No weekend away now for the second week running….its the Big Mango for the whole of the rest days…there will be some more serious bloggin getting done soon as I am gonna take the leap and buy the Pro version…. really only because I can’t access the archives and the blogger owners dont give support to us freeloaders… so pro its gotta be… that will mean more pictures and links and stuff… might even get a few people to start reading this nonesense!!!

Well I havent been a very diligent blogger have I really? I just had to post these though:-
A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a
downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote “this iz a
stikkup.
Put all your muny in this bag.” While standing in line, waiting
to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had
seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached
the teller’s window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the
street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he
handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising
from his spelling errors that he wasn’t the brightest light in the
harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it
was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would
either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank
of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, “OK” and left.
He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back
at Bank of America.

A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and
demanded all of the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the
cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of Scotch that he wanted
behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag
as well, but the cashier refused and said, “Because I don’t believe
you are over 21.” The robber said he was, but the clerk still
refused to give it to him because he didn’t believe him. At this
point, the
robber took his driver’s license out of his wallet and gave it
to the clerk. The clerk looked it over and agreed that the man was in
fact over 21 and he put the Scotch in the bag. The robber then ran
from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police
and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the
license.
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Only in America huh? Well quick updates are
Anne has moved out of her new room because she kept seeing ghosts. After she moved the owner informed her that the previous tenant had been killed there!!!! Spooky huh?
We haven’t stopped going out and living the high life even though I can’t afford to. The diamond biz thing looks like it might be starting to go somewhere at last. The Dukester is in town tomorrow night.
Oh ya and on my anti Islam thing… how about this for a story: I personally think that this whole issue of Islam has to be addressed. Did you know that in Saudi importation of a Xmas tree is illegal. So its like this huh… in a muslim country Christians and other faiths have no rights but on our countries which they are trying to destroy we give them carte blanche… lets sort the bastards out a declare religeon for what it is …..just a fairy story…..
Court TV) — It could be the dim lighting, the poor camera work or the drab backgrounds at most motor vehicle departments, but driver’s license photos are seldom considered flattering. To a veil-wearing Florida woman, they’re unconstitutional.

Sultaana Freeman, an American-born Muslim woman, lost her license after she refused to remove her veil, or hijab, for a photo. Now she is suing the Florida State Department of Highway Safety for violating a Florida statute that says the government “shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion.”

Freeman’s civil suit, which is expected to go to court May 27, draws on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

But Florida authorities say the world changed after September 11. After learning that 13 of the 19 hijackers allegedly obtained licenses in Florida, authorities cracked down on the system, hoping to ensure that the DMV photos could remain one of the primary tools used by law enforcement officials for identification.

The showdown, in which Freeman is asking a court to reinstate her license, pits her interpretation of Islam, a 1,400-year-old religion, against Florida authorities struggling to keep law enforcement from falling behind.

What makes a veil?
The tradition of the hijab stems from a trio of verses in the Al-Ahzab section of the Quran, one of which reads: “Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed.”

Even within the Islamic religion, the form and function of the veil is widely disputed. Some Muslims take a loose interpretation of the verse, believing it does not mandate Muslim women to wear the veil. Others take a strict interpretation. But even then, some women cover only their hair, some cover only part of their face, and some � like Freeman � cover all but their eyes.

“Full hijabs are very rare,” said Alan Godlas, an associate professor of religion specializing in Islamic studies at the University of Georgia. But whether full, half or hair only, the hijab is often an integral part of a Muslim woman’s identity.

“For many Muslim women, it’s one of the key features of their identity as a Muslim,” said Godlas. “Not only would removing it be a violation in their mind of the Quran, it’s a violation of an element that’s essential to who they are … it is the most important single religious symbol to many Muslim women.”

The interpretation of this verse could make its way into Freeman’s trial.

Freeman claims her “sincere religious belief that her religion requires her to wear her veil in front of strangers and unrelated males” as the basis for her March 2002 complaint.

But Florida authorities have geared up to dispute her strict interpretation of the veil, and plan to call an expert witness, Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic law professor at the University of Southern California, to argue that full-face veiling is an Arabic cultural custom, rather than a practice mandated by Islamic law.

