Friday - January 27, 2012
silly but cute. do these folks think this kind of thing will get ppl to stop eating meat?
Although to be very honest, taking a bite outta her might be an experience. Purely as an educational endeavor of course.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 24, 2012
taps for Capt. John Robson. One hell of a brave battling Brit. rip
While I’m sure there were very brave soldiers in all armies, I’m living here and here is where my concern is.
But there’s something else. Now perhaps I’m all wet on this. I am after all married to a Brit, so it should go without saying I am very pro Brit. I’ve read a bit of their military history, and the derring-do as exemplified by this crazily brave and outstanding soldier is repeated again and again by the men and women in service to this country. It’s a damn crying shame these lions have been betrayed and the Great Britain they fought for is now only Britain.
RIP Captain John Robson
Captain John Robson, who has died aged 88, was awarded an MC in Italy in 1945 and subsequently had a successful career in industry.
On April 26 1945, Robson, then a lieutenant serving with the 12th Royal Lancers, was patrolling in an armoured car near Lendinara, northern Italy, with orders to carry out a reconnaissance on the approaches to the river Adige. He was in close country, there were enemy pockets of resistance everywhere, and he and his troop corporal decided that they must cover the last part on foot.
As they got near to the river, their way was barred by a strong German fighting patrol. Robson was short of time because the Engineers were in urgent need of his report. He and his comrade were unsupported and heavily outnumbered. If it came to a confrontation, they stood every chance of being killed or captured — but they immediately opened fire with their Tommy guns and charged the enemy.
In the short, fierce fight that followed, they killed four and made prisoners of another eight. They then went on to the river and, after getting back to the cars, were able to radio the vital information required. Robson was awarded an Immediate MC. The citation added: “This is only one of several occasions when he has shown outstanding qualities of determination and fighting spirit.”
John Edward Robson was born in London on April 8 1923. He was educated at Haileybury, where there were compulsory cold baths every morning and the loos – there were about 20 of them in rows facing each other – were in a roofless building that was known as White City.
In 1941 Robson went up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences but left in the summer of 1942 and, after completing a short course at Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 27th Lancers. He was posted to the 12th Lancers and, having joined the regiment in Algiers in October 1943, landed in Naples the following April.
As they approached Venice, in the last days of the Italian campaign, Robson and a New Zealand company commander were told to secure the Hotel Danieli. The order came from General Freyberg, who had spent his honeymoon there. Robson commandeered a gondola and, as he wrote in his memoirs, “we were shot at by the fascists from the palazzos along the sides as we were punted down the Grand Canal”.
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Permalink • Monday - January 23, 2012
few sequins short of a tutu ….. read it all
I thought I’d heard the last (for awhile) on this topic. But this morning’s column by one of my favorite people really woke me up. I had not heard much about what she’s writing here. Which btw I’ve edited. See full column at the link.
Anyway, I had not realized the extent of the thinking here and didn’t even know we had it in the USA as Miss Phillips describes.
I don’t understand how people come to believe these things. How do they come to these things? Do they go out looking for it? Make things up as they go along? What? How come they can not see how stupid it all is.
But ... I heard something on the radio late last night, after my computer crashed and I spent an hour with tech in India. Happily I got someone I understood, but it still took an hour. By the time we were through I wanted nothing more to do with puters. Too tired even to read, I turned on the radio. The topic was not this story about the loon and her little boy/girl. But while reading Phillips here, I immediately recalled the radio program. Let me share a bit of that and you’ll see a weird connection.
The program was about a newly emerging industry that deals with stag nights. Yeah, stag nights. Ah but with a difference. Apparently, Krakow (Poland) is host to groups of Brit guys enjoying their last freedoms. Kind of. There are actually companies that arrange tours, depending on what is paid determines how long your stag vacation is. Usually it’s a whole weekend. Yes, the guys do get pie eyed however, there isn’t the usual (we are told) stag films of old or sex for sale kind of thing. It’s supposed to simply be a group of friends enjoying the company of a guy about to become married. The groups are controlled quite expertly by a lady guide. They are taken from one bar to another and visit various city attractions etc. All very civilized we were informed. And here’s the part that you might say really woke me up. It was to be quite honest, a bit embarrassing to listen to.
One of the guys on the program is a reporter who spent many months following this newest thing. The guided stag tour of Krakow. He interviewed the guys and drank with them, nothing sneaky because he wasn’t trying to uncover anything illegal. And then he came to this.
It was noticed how these guys have not acted in the expected macho traditional male on a bender (tho they were on quite a bender) way. Here were guys he said, who were straight but not afraid to touch each other. Not in a sexual way, but more or less we are informed, in the manner that women bond with their friends. They aren’t embarrassed or afraid to touch and show a softer side. They were more touchy feely I suppose. They were less the masculine stereotype.
I guess times have changed and apparently some men have too. But I think it’s manufactured. I just can not imagine guys having a girls night out.
Well, not if they’re straight anyway. It just doesn’t seem natural.
You’ve got to be a few sequins short of a tutu to raise your son as ‘gender neutral’By MELANIE PHILLIPS
For more than three decades, Left-wing ideologues have been determinedly unravelling sexual and gender differences — on the grounds that the very idea that people are different amounts to a kind of prejudice.
Bizarre as it may seem, what started as a campaign for equal rights progressed into a movement to abolish altogether the differences between men and women.
