Saturday - January 14, 2012

I am soooo using this

I found the image for my next run of business cards for the window cleaning business.

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Stone Age Pussy

This is a Manul, Otocolobus manul an animal also known as Pallas’s Cat. This cat descended from the proto-small-feline Leopard Cat about 5-10 million years ago and has not changed since. Manuls live in the southern central Siberian area, from a bit south of Lake Baikal into Mongolia, and westward to Tibet and the southern ‘stans; it’s a steppe cat. It’s no bigger than a regular house cat, but this is a wild animal.

Lot’s more pics and info at Wiki and at ArkSpace. And a brief overview here.

“Don’t get them wet, and never, ever feed them after midnight.”

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Not Too Smart

Somali pirates ‘attacked EU flagship’
13 January 2012

Six Somali pirates have been arrested and a seventh reportedly killed after attempting to hijack a Spanish military vessel just outside the port of Mogadishu.

The pirates engaged in a firefight with the flagship of EU NAVFOR’s Operation Atalanta, SPS Patiño, apparently believing it to be a cargo ship.

The ship, a 17,000-tonne tanker from the Spanish Navy, was attacked at first light on 12 January. It had just completed the escort of a World Food Programme ship carrying aid to Mogadishu.

Pirates in a skiff fired on the Patiño and attempted to board, but the onboard force protection team retaliated and the ship’s helicopter was launched. The men on the skiff surrendered after apparently throwing weapons, fuel and ladders overboard.

Five of the six pirates were injured during the fighting, and two were given medical attention on board the Patiño. The group claimed a seventh man was killed, but no body was recovered.

My favorite part of this is that the Spanish Navy is just outside the port of Mogadishu. Blockade duty perhaps?

The SPS Patiño isn’t much of a ‘flagship’; it’s an oil tender. The ship is 170m long (560 feet), with about 180 sailors and 3 helicopters on board. Plus a pair of 20mm Oerlikons, and a pair of those 8 barreled 20mm Meroka CIWS terrors. Any one of which is more than enough to tear a pirate skiff or its mother ship dhow to splinters in a few seconds.

The gang sped up to the Spanish warship Patino and opened fire with assault rifles before trying to climb up the side of the 17,000-tonne vessel.

Its crew immediately returned fire, forcing the pirates off the hull and back into their skiff, where they dumped their weapons overboard and attempted to escape.

They were tracked by the Patino’s helicopter and eventually surrendered.

Not terribly smart, them Somali pirates.

In similar news, the Royal Navy captured a pirate mothership and all 13 pirates aboard. Instead of using an oil tender to do the job, they used a stores ship. The RFA Fort Victoria is a floating grocery store and spare parts warehouse.

RFA Fort Victoria and a US Navy vessel intercepted the pirates’ boat, which had refused to stop despite warning shots from a Royal Navy helicopter.

Royal Marines in speedboats approached the vessel and boarded it, capturing 13 pirates and seizing weapons.
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Capt Gerry Northwood leads the counter-piracy operation on RFA [Royal Fleet Auxiliary] Fort Victoria, which is based at Southampton.
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“An effective boarding was safely executed by the Royal Marine boarding team based in RFA Fort Victoria and this has safely neutralised the effect of the pirate mothership.

Aside from the paint job, neither of these ships is all that “military looking”. If you ignore the helicopter pads and the two or so little gun turrets. They could be mistaken for cargo ships, if you didn’t know boat from goat. The Fort Victoria has almost the same exact defense armament as Patiño. There’s no real need to invest in Q ships if the pirates are this stupid.

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And Over They Go?

France has been stripped of its AAA credit rating for the first time as Standard & Poor’s downgraded nine countries on fears that policymakers were failing to get to grips with the eurozone debt crisis.

• S&P downgrades nine eurozone nations
• France and Austria lose prized AAA rating
• All except Germany and Slovakia face further downgrades
• German legislator: If S&P cuts France, it should also cut UK
• Bond yields rise on Greek debt writedown fears
• UK ‘teetering on brink of recession’, warns BDO

Difficulties that began more than two years ago in Greece and were initially viewed as a problem that could be contained to smaller, less significant economies in Ireland and Portugal, have now spread to once-thriving economies.

Europe’s leaders have been criticized for months for not taking decisive action to stem the crisis and S&P echoed that criticism.

“In our view, the policy initiatives taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the eurozone,” S&P said in a statement announcing the downgrades.

