Study: British Immigration Has No Economic Benefits

"Preposterous" To Claim Otherwise



A British parlimentary committee of experts came to the conclusion that many British subjects had already reached: there is no justification for mass immigration into the U.K.

And, there's no benefits gained by the country from it.

The panel of experts' report, called a "landmark study--the most authoritative carried out by a parliamentary committee", demanded that a cap be instituted on new arrivals into the British Isles.

The report is sure to spread dismay among Euro-elites and multiculturalists worldwide. Among its blunt findings:
•Dismiss Ministers' "preposterous" assertion that migrants boost the economy by £6billion a year;

•Reject Government claims that foreigners will help to defuse the pensions timebomb;

•Demolish the "fundamentally flawed" Downing Street argument that migrants fill vacancies in the economy;

•And warn that migrants will force up house prices by 10 per cent in the next two decades.

The House of Lords committee didn't mince words.
The Lords economic affairs committee, which includes former Chancellors Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, economists and captains of industry, said immigration had "little or no positive impact" on the living standards of the existing population.

In fact, the big winners were the migrants themselves who earn higher wages than in their homeland and can also send money home.

Some British workers were even seeing their incomes fall, while up to 100,000 youngsters have been unable to find work.

And, by pushing up house prices, migrants will keep young families off the housing ladder, the committee found.



Britain has seen migration balloon its population by 190,00 per year and the Labour Party, like the Democrat Party and RINOs in the U.S., has been stressing the economic benefits of mass migration.

Euro-weenies like to cite the need to import workers to keep generous government pension systems financially solvent. But that argument, according to the peers, didn't "hold up to scrutiny" because the immigrants will grow older and claim pensions of their own one day.
The committee has among its ranks Labour and Liberal Democrat members with impeccable economic and business credentials. Many of them were the most trenchant in their remarks.

Downing Street's claim that migrants fill job vacancies in the economy was ruthlessly exposed.

The peers said that despite the influx of more than 700,000 workers from eastern Europe since May 2004, the number of vacancies has remained at between 600,000 and 700,000.

Allowing more and more migrants into the country created the need for ever more jobs because the new arrivals consume as well as provide services, the study found.

It called on the Government to set an "explicit target range" for immigration and set the rules to keep within that limit - effectively a cap.

A cap has been fought by the Labour Party Ministers who say it will harm the economy.

Sounds like the Ministers have either been reading the Wall Street Journal or the Democrat Party platform.
But committee member Lord Layard, a Labour peer and globally-respected economist, said the population would increase by around 190,000 a year for the next 50 years without a limit.

He warned: "We will have permanent pressure of people to move in our direction. Britain has an extra resource, which is the English language, for attracting people here.

"There is no doubt whatever that the pressure will remain for half a century or more.

"We are suggesting that the Government should set a target range for net immigration and then the rules should depend on the target range, rather than the numbers following from the rules as at pre-sent."


It's about time that a debate was started over the mindless shredding of borders. Instead of sensibly asking about the skills and background of immigrants, the "debate" has many times boiled down to a name-calling contest.

The discussion among the British political elites is the same one common British workingmen have been having for some time.

Better late than never.

by Mondoreb

images: daily mail
Sources:
* 'Preposterous' claims by Labour in favour of mass migration rubbished by experts
* British Study: Immigration Has No Benefits

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Mastercard Wedding






You got to love this guy...
This is a true story about a recent
wedding that took place at Clemson University .
It was in the local newspaper and even
Jay Leno mentioned it.
It was a huge wedding with about 300 guests.





After the wedding, at the reception, the groom got up on stage
with a microphone to talk to the crowd.
He said he wanted to thank
everyone for coming, many from
long distances, to support them
at their wedding.





He especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family
and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.

As a token of his deep appreciation
he said he wanted to give everyone
a special gift just from him.

So taped to the bottom of
everyone's chair, including the wedding party was an envelope.

He said this was his gift to
everyone, and asked them to
open their envelope.




Inside each manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy
of his bride having sex with the best man.

The groom had gotten suspicious
of them weeks earlier and had
hired a private detective to tail
them.

