Monday - May 07, 2012

we were shackling ourselves to a corpse.

Something tells me the news is going to be a bit more interesting in the coming months.

Here’s Daniel Hannan’s take on things and I believe he is correct.

We thought we were joining a growing and prosperous market all those years ago when we signed up to Europe. In fact, we were shackling ourselves to a corpse.

I’m never certain how much interest there is among our readers in the happenings on this side of the world. But as Drew pointed out recently, it’s a global world economy and so yeah, France counts.

Britain is shackled to the corpse of Europe

By Daniel Hannan

Europe’s economic problems are about to get a whole lot worse. For the past three years, governments have tried, however ineffectually, to tackle the debt crisis. Now, though, in country after country, voters are demanding precisely the high-tax and high-spend policies which caused the recession in the first place.

Yesterday’s elections in France and Greece were the first of what will surely be many advances by the populist Left. In both places, candidates were elbowing each other aside during the campaign to demand more intervention and an end to cuts.

The new French President is an unapologetic Socialist of the kind we haven’t known in this country since Michael Foot. François Hollande wants wealth taxes, stimulus spending and a massive expansion of the state payroll.

He understands that this might lead to dismay in the international markets, but he has an answer to that: he will create a French credit ratings agency which, unlike the American ones, will tell him what he wants to hear.

Hollande summarises his programme as ‘growth, not austerity’. Gosh. Who knew it was so easy? Why has no one thought of that before?

The truth, of course, is that France has already pushed tax-and-spend to its limits. The government accounts for an extraordinary 56 per cent of the economy, and the French budget was last in balance in 1974. If state expenditure really had a stimulus effect, France would be the wealthiest country in Europe.

Yet every one of the ten presidential candidates there demanded even greater state intervention. Nicolas Sarkozy promised to make France ‘stronger than the markets’. Three of the other contenders were Trotskyists and one was a Green.

The National Front’s Marine Le Pen, while retaining her father’s anti-immigration platform, offered an economic programme well to the Left of Sarko’s and Hollande’s.

Not a single candidate argued for smaller government, freer competition or greater international trade. All ten offered more of the medicine that had sickened the patient.

We thought we were joining a growing and prosperous market all those years ago when we signed up to Europe. In fact, we were shackling ourselves to a corpse.

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sarkozy, waterloo and the new first mistress of france

Saw this first thing morning paper, thought it should follow my previous posting of French election.
It makes for some interesting reading. I knew he had his critics, which I simply passed off as just more left wing ranting. However, the wife is better read then I am on things French, (she’s a Brit btw) and has been following things there. From time to time she mentions things in passing about the former president, which of course I took in but didn’t really mull over.  I figured, what’s the big deal? His wife is wealthy and so is he I assumed. Just jealous lefties being what they usually are. So bad me for not doing more to learn.  To be honest, I was just interested in those things that caught my immediate attention. Like the immigrants coming thru France to the UK from all over the world it so seemed.  And the French problem with muzzy and gypsy scum. So in the end I was pretty much superficial in news of things French. 

Then I read the following article.

Vulgar, rude and egotistical, President Bling-Bling has met his Waterloo

By IAN BIRRELL

So the French have got their wish: they have evicted the brash, egotistical and hyperactive President Bling-Bling from the Elysee Palace after just one term, along with his disliked Italian supermodel spouse.

Few will mourn the departure of a man who promised so much but delivered so little with his strutting cockiness and super-rich friends.

Nicolas Sarkozy made the right moves politically on the road to the presidency. But then came so many wrong moves in office, starting on the night of his election triumph when he celebrated with rich supporters at one of Paris’s most expensive restaurants before jetting off to continue partying on the big yacht of a billionaire businessman.

This set the tone for his tenure. He gave himself a 140 per cent pay rise, taking his annual salary above £300,000, then used state funds for late payment fines on his utility bills and £660 a day on fresh flowers. He reduced taxes on the rich, which backfired when financial meltdown struck a year into his term.

He spent £240million kitting out a new presidential plane, complete with £1million soundproofed doors on a luxurious double bedroom and £60,000 bread ovens to ensure fresh-baked baguettes. Then he became embroiled in a series of financial scandals, including claims he took illegal donations from the elderly heiress to the L’Oreal fortune.

Together with his third wife, model turned pop star Carla Bruni, the couple became fixtures in the celebrity magazines to the distaste of conservative supporters. Their baby was the first born to a sitting president.

