Saturday - August 13, 2011

eye candy

Ran across this in today’s paper and thought it was good enough to share with you. Although I think she is kinda thin. Might look lots better with a litle bit more weight. But then, what dd I know?  She claims to be in love with food and sex. 

SUZANNE PIRRET

Posted by peiper     on 08/13/2011 at 11:15 AM   
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England sick’, says woman forced to leap from burning building

I’ve lost count of the number of times this photo has been shown.  It’s one hell of an image and I can imagine (I think) what she must have felt.

She’s from Poland, says England is sick, but wants to stay here.  ??? 

Well, most folks think it has become sick but my bet is that after all the shouting is done and the politicians have made their tough on crime speeches, things will settle down to the same old same old. Why? Cos the left in this country just won’t allow the death penalty to return and they have friends even among some conservatives.  I guess we’ll just have to see how things play out over time.  So stay tuned on this one. We’ll see who the liars and fraudsters are about the time of the next, ‘demonstration.’

And obtw ... just to show ya how brilliant we all of us are here at BMEWS, haven’t we all said long ago that lenient sentencing for thugs only encouraged more of the rats to continue their criminal behavior.  How many times have we discussed crime and punishment and been outraged by the sort of soft punishment, if it can be called that, for horrific crimes of violence.

So then ... on that subject that we all knew, but nobody among the powers that leech gave any thought to consulting any of us. Who had answers to these vexing problems at least 30 years ago, what do you suppose the Prime Minister does.
He goes to America for a “Crime Advisor.” The very country that led the world and made the words Scotland Yard the European equivalent to the Canadian Mounties, who always got their man; England now looks to America for advice on fighting gang violence. And guess what advice he has so far, from the former NYPD and LAPD, which by the way this country will pay for when BMEWS could happily given free?  Well take a look.

UK riots: young thugs ‘should fear the police’, says David Cameron’s new crime adviser

Young thugs and gang members should be made to “fear” the police and the prospect of serious punishment for acts such as looting, says David Cameron’s new crime adviser.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Bill Bratten said many gang members have been “emboldened” by over cautious policing and “lenient sentencing policies.”

All of England knew that ASBOs were a total failure and seen as a joke and something to aspire to, by the street gangster yobs. And so now the country has seen some serious rioting and NOT all by the poor and disadvantaged.  But you should read and hear, as I do, the excuses made for the criminal behavior this past week. And worse yet, the punks are being interviewed and parroting the excuses being made for them by many on the left.  Perhaps excuses is a strong word but what I hear are ppl trying to explain away the riot while at the same time trying not to condone the barbarity.

‘I thought England was civilised - but it’s sick’, says woman forced to leap from burning flat during riots

By Anna Edwards

Mother Monika Konczyk came to live in the UK for a fresh start and to carve out a better life for herself.

The hard-working Pole had moved to England just a few months ago to join her sister, believing the country to be full of ‘gentle and kind’ people who lived in a civilised society.

But after a pack of yobs set her street on fire and Miss Konczyk had to leap from her first-floor flat to escape the flames ripping through her flat, the the 32-year-old shop assistant has branded England ‘sick’.

Miss Konczyk rents a flat that backs onto the House of Reeves shop and on Monday night had watched the riots on her television and was getting ready to go to bed.

But rioters gleefully set the family furniture shop alight and, fearing that her home was about to be engulfed in the inferno, the mother-of-one quickly packed a bag and tried to flee through the only door.

‘I found myself jumping for my life after being attacked by thugs and thieves. They set fire to my building without any thought for anyone’s safety.

‘They were happy for me to die. They were like animals - greedy, selfish animals who thought only of themselves.’

The image of her jumping from her first floor flat as flames tore through the building has become an iconic image of the riots.

source and photos

Posted by peiper     on 08/13/2011 at 10:01 AM   
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News of the Weird

Did you know that popping your pimples in public (I love that alliteration!) is against the law?

Owen Lemire Kato, 23, was being removed as a trespasser from the restaurant at 2404 Santa Barbara Blvd. South after standing near the north entrance for more than 10 minutes and attracting the ire of customers, who had complained someone was popping pimples on his back, according to a police report.

