Category Archives: BBC bias

The BBC has been relentlessly attacking Saudi Arabia for some time now whilst, as always, telling us what a wonderful, enlightened and moderate state Iran is…or would be if it weren’t for the Great Satan which sets out to surround poor little Iran with enemies necessitating an Iranian hardline response.

Any thought that perhaps the BBC’s take on Saudi Arabia is coloured by its security correspondent’s grudge against the Saudis?

BBC correspondent Frank Gardner reveals Saudi Arabia offered him £1million in compensation when he was left wheelchair bound after being shot by Al Qaeda covering a story there but they never paid

Frank Gardner was shot on the streets of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in 2004

The horrifying attack left his BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers dead 

Now fresh batch of documents reveal he was offered £1m in compensation

But Saudis never paid up which Gardner said he was ‘pretty miffed with’

Here’s Frank analysing the situation in the Middle East…A gulf between them: Understanding the Saudi-Iran dispute

His conclusion….

When the Arab Spring protests erupted in 2011, Iran, which had crushed its own democratic protest movement two years earlier, claimed the credit for sparking reformist movements across the Arab world.

Today, Iran once again has a relatively moderate, pragmatic president in the form of Hassan Rouhani, while Saudi Arabia has embarked on a new and aggressive foreign policy that has seen it bogged down in an unwinnable war in Yemen.

Interesting to know that the Iranians claim the ‘credit’ for the Arab Spring which led to Syria et al….not the BBC narrative which blames the Iraq war and the West.

What of that ‘moderate, pragmatic’ Iran and the nasty aggressive Saudi foreign policy?

That’ll be the Iran which supports Hamas in its effort to ‘wipe Israel off the map’, which has essentially annexed Lebanon, which fights to support the murderous Assad in Syria, which interferes in Iraq and supported anyone from the Taliban to Iraqi insurgents who wanted to fight British and US troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan…and is involved in stoking the rebellion of Shia populations inside Sunni ruled states.

Aggressive Saudi Arabia?  Maybe it has just-cause in the name of self defence.

The BBC complains of the brutality of the Saudi regime as it executes ‘so many’ people…why, the BBC asks, do we maintain diplomatic relations with them?  Why then do we maintian diplomatic relations with the US which also has the death penalty?  Or indeed Iran which has executed far more people than the Saudis and with whom we have just opened diplomatic relations.

Nicky Campbell ambushed defence secretary Michael Fallon a while back talking (18th December) about extremism and ISIS.  He asked if Fallon was totally against beheaders, abusers and torturers….you could see the trap a mile off and knew what was coming next…Campbell was not now talking about ISIS…and indeed when Fallon said he was naturally against such things Campbell leapt in and gleefully demanded what he was going to do about Saudi Arabia then?  All very childish and student politics, as we expect from Campbell and co.

What is curious about all the BBC’s anti-Saudi Arabia rhetoric is that, apart from never having been similarly disposed to attack Iran for its murderous regime killing gays and young girls, hanging them and flogging them, the BBC fails to mention the Saudi money and ideology that floods into the UK, and the rest of the world.

British Muslims are heavily under the influence of the Saudi fundamentalist theology, not only that but all levels of British society and the Establishment are also being subborned by Saudi money which pours into universities, schools, business and sport…the Royal Family (PBUT) and British politicians all are at the beck and call of the Saudis and their money….the FCO is infamously ‘Arab’.…including this memorable example...’Fucking Jews’….”If I had my way, the fucking international community should be sent in and if the Israelis got in the way, they’d be blown off the fucking earth.”‘

The BBC admits frequently that the Saudi ‘brutality’ is guided by Islamic sharia law and yet they fail to link that to what is being brought into this country.  If it is bad in Saudi Arabia which is a Muslim country how much more unacceptable is such culture and law in a secular western democracy?  The BBC don’t like to ask in case some people of a certain ideology get upset….one of them might be their favourite extremist poster boy, Moazzam Begg, against whom the evidence of his extremism mounts rapidly…the Mail having done a large scale exposé of him over the last couple of days…ignored totally by the BBC of course….Fanatics’ campaign of hate on campus is revealed: Islamic zealots who backed Jihadi John are poisoning the minds of students.

