Sunday - October 14, 2012

unreasonable,outrageous brit military arrest their own just for allowing an enemy to quit breathing

How do I explain this one? I can’t. The west and in this particular case the Brit military, has arrested seven Royal Marines on suspicion of murder.  So who’d they kill that counts as human?  Someone described as, “an insurgent.” So the translation then would be, taliban.  The murder charge is because the poor innocent rat bastard they shot, was wounded and they did not get medical help for the vermin.  I’d say well done Marines. But no. 
Apparently there’s something called rules of engagement that only our side has to follow, least people begin to think even less of us then they do at present.  Thing was, the “insurgent” was attempting to ambush the Brit troops and was wounded and captured. Big mistook guys. Shouldda fired and cut him in half but not take him alive.

So now, these guys not only face a trial in a military court.  Get this bit of pc lunacy.  If for some reason the military court lets them off, they will then be tried, should the powers that leach decide, in a civilian court on civilian charges. 

I do truly hate this fraked up world or at least, I hate what it’s become.
We aren’t talking major war crimes here.  Just one sub-human life form who was trying to kill humans in the form of Brit Marines.  As far as I am concerned, anyone who abuses, assaults, insults or attempts to kill a Brit soldier, should be made immediately terminal. As in, delete. 

H/T iNewspaper

Formidable force: 42 Commando

The Royal Marines, although a formidable fighting force, do not have a reputation for brutality and their disciplinary record is better than most in the UK military. So there was a degree of surprise at the arrests of the seven men as murder suspects.
All the men being held are from 42 Commando, part of 3 Commando Brigade which was deployed in Helmand in the Nad-e-Ali and Nahr-e-Seraj districts last year in Operation Herrick 14.
The deployment, under Brigadier Ed Davis, saw some notable successes against the insurgency. However, the Marines also lost seven killed in action; all of them from 42 Commando, who had taken part in some of the heaviest fighting. It was the unit’s fourth tour of Afghanistan.
By the end of their tour the Marines had “interdicted” more than 2.5 tons of explosive material leading to a 43 per cent fall in insurgent attacks and a dozen active Taliban commanders were killed.

Now here’s where things get to be a bit weird.
It’s all down to porn on a laptop first, and apparently a recorded conversation among the troops which led to their troubles. Take a look.

Laptop porn investigation led to the arrest of Royal Marines
By Kim Sengupta

Seven Royal Marines were arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Taliban fighter in Helmand after police found footage on a laptop during a separate investigation into pornographic material, The Independent has learnt.

Examination of the computer by civilian police in the UK is said to have revealed images of a group of Marines in discussion about whether to provide medical aid to an injured Afghan lying on the ground.

The captive, who had sustained his injuries while attempting to ambush a patrol, later died.
The Independent understand that there were no images on the computer, which belongs to one of the arrested men, of the actual death of the insurgent.
An investigation was launched by the Royal Military Police and the seven men were all arrested on Thursday afternoon.

All those arrested were serving with 42 Commando Royal Marines in Helmand, Operation Herrick 14, last year in the districts of Nahr-e-Seraj and Nad-e-Ali as part of 3 Commando Brigade.

The deployment, under Brigadier Ed Davis, had some notable successes against the insurgency.
However, the Marines also lost seven killed in action; all of them from 42 Commando, who had taken part in some of the heaviest fighting. It was the unit’s fourth tour of Afghanistan.

The rules for UK forces in relation to detention and interrogation in Afghanistan are supposed to be in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Separately, there are rules of engagement laid down by the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), in Afghanistan that stipulate when the enemy can be deemed to be a threat allowing military action to take place.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: “These arrests demonstrate the MoD’s and the Armed Forces’ determination to ensure UK personnel act in accordance with their rules of engagement and our standards. It would be inappropriate to make any further comment while the investigation is under way.”

The decision on whether or not to bring charges will be decided by the Director of Service Prosecutions. The rules for the length of time that suspects can be detained and questioned are the same as civilian cases.

I found this brief update after seeing the above.

Four of the men have been released without charge pending further inquiries, while the others have been remanded in custody where they are likely to remain until being tried at a military court in the UK.
Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for the Defence, said he was determined that the rules of engagement were followed in Afghanistan, telling the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “Everybody serving in theatre knows the rules of engagement, they carry cards in their uniforms with the rules on them in case they should need to remind themselves.”

