Mohammed Second Most Popular Name in Britain

From The Evening Standard (U.K.):

For the last 13 years Jack has been the most popular boys’ name in the land.

But in multicultural Britain children named after the Muslim prophet Mohammed come a close second.

In a reflection of the increasing influence of Islam, figures released yesterday showed the most popular spelling of the name - Mohammed - had climbed five places to 17th in the annual list of top baby names.

However, when the seven other spellings of the name are taken into account, the total comes to 6,347 babies, making it the second most popular name of the year - up from 5,936 last year.

Although Jack topped the list with 6,772 babies, that figure fell 156 on last year, meaning if the trends were repeated next year, Mohammed and its variant spellings would be the most popular choice in England and Wales.

The other spellings are Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamed and Mohammod.

The last national census in 2001 put the UK Muslim population at 1.6 million, but this will have grown substantially in the past five years.

And then there’s this gem…

U.K. Drivers Using Mobile Phones Face Jail

Drivers who use mobile phones face jail

By David Millward, Transport Editor and Christopher Hope

Motorists caught using a hand-held mobile phone while driving could be jailed for two years under tough new guidelines issued today by prosecutors.

Drivers who adjust sat-navs, tinker with MP3 music players such as iPods or send text messages at the wheel could also face prison sentences.

Police now check mobile phone records after road collisions to see if the driver was making a call

Prosecutions will be brought if by using the equipment a motorist is judged to have posed a danger to other drivers, such as causing another car to swerve.

Using a hand-held mobile while driving was outlawed in 2003, but it is estimated that half a million motorists flout the ban each day.

Hello Nanny State! Hey Brit’s: your being overrun by Muslim’s in preparation for the coming Caliphate, over-regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, and over-taxed by YOUR government.

The United States is still a free nation (for the time-being), and our politicians are colluding with corporate-America to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants. So now would be a good time to think about jumping ship and coming here. Oh wait, you’re not Mexican… so just forget I said that.

Posted on: December 20, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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The Government Disarming it’s Citizens

Another Example of How Progressive policies are “Socializing” our Country

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h/t: Jawa Report.

I’ll always support law and order, and the men and women of law enforcement. But I won’t support oppressive government policies. With every new expansion of government, we take another step towards Nanny-Statehood.

It seems to me, the founding of our constitutional Rebuplic flew in the face of the European elites at the time. Ever since then there have been forces at work, both internal and external, to remake American society as a European-style socialist state.

America has a very unique system of government. Once the progressives have finished remaking the country in their own image, we’ll have no freedom left other than that which the government allows us to have. And America will be no different than any nation in western-Europe. The God-given right to have a government for the people, by the people will be lost forever.

Rant over.

Posted on: December 17, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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Report: the Rich Are Getting Richer Faster

From today’s New York Times:

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.

The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.

The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total income of all Americans, up from 14.3 percent of all income in 2003. The total 2005 income of the three million individual Americans at the top was roughly equal to that of the bottom 166 million Americans, analysis of the report showed.

The report is the latest to document the growing concentration of income at the top, a trend that President Bush said last January had been under way for more than 25 years.

And the “money shot” quote:

Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington who characterizes the Bush administration’s policies as YOYO economics, based on You (Are) On Your Own, said the differences in income growth explained why so many Americans have told pollsters that they are feeling squeezed.

“A lot of people justifiably feel they are working harder and smarter, they are baking a bigger and better pie, and yet their slice is not growing much at all,” Mr. Bernstein said. “It is meaningless to middle- and low-income families to say we have a great economy because their economy looks so much different than folks at the top of the scale because this is an economy that is working, but not working for everyone.”

Umm… aside from the really stupid quote about baking a bigger pie, is anyone else getting that pre-~~rape~~ tax-increase feeling?

Posted on: December 15, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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Peter Foster Obliterates Global Warming in Road to Bali

Peter Foster, Columnist at Canada’s Financial Post, simply obliterates Global Warming in his piece entitled “Road to Bali”. In the very first paragraph Mr. Foster comes out swinging:

The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance in Bali, but the issue is not whether humanity will succumb to a “climate crisis,” or how the international community might craft a successor to the tattered Kyoto Accord (Let’s call it KyoTwo). The real theme of this United Nations gabfest — like that of its 12 predecessors, and of the hundreds, if not thousands, of related meetings –is whether globalization and trade liberalization will be allowed to continue, with a corresponding increase in wealth, health and welfare, or whether the authoritarian enemies of freedom (who rarely if ever recognize themselves as such) will succeed in using environmental hysteria to undermine capitalism and increase their Majesterium. Any successor to Kyoto will be rooted in hobbling rich economies, increasing the poor world’s resentment, unleashing environmental trade warfare, and blanketing the globe with rules and regulations that benefit only rulers and regulators. Bali is not about climate; it symbolizes the continued assault on freedom by those who seek — or pander to — political power under the guise of concern for humanity.

Awsome liberal pwnage; here’s my favorite excerpt:

Capitalism had once been the enemy because it was alleged to make people poor. Now it was the enemy because of the alleged side effects of making them rich.

And more:

Climate-change alarmism couldn’t be presented as simply a new justification for power-seeking, so it had to be cloaked–as social-ism has always been cloaked, both consciously and unconsciously — in concern for “the poor.” Addressing climate change has always been linked in the UN script with Third World development, even though it in fact represents the greatest threat to such development. Nevertheless, the prospect of more international redistribution has meant that poor countries’ corrupt and/or incompetent governments have become enthusiastic supporters of the Kyoto “process.”

I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more articulate and succinct written-piece calling Global Warming what it really is, veiled socialism on a grand scale.

Please read the entire article, It’s worth it.

Posted on: December 6, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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Hugo Chavez: Loses Constitutional Vote

From AP via Breitbart.com:

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.

Another quasi-democracy saved… For now. Oh yeah: Don’t buy gas from this Ass.

Posted on: December 3, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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Chavez Threatens to Cut Off Oil to U.S.

The absolute arrogance of some of the OPEC member countries; Chavez in particular. At the moment they are awash in cash and seem to be under the illusion that its going to last. I say, go ahead, cut oil sales to the U.S. It’ll hurt Venezuela more than it’ll hurt us. A true free-market society will always outperform and outlive a socialist one.

CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — President Hugo Chavez on Friday wrapped up his campaign to push through broad constitutional changes with a broadside attack against adversaries at home and abroad — including a threat to cut off oil exports to the United States.

Chavez told a crowd gathered in the center of Caracas that if the referendum was approved and the result was questioned — “if the ‘yes’ vote wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire’s game, comes with their little stories of fraud” — then he would order oil shipments to the United States halted Monday.

Chavez spoke after tens of thousands, brought on buses from throughout the country, marched down the capital’s principal boulevard to rally support for Sunday’s referendum, which would free Chavez from term-limit restrictions and move the country toward institutionalized socialism.

Read the rest: Chavez threatens to cut oil if U.S. questions vote.

Posted on: December 1, 2007 , by newyank • Trackback
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