largest military installation, on Thursday.

One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.

Another, Dr Val Finnell, who took a course with him in 2007 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, did complain about Hasan’s “anti-American rants.” He said: “The system is not doing what it’s supposed to do. He at least should have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and desist, and to shape up or ship out. I really questioned his loyalty.”

I’m not posting the entire article.  You folks back home are probably being flooded with the story already.
My source for this is the Daily Telegraph. 

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   Sunday - November 08, 2009

Weekend Oldies

Yeah, I know, I promised to do this each week. Sue me!

Here’s my personal favorite Warren Zevon song. Werewolves of London is good, but Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is far better.

I’ve never been sure of this song. Didn’t care when I was young, but now? I’m thinking the Kinks are singing an ode to the transgendered:

But listen and decide for yourself…

Before you mention this Peiper, I did just notice he met her in a club in Soho. Think I’ve answered my own question.

Next up: ABBA. In period dress. Guess this is a tribute to Queen Elizabeth 1.

Lastly, in 2007 I was in the audience in Branson. Jim Stafford did Spiders & Snakes.

A bitter-sweet memory. The Skipper and I were supposed to meet up on my way home. He didn’t answer his phone. 

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Weekend Women Redux

I sent this to peiper, who declined to use it because it’s obviously too hot…

BTW peiper, she has a nice hat also. Don’t you agree?

So, below the fold, Mrs Christopher.

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A Rhetorical question

So, I’m watching The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Now, I know it’s fantasy. But still, you have to have some basis in fact.

Reepicheep is leading the mice. He draws his obviously well-made rapier.

And here I went wrong. I started thinking things like: who forges mouse-sized rapiers in Telmarine-occupied Narnia?

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A Class Act

Former President George Bush and his wife Laura visit Fort Hood, spend hours visiting the wounded. No press coverage wanted. Compare that to the classless pretender’s “Oh, and another thing, there’s been this massacre in Texas” bit glued on to the end of his closing notes talk at some indian conference. Sunnuvabeetch couldn’t even be bothered to finish one talk then go outside to the porta-podium to make a separate delivery. He sure supports the military right down to the bone, don’t he?

Class vs. trashtastic.

No time to post today; here’s the link at Flopping Aces: http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/11/07/george-and-laura-bush-visit-victims-of-fort-hood-shooting-in-private/

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Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out.  A RANT against the lord of darkness

It’s one of those literary like bleak English winters and I love it.  Dark sky, not a hint of blue anywhere and bitterly, bitterly COLD.

Since my first Sunday post earlier today, I have been ensconed in another room with comfortable chairs, three Sunday newspapers and all the magazines that go with them, and an electric fire as the Brits call the floor heater.  So lots to read and lots to ponder and I of course have to break away from that place, and come back to my puter to share things with BMEWS of what I always hope is of some interest.
Like this rant by Jeremy Clarkson on a man named Peter Mandelson.  Someone Americans won’t know or will not heard much of if anything at all.
I am therefore putting some information on this twice resigned under a cloud Labourite (LEFT) individual who has come back into govt., in our extended text.

Oh yes ... just so you people reading this know (Brits already do), Mr. (Lord actually) Mandelson is generally known as .....

THE LORD OF DARKNESS

Having resigned twice under a cloud and losing his seat as an MP, Labour made him a Lord so they could bring him back into the govt.
LyndonB will correct me where I may have it wrong.

So then .... Clarkson is on a serious rant today. He’s really angry.  Here’s an example.

Get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson-skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else. But where?

Now I’m guessing here but those could be a few of the reasons that LyndonB and Chris have left old Blighty for other shores.  There might well be other reason as well, but that’s a good start. 
So then, without further ado .....  Heeeeeeeerrrrrssssss Clarkson.

Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out

Jeremy Clarkson
Sunday Times

I’ve given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I’m afraid I’ve decided that it’s no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I’m afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn’t alive any more.

He announced last week that middle-class children will simply not be allowed into the country’s top universities even if they have 4,000 A-levels, because all the places will be taken by Albanians and guillemots and whatever other stupid bandwagon the conniving idiot has leapt onto in the meantime.