After just standing there, just watching the guests' reactions
for a couple of minutes, he
turned to the best man and
said, 'F---you!' Then he turned
to his bride and said, 'F--- you!'

Then he turned to the
dumbfounded crowd and said,
'I'm outta here.'

He had the marriage annulled
first thing in the morning.

While most people would have canceled the wedding
immediately after finding out
about the affair, this
guy goes through with the
charade, as if nothing were wrong.

His revenge--making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for a
300-guest wedding and reception, and best of all, trashing the
bride's and best man's reputations
in front of 300 friends and family members.

This guy has balls the size of church bells.

Do you think we might get a MasterCard 'priceless'
commercial out of this?


Elegant wedding reception
for 300 family members and
friends: $32,000.

Wedding photographs commemorating the Occasion: $3,000

Deluxe two-week
honeymoon accommodations in Maui : $8,500.

The look on everyone's face
when they see the 8x10 glossy
of the bride humping the best man: Priceless.


There are some things money
can't buy, for everything else
there's MASTERCARD.





'Life isn't like a bowl
of cherries or peaches,
it's more like a jar of Jalapenos--

what you do today,
might burn your ass tomorrow.....'



by RidesAPaleHorse

image/Source: RAPH
Priceless: The Mastercard Wedding

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Spanish Physician Pioneer in Head Transplants

Dr. Luis De la Cruz, Pioneer in Head Transplantation

While medical researchers still struggle with devising successful brain transplants, Spanish physician, Dr. Luis De la Cruz, is on the cutting edge of head transplants.

De la Cruz has invented a procedure which can add up to 2 inches to a person's height. De la Cruz claims he has successfully completed head transplants on 17 patients.





The procedures are performed in the doctor's clinic in Madrid, Spain. The Clinica La Luz is the only clinic in the world where patients can undergo the 90-minute operation where a small incision is made on the side of the head allowing a silicon implant to be placed between the skull and the scalp. The average implant measures 1 inch while the maximum allowed is 2 inches with the need for 2 operations. The first procedure is needed to stretch the scalp.

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Saudi Man Murders Daughter Caught Using Facebook


Details have emerged in the death of a young Saudi woman who was beaten and then shot to death by her father in Saudi Arabia after he caught her chatting online on the popular website, Facebook.

Facebook, or as it's called by the Saudis, Faceless, has over 30,000 users. Saudi women use nicnames and instead of posting their photo put up comic book images or drawings.




Facebook has emerged as a portal for Saudi women to be able to chat with persons online from all over the world but at the same time they've found "insulting" or "mocking" comments posted to them by Islamic extremists who browse the webpages.

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March 23rd-29th 2008


I'm Trench Reynolds.

I blog about crime.


This is the DBKP Week in Crime for March 23-28th ,2008.


At craigscrimelist this week there was stories about houses being ransacked and babies for sale but my best post this week was about a clueless state Attorney General who has no idea how the internet works.

Over at CrimeNe.ws I posted a story about an 11-year-old who was Tasered. She had it coming.

At News of Doom there wasn't really a story of the week so I bring to you a story and a rant about safe haven laws.

ALSO at DBKP.com: Trench Reynolds: DBKP This Week in Crime

The top scorers remain unchanged from last week.

At MyCrimeSpace the catch of the week was the MySpace of one of the Virginia snipers.

At Psycho for Love we had not one but two stories about women who put their babies in danger to help their criminal boyfriends.

I started yet another new project this week in the vein of craigscrimelist and MyCrimeSpace. This time it's about stupid criminals who tend to post their acts on YouTube. My new project is called CrimeTube. The content is light right now but go on over and take a look.

And lastly at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles I go a little off topic and give my thoughts on the recent court ruling about cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.





That's it for this week. Until next time I'm Trench Reynolds.


by Trench Reynolds
[image: Trench Reynolds]


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Employers of Illegals Demonize Themselves



This week's Blogers4Borders Blogburst asks the question (among others): Is it demonizing business when you point out they are breaking the law?

We'll emulate the Founding Fathers in this one.

We hold this answer to be self-evident.



