Wednesday - January 18, 2012
a wackier nanny state then here? possibly norway. take a look.
There is always something so damn intrusive and nanny like about socialist systems.
Like this article that caught my attention.
What’s with these Norwegian social workers? Haven’t youngsters crawled into bed with mommy and daddy for eons? I mean little ones naturally.
The kids in this case. And anyway, how would those social nannys have known that. And what’s wrong with hand feeding?
Unless there’s something else going on here not reported.
Imagine an authority that can make this kind of decision on the spot. Or near it anyway.
Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them by hand
Authorities also complained that the parents should not be sleeping in the same bed as their infantsBy DAVID GERGES
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them.
Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter eight months ago after authorities branded their behaviour inappropriate.
The drastic measure led to intervention from the Indian government who contacted Norwegian authorities in an a desperate attempt to return the children.
Norwegian Child Protection Services removed the youngsters from their home in May, 2011, leaving their parents horrified with the outcome of the report.
Father Anurup told Indian television channel NDTV: ‘They told me ‘why are you sleeping with the children in the same bed?’.
‘(I told them) this is also a purely cultural issue. We never leave the children in another room and say goodnight to them.’
Anurup added: ‘Feeding a child with the hand is normal in Indian tradition and when the mother is feeding with a spoon there could be phases when she was overfeeding the child.
‘They said it was force feeding. These are basically cultural differences.’
Mrs Bhattacharya said: ‘My son was sleeping with my husband. They said he should sleep separately from your son.’
The parents have been told that they can only see their children twice a year, for an hour during each visit until the kids turn 18 when they will no longer be bound by the current restrictions under current Norwegian law.
Despite the Indian government’s intervention, Norwegian officials are refusing to meet the request for any further explanation.Norway’s Child Protective Service has come under much scrutiny in the past for excessive behaviour in their handling of child cruelty.
Lawyer Svein Kjetil Lode Svendsen said: ‘There has been a report in UN in 2005 which criticized Norway for taking too many children in public care.
‘The amount was 12,500 children and Norway is a small country.’
With the Bhattacharyas’ visas set to expire in March, they have revealed that they will be forced to stay against their will until the return of their infants.
Maybe they should kidnap their own kids, somehow, and find the Indian embassy and ask to be sent home.
This is really bizarre.
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In the interest of this SOPA thing, this is a picture of photographer Mareen Fischinger taken by photographer Sascha Gröhl. Original is here on Flickr.
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Permalink • A SOCIALIST PARADISE FOR ALL BUT THE TAXPAYER
There are a couple of rcob items I’d like to share. Or maybe ‘like’ isn’t exactly the correct term here.
Pick up any paper on any day, turn on radio news (TV too I guess) and someone is going to be speaking about the economy, the cuts being made and the many protests over cuts. Unless you are personally affected the whole subject is probably a crashing bore. But hold on. Maybe not. Because what makes the subject more then interesting to me, personally, is watching this nation and culture which I had long admired, tear itself apart and commit national suicide. I do not like that at all.
I can forgive dumb mistakes because I make them all the time. But what I am seeing is no mistake. I’m no economist, I never managed to balance a check book. Not once in my many years. Maths was never my subject. But it doesn’t take rocket science to know when people have been led down a garden path and lied to. And bad as the previous left wing Labour govt. was, I don’t see great strides being made by this
coalition govt., and I don’t see evidence of the Conservative promise to alter the squatting laws. What I see is more of that and more spending outside the country while being told cuts must be made everywhere inside. Cept those cuts do not include all members of the ruling class.
Among the many cuts on tap is money for things like, national parks. In this case, the beautiful Dartmoor National Park.
Folks are angry because in order to cover the shortfall caused by the cuts, for the very first time, Dartmoor authorities are talking about parking charges. Now this is just one tiny example but added to everything else going on, it’s frustrating for the camel carrying all that straw. Speaking of straws.
IMF confirms plans to expand bailout fund to around $1 trillion, as French banks face write-downs on Greek debt.
And guess what? Britain may be forced to give 15 BILLION to the IMF. Pretty big straw that.
Unemployment is expected to reach new highs and it’s touted that by next year, they could be the highest since 1990.
