Sunday - March 14, 2010

“Preorder yours before the Internet finds out”

Don’t even ask me how I stumbled over this one.

Tactical Corsets

You gotta love the *BYOB.

Don’t forget the ‘overbust’ version, which comes in straighline or sweetheart cut.

If any BMEWSettes order one, please be kind and post pictures…

Insinuating that a woman is not as strong as a man will be “unlawful sex discrimination”

Why heck, we’re runnin’ out of bats for this one. Mz Harperson really demands and intends to leave no feelings or even the possibility that there lurks the intent, or the the possibility that by pure accident, a lady may be offended and thereby have her “rights” impinged.  Hey .. read this and tell us if she isn’t off the edge of the flat planet she is living on.  In fact ... NOBODY, men or women will have hurt feelings or more specifically, their ‘umin rights’ abused or brought into question, as Harperson see those rights.

I will not take the time to go through this and post comments line by line. It’s too exhaustive and time consuming. This legislation is full of so much crap I don’t see how it can pass.  But there isn’t any mistake that Happy Deluded Harriet thinks it a neat idea and worthy of becoming the law of the land.
She is for now, the BMEWS Queen of Moonbats.

Note to Drew.  We need to get her face on a bat to use for that purpose. With a little moombat crown maybe.


What, like this??

Thanks to Doc DETH!

Gym staff could be prosecuted for warning a woman not to lift heavy weights under equality legislation being championed by Harriet Harman.

By Melissa Kite, Deputy political editor

Insinuating that a woman is not as strong as a man will be “unlawful sex discrimination”, under the terms of the forthcoming Equality Bill.
A code of practice explaining the legal implications of the Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, states that being a woman is “a protected characteristic”.

The code, drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, explains ways in which women might be unfairly stereotyped and defines behaviours that will in future be seen as discrimination.
It includes a long list of examples of “unintentional less favourable treatment” including what might happen to a woman when she joins a gym and begins lifting weights.

It states: “A general stereotype about men and women is that in terms of physique, most men are stronger than most women. Nevertheless it is likely to be unlawful sex discrimination for a gym to test every woman’s strength but not every man’s before allowing them access to weightlifting facilities.”

The code makes clear that it will not be seen as an excuse if the motive of the gym staff is to help a woman or save her from injury.
“It does not matter what the service provider’s intentions are or whether the service provider’s less favourable treatment of the person is conscious or unconscious.

“The service provider may even think that they are doing the person a favour, or simply be unaware that they are treating the person differently because of a protected characteristic.”

The Bill, championed by Ms Harman, the Equalities Minister, has already courted much controversy and attracted the criticism of the Pope when it proposed that churches would be prosecuted for refusing to employ gay people.

The legislation also provides protection under the law from discrimination for “any religious belief or philosophical belief” and even “a lack of belief”.
Last week it emerged that vegans would be protected, along with members of cults and “new religions” such as Scientology.

Advertisements giving preferential treatment to men or women could also be illegal, meaning the end of “ladies’ nights” at clubs, when women receive cut-price drinks or free entrance but men pay full price.
People for whom abstention from alcohol was a way of life would be given new rights to protect them from discrimination.

The Bill will give more scope too for the prosecution of shopkeepers and club owners who refuse to allow entry to certain types of people.
It says that shopkeepers who refuse entry to black teenagers, for example, after stories in the local press about thefts in the area by black teenagers will be prosecuted for race discrimination.

The Bill also creates a new offence of discrimination by association. The code states that if a nightclub refused entry to three Polish people and an English man, the English man could claim he has suffered racial discrimination by association.

If a boy is refused membership of his local football club and his parents are two lesbian women, he could claim “unlawful direct discrimination by association because of sexual orientation”.

For the source and article in the Telegraph, click on the pix below of the wicked witch of the west. Queen of Moonbats. Happy Harriet Harperson.

   Saturday - March 13, 2010

A link from Vilmar

Obama At The Bat

with apologies to Ernest Thayer










You know, I went to college up in Mudville.

