Thursday - April 16, 2009
Even Fox News Missed The Big Picture
Nice headline, but ...
They are probably off by an order of magnitude. I went out to one “official” tea party site and counted more than 800 confirmed, registered events held across America. How many more happened that weren’t registered with this one site? How many happened on college campuses? How many more were impromptu happenings? Word of mouth get togethers that didn’t make it to Facebook? My guess is that there were easily a 1000 tea parties yesterday. Maybe a lot more than that. And only some of the bigger ones got press coverage. 3000 folks at this one, 8000 folks at that one, 2500 here, 4000 there. 300 at my own county courthouse, and not only was it a chilly wet day, I live in a rather sparsely populated county with almost no unemployment.
Chants like “Give me liberty, not debt” and “Our kids can’t afford you” were heard across several U.S. cities Wednesday as anti-tax “tea party” protesters took to the streets to voice their opposition to big government spending.
Thousands of protesters—some dressed in colonial wigs with tea bags hanging from their eyeglasses—showed up in states from California to Kentucky to Massachusetts, holding signs and reading speeches lambasting the Obama administration’s tax-and-spend policies.
“I have two little kids and I know we are mortgaging their futures away,” one protester at a rally in Austin, Texas told FOX News. “It makes me sick to my stomach.
In Lansing, Mich., outside the state Capitol, another 4,000 people waved signs exclaiming “Stop the Fiscal Madness,” “Read My Lipstick! No More Bailouts” and “The Pirates Are in D.C.”
More than 1,000 protesters gathered outside a downtown federal building in Salt Lake City despite the rain and snow. Kate Maloney held a cardboard sign that read “Pin the tail on the jacka$$” with a picture of Obama on a Democratic donkey.
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Permalink • If this were April first, you’d say I was making this up as a gag. Health and Safety at work again.
Right. It just keeps getting crazier and crazier and ....
Here’s another elf n safety laff from the UK version of what I like to refer to as, The Keystone Kops. Which in my usage does not always mean police.
Just so we’re clear on that.
Now then .... away we go .... Barmy: It took two presenters, a paramedic and first aider to change a tyre
And for Yanks not familiar with the term, a presenter is someone on TV (or radio) who presents stuff. Like our newscasters would be presenters. A DJ is a presenter.
How many BBC staff does it take to change a spare tyre?
Two radio presenters, a paramedic and a first-aider - transported by private ambulance - was the answer delivered by BBC bosses thanks to ‘barmy’ healthy and safety rules.
Producers at BBC Radio Essex had to fill out a risk assessment form before a pair of presenters were allowed to feature on a programme about learning new skills.
BBC bosses ruled that medical staff had to be present in case the pair suffered any mishap as they were dealing with ‘unfamiliar equipment’.
A request was made to St John Ambulance to provide personnel to supervise the activity in the studio car park in Chelmsford, Essex.
The charity sent along two women volunteer staff - a paramedic and a first-aider - in a private ambulance to provide medical cover.
Garage owner Caroline Lake, who gave on-air instructions about how to change a wheel, said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw them.
‘All we were doing was taking off a couple off wheels, yet we had to have medical experts there in case something went wrong. It was just barmy and so silly.
‘It would be different if we were taking out an engine - but all we were doing was taking off a wheel.
‘A corner of the car was only being jacked up one inch off the ground to get a wheel off. There wasn’t anything that could have gone wrong.
‘I carried out all the normal safety checks and we had proper tools and disposable gloves. I also made sure the handbrake of the car was operating properly.
‘We live in a society so obsessed with health and safety that people soon will not be allowed to do anything.’
Miss Lake, 37, who runs Caroline’s Cars in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, was invited on the show because of her experience running car maintenance courses for women.She said: ‘I had to teach the woman presenter what to do because she had never changed a wheel before.
‘Then we had to time her and a male presenter, separately taking off a wheel and replacing it so we could see which was quicker.
