Saturday - October 04, 2014

late night saturday eye candy

ANGIE EVERHART

Posted by peiper     on 10/04/2014 at 02:26 PM   
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hatfields and mccoys gypsy style

Gypsies make their own laws I guess. 
No ... hang on.
There’s no guessing anything about these folks.  Best not to get on the wrong side of them.

No surprise here. The killer is the one on the right.

Here’s part of the story .... see the link for more.

Gypsy blood feud: Man warned cousin’s son he would kill him on the happiest day of his life as revenge for 1987 car smash - then shot him dead days after his first child was born

John ‘Boy’ Ward, 33, shot Thomas Ward, 21 over a bitter family feud

Shot him dead at a caravan site five days after his daughter was born

Court heard he phoned his victim in 2011 and said: ‘It’s me, your enemy. I’m going to wait until you are at your happiest - then I’m going to get you’
John ‘Boy’ Ward found guilty by a jury at St Albans Crown Court yesterday.

Following the shooting, John used a fake passport and fled to Denmark

The feud began when Thomas’s father, James ‘Young Fox’ Ward was held responsible for death of his cousin, Micky Ward, in a car crash in 1987

Six years later, James Ward shot dead Micky’s brother James ‘Bimbo’ Ward
John ‘Boy’ Ward was the younger brother of the two dead men

Thomas’s father, James ‘Young Fox’ Ward was jailed for 13 months in July while drunkenly driving around in a revenge mission to find his son’s killers
Clips of the funeral were on My Big Fat Gypsy Christening on Channel 4

By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline

This thing reads like something we’d see on TV. Boardwalk Empire, Gypsy style.

article and pix continue here

Posted by peiper     on 10/04/2014 at 01:54 PM   
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ok then … schools should also serve the kids kosher food too. except that,

Except that, contrary to what many believe, very many Jews do in fact eat pork and everything else many ppl think they don’t consume.
Anyway ... it is interesting that so far .... the Jewish population here and the USA who are religiously conservative, and the orthodox (who I have no patience for and find them an embarrassment) none of them has to my knowledge demanded kosher food in schools.  Haven’t heard of any demand from Hindus either.
Seems muslims and especially the idiot converts with less brains than god gave a tennis ball, they complain. They insist. They demand.

Why the heck can’t they go to a strict muslim country and wallow all they want in their faith.

You just have to feel sorry for the kids here. Look how young they are.

What the heck is it with so many western women, and what especially is it with western white women, that they gravitate to this insanity.
I just can’t get my head around that.
This woman is still living here. Wonder what her attitude might be if she were living in a muslim country.
OK, so you take youngsters like this, get em well and truly brainwashed, maybe raise the perfect suicide killer. Perfect cos a blond light skinned person could conceivably pass for .... one of us.

Muslim family sends children to school with ‘Halal only’ stickers taped across their chest after daughter is served up non-Halal food

Henna Khan has sent her three children to school with ‘Halal only’ badges
She took action after Woodside Academy in Bradford kept serving non-Halal
The mother, 29, said the homemade badges on their uniforms are a ‘protest’
Woodside Academy apologised and said an investigation had been launched

By Emma Glanfield

Three Muslim children have been sent to school with ‘Halal only’ badges taped to their uniforms after one of them was served non-Halal food in the canteen on ‘eight or nine occasions’.

Khadija Khan, five, has been given non-Halal food by staff at Woodside Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire, numerous times despite her parents writing to the school to express their beliefs.

Her mother, Henna Khan, 29, has now decided to take matters into her own hands and said she has taped the stickers to her children’s uniforms in ‘protest’.

The family also complained to Bradford Council, who sent a letter informing them that staff would be given Halal awareness training.

read the rest at the MAIL

Posted by peiper     on 10/04/2014 at 12:51 PM   
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i hasta go now

I have to go help out family for a few days. Will be back Monday, but may be gone again from Tuesday. fun fun fun.