No job? What? Me worry?
Not the filthy foreign slag who is shown here. Of course she’s happy. The Brit taxpayer is spending over £27,000.00 on the NON English speaking bitch.
Let me convert that to American dollars. Rounding things out, the mommy of four (don’t know where dad is or if there is one) that comes to $41,725.00 added to the txpayer’s payload, while cuts are being made in country. Foreign aid in the multiple millions continues.
The Big Issue is a newspaper for the homeless. And oh btw. Her lack of English sure didn’t stop her from getting legal help when she was first refused ADDITIONAL money.
Romanian Big Issue seller given legal right to claim housing benefit (on top of the £25,000 she already claims)
The mother-of-four currently claims £25,547.60 in benefits each year
That will rise by a minimum of £2,600 when she receives her additional housing allowance
By LUKE SALKELD
As a Romanian immigrant living in the UK, Big Issue seller Firuta Vasile already qualified for more than £25,500 a year in benefits.
But one state handout she wasn’t entitled to was housing benefit. Until now.
Yesterday the 27-year-old mother of four was celebrating having won the extra payout – worth at least £2,600 a year – after her local council was over-ruled by a judge.
Miss Vasile, whose marital status is unknown, said the benefits money would help her pay rent on her £130,000 three-bedroomed home, while she continues to earn around £100 a week selling copies of the homelessness magazine.
Housing benefit has previously been provided to Romanian citizens only if they fit into one of three categories. They must either be registered with the Home Office to work in specific sectors such as agriculture or construction, have highly skilled jobs, or be self-employed with a National Insurance number and tax registered.
Miss Vasile has persuaded officials that she should be considered as part of the third category because she uses her own money to buy copies of the magazine in the hope of selling them at a profit.
Speaking through an interpreter, Miss Vasile said she came to the UK in 2007 to look for work, but could find only a post selling The Big Issue in Bristol.
‘I can keep half of the money I take and I usually make around £100 per week,’ she said. ‘This isn’t enough to meet all my family’s needs so I asked the council for housing benefit to help with my rent. My claim was turned down.
‘I was told that because I am Romanian I could not get benefits unless I have a job or I am in self-employment. They said work for The Big Issue didn’t count. I got legal support and was helped with an appeal.’
Miss Vasile claims £25,547.60 annually in benefits. Every week she receives £326 in tax credits, £60.50 in child benefits, £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 in carers’ allowance.
She would now be entitled to around £160 a week in housing benefit – although this will be reduced to around £50 due to her other income.
Unlike other European Union nationals, Romanians and Bulgarians are subject to strict employment rules in the UK because their countries were late entrants to the EU.
Their rights will be brought into line with other European member states at the end of next year.
Let me guess. Ah .... gee this is a hard one. Their RIGHTS translated means more money then allowed now.
Jackpot. For them.
Miss Vasile, whose children are 11, seven, six and two, first applied for housing benefit from Bristol City Council on November 15, 2010. It was refused six days later.
A social security tribunal ruled that she should be paid the benefits because selling The Big Issue counted as self-employment.
But the city council appealed and the case was taken to an Upper Tribunal in London last year.
Judge Mark Rowland released his written judgment on January 10 and the council has said it would not appeal again.
Miss Vasile – who has one disabled child – was represented by welfare benefits adviser Andy King, of Avon and Bristol Law Centre.
He said: ‘This is a victory for people struggling to work to support their families. Anyone who thinks selling The Big Issue on a British street in winter is a soft option should have a go themselves.’
But Chris Grayling, minister for employment, said: ‘We disagree with the court’s decision.
‘We have to remain in line with our national and international obligations. However, it is absolutely necessary to protect the taxpayer and the benefit system from possible abuse.’
But the problem is, all these folks have to do is ..... show up here and ..... BINGO!
Meanwhile, there’s this possibility to contend with.
Take a serious look at this.
Would you want a clipboard- wielding jobsworth telling your parents it’s time to leave their home?
By BRENDA ALMONDElderly people have a hard enough time in modern Britain. The private pensions crisis, the scandal of neglect and abuse in the NHS, the erosion in the value of their savings and the crippling cost of care are all increasing problems for older generations at the very time in their lives when they are at their most vulnerable.
