Wednesday - April 20, 2011
Pathos
What an embarrassment.
No, not my lack of recent bowling blogging about Team Loser. We continue to lose. We haven’t won more than one game in the past 4 weeks. Last night we got creamed again, 0-7. I threw in the 580s, keeping my above average streak going. It didn’t matter. Most of the rest of my team bowled pretty well too. That didn’t matter either. All the guys on all the other teams have selective excellence, which means they can pull a 240 game or better out of their ... pocket ... whenever they want. While our team works on improving our averages, those guys have perfected the art of keeping their averages artificially low. And no matter how well we bowl, we get beaten every single game.
But that wasn’t the point of this post. This league is one of those Miller Lite sponsored groups. I think that means that the beer company donates some cash to our prize fund, and once a season they come by the alley and hang up all sorts of advertising banners and have their exciting Miller Lite Night with the fabulous Miller Lite Girls, give aways, and drawings for awesome prizes.
This league is on the verge of death. A few years ago it was 26 full teams, which took over the entire 26 lane alley for the evening. The annual Miller Lite Night was a real blow out, with a dozen happy and adorable Miller Lite Girls attending, loads of shirts, hats, can coolers, and blinking LED beer cap pins to give away, and some pretty decent prizes raffled off. Bowling balls and bags, NASCAR jackets, hunting coats with their beer logo on them, etc. There were games with prizes, etc. A regular little carnival. There wasn’t free beer, but I think it was discounted. It was a decent party all around.
Due to mismanagement or some pretty stupid practices, the league has shrunk. It was 12 teams last year, but the insanely top heavy prize money allocation at the end of the year caused the lower half of the league to simply quit. Every guy pays $20/week during the 35 week season. That’s $700. Each. First prize was over $1000 per man, and 12th place paid $25. No wonder they left. This year the league is 8 teams, which is the last phlegmatic death rattle cough point. Actually it’s worse than that: to make 8 teams the alley had to sponsor at least 2 bowlers (I’m one) and 2 teams have a vacancy. Which means they could only get 7 full teams this year. Any league of 8 teams or less is going to die, because it’s boring. The competition quickly stratifies, and the season may as well be over by the 10th week. Our league was no different. Team Loser was locked in dead last 8th place by the 7th week, and the next better team was locked in 7th place by the 9th week. 1st and 2nd place has gone back and forth a couple of times, but it’s been between the same 3 teams the entire season, leaving the remaining 3 teams to wobble around in the middle. I don’t care. I get to bowl for free, my average is up 13 points, and I’ve learned not to get frustrated with my team losing or mad at myself for bowling poorly. But I digress.
So last night was Miller Lite Night. Hooray! Party! Party! Party!! The alley has had a great huge banner hanging up for a month advertising this stupendous annual event. Come one, come all!
“Come one” was too bloody accurate.
Miller sent one beer rep who handed out 1 T-shirt to each bowler. They had 1 Miller Lite Girl. I felt sorry for her. Ok, she was somewhat nice looking under all the make up and giant false eyelashes, a young Asian woman with a model’s figure, fairly tall and slender, with really nice legs and hair down to her waist, ("bitch has extensions” sniped ‘becca) absolutely poured into a very tight shiny bright blue mini-dress. And sent out in her 4” heels amongst the animals to push their beer. She had her little digital camera with her, so we all got our pictures taken. I have no idea where those pictures are going, but I doubt if I’ll ever see mine. They had one little wheeled plastic cooler to raffle off. That was all. Miss beer girl did her thing and then got the hell out of Dodge ASAP. Actually, she went around to the other two micro-leagues that are there the same time we are, and gave out the rest of the goodies (bottle opener key rings and stickers) in her bag. They signed those folks up for the raffle too, and then delayed and delayed and delayed the drawing until well after our league was finished. I have no idea who won the cooler: we all went home. I was one of the last to leave, and still no drawing. Screw this.
I bought a bottle of Miller Lite beer to show willing. And drank it. Effin’ swill. Bottled dog piss. It’s sour water with a slight bit of foam and a hint of alcohol. It’s an insult to poor beer.
Pathetic.
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Permalink • more news from la belle france
Might really be a good idea to speak the language if you’re in a position of authority in this sort of case.
I don’t think this could happen in any other country but France. Do you?
Take a look.
Entire workforce at French factory go on strike… because the boss only speaks EnglishBy PETER ALLEN
French workers have staged an uprising with cries of ‘Anglo-Saxon imperialism’ - because their British boss can’t speak the native tongue.
The 184 staff at Thermal Ceramics, an English company based in France, are holding walk-outs every day because discussions over their wages were getting lost in translation.Thierry Juvin, who represents the workers in Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez, in the Loire Valley, said: ‘We say “hello” in French but then communication stops. Every meeting is an ordeal.’
He said workers at the factory, which makes ceramic fibre insulation, wanted to discuss increasing their salaries and improving working conditions, but it was proving impossible.
Mr Juvin said: ‘We have to have someone who translates everything into English, and then anything our English boss says has to be translated into French.
‘This makes dialogue extremely slow, if not impossible.’
Mr Juvin said protests have been held most days since bosses who could only speak English began managing them earlier this year.
‘Our former director left in January and his replacement is an acting director abroad,’ said Mr Juvin. ‘He is English and does not speak any French. So we cannot communicate with him.’
The representative said staff, most of whom belong to one of France’s largest trade union’s CGT, had previously not gone on strike for more than two decades.
