Monday - July 09, 2012
Pass The Popcorn
If the US, Israel, and Western Europe can stay out of this, I’d say it was a Win-Win.
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Permalink • muslim daddy beheads wife and for good measure, the kiddies too. another normal day
By now I am certain this is not any news to you. The first article dates back to July 4th but I just saw it.
The second article was in the morning paper. Even so, although the photographs aren’t fun to see, you can no longer be surprised or even shocked as it’s happened so often. This is what these vermin are. The real shock is the number of Western born and raised WHITE women tho few few now but apparently growing, who accept this lifestyle. White women who embrace and defend with all the zeal of a reformed prostitute, the life and dress and code of a muslim woman. But more then that, there is the mail article I want to bring to your attention. I’ve been reading about her for the last two weeks and haven’t posted anything. But in light of these two stories, I’m posting most of the 3rd article, about a white woman on the run, a muslim convert whose dead husband was one of those thick lipped suicide bombers in London. She is now suspected of joining the other side and training women to become suicide bombers. In light of how these animals treat their women, how can a white and western educated female fall into this trap?
Surely she must be knowledgeable about their take on what honor and honor killing involves.
At the moment, she’s one the run with yet another thick lip, broad nosed bastard intent on murder and mayhem.
‘Honour killing’ of mother, 30, beheaded by her ex-husband… who then decapitated their two young children because they’d watched· Boy, eight, and girl, nine killed in horrific execution
· Father decided to spare their two-year-old daughter
By Daily Mail Reporter
A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan’s east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings.
Police said they suspected the woman Serata’s divorced husband of barging into her house in the capital of Ghazni province and murdering her, alongside their eight-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.
‘The children saw the killer take their mother’s head off, so he killed them too,’ a local policeman said, adding that the attacker had spared Sereta’s two-year-old daughter.
Activists say there has been a sharp rise in violent attacks on women in Afghanistan over the past year.
LOVE my butt. What’s love got to do with it?
Photos are at the link below.
Caught in the middle of a Taliban love triangle: The moment helpless Afghan woman, 22, is gunned down ‘because two fighters couldn’t decide who could have her’
· Burqa-clad woman is shot dead in front of baying villagers ‘after affair with Taliban commander’
· Shocking footage shows her being gunned down at close range
· Two Taliban men ‘could not settle dispute over her’, so accused woman of adultery ‘to save face’
· International outcry at shooting which is branded ‘cold-blooded murder’By Sara Malm
Gunned down with an AK47 as baying villagers cheer in delight, this is the shocking moment a burqa-clad woman was executed in Afghanistan for her part in a Taliban love triangle.
The 22-year-old woman, said to have been married to a member of a hardline Taliban militant group, was shot dead after being accused of adultery with a Taliban commander.
Horrific pictures show a crowd of bearded men gather to watch a rifle-wielding gunman shoot her in the head and back during the execution in Qimchok village, in Afghanistan’s Parwan province.
And those articles bring me finally to all of these.
7/7 widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘suspected in Kenya attack’
Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of one of the 7/7 bombers, is believed to have been behind an attack in Kenya that killed three people as they watched England during Euro 2012, according to reports.
Lewthwaite, whose father served in the British Army, is the target of a major international man hunt after Kenyan police accused her of plotting a wave of against British tourists shortly before Christmas.
Scotland Yard has sent a large team to Nairobi to assist with the investigation.
They claimed that she had stored guns and bomb-making materials for al-Shabaab, the Somali terror group, but she escaped before officers could arrest, possibly slipping away into the chaos of Somalia.
‘My husband terrorised disbelievers… And I will incite others’: Chilling terror notes of the 7/7 bomber’s widow who began life as a Home Counties schoolgirlBy Barbara Jones
The British widow of a 7/7 bomber who is being hunted by police in East Africa has revealed that she is raising her children to be Mujahideen terrorists.
In a chilling cache of handwritten notes found by police, Muslim convert Samantha Lewthwaite – nicknamed the White Widow – describes how her eldest son and daughter were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up.
The children, then aged eight and five, both said last year that they wished to be holy warriors. Their answers inspired their mother to begin a book, a guide to Jihad, entitled I Want To Be A Mujahid.
It was their father and Lewthwaite’s first husband, Jermaine Lindsay, who carried out England’s worst terror atrocity. During the 7/7 bombings in 2005, he killed 26 people when he blew up a Piccadilly Line Tube train near King’s Cross.
Until today, praise to Allah, I have not yet lived under a tree but the path we choose has its own tests and it can only be through knowledge and a strong resolve that can keep us steadfast.’ She tells of how her Muslim ‘sisters’ have been blessed to know suffering, with their husbands experiencing long jail sentences. ‘Other sisters have been blessed to be those whose husbands gained Shahadah [martyrdom].
‘Each has his own tests but it is our duty as women to remain steadfast and support our men. We will be sinful if we hinder them from Allah’s work.’ She describes how her husband has left her on many occasions ‘to go out for Allah’s cause’.
Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terror suspect on the run from police in East Africa, is in Somalia recruiting and training all-women attack squads, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
By Mike Pflanz, Mombasa
Lewthwaite, the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 bombers, fled Kenya’s main coast city, Mombasa, last December after police stumbled upon a plot to attack tourist hotels with chemical bombs.
Despite an international hunt by British and Kenyan police and Interpol, the 28-year-old has not been seen since.
But according to a blog entry on a website used by the Muslim Youth Centre, a radical Kenyan pro-jihadi movement, she is in Somalia and has been connected to terror attacks in East Africa.
The entry, which is anonymous but appears to be written by a female sympathiser in Tanzania, says that Lewthwaite is known in terror circles as “Dada Mzungu”, which means “white sister” in Swahili.
