Tuesday - August 05, 2008

ENGLAND IS OVER RULED BY EURO COURT ON EXTRIDITION TO USA OF TERRORIST.

Headline actually reads,

HAMZA EXTRIDITION HALTED BY EURO COURT

But the bottom line is that unless it goes through, it very much looks as tho a court in weeneyland (or is it weeny?) has the authority to overrule an English court.

So, assuming a euro court can actually overule Brits, about the last Brit home I’d wanna be in this morning would be Bulldog’s and Lyndon’s. I know there’s a lot of Brits want to see the last of this Hamza monster and won’t be too happy.

UK really needs to get out of the EU ASAP!  Not just for this travesty. For their very own survival as an independent and soverign nation.

extradition to US postponed

The British Government has been told to postpone extradition of Abu Hamza until a ruling on whether sending him to a maximum security US jail would breach his human rights.By Jessica Salter
Last Updated: 12:08AM BST 05 Aug 2008

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg gave the order as the 48-year-old’s lawyers claimed he would be kept in inhuman conditions.
US authorities want to jail Hamza in America’s most secure jail, the Supermax ADX Florence in Colorado, which houses 38 convicted international terrorists.
His lawyers claim that prisoners live in boxes, there is only two hours exercise per week, there are no family visits and every correspondence is intercepted.

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has already approved Hamza’s extradition and last month Hamza was refused leave to appeal to the Law Lords, the highest court in England and Wales.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The decision is a matter for the European Court. We shall seek to have his case expedited so it is heard as soon as possible.”

Hamza is currently serving seven years in Britain for soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred.
The former imam at London’s Finsbury Park Mosque is accused in the United States of trying to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon.
He faces 11 charges in total, including sending cash and recruits to al-Qaeda and the Taliban and one relating to the kidnap of 16 tourists in the Yemen in 1998. Four hostages, including three Britons, died in a rescue attempt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2501037/Radical-Islamic-cleric-Abu-Hamza-has-extradition-to-US-postponed.html

Sorry about the looooongish link but there were some problems using tiny this morning. Anyway, I only put a link here to show it’s from another source, as I don’t want anyone thinking it was made up. 

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   Monday - August 04, 2008

Dying man waits ‘25 minutes’ for 999 crew yards from ambulance station. (999 is Brit equiv.of

I don’t guess it doesn’t gets much worse then this. How damn sad.

An 81-year-old man lay dying on his doorstep while waiting to be taken to hospital, despite living 100 yards from an ambulance station.
By Vikki Miller

Alfred “Pip” Parry, from Ledbury, Herefordshire, collapsed from a suspected heart attack while an ambulance was en route from more than 10 miles away because the local station was closed that day.

His 12-year-old great-niece, Gemma Hill, tried to revive him for 10 minutes by massaging his heart. One man ran to the nearby ambulance station and then to a local hospital but was told to wait for an ambulance.

Witnesses said it took at least 25 minutes for one to arrive. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) said it was 17 minutes. Mr Parry died later in hospital.

His family criticised last Monday night’s delay, demanding a review of ambulance response times. His niece, Jo Hill, 35, said: “I am so angry that there was a station right there and it was shut.

“It was very distressing for his family seeing someone they adore lying on the floor being sick and looking so ill. Even my three-year-old boy was there.”

Neighbour Digby Allen, 33, attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He said: “We needed professional help. It was just too long. A bit quicker with specialist help and he would have had half a chance.”

Another neighbour, Peta Barnes, said: “People were very angry and very upset.”

Government targets state that ambulances must reach 75 per cent of all “life-threatening” calls, which includes heart attacks, within eight minutes.

So far this year, the WMAS has reached 77 per cent of these calls for Hereford, Shropshire and Worcester within the required time. This is the same as the average on-time response rate in England, but is the lowest across the West Midlands.

Ambulance services are required to respond to 95 per cent of all 999 calls that involve an emergency vehicle within 19 minutes.

A spokesman for the WMAS said: “Although there were no community first responders booked on duty in the area at the time, staff in the emergency operations centre rang a number of the responders but were unfortunately unable to raise any.

“At the time of the call there was a high level of demand in Herefordshire and Worcestershire.”

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Posted by Drew458     on 08/04/2008 at 11:00 AM   
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   Saturday - August 02, 2008

Post deliveries stopped because road ‘too dangerous’ .

Talk about outrageous.  I wish the Telegraph would show the photo in their online edition.  There isn’t anything dangerous here. Except the dumb thinking of a few idiots who seem determined to continue doing all they can to screw up this country.
OK, so 11 homes isn’t like the big city. Not even a sizable village. But still.  If they’ve been getting mail with no problems since ‘45, what’s the problem now?

I think I’m still upset since they closed our local PO.

Residents in a remote Yorkshire Dales hamlet face a 45 minute trip to collect their post because Royal Mail says the access road is too dangerous for its postmen.
By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 3:44PM BST 01 Aug 2008

The lane to the 11 homes has been deemed as “an accident waiting to happen” in the company’s health and safety assessment.

It claims the track is in such a condition that postmen could suffer “long-term back injury” by travelling down it.

So it has stopped deliveries after more than 60 years and families living there now face a 30-mile trip to the nearest sorting office to collect their post.

The road to Booze, in Arkengarthdale, is one of thousands of similar single track roads across the Dales and only has a low gradient of one in five, or 20 per cent.

(you’re gonna have fun with that one aren’t ya?)

