Friday - July 06, 2012

15 crimes in five weeks … but the perp is too young to arrest. then kill him!

The fact that they have already committed so much mayhem with no real penalty whatever, or none that frighten the little bastards, should prove to authorities if nothing else does, that age should not matter.
Break a few facial bones, snap a leg bone or two and these miserable shits will get the picture. There are penalties for what they do. But no.
They’re kiddies and so lets treat em like babies. Makes me sick.
This is another of many cases that have gone before, that show just how weak willed and wimpy authorities are in some circumstances. In fact, in too many.  One only has to recall last year when after ten entire years a group of ppl living illegally on land were finally removed.
(and some may be moving back) Point is, when something people know is wrong, when they see it’s illegal and it still takes ten years to do anything, that I believe says a lot of negative things about the system in place.
Guaranteed these little monsters will become even bigger ones.  How long before injury, rape, murder perhaps takes place?
Nail em to the wall now and save future victims.  Won’t happen.  And we’re all the worse off for that.

Nine-year-old thug left free to terrorise neighbourhood because he is too young to be arrested

Many of the offences are said to be racially motivated
Allegedly causing mayhem with an 11-year-old boy who has been arrested on suspicion of 11 crimes
Pair are suspected of committing 15 in five weeks

By EMILY ALLEN

Frustrated police are powerless to arrest a nine-year-old boy suspected of committing a string of crimes because he is too young.

The child and another 11-year-old boy are alleged to have caused ‘mayhem’ in and around Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Many of these offences are said to be racially motivated.

Officers have arrested and bailed the older boy on suspicion of 11 crimes, including six racially aggravated assaults and two acts of criminal damage.

He is also accused of one bike theft, one offence of harassment and one of tampering with a vehicle.

But they cannot take legal action against the younger boy because children cannot be arrested until they are ten-years-old.

Police suspect the pair have committed up to 15 crimes in the last five weeks.

Sergeant Rob Sutton, from Hampshire Constabulary, is now desperately trying to find another way to crack down on the youngster.

He said: ‘They have caused mayhem with offences including anti-social behaviour, being rude to people, general nuisance, assaults and criminal damage.

‘They have been into shops and restaurants and caused damage to property in there.

‘They have also assaulted people, they’ve spat in people’s faces, they’ve been on the tops of roofs of buildings, throwing rubbish and bottles and metal on people walking below and they’ve racially abused people.

‘I’m not having this on my beat.

‘The nine-year-old we can do nothing with when it comes to criminal offences because he is under the age of criminal responsibility.

‘The 11-year-old has been arrested for many offences.’

Police and representatives including social services, housing and education have now met to work out how to tackle the problem.

Sgt Sutton added: ‘My concern is we have got a high level of crime being committed by some very young people. The seriousness of the offences is escalating.

‘I’ve seen kids this young come up on the radar but not to this extent, not this volume of crime and incidents in such a short space of time.

‘The city centre team works very hard to enure the city centre is a safe place to work, shop and visit. We don’t want these sort of incidents happening.

‘The second aspect is we’ve got concerns for the welfare of these children.

‘We’re here to prevent and detect crime but we are also here to help people.’

source

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assange skips bail and hides away in embassy

I guess you folks and especially Americans, know who this insipid face belongs to.

Yeah it’s him okay.  Julian Assange.  The anti-American weasel who published all that info that a queer and wimpy US Army turncoat who should never have put on that uniform, handed over to Assange.  Frankly, I be very happy to see em both shot graveyard dead.

Well as it happens, he is wanted by and is supposed to be extradited to Sweden, on charges of sexual misconduct .  He was allowed to live with some wealthy supporter who, along with quite a number of other sympathizers, had put up bail for him in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Looks like all those goof balls including American Michael Moore, will lose their cash.

Oh you should have heard (or read) all the glowing terms applied to this worm by the various anti Americans that flocked to his side.  Their fair haired boy who did the right thing in the face of those American bullies.  Their hero who leaked all that info in the name of the people’s right to know.
Mostly of course and no secret, they were mostly thrilled because it was us that at the time were the target of his hobby.  There didn’t seem to be a whole lot of angst with regard to leaks involving other places or countries.  Of course it was the US that took the fullest brunt of the thievery.

And that brings us to now.  On bail, the weasel that roared screwed ALL his well to do money friends and skipped to the embassy of Ecuador asking for asylum.  Which he got. The Brit police want him to come out, he’s thumbed his nose.  He claims the charges against him in Sweden was originally a honey trap set in place by .... wanna guess?  Yup.  Those evil Americans.  He is he says, fearful of his life as Americans are out to get him.
True I guess but I have no gun and no way to get him here or in Sweden. With my arthritic feet and knee, I couldn’t even run after him.
Here’s the catch. He’s safe for now in that embassy BUT, if he steps outside he’ll never make it to an airport or train station cos the Brit police will nail him.

It is in light of that background that I am happy to share the following by Craig Brown, of the Daily Mail.

Is Julian STILL here? Fetch the rubber gloves!

By CRAIG BROWN

How long is too long? This is the question that troubles the conscientious guest.

Julian Assange, the notably unconscientious founder of WikiLeaks, invited himself to stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge on June 19. It is now exactly a fortnight later, yet he shows no signs of moving.

He is, by all accounts, an awkward sort of guest. In his book about Assange, his former second-in-command, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, lists many of his irritating characteristics, any of which might drive even the most pliable host up the wall.

Here are Julian Assange’s ten most annoying habits, with additional comments from Domscheit-Berg:

1.  He doesn’t say ‘hello’, he says ‘hoi’.

2.  He also likes to say: ‘How goes?’

3.  He enjoys sliding down bannisters.

4.  He prefers to eat with his hands. ‘Julian often behaved as though he had been raised by wolves rather than by other human beings.’

