Thursday - December 16, 2010

once you grasp the idea that it’s about ‘human rights,’ you’ll feel better about the stupidity.

Right. Sure you will.

Leading off I can’t ignore the subject matter of this even tho I haven’t got a link. And lord knows I have tried every which way.
Since a previous post I did said all I had to say I’ll just give you the lunatic facts of the case.
Here’s the headline I saw in the Telegraph, but as usual for them, no on line copy that I could locate,

FAMILY OF DEAD DRUG MULE CAN SUE CUSTOMS, SAY JUDGES

So here’s what essentially happened.
A professional drug smuggler swallowed 116 packages of raw cocaine.  He was arrested as he was about to go thru customs in London after arriving on a flight from Brazil.  The packets showed up clearly on x-ray. At the hospital he was taken to, he refused all food or drink for a week in an attempt to stop the drugs passing out of his system. Just after he gave up his hunger strike, he died.  Scratch one gremlin.
His name was Anthony Daniel, the paper reports. His wife is ... Ayesha Al Hassen-Daniel.  Just thought I’d add that for whatever.
Well, she and his father are now suing for a “substantial” amount, but they claim it isn’t about money.  Nooooooo.  It’s to do with “RIGHTS.” Isn’t it always?
Their lawyers say there were violations of his rights under the Euro-pee-on Convention on Human Rights.

Now then, in spite of the fact that this Daniel fella was the person responsible for his own demise, apparently the law allows for a law suit altho a high court judge say that he doubts the family can win its case. BUT, of course the Customs service will have to spend money defending itself. Won’t it?

I think in a case like this, it should be allowed but with a difference.  If the Customs people win .... then the lawyers for the family should be put against a wall and shot graveyard dead!  If the family wins .... then add the family to the wall along with the lawyers and stop their breathing also.
That might put the brakes on similar cases waiting for a hearing or trial. 

Now then .... as long as the subject is human rights, and lets please stay with the topic cos things really do get dumber ... I offer you these.
This next item is kind of a surprise because I never thought a female would approve of this. 
Take a look.

Sex offenders including paedophiles should be allowed to adopt

Rules which bar sex offenders from working with children are ‘unfair’ and even convicted paedophiles should have the right to adopt, a leading legal academic has said.

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent

Helen Reece, a reader in law at the London School of Economics, called on Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to relax rules which automatically ban sex offenders from caring for children, saying that this could breach their human rights.

In an article in the respected Child and Family Law Quarterly, Miss Reece suggested that reoffending rates were not high among sex criminals, adding: “despite growing public concern over paedophilia, the numbers of child sex murders are very low.”
A review is currently ongoing into the Vetting and Barring Scheme, introduced following the 2002 Soham murders, amid concerns by ministers that it is too heavy handed.

In her article, Miss Reece suggested that the review should also introduce an assumption that sex offenders including child abusers posed no threat once they had served their sentence.
She said: “There is no reason why all sex offenders should not be considered as potentially suitable to adopt or foster children, or work with them.
“The Vetting and Barring Scheme and other legislative measures single out sex offenders for unfair special treatment and they destroy the principle that a prisoner pays his or her debt by serving their sentence before re-entering society on equal terms.”

Individuals are placed on the “Barred List” and banned from working with youngsters or vulnerable adults if they are convicted of a sexual or violent offence, or one involving the mistreatment of a child.

Miss Reece criticised the rules for leading all sex offenders to be “tarred with the same brush,” saying that while “careful screening” was “important,” the issuing of a “blanket ban” violated the rights of criminals who wanted to adopt or work with young people.

She highlighted the case of a grandfather with a conviction for having sex with a 15-year-old dating back to when he was 29, who was refused permission to adopt his own grandchildren.

The ban could contravene the principle of non-discrimination enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, and may leave the Government open to legal challenge, Miss Reece warned.

READ ALL OF THE ARTICLE HERE

OK, before making up your mind on the issue, read the entire story.  There might be places where she may be correct. BUT ...

“re-offending rates were not high among sex criminals” and “the numbers of child sex murders are very low”

Come on. If you’re a parent, hearing that the numbers of murders are low or that the re-offending rate isn’t high, is still not reassuring. Is it? And does anyone want to take the responsibility of the risk with regard to allowing a sex offender to have kids in their care?
Pedophiles and kids somehow do no strike me as a thing to aspire to. I don’t know if it’s really a sickness but think whatever else it might be, it’s a terrible evil.  Just doesn’t sit well.

So while we’re on the subject of “human rights” even tho all too often the ppl involved aren’t human at all ... here’s an update on an older story with no surprise.  Remember now ... it’s okay cos it’s all about “RIGHTS!”

Failed asylum seeker who left girl, 12, to die after crash can stay in UK as deporting him would ‘breach his human rights’

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:46 PM on 16th December 2010

* Father says ‘criminals have free rein’ after losing battle to deport killer
* Failed asylum seeker Aso Mohammed Ibrahim had a string of convictions
* Outcome ‘may have been different’ if Iraqi didn’t have children, judges say

A failed asylum seeker who left a 12-year-old girl dying under the wheels of his car while banned from driving will be allowed to remain in the UK, judges ruled today.

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 33, an Iraqi Kurd, was jailed for four months over the 2003 crash which cost Amy Houston her life.

Her father, Paul Houston, 41, begged judges at a recent deportation hearing to bring ‘my seven years of hell to an end’ by sending Ibrahim back to Iraq.

Today two senior immigration judges rejected a final appeal by the UK Border Agency to have him deported. Ibrahim will now be allowed to live in the UK permanently.

The UK Border Agency said they were ‘extremely disappointed’ with the decision - and that Ibrahim should have been removed.

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber sitting in Manchester also heard Ibrahim, given leave to remain in the UK, had a string of criminal convictions.

Ibrahim’s lawyers argued that his human rights would be impinged if he was sent back to Iraq.

