Monday - October 13, 2008

‘Next time, walk away’: What a magistrate told a husband who stood up to yob threatening his wife .

So where’s the guy supposed to walk away to?  He was at his home unless I misunderstood the article.

I know you ppl will have your own comments to make and they will surely mirror anything I might say.

The surprise is that the guy didn’t simply break the little bastard’s face.  Yeah, then he’d have been jailed. And the thug here damn sure knows his rights as you’ll see.  This kind of crap is maddening. RCOB!

Personally, I fear that if it were me and I let myself go and hit the little shit once, I just wouldn’t be able to stop.
I guess that doesn’t say much for my self control, but given this particular scenario, could ya blame me?

By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 7:56 AM on 13th October 2008

A husband who stood up to a yob who shouted vile abuse at his wife has been convicted of assault and told by a magistrate: ‘Next time, walk away.’

Stephan Toth acted after the 13-year-old threatened his wife Selina, who has cancer.

Mr Toth put his hands on the boy’s shoulders and guided him to his mother’s house, where he explained to her what her son had done. He then went home, only for the police to call at his flat and arrest him.

Stunned: Stephan Toth was charged with assaulting a teenage boy who verbally abused his wife

The 34-year-old father of one was kept in a dirty cell for eight hours and interviewed for two hours before being charged with common assault.

After a three-month wait he was convicted and given an absolute discharge, leaving him with a criminal record.

And he was stunned when chairman of the bench Tony Pomeroy told him to ‘just walk away’ next time.

Mr Toth said: ‘Am I supposed to just walk away when some yob screams such awful things at my wife? No way.

‘I did what any reasonable person would do yet the law is behind him, not me. I’m the victim here but somehow I’ve ended up becoming the criminal. Meanwhile that boy feels like he’s above the law.’

As he waited for the trial, Mr Toth, from Margate in Kent, lost his job as a carer and has been unable to find work since. He was hauled before Margate magistrates over the incident in front of his flat on June 1.

His 46-year-old wife, who is suffering from cervical cancer, was becoming upset by the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, screaming abuse through her open window.

Mr Toth said: ‘I went up to him and said, “Enough is enough”. He said, “You can’t touch me, I’ll get you sacked”. I thought his mum should hear this so with open palms I coaxed him towards her house, which is a few doors down.

‘My job is providing support and care at a school for children with learning and physical disabilities, so I’ve been trained on how to handle youths properly and barely even touched his shoulders.

‘I got him most of the way then he ran off, so I went and spoke to his mum. She refused to accept he had said anything and shouted at me so I called the police to let them deal with it.’

Officers arrived at Mr Toth’s flat half an hour later. The boy’s family claimed Mr Toth grabbed him in a bear hug and tried to pick him up, causing six scratches to his chest.

Mr Pomeroy said: ‘There is insufficient evidence that there was a bear hug causing injuries but the defendant has admitted that he took hold of him by his shoulders and that constitutes an assault in our opinion.

‘We think however that there was some degree of provocation in this.’ He added: ‘It would be an idea next time just to walk away.’

Mr Toth, who also had to pay £85 costs, is planning to appeal. He added: ‘I’ve been treated appallingly. My career is looking like it’s going to be crushed, we have bills to pay and my wife’s already fragile health is worse because of this.’

Kent Crown Prosecution Service defended its decision to take Mr Toth to court. A spokesman said: ‘The CPS only brings a prosecution if there is enough evidence to provide a reasonable chance of conviction and if the prosecution is in the public interest.’

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I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS IS FOR REAL. BUT NO, I CAN. HAS ANYONE HEARD THIS YET. LISTEN, PLEASE!

HT/Jim Miller

It’s about 3am in NJ as I post this.  It’ shortly after 8am here. I received it from a trusted source.  My former neighbor.
There is no video. This is radio.

And these folks vote?  You bet your ass. And our country’s.

Taint Funny McGee.

http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3

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   Sunday - October 12, 2008

Silliest News Magazine Article of the Month

Time Magazine: “Is Cheaper Oil A Good Thing?”

Um, yes. You moron. Sure, gas is below $3 per gallon. Finally. But only just. When the price of regular falls below $1.50, and regular goes back to being 89 octane and not the 87 octane goat pee that used to be called Economy, then you can reprint your article. Until then ... STFU.