5.  He then wipes his fingers on his trousers. ‘I have never seen pants as greasy as his in my whole life.’

6.  He likes to take more than his fair share of everything. ‘If there were four slices of Spam, he would eat three and leave one for me.’

7.  He is a skinflint. He used to ask to borrow money so his whereabouts couldn’t be traced via a cash-machine transaction, but he carried on using this excuse even after appearing at televised press conferences.

8.  He is an eccentric dresser, wearing two pairs of trousers, ‘though I’ve never understood why’.

9.  He likes having his bags carried for him.

10.  His standards of personal hygiene are, to say the least, erratic. He is also a fierce opponent of fresh air. ‘A coffin that had been reopened after a decade would have smelled better than our room.’

By the look of it, the Ecuadorian Embassy is not very spacious. Assange is said to be sleeping on an inflatable mattress, which suggests that he is camping out in a room intended for some other purpose, such as someone’s office.

One can well imagine the morning ritual of a poor junior Ecuadorian diplomat having to knock every morning at his own office door, saying: ‘Can I come in? Are you decent?’ Then having to wait while, in the fugged-up room, Assange puts on all his layers of clothing and deflates his mattress.

Judging by his actions up to now, Assange is untroubled by the fear of overstaying his welcome.

But by now the Ecuadorian ambassador will have given up hinting (‘I simply don’t know how we’ll manage without you’). He will probably have moved on to hurling every embassy ashtray into the fire.

Lady Elizabeth Anson, in her Party Planners Book, offers this advice to anyone seeking to get rid of an unwanted guest: ‘Some people are deadly stayers-on, so if you are giving the party, you may be forced to stop serving the food and drink and fetch their coats.

‘At the furthest extreme, if you go to bed yourself, they must take the hint!’

But would this tactic cut any ice with Assange? My guess is not. As the ambassador makes a show of climbing the stairs in his pyjamas saying: ‘Time for bed,’ Assange will simply reply: ‘Don’t worry about me, mate - I brought my own inflatable mattress!’

Assange is clearly one of those people who are immune to hints. In My Dinner Party Book, a third etiquette expert, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, argued against inviting them at all. ‘Rule One - no bores,’ she wrote, with characteristic severity.

‘The men must all be interesting and the women must be intelligent, witty and/or beautiful. She may be your best friend, but if she’s plain and dull, too bad - she does not come.’

The best advice for getting rid of unwanted guests comes from that great neglected master, J. P. Donleavy.

In his book The Unexpurgated Code, Donleavy suggests making the overstaying guest undertake increasingly more onerous household chores, starting with day one, ‘removing junk from attics’; day two, ‘wood chopping’; day five, ‘roofing work’, all the way through to day 14, ‘sewer cleaning’.

Coincidentally, today is day 14 of Assange’s stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Send for the rubber gloves!

craig brown, daily mail

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   Thursday - July 05, 2012

Linky Love

Thomas Sowell shares my feelings for the 4th of July. It was the most dismal one ever for me, thanks to our Chief Judas on the Supreme Court. Link

Yup, it’s tyranny. That’s the View From The Island. Link

Jersey Nut feels the pain too, but having mourned for a day or two decides it’s time to get up and fight. I hope Mittens and his Kittens are listening. Link

Back on the Island, reasons for indicting that SCFOAMF in the White House. Oh yes, let’s! Link

And perhaps the final nail in the Fast And Furious coffin: latest leaked email shows it was pretty much all about forcing more gun control from the get go, and everybody knew it. EVERYBODY. Link. Too bad the rule of law doesn’t apply in a tyranny.

I was going to post a depressed 4th of July message, but I was “saved” from doing so by a completely predictable family medical “emergency”. Which ruined our holiday, as intended. Who me, bitter? Nah. You didn’t want to read my sullen crap anyway. Besides, who cares if we’re now slaves? Let’s celebrate our freedoms! ... if we can find some.

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ROLLS ROYCE AUCTION

WOW!  What else can I say?

This is one nice automobile. Early Rolls. What’s not to like?

I would sure love to get a ride in one of these.

Note to Drew.  I am mindful of what you wrote (with great accuracy) on the early models and safety etc. Would that also apply here?
It doesn’t look as though it would.  I’d guess they built the Rolls a lot better then the average production line models of the later years.

The most magnificent Rolls-Royce ever built: Ivory and silver fittings, silk door panels and a china tea service… £5m salute to opulence and British craftsmanship

Unique Silver Ghost known as ‘The Corgi’ after being copied by toy maker

Price driven sky-high as two enthusiasts duelled in £100,000 increments

Hammer fell at £4.7m to anonymous buyer - more than twice £2m estimate

Six-cylinder, 7.3l vehicle in immaculate condition with perfect provenance

Originally bought by a man from South Croydon in 1912 for around £1,000

Put up for sale at Bonhams after latest owner was killed in a road accident

By VANESSA ALLEN

It manages just six miles to the gallon and has a top speed of only 60mph.

But this 100-year-old Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost has zoomed into the world record books, selling at auction for almost £5million following a fierce bidding war.

It was originally bought for £1,000 in 1912 (almost £93,000 in today’s money) but has now gone under the hammer for £4,705,500, making it the most expensive Rolls-Royce ever sold at auction.

Its gleaming interior fittings are made of silver and ivory, while the door panels are embroidered silk, with brocade tassels attached to silk window shades for privacy.

The passenger footrest hides a full picnic set for four, a china tea service, complete with an alcohol-fuelled burner and kettle to heat the water, and a set of six decanters – three in sterling silver and three in leather-wrapped glass.

The sale took place at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex on Friday. Auctioneers had expected it to sell for around £2million and were astonished when the bidding between two rival collectors topped £4million.

