Saturday - February 04, 2012
Cooking Up A Party
I’m getting ready for tomorrow, doing all the cooking today. A gin & tonic or two, a couple of razor sharp knives, and away I go.
First you find a good selection of tunes and crank up the stereo. Then you wash your hands and get to work.
I’ve got two mushroom/ham/swiss quiches cooling, the beef and okra Vindaloo is simmering away, the chicken wings are tipped and marinating in jerk sauce. Hey, the oven is still hot, so maybe I’ll smack together a nice water bath cheesecake. And I have a clean pan left and some nice bread, so maybe I’ll make a couple of Cuban style pressed Reubans for tonight and tomorrow. Must remember to mix up the dip tonight tomorrow. Chips, beer, wine: ready to go.
Here’s some Elvis Costello to get you cranking through the rest of your day ... music that will get you a speeding ticket if you’re driving.
You guys have anything special to eat tomorrow while the Giants crush the Patriots?
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Permalink • Thursday - February 02, 2012
idiot equality minister takes offense at beer tap. shocking photo seen here.
If any of the men had any grit, they’d have told the stupid bitch to get a life. But oh f***in no. The order of the day in these politically correct times, is to give the ‘F’ in. Always give in the offended or ones who might become so.
Dumb shits! Sorry ppl but this kind of sorry assed stuff just makes me see red.
Top Totty beer banned from Parliamentary bar in case it offends womenA beer called Top Totty was banned from a Parliamentary bar today because its pump plate featuring a half-naked lady offended women.
One sorry phony who is an “equality” minister who makes extra money cos she is the equality minister. And here’s what has her most likely unwashed knickers in a twist. Take a look.
Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’
Shadow equalities minister Kate Green was left ‘’disturbed’’ after seeing the 4% ale’s advertising in a popular Westminster watering hole and demanded bar staff remove it from sale.
Within 90 minutes House authorities ordered the beer to be withdrawn after Commons’ Leader Sir George Young told MPs: ‘’Action will be taken.’’
A barman told the Press Association: ‘’I can confirm it was withdrawn from sale at 1.30pm.’’
The bitter backlash developed after Ms Green told the Commons: ‘’I was disturbed last night to learn that the guest beer in the Strangers’ Bar is called Top Totty and there is a picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap.’’She called for a debate on ‘’dignity at work in Parliament’’ and asked Sir George to back her demands for Top Totty to be ‘’withdrawn immediately from the bar’’.
Top Totty’s Stafford-based brewer Slater’s describes the ale as ‘’a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied with a voluptuous hop aroma’’.Its website adds: ‘’This award winning beer, brewed solely with Whitbread Goldings hops, produces an initial burst of bitterness with a citrus fruity finish.’’
Speaking as MPs discussed future Commons business, Sir George said he was ‘’not aware of this particular picture’’ but pledged to raise the issue with House authorities.He added: ‘’I am sure appropriate action will be taken.
‘’I would very much regret it if any offensive pictures were on display in any part of the House.’’
Commons Speaker John Bercow’s wife Sally, who last year famously posed in just a bed sheet for a photo shoot, took to Twitter to vent her anger at the beer.
She wrote: ‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous - does Mr B know?’’
The beer’s withdrawal will come as a blow to Tory MP Jeremy Lefroy, who organised for Top Totty to be sold in Strangers’.Announcing its introduction as the bar’s guest ale, the Stafford MP said: ‘’This is a great opportunity to showcase a fantastic and award winning beer.
‘’Slater’s Brewery produces many popular beers which have been brewed locally for more than 15 years and it is great to be able to share some of Staffordshire’s finest produce with colleagues in Parliament.’’
‘’Cannot *believe* that there’s a beer called Top Totty on sale in the Commons! Outrageous
Yeah right. And this from a woman, married to the Speaker of the house who bragged publicly about her numerous one night stands before marriage, and who not surprisingly supports the left, she is outraged also. Uh huh. Another phony.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 01, 2012
No, It Takes One Person Willing To Push
An observation on life in a communist microcosm.
We live in a condo park. On the ten or so roads in this little village there are 438 housing units in 55 buildings of about 8 units each, with parking everywhere in between. Everyone pays a fat monthly fee to the condo association, and they in turn supply the water, hire people to mow the lawn, plow the snow, collect the garbage, run the pool, maintain the buildings and generally keep the place neat and tidy. Sure, we have a bunch of silly rules (eg these units are all electric, yet everyone must have a CO detector, and the state comes around every couple years to inspect it), but most of the time it’s pretty cool.
