Monday - May 23, 2011

In the Inbox

Joke from the bro ...

A woman from Los Angeles who was a treehugger, a liberal Democrat, and an anti-hunter, purchased a piece of timberland near Colville, WA.

There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land, so she started to climb the big tree. As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her, um, nether regions.

In considerable pain, she hurried to a local ER to see a doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, a democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her.

She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared.

The angry woman demanded,"What took you so long?” He smiled and then told her, “Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a “recreational area” so close to a waste treatment facility. I’m sorry, but due to Obamacare they turned me down.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/23/2011 at 09:41 PM   
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You Can Keep Him If You Want

And when they got to Ireland the wind blew Michelle’s hair all over the place. Thanks for the pics, Daily Mail. We were running short of new snaps of the klingon war bride looking ridiculous.

But you know what surprised me? Ambassador Rooney! Who knew? The United States Ambassador to Ireland ... is a leprechaun.

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Killing a Nasty Bastard

What this infection does:

MS Removal Tool is a computer infection from the same family as System Tool. This infection is also categorized as a rogue anti-spyware program as it pretends to be an anti-virus program, but is actually a program that displays fake security alerts and scan results in order to make you think your computer is infected. MS Removal Tool is installed through the use of malware that will install the program onto your computer without your knowledge or permission. When installed, the infection files will be created in a random named folder in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\, in XP, or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\, in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It will then be configured to start automatically when you login to your computer.

The little bastard gets into your PC and immediately shuts down every other program’s ability to run. Those programs either won’t respond at all, or an error message will come up saying that you don’t have the proper permissions to run them. Meanwhile, MS Removal Tool will be scanning the daylights out of your hard drives, and reporting back that you have all sorts of infections, damaged files, and every other kind of horror. You can reboot all you want, and it won’t make any difference. MS Removal Tool sets itself up to be the very first program loaded on boot. It’s a con. It’s out to hold your PC hostage until you authorize it to make a charge against your credit card for $29.95. Then it goes away. For now.

It can get right through your firewall, and right through many of the commercial anti-virus software packages.

You can beat it without too much trouble, and at no cost. Download the just released tool from Microsoft, called Microsoft Safety Scanner. <<== this is the link to get it. It's big - 68Mb. And it isn't terribly fast. But it will do the job. You can even download the tool once MS Removal Tool has taken over your PC, if you know how.

Here's what to do:
1) Reboot your Windows PC in Safe Mode. Do this by hitting the reset button, and then holding down the F8 key once the BIOS information is done flashing across the screen. Some text will come up: choose Safe Mode With Networking. Detailed F8 Safe Mode Boot instructions are here for all versions of Windows.

2) If you prepared ahead of time, you downloaded Microsoft Safety Scanner, and you have the file, called msert.exe, sitting on your desktop in the upper left quadrant. Safe Mode generally defaults to VGA 640x480 resolution, so you aren’t going to see most of your desktop icons. But it seems to map them from the upper left to the lower right, so if you move msert.exe in that area you’ll always be able to click on it.
2b) If you put msert.exe anywhere else, use Start—Run to launch it.
2c) If you didn’t prepare ahead of time, you can launch a browser and go online and download it. Browsers aren’t easy to use in VGA mode, but you can do it.

3) Run msert.exe, set it to full scan, then go out to lunch. It will take the better part of an hour to run, probably longer. But it will wipe out MS Removal Tool almost as an afterthought, while scanning and removing any other bit of spyware, malware, etc on your PC. It won’t even alert you that MS Removal was found until the very last screen. But it kills it, every time.

There are other PC security tools that can detect and remove this bastard. is one.

MS Removal Tool is really just another version of the WinWebSec rogue (ID pics and info about all the variations at this link), but it is persistent and annoying. And it’s out there in lots and lots and lots of places. It looks like a Microsoft tool, or a proper anti-viral too. So be prepared. Make sure your other anti-viral applications are updated. And be familiar with the security tools that you have on your PC, so that you can spot this fake if it suddenly shows up.