“More than five times our ‘Dada Mzungu’ has defeated the kuffar [non-Muslims] in Kenya and Tanzania,” she writes.
“She gave her life to Allah and she now serves Allah as His female soldier. In +252 [Somalia] she commands her ‘all-female mujahid terror squad’ and conducts her operations against the kuffar.
“Now every Muslim sister wants to be like our ‘Dada Mzungu’. Inshall’allah, I will join you.”
The blog entry goes on to say that “the kuffar calls her ‘black widow’ but we call her Dada Mzungu tormentor of the kuffar.” “She is one of the many female Anmiyat ordained by Allah to torment the kuffar in East Africa,” it says.
“She came to Kenya to torment the kuffar and left the kuffar in a state of “confused” [sic] as we say. The kuffar hunt her but still can’t find her for Allah protect His warriors.”
Kenyan police sources in Mombasa confirmed that according to their intelligence, Lewthwaite was in southern Somalia, where she is being protected by al-Shabaab, the country’s militant Islamist army.
“We cannot say that she is connected to any terrorist attacks in Kenya, but it is consistent with our information that she is with Shabaab in Somalia,” one senior anti-terror officer in Mombasa said.
“Even if she is there training people for jihad, she will find that we are waiting for her here and she will not succeed.”
The fresh revelations came as details of a diary that Lewthwaite kept before she fled Kenya yesterday showed that she wanted her children to become “mujahid” or holy warriors.
The Daily Telegraph first revealed the existence of Lewthwaite’s diary in March.
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Permalink • read it here. the racial crime of the century. yawn
If I went out looking for a boring post to annoy you with, I doubt I could have found one more boring then this one.
Posting the phone book might have more appeal I’ll warrant. So why the heck post this at all? Because. Because I want folks to see just how far this bullshit PC inquisition has taken us all. Or at least it has here in the UK. What mindless blather and forget freedom to insult someone in the heat of battle. OK so the battle was on a sports field but you know what I mean.
Take a look at this sorry assed high crime of the last two centuries. Down with John Terry. Where’s the rope?
Jeesh. What a bunch of nasty asses, apes and mangy dogs the thought and speech police are.
John Terry ‘shouted racist obscenities at Anton Ferdinand’England footballer John Terry called Anton Ferdinand a racist obscenity in response to taunts about his alleged affair with a team-mate’s ex-girlfriend, a court heard today.
By Telegraph reporters
The 31-year-old Chelsea defender allegedly called Ferdinand, who plays for Queens Park Rangers, a “f------ black c---”.
Terry is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence during a Premier League match on October 23 last year, which was broadcast to millions of people.
Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, Terry sat in the dock wearing a light grey suit, white shirt and pink tie.
The court heard that Terry told Ferdinand to “f--- off” and also called him a “f------ k---head” as the pair exchanged insults.
Opening the prosecution today, Duncan Penny said: “The Crown alleges that the words he used demonstrated hostility based on Mr Ferdinand’s membership or presumed membership of a racial group.”
The court heard that Terry maintains he was only sarcastically repeating words that Ferdinand wrongly thought he had used.
Mr Penny said: “The Crown alleges that the defendant, most probably in response to physical gestures being made by Mr Ferdinand which the defendant understood to refer to the well-publicised allegation of an extra-marital affair with a team-mate’s wife, shouted at Mr Ferdinand.”
He went on: “The Crown’s case is that the words were abusive and insulting in a straightforward sense and that the term ‘f------ black c---’ was uttered as an abusive insult demonstrating hostility based on Mr Ferdinand’s membership of a racial group.
“They were uttered by the defendant in response to goading by Mr Ferdinand on the issue of his extra-marital affair, rather than by way of exaggerated and instant querying of a perceived false allegation.”
Y A W N
Oh come on. You aren’t even sleepy yet. Read some more of this garbage so you know what in time you’ll have in spades back home in the USA.
Unless it’s already that bad now. WTF is wrong with people?
Terry was allowed out of the dock into the well of the court to view footage of the alleged insult.
The case is being heard by Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle, and there is no jury.
Both television clips and unbroadcast footage of the incident, which would normally be used for training purposes, were shown to the court.
It is claimed that Ferdinand said something about “s----ing ya mate’s missus” and made fist gestures, before Terry responded.
The court was told that Chelsea team-mates Ashley Cole and John Mikel Obi were nearby when insults were traded, but they will not be called as witnesses as part of the prosecution case.
Terry said in a statement to the Football Association five days after the incident that he and Ferdinand had been exchanging “verbals” and he had made a gesture to imply Mr Ferdinand had bad breath.
He said: “We’re still having a, sort of, ding-dong, if you like. That’s when, as I said before, he said ‘black c---’.
“Now clearly, as I said before, I don’t think he’s calling me a black c---, but at the same time I take quite a strong offence.”
The England defender said he was not offended by the taunts about the alleged affair with Wayne Bridge’s ex-girlfriend, because “it’s not the first time I’ve heard it, so it’s with a pinch of salt a little bit now”.
Had enough? If not, there’s more HERE.
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Permalink • today’s major headline: hospitals letting patients die to save money
This headline greeted me first thing this morning, and I though it would be in keeping with my previous hilarious post on health care to share it.
Til today I wasn’t even aware of this pathway thing written about here. Does raise a question though. Maybe more then one.
If you’re terminal anyway, and if sick enough and body ravaged by disease and pain, would you still want to hang on?
