Tuesday - November 18, 2008
Questions of a tired mind
Is the chef on the commercials for Campbell’s Healthy Requests soups actually Mike Huckabee?
Sure looks like him to me.
And that means it’s probably past my bedtime.
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Permalink • Coming Soon to a 1040 near you
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Permalink • LAST POST FOR THE DAY AND A LAST FUN THING FOR THE ADULT KIDDIES. CHECK IT OUT.
OK ,,, my last post for today and the next couple of days.
Have med. test on Thurs. and must prep Wed. so thought I’d leave off with another fun thing for the kiddies. Anyway ... I might be back Friday but not certain and so the goal is for Sat. Right. I should return Saturday. Maybe. That’s provided I do not run afoul of:
Doctors’ mistakes kill thousands
Study finds medical errors play part in 5,000 deaths every year
By Mark Macaskill
MISTAKES by doctors maim and kill tens of thousands of patients
http://www.timesonline.co.uk
Woman died after doctor punctured a vein in her neck, inquest is told
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:22 PM on 18th November 2008
Patient ‘killed by GP who ignored pencillin allergy warning‘
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:54 AM on 18th November 2008
‘I supported Iraqi insurgency’ reveals NHS doctor suspected of car bomb terror attacks
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:18 PM on 11th November 2008
THIS REALLY IS A FUN GAME AND FOR REAL KIDS TOO. You’ll need to visit the link for the game.
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Permalink • UNSAFE AND UNWELCOME: COUNCIL BANS DOOR MATS.
If these are council homes, I can just about understand it. It isn’t elf ‘n’ safety I bet.
It’s all about being sued should someone actually trip and get hurt.
Who owns the property? Ah, the city? Lot-a-money there betcha. S U E!!
Council bans welcome matsPortsmouth News
By Rob DabrowskiResidents in a block of flats have been told to get rid of welcome mats – because they are a trip hazard.
Council bureaucrats said the mats posed a ‘health and safety risk’.
And they have even threatened to take residents to court – with the threat of eviction – if their demands aren’t met.Letters signed by Gosport housing officer Elspeth White were sent out after a council surveyor visited.
Three residents in Revenge House, at The Anchorage, Gosport, have been told to remove the rubber-backed mats as people could trip on them, particularly if they needed to leave in an emergency.
The council says the health risk is increased by narrow corridors.
Resident Ingrid Buckland, 62, has removed her mat for fear of the council taking action.
‘I just can’t understand all the fuss over these mats – it seems so futile,’ she said. ‘It’s just such a petty little thing and it has got out of hand.
‘I don’t know why the council is saying it might take action over a 99p doormat. I should think the council has bigger things to worry about than three doormats but I’ve moved mine because I don’t want to cause any trouble, it’s just not worth it.’
Gosport Borough Council says if the mats aren’t removed the tenants would be breaking the terms of their lease, which states no objects should be placed in communal area.
Officers will return later this month to check if mats have gone.
But the head of the council’s own housing board thinks it is over the top.Cllr Keith Gill said: ‘I would be opposed to any kind of legal action. That would be heavy-handed.
‘This is sending out the wrong message and there are more important things that the council should be worrying about.’
Other council tenants in the borough could be sent letters if their mats are deemed to be dangerous.
But the council has not enforced a full ban, saying it would assess each mat on an individual basis.
Council spokeswoman Brenda Brooker said: ‘We, as a local authority and landlord, have a duty of care to all persons entering our communal areas and these should be free from any hazards or obstructions, likely to cause health and safety issues or prevent evacuation.
‘If people are aggrieved at the council’s decision that they should remove items which we consider pose a risk, we have a complaints procedure where they can ask for that decision to be reviewed.
‘Secondly, we would consider the health and safety risk that the particular problem presents and then would consider appropriate action, possibly involving legal action.’
Gosport council’s mat ban is the latest barmy health and safety regulation to be introduced, says the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
Campaign director Mark Wallace said Britain was fast being turned into a nanny state with more and more mindless rules.
‘It is ridiculous that health and safety regulations have gone so far,’ he said.
‘If these safety officers don’t have anything better to do, then
clearly we have no need for them.‘What started off as a national exercise in preventing serious harm has ended up as an exercise in how to boss people around.’