Now, I’ll say that popping pimples in public (I still love the alliteration) is definitely in poor taste. But a crime you can be arrested for? I’d really love to see what he’s actually charged with. He wasn’t creating a health hazard–he was outside of the restaurant. BTW, somewhere else I read that the bus stop is in front of that McDonald’s. So he was waiting for the bus.

On a further note, I’ve misspent some time imagining I’ve a pimple on my back. How do you pop a pimple if you can’t see it? Mostly, I couldn’t actually reach large portions of my back.

Posted by Christopher     on 08/13/2011 at 09:36 AM   
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Who writes this crap?

First, the good news;

After eight days on the lam, the Dougherty Gang are trapped on the side of the road, their car nearly flipped on a speed break, with flashing police car lights all around. In a futile attempt to escape, Grace Dougherty runs through a dusty Colorado field, a Walsenberg police officer on her heels. She turns to shoot, but the cop’s bullet hits her leg first. The mayhem ends.

Well and good. I’m glad the officer shot the bitch. She posted on her Flickr profile:

I’m 28 but act like I’m 17 most of the time. I love to farm and shoot guys…

Truly the girlfriend from Hell.

What got me PO’d about the article was this:

Five hours later two masked men and a woman matching their description burst into a bank in Valdosta, Ga. brandishing automatic weapons.

Automatic weapons? I highly doubt it. Note that the writer doesn’t identify what kind of weapons were brandished. Semi-auto pistols? Semi-auto rifles? But full-fledged machine guns? Not likely.

Posted by Christopher     on 08/13/2011 at 09:23 AM   
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   Friday - August 12, 2011

riots and aftermath and gentle slap on wrist for the very young.

Please click on this image ....

Police furious at sentences handed out to young rioters despite Cameron’s vow they will pay the price
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Police are disappointed with sentences being handed out to the rioters that have brought chaos to England’s streets, senior chiefs have revealed.
David Cameron has insisted that anyone involved in the violent unrest of recent days will feel the full force of the law, regardless of their age.

But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh has admitted some his officers in London are unhappy with the punishments they have been given.
Child looters are being freed and allowed to return home to their families - and because of their age the law dictates their identities have to be protected.

Their confidence that they would escape with a slap on the wrist despite flaunting their contempt for the law appears to have been borne out.
The vast majority of young children appearing before the courts have been released under referral orders, which oblige them only to meet support workers or observe curfews.

Among them was a 12-year-old boy who admitted stealing a bottle of wine and an 11-year-old girl rioter.
The hands of magistrates are largely tied when dealing with the youngest children, meaning prison is an absolute last resort.

Mr Kavanagh said: ‘Some of us have been disappointed by some of the early sentences we have seen, especially those officers who have been on the front line facing the violence and disorder.’

The top policeman revealed he and Acting Met Chief Tim Godwin had already raised their concerns about sentencing to ministers.
‘The Commissioner and Home Secretary have had positive discussions and totally agree about the need for sentences to reflect the crimes and the hugely devastating impact on the people of London,he said.

If you go here, POLICE UNHAPPY you’ll notice photos of two of the little shits. Interesting but not too surprising.  The 11 year old girl (who appears lots older) refused to even say sorry in court.  The rat ass boy in red was the model of repentance in court, but showed what he was outside when he told a reporter to fuck off.  He also has a record so this isn’t the first time the little bastard has been in trouble.

Drew was right when he suggested flame throwers in one of the comments he made.
I said that long ago and really think they should be used.  There’d never be another riot. At least not by the same crowd.
One of the scum out having fun was the daughter of a millionaire. Another was a teaching assistant.

This whole thing is disgusting.

Posted by peiper     on 08/12/2011 at 01:07 PM   
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Wisdom from your elders

Honest. I was talking to my uncle on Facebook…

Uncle Pat: OMG, tonight in the 50’s, I’m gonna need a blanket…

Christopher: Uncle Pat, what you need is a woman… and maybe a blanket.

