Monday - February 20, 2012
this is where freedom dies with a boot stamping on its face
Left-wingers shifted their focus from economics to issues of group identity.
Instead of attacking the capitalist West for oppressing the workers, they attack mainstream society for oppressing marginalised or minority groups that were held to be victims of the majority.Hugely aided by human rights law, such groups then became immune from criticism
The rest of it is below and comes from a Melanie Phillips editorial. As does the title headline for this post. Why bother? Because I really fear the sky could fall on the USA one day, as it’s already done here. And based on some comments by some of you, it seems it started there a while ago.
Very often we come across stories so bizarre, or sometimes just so silly and sometimes funny, that an old and much used expression comes into play. That being, ‘you couldn’t make this up.’
It once had a bit of punch to it but it’s now used so often that my reaction in these utterly dumbed down and pol. correct times is, oh yes I can.
We are faced today with true stories of human folly (nothing new there) and a so totally illogical way of thinking and accepting behavior that perhaps a hundred years ago or even fifty, that expression would apply. That’s because today, the norm is really so bizarrely surreal, that it is no longer correct to say, you couldn’t make it up because clearly, you darn well can. Just think it and give it a week or so and someone somewhere will be promoting it. Promoting what? Doesn’t matter. Whatever. Just make it up. It’ll fit.
It’s in that spirit that I now share a small part of an article that as usual has to do with race but actually less race then total stupidity.
Could any of us have made this story up? Sure we could.
Mother of boy asked ‘Are you brown because you’re from Africa?’ slams school for branding episode a ‘racist incident’
By DAMIEN GAYLEThe mother of a schoolboy who was asked whether he was ‘brown because he’s from Africa’ today blasted the school for turning the innocent question into a ‘racist incident’.
Nicola Allen, whose son was four at the time of the incident, said the matter had been blown out of proportion after Griffin Primary School in east Hull launched an investigation into playground comments made by Elliott Dearlove.
She insists she never accused seven-year-old Elliott of being racist following the comment. She also says she believes the child is being unfairly treated.
Here’s where and how it started. One kid age 7 asking a 4 year old a question.
Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: ‘Are you brown because you come from Africa?’
By RUSSELL MYERSThe mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin.
Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’.
His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.
She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.
Ms White claimed she was asked at the meeting to read a copy of the school rules and in particular its zero-tolerance policy on racism.
‘I was told I would have to sign a form acknowledging my son had made a racist remark which would be submitted to the local education authority for further investigation,’ she said.
‘I refused to sign it and I told the teacher in no way did I agree the comment was racist.
‘It seems the matter has been taken out of all proportion and common sense seems to have gone completely out of the window.’
Well, there’s the background and the links but this column in today’s Mail by the ever brilliant Melanie Phillips is very much worth your time.
A seven-year-old branded a bigot. How on earth have we come to this?
By MELANIE PHILLIPSThe word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.
The aim was originally to create a kinder, gentler world — with a commitment to eradicating racial or any other type of prejudice.
Supporters of these beliefs profess to loathe and detest bullying, with teachers instigating school playground patrols and ‘anti-bullying weeks’ to stamp out this hateful practice.And yet, in pursuance of these aims, we have witnessed the rise of the widespread State-sponsored bullying of children.
The latest example was the experience of a seven-year-old boy from Hull, whose mother was astounded to be told by his primary school to sign a form admitting he was racist.So what was the heinous act this child had committed to cause him to be branded in this way? Why, merely to have asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’.
What on earth is racist about that question? It does not express a hateful dislike of, or racial superiority over, another person on account of the colour of their skin. It merely wonders, in a child-like way, about the reason for that colour.
It is thus a perfectly inoffensive question from a curious child. The reason for the five-year-old’s brown skin is, indeed, that his ancestry lies in another continent.
So how can a correct assumption constitute a prejudice? The school’s gross over-reaction suggests that racism is being redefined to include not only hateful references to someone’s colour, but any reference to it at all.
Real racial prejudice is, indeed, a horrible thing. But such wildly inappropriate labelling is to trivialise and thus effectively deny the harm done by truly vile attitudes.
Witch-hunts are bad enough in themselves; but to make a child their target is really quite obscene.
Because of their immaturity, children cannot be held to account for their behaviour in the same way as adults. When the young killers of toddler James Bulger were tried for his murder, there was uproar among progressive folk over the fact they were being made to stand trial because they were just children themselves.
Yet it would seem that those whose collective heart bleeds for child killers are nevertheless intent upon branding seven-year-olds as enemies of the people — just for displaying an attitude that some bureaucratic Big Brother wannabe deems to be beyond the pale. The seven-year-old from Hull was by no means an isolated example. The extent of such state-sponsored bullying amounts to a kind of playground Inquisition.