The Microsoft Safety Scanner, expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner again. Do note that its not exactly a small file … its msert.exe file is a 68 MB download!

The MSS is different from the Malicious Software Removal Tool – nor is it meant to be a replacement for using an antivirus software program that provides ongoing protection. It is meant to be used as an additional on-demand scanner in addition to your existing antivirus software, should you feel the need for a second opinion. It works along with your existing antivirus software.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/23/2011 at 11:47 AM   
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bronze age battleground discovered in germany

At the end of our street, not more then two blocks if that, is a Bronze Age burial ground. Nothing to see except mounds and circles etc. But every time I cross that field (short cut) to a friends house, I can’t help staring at those mounds. You can’t help but wonder sometimes, what were those ppl like? I think we can assume, not too friendly towards strangers. Anyway ... the wife found this story today, and I don’t know how I missed it since we both read the same papers. I think I was still asleep.  There weren’t any photos available, but I imagine those will come in time.

Bronze Age battle site found in Germany

A team of archeologists say they’ve unearthed remains that could be evidence of a major Bronze Age battle during land and riverbed excavations in the Tollense Valley in northern Germany.

May 23, 2011 - London

A team of archeologists say they’ve unearthed remains that could be evidence of a major Bronze Age battle during land and riverbed excavations in the Tollense Valley in northern Germany.

The team found fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC, reports the BBC.

The injuries to the skulls suggested face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes, say the researchers.

The finding is based primarily on an investigation begun in 2008 of the Tollense Valley site, which involved both ground excavations and surveys of the riverbed by divers.

They found remains of around 100 human bodies, of which eight had lesions to their bones. Most of the bodies, but not all, appeared to be young men.

The injuries included skull damage caused by massive blows or arrowheads, and some of the injuries appear to have been fatal.

The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood.

The researchers suggest the bodies may have been dumped in the river before being washed away and deposited on a sandbar. Alternatively, the dead could have been killed on the spot in “the swampy valley environment”, the paper concludes.

Dr Harald Lubke of the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Germany believes the real conflict may have been fought out further up the river, and that the bodies so far found represent just a fraction of the carnage wrought by the battle.

The paper has been published in the journal Antiquity.

H/T AndrhaNews

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it’s racist to suggest that black women aren’t as pretty as other races. why?

What makes it so?  It’s an opinion.  There are some nice ones, mostly those of mixed race. That’s an opinion. Others are free to differ.

I think Asian women outshine all others, till I see a striking redhead and then I alter my opinion. I’m fickle that way.  But I guess that’s racist too.

It was a great week for the easily offended.  Those pious and easily bruised libtards determined to be outraged as often as possible.

That’s right kids.  Lets not tolerate people who publish ideas that might be wrong. More to the point though, ideas you don’t agree with.

Everything and anything critical in any way whatsoever, of any minority group, especially groups that are in favor these days is automatically
RAYYYYSIST! 

Well of course.  The school has an anti racist officer. I wonder if she wears a uniform with an armband of any kind and struts as opposed to walks. Just a thought.

Press Release: ULU unanimously calls for Satoshi Kanazawa’s dismissal

The University of London Union Senate (the umbrella union for 22 colleges within the University of London), the Union’s legislative body representing over 120,000 students, voted unanimously in favour of calling for a campaign for the dismissal of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa, Reader in Management at the LSE, and to condemn his poor research.

Kanazawa published an article on Psychology Today on Monday 16 May 2011 called “Why black women are less attractive than any other women”. Previous articles by Kanazawa include “Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?” and “What’s Wrong with Muslims?” which estimates there to be “120 million potential suicide bombers worldwide”.

Sherelle Davids, anti-racism officer-elect of the LSE Students’ Union says:
“Kanazawa deliberately manipulates findings that justify racist ideology. As a Black woman I feel his conclusions are a direct attack on Black women everywhere who are not included in social ideas of beauty.”

