Man In Two Drunk Driving Busts... At The Same Time | The Smoking Gun

A bizarre story, probably never to be repeated.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/double-daylight-saving-drunk-driving-467982

There's some scarily misinformed people in the USA

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=xQBfudpKo3g&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxQBfudpKo3g&gl=GB&client=mv-vf-uk&safesearch=always

Did this dirty trick get Obama re-elected?

'Obama did not win a single state that fully requires photo IDs to vote, although he was victorious in four states that accept non-photo identification '

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/did-this-dirty-trick-get-obama-elected/

Palestinian 'Right of Return': Mahmoud Abbas' Remarks Spark Uproar | TIME.com

http://world.time.com/2012/11/06/the-palestinian-right-of-return-abbas-wades-into-the-morass/

The anger is because of the word "Israeli."

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/arabs-freak-out-over-israeli-mezze.html

"Belgium Will Become an Islamic State" :: Gatestone Institute

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3442/belgium-islamic-state

Belgium first but not last?

Elder of Ziyon: Arafat might not be dug up - Pals and French squabble

If the Palestinians control the investigation who, apart from the BBC, will believe it?

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/arafat-might-not-be-dug-up-pals-and.html

The apartheid state of Israel

For the idiots who infest my Twitter timeline calling Israel an 'apartheid state'.

Attorney General: 900 Dead People Voted In SC | WYFF Home - WYFF Home

http://www.wyff4.com/Attorney-General-900-Dead-People-Voted-In-SC/-/9324882/10080208/-/k30su8z/-/index.html

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

So Barack Obama has won re-election as President of the United States. On the plus size that means that we will be spared months of whining Democrats complaining about voting issues, the Republicans' complaints will be pretty much ignored. As in the UK, the right are expected to accept defeat whilst the left just won't.

My views were expressed in a series of tweets this morning:

Fort Hood shooting victims sue government, accused shooter

More news you won't see on the BBC or MSNBC as they work for an Obama second term.   http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8A41KH20121105?irpc=932

Obama vs Romney the mass debate

"C'mon America, how y'all like to freak? Do you honk the chest or pinch a cheek?"

Still debating who to vote for?

US Polling update

Whilst the US electorate votes after being told how close the race is, this article struck me as interesting:

'While every single poll on the planet predicts Democrats will enjoy a turnout advantage of three to eleven points, the latest Rasmussen survey of party affiliation taken throughout October shows that Republicans enjoy a  huge 5.8% Party ID advantage going into the 2012 election.

According to Twitter's invaluable NumbersMuncher, Rasmussen correctly predicted 2008 would be a D+7 election and incorrectly predicted 2010 would be D+3. (2010 was D+0, or even, so Rasmussen gave an edge to Democrats they didn't have.)

If the 2012 race is D+2, Romney's probably going to win. If the race is R+6, Romney's going to enjoy a landslide.

The most important piece of information in this poll, though, is that Rasmussen's sample is a monstrous 15,000 likely voter. Moreover, Rasmussen's Party ID results match similar results found by Gallup and  Pew.

Again, if Rasmussen is anywhere near as correct as he's been in the past, all of these polls showing Obama holding small leads, are dead wrong. They're under-sampling Republicans in a major way; predicting an electorate that looks like 2008.'

I hope Rasmussen is correct.

Did Barack Obama lie?

I know you'll be staggered, especially if you live in the UK where the BBC's coverage of US politics is so favourable to Barack Obama that it must embarrass even them but it seems that Barack Obama might have lied.

USA Today reports that:

'On the eve of the presidential election CBS News program 60 Minutes released a transcript of an interview with President Obama in which he said it was "too early to tell" whether the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya was an act of terrorism.
The statement appears to contradict Obama's claim in a second debate with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney that he identified the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans as a terror attack the day after it happened.
Romney had criticized Obama at the Oct. 17 debate for refusing to accurately call the assault "terrorism" and pointed to instances where Obama referred to it several times as a spontaneous protest of an anti-Islam video for weeks afterward.
Obama said he referred to it as an act of terror Sept. 12 in a statement in the Rose Garden at the White House. Debate moderator Candy Crowley of CNN agreed and told Romney he was wrong.
But in an interview with CBS newsman Steve Kroft after the Rose Garden statement but on the same day, Obama was asked what he meant because Kroft indicated it was unclear:
Kroft: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya attack. Do you believe that this was a terrorist attack?
Obama: Well it's too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans.
CBS News waited until Nov. 4 to post that portion of its interview and offered no explanation as to why it delayed release of a video clip that was pertinent to what became a significant story at the time.
On Friday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of the congressional committee investigating the attack, suggested the White House intentionally misled the public because Obama's re-election campaign was claiming he had crushed al-Qaeda terrorists.
"They didn't want to admit it was a terrorist attack," Chaffetz said. "Admitting it was terrorism would fly in the face of what they had been telling the American people about al-Qaeda."
"No matter what happens on Tuesday, the Congress will continue to dive deep into this issue," he said of the election.
In the Rose Garden, his first official remarks on the attack, Obama read a 44-line statement on the deaths in Benghazi and extolled the memories of those who died.
Toward the end of his statement, he spoke generally of the "solemn memory" of the Sept. 11 attacks 11 years earlier. He talked of mourning those who died then, and how he had visited the graves of troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan at Arlington National Cemetery and also to wounded troops at Walter Reed.
"Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe," he said. "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."
After the debate in which Obama claimed that statement referred to Benghazi, GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan defended Romney's characterization of Obama's refusal to admit the truth.
"It was a passing comment about acts of terror in general, it was not a claim that this was a terrorist attack," Ryan said on ABC's Good Morning America that week. "Nobody believes that that Rose Garden speech from the president was suggesting that that (individual act) was an act of terror."
Contributing: Donna Leinwand in Washington'