ALSO at DBKP.com: "Illegal Immigrants: Not Demonization When Employers Break Law".


by Mondoreb
image: howstuffworks
Source: Bloggers4Borders

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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 31, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, LIT UP, WELCOME, SURPRISE, LEVIATHAN, PLAYING GOD, JEWS, CLINTONS, POPULATION, ZIP, DANCE, VRROOOM, OFFERS, FIRE, AWARDS, PRO WRESTLING, TRANSVESTITES, STALKING, LANDMARKS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



LANDMARKS

1889 French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.

WAR!

1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326.

2003 American forces battled Iraqi defenders in fierce street fighting 50 miles south of Baghdad, pointing toward a drive on the capital. Seven Iraqi women and children were killed at an Army checkpoint when their van refused orders to stop.

TERRORISM

2007 President Bush called for the release of 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, calling their capture by Tehran "inexcusable behavior." (The crew members were released on April 4.)

DISASTER

1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall.

1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people.

1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes.

VRROOOM!

1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine.

ZIP!

1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper).

TRANSVESTITES

1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ

FIRE!

1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar.

DANCE!

1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours.

AWARDS

1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins.

POPULATION

1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)).

PRO WRESTLING

1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf.

1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title.

SURPRISE!

1968 At the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on efforts to bring a peaceful end to the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked listeners by announcing he would not seek another term of office.

JEWS

1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews.

1808 French-created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names.

1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.

LIT UP

1880 Wabash, Ind., became the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting.

LEVIATHAN

1933 Congress approved, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.

OFFERS

1954 USSR offers to join NATO.

WELCOME!

1949 Newfoundland (now called Newfoundland and Labrador) entered confederation as Canada's 10th province.

PLAYING GOD

1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)

2005 Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.

STALKING

1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra.

CLINTONS

1998 In an unprecedented move, the Clinton administration released a detailed financial statement for the federal government showing its assets and liabilities.

BORN

1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner).

1878 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915).

1929 Liz Claiborne Brussels Belgium, fashion designer.

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Peggy Rea is 87. Actor William Daniels is 81. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Gordie Howe is 80. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 74. Actress Shirley Jones is 74. Country singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk is 74. Musician Herb Alpert is 73. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is 68. Actor Christopher Walken is 65. Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 63. Former Vice President Al Gore is 60. David Eisenhower is 60. Actress Rhea Perlman is 60. Actor Ed Marinaro is 58. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 53. Actor Marc McClure is 51. Actor William McNamara is 43. Actor Ewan McGregor is 37. Rapper Tony Yayo is 30. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 25.

DEATH

1931 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43.

1998 Former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug died at age 77.


March 31, the 91st day of 2008. There are 275 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
image: middlezonemusings
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History

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Video: Accident Nightmare



So you think you're having a bad day?

Watch Accident Nightmare at DBKP.com, too.

Two minutes and 48 seconds of possibly the worst accident in cinematic history. WARNING: Graphic in nature.




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Obama: Did He Throw His White Grandmother Under the Bus?




When Barack Obama compared his white grandmother to his minister did he throw his grandmother under the bus?

"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. Barack Obama on his minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright

An article in the Honolulu Advertiser told a different tale of Barack Obama's grandmother, not as the closet racist as he described her, but as a woman who worked hard, rose in her profession and helped raise Obama, but treated people with the utmost respect.

Several current and former associates of Obama's grandmother said they were "stunned" by Obama's remarks about his grandmother.
I was real surprised that he indicated that," said Dennis Ching, who was a 23-year-old management trainee under Dunham beginning in 1966. "I never heard her say anything like that. I never heard her say anything negative about anything. And she never swore."
Obama's grandmother worked hard in her profession eventually becoming the Bank of Hawaii's first woman Vice-President in 1970.

Obama with his Grandfather and Grandmother, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham

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Pregnant "Man" Due in July After Wife Unable to Conceive



When Thomas Beatie's wife Nancy was unable to conceive, the Bend, Oregon resident stepped up to the biological plate and the now five months pregnant man is due in July with the couple's first child.

"Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire," he wrote. "To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child. I will be my daughter's father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family."