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Cold. Harsh. Perfect.

Best bumper sticker of the season.

borrowed from Moonbattery.com

Posted by Drew458     on 10/14/2012 at 11:10 AM   
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obit for a swashbuckler, entrepreneur, adventurer. what a generation his was.

Heck of a story.  I’d heard of this fellow some years ago but then forgot all about him. Too many other things to be bothered about without reading about some dufus raising hell with authorities.  Had there been computers when I first heard of him, I suppose I might have Goggled his story.
So I saw this obit in our paper and wow.  This guy was no dufus at all.  Talk about derring-do.

Prince Roy of Sealand (RIP)

Prince Roy of Sealand, who has died aged 91, was plain Roy Bates until, on Christmas Eve 1966, he established his own micro-nation on an abandoned wartime sea fort off the Suffolk coast and declared himself head of state. 

A year earlier, on the nearby Knock John fortified tower in the North Sea, Bates had established Radio Essex, claiming it as Britain’s first 24-hour pirate pop station, only to see it swiftly closed down by the Labour government.

After taking legal advice, Bates bought HM Fort Roughs, another derelict artillery installation, anchored to a sandbar just outside British territorial waters; but before he could revive his radio transmissions, the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act of 1967 outlawed the employment of British citizens by pirate stations. Embracing the ancient legal doctrine of jus gentium, Bates declared independence. Henceforth, he announced, he would be known as Prince Roy and his principality would be Sealand. He refurbished the platform, abandoned by the British military in the 1950s, and moved there with his wife and two children.

It was not long, however, before his bleak windswept hulk, with its twin towers of steel-reinforced concrete spanned by a 5,920 sq ft rusting iron platform some seven miles off Felixstowe, became not only res derelicta but terra nullius — effectively disputed territory. When the rival Radio Caroline claimed the platform for itself, Bates and his crew repelled a boarding party with Molotov cocktails and warning shots.

In 1967 government ministers sent the military to destroy several other wartime forts that had been abandoned in international waters. Bates and his family watched as explosions sent the huge structures cartwheeling hundreds of feet in the air. Helicopters carrying explosives buzzed overhead, and from a Royal Navy tug carrying a demolition squad came shouts of “You’re next!”

A year later, when the Royal Maritime auxiliary vessel Golden Eye passed close by, three warning shots were fired across her bow before she turned and raced for the shore. Bates was summonsed under the Firearms Act and in November 1968 appeared in the dock at Essex Assizes.

Amid much legal argument, statutes dating from the 17th century were cited. Summing up, the judge at Chelmsford remarked on “this swashbuckling incident perhaps more akin to the time of Sir Francis Drake”, but decided that, since Sealand lay outside British territorial waters, the courts had no jurisdiction. As far as Bates was concerned, this was Sealand’s first de facto recognition.

He claimed Sealand as the world’s smallest sovereign state, even though it was not recognised by the British government — which largely ignored it — or any foreign power. During the 1970s Bates created Sealand’s own constitution, flag (red and black with white diagonal stripe), passports, stamps, currency (the Sealand dollar, bearing his wife’s image), national anthem and motto: “E Mare Libertas” (“From the Sea, Freedom”).

Bates’s unilateral declaration of statehood became his core business.

A German entrepreneur, Alexander Achenbach, proposed to turn Sealand into a luxury hotel/casino, receiving in return not only citizenship but also the office of prime minister for life. But in 1978, while Bates and his wife were away from Sealand on business, Achenbach flew in a party of German and Dutch businessmen by helicopter and effectively staged a coup d’état after a row with Bates over several million Deutschmarks.

Within days Bates — a wartime Army major — had retaken the platform in a dramatic predawn helicopter raid of his own.

From 100ft above the sea, he rappelled down a rope to the tiny helipad below. His son, Michael, did likewise. The Germans later confessed to being taken aback on encountering, in combat gear, an Englishman they had only known to wear a natty Savile Row suit and bowler hat.

In the melee, Bates brandished a rifle, but Michael was captured and held hostage in the galley before being flown to the Netherlands, where he was released after four days.

In turn, Achenbach’s lawyer, Gernot Pütz, a Sealand passport holder, was seized, hustled into a tender and charged with treason. Bates — by the “powers” vested in him as Prince Roy — solemnly sentenced him to life on the platform.