Some of our readership is young and by young I mean perhaps up to 60 because even at that age, generally you aren’t as aware of your impending end as say, I am at 75. Since I’ve been here, I have witnessed things happening to people I knew. Past tense cos sadly some are gone. And for some, not a pleasant end at all. None of which I gave any thought to when in my 20’s or 30’s. Even after that it didn’t impinge on my thoughts or life and death planning. But once past 70 and reading obits of less fortunate ppl going at an earlier age, it just gives pause for thought. And I had as some of you may recall, lot of cause for pause with the loss of a younger brother. Younger by 6 years of a disease that by all rights should have taken me first. We were both smokers. So his death at 46 was an emotional disaster and I miss him every day.
So then ... I guess the question is as stated above. Why would anyone want to live attached to tubes and such? Not for me I don’t think.
How about those who are not terminal yet, but see the direction they are headed. But I guess that’s another subject and one I’m working on for a future post.
Hospitals ‘letting patients die to save money’Hospitals may be depriving elderly patients of food and drink to hasten their deaths as part of cost-cutting measures to free up bed space, leading doctors warn.
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses are placed on a “death pathway” to help end their lives every year. However, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph, six doctors warn that hospitals may be using the controversial scheme to reduce strain on hospital resources.
Supporters of the Liverpool Care Pathway, which allows medical staff to withhold fluid and drugs in a patient’s final days, claim it is the kindest way of letting them slip away. But the experts say in their letter that natural deaths are often freer of pain and distress.
Informed consent is not always being sought by doctors, who fail to ask patients about their wishes while they are still in control of their faculties, warn the six. This has led to an increase in patients carrying cards informing doctors that they do not wish to be put on the pathway in the last few days of their lives.
The six doctors are experts in elderly care and wrote the letter in conjunction with the Medical Ethics Alliance, a Christian medical organisation. They say that many members of the public have contacted them with examples of inappropriate use of the pathway, which is implemented in up to 29 per cent of hospital deaths.
They warn that there is no “scientific way of diagnosing imminent death.” They write: “It is essentially a prediction, and it is possible that other considerations may come into reaching such a decision, not excluding the availability of resources.”
The Liverpool Care Pathway, so called because it was developed at the Royal Liverpool Hospital in the 1990s, aims to ensure that patients who are close to death can die without being subjected to unnecessary interference by staff. In addition to the withdrawal of fluid and medication, patients can be placed on sedation until they die.
Dr Gillian Craig, a retired geriatrician and former vice-chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance, is one of the six signatories to The Daily Telegraph letter.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 08, 2012
some scary articles to start your week with. how are things where you are?
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN?
Or at least, the medical world.
What is happening? I was going to ignore one or two but stuff like this keeps cropping up. Now then, either this kind of thing is a regular occurrence in the USA as well, or they do a better job of covering it up. Because I never read as many nor did we even hear as many nightmare medical stories back home in the US, as have been broadcast here. And it is scary. Maybe they are just more open here? I don’t pretend to know.
Some people may want to blame national health. But I think it’s more then that. Somehow for some reason, too many of the wrong sort of people are given jobs they just plain do not belong in. There have even been foreign doctors working here who had a problem with English and as a result, patients have actually died.
They may be able to pass a test, and as an example, I’ll use myself and the majority of my classmates who attended a Radio Operational Engineering School, in Newport Beach, Ca., circa 1969.
When I was younger and knowing a bit about some of the then requirements to work in radio, I attended a radio engineering school in Calif. We were taught how to pass the FCC test(s) that were mandatory at that time. From early morning to late in the evening every day. We actually were taught the basics of how Xmitters worked and read schematics etc. It was all of it very technical. But we were being prepared to take a series of tests, not become actual engineers. Back then, you HAD to have an FCC radio operator’s license to do no more then read the meters every hour on the transmitter and then log them. There were 3rd , 2nd and 1st class licenses. You stood a better chance of being hired (if you could even find openings) if you had what we called a First Phone, then a 2nd and at the bottom, a 3rd. And all to read a meter.
You obviously couldn’t take a test for the First Phone till you’d passed the tests for the other two. A lot of late nights and a lot of work and hundreds and hundreds of Q&A tests at school taking dummy FCC tests to prepare. The questions numbered in the hundreds although the test you actually took might only have say 50 questions. But don’t let that fool you. Among those 50 were questions that required you work out the mathematics involved. And the FCC wanted your work sheets where you worked out those math problems. So in the end, when taking the tests, everything the FCC asked had been covered over the course of the months and months you were at school. And btw, the majority of us lived right there in dormitories. The discipline was quite military. And all to do no more then read a meter or two every hour.
Funny thing about that last item. Once you got to actual work, you were not always as well prepared to read those meters as you thought you’d be, because often they didn’t appear to be like the ones in your illustrations etc. Or the digits in place of numbers might have been hard to read. So you simply copied the readings of the guy who was on before you and chances were he had done the same. Sometimes you might alter one number to make some things look okay. But if a Transmitter failed or something happened, I was no more qualified to go in and repair that huge thing then I was to fly a jet plane.
That’s what chief engineers were for and every station had to have one. As long as we knew what parameters were safe to run on, and we did, all worked out well.
So what I’m suggesting is, maybe some of these folks working in these hospitals, went to schools that prepared them to take and pass all the correct tests, but are still not qualified. How else pray tell can we account for these horror stories? They are far too serious to be referred to simply as, mishaps. This is very serious indeed. More serious because I’ve listed just three here. But there is so much more.
Take a look.
Patient dying of thirst rang 999: Inquest hears of mother’s fury at nurses who neglected son
· Nurses forgot to give Kane Gorny his medication and he became so delirious he called 999
· His mother said she spent hours trying to convince staff he needed attention but was told he was alright
· Alarm finally raised an hour before his death when a doctor realised how serious his condition was
By CLAIRE ELLICOTTA young patient who died of dehydration at a leading teaching hospital phoned police from his bed because he was so thirsty, an inquest heard yesterday
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Hospital staff suspended after man dies on doorstep of A&E
Eleven medical staff have been suspended and an investigation launched after a patient collapsed and died on the doorstep of a hospital.The man had been admitted to the Accident and Emergency unit of the Manor Hospital in Walsall, West Midlands, when the incident occurred.
