Irony within a Ridicule within a Sardonicism

At the podium today, White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, tried to mock Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Movement with the words "Hope" and "Change" written on his palm.

Unfortunately for Gibbs, President Obama had just finished speaking from the same podium about the need for  bipartisanship, and the need to "transcend petty politics."  Gibbs' joke received  groans.

Maybe Gibbs should write "update resume" on his palm. 

TOYOTA

Johnathan Pearce ruminates on the Toyota recall saga:

On one level, this issue is being billed as a terrible embarrassment for the Japanese company, but to an extent I find the comprehensive recall of the cars to be a pretty good example, in fact, of how private businesses with a huge brand-name investment have to act when their products have a problem. Can you imagine, say, a government department doing such a massive "recall" of a failed policy? With private business, the penalties for failure are bankruptcy. For government, the consequence of a mess is often more of the same, only with more lumps of taxpayers' money. To put it more technically, there is little in the way of a negative feedback loop when governments are involved.

Indeed, or as someone over here put it (modesty forbids), put into the same position, government would deny, cover up and finally tell taxpayers to get stuffed and take what they're given. Yes, markets contain their own quality control standards.

I see that the Prius - long time greenie motoring standard - is the latest to be recalled, this time because of brake control systems. One wouldn't have guessed brakes were required. In any case, good. Let them be recalled permanently.

Green Police

The ad below was broadcast during the Superbowl Game on Sunday;  106 million Americans watched it.   Ostensibly, it's pushing the new Audi "Green Car," but it mocks the Green Movement while doing so, leaving me to wonder: is the environmental movement dead? Is Audi facing a rapidly shrinking green market, with a whole new fleet of "green cars" on its books?

Is there similar mocking of the overzealous environmental movement in Europe? 

MORE PROBLEM FOR PUSH OVER PETER..

Oh dear.

A direct lobbying link between Peter Robinson and the developer who stumped up £25,000 for his politician wife has been uncovered by the Belfast Telegraph.

Government papers show the top DUP couple became involved in 2006 over a planning application tabled by builder Ken Campbell. A meeting with a direct rule minister was at one stage sought by the two MPs over the Comber scheme, located outside Mr Robinson's constituency. 

Why was Mr Robinson lobbying on behalf of a developer for a scheme OUTSIDE his constituency? What motivated such behaviour? Just how close was Mr Robinson to Mr Campbell? Can Mr Robinson now provide full public details of EVERY property scheme he lobbied on behalf of so the electorate can be reassured all is as it should be?  

Thus far, the money trail seemed to end at the door of Mrs Robinson. But the First Minister must now xplain why he himself lobbied for this developer even though the scheme was outside East Belfast? Another developing story...

A PUNCH FROM IRAN?

What do we make of the news that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution?

"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel."

Mmm - so how's that nuanced diplomacy thingy working out then, Barack?

A Tale of Two Cities

This is Lahore in Pakistan.................................

And this is Dewsbury in the United Kingdom...........................

It really says at lot about the state of Islam in this country, compared to Islam in traditionally Islamic societies.

Prehistoric, oppressive, pig-ignorant, anti-social and downright dangerous.

TUV RESPONSE TO HILLSBOROUGH HANDOVER

Here is all you need to know about the events of last week at Hillsborough.

THE UNIVERSITY SURGE

It is easy to understand why the numbers of those seeking a place at University has surged almost 23%.

Those leaving school realise that there are few jobs so they turn to academia. Those rejected from last year try to enter academia this year. Those who have lost their jobs aim seek solace in academia. And even as this surge hits the admission system - Labour apply savage cuts to university budgets and a freeze in the number of available places. The result of all of this will be growing social tensions, frustrated wannabe students, a mess in short.

Labour has wreaked havoc upon our Education system - from Primary to Tertiary. I feel sorry for all of those kids who now see little hope and all because of the inept Labour Government. Shame on them. Of course the irony is that most students tend to hold left-wing view. They should look upon the works of this left-wing government and despair.  

BROKEN BRITAIN

It's a grim insight into contemporary Britain.

Voters are deeply pessimistic about the state of Britain today, believing that society is broken and heading in the wrong direction, a Populus poll for The Times has found. Nearly three fifths of voters say that they hardly recognise the country they are living in, while 42 per cent say they would emigrate if they could.

