Friday - July 29, 2011

So Busted

A leading climate scientist whose report in 2006 of drowning polar bears in Arctic waters galvanized the global warming movement—and were highlighted in Al Gore’s Oscar-winning climate-change documentary—has been suspended, possibly over the accuracy of his observations.

Charles Monnett—who manages as much as $50 million worth of climate research on Arctic wildlife and ecology—was told on July 18 that he was being put on leave pending an investigation into “integrity issues”, according to a letter posted online by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is questioning Monnett’s suspension.

The complaints against the Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) remain unclear, and the connection to his seven-page 2006 peer-reviewed paper on the drownings are unknown, despite a months-long or longer investigation.

PEER charges Monnett’s suspension amounts to a witch hunt.

“The quality and continuity of the scientific work he’s overseeing is distinctly being jeopardized,” Jeff Ruch, PEER’s executive director, told FoxNews.com.

His group alleges the Interior Department is violating its own rules and regulations, and that the ongoing investigation seems intended merely to disrupt Monnett’s body of scientific work.

Myron Ebell, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, could not speak directly to Monnett’s case but said he believes the public has a right to be skeptical about scientific claims related to global warming.

Even if every scientist is objective, “what we’re being asked to do is turn our economy around and spend trillions and trillions of dollars on the basis of claims about what’s going to happen to the climate,” he said, adding later: “If global warming really takes hold here in the next few years and bad things start to happen, then we can act. But right now, I think we should just be sitting on our hands, observing.”

Documents provided by PEER indicate investigators are focusing on observations that Monnett and fellow researcher Jeffrey Gleason made in 2004, while conducting an aerial survey of bowhead whales. The report said they observed four dead polar bears floating in Arctic waters after a storm. They detailed their observations in an article published two years later in the journal Polar Biology; presentations also were given at scientific gatherings.
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In the peer-reviewed article, the researchers said they were reporting, to the best of their knowledge, the first observations of polar bears floating dead offshore and presumed drowned while apparently swimming long distances in open water—suggesting “that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues.”

The article and presentations drew national attention and helped make the polar bear something of a poster child for the global warming movement. Al Gore’s mention of the polar bear in his documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” came up during investigators’ questioning of Gleason in January.

In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

So there you have it: two researchers were flying around counting whales, and saw FOUR dead bears floating in the water. Not 4,000. Not 40,000. 4. Just four. And then assumed a cause of death for them without doing any kind of investigation. Because raging freezing storms never killed anybody, right? Or ate some bad food and died from food poisoning? Or went for a swim less than 30 minutes after eating? And from that one published assumption Al Gore made himself a propaganda movie, snagged himself a Nobel Prize, and threw the whole damn planet into a 6 year tizzy. All based on 4 dead bears found in the ocean after a major arctic storm. And a profligate species got onto the endangered list, even though local bear counts and reports by natives showed that their population was perfectly healthy and growing.

Somewhere a bunch of seals are rolling on the beach laughing their asses off, because they know the truth. Under the cover of the storm, the bears were pushed.

update: Considerably more coverage on the story here, details that show Monnett is the world’s leading drowning bears = global warming scientist, and perhaps the AGW quote of the decade:

Interview transcripts with Monnett are here and they are laughable. Really: the guy can’t remember if it was 3 bears or 4 he saw without looking at his notes. The whole bear scare was based on one observation during one transept flight (a back and forth “mowing the lawn” kind of flight used to count whales in a certain area) and the 3 (or was it 4?) dead bears seen in that small area were extrapolated to thousands more in the larger overall area. That’s junk science. It isn’t even good statistics; you can’t identify a trend based on one observation. But that was the snowball that started the whole AGW avalanche.

CBullit has a bit more, plus snooch updates.

Don’t expect Monnett to be tarred and feathered; it’s the Obama administration after all who is doing the investigation. Which means that Monnett is guaranteed to be found innocent if he happens to be black. But I don’t think he is. But I’m not holding my breath either. I expect a whitewash, or some sub-minion to get thrown under the bus.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/29/2011 at 11:26 AM   
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Prang!

