Wednesday - February 23, 2011
Anger as word ‘marriage’ vanishes from birth statistics. You may now thank the left.
Eight years ago Labour ministers ordered that the word ‘marriage’ should no longer be used on official documents because they said it led to discrimination against gays
That people, is how far the former left wing govt. brought things to pass.
Anger as word ‘marriage’ vanishes from birth statistics
By STEVE DOUGHTYMarried couples have disappeared from official family records for the first time.
In a further blow to the status of marriage, records of the number of women who become pregnant will no longer show how many were or were not married.
Instead, Government statisticians will publish the number of mothers-to-be who were in ‘a legal partnership’ at the time they conceived – which will include both marriages and women in civil partnerships.Eight years ago Labour ministers ordered that the word ‘marriage’ should no longer be used on official documents because they said it led to discrimination against gays.
However, there has been a growing chorus of complaints that the censorship of the word will warp official records and erase the evidence which shows that married couples and their children live healthier and happier lives.
The Office for National Statistics’ new figures show that there were 896,300 conceptions in England and Wales in 2009.
But, rather than referring to numbers inside and outside marriage, they only show that 57 per cent of pregnancies began ‘outside a legal partnership’.
The disappearance of marriage statistics has come despite a plea from Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.In a major speech earlier this month, Mr Duncan Smith said: ‘I have asked my department to ensure references to marriage are included on relevant forms and research in the future.’
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 22, 2011
has american industry sunk to the depths that we’re hostage to home grown jerks and foreigners
Knowing how touchy/feely our BMEWS ppl are and how sad the story, I thought I should warn our friends to have the hankies handy. Sob.
What a load of rubbish this is. It just gets the blood boiling to know that foreign interests in our internal affairs and how we deal with crime and punishment (and too often lack of the p-part) can throw a wrench into our machinery.
But the very worst part of this whole damned thing is, I’m left asking a question.
Have we become so dumb in the USA that we can not manufacture this stuff ourselves? What the hell is happening to us? What, damn it?
The Daily Mail, which is not I know you won’t believe, a liberal paper, is talking about the “grisly end” to rapists/killers and miserable excuses for human beings.
How about the grisly end of their victims? Oh right. Since they’re already dead they don’t count anymore. Just the living filthy fuckin trash as represented by these examples.
the case would halt executions in Georgia and many other states. U.S. ‘execution protocols’ say the anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, must be administered first in lethal injections to render the prisoner fully unconscious.
There are no U.S. firms currently able to supply thiopental.
WHY NOT?
I don’t care if the scum are buried alive in this case and many like it. Did they make the end of life humane for their victims? And I do not for one minute buy the BS that we MUST treat these vermin well or we become like them. That’s BS too.
Jeeze I get so damn angry sometimes. And these days all the time it seems.
Professor Sheri Johnson, of Cornell University law school, a member of Hammond’s legal team,
Maybe if we’re lucky, Ms fuckin Johnson of Cornell Univ. will become a victim of worse and hopefully survive just to see her attacker(s) well defended by ppl like her. Then the bitch can die and I’d celebrate. The same for the idiot pen-pal broad who brought warmth to a cold blooded killer. But first …. eliminate with extreme prejudice Reprieve and others like them, using the very same methods as used by the criminals they want to save. Lets see how they’d like that.
Trouble is, nobody has the ability or the know how or the organization to bring that about. Wait, the govt. does but won’t use them to protect America in quite that way. What a shame. Our country is under assault not just by islamic animals, which is severe and bad enough all by itself. We’re under assault by, us.
And we are also being assaulted in a manner of speaking, by libtard foreign politicians with the authority to impose their weak kneed, hand wringing standards on what passes for a justice system in our own damn country. What’s with that?
Prisoners’ agony in botched executions with British drug
By DAVID ROSETwo American prisoners died in agony in botched lethal injections after being given allegedly defective anaesthetic supplied by a British drug company.
The grisly details of the deaths of murderers Emmanuel Hammond, executed by the state of Georgia last month, and Brandon Rhode, put to death there last September, will form the basis of a High Court action to be launched on Tuesday.Both kept their eyes open when they should have been in a coma and Hammond grimaced in pain.
The legal action, brought by the campaign group Reprieve on behalf of the Rhode family, aims to force the British pharmaceutical regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA), to recall all the anaesthetic supplied for executions by Dream Pharma, a tiny company located in West London.
If successful, the case would halt executions in Georgia and many other states. U.S. ‘execution protocols’ say the anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, must be administered first in lethal injections to render the prisoner fully unconscious.
Then he or she is given pancuronium bromide, a muscle relaxant that makes it impossible to breathe, and potassium chloride, a caustic chemical that stops the heart.
There are no U.S. firms currently able to supply thiopental. Dream Pharma’s consignments, sent last summer to states including Georgia, California, Arkansas and Arizona, were the last from Britain before Business Secretary Vince Cable imposed a ban in December on exporting drugs for executions.The Mail on Sunday interviewed three witnesses to the most recent botched execution, that of Hammond, 45, who raped and murdered a teacher, Julie Love, in 1988. All said that he remained conscious as he was put to death on January 24.
Professor Sheri Johnson, of Cornell University law school, a member of Hammond’s legal team, said she stared at him throughout as she knew the previous prisoner to be executed using the Dream Pharma thiopental – Rhode – had kept his eyes open throughout and had not lost consciousness.
Prof Johnson said: ‘He closed his eyes perhaps ten seconds after the drugs started. But then, some time later, he opened them again. Perhaps one or two minutes after that, his mouth screwed up to one side. It looked painful, as if it could be a grimace of pain.’