Oh sure, they called it something else. Something all fancy, named after some toff Lord So and So. But where the Susquehanna met the Chenango there was water and dirt. And above them in the sky is the pivot point for nearly every weather system that comes across the northeast. Which means double the usual amount of precip almost always. It’s also the only decent sized bit of flat valley for miles and miles, surrounded by mountains on all sides; it’s uphill in all directions, so all the water came to us.

They told us the official school colors were green and white, but we knew better. The real colors were grey and brown, reflecting the clouds above and the mud below. Freshmen were quickly introduced to an odd variety of high topped footwear called “duck shoes”. And urged to buy a golf-sized windproof umbrella and a stadium length parka, woolly mittens and the biggest Champion sweatshirt they could find. Nobody listened. You know how upperclassmen are, always trying to play a fast one on the noobs. Besides, they’d all been up to campus in the summer, and it was lovely. It was still green and mild in August when their parents dropped them off, and only the slightest hints of early fall were showing a few weeks later at the first school holiday of “Rusha-Home-a”. Even on the bus trip back after that weekend, 200 miles upstate from The City, and you hardly even needed a light jacket.

And then Monday came, and the sunlight went away, the clouds arrived, and the weather began. Every year. And it never stopped.

The first year I was up there we had 11” of snow on October 8th. I have a whole series of pictures of Halloween snowmen. One year, living off campus, when the snow started to melt away in late April, we saw this lump out by the street. What on earth? It turned out to be the Christmas tree we’d put out for pickup in January. It had been buried the whole time. Winter snows were followed by rain. Never ending rain. One year is rained for 44 days in a row. All day, all night, never ending cold hard rain and wind. Six solid weeks.

At some point in April, when the never ending wet, dim, cold started to cause depression and thoughts of suicide, there was the annual campus event called the Stomping Of The Coat. A short festival, and excuse to pass a bottle around outside. Sort of a reverse rain dance, a tantrum against the sky. Enough! We can’t take it any more!! I’ve lived in this damn parka since October and I’m sick of it!! The festival often had to be held indoors because of the weather.

“Spring” was this concept that only existed on the calendars. I’ve seen it snow as late as the 3rd week in June up there. But almost always the snow would melt, and the rains would cease, and the sun would come out and let the grass rush to green up and the flowers rocket out of the ground ... just in time for finals week. So that nobody had a chance to enjoy the brief nice weather. And when the parents came up that 3rd Sunday in May, it was always warm and lovely. Just like that drop-off weekend in August had been. They never believed their kid’s tales; this is a lovely campus and a fabulous climate!

Next fall, those returning for their Sophomore year would try and tell the incoming freshmen what they were in for, and to introduce them to an odd variety of footwear called “duck shoes”. They didn’t listen. They never did.




And we had our Casey, a bit of a local legend. And supposedly one of those farm teams back in the long ago had gone by that famous soggy name. Not officially of course. Likely they were called the Triplets or somesuch.

Local legends? Probably. What the heck, people need something to believe in, and sometimes even cartoon dinosaurs and cavemen on everything isn’t enough. Fun, but not enough.

BC Transit

Gosh, I haven’t had a good pile of halupkies in ages. Or those great pork spiedies that had marinated for days and then got flash burned on the grill.

Spring Forward Tonight

Bah, it’s that time again. Daylight Saving Time starts tonight at 2am. So when you get up tomorrow at 8, it will actually be 9. You have been reminded.

European countries don’t make the shift until the end of March, and Arizona and Hawaii don’t even bother. And if you’re in Kyrgyzstan you don’t bother because your country runs on DST all year long anyway. Borat of pride for little brother-stan! Who is turn it is to wear the national wristwatch this month?

And she can skate too! A nice picture of Sasha Cohen to get your attention.
Because you don’t want to see a picture of Sacha Cohen

Brawl erupts at sentencing of mom who gave gun to son.

H/T American Renaissance and Fred on Everything

To fully appreciate the article, I’d like to point you to Fred ..http://fredoneverything.net/AmRenDetroit.shtml .. who has a link to AmRen.

