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Find a coin on your own property as a child? That’s a jailin’.

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Feb 272010

Woman who found coin worth £2,000 in garden becomes first to be prosecuted for not reporting treasure

A court heard the silver piedfort marking Charles IV’s ascension to the French throne in 1322 was discovered by Miss Harding 14 years ago as she worked in the garden with her mother.

Following her mother’s death a short time later, Miss Harding kept the 1.4g item as a memento until she eventually approached museum experts with it last year who identified it as a piedfort, but she did not inform the coroner.

This is just sad.

Ain’t “compassion” a bitch

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Feb 212010

Wasn’t this sumbitch supposed to be dead by now?

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa six months after being at ‘death’s door’

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is living with his family in a luxury villa in Libya six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds because he had less than three months to live.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who is suffering from terminal prostate cancer, no longer receives hospital treatment after ending the course of chemotherapy that he had been given after returning to his homeland last August.

Professor Karol Sikora, the London-based doctor who examined Megrahi and predicted he would be dead by last October, admitted this weekend that the fact the bomber is still alive might be “difficult” for the families of the 270 victims of the attack.

Gah.

Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, ruled last August that Megrahi should be freed. Megrahi’s release came after Libyan leaders warned that lucrative oil and trade deals with Britain would be cancelled if the bomber died in jail.

Y’know, I can see the harsh political calculus that was at work here, and I can understand it. Let one scumbag go in order to save billions of pounds and all kinds of political headaches. I see the same logic at work when terrorists are exchanged for kidnapped civilians. But for the love of all that’s harsh and devious… couldn’t they take a lesson from the Russians and implant these bastards with some sort of slow-dissolving capsule that will break down in two months and give them leprosy or terminal ass-cancer or something? Hell, chemical castration, some horrible gender-bending hormone treatment… something. I’d personally kick in a few bucks for a secret program to develop a long-delay system that would suddenly dump a gram or two of mettalic sodium or phosphorus into the scumbags bloodstream, preferably in the gut or near the heart.

Come *on,* people. It can’t be that friggen’ hard.

Welfare queen

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Feb 152010

Those of you old enough may recall Reagan referring to “welfare queens,” people (stereotypically single mothers) who’d rather milk the welfare system than get a real job. Those old enough to recall may also recall that politcal opponants of Reagan basically considered him a liar on this subject.

Then there’s this out of Britain:

A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb.

Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 a month in housing benefits to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney’s house and Lord’s cricket ground.

She also receives an estimated £15,000 a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.

She’s not a welfare queen… she’s a freakin’ welfare EMPRESS. And who the hell could blame her? She’s pulling down Rich Folk income and living in Rich Folk circumstances for doign nothing more than having kids.

‘The house is lovely and very big, but I don’t have enough furniture to fill it.’

At some point, people have to ask themselves “Do those who do not contribute get to live a better quality of life than those who do, at the expense of those who do?” At some point, when enough parasites are sucking the lifeblood out of those who work and pay, the system will collapse. Hell, I’m damned close myself to leaching onto the welfare system, just to see what I can get. And if I *can* draw something useful out of it (a prospect I highly doubt, as I don’t fit the politically correct bill), it will be my recommendation that *everyone* do so. If you can, quit your job for a year or two. Live frugal, but latch onto all the government bennies. Collapse the system under its own weight. if a million or more current high income earners – and consequently, high tax payers – were to suddenly Go On Strike, especially if they themselves started pulling funds out of the welfare system… the damage this could do to the government could be catastrophic.

If I was in Britain, there’d be little doubt that I’d be doing precisely this.

Police unable to save girl because of health and safety

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Feb 132010

Police unable to save girl from icy river because of health and safety

A girl fighting for her life after a car she was travelling in plunged into an ice-cold river was not rescued for almost two hours because health and safety rules prevented police from entering the water.
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However, Mr Grady’s daughter, Gabrielle, was trapped inside the vehicle for 97 minutes before the closest police dive team, based in the next county, could arrive. The divers then took a further 12 minutes to rescue her.

The officers already on the scene were prevented from diving in earlier to rescue her by police safety regulations.

Freakin’ AWESOME.

There’s never an NS-4 passing by…

The War On Valentine’s Day

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Feb 112010

OK, as may be surmised, Valentine’s Day is not and never has been a particular favorite of mine. But this is just stupid.

UK school bans Valentine cards: report

Ashcombe Primary School – which teaches students aged four to 11 – has threatened to confiscate any cards found on the premises in Somerset, southwest England, the Times reported on Thursday.

“Some children and parents encourage a lot of talk about boyfriends and girlfriends,” wrote head teacher Peter Turner in a monthly newsletter.

“We believe that such ideas should wait until children are mature enough emotionally and socially to understand the commitment involved in having or being a boyfriend and girlfriend,” he said in the letter to parents.

Oy vey. Children have historically been exposed to the whole gamut of human experiences, from conception, to birth, to a whole lot of death. Hell, read the original “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” I dare Disney to pick one at random and do a faithful adaptation. The idea that grade school kids aren’t ready to begin the process of socializing with the opposite sex, getting into the whole “puppy love’ thing, and then getting their hearts ripped out of their chests and stomped on, or being perpetually shut down by the opposite sex, is just damnably ridiculous. It’s not like they’re being trained to do the horizontal monster mash; children’s V-Day cards are merely a way to express childish affection for others, and of course are a fabulous way to indicate social outcast status by the lack of ’em. The earlier kids get these experiences under their belts, the sooner they can get going on learning to deal with such things.

