BARACK COWEN’S TELEPROMPTER CONFUSES BRIAN O’BAMA
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
It’s one thing wanting to emulate the currently most successful politician on the planet. Foreign leaders are all making pilgrimages to Washington in the hope that some of the Obama magic will rub off on them. But it seems that some visiting politicians are taking the “be like Barack” thing just a little too far. As Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen (pictured above, presenting President Obama with some shamrock) delivered his St Patrick’s Day speech at the White House, it emerged that he was accidentally reciting the same teleprompter speech made by President Obama only minutes earlier. A startled-looking Mr Cowen turned to the President 20 seconds into his address, and said: “That’s your speech!” As a laughing President Obama returned to the podium, the script was belatedly switched over to the Taoiseach’s text. It could have been worse I suppose – the Taoiseach might not have noticed he was reading the wrong speech – and almost certainly the President wouldn’t have been listening anyway !
And more moronic speech-making with reference to green foliage, this time in the UK. Solicitor General Vera Baird (pictured above) said yesterday that the “green shoots of economic recovery will start appearing before very long”. She said that the Government’s fiscal stimulus package to revive the economy was beginning to work. And she went on to say that the situation in the UK was not “anything like as bad” as that in some of the other leading industrialised countries in the G7. “One is reasonably confident that there will, before very long, be green shoots” she told BBC Radio. Well sorry Vera but one is reasonably confident you’re talking bollocks. But what a comfort to the millions now losing their jobs and homes it must be to know that such hallucinatory bullshit can still emanate from the mouths of incompetent New Labour ministers. Vera would be better spending her time as Solicitor General arresting corrupt bankers rather than talking arrogant, insensitive, out-of-touch, patronising economic nonsense which insults the intelligence of those out of work who ironically are a damn sight more employable than she is.
Up to 1,000 people in Africa’s smallest country have been rounded up in a witch-hunt because the President believes his aunt died after a spell was put on her, it was claimed yesterday. Villagers accused of being witches have allegedly been abducted and taken to secret detention centres in the Gambia where they were made to drink poison that made them hallucinate. They were held for up to 5 days and forced to confess to practising witchcraft, according to human rights group Amnesty International. At least 2 are understood to have died after drinking the herbal potions, while others were savagely beaten. Gambian dictator President Yahya Jammeh (pictured above) reportedly began targeting villages near his hometown in the Foni Kansala district after the unexplained death of his aunt earlier this year. He blamed witchcraft and recruited witch-hunters from West African neighbours Guinea to raid settlements and seize those suspected of having supernatural powers. It’s just as well this bloke isn’t in charge of the UK – with his paranoia and the current deplorable state of our National Health Service, he’d be rounding everyone up.
And another fantasist in Africa - former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI (pictured above). Incredibly, the Vatican has defended his opposition to the use of condoms to stop (!?) the spread of AIDS as activists, doctors and politicians criticised his stance as unrealistic, unscientific and dangerous. The Prussian Pontiff, arriving on his Afrika Korps mission, said on Tuesday that condoms “increase the problem” of AIDS. The comment, made to reporters aboard his plane, caused a worldwide firestorm of criticism. Vatican watchers said it was the first time that the ultra conservative Pontiff had used the word “condom.” Such modernity – pretty soon at this rate he’ll disband the Inquisition and call off the Crusades. Perhaps the best thing would be for this Teutonic tosser to stop off in the Gambia and be mistaken for a witch.
In the UK the London Metropolitan Police yesterday agreed to pay (actually they don’t pay really – WE taxpayers do) £60,000 damages to a British Muslim man accused of raising funds for terrorism after admitting in the High Court that arresting officers subjected him to a prolonged series of violent assaults and religious abuse. In fact 1 of the unnamed officers allegedly involved in what happened to Babar Ahmad (pictured above left) is to face criminal proceedings, Mr Justice Holroyde heard. Ahmad, an IT support analyst, was in court to hear lawyers for the Police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, concede that Ahmad had been the victim of gratuitous violence by specialist officers during a dawn arrest at his home in Tooting, south-west London, in December 2003. The court had been told Ahmad was punched, kicked and strangled during his arrest. Ahmad was dragged from his bed and rammed against a window before being repeatedly beaten by officers dressed in riot gear, the court heard. During what his counsel, Phillippa Kaufmann, described as a “prolonged and violent series of gratuitous assaults”, Ahmad claims officers forced him into the Muslim prayer position before shouting “Where is your God now? Pray to him.”
Beaten up and subjected to religious abuse ? If that little lot’s worth 60 grand, I wonder how much compensation would be due to the average punter arrested in Glasgow (where the beating and religious abuse is honed to a fine pitch) on a Saturday night ? But of course they’re not usually Muslims. And in any event, if the London Police are admitting they were at fault here, why are taxpayers paying this bill and not the Police Officers who did it, out of their doubtless fat pension schemes ?
In Nottingham, UK an Asian postmaster has caused controversy by banning customers from his Post Office branch who cannot speak English. Mr Deva Kumarasiri (pictured above) claims all immigrants in Britain should learn English so they can communicate properly with others here and embrace British culture. “If you come to Britain you have got to speak English,” says Mr Kumarasiri, who moved to Britain 18 years ago. “I am from a different country but when I came here I became British. My job is to give a service. I cannot give a service if customers cannot tell me what they want.” Mr Kumarasiri said he had banned about half a dozen customers from Sneinton Boulevard Post Office in Nottingham. “Some of them say, “You are not British,but I keep telling them : don’t come here as I am not going to help you.” I’m not sure how well his insistence on using the English language will go down with the politically correct Gauleiters in the UK but at least it’s reassuring to know he intends to maintain the low standard of service in the Post Office we’ve ALL endured, regardless of ethnic origin.
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It is racist of muslims to demand a non English speaking post office. It isn’t a crime to speak English but it is against the race and relations act to force a person out of his job because he speaks English.
The same would apply if a Scottish person was forced out of their job because they didn’t speak English. I hope Deva takes action against the muslim community who couldn’t get rid of him by saying he is racist because like he said ‘you have to have brown skin to complain’. Instead they are using the fact that he speaks English against him.
I commend Deva for saying what I can’t because I am white. People who are Chinese speak English, so do others that weren’t born English. We have free English classes muslims can attend but they don’t want to and it’s their resistance to be part of the country they live in that is making them get rid of Deva.
Deva has been punished for using the freedom of speech because of muslims, who said he gave them good service. This man didn’t refuse to serve his customers, he simply told them you can be served if you come back with an interpreter so I can understand you.
I agree with him 100%, we are one nation, one community and one flag. I say enough is enough, we have already been changed far too much by muslims who don’t respect our culture yet they expect respect for theirs. There has never been mutual respect and not speaking English is just another insult to all good British. English is predominately becoming a second language in many schools.