There isn’t much I can think to say that’s very original or enlightening. It’s also past midnight and as a rule, I’m not up this late. In fact, I think I’m falling asleep here. So I leave you with this unsettling story.  No doubt mommy dearest here thought the rap could be beat (it still could, couldn’t it) and was very upset as she thought these silly laws only applied to certain other people. You know.  The new future minority.

Brawl erupts at sentencing of mom who gave gun to son

Joe Swickard, Detroit Free Press, March

A murderer and her supporters battled in a Detroit courtroom this morning as she was ordered to serve more than 22 years in prison for giving her teenage son a gun that he used to kill another teen at a recreation center.

Tarranisha Davis “basically just went ballistic,” said Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Ryan who presided over her trial with her son and co-defendant Tremain.

The woman “was punching yelling and screaming” as court security officers and Detroit policemen who were in the courtroom tried to control her, Ryan said.

“Then these other people jumped over the railing and start fighting, too,” Ryan said. “It spilled into the hallway.”

Other security officers rushed to the fifth floor of the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice.

The brawl ended with four people in custody – facing potential contempt and assault charges – and with a Wayne County Sheriff’s lieutenant and a deputy slightly injured.

Ryan said there have been other incidents “but absolutely nothing like this before.”

The uproar came as Ryan ordered Tarranisha Davis to serve 221/2 –to-40 years for second degree murder and an additional two years for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Her son Tremaine, 15, was ordered to serve 10-to-25 years for second degree murder plus another two years for use of a firearm. He will be in a juvenile facility until he is 21.

“I gave him that sentence because he has been respectful and remorseful since Day-One,” Ryan said. “His mother, though, has shown no remorse at all.”

The mother and son were charged in the fatal shooting of Dmitri Jackson, 19, at the Considine Little Rock Family Center in October.

Authorities charge that Tarranisha Davis supplied a gun to her son, who had fought with another youth but killed Jackson by shooting in a crowd of teenagers at the center.

Witnesses said the mother drove to the center and unlatched the hood of her van so her son could get a revolver.

AmRen Source

Conservative lead over Labour falls to two year low. Question is, whose picking up the lost points?

Heaven help England if this gets worse.  I say heaven cos that’d be their only hope.

Proves not that the ppl are all that left wing but that they haven’t the faith in the Tories either. But at least there might be some hope of better things if the union loving, left wing, overly socialist, politically correct jerks in office now could be tossed out.  I just can bring myself to believe that the people of this country want another term in office of the group that has brought this country so low.

Not good news.

Conservative lead over Labour falls to two year low

David Cameron suffers a fresh blow today with a new opinion poll showing the Conservative lead over Labour falling to a two-year low and suggesting the party will fall well short of winning an outright majority at the general election.

By Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite

The Conservatives (38 per cent) are seven points ahead of Labour (31 per cent) in the ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph, down from a lead of nine points last month. The Liberal Democrats are up one point to 21 per cent.

Repeated at the election, widely expected on 6 May, and with a uniform national swing, the Tories would be the largest party in the House of Commons but still 30 seats short of an overall majority.

The seven-point Conservative lead equals the narrowest advantage in any ICM poll for the last two years.

Mr Cameron is still trusted by voters more than Gordon Brown on three key issues - the economy, education and the NHS - but again his lead has narrowed.

The poll findings follow two jittery months in which the Tories have struggled to set the agenda and have been hit by a series of setbacks, including revelations this month over the “non dom” tax status of Lord Ashcroft, the deputy chairman of the party.

At its height, the Tory lead over Labour was 20 points.

SOURCE

An age when it was taken for granted that, England could accomplish anything. And did so.

This is really some awesome stuff.  Gives one some idea of what put the great in Britain in those bygone days. This was one heck of an achievement. And all done without computers and the kind of things that might have made the construction safer and faster. Good gosh, think of it.
NO HEALTH AND SAFETY.  First the need and the imagination and then the engineering skill and genius of the Brunels. 

Of course .. all this was done in an age when the mere suggestion that England be given away to foreigners might have brought on a challenge to a duel. And quite right too.

Open to the public for the first time in 145 years, Brunel and son’s ‘eighth wonder of the world’ under the Thames

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:50 PM on 13th March 2010

The public is to get its first chance in 145 years to see the Brunel tunnel under the Thames that was hailed as an eighth wonder of the world and a triumph of Victorian engineering.