S&P also criticized European leaders for in S&P’s view misidentifying the crisis as one stemming solely from the “profligate” fiscal policies of “peripheral countries” such as Greece, Italy and Portugal. In reality, the problems are far more systemic and won’t likely be fixed by austerity measures alone, according to S&P.

France CUT one notch to AA+
Austria CUT one notch to AA+
Italy CUT two notches to BBB+
Spain CUT two notches to A
Portugal CUT two notches to BB (junk)
Belgium AFFIRMED at AA (the country was cut in November)
Malta CUT one notch to A-
Cyprus CUT two notches to BB+ (junk)
Luxembourg AFFIRMED at AAA
Germany AFFIRMED at AAA
Slovenia CUT one notch to A+
Slovakia CUT one notch to A
Ireland AFFIRMED at BBB+
The Netherlands AFFIRMED at AAA
Estonia AFFIRMED at AA-
Finland AFFIRMED at AAA

All outlooks are negative (meaning these countries face a one-in three chance of a further downgrades [within 18 months]) EXCEPT Germany, and weirdly, Slovakia.

The first link above is a live blogging coverage of the events of the past 2 days. The second link is a news article. This link goes to a gateway news page that provides all the details you could ever want.

The EU is going over the edge. This is the time when the shit of Socialism finally hits the fan of Reality; they’ve run out of other people’s money to spend.

Maybe they’ll figure that out, along with the wisdom of not sending more than a third of their spendable cash to China or Saudi Arabia. Make stuff at home, live within your means, don’t let foreigners own your strategic assets, and limit immigration. That’s a start.

PS - how did the UK escape the downgrade flail this time around?

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   Friday - January 13, 2012

It Ain’t Worth It

Pissing About In Afghanistan

On the one hand, they suck: link.

On the other hand, they suck: link.

On the third hand, they really suck: link.  After all, this isn’t the kind of statement you’d expect from the leader of a nation we are giving our blood and treasure to, to protect from the very enemies he seems to be supportive of, enemies whom his own people chop up, burn, molest, draw and quarter, etc., and desecrate in every way they can when they get a chance:

Afghanistan signed the Geneva Accords? I highly doubt that. In which case, it don’t apply. (actually Afghanistan did sign one of the versions. But too bad, the Taliban didn’t, so bite it.)

Our own wimp is no better: Panetta: “Deplorable!”

Enemies, guys, get it? Not deserving of any respect at all. Hell, if I was there I’d hold the wide neck funnel in their mouths so the Marines could shit down their throats.

This whole “scandal” is a load of goat cum. 11 years into it, and the ‘stan is worse than South Vietnam ever was. Set the place on fire, poison the wells, and go home.

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I don’t trust him on this

... actually I don’t trust him on anything!

Obama Seeks New Powers from Congress

President Obama will reveal a new proposal to consolidate federal agencies at a White House event later this morning, an official tells Fox News. The problem is that the authority he seeks to carry out the plan will have to come from a Congress he’s had bitter battles with over the past year.

In his 2011 State of the Union address, the president complained of government overlap and red tape that clogs the federal government, promising to tackle the problem. He injected a bit of humor into his speech to illustrate the point, “The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they’re in saltwater,” he said to laughter. “I hear it gets even more complicated once they’re smoked.”

By late that year, however, officials shied away from forecasting when the president would fulfill his promise.

Early Friday morning, the White House announced Mr. Obama will seek authority from Congress, not granted since the days of Ronald Reagan, to reorganize and consolidate portions of the federal government. His first proposal would be to reduce redundancy in the area of trade and commerce.

Should Congress grant the president this streamlining authority, each proposal he made would then receive an up-or-down vote from Congress within 90 days.

However, the president’s track record with Congress isn’t exactly favorable, following public disputes over issues like the nation’s debt ceiling and extending payroll tax cuts. In an increasingly fierce election season, the president’s move could be aimed at putting Congress on the defense.

The administration has for months highlighted a “We Can’t Wait” campaign, intended to showcase issues that the White House says Congress isn’t acting on. The president, therefore, has been unilaterally taking action; igniting controversy over whether he is overstepping his Constitutional authority.

Now, the president will lean on the very Congress that he’s been lambasting for its inaction.

The administration admits one to two thousand jobs would be lost in the consolidation process, should it be approved, but officials say the plan would fall in line with the natural course of employee departure. The White House also says the plan could save the government $3 Billion over ten years.

