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safety first
Ideal conditions for an anti-liberty authoritarian movement to take control.
Also, those people all look non-union, so you know.
But officers told the volunteers that the decision had been made for the clean-up to be done by the council. Asked why, an officer said: “Health and safety mainly. There’s lots of broken glass around.”
Their great-grandparents sifted through the wreckage of the Blitz without a single fluorescent vest among them. These poor bastards can’t even say the words “stiff upper lip” without HM Government sending them in for re-education.
Heartbreaking.
fuck the council
I’m thinking they chose that lead photo for reasons other than just ‘stiff upper lip’, Squid.
who knew that you had to be credentialled to use a broom?
“Health and safety”? Bullshit. Those sanitation crews are unionized and there’s overtime to be made!
More like this, please.
And then tell the coppers and the Council that they’re no longer needed, and quit paying property tax.
Indeed, serr8d. I might come forward as a looter just so she could rough me up a bit.
this is a picture of some korean shopowners during the LA riots
Ideal conditions for an anti-liberty authoritarian movement to take control.
Seth, it’s called Parliament, and it’s been around a while.
baseball bats sales way up on uk amazon
Link
“Look, Officer Thick, I’m here to clean up the mess left by the “disenfranchised youth” you were too busy to arrest. If you try and arrest me for cleaning up without council permission because of some bogus “health and safety” rules, well, I’m quite likely to turn into a disenfranchised youth and beat your ass bloody. Your call.”
“We’re the Metropolitan Police. We don’t arrest burglars; we arrest homeowners who defend themselves. We don’t arrest vandals and arsonists; we arrest neighbours who clean up after. Why not show your support and thank a cop today!”
Having preordered from steynonline.com, I got After America in yesterday’s mail.
Boy, if you thought Steyn was depressing in America Alone, just read this one. MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN read the subheadings in the prologue.
Yeah, no pulled punches.
And of course nifty neologisms such as “The Condescenti” and various LOL-past-the-graveyard quips and cracks.
Off-topic… here. For the time being.
Friend of mine just emailed me a link to this product, which I didn’t know existed.
The thing’s a wearable video camera that’s always recording, keeping a TiVo-like buffer of the last 5 hours. Perfect for the Citizen Journalist on-the-go, folks attending a tea party rally and/or anti-capitalism riot, or simply anyone who has any interaction with the various components of our proto-fascist police state.
As such, I fully expect it to be banned in short order — or at least prohibited from being used anywhere near a public official. That’s something both parties could agree upon.
Link didn’t take.
Whatever – it’s called a “Looxcie”, ‘bing’ it.
I got After America in yesterday’s mail.
Giv’us a review, luv!
Giv’us a review, luv!
Just did.
What I’ve read of it, that is. After I get home, I’ll post some of the tastier passages.
So, do they send in a HazMat team if someone drops a glass in their kitchen in England?
Women maintaining law and order with baseball bats and tank tops are hawt! They just need some decent firearms to finish off their ensembles.
Someone gets it.
Don’t know if it will post but here’s one poor ‘vigilante’ concerned with the state of affairs.
Here.
Link
And here’s the Guardian commenting on the same Sikh men protecting their temple:
Sky News, meanwhile, has been in Southall, west London, where members of the Sikh community have been gathering outside a mosque, pledging to keep the streets safe in that area. On the one hand, this could all be seen as a positive development with communities coming together, but as Paul Lewis reported, it all depends on the motives of those involved. Things could easily turn ugly.
Because, you know, it could easily get ugly if those vigilantes act up to prtoect themselves after four days of violence.
Linky: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/09/london-uk-riots-day-four-live
quangocracy
W00t! New word!
Four days of rioting, pilaging and destruction could easily turn ugly?
Too far gone.
“where members of the Sikh community have been gathering outside a mosque,”
those brown people are all the same
Well, yeah, I noticed that too, but they did say they were gathering outside the mosque, so maybe it was just a convenient meeting point rather than the reporter conflating a Sikh temple with a Muslim mosque.
Nah.
Sod off, swampy. Pitch in and help or get your poofter ass out of the way.
arse.
My British isn’t entirely up to snuff.
Link
The kind of parenting that asshats like Paul Tisley, deputy leader of Birmingham City Council have made possible with their cradle to grave public assistance mentality: everybody is a ward of the all encompassing benificent government.
00.38 We’re going to wrap things up for the evening here. To recap: the deployment of 16,000 troops around London seems to have fended off a repeat of the violence in the capital, but copycat riots have broken out in the Midlands and the north-west. A man in his sixties is fighting for his life after being attacked by rioters on Monday night in Ealing, and nearly 700 people have been arrested around London.
00.31 Nick Britten emails:
Sham Sharma, who owns a shop selling information technology equipment in Broad St, Wolverhampton, described how he was attacked by thugs and said he felt like he had had “a heart attack” after being looted.
