Thursday - November 18, 2010
Good night
4 hours prep work last night, moving furniture and spackling, followed by 12 hours painting today. Very tired now.
Ok, more like 9 hours of cleaning, sanding, priming, and painting, then the rest of the time pulling off tape and putting the rooms back together and assorted cleaning up. Hell, I even fixed their vacuum cleaner for them. Then used it.
Damn people, save yourself some money. If you hire a painter, at least move the furniture first yourself. And then clean the damn walls. At least dust them. Because I work by the hour and you pay me the same no matter what I’m doing.
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Permalink • SOME THURS. EYE CANDY
THIS THE END FOR TODAY FOLKS BUT STAY TUNED ....
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Permalink • Relics from Richard II’s tomb found in National Portrait Gallery
History,history. This place keeps giving up it’s past. Thought I’d share this too.
Relics from the tomb of Richard II have been unearthed by an archivist in unopened boxes at the National Portrait Gallery.
By Heidi Blake
Fragments of wood, leather and fabric from the coffin of the medieval English king, who died in 1400, were found in a cigarette box, along with sketches of the king’s skull and bones.
The relics were discovered by an archivist cataloguing the papers of the gallery’s first director, Sir George Scharf, who died in 1895.They were found among the hundreds of diaries and notebooks left behind by Sir George in unopened boxes, and were identified by cross-referencing the date on the cigarette box with diary entries and sketches made on the same day - August 31, 1871.
Records show that Sir George was present when the Richard II’s grave was exhumed at Westminster Abbey.He frequently attended exhumations and also witnessed the opening of the graves of Richard II, Edward VI, Henry VII, James I and Elizabeth of York.
His sketches of the king’s skull and bones are so faithfully drawn that archivists believe they could be used to reconstruct the king’s appearance.
A piece of leather found in the box corresponds closely with a sketch by Sir George of a glove contained in the coffin.
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Permalink • ancient manuscript expected to fetch up to two million at auction
What greatly surprises me is the price. 14th century and the subject matter? If I had that kind of pocket money I’d bid till I owned it. Then give it to the British Museum, I swear I would. It belongs here, nowhere else. Gosh I would love to actually see this and maybe even hold it. Now this is treasure. See the link for more and bigger pix.
Amazing that they could put this together. No electricity, no computers, no photoshop.
The Holy Grail of manuscripts: 14th century King Arthur text to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
By Daily Mail Reporter
A 14th century manuscript containing what is believed to be the oldest surviving account of the legends of King Arthur is to be sold for up to £2 million, it was announced today.
The Rochefoucauld Grail, a colourful, illustrated account of the knights of the round table is said to be one of the finest medieval texts in private hands.
It is due to be sold by auction house Sotheby’s in London for a price estimated between £1.5 million and £2 million.
Blood and guts: This picture from the manuscript shows King Arthur fighting the Saxons.
More than 200 cows would have been needed to produce the vellum sheets for the three hefty volumes of the manuscript, which contains 107 finely painted illustrations.
It was written in Flanders or Artois some time between 1315 and 1323 and probably produced for Guy VII, Baron de Rochefoucauld, head of one of the leading aristocratic families of medieval France.
The manuscript went on to be acquired by 19th century collector Sir Thomas Phillipps and has changed hands twice since.
Lady in the lake: The image on the left depicts the lady with Sir Lancelot as a baby, while the image on the right shows the intricate details are not left just to the illustrations
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Permalink • moonbat of the year? I give up. Things just keep getting so pc they all win top prize.
So I guess now I join the pc brigade awarding all of em the top prize for moonbattery , thus leaving no one a loser. Which of course isn’t planned. Just works out that way. I keep reading things in the papers that stagger the imagination, the Brits would say “Barking Mad” and they’d be correct.
Like this story in the morning paper for example.
Do you remember your school days when asked a question and we all threw up our hands if we thought we knew the answer? Well, apparently it’s been discovered that the kids who don’t raise their hands cos they just don’t know (or maybe are shy?) might feel left out of things.
So how do you address that problem? Oh. You never knew it was a problem? Well, it just became one.
School bans children from putting their hands up
A school is to ban pupils from putting up their hands when they know an answer in class – because it “alienates” less intelligent children.
11:14AM GMT 17 Nov 2010
Children at Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, will now have to wait to be asked questions in class, rather than putting themselves forward.
