Saturday - October 23, 2010

teacher is banned for being useless … no kidding.  read all about it …

Fine but what does this say about the morons who allowed him into the system to begin with? And he was in the job for 13 years?

This is an example of Labour throwing money at a problem and then saying, it has to work cos we gave it all this money.  Maybe if we throw more money at the education problem, it’ll get better. Right. 

Wanna bet somewhere down the line we’ll read about a race complaint?

The first teacher banned for life for being useless

By Sarah Harris and Arthur Marti

A teacher who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work has become the first to be banned for life from the classroom due to incompetence.

Nisar Ahmed will never reach ‘requisite standards’ of teaching and cannot work in state schools again, a panel ruled.

The General Teaching Council for England found the 46-year-old guilty of serious professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to lessons.

Mr Ahmed was head of business studies at the John O’Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009.

He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East.

His management of lessons was ‘invariably’ below standard, the GTC disciplinary panel was told.

The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Mr Ahmed ‘extensive formal and informal’ support for more than a year but he failed to improve.

Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods for incompetence since 2000.

Mr Ahmed is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.

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   Sunday - October 10, 2010

This Preview is approved by the Constitution

Posted by Christopher     on 10/10/2010 at 08:47 AM   
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   Wednesday - October 06, 2010

tree hugging, planet saving, carbon watching politically correct dictionary and thesaurus.

I haven’t a clue how they would know how many flights a year you take.  How about this for some PC bullying. Of course, like a tv show you don’t like, there’s a choice. In this case, download or do not download. I haven’t made up my mind and in any event, we really don’t fly much these days anyway.

This is a highly recommended online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Word Finder.  This is the free version. http://wordweb.info/free/licence5.html

Now then, what the hell does this have to do with flying?  You couldn’t make it up but these jerks did.
You may NOT have the free version if you fly too often, more then 2wice a year I think.  These guys really take planet saving and carbon footprints to a new extreme.

WordWeb free version licensing

WordWeb free version may be used indefinitely only by people who take at most two commercial flights (not more than one return flight) in any 12 month period. People who fly more than this need to purchase the Pro version if they wish to continue to use it after a 30-day trial period.

Global greenhouse gas emissions are currently around 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year, and probably need to be reduced by at least 80% have a good chance of avoiding dangerous warming. Most computer users are responsible for far more emissions than is sustainable. For example two short-medium distance return flights can be equivalent to over 1 tonne of emissions1: more than an average person can safely emit over an entire year.

If you do not qualify you must uninstall the program after the 30-day trial period or purchase WordWeb Pro. The licensing model is designed to allow relatively non-wealthy people to use the program free of charge, and to provide a small incentive for other people who fly a lot to cut down.

Whenever a user no longer meets the above requirements, and they have installed the product for more than 30 days, they must uninstall the product or purchase WordWeb Pro.

There is one exception to the above: not-for-profit educational establishments may make a network installation of WordWeb for the use of their students (regardless of whether their students individually meet the licensing requirement).

Flights are particularly bad because of additional non-carbon emissions and cloud formation at high altitude: the short-term warming effect is estimated to be many times worse than the same CO2 emission at ground level, perhaps a factor of two worse on a twenty-year timescale, but it could be worse than this - the science is not well understood.

Think that’s all? Here’s more and another link to their dumb assed reasoning.  This is very much edited so I recommend you visit the link to read more of the nonsense.

Licence discussion and references

Various people have questioned the WordWeb 5 licensing terms. It is true that targetting flights is a very crude measure; many people’s CO2 emissions come mostly from their home due to inefficient heating, insulation or air conditioning. However the licence is designed to be easy to understand, and sufficiently simple that people will know immediately whether or not they satisfy it. If you break the licence you are certainly responsible for more emissions per person than are sustainable, and you can certainly afford to buy the Pro version. The licence is not telling you what to do: that is up to you, but if you don’t satisfy the licence you need to pay to use the program.

Flights

Currently no CO2 emission reduction schemes include international flights. This is a very serious problem; for example, the UK has a climate change bill aiming at 80% reductions in net emissions by 2050. If you take into account projections for unrestricted growth in aviation, at 60% cut in all other emissions will result in a total cut of about only about 30-50% [Ref]: aviation growth will prevent the target being reached unless seriously restricted.

What has this to do with WordWeb?

Some people feel that this has nothing to do with WordWeb, and the licensing terms are ridiculous. We agree the situation is ridiculous; the WordWeb licensing is just reflecting the current huge under-pricing of air travel. Every time you fly you are not paying the cost to the environment (and hence other people); in economics terms climate-changing emissions are an important externality leading to a market failure. WordWeb is trying to slightly increase the cost of flying via its licence to correct for this anomaly. If and when air travel is charged correctly to reflect the total cost, which is much the most efficient solution, the WordWeb licence will be changed to a more sensible economic model.

