Monday - January 10, 2011

only brief time for a fast question for bmews people

Have a few things to do but wonder if anyone has some answers re. gun and background checks in states.

This is prompted by the Tucson tragedy of course, and of course too I’m asked questions I can’t answer with regard to gun registration, buying and criminal checks.

Someone here has suggested that it depends on our states, as they understand the issue. The claim was made that in some states there was only a five day waiting period.  ???  That didn’t sound right to me as I thought I had read there was a rule somewhere about a two week waiting period while backgrounds where checked.

In my earlier days when I did own a gun, in my 20’s, nobody checked anything. And even later on when I lived in KY, when I bought a rifle and a hand gun, much older by then but still, there wasn’t any check I remember and there was no waiting period.
But that was many years ago so I have nothing to compare to or working knowledge of.

Perhaps some of you can fill the gaps so I can reasonably answer the question.

Unrelated ...

Morning papers today making a lot out of the sheriff’s angry outburst re. political vitriol in America, polarization and the use of target like symbols the TP used for political electioneering. 
It’s all crap of course and the idea of “targeting” your opponent never was intended or thought to be used as in killing anyone.
Very much coverage btw on the kind of language used and ppl making a big deal out of Mrs. Palin’s phrase , “Don’t retreat, Reload.”
Some other Republican lady had another phrase in the same sort of style and naturally these are being used as proof positive of how poisoned things have become back home.
In short ... it’s a mess and apparently now Republicans and the TP are scrambling to assure ppl that we aren’t out literally gunning for opponents. Well, most of us aren’t.

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   Sunday - January 09, 2011

america is too damn civilized in spite of the tucson tragedy

My head is still wrapped around that miserable no good wanker who turned Tucson into a shooting gallery.  Brings out all the hate America jerks too.  They are now publishing some photos of victims, and honest to gosh people … I’m not a mawkish person at all BUT.  A little girl? A nine year old girl? She’s the enemy?  Jeesh.

Does Az. have a death penalty?  And even if it does … that’ll be dragged out for years.

Here’s a case of murder pure and simple, in broad daylight in front of countless witnesses.  Is a trial necessary?  No it is not.  Due process?  Screw that in cases like this.  Null and void.  He voided his warranty.

Deranged?  Could be.  Not responsible for his actions? BS! Yes he is and he should have been lynched by the crowd immediately. Or stomped to death if nobody had a rope handy.  That’s what would have been done in an age when splitting fine hairs wasn’t the norm, and some people really did lose any “rights” they may have had by the misery they brought on others, by violent acts like murder in cold blood.

I think too many people have become over civilized.  There should be limits to that set in stone.  A crime of this nature as well the Ft. Hood killings, should have immediate consequences. And by that I mean, an immediate death penalty and not too fast a death either.  Any lawyer who would defend these creeps should swing right next to their client.

Here’s something posted by an American at the Mail site.

This was a tragedy caused by a mentally unstable man. The efforts to demonize the Tea Party and Ms. Palin are unjustified. The Tea Partiers made our point in the 2010 elections, and are posed to make further points in 2012. They don’t need to eliminate our opponents with guns. We have the ballot.
- Gregory Baker, Odenton, Maryland, USA, 9/1/2011 14:28

Ten fuckin idiots red arrowed the guy. Ten. So far. Does that show ya how damned stupid ppl are? What did the man say that should have earned the down arrow?

I understand the grief of the congresswoman’s husband and family. But they’re blaming the TP and the Republican right, and the jerks on this side of the pond see that and they take up the call. Like it’s any of their business to begin with.
This whole things bothers me first because of the victims and especially a little girl with a life in front of her. And secondly what it does to our image around the world.  It feeds the greedy flame of anti American attitudes.

If any of it were factual I wouldn’t have any argument to come back with. But they are so misinformed and so certain they have it right, and damn few if any have ever lived in the states, it just makes me see red.
And the worst of all? The pits that bring on the RCOB?
Americans commenting on the Daily Mail site apologizing to the world. Like this ass hole from NY.

I would like to apologize for my country’s systemic racism.

Right. We’re so damn racist we’re the only white, western country with a black head of state.  Tragedies like this sure do bring the insects out from under their rocks.

Stupid damn bastards!

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   Thursday - January 06, 2011

the ethnic cleansing of huckleberry finn in our new pc dictated world

Saw yesterday’s post by Drew when booting with the intent of posting this very interesting piece by Christopher Howse, who is generally the religious editor for the Telegraph among other job titles.

This story also has it’s origins in the USA, and the remarks about pc are right on target.

Here’s the whole editorial on the subject of that now forbidden word. 