The radical new plans come after teachers at the school worked alongside teaching guru Professor Dylan Wiliam – who claims that asking children to put their hands up alienates other pupils.
Teachers will now be picking pupils at random to answer questions – to stop brighter and more outgoing children from answering too many questions.
Lynne Jones, assistant principal of the school said: “It means there’s no hiding place for children in a lesson, there’s no opt out.”
Teachers at the school will also stop grading pupils’ work as part of the radical new teaching methods.
Professor Wiliam, from London’s Institute of Education, has even advised teachers to write comments about pupils’ work on separate pieces of paper – and make them guess which comment is meant for their work.
Professor Wiliam claims that if work is graded, pupils don’t bother reading the comments left by teachers – and has instructed teachers to stop giving pupils an overall mark on every piece of work – instead grading them for effort every six weeks.
He said: “Teachers could write the comments on strips of paper instead of on the essays. They could then get a group of pupils to match up the comments to their essays.
School head teacher, Mark Stanyer, said: “What we are trying to achieve is to get pupils to think for themselves.”
I suppose the grading thing they speak of here might be okay but the hands thing is silly. If the same kids keep trying to answer questions, doesn’t a teacher always have the option to call on any kid he or she wants to?
The wife has an observation re. liberalism in schools. I hadn’t given it a lot of thought but she wonders if anyone hasn’t clued into the fact that as schools get more and more liberal, anti social behavior increases. I think she has a valid point there.
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Permalink • BIKINI CLAD CHEERLEADERS DISTRACT PLAYERS WHO LOSE. IT’S BUSH’S FAULT.
Not how I planned to start the posting day but who could resist this. Never mind babes in bikinis, it’s funny.
Cheerleaders blamed for Yemen beach volleyball defeatBikini-clad cheerleaders have been blamed by the Yemen beach volleyball team for their defeat during the Asian Games.
By Our Foreign Staff
Organisers of the games in China have hired four cheerleader squads, each made up of eight girls, to entertain fans during breaks in the volleyball action, according to the Tianfu Morning News.
But Yemen beach volleyballer Adeeb Mahfoudh has now accused the squads of being distracting, and partly to blame for their defeat to Indonesia.
“They had an effect on how we played,” he said. “I think they had something to do with our losing the match.
Besides cheering, the girls also perform routines that include traditional Chinese elements including martial arts and fan dancing.
“These girls are very beautiful. With them here, more people will pay attention to beach volleyball,” Mr Mahfoudh added.
“If I can, I hope to watch them perform at the next match.”
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Permalink • Wednesday - November 17, 2010
HISTORIAN AND MR. EGO BLAMES BUSH AGAIN,AGAIN,AGAIN,AGAIN.BAD BUSH, NAUGHTY USA …
And this bit of Bush bad mouthing is from a conservative. I’ve read one or two of his history books but think I need to question a bit more his conclusions. He makes statements here I know aren’t spot on. For example, he says “It is probably no coincidence that Nazi Germany employed the most brutal security methods of any nation in the Second World War, yet had the worst intelligence about its enemies.”
Yeah but not because they used torture. The Russians sure as heck were their equal if not their betters when it came to torture. As it happens, I’ve just finished a book called “Stalin’s Follies” and what an eye opener that was. Anyway, German intel mostly failed for other reasons and the Soviets had em beat at that too.
Bottom line ... according to this loony tune, as usual, it’s all due to Bush. It’s ALL his fault.
Sometimes I just have to post things like this. Not saying our people haven’t made mistakes or wrong footed something. But I question things like this.
In this war, the West is supposed to stand for democracy, freedom and truth. But Guantanamo has become a global byword for repression and cruelty, conducted in the name of the U.S. and its allies.
Bullshit Mr. Hastings. It’s being fought to keep the scummy bastards at arms distance. I don’t buy the democracy and freedom thing as regards the ragheads who pray with their ass in the air and brainwash their women to accept subservience as normal. Talk till you’re blue in the face, those folks have no use for and wouldn’t know what to do with truth and freedom and democracy. And you only have to read the signs they happily hold before the cameras in your own streets when they protest democracy and freedom. The only freedom they approve of is theirs. And the freedom they want is the freedom to bury the west.
