Thursday - February 17, 2011
can a judge have actually said this? read on.
Well now, this is a theory I’ve never run across before. But leave it to a lawyer’s brain to split the hairs.
So then .. if you sexuality assault a child but still like older women as well, you are not strictly speaking a pedophile. Huh? Do you read it this way as well?
I wonder if somehow something got lost in translation because even in this upside down ludicrous world, that does not make any sense.
See G of V for more on the subject.
Oh, and here’s a thought someone else raised in conversation a while ago.
In the days of Mohamed, and not just him, would child sex have been the norm? And not just with islamics. Since life ended fairly early, would it not have begun early as well? I never thought about that before someone asked it.
H/T Gates of Vienna
Press Release on the Scandalous Judgment Against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
Gemmingen, February 15, 2011
On February 15, 2011, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was sentenced to a fine of €480 for “denigration of religious doctrines” by Judge Bettina Neubauer in the Vienna Regional Court. She was acquitted of the original charge of ethnic incitement.
The court based “denigration of religious doctrines” on the fact that Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff had characterized Mohammed as “pedophiliac” because — according to Islamic legend — he had sex with nine year-old Aisha. In the court’s view, this was “denigrating” because Mohammed did not have sex exclusively with children but also with grown women, and stayed with Aisha until his death when she was eighteen years old. So he was not inclined to pedophilia.
It might be interesting to see whether this scandalous judicial interpretation could persist in regard to convicted child molesters in Austria. It is known that many of these child molesters were fathers of families at the time. This could therefore no longer legally be called “pedophilia.”
Elisabeth’s statement after the trial is clear: “Today is a sad day for my young daughter and for all other young girls.”
See Scandalous Judgment at G O V
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Yay!!! Woo hoo!!
2/16/2011 - Boarding teams from the British Navy frigate HMS Cornwall rescued five Yemeni fishermen and captured 17 Somali pirates last week during a rescue operation the Gulf of Aden, the Royal Navy confirmed Tuesday. The hostages were the original crew of a fishing dhow who had been held hostage aboard their Yemeni-flagged vessel for 92 days, the Royal Navy said in a statement.
Since taking the dhow on November 11, 2010, the pirates used it as a “mother ship” for raiding operations, equipping three skiffs with powerful outboard motors, ladders and other paraphernalia, according to the statement.
The rescue operation was carried out Thursday by boarding teams from the Cornwall, supported by Lynx helicopters, according to the statement. The frigate had received a distress call from a South Korean merchant vessel in the area, whose crew had become suspicious of the dhow’s actions.
After rescuing the fishing crew and apprehending their captors, the Cornwall restored the vessel to its rightful Yemeni owners, the Royal Navy said.
The group of about half a dozen sailors and Royal Marines, dispatched from a British warship that is part of an anti-piracy mission in the region, found and destroyed several weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades.
Boo! Hiss!
The pirate vessel, a dhow, was returned to the rescued Yemeni crew, who were able to make their way home, while the 17 pirates were taken aboard HMS Cornwall and deposited in Somalia, where they were released. Under international law, Britain does not have the jurisdiction to arrest suspected pirates unless attacked.
Brits must be loosing their Viking heritage. Here’s how the modern jarls do it:
2/13/2011 - NATO says that a Danish warship has freed a hijacked fishing vessel and arrested 16 suspected Somali pirates.
Sunday’s press release says the HDMS Esbern Snare stopped a suspicious vessel with two skiffs on deck. The warship fired warning shots and sent a boarding party to the hijacked Yemeni vessel.
NATO says there were 16 suspected pirates and two Yemeni hostages on board. The original fishing crew of nine people had been held for a year but most of them had been released.
Better, but not best. Here’s a real Viking, and of course he’s an embarrassment to the Norwegian authorities:
OSLO, Norway — A Norwegian shipping magnate was strongly criticized Wednesday for suggesting that pirates captured off the Horn of Africa should be sunk with their skiffs or executed on the spot.
“When (piracy) implies a great risk of being caught and hanged, and the cost of losing ships and weapons becomes too big, it will decrease and eventually disappear,” Jacob Stolt-Nielsen said in an op-ed in Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv.
The 79-year-old is the founder of Stolt-Nielsen Ltd, one of Norway’s biggest shipping companies. He stepped down as chairman two years ago but still serves on the board.
“Pirates captured in international waters have always been punished by death, often on the spot,” Stolt-Nielsen wrote Tuesday, arguing that modern navies should deal with the problem like Roman pirate hunter Pompey did more than 2,000 years ago.” “Not arrest them and say, ‘naughty, naughty, shame on you,’ and release them again, but sink their boats with all hands,” he wrote. “The pirates won’t be frightened by being placed before a civilian court.”
