BELGIUM: PARTI SOCIALISTE SENATOR OF MOROCCAN DESCENT FATIHA SAIDI DELIBERATELY BLOCKS EXTRADITION OF DANGEROUS MOROCCAN CRIMINAL.

On Februari 15, two Belgian federal police officers and a convicted Moroccan criminal boarded a Royal Air Maroc plane for Morocco with the aim of handing the subject over to Moroccan police, or whatever passes for that. Barely had the three men taken their seats or the gangster started a heavy uproar by yelling, cursing, refusing to sit down and buckle his seats, in short, running amok on steroids. Soon the whole plane was in turmoil. Suddenly a woman appeared next to the threesome. A 51-year old Parti Socialiste senator of Moroccan/Algerian descent, a certain Fatiha Saidi. If you thought that this woman would side with the law you'd be gravely mistaken. Instead of telling her compatriot to knock it off, shut up and accompany the officers back to his homeland - this was an extradition, after all - she instead started to steamroller the policemen with insults and threats. The ensuing tumult was of such magnitude that the pilot finally urged the officers and the gangster off the plane. The latter simply went back to a transit zone for illegals in Belgium. Via the weekly Knack (title: PARTI SOCIALISTE SENATOR KEEPS GANGSTER IN OUR COUNTRY):

Some minor details: a.) the subject had been on Belgian territory illegaly for 16 (sixteen) years. b.) Since 1996 he had been arrested 42 (forty-two) times for theft, embezzlement, drugdealing, illegal possession of arms and arson. c.) the subject's name is Mohammed C.

The episode once again is proof of the fact that no matter the gravity of the crimes committed by a particular muslim, or muslims, the ummah invariably sides with the perpetrator, or perpetrators, when the crimes have been committed to the detriment of non-muslims.
The case also highlights the absolute and utter inefficiency of Belgian extradition policies. The Belgian government on the one hand displays a breathtakingly lax attitude with regards to illegal immigrations and the automatically ensuing influx of criminals among these immigrants, and on the other hand upholds the fiction of a 'working' extradition policy. Yearly, tens of thousands of illegals are allowed to breeze across the frontier, and simultaneously every now and then a couple of officers are required to accompany a sole multi-offender back to his country of origin - at a ridiculously high cost to the taxpayer. The extradition itself is leak as a sieve, since there is no guarantee that the guy flown back on taxpayer dough woun't come back right away...
... and in this case, after an undoubtedly lengthy procedure which cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of euros, after having given a counterproductive individual shelter FOR SIXTEEN YEARS, during which "the law" had to intervene fruitlessly 42 TIMES, after issuing the order to the two hapless officers to accompany this scum to the airport and make him sit down on a RAM plane so that the scoundrel finally leaves Belgian territory...
a Belgian LAWMAKER intervenes, bites the officers a couple of new earholes, and ensures that a gangster can stay in Belgium. So if as a productive, law-abiding Belgian citizen you sometimes wonder what happens with your tax euros, here you have the answer.
MADNESS.
MFBB.

ISLAM AND SLAVERY: INSEPARABLE SINCE THE 7TH CENTURY.

Interesting article by Jake Neuman over Europenews, April 19, 2012:

"...In Islam, God is a slaver, who sanctions enslaving other people by Muslims in the Quran. Prophet Muhammad was a slaver, who took 20% from the profits derived from the sale of slaves. He also owned 40 slaves. He beat and raped his slaves. He hated the Blacks and compared them to Satan. Some 120 million Blacks were murdered by Muslims, the greatest holocaust in history. Of hunted Black slaves, some 75% of them died on the way to Islamic markets. All Black male slaves were castrated. While most black slaves sent to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male black slaves destined for the Muslim world were castrated. Millions more died in the unhygienic operation for castrating them, and most of the black children born to the women were killed at birth. It was noted that black slaves were castrated "based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite. Below are some of the commands of Islamic God, sanctioning slavery: Sura 2 (The Cow), Verse 178: "O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain, the free for the free, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female, but if any remission is made to any one by his (aggrieved) brother, then prosecution (for the bloodwit) should be made according to usage, and payment should be made to him in a good manner; this is an alleviation from your Lord and a mercy; so whoever exceeds the limit after this he shall have a painful chastisement.” Slavery is mentioned in this verse as part of Islam’s criminal law clearly indicating that slavery is an eternal divine institution in Islam, a part and parcel of Islamic societies. Sura 24 (The Light), Verse 31: "And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or those whom their right hands possess, or the male servants not having need (of women), or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! so that you may be successful.” This is the famous Sura enjoining the veiling of women. Those before whom the Muslim women need not veil themselves are "those whom their right hands possess", which means "slaves”. Again God mentions slavery in this verse as a part and parcel of Muslim households. Therefore, slaves are an inseparable part of Muslim societies. Sura 23 (The Believers), Verses 1-6: "Successful indeed are the believers, Who are humble in their prayers, And who keep aloof from what is vain, And who are givers of poor-rate, And who guard their private parts, Except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not blameable.” This verses not only sanctions the practice of slavery, but also gives the slave owner unfettered right to use female slaves sexual pleasures. Sura 24 (The Light), Verse 32: "And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves; if they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.” This is said to sanction marriages of slaves with slaves and slaves with free persons (including the owner). Owners did not usually marry slaves as they could use them for sexual purposes at will. This dispensation has been used to make slaves marry other slaves. In Islam a child born to a slave couple also is a slave from birth, so this verse gives a great incentive to slave owners to breed slaves. This is another obnoxious aspect of Islamic slavery. Whatever be the other circumstances in which people are made into slaves to make a new-born infant a slave is one of the most cruel and callous. Ye this did not evoke a protest from the Prophet and has been extensively resorted to by Muslims...."