Yes, it would be utterly stupid for the Detroit car makers to go back to pushing gigantomongo trucks again, and even utterly stupider to stop pushing for more domestic oil production and more nuclear power. It’s time the US remembered the Alamo so to speak, and had our own little Never Again epiphany. American oil for American refineries, and not one drop for export.

But that was common sense speaking. Right now I’m talking about Time magazine. The two have very little to do with each other. And what is Time’s real worry? That the falling price of crude oil could hurt the economy ... in Iran and Venezuela. Because that would be bad. Excuse me, WHAT??? And bad for the environment too. Gheex. What a bunch of sniveling leftards.

How far can it fall? People have been anxiously wondering as they watch the plunging stock market. But increasingly the same question is being asked about another crucial figure: the price of oil. It has plummeted nearly 40% in just three months, from about $147 a barrel in July to below $83 on Friday, with no obvious bottom in sight. If that sounds good, you are probably a driver who winces these days at filling your gas tank. But the downward spiral could mean trouble for oil-rich countries and for the environment.
...
For oil-rich countries the slump has come at a bad time.
...
For some countries there is a fear far greater than an economic recession: political turmoil. Iran, which earns 80% of its revenues from oil exports, set this year’s budget on the assumption that oil would trade at $90 a barrel — a figure which seemed conservatively low until recently, but which is now above the world price. “If the price stays there a while Iran would cut spending,”
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Hugo Chavez could face similar problems in Venezuela if oil prices drop below $75 a barrel — the rate at which the country calculated this year’s budget. The problems lower prices could cause in those countries could be more visceral than those posed so far by the current financial upheaval.

Gosh, we wouldn’t want pore old ‘ugo to lose any dinero would we? Or that Moldhumid Achmadinnerjacket be down to his last pair of elevator shoes? Terrible! Raise the gas price back up, quickly! Screw the USA, we’ve got to save the planet! And the whole world!!!!111!!

Leftards.

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“unwinnable” Afghanistan

Well Ok then. This is a bit of positive news I can get behind. Looks like the towel heads got yet another smack down and that their latest banana stand is burning merrily. I gather they made their big push before winter sets in, and not only got shot to bits, they also lost a whole bunch of supplies, lost a suicide bomb factory, and had yet another one of their leaders turned into banana pudding. I think this calls for a drink.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants.

Taliban fighters used rockets and other heavy weapons to attack Afghan forces on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, said Daud Ahmadi, the spokesman for Helmand’s governor.

Militants attacked the city from three sides starting just after midnight and were pushed back only after a battle that involved airstrikes, Ahmadi said. Rockets landed in different parts of the city but there were no civilian casualties, he said.

Authorities recovered the bodies of 41 Taliban fighters on the city’s outskirts, from where the attack was launched, he said. He estimated the bodies of another 20 fighters were taken from the battle site by the militants, citing intelligence reports.

British forces are responsible for protecting the area around Lashkar Gah.

In a second battle in Helmand province, Afghan and international troops retook the Nad Ali district center — which had been held by militants — during a three-day fight, Ahmadi said. That battle, which also involved airstrikes, ended Saturday, Ahmadi said.

Afghan police and soldiers were now in control of the district center. There were no casualties among Afghan or NATO troops, Ahmadi said.

Bill Roggio’s Long War Journal backs this story up and adds lots more detail:

US, British, and Afghan forces defeated two Taliban attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday. Seventy Taliban were killed during the two engagements. Five were killed as they attempted to attack from inside Pakistan.
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In southern Afghanistan, US and Afghan forces killed more than 65 Taliban fighters after they attempted to attack an Afghan National Security Forces outpost in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. The Taliban were seen gathering outside the town and were preparing a mortar attack when British and Afghan forces launched a counterattack. An airstrike resulted in most of the casualties, ISAF said in a press release. Mullah Qudratullah, the commander of the Taliban force, was killed in the attack, the provincial governor’s spokesman told Reuters.

Al-Reuters actually confirms this, adding quotes from NATO commander General David McKiernan

“We are not losing in Afghanistan,” General David McKiernan told a news conference. But, he said, “we have insufficient security forces here to adequately provide for the security of the people of Afghanistan.”

... speaking on the latest attacks by insurgents and the ass-whupping handed to them :
“A large number of insurgents in the hundreds were detected and were acted upon by a combined operation, a partnered operation between Task Force Helmand and the Afghan National Army,” McKiernan said.

“A large number of insurgents have been killed. I have not heard of reports of civilian collateral damage or civilian casualties,” he said.