Huckleberry Finn loses the ‘nigger’ he loves, thanks to a publisher’s ethnic cleansing

By Christopher Howse Literature

There is a great fuss in America about a new edition of Huckleberry Finn from which the word nigger has been excised. It occurs in the novel 217 times, or 219 (tallies vary, and I have lost count), so its loss makes quite a difference. It is like The Merchant of Venice without the word Jew.

Indeed Jew is far more pejorative in the mouths of Shakespeare’s characters than nigger is in the mouths of some of Mark Twain’s. Launcelot Gobbo, Shylock’s servant, resolves to run away, and declares: “I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer.”

We readers of Shakespeare and Mark Twain do not dislike black people or Jewish people. Yet we can be more certain that Twain did not hate blacks than that Shakespeare was not anti-Semitic. Anyone would have to be not only stupid but a fool to miss the fact that Mark Twain was on the side of Jim, the runaway slave in Huckleberry Finn.

Even if we cannot be sure that Shakespeare wasn’t anti-Semitic, should it mean that teenagers at school must never read The Merchant of Venice again? Or, if we are doubtful about Thomas Carlyle’s attitude to emancipated slaves, does that mean nobody should peruse his discourse from 1853, On the Nigger Question?
Striking out the word nigger every time it appears in Huckleberry Finn is a kind of ethnic cleansing, a pretence that in the land of the free no one referred to black people by a demeaning term once the Civil War had been won.

Worse, it is to confuse a word with a system of thought. For something really hair-raising on race, look up the “scientific” approach of the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica under the entry Negro. “The recognised leaders of the race are almost invariably persons of mixed blood,” it declares, “and the qualities which have made them leaders are derived certainly in part and perhaps mainly from their white ancestry.”

Mark Twain was having none of this. Huckleberry Finn is about the moral education of its hero. At first he is scandalised that his friend Tom Sawyer should be willing to help Jim escape from his “owner”. “I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger-stealer! ” Huck believes that stealing will send him to hell, but, in a crux of the plot, he chooses to risk hellfire rather than betray Jim.

Huck learns Jim has feelings too, after hurting them by playing a trick on him. He apologises. “It was fifteen minutes,” Huck explains, “before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.” How would that sentence be improved by changing nigger to slave, as the new publishers have done?

Huckleberry Finn has a happy ending of sorts, for Jim is freed. But Huck himself is the one who has no place in civilised society, and he hatches a plan to head off for “Injun” territory. Only, of course, the publishers can’t let the word Injun sully the minds of the impressionable young either.

The position of black people in America is only one strand of Huckleberry Finn, but it is the dominating theme of Twain’s very interesting problem tale Pudd’nhead Wilson. It concerns two babies, one regarded as a “nigger” though only one-32nd part black, the other the heir to the local estate. As in The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain has fun when they are swapped. Yet he calls his story a tragedy.

The child brought up as the heir goes to the bad, behaves badly to black people, and turns to murder. The amiable child brought up as a “nigger” is at last rewarded by being recognised as the heir. But he can never feel comfortable among white people, because of his speech and manners.
It’s nurture, not nature that makes the man, Twain suggests. For him, the problem is not “Niggaz with Attitude” but the attitude to “niggers”.

HOWSE AT THE TELEGRAPH

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   Friday - December 31, 2010

‘Rosie the Riveter’ war recruitment poster girl dies at 86 …

‘Rosie the Riveter’ war recruitment poster girl dies

Geraldine Doyle, who was the inspiration for a popular US Second World War recruitment poster featuring the slogan “We Can Do it!” has died at the age of 86.

By Nick Allen, Los Angeles

Mrs Doyle was a 17-year-old working in a metal factory in Ann Arbor, Michigan when she featured on the “Rosie the Riveter” poster wearing a red and white polka dot bandana and flexing her bicep.

The image became a visual representation of the millions of women who worked in factories in the US during the war effort and was later adopted by the feminist movement.

Mrs Doyle’s photograph was taken by chance by a United Press International photographer and it then became the basis for the poster which was produced in 1942 by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation to raise the morale of workers.

The public soon began associating the poster with a hit song called “Rosie the Riveter” and the name stuck.

In reality, Mrs Doyle only worked at the factory for two weeks before moving to a job in a book shop and pursuing her passion for playing the cello.