Beatie, a female-to-male transexual, decided to keep his/her female reproductive organs even though he was now considered legally male after his female-to-male gender switch ten years ago. He and his wife Nancy moved to the town of Bend, Oregon two years ago where he operated a screen printing business.

Neighbors were shocked and skeptical to discover he was not only a male transsexual but a pregnant male transsexual when reporters descended upon the town after Beatie announced his pregnancy last week in the publication The Advocate.

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America Sitting on Vast Oil Reserves: Energy Non-Crisis

There is enough oil in the North Slope of Alaska to provide
for
America's energy needs for the next 200 years.

left-North Dakota oil fields are booming, according to one report.

America's untapped oil reserves are vast and waiting.

There is enough oil in the North Slope of Alaska to provide for America's energy needs for the next 200 years.

Before making Americans jump through the tiresome hoops of more government regulation in the pursuit of energy conservation, controls should be lifted that keep American companies from exploiting oil reserves which sit below the surface of the USA.
America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.

These deposits are stark proof that the U.S. is not running out of oil; the sky is not falling.
In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at $20-$40 a barrel.

It was not until 2007, when EOG Resources of Texas started a frenzy when they drilled a single well in Parshal N.D. that is expected to yield 700,000 barrels of oil that real excitement and money started to flow in North Dakota. Marathon Oil is investing $1.5 billion and drilling 300 new wells in what is expected to be one of the greatest booms in Oil discovery since Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.




The US imported about 14 million barrels of Oil per day in 2007 , which means US consumers sent about $340 Billion Dollars over seas building palaces in Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the World, if 200 billion barrels of oil at $90 a barrel are recovered in the high plains the added wealth to the US economy would be $18 Trillion Dollars which would go a long way in stabilizing the US trade deficit and could cut the cost of oil in half in the long run.


And that's not all...

Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of Mr. Williams' love for his country and concern for the spiritual welfare of the "pipeliners," he volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the subsequent full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company. Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to information documented in his eye opening book, The Energy Non-Crisis.

After numerous public speaking engagements in the western states, certain government officials and concerned individuals urged Mr. Williams to put into print what he saw and heard, stating that they felt this information was vital to national security. Mr. Williams firmly believes that whoever controls energy controls the economy.

Thus, The Energy Non-Crisis.

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by RidesAPaleHorse & Mondoreb
images:
* allposters
* geology.rockbandit
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* The Energy Non-Crisis: America Sitting on Huge Oil Reserves
* Massive Oil Deposits Could Increase Energy Reserves 10x

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Yemen Playboy Says He's Innocent in Norwegian Beauty's Death

Yemen Playboy Farooq Abdulhak (Center)


Yemen playboy, Farooq Abdulhak - son of one of Yemen's richest businessmen, insists he's innocent in the murder of Norwegian beauty, Martine Magnussen.

Farooq, safely ensconced in Yemen and out of the reach of the British authorities says he skipped out in his billionaire father's private jet the day before the body of 21-year-old Martine Magnussen was found beneath some rubble in the same block of flats where Farooq had a rental.

Farooq, a business student known as "DP" or Dom Perignon to his friends, confirmed that he did leave the upscale London club Maddox Thursday night at 3 a.m. with Martine and took her to his flat but that she later left and, according to a friend of Farooq's, a mysterious 3rd person is involved.
"They left the nightclub and went back to his home.

"But she left after that. He found out she was missing the next day.

"He panicked and called his father to get him out. Farooq says a third person was involved. His father has hired investigators to find out more."

Farooq's attorney, Mohammed Al-Bakwli, told the Mail that he and his client were frustrated that the British authorities hadn't contacted his client.

"I wish they would contact us. It would be in the best interests of my client. Farooq is not hiding and he is not a fugitive."



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American Generation Names: Why Y?

Generations are grouped as follows:

- The Silent generation, people born before 1945.

- The Baby Boomers, people born between 1945 and 1961.

- Generation X, people born between 1962 and 1976.

- Generation Y, people born between 1977 and 1990.

You ask why "Y" ?

A caricaturist explains it eloquently below...