The BBC’s Phil Mackie (who insisted the Trojan Horse plot was a hoax) reported from Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque and told us of how moderate it was and how it was fighting against extremism…this was the mosque which was at the centre of C4’s Dispatches ‘Undercover Mosque’ exposé of Muslim extremism…it is also a mosque with close ties to Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism, it’s mission in life is Dawah…the spreading of Islam.  The BBC is either entirely naive or dishonest in its reporting about such things….seemingly covering up the extremist nature of many in the Muslim community in the interest of community cohesion…which is a very short sighted approach as the extremists are just biding their time to take over.

Green Lane Mosque tells us that a Salafi Muslim…

‘Is not of the sects of the Shi’ah who hate and curse the Prophet’s Companions and claim them to be apostates, claim that the Qur’an has been altered, reject the authentic Sunnah and worship the Prophet’s Family, peace be upon them.’

Now as a Mosque, a Muslim mosque you might emphasise (not so funny when you know that the BBC disregards what Muslims say and invent their own intepretation  of Islam to suit the BBC’s own narrative…there’s the Muslim Islam and the BBC Islam), you might think that they knew what they were talking about when they explained what they were about.  Not so.  The Mosque says there is great enmity between Sunni and Shia….the BBC begs to disagree as Frank Gardner, the expert, in the Times told us today (Pay-walled)….

Islam, a handy excuse for a squabble over power.

So the conflicts between Sunni and Shia Islam has nothing to do with Islam or religion per se…it’s all about power…but power of what?  It’s about which religious intepretation dominates…it’s all about religion and Islam, which version of Islam is correct….and if you get the chance to read Gardner’s piece in the Times you realise the truth of that as he admits this again and again despite his headline denying the truth of that…

In practise this has led to a sort of quais-arms race for influence, with both Iran and saudi Arabia exporting and promoting their own versions of Islam.

Why does the BBC still insist on downplaying the role of Islam in conflicts around the world…and yet at the same time admits that it plays a role just as it admits the Saudi ‘brutal’ regime is guided by Sharia law and yet refuses to make the link to the export of Saudi religious fundamentalism to the UK?

Brown threatened to destroy Murdoch when The Sun saw the light…what will Corbyn do to the BBC if he gains power as the comrades in arms fall out?….

Labour complains to BBC over Stephen Doughty resignation

Labour has made an official complaint to the BBC after a shadow minister resigned live on one of its programmes.

MP Stephen Doughty quit the party’s foreign affairs brief live on BBC Two’s The Daily Politics as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was reshuffling his team.

The party has accused the BBC of orchestrating his resignation to ensure maximum “political impact”.

Labour has now complained that the live resignation was an “unacceptable breach of the BBC’s role and statutory obligations”, saying Mr Corbyn had not been told about his resignation in advance.

“By the BBC’s own account, BBC journalists and presenters proposed and secured the resignation of a shadow minister on air in the immediate run-up to Prime Minister’s Questions, apparently to ensure maximum news and political impact,” a party spokesman said.

“That was evidently done before any notice of resignation was sent to the Labour leader.

“Such orchestration of political controversy is an unacceptable breach of the BBC’s role and statutory obligations.”

The BBC has been hitting us hard all day with the politically motivated anti-drink ‘science’ (Where do we get that normally?) of risk, alcohol and cancer.  Quite aggressively negative interviews with those who criticise and more positive friendly ones with those who feed us this guff.

All to be taken with a dose of salt….as long as you keep it within your government approved daily recommended amount of course.

Here’s some other health warnings from the ‘experts’ that should come with a health warning themselves….

The cancer timebomb: Parents sentencing their children to disease by letting them sit in front of TV and computer screens for hours on end, warn experts

 

Taller people at greater risk of cancer

Every four inches in height increases the risk of cancer by 20 per cent, researchers found in the largest study of its kind

 

How oxygen in the air could trigger lung cancer: Rates of the disease found to decrease at higher altitudes

The BBC, as always, acting as an arm of government propaganda when it suits.

Charles Moore in the Telegraph suspects the motivation behind this zealotry…

….politicised campaigners who see industry as bad, consumers as stupid, government as good, and themselves as legislators to compel the public to behave in certain ways. Since I suspect such people’s motives, why should I accept the objectivity of what they say about health?