Seven weeks later, with Britain adhering to its stated position — it disclaimed jurisdiction outside her territorial waters — Germany finally sent a diplomat from its London embassy to Sealand to secure the release of its citizen.

Exercising his princely prerogative of clemency, Prince Roy immediately granted Pütz a pardon, reasoning that the German diplomatic mission to his windswept eyrie constituted a second de facto recognition of Sealand’s independence.

During the Second World War he became an infantry major in the First Battalion Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment. He served in the 8th India Division, seeing action in Africa, Italy, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. Taken prisoner when his aircraft crashed on the island of Rhodes, he tried to escape but was captured by Greek Fascists . He was rescued from a firing squad by a passing German officer. In Italy Bates took part in the battle of Monte Cassino .

Wounded several times, Bates survived malaria, sandfly fever, frostbite and snakebite. When a German stick grenade exploded, smashing his jaw and showering shrapnel in his face, he was told by an Army surgeon that he would never find a wife as he would be so badly disfigured. But as his wounds healed, Bates met Joan Collins, a former beauty queen from Essex, at a dance, and within three months they had married.

THERE’S MORE HERE

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   Saturday - October 13, 2012

Next cover of the New Yorker

Zing! I guess Clint was right!

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E8: Alekhine-Naegeli, Bern 1932

Eighth exercise from Your Move by Yakov Neishtadt.

Graphics courtesy of Exachess

UPDATE:

Wes wins bragging rights for finding:

1… f5! after which White is defenceless against the threat 2… Qg3+ 3. Qxg3 Rh5#. Unfortunately the Swiss master Naegeli missed this and the game petered out to a draw.

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i-candy and downton abbey

gotta hand it to make up and costume ppl. talented folks.

I just happened across something I think it was last week. Had to do with an actress on Downton Abbey. We watched an early episode on BBC catch up.
That aside, never went back.  Not too comfortable trying to watch a TV show on the pc located in this room. So anyway, last week there was a story about an actress on that show. I think she got married. ??  Well, there were photos of her in character and as she actually is. WOW. Same lady?  I shouldn’t be surprised of course. 

Because I hardly ever know who these folks are, except for someone like Dame Maggie Smith, every day is like a new day for me discovering these ppl.
So here’s what I’m referring to.

JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY as Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey.

VAVA VOOM ......

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You must treat all foreigners to protect their rights… but you can still turn away brits. huh??

So you think there’s problem back home (USA) do ya.
Try this bit of insanity on for size.  I don’t have the imagination to figure out what could possibly be next.  Maybe a formal apology to the Germans for 1939?  Makes as much sense as anything else the euros get up to.
What an education I am getting by being here.  Under normal circumstances in my previous life at home in the states, I really doubt I’d come across things like this.  You know, different lifestyle. I’d have a TV set most likely and would be watching the Dodgers.  And that fellow whose last name I forgot, Mike something. Builder and fixer.  One of those home improvement shows.  I’m just saying I’d be busy with other things and this stuff would simply not figure in my life. 

Well anyway …. this is pretty weird stuff.  The Brits really need to get some things seen to before the island finishes sinking. Maybe while they’re doing that, they’d be too busy to be nit picking at the faults found in the USA. And why are they looking anyway?

NHS tells doctors: You must treat all foreigners to protect their human rights… but you can still turn away BRITONS

· Foreigners must be given free treatment by GPs - it is their human right
· New guidelines dictate that doctors must register any foreign patient
· Includes asylum seekers, overseas students or tourists on a short holiday
· Some GPs are furious, describing changes as a ‘charter for health tourism’

By Sophie Borland

Health tourists must be given free treatment by GPs because it is their human right, say NHS bosses.
New guidelines tell doctors across England they must register any foreign patient who asks for care otherwise it would be ‘discriminatory’.
These include asylum seekers, overseas students or tourists coming for a short holiday. Once registered, they will be entitled to the same NHS care as all other patients and can receive free blood tests, jabs and – in some cases – free prescription drugs.
In fact, the new rules will give overseas patients more rights than those living in the UK who can be turned away from surgeries if they live a few yards outside its catchment area.

There are also fears the ruling will make it even harder for local patients to get an appointment.

Already half of patients cannot get an appointment with their doctor within 48 hours, according to the Government’s own figures.