An underground work walks along the tunnel, which was originally designed to take horse-drawn carriages

The tunnel is open today and a Fancy Fair originally held in 1852 below the river is being recreated at the nearby Brunel Museum.

It was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son, Isambard, and was the first known to have been built beneath a navigable river.

The tunnel, which runs from Wapping to Rotherhithe at a depth of 75ft below the river’s surface, quickly became a thriving shopping arcade and entertainment centre.

It was illuminated by lights along its 1,300ft length and by the end of the first week of its opening, half the population of the capital were said to have paid to walk ‘the shining avenue of light to Wapping’. Queen Victoria was among the millions who walked its length.

The tunnel, ‘a shining avenue of light to Wapping’, became a thriving shopping arcade and entertainment centre

In 1869, it was closed to the public and converted into a railway tunnel for the East London underground line up until 2007.

Extension work will result in the tunnel becoming part of the new London Overground and it will once again be used by mainline trains.

The two-day opening is taking place at the conclusion of the Mayor of London’s East festival celebrating east London.

Brunel Museum director Robert Hulse says the tunnel was ‘not just the birthplace of the Tube system, it is the site of a Victorian rave’.

The Brunel Museum tours will take in the grand entrance hall and the 1867 arch at the Rotherhithe entrance. It is now an International Landmark Site, one of six in Britain, but is usually closed to the public.

The tunnel was originally designed for, but never used by, horse-drawn carriages and was required because of the demand for a land connection between the north and south banks of the Thames to cater for the capital’s expanding docks.

There had been a number of failed attempts before Marc Isambard Brunel took on the project in 1825 with his newly invented tunnelling ‘shield’ technology.

The tunnelling shield was revolutionary because of its support for the unlined ground in front and around, which reduced the risk of collapses.

However, many workers, including Brunel, became ill because of the filthy water seeping through from the river above.

The sewage from the river gave off methane gas which was ignited by the miner’s oil lamps, causing fires underground.

When the resident engineer William Armstrong fell ill in April 1826 from working underground Marc’s son Isambard Kingdom Brunel took over at the age of 20.

Work progressed at only 8–12 feet a week and the company directors decided to allowed sightseers to view the shield in operation to earn some extra cash for the project.

Charging one shilling, up to 800 visitors came every day to see the Victoria marvel.

But the project was hindered by a number of setbacks.

The tunnel flooded suddenly on 18 May 1827 after only 549 feet had been dug. Isambard Kingdom Brunel had to lower a diving bell from a boat to repair the hole at the bottom of the river, throwing bags filled with clay into the breach in the tunnel’s roof.

Following the repairs and the drainage of the tunnel, he held a banquet inside it. The tunnel flooded again the following year, on 12 January 1828, when six men died and Isambard himself narrowly escaped drowning.

Isambard was sent to Clifton in Bristol to recover and it was while there he heard about the competition to build what became the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Financial problems followed, leading to the tunnel being walled off in August 1828. The project was abandoned for seven years, until Marc Brunel succeeded in raising sufficient money, including a loan of £247,000 from the Treasury, to continue construction.

There were further floods, methane leaks and fires before the tunnelling was finally completed in 1841 and opened to the public, once lighting roadways and spiral staircases had been installed, on March 25 1843.

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The Brunels, father and son.

The son went on to even greater fame. His is a fascinating story.

The crinamol system hard at work doing wrong again.  All is normal …

Well here we are again. Ain’t this fun?

This has to be happening in the USA as well. No? Yes? I’d have thought after the last time this might not have happened so soon. And this guy didn’t even beat anyone up.  He foiled a robbery of his place. He gets arrested. 

I didn’t post the whole article but it is a MUST read. Stupid never ends.

Curry house owner foils burglary… and then HE’S thrown in cell when yobs complain

By Tom Kelly
Last updated at 2:19 AM on 13th March 2010

When a restaurant owner found two teenage yobs raiding his beer cellar, he chased them and held them while his staff dialled 999.

