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They flew me ‘ome from Baghdad with a bullet in me chest.
‘Cos they’ve closed the army ‘ospitals, I’m in the NHS.
The nurse, she ain’t no Britisher an’ so she ain’t impressed.
It’s like I’m some street corner thug who’s come off second best.

Yes, it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “You’re not welcome ‘ere”.
But when Saddam was collar’d, they was quick enough to cheer.
They’re proud when Tommy Atkins ‘olds the thin red line out there,
But now he’s wounded back at ‘ome, he has to wait for care.

 

Some stranger in the next bed sez, “Don’t you feel no shame?
You kill my Muslim brothers!” So it’s me, not ‘im, to blame!
An’ then the cleaner ups an’ sez “Who are you fightin’ for?
It ain’t for Queen and country, it’s America’s bloody war!”

It’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, what’s that smell?”
But it’s “God go with you, Tommy,” when they fly us out to ‘ell.
O then we’re just like ‘eroes from the army’s glorious past.
Yes, it’s “God go with you, Tommy,” when the trip might be your last.

They pays us skivvy wages, never mind we’re sitting ducks,
When clerks what’s pushing pens at ‘ome don’t know their flippin’ luck.
“Ah, yes” sez they “but think of all the travel to be ‘ad.”
Pull the other one. Does Cooks do ‘olidays in Baghdad?

It’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, know your place,”
But it’s “Tommy, take the front seat,” when there’s terrorists to chase.
An’ the town is full of maniacs who’d like you dead toot sweet.
Yes, it’s “Thank you, Mr Atkins,” when they find you in the street.

There’s s’pposed to be a covynant to treat us fair an’ square
But I ‘ad to buy me army boots, an’ me combats is threadbare.
An’ ‘alf the bloody ‘elicopters can’t get into the air,
An’ me rifle jammed when snipers fired. That’s why I’m laid up ‘ere.

Yes, it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, “We ‘ave to watch the pence”;
Bold as brass the P.M. sez, “We spare them no expense.”
But I’ll tell you when they do us proud an’ pull out all the stops,
It’s when Tommy lands at Lyneham in a bloomin’ wooden box!

 

Remember this;

Philip Laing: Binge-drinking student who urinated on war memorial is spared jail

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

A student photographed urinating over a war memorial today avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to outraging public decency.

Philip Laing had been warned he could face a custodial sentence after the picture showed him soaking a poppy wreath following a drinking session in Sheffield city centre.

The 19-year-old, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, admitted the offence when he appeared earlier this month at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court.

Shamed: Laing, pictured today, leaving Sheffield Magistrates Court after being sentenced to 250 hours community service

Today District Judge Anthony Browne ordered Laing to do 250 hours community service.

But the judge told the court that ’something does need to be done’ about the drinking culture that led to his behaviour.

The youth was one of 2,000 university students taking part in an organised seven-hour pub crawl last month.

Laing, a sports technology student at Sheffield Hallam University, staggered to the World War I memorial in Baker’s Pool and urinated on it.

Other revellers seemed oblivious, but the incident was reported to security staff who washed down the memorial with water.

The desecration was condemned by Russ Murray of the Royal British Legion. He said: ‘Whether he has done it intentionally or not realised because of drink, it is outrageous.

‘There are people of his age who are currently serving in Afghanistan.’

The District Judge said he had considered jailing Laing but he said he had never seen anyone before him who was more contrite.

Sentencing him Mr Browne said: ‘I said to you when you last appeared that the image of your urinating over the wreath of poppies at the city war memorial was a truly shocking one.

‘That was no understatement.

‘There you are, a young man of 19, urinating on the war memorial erected to honour the memory of so many other young men.

‘I have no doubt at all, and this is accepted by the prosecution that you did so because of the vast quantity of alcohol that you had consumed.

‘There was no other motive whatsoever.’

Drunken: Laing is caught urinating on a war memorial during the Carnage student bar crawl in Sheffield last month

He said he understood Laing was so drunk he couldn’t remember anything of the evening.

The District Judge said: ‘Now, let me make this perfectly clear. No one forced you to take all this drink, or forced it down you, or persuaded you to commit a criminal offence. You did that all by yourself and you must take responsibility.

‘But all this is set against a backdrop, as your solicitor has said, of a culture of drinking far too much.

‘In my view something does need to be done to change this culture.

‘What you have done has outraged and offended many and has saddened most.

‘I received many letters from members of the public but I am required to decide your sentence on the basis of the facts of the case and principles of law alone.

‘I have never seen anyone more contrite for what has happened nor one who regrets more the hurt and distress he has caused.

‘You have understandably had the wrath and indignation of the public heaped upon you and your family.’

Mr Browne said Laing had already been significantly punished and said Sheffield Hallam University was still to decide on his future.