This movement consisted of an alliance between, on the one hand, radical feminists who were consumed by hatred of men and, on the other, gay activists intent upon blurring the distinction between hetero-sexual and same-sex unions.
What arose from both was a push towards androgyny, based on the false belief that biology had little to do with gender differences — which were instead said to be artificially constructed by society.
LUNACY
Denying the biological facts of life in this way might be considered a form of lunacy. Indeed, scientists have shown there are many differences between male and female brains. And in general, men and women clearly have different approaches to their environment, relationships, children and so on.
Nevertheless, promotion of androgyny has become a kind of default position among progressive thinkers, writers and politicians.It all started with the idea that men and women should have interchangeable roles both at home and in the work-place, and that fathers were no longer essential to the family unit at all.
Right from the beginning, however, there was a deeper agenda to redefine relations between men and women by nothing less than redefining men and women themselves.Accordingly, radical feminists such as academics Judith Lorber and Susan Farrell wrote with a straight face that ‘being a woman and being a man change from one generation to the next’.
And the immensely influential psychologist Sandra Bem wrote that to free people from ‘culturally imposed’ definitions of masculinity and femininity people should become androgynous, adapting male or female behaviour according to their situation.
This would mean, she gleefully predicted, that distinctions between male and female would ‘blur into invisibility’.
Goodbye testosterone!Astonishing as this may seem, this madness has now become mainstream. For example, the Council of Europe, no less, has drafted a definition of gender as an artificial social construct which has little to do with biology.
In the U.S., some therapists have demanded ‘genderless models of marriage and parenting’.
Recently, the California Teachers’ Association held a conference advocating ‘gender liberation’. It issued instructions on ‘gender etiquette’, which said it was polite to ask people with which sex they identified — and, accordingly, by which pronouns they preferred to be described. The instructions added helpfully: ‘Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong.’
And a few months ago on U.S. TV, a ‘gender coach’ was filmed indoctrinating children that they could choose whether to be a boy or a girl.
SINISTER
It all sounds too ludicrous to be true. In fact, it is deeply sinister. Our society is being brainwashed into pretending that the differences between male and female don’t exist — in order to reconstruct society into some unattainable utopia of sexual and gender identicality.
The dual goal is to marginalise men and to upend society’s fundamental moral codes. Having first been told they can behave sexually in whatever way they want, people are now being told they can be sexually whatever they want. And anyone who objects to this will be told they are a bigot.
The result will be an increasing tide of misery. Human identity is formed by the union of male and female. Sexual and gender differences lie at the very heart of what it is to be a human being.
Denying those differences to a child not only threatens that child’s own sense of identity and well-being, but also starts to unravel what it is to be a person.
Dressing a boy as a girl and pretending he can choose his gender is not merely bizarre and cruel. It is part of a wider agenda to re-order our society.
Far from ushering in a better world, this threatens to stamp out the individual right to know what we are, and to rob us of humanity itself.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 22, 2012
the dumbest thing you’ll read? well, it gets loopier. UPDATE to yesterday’s gender story.
Here’s a brief update to yesterday’s article about the little boy growing up being brainwashed about gender.
Ya gotta wonder why the parents are allowed to keep this kid. He is gonna grow up one confused boy. Er ... girl?
Wanna bet that soon the loon conditioning him now, is gonna teach him how to walk in high heels. Jeesh.
Isn’t this a form of child abuse? Or am I over reacting?
Hate to say this but .... the kid already looks, well, erm. Kind of odd already?
‘What’s the difference between boys and girls? That’s silly!’ ‘Gender neutral’ child’s reaction to mother’s questions on sex
By JILL REILLY
A mother who kept her five-year-old son’s gender a secret since he was born has posted a video of him on the internet discussing ‘silly’ gender differences.
In the 90 second clip, Sasha Laxton, who has been brought up as ‘gender neutral’ can be seen laughing with Beck Laxton and saying it is ‘silly’ to have girls’ and boys’ coloursSasha’s gender has only been revealed recently because he started school in September, and when Miss Laxton, a web designer, asks if he thinks girls and boys are different, a grinning Sasha simply replies ‘No.’
His mother,46, continues her questions and says: ‘What do people sometimes say to you about colours?’
‘Pink and yellow are girls’ colours and blue and green are boys’ colours. I think that is really silly!’ Sasha replies.
‘What about dressing up in a tutu and being a fairy? Do you remember when you did that for Christmas and I sent it on the Christmas cards because you looked so beautiful?’ asks Miss Laxton.
A smiling Sasha replies ‘Yeah.’
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Permalink • Friday - January 20, 2012
when somalis aren’t out - a - pirating
When Somalis aren’t out – a - pirating
They’re here in the former GB collecting. Could this be land piracy?
Of course, they aren’t the only ones, and membership in the EU doesn’t help this problem either.
That’s THREE BILLION ONE HUNDRED MILLION in US dollars. And trust me, bad as things are, this won’t be the end of it.
The foreigners being paid £2billion in benefits a year including 371,000 on the dole (and 5,000 claiming £42m in illegal handouts)
· DWP fraud probe after 5,000 illegal immigrants claim £42m in handouts to which they are not entitled
· 371,000 foreign nationals on out-of-work benefits
· 6% of all benefit claimants are foreigners, study finds
By TIM SHIPMANMore than £2billion is being claimed in benefits by foreigners every year, including thousands of illegal immigrants, figures reveal.