Ah, that explains it. It wasn’t an accidental launch after all, just one that screwed up.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was destroyed over the Pacific Ocean early Wednesday, minutes after it blasted out of a California coast underground silo on a flight to test the weapon’s reliability, the Air Force said.

It’s the second Minuteman 3 test problem in five weeks at Vandenberg Air Force Base, located about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The latest Minuteman 3 missile was launched at 3:01 a.m. Wednesday and was destroyed five minutes later because of unspecified safety concerns. Designed to carry a nuclear warhead, the three-stage intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of more than 6,000 miles. It travels to approximately 15,000 mph at an altitude of 700 miles.

Air Force controllers detected “a flight anomaly and terminated the flight for safety reasons,” said Col. Matthew Carroll, chief of safety for Vandenberg’s 30th Space Wing. “Established parameters were exceeded and controllers sent destruct commands,” Carroll said in a statement. “When terminated, the vehicle was in the broad ocean area northeast of Roi-Namur.” Roi-Namur is an island in the northern part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, some 4,200 miles from Vandenberg.

There were no details on what went wrong and a Vandenberg spokesman said there won’t be any further information until Thursday. The Air Force said there will be an investigation.

Don’t you just love Mil-Speak? “Established parameters were exceeded” means “our rocket lost control and went spinning across the sky”. That’s what is called a prang.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/29/2011 at 11:19 AM   
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buys bike from cop auction, then arrested for stealing the bike.

Hey darn it …. while I’ve been breathing paint thinner and bon fires and trimming hedges and depressed because I can’t afford to fly first class, Drew has the time to go bowling?  Ah well. RHIP. Right? lol.

Well done on winning week Drew.  Now back to the keyboard.

This story belongs to the Keystoned Kops. Yeah. Stoned. Must-a-been. It’s funny in a way. Except for the poor victim of plod bungling.  And as someone pointed out in comments and we thought about when reading it in the paper, what about his cost for fixing up the damn thing?  Apologies are meaningless.  If civilians have to own up and pay up, in full, then the police dept.  should too.

H/T Surrey Constabulary Blog

Police sold me a stolen motorbike .. then they took it back

A team of officers raided a man’s home to recover a stolen motor-cycle – which he had bought from a police auction weeks earlier.

Kris Lech bought the bike in good faith for £500 and then spent £700 refurbishing it.

Kris Lech, 29, bought the Yamaha bike from an official sale of recovered vehicles in Addiewell for nearly £500 and repaired it with £700 worth of new parts.
But a mix-up meant that when he tried to register the vehicle with the DVLA it appeared as stolen. Officers from Tayside Police ordered that the bike be seized and Mr Lech’s Muirhouse home was searched for four hours for other “stolen property”. Today Mr Lech told how he was still waiting for an apology as well as compensation.

Tayside Police insiders said there had been a “double whammy” of mistakes and that they had never seen such a gaffe. Mr Lech, who moved to Edinburgh from Poland six years ago, said he had been left “highly embarrassed” and “stressed” by the incident, especially as he had spent so much money fixing up the motorcycle. It has now been returned to its original owner.

Mr Lech, a handyman who bought the motorcycle for work, said: “I went to the auction because I have bought things from police auctions before and I have had no problems. I paid for the bike, transported it home, ordered new parts to fix it up, put most of the new parts in the bike, and sent off to the DVLA to register it. Then on July 6, six police officers came to my house and searched the whole place while I was at work. My girlfriend was highly stressed and angry, and I was devastated when I found it was gone after all the work I’d done.

“I felt embarrassed that people in the street had seen what happened when I am decent and hardworking. I was told to contact Drylaw Police Station the next day to find out more about the bike, but even though I have done so three times I have heard nothing about getting any money back. They took all the old parts and the new parts I bought.”
He added: “I would like answers. You don’t expect to be buying something dodgy at a police auction.”

