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calendar   Friday - August 08, 2014

kill and torture for the fun and a 7th century religion of peace. isis atrocities

I have no doubt it may be bad guys vs other bad guys.  However .... something tells me that one of em is far worse and even more dangerous on an international level.  Might I have that right?  For certain though, Isis appears a cut above the usual murderous jihadist sadists.
Heard a radio report on this group as well as the stuff in papers.  What I thought originally were a bunch of rag tag kill for fun, run of the mill muzzies , are anything but.  Seems they have good organization and lots of money and are battle hardened bastards.
They seem to view their atrocities as sport. 
So now, and about time, Washington has sent in the bombs and is doing something about it. The question now of course is, will we leave the job half done?
I heard an American general tonight say we had to kill them, they don’t understand anything else.  And the reports we get daily about their murderous treatment of Christians, who are fleeing in the thousands, is eclipsed only by their treatment of their own fellow muslims.  In short ,,, the word for all is ... join us and convert to islam, or die. 


Lined up and executed, their severed heads put on display as a warning to others: Horrific new photographs of ISIS atrocities

Sunni tribesmen marched into desert, made to kneel and shot in the head
Tribe made deal with Islamic State to be left alone but agreement collapsed
Shocking close-up photos of splattered brains and severed heads also released

By Tom Wyke

The latest victims of the Islamic State campaign of terror in Syria and Iraq have been revealed in a shocking new set of photos published online by the jihadist group’s media arm.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Sunni tribesmen were from Shaitat, near Deir ez Zor, which has long been considered a key strategic target for the Islamic State owing to the eastern province’s considerable oil revenue.

Rounded up and marched into the desert, they are made to kneel on the dusty grouind before being systematically shot in the head.

Others aren’t so lucky. One image shows a jihadist fighter gleefully carving off a prisoner’s head as the victim screams in agony.

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The consequences for betraying the Islamic State is clear, even for Sunni Muslims, who are accused of ‘banditry and treachery’ and described as ‘corrupt hyenas’ by the militant group.

‘The punishment of those who fight Allah and his Messenger and spread mischief on earth is to kill or crucify or cut off their hands and feet,’ the group declared.

The tribe had previously made a deal with the Islamic State to remain neutral but the agreement collapsed after the locals became disillusioned by the Islamic State’s interference.

Fighting broke out in the province when the Sunni Shaitat tribe rose up in defiance against the Islamic State, burning down their headquarters and forcing the fighters to withdraw from the villages of Abu Hamam, Kashkiyeh and Ghranj.

A swift and powerful counter attack was launched by the Islamic State and a large number of rebellious tribesmen were taken prisoner.

Fighting for the Islamic State, the British jihadist, Reyaad Khan, known by the nom de guerre Abu Dujana, wrote on Twitter: ‘lol those cow-hugging tribesmen forget who dawlah are… The moustache men in Deir [ez Zour] need to realise that we are not afraid to slaughter all of Deir to its ground and turn it red if required…’

The 20-year-old, previously schooled in Cardiff, predicted that the Islamic State would not allow the Shaitat tribe to escape unpunished and that the prisoners were to expect torture and death.

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Photos were released yesterday showing prisoners being forced to march through the desert by masked Islamic State fighters.

Bent double and bare footed, their hands are bound behind their backs with rope.

Some of them can be seen holding the t-shirt of the prisoner in front of them with their teeth to keep up with the line.

Their tormentors push and force the prisoners to bow their heads.

None of the prisoners appear to be wearing any form of military insignia. They are all wearing civilian clothes, including one man wearing a faded Inter Milan shirt.

They are then lined up and ordered to kneel down on the dusty ground.

Around 20 Islamic State fighters stand behind the line of men and the squad of jihadists begin to gun down the line of prisoners.

Thick brown dust billows up as the bullets of their AK-47s strike the prisoners.

more to read and video at source

President carries out his threat to use force to save thousands of non-Muslims trapped by fanatics

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/08/2014 at 12:22 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - August 07, 2014

Rule 34 That Pic To Remove The Racism!

Internet Rule 34
Generally accepted internet rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject.




Oh Noes, Those Terrible RACIST Russians!!

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Russian students beam racist laser show depicting Obama eating a banana on the side of US embassy in Moscow on President’s birthday

A sickening racist birthday message to President Barack Obama has been beamed onto the U.S. embassy in Russia using lasers.

The image, which is sure to further enflame relations between the two countries, showed Mr Obama swallowing a banana.

