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calendar   Friday - December 16, 2011

a stand-in post

Unfortunately, Bert’s first time at a Cowboy Action Shoot was also his last.


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He thought they’d said “Dress like a cow, boy.”



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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/16/2011 at 11:58 AM   
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the eu declares war on the lonely helpless prune.

Lots of folks and mostly the Brits, wonder aloud just what the heck does the EU do that Brits can’t do for themselves.  People also wonder what new law or pronouncement will be forthcoming, as those jobsworths always seem to find something to pass their worldly judgement on.  And so they have. Again.
They have now declared war on the pitiful prune, who has harmed nobody.

I think I’ll file this one under humor, altho the Euro-weenies at the EU aren’t joking.
But it might provide you with a grin if not a laugh.

Prunes are not a laxative, EU rules

The EU has ruled that prunes do not have a laxative effect and producers must not say that they do.

By Donna Bowater

It comes after the organisation was mocked last month a ruling that led to a ban on claims that drinking water can prevent dehydration.
Despite a long held belief that prunes, traditionally served with custard, are good for improving bowel function, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has ruled this is not the case.

Its experts said there was “insufficient” evidence of a link between the dried plums and normal bowel function after looking at three studies of prune consumption.
Sir Graham Watson MEP has now challenged an EU Commissioner to a prune-eating contest after his food safety committee ruled that prunes do not have a laxative effect.

Sir Graham, the Liberal Democrat member for South West England and Gibraltar, raised the issue in Strasbourg after the EU refused to recognise the high fibre content of fruits like pomegranates, berries and prunes.

“The European Commission’s advisory panel which does this work has rejected 95 per cent of claims for plant-based foods, maybe in many cases with good reason, but among the claims rejected is the claim that prunes have a laxative effect,” he said.

“I have asked the Commission if it is satisfied with the criteria and the methodology used for testing such claims because I know that prunes contain two substances sorbitol and dihydrophenylisatin, which have laxative effects. But most of our constituents do not require a scientific test.

“I have also invited the Commissioner responsible for health and consumer policy, John Dalli, to a prune eating contest to see for himself.”

Last month, the EU concluded there was no evidence to prove drinking water can prevent dehydration. The conclusions led to a ban on bottled water companies using the claim.

At the time, Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”

read more, the lonely prune


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 12/16/2011 at 11:42 AM   
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Dude, Radical

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi Nour Party Win In Landslide During Second Round of Elections

The Islamists won 80% of the vote and in some districts the Salafists beat the Muslim Brotherhood.

See the Zip or see the source.

Actually, all you really need to see is the picture, which tells you all you need to know:
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That isn’t a woman voting, that’s a terrorist. Egypt, soon to be Little Iran. So much for the “Arab Spring”. Wise choice, Obama. Loser.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/16/2011 at 11:22 AM   
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Finally, Hope For Some Change!!

Evil BOOOOSH Policy Overturned!!!




A rare bit of sanity in government! I’d call it a Christmas Miracle Serendipitous Holiday Season Event!


Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban

Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year. That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown.

Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete.

The spending bill doesn’t actually amend the 2007 law, but does prohibit the administration from spending any money to carry out the light bulb standards — which amounts to at least a temporary reprieve.

Half a loaf is better than a sharp stick in the eye, right? The rest of the story details the rest of the less than great news, but I’m looking for something - anything!! - positive coming from the feds, so I’ll take this and be happy.

Oh, if only the UK could feel the joy of this moment. Real light bulbs, cheap. Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we’re free at last. Until next year.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/16/2011 at 11:10 AM   
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Young criminals are being given party bags of sweets on their first night behind bars.

I have notes and clippings coming out my ears. And I still managed to lose track of this item which I found last week.  Then forgot I had it.
However, as I read Richard Littlejohn faithfully, he ran the brief story in his column today. 
Isn’t funny at all. Is it?

Banana Republic
A snapshot of modern, multi-culti Britain. Paulo Franco, who is Portuguese, says he was forced out of his job as a supervisor at Britain’s biggest banana-packing factory, in Coventry, because he couldn’t speak Polish.
Although Mr Franco speaks perfect English, he wasn’t able to communicate with his overwhelmingly Polish workforce. So he had to go.

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Some other managers at the factory have now downloaded iPhone apps so they can translate their instructions into Polish.
Fyffes Bananas’ spokesman Paul Barrett said: ‘You can’t ban people speaking in their own language.’
No, but you can ban people speaking English in England, apparently.
Absolutely bananas.

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Also among my notes is an example of what I think is theater of the absurd.
A story in the Telegraph for which there is no link because the Telegraph did not include the article anywhere on line that I could find.
So once again Littlejohn to the rescue as he mentions a much abbreviated version in The Daily Mail.

The headline in the other paper read,

SWEETS LEFT ON PILLOWS OF YOUNG OFFENDERS FOR FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL

Young criminals are being given party bags of sweets on their first night behind bars.

