There Goes The Neighbourhood

Europeans are rarely overtly racist.  They would never put a bedsheet on their head and go prancing about like Casper.  Yet, I would proffer they are more racist than any random American albeit, they would make it sound entirely non-racist even while they would argue for the most racist idea since eugenics and the Nazis.  How do they do it?  Often it is not what they say or write but what they fail to say or write. The depressed neighborhoods referenced in the Reuters article below - immigrant neighborhoods and a vast majority are Muslim. France braces for annual New Year's car torchings Fri Dec 31, 5:52 am ET PARIS (Reuters) – France will deploy extra police and keep vandalism statistics under wraps on New Year's Eve to fight what authorities say has become an annual "sweepstakes" of disaffected youths competing to see who can burn the most cars. Youths in depressed suburbs of French cities have been torching hundreds of vehicles on New Year's Eve and Bastille ...

Few seem to begrudge President Obama the occasional golf outing (presidents need to unwind, right?). But John Kim, a producer for PGA.com (the PGA Tour runs the primary men's professional golf tours in North America), took to Twitter on Tuesday night to ding POTUS for excessive golfing. In response to learning of Obama's 50-plus rounds of golf since taking office , Kim wrote, "that's more than me! But then again, my job is ... golf. Wait, that doesn't seem right." And later: "the old adage is: those who work in golf never get to play. Guess I need to run for president to hit the links!"                         obama golf

Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers Dec 26, 2010 By PAUL ELIAS AP SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts. Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations. "I feel like I'm doing a little bit of good cleaning up the Internet," Balsam said. From San Francisco Superior Court small claims court to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Balsam, based in San Francisco, has filed many lawsuits, including dozens before he graduated law school in 2008, against e-mail marketers he says violate anti-spamming laws. His...

Prior to reading, Wikileaks - cables from Moscow concerning the gangster / mafia controlled government.  A country rife with corruption and controlled by crime bosses. And then this article / interview: Khodorkovsky says Putin is ‘pitiable’ By Isabel Gorst in Moscow Financial Times December 24 2010 14:27 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Russian tycoon, has lashed out at Vladimir Putin, describing his nemesis as a pitiable but dangerous leader steering his country towards degradation and chaos. In a newspaper article published on Friday, three days before a judge begins reading the verdict in a fresh trial that could keep him in jail until 2017, Mr Khodorkovsky said the Russian prime minister was trapped in the cynical political establishment he had created, indifferent to the fate of its people. “I suddenly realised I was sorry for this man – no longer young, but vigorous and horribly lonely in the face of a vast and unsympathetic country,” he said. The latest trial reaches its con...

There is little to say.  The excuses given, the number of dead ... Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities By YAHYA BARZANJI and SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Wed Dec 22, 9:24 pm ET .KIRKUK, Iraq – No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq's Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church. Christians across Iraq have been living in fear since the assault on Our Lady of Salvation Church as its Catholic congregation was celebrating Sunday Mass. Sixty-eight people were killed. Days later Islamic insurgents bombed Christian homes and neighborhoods across the capital. On Tuesday, al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on Iraq's beleaguered Christians, many of whom have fled their homes or the country since the church attack. A council representing Christian denominations across Iraq advised its followers to canc...

Like Obama, whatever, you know what I mean. According to a Marist poll - all of the above words (except for Obama) made the top of the list of most irritating words for 2010. Like Whatever You know what I mean and I would add - for a majority of Americans, the name:  Obama I will have to use these words when next I have the chance. obamsa

Reconsidering the election promises of 2008 - Obamessiah was the anti-Bush.  He was character to Bush's dirt.  He would shine a light on all the dark corners.  He would do housecleaning - as he joked, when he moved in.  No more government in secrecy.  No more intrusion into the lives of Americans - we were not criminals, the government should not be spying on Americans - we have rights after all, and he made comment after comment about the Bill of Rights and Constitution.  During the long campaign, he was in Philadelphia and he pulled the Constitution out of the closet where Bush had neglectfully stuck it.  He shook it off and told the people that he would uphold this Great Charter. Obamessiah went on to tell the crowd in Philadelphia and everywhere he stopped, that he would rebuild relations with the countries of the world - relations that had been neglected or abused under Bush. Two years later life is considerably different.  The world communit...

Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10C bringing travel chaos across Britain By Daily Mail Reporter 18th December 2010 Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned - grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill. And tonight the nation was braced for another 10in of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures - with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned. The Arctic conditions are set to last through the Christmas and New Year bank holidays and beyond and as temperatures plummeted to -10c (14f) the Met Office said this December was ‘almost certain’ to become the coldest since records began in 1910.                                             ...

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past By Charles Onians Monday, 20 March 2000 The Independent Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance...

They are just like us. Tourist's body found near Jerusalem After overnight search, Christine Logan's body found in wooded area; Kaye Susan Wilson, who was found stabbed and bound on Saturday, regains consciousness and recounts terrifying incident. 'Arabs came to kill,' she says Ynet reporters Latest Update: 12.19.10, 09:59 / Israel News Israeli police said the body of a female tourist who they feared was kidnapped by Arab assailants while hiking with a friend outside Jerusalem was found Sunday morning. The woman has been identified as Christine Logan. Her identity has been given alternatively as British and American. Ynet has learned that her body was found in a wooded area, between bushes, a few hundred meters from the road connecting Beit Shemesh and Moshav Mata. Police suspect she was carried to the bushes by the assailant or assailants. Logan's friend, identified as Kaye Susan Wilson, a 46-year-old tour guide, was also found bound with her hands behind her back ...

Men can be many things, but most males would never force a woman to have sex - most especially against her will.  Julian Assange did NOT rape those women or any women.  He is not a rapist.  The women should be brought up on charges of filing a false police report, and given the maliciousness of the effort by these women - slander, libel, and theft - taking from him money he would otherwise have earned but for this smear attack, he is unable to satisfy those business agreements.  They took from him, they lied, and he was forced to flee and hide like a common criminal.  An apology is not enough - the women should be charged criminally and prosecuted. This guy does not need to force anyone to have sex with him, women line up.  It is absurd on so many levels - yet the judicial offices in Sweden and the UK fell all over themselves lining up charges against Julian.  Bad bad bad. Their intent is important in determining the ultimate disposition of Julian Assa...

With the Greeks rioting, the French protesting, the Italians marching, the Swiss abolishing laws against incest, Spain and Portugal on the economic brink of collapse, Ireland has fallen into the abyss, Belgium is teetering, Italy is following Spain over the precipice, Germany is tired of propping up failed economic models, Britain is awash in protests and demonstrations against fee hikes, in Russia demonstrations against the government and against Muslims, in Pakistan a government that is embattled and incompetent while in Afghanistan a bunch of child molesters run the government, while over in North Korea a dictator is falling even while he demonstrates how unstable he really is with his attacks on South Korea, and Japan reacts by pushing for changes to their constitution preventing a military of potential offensive capacity in addition to one possessing nuclear weapons.  In Iran a man with a size complex holds sway over possible nuclear weapons and blusters he will destroy Israel...

Mexico's Drug War Leaves 30,196 Dead in Four Years By Jens Erik Gould and Thomas Black Dec 16, 2010 Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez said that 30,196 people have been killed in drug-related violence nationwide since President Felipe Calderon took office four years ago. The number of deaths from January to November this year was 12,456, Chavez said today in Mexico City. This year’s toll is the highest since Calderon took office, showing that violence is increasing instead of waning. Despite the violence, Mexico’s economy will grow around 5 percent this year on the back of exports to the U.S., according to a central bank forecast. The government estimates the violence shaves 1.2 percentage points off economic output annually. “It’s a serious problem and it matters,” said Ricardo Aguilar, an economist at Invex Casa de Bolsa in Mexico City. “But as long as private property and the rights of investors aren’t at risk, the economy doesn’t have any reason to stop growing.” The violen...