We don’t have individual garbage cans. Instead, every other building has a nicely finished wood corral with a 5 yard dumpster inside, and the truck comes around twice a week.
We don’t have individual recycling either. We have commingle, and every other other building has one of those wooden corrals just for recycling. The problem is, down at our end of the village, that 5 buildings share this 1 corral, and inside are just 3 giant garbage can bins and a shelf for newspapers and cardboard. Which are supposed to be cut to size and bundled with string. Sure. In theory. In theory the recycling guys come by every week. In theory. Every Friday.
It’s only Wednesday and the recycling corral is an overflowing disaster. All 3 bins are overflowing, several plastic bags of commingle are on the ground, there is cardboard in willy-nilly heaps all over the place, and loose newspaper everywhere.
We’re all supposed to take care of the corrals, and not make a mess for our neighbors to deal with. Riiiiight.
The truth is that when more than 3 people are responsible for anything, no one is actually responsible for it at all. When it takes a village, or even a good part of a neighborhood, and nobody is watching, it never gets done. One person either has to do the work, or crack the whip.
So when I took our recycling over there this afternoon, I spent a few minutes trying to neaten the place up. Again. There really wasn’t too much I could do; that corral gets too much traffic and needs more carrying capacity. So I took 5 big boxes that hadn’t been broken down or tied up, and set them up on top of the bins to hold even more recycling. I hope that will be enough until Friday. Then I went back inside and called the office, and requested - again - that we get at least 2 more bins for that corral. I don’t see what else I can do.
Come Saturday, I’ll go back out there with a knife, some twine, and a snow shovel to scoop up some of the mess. Again. Seems I do this about every other month. It’s not my job.
On top of one of the heaps of waste paper was a 2011 calendar someone was getting rid of. It was a whole year of piggy pictures, done by Eide and Flynn, who have made a good career out of animal photography. So I took it, and I’m thinking of making up a sign. I can use one of the piggies, which really are adorable. Make it cute, make it funny, and maybe people won’t be insulted. Too much. In theory.
Now, all I have to figure out is how to say “Clean up your effing mess you lame-ass shite-crusted crotch weasel, we’re sick of it!” in a charming and humorous diplomatic manner.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 31, 2012
Are We There Yet?
Even though the weather has been quite mild here, January has just dragged on forever for me.
It feels like it’s been January all year.
D’oh!!! It has!
So here’s Brit soap actress, undie model, and “sex poppet” Jorgie Porter. Why not?
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Permalink • pc health police shut down hospital burger king
This is I gather, what happens in a socialist nanny state. What an outrage.
It is not as though Burger King doesn’t sell salads and other items with less calories and fat. But that aside, there are damn few hospital cafeterias and none in our area, that are worth much. So personally, I’d welcome mouth satisfying food as served by BK. And it isn’t like I eat there every day or even every month.
Why can’t people choose for themselves without having other people decide for them?
And talking about sending out the wrong messages. I have seen a few medical staff who didn’t exactly fit the image of exercise and healthy eating.
I wonder what sort of brainwashed world this new generation born in 2012, will see in 2037 when I won’t be here to see it for myself. And perhaps I won’t want to witness it all and so might be lucky. They’re being born into a world where everything will be proscribed for them. Things will be forbidden but it won’t matter since they won’t grow up in a world where they’ll have the experience of choice.
Pessimistic I suppose but that’s how I see it.
Hospital facing $4.8m cuts forced to pay $31,395 to shut Burger King on its site
Fast food store which opened in 1997 has been replaced by Costa Coffee
By ROB COOPERAn NHS trust paid £24,000 to shutdown a Burger King restaurant inside a hospital.
The outlet in the entrance area of Croydon University Hospital in Surrey has sold burgers and high fat meals to patients for 14 years.
But it was replaced with a Costa Coffee outlet at hefty cost to the taxpayer in December last year following pressure from health campaigners.
The £24,000 ($31,395) cost is enough to cover the salary of lower grade nurse for a whole year.They accused the hospital of hypocrisy for taking money from the fast food chain at a time when Britain is undergoing an obesity crisis.
The Burger King was located close to notice boards promoting healthy eating.
Explaining the decision, Croydon Health Service said the ‘world had changed’ since bosses signed the contract with Burger King in 1997 to open the fast food restaurant.
Figures obtained under freedom of information laws reveal the NHS Trust paid £24,000 to Compass UK - the company operating the fast food franchise - to terminate the contract.