Also, check out this article from Plack's Constant. Food for thought. Especially for Black readers. MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT THE BLOODHOUND GANG, HANS ZIMMER.

Don't intend to make this a music blog but it just so happened I couldn't find the time to put up a decent post last week. The Bloodhound Gang with The Bad Touch. Then Hans Zimmer with Chevaliers de Sangreal, a theme from the The Da Vinci Code movie. Good night. MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT CRANBERRIES, BABYLON ZOO.

Cranberries with Linger.





Singer's Dolores O'Riordan.



Babylon Zoo with Spaceman.





Nite.

PROFESSOR SIR LEONARD BAIRSTOW, CBE, FRS, FRAeS (1880 – 1963).

Years ago, when I was an engineering student in Ghent, one of my favourite courses was numerical analysis. One of the first calculation and iterative methods the course covered was the Bairstow Method, named after Sir Leonard Bairstow, used to calculate the roots of a polynomial equation. Real genius often manifests itself in simple solutions, and Bairstow demonstrated this by a method which enabled to simply detach a quadratic equation off the polynomial equation! Since the roots of a quadratic equation are very simply determined, one had at the same time two roots of the larger equation, since the polynomial equation could be written as the product of the quadratic one and a polynomial one of two degrees less. So, if you put in a root of the quadratic equation, it yielded zero, but at the same time so did the product of the two equations so the roots of the quadratic one were at the same time the roots of the initial polynomial one!

It is with love that this evening, I pored once again over the notes detailing with Bairstow's Method. It looks so beautiful, I thought I wanted so share 'em, so here they are: math archaeology from the eighties:












Let me clarify; DON'T - RUN - AWAY!!!


First off, wanna see a run of the mill polynomial equation? Here it is:





Symbolically, with variables substituting for the distinct numbers above, we could write the above equation as (see the notation Vn(x) = ....):





Now, as I wrote earlier, Bairstow figured that if he could just split off a quadratic equation off the bigger polynomial, and write both as a product, it would merely suffice to find the roots for the quadratic. And THAT is easy of course, in all likelihood most of you must have come across that stuff already in your third year High School:





FYI, this knowledge goes back as far as 628AD, when the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta literally described the above formula.


I consider myself lucky to have had to study numerical analysis - amongst others. If your kid has a knack for math, you might want to steer him/her into a direction in which he/she will at some point come across Bairstow and Co. Mathematics is sheer beauty. Oh, you might even give them a nod if they DON'T have that knack - I certainly didn't, but I chewed myself a way thru it and feel a better and richer person because of it.


Sir Leonard Bairstow, CBE, FRS, FRAeS (1880 – 1963), a Halifax, UK native, not only distinguished himself as a keen mathematician. Post secondary school, a scholarship secured him a place at the Royal College of Science, and once there, a Whitworth Scholarship helped him to do research into the explosion of gases. From there, he went to the National Physical Laboratory at Bushy Park where in time he became Head of aeroplane research work, holding the Zaharoff Chair of Aviation at Imperial College from 1920-1949 and becoming Professor Sir Leonard Bairstow. At some point, he also became a member of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Aeronautical Society. While Bairstow the Mathematician established his fame with the method named after him, see above, Bairstow the Aeronatical Engineer became incontournable with his groundbreaking work Applied Aerodynamics (1920). You can download it for free, as I did (it is now a prized possession in my library), and it makes for good, if a trifle difficult reading. Good, that is, if you are an aviation enthusiast. Anyway, Applied Aerodynamics's importance at the time was so profound that it was 'field-used' into World War II and its principles hold firmly today. Below you see a pic I took of a page at random. It deals with the longitudinal balance of a plane which is determined by the couples working around its center of gravity. One of those forces is, of course, the lift produced by the speed of the aircraft. The figure shows the resultant wing force and its centre of pressure on a wing section at various speeds:





Back in those days, a work like Bairstow's was sorely needed. Without sound theoretical treatises or sufficient empirical knowledge (I'm not sure there were wind tunnels at all in the early twenties) aerodynamics was very much a business of trial and error. Test pilots paid with their lives for this, like e.g. the crew of the ill-fated Tarrant Tabor which crashed just when lifting off for its maiden flight from Farnborough on May 26, 1919:





On that day, pilot and co-pilot Captains F.G. Dunn and P.T. Rawlings, after taxying, launched Tabor F 1765, a design meant to bomb Berlin from the UK, with only the lower four engines (which were in a push pull configuration) at full throttle. At some point they also engaged the two upper engines - also at full power. You do not have to be Bairstow - you do not even have to be an aeronautical engineer - to understand what happened next. The sudden extra power of two engines placed that high above the fuselage lifted by their sheer torque the tail section up... and the nose section down. The Tabor, having just lifted off, crashed with its nose into the ground instantly killing Dunn and Rawlings.

I'm pretty sure Prof Bairstow must have been well informed about the disaster. And I'm also pretty sure that if HE had been involved in the design of the plane, he would have foreseen what happened. But it was not to be like that, and again a blood price was paid.

Bairstow himself passed away in 1963.

His research did not.





Dead White Male.



MFBB.