For a list of American Generations and their time periods, check out "American Generations Since 1913" at DBKP.com.

by Mondoreb
hat tip: Scott, Vickie
image: journal de quebec
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* American Generations Since 1913
* Strauss and Howe

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What is a Son-of-a-Bitch?

Click on image/text below to enlarge.



One of the universe's truly great questions: finally answered.

[Another piece from our ever-expanding Library of Email Wisdom collection.]

by LBG
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For Sahara the Artic Seal, Freedom Means Right to be Wrong

Sometimes, a story takes curious turns in the telling.



"I've got a right to be wrong"
--English singer-songwriter Joss Stone


Freedom means free to be wrong.

So turns the story of Sahara the Arctic Seal.

The seal has twice been rescued in warmer waters far from home. Once in 2006 off the coast of North Africa: hence, his name.

After being nursed back to health in Britain (no word if his health care was provided by the government), Sahara was set free, only to paddle in the completely wrong direction a second time.

Animal rights activists then battled to give Sahara one more chance to avoid a life in captivity.

Five month ago:
"We're disappointed that he headed south and not back up north," said Tamara Cooper, an animal care supervisor at the National Seal Sanctuary in southern England. "But we're relieved that he's safe and well."


Sahara's fate remains unknown, but his story gives the opportunity to mention that being free means having the right to be wrong: the freedom to fail.

It also gives another opportunity: the opportunity to present a ridiculous 30-second Japanese video. It may or may not pertain to this subject. Readers can decide for themselves.



Questions of directional ability and liberty surround Sahara; no such questions surround the above video.

It is clearly wrong.

Just wrong.

by Mondoreb
image/idea: RidesAPaleHorse
Source: Arctic Seal Heads to Warmer Waters Again

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Pig Sitter Allows Portly Porker to Pig Out



Is there no justice?

The wheels of justice grind slowly, but somewhere in Minnesota, a pig sitter still is free.

Back in November 2007, a a pet pig, whose weight had tripled under the care of pig sitter, Mary Beesecker, was placed on a diet and Beesecker charged with an animal cruelty violation.

Try as we could, and with the resources of the Internet at our fingertips, no news of whether Besecker ever faced Minnesota justice in this tale of porky porker woe.
The 5-year-old animal, Alaina Templeton, part potbellied pig, has lost 10 percent of her 150 pounds and is recovering well from surgery to remove a collar that had become embedded in her overly fat neck, owner Michelle Schmitz said.

The sitter was apparently neglecting Alaina and let the pig roam outdoors, free to chomp on cat food and chicken feed at the co-worker's farm.
Alaina had made headlines the week before the animal cruelty charges, after Schmitz complained that the pet sitter had allowed Alaina to go from her normal 50 pounds to 150 pounds in just nine months. Schmitz had left Alaina with the sitter, a co-worker, while she was on medical leave to recover from ankle surgery.


A clean pig is a happy pig


All's well that ends well for the portly pig, however. It was reported that the "pet is back home, the excess pounds will "melt off" with a healthy diet and exercise."

Was this case ever resolved?

Efforts to find out if Alaina was avenged proved fruitless.

Has Mary Beesecker ever faced the might of the Minnesota court system?

Is this what passes for justice in the Land of 10,000 Lakes?

Has Alaina, the obese porker, ever received justice for being allowed to eat like a pig?

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

by Mondoreb

idea/image: RidesAPaleHorse
Source: Pig Sitter Charged

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Today in Weird History: March 28, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NUKES, HOSTAGES, IMMIGRATION, SWAP, PATENTS, SUICIDE, TRIAL LAWYERS, JEWS, BAGGED, ZULUS, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



BAGGED

1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down.

WAR!

1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear).

2003 American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah. President Bush warned of "further sacrifice" ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting.

TERRORISM

1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India.

2007 Iran aired a video of 15 captured British sailors and marines; the lone female captive, shown in a white tunic and a black head scarf, said the British boats had "trespassed." (The crew members were released April 4, 2007.)

DISASTER

1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland).

1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey).

TRIAL LAWYERS

1866 1st ambulance goes into service.

PATENTS

1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.