But worries over the pace of social change and dislocation are balanced by the belief that life will get better, according to the survey undertaken at the weekend. It suggests that 70 per cent believe that society is now broken, echoing a Conservative campaign theme of the past two years, while 68 per cent say people who play by the rules get a raw deal and 82 per cent think it is time for a change.

I suggest this is quite accurate. Many decent people CANNOT believe the state of the country in which they live and that is a direct consequence of more than a decade of socialist rule. We have seen morality set aside, our borders opened up to all, our institutions attacked, our sense of Britishness denuded, our tolerance tested - and many of us are sick of this.

However the problem is whether the Conservatives under Cameron are the solution? I think not. I think they may offer more of the same. And unless Cameron becomes much more radical then all we get is one failed political party being replaced by another. Britain may be "broken" but can Cameron fix it?

THE SOUTH ARMAGH MURDER MACHINE...

Disturbing but unsurprising to read that there is still a “functioning murder machine” run by republicans in south Armagh. So said Assembly member Dominic Bradley at the SDLP conference. From the Irish Times....(no link, sorry)

Mr Bradley knows of which he speaks and readers here should reflect that this is a NATIONALIST opinion, rather than a Unionist one.

"Mr Bradley said that, just over two years since the murder of Paul Quinn, people in south Armagh remained convinced that Provisional IRA members were responsible for his death.

The Newry and Armagh MLA said the politicisation of the murder was necessary and correct because the killing revolved around a denial of reality.“The reality is that we have a functioning murder machine in south Armagh.“It is fairly clear that the army council has prohibited actions such as organised beatings, and it is equally clear the south Armagh Provos don’t give a damn,” added Mr Bradley. “They don’t take orders from Dublin and they don’t take them from Gerry Adams in Belfast either,” he said.

“Even if the Provisional IRA has theoretically been stood down, individual members still have access to its structures, skills and experience. And the group as a whole is still trying to exercise community control – and worst of all it can still draw on political support from Sinn Féin in exercising that control,” said Mr Bradley.

Well, thanks to the Hillsborough Handover, the scum in the South Armagh murder machine can be certain that "sound republicans" (to quote Executive Minister Conor Murphy) will have a guardian angel (or devil) looking after them when the Justice Minister looks into these matters.

IRELAND IMPORTS JIHAD PREACHER.....

Those in academic ivory towers seemed removed entirely from reality. Take University College Dublin.

Banned Muslim hate preacher Anjem Choudary has sparked outrage after he was flown to Ireland to spout his bigoted views to 250 university students.

Choudary’s Islam4UK group and its parent organisation al-Muhajiroun were banned last month by Home Secretary Alan Johnson under legislation to outlaw the glorification of terrorism.

However, the student law society of University College Dublin paid for him to fly over to be a guest speaker at a debate with the motion that women’s rights should trump religious doctrine. The society also paid for his hotel.

Father-of-four Choudary opposed the motion, saying Muslim women were not suppressed or subjugated.

UCD should be ashamed of providing this monster with a platform and given that it was the Student Law Society that issued the invitation this is evidence that education often leads to ignorance.

Reading, Writing and Ethnic Arithmetic

A few months ago I read a newspaper article about a guy who had been sentenced to five years in prison for smashing a pint glass in a pub and slashing another patron's face with it.  The victim had been left permanently scarred.  I think it is only right that a person or persons responsible for the disfigurement of another human being should pay the ultimate penalty available under our legal system. I also think a similar punishment should apply to those who disfigure and scar society by deliberate and contrived methods.

Britain has been disfigured by Labour's 13 years of floodgate immigration.  A succeeding government should - both in theory and practice - be able to reverse the policies and societal consequences of its predecessor.  That is the meaning of true democracy.  In the past it was relatively straightforward.  A Labour administration could, for example, beef up the power of the trades unions; a new Conservative government could reverse that decision in accordance with the expressed desire of the electorate articulated through preference at the ballot box.  David Cameron could - quite legally if he wanted to upon taking power - abolish the devolved assemblies, cut down on benefit payments, get rid of ASBOs, slash borrowing to ease the debt burden....... or change any number of Labour policies on health, education, defence, welfare and international development.  However, what he cannot do (for Britain is civilised nation, not a fascist state) is to kick out all those immigrants who have been given citizenship or indefinite leave to remain under Blair and Brown.  That's what makes immigration policy different, and that's why pursuing open-door immigration to deliberately and irrevocably change the face of the nation without the consent of those who have to endure its consequences is the most blatant act of unspeakable evil committed by this wretched lot.