SOURCE

Does anyone else wonder how it was possible for her to not know until 1984?  Just seems odd.
She wasn’t employed as a riveter for long. Bet these ladies were. Newsweek 1943

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   Tuesday - December 28, 2010

unveiled, a 1-000-core-chip- will-make-desktop-machines-20-times-faster

Some headlines from the papers today and this one should interest the more tech savvy among you. Although all of us will always welcome faster PCs, isn’t there more to it?  Your ISP for example. I read that some are faster then others. 
What I can’t figure out at the moment is, if you have say EARTHLINK (ELNK) but AT&T owns the line being used, what might make ELNK any faster then AT&T?
And if there’s something they are using to make them faster, then why wouldn’t the ISP who owns the line have the same technology?
But the biggest wow thing I’m trying to understand is ... 1,000 cores?  OK, in less then a thousand words, what’s a core when we’re speaking of computers?
Can’t mean the same as the word implies, does it? But a thousand of em?  See?  I’m always awed by stuff I hardly understand.  Some ppl understand things instinctively, while the rest of us mortals must plod and scratch our heads and try harder. And feel not too bright. Sort of like a flickering light or maybe no light at all.

Scientists unveil chip which could make desktop computers 20 times faster

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:01 AM on 28th December 2010

Scientists have created an ultra-fast computer chip which is 20 times faster than current desktop computers.

Modern PCs have a processor with two, four or sometimes 16 cores to carry out tasks.

But the central processing unit (CPU) developed by the researchers effectively had 1,000 cores on a single chip.

The developments could usher in a new age of high-speed computing in the next few years for home users frustrated with slow-running systems.

The chip was able to process around five gigabytes of data per second in testing - making it approximately 20 times faster than modern computers.

The team was led by Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede, of the University of Glasgow, and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

The research scientists were able to make the processor faster by giving each core a certain amount of dedicated memory.

Dr Vanderbauwhede said: ‘This is very early proof-of-concept work where we’re trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics.

‘While many existing technologies currently make use of FPGAs, including plasma and LCD televisions and computer network routers, their use in standard desk-top computers is limited.

SOURCE

I wasn’t going to post as much of that story above as I did, but as Drew can tell ya, I tend to get quite wrapped up in things I’m not intended by nature to get wound up in. Thing is, I really love that stuff. It’s kind of like being in love with an unfaithful mistress.  Not that I have any experience with that either.

The other headline I thought I’d bring to our attention is:

The Big Thaw begins: Relief for Britons as Arctic air is replaced by balmy 12C breezes… but you’ve not seen the last of the snow

· December set to be coldest ever - a degree colder than previous record

· Fears ‘quick melt’ could lead to flooding in parts of the country

Not too bad today altho very misty and gray.  And cold. No, not a bad day at all when I think of humid summers and no air cond.

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   Saturday - December 25, 2010

stunning images show US troops repelling a Taliban attack on a combat post, DEC. 25, 2010

Just came across my puter ...

We can be proud.  I’d love to see or hear what some of these grunts would say to the jerks who’ve made anti American comments following this article.

See more full screen HERE

Pfc. Kyle Garcia from Ridgefield, Wash., from left, Spc. Steven Galvin from Holstein, Iowa, Staff Sgt. Michael Bruzeis from Secaucus, N.J., Cpl. Brandon Sutton from Robards, Ky., Pfc. Nikolai Starr from San Antonio, Texas, and PV2 Thomas Alexander from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., of the 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 Infantry pose with a Christmas message at Combat Out Post Badel

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   Tuesday - December 21, 2010

so this self serving black bastard wants to silence or make rush explain himself ….

I was just getting ready to clear the decks and retire when I realized I hadn’t checked one of my in boxes in a week.

Days and days go by, don’t hear from Doc Jeff and then suddenly there he is, with something that so pisses me off I know I’ll need a Valium to come down. Maybe Xanax. Maybe both?  No kidding this N%**!* makes me see red and don’t tell me Al Sharpton isn’t one of those.  I guess anything he doesn’t agree with is automatically racist and offending.  It’s folks like him that are the problem with race relations.

Rush Limbaugh can do a good job defending himself. If I were so clever he needed me, then I’d have his job.
No.  One of the things that bothers the hell out of me tonight, is that having seen the clip Jeff sent to me, I now see the signs of the very same exact thing that happens here in the UK. Exactly the same, and I’ve been ranting about this and worried about this in the USA.
Just another reason to wish it had been LBJ that caught the bullet that killed Kennedy.  Cos were it not for him, maybe we wouldn’t have to put up with someone like AS which is one S short of ass.

My immediate thought was ... damn it. Why hasn’t anyone shot this bastard after all these years?  But then better judgment took over. Hell, I don’t anyone to hurt a hair or whatever is left on his coon head. No way. Cos then we’d be FORCED to endure another public holiday and have banks closed and roads and highways renamed, all to make a show of how inclusive we really are and to toss the black mobs a bone to placate for awhile, else cities will get burned. Again.  And the left would have a field day with that and legislation would be passed banning bb guns. You know the drill.

Jeez that guy gets my freekin goat. 

