Saturday - January 10, 2009

No kidding

Camp Rules: The 10 Commandments

1. Do not attempt to escape. The punishment is death.

2. Never gather in groups of over three people or move around without the guard’s authorization. The punishment for unauthorized movement is death.

3. Do not steal. If one steals or possesses weapons, the punishment is death. The punishment for failure to report the theft or possession of weapons is death.

4. Obey your guards. If one rebels or hits a guard, the punishment is death.

5. If you see outsiders, or suspicious-looking people, report them immediately. The punishment for abetting in the hiding of outsiders is death.

6. Keep an eye on your fellow prisoners and report inappropriate behavior without delay. One should criticize others for inappropriate behavior, and also conduct thorough self-criticism in revolutionary ideology class.

7. Fulfill your assigned duties. The punishment for rebelling against one’s duties is death.

8. Men and women may not be together outside the workplace. The punishment for unauthorized physical contact between a man and a woman is death.

9. Admit and confess your wrongdoings. The punishment for disobedience and refusal to repent is death.

10. The punishment for violating camp laws and rules is death.

No wonder these guys get along so well with the Iranians. They’re the exact same kind of scum, only the NorKs are godless scum, which might be even worse.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/10/2009 at 06:30 PM   
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Let It Snow!

So the big storm that’s hammering the northern part of the US has reached NJ. Actually, it’s been snowing all day, but not too hard. But it started coming down hard a couple hours ago. And starting to pile up. In theory it’s supposed to change over to an ice storm later. Great. Just what I wanted. So this afternoon the phone calls went out, the decision was made: bowling league got canceled tonight. My God. I never thought that would happen. Now all I have to do is figure out how to push this week forward a week in the bowling software. It’s in there somewhere, I just have to find it.

But we had to go out in the mess anyway, to fight our way up county and up Mt. Kipp so my wife could get her fingerprints taken too. Not bad. Heavy snow is one of the few times I’m glad I have an underpowered little Saturn with a stick shift. Chug chug chug, and off we go. Having a set of the best all season tires doesn’t hurt either. I’m running the Goodyear Assurance TripleTred and I can’t recommend them highly enough. These are superb tires in the rain and snow. They ride well, and they handle pretty good too. Ok, they don’t handle as good as the Continental SportContact 3s do, but those are summer tires. The Contis suck in the snow, as my wife found out this morning. Wheee, and around she went in circles. Accidentally. Lucky she avoided piling into anything.

We stopped off and picked up some meat, chips, and beer, so it can snow for a week for all I care. We got the Leinenkugel variety pack. I’m sure all my Wisconsin readers are laughing at this, but Leinies are new to NJ. It’s rare and unusual beer here! And I’ve got to say that several of their varieties are really nice. Their Sunset Wheat is smooth drinking. The Red is pretty nice too, as is the Honey Weiss. But the flavor king of the whole bunch is their Fireside Nut Brown. Wow! It actually tastes like it was made with toasted nuts. And since it’s a Leine, there’s actually beer in the beer. We’ve been drinking the various Sam Adams flavors for a few years now, and while they are quite tasty, they seem to have little or no punch. Leinenkugel beer: the other thing Chippewa Falls is famous for.

I hope you are all home warm, dry, and safe. This might turn out to be the big storm of the season. Damn that Al Gore and his rotten Global Warming!

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twisted

No, it’s not an official “Family Circus” strip. I found this out on the net somewhere.

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Speaking of getting a bigger boat

Hampton Roads Virginia - President George W. Bush is aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, a new aircraft carrier named after the president’s father — the ultimate honor for a decorated Navy pilot from World War II.

With just days left in his presidency, Bush joined his father, now 84 years old, and other Bush family members at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia for the commissioning on Saturday.

The steel-gray vessel is more than three football fields long, one in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that are the largest warships on the world. Its price tag is just as hefty: $6.2 billion.

The elder Bush paid an unexpected visit to the warship on Friday to tour his namesake.

The president’s son, President Bush, will speak as the Navy commissions the 1,092-foot CVN-77, which will be named the USS George H.W. Bush.

“The president is honored to participate in the commissioning of the USS George H.W. Bush both as the commander in chief and as a proud son,” White House spokesman Carlton F. Carroll told The Washington Times.