It is thought that despite his condition he was allowed to go outside for some fresh air but collapsed shortly afterwards.
As he lay on the ground just yards from the hospital entrance it is alleged that medical staff, including nurses, porters and paramedics ignored his plight.
It is also claimed that members of the public stepped over the man as they entered the hospital, with some even stopping to take photographs and video footage on their mobile phones.
An unnamed eyewitness said he was horrified by what he had seen.-30-
My 17 hours of hell at hospital where a patient died of thirst: Left unattended in agony, one writer’s account of her ordeal at an NHS ‘centre of excellence’
By MELISSA KITE
Lying in an ambulance, drifting in and out of consciousness, I managed to ask the paramedics where they were taking me. ‘St George’s Hospital in Tooting,’ came the reply.
If I could have jumped out and made a run for it, I would have. I was in desperate need, but I think I would rather have put up with an ambulance ride to the other side of the country.
However, St George’s - where 22-year-old Kane Gorny died of dehydration - has been my local hospital for ten years. In an emergency, I was always going to be taken there.
I had no idea then that a patient had died from thirst. My fear of the place was born from my own bitter experiences.-30-
I sure hope things are better where you are.
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Permalink • Bridge Spotting Help Request
Bridgespotting: it’s like trainspotting, only much slower. Go somewhere, find a construction that crosses over a gully, river, stream, or chasm. Yup, that’s a bridge. Spotted. You win. But that’s the easy part. Identifying the form of the bridge is harder because they are made in so many different varieties, and once built, remain standing for a very long time. Styles come and go, and as technology progresses and the weight bearing demands increase, the old styles fade away. For trainspotters it would be as if George Stephenson’s original 1804 locomotive was still on the tracks, along with every make and model of steam engine since then, along with all the electric ones and the diesel ones over the years, right up to today’s multi-turbo monsters. In other words, it can be a bit of a challenge.
To make the challenge harder, reverse the whole process. Choose a particular kind of bridge and then go find an example. Good luck. Finding a particular bridge from a photograph might be harder still, because there are tens of thousands of bridges all over the world. Remember when the Skipper here used to do those Lost posts, where he’d put up an aerial view of some runway and ask where was he? This is probably a thousand times harder, since Google Maps and even Google Earth don’t always give you the kind of ground level viewing angles that make identifying most smaller bridge examples possible.
Ok, so here’s my challenge. I’m going to try to post this on the bridge hunting forums that I’ve been able to find (because bridge spotting is an actual hobby of many folks!) but I don’t know if I can post pictures there. So I’ll link back to this page if I can’t.
The television show House, starring Hugh Laurie, ran for a good number of years and was a popular medical drama. Every week we’d see acid tongued Dr. House and his team of junior super-doctors take on a patient with some really obscure illness. They’d think it was one thing, then something else, then something else, as the patient got worse and worse. And the illness was NEVER Lupus, a terrible affliction known for it’s random and mysterious presentation. And because the show was a hospital drama, there was always this character fighting with that one, or sleeping with the other, or sometimes both at the same time. And House was just flat out vicious to everyone, all the time, which made for some dark comedy. Anyway, every week as the patient was just about to loose the ultimate fight, Dr. House would have some epiphany, realize what the disease was and why it happened, and effect some cure at the very last second. Ooh, drama. To “keep it real” sometimes the patient didn’t make it. And the diseases were always real ones, not made up magical TV ailments.
The show was set in Princeton New Jersey, at the pretend Princeton/Planesboro hospital. They’d always show the hospital in the opening credits, though the building they showed us was actually one of the halls at Princeton University. And in an odd case of life imitating art, a real Princeton/Planesboro medical center has just opened. But while the show was set in New Jersey, it was actually shot in and around Los Angeles California. Ah, the magic of Hollywood. They did manage to hide most of the palm trees most of the time. Those are really reeeally rare here in NJ.
So that was House. The final episode, named “Everybody Dies” aired in May. Dr. House leaves the medical profession, fakes his own death, and goes off on a motorcycle road trip with his only true friend Dr. Wilson, who is slowly dying of cancer. And they pretty much literally ride off into the sunset, the end.
If you don’t have House episodes on your cable’s On Demand feature, they can be watched online at Hulu.com.
The where that the two doctors ride off from is what this post is about. They rode of from the middle of a bridge. A very old and rather rare one that immediately piqued my interest. Here in the western central NJ / eastern central PA area we have lots of old bridges. And rolling wooded hills. And so many of the bridges are painted “NJ bridge green” ... yet I can not spot this bridge.
Both of these screen capture images will open up 4 times larger if you save them or do a View Image on them. The bridge scene in the final House episode is at the end of the show, past the 41 minute mark.
So it’s a bridge. Big deal. Ah ha, yes it is, because this isn’t just any bridge. What you are looking at is a lightweight pin connected Parker through truss, with unsupported eyebar diagonals, sawtooth laced verticals and top laterals, boxed chords, and the original lattice railings. LACED TOP LATERALS ARE VERY RARE: this is a BIG CLUE. I can’t really see the portal bracing, so I’m going to guess it’s curved. A Frame bracing would be lower on the sides and thus visible, right? The verticals are laced on the sides, not the front and back; this is also rare. It appears to be a one lane bridge, and it appears to be a single span. It also appears to be a 7 - 10 section Parker, not skewed on at least one end, and although we never see the whole bridge in the scene you do see the small river it crosses and the much newer Pi section concrete deck bridge close to it. A few marks of red primer on the old Parker bridge show that it is still being maintained. So somebody cares about this thing. It’s a local landmark. I am no expert, but the mass of the bridge and it’s construction lead me to believe it was built in the 1890-1910 time period. And there simply aren’t that many pin connected Parkers out there anymore. Anywhere. It ought to be easy to find, yet I have been looking for two months now and keep drawing a blank.