But now an insidious new source of pressure is looming on the horizon — the growing belief within the Government that private properties belonging to the elderly should be used as a solution to Britain’s chronic housing shortage.
Houses are no longer viewed as beloved homes, safe havens, and welcome private assets for hard-pressed families. Instead, they are to be regarded as a potential source of state-run accommodation, ripe for exploitation.
That is certainly the thinking behind the scheme outlined by Conservative Housing Minister Grant Shapps, which said that local councils should help the elderly downsize to smaller properties, with their homes then rented out to families on local waiting lists.
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I have to hand it to the mad mullahs. They came up with a brilliant snap to lay on Obeanhead. Right upside his head with a shoe. Pretty much makes him a laughingstock, which is what he deserves. Problem is, it makes us a laughingstock too. Thanks for the bold leadership Barack.
The Iranian government, which captured a U.S. stealth drone in December, has agreed to give the top-secret spy craft back, but with a catch.
Instead of the original RQ-170 Sentinel drone, the Islamic Republic said Tuesday that it will send President Obama a tiny toy replica of the plane.
Iranian state radio said that the toy model will be 1/80th the size of the real thing. Iranian citizens can also buy their own toy copies of the drone, which will be available in stores for the equivalent of $4.
Did you want that face egg once over easy, Mr. President, or scrambled?
Ah, but as long as we’re doing toy planes, I can find a better model than that for us to look at ...
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 17, 2012
help wanted: really bad housekeeper
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a “gloomy corner” of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey.
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The first slide pulled out of the dusty corner at the British Geological Survey turned out to be one of the specimens collected by Darwin during his famous expedition on the HMS Beagle, which changed the young Cambridge graduate’s career and laid the foundation for his subsequent work on evolution.Falcon-Lang said the unearthed fossils — lost for 165 years — show there is more to learn from a period of history scientists thought they knew well.
“To find a treasure trove of lost Darwin specimens from the Beagle voyage is just extraordinary,” Falcon-Lang added. “We can see there’s more to learn. There are a lot of very, very significant fossils in there that we didn’t know existed.”
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The discovery was made in April, but it has taken “a long time” to figure out the provenance of the slides and photograph all of them, Falcon-Lang said. The slides have now been photographed and will be made available to the public through a new online museum exhibit opening Tuesday.Falcon-Lang expects great scientific papers to emerge from the discovery.
“There are some real gems in this collection that are going to contribute to ongoing science.”
Dr. John Ludden, executive director of the Geological Survey, called the find a “remarkable” discovery.
“It really makes one wonder what else might be hiding in our collections,” he said.
Truly. It makes me wonder just what miracles would turn up if just one person was set to work with a feather duster. I bet their windows are just about crusted black too.
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Permalink • afghan boys told their bomb belts will not hurt them. only infidels
More of the same.
The court in Europe tells Brits they can’t deport terror suspect, cause Jordan might abuse him.
While in another case dealing with a life term in prisons for killers, thankful Brit legal eagles had this to say.
“We are pleased that the European court has upheld the whole life tariff as a legitimate sentence in British courts.”
That’s nice. A European court being thanked for backing an English one.
The day will come, can’t hold any breath on it of course, but the day may very well dawn when Americans will wake up and find the left has finally tied America to foreign courts. Or closer ties that bind with the UN. Hey, I just do not trust the left. I would not put anything past em, and they always seem to have the finance and the organization to do what they want.
Meanwhile, it’s being reported that young boys in Afghanistan that are recruited as suicide bombers, are being told that when the bombs go off, they will not be hurt. Only the infidels will die. They are fed anti-Western and anti- Afghan govt. propaganda until they’re prepared to kill. The kids are mostly illiterate, but a few have had second thoughts about promises that they will not be hurt.
Here’s a link to a reporter that’s been in Afghanistan since ‘06. Read about it.
Returning to what I started at the top of the page, take a look at this. And be thankful (so far anyway) American courts don’t have to bow to a European super court. At least not today. Tomorrow? Hey, that’s another day to get through and see.
Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan, European judges ruleAbu Qatada, once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right hand man in Europe”, cannot be extradited to Jordan, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
In a landmark judgment, the court said that Qatada would not receive a fair trial if he was returned to his native Jordan where he faces charges that he plotted bomb attacks on two hotels and providing finance and advice for another series of bomb attacks to coincide with the Millennium.
The court said there would be a violation of his right to a fair trial under Article Six of the European Convention of Human Rights, “given the real risk of the admission of evidence obtained by torture at his retrial.”
It is the first time that the Court has found that an expulsion would be in violation of Article 6, which reflects the international consensus that the use of evidence obtained through torture makes a fair trial impossible.
Qatada, 51, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, has been convicted twice in Jordan in his absence for conspiracy to carry out bomb attacks on two hotels in Amman in 1998, and providing finance and advice for a series of bomb attacks in Jordan planned to coincide with the Millennium. The cases were to be retried.
He was first arrested in 2002 and is currently held in Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire after breaching his bail conditions.
The court ruled that key diplomatic assurances received meant there would be no violation of Article Three which bans the use of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment.It also said there would be no violation of Article Five, the right to liberty and security and no violation of Article 13, the right to an effective remedy.
The judgment is not final. There is a three-month period in which the government may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court for a final judgment, although the request may be refused.
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Permalink • liberal retards on the march to further pc
A bit of a brouhaha over a remark about blacks having a built in suntan.
Are white folks getting dumber and dumber?
Appears so. And many black folks must be having an honest laugh at the silly white people who seem hell bent on feeling offended on their behalf. Even if they aren’t.
The Telegraph earlier this week reported on a youth worker who was thrown off a council course for describing black folks as having a “built in suntan.”
Nobody so far has managed to explain exactly how or why that’s racist or offensive.
The lady made the remark was also called to account for her use of the term, “coloured boy.”
During the first day of an Essex county council youth offending service training session, the woman commented, “I have a stepfather who has a built in suntan.”
Oh woo-freekin-hoo. Quick. Rope and tree for the awful offence against humanity.
The woman of course has been apologizing left and right for any perceived offence which she says wasn’t intended. She’s 59 and said that growing up she was always told to use the word colored rather then black. Perhaps that was the choice of her stepfather. Who knows. But the two things taken together were seen by the council as unacceptable and racist, in spite of her coming from a mixed race home and background.
I can’t even guess when, where or how this stupidity will end. Or indeed if it ever will.
The politically correct idiot spokesman for the Essex county council says,
“People need to display open, friendly, non-judgemental communication skills and also show an appreciation of diversity and respect for all people at all times.”
So I guess that woman violated all of that but I still can’t figure out how.
And in other politically incorrect happenings.
A Conservative councillor has been suspended for comments he made on Twitter, labelling some disabled people who were protesting over cuts in their programs, as
retards.
John Fareham, a Hull city council leader, made the remark after a budget cuts debate last year.
He Tweeted: “15 hours in council today, very hard-hitting day and the usual collection of retards in the public gallery spoiling it for real people.”
He had the unmitigated nerve to write what people say all the time and write in truth more likely. But that isn’t accepted anymore. People now must be cautious about speaking their minds as heaven forbid, someone will be offended.
The committee that dumped him says his remark “breached equality enactments and brought his office and the council into disrepute.”
Never mind he was speaking for himself alone.
Now I wasn’t there of course and so I can not say with absolute surety that it went this way. But anyone wanna bet that the retards in the gallery were probably shouting over speakers because only their voices had any right to be heard.
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Permalink • Monday - January 16, 2012
Worth Watching
We caught the HD version of the 2004 movie version of The Phantom of the Opera. It was magnificent. Huge, soaring, detailed, involving, seductive. Glorious. Assuming you haven’t suffered a lifetime overload of Andrew Lloyd Weber and aren’t burned out by all the lesser film versions of this old story, this is the one to own. I saw parts of it several years ago on regular TV, but in HD it really shines. I have no idea why Emmy Rossum’s career didn’t skyrocket after this film; she’s drop dead beautiful in the role of Christine, she has a strong and perfectly clear singing voice, and she’s got all that hair. Go figure; maybe that BS Climate Change flick she did at the same time as this one - The Day After Tomorrow - killed off her chances. Jennifer Ellison looks super adorable in every scene in her minor role as Madame Giry’s daughter Meg, a ballerina in the opera company. Phantom also stars Gerard Butler as the Phantom and Patrick Wilson as Raoul, Christine’s other love interest.