Ashfield Young Offenders’ Institution, in Gloucestershire, believes it helps them settle in to their new surroundings.
The bags contain fudge, Refreshers and Polos. Why not put an After Eight on their pillow, too.
I don’t believe in treating young offenders in the same way as hardened crooks. Many of them have never known kindness in their lives — but they are there to be punished, as well as rehabilitated.
A finger of fudge on their first night inside is not the way to go about it. Don’t forget the fruit gums, mum!

He left out the fudge bars. Yum. Many of the louts came in after the summer riots so I guess a few anyway are getting some taste of being locked up.
But a spokesman for the ppl who operate the prison, SERCO, who btw also do garbage and recycled trash collection, says the young offenders “need to be treated with kid gloves to some extent to protect them from the harsher side of life in prison.”

Right you are. Give em the impression it’s a walk in the park.  After all ... who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 12/16/2011 at 10:56 AM   
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A Bad Case Of Glue Ball

Our team went 7-0 last night at Cheap League. We are in 5th place in a league of 12 teams. Last night’s win will not move us up, but it will bring us closer to the lead teams and widen the gap between us and the teams below us. Last night’s win puts us over the 50% win line. Yay us!



Happy happy joy joy. We only gave out 4 pins in handicap so it was pretty much a heads up match. We were on the lanes up against the wall, which had been used for open bowling before our league started. Conditions were absolutely rancid last night, but this time my team sucked less on them than the other team. There were no awesome games. The lanes were like glue, the back end was dead, the edges were wet, and the pins seemed to be Velcroed on. We won because we left easier spares and made them more often than the other team did. I threw a 548 for the series, a whacking great 8 pins over average. 185, 172, 191. We got the wood because we won the first game by a huge amount; our opponent’s team relies too heavily on their one awesome bowler, and he was 100 pins down that game.

And that’s about it. Sure, you get to be a great bowler with a really high average by stringing lots of strikes together all the time. But when the foo hits the shan, you win by being able to hit the 10 pin or the 7 pin almost all the time to make the spares, by rolling 8 or 9 when your first ball doesn’t strike, and by throwing a moderate line that doesn’t give you strange and impossible leaves and splits when the strikes won’t come. And that’s what we did.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/16/2011 at 10:37 AM   
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The Great GOP Debate

Is This The Last One, Please?

No. Sorry Drew. It’s only the last one before the Iowa caucus. There will be more to come, though the field will narrow as the primaries transpire and the losers leave the stage.

I caught most of the GOP candidate’s debate last night. This one was pretty good. Bryan Preston at PJ Tattler has a pretty good recap, with only a small amount of bias coming through. Go hence and read the play by play, then skim the comments with the awareness that the Paulbots are still out there doing what they do best.

I agree with him that Michelle Bachmann came off poorly against Newt Gingrich during their abortion dust-up. Not so much in what she said, but in how she said it. I know she feels frustrated that the polls and the media have sidelined her; she even came out last night with a “don’t ignore me, I am a viable candidate” kind of remark ... but she came off as rather shrewish during that part. A male candidate would have seemed just as bad had he delivered the same words in the same manner. Sometimes it’s how you say things that matters just as much as what you say.

If I had to put it my opinion of the debate and the whole darn campaign in a nutshell, I’d agree most with comment #29 by Philly Guy, which I’ll trim down to the core (I favor Rick Perry more than he does though):

1) Ron Paul is a very scary dude.
2) Michelle Bachmann has no accomplishments in government at all. ... She irritates me.
3) John Huntsman is better than Ambien.
4) Rick Santorum seems to say a lot of very good things, has a variety of accomplishments and connects the dots very well. He also seems like he’s still in college.
5) After Rick Perry is done, there won’t be any federal government left any more.  Let’s go back and undo Obamacare, have a vigorous and strong US foreign policy, cut taxes and rebuild America’s values. I’m not a big fan of his tack towards the religious aspect of his life.
6) Newt Gingrich is a conundrum. He would destroy Obama in a debate. Easily the most articulate thinker with the biggest ideas in the race. He also steps in it a lot.
7) Mitt Romney comes off as a competent manager ... He is also an amazing flip-flopper – on the same level as Obama. ... Despite that, he would do well in a debate with Obama. The guy has staying power.



My Big Picture take at this point? It’s going to be Romney. And that shows you just how important it is to keep the pressure on your Congressweasels and Senators, and to push and push and push for the Tea Party philosophy. The President leads, but it’s the Legislature that gets things done. And while I personally wouldn’t mind waking up tomorrow and learning that the federal budget has been cut by 80%, that more than half the federal government has been laid off, and that a quarter million micromanaging laws have been thrown out, that level and rate of change is only going to happen at the end of a gun barrel, which I would really like to avoid. Big steps are going to have to be taken, but they are going to have to be taken one at a time. So Perry’s views are correct, but we can’t do it all in one fell swoop. That would be a revolution, and who wants the period of anarchy that always goes with one of those? What we need are some honest politicians who can work out honest incremental but significant solutions, not beholden to special interest groups and without the braying rhetoric of the frantic and the unhinged. Leadership in favor of cost cutting and limited government sure would help. Let’s take some big steps to build up speed to make sure we’re running in the right direction before just leaping off the cliff. Yeah, good luck with that one Drew.




