MK’s Views - Down under on the right side

Daily Mail - Abdul Kalick Said, 48, died from a single bullet to his chest from a handgun. He was discovered in a pool of blood behind the shop’s counter by a taxi driver picking up his morning newspaper. [snip] They said he had made enemies after chasing off one group armed with knives as they tried to steal from his shop in a small shopping centre in Huyton, near Liverpool. [snip] They seemed to think they could just walk in and take what they wanted.

‘But Abdul wouldn’t have it. I have seen CCTV images of the yobs going in to his shop armed with knives and machetes. ‘That would terrify most people but Abdul was incredibly brave. He took them on and wouldn’t give in. [snip] ‘They were carrying these huge knives, machetes, but Abdul didn’t care. He would never give in.’ [snip] ‘I feel I would be safer back in Saudi Arabia than here. There is no democracy there but at least I’ll be alive.’

Daily Mail - In a landmark ruling at London’s High Court, Mr Justice Maddison said the council owed a duty of care to the 52-year-old man and his 46-year-old wife, who both have learning difficulties. The teenagers had befriended the couple, and then used their flat to take drugs, have sex and store stolen goods. The couple begged to be rehoused but nothing was done and their ordeal culminated in a weekend of terror, during which the youths sprayed cleaning liquid, pepper and curry powder into their eyes. They attacked the family’s dog and cat and made the couple perform humiliating acts in front of the woman’s daughters, who were eight and 11 at the time.

Daily Mail - Britain is now more dangerous than the Balkans, it was revealed yesterday. You are more likely to be assaulted, robbed and burgled in Britain than in the region of southeast Europe once synonymous with war and gangsters, according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Your car is at least ten times more likely to be stolen in Britain than in Albania, Croatia or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Western Europe suffers from double the amount of burglary, over four times as much assault, and 15 times as much robbery as the Balkans, the report revealed. Bringing criminals to justice is also more likely over there. There are more police and more public prosecutors in Albania than there are in England and Wales, per head of population. Even impoverished Moldova has more judges than we do.

Give up your guns and weapons and you will not have safety, justice, liberty or freedom. You will simply be a nation of useless, whining cowards, ruled over by the state or the thugs and in some cases both.

MNF-Iraq - Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, conducted training with their IA counterparts at Patrol Base Red May 15 to prepare the IA Soldiers for joint patrols. The Soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, are stationed at PB Red along with the Iraqi company from 6th Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th IA Division.

“We’re currently training the IA in basic soldiering skills,” said platoon leader and instructor 1st Lt. Christopher Domenico, adding the Soldiers are right out of the Iraqi basic training environment. “They do know good skills. They can field-strip their AK-47s, they know basic room-clearing skills, and that’s good for us since the training we do here builds on those skills,” said Domenico, a native of Hollywood, Fla. “It’s pretty much reinforcing what they know, then adding on another level of training.” Continue reading Soldiers who want to fight for their country…

Daily Mail - An Earl has been banned from holding weddings at his 600-year-old castle after refusing to allow a gay marriage. The Earl of Devon, Hugh Courtenay, has had the licence to hold civil ceremonies at Powderham Castle near Exeter revoked by Devon County Council. [snip] The council acted in response to a complaint from a gay couple from London who tried to book the castle for their own partnership ceremony. The case was taken up by gay pressure group Stonewall and now the Earl has been told his licence has been revoked because of discrimination. [snip]

Anybody wanting to get married there in future can thank these two boyfriends for shutting the place down. I suppose it was bound to happen in this politically correct world. If it wasn’t the homos, then if some weirdo turned up with his daughter and demanded to get married there and the Earl refused they’d kick him in the teeth. Never mind that it would ruin it for the rest of the folks, they don’t count anymore, it’s only the super citizens whose rights are important now. Besides, much of society doesn’t see much of a problem with homo marriage, they have to experience the consequences before they’ll learn.

Most of us have swallowed the belief that homosexuality is normal even though they are statistically out numbered and there is no point to their lifestyle. If the Earl had been a Muslim, all he’d have to do was rally up some jihadists and make a few threatening calls, shout Allah Akbar and I’m sure the council would have folded like a sack of excrement. That will happen one day anyway as sharia continues to spread through Eurabia, homos will find themselves facing some real persecution then. When that happens good luck guys, don’t come looking for allies then, at least not from me. My money’s not on you prevailing either.

The gay couple whose wedding was refused by the Earl say his decision was discrimination and they are delighted at the revocation. Copyright consultant Bernard Horrocks, 40, and his partner Glenn Sontag, 35, have now booked a new ceremony elsewhere. Couples already booked for weddings this summer and autumn will not be affected because the licence will be revoked on January 1, 2009. [snip] Mr Courtenay is the 18th Earl of Devon with a title going back to 1553. He says he is a devout Christian and is acting out of faith.