Tom Mullarkey, chief executive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, was also against the mat ban.
He said: ‘The application of common sense and balance is much more reasonable than the seeking of mindless increments towards absolute safety.’
However, the council’s own Lib Dem-run administration has opposed the move.
Cllr Peter Chegwyn, chairman of the community and environment board, added: ‘There’s no question of us taking legal action over something this trivial.’
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Permalink • FATHER ARRESTED ON WORD OF WITNESS DEEMED “NOT FIT” TO MAKE STATEMENT. HUH?
And according to the keystone kops, the witless witness wasn’t in any condition to what ? Not “fit to make a statement that night?”
I’m all for nailing adults who abuse kids to the wall and leave em there as a warning to others but this case is ridiculous. Or so it seems here anyway.
It this a case of guilty till proved otherwise?
Father locked up in cell for smacking son
A father was arrested and locked in a police cell overnight for smacking his son’s bottom.
By Richard Savill
Last Updated: 12:48PM GMT 18 Nov 2008Mark Frearson, a co-director of a parcel company, said he told off his son Harry because the seven-year-old walked away from him alone after dark while they were shopping together at a local store.
Mr Frearson, 47, found him in a nearby park 10 minutes later. “I called him to me and smacked his bottom for leaving me, telling him never to do it again,” he said.
But a witness called police and, three hours later, four officers and a specialist child support officer arrived at his house.
They told him that a child had been assaulted, and Mr Frearson replied that he had smacked his son once on the bottom.
“They asked my son what had happened and he said ‘Dad smacked me for being outside the shop’. The police then examined my son for any marks and there were none.”
The officers took Harry in a police car to his mother’s home. They arrested Mr Frearson on suspicion of assault, and took him to the police station.
“I was horrified and bewildered at the course of action being taken on some stranger’s action,” he said.
After about an hour, he claimed, officers told him they could not carry out an interview as the witness “was not fit to make a statement that night”.
Mr Frearson spent the night in a “freezing” cell with two blankets and was released the next day at 10am.
He said: “The first words said to me were ‘The witness has changed his statement’. The ‘witness’ had originally alleged I was kicking my son to the floor.
“I can understand the concerns of the police but they seemed far too ready to presume me guilty and then cause distress to my son by taking him from me.
“My ex-wife (the boy’s mother) told them the allegation was ridiculous but they proceeded regardless with what I considered their over-the-top reaction.”
Mr Frearson has made a formal complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
He said the police reaction was “massively over-the-top” and the experience was traumatic for his son.
Mr Frearson, from Plymouth, in Devon, said: “I find it shocking how easy it is to have someone arrested. To think that all this happened on the back of one allegation. I want an apology.
“I am still angered and bewildered at the events of that night. Why was I not allowed to stay in my own home until statements could be made in the morning? It seemed a knee jerk reaction.”
Mr Frearson said he wanted to know what state the witness was in, if he was unable to make a statement that night. “Whether he was drunk or drugged, I don’t know. Why has he not been arrested for wasting police time, and mine, come to that?”
Mr Frearson said the incident happened at about 6pm on October 28, while Harry, who lives with his mother, Kate, 33, from whom Mr Frearson is divorced, was staying with him during half term.
He said: “I can hardly ever remember smacking my children. I have two older children. I don’t smack a child to hurt them, but to show they have done wrong. There is a difference between smacking and hitting.”
Devon and Cornwall police said it could not comment as a formal complaint had been made.
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Permalink • A BIT OF AN UNUSUAL POSTING BECAUSE … IT’S CLEVER AND INTERESTING?
On my way to somewhere else I tripped over this. There’s a quick 4second spot for Scotland, and then what we in states might call a PSA.
Do they still btw? PSA, Public Service Announcement.
Well, I thought it was quite well done and a fun thing to watch, don’t be too quick to quit the video as there’s a small bit of reading at the end.
If I have one other comment to make I’d say it also works both ways re. the message. You’ll see what I mean.
This video appeared in the morning Telegraph and other places as well I’m certain.
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Permalink • HEY .. A POLISH JOKE: Poland denies Barack Obama cannibal ‘joke’ (no kidding)
Why would this be a bad joke anyway? It’s not even in bad taste. Whoops. Did I say Taste? Heck, it’s a funny line.