And they eventually will do just that as long as there are folks like you who should know better, who give them the moral support they need by bad mouthing our own side so publicly. Putz! With regard to all the money that will be given away to the terrorist scum. That’s what happens in both our countries when you allow civil rights lawyers to run things.
COMMENTARY: MAX HASTINGSThis is the price of Blair’s slavish backing for Bush
Many people in this country will be very angry – and rightly so – that ‘British’ former inmates of Guantanamo Bay detention centre are to receive compensation from the taxpayer of up to £1million each.
The beneficiaries are people who may have legal title to British citizenship, but have shown themselves at least sympathetic to Al Qaeda, and bitterly hostile to the West.
Binyam Mohamed, for example, was arrested in Pakistan eight years ago on suspicion of planning a ‘dirty bomb’. Omar Deghayes, 38, was born in Libya, moved to Britain as a child but preferred to live in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
Even if there was insufficient proof of their participation in terrorism to secure court convictions, most of those who were released to Britain from American custody regard themselves as foes of this country. Now they are about to get rich out of us.
This is an ugly story, which once again seems to highlight the weakness of the West, reveals the exploitation of human rights law which makes us a soft touch and involves huge waste of public money.
However our government had little choice save to approve this out-of-court settlement. It was advised that, if these men’s cases went to full hearings, the legal costs would be enormous, sensitive intelligence would be made public and, in any case, the Government was bound to lose.
All litigation involving Guantanamo detainees is fatally compromised by the fact that some, if not all, are now acknowledged to have been subjected to torture. Britain’s intelligence services at the very least knew how they were being treated.
Some victims allege that Secret Intelligence Service or MI5 officers were present at their interrogations. Crucially, the Bush administration has been exposed as having lied systematically about its maltreatment of prisoners while being aware it was taking place.
Indeed, an American security expert says: ‘What happened at Guantanamo is a case study in everything that was wrong with the Bush administration.’
After 9/11, when Washington’s neo-conservatives declared their misnamed ‘war on terror’, Bush and his cohorts decided that extraordinary times demanded extraordinary measures. There followed a bonfire of legal safeguards against the mistreatment of suspected terrorists.
Washington sought somewhere to hold out of reach of federal jurisdiction. The American-owned Pacific islands of Wake and Guam – and even the possibility of an aircraftcarrier at sea – were all considered.
Claims: Inmates of Guantanamo allege that extreme torture technique, including waterboarding, are usedClaims: Inmates of Guantanamo allege that extreme torture technique, including waterboarding, are used
But in Guantanamo Bay, with its unique legal status as a U.S. base leased from Cuba, the CIA could use extreme interrogation techniques (including waterboarding) to force the prisoners to confess their ‘crimes’.
In his memoirs published last week, former president Bush claims that as a result of these controversial interrogation techniques, vital information was obtained from the prisoners which meant that lives were saved in Britain and America.
However, I know no one in security circles on either side of the Atlantic who believes this. For although torture sometimes persuades hard men to talk, it seldom induces them to tell the truth. It is probably no coincidence that Nazi Germany employed the most brutal security methods of any nation in the Second World War, yet had the worst intelligence about its enemies.
Here’s what some readers have to say.
We dare not speak otherwise the Thought Police will be kick our doors in. They don’t seem to very successful with real TERRORISTS, DO THEY?
- Notyetavet, Blackpool, 17/11/2010 09:55Pandering and appeasement; is what I call it.
- Mark Rosmar, Romford, Essex, 17/11/2010 07:30Couldnt have put it better...I would have added gutless as well
- Eddie, Southampton, 17/11/2010 09:55
What a shabby useless heap of garbage we have governing this country, show me proof before you give my money away. I do not believe the recipients of these payments are totally without complicity in trying to destroy the fabric of our society.
- Ron Styles, Yorkshire, 17/11/2010 09:47
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Permalink • the law is an ass and the prosecutor clearly an ass as well as a damn fool. Add jerk to that. jeesh
A clear example of why people say that the law is an ass.
Take a look at this and then go to the link and view all the photos. Maybe I missed something here.
Here’s an old man who rents a garage, and inconsiderate jerks park and block him in. They aren’t supposed to be parking there anyway. What sort of idiot takes it for granted that it’s okay? So, the old man gets pissed, he’s blocked in, he can’t get out of his own garage and so, he pushes the blocking car out into the street.