The licence also has the advantage that people who cannot easily afford to pay can use the program for free. If you can afford to fly, so that you do not satisfy the licence, you can afford to buy the program.

http://wordweb.info/free/licence_discuss.html

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   Monday - October 04, 2010

WW2 display at a museum covers offensive flag to appease the tender feelings of a few idiots

I had every intention of shutting down my puter after my last post. I’m tired, I’ve been at it for too long today. Then I caught a story so utterly stupid that I think maybe there gonna have to be a three way tie for the dumbest thing I have found. I could not shut down after reading it, I really,really have to share this absolute and totally stupid politically correct hurt no feelings nonsense with the blog world.

Before I get to it.  Which major country was England at war with in WW2?  Hint. Across the channel.  France? Australia? Poland?
I know England was at war with somebody. Ah ha. Germany. They were at war with Germany.  And the govt of said Germany at that time was?
National Socialism. (NSDAP) Could they be Nazis?  I kinda think so. 

The Brit flag is the Union Jack.  What flag was flown by the Nazis?

YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS CRAP UP.  THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY IN THE DUMPS. I’m just trying to avoid being crude and coming right out and saying they are fucked!!  In a culture where everybody has a right not to be offended ...........

Museum forced to cover up part of Second World War exhibition after visitors got offended by swastika

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:26 PM on 4th October 2010

A museum has been forced to cover up part of an exhibition about the Second World War after visitors were offended by a swastika.

Cawthorne Jubilee Museum mounted a dual display to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the role the village and its residents played in World War Two.

But it has been plunged into controversy because of the use of a large red banner with the Nazi swastika emblem, liberated by a soldier from the Olympic stadium in Berlin during 1945 and donated to the museum decades ago.

Less than 24 hours before the museum in Barnsley, South Yorks., opened to the public a decision was made to cover the swastika with a smaller Union flag after over-sensitive visitors complained.

Museum chairman Peter Kilner said the committee acted because of complaints from visitors who had seen the flag in place before the public were allowed in.

But some residents said it was a legitimate piece of village history and should not have been censored.

Mr Kilner said: ‘We had one or two people objecting to the swastika being displayed and we are not in the position of upsetting people.

‘If it was upsetting people, we thought it would be better covered up. One or two of us said “lets cover it up and leave it at that”.

‘Visitors have been happy and the exhibition is a great success.’ The decision has divided opinion, with others in the community believing it should have been shown unobscured, because it was a legitimate piece of the village’s history which symbolised the defeat of Fascism.

Museum president Barry Jackson said that despite the cover-up, he directed interested visitors towards the flag, which along with a large Union flag and a painting of a German fighter being shot down in a dog-fight, forms the entrance to the wartime exhibition.

One complaint was that displaying the flag showed a lack of respect to those named on the village war memorial, he said.

It was donated to the museum decades ago by Louis Jagger, a villager who served with a tank regiment in the battle through Europe in the closing stages of the war.
His unit took part in the victory parade in Berlin, where he acquired the flag, which he subsequently donated to the museum.

It had never been put on display and remained largely forgotten in a storage box until it was unearthed by volunteers for the current exhibition.

By the time the objections were raised, it was too late to remove it from the display so the alternative of censoring the Nazi symbol was suggested.

One visitor to the exhibition said: ‘I was surprised to see the flag covered up in the way that it was, it looked a bit odd.

‘It is easy to move the Union Jack to see what’s underneath. I don’t think displaying that should be an embarrassment, someone brought it back after fighting to defeat the Nazis, after all.’

The Jubilee Museum has been run by the community in Cawthorne since being build in the 1950s.

OFFEND NOBODY

OK, I have a question.  Since everyone has a right not to be offended, what happens if some visitors who happen by are German. And they are offended by the picture of a German plane being shot down by the Brits?  Maybe the pilot of that plane could have been a family member. You never know. What if offense is taken by that?  Will they then cover up the offending photo in case more Germans visit the place?

A few odd balls, nutcases, get offended and the Brit management caves in. That fast. Some Germans reading this might be thinking, why the hell didn’t those folks cave in this quickly when we needed them to.
Answer ... cos that generation wasn’t made up of libtard, toadying, gutless jerks and Brit women wouldn’t allow it anyhow. Not then. Now? Well, you can see. Can’t you?

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   Saturday - October 02, 2010

the eu court says, working fathers in Spain are entitled to take ‘breastfeeding leave.

You just know the world is a very mad place with stuff like this accepted as a matter of normal course. And of course as Spain is an EU member and the rocket scientists at the EU know all things .... well it just follows that what the EU says, Spain must follow.

I mentioned this the other day but didn’t post the story as other things got in the way ....

Remember when I thought I found the Moonbat Award for the whole year believing nothing could be dumber then Sense of humour failure: Council slaps ban on mother-in-law jokes for being ‘offensively sexist’
I was sure that took the prize.  Well not so fast there P.  This one might trump that earlier entry, although that one still deserves to be remembered as Moonbat stupid.  But take a look at this one.