48 Hours?  Heck, I can not get an appointment with my regular doc if needed in less then a month.  OK, so sometimes it’s only been two weeks. But still.  Of course I can always see another doctor at the same
practise. There are about 12 or 15 at the office complex. Just depends on who has a slot that can see you sooner for non emergency stuff.

Some family doctors are furious at the guidelines and describe them as a ‘charter for health tourism’.
They say that such patients, once registered at a surgery, will also find it far easier to be referred to hospital for thousands of pounds of free treatment.
By law, overseas patients are not entitled to be treated at hospital – unless it is urgent – but staff rarely check on their backgrounds.
Until now, GP practices were not legally obliged to register foreigners and many turn away patients if they do not have passports or ‘proof of address’ documents.

But the new guidelines issued to all doctors in England will change this.
One GP, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ‘I am not sure the British taxpayer should be paying for the world’s health treatment for free.’
And Tory MP Chris Skidmore, who is campaigning for tougher regulation on health tourism, said: ‘It is alarming that managers are passing these kind of diktats to doctors, many of whom are rightly worried that GP registration is effectively buying free treatment on the NHS.
‘This is not just about the money, vital though that is – we cannot have the NHS, paid for by taxpayers, being abused by people who pay nothing into the system and who are not eligible for free care.’
Mr Skidmore has obtained figures showing that health tourists currently owe the NHS £40million in unpaid medical bills.

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Oh btw …. Brits and French at daggers drawn over fishing rights and French boats have been acting very aggressively against English boats with near ramming actions and surrounding Brit boats to keep them from their job.  No shots fired yet but I hear the Navy might be called in to protect Brit fishing fleet.  Last time they did that was with dustup and Iceland. Pretty sure it was Iceland. Iceland declared an exclusive economic zone beyond its own territorial waters.(1972)
So anyway, Iceland Navy started cutting Brit fishing nets, Brits deployed the RN and they actually started ramming each other. It came to an end in ’76 when Iceland threatened to close a vital NATO base.  Brits said ooops and conceded UK ships would not fish within the 200 mile limit set by Iceland.

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A CEREMONY MOST APPROPRIATELY HELD IN A GRAVEYARD.

Drew covered this subject well already, but I thought this article in the morning paper today by historian Max Hastings, is more than worthwhile.
It’s very much edited for space so I suggest you see all of it at the link below.

Some folks here think it’s an early April Fools joke.
Btw, does anyone really take this award seriously?  Aside from the ppl who get it and also get a lot of money. Who cares otherwise?  But it is fun to poke fun at it, and at the libtards who take it sooooo seriously.

I have said it more than once and I’ll say it again. And again because I think it’s worth the hammering and ranting on about. There are agencies of the EU who are actively at work inside the USA and of course financed by the EU, whose role is to influence American policy not just foreign. We can understand that as we do it ourselves. But they also want to alter how our already laughable justice system works. They have spent serious monies attempting for example, to have the USA give up the death penalty in states where it is used. They have financed some of the protest groups that gather at places where the penalty is carried out.  Their mission is to civilize us according to their lights, is my guess.

The Nobel Committee has given the EU a lifetime achievement award.
In this case, as so often with such idiotic gestures,
THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY MIGHT MOST APPROPRIATELY BE HELD IN A GRAVEYARD.
(Max Hastings)

This is one of hundreds of comments reflecting the feelings of many Brits. But their masters are not listening very well. If at all.

The test as to whether the EU leadership is sane or not, depends on whether it has accepted this idiotic Prize. Clearly, they have accepted the prize, which determines that the EU leadership is as idiotic as the Prize-givers. May Nobel prizes now be given away in Lucky Bags. May both institutions fall apart . . at the seams, so that we can all have a laugh at it’s expense, as it happens on our TV screens . . there will be celebrations in the streets, and not just in streets in Athens, either . . Oh, and vote UKIP wherever and whenever you can . .!
- UK Rising , 13/10/2012 16:25

As protesters dressed as Nazis riot in an Athens ruled by Brussels stooges, giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU is beyond satire
By Max Hastings

The Nobel Peace Prize is the sacred elephant of the liberal establishment.

Sensible people sighed when the prize went to Henry Kissinger and Viet Cong leader Le Duc Tho in 1973, who stitched up a charade of a Vietnam peace deal as a figleaf for surrendering the country to the Communists; to Egypt’s leader Anwar Sadat and his Israeli counterpart Menachem Begin in 1978 for their Middle East deal which brought no lasting peace; and to Barack Obama in 2009 for his commitment to ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which are still mired in bloodshed.