Amena Amer, incoming LSESU Education Officer comments
“We support free speech and academic freedom, but Kanazawa’s research fuels hate against ethnic and religious minorities promoted by neo-Nazi groups. Not only does he use LSE’s credentials to legitimise his ‘research’ but this jeopardises the academic credibility of the LSE.”

The academic community has widely condemned Kanazawa’s flawed research and there should be no place for his unscientific bigotry at the LSE. Students stand united against his disgraceful conclusions and will not let this negatively impact good campus relations” says Community and Welfare Officer-elect Lukas Slothuus.

The Students’ Union welcomes the unanimous ULU decision to campaign for the dismissal of Kanazawa.

The good doctor had the gall to suggest that black women were less attractive then white, Asian or native American women.  I once knew an honest to gosh Cherokee and she had a body to die for and long thick black hair, bit of a skin problem and not a classic beauty, but darn good looking in spite of that. But I’ve seen photos of American Indians in general and haven’t seen any great beauties there outside a catwalk. Have you?
I have seen a number of very pretty black women, more brown and beige really then black.  But overall, he could be right except the screamers on the left can’t tolerate opinions like his, and so call for his removal. That’s so much easier isn’t it, then refuting his argument with other evidence of opposing research. Although since beauty is so much in the eye of the beholder, I don’t know if there actually is any scientific evidence for either side.

One of his critics, Ashok Kumar, an ‘education officer’ at the student union, says academic freedom in Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa’s case does not apply. Well of course not.
He wasn’t critical of white folks. Ashok huh? I wonder if that’s misspelled. Like maybe it should be, Ashole?  Kumar says there isn’t one person who will defend him.
No, more likely that the voices who might are being stilled or else just not reported on at the college. Naturally, Dr. Kanazawa is being referred to as a “Fascist.” Oh. Surprise.

Personally, I think the doctor is a lucky man cos he gets to have Japanese women. Or even Chinese if he’s apologetic enough. Or Korean.

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Politics can be a stressful business

Don’t ya sometimes wish that our guys would just open up and let us know how they really,really feel?

Parliamentary gagging order Ukrainian style: Speaker grabs his deputy in death grip during debate row

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:19 PM on 23rd May 2011

Vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Adam Martynyuk was recorded on camera as he grabbed a colleague by the throat and slammed him into the ground with a ‘death grip’ wrestling move.

Martynyuk had been presiding over a legislative session in a chamber of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev on Wednesday when tempers flared.

The usually dull proceedings were disrupted when Martynyuk’s deputy Oleg Lyashko asked to make a speech but was refused. He then reportedly called Martynyuk a ‘Pharisee’.

Martynyuk leapt to his feet and lunged at his deputy.

In what appears to be an expert self-defence move, the speaker pinched the deputy’s throat in a ‘death grip’ while jamming two fingers into his temple.

He then overpowers the man who is thrown to the ground after toppling over a wooden stand.

But still visibly irritated, Lyashko gets up from the floor and the pair square up and push each other.

more text here

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   Sunday - May 22, 2011

sometimes democracy does suck. like when it attacks itself.

Not a lot of sleep last night, asleep here at the keyboard this morning. 
Why the heck am I posting this story?
I don’t know. Maybe as a warning to Americans?  This could not happen in the USA. Could it?
Always seems as though the democratic process is the worst enemy a democracy faces. Most discouraging the way folks here allow this to go on.
There’s a loophole we read. Yeah?  Why hasn’t some smart lawyer found it before this? Oh but they have. Journalists have been writing about it for awhile.
WTF are they waiting for?  Another tube tragedy or maybe 911 in London?  And why can’t judges work around a loophole that’s so obviously contrary to the interests of their home country?  The more I read stuff like this, which is almost daily, the further pushed to the extreme right I find myself.  Not exactly a comfortable position.
Maybe when I wake up after breakfast and a third strong coffee ........

Take a look at this insanity from one of our Sunday morning papers. It’s from The Sunday Telegraph.