For where in successive Labour manifestos did it promise to make Britain unrecognisable through the mass importation of foreigners and foreign cultures?  It didn't.  So it's not as though immigration and multi-culti worshippers can argue that British voters gave their permission for such a huge change.  Three million immigrants have come to this country since 1997.  Never mind a Chilcott inquiry over Iraq, there needs to be another inquiry on how Labour ministers contrived to **** up our demographic make-up through the facilitation of Poles, Indians, Africans, Pakis, Aztecs, Incas, Indus Pygmies, Amazonian tribesmen and all the other aliens who've come here in unprecedented numbers.  And that inquiry should have recourse to penal sentencing for the crime of 'disfigurement of the British nation'.

Take Reading as a good example of how Labour has irreversibly damaged this country.  In a town of less than 150,000 people, 150 laguages are now spoken by kids in the local schools.  150!!!  We're not talking about a Tokyo-sized metropolis here. It's a Berkshire town 30 miles west of London for God's sake.  Ruined by the dilution of Britishness and the strains on local services that such a migrant deluge creates.  No future government will be able to boot them out.  They are here to stay, folks.  It may be totally un-Christain to say this, but I hope those Labour apparatchiks responsbile for killing our country suffer all the personal misfortune life can throw at them in later years.  Such despicable scum deserve no less.

CORRUPTION AT THE YARD..

Pleased to see that corrupt senior cop, Commander Ali Dizaei, has been found guilty of misconduct in public office and trying to pervert the course of justice. He's off the prison for four years. Ali Dizaei bullied, intimidated and threatened anyone who crossed his path. If that didn't work, the Iranian-born officer accused them of being racist.

Just consider a small section of his history...

In 1999 he applied to become a superintendent in the neighbouring Metropolitan Police. Britain's biggest force was in turmoil, damned as 'institutionally racist' by the Macpherson Report into the bungled investigation of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs.

The Met needed more senior black officers. Dizaei was accepted even though Deputy Assistant Commissioner Barbara Wilding described him after his interview as the most rude and arrogant man she had ever met. Alas, Commissioner Sir Paul Condon was in no position to be choosy.

Dizaei, with a PhD newly awarded for a thesis 'The Thin Black Line' on - yes - police racism, was in. Once, when he was questioned by a senior white colleague, he replied: 'You can't tell me what to do.' 'But I'm your boss,' said the startled superior. 'I have only one boss and that is Allah,' snapped Dizaei, piously. 

Why did Dizaei get away with this for so long? Simple - the Met is scared senseless of accusation of being racist and so this appalling specimen was tolerated when in truth he was unfit to wear the uniform.

ON A LONDON BUS...

This is an amazing story...

A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers by pulling over mid-route and beginning to pray in the aisle. The driver stopped the bus without warning before removing his shoes and, using a fluorescent jacket as a prayer mat, beginning to chant in Arabic. 

Passengers said they feared the driver could be preparing for a terror attack. 

No one was able to get on or off the vehicle during the five-minute prayer session.

A TfL spokesman said: 'A route 24 bus was delayed following a decision by the driver to stop the bus to pray. 'The bus company, London General, has had a word with the driver as this is not something that should be happening."

I can imagine the fear this must have caused amongst passengers, espeically when one remembers 7/7. The driver concerned should have been disciplined and it made clear that any further repetition of this will result in immediate dismissal. We need to keep Islam off the buses.

KING TO LOSE HIS HEAD?

Excellent article here on Peter King, the IRA loving US Congressman.

For decades, King was one of the keenest, most reliable American voices supporting the Irish Republican Army during its long and murderous campaign. King was such a well-known figure in Northern Ireland that one judge presiding over a murder case in which the accused were members of the IRA, threw King out of his Belfast courtroom because, as the judge put it, "he was an obvious collaborator with the IRA."

Got that? His IRA loving credentials lasted a looong time.

As recently as 2005, King told me that "we shouldn't rush to be too sanctimonious" about the murder of Robert McCartney in a Belfast pub. Although the killing was witnessed by dozens of drinkers, IRA intimidation ensured that none came forward. A re-enactment of the murder shown on Irish television showed the Republicans involved returning to Magennis's bar to mop up blood and remove CCTV evidence while warning customers "This is IRA business." But, according to King, all the media attention devoted to the case was a whole lot of fuss about nothing much—even though the case revealed how the IRA continued to run rackets and pervert the course of justice.