Hazel Harker, a farmer’s wife, whose family have lived in Booze since 1945, said: “The whole hamlet is in uproar about it. It is a council road and we have always had deliveries by the mail van.

“I know it is steep and I know it is narrow, but there are lots of little roads like that. You just have to drive carefully.

“I drive up and down the road in a normal car and have had no problems. There have been no accidents on that hill, I know because I have lived here most of my life.”

Locals were given 24 hours notice of the last post in a letter explaining deliveries through the door were being suspended.

Despite its name, Booze has no pub, shops, post office or other amenities.

Daniel Child, a planning consultant who works from his home there, said: “If I can’t rely on the postal service I don’t see how I can continue to work.

“This is a real blow to the rural economy which is already suffering. What business is going to come and set up here if they can’t even be sure they’ll get their post.”

The withdrawal of the service was announced to residents by Colin Appleby, the delivery office manager, with no prior consultation.

He wrote: “A health and safety risk assessment has confirmed that the level of risk associated with this delivery is unacceptable due to an unsuitable track.

“The condition of the track could contribute to longer-term back injury with out employee.

“Under the circumstances, mail deliveries to your address will be suspended from tomorrow and your address will be classed as one which does not receive the normal daily delivery to the door for health and safety reasons.”

The people of Booze have been given the offer of having their mail temporarily delivered to a different address otherwise they face a 30 mile round trip to collect if from the sorting office at Richmond, North Yorks.

Arrangements are being made for roadside boxes to be provided nearer their home as permanent delivery points.

John Blackie, local Tory councillor, said: “It is a council maintained road, there are four passing places. It is perfectly safe and we even grit it in the winter.

“I am very concerned now how many other similarly small villages could be hit by a post ban with no warning. This sort of ban could rip the heart out of communities such as Booze.”

A Royal Mail spokesman said: “Because of concerns raised by our postmen and women, a health and safety assessment was carried out, as it concluded that there was a risk to our people delivering to a small number of homes in Arkengarthdale alternative arrangements for delivering the post have now been made.”

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   Friday - August 01, 2008

Does Obama ever think of us?

By Nile Gardiner

Barack Obama’s brief visit to London coincided with the opening of the new Batman film in British cinemas. How fitting.

On his journey through Europe last week the US presidential contender garnered adulation fit for a superhero. As a series of polls has shown, if the British public could vote on the American race, Obama would crush his rival John McCain by a margin of four or five to one.

Even 28 Tory MPs are backing him amidst an outbreak of Westminster Obamamania, despite his left-wing voting record, which made him the most liberal senator of 2007.

The British and European euphoria surrounding Obama’s trip is easy to understand. He is widely perceived as a charismatic, JFK-like figure, offering a seductive vision of a softer, sensitive America, while pledging to transform the negative image of the most powerful nation on earth.

But let’s consider the British national interest. When you push the spin and hype aside, there is scant evidence to suggest that an Obama presidency would actually strengthen the Anglo-American alliance, which has long been the engine of the free world. In fact, there is a risk it would be significantly weakened.

The special relationship was forged in the dark days of World War Two through the partnership between Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, and has been a dominant feature of US and British foreign policy ever since. It is embodied in the close-knit military and intelligence ties between the two nations, as well as the huge volume of mutual trade and investment.

The alliance reached its zenith in the 1980s with the leadership of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, a powerful partnership that successfully faced down the Soviet empire. After a period of decline it was successfully revived by George W Bush and Tony Blair in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Republican political elites in Washington still see the special relationship as critically important, a view shared by Senator McCain. In contrast, the Democrats have shown little affection for Britain in recent years, partly because of their love affair with continental Europe, but also due to Blair’s unstinting support for Bush over the war in Iraq.

After meeting with Gordon Brown yesterday, Senator Obama briefly acknowledged the special relationship, but only after prompting by journalists. He has yet to show much affinity with Britain; we should be wary of taking yesterday’s remarks at face value. In fact, his key foreign policy speeches have not mentioned Britain at all.

An Obama presidency could well usher in a seismic shift in the transatlantic alliance, with the centre of gravity of US policy in Europe moving away from London towards Berlin and Paris. His controversial decision to make Germany and France the centrepiece of his European tour, with Britain tacked on almost as an afterthought, is a clear sign of the importance placed by the Obama camp on enhanced relations with the continent.

The Democrats are traditionally strong supporters of a united, federal Europe, and have little sympathy for British objections to the further centralisation of political, military and economic power in Brussels. If David Cameron becomes prime minister at the head of a Eurosceptic administration, Downing Street and an Obama White House would be worlds apart.

And it won’t only be Obama’s European policy that will grate in London. Closely aligning himself with powerful labour unions, Obama has pronounced protectionist tendencies. He has opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement as well as a host of free trade treaties from Colombia to South Korea.

If the Left wins control of the White House in November’s election, many fear a new era of American protectionism will emerge. This could have a real and tangible impact in the UK - in shielding domestic US workers from foreign competition, including in the sensitive area of defence contracts, the Democrats would put thousands of British jobs at stake. This will draw the White House into conflict with the pro-free trade UK.

In his support for protectionist measures against the effects of globalisation, Obama will find common ground with several European leaders, including the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and it will consequently become harder for Britain to break down Europe’s own protectionist follies such as the Common Agricultural Policy.

Britain’s chattering classes should be careful what they wish for. Senator Obama promises change and a bold new course for the United States. The end result may be an America that looks away from Britain and erects higher barriers to trade and investment.

The special relationship has lasted over 60 years as the most powerful and successful partnership of modern times. Unfortunately it might not survive the next presidential election.

