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Tuesday - July 20, 2004
PC Alert
It's official. Texans in Jefferson County will have to come up with a new name for Jap Road. The Anti-Defamation League filed suit and got a judge to order the name change.In other PC Madness, MoveOn.Org has filed a petition with the FTC to make Fox News cease and desist from using the slogan "Fair and Balanced", claiming the news organization is part of the Republican Attack Machine.
What next?
We're glad you asked ....
The State Of Georgia will be suing Keebler to make them stop calling their product "crackers", claiming it is offensive to southern white people.
It will no longer be allowed to refer to cold weather as "a little nip in the air" as it might offend Japanese parachutists. No word yet on the "nip and tuck" surgical procedure.
When going on a certain type of date, you can no longer call it "going Dutch" but will instead be referred to as "shared foreplay investment".
Amazon.Com will be forced to change its name after protests from female bodybuilders. The new name will be "HunkOfBurningLove.com".
Couples will no longer be allowed to "French Kiss" each other but instead will have to settle for a "tongue-bath" or "slobber-knocker". The French were highly offended.
A "Mexican Standoff" will be referred to in the future as a "mutually agreed acceptance of equality of force". Ai, Caramba!
The mythical aphrodisiac "Spanish Fly" has been trashed after Spain filed suit. The new name will be "intercourse initiator".
After protests from the NAAWP (National Association For The Advancement of White People), jockey shorts may no longer be referred to as "tighty whiteys" but will henceforth be called "all-cotton jewel pouches".
And finally, the term "Mongolian Idiot" will no longer be used after the Mongolian government filed suit in US Court. From now on, people with genetic birth defects which limit intelligence and who exhibit strange behavior will be referred to as "Democrats".
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Permalink • The (spit!) French (spit!) May Be Learning A Lesson
Let's face it. (spit!) France (spit!) is one sorry-ass country. Full of ragheads, lousy GDP, dogshit filled streets, high unemployment.The asshat, bleeding heart, moonbat socialists in our country are constantly trying to tell us how great the French system is: free education, nationalized health care, 4 weeks vacation, 35 hour work week, etc.
Hey! Give me 6 weeks vacation and work me only 30 hours a week if you want but if I can only make enough money in those 46 weeks at 30 hours to get, at best, a nasty little Renault with a 1200 CC engine to take on vacations at overcrowded beaches along with millions of other (spit!) French (spit!) in their little Renaults while walking dogs who shit on the streets, a 3 room flat in a 7th floor walk-up (or elevators so small only one person with 2 shopping bags fit in it), and a diet of vegetables with animal innards because I can't afford boneless pork steaks, a nice roast or boneless chicken breasts....well, then it just ain't worth it, is it?
Looks like some workers in (spit!) France (spit!) are actually getting fed up enough they've done something about it and in so doing dealt a HUGE blow to their labor unions' fight to keep weekly hours to 35. In this case the (spit!) French (spit!) workers will get no increase in salary but the company told them, "you vote this down, we move out. If we move, you become unemployed."
You gotta love it!!
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Permalink • Just the facts, Ma’am……
Thanks to Laurie for these!Learn these facts to properly debate our poor misguided friends & family before election time !!!
There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January.....
In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. (That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.)
When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following ...
FDR... led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman... finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year.
John F. Kennedy... started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson... turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton... went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us
President Bush has ... liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but... It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.
We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military moral is high! The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 17, 2004
Wild, Wild Midwest
Now, here's an interesting story from my local newspaper entitled "Arming delivery drivers a tossup for pizzerias".It seems that pizza delivery is a hazardous profession nowadays. There have been 33 robberies of pizza delivery guys and gals just since January here in Indianapolis. What the f**K? Those kids never carry more than a few bucks on them since most customers pay nowadays with check or credit card. I usually order my pizza from the local Pizza Hut at their web site. They charge my credit card and all I do is sign the receipt when the kid gets here (adding a tip of course). These kids are earning minimum wage and the least they deserve is a tip and a smile from the customer.
I'm kinda torn on this issue of these kids carrying guns though. They obviously need protection from the weirdos out there but at the same time most of the delivery drivers I encounter are young kids in their late teens or early twenties. I doubt any of them have had any training in gun handling and a gun in the hands of an amateur is a dangerous thing. In a panic, there is no telling who they might shoot .. maybe even themselves. That scares me.
These kids shouldn't have to carry guns. The police and the courts need to enforce the laws. My recommendation to these kids is: if you're attacked, give them your money and run away .. then get on the cell phone and wait for the police. My advice to the people who attack these kids: don't do it in my neighborhood because if the police don't get you, I will. Capische?
