Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “some people feel intimidated by the word England.”

[Iraq war veteran] Craig applied to join Greater Manchester Police shortly before returning to civvy street this month.
When he admitted he had a tattoo, he was asked to send a photo of the inch-high Gothic letters spelling ENGLAND on the underside of his right forearm.
He was later told he had been rejected by the recruitment department.
It wrote: “Home Office policy precludes applications with tattoos on lower arm, hand, face or neck that are prominent, which may cause offence and/or invite provocation from the public or colleagues.”

“Now at first I thought…

… oh well, so what, CWB staff deserve to have a little fun every now and then just like everybody else, right?

Then I remembered that according to their latest annual report the average salary of these folks is just over $91,000 per year. Then I remembered this chart which shows how I’m getting the worst basis ever for my wheat this year, and this chart which shows how these folks have not been able to beat even the simple average price in the US for malt barley over the last eight years. And then I thought about how stressed out these folks supposedly were last year that they needed a special $1000 bonus….

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the children are their future!

Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert.
Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was needed on how far Britain should go in identifying potential offenders, given that some experts believe it is possible to identify future offending traits in children as young as five.
‘If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,’ said Pugh. ‘You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won’t. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.’

Via

Where the foxes caper unmolested ….breaking police investigation!

Honduras beats Cuba in an Olympic qualifying soccer game in Tampa, notable mostly because Cuba had to play shorthanded, after seven players defected. Welcome to freedom and good luck, guys.

Because, really – what could they do about it? Threaten to take 70,000 civil servants out of Confederation? Spark a potato famine? Throw bottles?
I mean, there are 22 bigger islands in this country. Who are they kidding?
Take away the government buildings and the fixed link, and what do you have left? A breakwater for Nova Scotia.

The CHRC has said that they will take submissions from the public on the issue of the closed Warman v Lemire tribunal hearing, but the submissions must be made by March 17th.
Please write a polite and professional letter to Ms Jessie Cyr outlining why you believe the hearing should be public.

Details available at the link.

It should come as no surprise;

… that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing on March 25th — where human rights commission staff themselves are to be cross-examined on their dubious tactics of anonymous infiltration of websites, entrapment and even the bizarre practice of commission staff themselves planting bigoted remarks on websites — is going to be closed to the public.
It is hypocritical in the extreme that HRC staff who scrutinize every public utterance and private thought of their victims will be exempted from public scrutiny themselves. There is no legitimate reason for this blackout, other than the HRCs simply being HRCs and engaging in censorship and the restriction of public debate. Usually they censor political expression they disagree with; this time they censor their own embarrassing conduct from being seen and heard by taxpaying Canadians

Ezra will be a guest on Cross Country Checkup this afternoon with Rex Murphy, at around 4:40 ET.
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For France:

[A] place with a passion for all things—vintage wine, aged cheese and enduring hypocrisy.
Case in point: Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s magnificent proposal that will allow French children to learn about the Holocaust in a way that could be called, “tres Ann Frank.” The young Dutch victim of Nazi inhumanity has demonstrated a perpetual draw for teenage girls and boys. All over the world, in scores of translations, young readers have absorbed the diary of this teenager, someone with whom they can identify, a regular young person just like the reader.

Unsurprisingly, the French are against this.

Well,
quite a chat on the air(link fixed) Wednesday night with Sandy Rheaume, the VP of Health Services International – I was speaking to him about his company offering medical tourism in Cuba, and whether there’s any concern about doing business with the oppressive Castro regime. After angrily defending the Cuban regime, and declaring the only political prisoners in Cuba are at Guantanamo Bay, Mr. Rheaume hang up on me.

You can pick up the audio file at the link. (If someone captures it to Youtube, let me know).

A teacher writes;

It’s teachers convention this week and I’m wading through the 2 day session catalogue and I’m trying to decide whether or not to go to the session entitled “Enhancing Literacy Through Creative Dance” or “Ladies and Mens Competition Styling Techniques”. Hair styling, that is. They don’t have the usual hip hop sessions any more, which is probably for the best because I’m aging and my neck isn’t up to the jarring.

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and oh, my aching head….

Britain’s first ‘Safe Text’ street has been created complete with padded lampposts to protect millions of mobile phone users from getting hurt in street accidents while walking and texting.
Around one in ten careless Brits has suffered a “walk ‘n text” street injury in the past year through collisions with lampposts, bins and other pedestrians.
[…]
Given the apparent dangers of “unprotected text”, over a quarter of Brits – 27 per cent – are in favour of creating a ‘mobile motorway’ on Britain’s pavements.
Texters could follow a brightly coloured line, which which would act like a cycle lane, steering them away from obstacles.

I checked the date of the article twice. It appears to be the real deal.

“My gas sales were down 30 percent last year,” Vazquez said. “People will come into the store and buy groceries, but they tell me they won’t buy gas from Citgo.”

The Citgo boycott is sure to be mitigated should current sabre-rattling from Chavez be converted a into full-fledged invasion of Colombia. Declared enemies of American’s allies can always count on the support of their friends on the American left – they’ll line up to fill their tanks for Hugo. Citgo will do just fine.

Freeloading backpackers are forced to cut journey short, after being mistaken for freeloading backpackers.

Out of line;

Seriously ill patients are being kept in ambulances outside hospitals for hours so NHS trusts do not miss Government targets.
Thousands of people a year are having to wait outside accident and emergency departments because trusts will not let them in until they can treat them within four hours, in line with a Labour pledge.
The hold-ups mean ambulances are not available to answer fresh 999 calls.
Figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that last year 43,576 patients waited longer than one hour before being let into emergency units.
Only seven out of 11 ambulance trusts responded to the survey, so the true figure could be far higher.

A British twist on the Canadian model, where the official “wait time” for surgery doesn’t begin counting down until after the patient has seen a specialist – a period that can extend into months.

Zimbabwe lite;

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to deal with food shortages nationwide, threatened today to expropriate farms and raised the price rice producers are permitted to charge.
Fallow farmland “can’t be allowed,” Chavez said on his weekly television and radio broadcast, calling for the National Guard to take over farms with nonproductive lands. He also announced a price boost of 44 percent for rice growers.
It was at least the fourth time this year that Chavez’s government has threatened to use expropriation to deal with shortages of milk, rice, cooking oil and other price-controlled basic foods. The decision on rice prices was another in a series of increases this year, following boosts in the prices of beans, cheese and ultra-pasteurized milk.

Jail politicians who ignore science: Suzuki “He urged today’s youth to speak out against politicians complicit in climate change, even suggesting they look for a legal way to throw our current political leaders in jail for ignoring science – drawing rounds of cheering and applause. Suzuki said that politicians, who never see beyond the next election, are committing a criminal act by ignoring science.”

And you accuse us of hyperbole when we warn you about this nutjob?
Flashback – “A polar-bear killer on wheels.”
Another flashback – a long history of asshatness.

“Why does the western liberal left openly advance the interests of murderous fundamentalist Islam?”
It’s the eugenics, stupid!
h/t

“My youngest brother at the tender age of three days old was tossed out of the window of a trappers cabin in the middle of winter up by Nelson House, Manitoba. His parents were drunk and decided they didn’t want him anymore. Some merciful soul picked him up and saved his life and he was adopted into my family. “

CBC