He said he had received a telephone call from police warning of trouble in the town and began cashing up having locked the doors and put down a grille at the front door.
I’m at the point where I almost hope it happens here. Burn it all down baby.
Fifty years after the riots in the big northern cities and many of them still haven’t recovered, the productive members of those communities voted with their feet. Some left without even selling the family home.
They’ll try, but they won’t be able to call it white flight this time, it’ll be everybody but the lamprey class.
“I’m at the point where I almost hope it happens here.”
I know it ain’t happening in my neighborhood. Everyone is NRA and it wouldn’t be tolerated.
I’ve a sign on my door that says: “trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again”.
here’s a pic of that socialist fop from that video the other day
Ed Miliband
he’s keeping it real
here’s the article that came from
Looks like the Dems and their union money could take back Wisconsin.
At which point we can declare America dead and wrap a tag on its toe.
can I has riot?
Pasch leads Darling. Dems will retake WI and recall Walker.
Outstanding.
Good to see people are learning from what’s happening in Greece and Britain.
A western world of leeches and children.
Darling could still pull it out. GOP strongholds left.
Tony sounds like an exceptionally bitter laid-off piggy piggy union whore why the fuck would you need to be in a union to work in a quintessentially tax-cheating cash business
Let’s not forget the two Fleebaggers to go on Tuesday.
Looks like Patsch is going to take it.
So, just to recount, the people have decided to reward the party that fled the state, and get rid of the Governor who has helped bring the state back from the brink of fiscal ruin. Is that about the size of it?
And we’ll get to hear about how the Tea Party as been repudiated, and the GOP establishment will wag its finger and fear taking any measures to help correct the course of the country.
We’re doomed. Doomed.
4 MORE YEARS!
Doesn’t matter. Wisconsin voters have decided to take their chances that we won’t end up like the EU countries. They want theirs, and they want it now.
That’s what America has become. The long march paid off for the left. We either submit, revolt, or just spend the rest of our lives bitching about losing our liberties as the country is taken over from within by those who want to take more than they have ever given.
the national team R must not have taken this very seriously they were to busy pissing on hobbits
fucking war heros
*too* busy pissing on hobbits I mean
What a loser country.
It does if they can’t take the Senate.
That isn’t the question they’re asked to answer. Most probably don’t understand that that’s the endgame. Walker will be tasked with selling that argument and it looks like he’ll have the results to back him up. Further: http://tinyurl.com/3j3sawe
Future Historians will record that we crossed that particular event horizon when we ceased to be a republic and opted instead for democracy. They will then marvel that we managed to stave off the inevitable for as long as we did.
Don’t go all Eeyore just yet. http://tinyurl.com/4y6up56
Darling might pull this out. Some insiders are saying she has it locked, with heavily GOP areas now being tallied.
it’s a victory for freedom?
http://tinyurl.com/3n3lvn5
It’s looking like the Fleebaggers will net 1 seat when it’s all over. Given that they went all in here, that’s fail, thank God.
How much do they want to spend trying to recall Walker? How many people do they want to annoy that they’ve got to got vote again, just to shut them the fuck up?
Could be the fourth and key win for the GOP.
if you can read this go slap a public school teacher across their piggy piggy union whore face
you’ll feel better
I suddenly love Alberta Darling, whoever the fuck she is.
darling 52/48 with 80% reporting
Am heavily into my tequila tonight, by the way.
The Darling race is looking like a done deal. $30 million fail.
Jim Beam is a friend of mine. Probst!
Will the GOP have the will to get the vote out and send a message next Tuesday?
Si Señor!
milwaukee for the acorn with the darling
And more Detroits, right Craig?
Douche.
it is not time to rise up
there’s an app for that you retard
Is Milwaukee counted yet? Was I temporarily happy too soon?
“The election process has been flawed a long time”
because we need to keep recalling the bastards until they get it right. ax the eu.
Whew. Milwaukee counted. Let’s wait til they “find” an additional couple thousand votes, though.
@12 precincts in miltown for acorn
Dems are already saying the GOP cheated.
There are two Dems who have to survive a vote next week and it seems to me bh thought one of them is vulnerable.
Dems are whiny
it has to get old even for them
that bitch president dude he’s a whiner and he’s a blamer
Bush was never whiny or blamey
I will go pour a drink and raise my glass to Mr. President George W. Bush I think
now that was a president
all these algore voting machines are kinda slow. in the city much.
“I will go pour a drink and raise my glass to Mr. President George W”
no child left behind
here’s an article about how “Dan Schultz” is a contemptible piggy piggy union whore slut
oh. Dale Schultz
Something to cheer you up.
Redistricting in Wisc.
This is happening or has happened all over the country, so there’s that too.
darling wins says freepers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2761346/replies?c=651
Sounds like Darling is gonna make it. (She’s great, by the way. Real trooper. I helped with the Washington County area this afternoon and evening. Which did even better than last time. Probably entirely based on my efforts because I’m super fucking awesome.)