‘The female presenter appeared looking nervous and I reassured her that there was nothing to it and she would be fine with a few minutes training.
‘The producer then arrived and said, ‘Great. It looks like we’re ready to go. We’ve just got to wait for the paramedics.
‘I looked at her and laughed, thinking she was joking. But just at that moment an ambulance arrived with two female staff.
‘It pulled up less than a metre from our car and they took up position alongside it.
‘I was unable to believe what I was seeing and I told them, “You must be having a laugh”.
‘The producer then told me how BBC health and safety rules meant she had to fill in forms and have the staff in attendance.
‘I replied that the world had gone mad and even the paramedic said she thought it was all a bit much.
‘But they also said they didn’t mind being there because they had never changed a wheel before and were hoping to learn something.
A BBC spokeswoman said: ‘The presenters featured in this outside broadcast which was part of the BBC ‘s Big Skill Initiative were working against the clock using unfamiliar equipment.
‘As a basic precaution a couple of voluntary St John’s Ambulance first-aiders were just on standby to administer any basic first aid requirements.’
Richard Bloomfield, a spokesman for St John Ambulance in Essex, said: ‘We have a very close relationship with the BBC in Essex.
‘They contacted us to ask us to send a couple of first-aiders and we were delighted to help.
‘It is a question of how they felt. They obviously felt there was a need for it just in case there was an accident.
‘One of the women we sent was a qualified paramedic and the other was a first-aider.’
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Permalink • Donkeys forced to fight for the enjoyment of the kiddies and adults.
Well, he was ‘ass-king’ for it: Boy who forced donkeys to fight goes bottoms up
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 5:14 PM on 16th April 2009Rearing up on their hind legs, these donkeys have been cruelly forced to fight one another for entertainment.
But, as these images show, the young Afghan boy who pitted them against one another soon received his just punishment.
Losing his grip on his donkey’s back, the boy falls hard to the ground.
In fact he does not appear to have fallen all that hard. Too bad he didn’t land on his head. Now that would have pleased me.
These are poor dumb animals and pretty helpless ones at that. This article says a lot about that culture. Look at the faces of these kids.
They are absolutely enjoying the grief these dumb beasts are being put through. So ok. I just happen to like animals. No, don’t want a donk for a pet or anything. And don’t much care for them but I surely wouldn’t go out of my way to hurt one. Come to think about it, I wish the Dems would drop the donkey symbol as it does those poor things a disservice. The Donkeys, not the Democrats.
The unnamed boy forced the animals into a fight outside the German armed forces Bundeswehr camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, today.
Donkey-fighting is not particularly common in Afghanistan - a country far better known for dog-fighting.
However in a country that loves to fight, anything goes - and fights featuring cocks, camels and goats are also all common sights.
The Taliban outlawed dog-fighting, believing it was un-Islamic.
But since the U.S. invasion and the Taliban’s fall, the grim sport has been making a comeback - especially in the capital of Kabul.
Now competitions are held twice a week there, drawing thousands of male spectators. Winning purses have been known to reach up to $50,000.
The link above has more photos.
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Permalink • if you had the money, would you spend about $20,000 to look like your children? She did.
When I first saw this, and I’m still not convinced there isn’t a mistake in the photo caption, I was going to pass it by as just more fluff and go for more serious stuff. But then I read the caption and thought HUH? Can’t be.
Is it me or do any of you find that the daughter actually looks more like the mother in age appearance. And the mom looks better. ????
LOOK HERE FOR BEFORE AND AFTER SHOTS.