Last year, it was revealed that teachers were branding thousands of children as racist or ‘homophobic’ following what were merely playground squabbles.
In total, 34,000 nursery, primary and secondary pupils — including more than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger — were effectively classed as bigots for so-called ‘hate speech’.One child was called a racist for calling a boy ‘broccoli head’ (on the basis the vegetable looks a bit like Afro hair); another was said to be homophobic for telling a teacher: ‘This work is gay.’
A six-year-old was said to have been reported by his school to the local authority after telling an ethnic minority friend: ‘Your skin is the colour of poo.’
A ten-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boy a ‘Paki’ and ‘Bin Laden’ during a playground argument in which the other boy had called him ‘a skunk’ and a ‘Teletubby’.Back in 2006, after a 14-year-old schoolgirl asked a teacher if she could sit with a different group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu, her teacher actually called the police.
The girl was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted, photographed and placed in a bare cell for more than three hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence, and then released without charge.
Ludicrous, or what? Yet this over-reaction is actually mandated by law.Under the 2000 Race Relations Act, teachers are obliged to report any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or anyone else as ‘hate speech’ — even if it is committed by a child.
Of course, it is not just children who are being subjected to such vilification on the grounds of offending some interest group or other. Last week, Channel 4’s advertising campaign for the sequel to its hit show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was attacked as racist for saying it was ‘Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier.’ What on earth is offensive about ‘gypsier’? If a sequel to the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding was advertised as ‘Bigger. Fatter. More Greek’, would that be said to be racist? Of course not.This witch-hunt is going on all the time.
Who can forget the experience ten years ago of farmer and writer Robin Page, who was arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred after making a speech at a pro-hunting rally that began: ‘If there is a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking, one-legged, lesbian lorry driver present, I want the same rights as you.’
Such reaction by the police and other officials in responding to trumped-up claims of ‘hate speech’ is the kind of behaviour we associate with Eastern Europe under communism.
So how on earth has Britain, the historic cradle of liberty, got itself to the point where it conducts witch-hunts against children for expressing ‘forbidden’ views?
It all stems from the collapse of socialism, after which Left-wingers shifted their focus from economics to issues of group identity.
Instead of attacking the capitalist West for oppressing the workers, they attack mainstream society for oppressing marginalised or minority groups that were held to be victims of the majority.
Hugely aided by human rights law, such groups then became immune from criticism and were encouraged to complain about their treatment.
Moreover, how people felt became much more important than anything they actually did. So if such a victim group claimed to have been insulted, that was regarded as proof that an insult had actually occurred.This replacement of objective reality by subjective feelings was a recipe for turning truth and justice inside out.
When George Orwell created his fictional ‘thought police’ and ‘Ministry of Truth’, he was attacking Stalinism and its attempt to re-configure human psychology itself.
Incredible as it may seem, that’s what we have in Britain with ‘political correctness’, which should more properly be called cultural Stalinism — a regime of oppression and intimidation in which even innocent children are being branded as bigots.
A kinder, gentler world? No, this is where freedom dies with a boot stamping on its face.
And speaking of yes, I could make it up.
And you’d all say, it’s gross beyond words but probably true. It could happen.
And it did. I’m almost sure you read about it in the states.
A male gave birth to a baby. He (I guess she?) had been undergoing hormone treatments etc., born a female, changed gender but … kept her (his? It?) womb. So anyway, mommy has a beard and the whole thing is disgusting and I am not I realize being very charitable or kind. For which I am sorry. Sort of. Cos it’s something I don’t know how to deal with. Then of course, it is not my business to deal with anyway.
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Permalink • Britain’s best female diver for more than 20 years, and eye candy too.
ok before getting involved in stuff.
Tech question.
Is Fiber Optic meant only for fast uploads and downloads when used in computers? ? I know what it is, but don’t really see any more speed with page openings then I had before. Cos there sure isn’t a huge difference on those. My downloads were always fast anyway. Never had a problem there. But I can see a vast difference when uploading photos and other files.
Sean Penn still in the news btw. Yeah. Fancies himself a real force in the political world I guess. Going hither and yon dispensing advice on how countries should behave if only they’d listen to him. Wonder how soon he’ll get around to demanding that the USA give the Southwest and west back to Mexico.
Oh right. Been away so long I forgot. SE HABLA ESPAÑOL?