I suspect that a good deal of the motivation for this is due to the fact that, if the practice today is anything like it was when I was in grade school more than thirty years ago (ye gods that’s unpleasant to write), kids in class hand out V-Day cards not just to their chosen targets of affection, but to pretty much the whole class… and there are always some kids who end up being forgotten or outright avoided due to being ugly, weird, nerdy, smelly, whatever. Thus, “losers.” And as we’ve seen all to much of, there is a PC movement to make sure that nobody loses. Well, sorry, but some people *are* losers… and if they don’t figure it out as kids, it’s gonna hit ’em like a ton of bricks when they finally enter the Real World. And they’ll either shut down, kill themselves, kill someone else, or become socialists. And society really doesn’t need any of that.

Major Newsflash!!!

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Feb 042010

A zombie apocalypse has been pretty much inevitable ever since the Atomic Age began. Well, it’s not only upon us, but as it turns out, we have zombies within our own military, apparently working on our side! President Obama today let slip this fact, as heard HERE.

What’s interesting, but should not be surprising, is that the “corpse-man” that Obama refers to is of Haitian decent.

Obama cancels Constellation

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Feb 012010

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet_department_nasa/

In short, Ares 1, Ares V, Orion all cancelled. Shuttle to end after five more flights, ISS to drag on for a few more years – requiring Russians to fly Americans, since we won’t have a means of getting to orbit ourselves.

<> Yes, Constellation was behind schedule and over budget. But now it’s cancelled… meaning all the money spent was *wasted,* and all the time spent was *wasted.* And unless the entepreneurs really step up, or if the USAF has something secret hidden away somewhere, this is pretty much the end of the road for American manned spaceflight.

Half-a-head

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Jan 312010

Yeeesh.

How can they call this justice?

A YOUNG man who was left with half-a-head after being attacked must now face the prospect of no one being convicted after the Crown Prosecution Service this week revealed it had dropped the case.

Forklift driver Steve Gator, 26, Farnham Road Harold Hill was left brain damaged and with a grotesquely disfigured half-skull after he was attacked on his way home from work earlier this year.

But the young man, who now suffers seizures, has difficulty communicating and remembering, and has lost parts of his personality, will never see his attackers face court after the CPS decided “there was insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.”

If Britain was Hollywood, I’d recommend that the prosecutors either get on the job, or get the hell out of town before Clyde Shelton comes and kicks their asses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212734/Yobs-left-young-man-half-head-escape-charges.html

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/738788-half-a-head-victim-steve-gator-tells-of-attack

Britainlanders… y’all need to thin the damned herd. You used to be the nation that would ship its undesirables to the other side of the freakin’ planet, back when the other side of the freakin’ planet took weeks to get to. Maybe you should consider reinstating a policy like that. Start with the “yobs” and the bureaucrats. Ship ’em to Kandahar or Somalia or Yemen.

Back to the Moon? Well, so much for that…

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Jan 272010

Rumors are reports are that the State of the Union speech, along with the forthcoming budget, will cut all funding not only for the Ares I launcher, but also the Ares V and the whole Constellation/Orion CEV program. With the end of the Shuttle program this year, that leaves the US with no way to send humans into space… likely for a decade or longer (Ares I began half a decade ago, and was about half a decade from first manend flight). With luck, the commercial sector (SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Xcor, etc.) will be able to take over. But the commerical human-launch sector is based pretty much wholly on the hope of space tourism. And space tourism is probably a pretty flighty sort of industry. And what will happen to space tourism if the US government withdraws entirely from space? Will the interest among America’s investors to go to space increase, or decrease? Damned if I know.

Punishing the successful

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Jan 272010

This could always be blown-out-of-proportion-reporting, but if not, the message this sends sucks.

Children of better-off parents left in tears after they are banned from attending school trips at half-term

Children from better-off families have been banned from school trips with their less privileged classmates.

Only pupils eligible for free school meals because their parents are on benefits are able to take part in the holiday activities.
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Parents of pupils unable to take part are furious after being told their children cannot take part, even if they offer to pay.
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Rumney, 29, a self-employed cleaner from Partington, added she would be willing to pay for her son to take part but has been told she was not allowed to do so due to restricted places.

She said: ‘It’s a nightmare. What sort of incentive does it give to these kids to want to go out and work if all their friends are allowed to go on fantastic trips but they aren’t?

The message to the kids here: work hard, save, be frugal and wise, and you too can get screwed over. This is exactly the sort of message that the British government (in this case, a school council) would be wise to not send. A long-term better approach woudl be for the school to offer to pay for *half* of each students expenses for these trips, and leave it to the parents to pay the rest. Thus, the kids who don’t get to go will be those whose parents either don’t want them to for whatever reason, or those who cannot afford it. And so, this way you’ll still get crying children… but in this case, crying because their parents haven’t worked hard enough, not because they worked too hard.

Alternatively, have two separate school outings: those who can pay get to go to zoos and football games and the like. Those who cannot, get free trips to job centers of some sort, where they learn basic skills for the job market. Perhaos even put them to work, let ’em earn some money doign some agricultural or light factory work. Sound mean? Bullcrap. What do schoolchildren need more… entertainment, or education? And what education could they need more than how to be productive members of society… or at least not parasitic ones?

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