Then there were pictures of the president checking his Blackberry during an audience with the Pope, which infuriated Roman Catholics, or the notorious occasion he swore at someone who disagreed with him at an agricultural fair.

‘His behaviour is vulgar, I’m afraid,’ said former defence minister Alain Richard.

‘He has lost millions of older and conservative voters with his bad manners. They just do not think it is presidential behaviour.’

During the campaign Mr Sarkozy apologised for his actions. But there was derision when his wife, who earned nearly £5million a year at the height of her modelling career, insisted they were modest folk who just liked watching soap operas.

The campaign culminated with another controversial meal when Mr Sarkozy joined 50 guests at a fund-raising lunch of quails’ eggs and blue lobster in Paris’s most expensive hotel. Afterwards, he was caught on camera slipping off his £50,000 gold watch, a present from his wife.

He was always something of an outsider in France – not least because he drinks Diet Coke rather than fine wines, prefers sweets to smelly cheeses and likes fat Havana cigars.

Now he must retire to lick his wounds. His own house went to pay alimony on his two previous marriages, so the couple are expected to move to Carla’s mansion by the Bois de Boulogne (although there is also her huge summer house on the Riviera).

So farewell to Nicolas Sarkozy, who was often described as a would-be Napoleon but failed to live up to such grandiose claims. He set out to transform his nation but, dazed by celebrity and dazzled by money, ended up alienating his people so much that yesterday he met his inevitable Waterloo.

SOURCE AND PHOTOS

So for now it looks like we will have a more socialist state in France, Heaven help them. The new guy is a tax and spend liberal so there isn’t anything to add here on that subject.  Here’s what is interesting at this particular moment. His partner.

The new first mistress?  And don’t pay her looks compliments because that would be taken as ....  SEXXXXXXXXIST!
Oh boy. The French are in for a ride.

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   Sunday - May 06, 2012

there’s deep hate, and then there’s my kinda hate. and I can’t say it all here.

I seriously hope some American patriot (won’t hold my breath) tracks down and puts a world of hurt on this filthy slag.

I hope she gets a cancer so painful that no drug will relieve it and that she won’t be able to die.

And if you think that’s HATE .... you’ve no idea of what I am not saying here. There’s so much more I could add.
Stupid suck up rotten bitch. 

And why do we have to be so kind and thoughtful towards these lice in human form.
They’re causing a bit of a problem we read. They don’t want to co-operate.  Uh huh.  How about a little gasoline on the beard and a match, Whoosh.
But just burn enough to cause extreme pain with the promise of worse on other parts.  Betcha they’d behave after a simple demonstration.
One of the lawyers says they’re concerned about a fair trial.
Right. Like the fairness and compassion shown to the victims of 9/11.

American female defense lawyer covers up in traditional Islamic dress at 9/11 Guantanamo trial ‘out of respect’ for her client’s religious beliefs

Cheryl Bormann, 52, insisted other women in court also dress ‘appropriately’

Five men charged with the 9/11 attacks appearing in public for first time in 3 years for military tribunal
Mohammed repeatedly refused to answer judge’s questions
Co-defendants delayed arraignment by kneeling in prayer, removing their headphones and reading a magazine
Prisoner Walid bin Attash put in restraint chair for unknown reasons

By Daily Mail Reporter

A female defense attorney, who is not Muslim, wore the traditional Islamic hijab to the military court staging the trial of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of the September 11 attacks yesterday.

Cheryl Bormann, 52, who represents Walid bin Attash, said that her client had demanded she wear the clothing and insisted that other women at the hearing also wear ‘appropriate’ clothes out of respect for his religion.

Today she explained her decision at Guantanamo Bay, saying she always wears the hijab around her client.

She asked that other women follow her example so that the defendants do not have to avert their eyes ‘for fear of committing a sin under their faith’, according to Fox News.

The lawyer’s decision was one of the less controversial moments during Saturday’s hearing where at times the accused openly defied the court.

Proceedings were further delayed as one of the defendants, Waleed bin Attash, appeared while being restrained in his chair.

The restraints were later removed after defense counsel had given assurances that he would ‘behave’.

Another defendant, Ramzi Binalshibh, stood up, then knelt on the courtroom floor and prayed for several minutes as a row of guards in camouflage uniforms kept a close watch.