It has emerged that the bike, which was taken from a house in Carnoustie last March and reported as stolen, was spotted a month later being driven without number plates in Dundee and confiscated by police.
But an error on the police national computer system meant it did not come up as stolen property.

Police discovered that the vehicle was registered to a house in Carnoustie, but when an officer visited the property, a man who answered the door said he knew nothing about it.
Three months later, the unclaimed bike was auctioned off, but after the new owner, Mr Lech, fixed it up with new parts and registered it with the DVLA, it was then flagged up as being stolen and officers ordered the raid.

A police source said: “This guy bought the bike at a police auction, completely legit, and it seems there has been a double whammy of errors – a mistake on the computer system and a possible human error. Somewhere in the system there has been a serious breakdown. There are checks in place to stop this sort of thing, but the system isn’t perfect.

“I’ve never heard of anything like it. It’s unbelievable that this has happened, but it has. I’m pretty sure this guy would be high on the list for compensation.”
A Tayside Police spokesman said: “We can confirm the vehicle had been reported stolen and inquiries are ongoing.”
He added that a letter was being sent to Mr Lech with details of a refund for the purchase of the bike.

Surrey Constabulary

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Watch Your Head It’s Getting Crowdered In Here

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gween council suggests meatless day to save planet. union says drop ded

OK, in the scheme of things this itty-bitty bit of nonsense isn’t a big story. But it sure does point out in caps and bold, how the tree hugging liberal left planet savers not only think, but what lengths they’re willing to explore to get their way.

I have no problem at all with someone making suggestions and then simply letting people make their own choice. However, you need to understand the following.
The town council’s Green Party introduced a vegetarian day, as a part of it’s election manifesto in May of this year.
How’s that for a political issue?  And to think. These wild eyed zealots get themselves elected to office.

Alright, so their grand idea has been rejected. People have spoken.  Does it matter?  Well ... only in the short term.

Take a look.

MEAT-FREE MONDAY DUMPED BY BINMEN

By Tim Ridgway

Refuse workers caused a rumpus over a plan to ban meat from the menu.

Brighton and Hove City Council’s Cityclean workers are used to a beefed-up offering at lunch with bacon butties and lashings of lamb top of the wish list.

So they were left horrified when caterers at the council’s depot in Hollingdean, Brighton, decided to offer only meat-free meals.

The idea of “meat-free Monday” formed part of the Green manifesto before the party took control of the local authority in May.

The Cityclean depot was the first to introduce the change.

But managers have been forced to shelve the scheme immediately after the workers refused to let them give chops the chop for even one day a week.

One worker said: “As a result of potential grievances and general disgust at being told no meat would be served in the staff canteen, the policy has been abandoned and they will return to serving meat every day from now on.”

Central services cabinet member Jason Kitcat said: “We are not looking to force this on staff which is why we talked to union representatives before it was introduced.

“The idea is to find ways to get staff and people to talk about the issue.

“We will continue to keep having conversations with staff to find out ways forward.”

Meat Free Monday was launched in 2009 by Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney as “a simple and straightforward idea to show everyone the value of eating less meat”. 

It claims not eating meat for one a day a week can save people money, reduce the impact on the environment and help people live healthier lives.

Supporters include Sir Richard Branson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Joanna Lumley.

A council spokesman said: “It’s disappointing if the concept hasn’t gone down too well.

“But we’ll work to communicate the benefits better and work closer with the workforce in any future plans.”

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Humankind is by nature carnivorous.  There are many who aren’t.  Many are vegetarians. Hey, their choice.  But Sir Paul has spoken publicly about meat eaters and the ruination of the planet and environment issues related to the meat industry. If he and the gweens had their way, they’d most likely have a ban.
All for the good of humanity naturally. And the twees and fowusts and Bambi.

