Wednesday - January 13, 2010

WOO - WHO GUYS IN AMERICA. Have you already seen this?  WOW!

Right I know. I go a bit crazy over finds like this.  And I always ask the same questions.  What else is out there?  What are they gonna find next?
It amazing that some of the things found have even survived this long.
I wonder if there will be anything from our current century that will have someone 500 years from now saying, wow. What a find.

Maybe, Wow. How primitive?

Be sure to go HERE FOR SOME GREAT PHOTOS .

Pictured: The 400-year-old map that shows China as the centre of the world

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:49 AM on 13th January 2010

A rare 17th Century map that shows China as the as the centre of the world went on display yesterday in Washington.

The map, created in 1602 by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, was the first in Chinese to show the Americas, and identifies Florida as ‘the Land of Flowers’.

The 12ft by 5ft document, printed on six rolls of rice paper, is on show at the Library of Congress. It is one of only two copies in existence in good condition, and was coined ‘the impossible black tulip of cartography’ by experts strugging to track it down.

Rare: The 17th Century Ricci Map. 1: China - 2: India - 3: Russia - 4: Europe - 5: Japan - 6: Canada - 7: US - 8: South America - 9: Africa - 10: Middle East

The map includes drawings and annotations detailing different regions of the world. Africa was noted to have the world’s highest mountain and longest river, while a brief description of North America describes ‘humped oxen’, wild horses and a region named ‘Ka-na-ta’.

Several Central and South American places are also named, including ‘Wa-ti-ma-la’ (Guatemala), ‘Yu-ho-t’ang’ (Yucatan) and ‘Chih-Li’ (Chile).

Ricci also included a brief description of the discovery of the Americas: ‘In olden days, nobody had ever known that there were such places as North and South America or Magellanica,’ he wrote, citing a name that early mapmakers used for Australia and Antarctica.

‘But a hundred years ago, Europeans came sailing in their ships to parts of the sea coast, and so discovered them.’

Ti Bin Zhang of the Chinese Embassy in Washington called the map a ‘catalyst for commerce’, and that it represented the momentous first meeting of East and West.

Ricci was among the first Westerners to live in what is now Beijing. Known for introducing Western science to China, Ricci created the map at the request of Emperor Wanli.

No examples of the map are known to exist in China, where Ricci was revered and buried. Only a few original copies are known to exist, held by the Vatican’s libraries and collectors in France and Japan.
Enlarge Catalyst for commerce: The map is thought to represent the momentous first meeting of East and West
Enlarge Intricate: The map, created in 1602, identifies Florida as ‘the Land of Flowers’

Catalyst for commerce: The map is thought to represent the momentous first meeting of East and West

The copy on display at the Library of Congress became the second most expensive rare map ever sold after it was purchased by the James Ford Bell Trust in October for $1million.

The trust also owns the Waldseemuller world map, which was the first to use the name ‘America’ and was purchased for a staggering $10 million in 2003.

Prior to its sale, the Ricci map had been held by a private collector in Japan. When the Washington exhibition ends in April, it will be housed at the Bell Library at the University of Minnesota.

The library also will create a digital image of the map to be posted online.

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   Monday - January 11, 2010

AN AWESOME AMERICAN ARTIST.

I do use awesome a lot I know but then, I also do get carried away by things and especially things like this.

I can not imagine having the kind of patience it takes to do this.

January 11, 2010
America’s top modeller goes for a ride

Model cars

Michael Paul Smith, a model-maker, has used his skills to recreate an extraordinary miniature world of motoring from a bygone era.

His townscapes are so detailed and accurate that many admirers thought at first that they were photographs.

The 57-year-old American uses his experience as an architectural modeller to build elaborate sets and even makes many of the vehicles himself — all in 1:24 scale.

His work is painstaking — it can take up to four weeks to build a single house, shop, café or garage — but the perfect results are earning him a worldwide following.

CAR SOURCE

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Newt Gingrich … Crush the Left!