Mr Houston was left to make the decision to turn off her life support machine hours after the crash in Blackburn, Lancashire, in November 2003.

He has since campaigned to get Ibrahim deported in a tortuous legal battle.

Last month he handed in a letter to judges, containing an impassioned plea asking for Ibrahim to be deported.

Mr Houston, from Darwen, Lancashire, said he was ‘frustrated and angry’ at the decision.

‘I’m really angry. We should all be angry. It is a ridiculous state of affairs,’ he said.
Angry: Paul Houston, father of Amy, said today: ‘This is a perversity of our society.’

Angry: Paul Houston, father of Amy, said today: ‘This is a perversity of our society’

‘I’m battling away here on my own. This is a perversity of our society.

‘What are the judges saying here? They are saying it doesn’t matter what you do when you come here, who you kill, what laws you break, as long as you have a child here you can stay?

‘You work hard, play by the rules, pay your taxes and this is how you get treated. What does that say about politicians, our leaders and the legal system? It’s a joke.

‘They are obsessed with the rights of others from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Where are my human rights?

‘This man is a criminal, do we have no say who we allow in this country?

‘He’s not a life-saving surgeon or a Nobel prize winner. He was a criminal before, a criminal now and he will continue being a criminal.

‘The Human Rights Act is for everybody, not just asylum seekers and terrorists.

‘How can he say he’s deprived of his right to a family life? The only person deprived of a family life is me. Amy was my only family.’

Ibrahim’s lawyers claimed human rights laws permitted him to remain in the country, as his right to life and to family life trumped attempts to return him to his native Iraq.

Mr Houston was not allowed to address judges at the last appeal hearing.

Lawyers for the Border Agency asked for Ibrahim to be deported on the grounds that the judge who originally allowed Ibrahim leave to remain on the basis of his right to a family life did so incorrectly.

Although he now has two children, there was little evidence to suggest he was living at the same address so could not claim a right to family life, it was argued.

The judges were also told of Ibrahim’s convictions, including a further incident of driving while disqualified in 2006, harassment and possession of drugs.

But Senior Immigration Judges Lane and Taylor, in a reserved judgment made public today, rejected the Border Agency appeal.

They said the original decision should stand but added that the outcome might well have been different if the process to remove Ibrahim had begun before he had children.

more here

If you aren’t sick enuff by now, I have more I can share. I sincerely hope the idiot judges before long will personally feel what her family feels and go through the same agony. 

Here’s a few reader comments.

Time this country woke up and started voting all the parties out of office who dont care for the Britsh citizen any more.Disgusting that we cant deport a criminal from another country back home.In the real world the goverment would ignore the judges and still deport him

- british justice, edin uk,

What a marvellous country the UK is - safe haven for the scum of the world.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP -

When are we going to START TAKING ACTION TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK.

Even the French would not have allowed this !!!!
Anne Smith, Grey & Sad & Weary UK

Hope you human rights leftys are happy with this. This is what you wanted, this is what you got.
How would you feel if this was you or your family going through what Paul Houston has to deal with?

- mick, Glos UK

So for him it's "dangerous" to go back to Iraq, well it looks like it is "dangerous" for Brits with him as a squatter in the UK.

- Joyce, Ft Worth, TX USA

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u have a job but, u committ murder so naturally u lose job. end of story?  ah ..not quite.

I have managed to survive a nerve wracking bunch of unholy puter problems that have turned the air blue here.  It all started with MSFT’s monthly Tuesday patch which arrives here on Wed. Well heck, things sort of working okay now but the air is still blue cos ....
I keep finding things like this.  I very much doubt this creep will win his case. It may never actually get to court. In fact, I don’t even blame the guy for what he’s doing, simply because the system not only allows it but many believe it encourages it.

He’s a postman. He is in jail for committing murder. Naturally he’s let go by the postal service. 

So now he is suing them.  Unbelievable?  Nope.  Here. Take a look.

Former postman serving life for stabbing mistress to death sues Royal Mail for SACKING him

By Paul Bentley

Roger Kearney, 57, was sentenced to at least 15 years behind bars earlier this year after he stabbed his mistress, Paula Poolton, 40, seven times and left her body in the boot of her car.

The postman lost his $600-a-week job following the conviction but is today launching legal action from behind bars in an attempt to receive compensation for his dismissal.

Royal Mail bosses are furious that the ‘twisted’ employment case, which is listed for hearing today, is going ahead and see it as a huge waste of their time and money.
The case has also created a political storm, with MPs slamming it as a ‘ludicrous’ indictment of the legal system.

Critics say the case demonstrates how prisoners are becoming increasingly audacious in complaints about their ‘rights’ following the recent decision to grant them the vote.

Kearney will not receive taxpayer-funded legal aid as this is not granted for employment tribunals but defending the case will come at an expense to the Royal Mail in legal fees.

Conservative MP Philip Davies said: ‘This is completely outrageous. On what basis is he suing? The Government needs to clamp down on these ludicrous cases.
‘It makes the system a complete and utter joke. His employers will have had to spend money defending their case. It is ludicrous that they should have to spend time and money on this.

‘After giving prisoners the vote, this is an example that they now want to further flex their muscles.’

Former Tory home affairs spokesman Ann Widdecombe added: ‘This is so ludicrous it doesn’t bear thinking about. He can’t possibly report for work for the duration of his sentence. He’s not available to work through his own fault.’

The Royal Mail staunchly defended its right to fire the murderer. Sources said bosses are furious they have to fund defending the case, even though they have been assured Kearney will not be successful in his attempts to seek compensation.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: ‘Mr Kearney’s dismissal was in accordance with our very comprehensive employment procedures.

‘Royal Mail will defend its position vigorously at this tribunal.