James Knight, from Bonhams auctioneers, said: ‘There were three bidders, then one of them dropped out at £2.3million and we thought it would end there.

Unlike most car enthusiasts of his time, Mr Stephens, from Croydon, South London, asked the makers not to include a glass division window between the driver and the passengers as he wanted to drive it himself rather than rely on a chauffeur.

The car even had an early speedometer – an important addition given that a 20mph speed limit was introduced in 1912.

The car’s distinctive cream and green design echoed the luxury ‘Pullman’ Railway carriages of the time, and it was known as a Double Pullman Limousine.

But it was nicknamed ‘the Corgi Silver Ghost’ in the 1960s after the toy-maker based its Silver Ghost toy car on this model.

Mr Stephens’s car is believed to be the only one of its kind to survive with its full interior and bodywork, as many Rolls-Royces from the era were converted into ambulances during the First World War.

Auctioneer Bonhams said: ‘It is a statement of refinement, grace and gentility that for many defines the qualities and the Edwardian period in which Rolls-Royce established the unsurpassed reputation it still enjoys today.’

The identity of the anonymous telephone bidders has not been revealed but sadly Bonhams has confirmed the car will now be leaving Britain once more.

It left Britain in 1992 after it was bought by a US enthusiast. A Texas lawyer bought it from him in 2007 for £1.9million and kept it until 2009, when he was killed in a crash in a different car.

The Rolls was then sold once again before the latest seven-hour auction, which saw more than 80 cars go under the hammer for a combined £22million.

Astonishingly, the Silver Ghost was not the most expensive lot. That honour went to a 1929 ‘Blower’ Bentley single-seater racing car, which sold for £5,042,000, the highest price ever for a British car at auction.

LOTS MORE TO SEE HERE. NICE.

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Low Tide

Meh, I got nothing today. Same old Stupid on teh news. Just another day.

So here’s a pretty girl ...

What, you’d rather have your Daily Stupid? Fine

• A liberal essay on “the other big case the Supreme Court got right”, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which overturned parts of McCain-Feingold and “gave” corporations political free speech. Fine, he thinks the ObamaCare ruling is peachy keen. And without looking at the specifics too closely, it sounds like Citizens United was the right decision. But the guy starts off his essay with “Bush Stole The Election”. And it’s the MIDDLE of 2012.
  

  Actually, there are only two cases in the past half-century that are notorious, from a liberal point of view: Bush v. Gore, which upheld the theft of the 2000 presidential election, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, just two and a half years ago, which declared that corporations have a right of free speech under the First Amendment.

  Stuck On Stupid much?

• Through the looking-glass, darkly: California introduces legislation to protect the RIGHTS of illegal aliens. Say what?? They call it the “anti-Arizona Bill”
  

  The California bill, which has the support of over 100 immigrant rights groups, police chiefs and mayors, was drafted not only as a symbolic counter to legislation in neighboring Arizona, but also to push back against a federal program called Secure Communities that shares the same principles as Arizona’s law, supporters say.

  The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, established the Secure Communities program in partnership with local law enforcement agencies and the FBI to deport unauthorized immigrants.

  Well, if Arizona’s law that parallels federal law is unconstitutional, what do you think California’s law that is directly opposed to federal law might be?

• Don’t be fooled, Americans are starting to embrace Obamacare says Juan Williams, Fox News’ left wing diversity sock puppet. Put a sock in it, sock puppet. You are too stupid to see your own mistakes, so your arguing position is completely invalid.
  

  Watching President Obama’s response to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of his health care reform law, I could not help but think how different things would be if he had given the same speech two years ago.

  He began his remarks from the White House by saying the Court had “reaffirmed a fundamental principle that here in America—in the wealthiest nation on Earth—no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.”

  Reaffirmed? If you ask most Americans, they will tell you the president and his party never made that point in the first place. All the talk was about “Cornhusker Kickbacks” and “Chicago-style politics,” to win votes in Congress. GOP critics hammered the plan as a “big government takeover” and “socialism.”

  But with last week’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of the health care plan public opinion on the plan is starting to become more favorable.
  

  All of which proves that talking points regurgitators and other mindless sock puppets CAN’T EVEN READ THEIR OWN WRITING. Duh. Hey, Juan - ‘ ... the COURT had “reaffirmed ...”’ Geez. Maybe repeated use of the cluebat will unstick this one, but I doubt it. Oh, and such a thing was NEVER EVER NEVER a “fundamental principle”. “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Socialized Medicine”? No, I don’t think so. Heck, health insurance didn’t even exist for more than 100 years after the nation was founded, nor was it even close to being anything like a near-universal jobs benefit until after WWII.

• The lying liars in the corksnocker media STILL don’t get it. Even in the midst of a barrage of well-hidden facts finally coming to the surface, the worst the press - even the ENEMY press at Fox News!! - will say about Obama’s first autobiography, ghost written by Bill Ayers and full of complete fabrications, is that it “projects a persona he wants to be”. Which is the Stuck On Stupid Sock Puppet way of saying “It’s total bullshit designed to make you believe in a person who doesn’t actually exist. Buy the lie and pull the lever.”
  

  “Autobiographies are not really good sources if you’re looking for absolute complete factual accounts of someone’s life,” agreed Professor Early. “Autobiographies serve another kind of purpose for the person writing the book. I don’t think it much matters whether Barack Obama has told the absolute truth in Dreams From My Father. What’s important is how he wanted to construct his life.”

  Crivens! How stupid do you really think we are anyway??






I think I’d just rather look at pretty girls on the beach ...
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if anyone is too ugly to live, this has to be the one. on more then one count.

I know this is not anything you will see stateside. No reason either since it’s local to the UK.

It’s one of those things that needs nothing by way of explanation and in this case especially, one picture is worth a thousand words.
I am certain you will agree.
And it’s ID’d as a teenager.

