Thursday - June 30, 2011

a statue for president reagan in London’s Grosvenor Square

Always happy to post something on or about my favorite president and governor.  Thought BMEWS readers might be interested and I kinda doubt that this is getting much play in the USA.  Hope I am wrong.

The only real problem I may have is, the politicians he mentions here are all of them, lightweights.  And even bringing Cameron’s name in is yuk because he’s consv. lite. These people, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Bush shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath. Although I could give Bush some slack if pushed but still.  None could come up to his measure.

See the link below for all of the story.

The left derided him as a drooling warmonger. But our leaders could learn so much from Reagan’s appeal to the common man

By DOMINIC SANDBROOK
Last updated at 1:28 PM on 30th June 2011

For one group of London expats, next Monday will be particularly special. Following a weekend of Independence Day celebrations, hundreds of Americans are expected to gather in Grosvenor Square to unveil the statue of a man who became the incarnation of the special relationship.

Thirty years ago, when Ronald Wilson Reagan became the 40th President of the United States, there were many who mocked him as a washed-up Hollywood has-been. With his country traumatised after Vietnam and Watergate, with inflation soaring, oil prices rocketing and the Middle East in flames, American prestige seemed at its lowest ebb.

Yet on Monday, Margaret Thatcher’s great soulmate will become only the fifth U.S. President to have his own monument in the mother country — following George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

There could hardly be a greater tribute to a president who endured merciless mockery during his administration yet is now remembered as one of the most influential men of the past half-century.

A century after the so-called Great Communicator was born in the obscure little town of Tampico, Illinois, the son of a drunken travelling salesman and a pious, church-going mother, Reagan’s legend continues to grow.

Even now, Republican presidential hopefuls casting their hats into the ring for the chance to take on Barack Obama next year routinely invoke him as their greatest hero.

None of them, however, comes close to matching Reagan’s extraordinary appeal to the common man.

Across the Western world, no conservative leader — not David Cameron, not Nicolas Sarkozy, not Angela Merkel and certainly not George W. Bush — has quite emulated the patriotic populism that made him so successful.

Yet even British politicians have much to learn from the story of a man who came to power in 1981 with prices rising, the economy stagnant, and his nation’s morale at an all-time low — and left office eight years later as one of the most decisive leaders in modern history.

The statue of Reagan will be unveiled in London’s Grosvenor Square to mark the former president’s 100th birthday

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   Wednesday - May 25, 2011

america. damned if we do and damned anyway

I wouldn’t normally post the entire column but in this case ....

In fact, I often get frustrated when I read this fellow. So why do I read him?  Coz I’m not smart.

Just so our readers know, the name Gary McKinnon will come up in this article.  I’ve avoided the issue because I didn’t have anything to contribute to the story, and because I don’t find any sympathy for the jerk.

It must be said that the agreement re. extradition we have with the Brits appear to be quite one sided. And most Brits aren’t happy about it. Which you can not fault them on. However, every single damn time his name comes up, it’s always mentioned that the fruit cake has what I call Asparagus syndrome.
OK, I’m making fun of his condition. It’s actually Asperger’s syndrome, whatever the hell that is.  Every time his story is told here, it’s mentioned he’ll kill himself if extradited to some cruel American prison. Yeah well, the jerk should have thought of that when he hacked into Pentagon computers.  They claim he was only there looking for little green men. Ppl from Mars, space travelers. Uh huh. He’s 45, lives with mommy and is actually a very bright man. And when he hacked those puters, he was doing more then looking for evidence of space ships landing in Nv. in the 50’s.  He also left very well written and very articulate anti war diatribes along with the usual anti Bush BS.  In other words ... he had a less innocent agenda then his current apologists claim.  Brits want him tried here in the UK.
Americans believe they’ll lean in his favor and not punish the grown baby.  Brits believe Americans won’t give him a fair trial and seek revenge for the impressive embarrassment he caused, not to mention the million dollar damage claim. 

It is most likely very true that the extradition treaty is one sided in American favor, which I don’t understand. Why would the Brits sign on to such a treaty?
I don’t pretend to know but would like to. But what I am sure of is, our side dropped the security ball and so far we haven’t heard a word I’m aware of that anyone has been brought up on some charge.  But I’m also certain that Gary ‘asparagus’ McKinnon damn well knew exactly what he was up to and thought he’d never be found out or if he was, wouldn’t be prosecuted.  And I don’t really believe he’d try and kill himself. But if he should try, I wish him good luck and much success.

And as usual there is this.

Cameron wouldn’t find it hard to keep quiet about either, but he is surrounded by boat-rockers in his own party and Lib Dems who think McKinnon, Guantanamo Bay and Private Manning are all disgraceful U.S. abuses of power.

So you can see why I sometimes find things a bit frustrating. Now I’ll share it with you.

Obama: It’s wham bam and thank you ma’am
By PETER MCKAY

Accompanied by an entourage of 1,500 — from chefs to sharp-shooters — President Barack Obama is in London for a two-day state visit. Security alone is said to be costing £10 million.

Obama will address the Lords and Commons. The Queen will give him a banquet at Buckingham Palace.
No 10’s chatelaine, Samantha Cameron, and First Lady Michelle Obama will co-host a barbecue — weather permitting.

What’s it all for? Usually, the outcomes of these visits — the justification for them — are fixed in advance. So what might we expect to hear before Obama leaves on Thursday for France, his next port of call.
According to U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger, Britain’s leading role in the Libya action has improved Obama’s opinion of David Cameron. Obama arrives here ‘with a more positive attitude of restoring the high degree of confidentiality and trust that existed previously’.