Reporter Josh Green also said Hammond first closed and then reopened his eyes some time after receiving the thiopental. Later, he wrote, he observed Hammond give out ‘short bursts of breath that lifted his lips’.
Jill Rand, a Florida nurse who became Hammond’s penfriend, said that she too saw him move his lips.
Several witnesses also said Rhode, 31 – who murdered three members of the same family in 2000 – kept his eyes open throughout.Maya Foa, an investigator at Reprieve, said: ‘If it’s not recalled, more prisoners are likely to die in agony.’
Georgia’s next scheduled execution is on March 1.Ms Foa said Reprieve was also taking statements from witnesses to a third ‘botched’ execution – Jeffrey Landrigan, 50, in Arizona in October.
Dream Pharma last night failed to respond to requests for comment.
An MHRA spokeswoman said it could not comment on the pending legal action.
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Permalink • Monday - February 21, 2011
Michelle Obama still hopes for an invitation to William and Kate’s wedding.
Oh good grief. Hasn’t this woman a clue? Isn’t there anyone working in the white house that knows anything about protocol ?
America’s first lady is embarrassing quite frankly.
I don’t care about royal weddings to be honest. I don’t even follow who becomes Miss America since Bert Parks died. But ... an awful lot of other folks do and it’s becoming a big deal here. Well you’d imagine that of course. Of course also ... the wedding doesn’t take place till the end of April, I think, but the news coverage on it is everywhere already and it’s every day. I’m glad we don’t have a TV.
What Mrs O. has done is pretty much ask for an invitation. Exasperate courtiers? I’d say they’re driven to the edge. Lets not forget the Obamas will be making an official state visit to these shores anyway, a month after the royal wedding. You probably can figure out what a logistical nightmare that’s gonna be. Oh the Brits will handle it all okay. But much of London will be off limits no doubt and the usual airports will more then likely be closed. There will be HUGE inconveniences to the locals. It’s my understanding that he can’t fly into one of the military bases and so will have to use civilian airport. Can you imagine what that will entail? OK, he’s a head of state. I understand. But if Mrs. Obama’s “hope” were realized, it would create a double nightmare withing a very short span of time.
Talk about party crashing. Jeesh.
Lets hope someone can disabuse her of the ridiculous “hope” to attend that to which she has not been invited.
Michelle Obama is likely to exasperate courtiers with her comments about the royal wedding after they went to such lengths to accommodate the White House
by Tim WalkerEven after it was clear that Prince William and Kate Middleton would not be sending a wedding invitation to the White House, Michelle Obama still appears not to have given up hope.
“If I get invited, I’ll go,” the First Lady said on the Live With Regis and Kelly Show on American television. She conceded, however, that, as things stand, she had not been invited.Her comments are likely to exasperate senior courtiers, who – as I reported on Nov 14 last year – had to put off naming the wedding date until a week after announcing the engagement because White House officials were not at first certain when Barack Obama and his wife would make their first state visit to Britain.
Obama’s men, adamant that the two events should not clash, subsequently agreed May 24 to 26, almost a month after the royal wedding, as the dates for his visit.
Although the wedding will clearly be exclusive – I disclosed on Saturday that Sarah, Duchess of York, is not invited – the President may feel he had a lucky escape. One confirmed guest at the wedding will be Hamad bin Isa Khalifa, the King of Bahrain. Last week, to the dismay of the White House, his kingdom’s security forces opened fire on protesters demanding reforms.
STAY HOME MICHELLEand forget about the wedding
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 16, 2011
Today’s Face Palms
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Stuxnet Worm Code Hacked and Released
The group of anonymous “hacktivists” that made headlines for online cyberattacks in December just released a bombshell online: a decrypted version of the same cyberworm that crippled Iran’s nuclear power program.
The ones and zeroes that make up the code called the Stuxnet worm—described as the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever created—were reportedly found when the faceless group hacked into the computers of HBGary, a U.S. security company that the anonymous collective viewed as an enemy. And the security experts FoxNews.com spoke with said the leaked code was serious cause for concern.
“There is the real potential that others will build on what is being released,” Michael Gregg, chief operating officer of cybersecurity firm Superior Solutions, told FoxNews.com. Gregg was quick to clarify that the group hasn’t released the Stuxnet worm itself, but rather a decrypted version of it HBGary had been studying—which could act almost like a building block for cybercrooks.
Stuxnet was designed specifically to take over those control systems and evade detection, and it apparently was very successful. But Dave Aitel, CEO of Immunity Inc., painted a firm line between the version of the worm that destroyed Iran’s nuclear plant and the code released by Anonymous.
“What they’ve released is essentially incomprehensible,” he told FoxNews.com, saying that what the group found was far removed from the raw worm that has been “travelling around Iran destroying nuclear things.”
“This is essentially just a translation. HBGary took the worm in the wild and translated it into a slightly easier to read format,” Aitel said. He notes that Stuxnet is still a threat, however, and the more dangerous raw version of the worm—or the “binary” version—is still easily accessible for those wishing to use it maliciously.
The Anonymous group released the Stuxnet code on February 13, after finding it in a database of e-mails it stole from HBGary. “First public Stuxnet decompile is to be found here,” one representative of the group wrote over Twitter.