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Me Too

While I can’t plead as much physical effort as Peiper, I’ve been on a mad honey-dew project the past several days myself. Or perhaps a plethora of them. My wife had most of the week off from work, because the doctor she works for changed his vacation plans and decided he’s going now instead of later. And being a doctor, and therefore a Great I Am, he decided there was no reason to keep the office open when he wasn’t there. So all the admins, techs, and lesser doctors lost a week’s work. Not the smartest business model IMO, but that’s the way it goes.

So we’ve been doing things. Cleaning like mad. We were away for a day trip and came home to a swarm of fruit flies in the kitchen. Thousands of them. Must have been eggs in some piece of fruit. Extra fun, but after several days I’ve got them beat. Fixing the computer; the suddenly dead monitor messed with our plans and had to take priority. Another large and involved electronics project that gave me lots of heavy lifting and required me to re-wire the stereo again. Etc and so forth.

All of this hasn’t left me much of any time to sit down and blog. No time, actually.

Hey, we won all 7 in bowling this week. That should put us about 15 points up over the 2nd place team, and with just 4 weeks left in this little summer league, that’s where we want to be. No exceptional bowling to report, though I’m giving myself the save for game 2. My team was having a tough time of it, and if I hadn’t battened down and thrown 50 over for a 235 we would have lost. Teamwork! The last 2 weeks of a season are always play off rounds on any bowling league, 1st place team plays 2nd, 3rd place plays 4th, etc. If we can hold onto that 15 point lead until then, then we will have a lock on 1st and have no worries. One of the guys on the 2nd place team moved to the southern end of the state last week, so they’ve brought in a replacement. I know the guy, a really great guy and he’s a superb bowler. Like 240 average good. Ouch. So it’s almost a given that they will be winning most of the nights they play from now on, though their handicap is going to seriously spike. We’ll see. But my team really wants that silly little trophy, so the fight is on.

So what’s this shiite I hear that a ICBM accidentally launched itself in California? Has NORAD been hacked by the Chinese or something? I haven’t even had the news on in more than a week.

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   Thursday - July 28, 2011

trying to do things right at the least and better if I can

It’s 6:50p as I start this. I don’t generally boot this late. Dog tired after last two days. Jeesh, I feel almost like I’ve been employed at hard labor.  Well, one section is done and another started earlier. Mildew,rust , paint and Kurust and thinner and headache.

Had to spend lots of time doing outside first. They have a curious custom over here called bon fires.  But not exactly at we know em back home. Or maybe depending on the state you’re from.  Ppl light bon fires and burn their grass and branch and hedge cuttings etc. Sometimes I suspect they burn more then that.  If the wind is in the wrong direction, well I guess you can imagine how uncomfortable that will be.
There have been a few times when it’s been inside the house as well.  Thankfully not recently.  So anyway, there I am breathing the fumes, taking aspirin and replacing the headache with a stomach ache.  And that last is because I forgot to take my morning dose of something called Omeprazole, which is meant for folks with a gut like mine.
So you might say that last bit of hurt was self inflicted. There is a ton of work to do this year. Stuff I ignored last year. Now wish I hadn’t.  But when we got back after three months in the USA, I don’t know what happened really.  Neither of us seemed to want to get started on projects or make any effort regarding the house or planning for things to be done. So things really piled up.

To be quite honest, I might not have booted at all tonight. I’m tempted to tell a lie and say I’m so tired I’m seeing double. Truth is, I just tired but unlike other nights, I can see fine. Thing is, it’s very cool downstairs where I am, but way too warm to go up to bed.  The temps didn’t seem at all hot today. The house was quite cool all day long. Not so upstairs.  This summer (so far) has been mostly kind to my way of thinking. Only one or two other nights this year when it was too warm upstairs.  And can you believe it, some nights I get up and change into flannel PJs. It’s been that cool.