We did manage to win all 7 points at Fun League last night. Two guys on our opponents team were former teammates from years ago on Greed League, so that brought out my competitiveness. After being in a bit of a slump the past couple of weeks, I rolled a 222 in the first game, against Joe’s 225. He got me, but my paper average is now quite a bit lower than his, and with help from my current team and our massive 4 pin handicap, we managed a win. I threw something a bit above average in the second game, and we won that one too. And then the beer started flowing. By the third game we were all laughing and hanging out having fun, hardly bothering to bowl. But I pulled a 202 out of somewhere, and we took that one by 57 pins. Overall I threw a 599, just missing the 600 mark. Good enough. Came home, had something to eat, went to bed.

Raining and miserable here today. Eww ick.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/04/2014 at 10:07 AM   
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gee, everyone wants a piece of britain these days

Well how’s this for chutzpah?

OK, in English, shameless audacity; impudence.

I really don’t think anything can come of it, but isn’t it interesting what govts. and countries will run to lawyers for these days?

Poland , it is reported, wants more than £10 million (pounds), in American dollars that’s $15,973,881, in unemployment benefits for migrants who have left England.

Here’s the story. Some of you might have fun with this one.

Poles demand millions from Britain to pay their benefits: Eastern European governments want cash for returning migrants

Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia demanding UK cash for jobless citizens
Told Britain to pay more than £10m in unemployment benefits to migrants
Czech labour minister said UK owed country £3m in benefits under EU rules
Iain Duncan Smith’s department has already paid £800,000 under these rules

By Tamara Cohen

Britain has been told to pay more than £10 million in unemployment benefit to eastern European migrants who have left Britain, returned home and now cannot find a job.

Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have demanded that Iain Duncan Smith’s department funds their jobless citizens because they once worked and paid national insurance in the UK.

His department has refused because the migrants had not worked in the UK long enough to claim, but the three countries have threatened to issue a diplomatic protest.

Czech labour minister Michaela Marksova-Tominova said Britain owed her country £3million in these benefits under European Union rules.

Britain has already paid £800,000 under these rules, but she is writing to Mr Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, demanding another £2.2million.

Barbora Petrova of the Slovakian labour ministry said her government was seeking £4.9million from Britain in outstanding unemployment benefits, while Poland is making a multi-million-pound claim but has not revealed the exact figure.

It is understood the three countries’ ambassadors have demanded a meeting with Sir Ivan Rogers, the British permanent representative to the EU, to issue an official diplomatic protest.

Mrs Marksova-Tominova said: ‘I expect this meeting to resolve the situation.’

If not, the situation could escalate when Mr Duncan Smith attends a meeting of EU employment ministers next month. An EU agreement means that citizens of one country who work in another are entitled to out-of-work benefits if they have paid national insurance for a certain period.

In the UK the threshold is two years, but in other European countries it is as low as six months.

The three countries claim the situation began two years ago when the rules in the UK changed. If they succeed in getting the money, it could open the doors to claims from other European countries – many of which have high unemployment rates.

A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: ‘This Government does not pay benefits to someone in another country when they would not have been eligible for them in the UK. We are working with our counterparts across Europe on this issue.’

Andrew Rosindell, the Tory MP for Romford said: ‘I find this astonishing. People who come here to work should only be paid benefits if they have fully paid into the system for a long time.

‘If they are entitled to go home and then claim more than British citizens can, then the system needs looking at.’

Jonathan Isaby, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Britain must of course meet legal requirements, but the Government needs to push Brussels to address this ludicrous situation before any more taxpayers’ money is wasted.

‘Taxpayers here will be baffled that it’s apparently their responsibility to pay benefit bills in foreign countries.’

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Posted by peiper     on 10/04/2014 at 02:37 AM   
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   Friday - October 03, 2014

Needs Better Embed Code

Yes indeed Chris. I’d send you an email, but I can’t find your address, and it isn’t on your new web site anywhere. I know you come by here once in a while.

Got to rebuild the embed. The Horizontal one displays your entire page but not the comic; you can keep the page, all I want is the comic.

Your “old school” new embed script displays the comic, but without any scrolling. Oops. The link to your page works on either embed, but I’d prefer my readers to look at the comic from my blog.

Oh, and the comments don’t work on your page yet.

Keep working on it.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/03/2014 at 12:20 PM   
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looking for some information. where better than right here?

Something came up again tonight and it reminded me that I wanted to ask any of you who may know.

First .... I’m still running the version of Word I got with an old pc years ago. I don’t need spread sheets or any of the usual bells and whistles that came with it. Just the word processor.