Judges block Home Secretary from deporting convicted terrorist

A convicted terrorist banned from Britain for being a risk to national security has been stopped by the courts from being deported.

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent

The Muslim man, who cannot be named, was found guilty of terrorism in Tunisia and has already been extradited once to Italy, where he was accused of being involved in helping to send Islamists to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered that he be kept out of Britain because his presence would not be “conducive to the public good for reasons of national security”, adding that there was evidence he had been involved in “extremist radicalisation”.

However, after he was acquitted in Italy, he returned to Britain and has been allowed to stay by the Court of Appeal while he fights Mrs May’s ruling. The court’s decision has exposed what experts said was a “loophole” in immigration law which would allow “dangerous” people to stay here.

Experts said the case would have serious implications for the Home Office’s ability to exclude terrorists and those suspected of terrorist offences, effectively creating an open border for terrorists while they pursue legal challenges.
Although only a small number of people would be affected, they could pose serious risks to national security.

The Tunisian terrorist is likely to use human rights legislation to argue that it is unsafe for him to be returned to his home country, so he can stay permanently in Britain.

Lord Justice Pill, Lord Justice Rix and Lord Justice Lloyd backed the terrorist’s right to be in Britain while he mounts an appeal. Lord Justice Pill commented that denying him access to Britain could lead to “potential injustice”. The case puts the judiciary and the Government at loggerheads once again, and comes after the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, warned MPs against using parliamentary privilege to reveal the identities of those who have obtained injunctions to protect their privacy.

Anthony Glees, a professor of security and intelligence at the University of Buckingham, said: “The judiciary are putting the rights of terrorists and terrorist suspects above the rights of ordinary people in this country to go about their daily lives in peace.

“This is a very dangerous precedent if it is allowed to stand. It used to be the case that if the home secretary said someone could not enter this country then that was the end of the story.”
The man, known only in legal documents as MK, was convicted of terrorist offences in his absence by a Tunisian military court. He arrived in this country in 2001 and successfully claimed asylum.

The Sunday Telegraph knows the identity of MK but has been prevented from disclosing it by the courts because he is an asylum seeker. The exact details of his criminal conviction in Tunisia are not known.
He lived in Manchester with his wife and daughters. It has been claimed he is a veteran of the Bosnian war, where he fought with the Muslim Mujahideen Brigade.

MK was arrested in a dawn raid by Greater Manchester Police in November, 2007, on a European arrest warrant at the request of an Italian investigating magistrate.

The 53-year-old was held as part of a series of coordinated raids across Europe against an alleged north Italy-based network recruiting fighters for Iraq and Afghanistan. Seventeen were detained in total and a senior Italian politician said at the time that the raids had “decapitated” a “Salafist jihadi” network of terror cells.

Poisons and ignition devices for explosives were seized in a number of northern Italian cities. The suspects were also accused of falsifying identity documents allowing them to travel clandestinely from one European country to another.

Court documents show that MK was accused of “membership of a criminal organisation for the purposes of terrorism”. British police also claimed that the network was involved in forging documents between 2003 and 2005.

He then fought a lengthy legal action, using human rights laws, against extradition, arguing that he could ultimately be sent to Tunisia, where he would be tortured. His action failed and he was sent to Italy in 2008, where he was charged with offences including providing forged documents to jihadis.
In July, he was acquitted of terror-related charges in Italy but convicted of falsely procuring a document. Because of time spent on remand he did not have to serve a further sentence.

Once again his lawyers launched a human rights case to prevent him being deported to Tunisia.
In April last year the Home Office warned MK that his refugee status could be revoked because there was reason to believe he had been involved in “extremist radicalisation and facilitation”, adding that there were “reasonable grounds for regarding him as a danger to the security of the United Kingdom”.

On Aug 7 last year Italian authorities ordered MK to leave the country within five days. He took a train to Switzerland and was arrested at Zurich airport on Aug 25 trying to board a plane to Dublin.