Alright, the purpose of this post is a young lady, pictured , who will be on the UK’s Olympic diving team and I was taken with her photo I saw in the paper last week. I thought to myself, self .... look at this. Real honest to gosh eye candy that is natural. No overdone make up, no exaggerated boobs, not a movie star or a model with ppl trailing her making sure every hair is in place. Just plain darn pretty. And athletic. So I thought I’d post her as human interest and eye candy.
I’ve read only a little about her lately, and she just seems like a nice person and not much taken with herself. Kinda nice if I have that right. Sure might make a change from all the self important celebs we hear about.
Duty calls: diver’s soldier boyfriend will miss medal bid
Miranda Bryant
Team GB diver Tonia Couch today revealed that her Royal Marine boyfriend is serving in Afghanistan so he cannot be poolside to cheer her on as she goes for gold in London.
Karl Thurgood, 23, on his third tour of the war-torn country, hopes to be back for part of the Games but has no tickets because he is not sure of the date of his return from Lashkar Gar.
Couch, also 23, turned in the best performance by a British woman diver in 20 years at the World Championships in 2009, when she came eighth in the individual event.
At the Beijing Games the year before, she finished eighth in the 10-metre individual and synchronised events.
She and synchronised diving partner Sarah Barrow, now training in Southend with the rest of the team, narrowly missed out on bronze at the World Championships in July.
Couch, who met her boyfriend in her home town of Plymouth when they were 16, said: “I worry about him and miss him but he’s very supportive of my sport.”
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Permalink • Sunday - February 19, 2012
Unemployment Makes You Crazy
Pure scam, or acts of desperation?
Hey, at least they’re no longer “officially unemployed”, which helps Obamessiah’s all important number stay below 9%.
Jobless disability claims soar to record $200B as of January
Standing too many months on the unemployment line is driving Americans crazy — literally — and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
With their unemployment-insurance checks running out, some of the country’s long-term jobless are scrambling to fill the gap by filing claims for mental illness and other disabilities with Social Security — a surge that hobbles taxpayers and making the employment rate look healthier than it should as these people drop out of the job statistics.
“It could be because their health really is getting worse from the stress of being out of work,” says Matthew Rutledge, a research economist at Boston College. “Or it could just be desperation — people trying to make ends meet when other safety nets just aren’t there.”
As of January, the federal government was mailing out disability checks to more than 10.5 million individuals, including 2 million to spouses and children of disabled workers, at a cost of record $200 billion a year, recent research from JPMorgan Chase shows.
The sputtering economy has fueled those ranks. Around 5.3 percent of the population between the ages of 25 and 64 is currently collecting federal disability payments, a jump from 4.5 percent since the economy slid into a recession.
Mental-illness claims, in particular, are surging.
During the recent economic boom, only 33 percent of applicants were claiming mental illness, but that figure has jumped to 43 percent, says Rutledge, citing preliminary results from his latest research.
His research also shows a growing number of men, particularly older, former white-collar workers, instead of the typical blue-collar ones, are applying.
Aw crap. If even the suits are learning how to game the system, it’s over.
I’m of mixed mind on this one. On the one hand, bully for them for learning how to play the game that countless millions of *****s have been playing for decades, and getting back some of what they’ve been paying in forever. On the other hand, get a job ya bums. But what if there are no jobs? And all these big companies, having cut staff to the very bone for several years now and having become used to running not just “lean and mean” but “anorexic and psychotic”, while socking away the cash and returning a fat bottom line, have concluded that they’ll never need those extra employees again?
Disability claims come from the Social Security Trust Fund, which is set to go broke in 2018. Congress last week agreed to dip into the revenue stream to give a 2-percentage point tax break to working Americans.
So now with millions more claimants, the government is going to reduce their own income with a bit of tax break? Won’t that push the “Use By” date forward a bit, say to 2016 instead of 2018? We are utter screwed.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 18, 2012
eye candy
Going gone bye for the night.
Leave with eye candy I don’t think I’ve seen before. (?) Don’t recall if Drew ever posted. I think I found a redhead I haven’t seen.
I think I posted this one some time ago. I prefer the one above but ....
CANDICE SWANEPOEL is no bow wow and you can see lots more of her HERE
Lipstick ad with Italian beauty ...
Comments always welcome and we like to know what folks think. BUT ..... witty - pithy - funny but really. The crude stuff is a bit over the top. Sure, crude can often be funny. But darn if it isn’t embarrassing sometimes and sometimes it’s even gross. Which is never funny.
ONE MORE TIME MONICA below the fold
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Permalink • police to enter a poetry competition on the theme of ‘gender equality’. more pc bs
There are times, many in fact, when I re-read things I say and think ppl will read me and think I’ve flipped and gone off the deep end. Well, many times I believe that’s true. How can you not go stark, raving bonkers when you read shit like this article? How can you not think, if only those life forms could stop breathing then things could get better. Not perfect, but at least a return to something approaching normal. Problem is that normal these days is exactly what makes me so stark, raving bonkers.