As an aside, should something that looks like this still be allowed to breathe?  YUK!


The teenager who ‘insulted six dead soldiers on Facebook’ appears in court charged with ‘gross offence’

By CHRIS BROOKE



A teenager appeared in court yesterday charged with making offensive comments on Facebook about the deaths of six British soldiers.

Azhar Ahmed, 19, has been accused of committing an offence under the Communications Act of sending a ‘grossly offensive’ message.

At an earlier he pleaded not guilty to the charge and was due to stand trial at Huddersfield Magistrates Court yesterday.

Ahmed is alleged to have posted the insulting Facebook message on his profile page on 8 March - two days after the soldiers were killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

Ahmed walked into court wearing a cap and with a white woollen hoodie pulled up over this head.

The District Judge heard no evidence and adjourned the trial until 14 September due to an unexpected legal problem.

Ahmed, of Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was released on bail.

Around 20-30 far right protesters appeared at Huddersfield Magistrates Court for the hearing and packed out the public gallery.

At an earlier court appearance around 50 protestors staged a noisy demonstration with placards calling for those who insult British armed forces to be jailed.

PHOTOS OF SOLDIERS HERE





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Bankers and daughters and I’m all shook up, uh huh,huh

Something of minor interest to Americans. Or maybe not because what the bank(s) did here are sure to be replicated in the USA.

This is all part of another very major scandal happening here.  And since the top guy at Barclay’s bank is an American, you may be getting the news where you are.

Bob Diamond comes from a family of nine kids, his parents coming to America and raising a family. They are of Scots/Irish background. Which is neither here nor there. Just giving you some background.  Mr. Diamond can not be a dummy having worked his way up to becoming the top gun at his bank and lauded by many for his business acumen.  He has been running the show here for 16 years and so quite naturally people are asking, how does a fellow like this who is a millionaire many times over, with stately homes in more then one country, with friends in very high places, how comes it that he didn’t know some wrong things were happening going back a few years.  How is that possible?



I don’t have any bank loans.  Don’t have a mortgage, and do not carry a balance on a credit card of any significant amount.  It is generally paid in full every month.  So really, I don’t care about this story and I would not have followed it and didn’t at the start but for one thing.
Just to show you how shallow I have become in my dotage.  Or maybe I always have been.

What got me interested in this whole thing was a woman. Wouldn’t ya know it. And why not?  Is there anything else on the planet aside from puppy dogs and cute kittens, as attention grabbing as a pretty girl?  Right. A beautiful car of old vintage.  OK I concede that.
But women are endlessly fascinating.

Now then, with the world dumping on Mr. Diamond, who should come to his defense but his daughter. Who is an analyst at Deutsche Bank, N.Y.
Miss Diamond lost her temper and let fly using some sort of slang I never heard of before but then I haven’t got a Twitter account so far. And that’s where she let go with a tweet that I thought so tame compared to things I have seen and heard on TV, I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about.  Because what she said was reported in the msm, we all got to know her.  And I must tell you, by far the vast majority of those who were critical of her are nothing more then losers who are most likely envious of her family and her own wealth.  To read some of the things being said about the young (23) woman, you would think that it was immoral and criminal as well, simply to be born into a very wealthy family.  Well rubbish to that.

I haven’t a clue if daddy is telling the truth or not but I am impressed that she immediately came to his defense with guns blazing. Makes a change from all the bad things we read about with regard to families warring. 

OK, just so ya know.  Here what it’s all about.

The London Interbank Offered Rate (or LIBOR) is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks borrow unsecured funds from other banks in the London wholesale money market (or interbank market).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor

WHAT DID BARCLAYS DO?

Barclays’ traders speculating on movements in interest rates were manipulating Libor in an effort to make huge profits.

Its traders were conspiring with the ‘submitters’ at the bank which lodge their Libor rates every morning. Depending on the way they were betting, traders would urge these submitters to increase the Libor rate or lower it.

Barclays’ traders also conspired with ex-employees working at other banks to try to influence their Libor submissions. During the financial crisis Barclays also fiddled the figures to dupe the market into thinking it was more financially sound than it was.

Libor is often seen as a barometer of how healthy a bank is. Just as customers with bad credit records have to pay higher interest rates, banks which are deemed in poor financial health are charged more to borrow.

Barclays became anxious that its Libor rate was higher than many of its peers and that they were fiddling the figures. It decided to join the party.

Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King phoned chairman Marcus Agius to say he wanted the American financier out, it was claimed.
It was reported that Mr Diamond decided to resign after assessing the reaction to Mr Agius’ decision to quit.



But despite his resignation, Mr Diamond, 60, shocked the City by defiantly insisting that he would stay on at the bank despite the rate-fixing scandal.

Mr Diamond was grilled in the Commons by the Treasury Select Committee and the details could be highly embarrassing for regulators with increasing speculation that they were aware of the bank’s practices but failed to act.

Mr Diamond is said to be furious that he and the bank have been blamed for ‘lowballing’ the rates at which Barclays said it could borrow from rivals.
Bankers insist the authorities knew these rates were inaccurate but did not act because they feared the truth would destabilise the markets. It is also claimed that regulators possessed evidence of rate-fixing.

BARCLAYS SPENT £100MILLION ON ITS OWN 3-YEAR LIBOR INVESTIGATION

In the wake of the scandal Barclays reveals it has spent almost £100 million pounds on a three-year internal investigation into how it had submitted inaccurate Libor interest rate prices.
In documents released ahead of Mr Diamond’s appearance in parliament on Wednesday, the bank said:
‘The bank has invested nearly 100 million pounds to ensure that no stone has been left unturned.’

This involved an internal investigation supported by external counsel, which reviewed 22 million documents and more than 75 interviews.
Mr Diamond, who joined the bank 16 years ago, said in his resignation statement: ‘I am deeply disappointed that the impression created by the events announced last week about what Barclays and its people stand for could not be further from the truth.’