Anyway, it’s a regular movie, not a videotape of a stage production. And the CGI isn’t overdone or overused. Bottom line, it’s art; a beautiful perfect little diamond in the vast fields of mud that is the rest of what Hollywood churns out these days. Amazon will sell you the DVD for under $10.
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I think this decision was wrong. You do not alter or change your country’s language to accommodate foreign visitors. How many other cultures are out there that this guy is gonna worry about offending? They could have explained in pamphlet form that Spotted Dick, for all that it’s funny to an American ear and still is odd to mine, is a suet pudding with currents and served with liquid custard. Custard is a sauce here.
I’m sure that even without explaining beforehand, it would have all been explained after the show. But no. As always it seems to be the host country that MUST give up something so as not to ‘offend’ those not native to these shores.
btw, back in 2009 one council renamed it Spotted Richard so as to not offend. They were forced to do a u-turn when restaurants and customers refused.
Pantomime’s ‘risky’ jokes axed for American audienceLines have been removed from Dick Whittington and his Cat in case they offend an American audience
A production of Dick Whittington being staged in Bury St Edmunds has had lines removed due to fears they could offend American visitors.
Colin Blumenau, the Theatre Royal’s artistic director, said a joke about spotted dick had been axed and they could not refer to the cat as “pussy”.
He said the changes had been made ahead of a visit of American students.
“It’s about two cultures having the same language but having different meanings for words,” said Mr Blumenau.
“It’s a family show and we try very hard to make sure everybody enjoys it, so there’s no point in trying to offend people.
“If people say it means something else in our culture, you think about it and if it’s not to the detriment of the show, which it isn’t, you change it.”
Mr Blumenau said the changes were only being made to two specific performances of Dick Whittington and his Cat, which runs until 15 January.
From the web:
Ingredients
· 50 g butter
· 350 g plain flour
· 3 tsp baking powder
· 140 g shredded suet
· 85 g caster sugar
· 115 g currants
· finely grated zest and juice of 2 lemons
· 75 ml milk
· 75 ml whipping cream
· custard or clotted cream, to serveMethod
1. Soften half the butter and use to grease a 1.4 litre pudding basin.2. Combine the flour, baking powder, suet, sugar and currants in a large bowl, mixing well.
3. Melt the remaining butter and stir into the flour mixture.
4. Stir in the lemon juice and zest.
5. Combine the milk and cream in a small jug. Slowly stir enough into the mixture to bring it to a dropping consistency.
6. Pour the mixture into the pudding basin. Cover with a double layer of greaseproof paper (make a pleat in the middle to allow for expansion), tied in place with string.
7. Place the basin in a steamer basket set over boiling water. Cover and steam for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours until cooked. Check the water level now and again to make sure it doesn’t burn dry.
8. Serve with custard or, if you’re feeling wicked, a big dollop of clotted cream.
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Permalink • archaeologists find another tomb in egypt
Of the three papers we got today, this was the only one the story appeared in. And then with no photos.
But I’m still fascinated by this and hope they publish photos.
If archaeologists are still finding things after all this time, I can just imagine how much more there has to be.
We had a friend (passed away in May last year) who lived in Egypt. She was born there of English parents. She had photos on her walls of some of these sights, and always mentioned how sad it is that the folks there have built so close to the pyramids. Lots of commercial activity etc. and the sights were no longer she said, as impressive as they once were.
She was an interesting lady and I’m so darn sorry I never brought a recorder with me as I had so many opportunities. And she used to visit here when the mil was alive. Anyway, her name was Edna, and her father was the last private tailor to the former King Farouk. Who was as bad as history says he was. Not a nice person at all. Well, she was one of those people who hoard things and can throw nothing away. Not even dry and dead ball point pens. Anything that came through her front door remained with her. And she subscribed to everything advertised. Like Readers Digest. She was on a mailing list and I guess she had nothing else to spend her pension on. Anyway, she mentioned a scrapbook a few times but I never got to see the darn thing cause she couldn’t find it among the piles of “stuff” everywhere. Her sitting room was the only place that was mostly clear of stuff. But we never did locate that scrapbook. Now that would have been quite a find.