Mohammed and his co-defendants could all face the death penalty.

‘It’s actually a joke, it feels ridiculous,’ said Jim Riches, whose firefighter son, Jimmy, died at the World Trade Center.

Mr Riches watched the hearing from a movie theater at Fort Hamilton in New York City, one of four U.S. military bases where the arraignment was broadcast live for victims’ family members, survivors and emergency personnel who responded to the attacks.

‘It’s been a mess for 11 years,’ Riches said as he stood in the rain during a break in the proceedings and described the atmosphere inside.

Riches, himself a retired firefighter who worked digging up remains in the days after September 11, said he carried with him dark memories of the days after the attacks, and he hoped that if convicted the five men would be executed.

‘I saw what they did to our loved ones - crushed them to pieces,’ he said.

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A CLOSE ELECTION IN FRANCE BUT CLOSE DOESN’T WIN. SARKO OUT, SOCIALIST IN.

Close doesn’t count and I’m left wondering what will happen now. The man who won does not have a happy track record with regard to economics. That aside, he is supposed to be very left, he is a socialist or so I’ve read.
I’m haven’t paid enough attention to things happening across the channel to understand why so many could have voted this way.
Things may get very interesting.
The new guy wants to sock it to the very wealthy with a 75% tax. Can anyone else see an exodus coming?

The uncharismatic Mr Hollande, who has never held any ministerial office and is the first socialist to win the French presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1988,

Au revoir, austerity! New Euro crisis as French vote for return to ruinous spending

President Nicolas Sarkozy ousted by socialist candidate Francois Hollande
Meanwhile in Greece, voters reject policies of tough financial discipline
Analysts warns results could tip single currency into collapse within months

By Peter Allen, Tim Shipman and Rob Davies

Europe was plunged into fresh economic chaos last night as France rejected austerity and elected a tax-and-spend socialist president.

Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Francois Hollande, who ran on a platform of tearing up last December’s controversial deal to save the euro from oblivion.

The inexperienced Mr Hollande is now seeking talks with the European Central Bank and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to demand further borrowing to boost growth.

The menace to the single currency was compounded when voters in near-bankrupt Greece also rejected plans to impose tough financial discipline.

The far Right looked set to grab its first seats, saying: ‘The day of national revolution has begun against those who are selling us out and looting the sweat of the Greek people.’

City analysts said that while stock markets had expected a Hollande win, the results in Paris and Athens could tip the strained eurozone back into turmoil.

Mr Hollande claimed that many voters in Europe would greet his election with relief.

‘Europe is watching us, austerity can no longer be the only option,’ he said.

Struggling to contain his emotions, Mr Sarkozy said: ‘I did my best to protect the French people during the events of the past five years, so that France could come out stronger from this crisis.’

He finished: ‘You are the eternal France, I love you.’

He is the 11th European leader to be swept from office since the start of the economic crisis in 2008.

On a day of high drama:

Mr Hollande defeated Mr Sarkozy by 52 per cent to 48 in only the second time a sitting French President has failed to win a second term;
Greece’s conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK parties risked falling short of the 151-seat majority needed to form a coalition government;
Financial experts warned that the Euro could collapse within months;
British officials admitted that David Cameron made a serious error by ostentatiously backing Mr Sarkozy’s re-election bid.

The uncharismatic Mr Hollande, who has never held any ministerial office and is the first socialist to win the French presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1988, has been an outspoken advocate of rewriting the plans to save the single currency.

He wants a new ‘preamble’ written into the new European fiscal pact signed by 25 EU nations to water down calls for austerity measures.

He is demanding a change to strict rules which dictate how much member states can spend, without which most observers believe a new European economic crisis is inevitable.

After his victory he said that one of his priorities was to ‘preserve our social model’ – a reference to France’s generous welfare state.

The new president has pledged to spend an extra 20billion euros in the years ahead to kickstart the economy and wants to slap a 75 per cent tax rate on those earning more than one million euros a year, or around £850,000.