The article drew sharp criticism in Norway, a seafaring nation known as a peace broker in many of the world’s armed conflicts and as the home of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jacqueline Smith, president of the Norwegian Seafarers Union, described Stolt-Nielsen’s views as “barbaric” and said killing pirates could endanger the 700 seafarers now held as hostages in Somalia.
Bloody Socialists. Of course they’re barbaric! You meet fire with fire, or else you get burned. What are you going to do, send down a longship full of Vikings and threaten to clog dance at the pirates unless they go home?
“Perhaps I was a bit tough in the commentary, but I’m just telling it like it is,” Stolt-Nielsen told DN, “The way to solve the pirate problem is to sink the pirates and their ships.”
“The only way to fight piracy is to hang the pirates,” he said. “The only language they understand is force.”
Somali pirate researcher Mohamed Husein Gaas warns of possible reprisals on Norwegian crews and ships in the wake of Jacob Stolt-Nielsen’s uncompromising remarks.
His statements were not well received by the Somali community in Norway, according to the paper. Mohamed Husein Gaas believes Mr. Stolt-Nielsen’s idea will make pirates deliberately target Norwegian ships and sailors.
“Pirates are very vindictive. Rumors spread really fast, and all the locals down there digest Norwegian and international news”, he tells DN.
He also believes killing the pirates would not solve the problem, because they do not care about being killed.
“They are not rational. Local Somalis live daily with the fear of dying anyway.”
Shirdon Abdikarim, general manager of the Somali Resource and Rehabilitation Centre in Oslo is also concerned about the consequences of the shipping magnate’s remarks.
He knows they are familiar with the various shipping companies’ designs and flags, enabling them to distinguish the vessels from several hundred meters.
“The statement puts the Norwegian, and other sailors and hostages in great danger”.
Pussies. Muzzie sell-outs. “Researcher” Yeah, he researches what times the ships sail and tells the damn pirates. He’s an enabler, guaranteed. And an apologist.
BTW, WTF does effin’ OSLO have a damn “Somali Resource and Rehabilitation Centre” in the first place. Wouldn’t getting the hell out of Somalia all the way to lovely Norway be rehabilitation enough?
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Permalink • Product Fail
I run across these oddball gizmos in catalogs and while surfing the ‘net. I’m sure you do too. Sometimes it’s just a dumb idea for a product, sometimes it’s just a implementation that’s wrong. Here’s another one. It’s from a company that makes ultrasonic humidifiers. They decided to make one for nurseries I guess, so they wrapped up their standard product in a whimsical design. One that just might imprint your children in a wrong way. This could be what happened to those Global Warming scientists who did that 10 year climate impact study on those penguins, and messed the whole thing up by putting such giant tracking devices on the penguins that they all drowned. Research conclusion? “The penguins are all dying! It must be Global Warming!” Don’t let this happen to your kids.
Bad as this one is, it doesn’t lay a finger (ahem) on the two ultimate winners at the product fail game: the Batman water pistol and the Dora The Explorer aqua pet:
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 16, 2011
the girly men of hollywood?
If you could see our desk slash dining room table and the puter desk, you’d understand me saying I am literally buried under so damn much paperwork both old and new, that I should NOT be on a computer at the moment. I have been trying to work out the mess (papers and old puter magazines) that I alone created. There’s stuff here going back more then a year. That’s not as dumb as it may look cos often I find the answer to a problem in some old mag. issue. But enough is enuff. Can’t stand the disorder. So I need not to be here right now.
BUT …
I came across a quote by this Goddess, yeah, one of my many. They all seem to be that to me. So anyway, I saw this and naturally I had to stop everything to share it.
Now I’m another hour behind.
Under a headline that read “Girly Men” the living Goddess otherwise named Rosamund Pike said:
“I auditioned for a job recently, and didn’t get it,” says the actress, speaking at the launch of the Birds Eye View Film Festival. “Word came back that they were looking for ‘a flirty piece of ass’.
“Now, I do not want, and have never wanted, to be a flirty piece of ass, but when told I was not one, I found myself quite offended.
I was thrust right back on the most primeval battlefield, the loser at the mating game.
“The point that sex appeal is not the level at which I want to compete was lost on me, momentarily.”Pike, 32, appeared in the film Made in Dagenham, about women workers’ fight for equal pay. She adds of Hollywood power brokers: “The irony is that a good director needs to be really feminine.
“I mean, look at those fellas out there, with their long hair, – they’re real posers, some of them – natty dress sense and sensitive sides.