Horry clap. The most powerful computer worm ever written, one custom design to wreak mayhem on industrial systems, and Dan Dipshit and his team at HBGary are sending the code around the office on an email. And it’s a cyber security firm. Do they know NOTHING about actual digital security? This is like putting a hydrogen bomb on the front seat of your car, then leaving the door open and the motor running while you run into the store for a quick plate of falafel in Gaza. Gosh, who would ever think the car would get stolen? You study computer viruses on completely isolated networks. No internet connections, no email servers, no floppy disks, no flash drive ports. No connections to anything outside that network whatsoever. IDIOTS. Oh, but don’t worry, this is just a decrypted version of the decompiled source code. Yeah, because nobody out there knows how to write Assembler anymore. And there is no such thing as decompilers that can take executable code and give you back Java, C, or whatever source language you want it in. We are utterly fucked.
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Scandal at DOJ: smuggling to pad statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico
A brewing scandal at the Department of Justice involving an illegal scheme to pad statistics on U.S. guns in Mexico threatens to erupt as U.S. Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee begins an investigation. ATF agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives--a DOJ agency--allegedly smuggled U.S. guns into Mexico in order to bolster the Department’s disputed contention that Mexican drug cartels are armed primarily with U.S. guns. Whistleblowers within the ATF contend that one of the these guns was used to kill Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry in December of 2010. News of the murder and the underlying scandal that prompted it was first reported on December 28, 2010.
Rather than launch an internal investigation into the murder and the illegal scheme, the Department of Justice under Eric Holder, according to ATF whistleblowers, instead attempted a coverup.
The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to explain why Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents allowed suspected gun smugglers to purchase and keep assault rifles that later may have been used in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
In a letter, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa said ATF agents told his staff the agency allowed the sale to “known and suspected straw purchasers for an illegal trafficking ring near the Southwest border” and two of those weapons reportedly were recovered at the site of the Dec. 14 shootout that killed Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry.
Mr. Grassley said the ATF had been tracking Avila‘s firearms purchases since November 2009 and while at least one Arizona gun dealer wanted to stop participating in sales “like those to Avila,” the ATF encouraged the dealer to continue selling to suspected traffickers and asked the dealer to forward information about the sales to the ATF.
He said the dealer who sold the weapons believed recovered at the scene of Terry‘s death met with both the ATF and federal prosecutors in December 2009 to “discuss his role as a FFL (federal firearms licensee) during this investigation.”
It has long been known that the ATF/BATFE is even more out of a loose cannon than the IRS. But this is just insanity. There’s a war going on across the border, and the meme the left puts out is that it’s all America’s fault because of a) our demand for drugs, so let’s legalize them, and b) if we weren’t selling them the guns there wouldn’t be much of a war. ( I guess the cartel boys would just have to cut each other with knives, like proper Mexicans ). So to prove their hypothesis, BATFE orders gun dealers to sell lots of guns to aliens and known straw purchasers, using the “reason” that this will let ATF know who these purchasers are and then put them on a list. And they’ll know where the guns are going. As if “south of the border to be used by the cartels in their ongoing drug war” isn’t 10,000% bloody obvious!
And Holder and his rats immediately deny the whole thing, and claim it’s all a political witch hunt. Sure it is.
Maybe I should have found a triple face palm graphic, because this story just keeps on giving. After using this guy Avila to make all these gun purchases, which the ATF enabled by twisting the gun dealer’s arms, they go and bust him and his ring, but only manage to collect 103 guns. The other 666 are missing!
the ATF allegedly encouraged the dealer to continue selling to suspected traffickers and asked the dealer to forward information about the sale to the Bureau . . .
In addition to these specific weapons, the indictment of Avila and others references approximately 769 firearms. Of those, the indictment refers to the recovery of only about 103 weapons. So, where are the other approximately 666 weapons referenced in the indictment?
There is lots more to this story. Google up “operation gunwalker” and follow as many links as you need to, to try and understand the situation. Hey, let’s not forget that half billion in special foreign aid Hillary just laid on Mexico to fight crime. Maybe that’s more like a “keep this on the down-low” payoff? Is it truly the US foreign policy to solve the cartel war down there by arming up both sides so that they’ll kill each other off faster? Isn’t that the same crap idea we used back when Iraq and Iran were poison gassing each other in the swamps? How’d that one work out for us in the long run? I forget. But this new twist, of using that arming as a political lever to push for taking away rights from our own citizens, is a first. Scumbags.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 15, 2011
hell’s bells and buckets of blood. here the F*** we go again. another case of the big ‘R’
Yeah I know, I know. I say it too much. Blame Vilmar. He taught me the phrase.
This place is DOOMED! Doomed I tell ya. They live by and for political correctness which is a state religion and look for ‘racists’ under their beds before going nighty. Stupid damn fools.
I just found this because I was looking for something else at the Mail tonight. These jerks just never tire of the hunt for wicked racists. Even when they’re 10 yrs old and there isn’t any race involved.
Take a look at this article. Considering all the flack we (Americans) take on Bush, our Tea Party, our guns, our overweight population, (while the ladies here it’s reported are the most overweight in Europe), I sure hope we haven’t come to this at home in the US. Please, don’t tell me we have. Let me have my illusions.
A thought. ALL politically correct schmucks need to be made to disappear. By yesterday! Sooner if possible.
Read this.
Ten-year-old boy accused of racism for calling white classmate ‘chocolate brownie’
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:11 PM on 15th February 2011
A schoolboy has been reprimanded for alleged racism after he called a white pupil named Brown a ‘chocolate brownie’.Harrison Wiener, 10, made the comment after being teased about his own surname at Thorp Primary School in Royton, Oldham.
Harrison’s mother is now furious after her son was disciplined by teachers and ordered to apologise.Harrison had been called ‘sausage boy’ by a classmate making fun of his Austrian-derived surname, which is also an American word used for hot dog sausages.