How the hell else is he supposed to get out?
But the persecutor says, “leave a note on the windscreen and have a word when they come back.” What a jerk. Leave a note? How’s the old boy supposed to know when the blocking idiot is coming back? Another case of the sinned against paying the price for reacting to a wrongdoer’s actions. Easy target.
OAP ... Old Age Pensioner
That’ll teach you to block my car in: OAP caught on CCTV shunting vehicle blocking his garage
By Luke SalkeldIt’s an unusual way to get out of a tight parking space.
But reversing into a car that blocked his garage and shunting the offending vehicle into the road has landed one 83-year-old with a hefty fine and a driving ban.
The moment of parking rage was captured on CCTV as Ronald Pemberton used his Peugeot estate to move a Ford Ka opposite a primary school.
Two weeks later he was caught repeating the offence by pushing a Mazda into the road.
A court heard how Pemberton, who still works running two stationery companies, has rented the garage near his home for 20 years but had become frustrated by people parking in front of it.
But Sarah Regan, prosecuting, said he had not taken the right course of action. She said: ‘The way you deal with it is to leave a note on the windscreen and have a word when they come back. You don’t use your car to move it.’
Giving evidence in the trial, Pemberton said he was unaware of the presence of pedestrians when he carried out the manoeuvres near to Cabot Primary School in Bristol.
‘He had no idea whether people were passing by,’ added Miss Regan.
Pemberton pleaded guilty earlier this year to dangerous driving for the first incident on November 24, 2009. He denied the second offence on December 9 last year but was found guilty by a jury at Bristol Crown Court.
Recorder Nicholas Rowland banned Pemberton from driving for 12 months and ordered him to pay nearly £2,000 in fines, court costs and compensation.
He told him: ‘It’s very sad to see somebody of your age in court at all but I’m afraid you can’t go taking the law into your own hands.’
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Permalink • I charge extra for bugs
I had a little window job this morning at one of the condos here. Getting the glass clean wasn’t so bad, although I am going to have to try to find a product that will easily dissolve nicotine. Nothing more fun than yellow-brown sticky windows. But at least I put a few lungs full of fresh air in the place by opening the windows. The wind here is blowing at almost gale strength today. That makes being up on a ladder a little dicey, but I managed.
No, what got me about this job were the stinkbugs. These condos use windows that are in sliding tracks. Her tracks were almost solid stinkbugs. Hundreds of them, half comatose, crawling slowly around. And setting off their PU alarms at the smallest provocation. You know, like a strip washer or a squeegee coming near them. Rank. So I scooped them all out and drowned the lot. This took some extra time, but I had nothing else to do. Well, until this evening, when I have to start a 2-3 day painting project in a small office. So I’ll be on night shift for a day or so perhaps, so they can have the office opening in the day time.
I charged the window customer an extra $10. Because of the bugs. I do her windows twice a year. She was at home the whole time I was working. I bet she smoked a whole pack of butts in the 4 hours I was there. It really reeks in there.
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Permalink • muslim youths threaten boy who supports brit troops and refuses to claim hatred of troops. typical.
Generally I post only part of an article and give readers the link for the rest. But this is a very different kind of story.
I’m not surprised at the attitude of the young thugs who by rights should be immediately shot. They are old enough and dangerous enough to be a serious threat.
At this very moment, I am listening to a panel show on BBC Radio 4, where one loopy left wing total ass, is saying violence is okay during protests and demonstrations. The reason for this particular program and subject tonight, is because of the “student” protests last week that turned violent. There was the usual damage and at one point, one of the slime dropped a fire extinguisher from the roof of a building, narrowly missing a police officer. The jerk being interviewed at the time is okay with that sort of thing.
So then, is it any wonder that there are kids like those described here. In fact, some college lecturer who also was part of the protest, referred to the violent minority as “brilliant.” Just shows you what things have come to here. The police were unprepared and outnumbered. And of course, unarmed.
This isn’t anything to slough off as merely kids stuff. It isn’t. And to think one of the young is a white girl. Good heaven, what was she thinking? Probably an ugly fat slag no white boy would look at.
Five Muslim boys and white girl, all 12, make death threats to classmate who supported British troopsBy Claire Ellicott
Last updated at 7:06 PM on 17th November 2010
As the nation paused on Remembrance Day to honour those who had sacrificed their lives for their country, one schoolboy felt particularly proud.