People just can’t laugh at each other anymore.
Here, check this out at Vilmar’s place. After you’ve read this. Go Here. > http://antzinpantz.com/kns/
Poland denies Barack Obama cannibal ‘joke’
Poland has been forced to deny its foreign minister ‘joked’ that President-Elect Barack Obama’s grandparents were cannibals.
By Matthew Day in Warsaw
Last Updated: 2:30PM GMT 18 Nov 2008
In an episode that could potentially strain relations between Warsaw and Washington, Radek Sikorski, an Oxford-educated politician who has lived in the US, was reported to have made the jibe by an opposition politician, Ryszard Czarnecki.
Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as saying: “Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His grandfather ate a Polish missionary.”
A spokesman for the Polish foreign office conceded that Mr Sikorski had made the controversial comment, but denied that the foreign minister had intended to insult Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan.
“Mr Sikorski did not tell a racist joke,” said Piotr Paszkowski, the spokesman. “He was only giving an example of the unpalatable and racist ‘jokes’ that surround President Elect Obama.”
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has made no comment on the affair. It appears that Mr Sikorski’s position is not under threat despite calls from opposition politicians for an investigation to deter if the foreign minister broke anti-racism laws.
The derogatory comment about Mr Obama’s family may also have become common staple in Polish political circles. Wojciech Olejniczak, the leader of Poland’s main Left-wing party, the SLD, alleged that he first heard it from Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a Right-wing former prime minister and twin brother of the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski.
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Permalink • WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO: THE DEPT. of ENERGY .. ?
I really had forgotten all about this agency. Wonder how many more there are out there. ???
Subject: Remember why the Department of Energy was established??
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration?
Anybody? Anything? No?
Didn’t think so!!
Bottom line . . . we’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which (probably) not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready?
It was very simple, and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate:
The Department of Energy was instituted 8-04-1977-TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
HEY, PRETTY EFFICIENT, HUH?
NOW its 2008, 31 YEARS LATER, AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR, THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY ‘WHAT WAS I THINKING?’
Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy.
And now we are going to turn the Banking system over to them?
God Help us.
H/T J. Miller
thanks
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Permalink • A NICE TIME WASTER FOR YOUR KIDS WHILE I HUNT THROUGH MISPLACED NOTES
Get outta there. It’s just for the kids. uh huh.
Switch the frogs to the opposite side within 2 minutes.
(this is a 2nd grade computer test in China) (REINICIAR = RESET)
http://funstufftosee.com/frogleaptest.html
hey gimme time. still looking. meanwhile, drive urself batty with this one. NOT YOU Drew. lol
Click the Ball
This will drive you crazy...figure out how to
click on the ball, and when you click the ball it will
change color. click on the link to start.
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Permalink • Monday - November 17, 2008
Somebody has to say it
The media was on Bush’s case for years over his “mission accomplished” speech, even though what he said was utterly correct: that the really large scale combat operations in Iraq were over. But because of that “blunder”, and the PMSM spending months playing up the “McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years” tripe, nobody wants to mention the obvious: that the fighting in Iraq is over. And it has been over for some time. Sure, there might be a couple little leftover splodeydopes with nothing better to do but push their little buttons. There might be a little action here and there for squad sized groups of soldiers. But it’s a done deal, and it has been for several months. So in that vein, since Kate Smith has left us long ago and there are no other large women ready to sing, ZombieTime feels it’s up to us to state the obvious. We might as well pick a date too, and use that to remind folks what has been so obvious that you haven’t heard a word about it on TV. So let’s use November 22nd. It’s as good a day as any.
- AQ in Iraq is smashed
- Just about no foreign fighters are coming in from Syria or other countries anymore
- The flow of Iranian weapons and fighters has been cut off or cut down to nearly nothing
- Al Sadr is pretty much a non-player these days
- The Iraqis have a freely elected government that is growing into the job better every day
- Most of those mileposts that the US set have been met
- the Iraqi army is pretty much up to the task, everywhere
But where’s the official announcement?