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VERMIN AT LARGE, THE USUAL BURDEN

Sometimes I get to thinking, if those bastard slave traders never got into the business or at the least, never brought these vermin to our shores,
would Jazz have been discovered anyway?  If not, how much would our lives been diminished?  Hard to think of a world that would never have seen and heard Teddy Wilson or Lionel Hampton or King Oliver or Red Allen or Chick Webb and Ella and the list just goes on. Then there’s the Nicholas Bros. too.  I don’t hate those guys.  And they survived in a world that did not always treat them well. Or is it only their talent I admired and never saw past that?
No, there’s something rotten in today’s world that has made it easy for the scum in this article.  And there’s more of em then ever before.  They are the very direct result of the hand wringing lefty idea of equality, diversity and civil and human rights and to be critical of these monsters to the point of anger where you think the ‘N’ word, then you’re a bigot and a racist and a hateful person.

When I was growing up in Hartford, CT. we were aware of one part of town to avoid. Folks who lived there had a reputation for carrying not just knives but razors. Which at the time seemed to be their weapon of choice.  But overall, unless you were looking for trouble, we never saw the kind of violence seen today on both sides of the Atlantic.  Of course, our laws then imposed penalties which were seen eventually as unfair, discriminatory and racist.  Even when they weren’t.

You could not spit at a cop or call him a pig. Cos there was a penalty not worth the name call or the spit. There was no aclu or any other left wing commie rights group whose only purpose was not to get justice but to screw up what was working fairly well at the time.  Jewish kids had it drummed into their heads that what they did reflected on not just the family but the entire race. And that last was less forgivable after WW2 then the former. I believe black kids had the same thing preached to them.  Don’t give those haters out there an easy excuse to say things like, well what else can you expect from a kike or a nigger. Show em you’re better by deed.

Now that doesn’t mean we still didn’t do things that were wrong. Sure we did. We all did stupid things but overall, we knew the limits. Most of the time.
And one thing we knew for damn certain.  Crime doesn’t pay. We knew that mostly because we were told that every week on a program (radio) called The FBI, in Peace and War. And Gangbusters.  And we knew it was true cos lots of other programs said it as well and it was all reinforced by the family.
We had the idea embedded that there were penalties, often harsh ones.

Well, between that old world and the newer, more edgy and modern one we have today, some things were lost. Or else just stolen by the various rights groups.
There were always gangs, even worse then today if you read the book the movie was based on. Gangs of New York.  Ah but, when it came time to finally put an end to them, authorities weren’t squeamish and there were no civil rights attorneys there to make the very worst appear to be the better cause. And not always because they believe their own arguments but because it’s a game and winning the game counts for more then justice.
For example, there’s a lawyer here who is very successful and his nickname is Mr Loophole. Cause he somehow manages to always find one.

And speaking of verminous lower then pond scum life forms who should if there were any real justice, be taken out and disposed of, take a look at this one.
Or more accurately, at the group presented.  They don’t even manage to look human. This is diversity and multi culture and lets treat em like they’re only kids and after all really just one of us.  Uh huh. As it happens they aren’t any of those things and sadly there’s so many of this type, is it any wonder there are people who have been turned in their thinking and feel hate for the individual and mistrust of the group they belong to.

Lets see if any of you can find the “humanity” in any of these gremlins.  Btw ... see the female at the right in the photo below? Yeah her. She was seen kicking the victim in the head as he was on the ground. Caught on camera but denied it. I guess she figures they all look alike and so how’s anyone gonna know for sure it was her. Read the link below.

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The Samurai Tube killers: Gang of teenagers who punched, kicked and stabbed boy of 15 to death in feud between schools are jailed

Promising footballer was stabbed nine times after pupils from two rival schools clashed at London’s Victoria station

By REBECCA CAMBER and REBECCA EVANS

A teenage gang who hacked a boy of 15 to death in front of horrified commuters received sentences totalling more than 100 years yesterday.

Sofyen Belamouadden was punched, kicked and stabbed in a murder planned on Facebook following a feud between his school and a sixth-form college.

A pack of up to 20 students aged between 15 and 18 went to Victoria underground station in London armed with a set of kitchen knives bought for £3.99 from Argos, a Samurai sword, flick knives, metal bars and extendable batons which were used to batter the GCSE pupil with ‘indescribable aggression’.

Samson Odegbune held the 12in sword above his head as he, Christopher Omoregie and Obi Nwokeh led the chase of the victim in the ticket hall during the early-evening rush hour.

Sofyen, a promising footballer, was stabbed nine times in the lungs and chest in a 12-second attack.

Judge Christopher Moss QC ordered the three to be detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure – the juvenile equivalent of a life sentence owing to their ages at the time of the killing.