My guess is many may have seen this already but I’ve just been made aware for the first time. 
The arrogance of the shit. The nerve. 
When the left can’t win an argument ... they try and shut down the speaker.  Or as here, either that or force him to explain himself.
Ppl like A.S. are professional victims and will go out of their way to scream race at every opportunity.  And racism to them is anything they do not want to hear or anything they don’t agree with and that means shut the debates down. 

So Doc ... I won’t be thankin’ ya for the ulcer ... and keeping me up.

H/T though for the link and story.  Maddening. More then maddening.

H/T Doc Jeff

Al Sharpton said he had a “fruitful” conversation with the FCC on censoring Rush Limbaugh.

Sharpton says the FCC will hold public hearings where Limbaugh (or one of his representatives) will have to attend and defend some of his “racist” statements.

Sharpton says the FCC will “shape policy” based on these hearings.

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   Thursday - December 16, 2010

muzzie prayers on the streets of poor le belle france, and pat condell on america. worrisome

I thought I was oughtta here an hour ago but ..... funny thing happened on the way to bed and book.  I got sidetracked and read this site,

Sharia Isn’t Creeping Anymore. It’s Galloping!

Eurabia Watch Special Report and saw a video there > muslims at prayer in Paris street which is 4 and a half minutes long.  Not too much happening, a bit boring and the video a little jerky in places.  So why am I leaving a link to it here?

Because in spite of the few flaws I mentioned, it isn’t intended as entertainment. But it is damned well instructive.

I mentioned this lady the other day and posted .... but you might want to read some more.

H/T Family Security Matters

Sharia Isn’t Creeping Anymore. It’s Galloping!
Eurabia Watch Special Report
Paris, 14 December 2010

Muslim Street Prayers in France: From Secret to Sacred

How did Muslim prayer in French streets go from a well-kept secret to a cause célèbre in less than a week? Maxime Lepante has posted some 40 videos of outdoor Muslim prayers in France. Streets are blocked, often with the help of law enforcement, prayer rugs are stretched out, and the prostration begins.

Lepante traces the swift expansion of these open air mosques that encroach on the rights of citizens to walk or drive down a public street, enter and leave their buildings, hear themselves think in their own homes or, we might add, feel like they are living in Paris, France!

On the latest video, posted on the 11th of December, we learn that loudspeakers have been added … the better to broadcast the call. After tallying 28,000 hits in 55 hours, the YouTube video was branded “hate speech” and removed.

With one rare exception, mainstream French media never even mentioned these weekly illegal prayer meetings in the streets of French towns and cities. Suddenly (“A vous de juger,” France 2, December 9) Marine Le Pen--daughter and hopeful heir apparent to the leader of the Front National—broke the sound barrier. The snarling Jean-Marie Le Pen somehow fathered an intelligent, personable young daughter who apparently hopes to lead the crotchety old “far right” down the reformist path followed by similar movements in other European countries. Is she sincere?


Concluding a rundown of her program for a new improved Front National—withdrawal from the European Union, the eurozone, and the global economy—Marine Le Pen called for résistance against the Islamization of France. Stockholm’s Christmas shahid didn’t ignite one tenth of the indignation provoked by Marine Le Pen’s analysis of creeping sharia, encroaching niqab, and in-your- face prayers in French streets. Political figures big and small, right and left, lined up to take a shot at her. Quoi? She likened the street prayers to an “Occupation”! Aha! She’s a branch from the father’s rotten tree.

We had the veil, more and more veils; then the burqa, and now prayers in the street. “Of course they didn’t come with tanks and soldiers, but it’s still an Occupation

The link at the top will take you to the site and the video. Meant for a French audience, there is even a Pat Condell video with French subtitles.
Here’s the YT version minus the sub titles and I don’t think I posted this before.  At first I thought it looked familiar. But as it played, I wasn’t so certain.
About half way through or maybe less, he addresses his remarks towards America and oh boy.
If you haven’t seen this one yet .... pay attention to his warnings for us.

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   Sunday - December 12, 2010

gun control …..

I happen to see a short blurb in the paper yesterday about a young girl in one of my favorite states. Montana. Beautiful country there. Well anyway, seems the young lady is suspended from school because she reported that she had quite by mistake, left her hunting rifle in the trunk of her car.
She didn’t try and hide anything. She isn’t a member of some wacko group.  Now personally, I don’t know how you can forget you have a gun in your car. Even if it is in your trunk.  However .... I would also think that in that part of the country, a rifle is so much second nature it’s kind of like .... ?  I don’t know. I need an example.  But you know what I mean.

This might even get Drew outta bed. Heck of a story.

At first I couldn’t find the story I saw in our paper. So I Googled the town and state and bingo.  I found way more then I bargained for. I mean folks, there’s a lot here. More then first appeared in my Brit paper.
For example ... I found this unbelievable link.

A Colorado high-school student was informed of a 10-day suspension for having non-functioning drill team rifle replicas in her car in a parking lot at school.

