'Hey, Editor, Should I Remove This Standard Text On The Photo Archive Selecrtion?'

 

'Nah., who's going to notice..?'

H/T: Bucko via email

Someone Needs To Explain Cockney Rhyming Slang To The Yanks...

 

Because it's pretty accurate here...

Sunday Funnies...

A bit of a follow up to last week's post, I expect they mostly felt it would be an honour.

Nothing? Really, Sir?

The BBC is at it yet again:

Nothing about me is a man, but we're going to force me into male regs just so I can walk across the stage with my peers," she said in the hours leading up to the ceremony. "It's not my choice to cut my hair. I'm doing it because I have to."

Absolutely  everything about you is a man, and what’s more, always will be. You’ve been lied to by people who do not have your mental health welfare at heart if they have told you anything different. 

And cutting hair is something everyone male, female, and those who think they are the wrong one, has to put up with in the military, or Hollywood has been lying to me yet again! 

Judges Like Mark Watson Are The Reason We Have A Dangerous Dog Problem In This Country

An XL Bully owner whose dog attacked a child and left her with permanent scarring has walked free from court.

Typical, but at least the mutt got the needle, right? Right?

Despite causing injuries so severe that the child had to take time off school, the dog has now been returned home to its owner, Elizabeth Boot.

If the cops had done their job right, the useless judge at least wouldn't have been able to do this!

Handing her a 16-month jail term, suspended for 18 months, Judge Mark Watson said: 'This was a frightening and scary incident, it must have been, and was made worse by your response to it. 'Rather than show concern for the girl, you were more concerned about Rocky and the impact on you and your family. 'It was selfish behaviour and behaviour you should be ashamed of.

It's typical behaviour from the women who fawn over these ugly mutts - shouldn't someone like a judge be educated on this bizarre phenomenon, like they have supposedly been educated on who beaten women plead for the release of the man eho beat them up? Sadkly, the only 'expert evidence' the idiot judge appeards to have relioed on conbcerned the mutt.

But it was a quick bite and I am satisfied it was snapping rather than the dog taking hold and mauling.

How about throwing in some victim blaming too, judge? You mifght as wel go for broke! 

'And (having heard the expert evidence) I am satisfied that Rocky does not pose a danger to the public. This was not an incident out of the blue without explanation and (concerns) the behaviour of children around dogs.'

Charming! What did she do to set the vicious mutt off, 'your honour'? Breathe? 

As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered the defendant to attend 15 rehabilitation sessions and contribute £1,000 towards the £12,000 kenneling costs which have already been incurred.

Kennelling cost that also wouldn't have neen incurred if cops took the view that an ARV turning up to these jobs should be SOP. 

No, It's Not Always Airhead Slebs Pandering To A Fanbase...

Azealia Banks has pulled out of two festivals in the UK after claiming organisers tried to pressure her to support Palestine.

 

The 212 rapper has sparked controversy with her outspoken views throughout her career, having been accused of homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia in the past.

I know nothing about this lass's music, but being accused of all those things makes her worthy of a listen, I feel! 

H/T: CJ Nerd via email

By The Time They Are Being Arrested, They Are Surely Already ‘Criminalised’

Black children detained by police are 15% more likely to be “criminalised”, that is charged and put into the criminal justice system, than white children detained for similar types of offences, a study has found.

Who says so? Well, Reader, I bet you can’t guess it’s yet another activist group, can you? 

The report by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), which tackles youth violence, found that black children were 14.8% less likely to be offered diversion, which can include mentoring or counselling, that usually results in them avoiding getting a criminal record at an early age.

aAns is this down to their own actions when confronted? Gosh no, it’s gotta be because the majority white society just has it in for them, eh?  

The authors of the study say they have taken into account the seriousness and prior offending record, and are thus comparing like with like. The racial gap pointed to “systemic inequities”, the report said. The study examined almost 265,000 records of children aged 10 to 17 who were arrested by the Metropolitan police in London, or where a decision was made to take further action after a stop and search.

Well, they won’t be doing tpo much of that in future, I’m sure!  

There is some anecdotal evidence that as black young people mistrust police more, they are less likely to admit their guilt, which is a prerequisite for being accepted for some diversion schemes.

Oh, so the answer is within their own hands, yet they don't take it up? How surprising. 

Why Is This A Surprise… Or A Problem?

Ukrainians who fled to the UK after the Russian invasion are being refused asylum by the Home Office on the grounds it is safe to return to Ukraine. Families are trying to obtain a route to settlement, which would enable them to build a life in the UK, commit their children to a British education and improve their prospects for jobs and housing. Some feel they have nothing to return to as they are from areas razed by conflict.

The reason it appears to be a problem, and for whom, can be summed up in two words: immigration lawyers.