In terms of the Afghanistan conflict, these were pretty huge confrontations. Helamand Province is in the southern end of the country, down by the Pakistan and Iranian borders. It is the opum growing center of the nation, producing more than half of Afghanistan’s opium crop. And Afghanistan produces 90% of the world’s opium. And it’s harvest time. Am I the only one who sees a connection? Let’s hope our side used massive quantities of napalm to deny these cretins any cover.

And Then?

At the same time all of this was going on, the Pakis were gittin ‘er done on their side of the border, taking out almost 30 Talis and destroying a suicide bomb factory

12 bombers among 27 slain in Orakzai

* 13 Taliban dead in Bajaur airstrikes
* Kanjoo elders convene jirga after meeting Taliban

Staff Report (same story, different source, here)

PESHAWAR: Security forces said they have killed 27 Taliban in an airstrike in Orakzai Agency on Sunday.

“In a highly successful action in Orakzai Agency, a combat aviation strike killed 27 Taliban,” said a statement from the Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters. The statement said those killed included two important Taliban commanders.

Credible sources confirmed that 12 persons among those killed were would-be suicide bombers, said the statement.

And Then?
Well, how about Afghan an coalition forces busting up the Taliban supply lines and snagging lots of their shit, from heavy weapons to explosives to medical supplies? Tough being Joe Kewl Fighting Taliban Guy without any supplies aint’ it? tut tut tisk tisk, gee, too bad Hassan.

ANSF, ISAF forces successfully disrupt insurgent leadership, supply lines in Panjwayi

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF soldiers conducted security operations aimed at disrupting insurgent leadership and supply lines in eastern Panjwayi district, Kandahar, 2-10 October.

During the operations, which took place near Nakhonay, ANSF and ISAF forces seized heavy weaponry, ammunition and vast quantities of insurgent medical supplies. Substantial quantities of explosives and components used for making roadside bombs were also seized and destroyed.

“Afghan forces have seized considerable caches of insurgent supplies, bomb-making material and weapons,” said General Zazai, the commander of Afghan National Army’s 205th Corps. “We fully expected to find these caches, and the insurgent capability to operate will be impacted and public safety improved as a result of the efforts of the ANSF and ISAF.”

out-friggin-standing!

And Then?
Well, that’s about it, but the details are coming out on that supply capture. It turns out that a little kid tipped our guys off about it, and that it was a dog that actually sniffed out the stuff! And it’s a lot of stuff ...

NAKHONAY, Afghanistan — The initial tip came from a boy who warned that the compound and grape vineyard was a “bad place,” and that he and other children in the village had been warned not to go there.

Afghan troops took a quick look around and declared the small farm held nothing of interest. But Canadian soldiers advising the Afghans decided to send in a bomb-sniffing dog to investigate, just to be sure.

Their caution paid off. The dog hit upon a land mine and two containers of homemade explosives. Soldiers also uncovered the wheel carriage for an anti-tank gun and several canisters for its heavy rounds.

The discoveries grew. Within hours, the troops had found an 82 mm recoilless rifle, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a PKM machine gun, two AK-47 rifles and several anti-personnel mines. They also uncovered a number of grain sacks stashed among the grape vines that were stuffed with hundreds of individual rounds of munitions, including RPGs, mortar bombs, artillery rounds and several calibers of small arms ammunition.

The soldiers also discovered bomb-making materials, handheld radios, winter clothing and more than a dozen boxes of medical supplies that included IV bags, antiseptics, pain medicine and bandages. Several boxes bore the label of the International Red Cross Logistics Center in Peshawar, Pakistan. Others indicated that the contents had originated in Europe, Canada and the United States.

The discovery of the cache Wednesday appeared to be one of the biggest finds of Taliban weapons and supplies in Kandahar province in recent months.

Good job Canada. Well done.

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EU instructions on climate change.  The sky is falling and only the stupid don’t believe.

Ed Miliband will follow EU instructions on climate change

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 12/10/2008

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For all the acres of newsprint devoted to the return to the Cabinet of Peter Mandelson, by far the most important and potentially damaging move in Gordon Brown’s recent Government reorganisation could well be his setting up of a wholly new ministry, laughably called the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Under a new Secretary of State, Ed Miliband, the new department merges two groups of officials who, over the past year, have been ever more obviously at war with each other; and on the outcome of that battle hangs nothing less than whether, within a few years, Britain can still continue to operate as an economically viable nation.