You like to kick us Christians in the teeth now, make us choke down our outrage at your antics. So fend for yourselves, get your Stonewall and all that together, call the council, write a letter to your local wanker politician. Let’s see if they’re just as eager to drive radical Islam out of the public space. I wouldn’t bet my ass on it though because we have become a society of ME, ME, ME! Everything is focused on the rights of ME but not the consequences or responsibilities, that’s alright in the short term, because there are enough WEs [like the council] out there who believe that and are happy to ensure MEs [like these two homos] get their way.

Unfortunately for ME [the homos], there will be groups of WE [like radical Islamists] forming, bigger in number and more unified than any bunch of MEs [like Stonewall] you can cobble together. At first you’ll be able to hold the line, but eventually the WEs [those who enforce the council's orders] will start asking themselves, why am I busting my ass to uphold the rights of whoever? There’s nothing in it for ME, they’ll also become drunk on their own rights and entitlements and won’t care about yours, so long suckers! Then all these MEs will find out the hard way that you only have the rights you can defend or someone else is willing to defend for you.

By AR - Coprophagia is the Green dream, representing the ultimate in recycling. We all know the Greens will never be happy until we’re all drinking our own piss. Such a lifestyle may be a step closer if this crazy idea gets off the ground.

SEWAGE could be the new gold as water scarcity pushes up the value of recycled effluent water and fertiliser, a senior legal academic says. Janice Gray, a senior law lecturer from the University of New South Wales, said the property rights of sewage could become the legal battleground of the future. Ms Gray said entrepreneurs were already vying for access to sewerage infrastructure and one Sydney company had even litigated to gain access to such infrastructure. “This company, Services Sydney Pty Ltd, went to the Australian Competition Tribunal to open access to sewerage infrastructure in Sydney and the Hunter region,” Ms Gray said.

Ms Gray envisages a nightmare future where people fight for their wastewater.

“What was once a burden may, in fact, come to be seen as a valuable resource. Who knows, wastewater might end up being the new gold.”

Turds are no longer flushed, but are proudly given our name.

“Maybe we will want to claim it as our own,” Ms Gray said.

Next we’ll hear about how primitive societies return everything to the soil and are the richer for it. But I can remember the days of night-soil carters and septic tanks and have no wish to go back. And I’m not sure how well this next idea will run with modern high-density living arrangements. Actually, I am pretty sure…

“Instead of giving it away free to public utilities, as we do at the moment, perhaps we will start looking at putting in our own home-based or neighbourhood-based recycling centres,” she said.

The hell, we will.

LiveNews - Iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 11 suspected al-Qaeda operatives who were hiding in a sheep truck near the northern city of Tikrit, the defence ministry said. The men were killed in fighting at a checkpoint between ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit and Baiji, ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari said.

“Members of the Iraqi special forces intercepted a truck transporting animals, but there were 11 al-Qaeda fighters hiding in it,” Askari said, adding that one of the men was a foreigner from an unidentified Arab nation. Askari said the truck was believed to be fleeing the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where the Iraqi army has been conducting a large-scale crackdown on al-Qaeda since May 14.

On Thursday, 15 suspected al-Qaeda members were gunned down by a militia group loyal to the government in the same region.

Oh alright, they weren’t raping the sheep in the back of the truck, at least not that we know of, I just thought I’d throw that in there to sort of kick the scumbags while they’re down. If any filth deserve a kicking while they’re down, it’s those sheep shagging filth. None the less, it’s nice to see the Iraqis themselves bringing fire and pestilence upon al-Qaeda. Now you know why B. Hussein is staying away from Iraq, he can close his eyes and cover his ears, but he can’t take that chance with his media entourage. Nice to see some of the media down here are broadcasting this sort of news as well, hope it’s a sign of things to come. My condolences to Democrats and leftists worldwide, perhaps you should light a candle for your comrades or hold a bake sale to ease the pain.

Alan Jones [Radio 2GB] - Well, Kevin Rudd more than the Government is in real political trouble over petrol, and in particular FuelWatch. [snip] It’s now clear that Kevin Rudd was warned about this by no fewer than four economic departments. About the possibility of price hikes arising from FuelWatch. Amongst the warnings in departmental language were, “the increased financial cost it would impose on service stations, especially small independent operators”. The Prime Minister’s own department told Cabinet, “Econometric modelling indicates that a small overall price increase can’t be ruled out”.

Treasury warned, “The proposed scheme will result in ongoing increased operating costs of around 4,000 dollars per annum to affected small businesses”. The Finance Department advised, “Introduction of a price commitment rule may result in higher average petrol prices over time, as the option may lead to the creation of a de facto price floor.” The Finance Department said the FuelWatch proposal would add 20.7 million dollars to business costs in the first year with “the impact likely to fall disproportionately on independent retailers”.