The firm Sterling Law said it was contacted weekly by Ukrainians, including vulnerable women and children, whose applications had been refused. The firm is working on several appeals, which bring waits of several months during which Ukrainians are left in limbo.Although Ukrainians are able to remain for 18 months through the temporary visa scheme, the uncertainty about their living arrangements is compounding anxiety and distress.

 And foreign immigration lawyers think this is an outrage! 

Halyna Semchak, an immigration lawyer at Sterling Law, said she was working with a single mother from Nikopol, a town which has been largely destroyed, a visually impaired man and the parent of a child born in the UK. Their refusal letters typically state that the conflict-related risks do not meet the threshold for persecution under the refugee convention, as they can relocate to safer parts of Ukraine where there are public services, and they can apply for help from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) and local organisations to avoid destitution.

So our Home Office is for once doing its job and telling these people ‘the circumstances have changed, so maybe you should go home?’ for once. But if they do, how ever will Halyna make what is probably a very nice living?  

“Legally, these decisions are deeply troubling. They overlook the complex realities on the ground and fail to engage meaningfully with individual circumstances, particularly in light of article 3 and 8 of the European convention on human rights [which protect the rights to protection from harm and to liberty].

And what aboutt the rights of the English taxpayer to not be flooded with every waif and stray in the world, Halyna? I suppose that doesn’t count? 

We Are No Longer A Serious Country....

 ... and we really haven't been for quite some time.

Police say the laborious recording of so-called Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs) continues despite a recent spike in crime.

At least 6,300 NCHIs were logged last year, according to a survey. The real total is likely to be far higher because 15 of the 44 forces in England and Wales failed to respond.

However, while police tackle NCHI red tape, 'headline' crimes such as theft, robbery, criminal damage, fraud, computer misuse and violence rose by 14 per cent in 2023 to 9.6million in 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics.

 And what sort of incidents are being dealt with under this useless legislation?

In one example, officers were called about a man heard singing the patriotic folk song Flower Of Scotland at an English railway station.

One householder complained after overhearing a neighbour insult her through her Ring video doorbell, while officers also recorded the incident of a caller adopting an Indian accent to order a takeaway curry.

 It would be funny if it wasn't taking up valuable police time.

Shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick told The Sun, which carried out the survey: 'This is crackers. We need to scrap NCHIs altogether.'

Oh, if only your party had ever been in power, eh, Robert? 

” It’s shocking that some people think this isn’t a serious public safety issue.”

Most visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000ft air strip, which welcomes the occasional chartered plane. But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait. The exhausted young bear, named “Tex” by locals, hauled himself ashore on 25 May, unleashing a fierce dispute between residents, conservation officers and First Nations over his future – and prompting a broader debate over the relationship between the Canadian province and its wildlife.

 A top predator makes it to a small inhabited island? Sounds like the plot of a late Seventies made-forTV creature feature, doesn’t it? And this bruin is already a habituated nuisance animal into the bargain! 

Before his odyssey, the four-year-old bear was known to conservation officers on the mainland, who had twice been forced to relocate him to avoid conflicts with human residents. On both occasions, he returned to urban areas within weeks.Before his swim, he was spotted breaking into fishing boats at marinas to access bait and once stalked two walkers on a trail.

But these are enlightened times, and a massive carnivore roaming within snacking distance of townsfolk no longer brings the response it once would have done.

Despite his somewhat checkered past provincial officials said in a statement that there was a no “kill order” on Tex. But, they added, “if further behaviour by the grizzly bear occurs that threatens public safety, Conservation Officers will respond to those situations … It is our hope that it will not come to this, and the bear will move on independently.

Perhaps if you call rangers because the thing is in your garden eating your dog, they turn up to sing ‘Kimbayah’ until it decides to leave?

“They should euthanize him if they aren’t going to relocate him – he can’t stay here, someone is going to get injured/killed,” wrote one resident on a local Facebook message board. “It’s only a matter of time before something horrible happens.

But the concern from the authorities appears to be all about something horrible not happening to the predator, and no concern for the tax paying residents. And they can always squeeze some minority pandering in at the same time:. 

“Right now this grizzly bear is a ticking timebomb,” John Powell, elected chief of Mamalilikulla First Nation, told the Times Colonist. “I think inevitably the bear is going to run into a human or animal and it’s going to have a negative engagement. Texada is not a big place … It’s going to die there.” In 2019, British Columbia enacted legislation meant to harmonize its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and it has signed a string of treaties or reconciliation agreements with nations in the province. The case of Tex represents a test of that new relationship, says Scapillati, whose foundation has worked with both First Nations and the province.

Utter insanity. Good luck, residents of Texada. You're going to need it! 

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