In all these cases — and many more besides — the Nobel Committee was obviously seeking to say to the winners and to the world: ‘We welcome what you are attempting to do, and hope that giving you the Prize will make you try even harder for the cause of peace.’
These are the sort of decent, woolly-minded sentiments that country vicars unleash on their flocks every Sunday.

However, this year, the 93rd in which the award has been made, the committee has surpassed all previous follies and travesties. If the judges think the EU is a worthy winner, we might start fantasising about the other candidates who probably crossed their minds.

* The Beijing government cannot have gone unnoticed, for its doughty efforts to start a war with Japan in the East China Sea.

* A good case might be made for President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, for promoting harmony among his six wives.

* There might well have been some especially deserving leader of the Taliban who attracted the interest of the Nobel Committee.

But, in the end, the winner obviously had to be the EU. If one is going to have a laugh, one might as well make it a big one.
After all, the judges could take into account rioting in the streets of Greece, Italy and Spain in protest against eurozone austerity measures.

Relations between EU members are at their worst for decades and likely to deteriorate further — this week, protesters dressed as Nazis to greet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her visit to Greece. Europe’s economies are stagnant, with little early prospect of improvement. The future of the European project is in the melting pot, and every decision-maker on the continent knows it.

I do not think of Norwegians as sadistic people, but the Nobel judges have inflicted upon us all a huge, cruel practical joke awarding their Prize to the European Union at its lowest point since its inception — the moment at which almost every citizen of its 27 nations is asking: Where did the story go so horribly wrong?
Today, Europe’s entire governing class remains in denial about the ghastly mess it has got itself into. When the Common Market was set up in the mid-Fifties, it was a brilliant and hugely important idea. It was pivotal in bringing about reconciliation between France and Germany, after centuries of war.

In the decades that followed, the Common Market raised some members — Italy notable among them — out of poverty, and contributed mightily to the prosperity of the continent.
It was right for Britain to join the Common Market in 1973. For years thereafter, for all the horrors of the Common Agricultural Policy, we profited from access to a free-trading Europe.
But over the past quarter-century, we have witnessed the madness of the attempt to transform the Common Market — now, of course, the EU — from an economic association into a political union.
This has produced three huge and disastrous consequences.
First, the EU bureaucracy has grown like Topsy, relentlessly progressive and assertive in its determination to increase its own power and impose universal standards upon everything from British sausages to Bulgarian road signs.
Earlier this year, I attended a conference at which a German delegate demanded of the British representatives in genuine bewilderment: ‘Why will your people not fly the EU flag? Why will you not join the Schengen agreement on border controls? Why do you resent our commitment to human rights?’

The answer, of course, is that while we want to have a friendly and co-operative relationship with Europe, we are absolutely determined not to stop being British.

The Germans are unbothered by the idea of being Europeans, because — even now in their success and prosperity — they are at heart rather ashamed of being Germans. They feel — how shall we say — just a tad embarrassed about two world wars.

We, on the other hand, like being exactly what we are, drinking warm beer and driving on the left and making jokes about the war.

Nor are we the only ones.
Most of the other nations of Europe likewise cherish — rightly so — national pride, and value their own way of doing things.
The Greeks, for instance, think it their patriotic duty not to pay taxes.
‘Greeks are Orthodox Christians and show it: they really do believe in miracles.’
Nobody in Britain wants to make the Greeks organise or disorganise their affairs any differently from the way they do.
But it is ludicrous to pretend they belong in a common economic or political entity with any northern European nation, where — outside the financial services industry — people are generally honest and law-abiding.
The second strand in the EU disaster is that the governing class, with huge conceit, has attempted to drive the continent’s peoples up a path towards political union most have absolutely no desire to tread, in defiance of democratic principle and prudent politics.
Indeed, I have heard European MPs and Eurocrats argue shamelessly that they know better than the stupid voters what is in their best interests. One German politician said not long ago: ‘All our country’s biggest decisions since 1945 have been taken against the will of the people.’
He was proud of that. He thought it displayed splendid leadership by successive chancellors.
But Germany’s voters are now profoundly embittered by the realisation that abandoning the Deutschmark was a catastrophe for them. Europe’s political class has betrayed its electorates — but its members still refuse to acknowledge this.
If you think you waste precious time queuing for buses or waiting for the trailers to end in a cinema, think of EU summits. At each one, hundreds of important and allegedly powerful people waste whole days and nights exchanging platitudes, because they still will not admit that the entire direction of travel of this vast institution is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Finally, since the Nobel Committee has included the EU’s work for human rights in its citation for the peace prize, we should mention this here, too.
Every sensible person understands ‘human rights’ properly mean freedom from persecution or imprisonment, the right to justice, free speech, and a voter’s privileges in the democratic process.