I hate Peter Mandelson. I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans and I hate that preposterous moustache he used to sport in the days when he didn’t bother trying to cover up his left-wing fanaticism. I hate the way he quite literally lords it over us even though he’s resigned in disgrace twice, and now holds an important decision-making job for which he was not elected. Mostly, though, I hate him because his one-man war on the bright and the witty and the successful means that half my friends now seem to be taking leave of their senses.

There’s talk of emigration in the air. It’s everywhere I go. Parties. Work. In the supermarket. My daughter is working herself half to death to get good grades at GSCE and can’t see the point because she won’t be going to university, because she doesn’t have a beak or flippers or a qualification in washing windscreens at the lights. She wonders, often, why we don’t live in America.

Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can’t stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can’t understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then taxed again for driving into the nation’s capital. They can’t understand what happened to the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction. They can’t understand anything. They see the Highway Wombles in those brand new 4x4s that they paid for, and they see the M4 bus lane and they see the speed cameras and the community support officers and they see the Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows and nothing can be done because it’s racist.

And they see Alistair Darling handing over £4,350 of their money to not sort out the banking crisis that he doesn’t understand because he’s a small-town solicitor, and they see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1,000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, “I’ve had enough of this. I’m off.”

It’s a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson-skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else. But where?

You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber.

You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany ... because you just can’t.

The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead.

Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet. So you can dream all you like about upping sticks and moving to a country that doesn’t help itself to half of everything you earn and then spend the money it gets on bus lanes and advertisements about the dangers of salt. But wherever you go you’ll wind up an alcoholic or dead or bored or in a cellar, in an orange jumpsuit, gently wetting yourself on the web. All of these things are worse than being persecuted for eating a sandwich at the wheel.

I see no reason to be miserable. Yes, Britain now is worse than it’s been for decades, but the lunatics who’ve made it so ghastly are on their way out. Soon, they will be back in Hackney with their South African nuclear-free peace polenta. And instead the show will be run by a bloke whose dad has a wallpaper shop and possibly, terrifyingly, a twerp in Belgium whose fruitless game of hunt-the-WMD has netted him £15m on the lecture circuit.

So actually I do see a reason to be miserable. Which is why I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

SUNDAY TIMES

Posted by peiper     on 11/08/2009 at 09:26 AM   
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Police secretly follow mother after hearing her reprimand children.

BMEWS readers, When you were a little kid and maybe acted up or got a bit difficult, did mom ever threaten you with, “Wait till I get you home?” Or, “You’re gonna get it.” And didn’t we always know what “IT” was.  In my home “it” was never an idle or empty threat.

Well, if you live in this part of the world today mom and dad, ya better be careful where and how loud you threaten your offspring. 
It isn’t just the walls that have ears anymore. Oh no.  Off duty but officious cops have ears too.  So look around, look over your shoulder, look behind you because ...............  you will be questioned later.  You WILL be visited by .... The Plod.  (Britspeak for cops, in case you didn’t know that)

A mother who threatened to smack her children while out shopping was secretly followed home by an off duty policeman and was later questioned by officers.


By Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Published: 12:15PM GMT 08 Nov 2009

The 34-year-old woman, who has asked to remain anonymous for the sake of her family, was also warned by social services that she could face further action and that a file on the incident is being kept on record.

Last night, charities criticised the police’s action as “disproportionate” and pointed out that parents in England and Wales are allowed to smack their children.

Friends of the woman, who works in a bookstore and is married to an aeronautics expert, said that she had been left distressed by the ordeal.

Shopping in a supermarket in Woolston, Southampton, the woman’s children, aged 11 and 4, were misbehaving, provoking her to warn them that they would “get a hiding when they got home”.

She claims she did not actually smack them afterwards and says that, while smacking is used as a form of punishment in their home, it is not something she often does.

However, an off duty policemen who had been standing near her in the supermarket followed her on the 15 minute journey home and then reported the incident to Hampshire Police’s child protection team.