Uncle Pat: Chris, blankets are easy to spread and you can always get a new one

Posted by Christopher     on 08/12/2011 at 08:16 AM   
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How to have make-up sex

This is a PSA (pubic service announcement. Public, I meant public! Geesh. You can edit that out, right? No problem)

Posted by Christopher     on 08/12/2011 at 07:00 AM   
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   Thursday - August 11, 2011

A few days off

Not going to be much posting from me for the next couple of days. I’ve got a window job on a good sized house, and then I have a pair of doors to install. And my usual Sunday work of course. Good thing I spent half of today in the kitchen cooking. Chicken curry, meat sauce, several nice quiches. I’m set.

So here you go ... something to keep you occupied ... majorly clicky clicky but still SFW ...

Hey, it can’t be redheads all the time ya know. Sometimes it’s a blonde, sometimes you just have to wing it.

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I need one

Link sent in by Vilmar - How to get ahead in bowling. Oh, wait, sorry, that was a head. These would be perfect for a Halloween bowling party. Or for totally freaking out your opponents. Truly sick!

Yes, it’s a bowling ball. It just looks like the head of a zombie! Artist Oliver Paass painted a set of these balls that were then placed in German bowling alleys to advertise a TV channel specializing in horror films.

In bowling, intimidation is half the game. I wonder if you can get these made to order? Sneak photos of the folks on the other teams and get them made up. Seriously frightening. If they were made on slightly under-size balls, then given a clear plastic coat to bring it up to proper diameter, like the famous Viz-A-Balls, they’d even be legal. Gross, but legal.

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New Crowder

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Who’s picking your berries?

I have to fault Drudge for the headline:
6 YEAR OLDS CAUGHT WORKING ON FARMS

Imagine the horror! Six-year-olds actually being taught to work for money. Cesar Chavez is upset. Well, he’s dead, but his union is upset that six-year-olds would actually work on the family farm during the summer. Therefore taking jobs away from his unionized illegal alien union. Typical union crap. Typical ‘Drive-by Media’ story. They never support family, family farms, etc.

I wasn’t six, I was twelve the first time I had an opportunity to work on a farm. It was a summer job, I was supposed to ‘detassel’ corn. But to get the job, I had to have a Social Security Number. Mom said if I wanted the job, I got to call and apply for one.

Yes, I was twelve before I even had an SSN number. I’ve often wondered how my life would be different if I’d never made that call. Nowadays they assign you one at birth.

Anyway, I’ve no problem with six-year-olds picking berries. They are currently out of school, and they are closer to the ground. Educate them that work is good, unlike some rioters in Britain.

Posted by Christopher     on 08/11/2011 at 04:24 PM   
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The Real Catchword

Some presidencies are indelibly associated with certain words or phrases. We all figured that the Obama one (and it had better be just one!) would be hooked up with Hope an Change. And while it looked that way on the campaign trail, the real catchword is “unexpected”. That shows you how cynical a people we have become, and it shows you just how in the tank the media is for this buffoon. Every last bit of bad news that bubbles up because yet another of his plans isn’t working is “unexpected”, even when it continues to happen month after month after month. Funny how some folks can’t spot a trend even when it slaps them in the face with a cold mackerel. Yet these are the same people who decided, “scientifically”, that a few years of hot summers and mild winters was indicative of a half-an-eon trend in climate change.  Gosh. Cynical me, I don’t find these levels of stupid to be unexpected at all. Here’s today’s unexpected news.

The U.S. trade gap widened in June to its largest since October 2008, as both U.S. imports and exports declined in a sign of slowing global demand, a government report showed on Thursday.

The June trade deficit leapt to $53.1 billion, surprising analysts who expected it to narrow to $48 billion from an upwardly revised estimate of $50.8 billion in May.

Overall U.S. imports fell by close to 1 percent, despite a rise in the value of crude oil imports to the highest since August 2008. Higher volume pushed the oil import bill higher, as the average price for imported oil fell to $106 per barrel after rising in each of the eight prior months.

Industrial supplies and materials led the overall import decline, despite the higher value of crude oil imports. June imports of foods, feeds and beverages increased slightly to $9.2 billion, a new record. Imports from China also rose nearly 5 percent to $34.4 billion, pushing the closely-watched trade gap with that country to $26.7 billion, the highest in 10 months. U.S. exports fell for a second consecutive month to $170.9 billion, as shipments to Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Central America, France, China and Japan all declined. However, exports to the entire 27-member European Union rose fractionally higher to $22.7 billion, despite the debt crisis troubling the continent.