Going back some years ago, I was able to quite easily insert a photo into whatever I was writing if one was needed.  Generally I don’t need them but, I wanted one tonight but ... after clicking on insert and hitting paste, there was nothing on the page but a blank white square with a black border.

I’m still using WORD 2000 btw.

Well, I said it was old.  Like old slippers or a frayed but comfortable old flannel shirt, I just got used to it.  I didn’t like the one that came with my (then) new pc with XP. So I installed my old version and been happy ever after.  Well, mostly happy.

I just don’t understand why something that worked for me once upon a time just stopped working. I didn’t change any setting that I am aware of.
File .. then insert then look for the file and click the image.  Easy. It was, once.

Any ideas.

And oh yeah I just thought of another thing I’m looking for.

Anyone have any good luck or good words for a Word like processor for a tablet?  There’s a bunch of them , free , at Google play. I know about those.
I downloaded a couple to try out and they just were not as easy as the old thing I have on this desktop.

Appreciate any advice

And much thanks too.

Posted by peiper     on 10/03/2014 at 11:59 AM   
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on a personal note

You’ve all heard of computer hell week I suppose. Or maybe not since I just made the term up. Actually, I’ve had it all in one or two days.
Grumble.

Worst part was trying to get thru to tech ppl I pay for and hardly ever have to use, but can’t get beyond their damn recording giving me options my call has nothing to do with. Then when I do get someone, it’s a call center in India and whatever language they are speaking, it ain’t ringlesh.  Rats.

Hey ... has anyone else been reading about Windows 10 yet?  Interesting stuff. I guess MSFT is going to undo a few of the things they thought ppl would love in Windows 8 but few did.  Anyway .... for awhile I thought I might be getting a new puter but .... you know the old expression about the best laid plans of etc, etc.
In two weeks time we are having new windows fitted for the front of the house.  The rest will be done next year, probably in the spring. Anyway ... it’s been a long time in coming.  The windows, all installed in 1923 or 24, are only being held together by paint and rust.  Old rusted iron, single glazed and a few have developed cracks that started last winter and continue even now.  So anyway, we can only do things in stages and the work isn’t being done for cosmetics I can assure you. Altho of course things will look better.  Then the house is in desperate need of painting and I figure it could take another year at least before I can find a pro to do the work.  Oh, it isn’t that I can’t find one. I can do that okay.
The problem is that nobody wants to work. No really they don’t. 

We had one fellow last year for example, who worked on a neighbor’s house, and we hired him for some work here which he did quite well.
Later on, just a few months in fact, he had to come back to the neighbor for some repair or I whatever, and I asked him for an estimate to paint the entire house. I don’t think it’s been done since 1970 or thereabouts. 

So he said he’d come on over as soon as he was through next door.  But he never did.
I happened to see him at our local market two weeks ago.  Said hello, exchanged a comment or two about the weather, and I asked him if he had time to stop by and take a look at the house as it needs painting.  Oh sure he says.  I can stop by Monday or Tues. evening when I finish up another job. Great.

Haven’t heard a word.  And he’s at least the third house painter, (they are called decorators here, I suppose that’s what they do after all) anyway, the 3rd I’ve spoken to and it’s like pullin’ teeth to get folks to take your money.  When you find someone who shows up on time and who arrives when they say they will, it is cause for celebrating.
And heck ... when one even shows up earlier than expected why ..... you want to marry them provided they’re the right gender.

No kidding.  You have no idea how difficult it is.  They take the time to advertise their services but when you call and leave your number after listening to a recording .... you’re never certain of a call back and with good reason.  It’s because they hardly ever do.

So now back to the really important things in life.  Computers and tech support and my reason for calling tech support.
About 10 days ago when they were fixing something for me, I mentioned in passing that I was thinking of upgrading to Windows 7.
So, the guy I was talking to volunteered the information that I could call on them and they would walk me thru an installation.  Hey, pretty good I guess. I could call Drew but something tells me he wouldn’t be available at a time convenient to me. Oh yeah.  And he wouldn’t like getting a tech help call at 2 in the morning.
Sheesh ... some folks.