Moved by their bravery, Darius Gill penned a patriotic and heartfelt tribute to the soldiers who had lost their lives at war.
But unknown to the 13-year-old schoolboy, some of his peers took exception to his comments.
A gang of 12-year-old pupils made up of five Muslim boys and one white girl, began plotting a vicious attack on Darius – whose father is Asian – for supporting British troops.
The pupils, none of whom can be named for legal reasons, have now been suspended from a school in Coventry and may be expelled after posting their chilling threats online.
One message - littered with spelling mistakes - said: ‘Fight on Monday gonna be heavy knuckle dusters nd knifes hopefully I don’t die.’
Another pupil added: ‘ill bang him ma slef am a terrorist.’
One member of the gang also posted a picture of himself holding a rifle and threatened to hijack a plane.
Other pupils - who have set up a Muslim Defence League which celebrates British deaths in Afghanistan - also added comments condemning Darius.
But fortunately, the schoolboy’s mother Clare Allington read the comments on Monday morning - the day of the promised attack - and immediately pulled her son out of school.
Yesterday, Mrs Allington, 42, a trainee teacher from Coventry, said: ‘I logged on and it broke my heart. I was reading all sorts about knuckle dusters, knives and death.
‘They were planning to attack him at school that day so I rang the school straight away.’
She added that she usually keeps an eye on her son’s posts on facebook.
‘I have his password and usually check it every day but didn’t last weekend until I was at the Warwick University campus on Monday.
‘If I hadn’t read the threats and pulled my son out of school he could be dead.
‘They might just be school children but they are fanatical and dangerous. The threats have to be taken seriously.’
Even yesterday, one of the yobs, who can’t be named because of their age, bragged about being quizzed by police and continued his threats to attack Darius.
He posted: ‘IM IN TROUBLE WIV DE POLICE CUZ OF SUSSPICIAN OF THREAT TO DARIUS OVER FB U HAVE A RITE TO REMAIN SILENCE!!! (JOKES) BUT IM IN TROUBLLE WIV DE POLICE IM BANGGIN DARIUS THURSDAY NO1 JUMP IN 1 v 1.’
The abuse and threats came after Darius posted two pictures showing British troops on Armistice Day on facebook.
On November 11, he wrote: ‘RIP TO ALL THE LADS WHO NEVER MADE IT HOME.’
He was then branded ‘racist’ and two of the accused pupils began a flurry of MSN messages to each other setting out what they were going to do to Darius.
One wrote to Darius on facebook saying ‘r u being racist?’ and criticised him for failing to acknowledge the dead soldiers in the Middle East.
Darius tried to explain that the poppies honoured British troops and also said he was remembering his great-great uncle who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 aged just 17.
The unnamed pupil’s facebook profile is full of chilling references to Islamic fundamentalism and shows a picture of him posing with an AK47 rifle.
He also penned a terrifying poem about hijacking a plane.
On November 12, he wrote: ‘You better watch what the **** flies outta ya mouth.
‘Or I’ma hijack a plane and fly it into your house Burn your apartment with your family tied to the couch.
‘And slit your throat, so when you scream, only blood comes out.’
Principal Wendy Thomas said facebook was an increasing concern for schools.
She said: ‘Darius is the victim of bullying. All the students involved have told me they did not mean what they said but they will learn a hard lesson from this.
‘Facebook is a big concern for schools and we urge all parents to monitor what their children say on the site.
‘As soon as the school was notified about the comments on Monday we interviewed the pupils.
‘No weapons were found on any of the pupils. We notified the police and they are investigating the incident.’
The students attend the 1,250-pupil Sidney Stringer Academy in Coventry which caters for children aged 11-18. Muslim pupils make up 65 per cent of the pupils.
Mrs Allington added: ‘My son wrote supporting the British troops in Afghanistan and also said he was sad so many soldiers had died.
‘The so-called Muslim Defence League, which has been set up in the school by a number of pupils, believe that Darius should join them in hating British soldiers.
‘It’s appalling and extremely upsetting for Darius.’
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Permalink • an American silent film star, long forgotten, passes away at 99. RIP, ‘Baby’ Marie Osborne
I’ve long had an interest in old movies, the people who made them and the stars of a bygone era.