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Posted by Drew458     on 08/01/2008 at 10:01 AM   
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The Mayor of London, has backed Barack Obama to become President of the United States.

This bothers me and I’ll just have to leave it to ppl like Grumps and Drew and Wardmom to articulate for me.  What the hell is it with oh this will be good for black around the world?  Why the hell should I care about that?  Are they paying American taxes in darkest Afrika? Are they voting in my country?
Oh wait,,, for all I know ....
But why the heck a very public man like Boris who really is somewhat a conservative (using the term loosely of course) why he should insert himself into our elections is beyond my understanding.  Far as I can tell, and okay I might be wrong here, I can’t think think of any American pol. who publicly backs any foreign office seeker for fear of being accused I suppose of interfering.

Boris Johnson backs Barack Obama as US President
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has backed Barack Obama to become President of the United States.

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:34PM BST 01 Aug 2008

His endorsement of the Democratic candidate, against John McCain, his Republican rival, would usually be considered unusual for a Conservative.

But during his recent European tour, Mr Obama proved successful at winning over politicians of all persuasions, charming David Cameron, the Conservative leader, who he met for talks in his House of Commons office.

A survey carried out last month found that a third of Tory MPs want the Democrat to emerge triumphant.

But the Mayor of London is the most high profile Conservative publicly to throw his weight behind Mr Obama.

He told this month’s Square Mile magazine: “I was looking at him on the news and just thinking what an amazing moment this is, watching his speech in Berlin and thinking what a critical moment this is for America and for attitudes towards what they can achieve amongst the black community.

“If Barack Obama can do it, it will be the most fantastic boost, I think, for black people everywhere around the world.”

Asked for his views on the Republican candidate, Mr Johnson said: “Well, OK, I think John McCain has many, many wonderful qualities, but I think a Barack Obama victory would do fantastic things for the confidence and the feelings of black people around the world - that they can win.”

Asked if his words amounted to an endorsement of the Democrat, he said: “Yes.”

Mr Cameron has also spoken of his admiration for Mr Obama, backing his controversial call for black fathers to take greater responsibility for their children, but has stopped short of endorsing him over Mr McCain.

In the interview, Mr Johnson, who was elected Mayor in May after toppling Labour’s Ken Livingstone, also told how much he was enjoying the new job, despite the long hours involved.

He said: “Exhausted? I am full of fire. I am like a greased bounding panther. My legs are steel springs and every day I get out of bed and I beat my chest.

“Every morning I am full of wonderment that the people of London have done the honour of making me their Mayor, I really am. It’s an absolutely wonderful feeling. I think many other people are full of wonderment too. “It’s a joy and easily the best job I’ve ever had - a very, very difficult job and a very, very big job - but the best job.

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   Wednesday - July 30, 2008

Dustmen refuse to empty ‘too-full’ bin - despite it overflowing because they were on strike.

Quite right too.  We’re union men and we’ll get paid regardless and the public can just go to hell.

All is normal here in the nanny state.  All together now folks.  S o m a - S o m a -

By James Tozer

Last updated at 12:05 PM on 30th July 2008

Overflow: Steve Walton has had no rubbish collection for almost three weeks
As the dustmen were striking on collection day, it was no surprise that by the next week Stephen Walton’s wheelie bin was full to bursting.

However, the father of four was taken aback when council staff returned to work - and wouldn’t collect his rubbish because the bin was too full.

The two- day walkout by refuse staff had prevented a collection planned for July 17.

So last Thursday, Mr Walton was looking forward to getting rid of the rubbish accumulating outside his home in Mirfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire.

But when the binmen came round, they left his bin untouched - the only one in his street.

He called Kirklees Council to find out why, and was told that as the lid would not close, binmen were under orders not to empty it.

‘It’s ridiculous,’ the 37-year- old accountant said. ‘I completely admit that my bin lid wouldn’t shut properly, but that is purely because of the strike.’

Yesterday, three weeks’ worth of refuse was still piling up near his home. ‘It’s a mountain of rubbish - it’s probably 21/2ft clear of the rim now - and with all the hot weather we’re probably going to end up with rats,’ said Mr Walton, who lives with his wife Jane, also 37, and their children, Charlotte, 11, Laura, nine, Amy, seven, and 18-month- old Zachary.

‘There are a lot of us so we probably produce more waste than the average home, but that is not why the bin was overfilled.

‘It’s a total farce that the council workers can go on strike and then blame you for having too much rubbish. If they did what they are paid to do, then we wouldn’t be in this situation.’

Mr Walton, who pays £1,600 a year council tax, hopes the rubbish will be removed when the binmen return tomorrow for the usual weekly collection.

But Councillor Kath Pinnock, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council, fears things will get worse before they got better.

‘I’d bet anything that there will be more people expecting to have their bins collected this week for the first time in a month only to be told theirs are too full as well,’ she said.

‘The council should have organised additional collections - it’s been a complete disaster.’

Many parts of the Kirklees area have fortnightly collections, and there alone, 20,000 homes could face going a month without a bin collection.

The council, like many authorities, does not empty wheelie bins if they are too full for the lid to close.

Officials say that the machinery at the back of dustcarts can become blocked if bins swing open while being unloaded.

But the Conservative-controlled council said it had agreed a deal with the striking workers’ unions to clear the backlog.

Under the arrangement, the bins were left until the next scheduled collection and there was the option that bags of rubbish left next to bins could be picked up during an extra collection at the weekend.