King is a moral disgrace and it would be great news if his seat is redirected as a a result of the Census results this year being confirmed. That way we can be rid of this thoroughly rotten King. 

There is a God and he is Just

Following the Demise of late Drunken, Murdering Blowhard, Organized Crime Trust Fund, Gin Swilling, Scum Bag Teddy (Hiccup) Kennedy. The true Bastard Father of The Health Care Bill, has his seat filled by a man who ran on killing that Bill and Nothing Else.

God grants us more proof that life is harmoniously kind.

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77.....

The crooked unindighted co-conspirator in Abscam, The ass that appointed himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner in his damning accusation that our Marines, (which he once served as ) were guilty of murdering woman and children. Has received his call to judgement.

A man who was filled with Gall and Bile so much that it finally killed him. He had so much gall and bile that as they removed his gall bladder they didn't realize that all that nasty liquid was the only thing besides greed sustaining him.

Who said that all the good Karma has left the world.

SNOWMAN LEADER MELTS AWAY...

Commenting on Lord Morrow's declaration of support for the Hillsborough deal, TUV chairman Ivor McConnell said:-

"Is this the same Lord Morrow who promised no policing and justice to this Assembly, but now promises to work for and support exactly that? Which Lord Morrow should we believe?

"To cover his embarrassment he now pretends the Thursday deal was different from Monday's. The only difference was the day! Lord Morrow, the strongman became the snowman and melted away - just as he did three years ago as "an Apostle" opposed to terrorists in government. Now he is an apostle of empowering Sinn Fein - the apologists for the IRA's murder of policemen and judges - on these very disciplines.  
 
"Lord Morrow used to mock John Taylor's "40 foot pole" somersault on the Belfast Agreement, but it was nothing compared to his own double twist and backflip on policing and justice. With his credibility shot to pieces no one will ever again take seriously anything he says."

THE STAGING POST...

Statement by TUV spokesperson David Vance:

“The comments this morning on BBC Radio Foyle by Joint First Minister McGuinness exposed yet again why Republicans are so keen to see the devolution of policing and justice.

“In Sinn Fein/IRA terms this is about “transfer of power over policing and justice from England to our island”. These comments – coupled to Gerry Adams’s description of the deal as a “staging post” on the road to Irish unity should remove all doubt about how the Hillsborough Agreement plays into Republican hands.

“Unionists need to wake up before it is too late!”

Gone to graveyards every one!

The number stands now at 255.

That number besides being the total number of British deaths in the Falklands Campaign, is now also the total of deaths of British Service personnel killed in the futile, stupid, outrageous conflict in Afghanistan.

The Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, useless in every respect including qualification as an intelligent human being, is forecasting British casualties. The Taliban have been given everything but gold-plated maps showing where this 'huge NATO exercise' will happen, so that the same Taliban will carefully place their bombs and mines, hide their weaponry and walk or ride out of the war zone heavily disguised as 'locals fleeing the conflict'! So the Americans, British and the (wait for it) Afghan Army will move in and suppress the fools who remain. They will then hand over power to, (wait for it again) the Afghani Police Forces, an outfit so encumbered with corruption and fifth-columnists that even the Afghan Army won't fight alongside them. 

This bunch of terrorist-ridden incompetents are then supposed to deliver 'Security' on behalf of a corrupt and crime-ridden Administration, itself so corrupt that the only way the UN could stop laughing when asked about the 'fairness' of the election was by walking away in disgust!

We won in the Falklands by having a goal in sight, which was the defeat and removal of the Argentinian invaders. Britain was aided in that conflict by having the best Prime Minister of the Twentieth Century in charge. 

We don't have a single aim, or target or goal to aim for in Afghanistan, because the Afghani Government is totally corrupt, it's civilian and military structures hardly exist, Afghanistan has never been a nation in the first instance, and if the Russians couldn't win, the British should have learned their lessons from the last time we were there, and simply get the hell out.

THERE'LL BE BLUEBIRDS OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER

...and they will lament the proposed sale of this vital British port by the Brown Government to.....the French. The Big Dollop has the information here and like him, I feel sick that this rotten Government would willingly flog off this vital national asset to a foreign country and in particular to the French who seem to like the idea of transferring all those "asylum seekers" that swamp Calais and elsewhere to England. I guess owning the port of Dover will help in that regard. This is madness - short-termism, and all we can expect from this dying government as it thrashes around in its final weeks.