Monday - August 24, 2009

AND TO THINK, THE PUTZES WHO DREAM UP THIS STUFF ARE UNELECTED AND PAID BY ???

Sure. Who do ya think they get paid by?  BMEWS didn’t hire these absolute schmucks.  Aggghghhhhhhh

RCOB ...  Jerks. All jerks. I’m trying to think of something clever here.  Forget it. BLANK. Just blank.

These ppl really do not have anything else to do. Do they? Maybe they aren’t employable. ?  How do they manage to see things that just are not there.  Jeesh.

Right-hand man, gentleman’s agreement and whiter than white: PC quangos ban common phrases to avoid causing offence

By James Slack, Home Affairs Editor
Last updated at 2:19 AM on 24th August 2009

Nonsense: Matthew Elliott said ‘Most people assumed that this sort of PC madness went out in the 1980s.’

Right-hand man, gentleman’s agreement and whiter than white are the latest phrases to fall foul of the political correctness lobby.

Government quangos have issued fresh lists of phrases they are seeking to ban to avoid causing offence.

Staff at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission have been advised to use ‘miserable day’ instead of ‘black day’. The Commission claims that certain words carry a ‘hierarchical valuation of skin colour’.

It also cautions that the term ethnic minority can imply ‘something smaller and less important’ and should be used with care.

The examples of political correctness emerged in answer to a series of Freedom of Information requests.

Some institutions have urged workers to watch out for gender bias or sexism in language.

The Learning and Skills Council wants staff to ‘perfect’ their brief rather than ‘master’ it while Newcastle University reckons ‘master bedroom’ can be problematic.

The National Gallery in London says the phrase gentleman’s agreement may be considered offensive to women and suggests using ‘unwritten agreement’ or ‘ agreement based on trust’ instead.

The phrase right-hand man is also considered taboo, with ‘second in command’ thought more suitable. Advice issued by the South West Regional Development Agency says: ‘Terms such as black sheep of the family, black looks and black mark have no direct link to skin colour but potentially serve to reinforce a negative view of all things black.

‘Equally, certain terms imply a negative image of black by reinforcing the positive aspects of white.

‘For example, in the context of being above suspicion, the phrase whiter than white is often used. Purer than pure or cleaner than clean are alternatives which do not infer that anything other than white should be regarded with suspicion.’

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Most people assumed that this sort of PC madness went out in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher reined in the Left-wing councils, so it’s unbelievable that it’s rearing its head again.

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Here’s what a few Daily Mail readers had to say.

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ALL GLORIOUS COMRADES TAKE NOTE.  ATTN PLEASE WHILE EUROPE PRONOUNCES

Stupid fuckin socialist dipshits!

PUBLIC URGED TO SNOOP ON BLUB SHOPS

THE public has been urged by the govt. to inform trading standards officers about shops that continue to sell traditional light bubs banned by Europe.

From Sept. 1st it will be illegal to make or import coventional pearl or frosted bulbs of any shape or wattage.

All traditional incandescent bulbs of 100watts will also be banned.  They will be replaced by energy-saving bulbs.

But it is thought that consumers still prefer the traditional type because of the apparent poor quality of light from the new bulbs.

Daily Telegraph
Monday
24 August ‘09

it is thought that consumers still prefer the traditional type
Well duh.  Who pays any attention to the consumer when the eu speaks?

note to p. BUY another hundred bulbs today.

ON the other hand.

‘Green’ Germans hoard traditional bulbs to beat ban

By David Derbyshire
Last updated at 1:34 AM on 24th August 2009

Germans have been stockpiling vast numbers of energy-hungry lightbulbs

Germany’s green credentials have long made it the spiritual home of tree-huggers across the world.

But those who actually live there seem reluctant to embrace the eco-warriors’ latest symbol - the energy-saving lightbulb.

Germans have been stockpiling vast numbers of old-fashioned energy-hungry lightbulbs ahead of next week’s EU ban on many of them.

Sales of conventional incandescent bulbs shot up 34 per cent in the first six months of this year as consumers hoarded the dwindling supplies.

In most other European countries, sales fell over the same period. In Britain, where big retailers introduced a voluntary ban on 100 watt bulbs in January, sales are down by a fifth.

Brussels is banning all pearl or frosted traditional bulbs and clear 100 watt bulbs from September 1 as part of its drive to cut carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change.

Stocks are expected to run out in most towns by the end of next month, forcing householders to buy energy-saving compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) or low-energy halogen bulbs.

The figures highlighting Germany’s unwillingness to switch to CFLs have surprised some in a country with such a strong green movement and which brought the world the eco-friendly repairable Birkenstock sandal.

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   Monday - August 17, 2009

It’s being called, “Pink Diplomacy” and yes , the taxpayer will fund it. Like there’s a choice?

So these folks deface their flag and make it pink, which should outrage Brits because that flag is supposed to represent the country and not just one small but highly vocal group of misfits and deviants.  This pink outrage does not represent any Brit I personally know. Hey I admit it. I’m a dinosaur.