Spanish fathers entitled to breastfeeding leave

Europe’s top court has declared that working fathers in Spain are entitled to take ‘breastfeeding leave’ everyday, even if the mother of the child is not employed.

By Barney Henderson

The new legislation means that both the mother and father are allowed to leave work for an hour during the day or reduce their working day by half an hour during the first nine months following the birth of a child.

The European Union Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled on Thursday that the Spanish law caused an “unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex” because fathers do not have the same rights as mothers.

Fathers are currently only allowed to apply for breastfeeding leave if the mother is employed full time.
The Spanish man who challenged the law, Pedro Manuel Roca Alvarez, said his request to take breastfeeding leave from his job in Galicia was rejected because the mother of his child was self-employed.

The top court said such a refusal could have the effect of forcing self-employed mothers to limit their work because the father cannot share the burden.
Not giving dads the same right as mums in this case “is liable to ... keep men in a role subsidiary to that of women in relation to the exercise of their parental duties,” the court ruled.

Breastfeeding leave should now be considered as “time purely devoted to the child” in order to reconcile family life and work after maternity leave.

MOONBAT AWARD SOURCE

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   Wednesday - September 29, 2010

Law of unintended consequences?

Liars.

DUBLIN – The roads and rivers of northwest Ireland are suddenly lined with mink.

Managers at Anderson’s Mink Farm said Wednesday that many of their cages and fences were cut and opened over the weekend, freeing an estimated 5,000 animals into the wilds of County Donegal. About 28,000 others declined the invitation to bolt for freedom.

More than 100 already have been recaptured by hunters using cage traps, while several hundred others have been run over and killed. Drivers have reported seeing groups of the farm-reared animals standing, dazzled by headlights, in the middle of busy roads.

One of the farm’s directors, Connie Anderson, blamed animal rights activists for invading the farm in the early hours of Sunday. He declined to explain why it took the farm so long to raise the public alarm.

“These people are animal liberation terrorists and had no thought for the mink or for the damage that will be done to other wildlife in the area,” Anderson said.

Agricultural authorities warned that the surviving minks could decimate local populations of salmon, rabbits and fowl.

Animal rights activists in Ireland have denied responsibility — but are praising whoever did it.

“We have nothing to do with it. However, I commend whoever risked their freedom to do this as these animals have a horrendous life,” said Bernie Wright, spokeswoman for Ireland’s Alliance for Animal Rights.

And this act is right on the heels of a similar one that happened in Greece just a couple of weeks ago ...

Sep 2, 2010

ATHENS, Greece — An international animal rights activist group has claimed responsibility for releasing more than 50,000 minks from two fur farms in northern Greece.

In an online statement, the Animal Liberation Front says it carried out the attacks last week near the towns of Kastoria and Siatista, in the heart of Greece’s fur industry.

Thursday’s statement said the break-ins were meant to hit the industry “and especially the disgusting ‘fur towns’ of Siatista and Kastoria, plagued with hundreds of fur stores.”

Greece’s National Fur Breeders’ Association said most of the animals released into the local ecosystem were likely to die in the heat. It said the cost to the farm owners could exceed euro1 million ($1.28 million).

So the ones that don’t die of heatstroke, get run over, or starve to death (these are farm raised animals with no hunting experience) will probably wipe out all the small game in the area. And then die. It’s happened before ...

These Critters First groups like The Animal Liberation Front don’t give a damn about the animals themselves. No, they are against people using animals to earn a living. We call it farming ... or ranching ... same thing I guess when you’re farming animals. But they think of it as exploitation.

Of course, they don’t stop for a second to consider that the european mink is a highly endangered species in the wild, and almost all the living animals are the ones raised on farms. That’s people’s faults too, of course.

Nutjobs.




Now, there is such a thing as responsible farming. When you raise livestock, you are as God to the animals; you order the timing of their birth and their death, you control their living conditions. So it is not responsible - it’s downright cruelty - to use the lives and health of the animals as a labor bargaining chip. This is criminal:

Minks ‘starved to death’ in wage dispute

Employees at a mink farm in Russia’s European exclave of Kaliningrad are starving their animals to demand unpaid wages, a Russian furrier, who owns the farm, said overnight.

Staff “refused to feed the animals to protest over unpaid salary arrears dating back to December,” Grigory Isayevich, the deputy director of the furrier Russian Furs, which raises some 300,000 minks at five farms, said.

He said several dozen angry employees had blocked access to the animals’ food stores last week in an unusual strike that prompted the struggling company to pay back a part of the wage arrears.

Minks at the farm had already been underfed and suffering from chronic food shortages as the firm teeters on the brink of bankruptcy due to Russians cutting back on purchases of luxury fur coats amid the global economic crisis.

In August, “as many as 500 animals died daily (of starvation) at the farm and the minks began to eat each other,” said Sergei Babasyuk, deputy head of the department of agriculture at the Bagrationovsky region, where the farm is based.