Question To Our Readers: Please weigh-in on this issue. I'm curious as to how you feel about arming pizza delivery drivers. And while you're at it, I have a question for any pizza company employees out there .. many years ago, I had a friend who managed a pizza store (with a national chain who shall remain un-named) and I was surprised to learn that they only paid their employees half of the current minimum wage at that time (1978). Their waitresses and drivers were expected to make up the balance in tips. All tips were put in the register and recorded. If an employee didn't make up the difference at the end of the year they were paid in full but terminated. Does anyone out there know if this is still practiced at any of the fast food joints? I'm curious.
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Permalink • Friday - July 16, 2004
Jailhouse Rock
Martha Stewart was sentenced just minutes ago. Five months in federal prison, five months of house arrest and two years of probation. Oh, and she must pay a fine of $30,000. Martha left the courthouse in her SUV after the sentencing when the judge postponed action on the decision, pending appeal.Yes, you heard that right. Even after this "light slap on the wrist", she plans to appeal.
Memo To Martha: Just do your 150 days in a nice little country club prison then spend the next 150 days writing a book about your prison time and then spend the next two years making millions off the book.
Equal Justice Under The Law? Heh-heh .... yeah, right.
K-Mart is offering 25% off on all Martha Stewart Living products this week. Blue light special in aisle 6 .... or was that cell block 9?
Recommended Reading For Martha (thanks to Gary):
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Permalink • Thursday - July 15, 2004
More on Mimimum Wage
I'd meant to post this later but a new reader's comments force me to do this now. The issue is minimum wage and I would venture to say our reader is either uninformed on matters economic, failed it in high school and college, or maybe, just maybe, is of the political persuasion that stresses emotion and feeling rather than logic and fact in the guidance of their decision making process.Minimum wages HURT rather than help the economy. Politicians, especially Dummycraps, continually beat the drum that our current minimum wage will not allow a person to raise a family. Well, DUH!!! Of course not! If you have a family and have just a minimum wage job, poverty will be your friend for the rest of your life. And deservedly so. Taxpayers and businesses should not have to bail you out because you are incompetent and can not find something better. You should have thought of that before you had kids. Either that or get 2 jobs to support your family.
For you bleeding hearts about to pounce, allow me to state that OCCASIONALLY people lose their jobs and have to get minwage jobs. But if they have any ambition and skills, that job will be transitory.
Now, let's really discuss who earns minimum wage. There may be millions of people who do so but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
"Slightly over half of workers earning $5.15 or less were under age 25, and about one-fourth were age 16-19. ... About 2 percent of workers age 25 and over earned the minimum wage or less."
Many of those people are students or kids just starting out. The rules about ambition and skills apply here, too.
Now, did you know that only about 2% (TWO PERCENT) of American workers OVER 25 earn the minimum wage?
Liberals scream, "OH MY GOD, VILMAR!!! THAT'S AWFUL!! THOSE POOR PEOPLE! WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP THEM!"
My response? "FUCK 'EM!!!"
You know why? Because many of those people are either wives looking for something to do to get out of the house and hope to soon transition to something better but do not really need to because hubby earns a good enough salary or they are retirees (like me) who are bored and will take anything as long as it is interesting. Plus we can tell the boss to go fuck himself as we do not need a reference!
Businesses and the American taxpayer should not be saddled with paying you more money just because you think you want more. If you are worth it, quit and get something better. If you are not, I'll see you at a drive-up window when you ask me if I want to "super size that?"
So, enough of my ranting, read this article by Alan Reynolds (a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who previously served as director of economic research at the Hudson Institute and as vice president and chief economist at both Polyconomics and at the First National Bank of Chicago. ) Whaddya think, is he experienced in that about which he speaks? I think so.
See what he has to say about the direct correlation between minimum wage hikes and the increasing numbers of people making LESS THAN minimum wage! Oh, yeah! It happens!
He also says this about those who bray so loud and long for higher minimum wages:
"Cutting off the lowest rung on the ladder of opportunity may please some members of labor organizations who stand much higher on the ladder, because it reduces future competition for better jobs."
So if you are one of those who demand a higher minimum wage you would be subjecting millions of others to even lesser amounts. Surely as a caring and loving liberal you can't have that, can you? Or is it that it is all smoke, mirrors and bullshit to keep the American public misinformed through deceptive emotional outcries?
Oh, one more thing, go read this post I made several months ago about poverty. It will tell you about the fate of those who are in poverty in the US and how many people, when in the bottom quintile of earnings, often go from the bottom to very near the top. Life is a cycle. I should not have to make it my responsibility to guarantee you more money for your labor nor should businesses be saddled with it either.