I just don’t believe a national flag should be taken so much for granted and used that way. I even wonder if it’s right when ppl use the stars and stripes as bathing suits.  I know they mean no harm in it. Hell, I don’t even think the homosexuals intend any harm in it.  I just don’t believe it’s right.

Jeesh I got long winded there but I have strong feeling about this stuff.

This country is not out of the financial woods by any means. There are serious problems here, the ppl are being told not to be wasteful yadda,yadda while govt. payrolls save nothing. Oh sure, take some cash away from some program or end another program. But that’s so that more councilors and ministers can take “fact finding” trips to warm climes and toast one another on the success of another nice holiday on the txpayer.
So while things are tight and money is short, this fraken govt. somehow finds the money somewhere to:

FUND FOREIGN GAY QUEER RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
This, they have money for.

Foreign Office Minister takes ‘pink diplomacy’ to anti-gay nations.

The gay Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant is championing a controversial drive to fund equal-rights activists in homophobic regimes.

British missions in countries such as Jamaica, where homosexual acts are punishable by long jail terms, and Nigeria, where they can lead to the death penalty, are being encouraged to “support progress” by financing gay pride marches and legal challenges from local campaigners.

As well as targeting Commonwealth countries, “pink diplomacy” will extend to eastern Europe, where gays have suffered brutal attacks from far-right groups. Opportunities to tackle discrimination in ultra-conservative nations, such as Iran, are also being considered - cautiously.

The move risks a backlash from countries where support for homosexuality runs contrary to state teaching and religious beliefs.

TIMES ON LINE

So now as if that isn’t enough not so very good policy ..... This guy does a deep throat by sticking his foot in it by saying that,

Terrorism can be ‘justified’ in some circumstances. 

He also said in an interview that “there were circumstances where terror was ‘effective’.”

See the problem with that is, this fellow just happens to be , The Foreign Secretary. At least for now.

Foreign Secretary, David Miliband

THE WHOLE STORY IS HERE

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How seriously stupid does one have to be, to seriously buy into this? Pretty damn stupid!

I could use the entire page filled with bats for this short article spotted in one of our morning papers.
OK, what word is next?  Any suggestions out there? Any word that may possibly stereotype or offend?

Funny thing, I’ve heard this word all my life, so have you, and I’d bet not one of us (I haven’t) ever associated it with any stereotype, person or object. 

These jerks are clinically STUPID! Anyone who indulges in PC is clinically stupid and beyond any help.

The word Blacklisting, is banned:

Citizens Advice axes ‘offensive’ word and tells staff to use ‘blocklisting’ instead

By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 12:13 AM on 17th August 2009

The Citizens Advice service has banned staff from using the term ‘ blacklisting’ over fears that it is offensive and ‘fosters stereotypes’.

The taxpayer- funded quango, which advises members of the public on consumer, legal and money issues, has instead replaced it with ‘blocklisting’ to avoid appearing ‘prejudicial’.

The two terms are both used in IT to mean the same thing. They refer to what are effectively lists of computers or computer networks which have been identified as sending spam and enable mail servers to ban or flag up mail sent from them.
Banned: The Citizens Advice service has replaced the word ‘blacklisting’ with the word ‘blocklisting’. Both are IT terms to mean the same thing

Banned: The Citizens Advice service has replaced the word ‘blacklisting’ with the word ‘blocklisting’. Both are IT terms to mean the same thing

Emails to members of staff at the service say the move has been made to keep ‘in line with aims and principles of the Citizens Advice service’.

Critics branded it ‘daft’ and ‘political correctness going over the top’, but the Citizens Advice has refused to back down, even though critics say it renders everyday communications unintelligible.

An email about internet spam sent from IT systems to staff and volunteers who help at Citizens Advice’s 3,000 locations, reads: ‘We have replaced the term “blacklisting” with “blocklisting” in line with the aims and principles of the Citizens Advice service. You are probably aware that the whole service’s email has been intermittently blocked up to twice this week for some time now.

‘This is because spam sent from within the service causes us all to be blocklisted.’

The ban on blacklisting applies across the whole of Citizens Advice. A former volunteer said banning blacklisting was ‘the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen’ and has stopped helping at his local branch because of it. John Midgley, co-founder of the campaign against political correctness, said: ‘This is just daft and another example of political correctness going over the top.’

A spokesman for the service said: ‘Our approach to language is not prescriptive or dogmatic, but where we know or become aware that something is offensive, fosters stereotypes or prejudice, or is inaccurate, it makes sense and is respectful to use alternatives.’

MORE PC MADNESS

* Newcastle City Council banned staff from using common Geordie greetings such as pet and love when dealing with the public over fears they might be regarded as offensive.

* Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire even banned staff from using the words ‘political correctness’ at work in case it offended anyone. An equality policy booklet claimed using the term at work can be damaging - and even linked it to the Ku Klux Klan.