And once again I’ll put out my advice to the GOP: STFU already about abortion. I don’t like it, they don’t like it. Fine. Accepted. Face the music of that debate: it’s over, it’s been over, that train left the station 40 years ago, the tracks were ripped up, and Toll Brothers built a subdivision where the station used to be. Make a blanket statement about it, a layer of varnish on this plank in your platform, then refer every last media shill to go and read it, and refuse to make any other statement or comment:

For now it is the law of the land. To change this law requires a constitutional amendment. To get an amendment passed requires 36 of the 50 states to sign on to it. That’s the one and only way. Any and every attempt by towns, cities, counties, and states to limit or make it locally illegal will be turned over by the courts. ALL OF THEM. ALWAYS. PERIOD. Half the population - at least - supports abortion, so the chances of getting an amendment ratified are pretty damn slim. We will continue to make our opinion known, and hope someday to turn the majority of the public in our direction. But that day is not this day. Now let’s move on.

Got your box of rocks ready to throw at my glass house? Great! Have at it; comments are open.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/16/2011 at 09:40 AM   
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the russians are coming,the russians are coming. well open the damn gates and let her in!

I was planning something else when I found this.

She gets my vote.

Playboy cover star Maria Kozhevnikova wins Russian parliament seat

Maria Kozhevnikova, a former actress and model who once appeared on the cover of Russian Playboy, is about to take up a seat in parliament for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.

MORE MARIA

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See More Below The Fold

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 12/16/2011 at 07:57 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 15, 2011

Today’s Lesson: Sex Sells

Well, at least she won’t have any student loan debt

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poor college student barely gets by, stripping off online for $31/hr



‘Why I stripped on webcams to pay for my uni fees’: Woman tells how she turned to the sex industry to fund her studies

* She is forced to continue stripping because ‘there are no jobs for young people at the moment’
* One in five lapdancers are students, NUS warns
* NUS says students turning to ‘informal’ sector for cash
* Emma Green was paid £200-a-week to strip for men on webcam

That about says it all, doesn’t it? Read the rest. Savvy young business woman, or lazy skank making excuses? It’s not like she was going for a degree in particle physics.

Personally, I think she looks pretty used up for a 25 year old.

The Brit press loves to publish these “I was forced to turn tricks to pay for my school (or baby, or whatever)” stories, in a bit of socialist arm twisting, since Big Bad Government had to audacity to cut down on the education free ride a while back. Remember the riots?

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I betcha Riot Babe here could be a $50/hr cam girl


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/15/2011 at 01:49 PM   
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Blurring The Line

Robo Warriors

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This is a Watchbird watching you! *



As the military scrambles to deal with a U.S. spy drone lost in Iran, it was revealed that the U.S. Air Force has bought a cutting edge, jet-powered stealth drone—and plans its immediate deployment in Afghanistan.

But the brand new drone—an armed model from General Atomics designed for strike as well as reconnaissance—was ordered months ago, well before the crash of the stealthy Lockheed-made RQ-170 Sentinel that remains in Iran, the USAF said in a statement to aviation website FlightGlobal.

“This aircraft will be used as a test asset and will provide a significantly increased weapons and sensors payload capacity on an aircraft that will be able to fly to targets much more rapidly than the MQ-9 [Reaper] UAS,” the USAF said.

Developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, the Avenger—also known as the Predator C—is the upgraded successor to the Predator and Reaper drones with significantly greater firepower, speed and sensor capabilities.

It also has an internal weapons bay and is capable of carrying 2,000-pound missiles.

Seriously bad-ass.

December 15, 2011: The U.S. Air Force recently announced that they were sending an Avenger UAV to Afghanistan. This jet powered aircraft was initially known as “Predator C” and took its first flight in early 2009. The air force has been working on buying an Avenger and getting it to Afghanistan for the last five months.

Development of the Avenger began nearly a decade ago. The first flight was supposed to have been four years ago, but there were technical problems that kept coming up. Apparently it was worth the wait, as the U.S. Navy was impressed and particularly interested in using Avenger to replace the soon-to-be-retired EA-6Bs in their most dangerous attack missions. The air force likes the ability to arm Avenger with a smart bomb, including the 900 kg (2,000 pound) GBU-34 penetrator version.

Avenger is 13.2 meters (41 feet) long, with a 20.1 meter (66 foot) wingspan and built to be stealthy. The V shaped tail and smooth lines of the swept wing aircraft will make it difficult to detect by radar. There is a humpbacked structure on top of the aircraft, for the engine air intake. There is an internal bomb bay to hold about a ton of weapons, or additional fuel to provide another two hours of flying time (in addition to the standard 20 hours endurance). Avenger appears to be a larger, jet powered version of the five ton Reaper (Predator B). The 4,800 pound thrust engine is designed to minimize the heat signature that sensors can pick up. Total payload is 1.36 tons (3,000 pounds) and total weight of the aircraft is nine tons. Cruising speed is 740 kilometers an hour [460mph]. Each Avenger costs about $15 million.