Although this would largely apply to householders with fortnightly collections, if Mr Walton had requested that extra rubbish bags be removed, it is thought he may have been able to take advantage of the extra collection.

However, Mr Walton said he had not been told of the policy. He would have placed extra rubbish in separate bags if he had known this, he added.

A council spokesman said: ‘The joint trade unions would not give any concessions for catching up missed wheeled bins due to strike action, hence we have not responded to any such requests.’

The Daily Mail’s Great Bin Revolt campaign has highlighted widespread public anger at the growing number of councils introducing fortnightly collections, ostensibly to increase recycling.

In April, Gareth Corkhill, 26, from Whitehaven, West Cumbria, was given a criminal record after the lid of his jam-packed wheelie bin was left 4in ajar.

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Posted by Drew458     on 07/30/2008 at 11:13 AM   
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gang kicked man unconscious while a girl rifled through his pockets.  (Am not posting the video)

The link below will have the stills and the video.  I did not watch the video and only looked at a couple of the still photos.

The awful thing is that this is not an isolated occurrence. 

Plan on a visit to Britain anytime soon?  COME ARMED!  Better yet.  Stay Home!

Caught on CCTV: The moment a drunken gang kicked man unconscious while a girl rifled through his pockets

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:32 AM on 30th July 2008

Sickening images released by police lay bare a horrific attack by a teenage gang who kicked a man unconscious on the ground as a woman rifled through his pockets for money.

The graphic images of the town centre attack show the group kicking and punching the 27-year-old repeatedly before Gemma Stafford, 18, is seen stealing cash and cigarettes.

CCTV captured the drunken gang laying into their victim. One of the assailants is filmed delivering a horrific running kick to his head as he lay motionless.

WARNING: This footage contains graphic violence

Stafford, the initial ringleader of the unprovoked assault in Rochdale town centre, was sentenced to 18 months in jail yesterday. The four other gang members were jailed for a total of 13 years and six months last month.

Bolton Crown Court heard the man was targeted as he walked through the town in the early hours of March 15 this year.

Ringleader: Gemma Stafford, 18
Gemma Stafford led the gang as she walked over and shook her hands in an aggressive manner. The group then surrounded him and two of the offenders punched him in the head.

He soon fell to the ground after being repeatedly punched and kicked by the five offenders and was knocked unconscious.

Stuart Shaw, 20, continued to kick him while Stafford rifled through his pockets and stole money and cigarettes, even turning him over to make sure she had checked everywhere.

Just for good measure, Shaw then took one last running kick at the victim’s head before they ran off, leaving him for dead.

When police arrived Stafford claimed she was an innocent bystander who was concerned about the victim. Shaw said he could not remember what had happened because he had drank so much.

The victim was taken to hospital but luckily only suffered minor injuries.

Stafford, of Hilltop Drive, Kirkholt, was sentenced to 18 months after pleading guilty to violent disorder and robbery. She received nine months for each offence to run consecutively.

A police officer said after the case: ‘The scenes on the CCTV are absolutely disgraceful. This girl thought she would juist help herself to this guy’s belongings as her mates gave him a good kicking.

‘He could have been dead or dying yet she could not give too hoots about him. His money and cigarettes wee more important. There’s just no such thing as the fairer sex these days.’

Last month, Shaw, of Bridge Street, Heywood, was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to four years after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and violent disorder.

Andrew Harbourne, 19, of Clever Street, Burnley was sentenced to four years after pleading guilty to violent disorder and robbery.

Joshua McErlean, 19, of Bury Road, Rochdale was jailed for four years after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, robbery and violent disorder.

A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to 18 months youth detention after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, robbery and violent disorder.

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There’s a bit more of the story at the link with photos.  I am not going to post the video or the still shots here.  I just can’t bring myself to go that far.
I don’t feel like a censor nor would I want that kind of responsibility.  But this shit (pardon me) is beyond the pale.
The punishment hahahaha, punishment?  Isn’t that at all.  These pieces of absolute worthless filth should get the very same treatment and more, that they dealt out to the victim here.

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   Tuesday - July 29, 2008

Barack Obama, a man mainlining Preparation ‘H’

For my American friends who may not know. Dave Cameron is the leader of the opposition (conservative) party. The Tories.  Now as LyndonB would tell ya were he here, the Cons ain’t exactly what most of us at BMEWS think of when we use the term.  In fact, more then a few Brits themselves are wondering just what a con is anymore.

Anyway, this made up interview is funny.  The articulate and well mannered Obama, and the rap talking white guy, Dave Cameron. The only thing I don’t get exactly is the term, BAZ.  ?  I haven’t seen that term before today.

When Call Me Dave met Call Me BazLast updated at 9:55 PM on 28th July 2008

by Littlejohn in The Daily Mail

Gordon Brown looked about as uncomfortable as a man mainlining Preparation H during his meeting with Barack Obama. But when the Messiah met Call Me Dave it was a marriage made in heaven.

Both the young pretenders are consummate actors. Obama was on a mission to prove to Europeans that he’s One Of Them. CMD seemed desperate to prove he could get down with the folks in the hood.

Sympathising over Barack’s busy schedule (or should that be ‘sked-yule’?), Dave appeared to switch effortlessly into American. A stray microphone picked him up saying: ‘These guys just chalk your diary up.’

Doesn’t sound very Old Etonian to me. Both men were obviously anxious to ingratiate themselves.

Dave was hoping some of the Messiah’s hip stardust would rub off on him, while Obama was striving to graft a little old school European sophistication on to his street smarts - as this full transcript of the conversation shows.