The Department for Work and Pensions announced a fraud investigation last night after it emerged 5,000 illegals claimed handouts worth £42million to which they are not entitled.
Ministers acted after the first-ever study of claimants’ nationality, which found 371,000 foreign nationals are on out-of-work benefits.Taxpayers will rightly worry the rules designed to prevent benefit tourists are steadily being eroded by a meddlesome EU, leaving Britain to pick up a bigger welfare bill than it needs to.’
Somali asylum seeker Saeed Khaliif was given a £2million home in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods at the taxpayer’s expense.
The 49-year-old was granted housing benefits of almost £8,000 a month to live in the six- bedroom property with his wife Sayida and children.
The unemployed couple demanded to be moved to West Hampstead, north-west London, after deciding their home in the Midlands was inadequate.
The payments, revealed last year, are among the largest ever given in housing benefit.Their new home has a 90ft garden and has been recently refurbished, with an en suite master bedroom and modern kitchen.
It is minutes from West Hampstead Underground station and the neighbourhood is home to comedian Stephen Fry.
It is understood Mr Khaliif has up to eight children and lives on benefits. He has not worked since arriving here three years ago.
Sought-after: The Khaliffs’ new home in West Hampstead
It is understood the family left £600 worth of damage to their old home in Coventry and did not pay the final month’s rent.
Housing benefit was recently capped at £400 a week, but the Khaliifs were able to claim more because they moved before the change came into force.
According to property sources, the house was being advertised to rent at £7,800 per month.
We’re in the money,
We’re in the money;
We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!
We’re in the money,
The sky is sunny;
Old Man Depression, you are through,
You done us wrong!
We never see a headline
‘Bout breadline, today,
And when we see the landlord,
We can look that guy right in the eye .
We’re in the money
Come on, my honey
Let’s spend it, lend it,
Send it rolling around!
(From 42nd Street)
bmews readers are encouraged to see the source link, scroll down to the comments. I can imagine how those Brits feel. Not too good. Not good at all.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 19, 2012
News To Me
We’re nearing the end of the dead period on American television, that six to eight week hiatus that all the shows seem to take as soon as winter sets in. Nothing on but repeats. With our cable company giving us the On Demand feature, we’ve been able to avoid most of this, and have been watching old episodes of shows we don’t ordinarily watch. We’ve also been exploring several of the few hundred channels we never look at, just to find something new or at least interesting to watch. New episodes are starting up this week and next, so we’re saved for the next couple of months.
I watched one of the BBC documentary shows last night, a new one called The Queen’s Palaces. The episode was on Buckingham Palace. Fantastic. Mind blowing. My God, such wealth spent so lavishly. Stunning. But I’m not jealous, or envious, or resentful. The Crown had the money, and that’s how they spent it, and it was all a long time ago, so so what? [ although I am more than a little piqued about an ad they kept running for the Bill Moyers show (who??)that flashed dozens of famous faces across the screen with a series of vocal sound bites, and one of them goes “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.” which is an infuriating bit of undiluted Marxism in my opinion. ]
But it was late in the evening, and being a guy I couldn’t help but be continually distracted by the presenter for the show, one Fiona Bruce, as she legged it around the palace, up and down the grand staircases, in and out of one sumptuously detailed enormous room after another. Damnation. Horry Clap what a pair of legs that woman has. And that’s in her old sensible heels, flats, and jodhpurs ( they stuck her on a horsey for one scene, but I don’t think she rides regularly ). It’s not like she was trying, wearing the same old blue dress she’s had for ages, and that makes it all so much more appreciable.
A tiny bit of net research this morning shows me that this is not news to any of you Brits, as you’ve had her as a news show person and TV presenter for years and years, that she is very well paid by the BBC, and that controversy sticks to her like glue over jealous charges that she’s just too darn sexy for the job. As if. Or too dim-witted or common. At least she has some appearance of class, and isn’t some mostly naked bit of pantie-less dumpster slut falling out of her clothes at every opportunity. She isn’t even all that pretty, though she is rather striking and quite easy to listen to. Personally, I think she’s in damn fine shape for a woman half her age and I hope BBC One continues to keep her walking about on camera and presenting everything. Better than that Cat Deeley stretched out bit of vacuous fluff.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 18, 2012
A SOCIALIST PARADISE FOR ALL BUT THE TAXPAYER
There are a couple of rcob items I’d like to share. Or maybe ‘like’ isn’t exactly the correct term here.
Pick up any paper on any day, turn on radio news (TV too I guess) and someone is going to be speaking about the economy, the cuts being made and the many protests over cuts. Unless you are personally affected the whole subject is probably a crashing bore. But hold on. Maybe not. Because what makes the subject more then interesting to me, personally, is watching this nation and culture which I had long admired, tear itself apart and commit national suicide. I do not like that at all.
I can forgive dumb mistakes because I make them all the time. But what I am seeing is no mistake. I’m no economist, I never managed to balance a check book. Not once in my many years. Maths was never my subject. But it doesn’t take rocket science to know when people have been led down a garden path and lied to. And bad as the previous left wing Labour govt. was, I don’t see great strides being made by this
coalition govt., and I don’t see evidence of the Conservative promise to alter the squatting laws. What I see is more of that and more spending outside the country while being told cuts must be made everywhere inside. Cept those cuts do not include all members of the ruling class.