The child is said to have retorted ‘Shut up, chocolate brownie’ only to be punished for making an apparent racist remark
Mother-of-two Clare Wiener has been told the incident is to be ‘noted’ in her son’s file and reported to the Lancashire school’s local education authority.
‘Harrison has been left really upset by this and made to feel like he’s done something terrible,’ she told The Sun.‘It’s crazy. One boy taunted him by making his surname sound like a snack - and he responded by making the other boy’s surname sound like a cake.
‘How can calling a white boy named Brown a chocolate brownie be racist?‘Harrison was told the word brownie is a racist word. But it’s the name of a cake you can buy in any coffee shop.’
Ms Wiener’s local MP, former Labour minister Michael Meacher has now written to the school demanding an explanation for the matter.
Thorp Primary School’s headmaster, Stuart Bennett, said it would be ‘inappropriate to comment about individual cases’.
“Stuart Bennett, said it would be ‘inappropriate to comment about individual cases.”
Yeah,right. We really buy that. Inappropriate or embarrassing you dumb, stupid, ridiculous pile of walking dung.
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Permalink • Monday - February 07, 2011
lilly livered conservatives (some) cave into claims of race charge where none exist.
Before getting to my first post in a couple of days ... having to take off the weekend for personal things ....
My thanks to Christopher for the post on President Reagan yesterday. He very truly is missed by a lot of us. There were very kind words I never thought I’d see in, of all places, The Times. Which generally is a bit left of cntr. and safe to say not a bastion of Republican thought or attitudes.
Now then ... to something that is clearly a part of the ludicrous age we live in. And who allows it? The usual suspects.
Stupid white people who enable folks I don’t even believe are true liberals to begin with. That liberal label gets tossed around a lot and by myself as well as others. But there are some self serving slimy but not stupid bastards, that do things hiding behind any wall with a label to further their own personal agenda. Which is usually ego enhancing.
So anyway, Here I am. Pissed Off again. My permanent state of being.
Some of you may have noticed that over time my language has not improved.
Of course what I mean is, I find myself using some words I have tried very hard not to use. Like the ‘F’ word especially. It hardly ever adds anything to the subject, but as an escape valve to the building steam, it’s a tonic. Be that as it may, it gets harder and harder to even simulate civil when running across happenings that are so easily taken as gospel by idiot white ppl who are goaded by black human rights activists. It being understood of course that ALL the rights belong to them.
Well, I’m faced with that and worse after catching this story in the last day, and it’s repeated in more then one newspaper today.
You try and also avoid making comments about some ppl, try not to use the ‘N’ word, try not to refer to anyone as a miserable, thin skinned black shit faced bastard, all to no avail. No avail because there always seems to be one convenient member of some kind of “right” group that is able to find something that they claim upsets the race card apple cart.
In this case, the nigger is a phony fat faced piece of worthless dung named Sonia Carr, who does her race no favors and is a millstone around the neck of the millions of hard working responsible people of color who I’m certain must cringe at the antics of this human bug. Personally, I hope she develops a nice big tumor on her tongue so she can never again spew race lie garbage she makes up as she goes along.
Here’s what this fat and neckless pile of poo has started.
It all began with …..
A meeting of a watchdog group on health in the UK.
It was a meeting of volunteers to discuss the state of local health care.
The Wiltshire Involvement Network (WIN), a statutory, independent health watchdog.
There are some big changes coming about in the NHS (Natl. Health Service), and like all proposed changes in something that has become an entrenched part of daily life, change brings questions and also rumours.
During the meeting, As the conversation turned to changes in the NHS, and how rumours about them can spread, the chairman said: “You cannot help the jungle drums.”
You just knew this was coming. Didn’t you? Yeah. ONE self appointed judge of what is and isn’t racist, one fat negro who happens to sit on an …
Equalities Commission, and who happened to be in the meeting hall at the time, interrupted to state that the term “jungle drums” was a racist remark.
The speaker immediately apologised and carried on.
BUT … The CONSERVATIVE controlled council then accused the watchdog group of racism based on that one “activists” word that the phrase was a racist one.
The incident has led to an official investigation, six months of wrangling, and a decision to bar the health group from meeting councillors. And, it has cost the taxpayers a pile of money. Is that a surprise?
Conservatives are now split on the affair. Some insist on upholding the decision of racism. I guess that’s easier then admitting they were wrong and besides, it might get a few black votes. They hope. It never occurs to these fuckin wiggers that the vote they may get will be from the wrong people. The name of the game as always is, bow to the accuser and suck up.
The lady who used the expression, has said that as far as she was concerned, it was used in the manner of ‘grapevine’ or ‘rumour mill.’ That was her meaning. But she nevertheless apologized while insisting there was nothing racist about the term jungle drums. But I supposed there will always be darkies that hear that and think negative. Although how anyone can view the term that way is a mystery. The term “jungle drums” originates from wooden drums which were traditionally used in parts of Africa to communicate messages up to five miles across land.
As it happens, Sonia Carr, a member of the Wiltshire Racial Equality Council who was sitting in the public gallery observing the meeting, intervened to say that a racist remark had been used.
She wanted an apology, the speaker said sorry and continued the meeting.
Yet Mrs Carr submitted an official complaint to the Wiltshire council – which launched an investigation, produced a 10-page report upholding the complaint, and barred all watchdog members from council premises and meetings. AND ... cut off funding for expenses.