OTOH, the farmer could afford the feed for 300,000 minks but couldn’t afford to pay a couple dozen workers? That smells worse than a soggy bag of new Fishy Bits flavor Purina Mink Chow.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/29/2010 at 10:49 AM   
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   Friday - September 17, 2010

A FACE IN THE CROWD ,,, THE FACE OF THE ROP

Front Page has lots of interesting easy read (mostly) items.  I don’t have to add much if anything to this. I think you’re all pretty well familiar with this sort of thing by now.  Maybe it hasn’t occurred in the USA yet, or if it has, not as often as it does here and acrss the channel in Europe.  Oh. Oooops. I’m not supposed to mention anything has to do with Europe according to some dim (very dim) lights. 

Anyway ... check this out. Some of it recaps old news but the things referred to should not be forgotten.  It’s how these folks play the game and above all people ... Know Your Enemy!  And here’s a photo of one of the many of them.  The ugly face of islam. This fellow represents it well.  Is this what most muslims want to represent them?  I hope not. But then .... he has a lot of followers who looks pretty much the same. And they seem to have this knack of always finding things to be angry about. And they are ALWAYS just this ugly.

H/T FRONT PAGE

The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage

Shhhhhhh, we’re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’t burn a Koran. It’ll imperil the troops. It’ll inflame tensions. The “Muslim world” will “explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the “Muslim world” not ready to “explode”?

At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways.

Just a few months ago in Kashmir, faithful Muslims rioted over what they thought was a mosque depicted on underwear sold by street vendors. The mob shut down businesses and clashed with police over the blasphemous skivvies. But it turned out there was no need for Allah’s avengers to get their holy knickers in a bunch. The alleged mosque was actually a building resembling London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. A Kashmiri law enforcement official later concluded the protests were “premeditated and organized to vitiate the atmosphere.”

Indeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world’s atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran. In 1997, outraged Muslims forced Nike to recall 800,000 shoes because they claimed the company’s “Air” logo looked like the Arabic script for “Allah.” In 1998, another conflagration spread over Unilever’s ice cream logo — which Muslims claimed looked like “Allah” if read upside-down and backward (can’t recall what they said it resembled if you viewed it with 3D glasses).

Even more explosively, in 2002, an al-Qaida-linked jihadist cell plotted to blow up Bologna, Italy’s Church of San Petronio because it displayed a 15th century fresco depicting Mohammed being tormented in the ninth circle of Hell. For years, Muslims had demanded that the art come down. Counterterrorism officials in Europe caught the would-be bombers on tape scouting out the church and exclaiming, “May Allah bring it all down. It will all come down.”

That same year, Nigerian Muslims stabbed, bludgeoned or burned to death 200 people in protest of the Miss World beauty pageant — which they considered an affront to Allah. Contest organizers fled out of fear of inflaming further destruction. When Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel joked that Mohammed would have approved of the pageant and that “in all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them,” her newspaper rushed to print three retractions and apologies in a row.

It didn’t stop Muslim vigilantes from torching the newspaper’s offices. A fatwa was issued on Daniel’s life by a Nigerian official in the sharia-ruled state of Zamfara, who declared that “the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is abiding on all Muslims wherever they are to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty.” Daniel fled to Norway.

FRONT PAGE SOURCE

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   Friday - September 03, 2010

800 mile round trip and dead wrong.  Adventure of thick headed libtard “activist”

I don’t think about bulls much if at all. Unless they pop up in the news as something unusual.
I like animals generally, I am partial to cats and dogs. Big dogs. Not those damn small barky dogs that our newest neighbor has. 

Anyway, like the guy in this story I am opposed to bull fighting and think it’s even more barbaric then I am. And that’s saying something. I can not see the point of making an animal suffer, and I also think ppl who can watch it and get enjoyment from it are the worst of people.  So when I read about a fight where the bull gets the better of man I tend to cheer for the bull.
Now then, having said all that, I am not an “activist” of any kind.  That seems to be a new sort of professional designation.  I think most often ppl who describe themselves as such are also lefties.  It just seems to be that way. I might be wrong.  You’ll correct me if I am I know.  These self styled “activists” almost always have a sort of uniform. The wispy beards and sometimes (but not in this case) wire rimmed glasses. They often go overboard on the subject and make life difficult for others, while pursuing the object of their passion, dismissing any thought that they might , just might, be mistaken.
Like this jerk.  Here’s a guy looking for something that didn’t exist.  Typically liberal.
In fact, when informed of the error he insisted he’d read things right and remained unconvinced.  Once a libtard makes up what passes for a mind, it’s super glued there forever.  Or so it seems. 
So how can I be sure this guy is a lefty libtard?  Well, would a conservative drive over 400 miles to do this?  Maybe. But doubtful given this particular example.

The danger of taking poetry too literally
As a fervent animal lover, Paul Hurt has dedicated much of his life to exposing those he sees as glorifying bullfighting.