On the one hand have been the civil servants charged with running Britain’s energy policy at the former DTI, now known as BERR (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). As became increasingly evident from speeches by John Hutton, our former business secretary now moved to Defence, his officials had become acutely aware that Britain is fast approaching an unprecedented energy crisis.

Within seven years, or even much sooner, we stand to lose nearly 40 per cent of the generating capacity which meets our current peak electricity needs. All but one of the 10 nuclear power stations which provide a fifth of our electricity are due to close and, as we were warned last week, they are all now so decrepit that much of that capacity may not be available even this winter.

Also due to close, under the EU’s Large Combustion Plants directive, are nine more large power stations, six coal-fired, which will soon be running out of the remaining quota of hours Brussels has allowed them.

This was why, as “realists”, the BERR officials recognised that our only hope of keeping our lights on and Britain’s economy functioning was to make it a top national priority to build, as fast as possible, at least a dozen new nuclear and coal-fired power stations, such as that planned at Kingsnorth. As Mr Hutton told the recent Labour Party conference, “no coal, plus no nuclear, equals no lights, no power, no future”.

On the other hand, totally opposed to them at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) down the road, have been the climate change fanatics, obsessed with global warming, for whom the highest national priority, as expressed in their recent Climate Change Act, is for Britain to lead the world by cutting its carbon emissions by 60 per cent in the next 40 years.

(HERE COME THE SCARIEST PART)

The most influential of these officials, as Defra’s chief scientific adviser, has been Dr Robert Watson, until 2002 chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a man so passionately committed to fighting climate change that he was once hailed by Al Gore as “the hero of the planet”.

For the rest of the article, link below.

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STAND UP, SHAKE IT OFF, AND GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT.

MY DEEPEST THANKS TO FRIEND DREW WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS TECH. HAVE ALLOWED ME TO POST THIS TOON OF OUR SARAH, WHICH I ORIGIANLLY GOT FROM THE TELEGRAPH A WEEK AGO BUT HAD NO IDEA HOW TO GET RID OF THE PRINTED ARTICLE THAT SURROUNDED IT, AND GET IT TO DO THIS.

I’M AFRAID TO ASK HOW HE DID THIS.  ANYWAY ... THANKS.

NOW THEN ... TO SOMETHING TURTLER POSTED UNDER COMMENTS.  IT DESERVES A REGULAR POST RIGHT HERE. AND I SHOULD THANK T. ALSO BECAUSE I HAVE NOT BEEN FEELING TOO UP ABOUT THINGS LATELY.  BUT T. IS RIGHT.  WE CAN NOT JUST LAY DOWN AND LET EM RUN US OVER NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS LOOK.  SO THANKS TURTLER, FOR THIS.

I cannot guarentee that Obama will not win.

I cannot guarentee that our political system will recover from its present corruption.

I cannot guarentee that we will remain a nation worthy of its past.

I cannot guarentee that any effort we make will not be in vain.

HOWEVER, THAT DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIE DOWN IN A FOXHOLE AND DIE WITHOUT AN EFFORT!

In the pledge, we swear ourselves to this nation, its flag, its Democratic Reptublic, and its Constitition. We are obliged to serve and support it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And in this we cannot waver.

But you say that there is no use, we are certain to loose, even if we do defeat Obama.

However, and this is purely my opinion, that does not matter. We are obliged to stand and do our damndest, even if there is no hope for success.

Why?

Because, imagine what the world would look like if there were no people to stand up and fight the good fight even though they were certain they would be destroyed?

What would have happened at Theromopylae?

And, once more, history has been changed by futile stands against impossible odds by people with no real expectation of winning.

It is entirely possible that the Western Allies in North Africa would have been overrun had it not been for the brave resistance of a group of hodge podge Free French and Palestinian Jews who fought the full wrath of the Afrika Korps at Bir Hakeim and Bir el-Hamet after the Allied disaster at Gazala.

If it were not for the ultimately futile Armenian resistance agianst the Turks in WWI, it is entirely possible that the Turks could have turned the full force of their troops (who outnumbered the Allied forces in the area) around and pushed the Western Allies out of Mesopotamia and Palestine, which would have given them control of the Suez Canal, thus greatly weakening the Allied Cause.

Were it not for Charles de Gaulle going to Britain in defiance of the tactily legit Vichy government, it is possible that the French Colonies would have fallen to Germany.