A Texas school also threatened its students for even talking about guns

In another case, a student was suspended simply for advocating for the Second Amendment.

Whoa there .... huh?  So here’s the story on the young lady and all the links are here as well for you to read.

WEAPONS OF CHOICE

Community outraged at school’s suspension threat
Hunting rifle in trunk brings comment: ‘This is Montana, not Chicago!’

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A community has surged forward to stand with a high school cheerleader who faces possible expulsion after she forgot to remove a hunting rifle from the trunk of her car and drove it to school.

“Good heavens educators. This is Montana, not Chicago! … To even consider punishment of any degree is outrageous. Remember, educators can be replaced,” wrote one person in the Kalispell Daily Inter Lake.

WND had reported days ago when Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association told WND he was contacted by the student’s mother.

Demarie DeReu is facing hearing Monday night with school district officials in the Columbia Falls school district to determine her future. Possible penalties include expulsion.

“She will possibly have her life derailed because a bunch of school idiots insist that she must be subject to an irrational, ‘zero tolerance’ policy about guns in schools that does not countenance lack of bad intent. The theory that people with malice will be intimidated into good conduct if people without malice are punished in lieu of them is idiocy at its finest,” Marbut has written.

He said DeReu, 16, is an honor roll student, a member of the Columbia Falls High School student council and a varsity cheerleader.

She’s also a hunter.

“Although she had no intent to break any rules or laws, or harm anyone, Demarie is at risk of having her college education derailed and maybe even being identified forever as a domestic terrorist,” Marbut reported.

It was over Thanksgiving that she went hunting with family and friends, but when she returned home forgot her unloaded hunting rifle was cased and locked in the trunk of her car.

When she returned to school, and heard an announcement that a “contraband” dog would be making the rounds of the parking lot, she remembered the gun locked in her trunk.

In an interview today with WND, she reported what had happened.

She said she told officials right away about her forgetfulness, and asked whether she could move the car or take it home.

Instead, she was escorted from her class by Assistant Principal Scott Gaiser who told her she would be expelled from school.

She hasn’t been back at class since.

The expulsion threat, in fact, also was included in a letter the superintendent sent the family, her attorney, Sean Frampton, told WND.

The Daily Inter Lake reported today that expulsion was an unlikely result, and, in fact, the superintendent, Michael Nicosia, told a WND reader in an e-mail that was forwarded to WND, “I could not and will not recommend expulsion in this matter.”

Backtracking on the message in the earlier letter to the family, he wrote, “If you knew our school district and how our board works with our kids, you would understand that this whole thing is greatly blown out of proportion. We live in a hunting and shooting sport culture. That is understood and respected. If those that have flooded the internet took the time to talk to me and/or a single board member, they would know that common sense and understanding will be use in the matter as in all such matters.”

The community sentiments were evident in the Inter Lake comment pages:

* “I think she did everything right.”

* “So the school superintendent is upset that people have been creating ‘a lot of hullaballoo” for nothing. I wonder where people got the idea that this kid was going to be expelled. On yeah, her principal said this.”

* “Nicosia’s current comments certainly do contradict what he said earlier. He is the one that blew this out of proportion and it was the comments and pressure from the public that restored some sanity.”

* “‘There’s been a lot of hullaballoo for nothing.’ NOTHING?? The sacred, God-given, constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms is NOTHING?”

* “Only in Montana, a cheerleader and honor student who hunts!!”

* “Let’s see if I can break this down. Basically, these educators would have tossed this girl on the trash heap without a second thought, in blind obedience to their zero tolerance policy. But now, with all the public outrage, they are concerned about their image and will feign common sense.”

The teen told WND she took hunter’s education when she was in 8th grade and got a buck her first hunting season. Ever since, she has a process to make sure her gun is unloaded and secured in its case.

“We are a hunting community,” she said. “It’s very common.”

Frampton said he expects numerous members of the community to be at the Monday night hearing for the cheerleader.

Marbut researched state law.

“The controlling Montana law about this is 20-5-202, M.C.A., which says about expulsion for bringing guns ‘to school,’ ‘… the trustees may authorize the school administration to modify the requirement for expulsion of a student on a case-by-case basis.’ Further, ‘to school’ is not defined in 20-5-2-202, but is at 45-8-361, M.C.A. as ‘… in a school building.’ Demarie’s hunting rifle was cased and locked in the trunk of her car in the parking lot, but not ‘in a school building,’” Marbut wrote.

In fact, Montana law specifies that “a student who is determined to have brought a firearm to school under this subsection must be expelled from school for a period of not less than 1 year, except that the trustees may authorize the school administration to modify the requirement for expulsion of a student on a case-by-case basis.”