The trust said none of the money would go to Burger King itself.
The hospital has to find £34.7million savings over the next three years and has been forced to axe 200 jobs and close four wards.
Hospital bosses hope to claw back some of the money by opening a new pharmacy in the entrance area.
The decision has been welcomed by Croydon North MP Malcolm Wicks.
The Labour MP said: ‘From the first time I saw the wretched burger joint, I was upset about it.
“The trust said none of the money would go to Burger King itself.”
They make it appear as if money going to BK would be a high crime, and saying that none of the money would go them, makes it look more like an apology. But we’re not giving money to “those people.”
A Labour MP. Tells ya all you need to know. Not that many conservatives don’t deserve a swift kick. The left is ever happy to be outraged or offended on behalf of others and will happily do the thinking for others as well.
‘Advertising and selling fast food, which is generally unhealthy, really grates with what a modern hospital is about.
‘I’ve badgered successive chief executives about getting rid of the thing, so I wouldn’t criticise the hospital for finally taking the right decision, though the costs are substantial.’
Folake Segun from patients group Croydon Shadow Health Watch said: ‘Hopefully the trust will take the opportunity to properly consult with the community before bringing in such companies in the future.’
he original contract was signed in 1997 between the hospital’s landlord Heathcrof Properties and Compass UK.
Croydon Health Service chief executive Nick Hulme said the hospital had never had direct control over what businesses operate in the entrance area.
He said: ‘We made a business decision to invest in this change which will give our patients and visitors a better service.’
Wanna bet? Don’t hold your breath for that. It’s what they always chant. It’s a mantra. Better service, we’ll learn from our mistakes, it’s good for the kids who are our only concern, yadda,yadda. It all translates to, stop thinking for yourself. We know what’s best for you.
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Permalink • Friday - January 27, 2012
criminals tell lies and the system sucks
Some newspapers have reported that half the guys who sneak into your home and rob things, are repeat offenders. Oh. Now that’s a surprise. And I bet they all promised to behave if freed. I guess they all lied. And that’s a surprise too.
Guy with record and warm hearted judge plus uman rights laws.
I believe I posted a story weeks ago about a burglar who was let off because he has five kids he has to care for. Remember that one? Appeal judges ruled he had a right to a family life. That’s part of the EU court system which the Brits are trying to dump, as they have and have had for hundreds of years, their own set of laws. Which does not in the least impress the europeeons.
His original sentence was only 8 months and already had a record for other offences. When he was freed he said at that time that he was surprised, as he never expected to be freed. Yeah well, it didn’t surprise the public at all.
His wife works some kind of split shift and isn’t home, as I understand it. Or isn’t for the period she’s working. And he is unemployed. Figures.
Well, four weeks after his release he was in trouble again. He and his bouncer brother attacked some guy in a market in full view of shoppers. While his brother held the guy in a headlock, our hero proceeded to punch his face. Beat the heck out of the guy, customers fleeing in all directions and all caught on CCTV security cameras.
Cops come, he refuses to talk, ends up back in court (along with his bruiser brother) where both deny doing what dozens witnessed plus what was caught on camera.
So he’s out on bail at the moment but ………….
His lawyer says they plan on using the kids to avoid jail again, on account of they are his clients responsibility.
Hey, what great legal thinking.
And what a great system.
Jeesh.
What a bad joke the system is.
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Permalink • silly but cute. do these folks think this kind of thing will get ppl to stop eating meat?
Although to be very honest, taking a bite outta her might be an experience. Purely as an educational endeavor of course.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 25, 2012
So How Was Your Day?
Yup, that’s how I spent half of my day yesterday. Doing, fixing, researching and learning.
My mother in law isn’t in the best physical shape anymore. She’s old and ailing, and has been pretty much bed ridden for the past several months from a back injury. She finally seems to be healing, and wanted a walker to help her get around her house. She’d been using two little canes, the “stable” kind with the plate on the bottom that has 4 feet on it, but things were still quite wobbly, so a walker it was. But not just any walker, she wanted one with wheels on, and that kind is called a rollator. News to me. Naturally, being my mother in law, any old rollator wasn’t good enough. She’s short and heavy, so she needed the special kind built for people of her dimension. Hard to find. Oh, and it had to have a backrest, and a seat, a padded seat that is, extra wide. And it had to have a basket, thank you very much, or else it was no good. Oh, and exceptionally low handles, because the MIL is the size of a hobbit.