Mr Juvin said: ‘’We haven’t withdrawn our labour for twenty three years. Maybe this is because we could speak to our bosses.’
Pierrick Dumont, the trade union representative for the factory, said: ‘I don’t think it’s up to us to make the effort to speak English. We’re French workers based in France.’
Diane Gaillot, chief executive of Thermal Ceramics in France, said: ‘The problem is that the former director had a unique opportunity to go abroad and we have not had time to recruit a new director.
‘But the situation is temporary and we are currently recruiting phase. And certainly the next director will speak French.’
Miss Gaillot said the company had four sites across France, but the one in Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez, which is not far from Lyon, was the only one suffering industrial action.
She added that a meeting about the problems was due to be held in Paris this week.
France has a notoriously nationalistic workforce, with staff frequently complaining about the growing Anglicisation of working practices within the global economy.
This encompasses everything from English being used as the exclusive language of business to reduced lunch breaks.
Thermal Ceramics is a division of the British Morgan Crucible Company, which was founded in London in 1856 and has since expanded all over the world.
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Permalink • a few who didn’t take kindly to cross in urine painting.
Why are they called vandals? What the fruit faced non talent produced isn’t art. It isn’t even original in concept. And even if it were, it would not be art. Or perhaps at the very best it might be described as a degenerate display of a deranged mind. But never art.
OK, Rise up Christians everywhere. Riot! Get your axes out and behead those who .... who .... ooops. Wrong religion. Never Mind.
U.S. artist’s controversial ‘Piss Christ’ attacked by vandals in France
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A controversial piece of art which shows a crucifix bathed in urine has been vandalised in a gallery in southern France.
Police are today searching for the vandals who targeted the piece in Avignon just hours after 800 protesters held a demonstration against it.
The work by U.S. artist Andres Serrano - called ‘Piss Christ’ - is supposed to make a statement about the misuse of religion.
But when the part taxpayer-funded 1987 piece - which has also been described as ‘blasphemous’ - first went on display in the U.S. it was so controversial that it sparked a fierce debate about whether art should be publicly funded at all.
A second piece which shows a nun with her hands in her lap was also damaged during the break-in to the Collection Lambert modern art museum.
Mr Serrano’s work has previously been targeted by vandals while on display in Sweden and Australia.
Police said two people tried to enter the museum late on Sunday morning carrying a can of paint spray and a chisel in their jackets.
A guard removed the objects - just as a third person took a hammer to the piece.
The attacker struggled with a guard, but helped by an accomplice, managed to escape, police said.
The museum’s doors were shut yesterday for its weekly closing but it was expected to re-open today with the damaged work on display so that the public can see what the vandals have done.
French culture minister Frederic Mitterand described the incident as an ‘attack on the freedom of creation’.
Staff had closed early on Saturday because of the protest.
A worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said that they had also received death threats.
‘Several people have called saying, “If you open, you’re dead”,’ one museum worker said.
‘We’re nervous and we have asked for protection from the police.’
It was unclear whether the attack was linked to the earlier demonstration.
Serrano made the controversial work by placing a crucifix in urine and blood, and it has drawn criticism in the past from some Christian groups.
Young far-Right Christian activists from the General Alliance Against Racism and the Respect of the French and Christian Identity are taking the Collection Lambert to court tomorrow to try to have the crucifix photograph removed from the exhibit.
The group denounced the photograph on its website, saying it ‘insults and injures Christians at the heart of their faith’.
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 19, 2011
Business Decisions
How much should I charge for saving my customer lots of money?
I emailed Sylvania and they say that these are both the same product.
http://www.servicelighting.com/Sylvania-64793-MC70T6-DE-830-T6-Metal-Halide-HID-Light-Bulb
http://www.superiorlighting.com/M139_E_M85_E_M98_E_p/64793-syl.htm
This kind of bulb is used in first class commercial track lighting to give good color rendering and nicely illuminate expensive merchandise. It isn’t hard to change the bulbs, but you should wear dustless rubber gloves when doing so, and then give the bulbs a quick wipe with alcohol. They get so hot that even fingerprint oils will burn, or perhaps cause them to shatter.
Oh, and if you think those bulbs are pricey, this one fits the same socket, works on the same ballast, throws the same amount of light, lasts just as long, and is noticeably whiter. You get even better color rendering because the light is closer to white. This is the kind of bulb you illuminate diamonds, platinum, and silver with:
http://www.servicelighting.com/Sylvania-64362-HQI-DE70-NDX-T6-Metal-Halide-HID-Light-Bulb
yet I can find the Osram equivalent of that same bulb for under $30
http://www.alldaylighting.com/Double_Ended_HID_.html
Somebody is ripping somebody off, big time. Not me!
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Permalink • Still Stuck On Stupid
Oh noes, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the “birther bill”!!! While admitting that the AZ legislature probably has the votes to override her veto, she said she vetoed the bill because it was “a brdige too far”; in her opinion it gave the AZ secretary of state too much power.
Brewer said in her veto letter that she was troubled that the bill empowered Arizona’s secretary of state to judge the qualifications of all candidates when they file to run for office.
“I do not support designating one person as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions,” said Brewer,
Ok, that sort of makes sense if you don’t think about it at all. The blatantly stated implication being that corruption would sneak in; absolute power and so forth? What does that say about the government of Arizona when the governor of that state implies that the secretary of state of that state isn’t fully trustworthy? And it is generally the secretary of state’s actual job to be the “gatekeeper to the ballot”. Somebody has to have the responsibility. What underling does Brewer think ought to be the one to make the decision? The Bisbee dogcatcher?