“They’re all so busy cleverly accessing their feminine sides that we don’t realise that they’re taking up all the space and pushing into the wings those people who really are feminine.”-30-
So now I get to post her quotes as well as her pix. But I did think that was interesting.
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Permalink • Today’s Face Palms
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Stuxnet Worm Code Hacked and Released
The group of anonymous “hacktivists” that made headlines for online cyberattacks in December just released a bombshell online: a decrypted version of the same cyberworm that crippled Iran’s nuclear power program.
The ones and zeroes that make up the code called the Stuxnet worm—described as the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever created—were reportedly found when the faceless group hacked into the computers of HBGary, a U.S. security company that the anonymous collective viewed as an enemy. And the security experts FoxNews.com spoke with said the leaked code was serious cause for concern.
“There is the real potential that others will build on what is being released,” Michael Gregg, chief operating officer of cybersecurity firm Superior Solutions, told FoxNews.com. Gregg was quick to clarify that the group hasn’t released the Stuxnet worm itself, but rather a decrypted version of it HBGary had been studying—which could act almost like a building block for cybercrooks.
Stuxnet was designed specifically to take over those control systems and evade detection, and it apparently was very successful. But Dave Aitel, CEO of Immunity Inc., painted a firm line between the version of the worm that destroyed Iran’s nuclear plant and the code released by Anonymous.
“What they’ve released is essentially incomprehensible,” he told FoxNews.com, saying that what the group found was far removed from the raw worm that has been “travelling around Iran destroying nuclear things.”
“This is essentially just a translation. HBGary took the worm in the wild and translated it into a slightly easier to read format,” Aitel said. He notes that Stuxnet is still a threat, however, and the more dangerous raw version of the worm—or the “binary” version—is still easily accessible for those wishing to use it maliciously.
The Anonymous group released the Stuxnet code on February 13, after finding it in a database of e-mails it stole from HBGary. “First public Stuxnet decompile is to be found here,” one representative of the group wrote over Twitter.
Horry clap. The most powerful computer worm ever written, one custom design to wreak mayhem on industrial systems, and Dan Dipshit and his team at HBGary are sending the code around the office on an email. And it’s a cyber security firm. Do they know NOTHING about actual digital security? This is like putting a hydrogen bomb on the front seat of your car, then leaving the door open and the motor running while you run into the store for a quick plate of falafel in Gaza. Gosh, who would ever think the car would get stolen? You study computer viruses on completely isolated networks. No internet connections, no email servers, no floppy disks, no flash drive ports. No connections to anything outside that network whatsoever. IDIOTS. Oh, but don’t worry, this is just a decrypted version of the decompiled source code. Yeah, because nobody out there knows how to write Assembler anymore. And there is no such thing as decompilers that can take executable code and give you back Java, C, or whatever source language you want it in. We are utterly fucked.
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Scandal at DOJ: smuggling to pad statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico
A brewing scandal at the Department of Justice involving an illegal scheme to pad statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico threatens to erupt as U.S. Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee begins an investigation. ATF agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives--a DOJ agency--allegedly smuggled U.S. guns into Mexico in order to bolster the Department’s disputed contention that Mexican drug cartels are armed primarily with U.S. guns. Whistleblowers within the ATF contend that one of the these guns was used to kill Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry in December of 2010. News of the murder and the underlying scandal that prompted it was first reported on December 28, 2010.
Rather than launch an internal investigation into the murder and the illegal scheme, the Department of Justice under Eric Holder, according to ATF whistleblowers, instead attempted a coverup.
The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to explain why Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents allowed suspected gun smugglers to purchase and keep assault rifles that later may have been used in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
In a letter, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa said ATF agents told his staff the agency allowed the sale to “known and suspected straw purchasers for an illegal trafficking ring near the Southwest border” and two of those weapons reportedly were recovered at the site of the Dec. 14 shootout that killed Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry.
Mr. Grassley said the ATF had been tracking Avila‘s firearms purchases since November 2009 and while at least one Arizona gun dealer wanted to stop participating in sales “like those to Avila,” the ATF encouraged the dealer to continue selling to suspected traffickers and asked the dealer to forward information about the sales to the ATF.
He said the dealer who sold the weapons believed recovered at the scene of Terry‘s death met with both the ATF and federal prosecutors in December 2009 to “discuss his role as a FFL (federal firearms licensee) during this investigation.”