State law also makes multiple references to banning any “weapon” from being “in a school building.”

WND reported earlier when a professor at a Connecticut school sparked controversy by calling police when a student talked about the Second Amendment during a class speech.

The report came from the Recorder, a newspaper at Central Connecticut State University, which cited the case of student John Wahlberg.

The student was fulfilling an assignment for his Communications 140 class that required him to discuss a “relevant issue in the media” when he and two other students on a team chose to talk about school violence, including recent events such as the 2007 shootings that left nearly three dozen people dead at Virginia Tech University.

The court fight over whether it can be enforced is pending before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

There’s a bit more at the link and other links on the World Net page. Quite interesting.
WORLD NET DAILY

professor at a Connecticut school ?  That does not surprise me at all.  I almost think I can name the professor. Just a hunch but that idiot might be retired now anyway. It just reminds me of someone from long ago. Yeah, a dumb libtard.

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   Thursday - December 09, 2010

Islamists raise fears of violent ‘clash of cultures’ in Europe.

‘Crazies’ flock to ‘Londonistan’
In the 1990s, the city became so popular for Islamists fleeing authorities in Muslim countries that some commentators dubbed it “Londonistan.”

Citing the WikiLeaks cables, the Guardian newspaper last week reported that the future U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron told an American official in April 2009 that the former Labour government had “let in a lot of crazies and did not wake up early enough” to the danger posed by Muslim extremists.

This America, is what this side of the Atlantic is living with.  Only weak kneed politically correct, multi-culture morons who think trees and diversity is a religion, welcome muslims with open arms.  Mustn’t be critical because after all, islam is a religion of peace. Didn’t our own president tell us so on 9/11?
Whatever .... the bottom line is that the USA must remain Awake!  Too many Europeans would rather snooze, but there are many who know the threat of these sub-human life forms.  They are I’m sure being watched. Or at least those that the authorities know about. Watched?  Why not deported or shot? Cos they have rights. And they laugh as they cash their benefit checks, courtesy of the txpayers they plan to kill.

It was disheartening to read last week about a mosque being built in Temecula, Ca. Just like rats and poisonous spiders, they are everywhere. And where ever they are, whatever neighborhood they occupy, they are future trouble of major proportions. In fact, possibly deadly. 

I was surprised that this came from MSNBC via Europe News.  Which means many of you may have seen this before I did. ??

By Ian Johnston
msnbc.com msnbc.com

LONDON — It is a Sunday night in London’s East End and the self-styled “most hated man in Britain” is holding court, reveling in his vision of a Taliban victory over America and a world under Islamic Shariah law.

The crowd of about 250 listens intently as Anjem Choudary issues a call to arms in the pristine surroundings of the newly refurbished art deco conference center, built to host weddings and business meetings.

“There are many battlefields,” he says calmly into a microphone. “There’s a battlefield outside 10 Downing Street [home to Britain’s prime minister] and in the mountains of the Tora Bora [in Afghanistan].”

Any man who fails to fight, he warns, will face difficulty when the “angel of death” arrives and he is forced to explain to Allah why he did not raise his hand “against the oppressor” out of fear. “Allah will say to him, ‘Am I not more worthy to be feared than them?’” Choudary says.

“Allahu Akbar!” the men shout out in unison, as if a war cry, during his speech. “Allahu Akbar.” God is great.

A group of women, all heavily veiled and sitting in a screened-off area, remain quiet throughout.

As former leader of the banned Islamist organizations al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK, Choudary was kept off the bill and appeared as the surprise star speaker at the rally.

His groups may be outlawed but, unlike his female followers, Choudary will not be silenced.

His message is one that echoes across Europe, which experts say is home to thousands of people who would wholeheartedly support Choudary’s “ultimate objective” — the “domination of the world by Islam.”

The majority of Muslims are not Islamists, who believe in a society based on Islamic law, and not all of the latter are seeking world domination or are willing to use violence.

But fear of another Islamist-inspired atrocity after Madrid in 2004 — 191 dead — and London in 2005 — 53 dead — remains high.
Image: Scene of suicide bombing in London on July 7, 2005
Sang Tan / AP file
Suicide bombers targeting London’s public transit system killed 53 people on July 7, 2005. Four men detonated devices hidden in knapsacks aboard three subway trains and a double-decker bus, seen here.

Rightly so, according to Dr. John J. Le Beau, a former CIA officer and now professor of strategy and security studies at Germany’s George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

“It’s a mathematical certainty there will be a successful attack in Europe at some point,” he told msnbc.com. “The amount of attempted plots we see is not decreasing. I think what we have seen is a ... strengthening of attempted attacks that in some cases have come pretty close.”