‘My motivation has always been to do what I believed to be in the best interests of Barclays. No decision over that period was as hard as the one that I make now to stand down as chief executive.’

He went on: ‘I know that each and every one of the people at Barclays works hard every day to serve our customers and clients. That is how we support economic growth and the communities in which we live and work.’

He added: ‘I leave behind an extraordinarily talented management team that I know is well placed to help the business emerge from this difficult period as one of the leaders in the global banking industry.’

George Osborne said Mr Diamond’s resignation was ‘the right decision for Barclays’ and the ‘right decision for the country’.

The Chancellor added: ‘I think and I hope that it is the first step towards a new culture of responsibility in British banking.’
Mr Osborne acknowledged that the Government had had ‘conversations’ with the bank but denied ministers were responsible for Mr Diamond falling on his sword.

Since January 2011, Barclays has been found guilty of ripping off the elderly, avoiding up to £500million in tax, manipulating interest rates, mis-selling payment protection insurance and systematically exploiting small firms with the sale of complex loans.

Chairman Mr Agius said: ‘Bob Diamond has made an enormous contribution to Barclays over the last 16 years of distinguished service to the group, building Barclays Investment Bank into one of the leading global investment banks in the world. As chief executive he has led the bank superbly.’

Lord Oakeshott, the former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, this morning described the banker’s resignation as great for democracy.

‘Bob Diamond’s departure is a great day for democracy. He is the symbol of the gambling and greed we must root out of our banking system.
‘Now the top priority is to catch the criminals, break off the casinos from the basic banks and make them lend.

‘We must never again let the rich and powerful in the City or the media get their hands round the windpipe of Government.’

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Gottcha. Now how about seeing to it that wealthy and influential money grubbing, thieving politicians never again fiddle on their expenses.  Oh yeah, and how about denying people who did dip into the public purse their seats in govt.  Oh right. That’s different.
Hypocritical gas bags. 







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Springtime for Egypt ?

The article has been edited for space but to be fair, if that’s possible considering who we’re talking about here, it’s reported that hundreds of muslims have protested the killers in this story and are seriously worried about the secular future in Egypt.
This kinda follows Drew’s post on the subject last week.

Apparently there is genuine outrage so that could be read as hopeful. ???  Yes?  Like, it ain’t all of them wants to do us in.  Just a million or so who do. Which is reassuring.  Right?

Arab Spring my achin’ butt.  I’m no expert and it would actually be great to be wrong here but; I think given time the radicals will take over. Mubarak knew how to keep the vermin at bay. He was our guy and suddenly he wasn’t and so now, welcome to the caliphate.

‘Moral vigilantes’ stab Egyptian university student to death for ‘walking next to his fiancee’

* Ahmed Hussein Eid was attacked by three men who deemed it violated good Islamic practice for him to walk alongside his fiancee

* An Islamist vigilante organisation called Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority have taken responsibility for the attack

* Women’s rights organisations report of harassment of non-veil wearing women and gender separated buses

By SARA MALM

A university student was stabbed to death after argument with religious vigilantes who attacked him for walking with his fiancee.
Three bearded men approached Ahmed Hussein Eid and his partner when they were walking in a park in Suez, Egypt and demanded they go their separate ways because they were not married, security officials said.

An argument broke out which ended with one of the men fatally stabbing the engineering student in his left thigh. He was taken to Ismailia University Hospital but later died of his injuries.

A group calling themselves ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority’ posted on Facebook that they were responsible for the murder.
The entry read that the young man had been standing with a woman and had been adviced not to do so, Egypt Independent reported.

The post on the page of the organisation, which is a vigilante religious police seeking out those whom they deem to be violating Sharia, said the student insulted them which is why they attacked him with a knife.
The June 25 attack has alarmed Egyptians concerned that with an Islamist president in office, vigilante groups are feeling emboldened to enforce strict Islamic mores on the streets.

The attack happened in a quiet park which is a favorite spot for young couples in Suez, according to security officials.
It has not been specified what enraged the three men, who arrived at the scene on a motorbike, but the initial testimony of the girlfriend said the men told the couple they should not be together because they were not married and must immediately leave and go their separate ways.

An argument followed and one of the three men stabbed 20-year-old Eid in the upper left thigh, near his genitals.
Suez has a strong Islamist movement and voted heavily in favor of Mohamed Morsi in the June 16-17 presidential runoff against Ahmed Shafiq,the last prime minister to serve under Mubarak.

The killing took place one day after Morsi was declared the winner.
Suez Islamic groups have denied their involvement in the attack and the leading party Muslim Brotherhood has condemned it.
The spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmud Ghazlan, said: ‘We condemn these acts, for they have nothing to do with Islam and we repudiate them and their perpetrator’

However, secular activists say Islamists are trying to impose their will on communities outside Cairo.
Moderate Muslims along with liberal and women’s groups now worry that Mohammed Morsi’s presidency will eradicate what is left of Egypt’s secular traditions and change the social fabric of the mainly Muslim nation.



Some activists say Islamists already are flexing their muscles in areas outside Cairo and other main cities, taking advantage of the absence of civil society groups and lack of security in the areas.

They cite reports of efforts to persuade drivers of communal minibuses to segregate male and female passengers and women’s hairdressing salons being told to get rid of male employees or close.

Fully veiled women are also harassing women not wearing a veil or wearing colorful ones while traveling on the women-only train cars of Cairo’s busy subway, according to activists monitoring women’s rights.

Egypt has for more than 40 years been preoccupied with dealing with the threat posed by radicals seeking to create an Islamic state in the country.
Mubarak, backed by the U.S., used that threat to maintain tight control over the country.