Pillage and rape across Europe…the Guardian thinks this is ‘Christmas come early for xenophobes’ as if the crimes do not matter, whilst Peter Allen on the BBC wondered if it wasn’t just a case of bored young men full of energy….no doubt an energy that they have been prevented from using productively and positively by discrimination and racism.

Oh, and it’s all the police’s fault not the criminals themselves.

Any bias out there?  List away…..

Well so much for the new, inclusive, respectful of all views politics.  If you don’t all parrot Corbyn you’re out…unless you’re too big to sack in an obvious fit of pique.  Hilary Benn is no doubt on notice.

Two things about the BBC coverage…two very important and significant things.

One….where is any mention of Emily Thornberry, the new shadow secretary for defence, taking money from ‘thieving, ambulance chasing lawyers’?…as reported in the Telegraph...

Conservative MP Stewart Jackson said: “Will my Right Honourable Friend agree with me that it’s more than a matter of regret that the new shadow secretary of state for defence has seen fit to take a donation from the immoral, thieving and ambulance chasing lawyers Leigh Day, who together with public interest lawyers specialise in hounding our brave service personal in Iraq on spurious claims.”

As secretary for defence how can she possibly genuinely represent the forces when she is in the pay of lawyers who hound these same Forces personnel?   Not a question the BBC asks or even makes reference as far as I can tell…here’s the very latest BBC report...not a mention….

The only changes in the shadow cabinet see anti-Trident MP Emily Thornberry replacing shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, who moves to culture to replace sacked Michael Dugher.

Kevan Jones …..described Ms Thornberry’s appointment as a mistake, saying it left the party’s defence policy “controlled by the North London Labour party”.

In an interview with the British Forces Broadcasting Service, she said she had “quite a lot more experience” than people were giving her credit for, pointing out she had family members in the military and a “regiment in my constituency”.

Second omission from the BBC’s reporting is the very relevant and current concern about the ‘narrative’ that feeds into the Jihadist’s propaganda…that the West is to blame for radicalising Muslims with a war on Muslims….a narrative that now sacked Pat McFadden opposed.

Now why would the BBC miss that out of its reporting?…a narrative that the BBC itself has promoted more times than I care to count.  Here’s the BBC’s reporting of Stephen Doughty’s resignation, done live on BBC TV…and yet they miss the crucial part of it……in fact despite having the video at the top of the page they don’t report any of his words on this matter saying merely that he was ‘singled out for punishment’….but why?…

Mr McFadden said Mr Corbyn had told him he thought his comments were “an attack on him and that he had come to the conclusion because of that and one or two other things that I shouldn’t continue”.

“He clearly feels that me saying terrorists are entirely responsible for their action, that no-one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, to blow up the London Underground, to behead innocent aid workers, that when I say they are entirely responsible for that, he clearly interpreted that as an attack on him,” he added.

Shadow foreign minister Stephen Doughty – who announced his resignation on the BBC’s Daily Politics – said Mr McFadden had been “singled out for punishment for speaking with honesty and principle”.

They report that ‘terrorists are entirely responsible for their own actions’ but miss out the part that says it is unacceptable to blame the West….it’s a crucial point that plays into so many BBC narratives about the Iraq war, the rise of ISIS, the radicalisation of  ‘Young British Muslims’ and who is responsible for the subsequent refugees…no wonder the BBC wants to downplay criticism of its narrative.   The Guardian does report it…

However, he [Corbyn] decided to sack McFadden for what he saw as a variety of disloyal interventions, including a question to the prime minister in the House of Commons following the Paris atrocity.

McFadden asked David Cameron to reject the view that terrorist acts were always a response or a reaction to what the west did and to agree that such an approach risked infantilising terrorists when the truth was that they were adults who were entirely responsible for their actions.

Mcfadden finished the question with this…

“No one forces them to kill innocent people in Paris or Beirut and unless we are clear about that we will fail even to be able to understand the threat we face let alone confront it and ultimately overcome it.”