My call to my paid for tech service was to ask a question which it didn’t occur to me to ask at the time I spoke to them a week ago.
I’m curious to know if their help was a clean install.  I have read that OS can be installed over the old one, but that a clean install is better
So I’m still trying to fight the answering loop system to get thru.
It’s hopeless.
And I won’t get started on what I think of my ISPs customer service, or I’d be here all night and the air would turn very blue.

Posted by peiper     on 10/03/2014 at 10:46 AM   
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company boss (brit) declares France a place where nothing works, as in kaput.

I don’t know if John Lewis Stores operate in the USA under another name.  John Lewis may not be at all familiar to folks outside Europe, or here in the UK. But they are large.  I guess you could say think Wal-Mart except upscale. They have a very interesting family history and like many ventures in business, it started with the family and I believe it remains there to a large degree. 
The company continuously scores high in customer satisfaction in surveys that matter.  So what I’m saying is that they are not at all minor league.
The family are also landowners on a major scale. So naturally, when I saw a headline first thing this morning quoting their managing director who declares that, France is KAPUT.  Well ..........

Take a look.

France is finished says John Lewis boss: Astonishing attack on nation where ‘nothing works’

Managing director of John Lewis, Andy Street, said France is ‘finished’
He described Paris as the ‘squalor pit of Europe’ where ‘nothing works’
Mr Street made the remarks after visiting Paris earlier this week
John Lewis insisted that Mr Street’s remarks were ‘tongue in cheek’

By Emily Kent Smith for Daily Mail

The boss of John Lewis has launched an astonishing attack on France – describing it as ‘finished’ and advising investors to take their money out of a country where ‘nothing works’.

Managing director Andy Street made the controversial remarks after visiting Paris earlier this week to pick up an international retail award.

Speaking to entrepreneurs yesterday, Mr Street labelled the country ‘sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat’.

Paris is often referred to as the most beautiful city in the world, but Mr Street described one of its main stations as the ‘squalor pit of Europe’.

‘You get on the Eurostar from something I can only describe as the squalor pit of Europe, Gare Du Nord, and you get off at a modern, forward-looking station [St Pancras],’ Mr Street told a conference in London.

He added: ‘I have never been to a country more ill at ease… nothing works and worse, nobody cares about it.’

Last night John Lewis insisted that Mr Street’s remarks were ‘tongue in cheek’.

The comments, reported in The Times newspaper, also included an unflattering reference to the ‘plastic’ retail award given to the company in the French capital as ‘frankly revolting’.

He said that the award would be a permanent reminder of the decline of the country, adding: ‘Every time I [see it] I shall think, ‘God help France’.’

Mr Street’s Eurostar train back to London from the World Retail Congress was delayed. He also blasted French hospitality, saying that the wine and food were better at a London event.

He did, however did give the French credit for their service which he described as ‘incomparable’.

The comments are nonetheless highly embarrassing for Mr Street.

They come less than a year after the retail giant launched a French-language website.

Last night the French embassy told The Times: ‘France is the fifth biggest economy in the world, the second of Europe, and is the country with the fifth largest stock of foreign direct investment in the world, so obviously many foreign businesses do not seem to share Mr Street’s view.

‘Also, saying that nothing works in France shows how wide of the mark those comments are.’

JOHN LEWIS, READ MORE

Simon, Farnham_UK,

So the Paris branch of Jean Louis won’t be opening up any time soon! Pha...sacre Bleu!

Posted by peiper     on 10/03/2014 at 02:16 AM   
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   Thursday - October 02, 2014

Brain Dead Idiots

Taken by a news helicopter, this picture allegedly shows grounds keepers cleaning up the vomit left by Duncan, aka Ebola Patient #1 at his apartment complex. No protective gear, and a power washer that can blast infectious particles dozens of yards.

Follow the link.

We haven’t dealt with a real, actual, infectious disease since the polio scares of the 50s. People don’t understand. We need training. 

Posted by Drew458     on 10/02/2014 at 11:05 PM   
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State Of Flummox

Not sure where I’ll be the next week. Family health issues. I’ve got to compact all my weekend stuff into about 6 hours Saturday night, then I’m out of here to go visit and support for several days after that.  Not too much to worry about, so far the situation doesn’t look that bad. Have to take it a day at a time.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/02/2014 at 09:13 PM   
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promises by the dozen and a warning by brit prime minister at the conservative party conference

I recently did a rant of sorts on the defamation (as I see it ) committed by the Tories (Conservative Party) against the party they fear will upset their applecart. UKIP.