The 50-year-old mother who has spent £10,000 on surgery to look like her daughterBy Katherine Knight and Kelly Strange
Last updated at 8:22 AM on 16th April 2009
With their flowing blonde hair, hourglass figures and slender, toned legs, they could easily pass for twins. Both look fabulous in their matching polka dot dresses and, as Janet and Jane Cunliffe happily recount, potential boyfriends often struggle to tell them apart.
the boyfriends struggle to what? guys are smart huh? you bet. what male is gonna tell his girlfriend he thinks she’s her mom. it’s like when a lady asks you how a dress looks on her or do you think she’s a bit heavy. the answer is ALWAYS, the dress looks great because you make it look great. and heavy? NO WAY. do I look okay? ABSOLUTELY! you look great. she won’t believe a word you say but its what she wants to hear. i have this sort of silly theory which of course I can not prove. we guys were put here to make women happy and yeah spoil em too if it comes to that. why the heck not? so if a small fib will make em happy or pleased about themselves, aren’t they damn well worth it? i think they are.
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Hardly surprising, as both weigh in at 8st and, save for a couple of inches in height (at 5ft 6in, Jane is two inches taller) and different eye colours (Jane’s are brown, Janet’s are blue) they are virtually identical.
But Janet and Jane are not twins. They aren’t even sisters. They are mother and daughter. And, in what many will see as a depressing indictment of today’s youth-obsessed society, Janet confesses to having spent more than £10,000 on plastic surgery in a desperate effort to bridge the 22-year age gap between herself and her daughter.
In this image-conscious age, it is a bittersweet moment for many mothers to confront the fact that their daughter’s beauty eclipses her own.
It is a rite of passage that most women, while far from thrilled, are pragmatic enough to accept as a part of life.
But not 50-year-old Janet. She views the small matter of being in her sixth decade as a mere technicality.
She is amused and proud that friends jokingly refer to her and her daughter as Paris and Chantelle after the platinum blonde socialite and the equally platinum former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
Some might see this as empowering for a woman who is well into middle age. Others might take the view that it is contrary to the laws of Mother Nature - not that Janet has much truck with her anyway.
‘Who wouldn’t want to look like my daughter?’As she told the Mail this week: ‘It might sound barmy that I had cosmetic surgery to look like my daughter, but she’s gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want to look like her?
‘The way I see it is that she got her looks from me in the first place - mine have just faded with age.
‘Seeing how attractive Jane is made me want to get my looks back. Now instead of mum and daughter we look more like twins. I had good genes and good skin, but I needed a helping hand to make me feel better about myself.’
Certainly Janet wasn’t always such a head-turner. Just a few years ago, she was a size 14 redhead and felt, she says, dowdy and unattractive.
Not, she insists, that she was ever vain. ‘I didn’t have time for vanity in my 20s as I was too busy bringing up Jane and her brother, Pete,’ she says.
‘I didn’t pay much attention to myself.’
That changed as she entered her 30s and became increasingly disconsolate with her changing figure.
‘Like any woman who’s had children, gravity had started to take its toll on my breasts,’ she says.
Oh right. Almost forgot. The MOM is the one on the LEFT. Daughter on the right , who I first thought was the mom.
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Permalink • THE LAW ABIDING FORCED TO WATCH HELPLESS AS GREENBELT LAND TAKEN BY OUTSIDERS.
I’ve brought this issue up a couple of times in the past. This is yet another (new) article about the happenings over the Easter holiday. When authorities away and offices are closed. And it’s those times especially when Gypsies (travelers? a rose by any other name) are active at their most efficient. They also do this on weekends.
I read about this sort of thing and can’t help but think, the ONLY answer is firepower. Kill a few hundred and the problem might go away once they and their sponsors understand they will be met with deadly force. Because short of that, it won’t be long before this island has no greenbelt left at all. And that is not out of the realm of possibility.
Think of these vermin as land pirates and you begin to see the problem.
Travellers invade quiet village and turn green belt land into illegal development as helpless villagers watch
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:53 PM on 16th April 2009A group of travellers sparked outrage after they invaded a quiet village and transformed green belt land into an illegal development.
The 60-strong group brought in diggers and 1,000 tones of hardcore to convert the land into an illegal travellers’ site while local council staff were on their Easter break.
(This is an old ploy used by these verminous bastards. But the fault really is with the authorities who won’t use force. These people only play by their own rules while the law abiding suffer the consequences. There is nothing in place nor has there ever been, to make things unprofitable for this scum.