The Swiss decided to send him to Britain — possibly because he had a travel document issued by the Home Office — and he was arrested on the morning of Aug 27 at London City Airport.

When British immigration officers tried to send MK back to Zurich, they were prevented by an injunction. The Home Office tried to overturn the injunction but its case was dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

The challenge hinged on interpretation of the Immigration Act 1971 and other immigration legislation. The court hearing included a debate about the meaning of the word “while” in the phrase “while he is in the United Kingdom” from the 2002 Nationality, Asylum and Immigration Act.

Patrick Mercer, a Conservative MP and security expert, said: “This is particularly worrying in view of the Home Secretary’s efforts to exclude this man. The immigration Acts have been exploited and this loophole needs to be closed.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are disappointed by this judgment, but its ramifications are limited. The UK’s exclusions regime will continue to bar people from this country when they seek to subvert our shared values.”

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   Saturday - May 21, 2011

One Bat, No Moon

I was out on the back balcony enjoying the bit of sunshine we’re having today. Actual spring, yahoo!! I looked down at the neighbor’s garden patio below us, and saw movement. There was a little brown bat out in the day time, crawling around. He didn’t seem to be injured, and managed his walkabout pretty easily. By the time I’d watched him for a couple minutes and had the idea of taking a picture, he’d crawled under a bush.

Bats out in the daytime? Made me wonder about rabies. So I Googled it up, and found out that New Jersey brown bats have been suffering from a terrible disease called White Nose Syndrome. It’s a fungus. This little fellow was quite hard to see, because he’s almost the same color as the stonework and the soil. But every once in a while he’d open out a wing and give it a shake. For all I know he was just water logged from all the rain and was trying to dry out a little.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has detailed a national plan to combat a fungus that has killed more than 1 million bats, including tens of thousands in New Jersey.

The disease, known as white-nose syndrome, is caused by fungus that appears to affect wing and tail membranes in many species of bats. It has spread to bats in 18 states and four Canadian provinces.

In unveiling the plan Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said it will provide a road map for the more than 100 federal, state and tribal agencies and scientific researchers who are tracking the disease and trying to combat it.

“The plan pretty much lays out a blueprint for the work that has been done and it ... lays out what is needed to be done,” said biologist Mick Valent of the state’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program. “It’s a framework.”

Since it was first detected outside Albany, N.Y., in 2006, the disease has been found in bats along the Eastern Seaboard and has spread inland to Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The fungus also has been found in Oklahoma and Missouri, although no bats are known to have died from it in those states.

The rapid spread of the disease has concerned many ecologists because of the critical role bats play in maintaining healthy ecosystems, as well as in agricultural systems.

White-nose syndrome has hit New Jersey’s bat population especially hard, Valent said. Before it was detected in the state in January 2009, about 27,000 bats of various species gathered each fall to hibernate in the Hibernia Mine in Rockaway. The next spring, there were only 1,715 bats left at the mine, a mortality rate of more than 90 percent.

Scientists are not certain how the disease is transmitted or even how it kills. The fungus grows on bats’ noses, wings and ears and it may irritate those membranes, causing the animals to wake often during hibernation and thus burn so much energy they starve to death before spring. Other evidence suggests the fungus directly damages the wings, which are important for bats’ water balance and blood pressure.

The disease does not affect humans, officials said. However, the fungus can be spread by people’s footwear. Many caves on federal land have been closed to the public to try to stem the spread of the fungus. Officials said it was important for people to clean their shoes before and after they enter caves.

The announcement of a national effort to combat the disease was welcomed by New Jersey environmentalists who are seeking a solution to a devastating problem.

“There should be some kind of national plan because if every state is doing its own thing, it’s kind of chaotic,” said Jackie Kashmer of the New Jersey Bat Sanctuary in Alexandria Township. “Having a central agency overseeing the entire project could only be a good thing, to see what works and what doesn’t work.”