The first voice is Dave’s…

Yo, Barack, my man. How’s it hanging? Gimme five.

Enchanted to meet you, Mr Cameron.

Not so formal, bro. Call me Dave.

That’s awfully kind.

Where’s you bin at, Bazza?

I’ve just been visiting with President Sarkozy, in France.

What’s you wanna be rapping with that cheese-eating surrender monkey for?

I’m hoping to build bridges with Europe.

Stick wiz CMD, Baz. I’ll take you to the bridge. You can’t trust the French.

President Sarkozy does have some interesting ideas. And a most attractive wife.

Carla Bruni, man, damn she’s one hot piece-a ass, you know what I’m sayin’?

Indeed I do, er, Dave.

Dy-no-mite, dude. Not like that Hillary Clinton. Man, you whooped her booty good.

I found Mrs Clinton a formidable opponent, I must admit.

Yo bitch Michelle is one sweet slice o’cherry pie, too, you don’t mind me saying.

Not at all. I am very fortunate to have such a clever and good-looking wife. She is a tremendous asset.

Cool with that, Baz. And my ho Sam ain’t too shabby, you dig? Maybe you and Michelle wanna come hang at my crib sometime - West-side.

That would be most agreeable. I hear you have a windmill on your roof.

Damn right, I do, bro. We all gotta do our bit for the en-vi-ro-ment, save all them polar bears, cut our dependence on Ay-rab oil.

I was told you take a great interest in climate change and green matters.

Even got me a picture with a husky. And my ride’s green, too.

Have you got a Toyota Pious?

Better than that, bro. I got me a bysickle, which I rides to work every day. At least, I did until it was stolen outside Tesco.

I’m sorry to hear that.

It’s cool, Baz. My homies put out the word on the street and the skank who stole it gave it back up. Teach him to mess with the Notting Hill Massive.

Aren’t you going to introduce me to your associates, Dave?

Sure thing, dude. Meet my posse. This here’s my main man Georgie- O and the skell in the baseball cap is Willie H. Show some respect to the senator, guys.

I’m delighted to make your acquaintance. I wonder if we could talk about your policies.

Policies, Baz? Who needs policies when you’re up against a loser like Gordon Brown? You’ve met the dude, he’s dead meat.

He did seem a little buttoned-up. Has he always bitten his fingernails?

Bitten, man? We’re talking five course, all-you-can-eat buffet here.

He obviously has some serious psychological issues. How did he ever win an election?

Never did, bro. Just parked his ass in the chair when Tony Blair left. Brown had the chance to hold an election, but bottled it.

Bottled?

Sorry, Baz. He decided not to because he thought he might lose.

He can do that?

You’re damn right he can, bro.

But his party must have voted for him?

Nope.

You mean he didn’t have to face a primary, or a general election before becoming Prime Minister?

That’s right.

Sounds like Communism to me. We’d never put up with it in America. I mean, I haven’t got any policies, either, but I’ve still got to stand for election in November. And I’ve just been through a gruelling year of primaries. What the hell’s gone wrong with democracy in this crazy country?

Labour’s been trying to abolish it, dude. Our real government’s in Europe these days. Brown handed over the last of Britain’s sovereignty to Brussels without bothering to hold a referendum.

Hang on, let me get this right. England’s all run from Europe now, so it doesn’t really matter who becomes Prime Minister, because he won’t have any real power?

I guess when you put it like that, dude . . .

So why the hell am I wasting my time talking to you, Mr Cameron?

I told you, Baz, call me Dave.

No thanks, Mr Cameron. And enough of the ‘Baz’ already. You can call me ‘Mister President’.

Any colour you like, as long as it’s not black

Absurd: Detective Inspector Chris Pretty has been accused of racism
The first person I heard describe a BMW as ‘Black Man’s Wheels’ was a black man.
It’s an expression which has been in common parlance on the street for donkey’s years.

Now a senior policeman has been reprimanded for using it and had his pay cut as a result.
Superintendent Chris Pretty has been demoted one rank to chief inspector. Two officers complained that when he opened a leaving present containing a toy BMW at a party to mark his last day as head of training, he quipped: ‘Oh, Black Man’s Wheels.’

It was a harmless joke. But instead of telling the complainants to grow up, West Midlands Police took it seriously.

Bini Brown, from the African Caribbean Self Help Organisation in Birmingham, said: ‘These particular comments made by a high-ranking police officer merely add fuel to the myth that BMWs are driven only by black criminals.’

No, they don’t. It’s simply a humorous acknowledgment of the enthusiasm some young black men have for blinged-up Beamers.

Mr Pretty is no racist. He’s done much for the region’s black community as a former head of the ‘black-on-black’ crime taskforce and solved several murders.

A police spokesman said: ‘He has been dealt with in an appropriate manner.’

Actually, he’s been dealt with in an absurd, heavy-handed, vindictive, utterly inappropriate manner.

No wonder so many dedicated police officers are walking away from the job. Mind how you go.

Resident of Club Gitmo

Some news sources still mistakenly describe the last ‘British’ inmate at Guantanamo Bay as a ‘British citizen’. He’s nothing of the sort.

Binyam Mohammed came here from Ethiopia as an asylum seeker in 1994 but was never granted citizenship.

He worked for a while as a janitor and then went to Pakistan ‘to resolve some personal issues’. (At least he didn’t claim to be on a computer course.)

That’s where he was picked up on terrorism charges and transferred to Club Gitmo.