These drones keep right on growing in size, power, speed, capability, and cost. This latest one - latest that we’re being told about, at any rate - is the size of a jet fighter, flies faster than any WWII era fighter plane, and has a a considerable ordnance load. 3,000 pounds is a whole lot of Hellfire missiles - more than 2 dozen, including mounting racks and wiring. Plus it can stay up in the sky all day and all night.

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Think this is big? There is another one waiting in the wings that’s several times larger. The Global Hawk looks very much like an Avenger C, but it has the wingspan of a 737-900. A “spy drone” the size of an airliner! That one can fly at 500mph at twice the altitude of a commercial jet, and go from coast to coast more than 5 times on one tank of fuel.  This is not a paper daydream; the Global Hawk exists and is already flying. The thing has already flown non-stop from California to Australia; it can stay up for more than 30 hours at a time. God only knows what kind of bomb load that one could carry. Cost? 10 times more than you’ll ever earn in your entire lifetime, but what’s money to the military? The sky’s the limit, and these drones can fly really, really up there. $40 million each, plus as much in avionics gear as you can dream of; easily another $40 million per drone.

I’m starting to wonder if we even need an Air Force any longer. Or pilots. Maybe all the Blue Shirts will be replaced by legions of video game junkies sitting in darkened rooms somewhere, plugged in to their consoles and joysticks. They’ll get all the big jobs, the spooky stuff and the alpha strikes, and actual human pilots will be relegated to flying cheap little propjet planes for mop-up missions. Is this a good thing or not? I’m not really sure. Is “no risk warfare” the drone wave of the future? We’re not the only country doing drones. Everybody is, even Turkey. We will start seeing anti-drone drones soon? Mega-drones and micro-drones? Is this a whole new way for the militarys of the world to waste money, another “dreadnought race” up high in the sky?

The Avenger, unlike the larger Global Hawk, can operate from carriers. The Avenger uses landing gear from the F-5, [Vietnam era fighter plane] an aircraft of the same weight class. The naval version is now called the Sea Avenger.

The Avenger is expected to deliver about 85 percent of the performance of the Global Hawk, at less than half the price. To compete with this, there is a “Global Hawk Lite” in development. The Avenger is designed to fly high (up to 20,000 meters/60,000 feet) and cross oceans. Until 2009, the Avenger didn’t, officially, exist, and was a “black” (secret) program.

How soon before the local police have them? That’s the new, post-911 rather militarized police, mind you. Your neighborhood cops with their assault weapons, body armor, and armored vehicles. The guys portrayed on all the TV cop dramas as having instant access to all your personal data and to every security camera in the country, of which there has been an infinite proliferation thereof. The Border Patrol is using drones already, and they are probably armed ones. The answer to that How soon question is quite frightening, because the answer is “it’s already happening”, for crimes as major as 6 stolen cows. There’s a humorous YouTube video out there somewhere, showing a road with a No Speeding sign ... some car zooms by and drone pops up and blasts him. Aside from the use of excessive force, that isn’t really all that far fetched at this point.

No risk warfare is a kind of ultimate power, and we all know what happens when you give someone ultimate power. Especially if they were already pretty damn corrupt to begin with, or at least traveled in a world where such levels of corruption were very commonplace.

Have we gone too far?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/15/2011 at 12:12 PM   
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a justice (?) system in the toilet. well hell. no wonder it stinks. and it damn well does.

Ever have your eyes opened for the first time?
But late in life rather then early?

It isn’t that I’ve never been sceptical about the law or the injustice system.  It’s more like I hadn’t discovered just how unjust it can be.  Until late in life.

So I’m up all night reading a book impossible to put down called “The Color of Law.”
There is a line, one among many, that stands out and strikes a chord.

It reads as follows.

The law is just a business, a game we play with other people’s lives and money.

Another line says

Check your conscience at the door each morning or you won’t last long in the law.

Coincidence that I’ve read the book at about the same time as the tilt against justice was made in a court last week, and which was reported on here as well as many other blogs.  You may recall I posted a story about four black muslim slags who beat the heck out of a white girl while calling her racial names.  For those of you who missed the article, although I can’t see how, the judge in the case decided that since the four were drunk for the first time (they claimed), then he would not jail the sluts because as muslimes, they were clearly not used to drinking and so acted contrary to their normal behavior.  So they got a get out of jail card.  Now any white that in anger or not would use the ‘N’ word would definitely find themselves in a cell and fined heavily since words do more harm then a severe kicking and beating. 

Well as the old song went, “The Beat Goes On.” and “Ain’t That a Shame?”

This old man, age 79, was hit with what you see him holding. It was thrown by the vermin shown here on the right.