Unless quashed by Judge Janet Thorpe, the showdown over Islamic law could put the court system, an ardently secular unit, in the difficult position of deciding a matter of religious interpretation.

“I’m sure you can get religious scholars to pretty much disagree on anything,” said Howard Marks, Freeman’s Florida-based lawyer, who is working on her case pro-bono. It is not the role of a court to be the arbiter of religious scripture.”

The plaintiff’s case
To rebut the state’s case, Freeman is expected to call a number of religious experts to testify about the significance of the veil in the Muslim religion.

Marks, her attorney, told Courttv.com he will also attack the state’s timing.

“We do not believe the events of 9/11 justify the government’s intrusion to restrict a person’s ability to live by their religious principles and religious beliefs,” said Marks.

Before September 11, Freeman had a Florida driver’s license with a photo of her in traditional garb. She also had one in Illinois, where she lived before.

Marks is also seeking to show that his client has been singled out, when, he claims, hundreds of thousands of Florida residents are issued drivers licenses without photographs each year. “They issue them for a myriad of reasons,” said the lawyer. “If they have such a compelling state interest that everyone must have a license with their photograph on it, then why do they have all of these exemptions on it?”

The lawyer says he has precedent on his side, citing three cases brought by Christian sects that believed the second commandment prohibits photographs. And 14 states, not including Florida, have built in exemptions to deal with such religious objections to photographs.

The state’s case
Jason Vail, the Florida assistant attorney general handling the case, says a victory for Freeman could damage one of the most important law enforcement mechanisms in the country, the official license photograph.

“The case has major implications for the integrity of driver’s licenses around the country,” he said. “If you allow exemptions from it for reasons like this, people who have a religious objection to taking photographs at all could ask for them too.”

Terrorists, said Vail, could abuse such exemptions.

In addition to the expert on Islamic law, Vail also plans to call representatives from the Department of Motor Vehicles to explain the ways in which Muslim women have been accommodated.

“The practice has been to ask the men to leave the room. They lift the veil, we take the picture, they get the license, and they put it in their pocketbook and nobody sees it again,” Vail said. “We don’t care. We just have to have the picture.”

But to Marks, Freeman’s lawyer, the courtesy is still not a compromise: It isn’t the process, but the photograph itself that his client objects to. “She believes that would violate a tenet of her religion,” he said.

This is Pui’s favourite monk….so I thought I would post him up and hope it brings some luck…

Well I havent blogged for a while have I? Last weekend was great ….Rufus baby is busy as a bee sending me messages but I have been too busy working to be bothered chasing him. Bangkok is quiet right now…considering going away again this weekend but I am not sure where exactly yet as Lochie doesnt want to come either really as money is an issue…(like when isnt it)…has another debate with Itta last night on ICQ regarding Islam which as usual she lost…she was unable to tell me where there was a nice decent Muslim country that was a pleasant place to live….the reason for that…..A: THERE ISNT ANY!!!
The archives havent been working too well on this blog for some reason… I do hope that they havent been mangled by some process or other….got some new pics but I need to scan em etc before putting them up on the blog.

sorry too tired to blog… I think Itta is the only reader anyway now

Here we are….fuck Rufus///// we are hammered…. Lochie just took his first VIAGRA!! Poor Anne……Lochie also took something else ……………………………wah!

So here we go Rufus is going for the kill…. it looks like a blackmail scam as he gets me to pose….as someone who is impersonating in order to defraud the bank…. go the boy… sorry Rufus my little friend… I think you need to send me 2000USD before I will try to help you…. here are his latest escapades….oh ya if anyone reads this blog please do send me an email…, I only have one confirmed reader so far… but when I read through the crap that I write I am really not that suprised…
Anyway he is brother Rufus’ latest writings…
First and foremost, accept my sympathy on what
happened to you. I hope she is not that injured and I
pray that you will get over all these soon.

I still need your numbers to call you on so that we
can talk about this and conclude it in a matter of
days.