And then she goes into stupid land with
“In addition, I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their ‘early baptismal circumcision certificates’ among other records to the Arizona secretary of state,” she said. “This is a bridge too far.”
Is it too much to expect that the governor and the media actually read the damn bill? (applicable text below the fold here)
Pretty much everyone has a proper birth certificate these days, but AZ bill HB2177 tries to be fair and cover those situations where a valid “natural born” citizen doesn’t. Was it foolish of them to do so? Did they make a mess of it? Let’s look at the wording and see what they created, and try and shoot holes in it.
Part A. The party has to tell the state that so-and-so is going to be their candidate for President, and that what’s-his-face is going to be their candidate for Vice President. Fine by me. Next, the party has 10 days to hand in an affidavit that their candidate is a natural born citizen, and include proof of that. What the heck, it’s only in the Constitution after all. Fine by me. Too bad that the Arizona bill didn’t also extend this burden of proof to the VP candidate. That requirement is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, but it really ought to be, don’t you think? And don’t you think it should also apply to anyone in any of the “succession" positions below those offices, which would thus force every member of the federal legislature to be a natural born citizen as well? Or at least extend the natural born qualifier bit to those proper “officers” if a strict interpretation of Article II Section 1 is used and the 1947 Act is tossed out? But that’s getting off topic. Let’s focus on what the Arizona bill was trying to do, which was to keep possible usurpers off the ballot in the first place.
Part B. What is proof?
Subsection 1. A long form birth certificate with traceable data. Name, date, hospital, doctor, signatures of witnesses.
But I don’t have one! Ok, then come up with at least two of the following:
a. baptismal record OR circumcision record (gosh, the first bit doesn’t apply to atheists and the second bit doesn’t apply to females!! And Jan, what the heck kind of church do you belong to that does the baptisms and circumcisions at the same time???)
b. hospital birth record (gosh, but she was born at home, or in a ditch by the side of the road!!)
c. postpartum medical record ... signed by the person who delivered the child or who examined it after birth (gosh, after mom had the baby in the field, she went back to the log cabin in the mountains!)
d. early census record (all this will show is that a child under 10 was living at some place at some point. It may be proof of residency, but it is not any proof of citizenship)
Subsection 2. A sworn statement or form that shows that the presidential candidate has lived in the USA for at least 14 years.
Part C. Oh, Part B subsection 1 can also include an official affidavit from at least two people who witnessed the birth. (but she was alone, at night, in the snow!)
Part D. If the secretary of state is given the alternate junk in B.1.a - B.1.d and/or C., and can’t figure it out, they have the power to send this mess to committee or to hold hearings. They don’t have to do either one. Then what happens?
Part E. (not an enumerated subsection) Jumping back to Part A, if the candidate and his party’s election committee don’t submit the required documents and swear up and down that they are true, then the candidate does not get their name on the ballot.
(not another enumerated subsection either) If they do submit the docs, but the AZ secretary of state, along with the possible assistance of the optional committee or hearings, feels that most of it is crap, then the candidate does not get their name on the ballot.
Part F. An elected state level legislator or any AZ citizen can request that this law be enforced. (yeah, let’s make sure the barn door is closed after the horse has left and the building has burned down)
And that’s the entire bill. Ok, that’s the part that applies to Presidential Candidates. The rest of the bill only applies to local and state elections.
It certainly could be better written. Part C should really be B.1.e. Part D should require either public hearings or a committee, not “may” allow for them. Part E should be two subsections under Part D. Part F should not exist: this bill should establish a procedure that WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN for every candidate wishing to run for President to get on the AZ ballot.
It is easy to shoot holes in the requirements for B.1.a-B.1.d. Let’s say that single mommy, a full citizen living in the USA who doesn’t believe in God, went for a hike by herself, the exertion of that activity caused her to go into labor, and she delivered her own daughter out in the woods with only the aid of a sharp rock and a bit of vine. And got home a day or two later and stayed home alone for two weeks recovering, but realized that she was basically Ok, so she didn’t call a doctor or 911. That gives you a fully natural born citizen who would not pass the muster required by this bill. But how do you write a bill that says “Hey, you wanna run for President in our state? Prove you’re a normal citizen just like everybody else.” and then try to be nice and allow for oddball circumstances? I don’t think you can. And that means that once in a while someone is going to sneak in through the cracks, even if they were actually born in Kenya and then adopted by some white girl who was just passing by. [ Seriously. I’m not really part of the “Birther” crowd, but I’m not happy with the oddball shit surrounding Obama. Are there even pictures of his mother being pregnant? Does anyone have her passport showing that she was in the USA when he was born? Did anyone ever even do a blood test to prove he was her child? Or his? Too many questions. Better off not allowing any oddball candidates to run. Sorry, but too bad. I can come up with a boxful of pics of my mom gravid with me. I have my original birth certificate right here, and I’m sure I’m at least a checkmark on several censuses conducted when I was a child. Plus the hospital I was born in is still in business, and they have records. So do the state and the county. So does my church. You have the same documentation too. We all do at this point. Everyone does, except Obama. Or whatever his name was at that time. We all also have school records going back all the way, and they would be made public if we ran for office. But not Fearless Reader. ]
So Brewer was perfectly correct in not signing this partially flawed piece of legislature. Try it again guys, and do a better job next time. However, her rejecting it because it mentions circumcision, and the media and the armies of comment snipers who can’t show any more maturity than Beavis & Butthead, are just plain wrong. And Brewer’s qualm that it’s a “bridge too far” to give the AZ Sec State this much power is also wrong. That is part of the job. You certainly don’t want the decision made on a town by town or county by county basis by 1000 different people. It has to be made at the state level, and it has to be made near the top of the heap. That’s what the secretary of state is all about. They have to be trusted to be above politics. The whole thing falls apart if they aren’t. Stipulate that the grunt work has to be done by a bi-partisan committee, but the ultimate decision has to be made by the person in that job. That is not a bridge too far at all.