I know that of late many cons are a tad upset with Newt but gosh, he sure does know how to nail down a subject and inspire a crowd.
And who among us would disagree with his thoughts on the 9th cir.court?

Some of you might have seen this, but perhaps many more (like me?) are seeing and hearing this for the first time. And it’s worth it.

H/T Jim Miller

Here’s one of the comments left at YT.  Seems a few ppl are feeling the same but I haven’t kept very well up to date on the topic of Newt.

I have not had much problem with his knowledge, only his loyalties. He always says the right thing. He seldom does the right thing. Much like Obama’s speech last week sounded like Reagan, he has no intention of doing anything to move us away from the grip of the globalists who are in control and destroying our liberties.

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   Saturday - January 09, 2010

Why don’t you people recognize a warm trend when you see and feel one? If Al Bore says warm, well.

I won’t post the entire article here. No need and I’m sure wherever you are reading this, you’re having bad weather of your own.

Having said that ... I find something a dear friend in MS. sent me of some interest.  And a comment from Sid here at BMEWS. Thing just kinda came together.

This was the headline that greeted us first thing this morning when I took the papers off the chair on our front porch.

Blizzards will sweep Britain this weekend with biting gale-force winds bringing the coldest temperatures of the winter after council were forced to cut grit use by a quarter because of a national shortage.

By Matthew Moore

Motorists were warned to take extra care as local authorities abandoned efforts to salt thousands of roads and motorway hard shoulders as part of a series of salt rationing measures.

Many roads used by commuters will no longer be gritted, as reserves are held back for keeping major food and fuel transport routes clear and ensuring that hospitals can stay open.

THE REST IS HERE but that isn’t the interesting part.

THIS IS:

The cold is clamping down yet again.  I hope people in the south are all being extremely cautious, as that is where they are not used to it. This is nothing more than God laughing at the Anthropogenic global Warming believers.

Posted by Siddhartha Vicious on BMEWS, United States

It’s almost as tho Sid had already seen this.

And this is the note she sent me along with her photos. 

Al Gore’s global warming tactics must have worked!  He’s freezing us to death.  This was our snow in December 2009, poor banana tree.  We are scheduled to get more tonight and 100% tomorrow with temps dipping to 12 degrees.  Not MY South Mississippi!!!!!

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THE LATEST FROM NASHVILLE FUNNY MAN, RAY STEVENS.

H/T to Jim Miller, who emailed me this Ray Stevens video.
I think BMEWS can handle this. 

What a coincidence that he should send Ray Stevens. 
Little by little we are trying to clear out those things that just take up space in the house that are no longer needed.  We hope we will be able to put the house on the market this summer, providing we have one of those.

Some of the things the wife is finding turned out to be old photos of family going back to the late 1890s.  She found photos of her mother age only 14, and her late brother as well.
So how an album of ours got into that box is a mystery.  But I’m glad she found this particular photo of Ray Stevens with my old car, in Nashville.

It was taken outside the offices of Warner Bros. Records, and his office was right across the street on Music Row.  Every time I drove into Nashville, the Warner Bros. office was my very first stop. I was very big on everything Warner in those days and they had a terrific line up of country acts.  I picked up the latest news and mostly records for the station I worked for in Paducah. There were times I got product even before release.  In one case, an act signed to the label was also a close friend and he gave me a tape (reel to reel from the studio) of his next release.  In other words, it hadn’t even got to the plant for pressing at that point. Those were really the days and I can’t say I don’t miss em. Music Row was almost a real community then. Actually, in very many ways, it was. And I loved it.

My car had Warner cartoon characters painted all over it and was a sight to see. Elmer Fudd with his shotgun on one side facing aft and on the other, Bugs Bunny running away. And of course the Warner logo on the back and sides as well. It was painted free for me, by one of my radio listeners.  When people who don’t know me too well ask me where I was born, I usually tell em, Paducah, Ky.  In a way, I was.

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   Monday - January 04, 2010

USA LIFTS BAN ON HIV TRAVEL.  VISITORS AND IMMIGRANTS WELCOME.