Archaeologists discover tomb of female singer in Valley of the Kings
Archaeologists from Egypt and Switzerland have unearthed the 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings.
It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found there, said Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the antiquities ministry in the city of Luxor,
The Valley of the Kings in Luxor is a major tourist attraction. In 1922, archaeologists there unearthed the gold funeral mask of Tutankhamun and other stunning items in the tomb of the king who ruled more than 3,000 years ago.
Mr Boraiq told reporters that the coffin of the female singer is remarkably intact.
He said that when the coffin is opened this week, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists will likely find a mummy and a cartonnage mask molded to her face and made from layers of linen and plaster.
The singer’s name, Nehmes Bastet, means she was believed to be protected by the feline deity Bastet.
The tomb was found by accident, according to Elina Paulin-Grothe, field director for excavation at the Valley of the Kings with Switzerland’s University of Basel.
“We were not looking for new tombs. It was close to another tomb that was discovered 100 years ago.”
The field director said the tomb was not originally built for the female singer, but was reused for her 400 years after the original one, based on artifacts found inside. Archaeologists do not know whom the tomb was originally intended for.
The coffin of the singer belonged to the daughter of a high priest during the 22nd Dynasty.
Archaeologists concluded from artifacts that she sang in Karnak Temple, one of the most famous and largest open-air sites from the Pharaonic era, according to evidence at the site.
At the time of her death, Egypt was ruled by Libyan kings, but the high priests who ruled Thebes, which is now within the city of Luxor, were independent. Their authority enabled them to use the royal cemetery for family members, according to Mr Boraiq.
The unearthing marks the 64th tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings.
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Permalink • a small price to pay for a mouse that isn’t mickey
The other day I posted something and said I thought I’d already found, at the very beginning of the new year, the dumbest moonbat thing for the year to come.
But I also said that was not writ in stone, as newer and dumber things could happen. And so it has.
Look, I do tend to be a softy about some animals. I think most of us like them to one degree or another. And we all have our preferences. For example, I prefer large dogs to those small yappy ones. With no disrespect to those of you who enjoy the company of chiwawas, although I don’t understand the attraction, I wouldn’t run after one with a bat either. Which brings me to mice.
I just don’t see every mouse as Mickey. In fact, I have never seen one like Mickey. Still, I have no particular desire to out hunting for them. On the other hand,
take a look at this. Are these folks nuts er what?
Since Garbo’s days, Scandinavia has enjoyed a reputation as liberal, stable and environmentally conscious.
Cristina Odone
Telegraph, NotebookRecently, this image has been dented.
The cult Danish TV drama The Killing and Stieg Larsson’s bestsellers convey the dark side of the north – as, alas, did the terrible massacre in Norway last year.
But at least Sweden’s environmental naivety is intact.
An SAS Airbus travelled from Stockholm to Oslo last week – with only a mouse on board.
It appears that Sweden bans sticky cardboard mousetraps – and the ones it permits proved incapable of catching the mouse, a stowaway from a US flight.
The only thing to do was fly the creature, solo, to Oslo, where it got stuck on the sticky paper.
As a half-Swede myself, I recognise that sort of goody-goody attitude.
But did no one pause to think about the mouse’s gigantic carbon footprint?
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Permalink • a pirate story to warm your hearts. as in, heartburn!
CAPT. I am the Captain of the Pinafore;
ALL. And a pissed off captain, too!
Some one else among you will have to take it from there.
This is so damn frustrating. Damn politically correct no capital punishment bed wetting ass wipe liberals in charge of the world.
Kinda makes me miss the Nazis.
Oh wait. Crap. I just remembered. I’m Jewish.
Nuts. Sometimes ya just can’t win.
Hunting pirates on board the RFA Fort Victoria
Holly Watt reports from the RFA Fort Victoria in the Indian Ocean as a raid by the Royal Navy on a fishing boat leads to the arrest of 14 suspected pirates.