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Permalink • an expert on the usa speaks on crime,poverty and awful system of justice
There are the usual things in the news today that make a person reach for hair to pull out assuming there’s any on top.
I truly believe that what we refer to as “Western Civilization” is west as matter of geography, but I seriously question the civil part of civilization.
In other words dear friends, we’ve been led down some dark path and our world is almost totally screwed. There isn’t any justice in the justice system, either here or in the USA. A criminal system? Oh sure. Check. We got that ok.
I saw a story yesterday and as soon as I read it, somehow I just knew, it wasn’t a guess, that the 16 year old killer was a member of that favored minority group possessing very thick lips and a wide flat nose and often a thick neck as well, topped by brillo and referred to as hair. Notice please how civil I am and haven’t yet used the ‘N’ word. Although it would be most appropriate in this case.
A couple of Brit tourists were gunned down in Florida. No doubt you in America have already read about it or seen it on TV. I’m pretty sure you have.
Ah but what you won’t have read is what I have here. While I am outraged by the killing, who wouldn’t be? I’m further outraged by the column in today’s Mail that has been written by a former Brit diplomat who was stationed in Florida. I may be off the rails here and I admit that I have not, as Drew no doubt would,
researched the figures for accuracy. My problem I think is that the former diplomat is seeing and writing from a decidedly left wing, bleeding heart and blind to some facts stance. I suppose many could accuse me with some justification as seeing things from an opposite position. That is, the right and sometimes very far right on some issues. So I have very much edited his column and reduced most to what is posted here, and urge you to visit the link and see the article and his comments in full.
He writes about the abject poverty and desperate squalor. Here’s a photo of the area where they were shot dead. It’s thought the killings could have been associated with a gang initiation. The link does does show another photo of another area, don’t know where in Florida and have no doubts such areas do exist.
But when he says American society has given them ( the favored minority) “nothing,” well I just don’t buy that.
Lets not kid ourselves, there are plenty of white criminals who shouldn’t be breathing let alone breathing fresh and free air. Too damn many. And that’s the result of the power of the left, because right wingers have lost the thread and have forgotten how to launch a successful Vigilante movement. It happened so long ago that it’s no longer an option. And most serial killings are done by whites. I’m not blind to that fact. But I don’t believe our jails are crowded with minority prisoners simply because they belong to an unpopular group, put there by the Gestapo. They put themselves there by their own actions. And there seems to be an awful lot of em committing actions that earn them jail time.
Deadly side of the Sunshine State
By HUGH HUNTERA gun-toting, drug-fuelled menace awaits where people live in abject deprivation on a scale unimaginable in Britain, with our generous welfare state and infrastructure of public services.
Whoa ... hang on a minute. Sorry to interrupt myself doing this posting but it can’t be helped. Here’s a headline from the same paper he is writing for today.
Killers, child sex offenders and a rapist on the run… and officials REFUSE to name them because of their ‘human rights’
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:48 PM on 19th April 2011Killers, child sex offenders and a rapist are among nearly 50 dangerous criminals who are on the run but whose identities are protected by government officials because of human Rights laws.
Yeah ... a really great system here innit? But back now to Mr. Hunter, who having served as a diplomat in the USA is now an expert on the subject.
And don’t you just LOVE this line. “ a society which has given them nothing”
Young men who feel they have nothing to lose, in a society which has given them nothing.
The richest country in the world also contains some of the most shameful poverty in the West. The land of liberty also has the most draconian criminal justice regime of any developed country, reflected not only in the retention of the death penalty but also in the massive prison population.
you can find the most incredible poverty, either in squalid concrete jungles of housing estates or impoverished shanty towns.Even in the most notorious areas of Latin America, such as inner-city Bogota in Colombia, you would struggle to find anything as bad. Similarly, you could be driving through the countryside and then come across a group of primitive huts, made of corrugated sheets or derelict caravans, resembling something that you might find in an African village. There would not even be running water, the inhabitants relying on a standpipe.
It is no surprise to find that Florida is therefore scarred by high rates of crime. In my experience, the state has fewer petty offences than urban Britain – binge drinking is much more rare, for instance. But the incidence of serious crime is much higher. It is telling that Britain has by far the largest prison population in Europe in proportion to its size, at a total of 85,000 inmates.
Yet 100,000 prisoners are held in the jails of Florida, even though the state’s 15million population is only a quarter of Britain’s. Murder, drugs, rape, and firearm offences are all much more common in Florida. Tourists are an obvious target for gangsters and opportunistic criminals. One of the most sinister crime waves I had to deal with as a diplomat involved British hotel guests attacked in their rooms by gunmen.