Sal Miah assumed police would commend him for catching the young criminals.

But when officers arrived, they arrested 35-year-old Mr Miah on suspicion of assault and battery.

‘The system is a joke. How can a man who tries to prevent a crime in progress end up being the criminal?

‘People are living in fear of these kind of yobs but when you do take a stand and try and defend your home or your business you end up in trouble.

more here Lots more ... 

SOPHIA LOREN AT SEVENTY FIVE …. NOT TOO SHABBY

Can’t resist. The age shows in her hands of course, but she still looks the star. So I thought I’d share.

How to smoulder when you’re older, by Sophia Loren, 75

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:07 AM on 11th March 2010

As a wise old lady once said: A woman’s outfit should be like a barbed-wire fence - serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

That lady was Sophia Loren. And judging by her daring outfit, it appears she is still using it as her dress code.

At 75, it seems Miss Loren has decided a woman of a certain age has no need to be demure.

MORE HERE

WEEKEND WOMAN …. MISS ENGLAND 2009, Lance Corporal KATRINA HODGE

I ran across this thing which then led to something else related to it which in turn opened another can of worms.  I’ll get to that in a moment. But first …..

So it’s no longer a beauty contest ... fine.  I guess guys (and some girls?) who’d prefer macho-women will be happy.  Especially happy will prolly be those amazons who can excel in sports but won’t even look in the mirror for fear of what they might see.

okok. I’m over the top as usual. I don’t even know why I’m bitching since I never watched those things anyway because the speeches were so phony and embarrassing. Oh, I am so overwhelmed and happy to note that now they have an ‘eco’ thing as part of this. Oh joy. That’s what a beauty contest is supposed to be all about.  Groan.

And to think this really started due to an article on Karl Rove defending America’s position on other things not related to this.  I’ll get to that later as well.

Miss England swimsuit round given marching orders by 2009’s winner soldier Katrina Hodge

The swimsuit round of the Miss England competition has been given its marching orders after 50 years at the encouragement of last year’s winner, soldier Katrina Hodge.

As the face of underwear firm La Senza, she is no stranger to posing scantily clad but said she did not think the swimsuit round was fair to contestants.

“Every year the girls take part in the various rounds of Miss England – we have a talent, charity, eco and now the sports round, which will replace the swimwear in the competition,” she said.

BEAUTY QUEEN SOURCE

So now that’s out of the way, here’s our pretty Army, Lance Corporal and .... by default ...

MISS ENGLAND 2009

KATRINA HODGE who disarmed a terrorist in Iraq, BARE-HANDED!

OK now here’s a departure from what I do on weekends and I just feel compelled to bring it up. Sorry guys but ...

The pretty Miss Hodge (who I’d be happy to surrender to with no fight at all) became Miss England by default.  Why?  Glad you asked.
She was originally a runner up.  It is my personal opinion that Race and Political Correctness was the reason she didn’t win to begin with. That’s how I see it and as proof I offer you this in evidence.  What say you? 

The original Miss England winner, Rachel Christie, 21, is a heptathlete and the niece of Olympic sprinter Linford Christie.

She is alleged to have hit fellow beauty queen Sara Jones at a Manchester nightclub during a row over a boyfriend. Rachel, who is hoping to compete in the 2012 Olympics, was arrested on suspicion of assault and released on bail.

There is NO WAY on earth that the winner outshines Kate Hodge, an English Rose if ever I saw one. Not saying she is ugly but come on. Anyway, to show her class and how well she deserved the crown if it had any worth, she ends up in a pub brawl. Lord knows, too many Brit girls are doing that these days and it’s a damn shame.

Until next week ....

That’s All Folks

‘I’m proud of using waterboarding to break terrorists,’ says Karl Rove

I missed taking my blood pressure meds this morning. Everything has me PO’d. I wanted to start and end today with my usual wkend ladies when I ran across a couple of things that had me seeing my usual color (RED) which isn’t even my favorite color.  I am so damn tired of reading and hearing about how my country has it wrong and how we have become barbaric all because of water boarding and Gitmo etc. Then one columnist wrote about how maybe the Brit’s American cousins aren’t really that after all.  Hey fuckin hey.  I have very close friends among Brits and ain’t one of em a cousin. I’m tired of that phrase too. What god damn cousin?  Who made us that? Did we ever ask to be your cousins? If so, I’m not aware of it. Oh and btw freeken way I HATE one professional liberal phony cousin I haven’t seen since a funeral 30 yrs ago. I wouldn’t know the other three if I fell over em.