Got the results of last week’s X-ray of knee.  The bad news is they could find nothing wrong.  It’s all normal. Yeah that’s bad news cos how the hell can they cure something that ain’t broke?  Just because it sometimes feels like it is, doesn’t mean it actually is faulty.  Like the back up lights on our car.  Suddenly without warning, nothing.  They both just didn’t come on when the car was put in reverse. So we know there’s wire or a bulb or something wrong cos we can see it.  But there’s nothing to see in my knee.  If there was, they could fix it. Rewire or change the bulb or something.  Oh well, it hasn’t been hurting in over a week.  Maybe it got tired of vexing me and found another victim.  Hopefully one of my neighbors with a dog.

This house project I’m working through is a lot of work, which btw I enjoy doing.
It’s taking longer then it should of course, and I don’t tend to look for shortcuts.
What I mean is, I just can’t do anything by half measures.  Well, John Updike wrote something about me that was in a national paper. Yeah.
I happen to see this quote.

“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”

Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago. But I’m still here trying my best to do things better.

Stay Tuned..

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   Wednesday - July 27, 2011

ain’tent dead yet

Having computer problems. Monitor dying. Can barely see screen even in dark room with brightness turned up all the way. Must go find a new monitor.

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Just for fun!

Why? Because I can!

Also, a friend recently emailed me with a request for this photo. He was teaching his kids about St. Paul. I’ll explain after the photo:

1986. Rome, Italy. Just me and Caesar. Behind me is, according to local legend, the jail that St. Paul was incarcerated in before he was crucified.  Hence my friend’s request for the photo.

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   Tuesday - July 26, 2011

tennis anyone?

Might be away tomorrow, and thought I’d leave tonight with some sort of cultural event for readers to feast eyes on.
What better thing, aside from the Dodgers winning a World Series , then Tennis?

We hardly ever cover sports here.  Unless it’s wearing a bikini. Which ain’t a bad thing at all.

I call her the Great Dane. She is:

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

OKAY ... Here’s the Tennis part.

And here’s the bikini .............

That’s All Folks ....

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a mild late evening rant …

I think I might reflect the feeling of most Americans with regard to that Libyan lunatic, Gaddafi.  Millions of words about that grubby bastard have been written by ppl far more articulate then I am so I won’t try and add to the pile.
But something caught my attention today that I have to comment on.  Well two things really.

Second ....
The talking heads in govt. and the ppl who hold press conferences and tell lies for a living, are still on about this little one sided war being all about protecting civilians.  I think everyone knows that’s a bald faced lie. It’s pure BS but as Goebbels once said:

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

And boy oh boy have we been hearing about that “civilian” ploy. Five months of it in fact.

Goebbels also said that any lie if big enough would be believed. Provided it was said often enough, people will come to believe it.  And I think there are a few who do buy into call me Dave’s big lie.
Tiresome.

But number one ... the thing that really caught my eye today was the generosity of Mr. William Hague, who is Foreign Secretary.
In a magnanimous gesture of humanity and understanding ..... Mr Hague said that if Gaddafi stood down and relinquished his office, he could stay in his own country.
Isn’t that nice?  One foreigner telling someone in another country they could stay in their country.  Hey-hey. What a guy, eh?

What I’d like to see is another Seal team take out that miserable sob once and for all. I’d like it to be us. For PanAm and cos he’d deserve it.
I can understand that. What I hate is all the lies and BS. Hit us and we’ll hit back but please.  Let us not be world cop. And lets get the hell out of the UN. Something else that’ll never happen. Like, never ending foreign aid and especially to Africa.  Drew covered that subject very well so I’ll leave that one alone.

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UK to unveil travel police?

Where do we begin to try and explain this bit of planet saving pc lunacy?
I guess we don’t try and explain it except to say it all part of what I term, ‘Libthink.’
Which says all that needs saying.
Take a look.

Doorstep lectures on travelling without your car as army of advisers teach families about ‘sustainable travel’
By STEVE DOUGHTY

Hundreds of thousands of families are to be visited by travel advisers who will tell them to stop driving their cars.