It has long been known that the ATF/BATFE is even more out of a loose cannon than the IRS. But this is just insanity. There’s a war going on across the border, and the meme the left puts out is that it’s all America’s fault because of a) our demand for drugs, so let’s legalize them, and b) if we weren’t selling them the guns there wouldn’t be much of a war. ( I guess the cartel boys would just have to cut each other with knives, like proper Mexicans ). So to prove their hypothesis, BATFE orders gun dealers to sell lots of guns to aliens and known straw purchasers, using the “reason” that this will let ATF know who these purchasers are and then put them on a list. And they’ll know where the guns are going. As if “south of the border to be used by the cartels in their ongoing drug war” isn’t 10,000% bloody obvious!
And Holder and his rats immediately deny the whole thing, and claim it’s all a political witch hunt. Sure it is.
Maybe I should have found a triple face palm graphic, because this story just keeps on giving. After using this guy Avila to make all these gun purchases, which the ATF enabled by twisting the gun dealer’s arms, they go and bust him and his ring, but only manage to collect 103 guns. The other 666 are missing!
the ATF allegedly encouraged the dealer to continue selling to suspected traffickers and asked the dealer to forward information about the sale to the Bureau . . .
In addition to these specific weapons, the indictment of Avila and others references approximately 769 firearms. Of those, the indictment refers to the recovery of only about 103 weapons. So, where are the other approximately 666 weapons referenced in the indictment?
There is lots more to this story. Google up “operation gunwalker” and follow as many links as you need to, to try and understand the situation. Hey, let’s not forget that half billion in special foreign aid Hillary just laid on Mexico to fight crime. Maybe that’s more like a “keep this on the down-low” payoff? Is it truly the US foreign policy to solve the cartel war down there by arming up both sides so that they’ll kill each other off faster? Isn’t that the same crap idea we used back when Iraq and Iran were poison gassing each other in the swamps? How’d that one work out for us in the long run? I forget. But this new twist, of using that arming as a political lever to push for taking away rights from our own citizens, is a first. Scumbags.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 15, 2011
Nothing is sacred
I honestly do not believe what I stumbled across last night…
Yes, it’s…
There’s even a YouTube preview. Posted below the fold for violence and gratuitous almost-nudity.
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Permalink • EYE CANDY
It’s very late here and I thought a good way to leave would be to leave you with some eye candy.
Must thank Drew for Barbara-Stoyanoff, who I’d never heard of before he sent me her name. Along with a few others for future use.
Now we know what he does in spare time. Darn hard work looking at these ya know. It isn’t for everyone.
Enjoy.
BARBARA STOYANOFF
Now here’s my favorite. Love this look. I think I may have posted this one before, but not certain. Or maybe one just like it?
But heck, she’s worth a second look anytime.
ROSAMUND PIKE
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Permalink • hell’s bells and buckets part two? Apologies never end. a nation of apologists…
So help me I do NOT go looking for this silly stuff. It gets to a point where it begins to be funny, and you wonder what next grouping of words or phrase will be the newest thing to offend.
Take a look.
Glenn Hoddle apologises for Chinese jibe in latest Sky Sports gaffe
By SPORTSMAIL REPORTERGlenn Hoddle has apologised for the inappropriate ‘joke’ he made as he provided co-commentary during Monday night’s clash between Fulham and Chelsea.
The former England manager embarrassed employers Sky after he responded to the sight of Fernando Torres squandering a goalscoring opportunity in the 0-0 draw.During the encounter, Twitter was swamped with reaction to Hoddle jokingly comparing Chelsea’s out-of-form £50million signing to the ‘Chinese player Knee Shin Toe’.
‘I can only apologise to those who took offence,’ Hoddle said today. ‘There’s no excuse. It’s an old football expression and I understand I can’t say things like that.’
Hoddle was employed as a replacement for the disgraced Andy Gray, who was sacked by the broadcaster last month for sexist remarks.Hoddle caused a major storm when he gave an interview in 1999, claiming that the disabled are being punished for something in a previous life.
‘You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains,’ he said. ‘Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.’
Tony Blair, then the Prime Minister, was among those who heavily criticised Hoddle and the FA responded by sacking him soon afterwards.
Here’s what a few Brits had to say.
What a joke that he has had to apologise. What is this world coming to? He made a lighthearted comment, with no menace or venom, just a lighthearted comment and yet some people take offence? Christ, what the hell is wrong with people nowadays. Everyone has become ridiculously sensitive and it seems people are just out to get everyone and anyone. No wonder we’ll end up extinct.
- Nick , London,This country is going down hill so fast, we will never ever get back to being great again. That we have people who can find offence in this, is an embarrassment. It’s scary the way the pc left wing are slowly destroying even our sense of humour, along with everything else. We can’t say this, we can’t do that, and we are fighting to bring democracy and free speech to Afghanistan, telling Egypt it has to become a modern open democracy. Let’s start at home.
