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Carnival Breasts

Nina and I had been out to collect Hilke from her physical therapy appointment. Hilke has spina bifida and every few weeks we have a physical therapist work with her to help her develop her walking and attend to any movement problems she has. It is a pretty tough couple of hours for her but productive so afterwards we told her she would not have to go back to school but instead we would do what she wanted to do for the afternoon. Her wish was to go shopping for Carnival things.

This is the Catholic area of our country and so here in Limberg each year we have four wonderful days where reality takes a back seat and we dive into Carnival. The show starts for real on Carnival Sunday, when brass bands march through the city streets. Later, stages are set up for live music and DJs. Meanwhile, fancy dress parties take place in neighborhoods throughout the city, each with music and entertainment laid on. Maastricht’s many bars stay open all night through carnival, and the crowds enjoy singing and dancing in the streets, most of them wearing their ‘pekskes’ (carnival costumes). The festival begins with hoisting the celebratory flag atop the flagpole and the sounds of cannon fire, along with the “greengrocerwoman.” The greengrocer woman is a symbol of luck and good fortune. The cannon is fired in the centre of town on the Vrijthof Square. This is the start of three glorious days of non-stop partying. An impressive parade marches jubilantly through town with participants stopping to chat, or eat, or shop, and then rejoining the festive throng. People are everywhere, in the streets and in the pubs, enjoying life! It is an amazing site to see the crowds watching the parade, as well as those participating in the march.

Maastricht Carnival Page here.

Each year I make up some costumes on my sewing machine and we let the children accessorize their outfits with carnival tat that they find on sale around the town this time of year. It has become one of their favorite times of year and about the only occasion I allow a loosening up the reins of sensible spending of their pocket money, we even top up their modest allowances with some extra gifts. With carnival just eighteen days away Hilke knew just what she wanted to do and for the next few hours she dragged Nina, Mariaske, Joost and I around looking at the Carnival costumes and accessories for sale in the various stores. The added wrinkle is that as far as she is concerned, herself and her guide dog Jos are one and therefore BOTH require suitable attire for Carnival !

After two hours Joost let us know it was time for his feed so we went for refreshments in the Bijenkorf restaurant. The Bijenkorf has a big café on the top floor with a nice lounge sitting area and good baby facilities. They offer a good range of fresh fruits and vegetables and snacks prepared and cooked from raw ingredients right in front of you so I like it there. Being lunch time it was busy but we got a place at one end of the big long communal tables. Sitting opposite us were some young women of the over made up, over coiffure type. Nails were long and perfect, dyed haired precise, make re-applied repeatedly, reading material was the glossy female magazine type full of stories of “Celebes”. One had a very low cut blouse and was clearly showing off her assets. They may have been worth showing off if they were so clearly not her breasts but those found in a silicon factory. She had a bad boob job with the lines of the implants clearly visible under her skin, the silly girl had gone for implants that were cheap and too big and the result was just plain silly, though she appeared unable to see it.

When I started to discreetly nurse Joost it did seem to attract a lot of attention from the young lady and after a few minutes she was leaning more on the table, almost pushing herself up and out – so to speak. It was a strange reaction and made me think that this woman was not entirely sure about the choices she had made about her body.

Hilke also noticed how the girl was watching. Hilke is a very bright little girl for a nine year old. She reads at the age of a sixteen year old and is very, very good observer of humanity. I suspect that growing up in a deaf household she has just got very adept at reading body language and mannerisms. She is also highly articulate and quick with her tongue, so when I saw her considering this woman so carefully I started to get uneasy…………………………………………………

Sitting next to me at the table Hilke went through some of her Carnival purchases with Nina while all the time keeping an eye on the busty young woman as she watched me nurse. Hilke was listing each one of her purchases and what she wanted to do with them when she suddenly paused. I knew instantly the moment had come, being a student of Hilke’s body language myself ! Speaking in what I was told later was a very strident voice she said;

“And look Mama” (“Mama” is Nina, I am “Moeder”) pointing to me breastfeeding “ REAL breasts here but over there………” pointing to the extensive bosom on display on the opposite side of the table “ CARNIVIAL BREASTS !” and then laughing very loudly at her own joke !

The whole restaurant stopped, everyone looked. The poor young woman was clearly horrified to have her pride and joy breasts mocked by a mere nine year old disabled girl and so she quickly moved to stuff her two puppies back down into her top and wrap her coat around her as she rather hurriedly departed.

We both looked to Hilke about to reprimand her for her somewhat brutal treatment of what must have been a rather unfortunately shallow young woman. She shrugged her shoulders and held up her hand palm open and said;

“Well they WERE like carnival breasts, No WAYYYYYYYY were they real !”.