The Department of Resources and Energy expressed concern, “The scheme will reduce competition and market flexibility, increase compliance costs and has more potential to increase prices”. The Government’s own Department of Resources and Energy said of FuelWatch, “It has the capacity to increase petrol price coordination amongst retailers”. [snip] As Dennis Shanahan writes in The Australian today of Kevin Rudd, “For six months … every decision has been put before him and he has demanded oversight of the entire Government’s media relations and public image.”

Dennis Shanahan writes, “Rudd has tried to make and shape every decision, causing inordinate delays, frustration and confusion. “Now,” writes Dennis Shanahan, “Rudd has lost control of his Cabinet process or his senior public service, or both.”

So that’s FuelWatch going up in a ball of flames, there’s another stuff up from the Dudd government regarding the $8000 solar panels rebate. I heard a fellow on the radio who runs a business that installs the solar panels on people’s roofs. Long story short, he had to expand, invest more money into and take on more staff for his business after the Howard [out of touch with climate change] government introduced the rebate. He used to get around 4-5 orders a week and just too much for himself to handle. Prior to the election the Dudd government never mentioned anything about means-testing the rebate, but now that the election is over and PM Dudd doesn’t really give a toss about your vote, the rebate is means tested. So those nasty squillionaires who earn more than a 100K a year, by exploiting slave labor and forcing children to work for them for 5c an hour with no benefits obviously, won’t get the rebate.

This fellow who runs this business said that most of his customers earn more than $100K a year but not into the millions, less than $180K however they need the rebate to offset some of their cost. Now they’ve started canceling orders and his weekly number is down to 1 or 2 a week. So the money he invested is down the crapper and the extra people he employed will soon get the boot. I hope none of them voted for PM Dudd based on his ‘Your rights at work’ wiffle-waffle because now it’s no work and hence no rights. So much for PM Dudd’s green posturing as well, signing Kyoto and all that. The business man had a meeting with that useless oxygen-thief Peter Garrett, to no avail. Moving on to the alcopops tax that was an important front on PM Dudd’s glorious war on binge drinking.

The Australian - SALES of alcopops plummeted by almost 40 per cent in the fortnight after last month’s lightning tax hike on the drinks but any health gains have been offset by a 20 per cent jump in stronger, straight spirit sales. The first national data on sales of pre-mixed and straight spirit sales will be released today by the Distilled Spirits Industry Council of Australia as the Rudd Government continues to defend the alcopop excise increase as a way to cut binge drinking. The council’s information and research manager Stephen Riden said the data made a mockery of the Government’s stated aim.

“The words ‘abject failure’ would spring to mind,” Mr Riden said. “This is an unintended consequence of the Government’s decision to tax a narrow range of products. It defies common sense that people would not shift to other products.” Mr Riden said one major company, which did not want to be named, had seen its bottled, full-spirit sales skyrocket: up 85per cent in the month after the April 27 excise increase compared with the same period a year earlier. Its alcopops volume declined 30 per cent.

The idiot health minister Nicola Roxon was still defending the stupid tax on alcopops yesterday evening. I guess technically the consumption of them has dropped, but the problem is worse. Isn’t it shocking that when leftists endeavor to fix something, they somehow manage to screw it up and make it all worse, oh and waste/steal a lot of money in the process. In just six months Kevin Rudd, with his various committees, media stunts and half-baked policies has revealed himself to be a bungling dud, a dud enough of us unfortunately voted for.

BBC - UN chief Ban Ki-moon has praised progress in Iraq at a UN forum in Sweden on the situation in the country. Mr Ban said Iraq was “stepping back from the abyss that we feared most” but warned the situation “remains fragile”.

So how about it B. Hussein, can you find some time in your busy schedule to head over there and have a look, at least pretend to like the troops and all that, get some pictures taken, might be good for you since you want to be Commander in Chief. You know you’re not going to be commanding a gaggle of turkeys or something, don’t the troops at least get to meet their Commander in Chief? Or perhaps you and your merry band of treasonous curs are just too busy trying to screw them over.

Brookes News [Hat tip JR] - House Democrats have passed a bill to stifle the good news that we’re winning in Iraq. They are so invested in losing that they apparently fear a popular backlash against them from victory. [snip] Democrats have decided this election year that American voters can’t handle the fact that victory in Iraq is at hand. In its passage last week of the defense policy bill, the House issued a prohibition against the Pentagon’s “concerted effort to propagandize” the American public regarding the Iraq War. [snip] The Democrats’ efforts to save America from good news in Iraq stem from a New York Times article last month charging that retired military officers appearing on TV were “puppets of the Defense Department” because they get frequent private briefings and talking points.

You gotta ask yourself whose side exactly are these curs on? As it is most media coverage coming out of Iraq is bad, the good news isn’t reported on the evening news and you have dig around a bit for it. You have to wonder why the Democrats are so worried about any good news actually making it out of there, I’d understand if the Pentagon was just making stuff up, but from what I’ve read from various sources, that’s just not the case. Are they so desperate for America to lose, for their soldiers to be defeated, for their country to be beaten!