Little by little an inch at a time, the left and their enablers gnaw away at what once was western civilization demanding more and more, and getting it.
As one person has commented at the Mail, 1% of the population will tell the rest of us what to believe and how to think.
Gay rights activists are campaigning to have the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ erased from the statute book
as part of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage.
Pressure group Stonewall yesterday released a draft bill, intended as a ‘model’ for the Marriage Bill due later this year, calling for spouses to be known as ‘parties to a marriage’ to avoid confusion for homosexual couples.
The move provoked protests from critics, who say the aim of a new law would be to destroy the traditional understanding of marriage.
But even that story isn’t all. Take a look at this piece of totally ridiculous and pc bullshit that is taken seriously enough to pay the lady shown here, $126,534. Why must we pander and suck up to and indulge the left to the extent we do? By we, I surely do not include BMEWS but you know what I mean. Seems at every turn everyone is so damned worried about being perceived as anti something or other, that it’s turning many into the very people pc was intended to bury. Along with opinions.
I do not hate anyone simply because they aren’t white or LA Dodger fans.
But I sure as hell hate the left and the crowd of politically correct thinkers who have brought us to this state. I hate criminals of any stripe or color but I damned well do use the ‘N’ word when and where it applies. I don’t hate homosexuals but they are not fuckin gay they are weird. As in queer.
But hell, now they have their own flag that’s actually been flown from the staff at a police station not so long ago, in an effort to show how all inclusive the force is and in support of their so called liberation.
Do hetros have a flag? Besides the one that represents a country I mean.
Why not? Hetros need a flag damn it.
You folks just won’t believe the silly crap (no humor intended) I’ve been reading the last couple of days. And on top of all that, the spin cycle quit on the washer so everything else seems to take on sinister meaning.
We indulge the muzzies, the negros, the queers, the criminal class cos what they do isn’t really their fault, the folks on unearned benefits cos they have kids who shouldn’t be punished for the sins of the parents. True but sterilization would go a long way to reducing the payments for women who get paid by the child. Terrorists avoid being deported because this country must indulge the EU courts who worry more about their rights then any potential victims of terror. I’m just plain sick of all that crap. And sick of this too. And who would want to spend any of their off time with something like this? Another gorilla in the mist.
‘Ere, Sarge, what rhymes with gender sensitivity?
Incredulity at the Yard over politically-correct poetry contest.
Scotland Yard officers asked to enter a poetry competition on the theme of ‘gender equality’
By STEPHEN WRIGHTScotland Yard officers have been asked to enter a poetry competition on the theme of ‘gender equality’.
The prize is a chance to have a ‘coffee break’ with the Met’s head of diversity Denise Milani, who is renowned in Britain’s biggest police force for her touchy-feely initiatives.
Officers are told their poems must focus on ‘recruitment, retention or progression’ at the Yard, creating a ‘gender-sensitive working environment’ or ‘successfully managing gender-diverse teams’.
They must also provide Miss Milani, 54, with insight on the progress made with the ‘Gender Agenda’ from a male or female perspective and suggest a ‘positive vision’ for the Met.
Details of the extraordinary competition were leaked to the Police Inspector blog, prompting a furious reaction from serving officers who accused the Met of wasting taxpayers’ money.
Inspector Gadget, the anonymous author of the blog, wrote: ‘I can categorically say that this is the maddest diversity nonsense we have ever featured.
‘I would like to hear from more female officers to see what they think of this, in between making tea for the lads of course!’Miss Milani, the daughter of West Indian migrants, originally qualified as a teacher and joined the Met in 1999. She is believed to be paid more than £80,000 a year, ($126,534) although Scotland Yard refuses to reveal her exact salary.
Now this does get somewhat interesting believe it or don’t. Here. Read this.
In 2008, the Mail revealed how Miss Milani had urged Met staff to ‘celebrate’ the contribution of Roma gipsies to ‘London’s culture and diversity’.
What complete and total outrageous bullshit this ape speaks. People here who aren’t of the weepy left know exactly what those useless Romas have contributed. For example.
A mother-of-six who was jailed yesterday for claiming more than £96,000 ($152,000) in benefits while she had an ‘eye-watering’ £173,000 ($273,630) in the bank was following a gipsy tradition, a court heard.
Helen Ryan, 40, an out-of-work traveller from Cardiff, was jailed for 24 weeks after pleading guilty to the fraud.