The bottom line is that we must be willing to accept defeat but fight anyway. For without the willingness to make sacrifices and even suffer defeat for lost causes, Democracy would have been snuffed out long ago.

SO STAND UP, SHAKE IT OFF, AND GET OUT THERE AND FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
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A BRIT BORN HOLLYWOOD HO OFFERS HER OPINION ON MCCAIN/PALIN.

Barack Obama remained unfazed

By Joan Collins
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 12/10/2008

The second presidential debate was a no-brainer. The lisping, obdurate McCain, who looks progressively unhealthier, did what I thought impossible - he made George Bush look human. Obama, meanwhile, was statesmanlike, youthful yet mature enough to project gravitas.

McCain even pointed a spiteful finger and referred to him as “that one” - how rude! But the cool Obama remained unfazed by that and many other slights thrown at him.

McCain’s demeanour was one of over-excited desperation. Behind Obama’s back he grinned maniacally with his newly whitened teeth, shuffling about impatiently while his opponent was speaking. He couldn’t possibly be president, but he’d make a superb garden gnome.

This was a view echoed by most of the distinguished guests at the Reubens’ party, who were extremely worried about the future of the US and how it will affect the rest of the world.

I am also troubled for the American people, for whom I feel a great affinity, and would be sorry if they had to endure four years of McCain and Palin - the Odd Couple.

Save your “great affinity” slag and please, hurry up and DIE!  We don’t need you or your affinity. 

OK, NOW I NEED DREW OR SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW, TO REPLACE THE NAME IRAN AND SIMPLY PUT IN islam. Or better yet.  muslims. either will do.
oh yeah,, the map should be europe and show the UK as well.  that’d be an accurate picture.

Drew - Ok, I “fixed” your map. I understand your idea: you want a world map, sort of like the RISK gameboard, only with roaches instead of armies. And all the roaches are heading outwards from Iran and Saudi Arabia. Big pile of them in UK and fwance, some up around Detroit, a handful in Norway, another pile in Holland and Belgium, a huge pile down in Indonesia. It’s a good idea, I like it. Heck, I’d leave the “RISK” label right on it too, maybe change it to BIG RISK.

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A bit of toon humor to lighten my mood. Hmmmm, isn’t working too well.

A bit of political humor on this warm Sunday afternoon from the soon to be island caliphate. akbar-snackbar or whatever it is Vilmar calls it.
Actually, I’m really not in a humorous mood, having read two Sunday papers.

The Joan Collins, the 75 year old actress/journalist (?) puts in her cheap shots at McCain/Palin in an editorial today.  Well, least Mrs. Palin didn’t have to take down her knickers for every man in Alaska to get a job.  I understand that Collins slept her way through so many directors/producers, the only way she can recognize any of em is with their pants down.

CAN’T TELL IT EITHER ... 

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A little something to cheer Drew up

Are you like Drew? Are you tired of the shiat coming from the MSM? Tired of reporters making shiat up? Wish some of that shiat would return to them?

Wish no more . . .

Wait until November 5th when we all take a collective shiat on the MSM and elect McCain/Palin. 

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   Saturday - October 11, 2008

Prove Me Wrong

Vilmar has a post up wondering how on earth Obama is so far ahead in the polls when all this ACORN dirt is making the news. And evidence of registration fraud is rampant. What gives?

The truth is simple: It doesn’t matter because there is no truth. There are no morals. There are no standards.

It’s as simple as that.

The media has lost all credence. Period. We no longer have truth, we have “truthiness”. The propagandists have won.

Technology has advanced to the state where any document can be forged by almost anyone. Papers, film, video, sound recordings ... it doesn’t matter. You probably have most of the tools right on your PC already.

Our government is so weak, so corrupt, and so inept that it defies belief. Laws only exist to punish the people who have neither an inside line to the seats of power, nor the money to afford lawyers who do. Pure and simple: if you are rich and/or connected, then you walk. Unless you fall from favor (like Martha). But if you are in favor (like Sandy Berger) then you can get away with just about anything, including espionage and treason, and get at worst the mildest slap on the wrist. And be right back in the good graces of everyone in short order.

Elections really don’t matter. Did your candidate lose? Then the elections were rigged. Even if it takes a Supreme Court decision that says merely “enforce the laws on the books” then you get to believe in “selected not elected” for the rest of your life. Reason doesn’t matter. Recount the votes 100 times, and find that Bush actually won in Florida. It doesn’t matter. The election was stolen.