Alexandria Township is just a couple miles to the west of us here. Hmm, I wonder if we have a bat nest up under the eaves? I did see a woman out on the hill behind us with a camera yesterday at dusk. She was taking pictures of our roof. I figured she was just strange. Hope the little bat dude is Ok.

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   Friday - May 20, 2011

eye candy

There must be a thousand pix of this Israeli model and damn hard not to post all of em.
I read that she’s one of the hottest new models around and she’s 21. B. Date March 6, 1990 should you wanna send her a card next year.

Yup .. another member of the IDF.  Reminds me of another old song.  “I surrender Dear”

ESTI GINZBURG

Long may it wave in spite of Obama and its enemies both foreign and domestic.

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a very quick read

An item or two that caught my wandering eye today.

JURY TRIAL FOR MAN ACCUSED OF LEAVING PORK AT MOSQUE

In this morning’s Telegraph there was a small article, just a paragraph or two.
Seems a churchgoer named John White, age 63, left some bacon outside a mosque and is now accused of a “hate campaign.”

In addition, he is accused of causing ” harassment, alarm or distress” to muslim worshippers.  Trial date set for July. 

Gosh … do they have enough charges against him ya think? Bet they can find more if they look around.  Or make up some new ones.

Hey, the continued breathing of those folks causes me upset and distress and alarm.

Here’s some good news for anyone who has followed Drew’s food choices, recommendations and recipes.  You read it here. 

DAILY DOSE OF COOKED TOMATOS OR TOMATO PASTE COULD REPLACE STATINS

Uh huh. Good news and supposedly true. Researchers believe that eating less then two ounces a day, including on pizza topping, might work for some patients.
They’ve been studying something called Lycopene , an antioxidant from cooked tomatoes, for 55 years.  they believe it will reduce cholesterol levels and lower blood pressure.

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crime and odd punishment? no. just crime and free tickets to movies.

I pretty much ignored this a few days ago. Just seemed like same sort of article but different baddies. Girl gangs etc.

A few days ago a Japanese researcher caused a bit of hoo-ha and got the race professionals wound up, by claiming that his studies showed that black women were not as attractive as other races of women.  Much of it he said has to do with a higher level of testosterone in black women which makes them somewhat masculine.
On the other hand, his studies found, he claimed, that black men were attractive.  Frankly, I don’t get that cos the stories over here concerning very vicious white girl gangs don’t appear very feminine.  Nor are they particularly attractive. The odd one maybe striking in face and figure but generally not.
None of which is the focus of this post. I was only reminded of it by the article here and another similar one concerning white female thugs. Young ones. And nasty beyond reason.

So then ... here’s a gang that made life so impossible for some over time, one family actually moved away. And that is not the first time I’ve read about someone selling up and going away rather then suffer the abuse of criminal gangs in their neighborhood. Which please no mistake here, isn’t always located in some urban slum.  So how does a society handle the problem of violent criminal teens? Why by understanding the dears and realizing they need love and help and tickets to movies - sporting events - canal trips - All paid for by .... well of course.

Here ya go. Take a look.

Canal trips, cinema visits and football: The punishment of ‘Whitebirk witches’ in reign of terror
By JAYA NARAIN

They terrorised their community so badly that one middle-aged man was too scared to switch on his lights at night.

Amanda Holt, 16, and Tori Duxbury, 15, nicknamed the Whitebirk Witches after the neighbourhood where they lived, caused brawls involving crowds of up to 30, shouted abuse at residents, scrawled anti-police slogans on walls, set off fireworks in neighbours’ gardens and hurled bricks at cars.

Last night, their victims were outraged to learn of the ‘punishment’ now being meted out to the teenagers – canal boat trips, cinema visits and sporting activities, all courtesy of the taxpayer.

Earlier this month the pair, from Whitebirk, Blackburn, were named and shamed in court, banned from seeing each other, given overnight curfews and handed interim Asbos ahead of a full Asbo hearing next month.