Kapanke is simply in a Democratic region. Not much we can do about that unless he wants to bring arena football into the area as well.
Hopper was scummy in an area where we actually need a good candidate. Just that simple.
Next week I figure we’ll pick off Holperin. Should be easier now that they can’t get the flip.
So, we got all our legislation through. Retained Prosser. Then got outspent and out-manned 2-1 on the recalls and they picked up a single net seat. (If we hadn’t bungled it and gotten on another ballot, we’d most likely be looking at a draw.)
Let’s hope they use their resources just as effectively in 2012.
Oh yeah, Walker just signed the redistricting map.
#wiunion
It doesn’t look over yet to me, at least on AP’s count. There’s 12 unreported in Milwaukee which Darling has so far lost 65 – 35 %, and only three others in districts she’s winning, (2) 67-33 in Ozaukee and (1) 66-34 in Waukesha
tweet
“with 96% of the vote in, News 3 is calling District 8 for Incumbent Sen. Alberta Darling. #wirecall”
I think it’s time to have a drink and pass out.
This endless campaign season sucks ass.
Darling waiting on a call from Pasch.
Losing is epic, or so they’ll tell you.
thank you for saving freedom Mr. bh that was very nice of you
I suspect you’re not the only cheesehead annoyed by it, bh. So, how about spending another $30 mil failing to recall Walker?
“This endless campaign season sucks ass.”
yes a good ad to put together. don’t worry the stupid party sees this.
sdferr, here:
There’s also some supporting math I’ve seen on twitter but I’ve closed my tabs.
I’ll go with those you’ve got bh. 96% is way more than AP shows, so I’m thinking AP is just behind in the count.
this is what democracy looks like!!1111
I think AP is sad.
I’ll work for next week’s recalls but I’d just assume we all take a break until 2012 starts up in earnest.
Heh, even if it means we miss an opportunity to get them to waste even more money, Pablo.
Just saw this. These fucks seem to always find another way to lower themselves.
but, I’d just as soon we all take a break
Can’t blame that one on the brain lesion. That one was probably the four fingers of scotch.
“Now they have to go for the big prize to try to redeem themselves.”
allahpundit
so maybe some harley dudes showing up in front of trumka’s house would be fun.
cheap muscle no?
After all the shenanigans, now might be a good time to either do away with the recall petition, or at least make it more difficult.
Hear, hear, Ernst.
Okay, later. Have to catch up on actual work tomorrow morning.
is that true or is that a lie? That’s not much of a quote.
this picture from our NYT propaganda whore friends is arguably even scarier than the Newsweek Michele one
There are some questions about the validity of the votes counted in Waukesha County
Of course there are. There are always questions about the validity of the outcome when Democrats lose.
Extra votes for Democrats mysteriously show up in courthouse basements or car tunks? Well, isn’t great that we have this open and accountable process that makes sure every last vote is counted and recounted until the desired result is achieved?
Don’t feel like htmling.
http://twitter.com/#!/LeahVukmir/status/101161223650951168
http://twitter.com/#!/Schneider_CM/status/101160842107695104
They’re talking about Kathy Nickolaus, btw.
She’s the dingbat that you might remember from the Prosser campaign and the counted but untallied votes that put him over the top.
She’s probably had two Dem observers on her at all times for the entire day. They got nothing.
(Okay, now I really need to sleep.)
It occurs to me that this penchant the Democrats have had for disputing elections that go against them since at least 2000 is what a real Pyrrhic defeat looks like. If they prevail in the recount/challenge, they win; and if they don’t, they’ve undermined the legitimacy of their opponents, which is at least a partial win. And the fact that, irrespective of party affiliation, this strategem undermines the legitimacy of our entire system of representative government means nothing since they don’t believe in either elections or representative government in the first place.
They win for losing.
Heh. #WiUnion smells like schadenfreude.
Followed the link, so the folks who lost are calling the folks who vote against them stupid.
#Winning!
Times journalist Caitlin Moran says there’s something very British about the clean-up movement.
“An American said to me, we’re not going to change the way we think about you until you stop clearing up after your riots. No-one else does it. We riot and then we mop it up with a napkin.”
WTF? We don’t clean up after a riot? Really? Something tells me that Caitlin’s American friend is a lot like the Canadian girlfriends my buddies seemed to have when we were young.
A proper American would say, “We’re not going to change the way we think about you until you start standing up to the mob and protecting yourselves and your neighbors.” And he wouldn’t put any stinking ‘u’ in neighbor, either.
Just heard the Republican super-committee appointments announced on radio. Senate: Kyl, Toomey, Portman — House: Hensarling, Camp, and Upton
Oh, and fuck.
#wiunion spends $30M on electoral plastic surgery, only to end up looking like the Cat Lady. *
Woohoo! My first hat tip.
Step 1. Leverage my new found fame.
Step 2. ?????
Step 3. Profit!