Below are two comments posted with regard to the Rove article that started things this morning. Naturally enough I side with Mr. Rove. I have no problem with whatever our people had to do, to get information from terrorist scum.  It pisses me off greatly that our critics simply take for granted that we are in the wrong.
It’s done without question.  It’s automatic we’re all Nazi killers who enjoy our work and all for oil or heaven knows what the hell else.
A jackass named Peter Oborne (?whoever the hell he is?) yesterday wrote about our ‘special relationship’ being broken yadda,yadda. He went on to term the USA as “immoral” while all those empty headed lefty umin rights jerks went on about torture as well.

Why is the way in which we defend our country the business of anyone outside our country anyway?  And how can they be certain that the information gathered won’t save their lives as well?  In his column Oborne says, For years I’ve been a passionate admirer of the U.S. But recent events force me to ask: is it time to ditch our strongest ally? Here’s some more.

For evidence is growing that the U.S. can no longer be regarded as a loyal or trustworthy friend of Britain.

Even more worryingly, it’s no longer clear that Barack Obama’s administration represents the decent and humane values of which Britain has long been so proud.

As a result, standing by the traditional transatlantic alliance is beginning to be damaging to our reputation overseas and to our national interest.

For example, consider the appalling revelations contained in this week’s speech to the House of Lords by the former MI5 spy chief Elizabeth Manningham-Buller.

Dame Elizabeth shockingly disclosed that U.S. officials had deceived Britain over their use of torture following their capture of the Al Qaeda commander Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003.

She said that when she asked why he was talking so freely to his captors, she was cynically told he was boasting because he was proud of what he’d done.

So that gives you some background on the column he wrote. You get the drift.  And the grand dame Liz was shocked about our treatment of one of the masterminds of 9/11. Well fuck her and I’m sorry nobody in her family or Obornes was in either of those towers.  And I am sick and fuckin tired of our country having demands made upon it, that we live UP to whatever standards some other country finds favor with.  Demands we alter how we do things in our country to fall in line with how things are done elsewhere.  Hey Mr. Assborne, when were you elected to office in my country? Fuck off!  Don’t visit. We don’t need you or your opinions.  And Dame Lizzy can go back to her kitchen and do other things.

These comments below were made following the article on Karl Rove. We do have our defenders but alas the feeling I have is that they are not in a majority.

Pity that the American goverment didn’t back up the British Army in its fight against Republican terrorists, instead we were forced by American pressure into accepting these terrorists into government.

I don’t trust these internationalist neo-cons one iota, men like Karl Rove care nothing about the British national interest, all he cares about, is forwarding the dollar empire, the New World Order of global capitalism and anarchic social agendas both of which destroy Nation States.
- Stephen Glover, Manchester, 12/3/2010 14:58

Now there is a man with guts and determination, not like our own lot, whimps. These terrorists have no consciences, they just kill for the sake of it and love it. Even so, they are cunning enough to use the human rights shield of protection, and the stupid human rights bigots are fooled by it too. The victims of murder and disablement have nobody to protect them like these terrorists do. Now will somebody tell us who is sane or insane in all of this. Treat the terrorists in the same way they treat their victims, an eye for an eye simple, Well done that man..
- DANNYBOY, LINCOLN UK FOR NOW, 12/3/2010 14:51

‘I’m proud of using waterboarding to break terrorists,’ declares Bush’s top political adviser
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

George W Bush’s top political adviser has said he was ‘proud’ of controversial techniques such as waterboarding, which he claimed broke the will of terrorist.

Karl Rove - known as the former president’s ‘brain’ - said he did not believe that the interrogation method amounted to torture.

In an interview with the BBC, he claimed that waterboarding - which simulates drowning - had helped prevent terrorist attacks.