If this pinko has a plan to shrink part of the government by consolidation, I am certain that somewhere in the microscopic fine print the wording will double or triple the power of the remaining group, which will be lead by one of his un-vetted Marxist czars or cronies. Bad ju-ju all over this.

But it does look like he is playing to the Smaller Government crowd, doesn’t it? Something the Repubelickans promised (hey, remember Pledge To America?) and then delivered jack-squat on, even when a small army of Tea Party candidates was swept into office?

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a un humanitarian ambassador. some job discription. and, nixon was what? no way.

Oh joy. Just exactly what we need.
A flaky film star “consulting” with the president of the USA.  I guess that’s okay. Sort of. It gives her some kind of status. But alright. We can live with that.
What I do find that’s worse by far, is that Angelina Jolie it is reported today, has met with David Petraeus, who as you know or should if you don’t, is the director of the CIA.

The meeting was held to “discuss issues affecting Afghan refugees.” And what I wonder would she like the CIA to do? Does she have any orders for them?

Jolie we are informed, is a “humanitarian ambassador” for the UN.

Is that a job category?  The UN needs a humanitarian ambassador?  Does she get paid anything?
Load of rubbish.

Sometimes I think I miss the cold war.  When mostly the enemy wasn’t us.

In other news briefs.

WTF?
Seems all you need to qualify as queer is to be a dead celeb when you can’t answer the slander.

Some time ago a little blurb appeared in a paper with regard to a movie about J. Edgar Hoover. A rehash of the lie that he was odd in that way. Does a man have to be married to say he’s straight?  I mean hell, Oscar Wild was married and we all know about him.  Brilliant writer never the less. But anyway, I guess Hoover being single led to all sorts of character muggings. Well now we have a new dead victim of the all is queer world outlook.  Nixon.
Jeesh. What the hell is it with those folks?  Are they trying to justify their own existence and lifestyle, by making everyone else a homosexual also?
Apparently a guy named Don Fulsom, who is a former White House reporter for UPI, claims that Nixon indulged in “cuddling” and “awkward swimming pool games with his friend, BeBe Rebozo.” He further says that Nixon once was caught holding hands with Rebozo under a dinner table.

I can’t believe a word of that but I do take note that as soon as someone famous buys the farm, suddenly there’s all sorts of proof positive that the dearly departed was actually a closet poof.

To make matters worse and play on my temper, the column writer where this stuff appears asks the question,
“Is anyone normal in America?”

Posted by peiper     on 01/13/2012 at 10:49 AM   
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eye candy I just could not resist posting

Posted by peiper     on 01/13/2012 at 10:28 AM   
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Movin on up

Last’s week 7-0 win at Cheap League vaulted us right up the pyramid. We’re tied for points won with 2 other teams, but since our team has the most scratch pins of any team, that breaks the tie so we come out on top, in 2nd place. For now. And last night we won 7-0 again. I’m doing much better now that the deep oil is out of my ball and the surface is fresh. That ball is getting old, and it’s starting to crack in places. Hope it lasts out the season. Next week we’ll have another position round, where we’ll face the 1st place team, a group of lefties who are 20+ points ahead of everyone else. But they may be in a slump, and we’re ascendant, so we’ll see what happens.

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muslim councillor in court for expense fiddling. for the second time.

A small blurb in this morning’s Telegraph caught my eye. Not cos it’s a super exciting kind of thing. Really dull in it’s own way but no surprise.
Yawn.

A councillor has admitted being a benefits cheat. 

FOR THE SECOND TIME

Jeesh. What sort of incentive did the powers that leach give her to convince her she’d committed a crime. It’s stealing. Period.

Her name is Shelina Akhtar, but I’d guess where she originally comes from that kind of thing is par for the course.

Take a look.

councillor convicted of second benefit fraud

By Andrew Gilligan

A key supporter of Tower Hamlets’ extremist-linked mayor, Lutfur Rahman, today pleaded guilty to three counts of dishonestly claiming housing and council tax benefits – the second time she has been convicted of such offences.

Councillor Shelina Akhtar failed to turn up in court at the start of the case today, claiming that she was unwell and unfit to stand trial, but the judge dismissed her claim and issued a warrant for her arrest. When she finally appeared this afternoon, Judge Platt told her: “I make you no promises today. This is the second time you have committed fraud against the state regarding benefits to which you are not entitled. The court needs to know more before deciding on the appropriate sentence.” Akhtar cheated the taxpayer of just over £1100 in benefits. She will be sentenced next month.