So we looked online, and went through dozens of different models. Hundreds? I’d never given these things a thought, and was rather surprised to find that there are hundreds of different models out there, in all sizes and materials, in a wide price range from “not bad” to “you’ve got to be kidding”. And good luck to you finding the useful specifications, such as seat size, seat height, and handle height range. They all look pretty much like this:
So we finally located one, and it turned out to be the least expensive model out there, and we could have even ordered it from Wal-mart. The box got shipped, she opened the carton, and without even putting the thing together we heard a solid week of phone calls telling us how no good it was. Gosh, so glad we spent hours and hours shopping online for you. We would have gone down there and put it together for her right away, but with work schedules and the snowstorm ... you know how it goes.
I was in the area yesterday morning so I stopped over and put it together, which was beyond simplicity itself. Take off the plastic wrapping, unfold it, and slide the handles into the frame. Turn 2 big knobs to tighten the handles. Done. 1 minute, no muscle required. And from her perspective sitting on the couch, it was still no good. The seat was too tall, her legs would dangle. The handles were too high, she couldn’t reach. Now, my MIL and I have a bit of an understanding, arrived at after all the projects I’ve done at her place over the years. The kind of crap she pulls on her daughters just doesn’t fly with me, and I’m not going to put up with her crybaby BS. I accept that there are many things she can’t do, and that’s fine, but I do expect her to at least give it a fair go. So I had her get up and give the thing a try. And after about 20 seconds of trepidation she was in love with her new gizmo, positively zooming around the house, doing donuts and K turns all over the place. It turned out that the handle height she’d been using with her canes was too low, and the slightly higher height on the rollator handles allowed her a better stance. And the high seat worked in her favor, allowing for a shorter drop to a sitting position so sitting down was easy, and which nearly stood her upright when she slid off the seat to stand up. And the higher seat lets her park the walker by the stove and she can cook sitting down. Given that little epiphany, I sawed off 4 little chunks of a 2x4 and slid them under the feet of her very low bed, and now it’s much easier for her to get in and out of that as well. And she’s zooming around the house like a kid on a sugar high at the country fair. Woo hoo!
While I was down in the basement cutting the lumber with the only saw in her house - a joke of a tool, a plastic mini saw from the $1 store - I found the big monkey wrench. Finally! See, she lives in an old one floor house, and the P-trap for the bathtub is in the basement, and her pipes have been terribly clogged for a long time now. The monkey wrench let me open the clean out tap on the old rotting iron P-trap and use a wire to try and clean out some of the gunk. It didn’t work, so I decided to take the thing apart. Like everything else in her home, which is one of what I call an “I built it” home, handmade by somebody with no idea how to do anything, her plumbing is a nightmare. So the 1 1/2” thin wall brass drain in the bathtub mates up to a few lengths of various diameter PVC downpipe, which has a rubber collar on the end to mate to the old 2” galvanized P trap, which in turn feeds into the 2” hub on the sanitary tee on the main stack. The whole thing dangles 4 or 5 feet from the bathtub up above. Hey, the rubber collar used to be held in place with twisted bailing wire. At least I got some good radiator clamps on it a few years ago.
What on earth is a sanitary tee? This is:
I didn’t know beans about pipe, so I learned a little, and found a whole new vocabulary of terms that only plumbers know. Pipe terms, not swear words. The sewer line in your house has a vertical part. This is called the stack. It is usually made up of many pieces of cast iron pipe, stacked together. Duh. The top end of the stack is open to the air, sticks through your roof, and is called a soil vent. It lets smell out and air in, so that no suction builds up in the pipe and things keep moving along. The bottom end of the pipe, the horizontal bit that runs out the side of your basement wall, is the sewer line proper, and is joined to the stack with a corner pipe called an elbow that has a removable plate on the side called a clean out. This is where the Roto-Rooter guy goes to do his thing when the line gets clogged. One end of each pipe piece is flared out to accept the next piece of pipe, and that flare is called a hub. The other end, unflared, is called the spigot. Spigots fit into hubs, and with the aid of poured lead and oakum are joined together permanently in a watertight manner. When side pipes - drain lines for tubs and sinks etc - have to join the stack they do so via a special pipe called a sanitary. There are sanitary tees, crosses, double tees, and so forth; a whole menagerie of interesting and unusual shapes. But they’re all called sanitary because the secondary pipes join in through a specially shaped corner bend, which is designed to minimize siphoning. That design keeps the poop in the line from being sucked back up into your bathtub, and thus the name sanitary. There are also regular pipe junctures - tees, whys, elbows, bends, four ways, Ess Offsets, etc - that don’t have that special corner, but they aren’t called unsanitary. They’re just regular junctures. Pipe is sized according to its inner diameter, so a 2” gavlanized mild steel pipe is actually a bit more than 2 1/4” in overall diameter, and the socket part of a 2” pipe hub is even larger, so that the plumber can have room to put the lead seal in. Or not, as the general move lately is away from lead anything, so gaskets, o-rings, and several types of adhesive are used these days instead. To make matters more complex, sewer pipe is made in 2 varieties, Service Weight (marked “SV” because it originated during WWII as a lightweight pipe that saved metal for the War Effort and thus was at first called “Service Victory") and regular weight (marked “XH” for extra-heavy duty), and the outer diameters of these pipes are not the same for a given inner diameter. The hub sizes are also different for the same reason.