Please find here the sample application letter to be
sent to the head, International remittance of my
bank… Star Bank Plc. (.. A unit
of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc).

====================================================

TO: STAR BANK PLC
(A UNIT OF UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.)
111 MARINA STREET, LAGOS – NIGERIA
DIRECT FAX: 234 9 272 0185.
TEL: 234 9 272 0953

ATTENTION: MR DEAN OKOSUN
HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE

DEAR SIR,

APPLICATION FOR THE CLAIM OF LATE ENGR. JOHNSON
CREEK’S FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF TEN MILLION UNITED
STATES
DOLLARS (US$10,000,000.00) ONLY.

I�����OF���..TEL:���FAX:���..COMPANY NAME:�����HUMBLY
APPLY FOR CLAIM OF MY LATE COUSIN, LATE ENGINEER
JOHNSON CREEK’S FUNDS, WHO DIED ON THE 30TH OF JANUARY
2000 IN AN AIR CRASH (ENROUTE LAGOS-KENYA-SOUTH
AFRICA) WHICH HAS BEEN LYING IN HIS ACCOUNT WITH YOUR
BANK, PACIFIC INTERNATION BANK PLC (A UNIT OF UNION
BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS.

MY LATE COUSIN, WHOSE COMPANY, CREEKLAND CONTRACTORS
OF 17 BROAD STREET LAGOS ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIA, HAD A
CLOSING BALANCE OF TEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
(USD$10,000,000.00) ONLY WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER:
4539000910 WITH YOUR BANK BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH.
I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU CAN GRANT ME MY CLAIM
OF MY LATE COUSIN�S FUNDS TO ENABLE ME OFFSET HIS
DEBTS.

I WILL BE MOST HONOURED IF THIS APPLICATION IS GIVEN A
FAVOURABLE AND TIMELY CONSIDERATION.

THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

BEST REGARDS,

SIGN:

====================================================

Please transcribe the information using your
company’s letter headed paper and fax to Mr. Dean
Okosun on fax #:234 9 272 0185 for onward
processing. Remember that you have to deal directly
with my bank. They must NOT know that I am the one
assisting you in this transfer, otherwise, all our
efforts at claiming this money will be in vain.

Be informed that within 3-4 working days of the
commencement of this deal, we would have successfully
concluded the customary procedure of transfer, wherein
all necessary approvals will be secured. The funds
will thus be free to be wired into your account.

With your kind assistance, part of my share will be
invested in good properties and in choice areas within
your community. I know that your advice in this regard
will be the best.

Please call and let me know when you have sent the
application to the bank. I am anxiously waiting to
receive your call.

Regards,

Rufus Briggs

and then my new friend now sends me this too:–
Please find here a detailed information about the late
Engr. Johnson Creek.

=====================================================
Full Name: JOHNSON ADAMS CREEK.
Nationality: AMERICAN
Age: 57 YRS
Date of Birth: JAN. IITH 1943.
Place of Birth: LONDON
Marital Status: SINGLE
Mother’s maiden name: FERDINAND (MARIA FERDINAND)
Father’s name: ELVIS ADAMS CREEK
Last Known Address: 143 OZUMBA MBADIWE ROAD,
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS STATE,
NIGERIA.
Nature of Business: CONTRACTOR/SUPPLIES
Company Name: CREEKLAND CONTRACTORS
(NOW DEFUNCT)
Business Address: 17 BROAD STREET LAGOS ISLAND,
LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA.
(ALSO DEFUNCT)
Date he Died: 30TH JANUARY, 2000.
Cause of Death: AIR CRASH
Bankers: PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC.
Account Number: 4539000910
Closing Balance: US$10,000,000.00

INFORMATION ON LAST CONTRACT DONE FOR THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA:

Nature of Contract: SUPPLY/INSTALLATION.

Contract Details:

SUPPLY, ERECTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SUPER POLYURIA
500,000 BPSD, 120,000 MONAX AXIAL TURBINE FLOW.
Contract Number: NNPC/PED/4700-KWD-98
Contract Value: USD$21.5MILLION.