Among the many cuts on tap is money for things like, national parks. In this case, the beautiful Dartmoor National Park.
Folks are angry because in order to cover the shortfall caused by the cuts, for the very first time, Dartmoor authorities are talking about parking charges. Now this is just one tiny example but added to everything else going on, it’s frustrating for the camel carrying all that straw. Speaking of straws.
IMF confirms plans to expand bailout fund to around $1 trillion, as French banks face write-downs on Greek debt.
And guess what? Britain may be forced to give 15 BILLION to the IMF. Pretty big straw that.
Unemployment is expected to reach new highs and it’s touted that by next year, they could be the highest since 1990.
No job? What? Me worry?
Not the filthy foreign slag who is shown here. Of course she’s happy. The Brit taxpayer is spending over £27,000.00 on the NON English speaking bitch.
Let me convert that to American dollars. Rounding things out, the mommy of four (don’t know where dad is or if there is one) that comes to $41,725.00 added to the txpayer’s payload, while cuts are being made in country. Foreign aid in the multiple millions continues.
The Big Issue is a newspaper for the homeless. And oh btw. Her lack of English sure didn’t stop her from getting legal help when she was first refused ADDITIONAL money.
Romanian Big Issue seller given legal right to claim housing benefit (on top of the £25,000 she already claims)
The mother-of-four currently claims £25,547.60 in benefits each year
That will rise by a minimum of £2,600 when she receives her additional housing allowance
By LUKE SALKELD
As a Romanian immigrant living in the UK, Big Issue seller Firuta Vasile already qualified for more than £25,500 a year in benefits.
But one state handout she wasn’t entitled to was housing benefit. Until now.
Yesterday the 27-year-old mother of four was celebrating having won the extra payout – worth at least £2,600 a year – after her local council was over-ruled by a judge.
Miss Vasile, whose marital status is unknown, said the benefits money would help her pay rent on her £130,000 three-bedroomed home, while she continues to earn around £100 a week selling copies of the homelessness magazine.
Housing benefit has previously been provided to Romanian citizens only if they fit into one of three categories. They must either be registered with the Home Office to work in specific sectors such as agriculture or construction, have highly skilled jobs, or be self-employed with a National Insurance number and tax registered.
Miss Vasile has persuaded officials that she should be considered as part of the third category because she uses her own money to buy copies of the magazine in the hope of selling them at a profit.
Speaking through an interpreter, Miss Vasile said she came to the UK in 2007 to look for work, but could find only a post selling The Big Issue in Bristol.
‘I can keep half of the money I take and I usually make around £100 per week,’ she said. ‘This isn’t enough to meet all my family’s needs so I asked the council for housing benefit to help with my rent. My claim was turned down.
‘I was told that because I am Romanian I could not get benefits unless I have a job or I am in self-employment. They said work for The Big Issue didn’t count. I got legal support and was helped with an appeal.’
Miss Vasile claims £25,547.60 annually in benefits. Every week she receives £326 in tax credits, £60.50 in child benefits, £49.30 in disability living allowance and £55.50 in carers’ allowance.
She would now be entitled to around £160 a week in housing benefit – although this will be reduced to around £50 due to her other income.
Unlike other European Union nationals, Romanians and Bulgarians are subject to strict employment rules in the UK because their countries were late entrants to the EU.
Their rights will be brought into line with other European member states at the end of next year.
Let me guess. Ah .... gee this is a hard one. Their RIGHTS translated means more money then allowed now.
Jackpot. For them.
Miss Vasile, whose children are 11, seven, six and two, first applied for housing benefit from Bristol City Council on November 15, 2010. It was refused six days later.
A social security tribunal ruled that she should be paid the benefits because selling The Big Issue counted as self-employment.
But the city council appealed and the case was taken to an Upper Tribunal in London last year.
Judge Mark Rowland released his written judgment on January 10 and the council has said it would not appeal again.
Miss Vasile – who has one disabled child – was represented by welfare benefits adviser Andy King, of Avon and Bristol Law Centre.
He said: ‘This is a victory for people struggling to work to support their families. Anyone who thinks selling The Big Issue on a British street in winter is a soft option should have a go themselves.’
But Chris Grayling, minister for employment, said: ‘We disagree with the court’s decision.
‘We have to remain in line with our national and international obligations. However, it is absolutely necessary to protect the taxpayer and the benefit system from possible abuse.’
But the problem is, all these folks have to do is ..... show up here and ..... BINGO!
Meanwhile, there’s this possibility to contend with.
Take a serious look at this.
Would you want a clipboard- wielding jobsworth telling your parents it’s time to leave their home?
By BRENDA ALMONDElderly people have a hard enough time in modern Britain. The private pensions crisis, the scandal of neglect and abuse in the NHS, the erosion in the value of their savings and the crippling cost of care are all increasing problems for older generations at the very time in their lives when they are at their most vulnerable.
But now an insidious new source of pressure is looming on the horizon — the growing belief within the Government that private properties belonging to the elderly should be used as a solution to Britain’s chronic housing shortage.
Houses are no longer viewed as beloved homes, safe havens, and welcome private assets for hard-pressed families. Instead, they are to be regarded as a potential source of state-run accommodation, ripe for exploitation.