The Anger of Obama He also rejected the idea that he had failed to make good on a series of promises he made to the left (and the country) during the 2008 campaign. "There is not a single thing that I said I would do that I have not done or tried to do," Obama asserted. Obama, to be fair, didn't only single out Democrats for criticism. He compared negotiating with Republicans to negotiating with hostage takers and said he only did so because of the danger that the hostage -- aka the American public -- would be harmed. obama gets angry

Extinction is not forever. This fish is back and so is the Ocopy ... amazing how extinction works.  Isn't science wonderful. Scientist says he found Japan fish thought extinct   AP December 15, 2010 TOKYO – A Japanese salmon species thought to be extinct for 70 years is alive and well in a lake near Mount Fuji, a science professor said Wednesday. The black kokanee, or "kunimasu" in Japanese, was thought to have died out in 1940, when a hydroelectric project made its native lake in northern Akita Prefecture more acidic. Before then, 100,000 eggs were reportedly transported to Lake Saiko but the species was still thought to have died off. But Tetsuji Nakabo, a professor at Kyoto University, said his team of researchers found the species in Lake Saiko, about 310 miles (500 kilometers) south of the native lake. "I was really surprised. This is a very interesting fish — it's a treasure. We have to protect it and not let it disappear again," he said. He posed for ...

Does it matter if he takes a Christmas vacation?  Nope.  Does it matter that he takes a week off here and there - nope.  Does it matter if he spends 2-3 hours per week playing basketball - nope.  Does it matter if he spends on average of 1-2 hours per week playing golf - nope.  I won't mention we are at war, two wars he is allowing to continue, two wars and an economy that is not turning around with 17-20% unemployment when the full figures are counted, increases in foreclosures, and skyrocketing gas prices - nope, doesn't matter. But if none of that matters, why did liberals have apoplexy when Bush played golf or went to his ranch. Congress and Obama likely to delay start of their holiday breaks December 13, 2010 By the CNN Wire Staff President Barack Obama will remain in Washington for as long as Congress stays in session, and that likely means later than the scheduled start of his Christmas break, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. Saturday...

The boy will be punished in the hereafter, but not for a mortal sin.  The pedophile will be raped in hell for all eternity by Saddam.  I would help pay for the boy's defense if his case was still going.  Was killing the guy right - the law should have taken action, not dropped the case. When the law fails and does so knowing the crimes it is ignoring .... I hope the kid spends 9 years or less. Teenagers jailed for killing suspected paedophile A 15-year-old boy who killed a suspected paedophile ''to teach him a lesson'' has been given a life sentence. 12:08PM GMT 17 Nov 2010 The Telegraph The teenager was told he must serve at least nine years behind bars for the murder of Robert Daley, 45. A girl aged 15 - who said she had been abused by Mr Daley - was given a six-year sentence for his manslaughter. The 45-year-old victim was stabbed five times in April at his flat in Brixton, south London, hours after a separate sex abuse case against him was dropped. His killers, ...

If I had any money left after the taxes are deducted, I would send him some money for his defense. German man castrates teenage daughter's 57-year-old boyfriend An enraged father who disapproved of his daughter's older boyfriend went to his home and castrated him with a bread knife. By Allan Hall Berlin 10:11PM GMT 12 Dec 2010 Helmut Seifert, 47, an ethnic German originally from Russia, was enraged when he heard his 17-year-old daughter was having a relationship with Phillip Genscher, 57. He went to police in the town of Bielefeld where he lives but officers said they were powerless to intervene. "The man then recruited two work colleagues at his factory and then went to the house of the victim," said police. "The man was forced to remove his trousers and, fully conscious, he was castrated. The severed testicles were taken away by the perpetrator." The man was close to bleeding to death but managed to call police. His life was saved but he remains a eunuch f...

Of course all cultures, all governments, all societies are equal, who are we to judge.  War is bad, sex is good, even with your mother or brother. Switzerland considers repealing incest laws Switzerland is considering repealing its incest laws because they are "obsolete". Allan Hall in Berlin 13 Dec 2010 The upper house of the Swiss parliament has drafted a law decriminalising sex between consenting family members which must now be considered by the government. There have been only three cases of incest since 1984. Switzerland, which recently held a referendum passing a draconian law that will boot out foreigners convicted of committing the smallest of crimes, insists that children within families will continue to be protected by laws governing abuse and paedophilia. Daniel Vischer, a Green party MP, said he saw nothing wrong with two consenting adults having sex, even if they were related. "Incest is a difficult moral question, but not one that is answered by penal law,...