On Friday, workers finished the last details on the nuclear-powered carrier, which towers 20 stories above the waterline and has a flight deck width of 252 feet. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the 11 a.m. event Saturday, according to Navy officials.

Dorothy “Doro” Bush Koch, the former president’s daughter, will give the order to “man our ship and bring her to life,” following tradition.

God Bless this ship and all who sail upon her.

Gosh, ten thousand plus people went to see this event. Nearly six and a half billion spent on this ship. Both the President and his father in attendance. Was I sleeping? Because I didn’t see a thing about this on TV. I would have thought it would get live coverage, seeing as it’s a moment of intense national pride. But no, it’s snowing. So that’s about all that’s on the news. Fox has a story online, but it is more about the former President and some other guy named George he served with in WWII. Not what I’d expect.

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Now even police can’t object to gipsy camp in picturesque village…because it’s racist .

First of all and most important my sincere thanks to Drew and all you other nice people for the kind words of support.  My wife has read all, and has asked me to convey her thanks as well.  It all surprised us very much.  I had no idea Drew was going to do that.
It’s funny how empty a small space can be.  A large weight has been removed but ..... just but.
Thank You All.

I can’t stay away for long when I see a headline like the one here.  I had no intention of doing anything today.  But this bit of continuing total lunacy just begs posting about.  Don’t mean to bore Americans with a problem we haven’t faced yet, but I want to keep what the Brits are living with at the forefront.  You can’t begin to know without living here, how serious this is. 

Brits who have always worked, paid all their many taxes, bought their houses and obeyed all the laws, take a look at their country and see the following.
People who have done NONE of those things and most likely will not ever do those things, demand and get special treatment and expect health care and schools and God only knows what else is on their list. This is ALL of it, the work of the left wing in this country.  And I won’t even get into immigration which Lyndon has covered so well in his comments on another post.

Click on the link for photo site at the bottom.  Take a look at the site they want to use.  Kiss the place goodbye.

By DAN NEWLING
Last updated at 10:38 AM on 10th January 2009

Police have been told they cannot object to a planned gipsy camp in a picturesque village.

Council chiefs have ruled that the local force’s professional opinion ‘breaches the Race Relations Act’.

The decision meant that councillors considering the planning application were not told how officers had been called to another local camp 109 times in just two years.

The row centres on the tiny village of Bletsoe (population 281) in North Bedfordshire.

Early last year residents learned that the owner of a farm on the edge of the village had applied for permission to build four ‘gipsy and traveller’ pitches on his land.

They formed an association to combat the plans and were delighted when Bedfordshire police joined them by writing a letter of objection to the council.

The police’s hard-hitting letter detailed their dealings with three other gipsy sites in the county.

Over a two-year period to January 2008, officers visited the three sites a total of 210 times. One site was visited 109 times.

The police were called out to deal with reports of fights, arson, assaults, stolen vehicles, violent disorder, anti-social behaviour, theft, child abduction and use of weapons.

Chief Superintendent Andy Street wrote: ‘The numbers, and nature, of incidents are not atypical for traveller sites. The likelihood of such sites causing problems for those living in close proximity is highly probable.’

However, Bedford Borough Council refused to take the letter into consideration when deciding whether to approve the site. Officials claimed that including it in the summary given to councillors would leave the authority open to a prosecution for racial discrimination.

So they returned the letter to the police and refused to let councillors see it. As a result, the police were forced to withdraw their objection.

Bletsoe resident Colin Deas, 72, a retired businessman who grew up in the village, said: ‘It seems to me that there are some things you simply cannot say if you are talking about travellers.

‘I am sure that the police would be allowed to say there was fear of increased crime if they were talking about a new housing estate. So what’s the difference?’

Bedford’s act of censorship is the latest illustration of how politically- correct councils appear to be appointing themselves as our ‘thought police’.

Only last week the Mail revealed how nearby Mid-Bedfordshire council labelled more than 3,000 local residents of the village of Stotfold as racists when they objected to a gipsy site.

They had simply expressed worries that the site could increase traffic, cause property prices to fall or increase noise levels.

Although councillors rejected the Bletsoe traveller camp plans last year, the landowner has now appealed and the case will be heard again next month.

A spokesman for Bedford council said: ‘The police objection was treated very seriously.