Are we involved in a war that was restarted because of more than a decade’s worth of treaty violations and noncooperation from the other side? No. We’re in Iraq because “Bush Lied (by reading out loud a part of a UK intelligence document), People Died!”. It’s a Blood For Oil campaign driven by greed and lies, because There Were No WMDs. No matter how many were found. It doesn’t matter.

Falsified voter registration is nothing new. We hear this hue and cry every election cycle. It’s part of the seasonal script. Yet nothing gets done. Ever. And nothing will ever be done. Because voting should only be made easier. Always.

In another 2 weeks we will start hearing about disenfranchised voters (almost all of whom are poor and black, therefore above criticism and beyond legal reproach). Then we will hear about how the voting machine company Diebold is owned by a Republican therefore the machines are suspect. Some talking head will trot out the Paper Trail meme, as always. Others will yadder endlessly about how electronic voting is such a terrible risk, so easily hacked, etc., while ignoring completely the obvious truth that hundreds of millions, billions perhaps, of secure elctronic transactions - wire transfers, stock sale orders, credit card transactions - are completed every hour of the day all around the world without a problem. That’s the next part of the script.

Come election day another group of talking heads will wonder why the early returns aren’t lining up with the exit polls. And never come up with the idea that some people, usually Conservatives, understand what the “secret” part of “secret ballot” means, and simply don’t wish to tell people how they voted. Every single news outlet will be tempted to call each state based on a trend of as little as 5 votes, because the trends never lie!! Unless their guy isn’t doing well, in which case (Dan Rather) they won’t be willing to even make an educated guess until all 115% of the returns are in and all of the court challenges have been settled. Watch the news right this minute and I guarantee you some schulb is going on about “battleground states”. Because the other states are already in the bag. Weeks before the election. Because the polls say so. Because somebody asked 100 people misleading questions. And because the trends never lie!!

ACORN does not matter. If every “minority” in this country is multiply registered and gets to vote 20 times ... it’s only fair. Because their great-great-great-grandfather may have been a slave. The only time any form of voter fraud matters is when it might work against the left, in which case it will be “racist disenfranchisement”!!!

So who cares really? Accept the inevitable. Resistance is futile. Obama will be our new socialist master. You can’t do anything about it. You can chisel the truth into the forehead of every citizen in America and it won’t make the slightest bit of difference. They will not believe it. Ever. No matter what. McCain knows this. That’s why he’s hardly bothering to campaign, being Mr. Nice Polite Respectful guy. Because if he wasn’t then he’d be a racist. And he’d be second in line for the reeducation camps that are coming soon, right after all the horrible Right Wing bloggers and gun owners. Like me.

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YEAH BUT WILL IT BRING BACK JACK BENNY? INNER SANCTUM? SUSPENSE? LIGHTS OUT?

This ain’t meself but it darn well could be.

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Somali pirates attack two more ships in Indian Ocean.  (and the world negotiates.)

I hadn’t realized until reading this, that the number of ships attacked or taken numbered so many.  I guess it shouldn’t surprise anybody however, given the weak response by major powers.  I’m really surprised too that Iran, of all countries, hasn’t stepped into the game.

Meanwhile, the civilized world is negotiating.  Negotiating?  With what?  Insects in human form but not human at all really. Negotiating. Uh huh.
Next comes what?  Oh yeah, appeasement.  We all know how well that works.

“As long as there is no firm deterrent, pirates will continue to attack ships.”

Somali pirates attack two more ships in Indian Ocean
The piracy crisis that threatens to cripple vital shipping lines through the Indian Ocean has claimed fresh victims as Somali bandits attacked two more ships.

By Colin Freeman
Last Updated: 4:10PM BST 11 Oct 2008

Gun-toting buccaneers were reported to have stormed a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia’s northern coast, while another group tried to seize a United Nations World Food Programme ship off the coast of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The attacks, disclosed by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre, bring the number of hijacks and attempted hijacks off the Somali coast to 69 this year alone.

They came as American warships remain in an armed standoff with pirates who captured the MV Faina, a Ukrainian boat carrying tanks and weapons that was hijacked en route to Kenya on September 25.

The pirate gang’s self-styled leader, Sugule Adi, issued an extraordinary threat to blow the ship up and his own men along with it unless they were paid the $20m (£12m) ransom that they have demanded for the 21-strong crew’s release.