SMH - A school and homes were evacuated and up to 50 shots fired during a dramatic stand-off between police and a gunman in Perth today. [snip] Reporters near the scene heard up to 50 shots ring out in quick succession, and said it sounded like different guns were being used. They said police could be heard shouting as the shots continued and smoke from the gunfire could be seen rising above the roof of a nearby house.

50 shots, but, but, but we have gun control! How could this happen, I just don’t understand, I thought we were living in utopia, that there was no violence after we banned guns and knives! We sang kumbaya, we marginalized the evil gun nuts and pilloried them, we turned our swords into plows so why have the gods of cowardice and appeasement forsaken us, why, oh why? I thought all those people dying over the weekends was because of natural causes and the media were just saying they were shot, stabbed, beaten, bashed, raped and robbed to spice up the news and you know, sell more papers!

The resident, who wanted to be known only as Scott, said he was sitting in his loungeroom when he heard police sirens in the street and saw the gunman’s car pull into his neighbour’s driveway directly opposite him in Hodges St. [snip] “I looked out the window and there were cops ducking and weaving, they did not know where to go. “I didn’t know where to go, I was shitting myself, he was firing out the driveway straight towards me. I was off out the back, and over the back fence in a jiffy.”

I feel for ya Scott, I’d be “shitting” myself too if there was a criminal firing bullets in my general direction and I wasn’t allowed a gun to send a few back at him. It’s good that you can high-tail it out of your castle and be over the fence in a jiffy mate. You’re much safer that way you know, I’m assured that if you had a gun that fellow would have kicked your door down and used his magic fingers to take your weapon off you and shoot you in the ass with it. Too bad if you’re too old to run, wheel-chair bound or got a bum hip and can’t make it over the back fence in a jiffy, you’ll just have to take one for the team, or in this case quite a few.

Reuters UK - The government launches a 3 million pound national advertising campaign on Thursday to warn young people about the effects of knife crime amid growing fears that the issue is getting out of control. [snip] The “hard-hitting” adverts, which will be run on radio, Web sites and mobile phones, will warn youngsters about the harsh physical and emotional consequences of knife crime, the government said. The 3-million-pound campaign, to be run over the next three years, was developed and written by young people who have themselves been affected by knife crime.

As I said the other day, more tax payers money will have to be thrown at the problem, in the past they spent 6 Billion pounds on youth crime and this is what they got. Naturally in this sophisticated, new-age world that we live in, when you try and fail over and over and over and over, you don’t try something else, you just persist with the same failed ideas, go figure.

A series of ads aimed at mothers, encouraging them to talk about the issue with their children, will run simultaneously. “I am in no doubt about the importance of tackling knife crime and this is even starker following recent tragic events,” said Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker. “We know that many young people carry a knife because they are fearful and these adverts tell powerful stories about the dangers of going down that path. “People have got to get the message that if they carry a knife, there’s more chance of it being used against them.” [snip]

Yeah because there are gangs of scumbags roaming around the streets looking for an armed teenager, just so they can take the knife off him and use it against him. Same goes for keeping a weapon in your house, if the criminal knows you have a weapon in your house, he will definitely break in, with nothing on him so that he can cleverly take your weapon from you and use it against you. Ssshhhh, don’t let the secret out, they don’t know they can carry their own. Just get the ones carrying them for protection to give them up, then all the stabbings and shootings will stop.

What a brilliant plan eh, why didn’t I/you think of that. This explains the sky high crime rate in American states where people are allowed to bear arms to defend themselves. The best policy is to get a few of those ‘Gun-Free’ stickers and put em’ all over your house, your front gate, your car and on your ass! Maybe even ‘Arms are for hugging’ thrown in there, something nuanced and sophisticated you know. You’ll be sure to lead a long and violence-free life while those gun nuts and knife maniacs are butchered by the millions every day by their own weapons!

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has already promised extra money to tackle gangs and youth violence, with an emphasis on extra police use of stop and search powers. That echoes a crackdown launched earlier this month by police in London. Teenagers in areas blighted by weapons, or groups suspected of carrying knives, face being searched without officers needing to have reasonable suspicion. Senior officers said it would be “in your face” policing.

Yeah, screw those liberties, hold on there son, hurrying for classes are you, tough shit boyo, up against the wall and empty yer pockets boyo, I feel like searching you every day so suck it up son. You see without responsibility, you cannot have liberty, you’ll have to give more and more and more until there is nothing left to give away and you’re just a battery hen.

However, critics have said that the issue requires more than tough police measures, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair himself has said parents needed to confront their children about carrying knives. “Every mother, father and carer has the responsibility to ensure this happens,” said Angela Lawrence, from Mothers Against Violence. “The senseless killing of our children by knives and guns has to stop.”