In other words the narrative of Corbyn, STW, Muslim fundamentalists and the BBC excuses terror and leads to a completely wrong-headed analysis and conclusion of cause and effect and hence the wrong solution…..ie the problem isn’t in the teachings and commands of Islam but in Western foreign policy…which must be changed to suit these terrorists and their sympathisers…..and note school exams are being changed to suit Muslims. Tail wagging dog?  Terrorism really does pay off doesn’t it as politicians et al run scared.

The BBC wants to keep on blaming the Iraq War for all the ills of the Middle East and also make the West to blame for the current wars and refugee migration.

The BBC has a lot to lose if politicians can successfully counter the BBC narrative which is all too apparently more concerned for terrorists, immigrants and Muslim provocateurs than it is for British troops, British interests, the British people, culture and national identity and society.

The climate change lobby was pretty insistent that the ‘Pause’ was non-existent or if there was any such pause it could only be taken as statistically significant if it was over at least 15 years…..however, one month of rain and apparently that is a sign that climate change is upon us again…..not only that but it doesn’t have to be global or even national…if it rains a lot into a bucket in your back yard the Met and the BBC will report that as ‘extreme rainfall’…never mind if it was a drought everywhere else.

The BBC and the Met. Office have been trumpeting ‘record rain in December’ as proof positive of climate change…man-made.

The BBC today repeatedly told us that the Met. Office said this was a record December rainfall in the UK…

Weather records: December was ‘wettest month for UK’

which is odd….

Matt Ridley in the Times on Monday said….

‘Finally, please resist the cheap excuse of climate change[for the floods].  It was Britain’s second wettest December.  The same month in 1929 was wetter’.

Now that caught my attention and so I looked up the Met. Office site...and indeed the latest news flash was this…..

It has been the wettest December on record for Scotland (333.1 mm), and for Wales (321 mm) and Northern Ireland is currently ranked 4^th wettest with 208.1 mm. North west England has also seen record breaking rainfall, but central and southern England have been much closer to average.

For the UK as a whole its currently the second wettest on record.

So the Met. Office confirmed Ridley’s point.

But hold on…. has it changed its mind 24 hours later?

5 January 2015 – The latest provisional statistics from the Met Office confirm December has broken records both for rainfall and temperature

The month was not only the wettest December on record, but also the wettest calendar month overall since records* began in 1910, while 2015 is the sixth wettest year on record (dating back to 1910).

So ‘the wettest December on record‘ but for which region?  Not the UK as a whole…so why did the Met. Office miss that out and why did the BBC decide to interpret it as meaning the UK as a whole?

The Met. Office goes on…

There has been a marked contrast in rainfall across the UK.  It has been the wettest December on record for Scotland (351 mm), and for Wales (359 mm) and the 2^nd wettest for Northern Ireland with 221 mm, just behind 1919 which recorded 224 mm.

What’s missing from the Met’s report is that important line that pulls the rug from their alarmist trumpeting….

For the UK as a whole its currently the second wettest on record.

And, according to Ridley, that record was set in 1929….apparently long before ‘man-made’ climate change began to happen.

Whilst December may be wettest for Scotland it is by no means the wettest year in the UK as a whole or in all its regions.

The BBC and the Met. Office are cherry picking not only regional weather and ignoring the bigger picture but also selecting a single month as ‘statistically significant’ evidence of climate change….If they want to do that then they should look at the records for England and Wales which show that the wettest years on record are mostly pre 20th century.

Here’s Harrabin proclaiming one month’s rain as the sign of things to come….did they say the same in 1929 then?

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 14h14 hours ago

  Is December weather the new normal? Is there a new normal? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35228779 … @ECIU_UK @CarbonBrief @eciu @Revkin @aDissentient

You just have to laugh at his nonsense……

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  roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin Jan 4

  Are the BBC #climatechange deniers? Thoughts on #floods coverage on my new Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/roger.harrabin/ @ECIU_UK@CarbonBrief

So in summary, this was the 2nd wettest December on record but the BBC has been telling us that it was the wettest.

The BBC….Corrupt or incompetent?  Guided, misguided, by climate campaigner Roger Harrabin?  You decide.

There were massed attacks on women across Germany by groups of men of ‘north African or Arab appearance’…the BBC reports this and the appearance of the attackers and yet…and yet the BBC plays down that identity and the fact that they are almost certainly migrants.  The BBC seems a little too eager to tell us that some of the sites of the attacks were well known to be areas where pickpockets are operating or a street has ‘boisterous nightlife’…

….is the intention to suggest that the women perhaps had it coming being in such areas?…..erm like outside a train station and Cathedral….get raped or sexually assaulted..it’s your fault….