Click the fat cow for the story.
In the past year, the second highest crime rate among foreigners in London was among the immigrants from Romania. I was surprised to read that the most were from Poland. Romanians accounted for 3,952 crimes in London. While not ALL Romanians are Roma Gypsies, way too many are. As a general rule of thumb, if that’s where they’re from the chances are quite good they’re gypos. Poles accounted for 4,742 crimes last year.
One in four crimes committed in London are done by foreigners.
A bit of background on below. The law says that the church can not deny adoption based on homosexuality. The church, Catholic, not surprisingly doesn’t agree. It isn’t a matter a church vs state in the sense that the church wants the state to make it illegal. It is for them a matter of deep religious belief and the teachings of the church. If the church teaches that homosexuality is an abomination, then how they ask can they then turn around and sanction the adoption of a baby to a homosexual couple? So, they’ve closed their adoption agencies. Which should make this guardian of diversity and multi culture very happy.
Don’t be such an ass, Trevor
By AMANDA PLATELL
The head of the human rights watchdog, Trevor Phillips, has attacked the Roman Catholic Church for behaving as though they are ‘above the law’ by refusing to place children with homosexual couples.
Thanks to Mr Phillips’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, every Catholic adoption agency in England has now closed, and adoption has fallen to a ten-year low.
Children suffering most are those who are older, more troubled and hardest to place — the very ones the Catholic agencies were so successful at dealing with. Sometimes, Mr Phillips, the law is an ass — and so are you.
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Permalink • Friday - February 17, 2012
10-4 is still pretty good
Damnation, I did it again at Greed League. I bowled just barely on average the first two games, which we won, and then bowled great the third game, which we lost. Hey guys, I’m trying to contribute here! The exact same thing happened last week. So we remain in 3rd place.
I turned that around this week in Cheap League, bowling my poor little fingers off to roll a 211 in the first game, while my teammates were either sleeping or trying to find their lines. We played the half-filled team, which made a bit of a psychological barrier what with their 2 vacancies and the fat 119 pins worth of handicap we gave them. So it was uphill all the way, and even though my squad finally got it together in the 10th frame we lost. By 4. Arrrgggghh!!!! I pulled out all stops and managed a 238 in the second game, rolling the inside line because the outside edges were squirrelly. My guys were hot so we won that one by more than 60. I was trying too hard in game 3, and that killed me. Lucky for us that our opponents were worse off than we were, so we took the win. It wasn’t much of a win, more like a “they lost more than we did” situation, both teams rolling below average, but a victory is still a victory. As far as I know we are still 10 points behind the lead team, which probably also took 5 this week. I know they were one up, one down when we left, but they were bowling the third game in slow motion and we couldn’t sit around an hour waiting for them to finish off 2 frames. We’ll find out how they did next week anyhow.
Based on her excellent performance last week, my wife got the weekly strike ball, again, and blew it, again, throwing an 8 to win $8. I don’t think any of the women have won their strike ball in several weeks, so there’s getting to be some real money in that jackpot. She threw a decent series in the low 500s, well over average but not exceptional enough to qualify for next week’s strike ball.
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Permalink • The DC Firearms Follies
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A 30 part series by Emily Miller, writer for the Washington Times, on jumping all the hurdles to legally buy a pistol in Washington DC. Unbelievable. $465 in fees, training classes, and paperwork. 4 months worth of hassle. Most of a week of work lost. Follow her story from the beginning to the end, with several stop-overs to interview the GOP candidates on their Second Amendment views, a few TV news appearances, a trip to Berretta USA, plus a visit to the NRA and some range time. And a bit of testifying to some council in DC that the process is beyond idiotic. Which we all already knew, right?
The whole series is here, but start at the bottom of page 2 and work your way up and back to the top of page 1 to read everything in order.
I want a gun. I don’t feel safe living in Washington, D.C. and want to protect myself. I’m starting today by going down to City Hall to find the gun permit office to tell them, “I want a gun.” This series will follow me as I navigate the city bureaucracy and outdated rules in order to legally buy a firearm.
In my quest to obtain a legal gun in Washington, D.C., I’ve gone to the registry office, taken a 5-hour course, filled out paperwork and met with the city’s only dealer. I’ve now fulfilled any requirements that can be done before giving the city the serial number of my new gun, so it is time to decide what to buy.
(You might think I’m close to the end, but that’s not what happens on this side of the Potomac. After I buy, there will still be 10 more steps before I can take possession of my gun.)
In a truly free country, the process of buying a gun is 1) save up the money or have room on your credit cards, 2) go buy a gun. In a somewhat free America, the only thing that ought to be added to that is step 1b) Pass the NICS check.