Yes, every parent needs to ensure their sons and daughters are completely defenseless and just walking ducks, because you know if they were to carry a knife, it would just be taken off them and used against them. That doesn’t work for the criminal scumbag carrying the knife though, only they have magic fingers, they’re special. Forget teaching your children how to actually use weapons so that it’ll be the scumbag with his throat slit not them. We know that’ll just result in a doubling, no wait we’re being emotional and hysterical here so no need for facts, make it a 600% increase in the number of stabbings! Just blood and bodies everywhere!

Training and education [except learning to bend over and grab ankles that is] will never work, not only will that result in an unacceptable number of scumbags biting the dirt, it’ll also mean young men and women growing up free and independent of the state. A big no-no in any nanny state. There are martial arts schools dotted all over the western world teaching people how to defend themselves and we all know those nasty slimeballs are just churning out killing machine after killing machine. Just that the bastard media never reports on the sky high massacre rate of them karate & kung fu killers, funny that. A nation of useless, whining cowards is the only way.

Daily Mail - The collapse of Christianity has wrecked British society, a leading Church of England bishop declared yesterday. It has destroyed family life and left the country defenceless against the rise of radical Islam in a moral and spiritual vacuum. In a lacerating attack on liberal values, the Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, said the country was mired in a doctrine of ‘endless self-indulgence’ that had brought an explosion in public violence and binge-drinking. In a blow to Gordon Brown, he mocked the ’scramblings and scratchings’ of politicians who try to cast new British values such as respect and tolerance.

The Pakistani-born bishop dated the downfall of Christianity from the ’social and sexual revolution’ of the 1960s. He said Church leaders had capitulated to Marxist revolutionary thinking and quoted an academic who blames the loss of ‘faith and piety among women’ for the steep decline in Christian worship. Dr Nazir-Ali said the ‘ newfangled and insecurely founded’ doctrine of multiculturalism has left immigrant communities ’segregated, living parallel lives’. Christian values of human dignity, equality and freedom could be lost as the way is left open for the advance of brands of Islam that do not respect Western values. [snip]

Continue reading What ails much of the west - Marxism, Multiculturalism and the decline of Christianity…

Daily Mail - The BBC faced calls to sack Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson after he admitted driving at an incredible 186mph on a public road. Clarkson, who has often been accused of glamorising speed, confessed to driving almost 120mph over the national speed limit. The 48-year-old presenter made the comments in a frank interview at the Hay Festival. [snip]

Continue reading Leave Clarkson alone!…

Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to FOX News & NASA.

MNF-Iraq - Step after step, combat boots hit the pavement. It’s been a few hours for the Marine squad walking the Ramadi streets. Fatigued yet steady, the young men push forward on their routine foot patrol despite the mid-day desert heat; each squad member maintaining a constant alertness with eyes scanning the environment in every direction.

The squad leader passes by a familiar face; a local vender who he sees almost every day. Instantly, the look of exhaustion washes away, and a smile is brought to his face. Lifting his hand, he warmly greets the vender with, “Al salaam a’alaykum.” Continue reading Ambush Alley is now ‘clear’…

Daily Telegraph - PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of employing a butler to put out his clothes and shine his shoes while on the road. [snip] Liberal senator Michael Ronaldson today asked a Senate estimates committee why the PM’s staff list included a travelling assistant - and added that it was inappropriate for Mr Rudd to employ a manservant while petrol is at record highs.

The Australian - KEVIN Rudd has been accused of falsely claiming the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s support for his planned fuel price monitoring system, despite the consumer watchdog warning it could lead to higher prices. And the Opposition labelled the Prime Minister an old-style socialist whose FuelWatch system would undermine free market principles and hurt consumers.

SMH - KEVIN RUDD’S main election strategy - to ease pressure on household budgets - has collapsed just six months into his administration with internal squabbling over petrol and the Prime Minister insisting he never pledged to lower fuel prices. [snip] But more bad news arrived when ANZ revised its inflation outlook - and factored in another two interest rate rises this year.

The Age - KEVIN Rudd’s handpicked cultural advisers have confronted him over his attack on Melbourne artist Bill Henson and have warned that Henson’s potential prosecution damages the nation’s cultural reputation and risks “a repressive climate of hysterical condemnation”. Cate Blanchett, Nobel prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, Melbourne University Publishing head Louise Adler and writer Peter Goldsworthy are among the prominent figures whose names appear on an open letter condemning allegations that Henson “is a child pornographer”.

I’m surprised it took this long for the wheels to come off, well not really, it only took this long because the media were helping him out as much as they could. Even last night the unbiased [funny how some ABC staff become members of Kevin08's leftist ALP then] ABC was making sloppy excuses for Kevin08. Geez, Kevin08 can’t even find any love from the fabled ‘Arts’ community now. ‘Working families’ are pissed off, Pensioners are pissed off and even his celebrity chums are gesturing angrily at Kevin08. Even the media are getting into him now, The Age and the SMH tearing chunks off him on their respective front pages.