I find it quite hard to watch too many of the old silents however. They’re almost embarrassing to view. Not all of course. Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton were my favorites, Charlie Chase wasn’t bad either. But I could never watch Chaplin. I can’t understand why folks thought he was funny, but hey. That’s why we have choices and there’s choc. and vanilla.
Well, in today’s paper I caught the obit for this former child star and a major one she was. And forgotten by all, sadly. People of course remember Shirley Temple, and then there was the fabulous Baby Rose Marie who in later years stared in the Dick Van Dyke show. By that time of course she was Rose Marie. Anyway ... this is ‘Baby’ Marie Osborne and she predates the other two I mentioned here. An interesting life and story. And sad as well.
For all I’ve read on the subject, I never once came across this name. I’d be willing to bet not many Americans have either. But leave it to the Brits to run her obit and remind us.
‘Baby’ Marie Osborne (RIP)‘Baby’ Marie Osborne, who died on November 11 aged 99, was an early child star of silent films and a favourite with First World War audiences; she made her film debut aged three, and soon appeared as the lead in almost 30 pictures, including her most memorable title, Little Mary Sunshine.
Her fame was, however, short-lived. By the time of her 10th birthday her career was almost over and her fortune dissipated. “I set the trend for virtually every other child star that followed,” she said almost 90 years later.
Helen Alice Myres was born in Denver, Colorado, on November 5 1911, and at the age of three months became the foster daughter of Leon and Edith Osborn (the “e” was a later addition). At the suggestion of her foster mother, her name was changed to Marie.
The Osborns left Denver for Long Beach, California, in 1914, and soon found jobs acting with the Balboa Amusement Company. Unable to afford a babysitter, Leon and Edith took Marie with them to the studio, where she came to the attention of the director Henry King.
King had wanted to cast a male toddler in Maid of the Wild (1915), but liked Marie’s bob hairstyle, and guessed that, with the right wardrobe, she could easily pass for a boy. Soon recognising that he had a potential star on his hands, King urged Balboa to put her under contract.
Later, under his supervision, King had Little Mary Sunshine (1916) especially written for her. The film, which King directed, tells the story of an infant who is suddenly orphaned and taken in by the parents of a man who has been ditched by his fiancée. The scenes starring Baby Marie, as she was billed, remain the film’s most engaging, and made her a star.
Together King and Marie produced a series of successful films, including Joy and the Dragon and Shadows and Sunshine (both 1916), Told at Twilight (1917) and The Locked Heart (1918). The child was well paid for her efforts. “I couldn’t quite understand all the attention being paid me,” she recalled. “I was earning $300 a week when the average American was making less than $1,000 per year.”
Such was her success that, in 1917, Leon and Edith Osborn formed their own production company, Lasalida, and released a string of Baby Marie pictures. In 1918-19, at the height of her popularity, a merchandising deal with a New York toy manufacturer saw Baby Marie Osborne dolls on Christmas wish lists for little girls across the globe.
By 1920 she owned three vast properties in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, and was driven about town by a dapper chauffeur in a 1907 Hudson.
But her star then began to wane in the face of competition from younger, cuter girls. Baby Marie travelled America to re-engage with her once loyal audience, but the tour did little to reactivate her flagging career. By the time she entered her teens, she had retired.
What happened to the money remained a mystery to Marie Osborne. “I was the first of Hollywood’s washed-up child stars. There was a trust fund, but I never seemed to have received anything from it,” she recalled. “My foster parents lived a gilded life.”
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Permalink • pirates to world … just business, nothing personal. ransoms to fund more hostage taking
Now here’s a slightly different take on pirate stories. You’ll love this one Drew.
And don’t we all just love pirate stories?
All the kings horses and all the kings men whatever blah,blah.
You’ll remember the couple taken hostage a year ago and held by Somali pirates. They asked for a ton on money thinking that the couple had insurance. Turns out they didn’t. The pirates are used to dealing with the large shipping companies who do carry ins and so assumed that everyone did. Hmmm. I hadn’t expected that species capable of thought like that. Guess I was wrong.
Well anyway ... they released the couple as you might know by now, saying that they’d use the ransom to finance more “business.”
Here ya go. Read it all here.