So when I went to unscrew the top elbow for the deep P ( a regular P-trap keeps about 2” of standing water on either side of the bottom U-bend. This keeps the rank smell of the sewer line in the sewer line and not the rest of your house. A deep P does the same job, but uses about 4” to 6” of water on either side. I have no idea if one works better than the other as stink catching, or if the deeper design has some other advantage or meets some special need. ) the whole horizontal pipe pulled right out of the hub fitting. This was only a small surprise, as the hub was covered over with generations of caulk and putty to seal the join. Obviously it never was a proper tight fit; a well done joint is the closest thing to forever that exists, and usually needs two oxen and a large application of fire to take apart. Like I said, this is an “I built it” home, where stupid battles with lazy and cheap on a regular basis, and nobody wins in the end. But I finally had the whole P-trap thing removed as a unit, and I proceeded to removed the clogs with a stiff wire and a screwdriver. Then I went after the throat of the sanitary, which was also crusted almost solid. And that’s when I found the heart of the problem. Somehow a small plastic cup had got down the pipe, and was stuck right on the very end of the corner. A little thing, hardly bigger than a bottle cap, a hard to see bit of clear plastic the size of a quarter that was blocking most of the opening. Using two large screwdrivers like the most maniacal pair of chopsticks ever, I was able to capture the little bastard and get it out. Ta friggin’ Da! Now the tub drain should run like Niagara Falls. I put everything back together and sealed the hub with a whole handful of window caulk, which should be right. Then I noticed that the rotting old P-trap was cracked up the side. I had neither torch nor solder with me to seal it properly, so I kept the “I built it” motif going and slathered the thing with a big blob of roofing asphalt that happened to be sitting there in a can. That should hold for a couple days, especially since the old lady isn’t even using the tub right now at all because her knees are too weak to let her lift her calves up over the side of the tub.
And that’s why she has the salesman from one of those walk-in tubs for seniors coming Saturday. So we all have to go down there for that, to make sure he doesn’t twist her arm into signing up for some $10,000 deluxe spa device when all she really needs is a low edged shower stall, or one of those conversions where they cut a door into the side of your tub. I’ll use that visit to do some more work on the P-trap. It’s rotting apart, like I said. I want to replace the old galvanized parts with some nice new PVC parts, and that means I’ll have to clean out the hub on the sanitary tee. You can’t fit plastic PVC to a cast iron hub with the old poured molten lead method. You have to use a special rubber seal instead, and that means I need a Fernco Donut. Fernco is the company that makes the thing, and a donut is another name for the O-ring kind of seal:
They come specially sized for whatever kind of pipe you’re using, and I’ll be using standard Schedule 40 2” DWV PVC . This is a fairly common fitting these days, assuming I can figure out whether her stack uses SV or XH, and in theory you just have to hammer it in. Short work, easy project. Which means a 2 or 3 day effort at my MIL’s place. Call a plumber? Are you kidding? They’d charge hundreds just to remove the old seal, and hundreds more to put in a new one and rig up a new PVC P-trap. Plus, I know that my “I built it"s will last forever, because I build things to a standard that would make Mike Holmes blush.
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Permalink • Monday - January 23, 2012
the entrepreneurial spirit, with a boost from the brit taxpayer
Don’t ya just love the entrepreneurial spirit? Start with $2,335.75 and watch your profits grow.
Especially satisfying of course when that 2300 comes not from you, but the taxpayer. Free money. Hey,hey. What could be easier.
That’s kapitalism. Right?
I’m wondering if I can leave this place and then sneak back in as an illegal. Wonder what they’d pay me to leave? On second thought, even one hour in any jail does not sound like an inviting introduction to the world of the entrepreneur.