ISLAMIZATION OF BRITAIN IN FULL SWING, BEEB WILLINGLY LENDS A HELPING HAND.

This lady seems to be getting it:





Not the Baghdad Broadcasting Company however. Judging from the following video, the real threat for the UK is the EDL:





and:





The host, Nicky Campbell, is a vulgar leftozoid asshole, whose microbrain is unable to comprehend that ultimately, his cozy job on the taxpayer's dime, and indeed, his very lifestyle, depends on people like Robinson.

One of the prized possessions in my library is a copy of the Magna Carta, a document edited in 1215 which severely curtailed the absolute power of King John and gave a plethora of basic rights to the citizenry. In it, you can find very sensible things about womens' rights... that are not even enjoyed today anymore by large swaths of females in specific London or Birmingham suburbs.




Good night.

ONE YEAR ON...

On March 31, 2011, at about 9.30 pm, I entered my parents' home. All lights were on, but nobody answered my calls. I looked in the garage - my parents' Mercedes was gone.

Somehow, even though I never suspected in the preceding weeks that something was wrong with my father's health, I just knew I had to rush to the hospital in our town. And indeed, there they were, in the last Emergency cell, my father sitting upright in a mobile bed, my mother at his side, both apprehensively, although they tried very hard not to look worried. They explained that father had felt so miserable that mother had felt compelled to call the MUG (Medisch Urgentieteam, Medical Urgency Ambulance).

Actually, at that precise moment, dad didn't look too bad. With his typical dry humor, he asked one nurse what his chances of survival were. That nurse stood with arms crossed, calmly pondering the situation as it were, and with a humorous wink shrugged his concerns off, saying that it couldn't be that bad, could it, and besides, he was going to be carried away by a beautiful nurse. Which was true, the one preparing dad to be carted to his room was a beautiful young lady.

However - it turned out that alas, it WAS bad.

It turned out that it was VERY bad.

A couple of minutes later, we left father alone in his room and went home. The last thing I remember about that scene was how father assumed a fetal position on his right side with a grimace of pain on his visage. And still I somehow expected that after a short stay in hospital all would be well again. Hadn't dad participated, just the sunday before, in the yearly reunion of his old class of the Institut Technique in A., and hadn't he been clearly the strongest character, walking proud and upright among all the cane-toting seventy-plussers with a plethora of deficiencies and handicaps?

In the morning, at about 7 am, mom called in a panic urging me to come immediately to pick her up and rush to the hospital because during the early hours father had suffered a cardiac arrest.

That was the beginning of a month long struggle which ended with... father's passing.

Hail Mary, full of grace.
Our Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power,
and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

Dad... you are sorely missed.

HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT HOUR: PUT THE LIGHTS ON (AS MANY AS YOU CAN).

First a compelling article (although not for me anymore - been debunking the green crazyness here since 2004 or so) in the Wall Street Journal by William Happer:

"GLOBAL WARMING MODELS ARE WRONG AGAIN.

What is happening to global temperatures in reality? The answer is: almost nothing for more than 10 years. Monthly values of the global temperature anomaly of the lower atmosphere, compiled at the University of Alabama from NASA satellite data, can be found at the website http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/. The latest (February 2012) monthly global temperature anomaly for the lower atmosphere was minus 0.12 degrees Celsius, slightly less than the average since the satellite record of temperatures began in 1979.

The lack of any statistically significant warming for over a decade has made it more difficult for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its supporters to demonize the atmospheric gas CO2 which is released when fossil fuels are burned. The burning of fossil fuels has been one reason for an increase of CO2 levels in the atmosphere to around 395 ppm (or parts per million), up from preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm.

CO2 is not a pollutant. Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today. Increasing CO2 levels will be a net benefit because cultivated plants grow better and are more resistant to drought at higher CO2 levels, and because warming and other supposedly harmful effects of CO2 have been greatly exaggerated. Nations with affordable energy from fossil fuels are more prosperous and healthy than those without.

The direct warming due to doubling CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be calculated to cause a warming of about one degree Celsius. The IPCC computer models predict a much larger warming, three degrees Celsius or even more, because they assume changes in water vapor or clouds that supposedly amplify the direct warming from CO2. Many lines of observational evidence suggest that this "positive feedback" also has been greatly exaggerated.

There has indeed been some warming, perhaps about 0.8 degrees Celsius, since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age in the early 1800s. Some of that warming has probably come from increased amounts of CO2, but the timing of the warming—much of it before CO2 levels had increased appreciably—suggests that a substantial fraction of the warming is from natural causes that have nothing to do with mankind...."

Tomorrow it's Earth Hour again, the yearly Econazi Nutterfest, and the lunatics that think the planet is going bust because we've raised the CO2 level from, ah, something like 0.0365 to 0.038 per cent, expect us to sit cold in the dark and cry rivers over our mistreatment of our puh-puh-puh-puh-pooooooooor planet!!!


Over here at DowneastBlog we support Human Achievement Hour instead:

"The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009 to coincide with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change. Anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings.

We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible.

Green and private conservation are fine. We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we would have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That is their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite

If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th, CEI plans to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind."

So, you might want to:





Thanks! Happy Human Achievement Hour!



MFBB.

NATIONAL CLEAVAGE DAY.

The Brits held a National Cleavage Day today:





Belgium stands brea, eh, shoulder to shoulder with our friends across the Channel:





Nite.

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF MUSLIM SCUM: FATHER MOHAMED MERAH SUES FRENCH POLICE FOR 'MURDER' OF HIS SON.