Author: Judith.

TSA

Want to hear a funny story of “Law Enforcement” falling foul of the very hysteria they created – then read on.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Chimpanzee Bush on November 19, 2001. The agency is responsible for security in all modes of transportation and given the idiocy of it’s employees the travelling American public should be scared witless.

At the Bakersfield airport in California USA, TSA authorities recently shut down the entire airport after finding what they thought was a container of liquid explosives. Luggage screeners discovered five Gatorade bottles full of an “amber” liquid. TSA agents then opened the bottles and complained they smelled “a strong chemical odor.” They then complained of nausea and were rushed by paramedics to the local hospital for treatment. Then the whole “security” apparatus swung into action as County Sheriffs deputies, fire crews, FBI agents and members of a joint terrorism task force responded to the scene and spent the day questioning a farmer, Mr Ramirez before further tests showed that the liquid was natural, unprocessed HONEY,

Let us be clear here, Mr Ramirez was interrogated by the FBI for hours while being presumed to be a terrorist – not a case of innocent until proven guilty, those days have gone.

An important question is just how did TSA agents smell chemicals in an all natural substance when clearly there were none, So convinced were they that this was an “explosive amber liquid”, cued no doubt by their agencies own rhetoric, that they were overcome by fumes from possible chemical explosives. Clearly they were also budding actors because they started acting like they’re experiencing nausea to be rushed off to the hospital. Either that or they were just bucking for the day off !

I have visions of those overfed macho men hold a limp wrist to their forehead and exclaiming in a feminine southern belle accent “ Why I do declare I feel an attack of the vapors a comin over meeee!” before swooning gracefully to the floor.

Personally I think they acted just like teenage girls sometimes do, and developed a form of hysteria. Primed by years of their own “terrorism” propaganda they have ended up swallowing what started out as a lie. Add this to their “obey all orders without thinking” institutional mentality, and the famous “you must respect my authority!” US law enforcement mindset and you have set the stage for some unbelievable stupidity.

The TSA cannot catch actual terrorists, despite the vast monies thrown at them. It is really good at flagging innocent people as terrorists and wasting thousands of hours of time and millions of dollars by declaring bogus terrorists emergencies that only serve to inconvenience everyone and give them a stage on which to display the all Peacock the plumage of US law enforcement.

In the last few years they have managed to arrest innocent people when the tests they use cannot tell the difference between natural chocolate (cocoa) and cannabis resin or when their tests flag natural soaps as containing cocaine. Now their tests cannot tell Honey from explosives. Some how I think that given the right emotional cues there is not any food or liquid substance that is safe from being declared a bomb by the stupid and incompetent TSA employees.

As I have stated before the real mission of the TSA and other US law enforcement agencies has nothing to do with security. It has everything to do with brainwashing Americans to surrender to police state searches while living in a never-ending state of extreme fear of terrorism.

Americans, you are following a herd mentality on the road to a police state, you need to wake up.

American Airport Madness

• TSA agents confiscated three bags of Gummie Bears from the children of a family stating that they were “gel like” and wouldn’t be allowed because regulations stated no “gel-like substances”.
• In training exercises where fake bombs are put into luggage to test the TSA’s x-ray screening machine operators it seems that the boys of the TSA miss a staggering 75%.
• An airport manager had her Dr. School’s taken by the morons at the TSA. They had a gel in-sole to help her walk, this lady was unable to work shoeless & had to go home.
• Two days after serving two journalists with subpoenas demanding that they reveal a confidential source, a move that prompted widespread backlash among frequent fliers, the Transportation Security Administration has withdrawn the subpoenas and returned a damaged laptop to one of the blog writers. A TSA spokesman claimed Thursday that its investigation into who leaked a December 25 security directive was nearing completion and the subpoenas were no longer necessary, they should admit that they were simply caught out be very stupid and employing bully tactics.
• A Texas woman was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane. The lady called for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation. TSA officials said they are investigating whether the agency’s policies were followed. “Our security officers are well-trained to screen individuals with body piercings in sensitive areas with dignity and respect while ensuring a high level of security,” the agency said in a statement, Sorry guys but your agents are poorly trained, and for the most educationally challenged.
• Let us be clear; Shoebomber failed because he was taken by force on the plane. The liquid bomb plot failed because someone turned them. What has the TSA caught?
• The American taxpayers have paid out billions for the TSA to remove tooth paste, bottled water, and your grandmother’s sewing needle from your person. Because if there really was a bona fide terrorist arrested at the security checkpoint, we’d be seeing news bulletins about how Bush’s/ Obamas’s increased security saved Americans from a second 9/11.