By Richard Alleyne

So when the Sheffield-based former teacher heard one of his prominent targets was making a public appearance in Suffolk, the 414 mile journey was no object.

Packing his van with leaflets and supplies, he set off on a two-day trip through torrential rain to picket a village literary festival where Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney was holding a reading of his poems.

He even slept in the vehicle overnight.

There was only problem, Heaney is not a supporter of the blood sport.

Paul Hurt, who spent hours protesting before his error was pointed out, was a victim of reading too much into poetry.

Jonathan Reekie, Aldeburgh Music chief executive who organised the event, said: “Mr Hurt obviously has very strong beliefs against bullfighting which I wholeheartedly understand and support.

“But unfortunately he has come to the mistaken belief that Seamus Heaney supports bullfighting and that is simply not the case.

“He is one of the world’s great poets and as everyone who loves poetry knows, he uses images and associations that are in no way meant to be literal.”

Mr Hurt, 62, a retired science teacher , is a veteran of animal protests being a member of Compassion in World Farming and an anti-fur activist.

He is also a lover of poetry and felt that lines from Heaney’s 2006 poem Tate’s Avenue and a 1976 essay on WH Auden were proof that the Irish poet was a lover of bullfighting.

Mr Hurt, 62, a retired science teacher , is a veteran of animal protests being a member of Compassion in World Farming and an anti-fur activist.

THE REST IS HERE

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   Tuesday - August 31, 2010

Daffy Gaddifi visits Italy, tells folks all Europe needs to become muslim. Give em time. They might

No question about it, the world’s a mad,mad place and white folks seem to be losin’ it. What is it with this?

Gaddafi is such a disgusting looking character.  If he weren’t a head of state he could easily pass for a homeless person living under a bridge in any country.

But he has loads of ready cash and can hire his own audience.  And the world MUST and DOES treat with the guy as if he’s just plain folks. Right. I know.
It’s called diplomacy.  I’m quite a bit short on that.  Lucky I can spell the word without using spell check. 

Can you imagine any western head of state going to a muzzie country and simply suggesting to them that they may wanna try some other religion? Oh Boy.

Italians attack Muammar Gaddafi over Islam comments

Italians have reacted with indignation after Muammar Gaddafi lectured 200 young actresses and models on the superiority of Islam, a day after saying that Europeans should all become Muslim.

By Nick Squires in Rome

Silvio Berlusconi’s increasingly close relationship with Col Gaddafi is becoming a source of embarrassment for the Italian prime minister, according to opposition MPs and even members of the government.

On Monday, the Libyan leader recruited the women through a modelling agency to join him and Mr Berlusconi, in viewing a photography exhibition at a Rome cultural institute which traced historical links between the two countries.

Telling them that Islam was the “ultimate religion”, Gaddafi insisted that “if you want to believe in a single faith then it must be that of Mohammed,” according to one of the women who sat through the lecture.

Afterwards the two leaders were due to attend a cavalry school to watch a display of riding involving 30 thoroughbred Berber horses imported specially from Libya, followed by a state dinner.

On Sunday night, during an encounter with 500 young women hired by the same agency, Col Gaddafi handed out copies of the Koran and told them that Europe should convert to Islam.

“If I went to Tripoli to demand that Libyans convert to Christianity, what are the odds that I would return in one piece?” said Rocco Buttiglione, the president of a centre-Right Catholic party, the UDC.

Italy was becoming a “Disneyland”-style theme park for Gaddafi’s “senile vanities”, said Fare Futuro, a political foundation linked to Gianfranco Fini, a senior government power broker with whom Mr Berlusconi recently had a dramatic falling out.

Rosy Bindi, an MP from the main opposition party, said that the spectacle of hundreds of Italian women being bussed in at Col Gaddafi’s whim was a “humiliating violation” of their dignity.

SQUIRES IN ROME

PHOTOS FROM THE DAILY MAIL

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   Saturday - August 21, 2010

MEIN KAMPF - the sequel - Peiper - -vs—the blockhead pharmacy system

Another adventure in the exciting series of Peiper vs the evil Brit pharmacy system, or, ?

Ok, I have a slight problem here. I can’t think of any proper words that apply without using very bad language, so I must ask the reader to dig into your memory and mentally play the theme music for either Lorel and Hardy or the Three Stooges.
The exception will be that “it ain’t funny McGee.” (old radio)

Our regulars at BMEWS are already familiar with my rants of last year, with regard to how a doctor’s prescription is filled in this blighted place.  For those who aren’t aware and missed it, they have a system in place here that is as screwed up as a soup sandwich.  The freekin idiots have built themselves a submarine with a screen door.

For example, you can buy aspirin here like you can anywhere else.  But … you need a doctor’s Rx for safety coated aspirin.  Ever hear anything so stupid? Tis true, every word.  I should know. I have to take them.

Our latest adventure is a repeat of a problem that’s happened before.  The pharmacy somehow lost not one, but two of my wife’s prescriptions, as we discovered today when visiting the pharmacy to pick them up.  Earlier I said three but I was mistaken.