It was projected onto the front of the embassy building in Moscow as a stunt by students on Monday, the day of Obama’s 53rd birthday.

What what what??? A happy birthday wish to our Fearless Reader, reminding him to get his daily fruits and vegetables? How could that possibly be rayciss???

The brief laser show starts with the message ‘Happy Birthday Obama’ before a likeness of the president appears on the side of the building and a banana slides into his mouth.

A group called the Moscow Student’s Initiative have claimed responsibility for the stunt.
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Only hours before the racist stunt a banner was unfurled on a building across the road from the embassy that featured caricatures of Obama with the words, ‘I don’t see … I don’t hear … I don’t speak the truth to anybody’.

And how is that one rayciss??? What the hey hey, we had EIGHT SOLID YEARS of “Chimpy McBush”, so portraying the US President as some kind of a   macacca   monkey is nothing new and thus fair game.  And not racist at all. Under their fur, all apes have grey skin.

Besides. Come on already. You want to be insulting? A banana? A banana??? Too simple. Too easy. Easy? Oh hella no. Practically legally required, by Rule 34.

I think the only people crying rayciss here are the ones who are in fact racists.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/07/2014 at 12:47 PM   
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memories of childhood

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Illustration by Anton Otto Fischer from a children’s book I read early on. I think the book was my father’s, although he may have come by it later in life; the edition was a couple years older than he was. Perhaps it was his father’s.  Who knows? But a classic tail nonetheless.

No fair searching up the image on Google. If you’ve read the classics, you’ll recognize my little joke naming the file “no coffee for you.jpg”, and thus immediately identify the character if your memory didn’t pull up this classic literary moment.

Yeah, a child’s book in 1931. Wherein every single character bar one meets a violent death. These days it gets assigned in college, if they even do that sort of thing in EN101 any more.

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Just for fun, a picture of the other kind. No, we never had one of these, although I once had a car that was even larger than this thing, but only by a couple of inches.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/07/2014 at 12:04 PM   
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copy kats

Iran Announces “We Have Our Own Iron Dome”

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New missile defense systems set to go online in September
Iranian military leaders announced on Wednesday that Tehran is readying new mid-range and long-range missile defense systems reminiscent of Israel’s Iron Dome system, which destroys rockets in mid-air before they strike the ground.

Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli, commander of Iran’s Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, said on Wednesday that the latest defense systems will go online on September 22, according to comments made Wednesday to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency.

The missile defense announcement comes as the successes of Israel’s Iron Dome system are featured prominently in Western media outlets. Israeli officials have hailed the highly advanced system for protecting lives during the most recent conflict with Hamas by knocking many of the terror group’s attacks off course.

Esmayeeli, who did not reveal many technical details about the new equipment, said that the mid-range and long-range defense systems will be connected to Iran’s larger military apparatus.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/07/2014 at 09:00 AM   
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Next Time Do Your Homework

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/07/2014 at 08:55 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - August 06, 2014

No Thanks, I Ain’t Going

Giant Bugs in China

Two massive Asian insects in the news today; a giant dragonfly to creep you out, and vicious giant hornets the size of sparrows that can kill you. Gee, I can’t wait to go to China. Yes I can. Schedule my trip on the 12th of Never.  Yuck!!!

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The world’s largest flying aquatic insect, with huge, nightmarish pincers, has been discovered in China’s Sichuan province, experts say.

According to the Insect Museum of West China, local villagers in the outskirts of Chengdu handed over “weird insects that resemble giant dragonflies with long teeth” earlier this month.

Several of these odd critters were examined by the museum and found to be unusually large specimens of the giant dobsonfly, which is native to China and Vietnam.

The largest one measured 21 centimeters (8.27 inches) when its wings were open, according to the museum, busting the original record for largest aquatic insect held by a South American helicopter damselfly, which had a wingspan of 19.1 centimeters (7.5 inches).

Large enough to cover the face of a human adult, this scary-looking insect is also known among entomologists as an indicator of water quality, says the museum.

Recently discovered? I hardly think so. I’m sure the Chinese already have 10 different recipes for the thing.

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Giant killer hornets have killed at least 42 people in China since July and left more than 1,600 injured and dozens more suffering from multiple organ failure and severe allergic reactions.

But the Asian giant hornets aren’t just a problem in China—they’re also found in other countries, including nearby South Korea and Japan.

Travelers would do well to know how to behave if they’re faced with these deadly creatures (tip: walk away, don’t run).