Well, I think we’re all familiar with the old expression, give certain ppl an inch and they take, with inflation considered, a hundred miles. Sonia Carr has said that an apology isn’t enough, it is she says, inadequate. Mrs. Carr further says that the Health Watchdog members did not understand “equality and diversity issues.” Well, it’s kind of hard to understand things when the goal posts keeps changing and being moved about so things can’t be honestly nailed down. Furthermore, fatface,no neck Carr is demanding that all members of the watchdog network be given diversity training. Translated I guess that means brainwashing. She also wants an apology not just from the 70 year old lady who made the innocent comment, but from ALL members of the network of volunteers.
Jeesh … and liberals still can’t understand why racism still exists, and where it comes from. But hey BMEWS … stay tuned. There’s even worse here. Worse you may ask? How can it get any worse then conservatives caving into this fraud? Oh well. Read on.
Ms. Carr has more to say. Remember the old give em an inch thing?
She says … quoting her now so pay attention.
“People need to think before they say things that could cause offence.”
And what things cause offence? Why, anything this fat turd says causes it of course. And she has been at it for awhile now.
Council sources said that Mrs Carr had previously submitted allegations against the police, the fire brigade and council officers. “
Said one WIN member. “The whole thing is ridiculous. It’s got to the point where you daren’t ask for a black coffee in case somebody takes offence.”
Phil Matthews, WIN’s vice-chairman and a member of the local Coalition Against Racism, said: “It was an innocent comment, a widely used phrase and certainly nothing that should have led to a formal complaint.”
Isn’t that funny? the local what? Coalition Against Racism? Looks like the left pc brigade came after you too Mr Matthews. How’s it feel? Betrayed maybe?
“I am outraged at how we have been treated. It’s the worst kind of political correctness. “You might expect this from loony Left councils in the big cities, but you don’t expect it in the Tory (conservative) shires.
On Dec 21 the council wrote to WIN urging it to accept the report’s findings. Three weeks later it informed the watchdog that it would no longer be providing it with funds to cover administration costs.
WIN has not seen any evidence taken during the inquiry and has been given no opportunity to be heard.
“These investigations are complicated and take up a lot of time and resources.
“But the chairman of a group offering services to the public has to be careful not to cause offence to people who may have need of those services.”
However, his view was disputed by fellow Conservative councillor Mike Hewitt, chairman of Wiltshire’s health and social care committee, who said: “This is complete nonsense.
“The phrase was not used in an offensive way. The council has overreacted.”John Glen, the Tory MP for Salisbury, said it was “ludicrous” that the case “had got this far when there was clearly no intention to cause offence”.
“This kind of unnecessary action and bureaucracy drives the public crazy.”
However:
THE LAW MAKES CLEAR THAT WHAT MATTERS IS NOT THE INTENTION OF THE PERSON WHO USES THE PHRASE BUT WHETHER ANYBODY IS OFFENDED BY IT.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 27, 2011
stop. this is airport security. STICK-EM-UP
Drew has gone on at length on the very subject, stupidity being just one. In fact, he does a better job on this then I can, so I look forward to his comments, which I wouldn’t mind if he entered them right here. Take note Drew. This wasn’t the USA. Stupidity knows no borders or nationality.
There are not enough Moonbats for this. A million would still be short by a few million. So I’ll just enter a few and you folks can mentally multiply to whatever number you think fits the idiocy.
Airport bans toy soldier’s three-inch rifle from plane… because it’s a safety threatBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:04 PM on 27th January 2011
Airport officials ordered a holidaymaker carrying a toy soldier onto a plane to remove its three-inch gun - because it was a safety threat.
Ken Lloyd was stunned when he was told he could not go on the plane with the nine-inch model soldier because it was carrying a ‘firearm’.
The Canadian tourist and his wife had bought the toy, which holds a replica SA80 rifle, during a visit to the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp in Dorset.
But when he tried to take the £135 keepsake through Gatwick Airport in his hand luggage it triggered a security alert at the scanners.
Officials declared the moulded gun could not go on the plane and Mr Lloyd had to snap off the model weapon and then post it back to his home in Ontario.
He said: ‘As the figurine’s SA80 rifle was pulled from the box, the security search officer contacted her supervisor. The moulded SA80 could not pass.
‘My wife asked for a “reality check”, explaining how this offending piece of sculptured moulding is a 9 inch painted model with a moulded and painted rifle that is part of the figure.
‘The supervisor was confident within the surety of the regulations and said a “firearm” is a firearm and cannot pass.
‘The rifle could not travel; she would have to return back to the main airport concourse.
The two patrolling policemen didn’t seem to mind. They didn’t even notice.‘The numerous security people sitting around the concourse didn’t leap to their feet as she passed.’
The resin model, which cost £135, depicts a typical British army signaller dressed in camouflage fatigues.
As they returned home Mr and Mrs Lloyd packed the sculpture into its box and tucked it into their hand luggage.
After being stopped at the airport security desk, they were directed back to the airport concourse, where they bought a padded envelope from WHSmith to post the rifle home.
But the package was too big for the airport’s postboxes and eventually a customer services assistant posted it and the envelope arrived at their home five days later.
Adam Forty, curator at the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp, Dorset, said: ‘The military museum takes security very seriously, especially around military installations and airports, but this does seem more than a little excessive. It is probably just as well we didn’t sell Mrs Lloyd a toy tank.’
A spokeswoman for Gatwick Airport said: ‘Items including firearms and items with the appearance of firearms are prohibited.
‘There are lots of other reasons an item could be prevented from going through security, such as large items that do not fit in overhead lockers on the aircraft.’
A FEW COMMENTS FROM A FEW BRITS
I have heard that the’ve invented a plastic that can can grow 1000% by adding just a few drops of water to it?