[ minor update: a private contact alerted me to notice that the end posts appear to be laced on the underside, which means the are not boxed. It also implies that the rest of top chords may not be fully boxed either, and may be U channel laced on the underside. A response on one of the bridge forums points out that the hip verticals are eyebars (hip verticals are the last vertical connection, the one under the peak of the end posts). All of this shows that this is an OLD bridge, possibly from the 1880s or 90s. Steel was expensive in those days, and labor was cheap. ]
Sure, there are and were many other bridges quite like it. The Berne Bridge in PA. Close, but this one has supported diagonal eyebars. The Prospect Bridge in Ohio, which is too wide, too heavy, and ... oops ... was torn down years ago. The Curlew Bridge in Curlew WA is just about right. It’s the right size, and even the right color. But it has no lattice railings, and the bottom chord looks like it was made from round tubing. The Lake Street Bridge is about the right mass, about the right size, and about the right height above the river. But the pilings (abutments) at the end of the bridge are wrong, and this one also has supported diagonals. Cache Creek: close but no cigar.
My closest match so far is the Lambert Bridge Road bridge in Sonoma California. It’s a Parker through truss. It has laced verticals. It’s about the right weight and width. It has lattice railings. But the terrain is too flat, too farmish, and Google Maps isn’t showing me a Y intersection just off the end of the bridge like what I saw on the TV show as the camera follows the two doctors on their ride. And from the one picture I can find, it doesn’t look like the top bracing and sway bracing is laced. So this one is out as well.
So I give up. This bridge could be anywhere in the USA or Canada, though it’s more than likely it’s not all that far from LA. But I’m here in NJ, so I’m asking for help. A spotting spot. If you see it let me know. Bridge name, location, or photographs would be greatly appreciated. Comment here or send me an email; my address is on the right sidebar right up at the top.
PS - There seems to be some nomenclature difference on what is a bridge section. Some only count the sections between verticals, some count those sections and the end post-hip vertical area as well. Thus the graphic at the top of this post could be a 6 section truss instead of a 4 section truss.
Another bit of knowledge: In the second screen capture picture, on the right you can see that the diagonals in that section are in an X. This is the middle of the bridge. Parkers had either 1 or 2 sections like this, but never more than 2. Thus if your way of counting includes the end sections, and this bridge has 2 center sections, then it may indeed be a 10 section Parker, which is also rather uncommon. Hey, I’m learning as I’m going along here. And to think that a year or two ago I thought that a truss was something you wore when you had a hernia.
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Permalink • art teacher as eye candy and update from last year
Do any of you remember my posting of this story last year?
Probably not.
Former Harrow School art teacher Joanne Salley learned a hard lesson last year when revealing photos of her taken by a colleague went viral on the internet. Here, in an exclusive interview, she talks for the first time about what really happened
It is surely the fantasy of any bored schoolboy to have a beautiful schoolmistress upon whom to harbour a crush.
For the pupils of a famous, centuries-old North London boys’ public school, that dream recently became reality. When she first arrived at Harrow School to take up her teaching role in the art department, Joanne Salley – a former Miss Northern Ireland – found herself the object of innocent schoolboy infatuations.
Well, she’s done a heartbreaking (gasp) photo-shoot and interview for YOU Magazine.
I am not antagonistic in the least. But come on. The interview rings most false and in fact a bit mawkish. I don’t really believe she really feels the way she claims. In fact, I was left wondering if someone else wrote the words her name is on.
But no matter. She sure is cute.
Although if you go to the site where the interview is, you will notice a few pix I haven’t posted. That’s cos there were a few photos that I didn’t think looked anything like what we’d expect for eye candy. Maybe the angle of the shot. Whatever, it’s all a matter of taste and opinion.
While comments are welcome it would be much appreciated if the grosser comments could be withheld. Yeah, some are funny and gross too but please, I don’t want to go to the trouble of having to cut off comments on posts I do of this nature. One of her photos out of all of these, brings back a personal and funny memory that I can’t post here. Well, I could but it would be in extremely bad taste and so I censor myself. If I can, you can.
Thank You.
So anyway, our heroine felt so bad about things that she has done this. Woo-Hoo. Take a look.
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A simple question wardmama. Are we communicating on a Facebook page? If so, don’t answer here, let me know on the Facebook page in question.
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Permalink • eye candy at sweet 16 and she isn’t famous. yet.
Not quite mommy yet but sure is on the way.
Her name I am told is Ireland. Seems a stupid name for a kid but then, Hollywood types do tend toward that. Don’t they?
No matter.
She is Kim Basinger’s 16 year old daughter.
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Lately I’ve been dipping in and out of a book by Pat Buchanan called The Death of the West. This is probably the second time I have mentioned it, and at the risk of sounding shill like, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
While there are issues I have where I do not agree with Buchanan, he’s against assisted suicide for example, where I am all for it. But overall, his is a very worthwhile book if you don’t mind being reminded how correct the right wing has been all these years, and getting angrier with every page. Cos he sure can back things up. Before long, I think I am going to have to start quoting long tracts from his book, cos I can’t see many if any of you going out to buy it on my say so.
Interesting also is the fact that his book is ten years old, and as you read it you’re in the here and now.
Well, one of the subjects he covers is this part of the world and the exact attitudes you will read in this article from today’s morning paper.
Yes, it is true that white colonialists did take resources out of Afrika. And just what where the natives doing all those years before us honkys arrived?