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Of course, it was just all in fun and yoot being yoot. It was done by this piece of worthless shit who had this to say after appearing in court.
“HaHa, Got off with a tag.” In other words, he was spared jail time by the system in place here.

He was part of a gang of feral youths that threw a 40lb paving slab at the old man shown, leaving him writhing on the ground in agony.
Ryan Girdlestone walked free from court with a curfew and an electronic tag after his lawyer convinced magistrates the 18-year-old was full of remorse for the incident that ended with Bernard O’Donnell, 79, with a suspected broken leg.

But that is not how he appeared just minutes later, as Girdlestone boasted on his Facebook page: ‘Jus got out off court wiv a 4 mouths [sic] tag hahahha d**ks!!!’

Last night, his victim, a retired deputy head teacher, said: ‘Clearly he has no care for the damage he has caused. If they are laughing at the consequences then it’s hardly a deterrent.’

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So why should this miserable thug worry about the law?  There’s no teeth to bite the bastard with.

And there’s this insane example of justice not done. Another case of fuck the victim.
Maybe it’s almost well that guns are hard to come by here. I have a feeling that otherwise there’s be running gun battles in the streets with 12 year olds armed to the teeth.  On the other hand, the feral shits already own the streets.  The law abiding should be armed with permission to shoot to kill. 
Here, take a look at this dumbo ruling.


‘Only a tyrant would tag someone on their 21st birthday’: Judge spares man caught with keys to stolen car so he can celebrate his birthday

· Corey Brown, 20, who was caught with the keys to a £30k car, repeatedly failed to turn up for unpaid work
· Recorder David Hall refuses to give him an electronic tag - and instead adds an extra seven hours to his community punishment
· Brown says he saw punishment as a ‘bit of a joke’
By KATHERINE FAULKNER

Corey Brown had been ordered to do 150 hours of community service for his role in the theft of a pensioner’s car, but when he failed to turn up for the work sessions five times he was hauled back into court to be given a curfew and an electronic tag.
But he was spared after complaining that the punishment would ruin his plans for a night out on his 21st birthday.

Turning to Brown– who had sat smirking throughout the hearing at Warwick Crown Court – Recorder Hall then said: ‘If I give you seven more hours [of community service] to do, and you keep out of trouble, is that a fair deal?’
Brown, from Bedworth, Warwickshire, simply nodded, and then walked free from court.

And Brown – who has already been to prison three times – admitted that even he was surprised he had been let off.
He said: ‘I was expecting to get a tag for missing my probation dates. Technically, they should have activated my prison sentence. But the judge told me I’d done well so far. He said he didn’t see the point.
‘Thanks to the judge, I can enjoy a few drinks for my birthday, instead of being stuck in with my gran or in prison.’
When asked why he had not turned up to do his community service, he replied: ‘I don’t know; just didn’t think about it. I didn’t care.
‘I suppose I did see the whole thing as a bit of a joke.’
As he prepared to celebrate his 21st birthday yesterday, Brown added: ‘I’ve been to jail three times and I haven’t learned a thing.

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Well of course he sees it as a joke.  Because it freekin well is a joke. Not a very funny one either but it proves my constant point.
Nobody will fear laws and punishments with no teeth. No one will have a reason to fear being caught for any kind of crime. There will always be a lawyer ready to play the game. And judges and magistrates with no common sense and less brains then god gave a tennis ball aren’t a big help.

Since liberals have achieved a choke hold on the criminal injustice system world wide, we can all look forward to more of the same.
I’m sure by now you have all been made aware of the killings in Belgium over the last 24 hours. Drew posted the story.  Here was a man, another scum sucking bit of worthless flesh with a record. A violent one.  What was he doing out on the streets?  Oh right.  His human rights.

The papers said he came from a North African immigrant background, also had convictions for drug dealing, handling stolen goods and sex abuse.  An immigrant background?  Does that mean he was born of immigrant parents, or that he was himself an immigrant?  Because here in Britain, there are thousands of criminal immigrants and so far, no way or no will to deport them.

For example:

Rapist asylum seeker who dumped victim on rubbish tip is released after being TWO hours away from deportation
· Alphonse Semo, 54, was allowed by judge to marry girlfriend so can stay in Britain
· Father-of-five was jailed for eight years for rape in 2002
By ROB COOPER

An asylum seeker who raped a woman and dumped her on a rubbish tip when he was ‘finished’ has been freed despite Home Office attempts to deport him.
Alphonse Semo, 54, was jailed for eight years for the rape and at the end of his term was due to be sent back to the Congo.
However two hours before his flight he was given permission to marry his girlfriend and stay in the country.
Now a judge has allowed the father-of-five to be released from an immigration detention centre.

read more here

And btw, for a crime of this sort where there is no doubt about guilt, why was the sentence so small?  A crime like rape deserves the death penalty after first ripping off the rapists parts or burning them off.  Wanna bet this non human bit of shit will be on benefits?