Did you know that it is against the law in Washington DC to possess live ammunition of a caliber different than any firearms you are registered as owning? Surprise! I’m pretty sure that’s also illegal in New Jersey, where the pistol purchasing process is only half as complex.
I think her next series ought to be “Emily Joins the Tea Party”.
petite Emily comes to grips with the mighty .454 Casull. And does her best shooting of the day. Sweet.
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Permalink • Canada Tastes Reality, Québécois Offended
Even the mad socialists finally figured out what we told them a decade ago.
The Conservative government says its MPs will celebrate after a historic vote to end the long-gun registry Wednesday evening, despite vehement opposition to the move in Quebec and much of urban Canada.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told reporters Wednesday, hours before the vote, that the government’s actions are long overdue.
“It does nothing to help put an end to gun crimes, nor has it saved one Canadian life,” he said.
No, really?
“It criminalizes hard-working and law-abiding citizens such as farmers and sport shooters, and it has been a billion-dollar boondoggle left to us by the previous Liberal government.”
The federal law will end the requirement for lawful gun owners to register their long guns, and it relaxes rules around selling or transferring guns. Gun licences for individuals will still be required, and the registry for restricted and prohibited firearms such as handguns will be maintained.
So what this means is that our cousins to the north now have a tiny bit of freedom, but still not very much at all. Baby steps in the right direction. But wait, there’s more. It gets better. Part of the bill demands that all the secret data that the authorities (the RCMP) have been keep on citizens and their guns will be purged. Well, the info about non-restricted firearms at any rate. That IS a blow for freedom, which is why the rabid jackbooted thug Socialist left (48% of Canadian government) is demanding that this data be preserved. Must be able to round up the citizens at 3am whenever we feel like it, don’t you dare toss this info that tells us where every single gun and round of ammunition in the country is!
Michael Patton, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, said the gun registry’s central database is located in an RCMP headquarters in Ottawa. Since only data for non-restricted guns will be removed, the officials are still deciding how to carefully sift out what to delete and what to keep. He said he could not predict exactly how long the deletion of all long-gun data would take.
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Once the bill is finally passed into law, Quebec will immediately seek an injunction from the courts to halt the destruction of the registry data.
Jeff Larivee, whose wife was killed in the 1989 Montreal massacre, is a spokesman for the Coalition for Gun Control. He said he and many other Quebecers feel outrage at the Harper government’s determination to dismantle laws that, for many, serve as a memorial.
Law as a memorial? Assuage your grief by restricting other people’s freedoms? Classic far left behavior; the world view of a 12 year old. “I’ve suffered, so now everyone else must pay.” Get your noggin to the shrink Jeff, and try and deal with your belligerence and find some closure. Stop blaming society for the acts of one murderer.
More than two billion dollars pissed away for a program that was utterly and completely worthless from the beginning. Which they knew, because we told them often enough. But it made the lefties feeeel all warm and fuzzy, and that’s what national debt is for, right? Hosers.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 16, 2012
Good And Ugly
Beef - it’s why we win.
One cow’s worth of hanger steaks, about 1 1/4 lb, usually 2 chunks of meat
1/2 cup apple juice
2-3 tbl apple cider vinegar
a big splash of olive oil
1/2 tsp Szeged Steak Rub from a new or nearly new can
1 tsp Mural of Flavor seasoning from Penzey’s
Hanger steak, also known as diaphragm meat, is the small bit of meat that holds the diaphragm in place in a cow. It is the ugliest chunk of flesh this side of a halal butcher shop, and for that reason it is often quite inexpensive ($4.49/lb). Rough, uneven, tough and stringy looking, most shoppers give it an “eeeww” glance and move on. Their loss. Hangers are the tastiest, most beefy tasting piece of protein going, and cooked properly make a magnificent meal.
Take a dinner fork and stab each chunk of meat thoroughly to tenderize. Mix the vinegar and the juice in a small bowl. Splash olive oil onto the meat and rub it in with your fingers, then put the meat in a glass baking dish and pour on the juice. Flip the meat a couple of times to coat all sides, then sprinkle on a light amount of the Szeged and a slightly greater light amount of the Mural of Flavor seasonings. Rub the spices in with your fingers. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 6 to 8 hours, turning the meat every 2 hours.