Will the US electorate, aided by some Democratic party polling fraud and an overwhelmingly pro-Obama media, re-elect Barack Obama who is probably the worst US President in history? I fear that they may.

Will the polls be right?

THE US Presidential election polls have been fascinating me, especially the way the headline figures are so often quoted without any analysis of the figures or how the poll was taken. regardless of the result tonight take a look at these links for some interesting polling background.

Here's Breitbart

'The last three polls Marquette has conducted of the presidential race have had a sample of D+2-4. Their polls throughout the year have ranged D+2-6. Their poll right before the June recall election of Scott Walker used a sample of D+5 and accurately predicted the election results. The sample for this latest poll? D+11. '

Here's another Breitbart

'One of the chief reasons the media is so mistaken in their zeal to proclaim Obama the election winner is that most of the polls they're basing their predictions on are wildly inflating Democrat turnout. The overwhelming majority of media polls are an assuming an electorate that is at least as Democrat as the one in 2008, with many polls assuming a higher Democrat turnout. This is just daft. The latest CBS poll of 3 swing states is the most recent to show that GOP has a huge turnout advantage over Democrats. '

Of course the question as to why the polls and the media seem so keen to push Obama's prospects is another matter.

The BBC respond re my last Jeremy Bowen complaint

Further to my complaint re the BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, holding a Q&A on the Middle East on one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, I have received a short response from the BBC:

'NewsOnline Complaints

If you wish to pursue this matter, you can contact the director of BBC News, Helen Boaden, at Room 5601, Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ or by e-mail at HelenBoadenComplaints@bbc.co.uk .

Best wishes,

BBC News website'

 An email will be sent later today. I wonder if Helen Boaden will have the time to respond.

That's an interesting email address that I have to use, could be read two ways.

Egypt doesn't exist!

Still the BBC can't name Egypt on a map of Israel and Gaza

This time the article is here.

When just over a year ago I made a similar complaint, the BBC included this in their explanation, Here's that part of my complaint and the relevant part of their response:

'Here's the first map and note the lack of the word Egypt and the way that there is no differentiation between Israel and Egypt in terms of colour as there would be in any normal map (I believe mapmakers usually work to a three colour rule)...

Here is the BBC's latest response, that includes an actual apology:


NewsOnline Complaints to me

Dear Sir,

Sorry not to reply sooner to your complaint.

One of the maps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14035536 is plain shoddy work, for which we apologise. It should mark Egypt.'

So one year on and are the BBC being shoddy or is there an agenda here?

A complaint is on its way to the BBC...

'Complaint title: Deliberate misdirection of readers of article

Complaint description: I note that still the BBC can't name Egypt on a map of Israel and Gaza. On the above link you will see a map. This map makes it seem as though Israel is both enormous and surrounds Gaza thus presumably explaining how Israel has been able to blockade it for some years now. There is of course a problem with this: Israel does not surround Gaza. The country that borders Gaza to the South West is Egypt not Israel, that is where the Rafah Crossing is... So why have the BBC omitted the word Egypt from that map? Before you tell me that 'The first map is not intended to be an accurate geographic or political representation but to show the location of Gaza and where this particular incident happened. Had Egypt been involved in any way in this story, the map would have included Egypt.' as you did in your first reply to a similar complaint of mine last year, please note that in October last year I received this second reply regarding the same map from NewsOnline Complaints 'Dear Sir, Sorry not to reply sooner to your complaint. One of the maps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14035536 is plain shoddy work, for which we apologise. It should mark Egypt.' Why is the BBC still using this shoddy map? Why are you trying to mislead people?'

It's a good question

“This is an absolute double standard. I was convicted of false accounting but I never forged documents as Denis has. Why has he not been prosecuted when we were?”

That's Eric Illsley, the former Barnsley MP, as quoted by the Sunday Times. He received a 12-month prison sentence for false accounting. He has called on the police and the CPS to pursue Denis MacShane following his resignation as an MP.

How is not correct?

The one hundred and sixty fifth weekly "No shit, Sherlock " award

This week's award is presented to the UN nuclear chief who has said that Iran is not cooperating with an investigation into suspected secret work on nuclear weapons. http://t.co/2CvL08OU

Iran not cooperating with UN nuclear inspectors, no shit Sherlock