It was not until six weeks later that she was visited at her home by two officers and quizzed on how often she smacks her children. The pair also gave her parenting tips. They suggested that she should use a ‘naughty step’ or withdraw treats as a more effective form of punishment.

A month later, she received a letter from Southampton social services saying that her behaviour had raised concerns over the children’s welfare.

Kim Wills, information officer for Southampton council’s Children First department, wrote: “I am writing to inform you that we have received information on 24th September 2009 from Hampshire Police advising of concerns for ------- and ------ regarding an incident on 6th August 2009 where the children were chastised in public.”

The letter stated that Children’s Services would not be taking further action “at this time”, but told her that the information would be kept on record.

A spokesman for the department said that the incident would be held in their files until her children leave school, which could be up to another 13 years.

While it is a crime to smack children so hard it leaves a mark, mild smacking is allowed as “reasonable chastisement”.

Friends of the woman describe her as a good, patient mother, who is loved by her children.

They said she had been upset by the police’s questioning and shocked to learn that she and her children had been followed home.

A spokesman for Hampshire Police defended the action of its officers, arguing that the manner of her reprimand had caused alarm.

“An off-duty officer reported to our child protection team an incident involving a women in Woolston, Southampton who they saw chastising her children.

“It was not an ordinary telling off and because of what the woman said and the way her children reacted to it, it gave our officer reasonable grounds for concern for the children’s welfare and they may be at risk of physical chastisement.”

The spokesman added: “We followed this up as you would expect any police force to do, especially when it comes to the safety of children.

“Officers from the team spoke to the woman later at her home about the concerns and passed the details of the case to social services as is normal practice in such cases. No further action was deemed necessary by us.”

The mother denies that there was anything extraordinary about the way she scolded her children, and said that they were simply upset because they do not like being reprimanded.

A spokesman for Care, a social welfare charity, questioned the need for the police’s action unless there was a clear indication that she was going to beat them.

“One fears that it was a wholly disproportionate response to a threatened smack informed by the destructive and censorious views of those opinion formers who refuse to make a distinction between smacking, which can actually be very helpful, and beating which is a serious crime,” he added.

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Posted by peiper     on 11/08/2009 at 08:29 AM   
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So now it’s come down to this low. Muggers attack two-year-old girl. I’m not even shocked.

So forget surprised.  Yes I think it’s shocking that any low life pile of human garbage would hit a two year old in a robbery attempt.  I’m just not shocked that anyone actually did it.
What ppl can get away with and what ppl do, just doesn’t have a very high surprise factor anymore.

Like so many posts I do, this wasn’t on my radar this morning till I booted to catch the morning paper before it’s been delivered to our door in another hour.
If caught, what are the chances these perps will EVER get the kind of punishment that would deter them from this kind of life?
My solution? Some serious acid scaring on the face so when free the public can be immediately aware of a potential problem coming their way. Some broken hands might be a good idea as well.  Extreme?  Maybe.  But so is street crime.  Trust me.  If caught, these slags won’t suffer whatever they put the victims through.

A two-year-old girl was punched in the head by two teenage girls during an attempted robbery in north-west London.

By Julie Henry
Sunday Telegraph

CCTV of two teenage female muggers who punched a two year old toddler in the head. Photo Pixel

The girl was with her mother when the pair were targeted by two female suspects in Preston Road, Wembley, at about 4.45 pm on Thursday.
They demanded money from the mother before punching her in the arm and attacking her daughter.

The attackers are described as being of Mediterranean appearance and aged between 14 and 18.

“Although the victim and her daughter do not have any visible injuries, this was a frightening experience for them,” said Det Insp Rebecca Reeves, of the Metropolitan Police.

“We have released images in the hope that someone may recognise the suspects and report them to the police.”
One was around 5ft and was wearing a white jacket, black mini-skirt, tiger stripe leggings, black flat shoes and was carrying a large black fake leather bag.
The second wore a black jacket, blue denim “skinny” jeans, black Ugg-style boots and had a large brown fake leather bag with gold details.

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