And when you are done with that one, then go re-read this.
Now, GO!! DISMISSED!!!
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 14, 2004
News from Seattle
From the liberal bastion of Seattle, home of all those stupid goofy coffees for which you pay $4 and consume 700-900 calories each we find that liberalism only extends to YOUR front door, not theirs.Looks like a shitload of
Now, as for the church, could it be they are cash strapped and making this deal with the city because of all the lawsuits dealing with pedophile priests? What I want to know is this-----why is it that so many of the priests were caught abusing little boys and so few girls? And how come, in light of this evidence, the church STILL insists they do not have homosexual predators in their midst. After all, if they are not homosexual you'd think there'd be a whole bunch more women complaining, eh??
Or could it be stuff like this?
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Permalink • Tuesday - July 13, 2004
Quagmire?
I've decided to add a new blog site to our blogroll. It's a site I've been watching for quite a few months and the folks there are finally starting to publish regularly with some very interesting stories. It's called Iraq The Model. You may have already heard of it and may have visited it. If not, I urge you to add it to your list of favorite sites to regularly visit. It's run by Iraqis and it's for Iraq. They tell you the stories that the major news media don't tell you. While AP and Reuters are reporting on prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and the "quagmire" the US is in over there, the folks at this blog site give you the other side of the story from the people in Iraq themselves.The bloggers at the site include: Mohammed (a 34-year-old dentist in Samawa City), Ali (a 33-year-old doctor in Baghdad) and Omar (a 23-year-old dentist in Baghdad).
Recently, Omar posted a really nice article after he took a drive around his neighborhood entitled "One Square Kilometer". There are several great pictures and a commentary that you really should read. As a teaser, here is a picture of a recently opened internet gambling casino with a very appropriate name ....
Other articles, posted recently include today's about the IP (Iraq Police) arresting hundreds of "gangsters" in certain bad sections of Baghdad last night after arresting over 150 earlier this month. The descriptions of the thugs arrested detail the neighborhoods and the criminals who inhabit them, as well as their activities. These are not "freedom fighters" as some in the media would have you believe but I'll let Mohammed, Ali and Omar tell you what these people really are. They know better than any of us here in the US what the Iraqi people are up against.
Isn't it about time the UN, NATO, the EU and the Dummycraps in the US got on board and started trying to help these good people? It's time to put the war behind us, forget about WMD's (let the military continue to clean up what's left), stop the finger-pointing and help these people get back on their feet and start to enjoy their Allah-given inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. After all, isn't that why we're there .... and it's the absolute least they deserve after 35 years of a brutal, monstrous dictatorship. They don't want a "handout". They just want a "hand up".
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Permalink • The S**T List
I meant to post this yesterday but it is long and there was enough material out there to choke a couple of goats so I held off and it allowed me time to tweak this one a bit.Yesterday I made a comment about the hollyweirdoes and their allegiance to the downfall of America. Today, I present to you MY "shit list" of hollyweirdoes, music artists and other entertainment types. I been compiling this "shit list" for several years now. Number one on it was that C**T Jane Fonda. They are on it because they spout off nonsense against our President and our country and by virtue of their fame, get press coverage. These folks are assclown, moonbat fucktards who probably could not tell you the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But they are actors or musicians or other rich assholes who think they know better than you so the media gloms on to them and decrees all they say to be truth.
Before you get on your high horse and tell me they have a right to speak out, ask yourself this: "if I, as a regular Joe or Joanne middle class schmuck, speak out will the media cover it even though I am well versed on many of these subjects, have economics degrees or political science degrees, or history degrees and decades of experience?"
***dum de dum***
***stares off into space***
***trims toe nails***
***watches grass grow***
YO!!! I am still waiting for that "YES" answer. Anyone?
So you see, that's my point. These shitbags are famous and incredibly stupid in matters economic, political, strategic, etc. yet the press idolizes them and prints anything they say especially if it is something against our country.
My shitlist is below. Why have one? To remind me to not shop at the stores they sponsor nor to buy or rent or go see in person any movies or music or concert in which they participate in. Many have been the movies or CDs I would like to see or rent or own, etc. but if these assclowns are in them, or produced them, or directed them---and because so many of them get a percentage of the retail take--- I refuse to further their cause by giving them even more money to spout their nonsense.
I vote with my wallet.
I also have an article from FrontPagemag.com that discusses what some of these fuckwits are doing right now with MoveOn.org. See how Ed Asner, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson visit Castro and come back singing his praises, see how many of these people are now involved in making TV ads against President Bush, read how Asner, in the 80s sent in a medical team to help in the surgery of a Sandinista leader who later went on to kill 15 Americans.