The opposition had better make hay while the aura of Kevin07 is being shot to pieces, because the media will be barracking for Kevin Rudd when the next election rolls around. There’s a lesson in there somewhere for us, there’s a lesson in there for Americans too, be wary of the ones who smooth-talk about hope and change folks, new leadership and fresh ideas is what we were sold and this is what we got. Honestly though I doubt the lesson will be learned, you see there’s a reason why shady, smooth-talking salesmen are still around doing business.

Faith News Network - The arrests began at 5 a.m. on May 11, when two couples were taken into custody before boarding their flights at the Shiraz International Airport and sent directly to jail. All four were subjected to hours of interrogation, questioning them solely “just about their faith and house church activities,” an Iranian source told Compass. The detained Christians were identified as Homayon Shokohie Gholamzadeh, 48, and his wife Fariba Nazemiyan Pur, 40; and Amir Hussein Bab Anari, 25, and his wife Fatemeh Shenasa, 25.

Although the two wives were released the same day of their arrest, Anari was detained until May 14, and Gholamzadeh remains jailed. Two hours after the early morning arrests of May 11, police authorities invaded the home of Hamid Allaedin Hussein, 58, arresting him and his three adult children, Fatemah, 28, Muhammed Ali, 27, and Mojtaba, 21. All the family’s books, CDs, computers and printers were hauled off as well. Hussein, his daughter and one son were released later the same day, but son Mojtaba remains in prison.

Two days later, local police picked up two more former Muslims involved in a separate house church in Shiraz as the Christian converts were talking together in a city park. Both men, Mahmood Matin and a second man identified only as Arash, are still jailed. Still another arrest incident was reported last month in the northern city of Amol, in Mazandaran province near the Caspian Sea. Two of the arrested converts to Christianity, one a pregnant woman, are still imprisoned, with no news of their whereabouts.

Brisbane Times - Police in Amsterdam will get half the purchase price back if they buy the Koran to deepen their knowledge of Islam, a spokesman said today. A new translation had just appeared in Dutch and officers on the beat were being encouraged [I think we all know when they say 'encourage', it really means do it or else!] to read this and a biography of the Prophet Mohammed, Ebe van der Land said. “These two books will make for a better understanding and knowledge of the Koran and the life of the prophet,” van der Land said.

I wonder if the translation covers the bit about his 9 yr-old wife? I wonder if the police are told that if Muslim man decides to take a young girl as his wife, then they need to look the other way? I recently heard Mark Steyn talking about the fastest population transformation in history that is happening right now in our time. Off course the left are quick to dismiss folks like Steyn as trouble makers, racists and xenophobes, nothing to see, all kumbaya, move along folks. We are told that Islam is peace and tolerance, we are told that multiculturalism is working, it’s all peace and harmony, all cultures are equal and it’s just a couple of angry racists stirring up trouble. But there is a disconnect between what we are told by the elites and the reality that’s pretty much staring us in the face, if only we acknowledge it.

Here in the west, we have a lot of people from a lot of places around the world, people we are told will westernize when they come to live here in the west, so there is nothing to fear. This is true for a lot of them, however if there is nothing to fear because the immigrants will westernize and adapt, why are the Dutch police encouraged to ‘deepen their knowledge of Islam’, why are Korans being subsidized for them? Judging by the waning of Christianity in Europe, why aren’t they encouraged to deepen their knowledge of Christianity? Why aren’t they encouraged to deepen their knowledge of the Bhagawat Geeta, the Tanakh? Are there only Muslims and ex-Christians over in Europe now? Sounds like dhimmitude to me folks and it sure sounds like we’re being deceived, lied to and sold out by those who purport to lead us.

BBC - Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s. Mr Carter made his comments on Israel’s weapons at a press conference at the annual literary Hay Festival in Wales.

Just make stuff up, pull figures out of your ass and look serious while doing it and they’ll be back fawning all over you. Works everytime, especially when it’s anti-Israel.

FOX News - Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. “Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost,” the GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator’s last trip to Iraq came before the military buildup that is credited with curbing violence. “He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added.

“If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.” [snip] Obama, who has all but clinched the Democratic nomination, says he will remove U.S. combat troops within 16 months of taking office, though sometimes he shortens it to 11 months. “For him to talk about dates for withdrawal, which basically is surrender in Iraq after we’re succeeding so well is, I think, really inexcusable,” said McCain, who has been to Iraq eight times, most recently in March.