Now it has emerged they are also being sent on a number of taxpayer-funded recreational activities. As well as trips to see the latest cinema releases and a boat trip from Eanam Wharf on the Leeds-Liverpool canal, they will be taken on outings to a bowling alley and allowed to play in a special programme of football matches drawn up with Premier League team Blackburn Rovers. For all these trips they will be provided with drinks, snacks or a packed lunch and will have free transport to and from the venues.

Holt and Duxbury, whose own choice of nickname, the Whitebirk Bitches, was adapted to ‘witches’ by their persecuted neighbours, have been ordered to attend the programme, estimated to cost more than £1,000 per person, over the coming weeks.

The initiative aims to reform teenage tearaways by giving them constructive activities to do in their spare time.

But victims of the girls’ loutish behaviour have described the move as a ‘reward’ for bad behaviour and a ‘complete waste’ of taxpayers’ money. Ryan Berry, 38, said: ‘It is intimidating to go out looking over your shoulder in case one of them hits you. And as for taking them on jollies to the cinema and bowling alley, that’s just daft. They are being rewarded for causing trouble.’

Phyllis Edwards, 68, added: ‘It’s totally disgusting. What message does that send out to their cohorts? Behave as badly as us and you’ll get the same treats.’

Another resident said: ‘The whole scheme is a disgraceful waste of public money. The victims should be sent on these freebies as a reward for having to put up with them.’

To be eligible for the activities the teenagers have to attend a programme to tackle their behaviour at a community centre in Blackburn.

Under the terms of their interim Asbos, they are forbidden from being in public together, but the rules do not apply at the centre.

And because there are so many other youths with Asbos congregating at the venue, trouble has already started between rival groups.

And here’s an additional example of the kind of harsh punishment meted out to offenders. This’ll put the fear of God in this slag. She was hanging around schools and nailing her victims there. Hey, this’ll teach her. Won’t it?

Last week the Daily Mail revealed a girl of 17, also from Blackburn, accused of robbing children at knifepoint is to be sent on a three-month horse-riding course courtesy of the taxpayer, despite breaching her bail conditions three times.

A spokesman for the Families Against Crime group said: ‘This type of reward-based scheme has no proven effect on changing the behaviour of offenders.’

source for photos and story

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   Thursday - May 19, 2011

Israel, Under The Bus

So while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear: a viable Palestine, and a secure Israel. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.

Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States

Wow. Gosh. What a visionary. For once I agree with Obama 100%. These are the borders of Israel in 1967:

Well, after the 6 Day War. Before the 6 Day War, they were the same as in 1949, after their War for Independence:

What’s that you say? Obama is talking about the borders that existed before the 6 Day War?

Then he is certifiably batshit insane, an enemy of Israel, a betrayer of 63 years of American policy, and an enemy of every Jew the world over. And there is nothing you can do to make me believe for a microsecond that he is not utterly sympathetic to his Muslim roots, if not in fact an active islamic jihadist.

Fish or cut bait, self-loathing left wing American jews. You elected this guy, aren’t you proud? Now he’s out to destroy Israel, and he’s in bed with every dirty little goat raper from The Ivory Coast all the way up to Turkey. Right through Israel.

“The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps,” the U.S. president said, referring to what are official known as the 1949 Armistice lines, “so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”

That’s one step further the position outlined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in April at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Washington, when she called for such an outcome to be the product of negotiations ...

They’re both nuts. No, the whole damn bunch is nuts. All Israel has ever done is give back land in good faith, when they’ve been bargaining with liars. And then another war starts up, and they push the enemies away, and claim that same pile of rocks and sand again. And then give it back, again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Does no one ever learn anything?

You see why I can’t stand writing about politics and the “world situation”? It’s because it never changes. Stupid is as stupid does, over and over and over and over.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/19/2011 at 09:22 PM   
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Racing The Lightning

I have to slap this post up now, before the power goes out again. We’re still getting the rain ... forever it seems ... and today it comes with lightning. We’ve lost power 3 times already, and that almost never happens here. Plenty of local lightning strikes, plenty close. Lightning goes “fsssshpkk” first, and then the bolt hits?? I didn’t know that. I mean, I knew that it goes up first and then comes down hard, but I didn’t know that there was any sound associated with the up part. Surprise!