‘Legal advice indicated that the objection was not a material planning consideration and should not be reported to committee. In the light of such clear advice it was considered appropriate to return the correspondence to the police.’

PHOTO OF COUNTRY SITE

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Ain’t no stopping us now

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli forces pounded rocket-launching sites and smuggling tunnels in Gaza Saturday and planes dropped leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks, as Palestinian militants fired at least 10 more rockets at Israel.

Egypt hosted talks aimed at ending the violence.

Flames and smoke rose over Gaza City amid the heavy fighting. The Israeli threat to launch a “new phase” in its two-week-old offensive that has already killed more than 800 Palestinians came in defiance of international calls for a cease-fire.

“The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) will escalate the operation in the Gaza Strip,” the leaflets said in Arabic. “The IDF is not working against the people of Gaza but against Hamas and the terrorists only. Stay safe by following our orders.”

The leaflets urged Gaza residents not to help Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, and to stay away from its members.

Israel launched the offensive on Dec. 27 to halt years of Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel. A week later, ground troops moved in.

The dropping of the leaflets appeared to be partly a psychological tactic. Israeli defense officials say they are prepared for a third stage of the offensive, in which ground troops would push much further into Gaza, but are still waiting for approval from the government.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were discussing classified information, said the army also has a fourth stage planned that calls for a full reoccupation of Gaza and toppling of Hamas.

I’m beginning to be impressed. Everyone expected Israel to back off after a couple of days. Then they expected Israel to back off after a week. Then they expected Israel to honor those calls from the Useless Nitwits for a cease fire. Even though Hamas continues to shoot missiles at them. And then they were expected to respond properly to another one of those UN resolutions. And they aren’t. At all. They just continue to pound Hamas. They just continue to ratchet up the pressure. They just continue to keep blowing up their enemies. The nerve. The gall. The audacity. I think there may be some Hope here for some actual Change. It’s about time. Keep up the push Israel. All the way to the Suez Canal. Been there, done that, doing it again.

               

Posted by Drew458     on 01/10/2009 at 11:30 AM   
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Not the best planning

Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said Saturday.

Pirate Daud Nure says the boat with eight people on board overturned in a storm after dozens of pirates left the Sirius Star following a two-month standoff in the Gulf of Aden that ended Friday.
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Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Naimi said Saturday that the crew of the Sirius Star was safe and that the tanker had left Somali territorial waters and was on its way home.
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“We are very relieved to know that all the crew members are safe and I am glad to say that they are all in good health and high spirits,” said a statement by Saleh K’aki, president and CEO of Vela. “This has been a very trying time for them and certainly for their families. We are very happy to report to their families that they will be on their way home soon.”

K’aki added that the “throughout this ordeal, our sole objective was the safe and timely release of the crew. That has been achieved today.”

U.S. Navy photos released Friday showed a parachute, carrying what was described as “an apparent payment,” floating toward the tanker. The Sirius Star and its 25-member crew had been held since Nov. 15. Its cargo of crude oil was valued at US$100 million at the time.

You don’t suppose there was anything tricksy in that bundle of ransom money do you? Something that could have caused the pirate’s boat to founder? Like an IED perhaps? Nah. Couldn’t happen. It would take a real evil bastard [ like me! ] to think that one up. I mean, come on. Once these guys get the money, it goes in their boat, they release the crew, and away they go. What’s to stop that Navy photographer from taking one final picture ... through the lens of a Hellfire missile? Or, since it’s such a little boat, perhaps they temporarily ran aground. On the top of an inconvenient submarine. With a big saw blade accidentally mounted on top. Anything is possible at sea.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/10/2009 at 10:52 AM   
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   Friday - January 09, 2009

And so it begins

Barack Obama is reportedly prepared to open communication with the Islamist organistation Hamas, in a sharp break from George W Bush’s policy of isolating the group.

The move could be initiated through the US intelligence services, sources close to the transition team have said.  Reaching out to Hamas, which has been branded a terrorist organisation by the state department, would represent a definitive break with the Bush ­presidency’s ostracising of the group, the Guardian reports. In 2006 Congress passed a law banning US financial aid to the group.

The Guardian spoke to three people with knowledge of the discussions in the Obama camp. It reports the president-elect is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, as Washington fears existing policy of ignoring Hamas has backfired.  Richard Haass, a diplomat under both Bush presidents who could become Mr Obama’s choice for Middle East envoy, supports low-level contacts with Hamas but only if there is a ceasefire.  Another potential contender for a foreign policy role in the Obama administration told the paper that the president-elect would not be scared to break with the Bush approach.