* Birmingham City Council ordered pupils not to be taught the nursery rhyme Baa Baa black sheep in case it was racially offensive, but later backed down.

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   Sunday - August 16, 2009

Another weapon in the Islamist assault on Western cultural values.

This is an excellent read.  I am making no comments, this speaks for itself.  It’s his take on my previous post re. swimming and burkinis. And what a stupid name that is btw.  There’s a bit more background here.

Here’s some info on the writer.

James Delingpole
James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I’ve Seen Your Future And It Doesn’t Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is http://www.jamesdelingpole.com

How The West Was Lost (ctd): the Burkini

By James Delingpole Religion
Last updated: August 16th, 2009

The Burkini. You’d think it was a joke invention: a bit like the grotesque “Mankini” so hilariously sported by Sacha Baron Cohen on all those posters for Borat. What, after all, could be more absurd than melding the not-notably-sexy Muslim dress - the Burka - with the kind of achingly seductive kit worn by Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman?
And God Created Woman....

But no, the Burkini is for real. It was designed by an Lebanese Australian Aheda Zanetti to enable women in thrall to extreme Saudi-style dress codes to go swimming on beaches and in public baths without incurring a beating or instant divorce from their characteristically tolerant and cosmopolitan menfolk.

“Practical and stylish,” is how they’re described on a BBC website. Hmm, up to a point. Practical if your primary goal is to protect yourself from box jellyfish stings; stylish, maybe, if your points of comparison are a gorilla outfit, or a Barbara Cartland pink dress, or a tent. But I do think we should be wary of viewing the burkini in terms of a fashion story or an amusing novelty, when it also represents something more sinister. I’m sure the designer didn’t intend this, but the Burkini has become yet another weapon in the Islamist assault on Western cultural values.

When most of us think of militant Islam, we tend to think in terms of suicide bombs on London buses, planes flying into Twin Towers and 19-year olds getting their limbs blown off by Taliban IEDs. But as any extremist Imam could tell you, there are at least two ways in which a good Muslim can further the ongoing struggle to convert the whole world from the House of War (that’s the non-Muslim world) to the House of Islam (ie global submission to the will of Allah): one (see above) is by poison or the sword; the other is by honey.

So the Burkini is part of the honey campaign: all those parts of the Islamist war on the West that have nothing to do with killing people. This campaign includes everything from schoolgirls fighting legal battles (with the help of one Cherie Blair) to fight for their inalienable right to go to school dressed like a sack, to Muslim supermarket workers trying to dictate the terms of their employment (refusing to sell alcohol), to the ongoing campaign (apparently endorsed by our own Archbishop of Canterbury) for certain civil decisions in the Muslim “community” to be made under Sharia law. The goal is to establish the view that Islam is a religion should be allowed to trump everything, including the cultural norms of any non-Muslim society in which its adherents find themselves living.

Why should we care if women want to dress up in burkinis? Well we shouldn’t. It’s a free country. Where we should worry very much is when, in the name of weasel concepts like “tolerance”, “respect” and Multiculturalism, the wider society is bullied into adopting similar “Muslim” (ie Saudi-style, Wahhabist) dress codes too.

This is outrageous. A public swimming pool is not a mosque. It is a secular, leisure facility designed for (and funded by) the local community. If parts of that community feel unable to use those facilities for religious or cultural reasons, well that should be their problem and no one else’s. I dare say naturists object to the trunks/bathing costume dress code operated by local public baths, too. But I don’t think any of us would think that constitutes an argument for introducing special “Nudie” hours at local swimming pools, fun though that might be.

As I remember from my days living in East London (at the much lamented Haggerston Leisure Centre), it’s quite maddening when, after a hard week’s work, you suddenly find you can’t go for a Saturday evening swim because the pool has been set aside for the purposes of religious apartheid.

But apart from being annoying, it’s an absolute disaster for social cohesion. The reason for home-grown Muslim suicide bombers is that British Muslims are constantly encouraged to think of themselves as being different and apart from mainstream British society. Heaven knows it’s a message they hear often enough from their Imams. Is it really something they should be hearing from their local councils and swimming baths as well?

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BOYOHBOY.  WAIT TIL YOU’VE SEEN ALL OF THIS … BURKA DEMAND FOR NON MUZZIES? WELL, YEAH.

You may recall a post yesterday in which it’s reported that France has said NO to the wearing of full dress, being called Burkinis, in public swimming pools. It’s an issue of hygiene, say the French.

OK.  Here’s how some are facing the issue here in the land of Hope and Glory.  Rule Britannia.

Now get this BMEWS.  It ain’t the muslims making any demand here re. non-muslims. No. Apparently, appeasing, cowardly guilty white non muslim councils think non muslims in public pools should cover up so that they do not offend.  I really do not think this is gonna fly, I don’t think too many (well there’s always the odd few) will comply. What’s bothersome is that some damn fool would actually make the suggestion.
Bad as things are here, I really can not see most Brits going along. Yeah, the politically correct. But we already know how stupid they are so that would not surprise.