He added: ‘None of you has shown any kind of remorse. Nor do you in any way acknowledge responsibility for the killing.’ A further three teenagers, Adonis Akra, 18, Samuel Roberts, 19, and Femi Oderinwale, 18, were convicted of manslaughter and given 12 years detention each.It acted as the ‘direct catalyst’ for the pre-arranged meeting which led to Sofyen’s death.

Tyrone Richards, 17, and Enoch Amoah, 19, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and were each sentenced to seven years in a young offenders institution.

Four youths were earlier sentenced to two years detention after admitting violent disorder. Victoria Osoteku, 19, the only girl in the gang, will be sentenced next week after being found guilty of manslaughter.

‘So brazen and confident were his killers, they openly carried the various weapons they used with them as they ran towards him and hunted him down.’

The catalyst for the attack was a fight over a girl a day earlier in the station, which left one youth with a bloody nose. That night the Ladbroke Grove pupils plotted their revenge on Facebook, with Oderinwale, then 16, acting as an ‘armourer’.

He asked online contacts for a ‘flick-up ting’ and told an older friend to ‘buy some nanks from Argos’, referring to a box of kitchen knives.

He told his friends there was a ‘beef’ with other youths in west London and someone could get ‘slumped’ (stabbed).

Odegbune, then 16, led the running charge with the Samurai sword, shouting: ‘I’m going to **** you up’ as he ran into the station.

Roberts, 17, booted the victim’s head three times as if he ‘were kicking a rugby football’.

Following the attack, 12 of the 20 youths boarded a bus and one was overheard saying: ‘Didn’t you see me run in to the station and shank him?’ Police officers stopped the bus and found a selection of knives as well as blade-sharpening steels which were covered in the victim’s blood.

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I’ve been thinking while reviewing this and seeing the photos here and the one in my last post.
Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t miss what I never knew and so have come to the conclusion that yes. Much as I love Jazz (early), I’d have gotten along just fine were it never invented.

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VERMIN AT LARGE IN THE UK, PART ONE

Didn’t think I would be on line today but booted to check things.

I wasn’t going to post the story or pix thinking you folks could see the same thing in any country you’re from while visiting us at bmews.
I haven’t a clue about the laws or systems of justice in other countries.  But justice seems to be sorely lacking in some western countries and especially here in the UK and perhaps the USA as well.

I’ve been here a number of years which doesn’t qualify me as expert in any way. But heck, I read the papers and listen to the radio, and have no TV by choice.
And what I see and hear makes me despair. 
How is it that growing up in a very innocent age, by comparison to today, I still managed to work out right from wrong?  I didn’t need anyone to tell me. I knew. We all did.  Which ain’t sayin’ we always did right when sometimes wrong was fun or just something we knew we could get away with.
But I promise you we never even thought of doing the things I read about today.  Rape? Stabbing ppl?  Sure, it happened even then. But never on this scale.
And of course in those days there was the death penalty.  Emphasis on that last word.  Doesn’t seem to be much of that anymore.

A few weeks ago I saw two stories crime related, never posted cos it was the same old same old. But what did stand out was that in two separate cases the accused when being sent off to prison, shouted out in court, haha. Easy. I can do that.
Another said, “I can do that standing on my head.” Or words similar.  They just don’t care and they know they’ll get out sooner rather then later.

One prisoner with a violent background even took the prison to court AND WON the right to be called Mister by the prison guards.

And here’s this group of sub human life forms who if you read it all will discover that for them, they were merely doin’ what comes naturally.

And speaking of what comes naturally, take a good look at this animal.
He looks like he grunts, ape like, instead of speaking as humans do. And he’s only one of that group.
Sickening. 

Six months for boy who raped girl of 11 sparks outrage over 16-year-old thug’s soft sentence for attack in McDonald’s toilet

* Series of attacks took place on three separate dates
* Involved up to eight members of the same street gang
* Only two were convicted, but investigations continue
* Ringleader, then aged 13, was jailed for five years
* Judge said attack had ‘far reaching effects’ on victim
* Thugs beat her up to make sure she kept quiet

By KATHERINE FAULKNER

A teenage gang member who raped a girl of 11 in a McDonald’s toilet will serve only six months behind bars after an astonishing ruling by a judge yesterday.

The 16-year-old was one of several thugs who preyed on the ‘vulnerable and lonely’ victim over a number of months.

They subjected the girl to a series of horrific rapes before trying to intimidate her into staying silent.