“This is going to be an administration that is committed to negotiating with critical parties on critical issues,” the source said.

Experts said Mr Obama could avoid negative fallout from contact with Hamas by keeping the talks low-profile. This could involve using secret envoys or multilateral talks.  But one Middle East expert close to the transition team said: “It is highly unlikely that they will be public about it.”

The only way you talk with these animals is through a crystal ball. After they’re dead. And then you only say “Gee, too bad. Guess you made the wrong choices.”




Meanwhile in this very Egypt*, thousands turned out on que to protest Israel. BIG YAWN. Muslime outrage! Death to the jooooos! Death to Amerikkka! Snore. Tell me again how much we give Egypt each year? For what?


Also meanwhile, but back at the UN, resolution 1860 passed. It calls for an immediate cease fire, dammit! Neither Israel or the hamashole goat violators are paying it any attention.


This conflict is now being fought on a new front. A virtual front. In cyberspace. YouTube videos, MySpace, Twitter, and the SIMS-like alternate world of Second Life. So far it’s just protests and propaganda videos. No actual cyberwar has broken out, no servers brought down. Just a battle for public opinion. And that matters a great deal these days. Maybe this front is nearly as important as the real one? After all, recent reports say that more people are getting their news from the net than are getting it from newspapers. I expect the net to overtake TV inside a decade.



* do we have any Wilbur Smith fans here?

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Peiper will be taking a few days off

After a long and slow decline, Peiper’s mother in law has passed away. She was 93. He and his wife cared for her at home, and with some help from visiting caregivers they did their best for her. But time runs out for all of us eventually. I have no details at this point, and I am not expecting any, but I gather the frail old dear just went to sleep and slipped away. In a way that’s a blessing. God rest her soul.

So I am expecting we won’t be hearing from him for a bit. Well, he ought to, he’ll be busy enough, but you never know. He might have the urge to blog for a bit of an escape, one that he’s fully entitled to IMO. But if I were he, I’d stay off the PC for a few days.

JD, I’m sorry for your loss. My condolences to you, and especially to your wife.

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Family of Afghan rape victim cut her open and removed foetus without anaesthetic .

Yes, and these sub humans have human rights I want ya to know.

Can’t blame them right?  Only trying to protect family honor.  Good muslims all.

The mother and brother of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face charges after they cut her open and removed her foetus without anaesthetic, it has been reported.

By Ben Farmer in Kabul
Last Updated: 8:49PM GMT 08 Jan 2009

The girl is critically ill in hospital after her family sewn the girl up themselves and said she had been bitten by a dog to cover their crime.

A man accused of raping the girl, from the central Afghan province of Bamiyan, is under arrest.

The rural family apparently decided to perform an abortion when the girl was five months pregnant to protect the family’s honour.

Rape victims face extreme social stigma, imprisonment and abandonment or murder by their own families in Afghanistan.

Dr Ghulam Mohammad Nader, head of Bamiyan hospital, told the BBC that the girl had been able to explain what had happened but was in a critical condition with infected wounds. She is now being treated in the capital Kabul.

“The girl stayed at home for three or four days in her condition until her father took her to hospital,” he said.

“He said a dog had bitten her so that people in the area wouldn’t know what had really happened.”

Habiba Sarabi, governor of the province, said the girl had been bound and taken to a stables for the abortion. Police are now trying to arrest her family.

muslim scum and family honor

How many billions have been spent on this place over the years?  Is it worth it?  Has anything changed in the last 1,000 yrs? Does anyone really think this place will ever be any different?

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US PORN INDUSTRY SEEKS FED BAIL OUT.  ??  IS FLINT NUTS?  HAS HE AT LAST DROPPED OFF THE EDGE?

I guess you folks back home already know about this.  It’s just made the news here.

At first I was tempted to just write it off as a bad joke.  Or maybe a funny one.  Nah .. this’d never fly.
But then I started thinking about it and .... hmmmm.  Considering the world as it is today, maybe it could happen. 
Be a crime itself if it did.  But it could.