- stud muffin, Hemel Hempstead, 27/1/2011 14:14
Ha ha ha ha!!! This is the funniest thing ever. Some people are such complete morons.
- WS, NWales, 27/1/2011 14:12
Airport “security” fascism at its very best. How I mourn the loss of common sense in this once-great country.
- Mike, Southend, UK, 27/1/2011 14:07
A spokeswoman for Gatwick Airport said: ‘Items including firearms and items with the appearance of firearms are prohibited. ..................................................... .......................................................adding, ‘I know I am incredibly stupid and incapable of interpreting regulations, but rules are rules and we must obey. ‘
- Old Tyke, S.Devon, 27/1/2011 14:06
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Permalink • Thursday - January 20, 2011
Time To Ramp Up Production
Hillerich & Bradsby, the company behind the Louisville Slugger brand of baseball bats, turns out about 1 million bats per year. If they turned production over tomorrow and made nothing but ClueBats, they’d never be able to make enough. Case in point ... here we go again ...
No, not guns that shoot fingers. He stuck out his thumb and index finger and went “pow pow pow”. Like every little boy on earth does. And got thrown out of school for it.
A seven-year-old child was suspended from his elementary school after making a seemingly harmless gesture many see everyday. Meet the little boy and see exactly what he did.
Patrick Riley was simply trying to distract himself during an assembly at his school. The first grade student formed a gun with his hand and pretended to shoot the wall with a fellow student. That’s when he was asked to go home.‘Him and a little girl were just getting bored at an assembly and doing some target practice at the wall,’ Lydia Fox, Patrick’s mother, explained.
The school disagreed with Fox’s interpretation and issued a statement regarding Patrick’s misbehavior.
‘A student has repeatedly used his hands to simulate a gun and act as if is shooting fellow students,’ Parkview Elementary clarified.
Fox says the principal told her the boy would be placed in in-school suspension for the rest of that day and threatened a longer suspension if it happened again.
Midwest City-Del City Schools spokeswoman Stacey Boyer confirmed the incident and says the district’s policy is to “address the disruption of the learning environment.” Boyer says Fox’s son “has repeatedly used his hands to simulate a gun.”
Fox said her son, Patrick Riley, who is in first grade at Parkview Elementary, was asked to go home after he formed a gun with his hand and started to pretend he was shooting at a wall.
School leaders said Riley was misbehaving during the assembly. Fox said she was outraged at the reason why her son was suspended.
“One of the things I’ve always been able to brag about Oklahoma is that common sense still rules here. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can say that anymore,” Fox said.
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Parkview Elementary said Riley was not suspended anymore.
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Permalink • Monday - January 17, 2011
D’oh!
There are strange things done in the midnight sun ...
Feeling a bit peckish early this afternoon, so I made up a batch of potsticker dumplings. They’re Ok boiled or steamed, but to get the best flavor you’ve got to fry them in oil. Which I did. And when they were done, I took them out of the oil, and gave the stove knob a twist to turn off the heat. Little did I realize that the knob had turned just a bit past Off, right onto the High setting. I sat down to eat and to watch a bit of Megyn Kelly on TV. About a minute later it was “what’s that smell?” and I looked over and saw flames shooting up in the kitchen.
Horry Clap!!
Run to the kitchen, pull the skillet off the burner, flip off the switch properly this time. But the pan is still flaming, great dark gray clouds of smoke coming off, flames two feet high. What do I do? Water! NO!!
Remember the jingle, quick!!
Run in circles, scream and shout.
Not that one, idiot, the tune! The tune!!
There’s a lesson you must learn.
Something, something, then you see,
You’ll avoid catastrophe!
I grabbed a plate from the sink and popped it over the pan. The flames died almost instantly. Phew. But the downstairs was filled with smoke. I’m coughing like a two dollar donkey. Open the door, open the sliders, open the windows, turn on all the fans, drag out the box fan and put it in the doorway. Turn off the heat, eh stupid? Good idea.
In about half an hour the place was aired out about as good as it was going to get. I took my lunch outside and ate it there. I got plenty of fresh air inside; the thermometer in here reads 46°F; it’s currently about 25°F outside.
... but after reading Chris’s “sordid genesis” post, while my toes are freezing here, wearing a fleece vest and my winter parka in front of the PC, how could I not add ...
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: “Please close that door.
It’s fine in here, but I greatly fear you’ll let in the cold and storm—
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm.”
I hate electric stoves. I don’t think the knobs go ‘round and ‘round on a gas stove. These do, and that’s dangerous. D’oh!
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Permalink • Saturday - January 15, 2011
Suing the Boy Scouts
Stories like this enrage irritate me. (must be ‘civil’)
A man who lost his right leg above the knee when a rotted tree fell on him last summer at Camp Warren Levis is suing the Lewis and Clark Boy Scout Council and the Boy Scouts of America, claiming the organizations were negligent.
John Gremli of Bethalto, who was sleeping in a tent at the Boy Scout camp in Godfrey when the rotted oak tree fell on him, claims in his lawsuit that the organizations failed to conduct an inspection program to identify and remove dead standing or dying trees in and around a camping area.
Negligent? You are out camping in the woods. You are NOT camping in a city park. But if you read on down…
Gremli, an assistant Scoutmaster, was sleeping in a tent when a large tree fell on his legs about 4:30 a.m. last July 22. Gremli was 51 years old at the time.
An assistant Scoutmaster? When I was in the Scouts, they taught me not to pitch my tent under rotted trees. Sounds like he exercised poor judgement when choosing a place to pitch his tent.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 13, 2011
Schrödinger’s Penguin
The Daily Bayonet slides a foot of cold steel between the ribs of Climate Change scientists, by reporting on yet another bit of flawed science.