- Jim, Carlisle Cumbria.We need to line up all the pc nutters against a wall and restore sanity and common sense to society.
- HAL, Coventry
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Permalink • hell’s bells and buckets of blood. here the F*** we go again. another case of the big ‘R’
Yeah I know, I know. I say it too much. Blame Vilmar. He taught me the phrase.
This place is DOOMED! Doomed I tell ya. They live by and for political correctness which is a state religion and look for ‘racists’ under their beds before going nighty. Stupid damn fools.
I just found this because I was looking for something else at the Mail tonight. These jerks just never tire of the hunt for wicked racists. Even when they’re 10 yrs old and there isn’t any race involved.
Take a look at this article. Considering all the flack we (Americans) take on Bush, our Tea Party, our guns, our overweight population, (while the ladies here it’s reported are the most overweight in Europe), I sure hope we haven’t come to this at home in the US. Please, don’t tell me we have. Let me have my illusions.
A thought. ALL politically correct schmucks need to be made to disappear. By yesterday! Sooner if possible.
Read this.
Ten-year-old boy accused of racism for calling white classmate ‘chocolate brownie’
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:11 PM on 15th February 2011
A schoolboy has been reprimanded for alleged racism after he called a white pupil named Brown a ‘chocolate brownie’.Harrison Wiener, 10, made the comment after being teased about his own surname at Thorp Primary School in Royton, Oldham.
Harrison’s mother is now furious after her son was disciplined by teachers and ordered to apologise.Harrison had been called ‘sausage boy’ by a classmate making fun of his Austrian-derived surname, which is also an American word used for hot dog sausages.
The child is said to have retorted ‘Shut up, chocolate brownie’ only to be punished for making an apparent racist remark
Mother-of-two Clare Wiener has been told the incident is to be ‘noted’ in her son’s file and reported to the Lancashire school’s local education authority.
‘Harrison has been left really upset by this and made to feel like he’s done something terrible,’ she told The Sun.‘It’s crazy. One boy taunted him by making his surname sound like a snack - and he responded by making the other boy’s surname sound like a cake.
‘How can calling a white boy named Brown a chocolate brownie be racist?‘Harrison was told the word brownie is a racist word. But it’s the name of a cake you can buy in any coffee shop.’
Ms Wiener’s local MP, former Labour minister Michael Meacher has now written to the school demanding an explanation for the matter.
Thorp Primary School’s headmaster, Stuart Bennett, said it would be ‘inappropriate to comment about individual cases’.
“Stuart Bennett, said it would be ‘inappropriate to comment about individual cases.”
Yeah,right. We really buy that. Inappropriate or embarrassing you dumb, stupid, ridiculous pile of walking dung.
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Permalink • Sarkozy ends multiculturalism, speaks on Islam .
Took this so many yrs ago. Feels like another lifetime.
Caught this via Europe News with a YT link. Since it’s the French president, I just thought I’d include my old photo. Sure wish we had digital cameras back then. This wasn’t even shot in auto cos my camera then was only manual. I had my own darkroom back then and doing print from slide film was time consuming. But the photo came out well, although you wouldn’t know that seeing this. Lost the original print I think. Or else it’s still stored somewhere tween Ca. and Tn.
So then, I found this interesting but wish he wasn’t being so reasonable. Eventually I’m almost sure, it will have to come to violence. Not that I’d look forward to that. But these folks are determined to immigrate and then demand the host country change to what they left behind. And with their birthrate well, do the math.
The west should have banned muslim immigration at least a generation ago.
Oh, an aside. Tunisia. Lots of those folks leaving their country according to the news I hear on radio 4. (BBC)
Wonder where they’ll head. Any guesses?
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Permalink • gremlin sues his victim for ruining his reputation. i’d have thought he did that all by himself
It might seem to many a rather extreme solution I suggest for stalkers but ... I see them as extremely dangerous people, never to be trusted unless made crippled or dead. Preferably the latter as it’s certain they’ll never again be a problem. I see that as fairly reasonable solution to many crimes where warnings are made, the gremlin goes to jail, comes out and does it again. Anyway, this is a pretty interesting case.
This animal has been stalking a woman for a very long time. She turns to the law and gets help, but her life was turned upside down and so she blogged her experience.
Now he’s suing her for ..... well, take a look.
Stalker takes legal action against victimA stalker who Googled his victim 40,000 times has taken legal action against her for “ruining his reputation” with comments on her website
Elliot Fogel, 35, a former Sky News producer, was jailed for four months last year for breaching a lifetime restraining order by harassing 35 year-old complementary therapist Claire Waxman.
But it has now emerged that after being released from prison Fogel launched a civil action against Mrs Waxman in an attempt to force her to stop writing about him online.