President Barack Obama has set a goal of doubling U.S. exports by end of 2014 to help pull the U.S. economy out of its slump and generate new jobs.

Mwaahahahaahahaa!!! Oh stop it, you’re killing me!!! The only way he can do that is to get our economy moving strongly forward, and as the lead sentence in this article shows, his leadership hasn’t helped things one damn little bit for the whole 2 1/2 years he’s been in power. We’re in just as bad shape as we were the month before he was elected. I guess that utterly non-existent level of Change is entirely unexpected.

Unemployment Applications Fall to 395K

The number of people who filed for U.S. unemployment benefits fell 7,000 to 395,000 in the week ended Aug. 6, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had expected jobless claims to increase to 410,000 from an initially reported 400,000 in the prior week. Applications had been above 400,000 for the previous 17 weeks.
...
The economy expanded at an annual rate of just 0.8 percent in the first six months of the year, the slowest growth in the two years since the recession officially ended. It’s not likely to get much better in the second half of the year. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said it expects growth will stay weak for two more years.

Odd though that this story, which actually was unexpected news, isn’t really being reported that way. Maybe it’s because 7,000 fewer lost jobs is merely a tick; a drop in the bucket compared to the more than 6.8 million folks who have lost their paychecks in the past 4 months. Oh, and economy “growing” at 0.8 percent is actually shrinking when the population is growing at a rate higher than that.

Good of the Fed to admit that things are going to stay flatlined for the next several years ... so I guess Fearless Reader’s plan to double exports is going to have to be wrapped in plain brown paper and thrown under the bus. It ain’t never gonna happen.

Oh, and don’t you love the “since the recession officially ended” part? What, did King Canute Lord Obama wave his mighty scepter and make the tides recede? Who’s fooling who here?

Strong performance by networking-giant Cisco and better-than-expected jobs data ignited a broad rally, but trading remained choppy amid heightened concerns over European banks and the global economy.

As of 10:25 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 219 points, or 2.1%, to 10,949, the S&P 500 jumped 27 points, or 2.4%, to 1,148 and Nasdaq Composite rose 64.3 points, or 2.7%, to 2,445.

Weekly jobless claims fell to 395,000 from 402,000 in the prior week, slightly better than expectations of 400,000.  The U.S. trade deficit hit $53.1 billion in June, wider than the $48 billion economists forecast.  The bigger the trade gap, the more it shaves from broader measures of economic output, meaning a wider deficit could be a hindrance on growth.

In other words, the newspaper reporter doesn’t know either, but he’s got to write something. My expectation is that gold will hit $1750 today. I haven’t checked; maybe it’s there already. Gold and silver seem to be the only reliable indicators, and they just continue to inflate. Which means we’re still falling down the poop chute. Wonderful.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/11/2011 at 09:30 AM   
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asian eye candy

If there’s one thing I love besides redheads and blondes it’s brunettes and women in general.
Especially Asian. Can’t explain it, just love em and get all tongue tied lookin at em. Come to think of it, women do that to me anyway.
So then, I haven’t had a chance to post this, been busy and have to return to project today and do indoor painting. I’ve had this on my pc to post for a few weeks and never got to it til now.

btw ... deskbeauty.com not a bad site.

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register your septic tank and recycle stuff. yawn.

Sometime last month I was reading our local and really not professional paper.
The poor souls have no idea how really amateur they appear, and so shamelessly continue to publish their little weekly reader. Having said that however, I should point out that at least they have a generally better layout and are larger in paper size, then say the L.A. Times.  Which I saw last year and was underwhelmed by their weekend edition.  Brit papers generally are better. imho.  Well anyway .........

There was a paragraph in our local that said ppl had till the end of the year to register septic tanks and cess pits. Failure to respond and register could result in a $20,000 fine. Huh? When? What?  The septic tank in our ground has been there since the beginning of time. Real estate records would show it. Everything is written down somewhere but okay. The huge problem was .... not one single family ever got any sort of notice or request by their city councils that they had to do this totally new and unheard thing.  If I hadn’t seen it and then almost by accident, and then told a friend and neighbor who didn’t even get the local paper, what then?