A backlash is growing. Support for the far-right in normally liberal countries like Sweden and the Netherlands is on the rise. French lawmakers voted for a ban on full face veils. Protest groups, such as the English Defense League which has been linked to soccer hooligans, have made headlines.

Le Beau warned of “an incipient clash of cultures.” The consequences of another terrorist spectacular — intelligence reports recently warned an al-Qaida-linked group was planning to hit Western Europe with a commando-style raid like that on Mumbai, India — could be profound, he suggested.

“I could see that leading to a spontaneous violent reaction on the part of others. Could this spin out of control? Sure,” he said. “I think that would be very dangerous because ... it runs the risk of sectarianizing or ‘Balkanizing’ Western Europe.”

A LOT MORE HERE

Posted by peiper     on 12/09/2010 at 11:22 AM   
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   Wednesday - December 08, 2010

tax cuts USA/UK .. term limits … morons in DC and a flat tax ….

I saw an article in our morning paper with regard to Obama’s U-turn on tax cuts, and the result that apparently the very wealthy will retain their tax cuts.
Hey, I’m ok with tax cuts and I am certainly entirely pro the wealthy class as it’s something we mostly all aspire to. Isn’t it? But I confess again as I’ve done in the past, I am not at all sophisticated where serious economics are concerned.

Heaven knows I am not a Socialist. Good grief I can’t imagine that. Drew wouldn’t speak to me or help with tech things, Wardmom might shoot me. Or would that be Vilmar?  I would at the least be Persona non Grata in my very own house, and that’s a certainty.  But ....

I am confused by the idea of cutting taxes for the the very wealthy, instead of the middle class who I think need the leg up more. Isn’t the middle class and small/med business the engine that runs things?  And don’t think for a minute I want to suggest squeezing the rich. Not at all.  I’m just not very knowledgeable about economics and taxes beyond the superficial.  And isn’t Wardmom correct about a flat tax?

Some of you in the states won’t know, but Kraft bought an English icon when they bought Cadburys. Cadbury makes chocolates.  Cadbury also bought out the very best (imho)when they bought Black and Green Chocolate.  Well ... many here are very upset at the news that Kraft is shutting down the Cadbury UK plant and moving operations away from England.

Cadbury goes Swiss to avoid British tax: Move by U.S. bosses will cost Treasury £60 million a year

The plan has been hatched by food giant Kraft, which took over the iconic British chocolate manufacturer earlier this year after a bitter £11 billion bid battle.

It will see ownership of much-loved Cadbury brands including Dairy Milk, Crunchie and Twirl handed to a holding company in Zürich, where Kraft already has a major base.

CADBURY MOVE

So my question is, why can’t a tax deal be made where the UK can still hold on to some of that tax dollar and save Brit jobs and tax income?

Then I looked at Drew’s post this early morning and found Wardmom’s comment on things in the USA which I thought belonged here.

What happened with this current ‘deal’ IS the problem with DC - Every issue must be stand alone. And no more ‘deals’ to get the work done. What is best is what makes America safer, smarter, and more prosperous - anything else is just a waste of money.

Pick a percent and everything - spending is cut by that - and pick a percent under 20% and every single person who works in America pays that percent in tax (i.e. morons in DC - a FLAT TAX that is the most fair, most just and most equal for all.

And then TERM LIMITS and 2 TWO WEEK SESSIONS A YEAR - Make these jobs PUBLIC SERVANTS again rather than a boondoggling , money grabbing, benefits creating, stealing, cheating, lying extravaganza funded by the only working people in the country.

CUT AND BALANCE and then get the he!! out of our business, private life, kitchen, playroom and garden.
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Posted by peiper     on 12/08/2010 at 09:23 AM   
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   Tuesday - December 07, 2010

DECEMBER 7, 1941, because we need to remember

There are 110 photos in this collection. Many you may have seen, but there might be some you haven’t. The photos are really HUGE at the link.

Here are just a few, and they’ve been reduced for space. 

This picture, taken by a Japanese photographer, shows how American ships are clustered together before the surprise Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. Minutes later the full impact of the assault was felt and Pearl Harbor became a flaming target. (AP Photo)

THE OTHER 106 PHOTOS ARE HERE

Posted by peiper     on 12/07/2010 at 06:21 AM   
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   Monday - December 06, 2010

Another muslim in the news and this one, a white American convert to Islam

Don’t understand how this is possible to go on. As well, I don’t understand why this traitorous bastard can’t be taken out.  Why is it that all our ppl on both side of the Atlantic can only, “monitor?” What’s with that?  Surly there must be lots of folks who would gladly volunteer to take this creep out. Gosh, there just has to be branches of our secret services that do wet work.  Is that term still in use? 