Kudos to McCain for going there so many times, predictably B. Hussein sent one of his lackeys out to side-step McCain’s challenge. I guess he doesn’t want to travel to Iraq in case his wild fantasies about every square meter of the place being bombed and burned 24/7might get blown to pieces. Can’t really blame him for it though, B. Hussein is the candidate of the mad left, and the mad left will not accept any conclusion other than Iraq=Vietnam, American Troops=evil and Surrender=utopia. They will not tolerate their man coming back from Iraq and even muttering under his breath that it’s getting better and better, thanks to the efforts of American troops and Iraqis who prefer freedom to tyranny. None the less, stick it to him McCain, it’s about time somebody started exposing B. Hussein Obama for the America-hating, talk-to-terrorists, surrender-monkey he is.

News.com.au - AN ABC website has been accused of portraying farmers and forestry workers as evil, and telling kids how much carbon they can produce before they die. The Planet Slayer website, which can be accessed via the science section on the ABC home page, also demonises people who eat meat and those involved in the nuclear industry, a Senate estimates committee heard. The site has several features including a cartoon series, Adventures of Greena, and a tool called Prof Schpinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator to help kids work out their carbon footprint.

The calculator lets users compare their own carbon output to the “average Aussie greenhouse pig” and estimates at what age a person should die so they don’t use more than their fair share of the Earth’s resources. Too much carbon production causes a cartoon pig to explode, leaving behind a pool of blood. [snip] ABC managing director Mark Scott said the site was not designed to offend certain quarters of the community but to engage children in environmental issues. “The site has been developed to appeal to children and its been done in an irreverent way … to make it engaging,” Mr Scott said.

Balls! How about we show a cartoon depicting greenies and hippies as bloody morons with no brains, which isn’t far from the truth and just claim it’s not designed to offend and has been done in an irreverent way and I’d like to see Mr Scott suck that down. Nice to know our taxes are being put to good use by the slimeball left, it’s in their nature to bite the hand that feeds after all.  Never let your guard down around leftists folks, especially around your children, if they can’t kill them before they’re born, they’ll do their best to turn them into mindless socialist morons.

Department of Defence - Australian and coalition soldiers from the Iraqi Security Forces Transition Group continue to teach and mentor Iraqi trainers. Teaching and then mentoring Iraqi trainers ensures that when Australian forces leave Iraq in mid-2008 there is a cadre of capable instructional staff, able to sustain the skills of the local security forces. Recent training courses have focused on teaching Police and Army personnel house clearing drills, patrolling skills and cordon and search techniques.

Continue reading Australian soldiers mentor Iraqi trainers…

Daily Mail - It was a message from the depths of grief. The shattered father of stabbed Harry Potter actor Robert Knox warned: ‘With knives there are no winners, only losers. ‘If you are a person who carries a knife, think about the consequences and, for my son’s sake, don’t do it.’ [snip] Both parents spoke of their last meetings with their son. In a tragic irony, Mr Knox’s last words were to warn him about the dangers of being caught up in the culture of carrying a weapon,

I remember a while back I was looking around on the Emerson Knives website and I happened to read some of the testimonials from happy customers, people who carry knives. Here is one example that I still remember.

“Hello, first off I want to say thank you for saving my life, I was jumped by a group of punks not to long ago! They had weapons and a video camera (what kind of sick people watch this stuff)!! Long story short I reached for my Combat Karambit and the Wave action pulling the blade open and the loud CLICK was a wonderful sound!!! The look on those bastards face was priceless, they had me outnumbered and out weaponed but I guess the look of someone who refuses to be a victim armed with an Emerson Knife made me a force to be reckoned with. They ran off and one of the most terrifying things that’s ever happened to me ended as fast as it started. Thank you and your staff! You should all be proud of what you do!” T.B.

Daily Mail - Fighting back tears, he recalled: ‘We had a chat about the problems of people carrying knives and steering clear of problematical little areas that you could put yourself into.’ [snip] In a bleak coincidence, Rob was a member of the same Sidcup rugby club as 16-year-old altar boy Jimmy Mizen, who was murdered two weeks ago in nearby Lee, South East London. The two families liveless than six miles from each other. Last night Jimmy’s parents Barry and Margaret Mizen and their eldest son Danny said they were horrified to hear another young life had been lost in a knife attack.

My condolences to the families who have lost their sons and I’m not trying to attack them, but I cannot sit back and say nothing when lives are being lost. Once again the weapon is being blamed and once again the next logical step is more laws that will only guarantee that another family will be destroyed by an attacker with a knife or a gun. You can blame the knife and the gun all you want, you can demand more laws, more jail time, more police, shed all the tears you want. We’ve also banned guns and knives, you can’t carry either to defend yourself, we’ve shed tears, we’ve appealed as well, we’ve demanded tough laws.

The police can search and confiscate without a warrant, they crack down and all that. We’ve had gun buy-backs and amnestys and none of us are allowed to carry a weapon to defend ourselves. But still people are getting shot and stabbed, bashed and raped, beaten and killed. As long as we blame the knife and the gun, we are only ensuring that your son, your daughter, your wife, your husband, your brother, your sister will never be allowed to carry either when the bad guy comes and he has one. Giving them a knife or a gun won’t guarantee their life, but if you don’t allow them to carry one, you are only stacking the odds against them. Would you rather they were T.B. or one of the others?