So what can we get out of it? We’d prefer the U.S. to play a more positive role in the military action against Gaddafi — not leave it to the U.S.’s partners in Nato.
We’ve stretched the UN resolution justifying our military action against Gaddafi almost to breaking point, and he’s still there. We need America’s help to finish him off.
But Obama has just assured Americans — in a letter to Congress — that the U.S. has ‘limited’ objectives in Libya. Meaning, he won’t help us much more than he’s already doing.

( According to a report I heard last night, the USA is footing 75% of the NATO bill in this little adventure, and you folks will be interested to learn that according to the so called freedom fighters in Libya, many of them think it’s the French who get most of the credit for trying to free them from Gaddafi.)

Our side complains that the effectiveness of our campaign against Gaddafi is hampered by a lack of U.S. leadership. According to one news report yesterday, U.S. diplomats respond by saying Britain is ‘a skittish and unpredictable ally’.

Doesn’t exactly sound as if the high degree of trust and confidentiality that existed between us previously is fully restored, does it? Americans seem to have learned more than we have in Iraq and Afghanistan — that it’s easier invading a country than organising a fair system of government there afterwards. 
They took one look at fractured, tribal Libya — home to many of their Al Qaeda enemies — and told us: ‘You have a go this time, friends. We’ll keep a watching brief in case it all goes pear-shaped.’

David Cameron might enjoy a personal boost from the visit if he can persuade Obama not to extradite British computer hacker Gary McKinnon, 45, to America for trial.
The hacker is said to be a fragile character who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and might not survive the brutal U.S. prison system.
Cameron has said McKinnon should be tried in Britain. What’s the chance of that? U.S. presidents have the power to pardon alleged criminals, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — backed by seven judges — insists McKinnon ‘must be held accountable for the crimes he committed’, which, says Holder, cost £1 million (isn’t it marvellous how such round figures are arrived at?). 

Obama would prefer members of Cameron’s Coalition to keep quiet about the continuing existence of America’s Guantanamo Bay prison camp, despite his promise to close it, and the cruel, year-long solitary confinement of 23-year-old Private Bradley Manning, who is accused of supplying the secret Government cables to WikiLeaks.

Cameron wouldn’t find it hard to keep quiet about either, but he is surrounded by boat-rockers in his own party and Lib Dems who think McKinnon, Guantanamo Bay and Private Manning are all disgraceful U.S. abuses of power.

Even if they do keep quiet, gay campaigner Peter Tatchell, who once tried to make a citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe — accusing him of torturing homosexuals — plans a London demonstration aimed at demonising Obama over his treatment of Manning, who, he says, ‘revealed war crimes’.

Obama doesn’t have to give us anything, of course. He knows that merely visiting Britain boosts our Government and head of state, the Queen. Cameron and co can pretend the ‘special relationship’ still exists. The Crown takes comfort in being honoured by the head of a former colony that chose to fight us for its independence.

The President’s state visit here, followed by France, will provide upbeat media coverage at home and valuable video that his re-election team will use to persuade U.S. voters in 2012 that Obama is loved and respected by leaders world-wide.
So it’s wham, bam, thank you, ma’am. As always.

SOURCE

The five pm news is on and I’ve been listening to Obama on Libya. Of course, the Brit PM has been on that subject and the buzz word is civilians.
Sure, this incursion into someone’s civil war is all about protecting civies. But seem quite apparent now with the bombing of Tripoli and now the new threat of choppers to go in close and personal, that civilians will die there as well.  So I guess the bottom line then is, some civilians are more worthy of life then others.

Want a huge laff?  An American living here since the age of nine, has just made the claim that Carter was a very smart president. He’s an adult now, and how he came to that opinion I have no idea. Carter smart?

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   Monday - April 18, 2011

part two, dumb california tricks and entitlements

OK, don’t normally do this back to back stuff but here goes anyway. Because this is an eye opener for me.

And here I thought it only happened to this horrid extent in the UK.

Lyndon and Chris take note.  Calif., apparently has the very same modus operandi as the UK we read about so often.
Yesterday I called Calif., UK Pacific. But reading this makes me think that my home state is very definitely in a world all their own.

The wife wouldn’t look forward to snow so a move to Montana, perhaps the most beautiful of all our states, is out of the question.  Maybe Arizona? But where?
Tucson used to be nice when I lived there maybe 45 yrs ago. Could even be 50 by now. Been awhile but it was nice.  I saw some changes on a return trip acrss country some yrs ago and didn’t care for what little I saw.

I understand France isn’t bad provided you speak their language. Nah, don’t wanna live there either.
Which leaves?
Oh good grief.  California or here?

I just managed to seriously depress myself.

Well anyway .... take a look, from the same source as my previous post.

I won’t put the entire thing here. It’s loooooooooooooong. You should read it anyway. Here’s the link,

optimistic conservative

and here’s a part of what you’ll see.

From reader “Oregon Here I Come”

Real good website!
I enjoyed reading your take on California’s Budget (?)
Here’s a little bit about MY California Budget experience.
I moved from LA to far Northern Cali at 18 and my 1st job was US Census 2000.
I was able to get my own little community as my first tract job.

My town has 256 folks and out of that only 6 people work, including number 6 which is myself.
All the rest live on SSI & SSP from Cali.
That’s up to $907 per Individual or $1569 per Couple.
So the Fed’s pay (tax payers) $674 and the State of Cali pays $233 per person.
California gives CASH in the SSP program because they want to be generous and nice.
MOST other states give Food Stamps instead of Cash.
That’s probably because if you go past ANY Dive Bar in California on the 1st of the Month, you will see the SSI/SSP’s there Cashing their checks and paying up their Bar Tabs and re-charging on their New Bar Tabs.
They also like to buy Meth with their SSI/SSP money.