Morsi, 60, has not mentioned implementing Islam’s Shariah law since he narrowly won the presidential race but civil rights activists and secular groups fear the Brotherhood and its allies are closer than ever to realising the dream of an Islamic government in Egypt and are looking to Morsi to make it happen.

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   Wednesday - July 04, 2012

Buy This House, Put Drew Back To Work

I see that Claremont is on the real estate market ...







Comprising 70 acres atop Bernardsville Mountain and commanding views as far as Manhattan, Claremont is an exceptional estate by any measure. But it is equally noteworthy for its distinguished heritage; Claremont was designed by and became the summer home of the renowned architect George Brown Post (1837-1913). Known as ‘the father of the tall building in New York’ Post’s commissions had substantial impact on the skyline he viewed from Claremont’s privileged stage. And in the surrounding mountain colony, the firm of George Post & Sons built or altered up to 30 country houses making a profound imprint on a period of residential architecture that came to be known as the gilded age of the Somerset Hills.

Classically designed and richly embellished, Claremont’s Neo-Federal-styled mansion captures our wonder as it visually delights. A stone courtyard presents the residence clad with slate roof and stucco-covered stone trimmed with terracotta. Its rounded lines, Corinthian columns, elegant proportions and Beaux-Arts detail are signature Post. Double glass doors provide entry to the wide, marble-floored center hall. Imposing ceiling heights, exquisite moldings, expansive windows and elegant fireplaces grace its commodious gathering spaces including formal living and dining room, library and den.

From the center hall a grand staircase sweeps to the second floor where the Palladian window-wall frames arresting views to the two-story portico, terraced gardens and distant valleys. Included at this upper level is the master suite with bedroom, sitting and dressing room; 4 en suite bedrooms, and extensive staff quarters. Complementing the home is a full walk-up attic and full basement with exterior entrance. The estate also affords a charming guest cottage and beautiful shingle-style carriage house with apartment.

Actually it’s nearly 71 acres, but who’s counting. And all this can be yours for the reduced price of just under ten million dollars. The asking price is $9,800,000. Heck, the land is worth almost that much right off the bat. And don’t worry about security or safety. The house has a retrofit state of the art sprinkler system, a modern alarm system, and a turn of the 20th century active deterrent system, comprised of massive bronzed steel bars that fold out from recesses beside each window and door and can be securely locked from the inside. Oh, and there’s a gate at the street end of the half mile long driveway, to keep those pesky Fuller Brush salesmen at bay. And if that isn’t quite enough for you to feel safe, the world renowned safari outfitter and gun maker Griffin and Howe is right down the street. Not that Bernardsville has any crime, thank you very much. The very idea!

Post was a damned good architect with a perfect sense of proportion. The house is far, far larger than it looks because he got the design just right. He just made everything larger so it balanced; the windows are 9 feet tall, and the front door opens wide enough to drive in a grand piano. Or two. Skirting at the edge of the roof hides most of the roof from view from the ground. Without it, you’d notice that this home is actually nearly 6 stories tall, instead of the generous 2 it appears to be. Well done.

And if you follow the link and look at the pictures of the main house, the carriage house, the guest bungalow, and the property manager’s office building, you won’t see a single pane of glass that I haven’t cleaned, or a room I haven’t worked on or in. I used to get a lot of work at Claremont, until the dear old lady who was the last descendant living there, passed on a couple years back. So I know my way around ... and I could use the steady work. Pretty sure some of those 1/2” thick window panes need reglazing by now.

And you can see Manhattan from the upper windows, 35 miles away. Heck, if you go up the servant’s stairs to the attic and then up the 30 foot tall staircase inside it and then out the roof hatch by the top skylight, I think you can see England. King of the World, indeed!





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idiot muslim at town meeting put in place bt US Rep. West. Must see video

I don’t have much time tonight and have to be outta here in a few minutes.
BUT ....

I HAD to take time for this.  Haven’t checked my mail in some days and found this awesome video courtesy of Doc Jeff.

If view nothing else tonight, you gotta see this. And Doc, I don’t know how you found this but THANKS!!!

H/T DOC JEFF
Who also enclosed the following.

Forwarded Message:  U.S. Rep Allen West blasts pathetic Muslim

Wish we had a few more politicians who were NOT ONLY knowledgeable about our current enemy (and enemy of the Western World) But he has the GUTS to Stand Face To Face with one and slap him down intellectually… Where is the Media on Incidents like this one !!!

Pathetic Muslim trying to corner and embarrass him, he picked the wrong guy!
Nezar Hamze is the Executive Director of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).
Allen West is a Congressman from Florida .

Mr. Hamze waded into this discussion with congressman West in attack mode with typical Muslim misinformed bravado. Do you know any career politician who has the background and guts who could have handled Nezar
better?
You can just see it: N. Hamze thought he would be dealing with a another typical American PC pantywaist
politician who panders to anyone and any cause to get a votes. He made one little mistake - He kicked the tar baby in the thicket while walking into the perfect ambush and was unable to withdraw.
Watch Video HEREvia
I’m going to watch this again
YouTube.





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danish bog gives up the dead of 200

Woo-Hoo, take a look at this.

Every time something new crops up, well not exactly new. A new discovery of Something old. Right. That’s what I meant.

We don’t hear much from Denmark in the way of this sort of discovery, so I guess this is pretty big news.
I remember reading somewhere that Denmark was the birthplace of the Vikings. But I just never gave a lot of thought to their history outside of the Viking era.
I have cut a bit out and haven’t posted any pix. Catch those at the link.


Bones of 200 slaughtered soldiers from the time of Christ are so well preserved in peat bog that their DNA can be studied

By EDDIE WRENN

Danish archaeologists have re-opened a mass grave of scores of slaughtered Iron Age warriors to find new clues about their fate and the bloody practices of Germanic tribes on the edge of the Roman Empire.