====================================================

The above information is for your consumption
only. I have entrusted you with these data so that you
have a good idea on the life and nature of business of
Late Engr. Johnson Creek as well as lay cliam to the
estate left behind as his Next of Kin.

I want us to talk first before you send the fax. Lets
reach a gentlemans understanding before this sets off.
Do let me know when you have sent the faxes to the
bank.

Regards,

Rufus

So guess what when I send that message he can then start to blackmail me with Police threats so I will part with some dough,,,,, lol you gonna have to get up just that little bit earlier Rufus to catch this one….. amazing you know that people really do fall for this scam… I mean it would be nice if they dropped 10m$ in my bank but really can any sane person really believe that this actually happens???????? Well to quote scarface’ never underestimate the other mans greed’…. I suppose that must be quite true huh?
More later….. not sure what to reply to ol Rufus but I am sure something will come to mind…..

Hey Rufus!
How is it hangin? Yeah great please send me the details and I will get things going my end. I really could do with this money now as my wife just got badly injured yesterday in a car accident and I have no insurance. Please hurry as I need the money so quickly. I will do whatever you need me to do to speed this process up.
I must go to the hospital now.
Regards
xxxx

Now lets see what the piece of slime sends back to me as reply. I think that I will hit him up for grand to help my poor wife..LOL

Ok Rufus Baby Nigerian Scum Ball has been in touch again already:
Here is the evil oxygen thief’s email:
Firstly, I will like to thank you for your response,
though delayed, and your favourable disposition
towards my proposal of huge mutual financial benefits.

Let me use this opportunity to bring to your notice
the simple fact that this is a deal and my involvement
must be totally concealed by you since I am still
serving in the bank. Also, find here the procedures we
are going to follow to accomplish this noble goal.

The crux of the procedure is that you are going to
stand as the only surviving cousin of the late Engr.
Johnson Creek. I will start by sending you copies of
the relevant information to enable you lay claim to
this relationship. I will supply you a copy of the
closing bank statement of the deceased, his date of
birth, place of birth, last contact address in
Nigeria, mother’s name, father’s name, and a copy of
the application form for you to apply directly and
formally to the bank for the claim of your “supposed”
cousin’s funds with my bank. I will also furnish you
with the bank’s direct telephone and fax numbers where
all official documents/application to the bank will be
forwarded to.

You will then transcribe all such requested
information on the application form and send to the
bank. Since the application will finally be referred
to my table for approval, I will approve it and have
the total money wired into your nominated bank
account.

My personal telephone number is: 234-803-473-0511 and
fax: 234-1-759-1494.
Upon hearing further from you by way of acknowledging
this mail and with your complete contact details
including your telephone and fax numbers, a
copy of the sample application form will be sent to
you. You are to complete it and send to the bank’s
direct fax line.

Thanks again. I await your call and timely response.

Regards,

Rufus Briggs

NB: I do not want you to get too bothered about the
total amount coming into your account. As a banker,
rest assured that we can influence the transfer of the
total amount instalmentally.

And then we get another from the said exuse for a human being….. errr yeah whats black and brown and looks great on a Nigerian Scammer??? A: a Rottweiler.
Here is number two:-

I had just click the send button that I realised the
fax number I gave you is NOT secured enough for this
transaction. Please DO NOT send any information to
that line. My private and most confidential fax number
is: 234-1-759-6403

So can I be botherered to reply? Well I suppose I should really. Poor little Nigerians with nothing to do….
Next blog will have my reply!! Anyhow Lochies birthday tonight… I need some love and affection its definitely missing in my life right now.

Dear Rufus,
I am really suprised that you contacted me about such a deal. Who was it that recommded you to me? I am just a diamond dealer not a banker so I am not sure how I can help you.
Are you saying that all you want is my bank details and that then you will place the money in my account? Thats very trusting of you but really I am not sure that I would like the responsibility of so much money.
Kind regards

Well lets see what the Yardie scum ball has to say in reply. I saw on the web that there are sites where ordinary people have managed to scam these Nigerians themselves….lets see what we can do…. it will be a giggle anyway.