Other’s that enjoy Morbid Obesity enjoy going to the Supermarkets and buying 4 carts loaded with food.
The Alcoholics & Meth Addicts don’t go hungry though, as Obama took good care of them by adding monsterous funding to all the Food Banks, Farmers Markets and and Faith Based Services.
So, they can get Food anytime from any of these entities. Also, Monthly Commodities was given Federal Funding as well. They can just drive up with their car and it’s filled to the brim with all kinds of food and needs! FREE! Oh, I mean from you and me the tax payer, Free style, free.
The people in my community have PhD’s in SSI/SSP Entitlement GETTIN’.
They make it their life’s goal to get onto SSI/SSP.
They throw a party called a ‘Kegger’ party each time they get their SSI/SSP awards.
And, that’s when they buy a nice fancy car, when they get their Windfall Checks.

See, they have to keep their Checking/Savings to APPEAR they don’t have anything over 2 grand for individuals or 3 grand for couples in the El Banco.
BUT, there’s NEVER any checking up or reviews other than a form to fill out and return every TEN YEARS.
The recipient even fills out the review form themselves. It asks if they have Inherited any Real Estate in the Last 10 Years. Questions like that.
Do you think anything happens after that like a check up to SEE if they are telling the truth?
NO WAY!

You would have to go to the Attorney General’s Office’s website for the State and fill out a Fraud complaint for over a hundred times to even get them to send a letter to the recipient themself.
Nothing hardly ever happens to these frauds.

Another interesting fact about my community of SSI/SSP’s is that hardly any of them has ever worked a single day in their life.
You don’t have to have ever worked a single day in your life to collect SSI/SSP.
And, SSI/SSP is the ONLY Social ‘Entitlement’ Cash Program that pays ZERO TAXES.

Social Security Retiree’s pay taxes, SSDI-Social Security Disability Income pays taxes, CalWORKS pays taxes, BUT, SSI & SSP pay ZERO taxes.
And the SSI/SSP’s did NOT understand why they did NOT get a Stimulus Check.

But, Obama took good care of them and included them in this last Stimulus and they just recieved an extra check for $250 for every single SSI/SSP person.
I know almost all these people up here fairly well on a First Name Basis.
I can honestly say, ‘THEY ARE NOT DISABLED’.

see the link above. it gets worse.

Hmmm. Oregon?  It snows there huh?

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stupid california tricks

I actually tripped across this (there’s lots more but I think I lost the link) and found it interesting and the usual scary/stupid California thing.

Hell, I don’t even expect to still be here in 2020. If I am, heaven knows what shape I’ll be in.
Being in love with computers and California is like being in love with an unfaithful mistress.  Yeah I know. I’ve said that before but it’s no less true now.
Gee, both begin the letter ‘C’ and I wonder if there’s a connection. Well, I’ll be.

Let me explain what happened here.  I clicked something without thinking and soon discovered I had subscribed to a feed of some kind. RSS?  I think I did that, thinking I was clicking on to a link for further info. 
So I started reading all kinds of interesting stuff not knowing how the heck I was getting it but there it all was.  And btw, this ALL started because I was looking for Sun City Real Estate.  I was getting cross eyed with those darn thumbnails and then when I did find a site I was hunting for, instead of letting me click thru the photos, they were running a slideshow and no option to slow the damn thing down, as it was running too fast. Are web designers thoughtless er what? Not all of course but I often find the sites for real estate are pretty dumb.

Well anyway, I found myself staring at this page, and before I knew it, I was engrossed. So I decided to post part of it and provide a link. That’s when disaster struck.  I couldn’t find my way back to the page. Back arrow did no good and I have a list a mile long and growing. ????
Then worse happened and I have never experienced this before.

I landed on another story and to be sure I didn’t lose it, I tried to do what I always do when I find things. Or most always.
I open up a Word doc. and paste everything in there including a link to the source, and do any editing needed there.
BUT .......
Not this time.  I got a window that opened and said I was short on memory or disk space. HUH?  NO WAY! So I opened Notepad and pasted the next story there.  So of course, I haven’t any idea what’s going on.  I only know that ever since Microsoft tech helped me last week, I’ve lost a few settings and my printer does not work even tho looking in msconfig it says that spooling is running.  MSFT tech support is calling me back tomorrow afternoon as the issue I originally called them for was left open.  I don’t know why.

Over in the world of transportation, California has mandated that diesel emissions be reduced 85% by that halcyon year, 2020.  This constitutes a multi-whammy for independent truckers, who will have to spend $8K to $20K per truck to retrofit them so that they can be operated through 2016, and will have to purchase new ones (at $80K to $250K a pop) by 2020 – although they won’t be able to get rid of their old ones for better than pennies on the dollar.

(Ed Morrissey wrote earlier this month about the highly questionable study – linking diesel emissions to premature deaths – which led to California’s adoption of the emission-lowering requirement.)

(Hey ... is Calf. following the EU?  Or is the EU taking the lead from the left in CA? Cos they want to eventually do away with diesel here.)

California isn’t worried about the impact of the diesel regulations on the trucking industry.  But it is a big fan of high-speed rail (HSR), on which it’s moving full-speed ahead.  Citizens are calling the first leg of the HSR project the “train to nowhere,” because it will link two moderate-size towns in the Central Valley, which have no commuter needs relevant to the HSR connection – and no cargo needs either, for that matter.