Indeed, the very opposite is closer to the truth.)
Helpless villagers in Blackmore, Essex, were forced to stand by and watch as lorries transported tonnes of hardcore to the three-acre site.
Angry villagers said said the travellers had not followed the correct development procedures and that the site was in a conservation area.
The travellers, who brought the £130,000 plot of land moved in with diggers at 7am on Good Friday and had laid down hardcore - chunks of concrete used as the basis for foundations - by Easter Monday.
The move comes a month after gypsies, who set up an illegal camp close to the country retreat of Olympics minister Tessa Jowell, were told they could stay on the site for the next four years.
The group had moved onto the site in countryside on the outskirts of Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.
The site is a quarter of a mile from the luxury home owned by David Mills, the estranged husband of Olympics Minister Miss Jowell.
The Blackmore development was carried out over the Easter break which meant the borough council could not act until staff returned to work on Tuesday.
But by the time this happened the traveller site was complete.
Hazel Town, 73, a retired shop keeper and parish councillor said the travellers must have acted when they did because they knew it was a bank holiday and staff were powerless to act against it.
‘They had a convoy of about 20 caravans and diggers and and 50 huge lorries of hardcore came through the village,’ she said.
‘It was a farmer’s field, a green field but by about noon it was covered in hardcore.
‘The travellers say it’s only six families but that can included grandmothers, great grandmothers and who knows who else.
‘I’ve had streams of people coming and asking me what’s going on, we are law abiding people this is a conservation area.’
Mrs Town said the travellers should have gone through the normal rules and processes as everyone else when it came to new building developments.
The development is about three quarters of a mile outside the main village and next to another illegal traveller camp which had three static caravans on it.
Roger Keeble, 60, a shopkeeper, parish and borough councillor said the group had come from sites in Epping and Upminster where their children attended school.
He said: We couldn’t get an injunction because of the Bank Holidays.
MORE PHOTOS AND MORE OF THE STORY HERE
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Permalink • I Will Not Bow But I Will Shrug
About 8000 people turned out for this one rally in Cicinnati yesterday, despite the chilly blustery weather. And one of our favorite BMEWS readers was there! I’m pretty sure another one of us went to the tea party in Clovis, New Mexico, but he hasn’t sent in any pictures. Good work by all involved. Keep talking, keep the pressure on, and don’t trust government an inch. That was Allan’s dictate, and I’m proud to see it being applied. BTW, I hear that BMEWS is now considered a “political activist” site and inaccessible from .mil computers. Kewl!!
I had Fox News on most of the day, and they gave these rallies extensive coverage. The other cable networks were sneeringly dismissive, and when I watched the New York City MSM news at 11 the entire nation-wide event - which probably attracted a million people all across the country, thus making it probably the biggest grass roots turn out in history - got exactly 4 seconds of air time. Bastards. So here’s some snips from Ann Coulter’s latest essay to serve as “background music” for the images.
I had no idea how important this week’s nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties, apologizing for making fun of “crazy people.” It’s OK, Paul, you’re allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.
On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name “tea parties” to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as “tea bagging.” Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies “tea bagging.”Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with. Except no one is calling the tea parties “tea bagging”—except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them “tea parties.”
The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats’ modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.
Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.
The lie at the heart of liberals’ mantra on taxes—“tax increases only for the rich”—is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board, the government won’t get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats, none of whom can possibly be laid off.
How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obama’s constituents noticed? They don’t pay taxes, they engage in “tax-reduction” strategies, they work for the government, or they’re too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters, like George Soros.)
California tried the Obama soak-the-productive “stimulus” plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.
In June 2002, the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a “laboratory” for Democratic policies, noting that “California is the only one of the nation’s 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control.”
They said this, mind you, as if it were a good thing. In California, the article proclaimed, “the next new deal is in tryouts.” As they say in show biz: “Thanks, we’ll call you. Next!”