That is certainly the thinking behind the scheme outlined by Conservative Housing Minister Grant Shapps, which said that local councils should help the elderly downsize to smaller properties, with their homes then rented out to families on local waiting lists.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 17, 2012
liberal retards on the march to further pc
A bit of a brouhaha over a remark about blacks having a built in suntan.
Are white folks getting dumber and dumber?
Appears so. And many black folks must be having an honest laugh at the silly white people who seem hell bent on feeling offended on their behalf. Even if they aren’t.
The Telegraph earlier this week reported on a youth worker who was thrown off a council course for describing black folks as having a “built in suntan.”
Nobody so far has managed to explain exactly how or why that’s racist or offensive.
The lady made the remark was also called to account for her use of the term, “coloured boy.”
During the first day of an Essex county council youth offending service training session, the woman commented, “I have a stepfather who has a built in suntan.”
Oh woo-freekin-hoo. Quick. Rope and tree for the awful offence against humanity.
The woman of course has been apologizing left and right for any perceived offence which she says wasn’t intended. She’s 59 and said that growing up she was always told to use the word colored rather then black. Perhaps that was the choice of her stepfather. Who knows. But the two things taken together were seen by the council as unacceptable and racist, in spite of her coming from a mixed race home and background.
I can’t even guess when, where or how this stupidity will end. Or indeed if it ever will.
The politically correct idiot spokesman for the Essex county council says,
“People need to display open, friendly, non-judgemental communication skills and also show an appreciation of diversity and respect for all people at all times.”
So I guess that woman violated all of that but I still can’t figure out how.
And in other politically incorrect happenings.
A Conservative councillor has been suspended for comments he made on Twitter, labelling some disabled people who were protesting over cuts in their programs, as
retards.
John Fareham, a Hull city council leader, made the remark after a budget cuts debate last year.
He Tweeted: “15 hours in council today, very hard-hitting day and the usual collection of retards in the public gallery spoiling it for real people.”
He had the unmitigated nerve to write what people say all the time and write in truth more likely. But that isn’t accepted anymore. People now must be cautious about speaking their minds as heaven forbid, someone will be offended.
The committee that dumped him says his remark “breached equality enactments and brought his office and the council into disrepute.”
Never mind he was speaking for himself alone.
Now I wasn’t there of course and so I can not say with absolute surety that it went this way. But anyone wanna bet that the retards in the gallery were probably shouting over speakers because only their voices had any right to be heard.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 12, 2012
law without justice as killers walk free but bored.
It’s 11:19 and this damn cold has settled into a raging cough. So I came downstairs and booted to see what tomorrows headlines will be.
This bit of soft justice (justice? where?) immediately caught my eye. I guess it was meant to.
It’s this kind of thing that makes ppl see red and causes so much frustration and anger. There really, really should be vigilantes at work here to settle the hash of vermin like these thugs. But what gets everyone up in arms are the light jail times for an act like this.
Meanwhile, a few days ago someone was given seven years for stealing £7,000.
There is no way to make sense of that. Oh I forget. Except among lawyers.
Here. Take a look.
Thug who killed for kicks released after just two years… and whines that he’s BOREDAttack by Warren Crago and two mates ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’
Leaves pitiful message on Facebook: ‘nuthin to do out in the big world for me’
Also spouts hatred of police and threatens to punch ‘black boys’
Victim’s father: ‘These thugs have evidently not learned their lesson’By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
What lesson? What they have learned is simply that they can easily get away with it and will more then likely do it again.
A sick thug who killed a Big Issue seller for kicks has been released from his custodial sentence after just two years and has taken to Facebook to tell of his ‘boredom’.
Warren Crago was 16 when he and two teenage friends beat homeless man Ralph Millward, 41, to death after finding him asleep on a pavement in Westbourne, Bournemouth.
Although a judge described the brutal attack as the ‘worst case of mob violence imaginable’, Crago and accomplice Craig Real were jailed for four years.
But after serving half of their sentence they are now back on the streets.
Crago, now 18, has gone on Facebook to write about being bored after getting out of ‘pen’. He is even using his police mugshot photo as his profile picture.
Mr Millward’s grieving father Ken, 78, said he was sickened by the teenagers’ conduct.
He said: ‘I would have hanged them. I have always believed in life for a life.The victim suffered 10 broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and bleeding on the brain. His injuries were said to have been consistent with being involved in a car crash.
The teenage trio were found guilty of manslaughter at Winchester Crown Court last year.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 10, 2012
Southampton. Some photos and some history
Oh damn oh damn!
Everything you will see below was lost because I was careless and had many tabs open and hit that red ‘X’ in the upper right one more time then I needed to.
I was hitting save as I went but to no avail. Good thing in part I had some saved in Word. But I’ve now been at this for hours so this is it for me for today.
Chrome doesn’t ask if you want to restore previous closed tab. Does it? I haven’t seen it if it does. Rats!
Happy to report I’ve shaken, at long last, the miserable bug I’d caught.
Unhappy to report that now my wife has some sort of bug, not quite the very same but does have a bad cough. So it’s been my turn to play nurse. Which is frustrating cos there’s nothing worse then having someone ill, you know what they’re feeling because you’ve had it, and there isn’t a darn thing you can do about it. You wanna help but ......