READ MORE HERE

It just make us so damn angry that things can be carried so far beyond common sense.  How the hell can people who are otherwise well educated (we thought) and intelligent, (we assumed) allow things like the prisoner votes, the order to call killers Mister, to allow law suits for hurt feelings, and now this case. How? Surely there has to be more people who see the stupidity then don’t. I just don’t get it.  How could a handful (a large handful admittedly) of bleeding heart libtards of the left, manage to bring these things about?  Mind boggling.

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   Sunday - December 12, 2010

foreign vandals roam the world causing damage and riot. you can not make it up. read this

I guess I’m pretty well PO’d about the riots (what else might you call them) and the promise of more.  There is now the possible threat that the cops may be given water cannons.  Why not real bullets?  Have just read and will share here, and update on something i mentioned yesterday. Foreign agitators. But it’s actually worse then I imagined.  News out now is that they are organized, and there’s even an organization that goes around the world doing this sort of thing. Rioting.

The police in other countries, all the intel services know about these groups and generally who is behind them. Which begs the question, then why can’t they all be killed?  Look at the trouble they cause and the menace they are.  They are no different then violent criminal gangs.

What happens to a society, a country, when the very people sworn to protect are powerless to do anything but watch?  Powerless to do more then make an arrest here and there and nothing done about the violent, criminal anarchist who thrives on this.  And eventually, who pays the tab? Why who else? The law abiding taxpayer. So the txpayer is then hit 2wice. First as the recipient of the criminal action, and then as the one who pays the clean up bill.

I’ve edited the article and touched a few high points. Take a look at the photos, the link below.
Do these guys look like ‘students?’ Jeesh. I just can not believe that the police forces in various countries can’t rid the world of these scum. Really. I don’t understand.  And why is the paper referring to these groups as ‘revolutionaries?’ They are simply lawless and violent for violence’s sake. Period. And tuition fees are apparently not the only thing the anarchists are demanding.  They want an end to capitalism and govt. in general.

The only positive note I can think of in relation to the USA is ...... thank heaven and Mr. Colt for an armed citizenry. 

Scotland Yard last night issued a ‘rogues’ gallery’ of 14 demonstrators being hunted over the student riots.

Thousands of students took to the streets of Central London on Thursday to demonstrate against hikes in tuition fees.
But the protest became violent after being hijacked by anarchists and other militant groups.

Riot police were drafted in as an angry mob tried to break into the Treasury. Vandals ran amok through Westminster, the Cenotaph was defaced and the night ended with dozens of people injured and 34 arrests.

It is understood anarchists from Italy, Germany, Spain and Latvia were among the militants who brought mayhem to the capital.
Others came from as far away as Argentina, arrived in London at least a week before the protest and were involved in planning the attacks on the Treasury and the Palace of Westminster, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

Some are thought to belong to an anarchist group called Black Bloc, which originated in Holland and Germany, and has taken part in riots all over the world.
Mail on Sunday journalists covering the protest saw a Latvian man break off a pole from metal fencing before hurling it at police in Parliament Square.

A group of Black Bloc members said they were from Latvia and had come with a rucksack full of paint bombs and smoke grenades.
One man calling himself Wilf, who said he was from Dresden, was seen to throw a brick and a metal sign at police in Whitehall.

Another demonstrator, who said he was from Turin and lived in a squat in London, said: ‘I’m here to help the students and the people who are poor. I’ve been photographed by the police but I’m immune to it.
‘The students here aren’t really tough. I saw one of them hitting the police. He dropped his keys on the floor and then started asking the police nicely whether he could have them back.’
The foreign revolutionaries were joined by hooligans and radicals from groups such as Anti Cuts Action, Students for Climate Change and a Trotskyist alliance called Counterfire.

Detectives are now examining hours of CCTV and police footage to trace suspects.
The actions of the rioters have been condemned by a decorated war hero who lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan.

Cpl Ricky Furgusson, who last week was presented with the Military Cross by the Queen, described Thursday’s violence as ‘totally out of order’.
And he was particularly sickened by the actions of thugs who targeted the Cenotaph and a statue of World War Two leader Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. 

FOREIGN VANDALS AND CRIMINALS TAKE OVER STUDENT PROTEST

I believe the sign says cut war, not welfare. 

sweet 13 .... how’d they get here? 1) parent might have brought them as some did. or 2) school outing ok’d by left wing school system?

Last week I mentioned an organization I had never been aware of. No reason for me to be aware. It’s for young ppl. 
Drew did a bit of research, actually more then a bit, and I read the link he provided.  What an eye opener. I think I know now, how this country had drifted so much to the left over the years.  Labour as Lyndon says. Yeah.  But I have just discovered something more.
The group calling itself Woodcraft Folk.

In NO way am I saying that they approve or support in any way, the violence and vandalism carried out by thugs this past week and more. They are not about that. BUT .... they do support and have sent kids young as 11 to the protests and encourage them.
AND ... they are decidedly left and have been active for some 40 years.  What’s that tell ya?  Here .. I want you to see something. I picked up on this and it’s where I decided the rot to the left got its claws on a generation.  Woodcraft Folk. Gee. Sounds so woody and cozy I can smell the bark and the leaves.

The aim of Woodcraft Folk is to educate indoctrinate and empower children and young people to be able to participate actively in society while staying safe and feeling supported.

Recent decisions by the government to try and cut Educational Maintenance Allowance, increase student debt and cut funding for schools and universities are making children and young people feel they must protest to get their voices heard. We are not surprised that many young Woodcraft Folk members are joining those peaceful protests against the government’s actions

Our primary concern is to make sure that children are safe and supported when they are making their voice heard whether that is in local action or at national demonstrations. With this aim, we will be supporting Young Woodcraft Folk members at the mass demonstration and lobby on Thursday by marching together,

creating an environment that is friendly, supportive and fun. We are also trying to provide a contact number and a safe space for if any Woodcraft Folk members get scared, cold, lost or need our help. We will be equipped with blankets and hot chocolate in case people get cold and we are also exploring the issues in our local groups across the country while telling stories from the protests on our blog.