But incredibly, he was locked up for just one year yesterday after the judge said the victim’s unwillingness to have sex ‘may not have been obvious’ to him and he deserved ‘very great credit’ for pleading guilty.

The teenager – who cannot be named – is likely to serve only six months in a young offenders’ institution.

Last night the sentence was condemned by victims’ groups, who said it trivialised the rape of a child. In law, a girl of 11 is deemed incapable of consenting to sex in any circumstances.

Jo Wood, a spokesman for Rape Crisis, said: ‘Victims will be appalled by this kind of sentence. That victim will undoubtedly serve a life sentence after what has happened to her.

‘It will have taken considerable courage for her to come forward. I am very concerned that this sentence does not reflect the seriousness of the crime at all.

‘Courts will need to seriously consider the message that sentences such as these send out.’

Stephen Timms, the Labour MP for East Ham, said: ‘These attacks were horrendous, repeated and committed by young men who seemed to have little remorse for the trauma they have inflicted on this girl. I am shocked, especially given the gang dimension to this case, that their sentences are so short.’

Conservative MP Philip Davies said: ‘For a court to hand down such a derisory sentence for one of the most serious crimes seems to me to be totally unacceptable.’

Mr Davies said such sentences had ‘left the public with no confidence in the criminal justice system’. He added: ‘It certainly won’t act as a deterrent, or encourage victims of rape to come forward.

‘Given how serious the problems with gang culture are in this country, I think it is very weak indeed.’

The victim, who is now 13, stared at the floor in court yesterday as Ibraheem Giwa, 15, and his 16-year-old co-defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were sentenced to five years and one year respectively.

Both had been members of the Say No More gang from the Custom House area of Newham, East London – an area blighted by violent turf wars.

Ibraheem ‘Ibby’ Giwa – described as the ringleader – was just 13 when he carried out the first attack on the girl in September 2009, Inner London Crown Court heard.

He dragged the girl, who had just started secondary school, into the bushes at a park, and raped her while another boy watched. He then invited her to his house, where she asked him: ‘If I do it, are you going to leave me alone?’

Giwa then raped her again, before inviting a queue of up to eight other gang members to do the same.

The victim wept throughout the attacks and asked the boys to ‘stop it’, but they simply told her to stop crying because it ‘made it look like they’d done something’ to her.

She later told police: ‘They didn’t ask me if I wanted it or not.’

Six months later, in March 2010, she was attacked in the toilet of a McDonald’s restaurant in East Ham, East London, by the gang member, then 14, who had heard about the previous rapes.

He followed her into the toilet and raped her while his friends waited outside the door. After the attacks, members of the gang bombarded the victim with texts and phone calls warning her not to tell anyone about what had happened.

On two occasions, she was beaten up as a warning not to report the crimes. When she finally did go to the police, officers seized the defendants’ computers and found that Giwa had discussed the rape with others on Facebook.

In one conversation, Giwa had written: ‘I think the girl we rapped (sic) went to police.’

A 15-year-old, who cannot been named and who was later cleared, wrote: ‘What girl?’ Giwa replied: ‘The girl we bang at my house.’

Passing sentence, Judge Patricia Lees said the rapes had been ‘selfish and debased’ attacks on a vulnerable and lonely child who had been left genuinely frightened of gang reprisals.

ALL THE REST OF THE STORY IS HERE

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Still Kicking, Albeit Slowly

I may be off by a day or two, but I do believe today is Peiper’s birthday.

Happy Birthday Peiper!

He’s made it 10 years past retirement. Hurrah!

Cake and ice cream will be served in the drawing room later on. I’d do better to gin up the festivities, but I have to spend the day with my MIL who is nearly as ... mature ... and is in rotten health. We’ll get her ready for her return to the hospital tomorrow, so I won’t have time to post today.

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   Friday - May 04, 2012

Presidential Doggie Tails

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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Lemmings, Jokes, and the A-Team

Lemmings…

Jokes…

I love it when a good Cabinet comes together!

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In A League Of Their Own

Both Greed League and Cheap League finished this week. I get a whole week to relax before summer league begins. I’m going to spend that time trying to strengthen my release and to work on my corner game with a new lighter spare ball. I’ve got one that’s a full 16lb, and it weighs a ton in my hand. Not necessary; spare shooting is about precision, not power. A 14 or 15lb ball would be easier to throw and easier to control. And I can get one new for something like $50, drilled to fit my hand.