HSR advocates are pointing out that the train will bring jobs to the areas hit hardest by agriculture losses and farm failures, the result of 30 or more years of improvident federal and state water policies.  Myself, I’d rather have the farms.  So would the farmers.

And this is an excellent time to observe that nothing going on here is dictated by blind fate: politicians and regulators are making decisions – according to their opinions; i.e., on the same basis you and I do – about what they want to encourage and discourage.  They are consciously disfavoring agriculture and favoring high-speed rail and environmental “restoration” projects.  (Meaning, “make it like it was in 1960 again, with the salmon runs and the water in my favorite spot in the Delta”; but why not 1910, or 1840, or 1776?) Of course, HSR potentially poses threats to wildlife too, and some environmental groups are pointing that out.

But perhaps the most interesting thing about HSR is that it uses a lot of electricity.  China feeds the HSR system with coal-generated power.  Japan and France feed theirs with nuclear-generated power.  California wants to have HSR but ensure that 33% of the state’s electricity comes from renewables.  Since passive renewables are unreliable on a 24-hour average basis – winds die, clouds come – the rail system will presumably have to monopolize some of the more-reliable electricity being produced for California.

Down the road, there will be an impact, in various forms, from energy unreliability.  My guess is that it will be a combination of even higher electricity prices – a premium (or, basically, extortion) for reliability – along with periodic compromises from regulators on how well the power companies are meeting their mandated renewables goal, and (the practical measure) a proliferation of generators operated by businesses and homeowners, who will want to keep the power saw, the refrigerator, or the a/c on when the grid is overloaded.

In other words, state policy will guarantee that what you spend on electricity goes up, period.

For many power customers, there’s also the option of moving away.

WOO-HOO! I found the link. She’s pretty good. Take a look.

It’s headed, Stupid California Tricks

http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/

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   Wednesday - March 23, 2011

Libya: Whose Side Are We On???

The United States on Tuesday added 14 companies owned by Libya’s National Oil Corporation to its sanctions list, including the Benghazi-headquartered Arabian Gulf Oil Company which has broken away from NOC and allied itself with the rebels fighting the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi.

Agoco has been added to the US sanctions list despite the United Nations having recognized the rebels’ National Transitional Council, which late last week established a separate oil authority led by Agoco to oversee activities in areas under rebel control.

Before the current crisis, Agoco’s area of operations accounted for roughly 40% of Libyan output of around 1.6 million b/d. Agoco also operates an oil refinery and oil terminal at Tobruk.

Agoco has been offering Sarir crude directly to European buyers, market sources said earlier this week, although they added that these offers had been declined because of the complicated situation in Libya.

Um, is this Much Ado About Nothing? I’ve heard that the US doesn’t import any oil from Libya, as it’s the wrong kind for our distillation facilities. And to add insult to injury, even when combined with their natural gas production, Libya only manages to pump out about 2 million barrels a day during the best of times, which is enough to fill about ONE supertanker. ONE. Right now their production is at least 60% less than that.

Counter data: the previous link says we DO import oil from Libya. About 44,000 barrels worth per day. Which equates to 8 tankers full per YEAR, or 19 hours worth. The US consumes 10 tankers full per DAY (20 million bbls).

According to EIA January through November [2010] estimates, the United States imported an average of 71,000bbl/d from Libya in 2010 (of which, 44,000 bbl/d was crude)

So, while this sanction is kind of a stupid thing to do, the net impact on our market is going to be ((Jack_Shit * Diddly_Squat) ÷ Galactic_Infinity). Think of it as nothing more than another clear indicator of US foreign policy. Hey, maybe the US is actually against BOTH SIDES in Libya!! That ought to make us even more popular!!!!

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   Thursday - March 17, 2011

The Collapse of Internationalism?  well, not quite.

We used to get the WSJ when living at home in the US.  Also watched this fellow on TV and read his columns.
We like him BUT ... and I think Drew and others here might not agree with me, I really don’t want us to be the world’s cop.

If our national security is the reason, fine. Then lets come right out and say so.  I am not at all concerned how some tin pot dictator in a turd world country treats his own ppl.  What they do in their own back yard isn’t my concern.
Libya as I see it, is involved in a civil war. It’s a muslim country.  Oh great. Daniel wants us to do something, as I understand this video.

Now, coming over the news on BBC Radio, I hear we’re getting involved there. Fine. Now how about going after every single bad guy leader in every country in the world?  People on the radio right now are saying that it might come to putting troops on the ground.

If we get involved in one country, why not another?  Just what rules are we gonna bend?  If our security is at stake I’m all for anything to secure us.
But good gosh.  Stop telling me about the poor oppressed innocent rebels who are seeking democracy.  Frankly, I don’t trust them either.

The next few days are gonna be very interesting. 

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   Wednesday - March 09, 2011

american airlines suck as they screw old employee out of some benefits for being pc incorrect

Damn. No logic and all political correctness.
The UK, where I am?

Not this time.

Try American Airlines (freekin idiots) in the USA. Even there. I HATE this sort of thing. Don’t you?

Here’s a thought people.

American figured, hey. Here’s a chance to save money cos after 55 years we’ll pay more, he’s old so his health will cost us more in benefits, oh woo-hoo.
Lets stitch the old boy up with homophobia or at the least, bad language.  I bet they don’t really care that much that he used the word faggot. And if they did, they are assholes of the very first rank.