Yet the European Court of Human Rights — aided and abetted by some monumentally foolish and arrogant British judges, has transformed and corrupted what was originally a noble concept, to make human rights a charter for parasites and wrongdoers to exploit our society’s decency.

The spectacle of illegal immigrants convicted of criminal offences being reprieved from deportation because they have impregnated some wretched woman here, or merely acquired a gay partner, is grotesque.
The idea of Islamic fanatic Abu Hamza’s wife and family inhabiting a $ mllion house in North London at the taxpayers’ expense disgusts the British people. They know this is wrong; it should not be allowed.
It happens only because Europe has forced it upon us. Thousands of such examples have contributed mightily to alienating millions of voters from the whole notion of Europe.
‘Asia is becoming much richer than us, because it emphasises aspiration rather than entitlement. In Europe, our societies are obsessed with claiming unaffordably extravagant entitlements rather than with promoting aspiration’.

We can all see the game being played by the wise fools of the Nobel committee, in giving their prize to the EU: they want to send a message: ‘Haven’t you done well, then? Don’t risk it all by even beginning to think about a break-up of the eurozone, which could be the start of something terrible.’
The Norwegians, privileged spectators of the unfolding euro-disaster, have made themselves seem ridiculous by this gesture.

HASTINGS AT THE MAIL

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   Friday - October 12, 2012

Insignificant Crap

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The first bit of news I heard this morning - and I’ve been up since 5am because of the MIL’s surgery (she came through fine, thanks) - was that Oslo awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize ... to the EU. Give yourselves a hand; they gave themselves their own prize.

That’s right! Europe gave Europe the Peace Prize because for 60 years now Europe hasn’t gone to war with Europe.  No mention was made EVER, AT ALL, of the tens of thousands of American troops stationed all around Europe for many decades for pretty much exactly this reason (plus keeping those other Europeans at bay), resulting in most countries in Europe hardly even having an army worth invading Belgium with, nor an air force or navy good for more than a few hours of fighting. No matter.

So, since the ass clowns in Norway have reduced old Alfred’s once truly significant award to less then audacious hype and empty political posturing, it is only just that I don’t post on this event until the middle of the evening when I’m taking a bathroom break between bouts of channel surfing. It matters that little. Less. I do hope though that the EU puts the prize money in one of their virtually cobwebbed bank accounts, because the whole bunch of them are about to go belly up financially. And when that happens things will get nasty. Lead by Germany, the only country in Continental Europe to have not made a complete mess of things.

Gee, in the 1930s we had an angry Germany and everybody else had all the money. I wonder how it will play out this time with an angry Germany that has all the money? Perhaps the Nobel Prize is now a reliable contra-indicator, the same way awarding their gold medal to Obama the moment he took power seems to have been proof of the nothingness of his reign? Thus a peace prize to the EU would mean war is on the horizon. If NATO fights NATO, does the US have to support both sides? Will we at least be able to send Democrats to this set of trenches and Republicans to that set? Gee whiz.

OSLO, Norway — The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe — despite being in the midst of its biggest crisis since the bloc was created in the 1950s.

The Norwegian prize committee said the EU received the award for six decades of contributions “to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.

“The stabilizing part played by the European Union has helped to transform a once torn Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace,” Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said.

The EU rose from the ashes of World War II, born of the conviction that ever-closer economic ties would make sure that century-old enemies never turned on each other again. It’s now made up of 500 million people in 27 nations, with other nations lined up, waiting to join.

The idea of a united Europe began to take on a more defined shape when, on May 9, 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed that France and the Federal Republic of Germany pool their coal and steel resources in a new organization that other European countries could join.