It’s quite interesting actually. I think I might be changing my ideas about these folks. No, not that I approve what they do. But it seems like the countries that could really put a stop to it won’t. There are people here who fear that capturing pirates might open the door to many of them requesting asylum in this country. And the way these idiots have been dealing with that issue, well. I understand the concern of the natives here. It should be a question of an open and shut case. Capture and shoot them. Bomb the hell out of their sanctuaries. Send in special extermination teams with no exceptions to be made. You’d soon see an end to the problem. But no. The powers that be will not do what is necessary to end it. And so the pirates know that and know too that even if caught, the penalty will hardly be life threatening. So why not risk it?
It’s not personal. It’s just business. Right?
Pirates boast of plans to ‘reinvest’ ransom in more kidnappings
The pirates who held the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler boasted last night that they would spend the ransom money on staging more kidnappings.
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Members of the gang, who held the British couple for more than a year, said they would use their estimated £500,000 bounty to “reinvest in our business”, to increase their reach in the Indian Ocean.Others are planning to put part of their windfall towards “celebration purchases” such as new houses or cars, they said.
The admission came as the war-ravaged east African country’s beleaguered government confirmed that it had paid a substantial tranche of the ransom itself, topping up contributions from friends, family and the Somalian community overseas.
It is understood that some of the hostage takers have personal and family ties to Britain, even keeping a close eye on how the news was being reported in the British media.
One of the kidnappers was quoted as joking only a few days ago that he was planning a trip to Britain.
The couple were making their way from the Seychelles to Tanzania in their 38ft yacht, Lynn Rival, in October last year when they were captured by Somalian pirates.
They spent the following 13 months being held in remote camps deep inland, while family and friends attempted to raise the cash to secure their freedom.
A total of about £500,000 was passed through negotiators to the gang’s leaders on two separate occasions, most recently on Sunday morning, when the Kent couple was finally released.
The bounty will now be shared by as many as 40 different individuals, from guards and cooks to senior financiers likely to be outside Somalia.
“There will be some celebration purchases, maybe a vehicle, maybe a better house,” a senior member of the pirates, who gave his name only as Yusuf, told The Daily Telegraph via contacts in Mogadishu.
“But most of us have to pay off debts, and we need to use the money to reinvest in our business, to find new boats to go back to the ocean.”
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An Egyptian blogger has been released after serving four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president, a human rights group said on Wednesday.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil, 26, known as Kareem Amer, was in bad health and was beaten by security officers before his release on Tuesday. The Interior Ministry was not immediately available for comment.
Amer, a student at the state-run religious al-Azhar University, was arrested in 2006 on charges of insulting Islam and President Hosni Mubarak in his blog posts. He was sentenced to four years in prison and expelled from the university.
“Kareem was released on Tuesday morning and his health is bad but he is safe now,” Gamal Eid, head of ANHRI, which represented Amer at court, told Reuters.
“He was detained for 11 days beyond his court sentence and beaten by officers who did not give any reasons,” Eid added.
The first blogger to face trial in Egypt for online content, Amer was first released on November 5 from Alexandria’s Borg el-Arab prison where he stayed for four years.
But he was immediately re-arrested by state security for 11 days without charge and beaten, ANRHI said.
“His situation has gotten worse after he was detained despite completing his sentence,” said Eid.
Not one single nation exists that enacts pisslamic law that is not run by a tinpot tyrant. Screw that.
PS - The USA gives Egypt about $2.2 BILLION in aid each and every year. Don’t you think it’s time to rethink that equation?
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If this is for real, if it isn’t a joke, it’s one heck of a find.
How could they have invented anything called Swiss when there wasn’t anything at the time with that word?
I wonder what the Romans called it. Surely they’d have had a name for something so elaborate.
Clever folks those. And we know they were great builders and engineers and writers and everything many in our world can never be. Like, Haitians and Somalians to name only two species.
Romans invented ‘Swiss army knife’ 2,000 years agoA 2000-year-old tool that has gone on display in a Cambridge museum has been taken as proof that the Romans invented the Swiss army knife.
1:15PM GMT 17 Nov 2010
The Roman version of the famous multi-purpose tool includes a spoon, knife, three pronged fork, spike and even what looks like a toothpick.
At only 15cm long it would have fitted easily into the pocket of a discerning diner and is easy to clean and sharpen thanks to the silver and iron used to make it.
The Roman eating implement has been estimated to date from between 201 to 300 AD and originates from the Mediterranean region of Europe.
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