I think it’s time for me to ask, anyone with some knowledge on the topic since I only know what I’ve read or heard on the news, does this put anyone at any extra risk?  Was the US justified in the ban?  Does the US have it correct now?

U.S. takes positive step of lifting entry ban on foreign nationals with HIV

By Daily Mail Reporter
04th January 2010

The US government has lifted an ban on foreign nationals with HIV entering the country.

For the past 22 years, people who are HIV positive have needed a special waiver to visit, or travel through, the US but the requirement will be dropped from Monday.

THT said some of its staff with HIV have, in the past, been refused entry to the US as a result of the policy.

Lisa Power, THT head of policy, said: ‘It’s ridiculous that for over 20 years people living with HIV have been banned from entering the US simply because of a medical condition.

Whoa .. that’s some kinda medical condition.  We already know from past experience that an awful lot of these folks take on new partners without saying a word about, their condition.
And further to the question, exactly from where are these new immigrants gonna come from?
Any guesses?

I know it’s perverse but, I hate making foreign libs happy even more then our home grown ones.  I always feel like they’re sticking their collective noses in our business.  So if they congratulate us for something, I always think whoops. We got things wrong again.
We shouldn’t be doing things that the left approves of.  Just on general principals.

‘Removing the ban is long overdue and we congratulate the US government on seeing economic and medical sense.

‘THT and many others have campaigned against the ban since it was introduced. Blanket entry bans have no justification on public health grounds and only increase stigma.

‘We hope other countries with similar bans in place will now remove them too.’

President Barack Obama announced in October last year that the ban would be lifted.

‘Twenty-two years ago, in a decision rooted in fear rather than fact, the United States instituted a travel ban on entry into the country for people living with HIV/Aids,’ he said.

‘Now, we talk about reducing the stigma of this disease - yet we’ve treated a visitor living with it as a threat.’

The 2012 World Aids Conference will be held in the US in recognition of the lifting of the ban.

SOURCE

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Your diseased, perverted sodomists; your criminals; your ignorant, thieving, insane, moon god worshipping misogynists. Your Oh Lord I can’t go on.

Posted by sig94 United States

I just HAD to come back and do this. Couldn’t resist. Thanks Sig94

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   Saturday - January 02, 2010

AN UNHEEDED WARNING.  HOW MANY MORE.  HERE’S SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A very short post and for more by this columnist go to:

TIMES ONLINE

UNHEEDED WARNING

Spare a thought, if you have any left this morning, for Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the former chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, and the father of the man who tried to blow up an aircraft over Detroit.

Repeatedly, he tried to warn the US authorities that his son might be involved in something dodgy. Repeatedly, they ignored him. And I think we all know why. I bet his first approach was by e-mail. “Dear SURNAME,” he may have written, following the apparent custom of his countrymen. “I am MR MUTALLAB, the former CHAIRMAN of the FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA and I write to inform you that . . .” Click. Straight into the CIA spam bin.

Pity that modern Cassandra, the Nigerian banker who actually has something important to say. Maybe there are hundreds of them. Screaming into cyberspace via Hotmail. Forever ignored.

Hugo Rifkind
The Times, London.
Jan. 1, 2010

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DARN IF IT ISN’T ALL THE FAULT OF DREW AND TOM HORN … MY PLANS ASKEW …

ASKEW is right cos I had planned on something else to start with. Can’t do that right now.

I was always a fan of Steve McQueen going way back to the TV series in 1958.  There was always something believable about him.

Drew’s take on Tom Horn is right on the money and I honestly don’t think I’ve read a better movie review.  No kidding.

I have a ton of stuff to do and more or less planned out my posts for today.  We have been finding more things packed away left by the wife’s late mother. Because it’s difficult for her to do, she says she feels like she’s starting the new year by getting rid of her mom, I’ve been going through and seperating stuff like 50 years worth of diaries.  And due to the mania for seperating cardboard and recycle from hard plastics, well.  You can imagine how I spent a great deal of yesterday, and there’s more of other things today.  My inclination is to simply toss everything in a pile but ... can not do.  There are addresses there and phone numbers AND, the powers that be WILL check what you toss away.  Stiff fines and aggro I don’t need.  So ...  I had stuff lined up and came to BMEWS to start and got hit with Tom Horn. 