In Italy, a man opened fire on some Senegalese merchants killing two.
He was described as being a Fascist and belonged to a right wing Fascist party.
Not that killing a couple of innocent merchants is justified. Ever. But I keep waiting for the violent backlash against the liberals who have brought us to this state. The guy in Italy was angered by immigration and I suppose (no supposing about it ) he was acting on race based ill will.  But if he had to kill anyone, why not the liberals who are responsible for the situation that led to his anger and hate.

Can’t anyone on the far right with violent intent ever get it right?  There’s loads of lawyers for example, on the left, who specialize in civil rights cases. There are so many legitimate targets to choose from but no.  They always seem to shoot the visible result of liberal policy, instead of the liberal ‘activists’ who are the cause. 

Machine-gun thug killed ‘blameless’ pair in a row over parking

By COLIN FERNANDEZ
An argument over parking led to a ‘completely good and blameless’ businessman and his nephew being machine-gunned to death by a drug dealer.

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Khan, who has previous convictions for robbery and possession of crack cocaine with intent to supply, looked ‘furious’ as he drove away. About ten minutes later three Asian men returned and started to damage the van which had blocked the road. One pulled out a gun from a bag and opened fire, killing both Amarjit and Rajinder.

Harjinder Tiwana watched in horror as the gunman aimed the gun at her, before the gang fled with hoods pulled over their faces. In February 2004 she identified Khan as the gunman. She told the court: ‘I will never forget the face of the man who murdered my father.’

Mobile phone evidence revealed that after leaving the scene Khan repeatedly phoned another man, Abu Bakr Mansha Khan – who was later jailed for six years in 2006 for plotting to kill a decorated British soldier, Corporal Mark Byles.

Jurors heard that Abu Bakr Mansha Khan was arrested in September 2003 but released and has not stood trial in relation to this incident. It also emerged that the MAC-10 gun used in the murders had been used in another shooting that year, in Coventry.

Prosecutor Nicholas Hilliard said: ‘Nobody hearing about this case could have been anything other than horrified. Two good, blameless men shot dead in broad daylight with a machine gun. It raises a whole host of issues that people feel strongly about – the availability of firearms,

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Seems to me they should worry more about criminals who can’t be deported and the abuse of the human rights industry by civil rights lawyers and a too soft approach to punishment.  When there’s any of that, that means anything.  Firearms are NOT easily available to the law abiding, and those who don’t abide don’t care.  What is it they (officialdumb) don’t understand?  If you read the comment by Brits it’s pretty clear they are tired of all the BS.  But the powers that be just are not listening enough.  They are letting technicalities and loopholes put the law abiding in ever more danger with no hope.

If I’ve bored the readers here with all this, it hasn’t been intentional. I’m just so damn sick of seeing this kind of thing so often, and so often the criminals getting off lightly and laughing their way out of court. And if you think the little bit I have posted here is all of it, you’d think wrong.  These are just a few examples of a justice injustice system that is broken.
And here’s the last bit of proof of that.  This is fuckin sick and it isn’t even the very worst of what I’ve seen over the last 7 years. But it’s damn well bad enough.

Gang of nine who beat autistic teenager so badly she was off school for 10 months escape without ANY punishment
· Sophie Russell, 16, was punched about 20 times in the face
· Four girls and five boys let off and police handed just one of the mob a caution
By EMILY ALLEN

Sophie Russell, 16, was attacked by the teenage yobs who left her seriously injured with a broken nose and shattered face at her school in February. 

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The teenager from Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, had to have facial surgery and was forced to take 10 months off school to overcome traumatic panic attacks and rebuild her life. 
Her mother Helen, who owns a heating ventilation company with husband Iain, 45, in Louth, Lincolnshire, has criticised police for not prosecuting the youths, saying ‘there has been no justice.’
Sophie, who has Asperger’s syndrome, said: ‘What I went through was really traumatic and ripped the family to bits. I was just walking to my boyfriend’s house and wasn’t expecting to be attacked.

‘Because they are juveniles they have got away with it. If the main offender does it again she will end up in front of a judge, but why give them a chance to do it again?’

A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said the case was passed to the Youth Offending Team who decided not to press charges but to give a caution for common assault.

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Gee, if this is a “common assault” I’d sure hate to see what they regard as uncommon.  See the link and read the comments. She’s been patched up and is a pretty girl. But inside the damage will last a lifetime.  And the punks walk away free.  Justice would demand that the very same thing be done to them, as they did to her. 


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calendar   Wednesday - December 14, 2011

The Battle of the Andrews

What, you thought I forgot to make a bowling post? Ha!

Once, at band camp, Last night, at Greed League, we went 5-2. With our guy Bob back in Texas for his business, we had to get Andy from last’s years angry team in to sub. Actually he subs for us quite a bit, and with the better mix of guys we have this season it turns out that both he and his itsy bitsy girlfriend are Ok folks. That’s good. So anyway, there was me, there was Andy subbing for us, and there was Andy on the team we played. Three Andrews, oy vey.