The proposed education cuts, rise in student debt and cuts to EMA will have the most impact not on current university students, but on sixth formers and children still in school, but to our knowledge, we are the only national children’s organisation that has committed to support young people when they decide to take action together.

So, if any kiddie gets what? Scared? Scared? I suppose I can see that after last week.  But what I take from this little bit is the long standing indoctrination
and as Drew asked last week.  YOUNG PIONEERS? In the UK?  Yeah. I guess it looks that way.  And these will be the future policy makers one day.

The woody folk here have not told the whole story. Not at all. But they have indoctrinated the young with their version of what they want them to believe.

YOUNG COMRADES of WOODCRAFT FOLK

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“This bumptious Idiot.”

My last post highlighted a screeching left wing liberal moonbat with no more brains then god gave a banana.

Well, just to be politically fair …. we have our share of Moonbats among convs. as well.  And here’s an example. His name is Ken Clarke and he is the “Justice Secretary.” (Justice. Now there’s a word that causes a giggle or two) He has been in the news quite a bit lately and not a few are confusing him with the left.  He has a few interesting ideas about criminality and prisons and rehabilitation of criminals.  As opposed to jailing them.
For instance … he says,
“The first time someone bumps someone off the fortnight after they are let out, there will be outrage. But you have to explain to the sensible public that you can’t give an absolute guarantee.”

What he is referring to are the criminals and as well, those who are mentally unbalanced, getting out of prison early.  He does not appear to have the support of the Prime Minister on this issue. Or I don’t think he does.

Mr Clarke says that the public “Must accept the danger that his plan to free mentally ill prisoners could lead to someone being bumped off.” Nice phrase that.  Bumped off.  Cool.  Has a Hollywood ring to it but …. it still means KILLED. As in MURDERED!

I don’t know because I have not counted nor have I researched the issue.  But I damn well know what I read all to often in all our papers.  Sure, if it bleeds it leads.  I understand that.  The problem is that there seem to be a number of folks who have become victims and are doing the bleeding.  And the numbers do not seem to be getting any smaller.  Do any of you out there actually think someone like say, Charles Manson, could be rehabilitated?  I for one do not.  And there are a few crazies running about here who should be shot, hung or gassed to make the law abiding safer. Safer in their homes and safer on their streets.  You do not get that by releasing prisoners with long records or being off the rails mentally.  And I do not make an exception for those who hear voices and so get off due to “diminished responsibility.” Take a look at a couple of the photos at the link below. Do those guys even appear human?  How many times do we read that some wanker was off his meds poor boy, and so quite naturally stabbed the first person he saw after breakfast. Or dinner. Or at the first inner voice he heard.  I have no patience for them and do not trust the shrinks who say someone is “now safe” to be out in the public. 

By the way … Mr Clarke admitted that he may be more liberal then most conservatives.

Freed mentally ill prisoners could ‘bump someone off’ - but they should NOT be in prison, claims Ken Clarke
By Simon Walters

Mr Clarke’s chief Tory opponent, Shipley MP Philip Davies, said: ‘Ken Clarke does have a tendency to political pig-headedness. His law and order beliefs are like his pro-Euro beliefs – he is equally wrong and equally adamant about both.
‘It is a false argument for him to claim that those of us who want criminals sent to prison somehow do not believe in rehabilitation. It is a question of where the rehabilitation takes place.’
Conservative MPs are divided over laid-back grandee Mr Clarke. Some say his experience is a huge asset, but others claim his off-hand manner is as damaging as his lenient stance on prisons.
When popular ‘Cameron Cutie’ Essex Tory MP Priti Patel asked him for an assurance last week that scrapping laws designed to keep paedophiles behind bars until they are no longer dangerous would not backfire, Mr Clarke scoffed at ‘loony tunes’ critics.
And former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw says he fears Mr Clarke’s policies will lead to more lawlessness not less.
Film-maker Julian Hendy, whose father Philip was murdered in Bristol in 2007 by a mentally unstable man with a history of criminal behaviour, said Mr Clarke ‘sounded pretty glib’.
Mr Hendy, who spent nearly three years researching mental health homicides in Britain after the murder, said: ‘I’d like to meet Ken Clarke to talk about the reality of losing someone to someone who has mental health problems.
‘Every year, 100 people are killed by someone who has mental health problems. It would be OK to release them if they were to get proper treatment – but the system is simply not up to it.’

ALL THE STORY IS HERE

Here a few local quotes and on writer for the Mail, Peter Hitchens, refers to Mr. Clarke as, “This bumptious Idiot.”

Kenneth Clarke - the Conservatives’ answer to Harriet Harman. Bonkers!
- Phil, Braintree, Essex

Maybe Clarke himself should be ‘locked up’ - and kept away from frightening people.

I’m sure he’d be quite so relaxed about his stupid idea if any member of his family encountered one of the people who shouldn’t be allowed to roam free.

This man is dangerous; he’s a lunatic; he needs his medication and the attention of doctors - to prevent his stupid ideas harming and causing danger to the people of the UK.

A Government’s first duty is the safety and security of its citizens; but then Clarke was one of the Traitors who happily signed us further into the Animal Farm EUSSR, so we can’t expect him to acknowledge any idea of safeguarding UK citizens.

Yeah, that confirms it - the man is dangerous......
- Anne Smith, Grey & Sad & Weary UK,

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   Saturday - December 11, 2010

Teachers, riots, studen demands and anarchists who promise more violence

One of the student rioters caught pissing against a famous and revered war memorial, said he was sorry but that he didn’t know what he was pissing on or that it had that significance.
No big deal?  Well, apparently he’s also a history major as I understand the report. School days, school days ....
Most have a very low opinion of the rioters BUT, even the kids who did try to be peaceful need to put their thinking caps on with regard to the increased fees the riots were ‘supposed to be about.’ They are NOT reading everything about it that they should. Why not?
Maybe this is a contributing factor. Ya think? I mean after all, their education had to start someplace and schools seem to be the logical place. Home aside.