There is not a single thing I could possibly add to that review.  Drew missed his calling. But hell, it’s not too late should he tire of windows.

Westerns in the past and most especially the silents were sooooo corny I can’t believe how ppl took to em.  Movies in general were cornball. Not all of them, there were a few standouts.  Anyway ...  I got to thinking about the beginnings of the western ....

http://www.silentmovies.com/edison/gtrscenes/gtr.htm, and of course you can Google The Great Train Robbery and see clips.  What an innocent age.

Then I recalled a name from the past, William S. Hart.  He was a major star in that period. Just think, here was a guy born in the final year of the war of northern aggression.  okok. The Civil War.  (most uncivil) Anyway, you could say he was the Steve McQueen of his time. Not in acting ability to be sure. But in popularity.  I remember my mother speaking of him.  Then there was real cowboy named Tom Mix.

So I just thought I would post this very old stuff so we can see where we all came from.  Movie wise.

I will leave you with this. And to think, I actually got paid for playing it.  That was the life let me tell ya.

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   Friday - January 01, 2010

America’s armed militia on the rise , says article in the Telegraph.

Here’s how one story on America is being reported here on this first day of the new year, 2010.

I suppose it could be true and would not surprise me if it is.  My hope of course is that they won’t be too much more extreme then I am in which case we (USA) would be in serious doo-doo.

Hell lets face it, while many of us believe and I do, that extremism in defence of my country is a virtue, too much of it can also wreck a country. Look what the left has done to us so far, as an example.

America’s armed militia on the rise

Extremist “patriot” groups and other armed militias have undergone a dramatic resurgence in America, their numbers more than doubling in the past year amid growing Right-wing fears over expanding federal power and gun control.
By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 4:35PM GMT 31 Dec 2009

Such groups – a mix of libertarians, gun rights advocates and survivalists – appeared to be in terminal decline before the election of Barack Obama, according to monitoring bodies.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks extremist organisations, says it has so far counted more than 300 patriot groups this year, at least double last year’s total of 150. The real total will be much higher as many groups do not go out of their way to publicise their existence.

See now right here at the start is where I see red.  EVERY time I see SPLC, my immediate feeling honest and true is, I wish I had a way to eliminate every single member and ALL who contribute monies to that miserable trouble making left wing group of lawyers and running dog followers. All of em with NO exceptions.  I hate em that much.  Well let the bastards count and I hope the numbers mount.  But it might be nice if for once we got groups that didn’t see little green men and claim they hear the voice of god or the devil or Elvis.  We do seem to be plagued on the right with folks like that.

A similar wave of anti-government groups, some of whose members dress in camouflage gear and conduct military training at weekends, sprung up during the Clinton administration.

However, SPLC researchers said there was a new race factor reflecting President Obama’s ethnicity and immigration fears.

The groups themselves reject accusations of racism but agree that many members are deeply worried about gun control, are angered by the federal economic rescue packages, and are dismayed by government interference in areas such as health care. They voice frustration at what they perceive as America’s international decline.

Tensions are running high and some fear major bloodshed springing from a minor event. A law enforcement official told the SPLC that “all that’s lacking is a spark”.

One of the new patriot groups is called Oath Keepers. Its members, like those in other groups, look for guidance from America’s Founding Fathers.

Formed last spring, Oath Keepers’ members – limited to current or former servicemen and police – swear to obey the US constitution rather than politicians.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder, told The Daily Telegraph that the situation was a “potential powder keg”.

He said: “The one thing that would probably lead [groups] to armed resistance is if the government did try to confiscate weapons, but that was what finally led to fighting in the American Revolution”.

Mike Vanderboegh, a former militia leader and founder of a vociferous gun rights group called the Three Percenters, pointed to a huge increase in sales of ammunition, many of it to new gun owners.