“Today war between Germany and France is unthinkable. This shows how, through well-aimed efforts and by building up mutual confidence, historical enemies can become close partners,” the committee said.

Wanna bet? Buy a few rounds at any German pub and then get them talking about reparations from WWI. Or all the wonderful Turks in their cities. And then buy another round and bring glorious, sophisticated, romantic France into the conversation. 

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As If You Needed It

Today, we have a choice to make, and this upcoming election is important in many ways, but especially to our way of life. We have one party who wishes to control every aspect of our lives, and another party that only wants to control many aspects of our lives

Regarding the Republican position statement, which Jeff includes verbatim:

The above is the strongest pro-rights statement to ever come out as the official platform of the Republican Party. Mitt Romney does not have a stellar record on gun rights, but within the framework of this platform, the party will hold his feet to the fire, and hopefully, he will do nothing to impede our civil rights.

Regarding the Democrat position statement, which Jeff includes verbatim:

It starts off rather well, but reading the rest of that paragraph reveals that their first sentence is very much akin to the matter into which I stepped while out in the cow pasture today. They go on to state that our God-given civil rights are subject to “reasonable” regulation. They do not state who will do the reasoning and regulating. Maybe Harry Reid? Nancy Pelosi? Charles Schumer? Barak Obama? Those are the leaders of the party, and they want to “reasonably” regulate that which God has given us.

He then spends 6 energetic paragraphs detailing the Democrat worldview and what is wrong with it. And he doesn’t make a single mistake. Nice reading, quick and to the point.

Vote wisely, as if your life depends upon it, because it does.

Got that right. Go read the whole darn thing.

Oh, and a little bit more for you from the Quinn boys - a list of properly sourced Obama quotes regarding firearms and gun rights. Thanks fellas!

There you go: Obama in a nutshell. You’re smart enough to see what this statement means coming from a person like BHO.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/12/2012 at 05:36 PM   
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little big debate

BORING.

Wonk vs. Douche ... no contest.

My take away? Joe Biden is one of the rudest people I’ve ever met. He’s a bully. And a real snot nosed d-bag. By 3 or 4 minutes in to the debate I wanted to pop him in the nose for his derisive grinning. By 10 minutes I wanted to use a board with nails in it. What a scumdog.

My second take away? The let’s sit here at the kitchen table and talk kind of debate format sucks. Was that supposed to be “town hall”? Beats me. And I thought the moderator just got run over left and right. She was not in control of the situation at all.

Oh goody, I’m not the only person who found him to be so grating.  But I can just imagine him back in his boss’s office this morning - “I did what you wanted Barry. You said to take the offense so I went out there and was offensive as possible!”

Posted by Drew458     on 10/12/2012 at 06:50 AM   
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Americans, OMG

Woman Forced To Share House With Squatter

No, this is not a story from the UK.

Some woman bought a house in Detroit, had to move out of it for about a year while repairs were made, and then found a professional squatter (aka “community organizer” wink wink nudge nudge) living there when she got back. Detroit won’t throw the squatter out ASAP, not without a hearing and all the legal delays involved. So the homeowner and her daughter, having nowhere else to live, are forced to share their domicile with some possibly crazy violent street person. Or worse.

Here is the link.

My post is that the comments, made pretty much exclusively by Americans, run about 8 out of 10 along the lines of “Shoot the bitch.”

In America, we think of squatters as slow motion home invaders, so we apply the same solution to both problems.

And if I made a comment on that page, I’d even volunteer to buy the ammo.

They must be so aghast in the UK. We’re just so barbaric over here.

You’re damn right.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/12/2012 at 06:08 AM   
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That Was So Unexpected

A sharp drop in the number of weekly jobless claims filed last week was caused by the failure of one large state to report all of its claims,, a Labor Department spokesman confirmed to FOX Business.

Initial jobless claims, which are a measure of the number of people recently laid off, fell by 30,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the lowest level in more than four years.

But the Labor Department spokesman said the numbers were skewed by one large state that underreported its data. The spokesman declined to identify the state, but economists believe California is the only state large enough to have such a significant impact on the overall numbers.

According to the spokesman, the reason that state’s claims numbers fell short was because the state left out a pile of unprocessed claims related to seasonal factors around the beginning of the fourth quarter, which began Oct. 1.

In a research note, Stephen Stanley of Pierpont Securities summed up the data: “In short, this reading is worthless in terms of informing on the general economy.”