Speaking to a news agency via a satellite phone, Mr Adi vowed the threat would be carried out by Monday night.

(Right.  Give the slime ball a bit of legitimacy by referring to him as,,, “Mr.” What a crock.)

“We held a consultative meeting for more than three hours and decided to blow up the ship and its cargo - us included - if the ship owners did not meet our ransom demand,” he said.

The latest drama will add to the growing calls for an international force to patrol the waters off the Somali coast, which have mirrored the country’s collapse into lawlessness and civil war over the last two years.

Such is the current risk from piracy that it threatens the entire shipping industry through Suez Canal to the north, which is one of the world’s busiest maritime traffic routes and which connects Europe with growing markets in Asia and the Middle East.

Last week, the Nato military alliance announced plans to send seven frigates to the area to combat piracy and provide escorts for aid ships. The move followed a request from the World Food Programme, which says its efforts to help famine-struck Somali refugees are being jeopardized.

(the hell with the refugees.  the pirates have to be MADE to see that screwing with world shipping AND private ships as well, just DO NOT PAY.
and ya teach em that by blasting villages and killing pirates and destroying any mud hut, any building anything that even looks like it can be used for shelter by these sub-humans. furthermore, all ships should be well armed in the future. it can be done.  the question is whether anyone has the will.)

The European Union has also agreed to start planning for a joint naval force that could be ready for deployment by the end of the year.

(Sure and when they get on site a year from now ,,, what exactly?  Remember, EU does not believe in the death penalty, so it’s certain they won’t want to cause any pirate to be hurt and get a boo-boo.)

“Piracy is a serious problem for shipping in that area,” said Nato spokesman James Appathurai. “It is also an immediate threat to the lives of the people in Somalia. Substantially more than 40 percent of the population depend on the food aid being delivered by ship.”

Little extra detail was available yesterday on the two latest attacks. The tanker vessel, which was attacked at around lunchtime on Friday, was said by the International Maritime Bureau to be Greek, althout the Greek shipping authorities said they were not aware of their vessels being attacked. The WFP ship, which was attacked on Thursday, took evasive action and managed to escape.

Piracy has long been a problem in Somalia, where the lack of a functioning government over most of the last decade and a half has allowed its vast coastline to be turned into a perfect refuge point for criminal gangs.

The problem abruptly stopped during the brief reign of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006, when a coalition of tough Islamists imposed law and order across the country and threatened pirates with the death penalty.

(So then, the death penalty does act as a deterrent. Who would have guessed that?)

But it resurged with a vengeance from 2007 onwards, after a US-backed invasion by Ethiopia to topple the Islamist government ended with the country relapsing into armed factionalism and anarchy.

Today piracy is the country’s only “growth” industry, turning the ports that line Somalia’s arid coastline into a modern-day Hispaniola of pirate safe havens. Many boatyards now adapt fishing launches to act as gunboats, while hotels and restaurants have been set up to feed the hundreds of foreign crew taken hostages over recent months. A total of 11 vessels are currently being held to ransom, with an estimated 200 crewmen in captivity. Most shipping lines have felt they have had little choice but to pay the ransoms demanded by the pirates, despite concerns that it has simply encouraged more kidnapping attempts.

Last week, the crew of an Iranian cargo ship and a Japanese tanker were both released after ransom payments, believed to be around $1.6 million in the Japanese case.

(Sure Nippon. Pay the bastards off and find how much more it’s gonna cost. Too bad the Japanese lost the warrior spirit. They could have taken the fight straight to the black bastards and wiped em off the face of the planet.)

Recent reports have accused officials in Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, of turning a blind eye to the pirate activity in return for a cut of the profits made from ransoms.

Noel Choong, a spokesman for the International Maritime Bureau, said officials had issued a fresh reminder to ships not to stray within more than 200 miles of the coast Somalia. He added, however, that it was impossible for coalition forces to police such a vast stretch of sea properly.

“As long as there is no firm deterrent, pirates will continue to attack ships. But the military cannot be everywhere since this is a wide area,” he said.

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US Election: Why top Tories are turning their backs on John McCain .

I think this falls under something like misery loves company. So does anger.  Yeah,yeah the right to opinion and all that.  I still don’t think our internal politics and especially an election this important, is any of their damn business.  So yeah, I’m a bit miffed.  And I’m not in love with McAmnasty either but he’s all we got except for Sarah Palin and countless ppl who could do the job but won’t run.
It is true sadly, that McCain is not an inspirational speaker.