War veteran loses his job after 54 years for gay slur he made while DEFENDING homosexual soldiers’ right to serve

By Daily Mail Reporter

Freddy Schmitt, 82, from New York, was told he no longer had a job with AMERICAN AIRLINES after allegedly using the term ‘faggot’ during a workplace session about ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’.

The company said it did not matter that the World War II veteran was defending gay soldiers’ right to serve and that the context of the comment - ‘Back then a faggot coulda saved my life’ - did not change their decision.

Nor did the fact he has a blemish-free employment record, or the pleas from his work colleagues to give ‘Papa Freddy’, as he was known as, another chance.

Co-worker Jack Sullivan said: ‘The guy is like everybody’s father here.’

Mr Schmitt, a baggage crew chief from Brooklyn, said he simply wants the same thing the U.S. Army gave him six decades ago - an honourable discharge.

According to the New York Post, he made the remark in December and was immediately suspended and then fired after two hearings last month.

He said he wishes he could have stayed on until November when he was planning to retire, so he could leave with the milestone under his belt .

‘It would look nice, going out with 55 years. After 54 years, all I want is to go out in good faith,’ he said.

Mr Schmitt is appealing the decision but it could take months, according to union officials.

Under the terms of the firing, Mr Schmitt retains his pension but loses his health benefits and the travel privileges his wife of 45 years, Viola, enjoyed.

Openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people are currently barred from military service.

‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is the policy restricting the United States military personal from efforts to discriminate or harass closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants. The restrictions are mandated by federal law

In 2008, President Obama ordered a full repeal of these laws and pledged again in 2009 to the Human Rights Campaign that the ban would be ended but so far it has not come into effect.

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   Tuesday - February 22, 2011

has american industry sunk to the depths that we’re hostage to home grown jerks and foreigners

Knowing how touchy/feely our BMEWS ppl are and how sad the story, I thought I should warn our friends to have the hankies handy. Sob.

What a load of rubbish this is. It just gets the blood boiling to know that foreign interests in our internal affairs and how we deal with crime and punishment (and too often lack of the p-part) can throw a wrench into our machinery.
But the very worst part of this whole damned thing is, I’m left asking a question.

Have we become so dumb in the USA that we can not manufacture this stuff ourselves?  What the hell is happening to us? What, damn it?

The Daily Mail, which is not I know you won’t believe, a liberal paper, is talking about the “grisly end” to rapists/killers and miserable excuses for human beings.
How about the grisly end of their victims? Oh right. Since they’re already dead they don’t count anymore. Just the living filthy fuckin trash as represented by these examples.

the case would halt executions in Georgia and many other states. U.S. ‘execution protocols’ say the anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, must be administered first in lethal injections to render the prisoner fully unconscious.
There are no U.S. firms currently able to supply thiopental.

WHY NOT?

I don’t care if the scum are buried alive in this case and many like it.  Did they make the end of life humane for their victims?  And I do not for one minute buy the BS that we MUST treat these vermin well or we become like them. That’s BS too.

Jeeze I get so damn angry sometimes. And these days all the time it seems.

Professor Sheri Johnson, of Cornell University law school, a member of Hammond’s legal team,

Maybe if we’re lucky, Ms fuckin Johnson of Cornell Univ. will become a victim of worse and hopefully survive just to see her attacker(s) well defended by ppl like her. Then the bitch can die and I’d celebrate. The same for the idiot pen-pal broad who brought warmth to a cold blooded killer. But first …. eliminate with extreme prejudice Reprieve and others like them, using the very same methods as used by the criminals they want to save. Lets see how they’d like that.
Trouble is, nobody has the ability or the know how or the organization to bring that about.  Wait, the govt. does but won’t use them to protect America in quite that way. What a shame.  Our country is under assault not just by islamic animals, which is severe and bad enough all by itself. We’re under assault by, us.
And we are also being assaulted in a manner of speaking, by libtard foreign politicians with the authority to impose their weak kneed, hand wringing standards on what passes for a justice system in our own damn country. What’s with that? 

Prisoners’ agony in botched executions with British drug
By DAVID ROSE

Two American prisoners died in agony in botched lethal injections after being given allegedly defective anaesthetic supplied by a British drug company.
The grisly details of the deaths of murderers Emmanuel Hammond, executed by the state of Georgia last month, and Brandon Rhode, put to death there last September, will form the basis of a High Court action to be launched on Tuesday.

Both kept their eyes open when they should have been in a coma and Hammond grimaced in pain.

The legal action, brought by the campaign group Reprieve on behalf of the Rhode family, aims to force the British pharmaceutical regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA), to recall all the anaesthetic supplied for executions by Dream Pharma, a tiny company located in West London.

If successful, the case would halt executions in Georgia and many other states. U.S. ‘execution protocols’ say the anaesthetic, sodium thiopental, must be administered first in lethal injections to render the prisoner fully unconscious.
Then he or she is given pancuronium bromide, a muscle relaxant that makes it impossible to breathe, and potassium chloride, a caustic chemical that stops the heart.
There are no U.S. firms currently able to supply thiopental. Dream Pharma’s consignments, sent last summer to states including Georgia, California, Arkansas and Arizona, were the last from Britain before Business Secretary Vince Cable imposed a ban in December on exporting drugs for executions.

The Mail on Sunday interviewed three witnesses to the most recent botched execution, that of Hammond, 45, who raped and murdered a teacher, Julie Love, in 1988. All said that he remained conscious as he was put to death on January 24.

Professor Sheri Johnson, of Cornell University law school, a member of Hammond’s legal team, said she stared at him throughout as she knew the previous prisoner to be executed using the Dream Pharma thiopental – Rhode – had kept his eyes open throughout and had not lost consciousness.