The issue over the manner in which this was done even made the national papers, eventually, because the only word ppl got of this, were small articles in local papers.
As the old TV advert says, But wait ... there’s more.

You had to send or call for the paperwork that needed to be filled in. Did it.

But ... wait. There’s more.  In the paper they sent that my wife duly filled out, they mentioned a map of location of the tank.  Location? Map? Huh?  What map?

Well, they wanted us to show on a map where our septic rank was located. Where do we find a map of that? Are we expected to draw one?  No?  OK, then where do we get such a map, wife asked.  Oh, why from this office she’s told. DUH. Then why was it not enclosed with the paper they sent?  So they sent another envelope containing a small map of our back yard, and she dutifully circled the area. Registration application and map were then mailed back to the power that is.
Simple huh?  Or maybe simple minded. Take ur pik.

Something you should know before I begin this story of what we have here. Or maybe that should be what we put up with.  Our city council tax comes to, in American dollars so you can appreciate it better, $2,905.00 and some change, per year, at the current rate of exchange.  Since we are rural, we have no sidewalk, no street lights, no city sewer. So you’d think that at least the trash pick up would be taken care of.

Well, it mostly is but.  For garden waste there is this bag which five years ago replaced the larger wheelie bin for that purpose.

Not too convenient for a large back garden, in a rural environment where we always have more. So, for $40.00 we paid for a second bag that we were given five yrs ago. And ... recycles and kitchen wastes are picked up every two weeks. One week it’s kitchen garbage and the next it’s recycle stuff.  Only two of us now and it worked okay. Now then, on the recycle bins, we have always had two. Ever since we’ve been here. One is the larger green bin the council gave us, and the other is a very old and smaller grey bin, but it says recycle on it.

Well, this week for some reason they didn’t pick up the little grey one. So I called and got someone at the council who said she’d look into it and call me back.

She never did and so I called the trash pick up folks direct to find out what happened and was informed that since there were only two of us living at this address, the city council decreed we could have only one bin emptied. Thing is, after two weeks they are both full. And don’t forget, we get two papers 6 days a week and three papers on Sat. The Telegraph and Mail on weekends are HUGE. Plus all the magazines that come with em, the CD give aways and one week a small paperback book. Then there is all the junk and flyers that we don’t read and bin. We’re talking just newspapers so you can imagine what we have after two weeks with all the other stuff that a household uses.  We don’t even know when this rule went into effect or how the trash pick up ppl would have known.  Oh ... I forgot to mention it. 

The rule in place states that only households with six and more may have two wheelie bins.  Like those you see here.

If the pick ups were weekly as they used to be, we’d be okay with one bin. Not anymore. So the trash guy said I needed to call someone at the city council which I did. One of the things he suggested was that we take the excess to the dump somewhere. Right. We pay 2,900 and do their job by taking our own trash to the dump. I don’t drive anyway and neither of us is up to hauling anything that weighs much.  So he suggested another way to go and I hope you’re sitting down.

He told me that if we put the overflow in plastic bags (whose use the city is supposed to be discouraging) like our market shopping bags, like this one ..

We could lay em on the ground next to the green wheelie bin and they would pick those up. I asked him if he had any idea how many of those little bags, they measure 12” across and 12” deep, did he have a clue how many of those we’d use just for the newspapers.

He agreed the rule wasn’t logical, especially as there was also a rule that you could not put plastic bags in the bins meant for recycling AND, recycled trash should be loose, not put in plastic bags. They are very clear on that. But here is someone telling me to put things in plastic bags. So then any overflow we had due to the green bin not holding everything, could be placed in bags and on the ground. Where the guy who follows the truck would then have to lift several bags and toss em into the back of the truck instead of the automatic arms picking up a second bin.  So in the end, it would all go into the same waste disposal truck anyway.  btw ... these bags are degradable but that’s aside. Or I suppose we could use larger white trash bags. The other kind that aren’t so degradable. But what the heck is the difference ?

He said he’d talk to the other folks in charge and we now have an exemption.

But I ended up speaking to four ppl before it was all resolved.

No wonder this country is SNAFU.

Posted by peiper     on 08/11/2011 at 06:03 AM   
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