There’s a lot here so I’m not gonna rant on this. I’ll leave it to you. 

Swimmers are told to wear burkinis
British swimming pools are imposing Muslim dress codes in a move described as divisive by Labour MPs.

By Patrick Sawer
Published: 9:00PM BST 15 Aug 2009

UK councils running restricted swimming session for Muslims

Under the rules, swimmers – including non-Muslims – are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire.

Instead they are told that they must comply with the “modest” code of dress required by Islamic custom, with women covered from the neck to the ankles and men, who swim separately, covered from the navel to the knees.

The phenomenon runs counter to developments in France, where last week a woman was evicted from a public pool for wearing a burkini – the headscarf, tunic and trouser outfit which allows Muslim women to preserve their modesty in the water.

The 35-year-old, named only as Carole, is threatening legal action after she was told by pool officials in Emerainville, east of Paris, that she could not wear the outfit on hygiene grounds.

But across the UK municipal pools are holding swimming sessions specifically aimed at Muslims, in some case imposing strict dress codes.

Croydon council in south London runs separate one-and-a half-hour swimming sessions for Muslim men and women every Saturday and Sunday at Thornton Heath Leisure Centre.

Swimmers were told last week on the centre’s website that “during special Muslim sessions male costumes must cover the body from the navel to the knee and females must be covered from the neck to the ankles and wrists”.

There are similar rules at Scunthorpe Leisure Centre, in North Lincolnshire, where “users must follow the required dress code for this session (T-shirts and shorts/leggings that cover below the knee)”.

In Glasgow, a men-only swimming session is organised by a local mosque group at North Woodside Leisure Centre, at which swimmers must be covered from navel to knee.

At a women-only class organised by a Muslim teacher at Blackbird Leys Swimming Pool, Oxford, to encourage Muslim women to learn to swim, most participants wear “modest” outfits although normal costumes are permitted.

The dress codes have provoked an angry reaction among critics who say they encourage division and resentment between Muslims and non-Muslims, putting strain on social cohesion.

Ian Cawsey, the Labour MP for the North Lincolnshire constituency of Brigg and Goole, said: “Of course swimming pools have basic codes of dress but it should not go beyond that.

“I don’t think that in a local authority pool I should have to wear a particular type of clothes for the benefit of someone else. That’s not integration or cohesion.”

Labour MP Anne Cryer, whose Keighley, West Yorkshire constituency has a large number of Muslims, said: “Unfortunately this kind of thing has a negative impact on community relations.

“It’s seen as yet another demand for special treatment. I can’t see why special clothing is needed for what is a single-sex session.”

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   Saturday - August 15, 2009

Air security: They’ve got it taped.  Too bad I can’t get one of our moonbats in this space.

Put this way it sure does seem barmy to me. Had to laugh the way Littlejohn describes things but I bet the old guy involved must have been frustrated.

Air security: They’ve got it taped

By Richard Littlejohn
Daily Mail

The worst part of air travel these days is passing through security, as I’m sure many of you have experienced this summer.

Rules are applied with rigid inflexibility and complete absence of common sense.

Terrified of being accused of racism, screeners go to great lengths to single out middle-aged white people for full searches, while waving through young men who fit the profile of suicide bombers.

I get especially furious when I see little old ladies being forced to walk barefoot and empty the contents of their handbags. No wonder they have to put up signs warning you, in advance, not to abuse the staff.

There is endless ingenuity in defining what constitutes a threat, even though greater potential dangers are overlooked.

Thousands of nail clippers are confiscated every day, while duty-free shops airside continue to sell booze in glass bottles which could easily be smashed and turned into weapons.

Fred Osborn, 68, and no one’s idea of an Islamic terrorist, had his hand luggage searched at Birmingham airport.

The security guard’s eyes lit up when he happened upon a roll of double-sided tape, encased in that infuriating thick plastic packaging which it is almost impossible to open.

He immediately confiscated it. When Fred asked why, he was told that it could be used to tie someone up and hijack the plane.

By the time Fred had finally managed to open the tape, after breaking all his fingernails, the plane would have landed.

And, even if he was successful, try to imagine a 68-year-old man overpowering a stewardess and wrapping her up like a mummy, while all the other crew and passengers simply stood by and watched it happen.

If you think that’s insane, passionate fisherman Mick Bell tells me he was stopped at Heathrow for carrying a lifejacket, which he wears when fishing deep waters.

The guard said the small CO2 cannister used to inflate it could be used to fire a weapon.

No problem, said Mick. There are spare cannisters in the life jackets under every seat on every plane. I can borrow one of those.

If Richard Reid had known that, he wouldn’t have tried setting fire to his shoes.

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   Friday - August 14, 2009

Did you enjoy your stay with us sir?  Anything else we can do to pander and suck up sir?