In just a few years, Democrats had turned California into a state—or as it’s now known, a “job-free zone”—with a $41 billion deficit, a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.
California was, in fact, a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died, so now Obama is trying it on a national level.
That’s what the tea parties are about.
RedStatesUSA has an excellent Tea Party speech posted. Read it, snag it, and use it, because I don’t think this is going to be a one-time thing.
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Permalink • IN THE NEW ,,,ASYLUM SEEKERS SET FIRE TO THEIR OWN BOAT. INNOCENTS AMONG THE INJURED.
Why of course some were injured. These vermin don’t care.
Honestly I am very sorry the whole boatload of sub-human life forms didn’t drown. Now they become the financial burden of...?
Asylum seekers ‘set fire to boat causing deadly explosion’ off Australia
Asylum seekers deliberately doused their boat in petrol causing an explosion that killed five people and injured 51, according to claims by an Australian politician.
By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney
Last Updated: 9:03AM BST 16 Apr 2009The boat, believed to be carrying asylum seekers from Afghanistan, was being escorted to a detention centre by the navy when the blast occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, about 520 miles off of Darwin.
The vessel quickly sank, and all survivors were transferred to two navy ships. Authorities confirmed three passengers had died and two were missing. Four Australian defence force personnel were among the injured.
The navy, police and ambulance service were coordinating attempts to airlift those most seriously injured to hospitals in Darwin and Broome.
Colin Barnett, the Liberal premier of the state of West Australia, claimed the incident took place after a deliberate attempt by passengers to sabotage their boat.
“The refugees spread petrol their boat, the vessel they were on,” he said.
“Whether they ignited it or it just ignited is unknown at this stage. But clearly that caused a major explosion, not only injuring refugees but it’s a great concern that four defence personnel also (received) significant injuries to them during this incident.”
The Australian government has refused to confirm his claims, although Bob Debus, the home affairs minister, did concede it was “a clear possibility”.
“We are not in the position to finally confirm whether that is so or not,” he said, speaking at a heated press conference.
“There is much speculation and if the premier of Western Australia chooses to speculate without having the kind of evidence that we think to be necessary to draw a final conclusion, that is up to him.”
Royal Australian Navy Rear Admiral Alan Du Toit said there were 49 suspected asylum seekers and crew on board the boat as well as a few Australian military personnel at the time of the explosion. He said the boat was not being refuelled at the time.
The small vessel was intercepted by the navy on Wednesday in the Indian Ocean and was under escort to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island, where the government processes refugee applicants, when the blast took place near the engine compartment.
The increase in boat numbers has sparked debate in Australia over whether an easing of strict immigration regulations last year has emboldened people smugglers and would-be refugees.
The boat was the third carrying suspected asylum seekers to illegally enter Australian waters in the past two weeks and the sixth this year.
Immigration policy has long been a sensitive issue in Australia.
In the lead up to an election in 2001 the Liberal government, led by John Howard, falsely claimed that asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage to Australia.
The Children Overboard affair, as it became known, was widely credited with winning the party re-election.
I did wonder how the libs. got elected there. Guess now I know. Was a time they were pretty hard nosed about immigration. But now with the liberal govt. well .... who knows. They spend enough time apologizing to the aborigines.
Hey .. none of our business right? Just reporting the story.
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Permalink • Wednesday - April 15, 2009
honor-related violence and oppression is much greater and more widespread than was known
This article originates in Sweden. I caught it here.
I am amazed that islamists are still upset at the idea that we in the west don’t accept this kind of thing. Of course it’s also possible that their anger is all a ruse anyway. Dark age culture. And their numbers grow, and grow. Kind of like a tumor. Or maybe a fungus. An infection of some deadly kind.
Stockholm: Honor-related violence more widespread than previously thoughtIslam in Europe 15 April 2009
The problem of honor-related violence and oppression is much greater and more widespread than was known until now, according to SVT Rapport.