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In person, the Asian giant hornet, which is the largest hornet species in the world, looks like “the wasp analog of a pit bull” with “a face that looks like you just can’t reason with it,” said Christopher K. Starr, professor of entomology at University of West Indes in Trinidad & Tobago.

These hornets are found throughout East and Southeast Asia, in countries such as in China, Korea, Japan, India and Nepal.

And they’re big. The giant hornet extends about 3.5 to 3.9 centimeters in length (1.4 to 1.5 inches), roughly the size of a human thumb, and it has black tooth used for burrowing, according to an animal database at the University of Michigan. The queens are even bigger, with bodies that can grow longer than 5 centimeters (2 inches).

The species feed their young the larvae of other insects and use their mandibles to sever the limbs and heads of their prey. The giant hornets are attracted to human sweat, alcohol and sweet flavors and smells. They are especially sensitive to when animals or people run, according to Xinhua.

Every breeding season, the giant hornets produce an average of 1,000 to 2,000 offspring, Schmidt said. They feast on other insects such as wasps and bees, launching coordinated attacks on the hives of their prey.

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Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!!!

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PS - the hornets managed to stow away in a pottery shipment to Europe, and are now in France. How soon until they get to the UK?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/06/2014 at 04:45 PM   
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woo-hoo … these young ladies are in a jam. and all for being funny, except to the pc left

It was a private affair, but somehow the university which I must assume is all gooey and pc and high on diversity and multi crap, now want to punish a couple of girls with a bodacious sense of humor for “blacking up.”
Maybe they shouldn’t have uploaded a photo. But then .. heck. Why not?  Some ppl are just too sensitive.  Or only make the proper noises to be seen as such.

Students face disciplinary action after taking photographs of themselves with blacked-up faces and pillows shoved in their skirts to mimic maids in South Africa

University students dressed up as South African maids for a friend’s party
Smeared faces with brown paint and wore clothing associated with maids
Even shoved pillows down skirts in bid to make their bottoms look bigger
Struck poses for the camera and images were later posted on Facebook
University of Pretoria in South Africa taking disciplinary action against girls
Said it did not tolerate racist behaviour and deemed photo ‘unacceptable’

By Sophie Jane Evans and Jane Flanagan In Cape Town

Two university students are facing disciplinary action after taking photos of themselves dressed up as black South African maids.

The girls, who are studying at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, smeared their faces with brown paint and shoved pillows down their skirts in a bid to make their bottoms look bigger.

They then struck a number of poses for the camera, before the images were uploaded to the social-networking site Facebook.

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Now, the university in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, is carrying out disciplinary action against the students, who dressed up in the outfits for a friend’s party.

The photos, which have since been deleted from Facebook, show the girls posing in a bedroom while donning clothing typically associated with domestic workers.

They appear to be deliberately sticking their bottoms out, while their smiles seemingly suggest they believe their outfits are amusing.

Amusing?  Just amusing?  It is highly accurate and funny you meathead you.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/06/2014 at 10:10 AM   
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Back, Somewhat

Ok, I guess I’m back. I needed a few days off. Got out there and tried to enjoy what little summer we’re having this year. Now that it’s August, that month when NJ usually melts in the sweltering heat and humidity, the leaves are already starting to turn. Looks to me like Fall is coming early this year.

That doesn’t bode so well for my little garden patch, but it will force me to get busy and figure out what kind of perennial bulbs I want to get planted. More tulips and some daffy-dils for the central area. The canna that grew this year came up nice and lush, but they still haven’t bloomed. And if my tendonitis is healed enough, I want to finish the lower garden and get a passel of lilies and irises in there, with maybe a couple dozen gladiolus for some color and height. That’s going to be quite a bit of work, and take another quarter ton of good topsoil to liven up the lifeless dirt down there.

Summer bowling league is drawing to a close. I think tonight is our last night of regular bowling, then we do the last two weeks as finals. We’re about in 2nd place at this point, maybe 3rd by just a point or two. We lost our anchor to a twisted ankle, so we’ll finish the season with a vacancy. Not what I’d want, but that means a nearly 80 point drop in our team average, which can only help us in terms of weekly handicap. And summer league is a 90% handicap.