Remember, MoveOn.org are the assholes responsible for the "BUSH IS HITLER" ads!!!
Do America a favor, folks, add them to YOUR shitlist and NEVER AGAIN go to, rent, or buy anything they make, write, sing, produce, direct, participate in, etc. You'll feel better for it. Trust me.
| CHERYL CROW | DUSTIN HOFFMAN | ROBERT ALTMAN | MADONNA |
| RICHARD GERE | ANY BALDWIN | TIM ROBBINS | SUSAN SARANDON |
| ED ASNER | DITZY SHITS | MICHAEL MOORE | ROBERT REDFORD |
| BARBRA STREISAND | HARRISON FORD | MARTIN SCORCESE | JOHNNY DEPP |
| MARTIN SHEEN | JANEANE GARAFOLO | OLIVER STONE | SEAN PENN |
| JULIA ROBERTS | HARRY BELAFONTE | ROSIE ODONNELL | ANY FONDA |
| SPIKE LEE | EDWARD ASNER | ROB REINER | DANNY GLOVER |
| MOBY | WOODY HARRELSON | AL FRANKEN | MARGARET CHO |
P.S. UPDATE ADD: Whoopi Goldberg
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Permalink • Tuesday Wake Up Call
The New York Times is reporting that the earth's magnetic field is about to do a back-flip. North and South will exchange places, East and West remain stubbornly defiant. Kerry blames Bush. Sigh.Something else to worry about: manure pits. S**t happens - stink is dangerous. Indeed.
World's oldest dog attributes his longevity to diet of "kangaroo, rabbit and emu as well as scraps off the table". Talk about low-carb ....
Policemen in India are growing large mustaches in order to better fight crime. Personally, I think a .44 magnum would be more effective.
Chicken-man discoverd in Fiji. KFC has a team on the way to investigate.
For the ladies: this one is just for Dottie, Barb, Jennifer and all of our loyal female readers.
For the guys: filming has finally begun on "Basic Instinct 2". Actress Sharon Stone is shown below responding to reporter's questions about how many gratuitous beaver shots the sequel will have. Oh my!
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Permalink • Monday - July 12, 2004
Impatience?
This just in from the Barking Moonbat Science Desk. Females exhibit sexual impatience. Film at 11:00.Drug may offer aphrodisiac for womenIn humans, sexual impatience is exhibited by the female when your lovely little female partner, sitting beside you on the couch late at night, turns to you, bats her eyes and calmly says, "I'm going back to the bedroom to have sex. If you're not there in five minutes, please don't interrupt."
June 30, 2004
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug that seems to drive female rats mad for sex may offer the first real scientific aphrodisiac for women, U.S. and Canadian researchers said on Monday.
The drug, Palatin Technologies Inc's PT-141, is being developed for use to fight impotence in men, but the researchers said tests showed it also aroused female rats.
"Accordingly, PT-141 may be the first identified pharmacological agent with the capability to treat female sexual desire disorders," they wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Pfaus of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and colleagues there and at Palatin tested the drug on female rats and found it affected their mating behavior.
The female rats flirted more when injected with the drug and Pfaus and his colleagues said: "Females treated with the highest dose of PT-141 also attempted to mount the males." In rats, this is considered a sign of sexual impatience.
It has been my experience that women in general have no problem with desire or passion. No, they have plenty of flame .... it's just that the damned pilot light keeps going out and has to be re-lit every freaking time.
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Permalink • Monday Morning Snippets of News
The next time you hear some gun grabber try to tell you we need to ban guns because guns kill people, show him (or her) this bit of news.For 10 years after allowing their citizenry to carry concealed weapons, Arizona has tracked crime figures and says that, much to the chagrin of the grabbers, that crime has NOT gone up because of it.
So there! Take that you empowerers and enablers of criminals!
Ahhh, here we have a nice bit from (SPIT! HACK!) France, (SPIT!) the land of tolerance, compassion, sympathy for the common man. But it turns out the land of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" is nothing more than a viper pit of racists and their crimes.
Here's the latest: some guys from North Africa (whaddya think? Black? Muslim?) beat up a woman, cut off her clothes, use markers to put swastikas on her, steal her money, overturn her baby carriage (with her 13 month old in it) and tell her they are doing it because only Jews live in that district.
Important note to criminals: she's not Jewish.
Another note: the criminals got away
Reaction from Chirac? That the perps must be caught and be punished to the full extent of the law.