Face it, these steaks are not going to cook evenly because the meat is so uneven. This isn’t a cut of meat, it’s a hack. So toss them in a hot dry frying pan and sear one side for about 2 minutes, then reduce the heat to medium and cook that side another 3-4 minutes. Crank up the heat and repeat the process for the other side. If you have a nice grill, use it. The important thing is to accept that the thin part of the meat will be well done, and the thick parts will be medium rare. Let the meat rest a couple minutes while you finish off the veg and the tater tots or whatever, and serve. We made this last night and it was the most tender and tasty steak we’d had in ages. The apple flavor comes through with just a tiny hint of the vinegar for piquancy, with the garlic and shallots and brown sugar in the seasoning making great little highlights.
Goes well with Mencia wine, which makes a nice break from the endless cycle of Cabs and Merlots, and is itself a great bargain that gives loads of flavor for the price. Open the wine and pour or decant before you start cooking as it needs half an hour to an hour to breathe.
$17 and worth it
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Not quite a “stop the world, I want to get off” kind of day here, but I’m willing to at least park in the scenic overlook for a bit. Must step away from news stream before head explodes!!!
The usual BS ... kick Jesus out of the schools, but have the kids sing praises to Allah ... strip search a kid for drugs in front of his classmates ... another generation of Kennedy hucksters ready to take over MA politics ... Maxine Waters, crazy as always ... Hillary to be head of World Bank? I first heard rumors of this half a year ago. Nice pay-off, or what? And lastly, pump up hype to bring in the bucks: archaeologist may have found Queen of Sheba’s gold mine, needs grants for expedition ...
and my favorite Government In Action story of the day:
Russia: Lego protesters not citizens, therefore illegal
Siberian authorities ban protest by 100 Kinder Surprise toys, 100 Lego people, 20 model soldiers, 15 soft toys and 10 toy cars
There hadn’t been many – indeed any – rallies like it before in Russia. Last month saw dozens of toys, from teddy bears to Lego figurines, standing out in the snow of a Siberian city with banners complaining about corruption and electoral malpractice.
At the time, Russian authorities in Barnaul declared the protest “an unsanctioned public event”.
Now a petition to hold another protest featuring 100 Kinder Surprise toys, 100 Lego people, 20 model soldiers, 15 soft toys and 10 toy cars has been rejected because the toys have been deemed not to be “citizens of Russia”.
“As you understand, toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people,” Andrei Lyapunov, a spokesman for Barnaul, told local media.
At the last rally, baffled police did not know what to do with the toys, which held up banners with the words: “I’m for clean elections,” and “A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin.” After taking photographs and video of the plastic offenders, they asked prosecutors to investigate its legality.
The number of people, and their toys, wanting to take part has risen dramatically since then.
“It probably wouldn’t be that popular if the reaction of the authorities hadn’t been so harsh and absurd,” said the activist Lyudmila Alexandrovna.
Authorities though are not willing to back down.
Wherever there is government there will be a nitwit jobsworth telling someone that the tiniest little thing is illegal. Always. Maybe the whole semi-civilized world would be better off with half as much authority and a quarter as many rules? It’s worth a try.
Face it, the only reason the toy protest is illegal is that the Boss’s Apparatchniks can’t arrest them in the middle of the night and stomp the crap out of them while having “peaceful discussions”.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 15, 2012
Chess problem #64
Allegedly this one is based on a pin also. Damn if I can find one. I’m sure Drew or Wes will come up with the answer.
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Yes, that’s Black to move and win. Probably magically which will tick Drew off!
I’m a little upset. I’ve owned this book for over 20 years, and I solved this once. I check marked it as solved. Now I’ve no idea. Must be in the early stages of Alzhiemer’s.
Taken from Combination Challenge by Lou Hayes and USCF Senior Master John Hall (2520)
UPDATE 2/27/12
CenTexTim got it right (assuming he meant 3…Ng3+ and not 3…Kg3+ as written)
Solution:
1… Bg4! and White resigned.
See CenTexTim’s answer (comment #5)
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Permalink • JENNIFER ELLISON BEFORE AND AFTER
I just thought it might be different to do this. I know she’s an actress but I haven’t been to a movie in years and don’t have TV.
But the Mail ran this article on her. I guess she gained some tonnage and decided to do something about it. So naturally she pushing a DVD. What else?
For more of her you can go here. JENNIFER ELLISON PIX
And here’s the ‘after’ shot! Jennifer Ellison show off her stunning new bikini figure in snaps from her workout DVD
By HOLLY THOMAS
EH .... THE EYE CANDY IS BELOW THE FOLD GUYS
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Permalink • my wish for that great lefty sean penn. may your tongue get cramps. A broch tzu dir!
Oh Please. Again but different subject.
Just what the Brits with all they already gave on their plate need. A lefty has been idiot actor from Hollyweird telling the Brits what to do.