Looks like I missed out on the Ebola story, although I’ve been following it closely on the news. I don’t want Ebola patients being brought here. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who has been in or near any of the West African nations where the epidemic is within the past month should have a screening before being let onto a ship or plane heading our way, and probably be put in isolation somewhere offshore for 3 weeks just to make sure. Wake up you fools: this is a plague of biblical dimension. Don’t invite the fox into the hen house for tea. On the other hand, I am impressed as all heck that the couple of doses of some R&D medicine given to that doctor and his assistant have enabled such a miraculous recovery. Find those two another few doses, and let’s see if this is actually a cure. And if it is, wow. Just consider the ramifications for a minute. Ebola is a virus, not a bacterium. This new experimental medicine could be the key to unlocking the door to curing a huge host of viral infections, from HIV to the common cold. And that is a medical breakthrough of stupendous scale. World altering scale.

The situation in Israel continues to be a mess. As always, the pressure from our joooo-hating world will force Israel to stop their fight against Hamas before they’ve achieved victory. Please Benji, please don’t listen to them. Get the job done once and for all.

Looks like it’s time to change your passwords on everything again. News today is that the Russian mafia stole passwords and digital credentials on 1.2 BILLION people. 1.2 billion? Come on. That’s probably half the internet population that owns a credit card or does online transactions of any kind. By which I mean that I don’t doubt that the reds did it, and it shows that there really is no such thing as internet security. None. So let’s not be foolish and let our computers do auto-complete on anything. Let’s not allow a single merchant to keep our credit card data. Let’s not even keep our passwords or credit card numbers on our own PCs. Put them on a bit of paper and hide them in a book. Not in your wallet or taped to your keyboard. Let’s all add another “TSA shoe hassle” to our lives and get in the habit of changing all our passwords weekly, and getting and using one-shot virtual credit cards. This sucks.

A 2 star US General was killed and more than a dozen soldiers wounded in an inside-job ambush in Afghanistan. What a non-surprise that one of the “trusted” local troops turned out to be a jihadi in hiding. Let’s stop being stupid over there, m’kay? Train up some of the locals if you must, but keep them well segregated. Sorry, but they simply can not be trusted. And since it’s Obama’s plan to lose this war too, why are we wasting time and lives staying there? Get out now, and destroy every gun, tank, and truck we’re not taking back with us.

ISIS continues to rampage across Syria and Iraq, killing Christians and everyone else who doesn’t bow down to their 7th Century insanity. And the world does nothing. Welcome the Caliphate! They’re going to take over, simply because nobody from the West could be bothered to fight them. And then things will really get dark.

Gee, anyone wonder why I need a few days away from this? I’d go hide in my garden and commune with Mother Nature, but first I have to mix up a batch of poison and spray for bugs. The place is amok with spiders, flies, and those miniscule little bitey bugs. Time to get “mid-evil” on their asses.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 08/06/2014 at 08:30 AM   
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why can’t punishment fit the crime, especially in cases of torture and cold blooded killing for fun

Usually I just post part of an article and supply a link. Easy. 
Except here with this very sad and anger inducing article.  Not that there is anything new or even surprising.  Even the crime doesn’t surprise us anymore.
It must be a living hell for the parents. I don’t understand the thinking of the many who are running what is laughably and erroneously called, “the Justice System.” If someone is given life for cold blooded murder, and one done for hell of it, why after denying a full and active live to some innocent, should the killer be later deemed as no longer a threat to society and paroled?  Why are they entitled to live free?  Some are even transferred to open prisons, from which a number of them have run away. Well actually, simply walked off.  Oh, and the rules now say prisoners must be addressed as ‘mister’ if you please.

Seems to me that if the vermin in this case were executed in the very same manner they took one innocent life, society would be much better off, probably safer, and if punishments were made to fit the crimes we hear about these days, there might just be less of this kind of thing.  Not a cure all I know, but a step in the right direction.  But oh no. That’s a slippery slope and would violate the human rights of the killer(s).

So here’s what got me going today.  Not very pleasant first thing with morning tea or coffee.


What is the point of victim impact statements?

By Paul Gallagher

Allan Bentley was jailed for life in 2000 for orchestrating the torture and killing of 15-year-old Michael Moss on playing fields in Sefton, Merseyside, in what became known as the “Reservoir Dogs” murder.

Bentley and two friends, Mark McKeefrey and Graham Neary, stripped Moss naked, then beat him and stabbed him 49 times over two hours. Mimicking a scene in the Quentin Tarantino heist movie, the three teens tried to cut off one of his ears with a broken vodka bottle while singing “Stuck in the Middle with You”.