One in four trainee teachers is a dunce: Thousands struggle to pass simple literacy and numeracy tests

By Sarah Harris
Last updated at 1:49 PM on 11th December 2010

Almost one in four trainee teachers cannot do simple sums and a fifth have problems with spelling, grammar and punctuation, worrying figures revealed yesterday.

Thousands repeatedly flunk basic numeracy and literacy tests and seek unlimited resits to pass.

Critics fear the poor quality of the next generation of teachers will have a devastating impact on their pupils.

Trainees have to pass basic skills tests in literacy, numeracy and ICT (information and communication technology) before they can qualify as teachers. The pass marks are just 60 per cent.

The latest figures from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) reveal that in 2008/9 33,517 trainees passed their numeracy and literacy tests.

Some 77.7 per cent passed their numeracy test first time; 9.5 per cent (3,190) made two attempts and 12.8 per cent (4,298) – or one in eight – had at least three attempts.

In literacy, 80 per cent (26,814) passed first time; 11.6 per cent (3,892) had two attempts and 8.4 per cent had at least three.

The figures do not detail how many times trainees resit the tests beyond three. However one is reported to have taken the tests 27 times before achieving the pass rate.

Standards were far higher five years ago when would-be teachers sailed through their tests without relying on retakes.

For example, of the 32,717 trainees who passed their numeracy test in the academic year 2003/4, a respectable 83.6 per cent did so first time.

more here

It is disheartening to read reports like the one published on Wed. in the Mail, comparing Brit schools with other countries.  The subject was dumbing down.
For example.

READING in the top 30 countries.
UK ranked 25

MATHS top 30 countries
UK ranked 28

SCIENCE top 20 countries
UK ranked 16

Would care to take a guess who was FIRST? 

In ALL the above the top scores went to ...  Shanghai-China

Number two in READING was South Korea
Number two in MATHS was Singapore
Number two in SCIENCE was Finland

All other top scores (top 10) were Chinese again (Hong Kong) (Taipei) Finland, Canada, Japan, Netherlands

Well lets get back to the students herein England.  There are always splinter groups making demands for things whenever you have situations like the ones during this past week.
Here are a couple of things some students want.  Or in this case don’t want and say so.

They do not want SPORTS funding to be cut.
They do not want ART funding to be cut. 

There’s a third but I will be darned if I can recall what it is. I must be having a senior moment.

Meanwhile ... while I try to remember what the heck the 3rd was but making no promises, I offer you this.

Tackling bad behavior ‘is not our job’, teachers claim

and you can read the article behind that headline HERE!
And finally ...

Student “leaders” promise more violence in coming weeks AND ... Praise any protester who” landed a blow to a copper -a brick through a window or a dent in car.” They are working class heroes, it is claimed.

They also claim that it was the police who started the riots. They also say, “In order to win, we need more violence on the streets, more hospitalised coppers, and many more attacks on the royals.”

Oh, by the way ... as mentioned under comments elsewhere .....

Some of the rioters were interviewed.  THEY COULD HARDLY SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!!

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   Friday - December 10, 2010

Fleeing arsonist runs into lamppost .

This was presented as recent although the date on the video says 2008. I guess it took this long to convict?
Well hell. The end is funny but not the fire.  People who start fires should be tied to a stake and set alight themselves. Now that’s justice.

Bad enough the country is overrun with white trash criminals ... it needs these folks too?
I have to be careful. Can’t make any obvious racist jokes or ill comments on these pimpleheads. Here’s a quick example of things of that nature.

LAWYER FINED FOR CALLING MUSLIM BARRISTER ‘TENTHEAD’
BIRMINGHAM A former deputy district judge who called a Muslim barrister a ‘tenthead’ has been fined £10,000 by his governing body. Stephen Jones, who has served as a member of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal he appeared before, also dubbed Saleca Faisal-Parkar ‘Mother Theresa.’

Oh yeah ... he apparently also referred to her as Mother Teresa due to her wearing of a headscarf.
Hurting people’s feeling here can be costly.
TENTHEAD!  I LOVE it!

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punks and thugs run riot, attack police. why? because they can and there’s no serious penalty.

This is the kind of shit England tolerates in the name of democracy.

These spoiled selfish bastards can only do this because the penalties aren’t severe enough. ie. Broken bones, smashed heads and maybe a bit of necessary killing. But slowly burning at a stake. Hell, there aren’t any real penalties.  Take a look.  And these are supposed to be students? Of what? These are going to be future leaders? Uh huh. If that’s the case, I know my prediction for this country is correct.  It’s DOOMED!  See link below.

The Cenotaph, Churchill… how young thugs broke every taboo

By Paul Harris
Last updated at 4:39 AM on 10th December 2010

In a grotesque insult to those who championed the very freedoms which allowed them to stage their protest, a baying rabble of masked and hooded troublemakers turned a student demonstration into anarchy yesterday.

They defiled a statue of Winston Churchill by urinating on it, ripped flags from the Cenotaph ­– the nation’s sacred memorial to those who died in the name of liberty – then lit fires and sprayed slogans on the ground in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament.

The physical victims of their violence, inevitably, were the police.

But the casualties of a day when so few were allowed to hijack a legitimate protest were respect and common decency.

From the bottles of urine they hurled aloft, to the scaffolding poles and increasingly dangerous missiles they threw, democracy was held in contempt.

Windows were smashed at the Supreme Court building. Even the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square – a symbol of peace and goodwill – became a focus for senseless vandalism.

Once again, it was the actions of a minority which overpowered all attempts to keep this protest peaceful.

Every symbol of government or establishment became a target. Anything to hand became a missile.

I saw wood, metal, paint-bombs and smoke canisters hurled at male and female officers.