Anyway, for no real reason, I spent a bunch of time looking up another one of those old propeller driven fighter planes that would work real well for the COIN mission support role I wrote about a couple weeks ago (should US go with Hawker Beechcraft or Embraer?). Like the Sandy, this one is another superb airplane that didn’t quite make it into WWII. Unlike the Sandy this one was mainly a carrier plane, though a few dozen fixed wing iterations were built. And then I got sidetracked by the whole sleeve valve thing, which is fascinating, though I’m still not 100% sure I understand how it works. So here’s a little beauty for you.

The Hawker Sea Fury went into production just as WWII was ending. The design was based on a captured Focke-Wulfe FW190 and the existing Hawker Tempest, crossed with the wing shape of a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, mated to the shortened fuselage of a Hawker Tempest, given a monocoque skin to save weight and add strength, and a bit of a camelback that raised the pilot up a bit for better visibility. And then the designers went back to the drawing boards and put hinges in the wings for carrier use. Under the hood was mounted one of the most powerful radial engines ever made, a Bristol Centaurus XVIIC 18 cylinder behemoth that displaced 3,270 cubic inches and made more than 3,000 horsepower. Without a supercharger or fuel injection I think. All this power allowed the Sea Fury to cruise along at nearly 400mph, and to have a top speed of 460mph. It was probably the fastest propeller driven fighter plane ever built. They saw extensive action in the Korean War and held their own against the new jet planes. A Sea Fury was actually the first prop plane to shoot down a jet fighter. “what the Huey was to Vietnam the Sea Fury was to Korea” is a quote I came across, but this dandy little airplane has been mostly forgotten about now that everything has a jet engine on it.

Only about 860 of these nimble planes were built, and it was in active Royal Navy duty for nearly a decade before being pushed aside by the kerosene burners. Quite a number were sold to other countries and stayed in service until the mid 60s. The Sea Fury was a little bigger than the FW 190 and a little smaller than the P-47, but faster than either. And with a 1000+ mile range (with drop tanks) and 4 20mm autocannons in the wings, this was one bowl of porridge that was just right.

A good number of Sea Furys still exist, and most of them race in the Unlimited (ie Warbird) category at Reno. Oh, and here’s one for sale, for less than $700,000.

Cuba flew the airplane as well, and it gave the CIA hell during the Bay of Pigs fiasco, sinking (or at least severely damaging) the Houston, shooting down a couple B-26 bombers, and shooting up troops on the ground. It was a highly effective airplane for both air to air and ground support missions.

Tons more links to pics and info below the fold. Most post now, more storm is coming! There is so much more that can be written ... much of which has already been written and can be Googled up with ease ... uh oh, the lights are blinking again ..

Posted by Drew458     on 05/19/2011 at 04:08 PM   
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I think I’ve posted this before…

I’m pretty certain I’ve posted this before. I knew the music was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. And I knew that whoever put the video to the music is a master.

What I didn’t know, until this morning, is where he got the music from.

Fuck it. Don’t know what the problem is, but my link looks good in preview, but when I post I get that sappy Osama crap.

Here’s the video I tried to embed: http://youtu.be/uFh0oy6vIt4

The music is from the cd “America’s Choir: Favorite Songs, Hymns & Anthems” by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. You can buy it at WalMart. I’m certain that Amazon.com has it also.

Anyway, I was browsing the ‘classical’ section in my branch library and lo and behold! A Mormon Tabernacle Choir cd. I grabbed it. You know, I’ve a weakness for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...being a jack-Mormon does that to you. I listened to it and the Battle Hymn of the Republic was the same version used in this YouTube video.

The whole cd is good. Buy it, if you’re into choral music.

Posted by Christopher     on 05/19/2011 at 02:50 PM   
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