Madeleine McCann: With Columnist Peter McKay
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THE COLUMNISTS
PETER McKAY (Mail):
MOST sightings of missing Madeleine McCann seem to involve Belgium and a paedophile ‘ring’ which might have kidnapped the child ‘to order’. Belgian police received more than 100 sightings, 30 of which required checking.
Do they?
But the latest - by British businessman Trevor Francis, 64 - was on the Venezuelan island of Margarita. Nursing home owner Francis, who keeps a yacht there, says a girl he thinks was ‘Madeleine’ came into a restaurant with three women - all of Latin origin - and had the telltale blemish in her right eye.
He did.
In one sighting, the girl involved said she was ‘Maddie’ and had been taken from her mother. Yet the McCanns say Madeleine was never known as ‘Maddie’ to them. It’s an abbreviation devised by newspapers so the name will fit headlines.
Posted: 11th, August 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (637) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 11th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
coco - You can’t give me any oxygen because I’ve never had a clue what you are talking about.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
COCO
Our combined cup runneth over, we are deeply honoured , indeed yes and willingly accept here and now, please forward letters of appointment asap.
I will bring with me onboards the torture chair my darling wife inherited from her Sainted aunt Issabella of Spain, and i have an impressive array of weapons of mass destruction. we will all be well equipped to take over immediatly, and not waste time or money. i will kick Milliband the younger out if he dares put his foot on the Good Ship Coco. Befoire we were Bountyhunters we were pirates, sailing the seven seas.
Can i be Minister of defence and warmongering too?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
coco Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
SAUL! They ae getting shaky! They usually fuck off straight away when I come along!
CHERYL! Hi Hon! I would consider it a privilege to have you in my Cabinet - as a Voice of Reason - when all about are losing their heads - if you would like the honour.
Also - Cheryl- I have had applications from Nuns and Priests and other kind Souls - so if you would like to be in charge of these as well - I would be most grateful as I am not nice enough to be in the same room as them lol
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Why thank you, Coco, I would be pleased to serve on your cabinet - without pay, also. I so love challenges! Now listen, as for the Nuns and Priests and other kind Souls - not so sure I’d be the best choice for that one. You certainly are nice enough to be in the same room with them, Coco, and I think it is time for the Church and those who ’serve’ it are due for a shake up! I would highly recommend Gandolf and/or Garth for that position!
You still working on the dolls?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Without giving the poster Gailen any oxygen - watch this dubious excuse for a Half-Wit as well folks!
My Commentariat Party tolerates absolutely no Dim-Wits, Fuck-Wits or Half-Wits - or anybody daft enough to communicate with them directly.
I will not make any exceptions to this - no matter how lovely, posh or reasonable I think the poster is in real-life - if they show any signs of communiaction with the Witless - even by code - they are out of the Commentariat Party!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I expect they have all gone to polish their shiny exhausts………Bonnevilles of course.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Saul
I just about followed the National Geographic, but you lost me on Mr R.
Some enlightenment would be nice, though I would settle for knowing who Mr R is…
August 11th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
BOUNTY! MRS B can be my Ministry for Plain Speaking Minister and set her own bounty figures for capturing imposters - and twats in general if that’s OK?
I will appoint her in the Education Department as well.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
lol. I agree with Cheryl, Garth and Gandolph all the rest of you can …………. all the rest of you I don’t agree with.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
am just waiting to see tomorrows front pages of the Tabloids, to see if there have been any new sightings.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
SAUL! They ae getting shaky! They usually fuck off straight away when I come along!
CHERYL! Hi Hon! I would consider it a privilege to have you in my Cabinet - as a Voice of Reason - when all about are losing their heads - if you would like the honour.
Also - Cheryl- I have had applications from Nuns and Priests and other kind Souls - so if you would like to be in charge of these as well - I would be most grateful as I am not nice enough to be in the same room as them lol
August 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
COCO
I am on board !!! i am not at all poshly posh like some, but not Crotch Rotty either.
Mrs B wants the Special Scoucer edition with CD, she will make her scream can just see her slappping it around.
Do you think she could have a Cabinet post as well. she is verbally talented like you ?
she was exconumicated, when i once asked her to read the comments, she took it upon herself to go over the top and insult Jolie.
Jolie was being a bore to her mind, she bores quickly and then she bites. maybe speaker of the house but will leave it to you, PM
August 11th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
BIUNTYHUNTER! Yes you may be head of my Ministry for Justice!
I am thinking of introducing tried and trusted archaic methods and I am sure you will be just the person to do the job. Being a bounty hunter will stand you in good stead for your extra duties!
I think we will save a fucking fortune or hiring extradition lawyers if we have you on board! lol
Dolls should be with you tomorrow. Their is a special Scouser edition of the KM doll that has it’s own trembly-croaky-snappy-nasty-cocky voice CD to adjust accordingly depending which company the dolly is placed in. With washed-out Cuddle-Cat with an eye missing!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I think they are acting on instructions from Mr R.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
FFS the clown, daktari and their dog dave, its like being savaged by a dead sheep, I may be a little economical with the truth in that description, but you get my drift…….amateurs……..