Crap for mood this morning .... start off the day with puter problems. Took damn near a half hour to get this posted.
Tight sched. this morning, have to be somewhere in another hour and haven’t even had morning coffee yet.
BUT ... when I saw this in the paper I just knew I had to drop everything else, forget the coffee and breakfast, really.
This needs posting!

btw ... I originally saw this in the Telegraph which we get delivered. But do you suppose its in their on line version?  Of course it is. Where? Don’t know coz they don’t show it. Anywhere. Sooooo, bingo.  The Daily Mail.
Here .... read this and see if you don’t think they’re absolutely OTT freeken bonkers over here.

Did you enjoy your stay Sir? Prisoners handed hotel-style questionnaires asking if cell conditions were up to scratch

By Luke Salkeld
The Mail

It was once considered something of a punishment.

But a night in the cells is now followed by a ‘customer satisfaction’ survey, with those detained in custody asked to rate the ‘services’ on offer behind bars.

The hotel-style questionnaire asks their views on the brightness of the cells and the quality of the food on offer.

The survey will be given to 1,000 detainees as part of a pilot scheme by Devon and Cornwall Constabulary. Detainees will be invited to judge the quality of a variety of aspects of their incarceration, including the food, how ‘safe’ they felt, cleanliness, lighting and air temperature, and the provision of towels.
The questionnaire begins by stating: ‘Devon & Cornwall are committed to providing the best possible service to people who are detained in custody.

‘We would be grateful if you could complete the following survey and return it to the custody centre.’
Recipients of the questionnaire are asked a total of 41 questions, the results of which will eventually be entered into a database for analysis by senior officers.

One officer in the force, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘It is a bit rich really. These people are in the cell for a reason, it’s not like
they’ve come here on holiday. They are starting to treat the emergency cell buzzer like a room service hotline.’

He added: ‘We are getting asked all sorts - to get them celebrity magazines, to put aircon on, to bring them a salad. It’s not funny after a while.’
But Chief Inspector Ivan Trethewey, the force’s head of custody, who is behind the project, told Police Review magazine yesterday: ‘It does not mean we will be providing steak dinners as a result. There could be some valuable learning points, however.

‘I wanted a reality check: what I think the service is that we are providing versus what detainees tell us we are giving them.’
The survey is being given to those currently in custody across the force and posted to others detained in June and July.

Go HERE for the rest. Read ALL 41 questions on the survey.

Gotta go for now ....
but Stay Tuned.

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   Tuesday - August 04, 2009

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

A Seattle bank teller learned that lesson the hard way last week when he thwarted a would-be robbery — and got fired for bucking company policy.

Jim Nicholson was working at a Key Bank branch on Tuesdaywhen a man wearing a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses entered the bank and demanded money. That’s when instinct overwhelmed him.

“They tell us that we’re just supposed to comply, but my instincts kicked in and I did what’s best to stop the guy,” the 30-year-old Nicholson told The Seattle Times. “I thought if I let him go he would rob more banks and cause more problems.”

Rather than comply with the robber’s demands, Nicholson tossed his bag to the floor, lunged at the suspect and demanded to see a weapon.

“My intent was to grab his glasses off his face, or him,” Nicholson told the paper.

The man ran, and Nicholson chased him for several blocks before knocking him down with help from a passerby. Nicholson then held the suspect, Aaron J. Sloan, 29, until police arrived.

Nicholson’s reward? Two days after the failed heist, he was fired.

I’m sure that Key Bank is thinking through it’s lawyers. You certainly wouldn’t want to encourage heroism or bravery in your employees. Something could go wrong, then you’d be sued. Of course, tellers and bank security guards get beaten, raped, and shot for just standing there during other robberies. That doesn’t mean a thing to the legal beagles though. In their minds, if the bank doesn’t punish it, that means they support and encourage it, and thus are liable somehow when things go wrong. Dipshits.



The Bank of Drew would have a twelve foot long entrance corridor with bullet resistant glass doors on either end. During regular business hours the inner door will not open until the outer door is closed. Hit the silent alarm and the outer door locks, and arms the inner door. When that door is opened (robbers escaping) it drops a steel grate over the outer door, and, half a second later, a steel grate over the inner door, which also locks when closed. Installation options include a wide area pepper gas spray, or the RonKo RatsAway Xtreme Volume™ water flooding device. Rotating knives not available in New Jersey.

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   Tuesday - July 28, 2009

OBSCENITIES and THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE … It okay coz it’s only the bible. Not the Koran.

The wife found this one small item included in his larger article covering other subjects.
I think he should have led with it.

It’s a sign of some very horribly twisted and unwelcome times, I believe you’ll agree.

Can you begin to imagine the violence we’d witness were this the Koran?  Or any other religion for that matter.

I guess Christians just don’t frighten anybody and so they are all fair game for sick, twisted, vomit inducing minds.

Oh and in case you’re wondering. Nope. So far there haven’t been any street demonstrations reported or threats of death made to the gallery.
Maybe it’s time though.