It wasn’t heads up bowling. We got a 47 pin handicap, but their guys are usually much better bowlers than we are. Lucky for us we had a good night, even though Joe was absent because of traffic. We have a very diverse team; one guy is rich, one guy is so poor he can’t hardly afford soap, one guy works his tail off driving a truck, one guy has a cushy job being the IT dude for the local high school, and then there’s me. Not that any of that matters because we’re all in it to bowl. But Joe drives a local big rig for a living, and he was hours behind because of traffic. So he was out for the night. His absence cut our handicap down to about 28 pins. Not quite heads up bowling, but it wasn’t a whole lot of handicap.

So we went at it. Our team has fallen into 3rd place, and we want to get back into 2nd in the worst way. I don’t know what place their team is in, but it’s lower than 4th. Their Andy and I don’t get along too well; we were officers together on some dying league a few years back, and we had some strong differences of opinion ... long story, not germane to this one. But it was kind of a grudge match, at least him vs me, and we’re both the lead-off bowlers for our teams.

We won the first game by 27. I rolled a 208, which was good enough to cover my man, beating Andy. Haha. Our Andy, nominally a 205 average bowler, threw in the 180s. We were in the lead for every frame. Nice, but that made the other team wake up for Game 2.

We won the second game by just a little. 13 or 14. I threw a 206, but I got 5 strikes in a row to rally us. The lead changed places about 4 times, but in the end we squeaked one out. Their Andy was way off, throwing down in the 140s. Neener neener neener!

Game 3 was a nail biter. We were ahead, then behind, then ahead, then tied, then behind ... they opened with a barrage of strikes while we threw soft the first two frames. We never really rallied, but threw steadily the whole game. And our Andy was suddenly hot, throwing strikes almost the whole game. As late as the fourth bowler in the 10th frame it was anybody’s game, but even with our Andy chucking a 251 they hammered a bunch of Xs onto the end of the scoreboard and pulled ahead to win by 11. Their Andy rolled a 224, and all I could manage was a 185. Still, that’s over my average, so I’m not complaining, though I blew it in the 10th, missed my spare, and dropped what could have been a 200+ game. So I rolled a 599 for the night, once again just shy of the 600 series hurdle. Not that I’m complaining, but I really would like to roll 600+ all the time. I was the only bowler with a score under 200, so it was a big scoring game for both teams, a really good game, and they absolutely earned that win. Lucky for us we were up in total points from the first two games, so we got the wood.

Going 5-2 is better than 4-3, and far better than 3-4. But I think that we’ll need to do that well or better again next week to get out of 3rd. Maybe for the next few weeks. The 1st place team? Phooey. They’re so damn far ahead of everyone else that it makes my idea of a split season make sense.  And it’s been that way for at least 4 weeks now.  This league runs until May, but I doubt that we’ll be able to catch them even then, nor will anyone else. Those guys have only lost 6 or so points, and we’re in week 16. Untouchable.


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So Totally Busted

The Real Map of New Jersey



It started as a bit of a joke, and then things got a little out of hand ...

Joe Steinfeld, a 22-year old Rutgers graduate, claims authorship of the edgy, “tongue-in-cheek” map, which subdivides the Garden State into social, financial and ethnic realms. In less than 24 hours it has gone viral.

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Steinfeld is a Westfield native, and currently works for the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, monitoring preserved lands and maintaining trails. He also works with the Geographic Information Systems, making maps of preserves and researching resource conservation.

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“Oh, plenty of people have been chiming in, pointing out my inaccuracies, but for the most part, it’s been met with laughter and praise,” he said. “So far, I haven’t received any [negative feedback], so I feel pretty confident. I didn’t mean to offend any one group in particular, and for the most part, people have understood that it’s meant to be funny.”

After a few hours of searching Google Maps and using Photoshop to fill in a blank map of the state, Steinfeld has created a piece of internet gold, for better or worse.

In New Jersey, we spell “negative feedback” with 4 letters, beginning with “s”.

Here’s the map. Click it to go visit the big version.

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It’s a good Joisey Joke if you don’t live here or know much of anything about the state. And if you do live here, then you know that this map is actually pretty damn accurate. See the “78” highway sign there on the left, underneath the first P in “Hill People”? Yeah, that’s me. And Pineys ... well, think hill billies, only without the benefit of hills. Flatland billies. Swamp rats. Several extra fingers to help play the banjo, kind of thing. What many outsiders don’t know about New Jersey is that about a fifth of the state is pretty much forest, and about a quarter of the state is pretty much deserted scrublands. That’s the Pine Barrens; almost empty. But NJ has the highest population density in America! Yes, because in the cities they’re packed in about 30 deep, maybe 40. And Camden really is the most God-awful shithole in the nation. Worse than Philly. Worse than Detroit. Even worse than Baltimore.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/14/2011 at 02:31 PM   
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Truly Unexpected News

Son of a bitch. I just heard this on Fox News ... I missed it yesterday ...