For the past decade or so, these “highly educated” folks have been studying penguins in Antarctica as a way of gathering climate change impact data. Problem is, they’ve been banding the birds with flipper tags instead of the ankle bands almost all other bird research folks use. And the tags themselves have caused the penguins to swim slower, catch less food, mate less, and generally suffer and die much more than regular penguins. So an entire decade’s worth of data is considerably skewed. And thus useless. Total waste of time and money, and half a career down the drain for the scientists involved. Not to mention harmful and abusive to the penguins themselves.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 12, 2011
worship of guns, brutality, violence, paranoia, that’s what America stands for to this PUTZ!
In spite of some ill feelings and the idea that Bush and the USA dragged the UK into a war that many say was illegal, that aside, there actually are folks here who are our friends, who despise the left as much as we do and who are not blood thirsty Nazis. I must state that time and again because things like this bother me, and while we do have friends here, I seem to see this an awful lot.
Good grief read this will ya. This ‘expert’ on America has to go all the way back to the 1930’s to vilify us. Father Coughlin was discredited and ended up all but forgotten. The 1930’s were a hotbed of antisemitism world wide. It still exists but less so then it did in the USA.
Then he brings up Sen. Joe who it has lately been found, was absolutely right in many of his accusations. We can’t deny his drinking or his self serving faults. But the man wasn’t wrong on everything all of the time. If he was, Turtler can tell us.
Anyway .... This is a job for TURTLER !! Are you out there?
If any of you care to reply directly to this jerk ... his email is below. He isn’t a fan of America so don’t expect a reply. Besides, he thinks he’s always right. Just ask him.
Paranoia at the heart of U.S. politicsBy Andrew Alexander
Last updated at 7:46 AM on 12th January 2011Violence has long been a part of the American way of life. We see it today in gang wars, the worship of guns and the appetite for brutality on the screen. The American folk hero was long the tough gunslinger. His more modern counterpart is the bold cop whose role reaches a climax in a hail of gunfire and corpses.
The second unpalatable fact is that a strong vein of paranoia runs through American life. Conspiracy theories run riot there — as they always have. In the 1930s the racist Catholic priest, Father Coughlin, could attract radio audiences of 30 million for his weekly attacks, especially on Jews and Freemasons. His bishop refused to stop him until World War II.
Before him, the Ku Klux Klan could claim a membership as high as six million. In the 1950s the rabid Senator McCarthy’s witch hunt for Communists in the most unlikely places made him a national hero.
Most unlikely places? Oh right. Like .... inside our own government? Surely not. Must have been a mistake or maybe, in spite of evidence found, he made it all up.
Unfortunately paranoia has also been at the heart of American foreign policy which bore fruit in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If the North won in Vietnam, ran Washington’s claim, all South East Asia would ‘go Communist’. It did win and South East Asia remained intact. The prolonged invasion of Iraq was inspired by Saddam’s imagined Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Against this sort of background we need to ponder whether the Tucson slaughter is all that much out of the ordinary. The language of political debate may be fierce, as it has often been in the past, but we have to wonder whether it was enough to tip a mentally unstable man over the edge and into massacre.
We should be fair. If our weapons laws were as casual as those in the U.S., various loonies here might well match the Tucson outrage. Even our much stricter rules about gun ownership did not prevent the Hungerford massacre of 1987, which left 16 people dead.
A further question is whether the ferocity of political debate in the U.S. spurs on violence or whether it acts as a safety valve for dangerous extremists. What would go on in the mind of a potential assassin if he thought that his instinctive views were never voiced by anyone else?
Would he become more or less dangerous ? In the nature of things, this is an unanswerable question.
What we can say is that it is foolish to suggest that Sarah Palin’s metaphorical gunsights — set on particular seats held by Democrats — inspired the Tucson killer.
And there is one advantage in the violent language used by some eager supporters of the Republican cause. It warns us that paranoia remains alive and well in the U.S.
You will notice I am certain, that ONLY Republicans use violent language.
Here’s the shit heads (that isn’t violent, just nasty but so’s he) email address. I hope some of you will try and express yourselves minus my more cruder expressions. Yes I am gonna write the bastard. But I have to cool down first or I’ll just feed his prejudice.
If you write him, share your thoughts with us here. Or not if the mood doesn’t take ya.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 09, 2011
anti usa self styled experts on the usa claim palin and tea party responsible for az shooting.jerks!
Good afternoon BMEWS.
Some interesting stuff. Hell, it’s all interesting to me.
First of all, I’m not going to post the story about the wanker who shot the congresswoman. I imagine by now you folks at home are seeing it all on TV over and over and over again. And the talking heads, and the victim photos. I also imagine there are now new calls for strict gun control.
So no. I’m not gonna post the article that’s in ALL the papers here. But I will post this line from the Mail on line.
Nation with a history of shocking gun massacres
The Tucson massacre is the latest in a series of shooting massacres in America.
That’s how they see us folks. Not all to be sure. Not all. But very many sad to say.
I had thought of just posting some of the comments readers are leaving on the Mail site. Changed my mind about that tho. Not I confess out of consideration for you. But out of selfish thinking on my part cos if I posted those damned comments here, it would mean I’d get frustrated and pissed off every time I had to come back or post something new and scroll and then see again. I have no idea where some people are getting facts and figures. One person claimed there were 30,000 deaths a year in the USA from the use of guns. When I wrote in and asked for a source for that figure, I got 20 red arrows for my trouble.
Here’s what I said.