SOURCE FOR ALL PLUS ARTICLE AND PHOTOS
He had a lot to say and there’s more to read about the unfortunate victims. And to be clear, they’d still be unfortunate were they law abiding blacks, Asians or anyone else caught up in the usual, ‘black pastime.’
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Permalink • Monday - April 18, 2011
why I don’t fashion blog
Maybe I should just put it down to a major Generation Gap?
This is Jennifer Lawrence, she of the simple stretchy red dress from the Oscars ...
I think she’s very pretty, and I think the outfit looks nice. It has a bit of class, though it isn’t complex. The wrap dress has great texture and the colors are springtime warm. Maybe it’s a little high-waisted for someone so young (she’s 20) but I don’t follow fashion so I try to make allowances. Don’t ask about the bird. I think it’s a tie in to some movie she was in.
Picture from Teen Vogue via celebitchy.
On the other hand, under the fold is another magazine cover featuring a slightly younger actress on the cover, Emily Browning. She’s nearly as pretty, but in a spunkier way. And the outfit? (eye roll) (sigh) (double eye roll). Horry clap. I think this is the kind of vengeance young women wish on the other woman when they find their boyfriend has been messing around. IMO, it’s worse than meeting Prince Charming with creme bleach on your upper lip, raging pink eye, and yesterday’s broccoli stuck in your teeth. Has she been a very very naughty girl, to deserve such punishment? Because, understanding as I try to be, I doubt that I could avoid laughing in her face if I saw her in public in this get up. Especially if I looked down. Fashion? No, this comes under the cruel and unusual category.
But I probably have it all bass ackwards; J. Lawrence is probably wearing the frumpiest horror ever, and E. Browning is “fierce” and “cutting edge”. Which is why I avoid this stuff.
Pics and links originally from the Fug Girls.
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Permalink • eye candy
Hey, I heard that. Quit ur moaning. That was serious eye candy back in ‘91. OK, so it was 1891. Was still eye candy and besides, that’s Lilly Langtree. So there.
Jeesh ... some folks never happy. Alright. Here. Happy now?
Wasn’t even looking for this but I was impressed when I ran across it. I think the glamor photography of that day had more class then today.
Almost done. The end is near ...
But this ain’t it.
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Permalink • jordan wants to put danish cartoonist on trial april 25
Thought the moo-ham-id cartoon controversy was finished, didn’t ya?
Well ... muzzies never forget. Filthy, pig ignorant, unwashed slime have another card they want to play. Have you seen this yet?
Like Europe’s gypos, muslims are a very good example of why sometimes, genocide is acceptable and in the case of muzzies, urgent.
Here ... take a look.
H/T France24.com
Jordan to try Danish artist over Mohammed cartoonA Jordanian court will begin this month the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, but it was unclear if he will attend.
AFP - A Jordanian court will begin this month the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, but it was unclear if he will attend.
Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets that sued Westergaard in 2008 for depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, said on Thursday the artist and others have been summoned by a magistrates’ court in Amman to stand trial on April 25.”
A copy of the subpoena obtained by AFP says Westergaard “is accused of the crime of blasphemy.”“These legal measures seek to prevent attempts to insult Islam and incite racial hatred against Muslims worldwide, particularly in Europe,” Sheikh told AFP.
A Jordanian prosecutor summoned Westergaard for questioning in 2008 after 30 independent newspapers, websites and radio stations in Jordan sued him over his cartoon, which was republished in at least 17 Danish dailies, sparking violent protests in a number of Muslim countries, including the kingdom.
He has been quoted in local news reports as saying that he “would like to go to Amman to stand trial. However, what I fear is that I am convicted in advance.”
“I wanted to depict the terrorists as if they were taking the Prophet Mohammed as a hostage. I have no problem with Islam but with the terrorists,” he said, insisting that he respects Islam but “will not apologise.”MPs have demanded that the government sever ties with Denmark, and Amman has condemned the caricature, warning that it could spark further extremism and harm relations between Denmark and Muslim countries.
But he respects islam? Why? What is there to respect? I’m glad he isn’t one of those wimpy apologists however.
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Permalink • part two, dumb california tricks and entitlements
OK, don’t normally do this back to back stuff but here goes anyway. Because this is an eye opener for me.
And here I thought it only happened to this horrid extent in the UK.
Lyndon and Chris take note. Calif., apparently has the very same modus operandi as the UK we read about so often.
Yesterday I called Calif., UK Pacific. But reading this makes me think that my home state is very definitely in a world all their own.
The wife wouldn’t look forward to snow so a move to Montana, perhaps the most beautiful of all our states, is out of the question. Maybe Arizona? But where?
Tucson used to be nice when I lived there maybe 45 yrs ago. Could even be 50 by now. Been awhile but it was nice. I saw some changes on a return trip acrss country some yrs ago and didn’t care for what little I saw.
I understand France isn’t bad provided you speak their language. Nah, don’t wanna live there either.
Which leaves?
Oh good grief. California or here?
I just managed to seriously depress myself.
Well anyway .... take a look, from the same source as my previous post.
I won’t put the entire thing here. It’s loooooooooooooong. You should read it anyway. Here’s the link,
and here’s a part of what you’ll see.
From reader “Oregon Here I Come”
Real good website!
I enjoyed reading your take on California’s Budget (?)
Here’s a little bit about MY California Budget experience.
I moved from LA to far Northern Cali at 18 and my 1st job was US Census 2000.