Prof Johnson said: ‘He closed his eyes perhaps ten seconds after the drugs started. But then, some time later, he opened them again. Perhaps one or two minutes after that, his mouth screwed up to one side. It looked painful, as if it could be a grimace of pain.’

Reporter Josh Green also said Hammond first closed and then reopened his eyes some time after receiving the thiopental. Later, he wrote, he observed Hammond give out ‘short bursts of breath that lifted his lips’.

Jill Rand, a Florida nurse who became Hammond’s penfriend, said that she too saw him move his lips.
Several witnesses also said Rhode, 31 – who murdered three members of the same family in 2000 – kept his eyes open throughout.

Maya Foa, an investigator at Reprieve, said: ‘If it’s not recalled, more prisoners are likely to die in agony.’
Georgia’s next scheduled execution is on March 1.

Ms Foa said Reprieve was also taking statements from witnesses to a third ‘botched’ execution – Jeffrey Landrigan, 50, in Arizona in October.
Dream Pharma last night failed to respond to requests for comment.
An MHRA spokeswoman said it could not comment on the pending legal action.
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Posted by peiper     on 02/22/2011 at 01:11 PM   
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   Wednesday - February 09, 2011

HAS AOL LOST ITS MIND ALONG WITH ITS MONEY?

Since I can’t say it better, I’ll say nothing except ... Mary Ellen is correct in all particulars.  This Brit has it pegged.

As America’s conservatives see it: ‘Huffington’s House of Horrors’

By Mary Ellen Synon

The online news website The Huffington Post is being bought out by internet giant AOL for $315m (£196m). To anyone under 40 the deal is just another internet manoeuvre, this time between the tired and in troubled AOL and the American leftwing’s favourite ‘news aggregator’ Arianna Huffington.

Or Arianna Stassinopoulos as she will always be to those of us over 40 and who were around London when the Greek was making her climb up the ladder.

The last time I saw her she was sitting across from me at a small private dinner party at a club in Pall Mall. The party was given for Enoch Powell and his wife Pamela. Arianna was working hard at impressing Powell and all the rest of us (some Fleet St stars were there, so I mostly kept my head down and stayed grateful for escaping the newsroom that night). But the abiding impression was that everything she said had been rehearsed, even down to the hand gestures. She was like a sixth form girl competing for a prize in ‘declamation.’

Now she’ll be pocketing AOL’s millions to add to the millions she took from her failed marriage to a bisexual oil heir. But there’s more to this than just another lotto win for the Greek. Here’s what Brent Bozell, Media Research Center president and publisher of NewsBusters had to say about the deal. Bozell, if you don’t know his work, is one of America’s sharpest commentators on journalism. (His mother, just by the way, was the sister of William F Buckley):

‘This proves AOL News has lost its mind. They must be in such dire straits that they’ve been blinded by the millions and think an acquisition of The Huffington Post is worth sacrificing credibility and objectivity. AOL News is fooling only itself in thinking there is no journalistic conflict in merging with a hate-filled, vicious, radically left-wing rag.’

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   Thursday - February 03, 2011

JUST SOMETHING ELSE TO BE ANGRY ABOUT. REALLY ANGRY!

I’m well aware not all Americans will feel this way.

I do not speak for BMEWS.
I can only speak for myself.

Can people, or maybe the question is, should people voice out loud what they are thinking? Especially when very angry.

I have this bad habit. My mouth follows my thoughts and there’s usually not a thing to be done about it.

I often scan the papers first for things that stand out, or maybe just annoy me. It isn’t that I want to be annoyed or angry.  But the news is the news and I don’t make it up.

I generally see red and confess sometimes it may be unreasoning red.
When organizations of foreign birth operate in the USA, using Americans of course (Americans in name anyway) then I see more then red. 

It’s an organization with roots right here in the UK and it’s amnesty intl., and they certainly are that. International.  My hatred doesn’t know any boundaries where they and those like them are concerned.  Look, I’m an old fart these days and there isn’t anything I can personally do about them. I run outta breath just tying my shoe laces.  But I confess, I am entirely consumed by hatred most of you can not possibly imagine.  Think the worst and you still won’t have it all.

Sometimes I think, what if someone were already old enough, ex military, and what if they were very ill. What if they were already facing the great void due to say, cancer. What might they have to lose by taking out heads of organizations like the aclu and amnasty?  If their days are numbered anyway and there’s no hope of relief from pain. You’d have the perfect Killing Machine!  Why not take a page from the good book of Mossad, and take out America’s enemies?

Target specific leadership types and somehow, someway, find the people who donate large sums to them, and taking them out too.  Even if would be assassins were caught, what would they have to lose?  It seems to me it would be win-win. If you’re dying anyway, what more could a court do?  Your remaining few months in jail and probably on meds the whole time? Woo-hoo.  The only regret I’d feel were it me, would be failure if caught before the good and necessary deeds were done.

Until America stops playing patty cake and holding hands with our enemies, we’re as doomed as I think the Brits are with their, we must under ALL circumstances be fair and liberal in outlook. That’s bullshit and it’s their undoing as it will be ours.

I have read how nice and comfy is the treatment of that faggot mo!#3rf$&*3r who passed secret docs to Wikileaks. Bad enough that the USA thinks it must make nice to foreigners and assure them that our prisoner is being well cared for. Like it’s their fuckin business to begin with. Well … these em-effers think it’s their business, and they would most assuredly be on my hit parade list if I had the training, the weapons and the know how.  Oh btw, the hate I mentioned is not reserved for amnesty intl. alone.  It extends to those with the same agenda.