What a schmuck is Sean Penn. Long before I even knew who he was, like when he was married to what’s her name, I always thought his face somehow resembled a putz. Maybe that’s why she liked him? Don’t know why but it just looked that way. Now it’s grown older.
Argentina making noises again about the Falklands near the 30 anniversary of that short war that they lost.
So now they’re at it again. One of their unions (dockhands) are warned not to unload or service Brit ships.
Angry words back and forth and in steps the putz penn.
Shut up Sean! Now big mouth Penn tells us we have NO right to send William to the Falklands in his second attack on Britain in two daysLeft-wing U.S. actor says sending Duke of Cambridge is not necessary
Hollywood star in Uruguay as he continues South American tour
Comes day after he labelled Britain ‘colonialist, ludicrous and archaic’
Argentina surrender telex set for auction in AprilBy GERARD COUZENS
Hollywood actor Sean Penn has criticised Prince William’s deployment to the Falklands in a second attack on Britain in two days.
Madonna’s ex-husband was condemned as ‘moronic’ by Tory MP and former Army officer Patrick Mercer yesterday for claiming Britain’s continuing hold on the Falklands was ‘colonialist, ludicrous and archaic’.
But the left-leaning actor showed he cannot keep his mouth shut over the islands by accusing the UK of ‘insensitivity’ for posting William to the disputed South Atlantic territory and labelling Britain a colonial dinosaur for the second day running.
The double Oscar winner went on the attack again after a meeting with Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in Montevideo - less than 24 hours after he savaged Britain over the Falklands during his visit to Buenos Aires to see the Argentine president Cristina Kirchner.
Penn, who once called for U.S. president George W. Bush to be impeached over the Iraq War, met both state leaders in his role as Ambassador-at-large for Haiti.
He condemned criticism of his attack on ‘colonial’ Britain as ‘hyperbole’ and again insisted on calling the islands by their Spanish name of Las Malvinas.
Grinning smugly as he praised Uruguay as a ‘model of development in the world’ he added: ‘My oh my, aren’t people sensitive to the world colonialism, particularly those who implement colonialism.
Penn, who has received praise from crackpot Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, insisted he was proud of America’s long-standing alliance with the UK but felt he had the responsibility to criticise when criticism was due.
And he said that while he understood and respected the wish of people living in the Falklands Islands to remain British, they should also understand the need for Argentina and Britain to negotiate the sharing of the islands’ natural resources.
And here’s our hero with his pin up poster boy, Hugo Chavez. Don’t they look like they belong together?
For any Brits passing through here. Just so ya know. Not all Americans approve of this jerk. Only the idiots of which we have a few. A few too many. Sadly. But not the majority I’d bet.
The Falklands are by gosh British!
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Permalink • Leave it to the Swiss
Swiss scientists said Wednesday they plan to launch a “janitor satellite” specially designed to get rid of orbiting debris known as space junk.
The 10-million-franc ($11-million) satellite called CleanSpace One — the prototype for a family of such satellites — is being built by the Swiss Space Center at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL.
EPFL said Wednesday its launch would come within three to five years and its first tasks are to grab two Swiss satellites launched in 2009 and 2010.
The U.S. space agency NASA says over 500,000 pieces of spent rocket stages, broken satellites and other debris are being tracked as they orbit Earth.
The debris travels at speeds approaching 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour), fast enough to destroy or inflict costly and time-draining damage on a satellite or spacecraft. Collisions, in turn, generate more fragments floating in space.
CleanSpace One works by launching on a rocket, determining the trajectory of a piece of space debris it aims to “deorbit,” then approaching the junk by modifying its own course. It then grabs onto the garbage with pincers and soars back into Earth’s atmosphere, where it burns on reentry.
The satellite is small - only 10 cm by 10 cm by 30 cm. But its impact on space safety could be great. EPFL noted, “even a simple paint chip can seriously damage a solar panel or the window on a shuttle. To avoid the largest objects before they get critically close, the International Space Station must constantly alter its orbit. It managed to do this again just recently, on January 29, 2012.”
I think they’ve got their work cut out for them. Something that small won’t be able to carry enough fuel to move around much at all, and you’d have to launch thousands of them at once to make the rocket even close to cost effective. One scrubber satellite, one bit of space junk. Costly! I think a better idea is either a giant net thing, or put a few of those giant SDI S.M.I.T.E. lasers in orbit. Oh, don’t worry, Iran, we’re only using it to take out the trash. hur hur hur, get it? “Take out” the “trash”. Them mullahs got no sense of humor.
Old Dutch Girl icon is trademarked and owned by the Dial Corporation and has nothing to do with Switzerland or the CleanSpace satellite program as far as I know.
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