I was able to get my own little community as my first tract job.My town has 256 folks and out of that only 6 people work, including number 6 which is myself.
All the rest live on SSI & SSP from Cali.
That’s up to $907 per Individual or $1569 per Couple.
So the Fed’s pay (tax payers) $674 and the State of Cali pays $233 per person.
California gives CASH in the SSP program because they want to be generous and nice.
MOST other states give Food Stamps instead of Cash.
That’s probably because if you go past ANY Dive Bar in California on the 1st of the Month, you will see the SSI/SSP’s there Cashing their checks and paying up their Bar Tabs and re-charging on their New Bar Tabs.
They also like to buy Meth with their SSI/SSP money.Other’s that enjoy Morbid Obesity enjoy going to the Supermarkets and buying 4 carts loaded with food.
The Alcoholics & Meth Addicts don’t go hungry though, as Obama took good care of them by adding monsterous funding to all the Food Banks, Farmers Markets and and Faith Based Services.
So, they can get Food anytime from any of these entities. Also, Monthly Commodities was given Federal Funding as well. They can just drive up with their car and it’s filled to the brim with all kinds of food and needs! FREE! Oh, I mean from you and me the tax payer, Free style, free.
The people in my community have PhD’s in SSI/SSP Entitlement GETTIN’.
They make it their life’s goal to get onto SSI/SSP.
They throw a party called a ‘Kegger’ party each time they get their SSI/SSP awards.
And, that’s when they buy a nice fancy car, when they get their Windfall Checks.See, they have to keep their Checking/Savings to APPEAR they don’t have anything over 2 grand for individuals or 3 grand for couples in the El Banco.
BUT, there’s NEVER any checking up or reviews other than a form to fill out and return every TEN YEARS.
The recipient even fills out the review form themselves. It asks if they have Inherited any Real Estate in the Last 10 Years. Questions like that.
Do you think anything happens after that like a check up to SEE if they are telling the truth?
NO WAY!You would have to go to the Attorney General’s Office’s website for the State and fill out a Fraud complaint for over a hundred times to even get them to send a letter to the recipient themself.
Nothing hardly ever happens to these frauds.Another interesting fact about my community of SSI/SSP’s is that hardly any of them has ever worked a single day in their life.
You don’t have to have ever worked a single day in your life to collect SSI/SSP.
And, SSI/SSP is the ONLY Social ‘Entitlement’ Cash Program that pays ZERO TAXES.Social Security Retiree’s pay taxes, SSDI-Social Security Disability Income pays taxes, CalWORKS pays taxes, BUT, SSI & SSP pay ZERO taxes.
And the SSI/SSP’s did NOT understand why they did NOT get a Stimulus Check.But, Obama took good care of them and included them in this last Stimulus and they just recieved an extra check for $250 for every single SSI/SSP person.
I know almost all these people up here fairly well on a First Name Basis.
I can honestly say, ‘THEY ARE NOT DISABLED’.
see the link above. it gets worse.
Hmmm. Oregon? It snows there huh?
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I actually tripped across this (there’s lots more but I think I lost the link) and found it interesting and the usual scary/stupid California thing.
Hell, I don’t even expect to still be here in 2020. If I am, heaven knows what shape I’ll be in.
Being in love with computers and California is like being in love with an unfaithful mistress. Yeah I know. I’ve said that before but it’s no less true now.
Gee, both begin the letter ‘C’ and I wonder if there’s a connection. Well, I’ll be.
Let me explain what happened here. I clicked something without thinking and soon discovered I had subscribed to a feed of some kind. RSS? I think I did that, thinking I was clicking on to a link for further info.
So I started reading all kinds of interesting stuff not knowing how the heck I was getting it but there it all was. And btw, this ALL started because I was looking for Sun City Real Estate. I was getting cross eyed with those darn thumbnails and then when I did find a site I was hunting for, instead of letting me click thru the photos, they were running a slideshow and no option to slow the damn thing down, as it was running too fast. Are web designers thoughtless er what? Not all of course but I often find the sites for real estate are pretty dumb.
Well anyway, I found myself staring at this page, and before I knew it, I was engrossed. So I decided to post part of it and provide a link. That’s when disaster struck. I couldn’t find my way back to the page. Back arrow did no good and I have a list a mile long and growing. ????
Then worse happened and I have never experienced this before.
I landed on another story and to be sure I didn’t lose it, I tried to do what I always do when I find things. Or most always.
I open up a Word doc. and paste everything in there including a link to the source, and do any editing needed there.
BUT .......
Not this time. I got a window that opened and said I was short on memory or disk space. HUH? NO WAY! So I opened Notepad and pasted the next story there. So of course, I haven’t any idea what’s going on. I only know that ever since Microsoft tech helped me last week, I’ve lost a few settings and my printer does not work even tho looking in msconfig it says that spooling is running. MSFT tech support is calling me back tomorrow afternoon as the issue I originally called them for was left open. I don’t know why.
Over in the world of transportation, California has mandated that diesel emissions be reduced 85% by that halcyon year, 2020. This constitutes a multi-whammy for independent truckers, who will have to spend $8K to $20K per truck to retrofit them so that they can be operated through 2016, and will have to purchase new ones (at $80K to $250K a pop) by 2020 – although they won’t be able to get rid of their old ones for better than pennies on the dollar.
(Ed Morrissey wrote earlier this month about the highly questionable study – linking diesel emissions to premature deaths – which led to California’s adoption of the emission-lowering requirement.)