I just wonder: WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE???

A screenshot from Het Laatste Nieuws:

"An Algerian lawyer, Zahia Mokhtari, announced that she has been charged by Mohamed Benalal Merah, the father of the Toulouse killer, with sueing the RAID, the French elite police unit that after a siege which lasted much too long finally killed Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse killer."





The French far-left candidate for the presidency, a certain Mélenchon, announced last week that he was convinced that Merah could definitely not count on the sympathy of, you guess it, those wonderful, peace-loving, law-abiding overwhelming majority of moooooslims. I would not count on that. Via Atlas Shrugs:

"The self-avowed “Islamic warrior” Mohamed Merah, who opened fire on a Jewish school in France and slaughtered Jewish children and a rabbi in cold blood, was no “lone wolf,” as the mainstream media initially insisted. His brother has been charged with complicity in his murders, and his mother refused to urge him to surrender when police asked her to do so during the 31-hour standoff before he was killed. But even worse, his cold-blooded murders are winning him sympathy from Muslims and leftist useful idiots around the world.

Will the Muslim community in France, famous for its rampages and car burnings, decry Mohamed Merah’s murderous deeds and Islamic Jew-hatred in general? Don’t bet on it. Millions of Muslims worldwide share Mohamed Merah’s genocidal inclinations. The hatred of Israel is commanded in Islam. The very existence of Israel is offensive to practicing Muslims. That should be no surprise, since the Quran, which calls the Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82), commands that Muslims wage war against them (9:29). A hadith adds that Muhammad said: “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him’” (Bukhari 4.52.177).

Mohamed Merah was no lone jihadist. There is an army of millions. Monstrous. Even the “peaceful” people on the “humanitarian” flotilla that confronted the IDF in summer 2010 was chanting a genocidal war cry invoking Muhammad’s massacre of Jews at the Khybar oasis in Arabia: “Khybar, Khybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad shall return.”

So it was no surprise when Agence France-Presse reported Friday: “Facebook on Thursday removed a page that paid homage to the young Frenchman who died in a shootout with police after killing seven people, officials said.” “Frenchman”? He was a Muslim who would almost certainly have denied being French at all. “The page,” AFP stated, “which bore a picture of the self-proclaimed al-Qaida militant and was titled ‘Homage to Mohamed Merah,’ was ‘liked’ by more than 1,800 people before it was removed just hours after it appeared, they said. Many visitors left comments that were hostile to the police or favorable to Islamic extremism.”

More proof that Merah was no “lone gunman,” but a representative of the hopes and desires of far more Muslims than the mainstream media are willing to admit, came when scores of young Muslims gathered in Toulouse to honor Merah’s memory. (If that doesn’t sound like much, remember that a recent demonstration of “moderate Muslims” drew only 36, despite receiving enthusiastic international publicity.)

At the pro-Merah demonstration, a woman wearing a burqa said: “What we ask today is that we stop demonizing Mohamed, that’s it, he died.” She paid lip service to Merah’s victims: “We share the pain and suffering of the families because it is the same pain for us here.” But then she excused his murders: “I think what influenced him is what he had seen in his many travels. He could not manage all that. He was still a teenager in his head, despite his 23 years.”

Most teenagers, even those who are just teenagers in their heads, don’t massacre Jews while screaming “Allahu akbar.” This is jihad. This is Islamic Jew-hatred, prescribed and commanded by the Quran. This demonstration reveals the enemy within our own borders and shores. Imagine marching for this cold-blooded killer (in a cloth coffin, aka a burqa, no less). This is the most anti-human ideology on the face of the earth, and it is winning over entire nations and regions across the world."

Ask yourself THIS: if you were a father of a misfit son who committed sevenfold murder in cold blood INCLUDING three year old toddlers, and you learned that that son was killed by the police in a gunfight, would YOU sue the police for murder????





What does it take to drive a man so completely demonically insane that he is willing to pump bullets into the frail body of this girl?


It takes ISLAM.



As always.... ignore Outlaw Mike's advice at your own peril.



MFBB.

MULTICULTURAL ENRICHMENT: SIX OUT OF TEN NON-EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN BELGIUM DON'T WORK.

Evidence of the catastrophic job situation within the community of Belgian Cultural Enrichers was provided by the Loonkloofrapport 2012 (Wages Discrepancy Report 2012), which in turn is based on statistical data obtained from Belgium's National Bank (NBB, Nationale Bank van Belgie).

'Of the non-European immigrants in Belgium less than half is working. Of the women three quarters don't have a job, writes De Standaard following the release of the Wages Discrepancy Report 2012 which itself is based on NBB data. The numbers have steadily gotten worse over the past few years, because in 2008 42,1% was working while this number levelled off to 39,9% in 2011. When taking gender into account 51 per cent of the male non-European immigrants are working; with women that number decreases to 26%.'

Outlaw Mike thinks that if there's a curious gap between males and females with regards to unemployment it might be wise to include a factor like religious persuasion in the equation. I do not think that the ladies in the photo above, lining up to receive their welfare check happily provided by the Belgian State (though probably less happily by the Belgian taxpayer) are actually ALLOWED to work outside the house by their husbands.

Luckily our friends the socialists have P-L-A-N-S to remedy the situation!


Hey, come to think of it, this article reminded me of another one, spotted in Het Laatste Nieuws a couple of weeks back: 'COLORED POVERTY MORE AND MORE VISIBLE IN GHENT':





Well yes of course, if you first allowed with open arms all those wifebeaters and then doctored fancy laws so that they could legally let come over mom, pop, and the rest of the family, all of them rocket scientists, world class biologists and clever mathematicians of course, chances are not everyone among them has a fitting slot at the end of the day.

