According to a report in today’s Independent newspaper:

A female deputy head of a special school had sex with one of her pupils four times in the toilets of the British Library, a court heard today.”^[1]

The lady told police she was ‘trying to support the teenager’ who was ‘a very troubled young man’.

My God! The British Library! That surely must steal a march on the ‘Mile High Club’.

^{[1] “Deputy head Teresa McKenzie ‘had sex with pupil in library’” Independent, March 10th 2010}

Filed under: Not part of the syllabus

If there’s anyone out there left with even a vestige of belief that sanity still exists somewhere in America, let me disillusion you yet again.

Illinois is an average sort of State, not considered extremist, mainly Democrat voters. Like every other State of the Union, it enforces a seat belt law. Every adult traveling in a motor vehicle has to wear a seat belt.

Some months ago, a new school bus company won the contract to run the service in a certain Illinois town. It brought in its own fleet of buses. Many of these buses were fitted with passenger seat belts. The buses owned by the previous operator had no passenger seat belts.

When the drivers tried to enforce the wearing of seat belts on the buses, they were told by the management it was not enforceable.

Children, they were told, could decide for themselves whether or not they wished to wear a seat belt on the school bus.

Many of these children are only five and six years old.

Needless to say, no seat belts are worn by children on the school buses. The belts hang limp and useless while the kids stand on the seats, clamber over seats, or take a walk in the bus aisle. These items of safety equipment are, in reality, a hazard. They lie across the aisle and kids trip over them, or get tangled in them. They’re used as weapons to hit other kids on the bus.

In Illinois, children can decide for themselves whether to wear a seat belt on the bus, while their parents are legally obliged to belt-up.

Madness?

Is there any sanity left in America?

Filed under: Don’t get me started

According to Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of the British Intelligence Agency, MI5, the United States concealed from the agency the fact that it was torturing terror suspects.^[1]

Isn’t the whole point of an intelligence service to find out things others are trying to conceal from them?

^{[1] “Ex-MI5 chief says US ‘concealed suspect mistreatment’” BBC, March 10th 2010}

Filed under: Job descriptions

……Illinois, or Louisiana, or Virginia, or any one of the fifty states of the USA, could this appalling tragedy occur.

A U.S. toddler accidentally killed herself after mistaking her stepfather’s handgun for a Nintendo Wii control.

Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan, three, shot herself in the stomach with the .380 caliber, semi-automatic weapon after finding it lying on a table in the living room.

Her mother was sitting at the computer just a few feet away while her three-month-old brother was also playing nearby.

Investigators today said that the child had probably mistaken the weapon for a Wii control.”

Read more: HERE.

Of course……


……don’tcha know?

Filed under: Don’t get me started

Winter’s finally over. Spring madness is in the air. Yet again a high ranking official of the USA is in Israel, proclaiming another ‘moment of real opportunity’ for Jews and Palestinians to kiss and make up, forget their differences, and live together as brothers and sisters for ever and ever, amen.

Do these idiots truly believe they deserve our respect?

US Vice President Joe Biden has been cosying up to Netanyahu and company since Monday. America’s carnal lust for Israel was reaffirmed stoutly, making absolutely clear that the Obama policy towards Israel’s occupation of Arab lands is not one jot different from his predecessors.^[1]

In response to these US utterances of affection, Israel announced its intention to build another sixteen hundred houses in East Jerusalem, further blocking any hope of a Palestinian capital city, while gently beckoning them to ‘come to the table and talk’.

There is no hope of meaningful dialogue, and all parties know it. Israel has cleverly divided its enemy into two camps: the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza; Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.

Until these two factions can be reconciled, no ‘meaningful talks’ can ever take place.

After two days of sumptuous Israeli hospitality, Biden will begrudgingly spare a few hours with Palestinian leaders on Wednesday, before heading off to more luxury and soft living as a guest of King Abdullah of Jordan.

Don’t wear yourself out, Mister Vice President.

Meanwhile, in a very ordinary little house in the southern part of Wales in the UK, Jesus Christ appeared to the Allen family of Ystrad, Rhondda – in the lid of a Marmite jar.^[2]

Yes, winter’s finally over. Spring madness is in the air.

^{[1] “Biden sees ‘moment of opportunity’ for Mid-East peace” BBC, March 9th 2010}

^{[2] “Family see Jesus image in Marmite” BBC, March 9th 2010}

Filed under: Tell us another

The Iraqi press has been proclaiming it for years. Independent journalists have shouted it from the rooftops. The Western press has barely mentioned it, while the American media has been prominent amongst the silent.

Today, however, the BBC in the guise of its World Editor, John Simpson, has blown the top off a story that should have been making headlines, and creating fury, for the last six years.

The place is Fallujah, Iraq. The building is a brand new hospital, Fallujah General, built with American money. It’s what’s in the hospital that’s so disturbing. Some sights were so ghastly John Simpson had to tell his cameraman not to film them.

Paediatric specialist, Dr Samira al-Ani, told the BBC she saw two or three cases of serious birth defects every day at the hospital. Simpson was shown photographs of a baby with three heads. He saw children with six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot.

Women living in and around Fallujah have been advised by their doctors not to have children.

The BBC shows one image in its report.^[1] Sparrow Chat has decided not to reproduce it, or the myriad other images of grossly deformed Iraqi children available on the internet. They are, frankly, too appalling.