(Hey ... is Calf. following the EU? Or is the EU taking the lead from the left in CA? Cos they want to eventually do away with diesel here.)California isn’t worried about the impact of the diesel regulations on the trucking industry. But it is a big fan of high-speed rail (HSR), on which it’s moving full-speed ahead. Citizens are calling the first leg of the HSR project the “train to nowhere,” because it will link two moderate-size towns in the Central Valley, which have no commuter needs relevant to the HSR connection – and no cargo needs either, for that matter.
HSR advocates are pointing out that the train will bring jobs to the areas hit hardest by agriculture losses and farm failures, the result of 30 or more years of improvident federal and state water policies. Myself, I’d rather have the farms. So would the farmers.
And this is an excellent time to observe that nothing going on here is dictated by blind fate: politicians and regulators are making decisions – according to their opinions; i.e., on the same basis you and I do – about what they want to encourage and discourage. They are consciously disfavoring agriculture and favoring high-speed rail and environmental “restoration” projects. (Meaning, “make it like it was in 1960 again, with the salmon runs and the water in my favorite spot in the Delta”; but why not 1910, or 1840, or 1776?) Of course, HSR potentially poses threats to wildlife too, and some environmental groups are pointing that out.
But perhaps the most interesting thing about HSR is that it uses a lot of electricity. China feeds the HSR system with coal-generated power. Japan and France feed theirs with nuclear-generated power. California wants to have HSR but ensure that 33% of the state’s electricity comes from renewables. Since passive renewables are unreliable on a 24-hour average basis – winds die, clouds come – the rail system will presumably have to monopolize some of the more-reliable electricity being produced for California.
Down the road, there will be an impact, in various forms, from energy unreliability. My guess is that it will be a combination of even higher electricity prices – a premium (or, basically, extortion) for reliability – along with periodic compromises from regulators on how well the power companies are meeting their mandated renewables goal, and (the practical measure) a proliferation of generators operated by businesses and homeowners, who will want to keep the power saw, the refrigerator, or the a/c on when the grid is overloaded.
In other words, state policy will guarantee that what you spend on electricity goes up, period.
For many power customers, there’s also the option of moving away.
WOO-HOO! I found the link. She’s pretty good. Take a look.
It’s headed, Stupid California Tricks
http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/
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please, lets have no displays of the cross in a business vehicle . might offend.
This happens a lot. I have something I want to post and share, all set and ready but something else catches my eye.
Like this bit of insanity. Words do fail at moments like this. But I doubt they’ll fail some of you.
How did western civilization ever get this far without the politically correct lunatics dictating how we should think and act.
Especially on the subject of the display of a cross.
Have you ever noticed that even those who aren’t red, don’t make any fuss about the odd display here and there of a hammer and sickle?
Especially at lefty protests over almost anything.
But don’t dare have a cross on the dashboard because that is offensive behavior and it might be seen as intimidating to others not of that faith.
What a load of BS. What a very sick and twisted world the pc crowd has created. Why isn’t anybody shooting those jerks?
Take a look at this. Came across my screen a half hour ago. And btw ... PLEASE see the link below cos you really should read every last word of this article, and see the photos as well. This clearly shows (as if you need more evidence) where America might also be headed when the pc idiots gain everything they want. And that is not a dumb statement nor is it beyond the possible if allowed to continue unchecked. As it apparently is here. And yeah, I am pissed off at the utter stupidity and lunacy of this act. See the link.
Persecuted for his cross: Electrician told he faces the sack for Christian symbol on his van dashboardBy JONATHAN PETRE
Last updated at 10:31 AM on 17th April 2011
An electrician faces the sack for displaying a small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van.
Former soldier Colin Atkinson has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing by the giant housing association where he has been employed for 15 years because he refuses to remove the symbol.
Mr Atkinson, a regular worshipper at church, said: ‘The treatment of Christians in this country is becoming diabolical...but I will stand up for my faith.’
Throughout his time at work, he has had an 8in-long cross made from woven palm leaves attached to the dashboard shelf below his windscreen without receiving a single complaint.
But his bosses at publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in West Yorkshire – the fifth-biggest housing organisation in England – have demanded he remove the cross on the grounds it may offend people or suggest the organisation is Christian. Mr Atkinson’s union representative said he faces a full disciplinary hearing next month for gross misconduct, which could result in dismissal.
The association strongly promotes ‘inclusive’ policies and allows employees to wear religious symbols at work.
It has provided stalls at gay pride events, held ‘diversity days’ for travellers, and hosted a gender reassignment event entitled A World That Includes Transpeople.
(WOW. So now there’s a new category called, “Transpeople?” A question. Why is all the above funded with public money? It is ya know. If those people need all those things, they should get their own financing or pay out of their own pockets. Oh no. That’d never do when so much public money is on offer. And why should it be the association’s responsibility to host those things anyway? )
Mr Atkinson, who has an unblemished work record, said he had not been shown similar respect.
‘The past few months have been unbelievable, a nightmare,’ he said.
‘I have worked in the coal mines and served in the Army in Northern Ireland and I have never suffered such stress. The treatment of Christians in this country is becoming diabolical. It is political correctness taken to the extreme.’
But he added: ‘I have never been so full of resolve. I am determined to stand up for my rights. If they sack me, so be it. But I am standing up for my faith.’
Mr Atkinson’s battle follows a series of similar cases involving Christians who claim their freedoms have been curbed following the introduction of controversial equality laws.