For newbies to my humble self I will tell you I am an American married to a Brit these past 40 plus years, and have been living here since April of 2004.  It has not all been bad I confess.  But it has been maddening for the reasons that, as my very Brit wife has said many times when I tend to question the sanity of this system, “if there’s a difficult way to do a thing, and an easy logical way to do the same thing, we English seem to prefer the hard way.” Not that my wife does.  She has lived in America far too long.  She knows about screens on windows and central air cond., and most cars with auto transmissions. Not that you can’t have em here, but in our area, not too easy.  As we discovered.
She knows about getting an Rx filled right then, right there at a pharmacy without having to wait for two days to a week.  Longer if the courier delivers to the wrong pharmacy or they simply lose it.

Courier?  Right. I’d better explain that.  There might be as many as 6 pharmacies in our general area.  Could be more, I really don’t know.  I am aware of five but am also certain there has to be more.  Now then, many of those will be part of the same chain owned by a company called Boots. Very old and very well known.  There are also pharmacies in two major chain supermarkets.

Every day a courier or perhaps there’s more then one, goes to all the doctor’s offices picking up prescriptions to be delivered to all the pharmacies.  At the front desk in every doctor’s office there will be bundles of Rx’s and they will be placed in separate baskets or bags marked with the name and address of which pharmacy the Rx’s are to go to. 

The following only applies to refills.
If you reader, as a patient, hand in an Rx on a refill order to the pharmacy, your medication will (should unless lost) be ready to pick up in one week.  Now that’s on a refill already approved by your doctor.  But you see, the pharmacy sends that Rx back to the doctor to be reviewed (WHY?) and then goes back to the pharmacy and the process takes a week.  OR … you can email the doctor’s office and request a refill, and that will only take two days to get.  Unless the incompetent idiots lose it.
Well, the wife had instructions from her doc to call and report if there were any side effects on the Lipitor she was given, because the doctor wanted to increase the dosage by degrees.  She also has high blood pressure and takes medication for that. 
She spoke to her doctor on a Friday, and also requested an additional Rx for something else, and her doctor said she’d fax the Rx directly to our pharmacy downstairs. (photo) Fine.  It would be ready the next day but something happened and I’ll be darned if I remember what, and we never got to the pharmacy Sat.  Weather was miserable and wife not feeling 100%, I don’t drive and there isn’t any bus to where we’d need to go.  Just as well because the brain dead fools didn’t have them anyway.
That is, two prescriptions.  Poof.  Gone with the wind.

We finally made it in Friday morning because I had an Rx to pick up myself, and as luck would have it, the duty doctor I spoke to on the phone gave me a smaller amount then I require and there wasn’t any way to undo that.  (hey, they’re on the ball here)

So while there to get my Rx I also asked to pick up the wife’s two rx.  Blank looks as they couldn’t find them.  So this sour faced woman behind the counter says with authority, well.  It takes seven days.  Not on a new Rx it doesn’t.  Not when the doc calls or faxes it in.  Only on refills.  But even so, I informed her that the Rx was faxed from upstairs on the 13th, and this was the 20th so … lets see.  How many days is that? 

Staff looked but couldn’t find and so I went up to the top floor where the doctor’s office is and spoke to the front desk.  Who informed me that they were sent on the 13th and that the folks there should have it by now. 
So I went downstairs again but this time I took the elevator cos I was getting tired by then, and told the ppl downstairs what the ppl upstairs said.  Nope. Sorry, nothing here.  However, they would call upstairs between 1 and 2 and if I could call them back later they would have an answer and the Rx for us.  So I called about 2:30 and I tell no lie, the phone rang for a continuous 4 minutes before anyone answered.
That happens all the time with that place.  But we got the Rx although they have no idea what happened.  They usually blame the folks in the doctors office who usually shake their collective heads and shrug it off as there isn’t much they can say or do.
Well, there sure is but this being England, they do not know there is something they can do. 

Finally, and I have saved this for last.  Here’s an example of the mindset of at least one person at that pharmacy.

The wife often visits weekly, an old family friend and friend of her late mother.  The old woman has some form of leg or skin cancer, her legs are wrapped in some sort of gauze, not pretty to look at poor lady as they often leak.  She is pretty much housebound most of the time.  She is 80 years old, and has no family.  So my wife visits her for an hour or so every week and also picks up the odd bits of groceries for her. 

Because of her age and condition, she can have her prescriptions delivered to her.
My wife told her about the problem we had with her Rx and the old woman preceded to tell the following which occurred this past week.

She had asked for medication and had it called into the same pharmacy. When nothing came after a few days, she called the blockheads to find out where her Rx was as she’d expected it days ago.
Oh, it’s here and ready to be picked up she was informed.  But says she, it is supposed to be delivered.

Oh yes says the person she was speaking to.  It’s marked that way. It says deliver, but we thought you might come by for it and so held it here in case you decided to come in.