The prosecutor, Michelle Fawcett, said: “She is a local councillor and the case, therefore, was more serious. This defendant has previous convictions for identical matters.”

In 2010 Akhtar, of Blackwall Way, was handed 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £250 costs after being found guilty of dishonestly claiming jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit during a case at Thames Magistrates’ Court.

Akhtar is one of eight Tower Hamlets councillors who were expelled from the Labour Party after deciding to support Lutfur, who was sacked as Labour’s candidate for mayor for his close links to an extremist Muslim group, the Islamic Forum of Europe.  Lutfur took the Telegraph to the Press Complaints Commission - and lost – after we described Akhtar as a “Lutfur Rahman councillor.” He tried to claim that she was not connected to him. (He has also tried to claim that he is not linked to extremism – he lost that complaint, too.)

SOURCE

To be fair now, cause we don’t wanna be accused of islamophobia or nuttin’ like it, she comes from a different country and a different culture. And like others of her ilk, many others in fact, (way,way too many) the rules of the country they move to of course does not apply to them. Neither do the laws.
So I guess some slack has to be cut to insure fairness and understanding. Not that these folks would reciprocate of course.

Yesterday, coming under much criticism for a law in Israel regarding pals, an Israeli politician whose name I can’t recall but whose statement I can, said that “human rights was no excuse for committing national suicide.”
I think many Brits would agree with that. Now if only they could get their leaders to understand.

Posted by peiper     on 01/13/2012 at 09:27 AM   
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families move into empty houses to foil squatters

I had promised myself (and readers) that I was going to avoid the squatter/gypo/traveller issue.  It had really become tiresome because it was happening so often, it was hardly news anymore. 
But it was not a New Year’s resolution.  And besides, this has a slightly different twist to it and so it’s worth sharing.  The more so because the authorities in charge last year made promises. Publicly.  Of course, I believe it was an election period so promises made then should always and automatically be considered bogus.

Ilford: A community besieged by squatters

Mark Blunden and Rob Parsons

A community under siege by gangs of Romanian squatters targeting dozens of vacant homes has launched a fightback to reclaim properties there.
In an escalation of the squatting epidemic blighting London, up to 30 homes around Ilford have been occupied in the past year - and police said they were powerless to step in.

Nine neighbours secured one empty house on Boxing Day to stop it being taken over again after a group of squatters moved out.

Their action came after a series of cases across London in which organised gangs of Eastern Europeans have occupied and trashed strings of empty neighbouring properties. One resident taking on the squatters in Ilford told how she returned home from work one day to find up to 30 of them in the four-bedroom house next door.

Susan Dixon, 47, said the gangs have refused to leave occupied properties in her area and sometimes turned hostile when challenged by the owners.
The mother-of-one has since gathered nearly 2,000 signatures demanding action by Redbridge council and is due to speak in the town hall this month.

She said: “They moved in next to me and I had no idea how to act. It took weeks to research and so we want the council to arm the community with information. People are scared, angry and in disbelief that someone can just take over your house.

“It must be one of the most squatted areas in Britain. These people can be very intimidating but police say it’s a civil matter and we must go to court.”
Residents also want the council to work with estate agents to ensure properties on the market are not so visibly for sale and to advise on security.
Home owners have reported having windows broken, rubbish piled up in gardens, bathrooms “trashed” and lead removed from ceilings.

One couple were stuck with a £600 gas bill after squatters refused to leave for three months. Their carpets were also stolen, windows broken and holes drilled in the doors for satellite TV.

Local councillor Aziz Choudhury said some squatters slept in “shifts”. He said: “My ward is affected severely by this. On one road they moved from property to property three times. The area’s reputation is going down. By the time eviction papers are served in court they’ve trashed the house and gone.”

In October father-of-two Bhajan Channa said he was “traumatised” after squatters did £20,000 of damage to his three-bedroom home after he had moved out to sell it.

Home owners are powerless to get their houses back, despite being allowed in by police to photograph the damage.

Redbridge council said: “We are working with partner organisations, in particular the police, to take steps to try to prevent squatters gaining access to empty properties in the borough.”

source,evening standard

Notice, no threat of shooting dead on sight or anything else that would end this blight. The council will, work with partner orgs. and take steps. Sure thing. That’ll scare the hell out of the vermin in human form.