US Election: Why top Tories are turning their backs on John McCain

By Iain Dale
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 10/10/2008

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All my adult life I have supported Republican candidates in American presidential elections. Like most Tory MPs and activists, I have wanted to be impressed by John McCain. I went to see him speak at the Tory conference in 2006, expecting to be wowed. Like most others, I left profoundly disappointed by his speech, which was pedestrian and devoid of inspiration. Maybe he was having an off day, I thought.

I felt McCain - as a maverick - could distance himself from the ideological zealots in his party who have done so much to turn it from a political party into a narrow sect. Many of us thought Sarah Palin could give his ticket the “wow” factor Barack Obama had given the Democrats. We were wrong on both counts.

Few senior Tories have expressed any enthusiasm for John McCain as US President.

(and I bet fewer still know anything about the supreme court and what left leaning administration would do to the USA. Well screw these ppl. Frankly, I’m bothered that foreigners would stick their unwanted fuckin noses in our politics anyway. I don’t want them showing anything for either party.  And I resent the FACT that many come to the states and work for both. It shouldn’t be allowed. )

Many Conservative MPs have travelled a similar journey over the past few months - a journey most of us thought we could never make, and a journey that has resulted in a decision to break the habit of a lifetime and declare our support for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Tory MP Richard Spring, who doubles as David Cameron’s envoy to the City of London, is one of many who have always supported the Republicans, but are now backing Obama. “It’s important for America’s reputation in the world to be improved and Obama can be instrumental in bringing this about,” he says. ”He sends out a signal of change.”

Oh that’s just peachy.  Our reputation rests on electing a left leaning socialist who belonged to a church where his preacher “God Damned America”

Spring’s colleague Andrew Tyrie agrees: “I have always been a Republican, but Bush has done so much damage to the project of the family of western nations that I feel only an Obama presidency can rectify it. We need something that is demonstrably a huge change.”

(Family of WHAT?  WTF is that all about?  Sure, if we agree with everything they (euros) decree and go sheep like along with their demands, we’re good guys. Otherwise I guess we’re guilty of the fall of western civilization.)

Richard Spring estimates that at least half the Conservative Parliamentary Party would vote for Obama given the chance, something that would have been unthinkable in the pre-George W. Bush era.

Many shadow ministers remain publicly coy about their leanings, but it’s remarkable how few, even privately, express any enthusiasm for the McCain-Palin ticket.

(Well screw them anyway. Who are they to be enthused or not? Whose election is it? What? We have to impress these asswipes?)

Senior whip Simon Burns and the shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, have both outed themselves as Democrat supporters, but few others are willing to go on the record.

One shadow cabinet member is a signed-up member of the Obama fan club, yet believes if he were to admit to it publicly, it would damage his status within the party. He likens it to the reluctance of so many Tory MPs to sign up to David Cameron’s leadership campaign in the early days. “We thought people would think we had taken leave of our senses,” he tells me. “Cameron and Obama are both agents of change, in a way that their opponents never could be.” He adds: “The Conservative Party is always suspicious of change - until it has been proved to work.”

Few Obama-supporting Tories seem remotely bothered by his extremely liberal voting record in the Senate. Simon Burns says: “Obama is like any true compassionate Conservative. He is focusing on helping the vulnerable and the middle classes.” Another former Republican-supporting Tory MP, Ben Wallace, thinks an Obama victory is necessary to give the Republicans a much-needed jolt. “Young people on the centre-Right don’t have a home to go to,” he complains. “The religious Right has taken over the Republicans.” He cites the so-called Blue Dog Democrats, who believe in fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets, as the reason British Conservatives can feel comfortable about supporting Obama.

While Cameron remains a fan of McCain, he has been very careful to demonstrate even-handedness, as he knows only too well that Obama is closer to many of his own ideas and goals. Cameron’s trusted adviser, Steve Hilton, has wisely been give the task of developing closer relations with Obama’s entourage during his six-month stay in California. Could it be that the Tory leader himself is a closet Obama backer?

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Stop sharia law in Britain.  USA SHOULD ALSO TAKE SERIOUS NOTE.  PAT CONDELL VIDEO

Good Sat. afternoon to all who fall by here.

Here’s latest (far as I know) from Pat Condell.  He doesn’t need me to add anything.

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