His lawyer is applying to the High Court to force the Foreign Office to secure his release. Technically, he’s not even a British ‘resident’.

He’s an Ethiopian citizen who happened to live here once and was resident in Pakistan when he was arrested. Now he’s resident at Guantanamo Bay.

He’s not our problem and we don’t want him back.

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Posted by Drew458     on 07/29/2008 at 03:14 PM   
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tourist attraction bans English visitors in revenge for 1298 battle .

GEE, TALK ABOUT NOT LETTING GO. 
I wasn’t certain of the category at first.  Wasn’t sure how to take it. Was it tongue in cheek?  Just a gag?  But apparently some folks really do take this very much to heart.  Don’t guess it pleases the English much but they take this sort of thing in stride.  And of course, it’s more then likely all Bush’s fault.

Scottish tourist attraction bans English visitors in revenge for 1298 battle
A popular Scottish tourist attraction provoked outrage by banning English visitors and destroying ‘English’ items such as bone china and the works of Shakespeare.


By Simon Johnson
Last Updated: 7:59AM BST 22 Jul 2008

The Edinburgh Dungeon said the one-day event is in revenge for the Battle of Falkirk, fought 710 years ago July 21st, at which more than 2,000 Scots were slaughtered by the Auld Enemy.

English visitors will only be allowed entry if they sign a scroll swearing allegiance to Scotland, while those from other countries will be encouraged to bring in items deemed ‘typically English’ to be smashed.

The attraction, which is visited by 200,000 people per year insisted the measures were a fitting tribute to the Scots soldiers who were killed and their leader, William Wallace.

But it faces a growing backlash from English tourists appalled that they were being singled out for something that happened so long ago.

Victoria Price, 26, from Manchester, currently holidaying in Edinburgh, said: “I was planning to visit the Dungeon because I had heard it was fun. But I wouldn’t give them my money now.

“The Battle of Falkirk was more than 700 years ago for Heaven’s sake. It should be put in the past, but it seems some people find that very hard.”

King Edward I, known as the Hammer of the Scots, decided to crush them in revenge for Wallace’s victory at Stirling Bridge in 1297 and assembled a massive army of more than 20,000 men.

In the battle, on July 22 1298, Wallace’s army of only around 6,000 men was destroyed by Edward’s longbows, although at the cost of almost 2,000 English casualties.

The attraction has a feature about Wallace, in which a ghost of the legendary Scots leader urges Scots to fight on against the invading “tyrannical” English.

Played by John Smeaton, one of the heroes who prevented last year’s terror attack at Glasgow Airport, he tells how thousands of Scottish soldiers were massacred.

Ian Scouller, the Dungeon’s manager, said: “People, not just from Scotland but from all over the world, said we should do something to commemorate that battle and get a bit of revenge.

“One visitor said we should mark the day by banning the English. We welcome more than 600 visitors every day. Many of them are English, and I expect we will take a hit in the pocket.”

But he claimed that Wallace and the Scots soldiers who fell that day would approve, adding: “The only way the English will be allowed in is if they sign a scroll pledging allegiance to Scotland - the kind of thing Edward I routinely did to Scots.”

Mr Scouller, a Glaswegian, also detailed another way for Scots to “gain revenge”.

He said: “People are invited to bring scones, tea bags, English literature, fine bone china or anything else typically English. We plan to smash them with a sword like the one Wallace carried.”

David Ross, Convener of the Society of William Wallace, described the ban on English visitors as “comical” and praised the Dungeon for marking the battle.

He added: “I’m sure it is meant tongue in cheek, but the English did far worse things to the Scots in Wallace’s time.”

The Edinburgh Dungeon is one of Edinburgh’s five most popular tourist attractions and is part of a chain, with other branches in London, York, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

In addition to its Wallace feature, exhibits include a torture chamber with thumb-screws, flesh tearers and head crushers, once used in Scotland to punish criminals.

Visitors also hear tales of some of Scotland’s most macabre criminals including notorious body snatchers Burke and Hare and cannibal Sawney Bean.

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prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.

I believe in today’s loony tune world kids really do need a closer eye kept on them.  But isn’t this taking big brother a bit far?

This story is a bit old I grant ya.  About 11 days. But that does not make it any less bizarre or interesting.

Mother prevented from taking own son to school because of criminal record checks
A woman was prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.


By Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 10:30PM BST 18 Jul 2008

Jayne Jones had been escorting 14-year-old severely epileptic Alex each day by taxi, taking specialist equipment with her in case he had a fit.

But the mother-of-two was told she would not be allowed to continue doing so until her details had been run through a Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check.

The case came to light only days after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people were branded criminals by the CRB, which was set up to vet people working with children.

Figures seen by The Daily Telegraph showed that in the year to February 2008, 680 people were issued with incorrect information on their background checks by the CRB.

Last week a woman who was wrongly labelled a violent alcoholic and drug addict by the CRB was told she would have to allow police to take her fingerprints if she wanted to clear her name.

Amanda Hodgson, 36, a law-abiding mother-of-three, learned of her “criminal past’’ when applying for a post as a welfare assistant at her local primary school.

She was told she had a criminal record stretching back 18 years, including three convictions for assaulting police officers, and the only way to clear her name was to get her fingerprints checked against every unsolved crime in the country.

Mrs Jones, from Aberfan in south Wales, said stopping her taking her son - who has cerebral palsy - to school was “political correctness gone mad”.

“It’s crazy that I have to be CRB checked before I can ride in a taxi with my own son,” she said.