If for whatever reason both USA and UK don’t have the heart for killing dangerous scum who have already said out loud that we’re all a target, then I’d like to suggest we develop a closer working relationship with the Russians, who have no qualms about it. And they are pros we’ve read here. Maybe even the Chinese.  It could be cheaper to pay those folks or work some kind of mutually beneficial deal, to rid us of the sub-humans like the subject of this article.
And then move on to WikiLeaks, the aclu, southern poverty law center, amnesty intl., the aclu again in case someone was missed on the first go round. Heck, there’s tons of left wing radical/muzzie loving civil rights groups that could be made ... neutral. Forever.  Oh if only.

USA

Islamic website tied to MP’s stabbing resurfaces under new name

A radical US-based Islamic website shut down last month after allegedly helping to inspire the stabbing of a Labour MP has resurfaced with a new name.

By Philip Sherwell in New York and Jason Lewis

Younus Abdullah Muhammad, a founder of both sites, told The Daily Telegraph that IslamPolicy.com was the direct successor to RevolutionMuslim.com which was closed amid the furore over its role in the attack on Stephen Timms.

“IslamPolicy will continue with the work of RevolutionMuslim,” Mr Muhammad, a white American convert to Islam, said during an interview in which he called the Sept 11 terror attacks “justified violence”.

He continued: “If loving Muslims that fight and die to defend themselves from Western imperialism make the UK and US governments associate me or IslamPolicy with terrorists, then I am honoured to be so associated.”

counter-terrorism officials say that at least a third of the more than 50 domestic terror suspects arrested in America in the last year had ties to RevolutionMuslim, an English-language site aimed at Muslims in the West.

They trace its roots to a network of sites run by the now banned al-Muhajiroun group in Britain. “It is playing an important role in the export to the US of the British disease of home-grown terror by radicalised young Muslims,” a US official said.

Aaron Zelin, a US academic who follows pro-jihadi websites, says that the US-based RevolutionMuslim was being increasingly used by British extremists to skirt hate speech and incitement laws in the UK and promote groups with al-Muhajiroun links.

The site, which was hosted on an American Google server, was closed down last month after intense pressure from British and American security officials. But Mr Muhammad has now established IslamPolicy on a blogging site also operated by Google, calling it the new home for the closed site.

He has said that IslamPolicy will focus on ideology and education, but British and American counterterror experts are monitoring it closely for the sort of radical content that was a fixture of its predecessor.

MORE HERE

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   Sunday - December 05, 2010

The extraordinary case, branded ‘the foreclosure from hell’ that started in ‘78

Will someone please explain this to me.  You owe money. Your responsibility is to pay it back. Period. End of story.
Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be?  You have a mortgage, you sign papers agreeing to pay back. Period again. How can judges and courts allow the obvious to go unnoticed?  Or is something missing from this article?

I know someone who has not made a mortgage payment in several years, claiming that she’s discovered that mortgages are illegal, or something like that. And she’s been fighting foreclosure and been successful so far.  I asked about the obligation to repay since papers were signed willingly enough at the time of the loan.
The answer is so complicated I didn’t understand it. Apparently there’s some sort of collusion between the banks and the govt. ????? Er..? somethin’ like that. I think.

Meet the great-grandmother who is every lender’s nightmare: The tireless woman who has fought off foreclosure for 25 years

By Daniel Bates

Patsy Campbell remembers well the last time she made a payment on her mortgage.
It was back on October - October 1985.

Since then the great-grandmother, 71, has constantly been under threat of foreclosure but by working the legal system she has fought off every attempt to kick her out.

Over 25 long years she has launched dozens of appeals, fought countless courtroom battles and seen off four different companies which owned the mortgage on the detached property in Okeechobee, Florida.

During that time all seven of her great-grandchildren were born, four presidents and three recessions and came and went, and two of her marriages have collapsed.

But still she still fights on, refusing to pay the $211,000 cost of the mortgage plus interest, which is now $8,000 more than the value of the property.

By representing herself she has also learned the legal system so well that any effort by a lender to to repossess her home is met by such a flurry of paperwork they can hardly cope.

‘They’re not going to take this house,’ Ms Campbell defiantly told the Wall St Journal. ‘I intend to stay in this house and maintain it as my residence until I die.’

The extraordinary case, branded ‘the foreclosure from hell’ by the mortgage’s current owner, began in 1978.

Ms Campbell’s husband-to-be Paul Campbell took out a $68,000 mortgage on the home in a middle-class neighbourhood of Okeechobee from local lenders First Federal Savings and Loan.

The pair married in 1980 and that year he died from emphysema.

Five years later Ms Campbell stopped paying the mortgage because she became ill and got behind on the payments, she told the Journal.

Then the letters started arriving demanding money - but she refused to pay.

Over the years the mortgage changed hands five times, and each time the loan company took her to court to pay it back, but she fought them off.

the rest is HERE

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