“This is far larger than Obama. It speaks to an existential fear of societal collapse,” he said.

He said group members were looking for “practical self-defence”, whether from “predatory government or street-level crime”.

If the government carried out “another Waco” – the 1993 storming of a cult’s Texas ranch, in which 76 occupants died – “you’d see a reaction bloody beyond belief”, he added.

Heidi Beirich, a co-author of the SPLC’s militia research, said the groups were characterised by “a lot of conspiracy mongering, gun nuttery and fear of a new world order that they think is controlling the US”.

Conservatives have accused the SPLC and other monitoring groups of exaggerating the threat posed by such groups, although a Department of Homeland Security report in April voiced fears about rising extremism.

Mr Rhodes said his group’s internet forum had 11,000 members. Its 10-point oath includes pledges not to disarm fellow Americans or force citizens into “any form of detention camps”.

Mr Rhodes said: “I don’t want to take it for granted that the destruction of the republic can’t happen here.” He said he had also attacked encroaching federal power under the Bush administration, adding: “They’re refusing to acknowledge the fundamental American libertarian streak that says, ‘We don’t care who’s in power, we don’t like the expansion of executive power.’”

Jonathan White, a former police officer and academic who advises both the FBI and government on terrorism, said he was less worried by the threat from the organised patriot groups than from “lone wolf” individuals who would tend to dismiss militias as “a joke”.

Richard Poplawski, a Pittsburgh man who shot dead three police officers in April, complained to friends that the government was infringing gun rights.

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Great excuse to shoot cops huh?  That guy isn’t an kind of patriot. He’s just a rotten cold blooded killer.  Wasting policemen does not advance any patriot cause.
It’s guys like that who should have their gun rights infringed. Trouble is, one never knows ahead of time. Not till it’s too late. 

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   Wednesday - December 30, 2009

Former Guantanamo Bay inmates may have been behind the Christmas Day bomb plot.

H/T ...  ah ... color me embarrassed.  h/t is my own wife who saw this.  Here we are, we both read the same papers, and I totally missed this.
Must not make a habit out of this.

Anyway, the subject matter isn’t funny at all.  I doubt any of our regulars here will be surprised.

Allison Pearson
Mail On Line
Dec. 30, 2009

It looks like two former Guantanamo Bay inmates may have been behind the foiled Christmas Day jet bomb plot.
Muhamad Attik al-Harbi and Said Ali Shihri were arrested in Afghanistan in 2001 and taken to the Cuban detention camp before being released two years ago and sent to a Saudi jail.

After entering an ‘art therapy rehabilitation programme’, they were freed and promptly joined a branch of Al Qaeda, which specialises in an art of its own.
The art of blowing up airplanes.

Can we now expect an apology from those who insist Guantanamo Bay is full of misunderstood youths who got lost on a camping trip to Iraq and who could easily be put back on track with a nice bit of collage and papier mache?

PEARSON

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   Saturday - December 26, 2009

Will this be called a Local Contingency

Federal officials and police are interviewing a Nigerian man, who allegedly tried to “explode” a powdery substance aboard a Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said.

The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information, and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.

The suspect was identified as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who according to federal documents is an engineering student at University College of London. He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious seminar, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.

“The subject is claiming to have extremist affiliation and that the device was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used,” a federal situational awareness bulletin stated.

The man was “subdued immediately,” Elliott said. Northwest is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta.

“There was one guy, who sat on the other side, the right side of the wing because this was on the left side of the wing, and he jumped over the other people and he took care of it,” said passenger Peter Smith.

The suspect told authorities that he had explosive powder taped to his leg and used a syringe of chemicals to mix with the powder that was to cause explosion. This is of concern because it is a method of mixing that is consistent with terror techniques.

Northwest Airlines flight 253—operated on a Delta airplane—landed safely in Detroit at 11:53 a.m. The man, who flew from Nigeria to Amsterdam and then Detroit, was taken into custody at the Detroit airport and was interviewed by authorities there. He was then taken to an area hospital to be treated for burns.