I have some items to share in the way of photos and history. And I’m now over two years behind in posting one set. Back around Oct. of 2008 I made one of our trips into Southampton. Every few months a friend and I go there and haunt the electronic stores but most especially Maplin’s. I don’t think I’ve ever been there but that I haven’t spent money. There’s always something they have that I can’t live without.
So on the trip in ‘08 I brought my camera and took a bunch of snaps. The ancient Bargate is in fact right outside Maplin’s door. You can’t turn in any direction without bumping into some serious history over here . Then last month we went back again. But I didn’t have a camera with me, and I found myself in a different part of town I had not seen before. It was just before Christmas, and we parked a long way from where we had to go. And there was this wall, and another, and a tower. Wow. Turns out it was all once connected to the ancient main gate about a mile from where we were. A lot had been lost in the war after German bombing, Southampton being a major port. And there was also a Spitfire factory there. So I borrowed my friend’s phone/camera and got off a few shots. But as he was leaving for Italy within days to spend Christmas there with his married daughter and grandkids, I didn’t get the pix until today. And I figured I’d stalled long enuff and so am sharing now. Hope you enjoy and heck. It’s a welcome change from my usual mad man rants. Gimme a minute. I have to grab the coffee from the kitchen.
I look at things here from the past and the people who put things together in ages when nobody had heard of health and safety. You know, something needed doing and they just did it. And they didn’t apologize all the time either. So here’s what I’ve been up to most of today. I’ve been editing and cropping all this stuff.
It doesn’t look like a lot but darn if it isn’t all time consuming.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND
http://www.localhistories.org/southampton.html
ROMAN SOUTHAMPTON
About 70 AD the Romans built a town on a bend in the River Itchen. The Roman town was called Clausentum. The streets were laid out in a grid pattern and they were gravelled. All the buildings in the Roman town were, at first, built of wood but in the 2nd century wealthy people rebuilt their houses in stone. They had panes of glass in the windows, painted murals on the walls and mosaic floors. Of course, poor people could afford none of these things. They lived in wood and plaster huts.
BARGATE
The main entrance to the walled town of Southampton was through the Bargate at the northern end of the town. Since the time of Henry II, many of the Kings and Queens of England have passed through the Bargate. By 1175, a simple square stone tower had been built, and the arch completed. There was a ditch in front of the gate with a bridge over it and ramparts on either side. Between 1260 and 1290, the ramparts were replaced by a stone wall. Round drum-towers were built on either side of the gateway and a hall was constructed on the first floor. The façade between the towers was added by 1420, with battlements and machicolations6. The ditch was filled in 1771, when the road through the bargate was paved. The shields were added in the 17th and 18th Centuries, showing crests of the families who ruled Southampton at the time; the shields of St George and St Andrew were also added at this time.
A penny postcard, 1920.
Guarding the Bargate are two lions, reflecting the local legend of Sir Bevis of Hampton, the mythical founder of Southampton. The first lions were put up in 1522, when the Bargate was decorated for the visit of King Charles V of Spain. The original wooden lions were replaced by the current lead lions in 1743. There were also two painted panels hung on either side of the gateway showing Sir Bevis and Ascupart, which are now preserved inside.
The Southampton Blitz
Southampton suffered badly from large-scale air raids during World War II. As a large port city on the south coast, it was an important strategic target for the German Luftwaffe. According to A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions Department) reports over 2,300 bombs were dropped amounting to over 470 tonnes of high explosives. Over 30,000 incendiary devices were dropped on the city. Nearly 45,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, with most of the city’s High Street being hit. There were reports that the glow of the firestorm of Southampton burning could be seen from as far away as Cherbourg on the coast of France. Nazi publicity declared in propaganda that the city had been left a smoking ruin.
By far the worst were on 23 and 30 November and 1 December 1940 and these attacks are generally referred to as “Southampton’s Blitz”. During this three day period, much of the town centre was destroyed.
More than 3.5 million members of the Allied Forces including over two million United States Troops embarked from Southampton in 1944 - 45 for the Invasion of Occupied Europe.
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/A80859054
illustration late 1880s
There have been settlements in the area of modern day Southampton since at least Roman times. After the Romans left the region, the Saxonsbuilt a sizeable town known as Hamtun. Despite being initially a successful settlement, it suffered badly at the hands of Viking raiders during the 9th and 10th centuries. The town was probably a victim of its own success; exporting wool and housing a Royal Mint at the time.
There is a tour of sorts here and you can follow what’s left of the old wall around the city. At one time I was informed, Southampton had more ancient walls and things still standing then any other city of it’s size. I have no idea about now however. So much was lost in the war.
I mentioned earlier that I found us in a part of the city I had not seen before. WOW. It wasn’t spectacular in the sense of size or anything ornate. But the idea that any of this was still standing. The next pix were taken between the black iron bars that made up a fence. Like this shot.
And just around the corner I saw this.
I wanted to see what was on the other side of that and through that opening. And the only way to do that was walk down the ally and climb the fire escape on the building opposite. Now let tell ya that was a small trick because the railing was coming away from the wall and had movement. Yeah. It swayed and so I took it fairly slow, but got off these next shots.
Titanic departs Southampton on her first, and only, passenger-carrying voyage. She is pulled by a tug, belching black smoke.
Well, our trip’s at an end. Finally. Oh yeah. See that red square over there on the right? The sign it surrounds was obscured so I thought you’d be happy to know it’s .... a Burger King.