At their separate parole hearings over the years, Michael’s mum, Liz, has read out her victim impact statement in the hope that the trio would remain behind bars for longer than the minimum tariffs they received. “I will never forget that day I was told of Michael’s murder,” she in her statement. “It was such a traumatic murder that my mind will not and cannot to this day accept the torture that Michael suffered. Every day of my life, I have flashbacks of what happened to Michael. I cannot go past a park or playing fields, as I see the images of my beautiful son being tortured. What I see is Michael lying naked on a very cold November night with every part of his body bleeding and mutilated.

“I go into a trance and cannot hear people talking, but I can hear Michael shouting ‘Mum, mum, mum’. Sometimes I feel I am losing my mind because I want to feel the torture he went through. Bentley has served a relatively short time in prison compared to my life sentence of grief and pain.”

Mrs Moss, 59, said she had suffered a mental breakdown, been hospitalised and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, but her words have been to no avail. One by one her son’s killers have been released.

Judge Graham White may well have had Mrs Moss in mind when he was caught on camera this week saying that impact statements made by bereaved families made “no difference” to parole judgements. His conversation was overheard by Geraldine and Peter McGinty whose son Colin, 21, was stabbed to death 13 years ago, also in Merseyside. Two men – Michael Brown and Gary Hampton – were jailed for his murder. After both killers applied to be moved to open prison, the McGintys were invited to give an impact statement – allowed when an offender has been sentenced to custody for 12 months or more for a serious sexual or violent offence – via video link. At Brown’s hearing, the couple explained that they were still “serving a life sentence of heartache and grief and pain”.

Judge White, who mistakenly thought the link had been disconnected, turned to one side and said: “I feel so sorry for these families. They make these statements thinking they are going to make a difference, but they make no difference at all. Someone should tell them.”

The McGintys said the comments were “sickening”. “The heartache that we go through to do these statements, to be told they don’t make any difference,” Mrs McGinty said.

Judge White has apologised, saying: “I am sorry if what they overheard upset them and if it made them feel that what they had said had no impact because it certainly did, but what it can’t do is affect our judgement of his [Brown’s] risk.”

The Parole Board is investigating the judge’s comments. A spokesman said the board values victim statements and recognises the importance of giving victims the opportunity to make their voices heard. “Where release is being considered,” he said, “Victim Personal Statements can assist in setting appropriate licence conditions such as exclusion zones and conditions for the offender not to contact the victim.”

However, according to the Board’s own guidelines, decisions are “ultimately based on the offender’s current risk”. The guidance states: “In most cases, the victim is unlikely to have information [on] this.”

Other victims of serious crime reacted with anger to Judge White’s comments. Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Newlove, whose husband Garry was kicked to death in Warrington in 2007 by a gang vandalising his car, said that it saddened her to hear of another family not treated with basic humanity and respect. “Victims pour their hearts into these statements to make sure they do their loved ones the best possible justice,” she said. “They should never be dismissed like this. It’s the only way for a victim to express the terrible impact of a crime, and how a decision such as a move to open conditions could affect their lives. That’s why it should be respected and given proper consideration before making a decision.”

Laws on data protection and confidentiality prevent victims and relatives from seeing a copy of the Parole Board’s “written reasons” for their decisions. Rose Dixon, the CEO of charity Support After Murder and Manslaughter, last night called for clarification from the Ministry of Justice regarding the purpose of victim impact statements. “It used to be clear what the role of impact statements was but following Judge White’s comments regarding the McGinty family, we need some very clear guidelines [if their role has changed].”

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/06/2014 at 05:59 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - August 05, 2014

lefty blockhead professor claims garden show is secret racist rant or, idiot gets his 15min fame

In the past I’ve complained a lot about the politically correct left always banging on about race issues even where none existed.  And if not, they would create one.
I’ve complained about pc meatheads who are offended on behalf of some other person or persons, even where the suspected offended party turns out not to be so.
Things just get dumber and dumber until we become so numb to things, we ignore it all.  And at one time or another, most of us ask if it can get any worse and any dumber.  Well … boy oh boy did I find a corker today in a morning paper.

Here the scary part before I share the article.

I was not surprised and you won’t be either.  And that is unfortunate.

Brief background.
Radio program been on for many, many years. It’s a program devoted to gardens and the millions of ordinary folk who love, nurture and tend them. The Brits are big on gardens and flowers.  It’s a national passion. So this radio program broadcasts as, Gardeners’ Question Time.
Now what the heck could possibly be racist about a garden show?