“The White House is calling this an attempted terrorist attack,” [Senator Susan] Collins {R, Maine] added. “It raises some serious questions, such as how was this person able to bring an explosive substance aboard a commercial airliner? And what is the Transportation Security Administration doing to address this type of threat?”

UPDATE: UK lends a hand

U.K. police are searching a number of locations in connection with an alleged attempt to blow up a jet carrying 278 people as it landed in Detroit, while authorities meet with a Nigerian banker that may be the father of the suspect.

Multiple law enforcement officials identified the suspect in Friday’s attempted attack as Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. He was described as Nigerian and is believed to be an engineering student at University College London, the London Times reports.

U.S. authorities claim he has links to Al Qaeda and are working with London Metropolitan police to search addresses with possible connections to the suspected terror attack.

One law enforcement official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mutallab’s name had surfaced earlier on at least one U.S. intelligence database, but he was not on a watch list or a no-fly list.

Abdulmutallab’s alleged U.K. links have also led to heightened security at airports and on all flights to the U.S. from Britain, the London Times reports.

A hero identified

Passenger Jasper Schuringa told CNN that with the aid of the cabin crew, he helped subdue and isolate Abdulmutallab.

Schuringa said he heard a big bang that sounded like a firecracker going off. He told CNN that he was the one who was able to subdue Abdulmutallab. CNN was not able to independently confirm Schuringa’s account.

Schuringa said someone started yelling: “Fire! Fire!”

Then there was smoke. That’s when Schuringa said he knew something was terribly wrong.

When he noticed that Abdulmutallab was not moving, he grew suspect. He jumped over the passenger next to him and lunged over Abdulmutallab’s seat.

Schuringa said he saw that Abdulmutallab had his pants open and he was holding a burning object between his legs.

“I pulled the object from him and tried to extinguish the fire with my hands and threw it away,” Schuringa said.

He said he managed to pull an object tucked between Abdulmutallab’s legs.

“Water! Water,” Schuringa screamed. He heard fire extinguishers as he pulled Abdulmutallab out of his seat and dragged him to the front of the plane.

Schuringa said Abdulmutallab seemed dazed. “He was staring into nothing.”

Schuringa said he stripped off Abdulmutallab’s clothes to make sure he did not have other explosives on his body. A crew member helped handcuff him.

He said other passengers applauded as he walked back to his own seat.

“My hands are pretty burned. I am fine,” he said. “I am shaken up. I am happy to be here.”

UPDATED UPDATE: Jasper Schuringa is a Nederlander, a video director from Amsterdam. So I guess I have to say “Nederlands, neuken ja!” and sorta hide because I don’t know any Dutch whatsoever and had to look that up, only to find that the ubiquitous universal English monosyllabic dirty emphatic doesn’t actually exist in Dutch. Frot!

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   Friday - December 18, 2009

Rocket science factoid … England is an island. It’s a small country and a population less then USA

Amazing that. Who’d have guessed?

This is not a continent with a population in the hundreds of millions. However, it seems that nobody has shared that info with the pie in the sky prime minister,
Gordon Brown.  Who in a magnanimous gesture has just pledged an extra £6 billion to fight climate change. (what happened to warming?)

Where the hell is all this cash coming from?  I guess he’s gonna print more and get it from the same place he got the trillion to bail out the banks.

It has been promised at that meeting in Denmark, from which there seems to be an odd smelling odor, I think there’s something rotten there, that billions must be given to turd world countries to offset the effects of climate change and to help them as they are poor.  And guess what.  Some spokesman for Africa has already said that it won’t be enough.
No kidding but no surprise.

I’ve been listening to the radio again. Yeah I know.  That or the papers. I need to give one up as it’s all causing an ulcer.

Oh yeah ... America can be proud. Hilary has pledged US backing for a $100bn fund.