I just haven’t any more words and especially for that last. I don’t know what to say, and so I’ll say good night and … Stay Tuned

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   Thursday - August 19, 2010

It’s funny. Trust me. It’s stupid, but it’s funny …

I’m not sure if it can get any dumber but if there’s a way, these nanny staters will surely find it.  Outside of that, I really can’t think of anything to add to this. Not that it needs it.  It speaks for itself.

‘Nanny’ bosses issue guidelines on officers’ underwear

By Daily Mail Reporter

Police chiefs came under fire today, after they issued a dictat advising officers what kind of underwear they should wear beneath their uniforms.

West Midlands Police has issued a warning that requires underwear to be ‘an appropriate colour’ and ‘inconspicous’ beneath their uniform.

The strict guidance was issued as part of a revised uniform policy to present a ‘professional and corporate appearance’ to the public.

But officers in the force have accused their superiors of ‘nannying’ and slammed the warning as ‘outrageous’.

One experienced police constable, who did not want to be named, told Police Review magazine: ‘It is ridiculous. They are basically telling us what underwear to wear to work.

‘A couple of sergeants have jokingly been saying there would be spot checks. It is outrageous.’

Another police constable said: ‘Any chance they could run a piece on tying shoelaces or how to use toilet paper?’

The uniform guidelines also warn officers to wear their protective stab vests at all times when patrolling the beat which includes Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull and Wolverhampton.

One sergeant from the force told Police Review: ‘We are not a scouting organisation made up of young children who need nannying.

‘As we are all adults, personal pride should drive folks to maintain that professional appearance by shaving before going on duty, having clean boots and tidy uniform.’

Another police constable said: ‘Rather than spending time on sending pointless messages out concerning the way we look when doing the job, the force should concentrate more on letting us do the job of a police officer and trying catch criminals.’

The warning appeared on the police ‘message of the day’ section on the force intranet last week.

The message was: ‘Underwear should be of an appropriate colour to be inconspicuous underneath uniform.’

Other dictats include warnings that baseball caps should only be worn by officers working in certain units such as dogs and firearms.

All officers on operational patrol duties must also wear their stab vests at all times.

The force has warned officers and staff who are working together should be similarly dressed.

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: ‘There is no new force policy on underwear, but all officers and staff who come into contact with the public are asked to adopt a common sense approach when choosing what underwear is worn when on duty, so they remain smart.’

Assistant chief constable Sharon Rowe said: ‘All supervisors, at whatever level they are in the organisation, have a clear mandate to challenge inappropriate dress.

‘The adoption of standard, corporate, professional uniform and equipment is crucial to how we are viewed by members of the public.’

DAILY MAIL

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   Saturday - August 14, 2010

The next liberal ‘Chicken Little’ government pandemic.

They (Government) tried the ‘bird flu’. They tried the ‘swine’ flu. No ‘pandemics’ actually occurred. It’s so embarrassing that the UN recently declared the ‘swine’, or H1N1, pandemic over. It never started!

But here’s the newest crisis: The era of antibiotics is coming to a close.

No. Really.

In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.

Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly serious journal Lancet Infectious Diseases yesterday posed the question itself over a paper revealing the rapid spread of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. “Is this the end of antibiotics?” it asked.

Doctors and scientists have not been complacent, but the paper by Professor Tim Walsh and colleagues takes the anxiety to a new level. Last September, Walsh published details of a gene he had discovered, called NDM 1, which passes easily between types of bacteria called enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and makes them resistant to almost all of the powerful, last-line group of antibiotics called carbapenems. Yesterday’s paper revealed that NDM 1 is widespread in India and has arrived here as a result of global travel and medical tourism for, among other things, transplants, pregnancy care and cosmetic surgery.

“In many ways, this is it,” Walsh tells me. “This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing enterobacteriaceae. We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have nothin

Now, we all know that some of this is true. My mother lost most of her leg to a MRSA infection she caught in the hospital. But, she’d have never gotten it if she’d taken her medicine as prescribed. If she’d done that, she’d never been in the hospital to catch MRSA. So we know there’s just enough truth to this.

What is the solution? The usual liberal solution to any problem. Can you guess?

Beyond that, there is a real need to conserve those antibiotics we have. “To me, it has many parallels with the problems of energy in economies around the world,” he says. Carbon trading was dreamed up to try to conserve oil and reduce its pollutant effects. There have now been a couple of interesting papers suggesting a Pigouvian tax – which he defines as one levied on an agent causing an environmental problem as an incentive to mitigate that problem – for antibiotics.

Like oil, he points out, antibiotic usefulness is finite. And the cost of drug resistance is not reflected in the price of the drug. “If you consider antibiotic sensitivity as a resource like oil, you want to maintain that by introducing a tax,” he says. It would be worldwide and the proceeds could fund new drug development.

I don’t understand why anyone listens to liberals. Their solution to any problem is…TAX IT!