Gelukkig nieuwjaar aan alle Geelse lezers  -  Happy new year to all our readers!

What a wonderful way to start a new year……..

This morning at 08.30 CET Nina gave birth to a baby boy here at her home amongst her family. Baby is fit and well at 3284 grams, 50.7cm long. His name is most likely to be Joost Karl van der Roos, though this has not been fixed yet ! His birth was faultless and he nursed within a couple of minutes of emerging. Birth mother Nina is also well, displaying few signs of having given birth only this morning, she is in all ways a professional ! Two hours after delivering baby she was playing Monopoly with Nicholas, Hilke and grandparents.

Mother Judith has spent most of the day holding baby Joost, unable to talk without crying for much of the day, overwhelmed by the truly wonderful gift of her own child that Nina has made her. She has been a picture of utter contentment, and perhaps still a little overwhelmed. This afternoon exhaustion finally overcame them and their children and we got everyone to bed for a long afternoon nap.

I doubt that I could ever properly express how immensely proud we are of Nina, and how happy we are that she has so firmly established the family she wanted, and in doing so brought such happiness to our beloved Judith, but we are.

Author: Tyjardia.

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

So another idiot, one Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was known to US and British authorities - whose brain has been eaten away by the delusion inherent in religion has tried to destroy an airliner and it’s passengers. The law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the USA must be jumping up and down with glee at the opportunity to justify the introduction of yet more powers over the lives of the public, despite the fact that this incident should be putting the spot light on their own utter incompetence despite being in possession of what twenty years ago would have been considered draconian powers.

We all have to understand a simple fact – that complete security is a chimera. It’s a monster that emerges only after all our liberties have been lost, we must wake up to this and understand that freedom carries with it some risk, we cannot be risk free and still travel.

If he had suucced Abdulmutallab could have killed some three hundred people and devastate the lives of relatives of his victims, perhaps an additional five thousand people. It would have been appalling for those involved but the pain would one day ease. The real damage to society will be done not by Abdulmutallab but by those politicians, intelligence and law enforcement officials who will use this failed attack as yet another excuse to further erode civil liberties and bring in yet more laws and regulations, handing them even more rights to control and oppress ordinary people, you and me. They will use it to further expand their numbers and their empire, which in turn will increase their influence and their ability to remove yet more of our rights. It is happening right now, before our very eyes.

Despite the fact that Abdulmutallab’s OWN father had reported their son to the US authorities in person his trouble son was still able to gain a US visa and travel, showing very clearly that security is not being tackled at the correct level. In my opinion Abdulmutallab’s parents were very, very brave people in reporting their own child to a government known to use torture and imprisonment without trial, they are the real heroes here.

Airport security is in fact a mirage. You could publicly strip search every passenger, force them to wear paper jumps suits issued to them at the boarding gate and remove every item of personal property, handcuff each one to their seat and still it would not work. It would not work because flying is a business and business wants to make money so they will continue to employ the cheapest labor to handle baggage and ground duties. For years we have seen airport staff turning out to be illegal immigrants, criminals and others with motivation enough to be a security risk and yet these security risks fail to be addressed, clearly the authorities do not wish to really address the issue so airport security is just a mirage, a gloss to impress, then subdue, control and oppress the travelling public.

In late August this year Abdullah al-Asiri passed through many security checks, searches and even airport style body scanners to gain an audience with Prince Muhammed bin Nayef, a Saudi anti-terror chief in Jeddah. Al-Asiri then detonated a bomb consisting of about half a kilogram of high explosives hidden inside his rectum. The prince escaped with very minor injuries as the blast vented largely downwards rendering the bomb ineffective. On the surface it was a bizarre incident, even more so when you consider the rampant homophobia of islam but as any Western woman who has spent time online will tell you a great many muslim men do seem to have a never ending fascination with that area of human anatomy !

Of course it goes deeper than this. If you really wanted to address to terrorist threats you would tackle the problems that cause it at their roots. You would be serious about addressing the grinding poverty and inequality around the world, you would stop corporations exploiting the poor and most important of all you would tackle the ideology of religions and demand that they adjust to the times we live in and not remain rooted in the fourteenth century. But as we know few have the true courage required to even raise their voice on these issues, let alone actually try and do something about them. It much easier to hide behind the politicians ability to legislate and the law enforcement officer’s gun than really act to address the problem, in the mean time we are slowly loosing our civil rights to those originally tasked with protecting us.

Cowardice in the face of religions and the self interested pursuit of power by politicians and law enforcement bodies are the real threats to us.

Author: Nonke