His legal action came to light last week at a court case to determine whether it amounted to a breach of his restraining order.
Fogel, of Isleworth, West London, had been arrested and charged again after his representative contacted Mrs Waxman.
This appeared to put him in breach of the order, imposed in 2005 by Brent Magistrates’ Court, which prohibited Fogel, or anybody acting on his behalf to contact Mrs Waxman.
At Wood Green Crown Court on Wednesday the CPS dropped two charges that Fogel breached the restraining order on or before November 17, last year by initiating civil proceedings and attempting to retrieve material from Mrs Waxman on or before November 1.
“She is writing about me on a website and readers are invited to leave comments,” complained Fogel outside court. “All I am trying to do is bring proceedings that stop this.”
CPS lawyer Martha Godwin announced: “An issue was raised during this case, which required the CPS to take some expert legal opinion.
“The opinion confirmed that a restraining order cannot be used to stop someone from accessing civil courts as happened in this case. This meant we could not pursue this prosecution and we offered no evidence.”
Fogel developed an unhealthy interest in Mrs Waxman when they were both college students in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, where she had to continually tell him to leave her alone.
After leaving college in 1993 she heard nothing for ten years until receiving a dinner invitation from Fogel, which she declined.
A few months later, in December 2003, Fogel was spotted jogging on the spot outside her home and spent more and more time loitering around her workplace.
He even posed as a prospective parent at the nursery Mrs Waxman’s daughter attended, paid for background searches on her husband Marc and her father and collected her wedding photos.
She was forced to move home five times, developed an eating disorder and claims stress caused by Fogel caused a miscarriage.
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Permalink • Socialist Nations Cancel Green Initiatives
Times of international turmoil are great moments for domestic governments to make important announcements they don’t want to be noticed. Especially if the announcement involves a sudden reversal in policy that could seriously embarrass the government.
So Friday afternoon was an ideal time for Ontario’s Liberal government to take a big chunk of its alternative energy program and chuck it overboard. Attention was riveted on Egypt, where spectacular events were unfolding. The perfect opportunity for Premier Dalton McGuinty to engineer yet another major reversal, while paying a minimal price among voters.
After years of touting wind projects as a critical piece of the alternative energy puzzle, the government let slip — very quietly — that offshore wind projects are no longer part of the game plan. Turns out there just isn’t enough scientific evidence that offshore wind projects do a lick of good, said Brad Duguid, the energy minister.
“It’s simply a case of recognizing we need to take a closer look at the science on freshwater offshore wind projects,” said Duguid. “Right now there’s only one in the world we’re aware of, in Sweden. There’s a number of issues that need to be looked at before anything could ever be considered for approval.”
A thousand mostly rural residents across Ontario who were awarded solar energy contracts last summer have been told their projects have been put on hold.
That has left many with tens of thousands of dollars invested in projects for which they now have no prospect of getting any income.
“I’ve got $70,000 sitting right out in my backyard,” said Brian Wilson, who lives near Belleville, of his 10-kilowatt solar array. “I can go two doors down and they’ve got $70,000 invested, too.”
But they’ve both been told that they can’t connect to the electrical grid because of technical issues.
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The province told 20,000 applicants across Ontario last year they had been awarded contracts for solar energy under what they called their microFIT program.About 3,700 have been connected to date.
But about 1,000 have now been told they can’t be connected in the foreseeable future, because local utilities don’t have the wires or other equipment to carry their power to the grid.
The would-be solar entrepreneurs already had one bitter battle with the provincial government last summer, when the province slashed the rate being paid for power from some types of installations.
Meanwhile, over in the UK:
Carbon Trust funding cut by 40%
Cuts to the government’s low-carbon agency will cancel grants to biofuel projects and cause dozens of redundancies
The government’s leading low-carbon agency has had its funding cut by 40%, causing the cancellation of grants to a major biofuel scheme and other projects, and dozens of redundancies.
The Carbon Trust, whose mission is “to accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy”, will receive £50m from the government in 2011-12. It will end free on-site energy surveys for businesses and 35 of its 216 employees will lose their jobs.
“Public funding still remains necessary and important to achieving our mission, especially in catalysing low-carbon innovation to overcome market failures and in supporting smaller businesses to cut carbon,” said Tom Delay, the Carbon Trust’s chief executive. But with public funding “constrained”, he said, the trust would look to the private sector for investment.
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But Adam Harvey, a chemical engineer at Newcastle University, said: “The cut is very much against the claim of David Cameron and the government that they would regenerate the UK’s economy via green technology – it’s the exact opposite in fact.”Harvey’s research group had received a grant from the Carbon Trust as part of an £8m effort to develop biofuels from algae, but the funding has been axed halfway through the project.