Here. Take a look at what got me going.  Perhaps those of you with cooler heads
and less excitable of manner, those who are not, like myself, closer to Sonny Corleone then Mother Teresa, maybe you have a more clear headed solution then I am capable of.

Bradley Manning is UK citizen and needs protection, government told

Amnesty International asks government to intervene on behalf of soldier suspected of having passed US secrets to WikiLeaks

The British government is under pressure to take up the case of Bradley Manning, the soldier being held in a maximum security military prison in Virginia on suspicion of having passed a massive trove of US state secrets to WikiLeaks, on the grounds that he is a UK citizen.

Amnesty International called on the government to intervene on Manning’s behalf and demand that the conditions of his detention, which the organisation calls “harsh and punitive”, are in line with international standards.

Amnesty’s UK director, Kate Allen, said: “His Welsh parentage means the UK government should demand his ‘maximum custody’ status does not impair his ability to defend himself, and we would also like to see Foreign Office officials visiting him just as they would any other British person detained overseas and potentially facing trial on very serious charges.”

Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, which provides legal assistance to those facing capital punishment and secret imprisonment, likened the conditions under which Manning is held to those in Guantánamo Bay.

“The government took a principled stance on Guantánamo cases even for British residents, let alone citizens, so you would expect it to take the same stance with Manning.”
Manning is a UK citizen by descent from his Welsh mother, Susan. Government databases on births, deaths and marriages show she was born Susan Fox in Haverfordwest in 1953.

She married a then US serviceman, Brian Manning, stationed at a US base near the city, and they had a daughter, Casey, in the same year. Bradley was born in Oklahoma in 1987.

Born in the US, he is a US citizen. But under the British Nationality Act of 1981, anyone born outside the UK after 1 January 1983 who has a mother who is a UK citizen by birth is British by descent.

“Nationality is like an elastic band: it stretches to one generation born outside the UK to a British parent. And that makes Bradley Manning British,” said Alison Harvey, head of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association in London.

So far, however, Manning’s British status has not impinged itself upon the UK authorities. The British embassy in Washington said it had not received any requests to visit Manning in jail. “It hasn’t crossed our path yet,” an official said.

The issue of the soldier’s nationality has been bubbling furiously on Twitter in recent days and has been taken up by the UK branch of the Bradley Manning supporters network.

He has been held in the brig of Quantico marine base in Virginia since last July, having been arrested in Iraq, where he was stationed as a US army intelligence analyst two months previously.
He is alleged to have been the source of several WikiLeaks exposés of US state secrets, including the massive trove of cables released in November.

SOURCE IS LEFT WING GUARDIAN

So now the shits are trying to claim the USA has no jurisdiction?  Well screw them. But you must surely understand after reading this why I want them ALL,
Graveyard Dead! Every last one.

a note about my source. this article was originally in the Telegraph, but hunt as I tried, I could find no link and so had to use the Guardian.

Posted by peiper     on 02/03/2011 at 12:47 PM   
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   Monday - January 24, 2011

by 2020 the U.S. govt.will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest.

For your consideration ....

The cartoon is from the Telegraph ...

Mark Steyn.

Decline starts with the money. It always does. As Jonathan Swift put it:
A baited banker thus desponds,
From his own hand foresees his fall,
They have his soul, who have his bonds;
‘Tis like the writing on the wall.
Today the people who have America’s bonds are not the people one would wish to have one’s soul. As Madhav Nalapat has suggested, Beijing believes a half-millennium Western interregnum is about to come to an end, and the world will return to Chinese dominance. I think they’re wrong on the latter, but right on the former. Within a decade, the United States will be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its military.
by 2020 the U.S. government will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest—

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   Saturday - January 22, 2011

michelle …. our pal …..

How in the world have we managed to live this long without Mrs. Obama’s nutritional input.

I guess every first lady just HAS to have a program but I’ll be darned if I understand why. Who voted for them?

Anyway ... Mrs. O. it appears is in partnership with Wal-Mart, it reads in our morning Telegraph, to lower prices on veggies (I guess that’s a good thing. Isn’t it?) and convinced the chain to make thousands of it’s packaged foods lower in fats and sugars. 

So I guess in addition to being the first lady, she’s also the first mama?

You can’t argue against those things that will benefit people, the argument will run.  And kids don’t generally have a choice when mom does her shopping.
BUT ... as an adult, it’s those bad things that make many foods taste better. As an adult I want to make my own choices.

There’s a drive on here to reduce salt in many foods. Which will be meaningless when ppl start pouring salt on food bought with less cos it tastes bland without it.

Michelle Obama joins forces with Wal-Mart for healthy food campaign

Michelle Obama has helped draw up an unprecedented five-year plan with Wal-Mart, America’s biggest retailer, to drop prices on fruits and vegetables and make thousands of its packaged foods lower in fats and sugars.

Joining Wal-Mart executives at a community centre in Washington, Mrs Obama described the company’s new initiative as “a huge victory for folks all across this country” and said it has the “potential to transform the marketplace”.

She said: “When I see a company like Wal-Mart launch an initiative like this, I feel more hopeful than ever before. We can improve how we make and sell food in this country.”

Wal-Mart, which has 60,000 suppliers, will make thousands of its packaged foods healthier and cheaper by 2015, build more stores in poor areas and increase its donations to nutrition programmes. Sodium and sugar will be reduced in some Wal-Mart foods and the price of fresh produce lowered.