Ah well … seek and you can find whatever your twisted brain and black heart want to find.  You can even make things up, and if you’re a bearded stupid looking dweeb college professor, you can get people to pay attention.  Even if many will think you are a nutter.

Just another example of what our world has come to. And only someone from the left could dream this one up.

Gardeners’ Question Time? It’s so racist: Sociologist rails at references to ‘non-native’ plants

· Dr Ben Pitcher claims BBC Radio 4 programme is saturated in racism
· Sociology lecturer says its spreading covert racist stereotypes in disguise
· Believes the show is secretly feeding nationalist and fascist fantasies
· Appeared on another Radio 4 programme ‘Thinking Allowed’ on July 30
By Alasdair Glennie

With its amiable discussions on greenfly and compost, it may seem as innocuous as a radio show could be.
So regular listeners to Gardeners’ Question Time will be surprised to find it caught up in a race row.
For an academic claims that Radio 4’s long-running programme is spreading covert racist stereotypes disguised as horticultural advice.

Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, says the panel show is ‘saturated’ with racial language.
From debates about native and non-native plant species to advice about the purity of different soil types, the programme’s resident green-fingered experts are secretly feeding nationalist and fascist fantasies, he claims.

Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, he said: ‘Gardeners’ Question Time is not the most controversial show on Radio 4, and yet it is layered with, saturated with, racial meanings. The context here is the rise of nationalism. The rise of racist and fascist parties across Europe. Nationalism is about shoring up a fantasy of national integrity. My question is, what feeds nationalism? What makes nationalism powerful?’
Dr Pitcher said there is a ‘crisis in white identity in multicultural Britain’ caused by the fact that ‘white culture’ is historically associated with racism and far-Right views.

White people are therefore forced to find other ways of talking about white identity – such as through gardening – so they do not appear to be racist.
Speaking on the same programme, Lola Young, a crossbench peer and former professor of cultural studies, agreed with Dr Pitcher’s argument. She added: ‘I remember back in the late 80s-early 90s when rhododendrons were seen as this huge problem, and people were talking about going out rhododendron-bashing.
It is not the first time Gardeners’ Question Time has been embroiled in a race row.

In 2008, listeners complained after a plant known as a ‘black man’s willy’ was mentioned. The BBC was accused of ‘pandering to political correctness’ after it apologised.

Last night horticulturalist Stefan Buczacki, who was on the programme for 13 years, said Dr Pitcher’s claims were ‘utterly absurd’.
‘Many things have been said about Gardeners’ Question Time, but you can’t say it is racist,’ he said. ‘His comments show a complete lack of understanding of the natural world.

‘Gardeners understand the fluidity of species over space and time.
‘They come and go, and adapt to different environments. That is what we mean by native and non-native species. It has nothing whatsoever to do with nationalism or racism.
‘There is enough real racism in the world without looking for it in places it doesn’t exist.’

WAYS THE PROGRAMME COULD BE PERCEIVED AS RACIST

NATIVE VERSUS NON-NATIVE SPECIES: The show’s experts often warn gardeners of the dangers of introducing foreign species of plant to a garden, and the importance of weed control. But is this actually a racist code?

SOIL: According to Dr Pitcher, nationalists often use the metaphor of soil to discuss ethnic purity. Are the Gardeners’ Question Time discussions about compost and soil types as innocent as they seem?

RHODOCHITON VOLUBILIS: A 2008 episode outraged some viewers when a caller asked for advice on how to care for the perennial climber, commonly known as ‘black man’s willy’.

SPADE: To most gardeners, it is no more than a simple garden implement. But in America, the word has long been a derogatory term for African Americans, equivalent to n*****.

BLACKFLY: Listeners often call in asking how to rid their broad beans of the pesky black bean aphid, commonly known as blackfly. But is there a secret racist subtext?

see the nutty professor here


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/05/2014 at 02:20 PM   
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calendar   Monday - August 04, 2014

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Who knew?

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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 08/04/2014 at 01:43 PM   
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Must see video.

These two are talented! Enjoy!


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 08/04/2014 at 11:56 AM   
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That is one tuff t-shirt!

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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 08/04/2014 at 05:12 AM   
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Some Eye Candy to start the week off. Look Ma, no cucumbers!

What do you think? Real? I’d need a hands-on test drive to be sure…

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I posted another below. You seriously don’t want to go there. Seriously! Stay away! Go look elsewhere! Do NOT look below the fold. There isn’t enough eye-bleach in the universe!

Gonna click on it aren’t you? I warned you…


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