Police horses were beaten with sticks and at least one iron bar when a section of fencing was used to repel a line of mounted officers.

One of them suffered a serious neck injury after being trampled when he fell from the saddle. At least two other officers were badly hurt.

The irony of attacking and defacing monuments to the freedom which allowed this demonstration to take place clearly escaped the mob. In a sinister echo of the anti-capitalist riots ten years ago, protesters donned black balaclavas to carry out their assault.

Just as then, Churchill’s statue on Parliament Green, decorated in 2000 with a Mohican haircut made from vandalised turf, became a focus. And the plinth became a toilet.

Someone climbed up the base and gave a clenched-fist salute to a cheering crowd. Someone else went to spray graffiti on the inscription.

SEE AND READ ALL THE REST HERE

When cops are injured the outcry is a whisper. But let one of these rotten shits get a hair mussed and it’s Nazi Germany Gestapo beating up on helpless unarmed students.  Yeah well, maybe it’s time this country and ours too should take a second serious look at the old Gestapo. Anyone want to guess the outcome of a demonstration like this in Germany 1940? You can’t anyway because it would never have gotten this far. Why?  Because people understood that there might, no would, be a price to pay. And that’s exactly how you end this kind of thing once and for all.  You don’t fight this kind of anarchy with civil rights lawyers and human rights legislation.  You fight it with a ruthless ferocity that takes no prisoners where there’s clear evidence of guilt.  You make certain their friends witness their suffering with an unspoken warning. The rest will get the message.

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   Sunday - December 05, 2010

A notorious gangster has won the right to force prison officers to call him ‘Mr’.

This is the sort of thing that tries men’s souls. And the ladies too. And their tempers.

How does a man who led a criminal gang and ordered the killing of a couple for no other reason then they were related to someone who’d crossed him, how does he now seriously demand he be treated with respect by prison authorities?  He insists they call me mister. And he won.
Well why not?  Hell. For years now every time I’ve seen a police chief or spokesman for the police giving a statement, no matter the crime, they always refer to the mad dog rapist,killer,mugger as ... mister. Have you noticed that? It started years ago and I’m speaking of the USA although they do that here as well.
How’d that come about?

Alright, where proof hasn’t been established and police are at one point speaking to someone but no arrest made, fine.  But in cases where there’s absolute proof, where someone committed a crime in front of a lot of people, or where in some cases a killer actually waited to be arrested and gave up rather then be shot by the cops, doesn’t mister seem a bit too much?

Back to this story though.  The killer/gang leader here insists on respect and I asked how he could expect that. The answer of course is, he’s smart enough to understand how screwed up and pc the system is and so can demand almost anything and be assured authorities will cave in. It’s his human right don’t ya see.
He knows all about his rights you betcha.

There is a move underway, I have read, that would halve prison sentences if criminals admit guilt immediately and avoid long trials.
That’s the world today and my problem is I’ve grown naive in the extreme, cos I want a Norman Rockwell world. Or at least an America that reflects that. Sad though that it never really did.  Or did it?

Before I forget.
I think next week marks the anniversary of the death of John Lennon.
I liked the Beatles well enough. Not everything but I did like some. I was never a fan of Lennon (either one, Lennon or Lenin) and was usually bothered by the fact that the idiot was in my country with another foreigner, his ugly untalented Jap wife, demonstrating against our foreign policy as though they had a say in matters concerning my country.  Yes, everyone has a right to their opinion and I wouldn’t want to be the one with authority to silence anybody.
Except a foreigner in my country.  Wanna be critical? Do it from your country and stay out of mine.

The reason I brought up Lennon to begin with is, news,news.
Someone has written a book on the killing and says that Lennon wasn’t killed by Mark Chapman. Nope.
The CIA did it with cover up help from the FBI.  He’s serious.  So why would the CIA put a contract on poor stupid, drugged to the gills John Lennon?

His conclusion is that Lennon opposed the Viet Nam war and was a peace activist.

In a new book, author Phil Strongman claims that Chapman was a stooge. Lennon’s real assassin was the CIA — at the behest of Right-wing fanatics in the American political establishment.

Makes no sense.  If that was a reason kill him, then why not Jane Fonda? She committed treason. She gave aid and comfort to our enemy while our boys were were dying. Why not her?  Don’t know. The reviews of the book didn’t say and I am not gonna buy his book.  I guess I’ll just have to live with the idea that it was the right wing in America that did it. It’s always us. Innit?

btw ... Chapman will be asking for parole again in 2012.

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   Thursday - December 02, 2010

stealing resources …. copper has value …

Well as usual this wasn’t planned as my first post of the day and btw ... had no plan to boot this early. Came downstairs around 5:20am or thereabouts, see piles of fresh snow everywhere and doubt we’ll get out this morning unless things melt. So then, sitting at puter cos of course I just HAD to boot the damn thing and check mail. Well, as long as I was checking mail I just HAD to see what was happing at BMEWS. Didn’t I?

The picture of me this early morning is a an insomniac with a now cool cup of what once was hot tea, a many years thin hooded sweat shirt of a blue hue. Been washed so many times it’s hard to tell. But PJ bottoms and slippers and no socks sitting at a pc in front of a bay window facing our front yard. Still too dark outside to take a picture but hell, you know what snow looks like so why bother? And it’s pretty damn cold where my feet are.

So I checked the site and found a comment and a link to what isn’t a new story. It’s been happening here and in fact, some thieves have been targeting ancient village churches for the lead in roof.  Not only is the story worth posting (I believe), but see the following comments as well.  I always find what folks have to say about subjects as interesting as the story itself. Often times more so.

So ...

H/T Rick K for the heads up on this one.