August 11th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
SAUL
Do you think the short one thinks he is Baldrick ? From Blackadder ? Baldrick may be short but he is witty.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
coco Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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Coco, how are you? How are the dolls coming along?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
They are probably sat pointing at pictures in National Geographic and giggling together.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
COCO
they are a tragic pair, we should feel sorry for them, surely retards at least.
and where is the mad monk tonight? probably shagging his teddy bear, thinking it is Alexandra.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Think ?…………………obviously not a word one would associate with the clown, the purveyor of chic crassness……
August 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Garth Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Cheryl
Are you telling Chateleine to seriously think about it? Ooh hell!
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Garth - how about you, Gandolf and I play the good guy- bad guy strategy the police use with people? You two keeping rattling their chains, I so love Gandolf’s ‘expressive’ descriptions, and I’ll try being nice and use logic with them?
August 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
We know Dave he done you yonks ago !
August 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
SAUL! Astute or what?! It must be very hot and sweaty - if they are all in the same room with testosterone pumping up and down their knobs all day. And two or three computers going!
And the adrenalin and mad laughter as they all instantly know what the other Half-Wit is thinking!!! What a well-established rapport they seem to have!
It’s like they all trained at the same Fuck-Wit camp.
They must all be pissing in the same pot in the corner of the room because they are always sat together.
If they only had an ounce of wit and grammar between them I would think they were at GCHQ! lol I think this is what we are meant to think!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Steady on now, I can soon ask Mr Snippy to sharpen his scalpels. He likes doing yappy little lap dogs.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Dave aint it time fer your kennel and no chasing pussies……….
August 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
At least the latest people on the keyboards behind the Gath and Gandolf’s names are familiar with grammar and punctuation. We should be thankful for small mercies.
August 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
cheryl Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
[...] they DID NOT have anything to do with it, Chatelaine. Take it one step further - turn your mind into a criminal’s mind, think like one … now plan in your mind exactly how you would have taken that child …”
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Believe me, Cheryl, I have been looking from a 360º spectrum at this case. For one, a criminal would only have had a chance IF they have been lying about their surveillance of the children. Furthermore there are so many inconsistencies, lies, changes of stories, unanswered questions and so much money involved - in combination with the most extraordinary reactions, statements, behaviour of the parents that I can only assume that IMO they know what happened - EVEN if the child was taken.
I am NOT saying that they have done something. They let is happen, they [let it be] covered up and they’re cashing in. Pfew, I’ve said it.
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I respect you, Chatelaine, one can have a conversation with you and your mind is not closed! I go along with you re the checking on the children - that has stayed in my mind also - protecting one’s ass by not admitting the checking was done in a timely fashion. Now let’s say we agree on that - IF her disappearance was pre-planned by a perpetrator who had been actually watching the movements of the parents for days, which if it was pre-planned they would have done (I would have done if I were a criminal and had already decided I wanted that little child), they know the movements, know the children are left alone, know that maybe they are half-assed about checking on them, even if not half-assed they know the timing of the checks of the room, Chatelaine, the perpetrator could be in that room and out in less than a minute!
Now I think the differences in memories is because all were in an absolute panic that night when she was found missing. Even the FBI profiler said that - no one is going to remember anything straight! For as level headed as some think they themselves would be in that situation, no one has been confronted with it that I know of on here to have to find out just how human they might be in their reactions to find their child missing!
Unanswered questions? You mean to the police? I wouldn’t have either, Chatelaine, if I had an attorney and they told me not to at that time. AND I would have had an attorney especially if something happened in a foreign country and I was not aware of their laws or how I would be treated by them.
What money? The Fund you are speaking of? Doesn’t surprise me - why you? That case was and is once again front page headlines for months worldwide. Mustn’t forget they have friends who are millionaires - of course when one has friends with money they are going to help out! That is not a surprise to me and I doubt to you. Friends are friends! And people sent in money from the goodness in their heart and compassion to help find Madeleine. When a child is missing it always affects good hearted caring people who try to help in anyway they can!
Behaviour of the parents? Not like you or I would act? How do we know unless we’ve been through it? I do believe they were told not to show reactions early on when talking with reporters as whoever had their child many times those kind get their ’sick’ jollies seeing the parents or relatives of their victims in extreme emotional pain. Also, I mean this seriously not nasty, look at all they have been subjected to by very not nice people in rumours, leaks to the papers and many not truths, etc. I would think they just steeled themselves against all that and just plain went ‘cold’ on the outside deliberately! Would you or I want to ‘entertain’ such people who spoke so disparaging of us by crying in public or falling apart? I sure as hell would not give the bloody bastards the satisfaction of seeing a reaction out of me!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Time to walk the cat.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
ffs
are u pair the crankies or what
August 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Yes I remember it well………..ripped the arse out of the pair of you……..
August 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Eh buntynumpty
You don’t hate them though shirley. We can’t have that!