The first major survey of the problem which is now presented shows that in Stockholm alone there are estimated to be over 4,000 teenagers at risk.
Almost a quarter of girls in the Stockholm area, 23%, answered that they were expected to be virgin when they married, and that they can’t have any boyfriend.Almost a sixth of girls, 16%, stated that they weren’t allowed to have a boyfriend, and that they couldn’t choose for themselves who to marry. 7% of the boys answered the same way.
10% of the girls and 4% of the boys answered that their lives were restricted and that they weren’t allowed to have the same everyday life as their peers. 7% of the girls and 3% of the boys answered also that they were exposed to insults, threat and violence.
Most of these children have parents who were born abroad. Stockholm city estimates that over 4,000 teenagers in Stockholm live in an honor culture which violates Swedish law.
The survey was presented by the city of Stockholm.
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Permalink • JUST SOMETHIN’ TO CHEER UP DREW AND THE GANG AT BMEWS. YES WE CAN!
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Permalink • PIRATE ATTACK AGAINST AMERICAN SHIP ….
I guess this isn’t news back home at this hour, but it just came up on my monitor a few minutes ago.
Someone IDing himself as a pirate spokesman says it was not a pirate attack to capture the ship by an attack to destroy it in revenge on Americans.
Drew needs to go to DC with a handful of BMEWS posts and comments and demand to be put in charge of the solution to the pirate problem.
And if V. went along too, we could have a whole change of administration.
BUT wait ...
O. “promised” to end the problem. Yes he did. Now we’ll wait and see if Yes He Can.
From Times Online
April 15, 2009
Somali pirates attack another US cargo ship with grenades and automatic weapons
Sophie Tedmanson and Rob Crilly
A Navy destroyer carrying Captain Richard Phillips after he was rescued from armed Somali pirates this week had to divert to rescue another ship that was under attack yesterday.
The USS Bainbridge was called on to help a US cargo ship, the MV Liberty Sun, which was under attack by Somali pirates using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons.
But by the time the destroyer reached the MV Liberty Sun the pirates had fled, giving up their attempt to hijack the ship or kidnap any of its crew.
Tuesday’s brazen midday attack on the Liberty Sun in international waters off the African coast is further evidence that Somali pirates are back to business as usual.
Pirates have seized four other ships with 60 hostages since US snipers killed three gunmen holding Captain Phillips after he was kidnapped from his container ship. A Greek-owned freighter, the MV Irene, was also taken in the Gulf of Aden with more than 20 crew yesterday. Pirates in as many as four speedboats seized the MV Sea Horse, a 5,000-tonne cargo ship flying the Togolese flag, soon afterwards.
The Liberty Sun’s American crew were not injured but the vessel sustained unspecified damage in the attack, its owner, the Liberty Maritime Corp. said in a statement last night.
Earlier, the mother of a crew member of the Liberty Sun told of e-mails her son had sent while the crew barricaded themselves in the engine room when the ship came under attack.
“We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets. Also bullets,” Thomas Urbik, 26, wrote in an e-mail on Tuesday. “We are barricaded in the engine room and so far no one is hurt. (A) rocket penetrated the bulkhead but the hole is small. Small fire, too, but put out.”
It was not immediately clear what happened next, but Mr Urbik sent a follow-up e-mail “that said he was safe and they had a naval escort taking them in”, his mother, Katy Urbik, said.
The attack on the MV Liberty Sun occurred hours after President Obama promised to halt the rise of piracy off the Horn of Africa.
Navy Captain Jack Hanzlik said that the USS Bainbridge responded to the attack but the pirates had departed by the time it arrived some six hours later.
Bainbridge is the destroyer from which snipers killed the three pirates who held Captain Phillips aboard a drifting lifeboat for five days. The destroyer was carrying Captain Phillips, who is due to return home to the US today, to Kenya when called to help the Liberty Sun.
The Liberty Sun, with its crew of about 20 Americans, was carrying humanitarian aid to Mombassa, Kenya, Captain Hanzlik said. The ship continued on to Kenya after the attack under a Naval escort.