DIY metallurgists liberate and scrap America’s vital telephony substrate

Cory Doctorow

Spiraling commodity prices and a plummeting US job market have apparently made digging up copper phone lines and selling them for scrappage an attractive proposition. AT&T is offering $3K for information leading to the arrest of the copper scrappers who freelanced enough copper out of the fertile Atlanta soil to knock 7,000 people offline. It’s part of a wider nationwide pattern of DIY five-finger discount recycling—100 miles of copper vanished from Appalachia, three hits to the same NJ station, and a $75K score also in the Garden State.

The FBI report shows that industry and local officials are taking countermeasures to help address the scrapper problem, but apparently much more needs to be done. For example, while a variety of physical and technological security measures have been taken there are limited resources available to enforce these laws, and a very small percentage of perpetrators are arrested and convicted. Additionally, as copper thefts are typically addressed as misdemeanors, those individuals convicted pay relatively low fines and serve short prison terms.

Atlanta isn’t the only place seeing copper theft problems. In this report, Appalachian Power said more than 100 miles of copper wire has been stolen from the company’s southern West Virginia facilities alone. Replacing stolen wire can cost up to $1 million a year, the utility stated. Other thefts have been reported all across the country in recent days. One location in New Jersey has been hit three times in the last two months seeing some $13,000 worth of copper stolen. A utility in the same state this week reported a $75,000 theft of the metal.

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   Wednesday - December 01, 2010

cops right on top of things except … woops … oh damn.  they ate the evidence

Oh boy, I just know some of you will have fun with this one. Good way to end the night for me as well.

Bungling police arrive at crime scene… and EAT the evidence

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:03 PM on 1st December 2010

Police officers wolfed down pizzas at a crime scene without realising they had been ordered by the very suspects they had been hunting, a court heard.

They bought the two deep pan pizzas at a reduced price from a delivery boy after the gang who ordered them refused to answer the door.

The Old Bailey heard the food had been ordered by the gang from the Hertfordshire house they were holding a drug dealer hostage, in April.

The victim was beaten and bound to a chair and battered across the face with frying pans.

During his ordeal the gang ordered a Domino’s pizza but before the food arrived the victim escaped through a window and raised the alarm at a nearby building site.

Police arrived to find the delivery boy and then ‘ate the evidence’ outside the house.

The following day another officer found the boxes in the boot of the police car.

‘The address was written on the pizza box, together with the time, 5.13pm, and a mobile telephone number,’ said prosecutor Sally Meaking-McLeod.

The empty boxes were seized and produced in court as an exhibit for the jury to examine.

Opening the case, Ms Meaking-McLeod said: ‘Because the pizza delivery man could not deliver the pizzas, the police who were at the scene did not realise the significant potential of this evidence so they offered to buy the pizzas at a reduced rate for themselves and ate them, putting the boxes in the back of a police car.

‘It was only subsequently that the pizza boxes were found in the back of a police car and a phone number was found on one of them and it came to light that the officers had eaten the evidence.’

The court heard the attackers, including Anthony Costello, 42, and Darren Barker, 35, fled before the delivery boy and police arrived.

They are alleged to have stolen the victim’s £5,000 watch, £150 cash, his mobile phone and keys to his Mercedes CLK parked outside. The Mercedes was found abandoned in Borehamwood in May.

The attack was arranged by a drug dealer, known only as CJ, who believed the victim was moving into his territory in Hertford and Watford, The court heard that Costello claimed the man was his crack cocaine and heroin dealer.

a fraction more to read HERE

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ho-hum. just another day in the life of burka wearing robbers but don’t criticize facial coverings

This isn’t the first robbery of this sort. The big surprise is that it hasn’t happened more often. You would think it might.
Of course, calling for a ban on total face covering in public places in a country it isn’t native to is islamophobic - racist and just bad manners as exhibited by the native population, who had not before the great invasion of this very foreign presence been exposed much to it.  Silly Brits, thinking this was actually their country in which they had a right to determine what is appropriate in public.  Now whatever gave em that idea?

Man dressed in burka robs jewellers

The Manchester Evening News

A gang led by a man dressed in traditional Islamic attire stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery during a raid.

It happened at the Jadee Jewellers store on Rochdale Road, Bury, at about 4.30pm on Monday 22 November 2010.

The man approached the shop dressed in a burka and hijab and believing he was friendly and a legitimate customer, the owner opened the shop door.

At this point, four other members of the gang burst through the open door brandishing a silver metal hammer and a baseball bat, while the man in the Islamic clothing produced a machete.

The men smashed numerous glass display cabinets and stole thousands of pounds worth of 22ct gold jewellery, including necklaces, bracelets and earrings.

The shop owner tried to scare them off by swinging a hockey stick and eventually the gang fled into a dark coloured car, believed to be an Audi.

Police are now appealing to anyone who has information about the robbery to come forward.

The man carrying the baseball bat was black, about 6ft 2in tall, in his early 30s and of a skinny build. The man with the hammer was white, about 5ft 6in tall, in his early to mid-30s and had shaved hair.

The thief in the burkha and hijab was said to be Asian, about 5ft 9in tall, in his early 30s and of a medium build.

Detective Inspector Victoria Shaw said: “The ruse used to gain entry to this jewellery store not only shows a level of detailed planning but also incredible disrespect.

“It is clear this was a determined gang of robbers who need to be locked up.

“I therefore want the public to assist us with our investigation and to help us uncover their identities. The owner of the store has been through a traumatic ordeal and has seen his livelihood threatened in the most violent way, so he deserves to see these people caught and sent to jail.

“In particular, I want people to be on their guard if offered traditional pieces of Islamic jewellery from anyone other than a licensed dealer, as these men might seek to make a quick profit and sell the pieces on.

MENEWS

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   Saturday - November 27, 2010

arrested for burglary.  off to jail? no. off to a sewing machine to sew costumes for carnival. huh?

Now why should any career criminal here worry about the law and punishment with this laughable program. Not so laughable to the law abiding, taxpaying public of course.
Take a look.