Notice the lady in the photo.


You may now guess three times what she has in common with the ladies in the photo on top.


Notice also what she's pushing. Apparently there ARE chores their husbands deem them fit for.





MFBB.

A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES.

Although I would lie. The area I visited was not yet the Ardennes proper, but the Fagne.

My first stop was in Yvoir, where I hoped to lay my hands on a couple of decent walking maps of the larger area. More precisely I wanted to do a trek from the centre of Yvoir to the ruins of the medieval castle of Poilvache. Alas, no such luck. There wasn't even a Bureau of Tourism. So me off by car, and 'lo and behold, on my GPS display I noticed that a small road veering to the right, a couple of kloms outside Yvoir, was marked 'Chemin de Poilvache'. And indeed, after following it for about two kloms, I came across the old chateau. What remains of it sits on top of a rocky crag overlooking the Meuse river, "Belgium's Rhine":




Above a view from the chateaux' ruins down to the Meuse river, with the Ile de Houx in the center.




This was once a room with a view. To the north, to be precise. Quite a commanding position indeed.


Then it was off to Dinant, 'Daughter of the Meuse', since I assumed that in a town of this (touristic) magnitude the Syndicat du Tourisme would be open so that I could get my walking maps. Btw, the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, was born here.





Alas, no such luck. On a glorious Spring day like this one the fonctionnaires of Dinant's Bureau of Tourism were all exhausted from a week's hard work. I did not cross the Meuse for nothing though (I parked my car on the east bank while the Bureau of Tourism is on the west). There's a plaque ther commemmorating a particular fella.





Indeed, Charles de Gaulle, in the opening days of the Great War, fought and was wounded here on this very spot. Alas, the ghost of the good (cough) General was no more able to get me a map than Dinant's city personnel.


Back on the East Bank it was time for a prayer in the Church of Our Lady:





A couple of streets further I came across three Willy's jeeps, no doubt piloted by WWII buffs:





If memory serves it was the designer of a competitor for the contract that missed the order, who was the father of this very versatile vehicle.



Outlaw wouldn't be Outlaw if he didn't have a plan B though. Just in case I had a book with walking itineraries with me, and I noticed there was a decent walk near the village of Falmignoul, barely seven kloms south of Dinant along the Avenue de General Hodges (who commanded the 1st US Army when it liberated this region in autumn 44). A quick snap with the iPhone of the relevant page - it would have to suffice - and off I was. Pic taken looking back to the north, some one and a half klom out of Falmignoul's centre:





Already on the way back, I veered off the path's way and was rewarded for it with this sight:





The Chateau de Waulsort, apparently in a slightly better condition than the Chateau de Poilvache. Notice the pennant with the Belgian flag. On these lonely heights, Belgian nationalism is alive and kicking! Ta-daaaaaaa!!!!!



It was about time to wrap the day up. I figured that if I made a detour going home, I would still be able to see two items that for one reason or another had always eluded me. The first one was the small barrage of Ry de Rome, a couple of kloms south of the town of Couvin.





This is not for hydro-electric purposes however, only for distributing drinking water in the region. What did you say? Boring? Yeah, I guess so.


Time for our story's second Adolph. A while back, there used to be this Famous Socialist in Krautland, which is Belgium's eastern neighbor. In 1940, his troops canned the western allies in six weeks. Belgium's army resisted for eighteen days. When Dunkirk was over - btw, the French and the Brits were only able to evacuate 340,000 troops across the Channel BECAUSE of the Belgian Army's resistance - Adolph turned his attention south to finish France and the remainder of its armed forces. He did perhaps not envisage that from then on, France would collapse like bad soufflé. For right after our capitulation, he had the Organisation Todt (I assume it was that organisation) build him a HQ in Belgium's south near the village of Bruly-de-Pesche, whence he intended to monitor the rest of the Feldzug. The pic show the tiny, tiny (so unlike the Fuhrer's grand palns) bunker that was built there in a matter of days. It stands there to this day and you can visit it:





The interior of the mapping room. If only I had had the Fuhrer's Powers on this day, I certainly would have had my walking maps brought to me in no time on a silver platter, exhausted Tourism Bureau fonctionnaires or not.





Adolf was here!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!


On a more serious note, Bruly-de-Pesche not only sports Hitlers first bunker HQ in a foreign country of the war, but also a small chapel commemmorating the Belgian maquisards of the region. On the ceiling, you can read the names of those KIA:





Here are the other ones. I felt that again a little prayer was in order to thank these gentle heroes for their sacrifice.





This thinly populated and rather rough area must have offered the Belgian maquis a liberty of action they did not enjoy in Flanders, Belgium's north. Still, I was surprised by the huge number of fatalities.



So. That's all for today. Tomorrow it's time again for being a maquisard myself.



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, HOOBASTANK.

I meant to post Little Steven's Bitter Fruit, then I remembered the utter stupidity of its lyrics. So, NOT. Instead, here's Dusty Springfield with Nothing has been proved.





John Profumo engaged in do-goodery and, if memory serves, I think he was knighted after some time. Don't care much for Keeler or her sidekick. But I wonder whatever happened to Joanna Whalley?



Then. Hoobastank with The Reason.





From the 2003 album of the same name. These guys formed in 94 already in Agoura Hills, CA.