Illegal immigrant who arranged sham marriages leaves jail with £1,500 rehab money - and sets up business in Pakistan offering UK passports
Ashar Rathore served 7 months of two-year sentence
Given taxpayers’ money to get out of jail and leave UK
He used cash to set up shop offering passports, visas… and ‘any enquiry related to the laws of cricket’
By NICK ENOCH
An illegal immigrant and sham marriage ringleader who left prison early with a huge pay-off has used the money to set up a new business in his homeland - offering UK passports.
Ashar Ali Rathore, 33, came to the UK with his wife Nadia Qadri, 34, on student visas then faked marriages to two Polish people to gain residency.
The fraudster was jailed for conspiring to breach immigration law, but was then handed £1,500 of taxpayers’ money - on condition of leaving Britain and returning to his native country - as part of a Government scheme for rehabilitating foreign nationals.
He had only served seven months of his two-year sentence.
Today, it emerged Rathore has used the money to set up Xpress Solutions - a company providing UK passports, visas and driving licences in Kotli, Pakistan, his home country.
Among its other services, it also bizarrely offers ‘any enquiry related to the laws of cricket’.
He is not currently under investigation by the Pakistani authorities.
Jonathan Isaby, political director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, branded the payout a ‘sick golden goodbye’.
He said: ‘When all of us are having to tighten our belts and watch every penny, pay-offs for fraudsters like Rathore at British taxpayers’ expense are an utter disgrace.
‘Ministers must urgently review the operation of the Facilitated Returns Scheme to ensure that we are not being taken for a ride.
Oh, you’re being taken for a ride alright. And this is only one case of very many.
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Permalink • Friday - January 20, 2012
when somalis aren’t out - a - pirating
When Somalis aren’t out – a - pirating
They’re here in the former GB collecting. Could this be land piracy?
Of course, they aren’t the only ones, and membership in the EU doesn’t help this problem either.
That’s THREE BILLION ONE HUNDRED MILLION in US dollars. And trust me, bad as things are, this won’t be the end of it.
The foreigners being paid £2billion in benefits a year including 371,000 on the dole (and 5,000 claiming £42m in illegal handouts)
· DWP fraud probe after 5,000 illegal immigrants claim £42m in handouts to which they are not entitled
· 371,000 foreign nationals on out-of-work benefits
· 6% of all benefit claimants are foreigners, study finds
By TIM SHIPMANMore than £2billion is being claimed in benefits by foreigners every year, including thousands of illegal immigrants, figures reveal.
The Department for Work and Pensions announced a fraud investigation last night after it emerged 5,000 illegals claimed handouts worth £42million to which they are not entitled.
Ministers acted after the first-ever study of claimants’ nationality, which found 371,000 foreign nationals are on out-of-work benefits.Taxpayers will rightly worry the rules designed to prevent benefit tourists are steadily being eroded by a meddlesome EU, leaving Britain to pick up a bigger welfare bill than it needs to.’
Somali asylum seeker Saeed Khaliif was given a £2million home in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods at the taxpayer’s expense.
The 49-year-old was granted housing benefits of almost £8,000 a month to live in the six- bedroom property with his wife Sayida and children.
The unemployed couple demanded to be moved to West Hampstead, north-west London, after deciding their home in the Midlands was inadequate.
The payments, revealed last year, are among the largest ever given in housing benefit.Their new home has a 90ft garden and has been recently refurbished, with an en suite master bedroom and modern kitchen.
It is minutes from West Hampstead Underground station and the neighbourhood is home to comedian Stephen Fry.
It is understood Mr Khaliif has up to eight children and lives on benefits. He has not worked since arriving here three years ago.
Sought-after: The Khaliffs’ new home in West Hampstead
It is understood the family left £600 worth of damage to their old home in Coventry and did not pay the final month’s rent.
Housing benefit was recently capped at £400 a week, but the Khaliifs were able to claim more because they moved before the change came into force.
According to property sources, the house was being advertised to rent at £7,800 per month.
We’re in the money,
We’re in the money;
We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!
We’re in the money,
The sky is sunny;
Old Man Depression, you are through,
You done us wrong!
We never see a headline
‘Bout breadline, today,
And when we see the landlord,
We can look that guy right in the eye .
We’re in the money
Come on, my honey
Let’s spend it, lend it,
Send it rolling around!