This country is in deep financial trouble.  These things do manage to right themselves after a time but how long is now the question.
Services are being cut and the govt. claims to be looking for ways to save. BUT ... MPs (Member of Parliament) have been found even AFTER the scandal of expenses to be, “CARRY ON CHEATING.” Not only that, a large group of MPs ( I think the number may be 81) have refused to return monies they took claiming a right to same.  It’s getting so that one doesn’t know who to believe anymore.  While I hope Labour is voted out, I am not certain the conservatives will do a heck of a lot better.  OK, maybe a little better.  But so many of them seem to be Cons in name only.  Gets a bit daunting.

On climate change this govt. is committed (they say) to leading the world in the saving of itself.  Oh great. Who the hell is gonna save England while all this noble nonsense is happening? 

On another politically correct front, the govt. wants to force tobacco companies into giving up the use of company logos on ciggy packs.  Not enough that packs already carry huge black lettering saying THIS PRODUCT KILLS.  What makes em think logos like the Lucky Strike target being banned, will cause ppl to quit or not start? 

It’s really difficult remaining positive folks.  Here’s an example of how well things are working here.  Wife found this letter in the Times today. Unbelievable.

Sir, In keeping with the time of year, I recently ordered my diaries for 2010. When, after several weeks, they had not arrived, I contacted the company to establish the cause of the delay. I was informed that the courier had been unable to find my place of work.

Given that the distribution centre is located in Scotland, I cannot be sure if this is a symptom of cartographical ignorance, failed GPS technology, or perhaps, devolution?

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
House of Lords (large building by River Thames with big clock tower)

Jeeze people .... The freekin House of Lords?  Clock tower?  as in BIG FREEKIN BEN?  THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT?  THE FRACKEN SEAT OF GOVT.?
The courier couldn’t find that? 

It goes on and on.

The fresh injection of British taxpayers’ cash will be part of a $100billion (£67billion) a year fund which was backed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday.

In what was seen as a major development, Mrs Clinton said: ‘We have come to Copenhagen ready to take the steps necessary to achieve a comprehensive and an operational new agreement.’

Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said the fund would require ‘around £1billion a year from Britain’.
He added: ‘Some of that money comes from overseas aid, some will come out of revenue but this is absolutely in the UK’s economic - as well as environmental - interest.’

Britain is expected to ramp up its contribution to the global fund for poor countries from £500million a year in 2012 to the £1billion target by 2020, landing taxpayers with a bill for £ 6billion in additional aid over the period.
That is on top of £1.5billion the UK has already pledged for developing countries. But Mr Brown says the financial outlay is essential to maintain progress. After talks with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao he suggested China was prepared to allow more checks on its carbon emissions.

Mr Brown yesterday pledged an extra £6billion to persuade developing countries to sign up to a deal.
As the Prime Minister prepared to sip champagne over dinner with Robert Mugabe and more than 100 other world leaders, he told reporters that ‘the conditions for an agreement are now there’.

He effectively committed Britain to handing over billions more in ‘additional’ money in an attempt to win over poorer countries who say current proposals are unfair.

Mr Brown has already offered to cut Britain’s carbon emissions by 42 per cent, the highest proportion of any country and ten times the best deal put forward by the U.S.A. - raising the prospect of higher fuel prices and a wave of green taxes.
His latest offer will fuel concerns that Mr Brown is making a disproportionately generous offer on Britain’s behalf in a desperate attempt to secure his place in history.

MAIL

Posted by peiper     on 12/18/2009 at 10:21 AM   
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   Thursday - December 17, 2009

UK CARTOONS …

Cartoonists view of things from here, no comments from me except to say that the last one is a favorite.

take a look.

Based on what I’m reading, seems there’s a bit less of that now, and that’s among his supporters.

Now this one wins First Prize. What’s the west gonna do about this guy? Does it need to do anything? What and when? Specially when.

Source is:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/

Posted by peiper     on 12/17/2009 at 12:11 PM   
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   Friday - December 11, 2009

An Obama Christmas

H/T Theo Sparks

I don’t know how this guy finds the stuff he does.  Lots of surfing I guess.

Posted by peiper     on 12/11/2009 at 12:00 AM   
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