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Permalink • I’ve been joking for awhile about how much money Brits have. Well, won’t Brits be surprised.
Alright maybe less surprised then sick. Very, very sick!
In fact, it might even sicken BMEWS readers and viewers.
Cast your eyes ‘n’ ears on this.
While you’re watching this I’ll be deep breathing in a paper bag to get over it.
Maybe it’s time to quit the money gags re. Brits but hearing this ..... jeesh.
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Permalink • TERROR THAT STALKS ENGLAND IN THE 21ST CENTURY
H/T theOPINIONATOR
Good article and worth site visit for extra links to this article.
Apparently and sadly, the UK may face a further terror threat from those other kill happy folks in the land of Shamrocks and the Blarney stone.
Ppl calling themselves the real ira, I refuse to use caps, they don’t deserve it, are threatening action against this place. Great. Just what people here need. With all there is worth living for in the 21st century, there are many who like to call themselves an army and go out and kill mostly the UNarmed.
With regard to “students” coming to the UK from places like Pakistan. Many of these so called colleges are no more then false fronts or in many cases buildings in some industrial park that of course aren’t colleges at all.
Oh this poor island .....
More Evidence of the Student = Al Qaeda Terrorist Connection in Great Britain
TheOPINIONATOR 14 April 2009
By Caroline GrantYet another story about a “gentle boy & student” being arrested for being a member of an Al Qaeda cell planning a terrorist attack against innocent British men, women and children. Mohammed Ramzan was supposedly in Great Britain studying for an MBA. Ramzan is one of eleven Pakistani nationals that is tied to the Al Qaeda Easter bomb plot to blow up Manchester shopping centres.
One would expect that post Graduate education and professional positions would prove effective against muslim choosing to become terrorists - the exact opposite appears to far too frequently to be the truth as evidenced by the “bomb factory” medical doctors who tried to blow up a West End London nightclub with nail bombs. When this effort failed, they launched a suicide bomb attack Scotland’s Glasgow Airport. It is appalling and frightening that three of the recently arrested Easter bomb plot terrorists actually worked at Manchester airport.
Recently it was shown that lax student visa regulations used to enter the UK from Pakistan have definitive ties to & have facilitated terrorists entering Great Britain. Thus, British Universities have become hotbeds of terror cells—with professors often shielding the perpetrators. Despite the fact that a large percentage of muslim students, in British universites and colleges, support killing in the name of Islam, ------ lecturers, etc. have refused to notify law enforcement of muslim extremists on campuses. It must be heartwarming for the British people to know that their schools of higher learning place the safety of Al Qaeda/muslim terrorists over the public.
Thus we have another planned act of terrorism - brought into Great Britain courtesy of the inept Labour government, British universities and colleges and lax immigration laws. Fortunately for all - this latest terrorist murder plot was halted prior to execution.
Also interesting ----- three more “Asian” men were arrested in Liverpool, on Easter Sunday, as part of a “dramatic swoop”:
“Sniffer dogs attended the scene and a thorough search of the inside and underneath of the vehicle, using mirrors and metal detectors, was carried out.A flat, situated above a cafe just yards from where the car was pulled over, was also searched by forensic experts. Following the arrests, a spokesman said the incident was not linked to the counter-terrorist raids across the North-West.”
Not linked to the counter terrorist raids?? The police have got to be having a laugh and think we are dumber than a brick to swallow that statement. With the UK veritable spilling over into the sea with throngs of illegal immigrants - who law enforcement seems to regularly ignore - why on earth would these men be so important if they were not suspected of terrorism? - plus the Liverpool/Easter Sunday terror plot connection is obvious.
Let’s hope those sniffer dogs were wearing booties as the British police must always be mindful to tip toe around and appease muslims - even if they could be terrorists.