Considering that the French are nothing but a bunch of surrender monkeys, I guess that means when they find the guys they'll award them free housing and make their victim become their housemaid. It's the only fitting conclusion I can come to given we are dealing with (SPIT!!) French assholes (SPIT!) who ripped off the Iraqi people and fought us tooth and nail on going into Iraq.
If you work for the University of Ohio and want to get benefits for your live-in boyfriend or girl friend because you consider them to be your "life partner" outside of marriage, you can get it---if you are homosexual.
If you are not, then no dice.
Interesting note here: how will the university determine you are homosexual? Will guys have to do the nasty on one another in front of a board of regents? Will girls have to do the same?
Heteros are now promising to sue the shit out of the university for discrimination. I hope they win because it will bankrupt that piece of shit institution of declining education. If the university changes their mind and tells the homosexuals they can NOT get benefits now, they'll be sued six ways from Sunday and go bankrupt anyway as The Breck Girl's trial lawyer friends will clean their clocks.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 11, 2004
Oui, Oui, Mon-sewer
In France, the workweek is only 30-35 hours long and Frenchmen take off over the entire country for summer holiday. The whole country shuts down while they all take their annual bath. So why should France complain about outsourcing jobs? They can't. But can you guess where French jobs are being outsourced to? The only other place would have to be a country as civilized and efficient as the French, n'est ce pas?
Outsourcing Comes To Africa, Bringing Jobs And Fake Parisian Accents
From The Canadian Press
On the job, she's Dominique Mercier - nattering in lilting French, working her headset eight hours a day, and hawking telephone services to Europeans.
Come day's end, the accent drops, and Dominique's true identity stands revealed: Fatou Ndiaye, 32-year-old Senegalese college graduate, and one of thousands of operators dialing up the West from booming call centres in West Africa.
"When I applied for this job, I did not know what it was, or what to expect," says Ndiaye, now a supervisor watching over a dozen operators wearing Islamic head scarves, West African robes or Western clothes.
The women chatter away in the finest - faked - Parisian accents to consumers in France, 5,900 kilometres to the north.
Some 600 operators, ages 20 to 25, work up to 40 hours a week - equipped with a French-sounding pseudonym and a carefully drilled French accent to raise the comfort levels of their customers.
Eight hours a day earns a starting salary of $200 US a week. Pay goes up to $500, plus benefits and bonuses, for the most productive operators.
Compared to the minimum wage of $1,200 offered their counterparts in France, it's not much. But for a country where minimum wage is $85 a week, it's a godsend.
Marina Guillaume, a 42-year-old hospital lab worker in St. Denis, France, never suspected that when she called her telephone service's toll-free number, the person answering was thousands of miles away.
"I had no idea, but if it can help a family survive, why not?" Guillaume said, then adds, "It's sad, though, that jobs are being lost here in France."
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Permalink • France Busts Terrorist Cell
How many Frenchmen does it take to screw up Never-Never-Land? We don't know but it obviously didn't take too many. French customs officials today managed to capture and disarm two deadly terrorists as they attempted to sneak through De Gaulle airport with weapons of mass destruction. When questioned, the Al Qaeda suspects had only this to say, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa". Paging Inspector Clouseau ....
Terrorist Tots
From The Luton News (UK)
Plastic swords confiscated by French customs
Two-year-old twins had their dream Disneyland holiday ruined – when French airport customs officers swooped on them for carrying plastic swords.
The Luton girls, dressed in Peter Pan outfits, were making their way home through Charles de Gaulle airport when they were stopped for 'posing a security threat'.
At the security check, Olivia and Eva Ryan proudly walked up wearing their outfits, bought at Paris's Disneyland Parc France and bearing the plastic swords which are part of the outfit.
A stern "Non" from the customs and security men met with a flood of tears from the youngsters, and anger from their father, Luton photographer Pete Ryan.
The swords were confiscated with the grim warning that they are replica swords and there was no way they would be permitted on the aircraft back to Britain.
His amazement at the entire episode was underlined for Pete, when after the swords had been confiscated by the French "jobsworths" he saw vicious looking metal spikes for sale just yards away in the duty free shop.
Pete, who works for Luton Borough Council, the Herald&Post and a number of major organisations in town, said: "I was furious. It really upset the twins, and it was particularly bad since we had a really bad time at Disney, which we thought was a total rip-off. It was just a final insult when we walked through the airport and these people decided that the youngsters were a security threat.
"Nobody in their right mind would think that the swords that went with their outfit were real. It's security gone mad."
Pete, of Cranleigh Gardens, said he didn't get angry with the security men. "I just rubbed my eyes in disbelief. They just said basically that rules are rules. If we go again it will be to Disneyland in Florida."
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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