“I have to be checked to go in a taxi with him, but if I was able to drive him myself they wouldn’t care and even offered to pay me expenses.

“The taxi company is great and they carry Alex’s medication but they won’t use it and they wouldn’t know how to put him in the recovery position if needs be.”

Alex, who takes a combination of 32 anti-convulsant tablets a day, is currently travelling to his special needs school five miles away in Merthyr Tydfil with no one trained to cope if he has an attack.

He has been fitted with the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy system under the skin, which works like a pacemaker to help control electrical signals which can malfunction and cause him to seize.

But his parents are the only ones trained to use and understand the therapy.

His 42-year-old father Malcolm has a full-time job and Mrs Jones is the boy’s full-time carer.

A spokesman from Merthyr Tydfil Council said: “The CRB checking is a requirement of our transport provisions in relation to adults travelling on home-to-school transport in the capacity of an escort.

“This is a standard requirement and has been for several years.

(you just know the following has been written by lawyers. Wanna take a stab at how far this thinking can be carried?)

“Any adult acting as an escort will, in the public gaze, be viewed as acting with the full acquiescence of the council and hence with its implied authority.

“For the protection of the council and all vulnerable persons in its care it’s essential all those endowed with an authority, implicit or explicit, should meet the security requirements within the transport contract provisions.”

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Handyman fined for smoking in van.  (Moonbat Tuesday?)

Here we go again with the health police.  I think ppl have way too much time for stuff like this.

I’m a few days late so perhaps you’ve seen this.  I came across the story in a pile of work I have and just dug down to it.

I’ve read this kind of thing before of course so it doesn’t surprise me at all.  I think what really surprises me most is how much of this nonsense folks are willing to put up with.  I’d have thought with the kinds of technology and advances made in medicine and more ppl having more access to books and education then ever before, we’d produce a smarter culture.  But it really doesn’t look that way at all.  Seems to be going the other way.

From MSN News.

A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that British civil liberties are “going up in smoke”.

Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, was on the way to buy tea bags for his wife when he was slapped with a fixed penalty fine.

A passenger in his van, who had also just lit up, received a £30 on-the-spot fixed penalty notice under the new anti-smoking laws as well.

But the self-employed painter and decorator hit out claiming the fine was unjustified and unfair because his van is a private vehicle.

He has lodged an appeal with Ceredigion County Council and claims Britain is sleepwalking into a “Big Brother-style” society.

The blue Suzuki van belonging to Mr Williams was undergoing a routine check by police in Llanbadarn Fawr, outside Aberystwyth, earlier this month.

The married grandfather had just lit up when a Ceredigion County Council official approached him and dished out the on-the-spot fine.

He said: “I was just having a cigarette and causing no bother to anyone else. But this is like Big Brother is watching you.”

A spokesman for the council said: “It would be inappropriate for Ceredigion County Council to comment on individual cases.

“The legislation allows for a right of appeal and the procedures in relation to this are set out in the notices.”

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   Monday - July 28, 2008

ANOTHER REALLY DUMB AND STUPID MOONBAT ALERT. IT’S THE BRIT TURN THIS TIME.

I AM SO PO’d TODAY. I CAN’T BELIEVE THESE FOLKS ARE ACTUALLY THIS FRAKEN STUPID.
THE BRIT POST OFFICE HERE IN WINCHESTER.

WAS A TIME FOLKS, AND I KNOW THIS FROM EXPERIENCE, WHEN THE BRIT POSTAL SERVICE WAS PROBABLY THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
IT WAS AS GOOD AND ACTUALLY IN MANY WAYS BETTER THEN OURS IN THE USA.  TRUST ME, PLEASE.

NOT ANYMORE. 

So here’s the story ... and this time it’s personal!
A week or so ago I sent out an email to some people and Drew will recall, one of those emails went to him.
In my note I said look what’s goin’ on here. Can you believe this?  Or words close to it. What happened was, I went to the post office to mail a few letters as I’ve been doing for the past four years.  As usual, the return address in the upper left hand corner and the person being sent to, in the usual place.
Oh says the postal clerk (pronounced clark here) behind the window, in future you may want to put your return address on the BACK of your envelopes instead to the upper left front. 
When I asked why, I was informed that for some reason the folks at the sorting office were sending mail to the FROM address instead of the address smack in the middle of the fuckin envelope!  Smart huh?  So I told Drew and someone else about that and proceeded to change my errant ways.  This letter just mailed to Drew came back today. It even says From on the return addrss. So, I am taking this envelope to the PO tomorrow and will try again. Tho they may not accept it this way.

Now here’s the front where this is addressed to Drew.  And by the way, Thorolf, Val, Drew,Lynne, Wardmom and I forget who else, I sent out some snail mail today before I got this letter back. And oh yeah, our post was several hours late today. 

This is really so far beyond STUPID and Moonbattery I can’t even think of a new term. Can you?  Just how dumb can they get here?

Posted by Drew458     on 07/28/2008 at 07:41 AM   
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Killing in the name of Islam is acceptable.

There isn’t anything I can say that you won’t.
Except, anyone surprised?

Killing in the name of Islam is acceptable… the view of one third of British Muslim students

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:58 PM on 27th July 2008

Almost a third of British Muslim university students say killing in the name of Islam is justified, a poll found

Nearly one third of Muslim students believe it can be acceptable to kill in the name of religion, according to a survey published yesterday.