Never mind, wanna talk about slavery? Who sold who to who first? I don’t wanna get into that whole thing here. Just saying is all.
So, what we have here is a failure to communicate I suppose.
And why oh why does our former president have to travel there and make freeken nice to savages? And why spend his money? What? No place back home that can use the largess?
George W. Bush berated by Zambia’s Michael Sata on Africa trip
George W. Bush, the former US president, has received a dressing down from Zambia’s Michael Sata over the colonial legacy of Western countries whom he accused of “abandoning” Africa having stripped it of its natural resources.
By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
Mr Bush arrived in the southern African country last weekend with his wife Laura to promote the work of their cervical cancer prevention foundation, and paid a courtesy visit to the president at Lusaka’s State House.
There, Mr Sata, known as King Cobra for his sharp tongue and quick temper, told the 66-year-old Texan that his charitable efforts represented “payback time for colonialists”.
Mr Sata, 75, also complained about “the young man” Mr Bush being late for their meeting, adding that were he not bringing money to Africa, he would not have waited.
When the Bushes arrived and the three sat down to tea, Mr Sata told him: “Previously there used to be four great countries: United States of America, United Kingdom, Russia and France.
“And you have all drifted away; you have abandoned Africa after taking all our raw commodities, our raw materials and built your cities.
“I mean, as far as you are concerned, Africa doesn’t exist. And when we have a former colonialist like you coming back to pay back what you took out of this country, we are grateful.”
Mr Bush reportedly interjected: “Mr President, I don’t wanna be argumentative, but America was never a colonial nation. France might have been a colonial nation, Britain might have been a colonial nation, but not the United States of America.”
Mr Sata fired back that the Americans’ role in the slave industry made them equally culpable: “The Americans did not physically colonise us, but at the same time, the Americans still have scars of slavery,” he said.
Amid nervous laughter from their assembled entourages, Mr Bush replied: “No question about it.”
It is not the first time Mr Sata has bemoaned the waning role of the West in Africa. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph earlier this year, he said he was keen for his country’s former colonial master Britain to increase its influence to counterbalance a now heavy Chinese presence against which he campaigned so fiercely in previous elections. “Better the devil you know than one you don’t,” he added.
The Bushes were 15 minutes late to State House, having driven 90 miles from the northern city of Kabwe, where they had opened a health clinic refurbished with their money which will offer cervical and breast cancer screening to locals.
As he awaited Mr Bush’s arrival, Mr Sata complained to Priscilla Hernandez, the United States public affairs officer, that he did not like being kept waiting.
“Bush is former president; he is not the current president of the United States so I cannot be waiting for him,” he said.
“The young man is lucky that he is the first American leader to have brought money to Africa through his Millennium Challenge Account; that’s why I’m standing here. Otherwise if it was somebody else, I would have handed him over to one of my ministers to meet him.”
Mr Sata’s outburst is being viewed in some quarters as an embarrassing diplomatic incident.
But George Chellah, Mr Sata’s spokesman, said the two men were “old friends” and the entire encounter had been “light-hearted”.
“This talk of a diplomatic incident is invented by people bent on creating a storm in a teacup,” he said.
A diplomatic source said the scene had been “awkward, but not really an incident”. “You never know what to expect from Michael Sata,” the source said.
Americans still have scars of slavery
No we fuckin do not and it’s in his imagination along with the rest of the human rights industry scamers. Just plain bugs me no end.
I am damn sorry those long ago slavers brought “those savages” to our shores. Wish it had never happened and that Mr. Sata’s ancestors had never sold them. But I will be truthful. My reasons are not for the morality of it all. And I’d bet I am not alone in that.
And oh yeah. Read Buchanan’s book.
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Hey Mom, what’s for lunch?
Lobster was once synonymous with living large, but thanks to an abundance of the soft-shell version of the crustaceans in recent months, it’s not just a meal for special occasions anymore.
An excess supply in Maine of smaller soft-shell lobsters has driven prices to under $4 a pound, the Associated Press reported this week, making the luscious sea creature cheaper than the per pound price of deli meat in some cases.
Now that’s upgrading your usual boring baloney sandwich for lunch.
Soft-shell lobsters—lobsters that have shed their hard shells—are easier to crack open and have less meat, so they typically fetch lower prices than their hard-shell brethren.
Still, the sheer volume of the soft-shell variety that has shown up weeks before the usual Independence Day kick-off of lobster season in Maine has tipped the scales of supply and demand further in favor of crustacean-craving consumers.
Forget hot dogs, glut means cheap lobster prices
A glut has driven down lobster prices in Maine — bringing cheer to lobster-loving consumers at the start of the state’s tourist season but gloom among lobstermen.
Retailers have been selling small soft-shell lobsters in the Portland area for an unusually low $3.79 to $4.99 a pound. At those prices, lobsters have been selling for less than the per-pound price of bologna at many supermarket deli counters.
Zain Nemazie, of Austin, Texas, was expecting low lobster prices — but not this low — while on vacation in Maine with his family.
“This is as good as it gets,” Nemazie said late last week after paying $4.59 a pound for large 1 1/2-pound lobsters at a seafood shop on Portland’s waterfront. “We’re from Texas, where we’d be paying at least $12 a pound.”
At Docks Seafood in South Portland, owner Bob Coppersmith said customers were eating up the low prices, including a deal where he was selling five small live lobsters for $25. He later dropped it to five for $24.
“One gentleman came in and said, ‘So I get five lobsters for $25. What’s the catch?’” Coppersmith said. “I said there’s no catch. He said, ‘You’re going to put five lobsters in a bag and not weigh them and give me them to me for 25 bucks?’ He just couldn’t believe it.”
The Fourth of July represents the unofficial start to Maine’s tourist season, when out-of-state visitors begin arriving in earnest.