The only reason that the war has not been declared “over” is that the media, which was generally opposed to the war and opposed to any of President Bush’s policies, doesn’t want to give him and his supporters the satisfaction of having been right. The media wants U.S. troops to return home, but only on condition that they do so with their tails between their legs in defeat—not as victorious liberators, which would invalidate five years of subtle and not-so-subtle anti-war propaganda on the part of the left-leaning media. The Bush administration for its part has not declared victory for two probable reasons: first, because they fear that by so doing they would only increase the call by the media and liberal Democrats to “bring the troops home now”; and also by so doing they might invite some last-ditch spectacular terror attack by the few remaining jihadists in order to embarrass the administration. And the incoming Obama administration will certainly never announce victory, since Obama spent over a year campaigning for the Democratic primary as the anti-war candidate. So both sides refuse to say the war is over. Even though it is, in fact, over.It is up to the American people to declare victory. Which is exactly what we are doing right now.
Even the little altercations are becoming rarer. Bill Roggio, who has done a superb job of keeping abreast of the Iraq situation, can only run a story from last week, in which our guys rounded up a bunch of insurgent wanna-bes after killing their leaders who were hiding in a hole in the ground:
Iraqi and US forces killed five al Qaeda fighters and captured 149 suspects, including two senior leaders, during operations in Iraq’s North over the past three days. In Mosul, an Iraqi soldier shot and killed two US soldiers and wounded six others during a joint patrol in the eastern part of the city.
Iraqi forces killed five al Qaeda fighters and rounded up 67 suspected al Qaeda operatives and insurgents were in the northeastern province of Diyala. Nine local al Qaeda emirs were captured “in an underground bunker used for torturing and beheading captives,” AFP reported, while five operatives were killed when troops raided a weapons cache.
So it’s not early to make this call. It wasn’t too early a couple of months ago, when Michael Yon first brought the subject up. And don’t be fooled by a little bit of trouble here and there; go read what Zombie has to say about that.
It’s over, over there.
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Permalink • Now will we finally see some action?
Somali pirates have been seizing yachts and sailboats and all manner of freighters filled with crates of whatever for several years now, and very little has been done. Yadda yadda, we’re sending a couple of Navy ships, yadda yadda, respect the pirate’s human rights, blah blah blah. But I think this time they’ve bitten off a little bit more than they can chew, and I hope the international response is a real jawbreaker. A real burn-the-cities-and-salt-the-earth kind of response.
Piss off both the West and the House of Saud at one go. Not what I’d call a really smart move.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Somali pirates hijacked a supertanker hundreds of miles off the Horn of Africa, seizing the Saudi-owned ship loaded with crude and its 25-member crew, the U.S. Navy said Monday.
It appeared to be the largest ship ever seized by pirates. After the brazen hijacking, the pirates on Monday sailed the Sirius Star to a Somali port that has become a haven for bandits and the ships they have seized, a Navy spokesman said.
The hijacking was among the most brazen in a surge in attacks this year by ransom-hungry Somali pirates. Attacks off the Somali coast have increased more than 75 percent this year, and even the world’s largest vessels are vulnerable.
The Sirius Star, commissioned in March and owned by the Saudi oil company Aramco, is 1,080 feet long — about the length of an aircraft carrier — making it one of the largest ships to sail the seas. It can carry about 2 million barrels of oil.
Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, said the pirates hijacked the ship on Saturday about 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya — the farthest out to sea Somali pirates have struck.
By expanding their range, Somali pirates are “certainly a threat to many more vessels,” Christensen said. He said the pirates on the Sirius Star were “nearing an anchorage point” at the Somali port town of Eylon Monday.
Somali pirates have seized at least six several ships off the Horn of Africa in the past week, but the hijacking of a supertanker marked a dramatic escalation.
The MV Sirius Star is a brand new supertanker, built by Daewoo in South Korea and just launched in March. It has a deadweight of 318,000 tonnes.
The Sirius Star is built to the latest maritime regulations and to Vela’s safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly specifications to ensure the reliable transportation of Saudi Aramco’s crude oil to its customers.
A supertanker hijacked by pirates and with British nationals among its hostages is making its way to a Somali port, according to the US Navy.
The Foreign Office earlier confirmed that two Britons were among the 25 crew. Nationals from Croatia, Britain, the Philippines, Poland and Saudi Arabia are also on board.