Sentenced to make carnival costumes: Criminals get so-called ‘tough’ alternative to jail

By Jack Doyle

Burglars and robbers are learning costume-making and working in charity shops instead of being sent to prison, a damning report reveals today.

The punishments are part of supposedly rigorous community service programmes.

But within a year of completing such schemes, criminals had committed a further 250,000 offences, raising major doubts about their effectiveness.

The report found convicts working with animals on farms or serving lunch at old people’s clubs. Others were found making costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival, filling envelopes or sorting jewellery.

The report, by the centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange, charts a 70 per cent rise in community punishments in the last decade under Labour. Such is the scale of the growth that within four years more serious and violent criminals will be given community terms than will be put behind bars, it predicts.

Just half of all community orders are completed, and one in ten are cut short because of a further conviction. Figures suggest criminals placed on community orders in 2008 committed almost a quarter of a million offences in the following 12 months.

Of these, 1,500 were serious crimes such as murder and rape.

source for more

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   Tuesday - November 23, 2010

One Less Methbilly Dirtbag

Hey McGoo - what was I saying the other day over at Mitchell’s about making sure the house gun fits the lady of the house? Case in point.

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KNOXVILLE - A woman shot and killed a man during a South Knoxville home invasion robbery after the intruder had struggled with and shot her husband, authorities said this morning.
A second interloper escaped, apparently uninjured, and was being sought by police.
...
When officers arrived they found Joshua Dexter Watson, 24, of Knoxville dead from multiple wounds administered by a .357-caliber revolver belonging to the homeowners, DeBusk said.

The wounded husband, Jonathan Franklin, age unavailable, was transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with what police termed non-life-threatening injuries.

DeBusk said two suspects knocked on the door of the home and “then kicked in the door.”

The two intruders struggled with Franklin and one of the suspects shot him.

“During the fight the suspects were demanding at first drugs and then money from the victims,” DeBusk said.

After Franklin was shot, Jamie Franklin, 21, grabbed the household .357 revolver and “fired several rounds striking one suspect more than once in the upper body,” DeBusk said.

Watson has a criminal history that began even before his 18th birthday, records show. He was facing a charge of aggravated robbery in 2004 before he turned 18.

After that, Watson racked up dozens of charges, including drug possession, theft, evading arrest, reckless driving and violation of probation for the aggravated robbery conviction, records show.

No charges have been files against Mrs. Franklin, and as my non-yankee friends tell me, the cops have most likely returned her gun already. Too bad she didn’t at least wing the other perp.

And that’s how these things are done on this side of the pond. Hey Brits - notice how the felon was not given a free flat to live in, free medical care, free counseling, 3 rounds of Kumbayah, and a free lawyer to sue the homeowner with. The only thing he gets for free is a few shovels full of dirt and a cardboard box in Potter’s Field. Because she didn’t miss. Several times she didn’t miss. No word on whether the ammunition was .38s or .357s. They are both the same “caliber”.

It just seemed like it belonged here Drew ... 

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   Saturday - November 06, 2010

Close The Damn Border

Mexico’s drug war is within inches of spilling over into the US. Close the border, send in the Army, and let Mexico solve it’s own problems. Failing that, invade and create a 100 mile wide burnt out buffer zone.

Mexican marines killed drug baron Ezequiel “Tony Tormenta” Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight at the U.S. border on Friday, a fleeting victory for President Felipe Calderon that is unlikely to quell raging violence.

Around 150 marines backed by helicopters and soldiers fought running battles with members of the powerful Gulf cartel for hours in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, terrifying residents and briefly shutting border bridges.

Dodging grenades and coming under heavy fire from gunmen hidden in houses and shooting from trucks, the marines moved in on Cardenas, one of Mexico’s most-wanted traffickers, and killed him on Friday afternoon, the navy said.

“He died in a shootout with us,” a navy spokesman said.

Three marines and four gunmen were killed, the navy said. A reporter was killed after being caught in crossfire, local media reported.

Cardenas, 48, was the brother of former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, who was extradited to Texas in 2007. He had a $5 million bounty on his head in the United States and ran the powerful gang with his partner, Jorge Eduardo Costilla, known as El Coss, who is still at large.

Gunfire broke out in Matamoros Friday, leaving at least 47 people dead and causing the closure of all three bridges between Brownsville and Mexico. The fighting reportedly involved members of the Gulf Cartel, the Zetas and Mexican federal police and military.

University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College closed the Fort Brown campus and moved the soccer games scheduled for Friday night to the Brownsville Sports Park.

Gunfire was reported in Matamoros in a number of incidents beginning Friday morning, with at least 30 people dead by around noon, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition that his name not be used. In the afternoon, a major confrontation near city hall killed at least 17 more people, the source said.

One of those killed around midday was identified as Carlos Alberto Guajardo, 37, a reporter for the newspaper El Expreso. Sources with knowledge of the incident said Guajardo apparently was killed by soldiers who were chasing narcotics traffickers.

The gunfire was heard by UTB-TSC officials, who were at the men’s and women’s soccer finals of the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament at the campus.

“At first we were not sure if they were fireworks,” said Ronnie Zamora, sports information director for UTB-TSC. “But you could smell the smoke of the gunfire.”
His assistant, Cynthia Hernandez, a junior at UTB-TSC, said she was terrified when she heard the noise.

“I was shocked that this could happen so close to campus,” said Hernandez. “I don’t think the other (out-of-state) teams realized how close we were to the border, what we are dealing with down here.”

Hilda Silva, vice president for student affairs, said she believed the situation had been handled quickly and properly.

“As soon as something like this happens, the campus police, Brownsville PD, everybody comes together to decide what needs to happen to keep our students safe,” Silva said.

The first bulletin sent out about 5 p.m. alerted the campus community to stay indoors. About 30 minutes later, all classes were canceled, and faculty, staff and students were asked to leave the campus immediately.

I’d certainly call this situation too close for comfort. What the hell is the government waiting for? 

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