(From 42nd Street)
bmews readers are encouraged to see the source link, scroll down to the comments. I can imagine how those Brits feel. Not too good. Not good at all.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 18, 2012
about as bad as it gets. squatters. why isn’t anyone killing them? they deserve it !
Well, it’s happened again. Yeah I know. I was tired of these never ending stories. But this is one hell of a story.
Besides .... I am reminded of the promise by this govt. that the law was going to be changed. The PM made that promise I do believe, around about election time. Was that 2010 or 2011? I think it was 2010. Whatever. I didn’t really hold my breath.
Interesting though when it happened to a govt. type last year, she got back her property pretty fast.
Nobody else does.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke recently announced proposals to make squatting illegal in residential dwellings. The Ministry of Justice was unable to say when the law would come into force.
Yeah right. But it never happens in time to give relief to the innocent and the people who are desperate for the change. It is so fuckin obvious that this needs change.
I can not begin to describe the depth of my hatred for the scum who do these things and my total disdain for the powers that leach who allow it to continue.
Squatters should ALL be slaughtered on sight. The country should be swept of this vermin by any means. Anyone who objects should likewise be made to stop their un-necessary breathing, as they are enablers of this loathsome practice.
‘My childhood home has been invaded by Moldovan squatters’: Woman’s anguish as eight Eastern Europeans break in days before she is due to sell
By ANDREW LEVYAfter inheriting her childhood home from her mother and renting it out for a couple of years, Janice Mason decided to make a clean break with the past by selling the property.
Having found a buyer, she hoped the heart-wrenching process could be completed swiftly. But a group of Eastern European squatters moved in before the contracts had been exchanged.
As a result, Mrs Mason is facing months of anguish and frustration.
The £250,000 three-bedroom detached house in Walthamstow, East London, was left empty after the tenants moved out. Seizing their opportunity, the eight squatters, believed to be Moldovan, broke in through the back door.
Mrs Mason and her husband David discovered what had happened only after a neighbour went round to meet the people she presumed were the new owners.
She was met by a heavily pregnant woman who brandished what she claimed was a ‘tenancy agreement’.
Alerted, the Masons rushed to the home but found the locks had been changed. Police told them they were powerless to act as it was a civil matter. Lawyers have advised the couple that they face a legal process that could take up to eight months and cost them thousands of pounds.
‘We are going through hell at the moment,’ said Mrs Mason, 49. ‘We’re not eating, we’re not sleeping properly. I have had to inform my buyer that the house is now occupied by squatters and we cannot sell it to her. The salt in the wound is that I even have to pay for the electricity they use while they are in there.’
Her husband, 48, who works as a driver, added: ‘I have paid my taxes all my life and abided by the law. But when something like this happens, the law is against me.’
The house was built in 1970 and Mrs Mason’s parents, Betty and Bill, moved in the following year when she was nine. Bill died in 2003 and Betty moved into a care home in 2009. The house was rented out to pay the costs.
Betty passed away in December 2010 and the two-year tenancy came to an end in May last year, after which Mrs Mason decided to sell up.
An offer of £248,500 was accepted last month but the deal ground to a halt on January 8 when the Masons, who have no children and live 12 miles away in Epping, Essex, learned the Moldovans – four adults and four children – had moved in.
The owners were also met by a woman clutching a ‘tenancy agreement’ when they arrived.
‘She was saying she would call the police,’ said Mrs Mason. ‘So we thought let’s call the police and resolve the matter. But they couldn’t do anything.’ Officers examined the occupants’ documents, which stated they let the property from a woman called Sharon Wright from December 28 and paid £2,000.
They were unable to contact the woman and refused to pass her mobile number to the Masons, who were allowed inside briefly to examine the house, which had been left unfurnished.
A sofa and TV had been moved in. A steady procession of men and women were seen entering and leaving when the Mail visited the property this week. The squatters were seen using a shopping trolley to help move in mattresses, folding chairs and a table. None of them was prepared to talk.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘Squatting in an empty property remains a civil matter and the owners were advised accordingly.’
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke recently announced proposals to make squatting illegal in residential dwellings. The Ministry of Justice was unable to say when the law would come into force.
(And that cos the Ministry of No Justice are made up of no care idiots. Putzes”! All of em.)
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Permalink • Thursday - January 12, 2012
law without justice as killers walk free but bored.
It’s 11:19 and this damn cold has settled into a raging cough. So I came downstairs and booted to see what tomorrows headlines will be.
This bit of soft justice (justice? where?) immediately caught my eye. I guess it was meant to.