Armed with bus timetables and cycle route maps, they will knock on doors and lecture on the need for ‘sustainable travel’.
The doorstep campaign by the army of taxpayer-funded ‘personal travel advisers’ is part of a £156million effort by ministers to persuade people to leave their cars at home when they go to work or the shops, or take children to school.

Of 39 councils who will share the ‘sustainable transport’ money, 32 have said they will use some of it for advising individuals on how they can get around without their car.  About 300,000 families are liable to get a visit.

Darlington has already run trials using paid advisers to go door to door. It will now get £375,000 for a scheme to visit all 45,900 homes in the area.
In Hereford, the 74,282 homes in the city will be visited twice, once for advisers to give information on public transport and cycling, and three months later to check whether the advice is being followed.

Blackpool has offered its residents a questionnaire on the way they travel, which asks for personal details, information about journeys made, and asks questions such as ‘what prevents you from cycling?’ and ‘do you know where your nearest bus stop is?’
Ministers have told MPs that the spending is good value for taxpayers.

Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker said in a statement to MPs that the money will ‘support authorities in delivering local economic growth while cutting carbon emissions from transport.’
He added: ‘The Department is confident that the overall package of proposals included in this first round represents high value for money.’
John O’Connell of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘Schemes like these represent poor value for money for taxpayers. They don’t address the real issues facing commuters on congested roads or packed trains.

‘With tighter budgets, silly schemes should be consigned to the scrapyard.’

On the streets of Darlington last week travel advisers said they were meeting mixed success. With trolleys full of pamphlets in tow, Alex Clarke, 21, and Chris Chance, 28, who were on contract for the council, said some members of the public were more receptive than others.
Mr Chance said: ‘Some people we’ve spoken to have never considered using any other form of transport than a car.

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“Some people we’ve spoken to have never considered using any other form of transport than a car.”
Gee ... I can’t imagine why not.  Can you?  Maybe convenience and privacy has something to do with this odd habit. Or not having to share a ride somewhere with noisy,unruly teens and screaming babies.  Maybe?

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NATIONAL/CULTURAL SUICIDE AND RIGHTS FOR ALL

Unlike some folks, I do not have to go far or hunt for things to bother, offend or see that ever present RCOB.  Nope.  I just have to innocently pick up either of our morning papers and there it is. Or perhaps the word should be plural. Yeah.
There they are is a better way to express it.

The following article is a case in point.  For sheer pc and idiot left wing thinking this gets a prize all it’s own.  But it’s par for the course in the west these days.  I can’t even say, oh well.  What would you expect. It’s England.  Of course that’s very true but I think it could apply almost anywhere in the west these days.

I’ve shared articles and rants about Europe’s cancer before.  In fact, many times.
Travellers/Gypsies … a thieving and troublesome unwashed band of unwanted neighbors who happily take over land illegally, and then demand and get rights.
Too bad there isn’t anyone here dedicated to the eradication of this vermin.  And make no mistake, they are that. In spades.  But the worse people are the shit liberals who enable them. Without them, the problem might be less.

So here’s another example of libthink.

Finally after spending multi millions the authorities get an eviction approved. And that did not happen over night.
But wait ….. the eviction might be delayed and in fact most likely will. Why?

SO BAILIFFS CAN BE GIVEN ‘CULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING’!

Eviction of travellers from Britain’s biggest gypsy camp delayed while bailiffs undergo ‘cultural awareness training’

· 400 travellers to be moved on next month after being at the site for ten years
· Council wants ‘bespoke training… for the forced removal of women and children’
By ANDREW LEVY

That’s the headline.  Should you want to read the damn thing, aim your rifle, whoops. Wishful thinking.  I mean aim your browser HERE.

And then there’s the usual bullshit which is tiresome I know, but I really can’t help bringing this kind of madness to readers of this site.  Not that it will do any good or correct a lunatic situation.
You may be aware that France is trying to ban the public wearing of the burka.
In fact, they have banned it although I’ve read that some have defied the ban.