Goedenacht.


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DISGUSTING BBC COVERAGE ON TOULOUSE JIHADIST MOHAMMED MERAH: BEEB WHORENALISTS KNOW THEY ARE BEING WATCHED.

In an earlier article, the BBC aka the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation managed to publish an article without using the M-word when describing islamic extremist Mohamed Merah who gunned down 7 people in Toulouse, including two toddlers.

That page is down now, but LiveLeak in time captured a screenshot. Here it is:





Although the link between between an islamic nutcase who once was spotted wielding swords in his neighborhood and shouting 'Allahu Akbar', and the gruesome murder of jewish infants, is as obvious as the link between eating onion soup and the ensuing fartfest, the BBC couldn't detect that link.

HOWEVER... they count on YOUR sheer stupidity to believe their planted link between these horrifying murders and 'extreme rightwing madwoman' Marine le Pen:

"She is often associated with the more controversial debates on immigration and her presence will be closely observed in light of recent events, reports the BBC's Christian Fraser in Toulouse."

Golly. It really stands there.

Or stood.


Because a short while after, they must have understood even the stupid peasant masses would notice such a blatantly biased suggestion. This is what that same page looks like now:





You can still spot the snippet "...Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Front National, will attend the memorial service in Montauban."


People like Christian Fraser, who might perhaps do well to change his name in Muslim Fraser, make me want to puke. Anno 2012, the situation in Europe has become such that Jewish schoolchildren cannot feel safe anymore when performing a simple duty as going to school. It SHOULD NOT be necessary that their schools need police protection, and yet this just happens to be the case. Because of the politicians and the media's callous choice NOT to mention the CAUSE of this ungodly phenomenon, namely Europes relentless islamization, people like Christian Fraser, institutions like the BBC, or newspapers like Le Monde or De Standaard...

... are guilty too.

Meanwhile, here's the take of a man who DOES know what's going on. A man who, in his own words, is doing the journalists' work:





Hat tip our pals from Gates Of Vienna.



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MODERN DAY SLAVERY: BLACKS AND DEMOCRATS.

Good article, nail on the head, by Lloyd Marcus, over at American Thinker:

"...Black pundits say that to be black and Republican makes one a despicable race-traitor worthy of no-holds-barred punishment. As a black conservative Republican, I'm not frightened by this; it just angers and frustrates me.

My frustration comes from the knowledge that those claiming to have black America's empowerment and best interest at heart are the "elephant in the room" problem. They lie to black America. Who are "they"? They are Democrats committed to keeping blacks viewing themselves as victims. They are racist, bitter black politicians with huge chips on their shoulders, seeking eternal "payback" for America's original sin of slavery. These black politicians are rewarded by the Democrats for delivering black votes.

So there you have it, black America: these are your so-called advocates. And how do they help you? They lie to you. They tell you that 70% of black youths dropping out of high school is not your fault. They tell you that prisons filled with black males is not their fault. They tell you that 80% of black kids growing up without a father is not your fault. They tell you that black genocide -- half of black pregnancies ending in abortion -- is not your fault.
They tell you that English is too difficult to learn and that standards must be lowered. They tell you that blacks who speak correct English are traitors trying to be white. They tell you that despite the fact that showing proper ID is required to board an airplane and a gazillion other things, requiring ID to vote will disenfranchise blacks. Thus, their message is that blacks are too stupid to acquire ID...


...The community resented Jewish and Asian store owners in black neighborhoods. I always thought, "Why?" These people did not receive a start-up check from the government. They took a risk. They rented in the black ghetto because it was cheaper. They worked long hours. Experience taught them to install a wall of bulletproof glass, separating them from their customers. Fourteen, fifteen family members lived above their businesses. These Jewish and Asian people were pursuing the American Dream the best way they knew how. What was stopping their black customers from doing the same thing? Answer: in many cases, blacks were relying on Democrat welfare programs.

I hear you -- Democrat brainwashed fellow blacks yelling at me: Lloyd, you Uncle Tom SOB! America is racist, and blacks did not have a fair shot in those days!

Yes, racism was an issue is those days. But how do you explain the entrepreneurial success of black millionaires in Harlem in the 1920s?

Blacks have been congressmen and business owners in America since the 1800s. And yet, Democrats continue to tell us that we are incapable of finding our way to acquire an ID.

Democrats and bitter, small-minded blacks insist on forcing blacks into their "black box." They say authentic blacks must have had a "ghetto experience."

When the Bill Cosby Show first hit TV, it was highly criticized because the sitcom black father was a doctor and his family lived in a nice home. I heard the same criticism of Diahann Carroll in her TV sitcom, Julia, in which she played a successful black nurse -- not reflective of the black experience. The Cosby Show and Julia were outside the Democrat-promoted "black box."
In my youth, I met a black master swordsman. Excited, I carted him around to black community centers because I wanted black kids to see that blacks could be successful in fields beyond entertainment and sports.

Despite blacks succeeding today in almost every area of American life, Democrats continue to portray black Americans as still getting the short end of the stick. Democrats promote an image of the authentic black experience as a majority in need of government entitlements, as people who can't find their way to acquire ID -- sitting at home watching Maury on TV, anxiously awaiting for the results of the DNA test to discover the name of Keysha's baby's daddy. This is the Democrats' black America.

This is not black advocacy or empowerment. It is demeaning, humiliating, and crippling. Why can't my fellow blacks see this obvious truth?

I am a Republican because the Republican Party respects my intelligence -- no special concessions or lowered standards.