IMFA - Alaa Jihad Ouad Abu Madif, a resident of Karara located near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, was arrested on 15 April in a joint IDF-ISA operation. Iranian-trained Abu Madif, a member of the Abu Rish faction which splintered from the PLO in the 1990s, was involved in rocket attacks against Israel and was an intended suicide-bomber against IDF forces. [snip] Abu Madif was one of a group of activists that left Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, and then flew from Cairo to Damascus and then on to Iran.

In Iran, they were transferred to isolated military encampments in a mountainous region where they underwent comprehensive military training. The military training included physical training, navigation, weapons training (including light and heavy weapons operation, anti-tank weapons, hand grenades), target practice, assembly and operation of explosive devices and indoctrination lessons defining Israel and the USA as the sources of evil. They were also instructed in covert activities, such as discovering and losing a tail, etc.

Upon his return to Gaza after the Hamas takeover, (September-October 2007) Abu Madif participated in a series of rocket attacks against Israel, and agreed on two separate occasions to participate in a suicide bombing attack against IDF forces at the Kissufim crossing. He was filmed for these attacks, but they were never carried out. Abu Madif’s interrogation throws light on the deep Iranian involvement in the encouragement of terror against Israel and in its support, its financing, and its military training for the activists of the various terror organizations operating in Gaza against Israel. Syrian aid and assistance in the transfer of activists to Iran is also emphasized.

It’s no longer a question of should we or not, it’ll have to be done sooner or later. The longer we leave it the more painful it’ll be and the more people will die. Best get on with it, they like sending rockets and IEDs over the border, it’s time to send some smart bombs and cruise missiles back over their border, give em’ a taste of our technology. Suck it down scumbags!

Washington Times - When the next president takes office in January, he or she will likely receive an intelligence brief warning that Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power by planning an attack on America, intelligence experts say. After all, that is what happened to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at a time when their national security teams and their counterterrorism plans were in flux.

Can B. Hussein Obama handle it? Judging from his mad-left credentials, endorsements from terrorist organizations and wiffle-waffle about appeasing, tough, not tough, make it up as you go along attitude to terrorists and states sponsoring terrorism, I’d say no. Perhaps Americans have more faith in him than I do.

MNF-Iraq - Most Soldiers who join the Army can honestly say they would have never imagined patrolling the Euphrates River in a boat. Some Soldiers will soon be able to say they’ve done just that. Company A, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is training to operate boats the unit received, May 2.

“I’m pretty excited,” said Cpl. Tomas Montoya, Co. A, 3-187th Inf. Regt. “I never thought I’d have the opportunity to work on boats over here in Iraq.” “The boats will create new opportunities and capabilities in their operations along the Euphrates River,” said Lt. Col. Andrew Rohling, commander of 3-187th Inf. Regt. “They bring a sense of security, strength and versatility the local populace has not always seen from the water.” Continue reading Patrolling the Euphrates…

Courier Mail - A FAMILY court judge has allowed a 12-year-old girl to start a taxpayer-funded sex change procedure - in the face of objections from the child’s own father. The girl, who cannot be named, has begun court-approved hormone treatment in the first step towards a total gender switch. Orders by the Family Court of Victoria also permit the girl to apply for a new birth certificate, passport and Medicare card in a boy’s name. The application to allow the hormone treatment was lodged by the girl’s mother.

An endocrinologist, a psychiatrist, a family counsellor, a Victoria Government watchdog and a lawyer acting on the child’s behalf all supported the plan. Only her father, who lives interstate, opposed the proposed sex change, though he did not attend the final court hearing and could not afford [I'm sure if he had been for it, the taxpayer would have been made to pay for that] to send a lawyer on his behalf. [snip] The court was told early intervention was needed because the child was stressed and anxious at the prospect of starting her period and had threatened self-harm.

Gee, aren’t we taxpaying schmucks just such giving folk. I guess it’s simply too much to ask the Judge, the endocrinologist, the psychiatrist, the family counsellor, the Victoria Government watchdog and the lawyer acting on the child’s behalf to cough up their wages for this eh. Why should they, when they can help themselves to taxpayers money? So there you go kids, threaten a bit of ’self-harm’ and you’ll get your way, I want a penis or a vagina, bigger breasts even, give it to me now, or else!

Unfortunately, poor diddums will have to wait till she/he turns 18 for the fake penis, which I take it you lot will be forking out for as well. You can hardly expect him/her to fund her own lifestyle choices you know, it’s after all your fault isn’t it. I wonder what will happen if at 30, he suddenly decides this whole penis thing ain’t all that flash and wants to become a she again. Are we going to have to fork out for that as well, don’t see why not. Well get to work now, somebody’s got to pay for all this.