California huh? And it was an accident because the unionized government employees didn’t get their task done on time? Yeah right. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.

Coming a month ahead of the presidential election, some have suggested that the numbers are being manipulated for political purposes. Specifically, some supporters of Republican candidate Mitt Romney have accused the Obama Administration of doctoring the numbers to support President Obama’s re-election bid.

The White House and the Labor Department have denied the charges.

Denied the charges? Well now, that IS news.

Not.

update: Well yeah, all of that, plus this. Category shifting can hide plenty; it’s a form of accounting.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/12/2012 at 05:41 AM   
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no law but lots of disorder as idiot judge ruins a good cop

Just the sort of thing to make us see red.

I can’t see what the cop did wrong. The little shit asked for the treatment he got.  I’m sorry the officer didn’t break his face. Little creep.
This is what law enforcement has to deal with. Daily I guess.  I could never do their job in a hundred years.  Wouldn’t want to either. Besides, I’d get banged up for shooting dead some bit of grime like the punk in this article.  This is why the bad guys are winning. Cos courts and bleeding heart, wimpy hand wringers and idiot judges turn on cops doing their job.  Just wish some of these judges and other critics could see the punks up close and personal. As victims.  Why the hell do people go into police work these days?  Take a look at this.
I’ve deleted all my expletives. Howz that for self control?

Moment a policeman lost his temper. . . and his career: CCTV catches officer using ‘pain restraint’ to calm 15-year-old who refused to do as he was told
· PC Stephen Hudson quit his job after 12 years of service
· Officer ‘likely to be declared bankrupt and is a broken man’
· Teenager suffered nose bleed and bruised chest
By James Tozer and Nazia Parveen

This is the moment a police officer lost both his unblemished career and his reputation by losing his temper with a disruptive teenage tearaway.
PC Stephen Hudson bent the 15-year-old boy’s arm behind his back and lifted him off the ground after he refused to empty his pockets.
CCTV captured the 6ft 1in officer – who in a 12-year career suffered injuries including a suspected fractured skull, cracked rib and broken finger while tackling criminals – slam the 4ft 8in boy on to the counter, causing him to scream in pain.

The 43-year-old then pushed his face against the teenager’s ear and shouted: ‘You are not the big man. You might think you are but you’re not.’
However the divorced father-of-three was himself arrested after the boy – described in court as a ‘local nuisance’ who had repeatedly tried officers’ patience – complained of bruising and a nosebleed.

Hudson claimed to have been using an authorised police restraint technique called ‘pain compliance’ and said he himself had been assaulted by the youth.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been arrested for a breach of bail.

He had been in the custody suite at Swinton police station in Greater Manchester ‘numerous times’ before and had previously kicked cell doors and refused to obey the rules, a court heard.

However a jury at Bolton Crown Court found the former officer, who worked at the suite, guilty of misconduct in a public office.
Hudson, who has quit his job, was given a nine-month jail term suspended for 18 months.

The court heard he had been left ‘a broken man’ facing bankruptcy, while his children had to be taken out of school as a result of bullying over the incident.
In addition, he faces being sued by the boy’s family.

But Judge Peter Davies accused Hudson, of Westhoughton, near Bolton, of ‘besmirching’ the reputation of a force which last month lost two female officers in a shooting by inflicting ‘deliberate degradation and humiliation’ on the teenager.

And he branded the laughter of three other watching officers, including a sergeant, ‘bullying of the worst form’ and said they ought to have been in the dock alongside Hudson.
The two PCs and a custody sergeant are now facing disciplinary action.
Judge Davies declared: ‘The overwhelming majority of police officers discharge the faith and trust invested in them by the public with diligence, courage and fortitude.
‘A tiny few, however, betray that trust, and I am afraid you have been found to be one of those few.’

Read and see more , Daily Mail source

Oh screw self control. Judge Davis, FUCK YOU. You are a major ass and so are all who buy your line of pap and bullshit.
Please drop dead soon and hopes for your nearest and dearest to do the same at the hands of a punk like this yob filth.

Little bastard is now 15. His family will sue no doubt, he’ll be a hero in his own tiny mind and grow into manhood a vile and violent creature of a limp wristed court and judge.  What a shit system and no better in the states either I’ll bet.

Posted by peiper     on 10/12/2012 at 05:10 AM   
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