Bones of around 200 soldiers have already been found preserved in a peat bog near the village of Alken on Denmark’s Jutland peninsula.

Experts started digging again on Monday, saying they expected to find more bodies dating back 2,000 years to around the time of Christ.

Aarhus University archaeologist Mads Kahler Holst said: ‘I guess we will end up with a scale that is much larger than the 200 that we have at present.’

Speaking by phone from the site on damp grazing meadows near Jutland’s large lake of Mossoe, he added: ‘We have only touched upon a very small part of what we expect to be there ... We have not seen anything like this before in Denmark, but it is quite extraordinary even in a European perspective.’

The first bones, belonging to people as young as 13, were discovered in 2009.

Cuts and slashes on the skeletons showed they had died violently, said Holst. But nothing was known for sure about the identity of the killers, or their victims.

‘That is one of the big mysteries ... We don’t know if it is local or foreign - we would expect it to be local,’ Holst said.

‘We think it is a sacrifice related to warfare and probably the defeated soldiers were killed and thrown into the lake,’ he said.

The remains are so well-preserved that experts will be able to analyse their DNA - a rare achievement in remains so old, said Ejvind Hertz, curator of archaeology at Skanderborg Museum.

Preliminary DNA tests have been carried out at a laboratory on six teeth and two femur bones. ‘There was not much in the femurs but there was in the teeth - teeth are good at preserving DNA,’ Hertz said.

The DNA of people who lived at that time would not normally differ from the DNA of today’s Scandinavians. If differences are found, it could point to a foreign army from southern Europe, Hertz said.


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Original Art

Lines In The Darkness: Purity Of Form
32,000 year old cave art shows more talent than most modern creations


I think I’ve found my art form. Impressionism and Realism. Early Impressionism. REALLY REALLY early. I followed a link from Stoaty the Woozle to the Chauvet cave paintings in southern France. Unbelievable. Drawn by hand from colored mud. Minimalist and perfect, each line exactly right the very first time, yet the shading and nuance and interrelation with the three dimensional surface of the cave walls gives them a life of their own and nearly demands that you give the drawings far deeper meaning than just pictures of animals. Animals conveyed with a sense of motion and emotion. The cave bear painted above was one of the most fearsome mammals to ever walk the earth, yet he looks happy and nearly comical. Art of the purest form. Rendered in the dark by the rudest form of torchlight, in a cave atmosphere so high in radon and carbon dioxide that it’s nearly fatal. How’s that for suffering for your creativity?

There are hundreds of links to these cave paintings, which were only discovered in 1994. The drawings were created over a 10,000 year period, which is amazing enough right there, a period more than twice as long as our awareness of “human civilization”, yet the cave continued to be used by Ice Age lions and tigers and bears the whole time. Oh my. Then a rockfall sealed off the cave for 20,000 years and preserved the works as a natural museum. Due to the bad atmosphere and the fragility of the art works, the cave is off limits to the general public.

Mysteries from the ancient past. Creative skill levels unguessed at by anthropology. A religious shrine, a center for manhood initiation, or just the original party shack where you’d get high just being there? Far out, man, let’s tag these walls.

The Chauvet cave paintings are nearly twice as old as the more famous cave paintings in Lascaux, though they show similar creatures. Perhaps the same artist colony moved there once the first cave was sealed off. We will never know.

I’m hoping that high quality prints of some of these are available, though even the most meticulous rendition would lose most of it’s meaning when taken out of context and rendered on a flat canvas. This one is my favorite, and it’s only half of the original drawing. I have no idea how big the original is, but I’d swoon to be able to own an accurate print of it, done on pale leather to mimic the surface texture, about 5 by 8 or 12 feet. I’d hang it in an empty room, barely and indirectly lit by soft yellow orange light to weakly attempt to recreate the original illumination. The effect would be transportive, and that’s with my 21st Century arrogance and sophistication. Seeing the real one for the first time by torch light must have been mind blowing for Ugh the caveman. The birth of art and perhaps religion as well.

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/chauvet_cave_art.php

http://donsmaps.com/chauvetcave.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/html/ft_20010801.6.html

http://www.edutarian.com/2011/02/cuchet-cave-and-radon-gas.html





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Psychotic Fiends

Garbage Piles Full Of Chopped Off Body Parts
Payback is a bitch for those who sheltered rebels in Syria
Government Death Squads roam the streets, exacting retribution with machetes




Trail of carnage in trash bins of Damascus suburb

Syrians in the ghost city of Douma have recovered mutilated corpses and sifted through trash for body parts hacked off by death squads who swept through anti-government districts after the army drove out rebel fighters, activists said on Wednesday.

Video shot by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad in the city about 15 km (10 miles) north of Damascus on Tuesday displayed gory horror scenes in homes they said had been overrun by pro-government “shabbiha” paramilitary gangs, after army shelling over the weekend forced rebel fighters to retreat.
...
Given obstacles to independent media coverage in Syria, there was no way of verifying the authenticity of the activist video or the information conveyed. One resident named Ziad told Reuters by telephone that 90 percent of Douma citizens had fled the city of around 110,000 inhabitants.

SANA published photographs of well-dressed officials touring tidy streets. Activist video, by contrast, was horrific, showing what it said was the aftermath of carnage by feared militiamen.

“These are pieces of our children we’re pulling out of dumpsters ... We found these body parts and we are still looking for more. These are burned human body parts,” said a man picking through an overturned garbage bin.

“These are male reproductive organs,” he said.

Video clips showed rotting corpses lying in dried pools of blood in dark hallways, their faces covered with flies. One showed a woman and her child prone in a living room. The activist narrating the video said they had been stabbed.

A third video displayed pieces of charred flesh which activists said were severed genitals.