The pretty Christmas market and medieval setting may look idyllic, but at Christmas and New Year the area around Cologne Cathedral is a notorious danger zone when it comes to pickpockets and theft.

In Hamburg several women told police that gangs of men had molested and robbed them on New Year’s Eve on the Reeperbahn – a street known for its boisterous night life.

Some similar attacks were reported in Stuttgart.

Pickpockets?  Yes you may expect that, what you don’t expect is this…

Witnesses described groups of five to 15 men of who “hunted” women in the streets.

Nice of the BBC to play down the seriousness of such attacks.

And of course it shouldn’t be linked to migration…..

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas tweeted that “we won’t tolerate these abhorrent assaults on women – all those responsible must be brought to justice”.

But he also warned against simply linking the crimes to the issue of migrants and refugees.

A policeman who was outside Cologne station during the New Year’s Eve trouble told the city’s Express news website that he had detained eight suspects. “They were all asylum seekers, carrying copies of their residence certificates,” he said.

However, there was no official confirmation that asylum seekers had been involved in the violence. Commentators in Germany were quick to urge people not to jump to conclusions.

The Telegraph in contrast is more rounded and reveals that there is concern with immigration and a link to these attacks…

One MP from Angela Merkel’s party called for the numbers of refugees in the country to be reduced in the light of the attacks.

“It can’t go on like this,” Steffen Bilger wrote on Twitter. “Urgently needed: reduction of influx, secure borders, intensifying of deportations and meaningful justice. #Cologne.”

There were allegations of a police “cover-up” on social media after it took five days for the scale of the incidents to emerge, with some claiming the authorities wanted to hide the ethnicity of the perpetrators to avoid social tensions.

“The crimes were committed by a group of people who from appearance were largely from the North African or Arab world,” Wolfgang Albers, the Cologne police chief, told a press conference.

“It is intolerable that such offences are committed in the heart of the city,” he said.

In Hamburg, witnesses described groups of young men who followed women calling out “Bitch! Ficky ficky!”

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Cologne lies, vowed to take action.

“We will not take gangs of North African men humiliating defenceless women with brazen sexual attacks,” Ralf Jäger, the state’s interior minister, said.

Love listening to Planet BBC, it is another world.

The 1400 year war between the Sunni and Shia?  The BBC asks will it become the 30 year war of our time on the Today programme (o8:50).

And apparently this  1400 year old war between two religious sects is not a religious war merely a ‘sectarian’ war….a 1400 year old war that started…guess when….in 2003 with the Iraq war when those multicultural Iraqis who loved each other and thrived in their mix of Shia, Sunni and Kurds (not the usual BBC narrative when blaming Sykes Picot for imposing an unwanted national identity on naturally antagonistic communities) were traumatised and turned into sectarian bigots by the invasion.

Kind of misses out the real history of the Sunni Saddam Hussein brutally suppressing the Shia and Kurds…hence them kicking off when his boot was off their throats….funny how the BBC can forget inconvenient history…

Who are the Iraqi Shia?

Shia Muslims were oppressed by Iraq’s Baathist regime for more than 30 years and excluded from the highest ranks of power.

They make up the majority of Iraq’s population – accounting for as much as 60% – and their support is seen as vital if any new Iraqi government is to have legitimacy.

Oh yes and you know what….how did our guest (Mary Kaldor…usual lefty academic) explain the problem of ‘extremists’ creating sectarianism?…people aren’t naturally sectarian apparently and you see children, ‘if UKIP were to use violence on our streets then the divisions between being British and not being British would be much more acute.’

Yes she really did compare UKIP to the terrorists in Iraq and John Humphrys said absolutely nothing to correct her.

Have you noticed the difference between how the BBC reports that the Swedes have started to control migration and the alarmed rhetoric we got when ‘Right-wing’ Hungary did the same?

No claims of fascism or Nazism or racism as levelled at the Hungarians….in fact the Swedish story has vanished off the BBC pages to be replaced by one about Denmark reacting to the Swedish actions.