Campaigners accused the housing association of ‘remarkable intolerance’ at a time when millions of Christians will be celebrating Palm Sunday today, a week before Easter Sunday. Palms are traditionally distributed during services to mark Christ’s triumphal entrance into Jerusalem.
Despite the company’s treatment of Mr Atkinson, the boss of the depot where he works in Castleford has been allowed to adorn his office with a poster of the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.
Denis Doody, who is WDH’s environmental manager, also has a whiteboard on which are written several quotations by the Marxist guerrilla leader, who was a key figure in the Cuban revolution in the Fifties.
Colleagues said staff and even members of the public who were visiting the depot would be able to see the poster and whiteboard through his office window.
Mr Atkinson began work as an electrician in the mines before serving as an Army radio technician for seven years. His military career included a stint at the notorious, riot-torn Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland in 1974.
He was employed as a £25,000-a-year electrician by Wakefield Council in 1996, but its housing department was transferred into the association’s ownership six years ago.
His ordeal began last year when managers at WDH, which has 31,000 properties, told Mr Atkinson to remove the cross from the van after years of ignoring it.
He demanded to know why. He said his cross was as discreet and inoffensive as other forms of religious expression and accused his bosses of badgering him.
The company said, however, that he had refused a ‘reasonable’ request to remove the symbol from an official vehicle that could be seen by members of the public.
The 64-year-old grandfather became a committed Christian more than 20 years ago and was a regular Church of England worshipper for many years.
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Weekend WhatsIt
I understand how these are used, and I think I can understand why they are needed. I think this one is rather pretty, though some say it’s not the best of its kind. I wouldn’t know, this thing is not part of my world at all. But I bet every liberal on the west coast can identify this thing in half a femtosecond.
Made from stainless steel, it stands 3” tall and is just over 2.25” wide across the large flat end. Which isn’t really flat but actually slightly convex. I guess that means it wobbles around on the workbench?
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OK. Now for some very queer news from the UK.
Jonathan Williams, 26, a financial journalist, and James Bull, 23, a charity volunteer, said they were ejected from the John Snow in Soho, central London, by a woman claiming to be the landlady who accused them of being ‘obscene’.
What sort of occupation is ‘charity volunteer? I mean, volunteer is unpaid. Right? So maybe the faggot is wealthy and doesn’t have to work. Or ...benefits?
Couldn’t miss this article altho the queers in question seem to miss the point.
I don’t care if you’re heterosexual, I find ppl swallowing each other’s face in public disgusting. Hand holding is fine. OK, a peck on the cheek maybe alright I suppose. But please take your serious tongue touching to a private place. But leave it to a couple of damn maggots to make an issue out of their lack of decorum. One of em says he “has never been made to feel bad for being gay.” The stupid bastard doesn’t understand nobody attacked his queerness. Nobody thought to make him feel anything except perhaps a few good manners in public. Oh dear fuckin me. What’s that?
No surprise to BMEWS readers of course that now the happy couple, who by the way were on their very first date, are going to seek “legal advice.”
Just another good example of why so many straights feel hatred toward these odd ppl. They bring it on themselves by their behavior and then point the finger of blame on others. They feel outrage and anger that others do not accept their lifestyle and insist that others should. Well those ‘others’ don’t take kindly being told they must accept abnormal people in their midst doing disgusting things.
If you read the links and what some had to say, you might feel as I do which is. If someone brained these fruit loops, I would feel no pity for them.
I think they they were pushing things and hoping for just this outcome and a lawsuit.
Here. See what you make of this.
Gay couple ‘kicked out of London pub for kissing’A gay couple who claim they were thrown out of a pub for kissing have received widespread support online.
Jonathan Williams and James Bull kissed during their first date at the John Snow pub in Soho, central London.
They were asked to leave by a woman claiming to be the landlady, who told the pair that they were being obscene.
They said she was backed up by a man who grabbed Mr Williams’ lapels as he asked them to leave.
When they did go, the couple was joined by several other outraged customers.
Mr Bull, 23, who works for a charity, said: “I felt so belittled, and to be made to feel so dirty and cheap over something like that – it’s just wrong.”
He rang the police when he got home to lodge a complaint while Mr Williams, 26, took to Twitter to protest at the treatment they had received.
The financial journalist wrote: “Seven years in London & I’ve never been made to feel bad for being gay.
“45 mins ago the John Snow pub, W1F had me removed for kissing a date.”
His tweet provoked a storm of protest and supporters have planned a “kiss in” at the pub.
One person wrote on Twitter: “The John Snow kiss-in protest has 456 attendees and growing by the hour. This is so exciting!”
The kiss-in protest: Hundreds descend on London pub for mass smooch after gay couple were ‘thrown out for snogging’
By Daily Mail ReporterHundreds of people attended a ‘kiss-in’ protest at a London pub after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing.
Several hundred protesters gathered outside the locked doors of the pub last night, and staged a mass kiss at 7pm. The demonstration, organised on Facebook, was to take place in the pub, but its doors were closed after news of the protest broke.
If the incident is proven it would have broken the Equality Act which says that goods and services must be offered to all fairly regardless of sexuality
More plus photos here.
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“goods and services must be offered to all fairly regardless of sexuality”
But services weren’t refused based on the fact that they’re queer. It was refused because of public behavior seen as obscene.
But I guess everyone MUST accept that cos ... they have rights.
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