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Permalink • Friday - January 06, 2012
found in mud, roman coin 2,000 yrs old and made for brothels
This article will speak for itself. Besides which, I’m not up to much in the way of words at the moment. Washer button on the fritz and I can’t seem to dislodge the damn thing so one feature doesn’t work. The feature being a shorter wash cycle by 40 minutes. Otherwise the damn thing runs for two and a half hours.
Called someone yesterday but repair ppl here have this really shitty habit of not returning calls. So have to find someone else.
Anyway, this is quite a story.
The coin would be about the size of an American quarter.
Roman brothel token discovered in ThamesA Roman coin that was probably used by soldiers to pay for sex in brothels has been discovered on the banks of the River Thames.
Made from bronze and smaller than a ten pence piece, the coin depicts a man and a woman engaged in an intimate act.
Experts believe it is the first example of its kind to be found in Britain. It lay preserved in mud for almost 2,000 years until it was unearthed by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector.
On the reverse of the token is the numeral XIIII, which historians say could indicate that the holder handed over 14 small Roman coins called asses to buy it. This would have been the equivalent of one day’s pay for a labourer in the first century AD.
The holder would then have taken the token to one of the many Londinium brothels and handed it to a sex slave in exchange for the act depicted on the coin.
The token was found by pastry chef Regis Cursan, 37, who made the discovery near Putney Bridge in West London.He told the Daily Mail yesterday: “The day I made the find it was a very low, early tide and raining heavily. At first I thought it was a Roman coin, because of the thickness and diameter.
“When I rubbed the sand off the artefact the first thing I saw was the number on one side and what I thought was a goddess on the other. Little did I know at the time it was actually a rare Roman brothel token. To find something like that is a truly exciting find.”
The token has been donated to the Museum of London, where it will be on display for the next three months. Curator Caroline McDonald said: “This is the only one of its kind ever to be found in Great Britain.
“When we realised it was a saucy picture, we had a bit of a giggle but there’s also a sad story behind it because these prostitutes were slaves.
“It has resonance with modern-day London because people are still being sold into the sex trade.”The object, dated to around the first century AD, was protected from corrosion by the mud. Similar tokens have been found elsewhere in the Roman Empire, but this is the first time one has been unearthed in the UK.
Some historians believe the Romans invented prostitution in the modern sense.
It played a significant part in the empire’s economy – with sex workers required to register with the local authorities and even pay tax.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 04, 2012
justice 18 yrs late
England ended 800 years of double jeopardy law with the new trial and convictions of two killers for a crime 18 years ago.
A white gang murdered a totally innocent 18 year old in a case that has troubled this island ever since. Bad policing and racism among many things are all over all over the major papers today and on the radio.
The killing of Stephen Lawrence was truly a race attack and not a figment of the liberal media. The kid was doing no more then waiting for a bus with a friend. He wasn’t a gang member, wasn’t into drugs, and wasn’t looking for trouble.
The gang of low life thugs who ended his life had attacked others as well. Stabbing a black was just an extension of similar attacks on whites.
Still free are three more of the gang who so far haven’t been been charged but who the cops know are guilty as sin.
Since the killing was done while the now grown men were merely ‘youths’ of 16 and 17 and couldn’t possibly have known right from wrong, the two convicted today will most likely be out in 12 to 15 years.
They should have been locked away forever when their vicious and criminal behavior was apparent all those years ago. But the laws are so soft and so liberal that the end result as always means an innocent death at some point in time.
Having said all of that, and honestly believing the killers deserve the death penalty, I also find it interesting that there is hardly ever so much noise made or anger displayed and speeches made, when it’s a white girl beaten to a pulp by a black gang who are also muslim. Or a public clamor for heads to roll when it’s announced that dark skinned muslim men have targeted white girls for the slave/sex trade. Or when a white person is murdered in a race crime.
I suppose many blacks might say with some justification to us white ppl, well sorry about that but now you know how we felt over many years of being on that end of a dirty stick. Cos it is true and I think we know it is. For many years, blacks beaten or robbed and killed by whites have not generally met with the same response from the white community. Except of course from the liberal who I always suspect do so for political reasons in addition to any other feelings they may have on the subject.
Instead of leaving you with a link to one article, here’s a link to the Daily Mail that will tell you the whole story. As will all the other papers whose entire front pages are filled with the story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
This might be only post for today. Back to sawbones in a half hour.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 03, 2012
Brits get permission from Brussels to language test docs and nurses. whose country is this anyway?
Well golly gee folks. Sorry about the mistakes and mishaps and the deaths due to doctors who don’t speak the language. We’ve learned something we never knew before. Ya think we should maybe tighten up the requirements starting with language skills? Ooooh. Now that’s a splendid idea. BUT FIRST …
Britain must follow the rules that most others ignore and get permission from the powers that leach in Brussels. Once their permission is given, Britain will be given the “right” to test doctors and nurses. Jeesh.
oh btw. The doctor that brought this all to a head is described as German. He is NOT.
I don’t care what his bought papers may say. He is not and will never be German.
Which in no way excuses the system that allowed him to flourish at the expense of patients.
Here’s the entire article unedited. Last year and the year before, this issue was all over the news.
This is what a multi-culture and diverse one world produces. Actually, it all started in 2008. But hey, the Brits got permission and that’s what counts. Right?