From The Daily Bayonet
Solar and wind subsidies are unsustainable and always were. As as soon as voters woke up to the billions being wasted on greenwashing, [Canada’s] McGuinty changed tack, but he owns the green agenda and is the father of the Green Energy Act come October it may be his end. Let’s hope so.
“Greenwashing”. What a great term. And now loads of Canadians and Britons are going to suffer, not just the wasted tax money, but because they believed their government’s Green Initiative BS, and invested loads of their own money, “knowing” that the government would continue to subsidize them. That’s all off now. Reality bites, even for the Socialists. None of this will slow Obama down a step, of course.
Angering rural voters, and battering your credibility with the environmental crowd, aren’t great ideas if you run a government that faces an election in eight months. So it’s no wonder that Ontario’s Liberals sought to hide the bad news by releasing it when (they hoped) no one was watching. But the excitement in Egypt won’t last forever, and eventually people will notice that Ontario’s government, once again, has been forced into a humiliating retreat at considerable trouble and cost to individual Ontarians.
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Just as a quick follow up to the revolving shotgun post I did last week, based on a link Rich K sent me. I opened up the latest Blue Press catalog that Dillon Precision sends out every month, and in it is a review of the new Taurus Circuit Judge revolving shotgun rifle. Taurus - which is the same company as Rossi these days - makes a long cylinder .45 revolver called the Judge that can also fire .410 shotgun shells. It’s a very popular pistol that comes in several varieties, so to create another version they hung a long barrel and a forearm on the front end and screwed a T/C Contender style stock on the back, and are now selling it as a light rifle. This one might actually be useful, and might at least partially solve the old blow-by problem.
You can see that it really is nothing more than parts screwed on to their revolver; notice the big cut in the forearm to make room for the ejector rod. To deal with the blow-by problem, they’ve installed some half height shields on both sides of the front of the cylinder. Better than nothing, but I’d think full height shields would be better, especially since the scalloped shape of the forearm invites the shooter to hold it just in front of the cylinder.
The rifle has a 5 shot cylinder that fires .410 shells and .45 Colt cartridges just like the pistol version. Taurus packs a whole bunch of extra do-dads in the box, like a cylinder plug, a cleaning jag, a hammer spur and 2 kinds of screw in “choke” tube - one with straight ribs that attempts to take the spin out of the shot cup, and a smooth one that protects the threads for when you’re shooting bullets. And they hung a short Picatinny Rail on top - ie a Weaver base - so nearly blind shooters can hang a scope on this 75 yard gun. Everything has a Picatinny rail on it these days, so I guess that gives this little Cowboy Steampunk gun a “tactical” moniker as well.
A full review with lots of great pictures is over at Gun Blast. The Circuit Judge is 38” long with an 18.5” barrel, so it meets size standards for both rifles and shotguns. It weighs just a bit under 5 lb. Street price is under $475 NIB.
The Camp Rifle / Backpacker’s Gun / Light Rifle concept has been around forever, but it hasn’t got much play since Marlin pulled their Camp Carbines off the market a decade or so ago. [ d’oh, they tended to become machine guns when the parts wore down a little! ] Quite a number of small rifles exist, but they tend to fall in the “evil black rifle” “plastic fantastic” “assault weapon” categories. Many of them are at best marginal for hunting even small deer at moderate ranges, though this one comes close. Plus small rifles with revolver cylinders just look cool. They ooze charisma. And Camp Rifles are just plain fun to shoot, like the M1 Carbine or the aforementioned Marlins. They pack a lot more power than .22 rimfires, so it feels like you’re actually out shooting guns instead of squeezing the bullets out like you’re flicking watermelon seeds. They use less expensive ammo compared to full power rifles, especially if you load your own in bulk. They usually make great home defense guns and lightweight field guns. They’re all accurate enough for a 30 yard shot at a rabbit or a woodchuck or a javelina. But that’s about as far as they go. I know that deer can be harvested cleanly with a plain old .45 Colt, but I’m not confident in it. I’d want just a little more gun, just in case. Or a lot more gun, just because.