Following the incident, Laing issued an apology through his university.

He said: ‘I am deeply ashamed of this photograph and I am sincerely sorry for my behaviour.

‘I didn’t realise how much alcohol I had consumed that night and also hadn’t eaten since lunchtime.

‘I have no recollection of the events in the photograph, although I recognise that this does not excuse my actions. I apologise unreservedly for any offence I may have caused.’

Fallen soldier: A wreath left in tribute to Edwin Levers, pictured here shortly before he died fighting in 1917, was said to be desecrated by Laing

John Levers, the grandson of the World War I soldier who died in 1917, branded the student a ‘drunken idiot’ for desecrating the memorial.

The 49-year-old software sales consultant said: ‘I am annoyed – he’s a drunken idiot.

‘He should be made to clean the streets of Sheffield or do some kind of community service.’

Mr Levers placed the tribute – a solitary wooden cross with poppy decoration – to his grandfather on the memorial on Remembrance Day last November. Edwin Levers was 32 when he was killed in France in October 1917.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231130/Philip-Laing-Binge-drinking-student-urinated-war-memorial-spared-jail.html#ixzz0XyXjS0LT

Dickiebo; I think that one of the comments sums it up nicely;

Come on everyone, can we have some perspective instead of the usual “Send everyone to Prison for ever” rhetoric.
Yes it was disgusting – I thought so too. I would have cheerily have rubbed his nose in it. But the guy looks absolutely mortified - I am guessing that the hell he has been through since the story broke, and the mere threat of prison he has faced for the last few weeks, will have been a punishment severe enough that he will never forget it.
250 hours community service is the right kind of sentence, but I bet lots of muggers, house breakers, joy riders, plus even those who commit crimes such as GBH, get far fewer hours than that, and I know which kind of criminal I would rather see heavily punished.

1. You may not be aware of this, but Kim Jong-Il is in fact the best world’s greatest golfer.

According to an official government handout marking his 62nd birthday, its claimed Kim celebrated by demolishing a par 72 course in just 34 strokes, managing a world record five hole-in-ones on the way.

To top it all, the superhuman round was apparently the first time he had actually played the sport.

2. In 2006, German giant rabbit breeder Karl Szmolinsky was contacted by Pyongyang, asking if they could buy 12 of the bumper bunnies.

Having seen the massive rabbits in a newspaper, Kim planned to set up a breeding programme to boost meat production in the famine-hit country.

Despite Szmolinsky warning that the rabbits would make the situation worse – they only yield about 15 pounds of meat and have a huge appetite for carrots and potatoes – Kim insisted the animals should still be sent.

Szmolinsky claims once the animals arrived Kim ate them himself as part of his birthday celebrations.

3. In 2004, a former chef for Kim revealed that the North Korean leader employs staff to make sure that the grains of his rice served to him are absolutely uniform in size and colour.

4. His official biography claims that his birth was foretold by a swallow and led to the appearance of a double rainbow along with the emergence of a new star in space.

5. Hacked off by the lack of film-makers in his native land, in 1978 Kim arranged for two South Korean directors to be kidnapped from Hong Kong and brought to him. They tried to escape but eventually relented, making a string of movies for him including the cult Godzilla rip-off  Pulgasari.

6. After being told by doctor’s to give up smoking in 2007, Kim quit then decided he needed to go one step further to protect his health and so outlawed fags for the rest of his compatriots with a nationwide ban.

7. According to Russian emissary Konstantin Pulikovsky who travelled with Mr Kim by train across Eastern Europe, Kim had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks.

8. After suffering a back injury following a horse riding accident, Kim was prescribed painkillers.

Fearful of becoming addicted, he ordered a half-dozen of his closest staff to receive the same injection under the logic that if he became dependent, he wouldn’t be the only one.

9. As well as being something of a foodie, Kim knows his booze. According to Hennessy, Kim is one their single biggest customers, importing £350,000 worth of the cognac every year.

Acknowledgements to Daily Mirror.

Creator of Maxine

Don’t let the lefties kid you with their shouts about the Tory Toffs! What Party Of The People (as they like to kid themselves they are) can afford to go shooting with the Rothschilds and Colonel Ghaddafi’s son?

Answer; The Labour Party.

How cosy. After the scandal of releasing the Lockerbie murderer to Saif Ghaddafi, the rotten Mandelson and the equally vile Cherie Blair join Ghaddafi at a Rothschild shoot.

The Party of the Working Class, my arse!

O'Bama

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants

1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)

2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C . (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)

3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)

4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)

5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)

8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)

9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)

10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)

12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)

13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Dir ector of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)

14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)

15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)

16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)

17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)

18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)

19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)

20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)

21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)

22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

Having a quick count, I make this $1,591,000 pa. This is the Democrats way of treating a country that’s in deep financial shit! Morons!

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .