Monday - May 16, 2011
I never thought I’d be defending Sharia and Iran
Well here is a first.
Me .... jdp ... Peiper ... I’m upset that Iran is caving in to foreign influence. Me? Defend Iran and Sharia Law?
YES ... And here’s why. First, if amnasty is against something I have to be for it, selectively. If liberal weepy eyed bed wetting hand wringers are upset, I have to be in favor of whatever it is they’re hearts are bleeding about.
Take a look at this story .... I’m tempted to write the Iranian Embassy and tell em to stay the course and ignore the critics. But I doubt they’d pay any attention.
Fury at Iran’s ‘eye-for-an-eye’ acid punishment as sentence is branded ‘cruel and inhumane’
By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER
A punishment in which an Iranian man was to be blinded by having acid dropped into his eyes has been postponed after international condemnation.
Majid Movahedi was convicted and sentenced for pouring a bucket of acid over Ameneh Bahrami after she rejected his marriage proposals.
The attack left her blind and severely disfigured.The court-ordered retribution was due to have been carried out yesterday in Tehran.
But it is understood the authorities in the Iranian capital decided to postpone the punishment, which is allowed under Sharia law if the victim requests it, because of national and international disquiet including concerns raised by the British Government.
Yesterday Ms Bahrami told Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news service: ‘I was very happy that this was going to end today.
‘And yes, I was going to carry out the punishment myself, but I was afraid that I would get acid on my hands, so a doctor was going to do it. It’s been six years that I’ve been waiting. The verdict is completely legal.’On November 3, 2004, Movahedi poured a bucket of acid on Ms Bahrami’s head as she was leaving work, after she had rejected his marriage proposal several times.
Two weeks after the attack Movahedi surrendered himself to the police.
He admitted attacking Ms Bahrami and his punishment was ordered by a court in 2008.Among those unhappy about the prospect of Ms Bahrami exacting such a brutal revenge on her attacker was Amnesty International.
The organisation called for a stay of the sentence, which it described as ‘cruel and inhuman . . . amounting to torture’.
‘The Iranian authorities have a responsibility under international law to ensure it does not go ahead,’ it added.Ms Bahrami, who was 24 when she met Movahedi in 2002, now lives in Spain where she has been undergoing medical treatment. She is blind in both eyes and still has serious injuries to her face and body.
I JUST CAN NOT BRING MYSELF TO POST THE HORRIFIC PHOTO HERE AT BMEWS. CLICK THIS LINK TO UNDERSTAND
WTF is wrong with people? Why is this the freekin business of the Brit govt., who can’t even protect their own god damn citizens here at home?
And as for amnasty ... well. I believe you all know what I think and what I’d dearly love to see happen.
Quite frankly ... I do not believe that how a govt. handles their internal problems is anyones business outside the country involved. So long as their problem doesn’t inflict harm or is a threat to the security of others, it is not the business of others to stick their nose where it does not belong.
I can’t be pissed off at foreigners and amnasty when they insist we close Guantanamo, and at the same time approve we do the same to others.
The miserable shit in this story deserves the worst and his punishment should go ahead as planned. I’m disappointed in Iran, and never thought I’d be writing anything on their behalf. Not that they asked. But I feel sorry for the woman here, and that’s my focus.
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Permalink • Once More Into The Blue
On its 16-day mission, Endeavor will deliver a cosmic ray detector to the space station, which scientists hope will give them a glimpse into the very first moments of the universe, just after the big bang. On board, the astronauts are all wearing the blue bracelets celebrating Giffords life.
The liftoff of Endeavor marks the beginning of the end of an era for the shuttle program. It’s the next to last launch. Atlantis lifts off in June, bringing the 30-year shuttle program to an end.
Hard to believe the US Space Program is getting ready to close down. Harder to believe what NASA’s new “mission” will be. Damn. I grew up with the voice of Mission Command and that age of glory. And now it’s all coming to an end. Budget cuts: the Democrats have always been against the space program, always. And honestly, after the moon landings, they’ve kind of been stuck in neutral for decades. As a junior rocketeer and a huge reader of sci-fi, I would have figured we’d have a profit making lunar colony by now, and men on mars. Alas no.
At T-9 minutes and holding, the STS-134 launch countdown continues its march toward liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour at 8:56:28 a.m. EDT.
During this hold, the mission management team will conduct their final “Go-No-Go” poll, and the countdown enters the home stretch.
“T minus 9”. Will future children even understand what that means?
The crew members for space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission are Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori.
During the 16-day mission, Endeavour and its crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre.
Final words from Commander Kelly: “We have always been a nation that reaches for the stars. We must not stop.”
Aw crap I’m getting all weepy here.
Godspeed, Endeavor.
All systems are go, the countdown runs down to zero, and we have ignition. And it’s a picture perfect launch. Endeavor blasts through some low level clouds and punches a hole in the sky, accelerating to faster than a speeding bullet within a minute, and reaching escape velocity in under 8 minutes. The boosters fall away without issue, and two minutes later the liquid fuel tank lets go without a hitch. After only 10 minutes flight Endeavor is in space, hundreds and hundreds of miles downrange. Now the steady 3G acceleration eases, and the computers arc the ship from an elliptical orbit into a circular one, 136 miles up above the sky.
For this, the 26th Shuttle mission, everything is nominal. That’s another word that is going to fade out of our language, or at least that usage. Only NASA could make “being trifling in comparison with the actual value; minimal” mean “letter perfect in every way shape or form” because with good engineering that’s only to be expected. No magic, no miracle, merely working as designed. Nominal. Even though a miracle is occurring. No wonder the Space Program was a reflection of national confidence. And no wonder such a program had to be eliminated by our twisted leaders, if for no other reason than that.
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Permalink • follicle envy
Who is this woman?
Holy cow. That’s not a head of hair. That’s a mane. I saw the TV commercial last night, and it just shut me down mentally. Stopped me dead in my tracks. Forgot completely what I was talking about. Wow.
Turnabout being fair play, since I stole the picture from Aveeno’s web site, I should mention that they are giving away a free sample of their product. Give it a try. You won’t wake up being this model, or even next to this model, but, like the Space Program, this is what dreams are made of.
same model? Maybe, but I don’t really think so.
The search begins ...
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Permalink • cops and robbers .. latest score. txpayer 0, bad guys 2
A couple of item caught my old eyes. Both disturbing.
She’s never out of the spotlight and I can never see Jane Fonda without seeing red at the same time. I don’t know if I should continue to be angry at her, or the system that continues to reward treason. Both I guess but lets face it. She isn’t gonna hide away in the dark someplace as long as she’s welcomed like royalty.
There was a very famous actor in his day, and I believe it was Lew Ayres I’m thinking about. It is. I checked. Anyway, he was anti war, he just didn’t believe he was capable of killing anyone and so in WW2, he joined the the Army Medical Corps and served in the Pacific theater. So he did serve his country, he did help to save lives and did not go over to the other side and smile for cameras posing on guns shooting at Americans.
If Fonda was all that moral (and she never was) she could have volunteered to train as a nurse and help save lives. Oh wait, that was another generation.
So anyway, this is what happens to me every time I see her. After WW2, Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose spent time in jail for making radio broadcasts for the enemy.
Jane poses with enemy troops all smiles and gets more work in movies, modeling and recently as cover girl for Loreal ( L’Oreal) cosmetics.
The other thing that caught my ever roving eye was the following loony tune decisions by courts with regard to a couple of criminals. It just defies reason and logic how judges and lawyers and the establishment in genera, can expect the populace to feel good about their legal system, much less hold it in respect.
How can one possibly respect any system anywhere that comes up with these judgments.
In one case, a burglar with a very long record has escaped jail because he “suffers” “an obsession with cleanliness” the result of obsessive compulsive disorder.
Take a look.
Burglar with a cleanliness obsession is spared jail… because he’d find it too dirty
By DAILY MAIL REPORTERHe’s got a string of previous convictions as long as your arm. But crime isn’t Nathan Cassidy’s only compulsion.
The serial burglar has an obsession with cleanliness – and that condition has helped keep him out of prison.The 20-year-old was allowed to walk free from court after he told a judge he would find jail ‘too traumatic’ because of his obsessive compulsive disorder.
Cassidy smashed his way into an elderly couple’s home while they were sleeping and stole a handbag containing £105.The thief, who has 14 previous convictions for 29 crimes, committed the burglary while on a suspended sentence for robbery and handling stolen goods.
However, he avoided jail by convincing Cambridge Crown Court he would not be able to cope with life behind bars because he is obsessed with cleanliness.
Instead Judge Gareth Hawkesworth handed Cassidy, of Cambridge, a 12-month sentence in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for two years.
He was also placed under a two-year supervision order and ordered to undergo mental health treatment.Judge Hawkesworth said: ‘It’s clear to me from the psychological report you have a raft of psychological problems that need addressing.’
Mark McDonald, defending Cassidy, told the court his client was not a normal prisoner because of his problems with OCD.
He said: ‘Because of psychological problems, including obsessive compulsive disorder in relation to cleanliness, custody would have a very traumatic effect on him – more so than it would on the average prisoner.’
He had accomplices on this latest venture who were also arrested. Like our main actor in this bad play, they too had records and in fact, one had breached a curfew order for the same things and another had 23 burglaries on his record BUT ..
While all three did plead guilty to burglary, not one admitted going inside the old couple’s house. ??
I’m not a lawyer and perhaps it all depends on what you mean by “burglary.”
Think that’s bad enough? Oh wait. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. READ THIS ONE
Robber spared deportation because he has a girlfriend
Immigration judges have allowed a convicted robber to stay in Britain simply because he has a girlfriend in this country.By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
The Sri Lankan was jailed for 15 months but fought off an official attempt to deport him to his homeland because he said his human right to a “private and family life” was not being respected as he was going out with a woman here.
The case will increase concerns over the ease with which foreign criminals use human rights legislation to stay in Britain – an issue highlighted by The Sunday Telegraph’s “End The Human Rights Farce” campaign.
Only the sketchiest details of the case were released by judges because of a policy which claims that naming foreign criminals who get to stay in Britain would put them at “potential risk” – a move condemned as a betrayal of open justice by politicians.
The unnamed man had first come to Britain, aged 13, in 2001, failed to gain asylum but was given exceptional leave to remain before he committed the robbery, of which no details have been published by the immigration tribunal system.
As well as refusing to name the criminal, the tribunal kept secret all details of the crime, where he lives in the United Kingdom and exactly how he reached this country.
The 22-year-old was convicted of robbery in December 2008, sentenced to 15 months in prison, and served with a deportation order by the Home Office.
He then fought an 11-month legal battle to be allowed to stay, first taking his case to an asylum and immigration panel, which backed him.
When the Home Office appealed he hired a high-flying barrister who had previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights.The barrister, Claire Physsas, successfully argued that because he had a girlfriend in Britain, he had “established a private and family life”.
Judge Christopher Hanson said that even though the 22-year-old and his girlfriend of five years were no more than a “courting couple” he should stay in the country – and rejected a claim by the Home Office that because their relationship was “at some distance” it did not amount to private and family life.
In his written judgment, Judge Hanson conceded that the existence of a girlfriend did not amount to having a family, but ruled that the relationship, on top of “social ties” in Britain, meant that the robber had a “private life” which entitled him to stay in Britain.
Experts described the latest case as “absurd” and said it amounted to a “grotesque misuse” of the Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, while politicians warned that giving anonymity to criminals struck at the heart of the principle of open justice.
Meanwhile .... Call Me Dave (Cameron), the Brit PM, is still insisting that civilians MUST be secure and protected (in other countries but not here) to which end he is spending millions. Meanwhile, there are spending cuts which include the police who in one or two jurisdictions, have invited cops who were laid off to come back and volunteer to work for free. Great system in place here innit?
And I’d be willing to bet it’s only marginally better stateside, cos the loons on the left have been busy undermining our system for years and years.
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Permalink • Sunday - May 15, 2011
Fired Up
No posting for me today, I’ve got work to do. And now that I’ve checked in here and had my morning RCOB along with my morning coffee, I’m ready to take on the world. Or at least hurt a very large part of it. Thanks Peiper!
And here I was, getting up before the crack of dawn, having a quiet introspective morning on this chill rainy day, looking back over my life and thinking about a number of key moments, wondering if only I’d been nicer, or gentler, or magically had 30 years worth of perspective to soften the things I said or did way back when.
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Permalink • PAT CONDELL VIDEO COMMENT …
I won’t try to add anything as he doesn’t need any help.
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Permalink • shrinks let him go free … innocent woman dies … lets hear it for shrinks
What’s wrong with the criminal system and immigration?
Left wing liberal attitudes towards crime and punishment and immigration. The system at work in the western world seem to work for the wrong side.
Illegal immigrants committing crimes, sometimes violent ones, and we find that they can’t be deported because their rights may be violated. Never mind the rights on the common citizen going about their lives, who are at risk.
And then there are the nut cases who are put away for a short period only to suddenly be back on the streets, because some shrink has said they’re okay so long as they stay on their meds. Uh huh. And when they don’t? How many times have you read that one? Oh he’s a nice boy when he remembers his meds but he forgot this time and oops. Sorry about your dead sister,brother,mother etc. It’s all the result of mollycoddling the worst elements of society.
Look what’s happening just here in the UK. Forgetting anywhere else in the world.
Lying illegal immigrant who committed a string of crimes set to receive thousands in compensation for being ‘falsely imprisoned’
An illegal immigrant turned criminal is set for thousands in a taxpayer funded payout after judges ruled he was falsely imprisoned while awaiting deportation.
Joseph Mjemer, 28, arrived in the UK as a stowaway, committed more than 20 offences, used at least five aliases and claimed to be from four different countries.
But he is now set to be turned loose with a taxpayer-funded compensation payout - despite the judge admitting there is a risk that he could commit more crimes, or simply disappear.
Let off with a caution: The 3am intruder who attacked and terrorised farmer
By CHRIS BROOKEWhen farmer Clifford Pearson was attacked by an intruder in his bathroom in the early hours, he acted instinctively and wrestled him to the ground.
Despite being naked, the 48-year-old held on to the man for ten minutes until police, who had been alerted by his girlfriend’s 999 call, arrived at the farmhouse.
But the couple were horrified to be told 12 hours later that the 20-year-old intruder had been given only a caution for common assault and was not being taken to court or punished further.
Their upset turned to anger when they discovered that police were ‘sweeping the incident under the carpet’.
Officers attempted to justify the decision by saying it was the man’s first offence, he had a ‘good job in the Army’, had no recollection of what he did and was intoxicated at the time.
Mr Pearson insisted the intruder did not smell of alcohol and was not drunk, was fully alert and because he entered his house in the middle of the night and assaulted him, the matter should have gone before a magistrates’ court.
He said: ‘He should have got a fine or a punishment of some sort in court. We said we wanted him prosecuted and they just played the whole thing down.
‘A caution is not a punishment for entering somebody’s house at night, assaulting them in their own house and putting the fear of God in them. This just brings an early conclusion to the case, it tidies everything up very quickly and helps their crime figures. It benefits this man and not us.’
Now here’s one that should leave you scratching your heads. What are they thinking? And we haven’t gotten around to any killings yet. And in case you don’t know, 1p is one penny.
Serial burglar who faced three years in jail is fined just 1p
By ANDY DOLANInsulting: Michael Leslie received a laughable 1p fine after the bizarre decision by prosecutors
A convicted burglar who forced his way into an artists’ workshop was fined just 1p after a deal struck by prosecutors.
Michael Leslie, 29, was arrested after his DNA matched blood at the scene, where a laptop and chequebooks were found to be missing.
With two previous burglary convictions, he would have faced a mandatory three-year jail term if found guilty of the offence a third time.
But when prosecutors realised he was going to deny burglary but admit breaking in and falling asleep, they decided to charge him with an obscure and ancient vagrancy offence instead.
It is thought they wanted to secure a conviction but avoid a costly trial. As a result Leslie walked free with only a token fine.
The case emerged as the Sentencing Council – a body packed with judges and lawyers – published new guidelines instructing courts to tighten up punishments for burglars.
Last night one of Leslie’s victims described the decision as ‘a joke’. Artists at The Workshop, a first-floor workspace in Cowley, Oxford, said someone had got in through a ground-floor window.
The laptop and chequebooks were taken from an office on that floor before the intruder went upstairs and rifled through drawers.
But the most horrific crime in the last week has to be this.
British woman beheaded in Tenerife made desperate plea for help before attack
By Fiona Govan, Los Cristianos, Tenerife and David Barrett 8:30AM BST 15 May 2011
Jennifer Mills-Westley, the British woman beheaded in a Tenerife supermarket, tried to avoid her tormentor by taking refuge in an office doorway.
In this case, a Bulgarian immigrant sleeping rough and with a record of violent behavior, who recently also attacked another stranger on the street knocking out two of the victim’s teeth, was known to have a serious mental disorder. Was he locked away? Well yeah. For a short time until the shrinks let him out.
The idea that people like this worthless whack job is human to begin with is ludicrous.
Because Spain doesn’t have a death penalty and in any case a lawyer would of course argue diminished mental capacity, this piece of walking garbage will eventually be supported (never deported I’d bet) by the taxpayers there. Is he worth it? Is life sacred where he’s concerned?
Running away waving the poor victim’s blood dripping head .... all because he wasn’t locked away long ago. And it all comes down to the attitudes and policies and legislation in western countries that have made a religion out of human and civil rights, while ignoring public safety and common sense.
Here’s the rest of this sad story.
The retired 60-year-old from Norwich was stabbed to death and beheaded in the horrific attack on Friday.She alerted a security guard in the social security office that she had been subjected to “threatening behaviour” from an unwashed vagrant.
Her tormentor, a 28-year-old homeless man called Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, was well known in the popular holiday resort for his unpredictable and sometimes violent behaviour.
Mrs Mills-Westley waited for him to move on, and alerted a security guard in the social security office where she sheltered that she had been subjected to “threatening behaviour”.
It is unclear whether the Briton, a 60-year-old retired road safety officer from Norwich, was aware of the man’s dangerous reputation. After a few minutes Deyanov left and the danger seemed to have passed.
At about 10.15 on Friday morning Mrs Mills-Westley left the office doorway and walked to a Chinese-run discount store next door. Tragically, she there encountered Deyanov again and he attacked her, with grisly consequences.
Mrs Mills-Westley, who divided her time between Tenerife, Norfolk and France, was hacked to death by the Bulgarian, who reportedly claimed to be “a prophet of God” as he carried out the frenzied attack.
Relatives of Mrs Mills-Westley, a grandmother of five, arrived on the island yesterday as details of the gruesome attack emerged.Deyanov, had left a psychiatric unit where he was reportedly being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in February. He was known among locals for his aggressive begging and outbursts of violence and had been picked up several times by police.
At the Port Royale complex of apartments where Mrs Mills-Westley had been a resident for at least 10 years, neighbours expressed shock and concern at the way the case of the dangerous assailant had been handled by the Spanish authorities.A long-time friend and neighbour of Mrs Mills-Westley who was too upset to give her name said: “It’s shocking the man that did this had been let out of hospital. It shouldn’t have to be that you wait for something like this to happen before he gets locked away. He was obviously a danger.”
She added: “This is just awful. It’s too upsetting for words. I’ve known Jenny for more than 10 years, since she first moved out here.
“She was a lovely, bubbly person who appeared much younger than she was. She was back and forth to the UK and France to see her children and grandchildren.”Mrs Mills-Westley owned two adjacent apartments in the development set on a peaceful hillside at the edge of Los Cristianos. She rented out one two-bedroom apartment and lived in the other. Similar properties are on the market for about £240,000.
Phil Gibbs, the owner of Premier management services at the complex, said: “She was a very nice lady. She wasn’t the kind of expat who spent a lot of time in bars. She was quiet and peaceful and always immaculately dressed. We are all horrified to hear what happened to her.”
The victim’s daughter, Sarah Mears, 41, from Newton St Faith, near Norwich, released a statement describing her mother as “generous of heart”.
“Mum was fully enjoying her retirement travelling between Tenerife and France where she spent time visiting her daughter and grandchildren, and her other daughter in Norfolk,” she said.
HERE for the whole story and photos
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Permalink • us court gives ok to illegal cop entry into home.
H/T Doc Jeff for this one.
Ruff day yesterday, didn’t boot at all. Seem to have tiny bug of some kind but somewhat better today. Posts might be on light side.
I spend so much time (hard not to) with happenings on this side of the water, that often the news I get re. USA comes from BBC radio news, and Brit papers. And they do cover us.
Well, when I booted today with something else in mind I checked my mail and found this.
I’m not a lawyer and have zero training in law, but I had to read this 2wice even though I got it first time around. First thought was hey, can they do that? Well I guess they can. Not too sure this is a great idea as it’s explained here. I guess I can see it where an effort is made to protect someone inside.
But the way this reads, it seems like an open season kind of thing. Do I have that right or have I misunderstood this?
Take a look.
Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home.
By Dan Carden
INDIANAPOLIS - Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
“We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.
The court’s decision stems from a Vanderburgh County case in which police were called to investigate a husband and wife arguing outside their apartment.
When the couple went back inside their apartment, the husband told police they were not needed and blocked the doorway so they could not enter. When an officer entered anyway, the husband shoved the officer against a wall. A second officer then used a stun gun on the husband and arrested him.Professor Ivan Bodensteiner, of Valparaiso University School of Law, said the court’s decision is consistent with the idea of preventing violence.
“It’s not surprising that they would say there’s no right to beat the hell out of the officer,” Bodensteiner said. “(The court is saying) we would rather opt on the side of saying if the police act wrongfully in entering your house your remedy is under law, to bring a civil action against the officer.”Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary native, and Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart native, dissented from the ruling, saying the court’s decision runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“In my view the majority sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally—that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances,” Rucker said. “I disagree.”Rucker and Dickson suggested if the court had limited its permission for police entry to domestic violence situations they would have supported the ruling.
But Dickson said, “The wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad.”This is the second major Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week involving police entry into a home.
On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge’s permission to enter without knocking.
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Permalink • Saturday - May 14, 2011
A Good Week
14.05.2011: 0638 UTC: Posn: 19:13N – 060:19E, around 190nm SxE of Ras al Had, Oman (Off Somalia).
Pirates in a dhow and a skiff chased a chemical tanker underway. Master raised alarm, increased speed and took evasive manoeuvres resulting in the pirates aborting the attempted attack. There were 4-5 pirates in the skiff with ladders sighted.
14.05.2011: 0434 UTC: Posn: 08:32N – 067:53E, around 304nm west of Minicoy island, India (Off Somalia).
About five pirates in a skiff chased and fired upon a LPG tanker underway. Ship raised alarm, increased speed and took evasive manoeuvres resulting in the pirates aborting the attempted attack.
14.05.2011: 0340 UTC: Posn: 13:54.7N – 057:56.2E, around 220nm ENE of Socotra island, Yemen (Off Somalia)
A general cargo ship underway spotted a mother vessel launch a skiff which approached the ship at 25 knots. D/O raised alarm, increased speed, altered course, SSAS activated, security team onboard alerted and crew went to the citadel. The security team fired rocket flare when the skiff was at a distance of 1.5 nm but the skiff continued to approach the ship. When the skiff closed to 600 metres, the security team fired warning shots, the skiff continued its approach and the next warning shots were fired when the skiffs were at a distance of 400meters from the vessel. This resulted in the pirates aborting the attempted attack and moving towards their mother vessel.13.05.2011: 2110 UTC: Posn: 13:10.7N – 048:37.0E, Gulf of Aden.
A small fast contact was noticed on radar approaching a container ship underway at 4nm. D/O monitored the contact and at a distance of 1.6 nm it was observed as a skiff and alarm was raised. When the skiff approached at a distance of 50 metres, the bridge team noticed 4-5 pirates onboard with a hook ladder. The onboard security team fired two shots into the skiff when the skiff close in to 30 metres resulting in the pirates aborted the attempted attack. Authorities informed.11.05.2011: 0925 UTC: Posn: 18:42N – 059:32E: around 220nm south of Ras al Had, Oman (Off Somalia)
Pirates in a skiff armed with RPG and guns chased and fired upon a product tanker underway. Master raised alarm, took evasive manoeuvres and instructed crew to proceed into citadel. Armed security team took measures to deter boarding of pirates resulting in the pirates aborting the attack. Crew and ship are safe.10.05.2011: 1425 LT: Posn: 25:17.8N – 058:06.8E: (Off Somalia)
Two skiffs approached a container ship. The vessel altered course, increased speed, raised alarm, crew went into citadel. There were four persons in each boat. Long rods attached with hooks and ladders were noticed on the skiffs. The skiffs followed the vessel at a distance of 1-3 cables astern. [ Drew: a cable is 100 fathoms long: 200 yards ] Later the skiffs aborted the attempt and moved away.10.05.2011: 1100 UTC: Posn: 17:34N - 058:00E, around 235nm east of Salalah, oman (Off Somalia).
Pirates in two skiffs armed with RPG and guns chased and fired upon a bulk carrier underway. Master raised alarm, SSAS activated, increased speed, took evasive manoeuvres and contacted warship for assistance. Due to the aggressive manoeuvres, the pirates aborted the attempted attack. The ship and crewmembers are safe.
08.05.2011: 0800 UTC: Posn: 12:09.0N – 059:20.3E: around 280nm east of Socotra island, Yemen (Off Somalia).
Two skiffs with five pirates in each armed with RPG and automatic weapons chased and fired upon a bulk carrier underway. Ship sent distress message, raised alarm, increased speed, made evasive manoeuvres and deployed security team onboard and contacted authorities for help. A military aircraft was deployed. Onboard armed security team fired warning shots resulting in the pirates aborting the attack.
Unfortunately, none of them are dead or captured. But it does show that “active countermeasures” - some kind of resistance - seems to work rather well. This isn’t me cherry picking the data; this is the whole week’s worth of piracy reports, minus the two in-port burglaries, one of which was in Ecuador.
If a bit of evasion and a few warning shots are enough, just think how fast the whole damn menace would dissolve if they were actually hunted. 3 weeks, tops.
PS - if you think the following is a good approach,
I specifically ask for your government to take the necessary steps to eradicate piracy at sea and
shore by:
Reducing the effectiveness of the easily-identifiable motherships
Authorising naval forces to hold pirates and deliver them for prosecution and punishment
Fully criminalising all acts of piracy and intent to commit piracy under national laws, in accordance with their mandatory duty to co-operate to suppress piracy under international conventions
Increasing naval assets available in this area
Providing greater protection and support for seafarers
Tracing and criminalising the organisers and financiers behind the criminal networks
then there is an online letter you can send to your government right here. SOS: Save Our Seafarers.
Personally, with all the naval power rafting around the Indian Ocean right now, I think it’s perfect time for a UN sanctioned action. Everybody gets to shoot off some military stuff, everybody gets to watch all the other country’s navies shoot off their stuff so they judge whether it’s any good or not, lots and lots and lots of pirates get killed and sunk, and then a nice multi-national airstrike can set the entire coast of Somali ablaze, while the Russians and the Chinese run a rescue the hostages op. Which accidentally kills all those pirates just minutes afterwards. Ooopsie! Oh, and all the various navies get to see how well they can coordinate and communicate, just in case various global alliances were to shift in the near future. And then there would be no more pirates.
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stuck on really,really stupid the rule of the day
Well apparently the word of one prissy and twisted little grasser of 15, carries enough weight to make fools of an idiot local council who blindly took his warped word with regard to a cross on display.
Heaven forbid the jerks would check for themselves first but no. Being the usual bend over backwards frightened adults, they order a ban first. That’s always safest. Right? Jeesh. What a crowd in an already crowded field of wusses.
Fortunately, all’s well that ends but for gosh sake ..... Have a look at this.
Cab driver banned from displaying ‘phallic’ crossA taxi driver was banned from displaying a crucifix on his dashboard after a teenage customer complained that it looked “phallic”.
By Nick Britten
Clair Cook, who runs AnD taxis, was asked by her local council to ensure that the object was removed after being told that the 15-year-old boy had been offended by it.
She described the complaint as “ridiculous” and said the driver of the car was a devout Roman Catholic.Miss Cook claimed that if the symbol had been of any faith other than Christianity, the council would have treated the case with far greater sensitivity.
The row follows a series of previous cases in which employees have been censured for displaying Christian symbols.
Three weeks ago, an electrician working for a housing association in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was told he faced the sack for placing a small palm cross on the dashboard of his van.Miss Cook was told that the boy had complained about the taxi driver’s cross after being taken to school in York. He had also complained about the man’s driving, she said.
She pointed out that the driver had never been the subject of a complaint before and had an excellent safety record. “I am personally deeply offended and very sympathetic for the driver,” she said. “Not only is an ornament of this nature a religious one, but the complaint and its implication is a very serious one.
“The safety of the passengers is always my number one priority, and so is my drivers’ reputation and trust.”The driver, who asked not to be named, said he had bought the blue cross on holiday in Greece six years ago. He described himself as “incredulous” when he heard about the complaint, adding: “I couldn’t believe that anyone would think it wasn’t a cross.
“I have taken it off the dashboard as requested because I do not want to lose my licence but I do not think this has been handled properly.”Colin Rumford, the head of environmental health and trading standards at City of York council, accepted that the complaint had been handled badly. “City of York Council takes any complaints raised by members of the public very seriously,” he said.
“In this case a complaint was received from a child regarding what they thought was an inappropriate item in a taxi.
“In this instance, it appears that the taxi operator was wrongly advised to remove the item and our intervention should have been confined to making them aware of the complaint. It would then be a matter for the taxi operator to resolve with the customer.”Father Derek Turnham of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough, which covers York, said: “The subject of the display of religious symbols in public places is currently very topical and the Diocese of Middlesbrough would always want to defend the right of people to display their faith in practical ways through various signs and symbols.
“In regard to this case, it is clear that City of York council had to respond to the complaint of what is probably a rather over-imaginative schoolboy, as safeguarding issues are given priority.
“But the diocese understands the anguish of the taxi driver concerned that what, for him, is a very innocent and appropriate symbol has been so misinterpreted.”
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Permalink • Islamist groups have begun to dominate the political process. bye,bye blighty
If this is the future, and so far it sure seems that way, we gotta get outta here before we’re both too old and too sick to travel.
This is not a pretty picture of whats to come, if this vermin has its way. And so far I see no real threat to the threat they pose. I don’t see them being stopped in their tracks while they are still a minority. Instead, I see them reproducing themselves in greater numbers through births and through conversions.
Take a look ....
Tower Hamlets Taliban: Death threats to women who don’t wear veils. And all in a borough at the heart of Britain’s capital...By TOM RAWSTORNE
A Briton from Dorset who converted to Islam in 2009 and renamed himself Salahuddin (the son of teachers), Dart is one of several extremist Muslim preachers operating in the Tower Hamlets area of East London.
This vocal minority, who are causing increasing concern in the area, have lent this corner of the capital a new nickname — the Islamic republic of Tower Hamlets.
Recently, it was reported that a 31-year-old Asian woman who works in a local chemist’s had received death threats for refusing to wear a veil, even though she’s not a practising Muslim. Four weeks ago, the woman’s boss was apparently approached by an Asian in his 40s who told him his employee must cover her head and wear longer robes.
‘If she keeps working here and continues to dress like that, we will boycott you because this is a Muslim area,’ the shop’s owner was told.
Subsequently another, younger, Asian man came into the pharmacy and started shouting at the employee.
‘He said: “If you keep doing these things, we will kill you,”’ recalls a Bangladeshi-born man who witnessed the scene.
It is not the first time such death threats have been issued, and nor are they confined to issues of dress and deportment. In behaviour that some have compared to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan, homophobic abuse and physical attacks against gay men and women are also on the increase.
Those familiar with life in Tower Hamlets are not surprised. They say that such attitudes are commonplace. Residents have grown used to the fact that the council-run libraries are stocked with books and DVDs containing the extremist rantings of banned Islamist preachers.
There is a Muslim faith school where girls as young as 11 have to wear face-covering veils. There are plans to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of municipal money to build a set of Islamic arches — the so-called ‘hijab gates’, which would look like a veil — at either end of Brick Lane.
In October, Bangladeshi-born Lutfur Rahman became the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets. He originally stood as the Labour candidate but was deselected by the party amid allegations about his links with an organisation known as the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE).
The fundamentalist group believes in jihad and Islamic sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and other European countries into Islamic republics. Last year, a Labour minister said the organisation had infiltrated the Labour Party and accused it of ‘corrupting our politics’.
Leaders of the group want to impose hardline views on local communities. With bitter irony, it is said to have pocketed £10 million from the taxpayer by attracting state grants designed to ‘prevent violent extremism’.
Dumped by Labour, Mr Rahman ran as an independent (allegedly with the help of the IFE) and romped to victory in what the London Evening Standard described as ‘one of the nastiest campaigns in recent London political history’. Now in power, he has control over a £1.3 billion municipal budget.
‘You basically have a large umbrella Islamist group that appears to have almost a stranglehold over a major council in the East End of London,’ said one local resident.
‘The concern is that this Islamist group has an “us versus them” mentality. Their ideology is basically that Muslims are in the trenches, being assailed by the rest of the world. But they are convinced the Muslims will ultimately triumph. It may sound dramatic, but they are trying to impose Islam on Britain.’
What sets Tower Hamlets apart is the huge amount of political power wielded by the minority.
For several decades, Bangladeshis have been heavily involved in local politics, particularly in the ruling Labour Party.
While democracy should be open to anyone who wants to be involved, concerns have grown recently that Islamist groups have begun to dominate the political process. The fear is that instead of governing in the interests of the whole community, power is being used to promote sectarian interests.
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Permalink • A Beginning
For proper context, you always need the back story. What comes before sets the scene for what happens now. And as much as we all love a happy ending, without a good beginning it doesn’t make for much of a story. So here you go, the next post actually started here, long long ago. Let’s let our favorite childhood time travelers show us the way ...
“Sherman?”
“Yes Mr. Peabody?”
“We’re going to explore the origins of cooking. Set the Wayback Machine for 8000 BC.”
“Yes Mr. Peaboy! We will get there in time for lunch?”
“Shut up Sherman.”
“Yes Mr. Peabody.”
Dyoing dyoing dyoing dyoing, fwwwwooosh. Boink!
[ The scene: somewhere outside a cave, around the campfire, near twilight. Ugh and Oog, two early hunter gatherers, are making their usual dinner of scorched animal flesh on sticks and a nice raw mush of grass seeds moistened with water. It is starting to rain. ]
Oog: “Better hurry up with that meat; when the rain comes it always puts the fire out.”
Ugh: “Doing the best I can Oog. Why don’t you go stand under that big leafed tree and stay dry until I’m done.”
Oog: “Ok. Here’s your portion of grass mush. I’ll put it on this nice flat rock here by the fire while you finish up. Too bad we can’t take the fire with us under that tree, huh?”
Ping! and Ping! The seeds of two complimentary ideas have just germinated. I’d use the standard lightbulb visual metaphor, but since those won’t be invented for another 5900 years, imagine little burning torches suddenly popping into existance over their heads.
[ The scene: sometime later. A series of burnt tree trunks surrounds the cave, along with piles of ash made from bark and woven grass. Several collections of soot blackened rocks show that various houses of cards made from stone have collapsed at the worst possible times. Ugh and Oog have obviously been experimenting, but without success. Taking the fire under the tree just doesn’t work. Well, not more than once per tree. But grain mush cooked on a hot flat rock not only tastes better, it lasts longer and is even a bit portable. As the sun rises we see them, smoke blackened and heat frazzled, cooling their scorched hands in the mud by the riverbank. Truly, it is the Dawn of Man. ]
Ugh: “We almost had it that time. I thought for sure that that last stack of flat rocks was going to do it. We set a bunch of them on edge all around the fire, nice and tall, and put a big flat one across the top. That keeps the rain out, and makes a nice place to cook the mush.”
Oog: “It worked just fine until somebody had to go and pull the meat sticks out, and knocked the whole thing down. I tried to grab what I could, and now look at my hands!”
Ugh: “Lucky for us we have this nice thick mud for that. Too bad that when it dries out it’s almost as hard as rock. But it’s fun to play with. Look, I made some snakes and some flat ones that remind me of that cooked mush we eat.”
Ping! and thus pottery was invented. and Ping! again, as Oog puts “ah” and “ah” together in her mind and comes up with “uh” (actual numbers were still far in the vocabulary future). Pretty soon they’d made another pile of “rocks” for the fire protector out of mud, found that they couldn’t be moved while wet, did it again with dry mud but found that their special stack of flat rocks still fell apart when you pulled the meat sticks out, and then had the final Ping! idea of making one big round tall cylinder of mud, tapered at the top a bit to keep the rain out, and rested when dry on a couple of small rocks around the campfire. This did a great job of keeping the rain off, it got even stronger somehow once it had been used once or twice, and the opening at the top was perfect for resting the meat sticks on. You’d think they would have stopped right there, having invented the barbeque, but it still failed for cooking the seed mush. And putting a flat rock across the top somehow made the fire go out. They were at an impasse until one day Ugh, in a fit of frustrated pique, threw a handful of mush against the side of the red hot chimney they’d developed. And the mush cooked up in no time at all, light and bubbly and soft on one side, and toasted and crispy on the other.
And thus the tandoor was born. It would remain that way, essentially unchanged, an open ended fired clay tapered cylinder that fit over a fire, for the next 8000 years. Until an American got his hands on one and started thinking.
Dyoing dyoing dyoing dyoing, fwwwwooosh. Boink!
“Wow Mr. Peabody, that was great!”
“I know Sherman, it was my idea after all.”
“Yup, and for once this one wasn’t half baked.”
“Shut up, Sherman.”
“Yes Mr. Peabody.”
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Permalink • Feat Of Clay
Once upon a time there was an artist who worked with clay. He made cups. He made bowls. He made pitchers and bottles. He made little pots. He made big pots. He really like making big pots, and he learned the secrets of making really big ones. In a perfect world his name would have been Harold, so I could call him Harry Potter, but alas, his name is Ron Levy. And he lives in New York City.
So let’s set the scene. He’s an artist, so therefore at one point he was starving. That’s the narrative imperative; artist is to starving as jazz musician is to substance abuse problem. You can’t have one without the other. And I’m sure he was his mother’s heartbreak; she wanted him to go to medical school and become a doctor, but no, not him. He had to follow the American Dream, mk 1, which is to figure out how to get paid to do the stuff you like doing. And of course that barely worked. But unlike his soi-disant cousins portrayed in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Friends, when Chance showed him the way to turn mud into gold he didn’t sit around and whine about it. No, he seized the brass ring through hard work and research, and achieved the best American Dream, the mk 2 model that defines the perfect job: it is now his job to cash the check and spend the money, while other people earn it for him. And now he can go back to making pots for fun, whether they sell or not. Ok, I’m embellishing like mad here, but that’s what makes a story a story. You need the setting, a bit of back story, and one of the three accepted forms of conflict. Then when you have that and add on the happy ending, plus lots of details and insightful comments, it becomes worth telling. The story exists on its own, never changing over time; it is our job only to fit the latest players to their parts and to spin the tale once again.
RON LEVY never intended to become a tandoor mogul. In fact, he had never heard of tandoors — Indian clay cooking vessels that are part oven and part barbecue pit — until 1986, when a New York gallery exhibited six-foot pots he had made, inspired by amphorae on Crete. A man with an Indian accent called, wondering whether Mr. Levy, a ceramic artist, could make a large pot with a tapered mouth, no bottom and no glaze: a tandoor.
After it was installed at a Columbus Avenue restaurant called Indian Oven, word spread through the Indian community, and orders began to pile up.
“It came to the point where I had to stop doing my ceramic artwork, and focus on tandoors full time,” Mr. Levy, 63, recalled.
So he converted his studio on Mulberry Street in Little Italy into a tandoor factory. Over the past three decades, he has built more than 2,000 for restaurants across North America ...
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The traditional tandoor that Mr. Levy set out to copy 30 years ago was typically an unfired vessel, the clay walls strengthened with straw and animal hair.“It was very unsanitary,” Mr. Levy said, adding that ovens shipped to the United States “often arrived from India broken, or would crack with extended use.” The tandoor’s shape, a cylinder with sloped clay walls, has remained essentially unchanged for 5,000 years.
Mr. Levy’s first innovation was to fashion the body from a blend of earthenware and stoneware, the former chosen for its modeling and expansion properties, the latter for its ability to withstand high heat without cracking. For porosity (an essential quality so that flatbreads can cling to the oven’s inner walls), he added finely ground fired clay, known as grog.
So he filled a market niche that had a pre-existing demand, and started making money, but he didn’t stop there. Keeping a great clay pot red hot takes a lot of heat, so he found a way to improve the ancient design by covering it up in fireproof insulation.
For insulation and extra strength, he developed a clay and vermiculite mixture that could be baked onto the exterior of the pot.
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A unique cast-in-place light weight insulation is bonded to a 100% clay tandoor, pre-fired to 1,000 degrees C. This provides extraordinary strength, durability, and heat retention.
So it’s a better, stronger product that lasts longer and costs less to operate. Done yet? Time to rest on those laurels? Not hardly. Now he had to make it “professional”, and please those pesky government regulators at the FDA and come up with a version that could get NSF (National Science Foundation) approval, which is the stamp that everything used in a restaurant should have. Some say NSF stands for Nominal Sterilization Factor, because you only see this stamp on food related products that can survive a trip through the autoclave or a serious treatment with Clorox. So he made that innovation as well, and the marketplace loves it.
Finally, he devised a sturdy stainless steel housing, so the tandoor could be sold and installed as a movable, freestanding unit.
“We’ve been using Ron’s tandoors for the last 20 years,” said Vicky Vij, an owner of Bukhara. “They outlast any Indian clay tandoor. They’re masterpieces.”
Nice. The stainless steel model comes with wheels so it can be moved around in the commercial kitchen. It has even more insulation than the insulated clay model. And keeping it clean is a breeze. And to keep costs down and the EPA happy, you can get it with a gas burner instead of a charcoal burner. All Ron’s tandoors come in two sizes, regular and jumbo. It’s pretty easy to see how the stainless steel model is an upgrade put over the insulated model, which itself is an upgrade over the standard bare clay model. So the ultimate modern commercial tandoor is a double improvement over the traditional one. Hey, those laurels are starting to look mighty comfy. Is it time to have a seat yet? Hella no! There’s a whole new market segment to exploit! Now we’ve got all these Indian people coming over here, being a success, making lots of money, buying homes in suburbia and trying to assimilate as much as they can yet still hold dearly to tradition. Everybody else in the neighborhood has a backyard barbeque, but what a poor desi to do?
Now Mr. Levy has developed a tandoor for home use, the Homdoor. It starts at $1,200.
And now there is a new cooking gizmo for all the “foodies” to buy. Nice going Ron. But it sounds like he’s still working hard at all of this. Let’s get to the happy ending part ...
The final challenge was production. Mr. Levy made his commercial tandoors in small batches as orders arrived. His business plan for the Homdoor, on the other hand, calls for 500 units to be built the first year. Last year, he joined forces with a ceramics company in Uhrichsville, Ohio.
“It turns out, they were using the same press molds and virtually the same ceramic blend for their fireplace components and chimney flue liners that I use in my tandoors,” Mr. Levy said.
Following Mr. Levy’s specifications, the company has built 50 Homdoors, tweaking the shape, propane burner and casing.
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The first commercial unit rolled out in March. He was so pleased with the result that all of his tandoors are now made in Ohio.
There ya go. Cash the check and spend the money. The perfect job. The American Dream, mk 2. And he lived happily ever after.
Oh sure Drew, sure he did.
Oh, you doubt me? How’s this then for the money quote, in our current rotten economy? Don’t you wish your business was forced to say something like this?
Currently demand for Tandoors by Ron Levy is exceeding production. With the recent NSF Approval of Tandoors by Ron Levy demand is anticipated to further grow. In order to meet demand, Tandoors by Ron Levy, LLC are now being manufactured by Superior Clay Corp, Urichsville, Ohio.
Nice.
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Permalink • Thursday - May 12, 2011
And around we go again
I’ve got to take the MIL for more tests. Today it’s merely an MRI. But it’s still almost 3 hours of driving for me, plus however long the test takes. So the rest of my day is shot.
If I have time this evening, I’ll post a neat story about an artist who is getting rich in the restaurant industry, taking advantage of those poor poor immigrants ... who are out there getting rich themselves, running those restaurants. You’re sure to get a rise out of it. Capitalism. Rocks.
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