I’m happy to see actual wood and actual blued steel on the Circuit Judge, but I’d also like to see this one made to handle the .454 Casull cartridge like one of the Judge pistol variants can. That would make it far more versatile, and there would be no question at all about it being a 100-125 yard deer rifle when fed that ammunition. It would be a 75 yard black bear rifle as well, making for a great backwoods defender. The .454 Casull is a .45 Colt on double steroids. Compared to a .45 Colt, which can push a 255 grain bullet to 850 fps in a pistol, the .454 Casull can push a 300 grain bullet to 2000fps in a rifle. That equals the power of .45-70 factory ammo, a known deer slayer for 138 years now. Load the Circuit Judge with .45 Colt ammo and you’ve got a potent small game rifle for short ranges. And a little shotgun when you feed it .410 shells. So it would fall in the Survival Rifle category too. There is some rumor that this one will also have a smoothbore shotgun only variant, which would fully complete the circle started back in 1855 by Sam Colt. All in all I think this is a great little gun, and a lot more useful than the original Judge revolver.
The more things change ... the more things stay the same. The Hollywood / fiction authors Gun Stupid never goes away either. I was watching The Simpsons last night, the episode where Moe dates the little person. There’s a scene where everyone at the bar was looking out the window at Maggie, so to get their attention Moe takes his side by side shotgun out from under the bar, racks the action, and fires off a shot. So I guess the pump action double barrel will be the next oddball gun to build. It shouldn’t be too hard either; all you need is a good welding torch.
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Last couple of days have not been overly productive and aside from being so damn tired I had all I could do not to fall asleep at this damn machine, I just quit it for a couple of days. Wish I had a nice sympathy inducing excuse for not doing my job.
Hell, you’d see thru that in a minute.
Glad Drew caught that utterly stupid decision with regard to the warning about wire mesh and injured burglars. I knew I should have been all over that but really, I just couldn’t face booting up. Just as well anyway cos the wife had me helping her haul books into charity bags etc. We even have an encyclopaedia published in the early 20s collecting dust. But it isn’t worth anything to collectors as we’ve looked into that.
It’s interesting to view once in awhile. The language was so different and ppl mentioned who were still very much alive at the time.
We have a lot of things to dispose of and haven’t been very good at it. If I may say it, for once it isn’t my fault. Really. Wife drags heels on the project and there are things here I can’t toss cos they aren’t mine to throw away. And to be fair, she has some health problems on and off and doesn’t have the stamina to tackle it all, even if I do the work. I’m not complaining, but I wish we could empty this old place of things because when it finally comes time to sell up, I know it’s gonna be a 30 day mad, last minute rush to try and do everything at once.
Well on to today’s story which is a couple of days old but still has folks here talking. As well it should.
Apparently, government ministers are considering Same Sex Church Weddings.
That was the headline in big bold black print.
What bothers many and it should, is since when has it been the job of govt. ministers to tell a church that it MUST marry the odd couple in a religious ceremony where a church on religious grounds, does not recognize that sort of union.
If I have it muddled, my apologies. Here’s the article. See what you make of this.
Gay ‘marriages’ to be allowed in churchMinisters are proposing to change the law to allow homosexual couples to “marry” in traditional religious ceremonies – including in church.
By Patrick Hennessy, Political EditorLynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat equalities minister, is expected shortly to outline firm plans to lift the current ban on civil partnerships being conducted in places of worship.
In a political “win” for Nick Clegg and his party, the Coalition will also say that such ceremonies should for the first time be allowed to have a religious element, such as hymn-singing and readings from the Bible.
They could, it is understood, also be carried out in the future out by priests or other religious figures.
The landmark move will please equality campaigners but is likely to prompt a fierce backlash from mainstream Christian leaders, as well as some Right-leaning Tories.
The Church of England has already pledged not to allow any of its buildings to be used for civil partnership ceremonies, while last year Pope Benedict said same-sex marriage was among the “most insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good.”Some faiths, however – including the Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews – support the change in the law and will apply for their
buildings to host same-sex “marriage” ceremonies.Currently civil partnership ceremonies, which were introduced in 2005, have to be entirely secular and cannot contain any religious element, even though civil partners have almost exactly the same legal rights as married spouses.
Last year an amendment was added to the former Labour government’s Equalities Act by Lord Alli, the Labour peer, paving the way for civil partnership ceremonies to be held in places of worship if religious groups permitted this.
However, before this arrangement could be fully legal ministers would be compelled to stage a separate consultation and to pass separate legislation. This is the process to be launched by Mrs Featherstone within days.
It is as yet unclear whether the new-style civil partnerships, formalised in a place of worship, would be officially called “marriage” under the law.
This is thought to be among the questions ministers will pose during the consultation period; they will also raise issues about the financial implications of the new arrangements, including their impact on tax.
I believe one of the sticky problems is the public monies given in tax breaks to religious orgs. If you’re taking public money, do you have a right to deny service to anyone? But as many see it, religion and churches aren’t as easy as all that. Religion falls outside the norm of the kind of “rights” that civil and human rights activists are always barking about. Everything is made more complicated then logic demands. And lawyers see that it remains so.
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