OBSCENITIES SCRAWLED IN THE BIBLE AND SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC FUNDING.

From The Sunday Times
July 26, 2009

Rod Liddle

Congratulations to the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow for its exciting, publicly funded installation which encourages people to scrawl obscenities on the pages of the Bible. This particular work of brilliance is called Untitled 2009 and is designed to celebrate “sexual, gender and theological diversity” - incredibly daring, isn’t it? You may think you’ve been told to celebrate diversity so often that you’ve begun to bleed from the ears, but at Glasgow, they won’t give up.

To embrace theological diversity fully I suggest the curators let people scrawl obscenities on other religious texts - such as the Koran. Meanwhile, I intend to celebrate diversity by spray-painting obscenities on the walls of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.

SUNDAY TIMES

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   Monday - July 27, 2009

Policeman ordered to undergo further training after swearing at abusive criminal .

It isn’t that there weren’t any criminals when I was young and growing up. Of course there were.
But way back then in the dark ages, you just didn’t (most didn’t) get abusive with a cop unless you wanted to risk losing your two front teeth. Accidentally of course.

There were boundaries that just were not crossed without great risk.
Enter left wing wimpy,drippy, hand wringing, heart wringing left wing liberals fronting civil rights groups and the result is this crap. 

A police sergeant has been ordered to undertake a “management advice course” because he swore while dealing with a violent and abusive criminal who had threatened officers during a two-hour siege.

By Paul Stokes
The Telegraph

He may also face legal action from serial offender Glen Francis whose complaint was upheld by a disciplinary hearing.

Francis, 35, flew into a rage when officers called to arrest his girlfriend at his home, hurling a bowl of pasta at a policewoman guarding the hallway.

He was claimed to have held her captive and threatened to shoot her before she escaped from the house in North Shields, Tyne and Wear.

When police back-up arrived, he was said to have lunged at them with a six inch knife before he was shot twice with a Taser gun.

Even then he pulled metal barbs from his skin before barricading himself inside the kitchen where he smashed the walls with a hammer and shouted: “The first copper in here is getting ------- killed, come on, I only want one of you.”

Trained negotiators were called in and he was eventually taken into custody after officers stormed the room and Tasered him a further three times.

He complained that after he had been stripped searched, the sergeant referred to him as a ----.

An investigation by Northumbria Police Professional Standards Department (PSD) found the sergeant guilty of misconduct for using the swear word.

A PSD report states that the sergeant was pushed into making an “inappropriate comment” following a tirade of abuse from Francis.

It said: “The police officer openly admits he made the inappropriate comment about Mr Francis after the strip search had been conducted.

“He admits this was unprofessional, although it was never his intention for Mr Francis to hear this comment. He stipulates this comment was a result of the violence and abuse from Mr Francis.”

The sergeant, who has not been named has been ordered to undergo to attend a “management advice course”.

Francis’s complaints of being stripped and handcuffed on a cell floor were dismissed.

He says he is discussing legal action with his solicitor and plans to lodge a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.

Francis, now of Wallsend, North Tyneside, said: “I want to take legal action because they just get a telling off for what they did.

“It was an insult when I heard how the officer who swore at me got off - it upset me to hear someone say that. I’ve got a hole in my heart and they used a Taser, which could have killed me.”

(what a shame it didn’t kill this asswipe. and the slower the better . this is what the criminal justice system has come to.)

After the incident in February 2008, he was charged with offences of false imprisonment, threats to kill and affray.

He was convicted of affray at Newcastle Crown Court in September and given a 12-month suspended prison sentence.

Francis, who underwent an operation in January to repair a heart defect from birth, said: “I was a toe-rag when I was younger, but I’m trying to go straight. I’m really scared of the police now - I’m like a bag of nerves.”

A Northumbria Police spokesman said if any civil claim was made it would be considered “in the usual manner”.

Simon Reed, Vice-Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: “This case just typifies the bureaucratic nonsense police officers often have to contend with.

“As for the convicted criminal’s human rights, did he consider the same rights of the officers he threatened during the incident?

“It’s high time the criminal justice system in this country was properly reviewed so that it protects those who abide by the law and does not pander to those who do not.”

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oh dear oh dear oh dear. the poor boy was charged with ... “affray?” Affray?  Oh that’ll put the fear of God in him.  Affray.

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THE STUPID BASTARDS GET PAID AT THE END OF THE WEEK ANYWAY … WHAT? ME WORRY? JERKS!

What the hell am I on about this time?  Same stupid stuff.  Really guys. This place makes me bonkers and this article from today’s Telegraph only scratches the surface.

The idiots at the council decree and others pay the price.  They still draw a salary while this place may have to close.  There are no repercussions against the rulings that hurt ppl. And btw, take a good look to the right of this photograph.  What do ya see there?  So how come the idiot council doesn’t decree that a fence be installed there?  But this lady’s shop sign is a danger.

Just so you know. DEVON is one (of several) of the most beautiful places in the world.  I’m partial I guess. Others have places they like more I’m sure.