OK, I know politics can be dirty.  Part of the game.  Of course, the media and in this case a major paper called the Daily Mail, has their own crusade going against Nigel Farage and his UKIP party.

This week, the Tories held what Americans would call their national convention. Over here it a conference.  Speech making and promises, lower taxes and in some cases no taxes.

The current Prime Minister is pledging a UK bill of rights, is now promising to take on Europe re. Brit sovereignty on some issues and he says,
“We don’t need lessons from Europe.”
Indeed not.

So … in today’s issue of the Mail, the Tories got the kind of coverage you should expect, especially as the Mail supports them.

The PM was quite clever in referring to Farage and votes for UKIP.

‘Go to bed with Farage, wake up with Miliband,’ Cameron jokes in warning that a vote for UKIP will hand power to Labour

· Prime Minister warns there is a ‘straight choice’ between him or Miliband
· A vote for UKIP makes a Labour government more likely in 2015, he says
· Hours after attack, Tory donor Arron Banks handed UKIP £1million.

So why am I doing this ukip/tory thing again?
Just to show the Mail’s reaction to a millionaire who donated over one million 600 hundred thousand dollars, putting it in USA terms.
Of all the photos they could have used of Arron Banks, this is the one they picked.

Out of focus, needing a shave and of course, this person must be some kind of gun loving nutter.
I just wanted to point this out is all.
I guess the Mail is as frightened as many ppl here, at the thought of next May’s election going to a fellow called,
(Red) Ed Miliband and the Labour Party.

Posted by peiper     on 10/02/2014 at 01:48 PM   
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Today They Search For 100

Public health officials in Texas acknowledged the possibility that someone else could contract Ebola, widening their search Thursday for 100 individuals possibly exposed to the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S.

According to the Dallas County Health and Human Services, this group of 100 potential contacts were identified by the group of 12-18 people who first came into contact with the infected man, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan.

“It’s constantly evolving, people are going to get added, people are going to get dropped off,” Dallas County Health and Human Services spokeswoman Erikka Neroes told FoxNews.com. “How many people will contract Ebola, we don’t know that. [There’s a] possibility someone may. We’re out there working to make sure [it’s] under control.”

Five schools in the Dallas Independent School District sent letters home with parents informing them that a student at the individual schools may have been in contact with the Ebola patient. The five students— none of whom showed symptoms— were told to stay at home away from school. The letters noted that “there is no imminent danger to your child.”

“The important thing is none of the people on any of the lists show any signs or symptoms of Ebola as of yet,” Neroes said. “We all know by now, you can’t catch Ebola without any contact with someone while they are symptomatic, according to the CDC.”

The family of Duncan is under orders to stay at home, in isolation for 21 days, the duration of the Ebola virus incubation period. If they have not become symptomatic after that time, they no longer have to remain in isolation, Neroes said. 

And how did all this happen? Duncan was in Liberia, helping move patients dying from Ebola (with his bare hands???). Then he got on a jet and came here. They’re all dead. He’s really sick now. Whatever airline it was, I personally will NEVER fly with them.

Duncan is originally from Monrovia, Liberia, according to his Facebook profile. He currently lives in Accra, Ghana.

Not even an American citizen.

He was visiting family in Dallas, Texas after contracting the disease while in Liberia just days ago.
...
While he lists Accra as his residence, it says he still lives in Monrovia.

Parents of a woman who has Ebola say that he had direct contact with her on September 15, just four days before he left Liberia for the United States. Duncan rode in a taxi to a hospital to help the woman, Marthalene Williams, 19, when she began showing symptoms of the disease. Duncan is described as a family friend. He then helped carry Williams back to the family home that evening.

“He was holding her by the legs, the pa was holding her arms and Sonny Boy was holding her back,” said Arren Seyou, 31, who witnessed what happens and lives next to Duncan. Sonny Boy, 21, started getting sick about a week ago, around the same time that Duncan started showing victims. Sonny Boy later died.

Duncan often told neighbors that his son lived in the U.S. and was trying to get him to America. Duncan worked as a driver at Safeway Cargo for the past year before quitting recently.