May I please say that as an American (living here temporarily), it is not the business of foreigners to lecture us on our possession of weapons, which are mainly held for hunting, shooting sport and self defense. The last because the police can’t. As a former resident of Tucson I can assure readers that nobody anywhere in Az. can walk into a supermarket and buy a gun. The statement made by a supposed insider is absolutely false. Also please consider that many have guns illegally. And that’s true in the UK as well although the numbers are less because so is the population. Fact is, most Americans do not own guns. But let one deranged nut case like this commit such an outrageous act, and suddenly it’s the wild west. Well, it isn’t. And I’d like to know the source of those huge numbers of deaths by gun in the USA posted here. I question those numbers. But regardless, it is not the business of anyone else anyway. Not as long as we remain sovereign, unlike some.
- jd peiper, winchester. UK, 9/1/2011 10:28
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Another poster said that the media in the USA were censored. So I asked for the source of the posters info.
That earned me 18 red arrows.
Well, as I said, I’m not posting their comments but here’s the link to the story. Scroll down and read the comments of the uninformed and mostly anti-American hand wringers and be prepared to get very pissed off. Maybe some of you will post comments of your own but be warned, they’re very nannyish and so really personal insulting remarks made to posters won’t get through.
Oh ... btw. They’re also calling for Sarah Palin’s head and The Tea Party (a terrorist organization says one) and the American right. They’re bringing up the fact that Palin had cross-hairs on states and people and so deduced from that, that she and the TP were encouraging what happened in AZ. These experts on America and American expressions don’t understand the term having someone or something in the cross-hairs, does not mean we are suggesting they be shot.
Not always anyway. Here’s the maddening link.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 30, 2010
Stupid In The News
Ack, just reading the headline makes me gag. What were these bullet primer caps for, his rifle gun revolver automatic thingy?
A 37-year-old airline passenger was arrested Tuesday in Miami after primer caps for bullets ignited while a baggage handler was unloading a roll-on bag, the FBI said. The tarmac incident is not believed to be terrorism-related, FBI special agent Michael Leverock said.
Leverock would not provide details or speculate on how the bag might have gotten on the plane. He compared the primer to a “spark plug” for the bullet. The unidentified passenger, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was bound for Jamaica, was charged with transportation of hazardous materials. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to five years.
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Hundreds of the primer caps were in a bag that ignited, and all of them went off after the first one did, Leverock said. Several hit the baggage handler’s shoes, but he was not injured. The bomb squad was among those who rushed to the scene. The incident caused four other flights to be delayed, the airport said.Leverock said part of a shirt inside the bag was charred, but the movement of the bag is what set off the explosion.
Oh look, primers. They come 100 to a package, with 10 packages to a sleeve. A sleeve of 1000 primers is much smaller than a loaf of bread; a package of 100 is about 1/4” high by 3” square. The packaging is designed to keep them from bouncing about. It’s also designed to minimize flash-over, should one primer ignite.
Yes, these things are tiny bits of explosives in little steel cups. It takes quite a bit of specifically directed force to set them off. Drop a handful on bare concrete and they do not go off. Ever.
I can’t say what the rules are for importing HAZMAT rated items to Jamaica via the airlines. It probably is legal, but you’d have to pay a fee, ship the things in a proper container, and put them in the baggage hold. But I can say that taking these things out of their boxes and just pouring them in a baggie buried in your carry on is a really stupid idea. They will show up on a baggage X-ray either way, so why bother? And if these were wrapped up inside a shirt in this guy’s bag, and they went off due to “baggage handling” it tells me that the gorillas handling the luggage must have clobbered that suitcase with a sledgehammer. Furthermore, there is simply no way in Hades that the igniting primers had the power to penetrate a layer or two of clothing and then the side of the carry on bag, even if that bag was a paper sack from the grocery store. No. Can’t happen. The baggage apes opened the guy’s bag and then clobbered the contents with a big hammer. Deliberately. Or else they dropped the entire luggage box 20 feet from the side of the plane down to the ground, with several tons of other luggage coming down on top of this schmuck’s bag. That’s possible, but if the primers were in a “roll on” bag - doesn’t that mean “carry on”? - then the baggage mishandlers wouldn’t be in contact with that bag in the first place. Something is fishy here, more fishy than just poor reporting.
Find out the name of the airline, and make sure you never fly with them. Whatever else, this story screams out the fact that they seriously mistreat your stuff.
Come to think of it, fire the TSA screeners involved. Baggage gets x-rayed, right? Several hundred primers poured into a baggie would show up as a great metal lump, which should have gotten their attention. A whole sleeve of primers in their original packaging would look like a 3D matrix of metal dots, which should have also been noticed. Somebody was not doing their job here.
Ok, I just followed the link and watched the video. While this was a carry on size bag, it was checked in the luggage hold. It was a two part flight from Boston to Jamaica with a changeover in Florida. The primers went off when the bag was “placed” on the tarmac. So ... a little research shows that the cargo hold of a jetliner is pressurized, but not generally heated. IIRC, aircraft pressure is set to what you’d get being 10,000 feet up on a mountain. The temperature might get down to -40. That ought to be well within the design parameters of the primers. And it’s been pretty chilly in Florida the past few days. Plus it’s not like the plane drops instantly to the ground from 32,000 feet; it takes a good 15 minutes to descend, and then another while to land, and then even longer to cruise around the airport before the plane is finally parked and unloaded. So I think we can rule out any idea that these things were made extra sensitive due to sudden changes in air pressure and temperature. ( I tried to ask CCI and Federal, but both companies are taking their winter holidays ) And that puts us right back to seriously abusive baggage handlers.
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