Doctors from the EU to face language tests following landmark ruling
By SOPHIE BORLANDBritain has won the right to test foreign doctors and nurses on their ability to speak English following a landmark ruling from Brussels.
There is mounting concern that patients are being put in danger by a ban that prevents watchdogs from checking the language skills of European doctors and nurses.This was triggered by the death of 70-year-old David Gray in 2008 at the hands of an incompetent German GP.
Dr Daniel Ubani gave him a lethal overdose of morphine on his first shift. Ubani had been allowed to cover an out of hours shift despite having a poor grasp of English and unacceptable medical standards.At present neither the General Medical Council, the doctors’ regulator, nor the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the equivalent body for nurses, is allowed to carry out language tests on workers flying in from the continent as it is deemed to infringe the EU’s ‘freedom of movement’ laws.
But proposals from the European Commission yesterday paved the way for such checks to be carried out. For the first time the EC said that the ‘checking of language knowledge’ can be carried out for the ‘protection of patients’.
In addition, EU member states will have a duty to alert other countries when a doctor or nurse is struck off so they cannot simply move abroad and carry on working. The proposals will have to be agreed by all EU members before they are made into law and even then it may take several years for the GMC and the NMC to bring in the tests.
Nonetheless, the ruling has been hailed as a major step forward by leading healthcare workers and the relatives of patients who have died as a result of the current lax regime.
The GP son of Mr Gray, Stuart Gray, said: ‘If the GMC is going to be able to check the language of doctors at registration that is a major step forward for the safety of patients.But what we push for next is for them all to undergo checks on their clinical competence. My father was killed by a doctor who was found to be clinically incompetent.’
Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing said: ‘The ability to communicate clearly with patients is an essential part of good nursing care.’Earlier this year Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced new rules that would ensure hospitals had a ‘duty’ to language test EU doctors.
But at the time there was concern that not all trusts would do this – and the rules did not include any provision for nurses.The current EU legislation bans national tests carried out by the GMC or NMC but it does not prohibit hospitals or primary care trusts performing checks on individuals before employing them.
Under Mr Lansley’s plan, each hospital would employ a ‘responsible officer’ whose job would be to ensure all foreign doctors were tested on English before being allowed to work.
Under these new proposals the GMC and the NMC will be allowed to carry out national tests before doctors and nurses can even be registered. Unless they are registered they cannot even apply for a job.
There are thought to be thousands of European doctors and nurses working in hospitals and surgeries who have never been given language checks.
Figures show that there are some 21,000 doctors on the GMC register who gained their qualifications in EU countries.
Although the Government has urged hospitals and primary care trusts to carry out their own checks on staff before employing them in the absence of a national test, many do not.
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A post without riposteI
Well, not Darth exactly. Just the guy who put on his mask and did all his sword fighting. And who happened to be the best cut and thrust choreographer in Hollywood history.
Great Britain Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson died in New York on Monday aged 89.
He took part in the 1952 Olympics and the 1950 and 1953 World Championships. Anderson later wore Darth Vader’s black helmet to fight lightsaber battles in two of the first three Star Wars films.
Anderson, who worked with actors from Errol Flynn to Antonio Banderas during five decades as a sword master, fight director and stunt performer, died early New Year’s Day at an English hospital, the British Academy of Fencing said Monday.
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Anderson, who has died at age 89, donned Darth Vader’s black helmet and fought light saber battles in two of the three original “Star Wars” films, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.”
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The scenes worked beautifully, although Anderson, then nearing 60, was several inches shorter than Prowse.Few knew of Anderson’s role until Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, said in a 1983 interview that “Bob Anderson was the man who actually did Vader’s fighting.”
Robert James Gilbert Anderson was born in Hampshire, southern England, in 1922, and was drawn to fencing from an early age.
“I never took up the sword,” he said in an interview for the 2009 documentary “Reclaiming the Blade.” “I think the sword took me up.”
Anderson joined the Royal Marines before World War II, teaching fencing aboard warships and winning several combined services titles in the sport. He served in the Mediterranean during the war, later trained as a fencing coach and represented Britain at the 1952 Olympics and the 1950 and 1953 world championships. In the 1950s, Anderson became coach of Britain’s national fencing team, a post he held until the late 1970s. He later served as technical director of the Canadian Fencing Association. His first film work was staging fights and coaching Flynn on swashbuckler “The Master of Ballantrae” in 1952.
He went on to become one of the industry’s most sought after stunt performers, fight choreographers and sword masters, working on movies including the James Bond adventures “From Russia With Love” and “Die Another Day”; fantasy “The Princess Bride”; Banderas action romps “The Mask of Zorro” and “The Legend of Zorro”; and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. [ Drew: not to mention all the “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Highlander” (film and TV versions), and that Lindsay Lohan magnum opus “The Parent Trap” ]
Fencing academy president Philip Bruce said Anderson was “truly one of our greatest fencing masters and a world-class film fight director and choreographer.”
Fencers and others who play seriously with swords will sit through yet another viewing of The Princess Bride just to watch the sword fights, especially the one between Inigo Montoya and the mysterious Man In Black (aka the Dread Pirate Roberts), even though it was obviously played for laughs. It really is one of the best ever filmed. Bob Anderson will be missed. Prime, seconde, septime, and octave (the defensive parries*) will never be quite the same.
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