After arriving in the U.S., Duncan may have come into contact with five children from four different schools, according to the Dallas Independent School District.

Officials are also monitoring about 12 other people who may have been exposed, including some members of his family, and three members of the ambulance crew that took the man to the hospital.

They will be checked every day for 21 days, the disease’s incubation period.

“That’s how we’re going to break the chain of transmission, and that’s where our focus has to be,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Wednesday.

The CDC reminded the nation’s health care providers to ask patients with symptoms if they’ve traveled recently. The American College of Emergency Physicians planned to alert its members as well.

United Airlines said in a statement on Wednesday that the CDC told it that Duncan flew on United Flight 951 from Brussels to Dulles Airport near Washington, before boarding Flight 822 from Dulles to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. A Belgian official says the man flew from Liberia to Brussels on Brussels Airlines.

But health officials say there is no risk of infection among other passengers because the man, Duncan, had no symptoms when he flew. He sought medical care Sept. 24 in Dallas.

Apparently Duncan went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa.

I know some ER staff that need to be shot, guilty of the crime of being too stupid to live.

Apparently Duncan went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa.

The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release the patient, who had recently arrived from Liberia, could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later, when his condition worsened.

The patient explained to a nurse last Thursday that he was visiting the U.S. from Africa, but that information was not widely shared, said Dr. Mark Lester, who works for the hospital’s parent company.

“Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated” throughout the medical team, Lester said. Instead, the man was diagnosed with a low-risk infection and sent home.

No, don’t shoot them. Burn them at the stake first.



more links ...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/us-ebola-patient/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-victim-texas-thomas-eric-duncan.html?_r=0

Wiki says Liberia is 85% Christian, 12.2% Muslim, and 0.5% animist. How frightening would it be to find out that this suddenly unemployed Liberian who had never been to the USA before, even though his family had been trying for years to get him to go, was ...

Posted by Drew458     on 10/02/2014 at 11:41 AM   
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   Wednesday - October 01, 2014

Lady, You’re Fired

Julia Pierson, the first female director of the Secret Service, resigned her post Wednesday after a fence jumper gained access to the White House on Sept. 19 and a subsequent congressional inquiry uncovered other security lapses.

Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson announced the resignation in a statement. He also announced that the DHS would take over an internal inquiry of the Secret Service and that he would appoint of a new panel to review security at the White House.

Joseph Clancy, formerly a special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service, was named Interim Director, Johnson said in his statement.

Calls for Pierson to leave her post grew after a poor performance during her testimony on Capitol Hill and another bombshell revelation that the an armed contractor was allowed to get into an elevator with the president during a recent trip to the Centers for Disease Control.

Even some high ranking Democrats had turned against Pierson, who has been in the job for fewer than two years. In an interview on Wednesday Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, where the hearing took place, said he thinks Pierson: who he referred to as “this lady” “has to go.” Cummings reiterated this stance in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I want her to go if she cannot restore trust in the agency and if she cannot get the culture back in order,” he said.

Secret Service director testimony omits elevator incident with Obama

And Chuck Schumer, the third ranking Democrat in the Senate announced he would call for Pierson’s resignation on Wednesday as well, though that was later canceled.

Republicans had also called for Pierson to step down.

Golly, if all it takes to get fired is to have somebody jump a fence, why do we still have any employees in the Border Patrol?

(notice how CNN “forgets” to say how the armed contractor was a felon ...

An agency official confirmed the incident to CNN in which a security contractor operating an elevator at the CDC was carrying a gun in the presence of Obama and his Secret Service detail. The contractor was taking pictures of the President and otherwise behaving in an unprofessional manner, the official said. When the security worker was confronted about his behavior, it was revealed that he was armed.
...
“I believe the President’s security was unnecessarily compromised,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CNN. “A convict with a gun in an elevator with the President put his life in danger. The Director should have informed the President, yet she testified she did not. Did she lie to Congress or fail to inform the President?”

... oh, no worries, it’s Ok because he was black. Not that his being armed, even on the job, was legal anywhere, much less in DC)

Right, so now we need another token to run this agency. Let’s a transgender Native Alaskan this time, how about it?

Posted by Drew458     on 10/01/2014 at 03:28 PM   
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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