Saying that, I can see where in an area like Devon, which has so much scenic beauty, a town council might demand that commercial signs not be put up and clutter the the roadside.  What an unwanted eyesore that would be.  But that isn’t the case here. That isn’t what they’re saying. 

Devon tea shop forced to remove sign due to health and safety

A village tea rooms owner in Devon has said she will be forced to close her business after a council ordered the removal of an advertising sign for health and safety reasons.

Published: 7:00AM BST 27 Jul 2009

Janice Voce was told the board pointing to her remote tea shop was a “potential hazard” to pedestrians, even though it was on an embankment with no footpath.

Within days of taking it down she saw her takings slump to just £8 a day.

Photo: BNPS

Mrs Voce, 46, said she is being left with no option but to close the Fancy That Tea Shop in the village of East Budleigh, Devon, with the loss of five jobs.

The sign had been in place for a year without any complaints until Devon County Council intervened.

Villagers are rallying behind Mrs Voce and have drawn up a petition in protest at the local council.

Mrs Voce said: “My business is tucked away off the main road and without the sign pointing to us, no-one would know we are here.

“The sign is on a grass verge - nobody walks there and no-one in the village can understand how it is now a problem. As a result I have gone from doing a full trade and employing five people from the village to taking just £8 a day and having to get rid of all the weekday staff.

“It’s a difficult time for any business and we could do with some support from the local council. I’ve tried to explain to them that by asking me to do this they are effectively closing me down, but no-one seems to care. I will probably be shut before the end of the week.”

Christine Channon, a local councillor, is supporting Mrs Voce.

“There isn’t a footpath on the grass verge and there’s absolutely no reason for people to walk there,” she said. “The problem is that nowadays people are litigious. If it’s on land that belongs to the local authority, they would be held responsible so they have got to look at health and safety.”

A spokeswoman for the council said: “The Highways Act guidance says that no unauthorised items, such as advertising boards, should be displayed on the pavement.

“But in Devon our policy is more flexible; we do allow authorised displays on the pavement so long as they are immediately in front of the business.

“However in areas where the pavements are not that wide it can pose a potential hazard to passersby. The council has asked businesses in East Budleigh to take in their displays and most have done so willingly.”

TEA ROOM SOURCE

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   Friday - July 17, 2009

m’kay so. here’s the deal. store robbed and robbed and owner says no more service to certain ppl.

The “certain people” of course being in this case, Romanian Gypsies or at least eastern European Gypsies.

So after being robbed over an 18 month period and being pretty sure he now recognizes the types, he decides to put a sign up saying he will not allow Gypsies in his store.

Along came a spider (the Keystone Kops) and sat down beside him and told him he must remove that offensive hate sign or face charges himself.
Apparently he has committed a ‘race’ crime.

The way it works here see is .... they (gypos) have ‘rights!’ Yup.  The taxpaying store owner?  Bah. Screw him.

Dance Gypsie, Drink Gypsie, Steal Gypsie .......  Oh yeah. Forgot. That last one wasn’t in the original song. Was it? Should have been.

Jeweller given police warning for banning gipsies after string of raids on his shop

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:49 PM on 17th July 2009

A respected jeweller has been given a police warning for ‘racially offensive’ conduct after banning gipsies from his shop in the wake of a series of raids by an Eastern European crime gang.

Michael Plant, 62, repeatedly called in officers after the foreign thieves - believed to be Romanian travellers - stole pieces from his jewellery shop in Altrincham, Cheshire.

Mr Plant reacted to the string of thefts with a sign in his shop window reading: ‘Sorry, we do not serve Eastern Europeans or Gypsies.’

Shortly after posting the sign, he was served with a warning from a senior police officer demanding he take it down, or face prosecution for possible race hate charges.

Despite inquiries police have been unable to trace the thieves.

Mr Plant has run the M&M Plant shop with his Austrian wife Monika, 62, for the past 22 years.

Today, he said: ‘I’m not racist, but the fact is I have been targeted repeatedly by Eastern European criminals and I should have a right to say which people come into my shop and not face allegations of racial discrimination.

‘I should be able to choose who I serve. That’s not just Eastern Europeans - if someone comes in drunk they will not be served either.

‘All I want is some common sense approach to what we have. The police are reactive rather than proactive to crime, they wait for it to happen before they solve it rather than the other way round.

‘I think these Romanians and Eastern European criminals are letting their fellow countrymen down. Obviously I don’t think all of them are bad, but how can I distinguish who is good and who is bad?

‘I’ve got a foreign wife and we have foreign friends. But some people coming in to this country illegally seem to have more rights than me.’

The series of thefts at Mr Plant’s store started 18 months ago, with the most recent last Saturday when a man’s gold wedding ring was stolen.

‘They always say they’re Spanish, but they aren’t. I speak more Spanish than them,’ he added.

‘They use distraction techniques like a child running around, and they get away with your stock. One morning I lost nine bracelets, worth well into four figures.