Revising Reality Realty

HOME SALES FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS HAVE BEEN OVERSTATED BY 20%





“But surely this can’t impact the current market?” asks Jiggles McDimbulb on the TV screen. No sweetie, it only means that every person who bought a home since 2007 was ripped off by deliberately false improperly modeled market data.


Data on sales of previously owned homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought.

The National Association of Realtors said a benchmarking exercise had revealed that some properties were listed more than once and in some instances new home sales were also captured.

“All the sales and inventory data that has been reported since January 2007 is being downwardly revised. Sales were weaker than people thought,” NAR spokesman Walter Malony told Reuters.

“We’re capturing some new home data that should have been filtered out and we also discovered that some properties were being listed in more than one list.”

The benchmark revisions will be published next Wednesday and will not affect house prices.

Like Hell it won’t. Double dip? Screw that. Can you say “triple dip”? Consumer confidence? What’s that?

Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years

... The depressed housing market is one of the key obstacles to strong economic growth and an oversupply of unsold homes on the market continues to stifle the sector.

Malony said the Realtors group had developed a new model that would allow frequent benchmarking instead of waiting 10 years for the population Census data to revise their figures.

There was some hint of this back in February, when an outside group ran the numbers and saw the problem. Looks like they were quickly hushed up ...

[02/15/2011] Decline in real estate sales greater than stated? CoreLogic: NAR methodology appears to inflate home sales by 15-20%

Statistics published by the National Association of Realtors appear to overstate sales of existing homes by 15 to 20 percent, mortgage and property data aggregator CoreLogic says in a new report that concludes home sales fell more sharply last year than previously thought.

A NAR spokesman said the CoreLogic claim “is premature at best,” and NAR will be making some benchmark revisions to its historic sales data later this year.

NAR’s figures—based on data collected from multiple listing services and large brokerages—show sales of existing homes fell 5 percent in 2010, to 4.9 million. But CoreLogic, which collects public sales records from county recorders and courts, estimates that home sales actually fell 12 percent, to 3.6 million.

The implications are not trivial: A slower rate of sales means that it will take longer to burn through unsold inventory, and a glut of homes for sale in a given market can undermine prices. CoreLogic says the unsold inventory on the market in November represented 16 months of supply, compared with NAR’s estimate of 9.5 months.

Weak sales following the expiration of the federal homebuyer tax credits, an excess supply of unsold homes, and the impact of sales of distressed homes is driving home prices down, CoreLogic said. A national, repeat-sales home-price index compiled by the company was down 5.1 percent in November from a year ago.

If that trend continues, national home prices will probably be down 10 percent year-over-year by spring, CoreLogic said.

Yeah that’s right, poo-poo their findings and sweep it under the rug. Nothing to see here, move along.

So, obviously we the consumers can not trust the housing industry to publish the real facts and figures. Oh, let’s blame it on an “accounting model”. Sure, fine, because “one, two, three, four” is such an outdated system for actually counting things!!

Holy dog turds on the half-shell.

So, what other industry figures have we been fed for the past half decade that are also blatantly false? And the real question is: who is behind this, the industry or the government?

Let’s ask a simple question: How do you miscount an actual sale? A sale is a sale is a sale, right?  NAR gets its data from the various MLS systems and of course we the general public should trust the professionals and their data, yes?

In point of fact I was called all sorts of names by some of those professionals when I ran down a report sent to me in the fall of 2010 claiming that the MLS data was incorrect on sold price—a key element used when performing market analysis for clients who are interested in both buying and selling. At the time I made the audacious recommendation that nobody should trust Realtor data and should instead insist on a pull of the public records at the County level before performing any real estate transaction.

There was plenty of controversy at the time over the original claim and I spent a lot of time running down the facts, including calls to county tax authorities—and later posted a follow-up later to the original Ticker.

This issue of bad counts of sold homes is, in my opinion, much-more serious, as it’s damn hard to claim this is a result of misunderstanding between an industry professional and a naive client.

Let’s face reality here folks: Counting how many things sold is pretty simple if there’s any sort of verification and integrity in the process, especially when ownership changes are filed with county authorities in public records and thus a spot check should catch any material error almost instantly!

So I must ask—why now, some eight months after Corelogic first raised the issue?  Did it really take eight months to actually.... well..... count?  How many fingers do these people have again?

i am really starting to believe that i live inside the matrix.

Horry Clap.

Oh, and ... I could be wrong, as I’m not a Realtor, but I read on some realty forum that when a bank takes back a house in foreclosure it counts as a sale. Um, no, that’s a load of crap. But if that is part of the current “accounting method”, then even the downwardly revised figures are going to be upwardly inflated. Let’s all just join hands and say it’s time to cut the bullshit. We all already KNOW we’re in the shitter. Stop the lies, and let’s all work together to try and get out of this mess. And Socialism isn’t the answer, Professor Asshat.

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PS - if the housing market is and has been 20% worse than admitted for the past 5+ years, what do you think the actual health of Fannie, Freddie, and the rest of the mortgage industry is then?


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