Talk about differences between leagues.

Greed League is all about the money, and everything else goes by the sideboard. We had more than 14 300 games bowled in that league this year. Not a word. Something like $37,000 flowed through their coffers this year, but no accounting statement was put forth. And the treasurer seemed almost offended that anyone would ask what the prize amounts were ... after all, everyone voted on the approximate amounts back in August, at which point the papers with the amounts on them were collected as the votes. So why are you asking now you troublemaker? Hardly a bit of applause for anyone, each team just came up to the counter to collect it’s envelope, split the money up to the team members, and left. Bunch of dead eyed fish. But I did manage to find out that the 1st place winners turned a profit, taking $130 more in prize money than they had paid in all year. Our team finished 3rd, and our payout was nearly half of our dues paid in. Huge money. In a league of 8 teams, last place got a lousy $60 per man, only a 15th of what 1st raked in.  Savage. Gosh, and they wonder why it’s so hard for them to keep teams year after year!

Cheap League is all about the fun. And just a tiny bit about the money. The weekly dues are only 65% of Greed League’s, the league officers don’t get paid diddly for their efforts, and most of the prize money gets rolled back in for weekly cash games and semi-annual parties. Last week was the end of the actual competition, so this week it was party time. And it rocked! We had a night of no-tap bowling, the kind little kids and raw beginners do, and it was a blast. They put colored pins into the mix, and if you got a real strike when the headpin was a colored one you won a free game ticket. And if you didn’t strike, you got to pick something from the grab bag. I totally lucked out and had the colored pin about a dozen times, so I now have a fistful of free game cards and a collection of dollar store toys and games. And the folks who work at M&M Mars around the corner brought in gift boxes for each team with about two dozen various snacks and candy bars inside. And homemade white chocolate bowling themed lollipops. And we had a massive catered buffet with slightly open bar, with enough leftover food so that everyone took home dinner for four. Awesomeness! Then we held a proper league meeting to give out the small cash prizes, and the USBC awards, and nice trophies, and even toilet paper to those lucky “111” bowlers ( a 111 is the “outhouse” score, a little razzie that you try not to bowl. But sometimes you have a bad night and do so anyway. None for me this year!) Our secretary gave everyone a printout of all their scores, and our treasurer handed out a printed full financial disclosure that showed every dollar that came in and how it was spent, including what prize money went to each place. That’s how it’s supposed to be, right out of the USBC rulebook. I couldn’t ask for a better ending to a season. Our 4th place cash prize was $35 per person. Who cares? I got mini Chinese Checkers, Laptop Putting Golf, a squeeze ball, and a whole box full of Snack-ums.

I now have an ally against the massively disproportionate payouts in Greed League. Our new team member J is a superb bowler, smart as a whip, and a great big mofo at 6’5” 275lb. He’s been in bowling leagues since he was a kid, and he’s never seen anything like this. So he WILL have his say in the fall and he will be listened too. And then I’ll dip my little oar in the water Rodney King style, let’s all get along, fair is what the majority of us decide on, let’s form a committee, agree on goals, etc. Meanwhile, I’m almost done with a new version of my prize calculator spreadsheet. This one does cash increments between places, and is built so that you can enter your goals (1st place gets $X, 2nd gets $Y, 3rd gets $Z) and then parses out the rest of the money evenly. It adapts to as many prize goals as you want to have, and highlights the lower position payouts if things are imbalanced past a certain level of “fair”. I just have to figure out the base slice algorithm with a calculated cut counter. Right now I’m using the Excel CHOOSE function, which works but is not really elegant. Once a programmer, always a programmer. And I’m full of ideas.

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Those Old Familiar Faces

No time to search for completely new faces today, so here are new pictures of 3 of BMEWS’ steadfast favorites.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/04/2012 at 02:22 PM   
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pc and race

Here we go again. Where in the heck did folks get the idea that they could speak their thoughts or inform their audience on their own web site, using un pc language.  Naughty girl. But what bothers me most are the groveling apologies afterwards. The reaction to what she said is typical of the pc world we live under today. As usual, blown out of all proportion by the bed wetting hand wringers. 

Model axed from South African FHM after sparking outrage with racist comments on Twitter

Jessica Leandra used word ‘kaffir’ - a derogatory term for a black person
Also dumped by weightloss firm that is one of her main sponsors

By EMMA REYNOLDS

A popular model was today axed from the South African edition of lads’ mag FHM after she was accused of making racist comments on Twitter.