In the 1950s, my dad was one of the first blacks to break the racist color barrier into the Baltimore Fire Department. The white firefighters rejected my dad and made conditions horrific for him. Still, dad won "Firefighter of the Year" two times. That's what I am talking about!
Given the opportunity, in their typical denigrating of black intellect, Democrats would argue that requirements for Firefighter of the Year be lowered to give my dad a "fair" shot at it. Lowered standards would have robbed Dad of the dignity and pride of his achievement. Thank God such was not the case.

Dad, a black man, won Firefighter of the Year because he was the best! Yes, I am a black conservative Republican and proud of it. All you blacks who think the Democrats are your friends, wake up and smell the betrayal."

SATURDAY NIGHT PLAIN WHITE T'S, RUSH.

Unpretentious ballad from Plain White T's, Hey there Delilah.





Guys hail from Chicago. They formed in 1997 in Lombard, same state. Hey there Delilah is from their third album, All that we needed (2005).


Rush with Marathon, from the 1985 album Power Windows (one of the last vinyls I bought). If not the last.





Goede wijn behoeft geen krans (*).



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(*) Good wine needs no bush.

MOSQUE ARSON ATTACK IN ANDERLECHT, BRUSSELS: MUSLIMS ALSO IMPORTING THEIR ASININE FEUDS IN CIVILIZED COUNTRIES.

Probably an item that escaped the attention of a lot of people outside Belgium, especially in the States, but on Monday evening, March 12, a sunni muslim who was illegally in the country entered a shiite mosque in Anderlecht, that's a Brussels suburb, and set fire to the building. The mosque's imam stayed in the fire, although actually he died of smoke inhalation. Here's the gist in a screenshot from the Baghdad Broadcasting Company:





It's bad enough that muslim parasites invade our countries, helped and protected by the left. But in addition, what they also import is their nice quarrels. The above episode falls into the same category as the fights between kurds and turks which took place in Antwerp in November 2011:








Luckily, every cloud has a silver lining. Muslims killing each other off is a win/win situation. GO FOR IT MOHAMMED AND ABDEL!!! (if we can be of help?)



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THURSDAY NIGHT VIDEO DUMP.

Pontoise, France, 17 February. In front of the Pontoise mosque, the 'Collectif sheikh yassin' (you may remember the scumbag whom the israelis neatly dispatched in 04) organizes a demo to denounce France's 'burka ban', comparing it a.o. with the Srebrenica massacre.



Musulmans debout ! : Mosquée de Pontoise door Resistance_palestinienne


Naturally, there's a nauseating tirade against us infidels, with the speaker demanding that allah breaks our back, destroys the zionists, frees paleostina etc etc etc. Nihil nove sub sole, hear that a 1,000 times etc etc etc. Look at the crowd. All of them peaceful, moderate, law-abiding Fwench citizens.




The second video is what a burial of a turkish criminal looks like in Berlin:





It's in the details. The guy in question was a member of a gang of 20 turkish hoodlums and criminals which attacked indigenous Germans (aka 'Bio-Deutsche'). The Germans retaliated, killing one turk in a case of legitimate self-defense. If a case is recognized as such in Europe, I GUARANTEE it was indeed legitimate self-defense.

Lookie look at how popular mr turkish agressor was.

We've shed light on this phenomenon before. Whenever westerners hear of a white criminal gunned down, OUR reaction is 'Good riddance'.

Not so muslims. Take a good, hard look at this scum, mourning the death of a scumbag.

Prepare for Battle.



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TRAGIC BUS CRASH IN SWITZERLAND.

On Tuesday evening at around 9pm a Belgian bus carrying 52 people crashed into a concrete wall in a tunnel on the A9 highway in Switzerland, near the town of Sierre. The bus carried mostly schoolchildren, most of them around 12 years old, and they were returning to Belgium following a ski class in Switzerland, which is common practice in Belgian schools this time of the year.

Thus far there are 28 fatalities.

22 of them are children. 7 of them are Dutch. This is because the victims are a.o. from a school in Lommel, which is near the Dutch border.






As a parent, a father of two kids, who my wife and I love passionately, I can't even begin to comprehend the agony the parents of the victims must now go through. Now. At this very moment. I do not think that in their situation, I would be able to cope. I'm pretty sure of that.

There are no words for this. The carnage was horrifying. Even the hardened Swiss rescue teams had trouble coping with the scene from hell.

I... would like to ask for your thoughts and prayers. To the relatives of the victims we offer our sincere and heartfelt condolences.



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THE LIMBAUGH - FLUKE CONTROVERSY: RUSH IS RIGHT.

Basically, I agree with Rush Limbaugh. I wouldn't have put it in such stark terms, but Limbaugh is right. People expecting government to cough up the money for their contraceptives are not just lazy or irresponsible or pathetic...


... they are S - I - C - K.


Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register, March 12, 2012:

"Oh, and the "young coed" turns out to be 30, which is what less-evolved cultures refer to as early middle age. She's a couple of years younger than Mozart was at the time he croaked but, if the Dems are to be believed, the plucky little Grade 24 schoolgirl has already made an even greater contribution to humanity.

She's had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else (and this is where one is obliged to tiptoe cautiously, lest offense is given to gallant defenders of the good name of American maidenhood such as the many prestigious soon-to-be-former sponsors of this column who've booked Bill Maher for their corporate retreat with his amusing "Sarah Palin is a c***" routine ...)