A NATO flotilla of seven ships, as well as a Russian frigate and Indian vessels, are in the Gulf of Aden to help the U.S. 5th Fleet in anti-piracy patrols and to escort cargo vessels. The 5th Fleet said it has repelled about two dozen pirate attacks since Aug. 22 in the gulf, which connects the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and is one of the world’s busiest waterways with some 20,000 ships passing through it each year.
Looks like it’s time the fighting navies of the entire world to get their rudders in gear and start actively suppressing piracy across the entire western Indian Ocean. The Sirius was seized south east of Kenya, but not really all that far out at sea. And let’s get that damned little circle of mud huts, the pirate enclave town of Eyl, a modern day Port Royal, burned to the ground already. Somalia has become an enemy of the world, and it’s past time they paid the price.
Nearly Instant Update:
Campbell said the Navy does not expect to dispatch a vessel to aide the super tanker because it does not have dangerous weapons aboard like the MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship loaded with arms that was seized by pirates on September 25.
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Eleven vessels are currently being held by pirates hoping to secure ransoms for their release, according to The Associated Press. They include the MV Faina, which was hijacked along with 20 crew and a cargo of weapons and T-72 tanks.
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“Piracy is an international crime that threatens global commerce. Shipping companies have to understand that naval forces can not be everywhere. Self protection measures are the best way to protect their vessels, their crews, and their cargo.”
So the Navy won’t do shit? And the ships should be protecting themselves? Fair enough. Issue Letters of Marque to every single merchant vessel over 10,000 tons and arm them. 40mm Bofors guns bow, stern, and midships, augmented with a dozen M2s. From Durban South Africa to Mumbai India, any small ship approaching a large ship in transit will be shot and sunk on sight. Period. Same approach for the other pirate infested sea passages around the globe.
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Permalink • Flip the Switch
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Permalink • Yeah, What He Said
Good old CM dropped this link in the comments. Outstanding.
To the Left:
News Flash - I didn’t vote for Bush or Clinton either, and while I have criticized them vigorously and in the most ice cold and mocking terms at times, I never tried to undercut the office and the nation because for the past 16 years - make that 20 - people “not from my party” have been in office. I’ve not wished ill on our soldiers, even during Clinton’s “Wag the Dog” antics.
You. Fucking. Have. Strictly because GWB has had (R) after his name, and no other. Don’t insult my intellegence by attempting to deny it, if he’d had a (D) there, you’d have been singing “Hosana” over him, and we’d be listening to three months of Network specials about “The Bush Legacy.”
And I detest you, and hold you in the deepest contempt. I resent having to breathe the same air as you. You and I are not brothers, friends, or countrymen - in fact, you’re not even the same species as me, you subhuman oxygen thieves.
To the Right:
… more and more I am coming to the conclusion that the Libertarian Party is bent of constantly snatching defeat from the jaws of saleability. So my intent is to give another chance to the Republicans to remake themselves as the party of Reagan. And it is high time for a Night of the Long Knives in that august assembly, with Arlen Specter, Olympia Snow, John McCain and all the rest of the east-coast, latte-sipping, champagne and caviar country-club Rockefeller Republicans. Onto the ash-heap of conservatism and go join the fucking DemocratsCommunists, you Quisling, turncoat, backstabbing, traitorous sacks of shit.
Or shut the fuck up, and sit down in the back of the fucking bus, and let the adults drive. Michael Steele, Fred Thompson, Sarahcuda, and Boby Jindhal - these are the people I want to hear. Not you.
I don’t want to hear anymore “Big Tent” bullshit. No more “Democrat Lite” loserism.
None. It ends. Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley are spinning in their graves.
See? Perfectly even handed. Fair and Balanced disgust for both sides. Wipe the slate clean and start over
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Permalink • Sunday - November 16, 2008
The wisdom of Jim Stafford
More from the May 22nd, 2007 show.
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The first colour photographs from the German front line during World War One.
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Too True!
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Now here's a parody of a parody: If Parker & Hart were around, I'm sure they'd be OK with this. HAT TIP: BMEWS
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Twas the Night Before
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Banned from using Hoover or hot water under health and safety rules. (ere we go again matey)
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