Whitehall W**kers

This was taken from today’s Sun newspaper

“An eight-page Whitehall guide lists words they should not use when talking about terrorism in public and gives politically correct alternatives.

They are told not to refer to Muslim extremism as it links Islam to violence. Instead, they are urged to talk about terrorism or violent extremism.

Fundamentalist and Jihadi are also banned because they make an "explicit link" between Muslims and terror.

Ministers should say criminals, murderers or thugs instead. Radicalisation must be called brainwashing and talking about moderate or radical Muslims is to be avoided as it "splits the community".

Islamophobia is also out as it is received as "a slur that singles out Muslims".

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I say if it looks like a duck,  walks like a duck, and talks like a duck chances are its a duck. So lets stop bowing and scraping to terrorists, forget about hurting their feelings while they are trying to wipe us out, and hope our Politicians grow a pair. Islamic or otherwise they don’t deserve any kind of consideration.

Russian Nightclub Fire

At least a hundred people were killed and a 140 injured last night when a firework display went horribly wrong in a Russian nightclub.

Clubbers rushed for the doors of the Lame Horse nightspot in the centre of Perm, a city of 1.2m, 870 miles east of Moscow, after a pyrotechnics show went disastrously wrong.

Witnesses quoted by local media said a stray firework sparked the blaze during a stage show, prompting panic as hundreds of clubbers rushed for the exits.

Enforcement of fire safety standards in Russia is notoriously lax and in recent years there have been several catastrophic blazes at drug-treatment facilities and apartment buildings.

Russia records nearly 18,000 fire deaths a year, several times the per capita rate in the United States and other Western countries. Nightclub fires have killed thousands of people worldwide.

Ten people died when a so-called "fire show" went out of control at a Moscow club in March 2007.

In February 2008, a fire in the Golden Rock nightclub in the Siberian city of Omsk killed four people. Officials said the blast might have been caused by natural gas.

In Russia it appears they have no health and safety regulations, well at least none that are strict enough and none that anyone seems to take any notice of.

We complain all the time in this Country about what a nuisance our health and safety executive is and how they interfere to much in our lives, but given the appalling loss of life and most of them sadly in their teens, I wont be complaining about our health and safety rules anymore.

What a terrible way to lose your children, in something as innocent as a night out dancing, given the frequency of this type of tragedy,  worldwide there should be a immediate and total ban on fireworks indoors, it will take a while for everyone to fall into synch, but if the punishments for breaking the rules are severe enough eventually everyone will fall into line.

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Obama’s Mistake

Though I welcome President Obama’s pledge to send an extra thirty thousand troops to Afghanistan to have a final decisive push in wiping out the Taliban and settling the insurgency, I have reservations.

I think any right minded person would welcome a strategy that would get this awful conflict which has claimed so may lives over and done with, and we could finally bring our troops home leaving behind a settled Afghanistan.

But what was Obama and his team thinking when they announced a pull out date, they announced July 2011 as the start date for all troops to be out of the Country. This is a monumental error in judgement, all the Taliban need to do now if they don’t want to fight is sit tight  wait out the invaders.

One thing these fanatics have consistently shown is patience and durability, lessons they have learned the hard way most recently against the Russians. I would imagine now apart from sporadic attacks to show they are still around things will quieten down dramatically, until the coast is clear and then business as usual, the Taliban  have quietly been building bases they have  “Government” already in 11 of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.

Obama and his team need to rethink the withdrawal policy and announce they are there until the job is finished.

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Blanche

Maggie Jones, the actress best known for portraying the sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt in Coronation street has died at the age of 75.   after appearing to make a good recovery from surgery, she deteriorated rapidly yesterday morning and  passed away peacefully in her sleep,

I have to confess to being a fan, I didn’t like her character for a long time, but she wore me down over the last few years.

Her comedy timing was impeccable and she often slipped in her own one liners, surprisingly to which the producers did not object  as her contributions were often better than the writers ones.

She won several comedy awards for playing Blanche, although she became a regular  cast member only in 1998, after numerous occasional appearances.  she was in 830 episodes.

RIP Blanche.

Tiger one liners

Tiger is being exposed as a bit of a cheat, two girls now are claiming to have been bedded by him while he has been married, there are a few obvious jokes here ,  these are all my own work. you read them first on DurdensView.

“Tiger enjoys another hole in one”

“Tiger has put it in the Bush”

“Tiger is using his favourite  wood”

“Tiger has plenty of Length”

“if he puts it there he could lose his balls”

and finally… “Tiger holes out from the back”

Not brilliant I know but they are original,

Tiger Bogeyed

Tiger Woods should not  be allowed to treat the law the way he has, three times he has cancelled scheduled appointments to talk to the police and give his version of events of the crash last Friday night, the obvious reason he is doing this is to give the wounds on his face time to heal.

The police should not be giving him preferential treatment because of his status, I understand their patience is wearing thin and they are threatening to get a warrant to raid his house, Woods has further muddied the waters by hiring a local criminal lawyer to represent him.

It does look as though Tiger has had a bit  of a beating of the wife, it seems that he was struck across the face before he ran out and jumped into his car barefoot, which in Florida is in itself an offence, you may not drive barefoot in any part of Florida private estate or not.

If his wife as she claims was rescuing woods from the car, why was she when police arrived in their words “hovering over him with a golf club in her hand” also if  Woods facial injuries were sustained by hitting the steering wheel why was there no blood on the wheel but blood all over his face and clothes.

The millionaires estate that Tiger lives on is covered by CCTV not one inch is left exposed there will be footage of the whole incident somewhere, I’m sure Tiger’s own security system will have picked it up,  this story still has a lot of mileage in it and will run and run.

My opinion is that Tigers team is now working on damage limitation, bearing in mind the lucrative endorsement contracts he has Tiger should come clean and admit to a domestic problem which he can get over, after all everyone has marriage problems from time to time, but if Tiger ties to play with the law and a criminal conviction is the end result  his endorsements will quickly dry up.

Tigers clean living and ideal family life  image alongside his extraordinary skill make him the superstar he is in the marketing world, but in America they do like their hero’s clean cut, so lets have the full story and move on.

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Iran Bullies us again

Diplomatic tension between Britain and Iran deepened yesterday with the news that Tehran is holding five British sailors after their yacht apparently strayed into Iranian waters.

This is not the first time British hostages have been taken by the Iranians, as recently a 2 years ago 15 British sailors were held hostage for 13 days, at least that time the Iranians could say it was a military type  vessel that strayed into their waters though that was not admitted by the the British who claimed they were in neutral waters, satellite pictures backed up the British version of events.

But this time its clearly a Yacht with a team of youngsters on board that apparently strayed a measly 500 yards into Iranian waters. The Britons were delivering the yacht to the annual Dubai to Muscat race, a 360-mile voyage through the Straits of Hormuz scheduled to begin the following day.

I suppose  we must now suffer the public humiliation of having our people paraded on TV, denounced as spies, and threatened with trials,  after all that and showing how toothless we are eventually releasing them.

We are viewed as such soft touches around the world, one more thing the Labour Government has done to this once great and proud Country is to extract  it’s teeth and remove its bite.

That’s why we are led by the nose in Europe to, having let France and Germany dictate to us for so long without standing up for ourselves. 

Unlike in Maggies day when she struck the fear of god into Europe and the rest of the world when Britain was respected. We need another Thatcher, roll on May lets kick this spineless bunch out and give Cameron a chance. Maybe we can get some of the Great back into Britain.

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