Welcome to democratic and open and liberal England where the traditions and culture of the native population take second place to the sensibilities and customs of almost anyone else.  Oh … btw.  Just a reminder that there should be no celebration commemorating the Battle of Waterloo as it could cause alarm and or offence.
Germans unite.  Protest all these yearly and even mid yearly Battle of Britain ceremonies.  Just threaten to sue for hurt feelings. That always works here.  Jeesh.  What a fracked up world.

Anyway …. due to the ban in France …..

French burkha ban boost for London stores as Middle-Eastern tourists head for ‘friendly’ Britain
By ROB COOPER

British shops are cashing in on the burkha ban in France because wealthy Middle Eastern shoppers are avoiding Paris.
London retailers have benefited from a tourism boom after Nicolas Sarkozy’s government banned the headscarf in April.
Liberty, the West End store, has seen a 45 per cent surge in the number of international visitors - while Selfidges has seen a 40 per cent rise.

READ THE STORY HERE

Never mind the article. Click on the link, scroll down to the comments section. It’s not like all Brits approve of a facial covering.  But to hear the govt. types talk, you could be forgiven for thinking that a vast majority are at ease with the idea of anyone wearing face covering in say, a bank.  And that reminds me.

The word from liberal Norway is that in spite of the horrific event of last Friday, Norway welcomes multi-culture and plans on encouraging more of the same.
While I don’t agree with what that guy did, I think I understand his hatred and frustration. How long can you survive in a country that’s nibbling itself to cultural death?

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   Monday - July 25, 2011

What, Again???

Food aid for Somalia could be flown into country within a week

The international effort to bring humanitarian relief to 3.7 million Somalis who need urgent help to beat drought and famine is being hampered by al-Shabaab’s refusal to let most agencies into their territory.

The al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents backtracked on an earlier promise to allow access.

But the United Nations said it was planning to fly food into areas held by the Islamists despite the ban.

“There are 2.2 million people yet to be reached,” said Josette Sheeran, the head of the agency.

“It is the most dangerous environment we are working in in the world. But people are dying. It’s not about politics, it’s about saving lives now.”

Jane, you ignorant slut. It’s always about politics, first, last and forever. It’s not about saving lives at all, and never was. The warlords will take your food, feed themselves, then steal the rest and sell it for weapons the instant you turn your back, while starving their opposition. That story hasn’t changed in Africa in 60 years or more.

WFP was one of the many organisations that al-Shabaab effectively forced out last year after imposing strict conditions of operation including no foreign female staff.

The group also taxed aid convoys.

Regis Chapman, the head of WFP’s operations in Somalia, said that food deliveries would soon start into the limited parts of Mogadishu controlled by the internationally-backed government.

He added that “within a week to 10 days” WFP would be sending food into areas controlled by the Islamists.

The Red Cross on Sunday said that it had delivered 400 tonnes of food to 24,000 people in Gedo province, the first time it had taken supplies into al-Shabaab’s territory since 2009. More than 2 million Somalis in the worst affected areas, including two famine zones, live in al-Shabaab territory and cannot be reached by international aid.

They are among more than 11.5 million people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia who need urgent help to keep them from starving after at least two years with no rain.

Stop wasting your money. Let them all starve. It won’t make any difference even in the short run. There are always tens of millions starving in Africa. Or suffering from some dread disease. Or being cleansed ethnically. Or being molested by flamingos. Whatever. It’s what Africa does, because Africa is actually Hell. It’s their job.

You can’t feed the people because the other people are such heartless malicious bastards that they use starvation as a political and military tool. They always have, and they always will. Stop wasting your money. Wait. This is the UN we’re talking about. So it’s MY money they’re wasting. Stop even faster in that case.

Maybe they should petition those Somali pirates in their own midst to use some of those hundreds of millions in ransom money to, you know, BUY some food for once.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/25/2011 at 03:34 PM   
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