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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Could my hopes for a U.S. F-1 team by far behind?
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Why I Love This Man!
Taken from The Telegraph (without permission)
Jeremy Clarkson claims airport delays could be solved with 'a bit of racism'
Jeremy Clarkson has risked outrage by suggesting that long queues for airport border control checks could be solved by “a bit of racism.”
The BBC Top Gear presenter claimed that the long delays at Heathrow border control were because immigration officials were no longer allowed to use their discretion to wave certain passengers through.
He said: “Nobody is waved through any more. The result is plain for all to see. There’s a two-hour wait.
“And the problem is: the only possible solution is to introduce a bit of racism.”
He added: “Nobody likes a racist. Nobody likes prejudice. It has no place at work, at play, or in government.
“But at Heathrow airport? Hmmm.”
Clarkson, who is now notorious for his provocative comments, used his Sun newspaper column to wade into the controversy over passengers facing queues of up to three hours at Heathrow.
He claimed that liberal attitudes prevented officials targeting only passengers deemed “high risk”.
“You can’t get that sort of thing past the bleeding-heart liberals. They believe that … a hook-handed imam with fire in his heart and hatred in his eyes is just as likely to whip up anti-western sentiment as Joanna Lumley.”
A spokesman for the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents Border Force workers, said: "Clarkson is an idiot."
Clarkson, 52, has a long record of making controversial remarks. He provoked a wave of complaints last November when he jokingly suggested on BBC’s The One Show that striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families.
Many of his most provocative comments have been about other nationalities.
In February 2011 the BBC apologised to the Mexican ambassador over comments Clarkson and fellow Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May made about Mexicans.
Hammond joked that Mexican cars reflected national characteristics, saying they were “a lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf with a moustache, leaning against a fence asleep”.
Clarkson suggested they would receive no repercussions over the remarks because “at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control like this [snores]. They won’t complain, it’s fine.”
The Mexican government promptly complained.
In January this year viewers complained to the BBC after Clarkson made a series of controversial remarks about India’s clothing, trains, food and history.
In December 2005 he gave a Nazi salute during a segment about German company BMW during an episode of Top Gear and suggested that one of its cars would have a satnav that “only goes to Poland”.
In February 2009 he called Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister, a “one-eyed Scottish idiot.”
On Wednesday BAA, Heathrow’s operator, released figures showing the Border Force at the airport failed to meet its own performance targets nearly every day last month.
Non-EEA passengers, who should have spent no longer than 45 minutes waiting to clear immigration formalities, faced bigger queues on 21 days out of the 30.
Clarkson, who is now notorious for his provocative comments, used his Sun newspaper column to wade into the controversy over passengers facing queues of up to three hours at Heathrow.
He claimed that liberal attitudes prevented officials targeting only passengers deemed “high risk”.
“You can’t get that sort of thing past the bleeding-heart liberals. They believe that … a hook-handed imam with fire in his heart and hatred in his eyes is just as likely to whip up anti-western sentiment as Joanna Lumley.”
A spokesman for the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents Border Force workers, said: "Clarkson is an idiot."
Clarkson, 52, has a long record of making controversial remarks. He provoked a wave of complaints last November when he jokingly suggested on BBC’s The One Show that striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families.
Many of his most provocative comments have been about other nationalities.
In February 2011 the BBC apologised to the Mexican ambassador over comments Clarkson and fellow Top Gear presenters Richard Hammond and James May made about Mexicans.
Hammond joked that Mexican cars reflected national characteristics, saying they were “a lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf with a moustache, leaning against a fence asleep”.
Clarkson suggested they would receive no repercussions over the remarks because “at the Mexican embassy, the ambassador is going to be sitting there with a remote control like this [snores]. They won’t complain, it’s fine.”
The Mexican government promptly complained.
In January this year viewers complained to the BBC after Clarkson made a series of controversial remarks about India’s clothing, trains, food and history.
In December 2005 he gave a Nazi salute during a segment about German company BMW during an episode of Top Gear and suggested that one of its cars would have a satnav that “only goes to Poland”.
In February 2009 he called Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister, a “one-eyed Scottish idiot.”
On Wednesday BAA, Heathrow’s operator, released figures showing the Border Force at the airport failed to meet its own performance targets nearly every day last month.
Non-EEA passengers, who should have spent no longer than 45 minutes waiting to clear immigration formalities, faced bigger queues on 21 days out of the 30.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Secret Service looking into Ted Nugent's violent anti-Obama rant
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly investigating faded '70s rock star Ted Nugent for his recent insistence he'll be "dead or in jail" in a year's time if President Barack Obama is re-elected in November. At a convention of the National Rifle Association over the weekend, the longtime gun advocate compared Obama and the Democrats to a coyote who should be shot. "It isn't the enemy that ruined America," he said as he reaffirmed his endorsement of Republican front-runner Mitt Romney. "It's good people who bent over and let the enemy in. If the coyote's in your living room pissing on your couch, it's not the coyote's fault. It's your fault for not shooting him." He accused the Obama administration of being "evil" and "America-hating." "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," he said angrily. "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November." He then told his audience of proud gun-owners that if they failed to "clean house in this vile, evil, America-hating administration, I don't even know what you're made out of." The Secret Service says it's aware of the weekend remarks and is looking into them. The Romney campaign, meantime, attempted to distance itself from Nugent on Tuesday, undoubtedly regretting the former Massachusetts governor's comments last month to a Missouri radio show: "It's been fun getting to know Ted Nugent." "Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in an email to reporters. "Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil." The Democratic National Committee called on Romney to strongly condemn the remarks by Nugent, best known for his late '70s hit "Cat Scratch Fever." "Threatening violence — or whatever it is that Nugent's threatening — is clearly beyond the pale, but Nugent's not the one running for president," said DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. At the daily White House press briefing on Tuesday, spokesman Jay Carney wouldn't comment on Nugent's remarks. "We can't be policing the statement of supporters across the board. The president is focused on the issues," he said. Nugent, however, was unapologetic, telling conservative radio host Dana Loesch that his incendiary remarks were "100 per cent positive." "I will stand by my speech," he said, and then upped the ante by heaping more scorn on Democrats, describing Wasserman Schultz as a "brain-dead, soulless, heartless idiot." Nancy Pelosi, minority leader for the House of Representatives, he added, is a "sub-human scoundrel." Nugent also claimed the generally mild-mannered Romney agreed with his remarks. "Mitt Romney knows what I'm saying is true. He puts it into words for him, I put it into words for me," he said.
Friday, April 6, 2012
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