A somewhat embarrassing note. I have told folks here that this kind of thing could never happen in the USA. Oh boy. Wanna bet?  I found an example from Long Beach, Ca. that pretty much mirrors this. Good grief.

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   Thursday - January 12, 2012

EYE CANDY

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law without justice as killers walk free but bored.

It’s 11:19 and this damn cold has settled into a raging cough. So I came downstairs and booted to see what tomorrows headlines will be.
This bit of soft justice (justice? where?) immediately caught my eye.  I guess it was meant to.
It’s this kind of thing that makes ppl see red and causes so much frustration and anger.  There really, really should be vigilantes at work here to settle the hash of vermin like these thugs.  But what gets everyone up in arms are the light jail times for an act like this.
Meanwhile, a few days ago someone was given seven years for stealing £7,000.
There is no way to make sense of that. Oh I forget. Except among lawyers.
Here. Take a look.

Thug who killed for kicks released after just two years… and whines that he’s BORED

Attack by Warren Crago and two mates ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’

Leaves pitiful message on Facebook: ‘nuthin to do out in the big world for me’
Also spouts hatred of police and threatens to punch ‘black boys’
Victim’s father: ‘These thugs have evidently not learned their lesson’

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

What lesson?  What they have learned is simply that they can easily get away with it and will more then likely do it again.

A sick thug who killed a Big Issue seller for kicks has been released from his custodial sentence after just two years and has taken to Facebook to tell of his ‘boredom’.

Warren Crago was 16 when he and two teenage friends beat homeless man Ralph Millward, 41, to death after finding him asleep on a pavement in Westbourne, Bournemouth.

Although a judge described the brutal attack as the ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’, Crago and accomplice Craig Real were jailed for four years.

But after serving half of their sentence they are now back on the streets.

Crago, now 18, has gone on Facebook to write about being bored after getting out of ‘pen’. He is even using his police mugshot photo as his profile picture.

Mr Millward’s grieving father Ken, 78, said he was sickened by the teenagers’ conduct.
He said: ‘I would have hanged them. I have always believed in life for a life.

The victim suffered 10 broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and bleeding on the brain. His injuries were said to have been consistent with being involved in a car crash.

The teenage trio were found guilty of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court last year.

read all here

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hey no problem, we’ll just wait

Faux Pas Of The Season!
Ringtone halts NY Philharmonic performance

The final movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is a slow rumination on mortality, with quiet sections played by strings alone.

During the New York Philharmonic’s performance Tuesday night, it was interrupted by an iPhone.

The jarring ringtone—the device’s “Marimba” sound, which simulates the mallet instrument—intruded in the middle of the movement, emanating from the first row at Avery Fisher Hall.

When the phone wasn’t immediately hushed, audience members shook their heads. It continued to chime, and music director Alan Gilbert turned his head sharply to the left, signaling his displeasure.

Minutes passed. Each time the orchestra reached a quiet section, the phone could be heard above the hushed, reverent notes.

Finally, Mr. Gilbert could take no more: He stopped the orchestra.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Mr. Gilbert said the ring tone yanked him out of a trance-like state during the symphony’s “most intense, most sublime, most emotional place.”

“It was kind of shocking because you get to a very faraway place emotionally and spiritually,” he said.

And even more surprising, he said, the man who owned the phone, recognized by orchestra members as a regular subscriber, didn’t immediately own up to it—or act to silence the device.

“I had to ask him many times,” Mr. Gilbert said. “It was bizarre. Maybe he was just so mortified that he just shut down and was paralyzed.”

After Mr. Gilbert took matters into his own hands, the man reached into his pocket and silenced the device. Mr. Gilbert asked him: “Is it off? It won’t come on again?”

The man nodded. Satisfied, the conductor addressed the audience. Usually, Mr. Gilbert said, it is best to ignore disruptions, because the reaction itself can be even more disruptive. “This was so egregious that I couldn’t let it go by,” Mr. Gilbert told the audience, apologizing.

The audience applauded vigorously.

“We’ll try again,” he said on a more upbeat note.

Matron:
Everybody you watch

Velma and Matron:
Nobody’s got no class!




I predict this fellow will get far fewer invitations to The Vinyard this year, and may even be ousted from his summer rental in the Hamptons. So. Common. [shudders]




PS - I hate cellphones ringing in just about all public venues. I might have an even stronger hatred for people who wear their phones in their ears all the time, and think that they can talk to you while holding another conversation on the phone. There are times when multi-tasking is just plain rude.

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