US porn industry seeks multi-billion dollar bailout
Porn baron Larry Flynt is seeking a $5 billion bailout from Washington to rejuvenate the industry, which he says is suffering because of the economic downturn.

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
Last Updated: 8:57PM GMT 08 Jan 2009

The Hustler magazine founder has teamed up with fellow adult entertainment mogul Joe Francis, creator of the Girls Gone Wild video series, to approach Congress for the same kind of financial assistance recently approved for car manufacturers.
The pair have asked the 111th Congress, which convened on Tuesday with the economy at the top of its agenda, “to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America” with a bailout.

“Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation’s most important businesses, (and) we feel we deserve the same consideration,” Francis said in a statement.
“In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment.”
“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” Owen Moogan, a spokesman for Flynt, told CNN.
“The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”

In an interview with entertainment news website TMZ, Francis admitted the move was more of a “precautionary measure” than an emergency rescue, “but as long as the government is handing out money, we want to be there to take it.”
The pair acknowledge that although DVD sales and rentals have dropped 22 per cent over the past year, online traffic has continued to grow.
“The 13-billion-dollar industry is in no fear of collapse,” they say. “But why take chances?” Francis, who was last year freed from almost a year in jail after pleading no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges in a plea deal, told CNN they planned to deliver the request “to our congressmen and (Secretary of the Treasury Henry) Paulson” by the end of Wednesday.

“With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind,” Flynt said in a statement. People were “too depressed to be sexually active”, which was “very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex.” He said the only way Congress could “rejuvenate” America’s sexual appetite was “by supporting the adult industry and doing it quickly.” There was no response from Congress to the request.

PORN

There was no response from Congress to the request.

Yeah, I bet there wasn’t. They’re working hard enough to hide what needs burying. They don’t want this. Right now.  Maybe later?  Pssst. Hey Senator .....Congressman, psst .. over here. “ Wanna buy a Duck?” (Joe Penny)

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News Roundup

• Somali pirates release tank Sirius Star after $3 million ransom paid.Gee, crime really doesn’t pay does it? This ship was held for nearly 2 full months while the world sat around doing nothing. The whole “anti-piracy” thing is a sham in my opinion. Until I start seeing some real disproportionate response, that’s my position. Catching a little motorboat now and again doesn’t count.
• Obama wants FCC to delay the switch to digital TV broadcasts. What, again? Don’t forget this has already been delayed at least once before, in 2005. What, the government ran out of the coupons that would save you some money on a converter box? Gee, too bad. This switch should have been done at least a decade ago; a large part of the world has been using digital and HD for ages now. Personally, I think the 1080i standard is weak. I’d make it a 4320i standard, quadrupling the number of pixels. What’s the point of shelling out big bucks for a big flat screen TV if you have to watch it from next door because the pixels are so fat? Maybe what we really need is another set of frequncies for digital TV. Then you don’t have to make the switch, ever, if you don’t want to. Just don’t import any more regular TVs.
• Unemployment hits 7.2%. More than half a million jobs lost in December. I wonder what it would be if we had a few tens of millions less illegal workers in this country?
• Hamas and Israel ignore UN calls for truce. This is even news? These people want to fight. Let them. Better still, choose a side and support them. Gosh, that’s a tough one. Israel is our ally, Hamas is our enemy. One side supports freedom and democracy, the other side is a bunch of thugs who want to use a 7th century religion as an excuse to run roughshod over everyone. I pick Israel. Arc Light missions!
• Leon Panetta will lead the CIA. Gosh, is there a single remaining Clinton sycophant left that Mr. Change hasn’t put back into power? I mean, you know, the ones not in jail. Obama is really doing well putting the “new” back into DC.
• Oh God, we’re all gonna die!! Scientists raise fears of massive solar storm. Scientists also give us no credit for any kind of memory; they did this same spiel a few years ago. It’s all to do with sunspots, and a few years ago the sun was spottier than a teenage girl 3 days before prom. And nothing happened at all! But it could! Meanwhile, the sun is still hanging out quietly, with barely any sunspots at all. My bet is that these guys were running out of grant money again.

See, that was easier than twitter. I’m still not convinced about that thing. But I don’t bother with MySpace or any of that either. Hell, I don’t even own an iPod or a Blackberry. So what do I know?

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Bye bye Blagojevich

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—The Illinois House has voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented step in state history.