NUKES

1979 America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

HOSTAGES

2007 In the Philippines, dozens of children were taken hostage on a bus by a day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns; the crisis ended peacefully 10 hours later with the hostage-taker's surrender.

SUICIDE

1941 Filling her pockets with stones, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf walked into a river near her home and died in Lewes, England.

IMMIGRATION

1898 The Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.

SWAP

1930 The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

JEWS

1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities.

ZULUS

1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed.

BIRTHDAYS

Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is 80. Country musician Charlie McCoy is 67. Movie director Mike Newell is 66. Actress Conchata Ferrell is 65. Actor Ken Howard is 64. Actress Dianne Wiest is 60. Country singer Reba McEntire is 53. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Bart Conner is 50. Actress Tracey Needham is 41. Actor Max Perlich is 40. Movie director Brett Ratner is 39. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 39. Actor Vince Vaughn is 38. Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 37. Actor Ken L. is 35. Rock musician Dave Keuning is 32. Actress Julia Stiles is 27.

DEATH

1953 Athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, Calif.

1958 W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.

1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.

March 28, the 88th day of 2008. There are 278 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
image: azgfd
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History

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Geert Wilder Video Interview is Hard-Hitting

Geert Wilder's 7 1/2 minute interview on Danish TV (in English) at Europe, the Dutch, Islam, and more.



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Drew Curtis Interview: Fark Past, Present and Future

DBKP Journeys to Center of the Weird News World


DBKP INTERVIEWS Fark founder, Drew Curtis, in which we find out about Fark past, present and future--and the squirrel.

Google "Weird News websites" and you get back over 1 million references. But veteran weird news junkies know they can always get their fix at FARK.com, the king of the off-beat news sites.

Drew Curtis is the pusher.

Founded in 1997, Fark.com churns out a never-ending stream of entertaining headlines about strange stories linked to an eclectic collection of sources: Reuters, CNN, ABC News, as well as blogs and local TV stations.

FAST FARK FACT:
It's not Fark, It's million of FARKers:
By January 2008, according to Curtis, the site received an estimated 62 million page views per month from 4 million unique visitors.

As an article in Rolling Stone put it:
When heavy rains flooded Dongting Lake in the Hunan province, CNN reported the event under the headline CHINA DESPERATE FOR BREAK IN THE WEATHER. But over at Fark.com, the best skewed news site on the Net, they ran the link with a different take: SWELLING DONGTING PRESSES AGAINST GROANING DIKE.

"For me, the tag line is more important than an article," says Fark founder Drew Curtis. "If the tag line is funny, it trumps everything else."

Just scanning those skewed headlines--prepared by Curtis and his crack team of smart-ass administrators--has the power to turn any reader into a conversational giant in most offices.

Okay, at least in our office.

A few headlines from the past week included:

RECENT FARK HEADLINES:
* "And the Daily Dumbass Award goes to: The drug-trafficking brothers who flagged down a police car by mistake, and are now on the run. On horseback. In Fiji"
--tagged "Dumbass" on YahooNews story

* "The intellectual path to atheism in a nutshell: "I rejected Christianity largely because it would not have allowed me to continue getting drunk and high every night while splitting time between four girlfriends."
--tagged "Obvious" on a story from Townhall.com

* "Convicted child molester claims he was molested by Bigfoot as a kid"
--tagged "Unlikely"

* "Britney Spears linked to rise of foreclosures. LEAVE BRITNEY A LOAN"
--tagged as "Amusing" on LA Times story

Fark present



We've always had questions about FARK. Recently, DBKP's Mondoreb and LBG had a chance to sit down (in the blogosphere sense of the word) with Drew, who provided some answers.

And Curtis was candid.

MONDOREB: Welcome to DBKP, Drew. We've been looking forward to this chat, so let's do it.

DREW CURTIS: Cool. Sounds like fun.

MONDO: You would think everyone's heard of FARK, but they haven't. How would you descibe FARK to someone who is totally unaware of the website and how it operates?

DC: What if the Daily Show ran the Drudge Report?

We're a news aggregator selecting for humor. If that doesn't help anyone who is totally unaware of Fark, they need to get off the Internet.