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Read This And Be Angry
Homeland Security just reissued a document very similar to the one the Missouri Police recently put out and then denounced. You know the one: you’re a terrorist if you have a Ron Paul bumpersticker. Hand, cookie jar, camera: looks like our benevolent government has been caught in the act again.
information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,
but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about
several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first
African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and
recruitment.
military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities
could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists
capable of carrying out violent attacks.
adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups),
and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
likely would attract new members into the ranks of rightwing extremist groups,
as well as potentially spur some of them to begin planning and training for
violence against the government. The high volume of purchases and
stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by rightwing extremists in anticipation
of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary
concern to law enforcement.
attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing
extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to
boost their violent capabilities.
If you can’t find it elsewhere, then download it from me. It’s 2MB big, it’s an Acrobat .pdf file, and I’m not leaving this thing up for too long. It eats up too much of my disk space.
This is your government, classifying YOU as a threat to national security because you might believe something different than the leftist pap coming from Teh One. Therefore you are an extremist, therefore you are a hater, probably racist, therefore you, and those kill-crazy psychotic returning soldiers (which almost every episode of NCIS reminds us that they can never fit back into society and are almost guaranteed to go on a murderous frenzy) are likely planning violent acts. Don’t forget the soldiers in the streets when that mass shooting law enforcement situation arose in Samson Alabama last month.
At least Fox News is all over this one pretty quickly this time. Sean Hannity has a 15 second bit going as I type this. But don’t expect the outrage to go further than that on the TV set. The only feedback or discussion you will ever find will be here, on the VRWC blogosphere.
Push the reset button. Push it one last time at the ballot box. We’ve been on the soap box for years, and nothing is happening.
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She was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.
She is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. A ship that will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.
Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship’s bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, ‘those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,’ recalled Navy Capt . Kevin Wensing, who was there. ‘It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.’
Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the ‘hair on my neck stood up.’ ‘It had a big meaning to it for all of us,’ he said. ‘They knocked us down. They can’t keep us down. We’re going to be back.’
The ship’s motto? ‘Never Forget’
USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth ship in the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the state of New York. The ship was designed to deliver a fully-equipped battalion of 700 Marines.
Shortly after 11 September 2001, Governor of New York George E. Pataki wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Gordon England requesting that the Navy bestow the name USS New York on a surface warship involved in the War on Terror in honor of September 11’s victims. In his letter, the Governor said he understood state names are currently reserved for submarines, but asked for special consideration so the name could be given to a surface ship. The request was approved 28 August 2002.
The ship will also incorporate the latest quality of life standards for the embarked sailors and Marines, including the sit-up berth, ship services mall, a fitness center and learning resource center and electronic classroom with the flexibility to accommodate mixed gender sailors and Marines as part of the crew and embarked troops. The design team also incorporated hundreds of suggestions and recommendations from more than 1,000 sailors and Marines in the Design for Ownership process to ensure that this ship will meet their needs throughout the first half of the 21st century.
| Class and type: San Antonio Class |
| Amphibious Transport Dock |
| Displacement: 24,900 tons full |
| Length: 208.5 m (684 ft) overall, 201.4 m (661 ft) waterline |
| Beam: 31.9 m (105 ft) extreme, 29.5 m (97 ft) waterline |
| Draft: 7 m (23 ft) |
| Propulsion: 4 turbocharged marine diesel engines, two shafts, 41,600 shp (30 MW) |
| Speed: In excess of 22 knots (24.2 mph)(41 km/h) |
| Armament: 2 30mm chain guns, 2 RIM-116 missile pods (21 missiles each), 700 US Marines
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I think she looks great. It’s just too bad they didn’t give it some means of cost effective shore bombardment. Say, like a bow turret mounting a brace of 127s or 155s. After all, with a draft of only 23 feet, this “transport dock” is nearly a littoral craft. And “transport dock” is such an ignominious name for a fighting ship.
h/t to Sam O. Thanks! Maybe he can explain why the “anchor holes” look so much bigger in some of these pics than in the others.
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