The men lounging on the rusty fishing boat had spent the morning making a great show of casually ignoring the menacing warships tailing them from less than a mile away.
Despite flares and warning machine-gun fire launched from a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter overhead, the men – all Somali, all suspected of being pirates – pottered about, hung out laundry or dozed on deck in the morning sun.
Watching them from the bridge of the RFA Fort Victoria, one of the international fleet of vessels patrolling for pirates off Africa’s east coast, an officer muttered, “They aren’t taking a bit of notice of us”.
Soon after, however, the commanders of this British ship, and an allied US destroyer also tailing the fishing boat, decided to act.
A group of Royal Marines in full battle kit climbed down ladders and into high-powered speedboats, which peeled off and used the Fort Victoria’s 31,500-tonne, 669ft bulk to provide cover as they sprinted through the waves towards the suspected pirates.Above, the Lynx sent another barrage of warning shots into the water nearby.
Despite the clear danger bearing down on it, the little ship ploughed on, a small skiff roped to its stern bouncing erratically behind.One speedboat pulled up to the Somali vessel. A Marine scrambled up and over the rails and into the boat, followed by another and then another.
Only then did the 14 men on board surrender. “They’ve got her,” said one of the officers watching from the Fort Victoria. “She’s secure.”The RFA Fort Victoria has been hunting pirates in the Indian Ocean since October.
Early that month, its forces helped free 23 hostages from the Montecristo, a 56,000-tonne Italian bulk carrier hijacked off Somalia.
During an earlier deployment in late 2010, it disrupted at least six separate pirate raids.
Since that mission, the pirates’ tactics have changed, moving further into the Indian Ocean and reaching closer to India than Africa during some recent attacks.Fuel tanks crowded the deck of the 30-feet blue and white fishing vessel boarded on Friday, with cockroaches swarming all over the boat. The stench was overpowering. The crew were in a random selection of scruffy clothes. Most of them wore sarongs.
On board, the Royal Marines found rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles, improvised explosive devices and hand grenades, which were all bagged and removed pending future prosecution.
One of the main challenges in combating Somali piracy has been deciding what to do with pirates once they are caught.
The Navy has faced criticism for freeing pirates to return to Somalia. One alternative – to bring them to Britain to be tried and imprisoned – is unpopular because of fears they could claim asylum once released.
British aid is being spent to develop court systems for suspected pirates in Kenya, the Seychelles, northern Somalia and Oman, but these are still limited.
As the Fort Victoria’s commanders discussed options for its latest haul of pirates, they were left on their captured ship overnight.According to the Royal Marines who stayed to guard them, they appeared sanguine about their new captivity, spending the evening singing Phil Collins songs and demanding that the Marines sang them an Elton John song.
Eventually, more than 24 hours after their capture, the men were transferred to the Fort Victoria, taken to a large holding area with showers and lavatory facilities, and checked by a doctor.
A decision on their future is still to be made.
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Martin Luther King Jr meets with Richard Nixon, 1957
As many will point out today, the ignored truth about MLK is that he was a Republican. At Grand Old Partisan, Michael Zak reminds us that Dr. King met with Nixon to try to figure out how to overcome the Democrat’s opposition to the Republican’s civil rights agenda.
And let’s not forget who voted for the Civil Rights Act, and who voted against it.
The Democrats do not now “own”, nor have they ever “owned” civil rights. The truth they want to hide from everyone is that they were dead set against it. This is the pro-slavery party, the KKK party, the Jim Crow party, the segregation party, and the party against civil rights. Always were, still are. And by expanding the welfare state, tearing down the family structure, endlessly playing the race card, and engaging in an endless war of character assassination against those with a certain color to their skin who show the content of their character by “leaving the plantation” (Hillary - “you know wha I’m saying!"), not to mention the soft racism of unnecessary affirmative action and lowered standards and expectations, they continue to do their damnedest to keep the black man down, beholden to the “massa” of big government.
WWDKS? What would Dr. King Say, seeing how many people voted for Obama mainly based on the color of his skin, knowing nothing - worse, purposely ignoring blatant evidence - of the corruptness of his character?
Posted by Drew458
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