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   Friday - August 06, 2010

Something you’d expect only in America?  Another dimwit heard from.

I haven’t a clue how in the hell I pick up these stories so often but they always cause that old ... RCOB.  I guess in this case the photos grabbed me first and then I read and then ....

See this old, ugly and stupid looking buzzard?

Okay so.  If anyone should NOT be driving anything more dangerous then a tricycle, it’s this jerk.

He gets pulled over by the police because (Major Crime Wave) he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.  Lots of folks don’t and sometimes some simply forget. Whatever.
I don’t care about that.

So he gets stopped, he has health issues we read, the article says “disabled” but not how or what. And the one photo of him being pulled from his car is hard to tell.  I don’t much care about that either. Thing is .....

A police officer goes to the side of his car, his car “lurches forward” and the cop gets knocked down. He isn’t hurt but naturally the police react. But he takes off, driving the speed limit (OJ anyone?) and when the cops finally stop the schmuck and wreck his car ....  he says

And that isn’t all he says.  He claimed that when he saw the officers flashing blue lights and heard the siren, he thought they were escorting him home.

Are ppl getting dumber or do they believe the rest of the populous is,except them?  Jeesh.  Freekin idiot.  Another one of those dimwits who know all about America.  Yeah, like I know about heart surgery.  You gotta read this article even tho I gave away the high points.

OAP = Old Age Pensioner (and I hope he doesn’t get much older)

Police officers ‘smashed OAP driver’s window and dragged him out of car’ after he was stopped for not wearing seatbelt

By Ryan Kisiel
Last updated at 12:22 PM on 6th August 2010

For the apprehension of a disabled pensioner, it seemed a little excessive.

A police officer jumped on the bonnet of retired businessman Robert Whatley’s car and kicked the windscreen while another hit the window with his baton 15 times until it smashed.

They then dragged the 70-year-old, who has a heart condition and recently recovered from a stroke, from his £60,000 Range Rover.

A court heard yesterday that Mr Whatley, right, was originally pulled over in a country lane in Monmouthshire by traffic police who tried to issue him with a fine for not wearing a seat belt.

But when an officer went round to the passenger side, the car lurched forward and he was knocked over.

Mr Whatley told Caerphilly magistrates court, South Wales, that he then drove off because he thought the matter had been dealt with, felt ‘frail and vulnerable’ and was worried he would suffer another stroke.

The police followed him for 17 minutes, during which time he did not break the speed limit. Mr Whatley said he thought the blue lights and siren of the police car meant the officers were giving him an escort home.

He finally pulled over when he was confronted by a police ‘stinger’ device to puncture his tyres on the road into Usk.

the rest and pix are here

I don’t get where the author of this piece seem to start with the idea that the cops over-reacted. How would they have known what awaited them inside a car with illegally tinted windows? 

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   Monday - July 26, 2010

OK so ….. question for today, there will be a test. How many Brits does it take to change a bulb?

I need to ask my doc for meds that might keep me asleep for longer.  Maybe just sleep through all the PC,H&S lunacy that abounds on both sides of the water.
Nah, never work.  I’m bound to wake up with something else just as silly.  Like those damn chairs without wheels I wrote about Saturday.  Funny thing with all the other stupid stuff, like keeping white middle class males out of some govt.posts (I’ll get to that later) I keep remembering those wheeless chairs.

So here .... 

Workmen have refused to change broken street lamps because they are too close to the wires above .  See the photos at the link below.

Three years and £8,000: What it takes for a council to change TWO LIGHT BULBS

By Daily Mail Reporter

A church hall and picturesque village green were plunged into darkness when two light bulbs stopped working in 2007.

Now, three years later, the bulbs have yet to be repaired, elderly residents fear to go out in the dark - and the council is about to spend £8,000 moving the street lamps on the grounds of health and safety.

Parish councillors and locals in picturesque Glemsford, near Sudbury, have been fighting to get the lights repaired but workers from Suffolk County Council said they were unable to fix them due to a ‘G39’ health and safety issue.

The council claims their proximity to power lines and trees make it too dangerous to use a ladder to replace the bulbs as suggested by residents.

And they have now told the parish council that they will need to be moved and new lights rewired at a safer location which comes at a total cost of £8,000.

Frustrated councillors are being forced to pay for the work - more than ten per cent of their annual £70,000 budget.

Angry residents have slammed the county council for refusing to fix the lights on safety grounds, leaving older members of the community in danger.

Len Young, 76, Benburgh district councillor for Glemsford and a retired court worker, said the council had taken health and safety too far and were intent on wasting money.

‘It’s another case of council jobsworths,’ he said. ‘Someone could have just got up there on a ladder three years ago and changed a bulb but of course it’s never that simple.

‘Apparently they have to divert the power source 40ft away to a new light but I can’t understand it when they already have a power source going to the light that is there.

‘£8,000 is a lot of money for a small village and it could have gone towards something positive to benefit the many clubs and societies we have.’

the rest with pix are here. have fun.

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