The publication confirmed Jessica Leandra Dos Santos, 20, would no longer appear in its photoshoots after she caused outrage by using a taboo term for black people in a tweet.

The attractive model, known as Jessica Leandra, was widely condemned after she yesterday tweeted details of a confrontation with a black man in her local supermarket.

She wrote: ‘Just, well took on an arrogant and disrespectful kaffir [an offensive term for a black person in Afrikaans] inside Spar. Should have punched him, should have.’

The tweet immediately sparked outrage across South Africa, where race relations remain a key issue just 18 years after the end of apartheid.

FHM editor Brendan Cooper today condemned Leandra’s use of the ‘k-word’, which is still considered one of the country’s most racially-charged terms.

He added that she had been stripped with immediate effect of her title as winner of one of the magazine’s model competitions.

In a statement he said: ‘FHM was appalled by Jessica Leandra Dos Santos’ racist tweets and would like to formally announce that she has been stripped of her title as winner of the FHM Modelbook 2011 competition with immediate effect.

‘It’s important to us that it is noted that she in no way represents the magazine; she was merely the winner of an online poll we ran, and that we totally distance ourselves from her blatantly racist comments.

‘We have removed all pictures of her from our website and will have nothing to do with her in future. FHM is a proudly South African magazine and say “No” to racism.’

Leandra’s axing from FHM came months after the aspiring glamour model found stardom as the winner of one of the magazine’s talent-spotting competitions.

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Now then ..... while we ponder the fairness of that.
What if someone said something like ... hm ... lets see. Something really bad like, the only good kraut is a dead one.
How about that?
Well as it happens, someone did say it.
This guy did, last week.  Haven’t heard a word of outrage from anyone. But then I suppose the Germans like Americans and whites in general and Christians in particular are like, open game?
Take a look.

He saw the appalling slaughter inflicted by Germany on Europe, so is it any wonder Patrick Moore’s still sour at the Krauts?
By NIGEL JONES

If the commissars of political correctness at the BBC wore monocles like Britain’s doyen of astronomy, Patrick Moore, what they read in their house journal the ‘Radio Times’ this week would have made those monocles pop out of their eye sockets in utter horror.

For, like Basil Fawlty, the veteran 89-year-old stargazer does not just mention the war, he trumpets it from the rooftops. Moore - who has presented the BBC’s flagship astronomy programme ‘The Sky at Night’ for 55 years since it started in 1957 - warned that we must keep up our guard against the Hun, as Germany was quite capable of starting another world war after their signal failure to succeed in their aim of global domination in rounds one and two.

‘The Germans will try again, given another chance’ said Sir Patrick, adding for good measure: ‘A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut’. He grudgingly concedes that there may be some good Germans, but witheringly adds ‘I haven’t met any’.

more to read here

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iz it april first again?  nope. just folks still being crazy.

GRANDFATHER OF FOUR TO HAVE SEX CHANGE AT AGE 80

A 78 year old is to become the oldest person to have a sex change operation on the National Health Service.

Or to put it another way, an operation compliments of the taxpayer.
Wouldn’t you think that after 78 years he’d have learned to live with it?
And if he always ‘felt like a woman’ then he surely deceived the one he married and had children by.

Now to be known as Ruth, a granddad of four and who was once James, is going to have an operation at the Charing Cross Hospital in central London in Oct. of 2013 when he will be 80.

A spokesman for the hosp. trust says that they can not and would not want to discriminate on grounds of age.

Of course not. Cos that’d be another one of those ‘isms. Ageism. Can’t have that..

And as long as we’re on the subject of the very much odd. (I’m looking for a better word and weird won’t do.)

A gay rights group wants “Parties to Marriage” to be used in place of husband and wife.
No question about it, the world is a mad green onion.
They say that ‘husband and wife’ should be erased from the statute book as part of a bill to legalize same sex marriage. 

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Two From Doc

Hey, remember when M’bama was first elected and the press was all like “sorry for the lack of cartoons, but there’s really nothing funny about him”? My, how times have changed.

h/t to Doc Jeff, who sends me all kinds of good links and pics and stuff.

Crivens, is it November yet? I can’t wait to send this clown packing.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/04/2012 at 08:27 AM   
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