The decision was nearly unanimous with a vote of 114-1.

The action sets the stage for a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out of office for corruption and abuse of power.

House members found evidence that the two-term Democrat had abused his power, including improperly spending tax money, adopting programs without legislative approval and violating state hiring laws. He’s denied wrongdoing.

The House began impeachment proceedings after federal authorities arrested Blagojevich Dec. 9. He’s accused, among other things, of attempting to sell an appointment to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat for political favors.

The governor seemed to acknowledge the inevitable when he issued a statement Thursday night that looked past the House vote and predicted a different outcome in the subsequent Senate trial. His statement criticized the hearings leading up to the House vote as unfair and biased.

A House committee has been studying the possibility of impeachment since shortly after the governor’s arrest on federal corruption charges. On Thursday, the 21-member panel unanimously recommended impeachment, saying Blagojevich has abused his power and mismanaged the state.

This comes as no surprise. From what the media tells us, the feds got this guy stone cold. He’s yet another crooked Democrat, yet another crooked Governor, yet another part of the same crooked Illinois Democratic Machine that’s been corrupt for generations. Don’t fool yourself that this will be a wake-up call for the people of that state. If they wanted honest politicians they would have voted for them. It’s not like they haven’t had 70 or 90 or 120 years to do that.

So Blago will be tried, found guilty, and tossed. Maybe he’ll join the former Governor in the pokey. The only real question is, which “honest” politician will rise up to replace him? The lieutenant governor? Dollars to donuts he’s just as big a crook. Lift the rock and let some sunlight expose all the worms underneath, and watch him wriggle with the rest of them. I have zero faith in the integrity of this group.

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Whoa, does this mean war?  The frogs say Britain has an ‘inhumane’ immigration policy.

I guess misery really does love company.  Not bad enough the French have wrecked their own country and the Brits haven’t been a lot kinder to theirs, now the Fwench want England to dig even deeper into that self destruct mode.

Why not?  Maybe England should also import a yearly car burning event.  Make it an olympic event and compete against France.

French condemn Britain’s ‘inhumane’ immigration policy
A senior French politician has condemned Britain’s “inhumane and illegal” immigration policies, blaming them for causing “utter misery” across the Channel.

By Peter Allen in Paris
Last Updated: 3:32PM GMT 09 Jan 2009

Etienne Pinte, a former minister and veteran member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing UMP party, said the UK is solely to blame for the build-up of thousands of migrants in northern France.

He said almost all of those trying to illegally board ferries to Dover are from former British colonies.

“So why are the British now rejecting them while at the same time they’re welcoming thousands of citizens from eastern Europe and in particular from Poland?” said Mr Pinte, MP for Versailles, near Paris.

“They don’t want to stay in France. They have a common history with the British. Most of them speak English. They often have family members who emigrated to Great Britain at a time when being part of the Commonwealth entitled them to do so.

“Why are the British forcing us to keep them in utter misery in our territory?

“Why are the British, in spite of international laws and, in particular, the directives of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, organising charter flights aimed at deporting immigrants towards war-torn countries like Afghanistan

“It’s up to Great Britain to find a dignified and humane solution to a problem which solely concerns it.”

Mr Pinte, who made his comments in an open letter to immigration minister Brice Hortefeux, said Britain should, initially at least, accept all the northern France migrants.

It would then have to consider all asylum claims on British soil, before accepting the migrants, or repatriating them at the British taxpayers’ expense to ‘safe’ countries.

Mr Pinte decided to speak out following Wednesday night’s murder of an Afghan migrant in a notorious camp close to the ferry port in Calais nicknamed ‘The Jungle’.

The 30-year-old was stabbed to death during a gang fight between some 30 young men battling to board lorries heading for Britain.

[a gang fight? oh great. just the kind of folks the Brits need here. like they don’t have enough with home grown thugs on the streets.]

The victim had been hoping to start a new life in the UK which, Mr Pinte claims, is viewed by migrants as an â Eldorado’.

FWANCE

Sure. Of course it’s an Eldorado.  Just ask all the others and even the illegals and plane hi-jackers who are collecting benefits.
It’s just a good thing ALL Brits are so wealthy they need ways to get rid of all their excess cash.  jeesh.

Posted by peiper     on 01/09/2009 at 11:49 AM   
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