Where was I? Oh, yes. The brave middle-age schoolgirl had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else pay for her sex life.

Well, as noted above, she's attending Georgetown, a nominally Catholic seat of learning, so how expensive can that be? Alas, Georgetown is so nominally Catholic that the cost of her sex life runs to three grand – and, according to the star witness, 40 percent of female students "struggle financially" because of the heavy burden of maintaining a respectable level of pre-marital sex at a Jesuit institution.

As I said, I'm on the other side of the planet, so maybe I'm not getting this. But I'd say the core issue here is not religious liberty, which in these godless times the careless swing voter now understands as a code phrase meaning that uptight Republicans who can't get any action want to stop you getting any, too.

Nor is the core issue liberty in its more basic sense – although it would certainly surprise America's founders that their republic of limited government is now the first nation in the developed world to compel private employers to fully fund the sex lives of their employees.
Nor is it even the distinctively American wrinkle the Republic of Paperwork has given to governmentalized health care, under which the "right to privacy" the Supreme Court claimed to have discovered in Griswold vs. Connecticut and Roe vs. Wade will now lead to thousands and thousands of self-insuring employers keeping computer records of the morning-after pills and herpes medication racked up by Miss Jones on reception.

Nor is the issue that America has 30-year-old schoolkids – or even 30-year-old schoolkids who expect someone else to pick up the tab for their extracurricular activities, rather than doing a paper route and a bit of yard work to save up for their first IUD, as we did back in my day. After all, the human right to government-mandated free contraception is as American as apple pie and far healthier for you. In my most recent book, I quote one of Sandra Fluke's fellow geriatrics gamboling in the groves of academe and complaining to the Washington Post about the quality of free condoms therein:

"'If people get what they don't want, they are just going to trash them,' said T Squalls, 30, who attends the University of the District of Columbia. 'So why not spend a few extra dollars and get what people want?'"

All of us are born with the unalienable right to life, liberty and a lifetime supply of premium ribbed silky-smooth, ultrasensitive, spermicidal, lubricant condoms. No taxation without rubberization, as the Minutemen said. The shot heard round the world and all that.

Nor is the core issue that, whatever the merits of government contraception, America is the brokest nation in history – although the Fluke story is a useful reminder that the distinction between fiscal and social conservatism is generally false.

As almost all those fashionable split-the-difference fiscally conservative/socially liberal governors from George Pataki to California's pathetically terminated Terminator eventually discover, their social liberalism comes with a hell of a price tag. Ask the Greeks how easy it is for insolvent nations to wean the populace off unaffordable nanny-state lollipops: When even casual sex requires a state welfare program, you're pretty much done for.

No, the most basic issue here is not religious morality, individual liberty or fiscal responsibility. It's that a society in which middle-age children of privilege testify before the most powerful figures in the land to demand state-enforced funding for their sex lives at a time when their government owes more money than anyone has ever owed in the history of the planet is quite simply nuts.

As stark staring nuts as the court of Ranavalona, the deranged nymphomaniac queen of Madagascar at whose funeral the powder keg literally went up, killing dozens and burning down three royal palaces. Indeed, one is tempted to arrange an introduction between "T Squalls, 30," now 32 going on 33, and Sandra Fluke, 30 going on 31, like a skillfully negotiated betrothal between two royal houses in medieval Europe. The student prince would bring to the marriage his impressive fortune of a decade's worth of Trojan Magnums, while the Princess Leia would have a dowry of index-linked RU 486s settled upon her by HHS the Margravine of Sebelius. They would not be required to produce an heir.

Insane as this scenario is, the Democrat-media complex insists that everyone take it seriously. When it emerged the other day that Amanda Clayton, a 24-year-old Michigan million-dollar lottery winner, still receives $200 of food stamps every month, even the press and the bureaucrats were obliged to acknowledge the ridiculousness. Yet, the same people are determined that Sandra Fluke be treated with respect as a pioneering spokesperson for the rights of the horizontally challenged.

Sorry, I pass.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom," wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1784. In the absence of religious virtue, sexual virtue and fiscal virtue, one might trust to the people's sense of sheer preposterousness to reject the official narrative of the Fluke charade. Yet even that is not to be permitted.

Full disclosure: I will be guest-hosting for Rush Limbaugh this Monday, so it would not be appropriate for me to comment here on Rush's intervention. But let me say this. Almost every matter of the moment boils down to the same story: the Left's urge to narrow the bounds of public discourse and insist that "conventional wisdom" unknown to the world the day before yesterday is now as unquestionable as the Laws of Physics. Nothing that Rush said is as weird or as degrading as what Sandra Fluke and the Obama administration are demanding. And any freeborn citizen should reserve the right to point that out as loudly and as often as possible.

©MARK STEYN"

Heard that, Fluke? Wait, let me repeat it for you:

"IT'S THAT A SOCIETY IN WHICH MIDDLE-AGE CHILDREN OF PRIVILEGE TESTIFY BEFORE THE MOST POWERFUL FIGURES IN THE LAND TO DEMAND STATE-ENFORCED FUNDING FOR THEIR SEX LIVES AT A TIME WHEN THEIR GOVERNMENT OWES MORE MONEY THAN ANYONE HAS EVER OWNED IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET IS QUITE SIMPLY NUTS."

Grow a brain, CUNT. Quit that silly Law School, don't take your contraceptives and get pregnant and have a baby.

On second thought, no. Don't. Maybe your ilk should just like, die out or something. We can't use Fluke jr's. Can't afford 'em.



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