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The Death Penalty should have been brought back and shame on England for not doing so. This man should have been dead long ago. Ian Huntley sues for £100,000: Soham killer claims compensation for being attacked in prison... and final bill to taxpayer could be £1m By Paul Sims The Daily Mail 31st July 2010 Soham murderer Ian Huntley should drop his claim for £100,000 compensation after he had his throat slashed by another inmate and be grateful the death penalty was no longer in force, a leading victims' campaigner said today. Huntley has launched legal proceedings against the prison service for failing in their duty of care towards him after the attack in March this year. The double child-murderer is almost certain to receive legal aid to fight his case, which could cost the taxpayer over £1million. He is believed to be seeking £20,000 for his injuries and a further £60,000 in punitive damages as he believes the authorities should have done more to protect him. Separately to suing ...

One of the major reasons why Democrats were given control of Congress in 2006 was because Nancy Pelosi and Barack H. Obama made a point of defining the Republicans as corrupt, out of control, and lacking a focus and direction.  They took congress and Pelosi and Barack H. Obama told the American people they would  drain the swamp and have the most ethical administration in memory (if not ever). House panel charges Rangel with ethics misdeeds By LARRY MARGASAK (AP) July 22, 2010 WASHINGTON — A House investigative committee on Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations, dealing a serious blow to the former Ways and Means chairman and complicating Democrats' election-year outlook. The House ethics committee won't reveal the specific charges until next Thursday in a public meeting. However, sources familiar with the allegations, who were not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the charges against the 40-year Democrat were related to: _Rangel...

I am shocked I tell you, shocked.  NOT. This is where you go when nothing is off limits and parents play little role, but to pay taxes.  The government takes over, the government is the nanny, and the nanny runs the family. Shock rise in schools providing morning-after pill By Anthony Bond Thursday, 22 July, 2010 East Anglia Daily Times THE number of schools in Suffolk which can offer the controversial morning-after pill to schoolgirls has dramatically increased in just a year, the EADT has learned. Of the 33 secondary schools in the NHS Suffolk area, there are now 25 which can provide the emergency contraception to girls - without having to get permission or inform the student’s parents. This is an increase from just nine in January 2009. A Freedom of Information request by the EADT to NHS Suffolk also found that in 2009/10, there were 26 occasions when the morning-after pill was dispensed to schoolgirls. Last night the Suffolk division of the National Union of Teachers (NUT)...

Of course, one summer does not a change make, nor does it indicate anything by itself.  Yet that is what Global Warming Alarmists do - they begin their inspection of the worlds temperatures at a given time, with little understanding that before X, there were millions of years of temperatures and potentially hundreds of periods of warming and cooling.  Yet they choose the years they do because, well, that is all they can do, and then they graph. Statistics can prove both sides.  Obama can show numbers to prove how bad things were under Reagan, while supporters of Reagan can show statistics that prove he cuts costs, lowered the deficits and debts, and made government smaller.  So who is right?  Both sides have a point, but based upon the fact both sides have a point and neither is conclusively correct - why spend trillions of dollars and rearrange our entire Western Civilization because YOU FEEL something. [I did write up 3 paragraphs about world temps and the cha...

What is more than a little scary is we oblige these people.  Do you believe that the Communist government of 1919 informed the Russian people it wanted to control every aspect of their lives and possess everything leaving them with nothing and no hope.  Do you believe when the Khmer Rouge were actively engaged in a struggle for control of Cambodia that they made it clear they were murderers and thugs who wanted to kill 2 million Cambodians and destroy everything they touched.  Do you believe that Mao promised to kill over 80 million people if given the chance, control the lives of all people, take away the freedom and liberty anyone had or thought they had, or ever would have?  No one starts off as a murdering psychopath.  No one starts off with the intention to destroy everything their culture / society hold sacred.  Even the French didn't intend on their revolution turning into the bloodbath it became for over three years.  It always starts off small...

IBD Editorials Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution? By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A ROBBINS 07/30/2010 Investors.com The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another. People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?" Pruning the power of government begins with the imperial presidency. Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do. Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily. Barack Obama, however, has pulle...

July 28, 2010 Special Dispatch No.3126 Memri.org     Other sources: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138860                           gaza Egyptian Journalist: In Actual Terms, Gaza Is Not Under Siege Resort in Gaza. Paldf.net, July 21, 2010 In an article in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram on the economic situation in the Gaza Strip, journalist Ashraf Abu Al-Houl wrote about the burgeoning recreation industry and of the low merchandise prices. Also as part of the interest in the economic situation in Gaza, the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published articles describing the expensive resorts that have been established for Gaza's newly rich, and a Palestinian website reported on the new mall recently opened in the city. The following are excerpts from the articles: Stores Overflow with Goods Journalist Ashraf Abu Al-Houl wrote in Al-Ahram: "I was last in Gaza in mid-February. Returning three weeks ago, ...

A hidden world, growing beyond control Monday, July 19, 2010 Washington Post The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine. The investigation's other findings include: * Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and inte...

Britain no longer has the cash to defend itself from every threat, says Liam Fox Britain cannot afford to protect itself against all potential threats to its security, Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, has warned. By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent 22 Jul 2010 The Telegraph In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Dr Fox said the dire state of the public finances meant the Armed Forces could no longer be equipped to cover every conceivable danger. Since the Second World War, the nation has maintained a force that can conduct all-out warfare, counter-insurgencies such as in Afghanistan or medium scale campaigns like the Falklands or Sierra Leone. But Dr Fox has given the strongest signal yet that it will have to give up one or more of these capabilities, which have been maintained at the same time as contributing to collective security pacts such as Nato. “We don’t have the money as a country to protect ourselves against every potential future threat,” he said. “We just don’t hav...

This article says it all - the fat tax is not to save anyone nor pay for any health care, it is primarily to raise money and why?  because they are already taxing everyone and need a new source for taxation.  You need only be mildly imaginative to conjure up great ideas for new taxes: 1)  charging prisoners - we have 3 million people in jail at $30-50k a year.  Why not lower the standards, a TV in common area, but if you want to pay more you can have a private TV.  You could also pay more to eat alone.  And of course, you cannot do this for every prison and every prisoner - but for the less offensive of those incarcerated.  Want to bet it will happen?  It already is to some degree - celebrities check themselves into a jail in Lynwood.  They pay for their stay, but their accommodations are better and it is less like County than County.  Coming soon to a jail near you.  2) television license:  they have that here in England....