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oh right on Wal-Mart. Go ahead and build more stores in areas that looters and shoplifters will have easier access to. Nothing like having a Wal-Mart right on your doorstep.  And when they start losing money they’ll close em.
Jeesh ........ when the heck did I become this cynical?

Posted by peiper     on 01/22/2011 at 02:53 PM   
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   Saturday - January 15, 2011

the russians are coming?

I’m not terribly well versed on these things BUT ...
according to the radio, BT owns large energy holdings in the USA.

So ....

With the Russians now having a stake in BP for a sizable amount of cash ....
Does that now mean the Russians also will have a hold of any sort in the US?

BP gives 5% stake to state-owned Russian oil firm as they reveal plans to drill Arctic

By Rupert Steiner and Simon Neville

BP signed a major deal last night that will see the Russian government own a chunk of Britain’s biggest oil firm.

It sold 5 per cent of its shares – worth £5billion – to Russia’s state-owned energy firm Rosneft.  Both companies have also agreed to co-operate in drilling for oil reserves in the Arctic.

The historic share-swap deal could open up lucrative revenue streams for BP, which is the third largest energy firm in the world.

But it also raises fresh concerns about the take-over of UK firms by foreign companies – including those, like Rosneft, that are effectively a branch of an overseas government.

Questions will also be asked about the security of Britain’s energy supplies, given Russia’s history of playing politics with oil and other resources.

the rest is here

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   Tuesday - January 11, 2011

America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin.

Drew is the only other one posting here at this time, so that makes him the only one with any self discipline.

I don’t want to harp on this subject, really I do not.  But I think I’ve become a bit thin skinned or too sensitive or something.  I’m so damn PO’d at what the left is doing and feel so bad for what happened in AZ. I think too often I take some things personally. Or it feels that way.  And of course I can’t help seeing the comments and headlines with regard to gun mad America. I won’t rehash all that. Some of you have seen what I’m referring to.  It’s bad enough we have to hear it from foreigners, but when it also comes from our own people, smoke starts streaming out my ears and my eyes bleed.

When the news first broke over here, the husband was quoted as blaming the TP and the right. And then ... the damn sheriff weighed in with his two cents worth and set the stage for all that followed.  Suddenly it’s my fault, and BMEWS and Sarah Palin and all of us on the right are blood thirsty, gun happy extremist loons drinking blood.  Mrs. Plain has blood on her hands screams the ignorant half baked anti-American trolls over here.  Yes answers the idiot left in the USA.
See?  Kinda hard to to keep things on the rails verbally without coming off like some bloodthirsty right wing gun nut. Someone actually wrote that the TP was a greater danger to the USA then muslim extremists.  How can I see that crazy kind of thing and not be damned angry?

Which brings me to a few things. Like this piece by Tom Leonard.

How America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin

By Tom Leonard
Daily Mail

The rush to make political capital out of a mass shooting shows just how nasty U.S. politics has become. Under Barack Obama, America is more polarised than it has been for 40 years.

Conservatives have come to despise liberals, and vice versa, with an intensity the like of which few can recall. Right-wing anger with the high-spending Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, a weak economy and high unemployment has prompted thousands of ordinary Americans to break away from conventional two-party politics to support the Tea Party movement with its call for small government.

Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of staff and a figure compared to Labour’s Alastair Campbell, once said: ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.’

And those on his side of the political divide have clearly seen the Tucson tragedy as an opportunity to score points and settle scores.
None more so than with Sarah Palin, a politician who is almost as divisive as the President. The former Republican vice-presidential contender has become a spiritual figurehead for many Tea Party supporters, but is loathed by many on the Left.

So it was that within minutes of the Tucson shooting, anti-Palin internet bloggers and Twitter users were highlighting a so-called ‘target map’ Mrs Palin had posted on her Facebook page last March.
Controversially, it used gunstyle crosshair targets to flag up Democrat politicians whom Palin felt could be vulnerable at the polls: Miss Giffords was one.
Despite the lack of any evidence that the Tucson gunman had supported Mrs Palin, let alone seen the graphic, critics — including senior Democrats in Congress — have decreed she is somehow culpable.

Yet her critics choose to forget the crosshairs could be all a part of her image as a hunter of big game. (It is worth noting, too, that Miss Giffords had been photographed handling a semi-automatic weapon — no doubt aware it would appeal to a certain voting constituency.)
Palin’s favourite maxim — inherited from her father — is ‘Don’t Retreat, Reload’, a typically bullish phrase she’s been trotting out for months as an injunction on the faithful to stick to their political principles.

Since the Tucson shooting, Left-wing critics have leapt on the words as some kind of proof that she was encouraging supporters to use real weapons.
Other far more loaded Republican comments are being quoted by those keen to make a connection between the Tucson shooting and inflammatory political rhetoric.

Liberals have made much of the words of the Tucson sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, who yesterday launched into a diatribe about the ‘vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government’.

Even the actress and activist Jane Fonda waded into the row with a succession of internet tweets blaming Mrs Palin, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck, a rabble-rousing broadcaster on Fox News, for the shooting.

The Tea Party leaders have been rushing to condemn the shooting and distance themselves from the gunman.
Whether they should really have to do so is another matter. The reality is that there is as yet no evidence that the political Right, and the Tea Party in particular, has — as its opponents say — ‘blood on its hands’ over the Tucson murders.

While some liberals have slyly implied that Loughner was a Tea Party supporter, former classmates remember him as being ‘Left-wing’ and ‘liberal’.

Please note, I have done some chopping on this editorial, UNEDITED VERSION IS HERE

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