Sweden is Attacked, and their Prime Minister ......... But Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt later cautioned against drawing hasty conclusions. "It's completely unacceptable for this to happen in Sweden but a lot of questions still have to be answered before we can draw any conclusions," he said. "Three things happened last night, a car exploded ... a man died and Saepo and (news agency) TT received a message threatening Sweden. The three events are not confirmed as having any link to each other," he told reporters. He slammed the bombings as "unwanted and unacceptable," pointing out that Sweden is "open society which has shown it is willing that people with different beliefs and backgrounds and Gods can live side by side with each other in an open society and democracy that functions well."   UNACCEPTABLE and UNWANTED ... as if anyone wants to be on the receiving end of a terrorist attack!   Maybe you idiot, it is the fact your are S...

A M A Z I N G. Debtor strikes back at credit card company By Sam Wood Fri, Dec. 10, 2010 Philadelphia Inquirier Patrice Perry's dispute with Capital One had been escalating. Someone called her family and her coworkers, trying to get her to pay. She hired an attorney, but the credit card company kept sending bills. And then, the big blow. "Please send your payment of $286,651,237 in the enclosed envelope," read the statement dated August 2009. What's in your wallet, indeed. Perry, a hotel clerk, reacted with shock and panic, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Common Pleas Court. "Essentially, the company told my client that if you don't do what we say, we're going to terrorize you economically," said Perry's attorney, Craig Kimmel. "It's certainly not a laughing matter when a creditor threatens to sue." Capital One, based in Salt Lake City, did not respond Friday to several calls and e-mails requesting comment. The fuss began ...

Disagreeing with him is one thing.  You lie - is still within acceptable parameters because it can be addressed.  F&%K the president is an entirely different behavior. One unidentified lawmaker went so far as to mutter “f— the president” while Rep. Shelley Berkley was defending the package the president negotiated with Republicans. Berkley confirmed the incident, although she declined to name the specific lawmaker. “It wasn’t loud,” the Nevada Democrat said. “It was just expressing frustration from a very frustrated Member.” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) was also overheard saying that “we can’t trust him” not to cave to Republicans and extend the tax cuts again in two years, according to a Democratic source.                           democrats

Ah, she is a victim.  After all, slavery existed in Europe and Africa, Asia, and the Middle East LONG before it ever began in the Americas.  It's not our fault.  We were just trying to help them out, not enslave them. Immigrants' lawyers using culture as crime defense Samantha Henry, Associated Press Wed Dec 8, 2010 .NEWARK, N.J. – The lawyer for an African woman charged with smuggling young girls from Togo to New Jersey said her trial was about cultural norms that failed to translate in America. Twelve American jurors saw it as a clear-cut example of human trafficking, and she was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Both sides focused on the cultural nuances of the case; the defense arguing the woman was a benevolent mother figure who helped young girls escape a life of poverty; the prosecution accusing her of using the threat of African voodoo curses to keep the girls subjugated. The case highlighted a legal strategy that experts say immigrants' defense lawyers are using i...

Now scientists claim climate change could give you cancer (in the week Doomsday warning of rising sea levels was rubbished) By David Derbyshire Daily Mail 8th December 2010 Melting glaciers and ice sheets are releasing cancer-causing pollutants into the air and oceans, scientists say. The long-lasting chemicals get into the food chain and build up in people's bodies - triggering tumours, heart disease and infertility. The warning comes in a new international study into the links between climate change and a class of man-made toxins called persistent organic pollutants. Warning: Melting glaciers and ice sheets are releasing cancer-causing pollutants into the air and oceans, claim scientists It also arrives two days after alarming predictions that global warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century were proved to be wrong. The new study – due to be published next month – says rising temperatures and more extreme weather are increasing human exposure to pollutants ar...