Yeah, but ...
This year, though, soft-shell lobsters began showing up in abundance in fishermen’s traps weeks earlier than normal.
Most of those lobsters usually go to Canadian processors. But the processors haven’t been able to handle the Maine catch because Canadian lobstermen had such strong catches during their spring season, resulting in a backlog, said Neal Workman, head of The Fisheries Exchange, a Biddeford company that tracks prices, catches and other market information for the lobster industry.
Supply right now far exceeds demand, resulting in a “perfect storm” for the industry, he said.
Yeah, but ...
Look folks, take it from a Yankee. Soft shelled lobsters are the ones that have just molted. Right now those little bugs are sending all their nutrients into hardening up that new shell. Which means they’re weak. It means their flesh is watery and tasteless. Sure, you can get softies cheap: it’s not worth it; you’re wasting your money. In 2 weeks they’ll be nice and hard again, and 2 weeks after that their meat will be plumped up and tasty. So this year, instead of avoiding lobsters in late August, you want to avoid them in early July.
I’m not going to blame Global Warming for this year’s early molt. Puh-leez. But I’m reading between the lines and this seems like an act of desperation to me. Teeny lobsters are almost always caught close to shore; this glut may be the shallow water hunters pushing back against the deep water crews.
Not 100% sure of this, but I seem to remember that once upon a time when the lobstermen saw the molt coming, they stopping fishing and used the few weeks off to repair their boats for the season. Because there was no market for soft shelled lobsters. Also, late Spring was when mostly only chickens were available; “chickens” being tiny lobsters of 1 lb or less. The ones that are pretty much too small to eat. Lobsters apparently migrate in and out of the deeper waters, or at least the larger ones do.
Also once upon a time, lobstering was a shallow water endeavor. The medium lobsters - 1 1/2 - 3 pounds, which are the size you WANT to eat - came up into the shallow on-shore waters in the summer and could be caught within sight of land. Now it seems to be a year-round industry, and the fishermen go far out to sea to catch the big ones in deep water. They even have their own darn TV show these days, and you can see the guys hauling 15 pounders up out of the deep. What’s the point of that? You need a gun and a chainsaw to break through that kind of armor; the shell on a 15 pounder is probably an inch thick! Heck, even the shell on a 3 pounder can be daunting in your own kitchen.
So the whole thing sounds like over fishing to me. Yes, many folks in Maine are poorer than church mice. And nobody wants to see the fishing fleets go under. But over-grazing a sub-market quality crop to the barest break even point seems pretty short sighted to me. Let ‘em go, let ‘em grow, then catch them in a month when they’ll be worth twice as much. And taste more than twice as good.
Ok, to be fair, you can look at the situation from the other end as well. It’s just as possible that demand has taken a nosedive, what with the bad economy and all, and nobody is willing to shell out (hur hur hur) $15/lb for sea bugs. So $4/lb is all the lobster catchers can get ... so perhaps they’re bringing in every last bug they catch? (historically many of the lobsters get thrown back for being too small, too big, or too soft). That’s a reasonable view, and one that crops up every couple of years ... which I have a hard time accepting when the news articles are talking about tasteless softies.
From the summer of 2008, when unemployment was “dangerously high” at 5.8% for a labor force half a million folks larger, and $4 gas was Bush’s fault 24-7:
PORTLAND, Maine — It’s peak season for lobster and tourism in Maine, yet consumption of this crustacean has fallen to the point where it costs no more than sliced turkey in parts of New England.
A solid harvest and diminished demand from diners adjusting to the weak economy have pushed the retail price of lobster in Maine beneath $6 a pound, tightening the financial squeeze on fisherman struggling with soaring fuel prices.
While fewer locals and tourists overall are shelling out for lobster dinners, some say the affordability — at a time when most food prices are rising — has encouraged them to eat more of the seafood delicacy than usual.
Katina Wetter, who spent more than $100 on gas to drive from Indiana to Portland, Maine, with her family, is counting her pennies while on vacation — but said she definitely won’t skimp on the state’s signature seafood. “I’d be buying lobsters anyway, but not as many if the prices weren’t this low,” Wetter said.
Lobster lovers outside of New England won’t notice any change in price, analysts said, since Maine’s summertime catch is mostly soft-shelled and too fragile to ship long distances.
Maine is the nation’s lobster breadbasket with fishermen last year hauling in 63 million pounds, about 80% of the U.S. catch, worth $280 million.
Lobster prices are volatile throughout the year, with the highest prices in winter and spring. They typically decline in summer, when fishermen begin catching lobsters in abundance in the cold waters off Maine’s rocky coast.
It seems strange that a century ago, lobsters were so plentiful that farmers used them for fertilizer, because nobody wanted to eat them. They were not the delicacy they are today and were routinely fed to prisoners. And not as their last meal.
Yes, and that “weak economy” has “recovered” so much under King Obama that 4 years later those lobsters are selling for a FULL THIRD less when our money also seems to be worth a full third less. I wonder if the price of arugula has also bottomed out?
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It’s exactly … too damn hot
The temperature out on the back balcony is exactly 98.8° F.
What the heck, I figured the first step to properly fried chicken was keeping the oil at the proper temperature, so I bought a neat little digital thermometer. I was using some cheap POS glass thing from China, which said that water boiled somewhere between 180° and 235°. Not exactly accurate or dependable.
Meanwhile, the chicken thighs are soaking in buttermilk and hot sauce, with some salt and spices mixed in, a couple cloves of minced garlic, some onion slices, and a ground bay leaf. Seems about right.
I won’t surrender. Eventually this will come out right AND be repeatable.