‘I think they must pass our name around because about every five to six weeks I get another group of people, two or three to four, sometimes with or without children. Their English is very poor. They always have gold teeth.

‘The men always dress very flamboyant with suits, they look as if they are trying to fit in with pointy shoes on, but unfortunately they go over the top and fail.

‘They come in and ask for something and we usually haven’t got it. Last Saturday we got a visit from another ‘disadvantaged’ pair from a ‘disadvantaged’ group and the result was that we lost some jewellery to them.

‘They’re quicker than Paul Daniels. It’s a couple of hundred pounds and that’s under my insurance excess.’

Officers were alerted to Mr Plant’s sign, posted on Monday morning, after a tip-off. He then got a warning from senior officers shortly afterwards offering him ‘words of advice’ about the message.

He said: ‘This sign was written in anger after the robbery. I feared we would get more in that afternoon. I just put it straight up on the door. One Saturday we got some in in the morning and some in the afternoon.

‘I emailed the local Inspector to say what I had put up on the sign and I was told to take it down immediately.

‘I put up another sign which actually said Romanian and East European Gypsies. It’s actually saying nothing, but the police are now taking offence to the word “gypsies”.

‘I’ve reported incidents to the police in the past. I’ve had several robberies over the years and the capture of criminals is very low.

‘I’m sick and tired of a country where if I put a sign on the door, I’m told I’m in flagrant disregard of the discrimination act, which would result in me going to high court being given a fine and a slap on the wrist and end up with a criminal record.

‘I bet if these people are caught for stealing, they probably wouldn’t even go into a magistrates court. They would just get a fixed penalty fine and that would be paid by one of the human rights organisations. The tax-payer pays for it all.

‘I’ve spoken to various people, including foreign friends of mine, and they seem to agree that the whole country is belly-up.’

Police said the Mr Plant had fallen foul of the Race Relations Act which recognises gypsies and travellers as ethnic groups.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: ‘Police received a report that a shop was displaying a sign which contained writing that was deemed to be offensive.

‘Officers have spoken with the owner of the shop. He has been advised that the notice is offensive and he has since removed it. We take all complaints of this nature extremely seriously.’

DAILY MAIL

‘We take all complaints of this nature extremely seriously.’
Nice. How about taking freeken robbery seriously too. Oh, that’s going a bit far.

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   Wednesday - July 15, 2009

A Soldier’s Take on Michael Jackson

This is written by a young soldier serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.  Thought you might find his take on the Michael Jackson news interesting and he’s right.

Okay, I need to rant.

- Carole

I was just watching the news, and I caught part of a report on Michael Jackson.  As we all know, Jackson died the other day.  He was an entertainer who performed for decades.  He made millions, he spent millions, and he did a lot of things that make him a villain to many people.  I understand that his death would affect a lot of people, and I respect those people who mourn his death, but that isn’t the point of my rant.

Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their minds with grief.  When a man dies whose only contribution to the country was to ENTERTAIN people, the American people find the need to flock to a memorial in Hollywood, and even Congress sees the need to hold a “moment of silence” for his passing?

Am I missing something here?  ONE man dies, and all of a sudden he’s a freaking martyr because he entertained us for a few decades?  What about all those SOLDIERS who have died to give us freedom?  All those Soldiers who, knowing that they would be asked to fight in a war, still raised their hands and swore to defend the Constitution and the United States of America. Where is their moment of silence?  Where are the people flocking to their graves or memorials and mourning over them because they made the ultimate sacrifice?  Why is it when a Soldier dies, there are more people saying “good riddance,” and “thank God for IEDs?” When did this country become so calloused to the sacrifice of GOOD MEN and WOMEN, that they can arbitrarily blow off their deaths, and instead, throw themselves into mourning for a “Pop Icon?”

I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They need to PUBLICLY recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE, those that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them.  But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so many willing to make that sacrifice.  After all, we will never make millions of dollars.  We will never star in movies, or write hit songs that the world will listen too.  We only shed our blood, sweat and tears so that people can enjoy what they have.

Sorry if I have offended, but I needed to say it.  Remember these five words the next time you think of someone who is serving in the military; “So that others may live...”

Isaac

P.S.-"So that other’s may live...” was also the creed of the Air Rescue & Recovery Service during Vietnam & is still is.



You guy that right soldier. Amen.

I was hoping that FINALLY we were done with the MJ overload. But no. Now it’s round table discussions on “When Michael’s life went bad” with the current lead being the Pepsi commercial where his hair caught on fire. I’ll buy that. I think he was even still black at that point. But puh-lease! Find something else already. Something other than the endless parade of toothless, drooling, senile old flatulators in love with their own voices elected leaders of our wonderful government flapping their gums by the hour passing wind and saying nothing asking in-depth, erudite and tightly focused questions of that sanctimonious, oleaginous, half deflated buck toothed beach ball pinnacle of the legal profession, Sonya “W.L.” Sotomayor.

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