MONDO: How many links does FARK get in an average day? Does it drive the administrators crazy? Does all the strange news links give them a skewed, jaded view of the world?

DC: 2500 [links per day], and the reason it's that low is because we reject duplicates. It doesn't drive us crazy per se. I don't have much of a jaded view either, I figure it's not that the world is getting stupider, it's that media coverage (of how stupid we already are) is better.

The thing that does drive me nuts though is when I pull up cnn.com or another "real" news site and see nothing but Fark articles. I feel the same way when I go to TGIFridays and try to find healthy food on the menu--there isn't any.

LITTLE BABY GINN: What's up with the super-masculine squirrel on the 404 page? Where'd he come from? It's rumored that he was the only thing on FARK for a couple years. Is he like a member of the family?

DC: It was completely random.

The day I reserved the Fark.com domain name in 1997, a friend of mine sent me that pic. I've since talked to the actual photographer, it's a real picture.

Fark mainstay


MONDO: Of all the entirely-strange and unusual stories on FARK over the years, what's the strangest one you remember?

Read the rest of Fark, Drew Curtis: Fark Past, Present and Future at DBKP.com.

by Mondoreb
Source: Fark, Drew Curtis: Fark Past, Present and Future

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Gary Zerola: Acquitted in 2nd Rape Charge Trial

Gary Zerola, Professional Victim

Boston attorney Gary Zerola was acquitted today in his 2nd rape charge trial in a Boston courtroom of multiple charges of rape and supplying alcohol to a minor, the second such trial this year with almost the exact same charges and counter charges, that it was the 30-something Zerola who was the victim and not his accusers, two underage girls in two separate cases.

In yesterday's acquittal Zerola was accused of raping and sodomizing a 19-year-old girl in his Beacon Hill condo back in 2004. It took a Suffolk County jury two hours to return with the not-guilty verdicts.

While Zerola was acquitted the jury never learned that Zerola had just wrapped up a similar trial with the same outcome back in January, charges of attacking and attempting to rape yet another 19-year-old girl. Zerola was acquitted of those charges. The jury never heard that Zerola, while out on bond in October of 2007, was arrested and charged with attempted rape of another young girl, this time an 18-year-old in a Miami Beach hotel.

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Obama, Democrats, Jeremiah Wright: Typical Race Hustling



"Typical Race Hustling" is the topic of the day and Red Planet Cartoons now has the floor.


“Obama is giving us a ‘national conversation on race,’ but mostly by letting a lot of white people realize just what circulates, unremarked, in the black community.”
–Prof. Reynolds at Instapundit

RPC then goes into an examination of what passes for theology in Barack Obama's Trinity Church.
Jesus is black. Merging Marxism with Christian Gospel may show the way to a better tomorrow. The white church in America is the Antichrist because it supported slavery and segregation.


The post then winds up with its typical collection of informative links to topical reference items.

[This article also posted "Jeremiah Wright, Democrats: Typical Race Hustling" at DBKP.com.

Readers who are news-savvy rarely depend on the MSM for their news analysis: they know that to read MSM is to have to read between the lines--and sometimes, that's just too tiresome.

That's where a good dose of RPC will do a body good.

Typical Race Hustling is typical Red Planet Cartoons: chock full of info and in an easy-to-digest form.

Hustle over and get some.

by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Typical Race Hustling

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Canadian Survey on Foreigners Reveals Surprise



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Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey

The author of this is unknown to me but what a neat story.

Thank God there are still people in this world that would take the time to do something like this.

This is one of the kindest things I've ever experienced. I have no way to know who sent it, but there is a beautiful soul working in the dead letter office of the US postal service.

[Also at DBKP.com: Kindness of a Stranger: Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey.




Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her. You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.

Love, Meredith.


We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, "To Meredith , " in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, "When a Pet Dies." Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:



Dear Meredith,

Abbey arrived safely in heaven.

Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away.

Abbey isn't sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.

I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.

By the way, I'm easy to find, I am wherever there is love.

Love,
God


by RidesAPaleHorse
image: RAPH
Source: Kindness of a Stranger: Touching Story of Meredith and Abbey

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