‘I’m proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots,’ he said. 

‘I am proud that we kept the world safer than it was by the use of these techniques. They are appropriate, they are in conformity with our international requirements and with US law.’

Asked if he believed waterboarding was torture, he said: ‘No, it’s not. People need to read the memos that outline what was permissible and not permissible before they make a judgement about these things.’

‘Every one of the people who were waterboarded had a doctor who had to ascertain that there had been no long-lasting physical or mental damage to the individual,’ he said.

The senior Republican aide and Bush’s deputy chief of staff said in the Newsnight interview that subjects had told they would not drown before they underwent the procedure.

He insisted terror plots had been prevented by the tough interrogation, citing flying planes into Heathrow and London, bringing down aircraft over the Pacific and flying an aircraft into the tallest tower in Los Angeles.

The rest of the article is here at the SOURCE

   Friday - March 12, 2010

Airsoft Update: A Post For B3

If the parts don’t fit, you must acquit!


Consider this the final update to my original post on the subject. I would have called this story over and done with nearly a week ago, but the pro-gun side of the internet leads the rest of the digital world by several days on these kind of stories, and the digital world leads the MSM by an equal or even greater amount. So like a bad penny, this one keeps turning up. Let’s put it to sleep forever then, if we can.


Note: To be fair to reader B3 he did come around to agree that the current toy gun receiver under question was sufficiently different from a real one that a functional weapon could be based on it. But he didn’t have one of the original versions of the toy gun receiver and had to posit that the design could have changed. Has it? I don’t know. Were the seized toys of that “original” design? I don’t know. I do know that design changes take some time to put in place, especially when your manufacturer is overseas.

Quoth B3:

So this post is for B3, but NOT to bring him to task. No way; he did the RIGHT thing passing along what he’d heard, and he’s the man on the inside of the Airsoft game world. But for those other folks out there - that means YOU BATFE - here is the email chain I’ve had going with the Airsplat company and pics of their attempts to make one of the WE M4 toy gun receivers mate up with real AR-15 gun parts. It doesn’t work.

Gosh, but what about modifying them, wouldn’t that do it? Looks like a big NO to me. There isn’t enough metal on the toy receiver to re-drill the holes without leaving a mess. You’d have to weld on or glue on extra plates on the outside, which would then force you to build your own longer pins. And moving the pins, especially the rear one, could cause all sorts of interference internally. The magazine catch isn’t right either, nor do the internal areas line up for use with the real gun’s internal parts. You’d have to do a tremendous amount of very careful fabrication - casting, welding, machining - just to make that happen. And in the end you MIGHT get things to function - you might NOT is more likely - but the toy gun’s metal is of such low quality - compared to a real firearm!! - that it would likely break.

And that is the big rub about this whole story. The toy gun parts look like the real ones, but they aren’t usable for actual firearms. And it would take tremendous amounts of work by a fully equipped precision machinist to make the necessary modifications, if that is even possible. (and one willing to knowingly skirt the law!) And after all that, on the slight chance you could do all that, you’d still have a dangerously weak receiver. So BATFE’s claim that the toy parts can be “easily modified” for fully automatic fire seems to be rather false. Nearly the same amount of work would be required to mill a real one out of proper bar stock in the first place. So why bother?

Now, let’s lay this one to rest. The modification can’t be done easily. It can’t be done safely. It probably can’t be done at all, even by a skilled professional. These things are toys, not actual firearms parts.

And a big thanks to Airsplat for giving it the old college try, and then some. I edited the emails down to the core concepts, thus the [snip][snip][snip] stuff.

From: Drew458
To: airsplat.com
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure

Dear AirSplat

News item: ATF seizes shipment of Airsoft toy guns imported from Taiwan , says they can be easily converted to fully automatic lethal weapons.
[snip]
This claim by the ATF seems preposterous, but if your toys are made from parts that are fundamentally identical then they may have a valid point. Even if only AR15 parts can be fit to it, devices like the Lightning Link can be used to allow full-auto fire.

Just how close to real life are your parts?