It also found that 40 per cent want to see the introduction of Islamic sharia law in Britain, 40 per cent think it wrong for Muslim men and women to mix freely together, and 33 per cent want to see a worldwide Islamic government based on sharia law.

The findings were described by researchers at the Centre for Social Cohesion think tank, which commissioned the poll, as ‘deeply alarming’.

But a prominent Muslim student group called the report ‘weak and unrepresentative’ and said it undermined ‘positive work carried out by Islamic societies’.

The Centre for Social Cohesion, founded last year to study religion and tolerance, has drawn attention to the extremist influence of Islamic societies and study centres at British universities.

The survey was based on a YouGov poll of 1,400 students, 600 of them Muslims, at 12 universities with influential Islamic societies.

These included eight in London, among them the London School of Economics, Imperial College, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the
universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Leicester and Manchester.

It found that a large minority of Muslim students express views that are strongly socially conservative or which suggest they are open to extremist thinking.

While 32 per cent justified killing in the name of religion if the religion was under attack, 60 per cent of students active in Islamic societies did so. Four per cent thought killing to promote religion was permissible.

More than half, 54 per cent, wanted an Islamic political party to stand up for Muslims at Westminster.

There was strong criticism of the British Government over Iraq - 66 per cent of Muslim students said they had lost respect for it.

But 30 per cent of Muslim students said their respect for British society had grown because of the negative public reaction to the Iraq war.

Report author Hannah Stuart said: ‘These findings are deeply alarming. Students in higher education are the future leaders of their communities, yet significant numbers of them appear to hold beliefs which contravene liberal, democratic values.

‘These results are deeply embarrassing for those who have said that there is no extremism in British universities.’

Miss Stewart also said that ministers should be wary about treating university Islamic societies as representative because their members appeared to be more extreme than other Muslim students.

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies called the survey mischievous.

Its president Faisal Hanjra said: ‘This is yet another damning attack on the Muslim community by elements within the academic arena whose only purpose seems to be the undermining of sincere efforts by mainstream Muslim organisations to tackle the threat of terror which wider society faces.

‘The report is methodologically weak, it is unrepresentative and above all serves only to undermine the positive work carried out by Islamic societies across the country.’

Concerns over extremism among the 90,000 Muslims studying at British universities have grown alongside the spread of radical groups, including the Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation which Tony Blair said in 2005 should be banned.

Terrorists who have passed through British universities include Kafeel Ahmed, who died after driving a burning vehicle into a Glasgow airport terminal last year, and Jawad Akbar, jailed for life in April 2007 for conspiring to attack shopping malls and nightclubs. He was said to have become involved in militancy while a student at Brunel University.

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   Saturday - July 26, 2008

Health and safety killjoys tell war veterans they are too old to hoist the Union Flag over town hall

oh man ya just gotta weep for what was once Great Britain.  these H and S folks are gonna finish what uncontrolled immigration and pol. correctness have started.
ok sure. many of these guys are pretty old. but there are guys older then me that are in better shape. and why can’t the idividual himself decide if he can handle it?  I guess it also part of the fear of being sued that could also have something to do with this.  Whatever, this Health and Safety thing has become a curse.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:38 AM on 26th July 2008

Up in arms: Veterans John Ireland (right) and Keith Hutchins in front of the town hall

In their younger days, they risked death and injury to fight for their country against the Nazis and other enemies.

But, now, war veterans who want to fly the Union Flag proudly above their town hall are being defeated by a barrage of health and safety rules.

Royal British Legion members had scented victory after fighting for months to hoist the flag permanently in Calne, Wiltshire.

The council suggested handing over the operation to the veterans - but then landed them with a 50-point list of rules banning anyone with a wide range of health conditions from going on the roof.

All the branch’s 84 members are over 60 and suffer from a variety of ailments which would stop them going up a ladder to raise the flag.

The council report rules out anyone taking prescription medicines or with a history of heart problems, asthma, stroke, high or low blood pressure, epilepsy, fear of heights, depression, poor sight, mobility problems or diabetes.

Councillor John Ireland, 61, who is also branch chairman and served in the Army for 27 years, said: ‘We have fought bravely and many of us risked our lives in a world war.

‘We are perfectly capable of going up a ladder a few feet to put a flag up on a roof.

‘All the council is trying to do is find excuses to stop flying the flag.

‘They have been very sneaky. What they gave in one hand, they took away in the other, knowing full well none of us is fit enough to match those rules.’

The report adds that anyone raising the flag would have to undergo training courses in ‘working at height’ and ‘manual handling’.

They would also have to be kitted out in safety footwear and weatherproof clothing.

The 25ft flagpole is on a section of flat roof accessed via a ladder through a skylight.

But the veterans cannot ask younger non-members to help as they have to be covered by the RBL’s £10million insurance policy.

The 26ft flagpole is on a 30ft roof - but the war veterans insist it is no challenge
The dispute began last November when the 19-member council rejected Mr Ireland’s proposal to fly the Union Flag permanently.

Opponents cited the £80 annual cost and said the flag would lose significance if flown every day.

But legion members claim the council is being politically-correct as it fears being labelled racist.

Mr Ireland believed the veterans had won when the council agreed to consider handing over the control and cost of the flagpole.

But days later, town hall clerk Linda Roberts produced the lengthy rules for councillors to consider before voting on the idea.

She suggests a ‘less risky option’, such as flying the flag from the side of the council building or from another building in the town.

Branch treasurer Margaret Russell added: ‘The health and safety rules are just the latest hurdle the council has put in our way. It is our flag and we should be proud of it.’

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