“There was more here yesterday,” said a man wearing plastic gloves. “But the dogs were taking them.”

So much for the the kindness and brotherhood of jizzlam. The civil war in Syria is largely along sectarian lines; one flavor of islam against another. It’s also about the city boys versus their country cousins; those who get the government handouts versus those who pay for them. Assad’s Baath party is almost exclusively Shiite, and most of those are from the Alawite sub-sect. The rest of the country’s muslims are Sunni. All of the rebels are, and they’re supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This is nothing new. One of the main points about terrorism that is almost completely lost in the West is that most of it is sectarian; one muslim radical against another muslim (radical or not). And they don’t have an ounce of mercy amongst them.





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False Alarm

The Only Polio Scare I Ever Want To Deal With



I saw a billboard by the side of the road the other day. I didn’t have too much time to read it, since my concentration was more on the road and all the traffic cones as one of our local cowpaths undergoes widening to officially become the minor highway that it’s turned into over the years. Some routes are just too convenient, and eventually they just get overwhelmed with traffic. And several eternities after that the government cottons to that reality and sends out the asphalt gang.

So anyway, I’m coming south from Washington into Glen Gardner, and I catch a glance at a billboard ... End Polio Now it tells me. Say what?? That billboard has been used for health messages in the past for years - deer ticks, well water inspection, folic acid for prenatal care, etc - so I was shocked. Polio? “Holy ****”, I’m thinking as I motor past Sanatorium Rd, the street where one of the largest tuberculosis recovery facilities in state history once existed, “now polio is making a comeback? The world’s gone mad! It’s gotta be all those unchecked illegals with their diseases sneaking in!”






So I looked things up online when I got home. PHEW. My bad. I was wrong. This was just the local Rotary International club drawing attention to their group’s continued efforts to wipe out the disease. No polio in the USA. No outbreaks, no cases contracted from the wild disease. Thank God.

A bit more research shows that India has just had it’s first full year EVER without a polio case. Ever. While the Salk and the Sabin vaccines virtually eliminated polio in the USA in the late 50s and early 60s, followed by a massive world-wide immunization program that protected most of the world within the next decade, some of the farthest and poorest corners are still at risk. India was one of them, but efforts over the last 10 years or so by the WHO and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have inoculated tens of millions of children there.

Incidents of polio from the wild disease only exist in 3 countries at this point. Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Three of the poorest corners of the globe, and all three with heavy radical Islam influence.

In Afghanistan I read that the Taliban is actively fighting the vaccination teams, even killing them. And my reaction to that was typical too: filthy murderous primitives, using children as a political lever, probably chopping off arms once the doctors visit villages, just like Pol Pot and those African shamans. And while I may be somewhat right with that view, I may also be somewhat wrong. The Taliban may be somewhat justified in their actions.

You see, there are three kinds of polio virus: type 1, type 2, and type 3. And there are two kinds of polio vaccine: injected (Salk, IPV) and oral (Sabin, OPV). And the vaccines now come in three varieties, which I think relate to the strains of the virus they contain: monovalent, bivalent, and trivalent. And the vaccines almost always work. Almost. But not always. The Salk vaccine, known as IPV (Injected Polio Vaccine) only contains the dead virus. It needs to be administered by a health worker qualified to give injections, and thus costs upwards of a dollar per dose. The Sabin vaccine, known as OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine) contains dead and “neutralized” virus, and can be administered by anyone. This drops the cost to about a dime. Recent studies have shown that the bivalent form of the vaccine might be more efficacious than the mono- or trivalent versions, but that probably won’t lower the cost noticeably. The cost numbers I’m throwing around are inexact, but close. And it actually requires 2 or 3 inoculations to fully protect a child, so the real cost per child is tripled.

All polio vaccination in the USA is done with the IPV these days. The risk from that form of the vaccine is far lower than the risk from the oral form.

The point is that even Bill Gates can only afford to immunize the entire world with the oral vaccine, and that vaccine isn’t perfect. Some children get polio from receiving the vaccine. Some die. The numbers are quite low - the risk is something like 1 in 10,000 - but the risk is still there. And it may be (I’m just tossing this idea out there) that weaker, more malnourished children have a higher incidence of getting infected from the immunization. And that’s likely what the Taliban is objecting to. Don’t ask me what goes on in Nigeria. Probably witch doctors and evil spirits for all I know. There are also other voices - naysayers, Luddites, the tinfoil hat brigade, and perhaps some with well thought out objections - who feel that the whole OPV effort is hardly more than a tax dodge and a way to support Big Pharma by emptying their warehouses of unwanted and outdated medicines. Oh, its also the root of the great cancer epidemic we’ve had since then, and that was likely known at the time the vaccines hit the market. That’s a bit too cynical, even for me.

I invite any of the MDs we have here as members to comment professionally, and I welcome enlightening comments by members who have personal knowledge or who have made more research effort than I. I may be misstating things here, and I welcome correction and enlightenment. Our more mature readers will remember the polio outbreaks of the 40s and 50s. The summers of fear. The horror and the heartbreak. I turn 52 on Veteran’s Day, and polio has hardly been part of my life. By the time I was old enough to be aware of such things, the pandemic was pretty much over in America. I’d see the rare child with legs braces or crutches, we all collected our pennies for UNICEF at Halloween, and you’d hear adults talk about how things used to be. And that was it. By the time I was in high school even those conversations were a thing of the past. But the virus is not dead. Polio still exists “in the wild”. Which means there’s probably some in your house, or in your yard, or even on your skin right now. I’ll leave you with one statistic I ran across while looking things up for this post: 95% of American children are fully immunized against polio before they enter the public school system. If I had young children, I would not want them to be part of that 5%. Would you??

The lady on the billboard above is Megan Jones-Holt, resident of my town and District Governor of Rotary here in NJ.





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