I got some peanuts too, in case I feel the urge to try a peanut mix coating. First though, I just want to get it to come out right the regular way. I got a couple bricks of lard as well, though I couldn’t find completely non-hydrogenated lard. However, a review of the Armour lard at Amazon says that the company says it’s only 0.02% hydrogenated, so that’s pretty good enough IMO.
Fingers crossed.
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The U.S. State Department is investigating the shipment of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran by way of an obscure United Nations agency, despite ongoing U.N. and U.S. sanctions against both governments aimed at blocking their development of nuclear weapons.
The broadening inquiry raises new concerns about the ways in which U.N. agencies have managed to sidestep restrictions that the world body expects the rest of the world to obey in halting the spread of sensitive technologies to nuclear-ambitious pariah regimes.
It also calls into question how much U.N. member states know about the activities of agencies they supposedly approve and supervise.
In this case, there are hints that the top official at the U.N. agency, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, “has not yet been fully open” to the inquiries, according to a senior U.S. official.
The State Department probe came in the wake of Fox News revelations in April about the actions by WIPO in sending such sensitive equipment to North Korea by a complicated method that seemed designed to bypass U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country.
The shipments took place in late 2011 or early 2012, and were financed through the Beijing offices of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
The WIPO actions also violated the sweeping restrictions of the equipment manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard, which forbids any HP equipment from being sent to such regimes.
I wonder if the real-world name of WIPO isn’t the “supporting tyrannies to defeat the West department” ... otherwise known as the General Assembly. We couldn’t trust them on the Oil For Food thing in Iraq, and now we’re learning they’ve given us the shaft again. “not fully open”?? To hell with that. There is NOT ONE THING that this world body does, says, writes, or thinks that should not immediately be in the public domain. No secrets. Not ever. Full cooperation and total transparency, always. Anything less is absolute proof of corruption. They are not a government. They are a world body tasked with improving the world and enhancing peace and freedom. Secrets and plots are not part of that.
The UN is nothing but a facade, a false shroud of respectability, for tinpot dictators and communist agitators to hide behind, and has been so for many years. It doesn’t matter if the USA is part of WIPO; our guys were kept in the dark. Or perhaps not, given the tinpot dictator and communist agitator we have in the White House. Maybe this is another Fast & Furious kind of scandal that’s just beginning to be found out. CYA ASAP?
Dump the UN. De-fund them and sell their building on the East River as an apartment block. You want some kind of useful international body? Then form an Alliance of Democratic Nations. Keep the thugs and reds out, set things up so that all the member nations do at least 85% of all their trading with other member nations, actively work at the overthrow and demise of every other non-member nation, and screw them all. Let them rot. They’re trying to screw us, and have been for ages, so it’s high time what few Good Guys are left got together and took a stand. FTW, FTW (fuck the world, for the win).
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Is there any food more representative of American cuisine than fried chicken?
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So in honor of National Fried Chicken Day, which is July 6, ...
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Fried chicken has its roots in country kitchens of the South, soaked in buttermilk, shaken in a brown paper bag with seasoned flour, and prepared in a cast-iron skillet filled with bubbling liquid lard. The oldest fried chicken recipe on record is published in The Virginia House-Wife, written by Mary Randolph in 1828. Since then the American classic has been prepared in countless ways — from soaked in a spicy vinegar-based marinade and deep-fried, Peruvian-style to served upscale in four-star restaurants with maple-honey butter or other accoutrements.
You know, the one thing we don’t have here in our little Red State corner of True Blue New Jersey is a fried chicken place. We’ve got stellar restaurants left and right, top notch international cuisine and classic American, we’ve got all the other big fast food franchises, and we’ve got scads of little Ma & Pa eateries, from the Sandwich Shack to the old guy up on Route 31 who sells ribs and barbecue from his trailer on the edge of the school bus parking lot. But no fried chicken. Oh, I can get some take out wingettes from the Chinese food joints, I’m sure some of the local bars serve Buffalo Wings, and if I time it just right I can get some freshly fried chicken from the grocery store before it goes out under the heat lamps for hours and hours. But that just doesn’t cut the mustard. I can drive 20 minutes to Flemington, or 40 minutes to Hackettstown to find a KFC ... but that isn’t really good fried chicken. You know what I’m saying.
Guess I’ll have to make some myself ... and pray that this time it works. Frying chicken has always been hit or miss for me. Mostly miss. Often by huge distances. I’ve got a big heavy pan. I’ve got a deep fryer. I’ve got Crisco and vegetable oil; I can get lard or peanut oil or whatever. I can get decent store quality chicken; the kosher ones and the hispanic pollo fresco ones aren’t really all that bad. Better than the genetically engineered 10lb mega-birds laden with marigold yellowed fat. Bread crumbs, corn flakes, cracked peanuts, panko ... it’s all there in the store. Buttermilk too, and all kinds of flavorful stocks and broths. Easy to come by. And I have the best spices, and lots of them. But somehow it just doesn’t come together. My coatings fall off. My spices get lost in the mix - and I have a really heavy hand when it comes to spices. The coating gets burned while the meat stays raw. I’ve tried dry rolling the meat in crumbs, I’ve tried dipping them in wet batter. I’ve coated raw chicken, I’ve used buttermilk and chicken stock marinades. Some of them loaded with spices, like the Great Fried Jerk Chicken Fiasco of 2008. I remember once I tried a double coat of wet batter and then deep fried things ... gave me back pieces the size of bowling pins; wonderful batter - crispy on the outside but chewy like a slice of rye bread on the inside - but nearly raw bird inside that. I give up. Must be some latent Yankee genes coming through. Damn.
So if you can fry chicken properly, today’s the day. And if you have a foolproof recipe, post it. This fool will put it to the test. Meanwhile, I’ll probably just go to Walmart and get a box of the frozen Banquet stuff. EEEEEEEwwwww.
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