For those with strong stomachs, google ‘iraq birth defects’ and click on the ‘images’ tab. The choice is vast.

The Iraqi government refuses to investigate the causes of this catastrophic situation. They don’t wish to embarrass their American benefactors. Fallujah is still a dangerous place to visit and many politicians aren’t welcome there.

The cause is obvious, without any inquiry. In 2004, the United States dropped thousands of tons of depleted uranium bombs on and around Fallujah. Iraqis will be suffering the consequences for generations to come.

Read John Simpson’s report available via the link below. Then, pause for a moment and wonder why those who caused these vile occurrences – George W Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair – are not languishing behind bars for the immeasurable suffering they have caused in our name.

And when, over Fallujah, the shit finally does hit the fan – expect a total political whitewash.

^{NOTE: Shamefully, the BBC has not released Simpson’s filmed report onto the internet, though it was broadcast on the 5am World News on BBC America today. His own written report on his findings is available at the link below.}

^{[1] “Disturbing story of Fallujah’s birth defects” BBC, March 4th 2010}

Filed under: Iraq war crimes

A few days ago I wrote of a problem bothering the Israeli government, viz: the Gentile population of Israel and its surrounding neighbors was swelling, rapidly gaining ground over the Jewish populace.^[1]

In an effort to combat that worrying prospect, the Israelis were marketing their nation to young Jewish people around the world, in an attempt to attract more settlers to the country.

Speaking at the 2010 Herzliya Conference in Israel recently, Martin Kramer^[2], a research fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, suggested a different approach. He called for the West to stop all aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza as a further step towards preventing them from breeding.

Starving human beings can’t produce lots of offspring.

I jest not:

The Third Reich had a name for this; they called it eugenics. Only, they aimed to weed out of the gene pool ‘the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, and weak’.

Kramer’s notion is to curtail the production of young Palestinian males of the age group most likely to join Hamas and other militant, anti-Israel, political organizations.

What’s so alarming about this man’s point of view is not just that he’s lost his ability to view others in the world as human beings like himself. It’s that he’s a high-ranking academic, a research fellow at one of the most prestigious universities on earth. His views are part of a larger contagion that regards the Palestinian people as a sub-species; a doctrine that has remorselessly established itself within the Israeli government since the days of Ben-Gurion.

I ended the previous post with the suggestion that Israel was rapidly becoming the new ‘Third Reich’ of the Middle East. Martin Kramer gives me no reason to doubt the validity of that statement.

^{[1] “Birthright Israel? But Only If You’re A Jew” Sparrow Chat, February 22nd 2010}

^{[2] Martin Kramer – Wikipedia}

Filed under: The face of tyranny

How would you feel if you knew that your actions had caused the layoffs of over 2,000 construction workers?

How would you feel if your actions prevented millions of your fellow citizens from obtaining much needed unemployment benefits?

How would you feel if your actions had cut the funding to doctors who treated the poor?

I guess you’d feel pretty bad, wouldn’t you? I certainly hope you would.

This man did all these things. Yet he doesn’t feel bad at all.

This man is Senator James Bunning of Kentucky, who single-handedly blocked a bill to finance all of the above.^[1]

This man’s face should be etched onto every sidewalk in the land – so Americans throughout the nation can spit on him.

This man’s face should be painted onto every public lavatory bowl in the country – so Americans can urinate and defecate on him.

This man is no American.

^{[1] “Single US senator freezes unemployment payment” BBC, March 2nd 2010}

Filed under: Politician from Hell

Coming from another country, as I did in 2002, it’s easy to discern certain factors that most Americans never stop to consider. They’re just too close to them – can’t see the wood for the trees, you might say.

I’ve had occasion to visit the local hospital recently. Nothing serious, you understand. My wife needed a minor procedure, and as one matures, general servicing has to become a little more frequent to keep everything running normally.

I was struck by the large number of elderly ladies acting as volunteers in the hospital. At first, it wasn’t something I questioned. The British NHS uses voluntary labor to assist with patient management. It helps keep the costs down.

Then it struck me. This is not an NHS hospital, it’s a private company. Admittedly, it designates itself a ‘not-for-profit’ concern, but according to figures gleaned from the internet (the only ones I could find), this particular company:

…..budgeted a total net profit of $7.4 million [in 2004], and expects to build its cash position beginning in fiscal 2005.”

Now that’s not bad for a private enterprise desperately attempting to make no profit.

The hospital has expanded enormously since 2004, opening ‘branches’ throughout the town and surrounding areas. No doubt, they would point this out as resulting from the $7.4 million, but it’s unlikely these branch clinics lose them money. Few companies in healthcare go bust from expansion.

So, while the army of elderly volunteers marching around the hospital corridors with bemused patients in tow, or registering family members waiting for news of their sick relatives welfare, are keeping themselves busy and possibly preventing the onset of senile dementia, they’re also responsible for swelling the queues of unemployed citizens waiting for benefits, or hanging round street corners all day with nothing to do.

Perhaps, these elderly volunteers should accept retirement gracefully, spend their time knitting socks for the grandkids, or assisting local charities, and force the hospital authorities to pay working people to fill those jobs that, to date, they’ve been getting done for nothing?

Filed under: No-cost labor

It must have taken a lot of beer to compose and record this song.

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Filed under: Greatest hits