The BBC isn’t resorting to the same abuse that it did with Hungary when we were told that the problem with East Europeans is that they are stuck in the dark ages due to their history and that their innate racism hasn’t been educated out of them yet, however Sweden is still treated to the glare of disapproval however moderately expressed….

Denmark has tightened its border controls with Germany, hours after Sweden imposed similar measures to deter migrants entering from Denmark.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said the decision was “not a happy moment” but Denmark “must respond” to Sweden’s restrictions.

Stojberg, Denmark’s integration minister, said the measures taken by Sweden meant Denmark was “faced with a serious risk to public order and internal security because a very large number of illegal immigrants may be stranded in the Copenhagen area”.

The move is expected to cause serious disruption to traffic flows from Denmark.

Danish Transport Minister Hans Christian Schmidt called the checks “extremely annoying”.

Holly Snaith, a British academic who commutes from Malmo to her job at Copenhagen University, told the BBC that the changes had added at least half an hour to her journey.

“We are all on tenterhooks hoping that the Swedish government will resolve things soon,” she said.

Nicholas Bean, who commutes from Malmo to his marketing job in Copenhagen, said: “Travellers aren’t happy about the Swedish government’s action… There has to be a better way to handle the problem.”

A similar set of border closures in eastern Europe in October left thousands of migrants stranded in poor weather conditions.

Apparently nobody is happy with Sweden which has taken such an irresponsible action…and oh those poor migrants ‘stranded in poor weather conditions’…should have stayed in sunny Turkey then…or one of the refugee camps provided at great expense but ignored for some reason as the migrants preferred to head for the land of milk, honey and free housing.

Oh yes…more BBC propaganda designed purely to push the line that we must accept refugees…nothing to do with ‘reporting’ in the slightest…you may have heard John Simpson’s attempt to persuade us that allowing millions of refugees into Europe is a good and humane thing to do, he used the fact that 250,000 Belgium refugees were allowed into the UK during WWI to bolster his case….what he didn’t mention was that as soon as the war was over the government forced nearly all of them out and sent them packing back to Belgium…Simpson should know that history as the BBC told it to us last year…..

“It was the largest influx of refugees in British history but it’s a story that is almost totally ignored,” says Tony Kushner, professor of modern history at the University of Southampton.

Syria might be in need of all those people itself when the time comes to rebuild…..but the BBC has decided that’s not a good idea.

Will the government send Syrians et al packing?  We know that ain’t going to happen with Syrians and others from the Middle East, or from wherever, today as once they get there feet across the threshhold they know they are here to stay…so the best thing is to keep them out from the start and care for them in locations closer to their own homes from where they can be repatriated when the time is right.

Simpson does admit to the real problem…Islam…

Yet there is one major difference between these waves of migrants in the past and the one we have seen in 2015.

Professor Alex Betts, director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, explains: “What’s dramatic about today is that this is the first time Europe has faced people coming in from the outside in large numbers as refugees.

“The fact that many are Muslims is perceived as challenging Europe’s identity.”

European societies are changing very fast indeed as a result of immigration.

Unfortunately he doesn’t go further and dodges the major conflicts that will ultimately arise from invasion of millions of Muslim migrants and instead blames bad government…

The influx of migrants reinforces people’s sense that their identity is under threat.

But how can the world deal conclusively with the problem?

The former UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Sir John Holmes, blames poor global governance.

We have endured an entire century of exile and homelessness and the cause is almost always the same – conflict and bad government.

Unless these are dealt with, the flow of migrants will never be stopped.

Actually the migrant flow can be stopped…Hungary proved it…you just shut the border.  The reason we get so many flooding towards Europe is because they heard Merkel’s siren call that all would be welcome…..when they start to realise the borders are shut they will stop coming in their millions….Turkey and other such transit countries will be lumbered with those ‘stranded in poor weather’ and will soon start to shut their borders…ala Denmark….a domino effect all the way back to the countries of origin.  Simples.

The BBC says we cannot stop them and we’d better get used to mass migration [Mark Easton™] but we can stop them if there is the will.  Just say no you’re not coming in.

Alright, 2016 has now really kicked in, Monday arrives and so does this NEW Open Thread. The floor belongs to you!!! Detail that bias here.