It’s this kind of thing that makes ppl see red and causes so much frustration and anger. There really, really should be vigilantes at work here to settle the hash of vermin like these thugs. But what gets everyone up in arms are the light jail times for an act like this.
Meanwhile, a few days ago someone was given seven years for stealing £7,000.
There is no way to make sense of that. Oh I forget. Except among lawyers.
Here. Take a look.
Thug who killed for kicks released after just two years… and whines that he’s BOREDAttack by Warren Crago and two mates ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’
Leaves pitiful message on Facebook: ‘nuthin to do out in the big world for me’
Also spouts hatred of police and threatens to punch ‘black boys’
Victim’s father: ‘These thugs have evidently not learned their lesson’By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
What lesson? What they have learned is simply that they can easily get away with it and will more then likely do it again.
A sick thug who killed a Big Issue seller for kicks has been released from his custodial sentence after just two years and has taken to Facebook to tell of his ‘boredom’.
Warren Crago was 16 when he and two teenage friends beat homeless man Ralph Millward, 41, to death after finding him asleep on a pavement in Westbourne, Bournemouth.
Although a judge described the brutal attack as the ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’, Crago and accomplice Craig Real were jailed for four years.
But after serving half of their sentence they are now back on the streets.
Crago, now 18, has gone on Facebook to write about being bored after getting out of ‘pen’. He is even using his police mugshot photo as his profile picture.
Mr Millward’s grieving father Ken, 78, said he was sickened by the teenagers’ conduct.
He said: ‘I would have hanged them. I have always believed in life for a life.The victim suffered 10 broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and bleeding on the brain. His injuries were said to have been consistent with being involved in a car crash.
The teenage trio were found guilty of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court last year.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 04, 2012
But of course
It’s 15 degrees out. Damn.
So of course the muffler strap on my car chose today to break, popping open the exhaust system and making my car sound like some old motorboat.
I’m going to freeze my A off out there fixing it. Assuming I can find the part locally. Stupid muffler strap on Saturns is the one and only piss poor part on the cars; they rot out every 3 years. Everything else soldiers on forever.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 22, 2011
it’s RACIST to use the word colored. wtf. why is that a bad word? what’s next?
I just happened upon this a minute ago. I don’t follow sports here, or as the Brits call it, Sport. No ‘s’ on the end.
But the headline caught my eye and I was going to pass on it until I realized the word was “colored.” There’s a video at the end at the link. Take look and listen.
His accent is pretty hard but judge for yourself if he said anything in an offensive way. Or meant it to be taken as ridicule based on race.
Jeesh. The stupid hand wringing bed wetters are making things worse by the day.
So then, an apology for the use of the word colored. Fucked up politically correct left wing dictatorship has taken over.
Gaffe of the day: Alan Hansen forced to apologise after making race blunder TWICE on Match Of The DayOutrage on Twitter after pundit calls black players ‘coloured’
England captain John Terry to be charged over alleged racist remarks
By EMMA REYNOLDSBBC pundit Alan Hansen is the latest to come under fire in football’s race row after making an embarrassing gaffe on Match of the Day.
The commentator - who is paid a huge £40,000 per show - shocked viewers by twice describing black players as ‘coloured’ when discussing the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases.
Fellow pundit Lee Dixon looked on in apparent discomfort as Hansen, 56, said: ‘I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League.
‘If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way - not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent - but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.’
The ex-footballer had been discussing the separate allegations that England captain Terry and Liverpool striker Suarez have hurled racist abuse at other players on the pitch.
Ex-Liverpool star and broadcaster Stan Collymore was quoted in The Sun saying: ‘What colour would that be? Blue? Green? Orange?’
Although he didn’t see the incident, musician Example waded in to the debate, saying: ‘I didn’t see MOTD but did Alan Hansen really say ‘coloured players’?? Wow. Hand him his P45.’
Hansen was even labelled ‘ignorant’ and ‘overpaid’ by society blogger Toby Young on the Telegraph website - the same newspaper Hansen writes for as a columnist.
Mr Young wrote: ‘Alan Hansen, the overpaid football pundit, just dropped a clanger on Match of the Day. In fact, make that two clangers.
‘Clearly, Hansen’s intentions were honourable. But his ignorance is breathtaking. Is he really unaware that the word “coloured” has been verboten since the mid-70s?’
Hansen has now apologised, but it may come too late with fans and observers horrified at the lack of action to stamp out racism in football.
He said: ‘I unreservedly apologise for any offence caused. This was never my intention and I deeply regret the use of the word.’
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