From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 10:00 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure

Drew,

It’s great to hear from you about this. We’ve actually been following this for quite some time now. And seen many of the articles and blogs posting about it.
[snip]
We did catch word of the possible usage of it being so realistic that it could be modified to fire real bullets. One version we heard was that a real steal upper could be used with this lower. So, just out of curiosity, several personnel here brought in several of their AR’s to work to test with.
[snip]
Synopsis: It doesn’t work.

From: Drew458
To: airsplat
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure

Again, my thanks for your great response. I posted your letter and gave you kudos for your research and good business decisions. Unfortunately I have a reader who says it can be done with the one particular model of receiver. [snip]

From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010, 6:19 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure

Drew,

I have to say, I’m surprised to hear someone saying they are so confident it’s possible. [snip] Fair enough, [snip] we will take it upon ourselves to do so, just to prove a point or just to humor everyone.

I’ll have one of the techs pull out the sample and some people to bring in their guns and we’ll take some pictures for you. Keep you posted!

From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010, 1:44 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure

Drew,

Here are the images.

In general, you’ll notice many parts including upper and lower all seem very close to the naked eye. But on closer examination you’ll see the lower is 1/8” shorter, the upper doesn’t even fit on the lower, the pins are different sizes, lots of minor changes that are really noticeable, but when put side by side, become blatantly obvious.

Hope this helps. Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.

AirSplat.com

More pics below the fold if you still aren’t convinced yet.

ARCHEOLOGY and WOW what a find.  Viking heads …..

No comment for me to make that I haven’t made before.  Am always wowed by this kind of thing.

Archaeologists uncover headless corpses of 51 Vikings executed by Saxons in Dorset killing field

By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 2:55 PM on 12th March 2010

They knelt and cowered together - a once proud and fearless band of raiders stripped and humiliated by their Saxon captors.

One by one, their executioners stepped forward, uttered a prayer and brought their axes and swords crashing down on the necks of the Viking prisoners.

The axes fell until the roadside was sticky with blood from the decapitated corpses of the 51 men, most barely in their twenties.

Soon the excited crowd joined in, spearing a couple of heads on stakes, placing the rest in a neat pile and tossing the bodies into a ditch.

For more than 1,000 years this bloody roadside act was forgotten, one of many atrocities in the long and violent struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse invaders.

Now, thanks to an extraordinary piece of luck - and detective work - the massacre has been uncovered by archaeologists in a discovery that sheds fascinating new light on life in Viking Britain.

The 51 beheaded skeletons were discovered last summer near Weymouth, Dorset, during excavations for a relief road.

Over the following two months, Oxford Archaeology removed the skulls which had been placed together in one part of a pit, and the bodies which had been thrown roughly into a heap a few feet away.

A chemical analysis of teeth from ten of the men showed they grew up in countries where the climate is far colder than Britain - with one individual thought to have come from within the Arctic Circle.

Carbon dating showed they were buried between 910 and 1030AD, a time when England was being unified under Saxon kings and when Vikings from Denmark had begun a second wave of raids on the South Coast.

Oxford Archaeology project manager David Score said: ‘To find out that the young men executed were Vikings is a thrilling development.

‘Any mass grave is a relatively rare find, but to find one on this scale, from this period of history, is extremely unusual.’

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No, it’s not wkend women or even eye candy. Am posting this due to some confusion. Take a look.

Somethin’ ain’t quite right here although she is darn pretty. This photo appeared in the hard copy of the morning paper along with this story.

SOURCE

Malaysian Prince wins £1.2 million defamation suit against wife
A Malaysian prince was awarded 6 million ringgit (£1.2 million) in damages in a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after fleeing home to Indonesia.

Miss Pinot and her mother told Indonesian media that the Prince, 32, held her captive and treated her as a sex slave. She also made graphic allegations of physical torture during their marriage.

The Prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Miss Pinot and her mother, both of whom refused to testify in the hearings.

But that is not the photo they ran in the on line version .... they ran this.  Now then.  Is this the girl above?  The mouth is different and so is the nose. Even allowing for weight gain, which of the 2 pix are more recent.  But since the top photo is so damn pretty, who really cares?

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